Chapter 244: The Way to Advance and Retreat
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"I can't imagine that Maote, a busy person, actually took time out of your busy schedule to visit the poor countryside of Luzon, shouldn't you come to Luzon as a special!"
Chen Yujie looked at the emptiness, and then went to the city with Mao Geng and Lu Yijian, and the three traversers stayed alone before they could talk. Chen Yujie really didn't expect Chen Yujie to come to Luzon, as for the special statement, it was just a casual remark.
Mao Geng shook his head and sighed:
"I really don't want to come, but Lord Guogong has to drag me over to join in the fun, isn't there no way! As you said, to be a small special in that small place in Kaohsiung, the big sesame official is so busy that I am choked, and if I want to lead such a big place in Luzon, how can I have that ability! Besides, can the Emperor rest assured that such a piece of land will be handed over to me! Mao Geng said this, in fact, even if the Great Song Dynasty let him be the first leader in Luzon, he was still unwilling, and finally succeeded in starting a business in Kaohsiung, so he couldn't come here and start from scratch.
"If you want me to say, it's not a big deal to be this Luzontes, historically the Spaniards in Manila were only a few hundred soldiers, and the governors appointed by the Spanish are not very good!" Xiao Lu Xin said that we don't have this opportunity to do Luzonte, in this place where the emperor is far away, to be a grass king, with his identity as a traverser, it is naturally a good thing, but unfortunately, first, the old emperor of the Great Song Dynasty may not be able to trust himself as an outsider, and secondly, he finally mixed up with the errand of walking in the Lin'an court.
"Alas! No matter who comes to Luzon to govern, whether it is called the governor or the special, or the secretary or the chairman or something, anyway, it is not our share of the traverser. ”
"Exactly, we don't need to worry about this matter, we originally came out to relax, but as soon as we pulled it, it was pulled to the political situation, and it was like the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau."
A gust of wind blows, bringing a chill, and the weather is getting colder, but the winter in Luzon is not cold, but the weather is more adaptable. Chen Yujie carried a bunch of bananas, and only then did he remember to use it to entertain guests:
"Come, eat a banana, I specially picked the best banana."
Lu Yi saw that he was gone, and shouted:
"Lao Chen, is that how you treat people! There are piles of bananas here in Luzon, and they are all rotten, you are sorry! Lao Chen, I'm not saying that you got such a big medal, and you didn't invite us to a big meal or anything, you dared to block our mouths with this banana, and there was no door! “
Bananas are everywhere in Luzon, and bananas are still harvested in this season, which is reminiscent of the Philippines in later generations, China always makes a fuss about Philippine bananas, and claims to restrict the import of Philippine bananas at every turn, the Philippines has been pinched for a period of time and has no temper, bananas and Filipino maids are the export fist products of the Philippines, Filipino maids are better, if bananas can't be exported, they will rot in the ground.
Mao Geng also joked:
"Lao Chen, Xiao Lu is right, taking this rotten street banana to entertain guests, is indeed sorry for that shining medal."
Chen Yujie peeled off a banana, took a bite, and frowned, eating too much of this banana seemed to make him really sick to his stomach. Chen Yujie then sighed:
"It's not interesting to bully these uncivilized natives, it's completely unsuccessful, and I'm ashamed to talk about the word credit."
Chen Yujie then broke the news:
"Vishana claims to be a country, but in fact it is just a tribal alliance, as far as I can see, I am afraid it is not as good as the Western Zhou, and the Western Zhou Dynasty still has a large group of bullish princes, and the king of Vishana has many nests and many nests. Don't look at the newspaper boasting that there are 10,000 or 20,000 people defending the city in Vishana, hehe, that's a blind boast, after capturing Vishana, I know that there are only more than 6,000 families in the castle, and the various tribes have indeed gone to some soldiers, but the young and strong people in the castle are less than 8,000 people, as for the castle is well repaired, it is thanks to the planning of Shen Shi. Hehe, but the brutes also know how to bluff, but their combat power is really scum, and they don't need to throw bombs in the air, and the castle can't hold it for a day. What is the beginning of such a battle!"
Unexpectedly, the ecology of Luzon Island is even more backward than expected, Mao Gengxin said, in this era, the Song Dynasty can be said to be quite mature, compared to the dwarfs on the surrounding songs, the Great Song Dynasty can indeed be called a giant.
Look at the situation here in Furiru, it is only a limited strength than Vaishna.
It's no wonder that after Zhao Lian looked at the current situation here, the sense of superiority in his heart naturally revealed. Compared with this backward country, there is no doubt that the Great Song Dynasty represents advanced productive forces and advanced culture.
Looking at Zhao Luan's vigor to scold Fang Xuan, Mao Geng had no intention of stealing the limelight from the national prince, in short, he was low-key and low-key. On the way to accompany the inspection, Mao Geng adhered to a criterion, that is, to say as little as possible, to express his position less, as the so-called, ten thousand words, it is better to be silent.
Low-key does not mean not thinking about things, when he arrived at Foil Lilu, Mao Geng pondered it, this "Foil Lilu" seems to be the Manila of later generations! Sometimes translation kills people, Beijing will be "peIkIng" in foreigners, and Hong Kong will be "hongkong", which is not in tune at all! Perhaps the aborigines transliterated by the Song people as "Furilu", transliterated by the Spanish as a foreign language for "Manila", but then transliterated into Manila.
