The naval battle gradually ended, but the smoke on the sea surface lingered, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke still remained in the air.

I saw that the sea was full of wreckage of warships, and all kinds of wooden planks were floating, and many of them were Dutch soldiers holding wooden planks like ants falling into the water.

All twenty-five Dutch warships were wiped out, and not a single one escaped.

This time the Dutch had nowhere to run, because the harbor was full of Royal Navy ships, which were not gunboats, but had a large number of sailors who were good at broadside battles.

Hundreds of warships blocked the outside of the port, and easily cleaned up Li Dan's pirates, those pirates did have a lot of experience in broadside warfare, but in the face of the large number of troops and well-equipped, and coordinated with each other, the Ming Navy warships were completely a rabble.

However, Li Dan knew that if they were caught by the government, they would definitely be beheaded, so they resisted stubbornly, unlike some Dutch warships that surrendered on the spot.

On the navy's side, you were also burned two ships because of the stubborn resistance of the pirates, and more than 200 naval officers and men were killed in the broadside battle.

The Dutch warships were completely destroyed, five warships surrendered, and the others were sunk. Because it was sunk near the port, it was relatively easy to salvage, and some of the sunken gunboats could be repaired after being salvaged.

After a closed-door naval battle, the commander of the East India Company's fleet, Song Ke, was captured. At this time, Song Ke was in a bad mood, and he was taken to land and imprisoned by the navy in a prison in Anping Fort.

It's hard for Song Ke to imagine the consequences of this failure for the company. The East India Company as a whole lost most of its warships in the East, and it is likely that the company's maritime trade in the region will be cut off.

The clean-up of the battlefield lasted for most of the day, and the Ming Navy fished up a lot of Dutch soldiers from the sea, as well as those pirates.

After the war, there were about two thousand captured Dutchmen. And those pirates under Li Dan. More than 1,000 people were captured, and Li Dan himself did not follow, but was on Jawa Island.

For the big boss of an illegal armed group like Li Dan, he naturally will not go into battle in person.

Sun Yiguo sent this great news to Jingshi as soon as possible and reported it to the emperor.

And what is Zhu Youxiao doing at this time?

At this time, the palace was lit up with lights and celebrated. Because Empress Zhang gave birth to a prince smoothly. Zhu Youxiao gave red envelopes to everyone in the palace.

Approaching the summer harvest, a large number of disasters were reported in the northern provinces, which made Zhu Youxiao not feel very good. However, at this time, Empress Zhang gave birth to a son to him, which suddenly made Zhu Youxiao's mood better.

Obviously, his precautions were very effective, and Empress Zhang did not give birth to a stillborn child. Instead, he gave birth to a very healthy son, and his cry was very loud.

Empress Zhang's first child was a boy, and this prince is both the eldest son and the son-in-law, and there is no doubt that he will be the future prince.

According to the naming rules set by Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Youxiao's son is from the Cizi generation. In addition, the last name is to belong to the five elements of fire, so it is named Zhu Ciran.

Zhu Youxiao is a generation of characters, and the last name belongs to wood. Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youjian, and the last name are all next to the wooden characters.

However, how to raise children is also a problem that Zhu Youxiao has to worry about. Children are prone to early childhood death, and if some human assassination is added, it is even more likely to die young.

So in order not to give those with bad intentions a chance, Zhu Youxiao personally selected a few trustworthy palace maids. Arrange to take care of the children by the queen's side, and take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Zhu Youxiao had to be careful. Soon there was good news from Concubine Liang's side, and Concubine Liang was also pregnant.

Before Zhu Youxiao came back to his senses, the navy over there presented another good news.

The happy events made Zhu Youxiao very happy.

"The Dutch actually sent twenty-five gunboats, and all of them were destroyed, and this time the Dutch really lost their flight. It is estimated that the Dutch will not be able to jump up in the short term. Just took advantage of this opportunity to clean up the Spaniards first. Zhu Youxiao thought about it, but decided to kill the Spaniard first.

The Spaniards were a big hidden danger, because the Spaniards would bring a large amount of silver to trade with the Ming maritime merchants every year, which led to serious inflation in the Ming Dynasty.

Such trade down. Silver flowed into China in large quantities. It seems that he has made money, but in fact, Daming is very at a loss in such a trade. Because the Ming paid for the goods created through the hard work of the people, while the Spaniards paid for the silver that was easily plundered.

The labor input was completely disproportionate, and this silver consumed a lot of national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and also exacerbated the gap between the rich and the poor, making the purchasing power of money continue to decline.

Are you afraid that there will be no silver in the future?

It's a big deal to go to Central and South America to grab it, why do you need to exchange the goods created by hard work, it is all the sweat of the people!

The Spaniards were driven out of the Philippines first, and the Spaniards were cut off from supplying silver directly to Asia, although it did have a certain impact on the scale of maritime trade, but the current trade model was very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in the case of heavy losses in the sea power of the Dutch, Zhu Youxiao still chose to use the knife against the Spaniards first. The Navy was then ordered to prepare for an attack on the Philippines.

At this time, the navy had an establishment of 50,000 marines, and it was not a problem to attack the Philippines. At the same time, the navy also has more than 100 thousand-ton warships, and has spent a lot of money on them over the years.

However, Zhu Youxiao was still throwing money at the navy, and after the Imperial Power was launched, the navy ordered ten imperial power-class warships from the shipyard of the consortium.

After these 10 Imperial Power class warships are launched, they can basically dominate the whole of Southeast Asia, expel all Europeans from Southeast Asia, and completely monopolize the interests of maritime trade with all parts of Southeast Asia.

In order to develop the navy, Colonel Zhu You added the Naval Academy to the Royal Military Academy, so that the Royal Military Academy has two academies, the 'Army Academy' and the 'Naval Academy'.

At the same time, a nautical technical school was established in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, which had secondary schools and junior colleges, which were specially used to train qualified sailors.

The victory of the navy over the Dutch actually brought a halt to the maritime merchants in the coastal provinces for a while, and the navy began to divide the coast of the provinces, drawing troops and warships. Formation of an anti-smuggling fleet.

Among them, they are mainly concentrated in Fujian and Guangdong