However, it doesn't matter what the name was in the past and history, anyway, now, this huge island is officially named Luzon Island, and Foil Lilu is named "Ma Lunan" by Zhao Luan, it is conceivable that this is Chen Yujie's masterpiece, and the origin of this name with the same sound as "Manila" is derived from "the south of Luzon immediately" - the general's flag is victorious, and he immediately raises the whip, so he is not embarrassed! Coming up with a name like this seems to be really popular.
The kind of name in Manila is too unChinese, called Ma Lunan, it is very Chinese, it is estimated that Zhao Lian also likes the idea of "the south of Luzon in Lima", so after a little groaning, he made a decision and directly decided on the name "Ma Lunan".
The first Chinese to come to Luzon should have fled the troubled times during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and there were no less than 10,000 Chinese who came to Luzon to seek a life in the past three or four hundred years. Naturally, the Chinese were much more savvy in farming and business than the natives, so the Chinese here held most of the wealth, just as in later generations, the Chinese in the Philippines held 7o% of the wealth.
Lin Yuanjia, a businessman who had been to the Special Administrative Region last time, has now turned into a celebrity of the Great Song Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers, and after Lin Yuanjia has been connected to each other, there are a group of local business Chinese united around the Great Song Heavenly Soldiers, most of these people are visitors from their ancestral hometowns of Fujian and Guangdong, with these people as the grassroots managers of the local Chinese and indigenous people, the situation in Ma Lu Nan is now calm.
Feeling the primitive backwardness of Luzon's political ecology and the same primitive backwardness of productivity, such a situation naturally cannot talk about people's livelihood, so that Zhao Lian sighed:
"Unexpectedly, Luzon is so primitive, the Chinese who migrated here are a little better, those natives are really struggling to make a living, they are simply living in dire straits, my Great Song Dynasty is based on benevolence and righteousness, and should save the poor people from fire and water."
Zhao Luan set the tone at the meeting, naturally it was not a temporary intention, but the level of farming here is really pitiful, guarding the fertile soil is still not enough food and clothing, the natives are full of hunger, and the life is really miserable, which arouses Zhao Lu's pity, which is true.
Guo Ni has been in a state of extreme excitement for a period of time, this expedition, Guo Ni has earned enough limelight, but Guo Ni is not satisfied, the resistance of the natives is too weak, Guo Ni only feels that there is nowhere to go. Considering that Zhao Lu was at an ambitious age, Guo Ni felt that he should strike while the iron was hot, so he said:
"Our army easily captured Luzon without much effort, but unfortunately Shen Shi's thief escaped again, after all, it was unfinished, and I heard that this thief fled to Mindanao in the south, in the opinion of the last general, it is better to take advantage of the victory to pursue, soldier Mindanao, capture the traitor, and at the same time spread benevolence and righteousness, and give him grace to save the people of Li from hanging upside down."
When Mao Geng heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, damn! You have to look at Shu, Guo Ni is really crazy, this Luzon Island is big enough, it will take at least a few years to digest it, gradual is the king, if you want to capture Mindanao, you have to gain a firm foothold in Luzon, Zhao Lian don't listen to his incitement.
Let's talk about this Mindanao, the later generations of Mindanao have been fighting for independence, the island is dominated by a group of Islamists, what kind of liberation front, rebellion and kidnapping have made a name for themselves, anyway, it will only destroy and not build, and the independence has been making trouble for 40 years, making Mindanao poor and white, it is said that Mindanao is full of dense tropical rainforests, which is most suitable for guerrilla warfare, when the Philippines was a colony of the Americans, the Americans had a headache with the guerrilla warfare in Mindanao, and it was better not to go to that kind of place.
Mao Geng didn't want to speak out against it, but fortunately, Lu Yijian jumped out in time to object:
"General Guo's pursuit of victory is certainly commendable, but I heard that Mindanao is densely covered with volcanoes, mostly barren land, and it is useless to take it, not to mention the vast territory of Luzon, the construction of Luzon must be planned in the long run, and it cannot be achieved overnight, rather than taking Mindanao, it is better to settle down and build Luzon well, and when the construction of Luzon begins to take shape, it is not too late to take Mindanao."
Mao Geng said this well, doing things is the same as being a man, you must know the current affairs, know how to advance and retreat, and know when to advance and when to retreat.
Ye Shi is a serious person, and he also said at the moment:
"If you want to govern Luzon well, it will cost a lot of money, and whether the imperial court can come up with so much money is not necessarily optimistic. I don't think it's better to rush to expand further. ”
Mao Geng said in his heart or Ye Shi said it well, if you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, you want to start the construction of the entire Luzon, and it is not something that a little money can deal with.
But unexpectedly, Chen Yujie actually stood up and said:
"It's good that Mindanao is covered with volcanoes, but since there are volcanoes, sulfur is abundant, and the land around the volcanoes must be fertile. As for the need for money for sending troops and money for governance, this is certainly true. However, it is entirely possible to learn from the experience of the Kaohsiung Special Administrative Region and make a fuss about the land. ”
"Well, that's a good idea!" Zhao Yan nodded, and then cast a kind gaze on Mao Geng, Mao Geng's heart sank suddenly, and he felt that something was wrong.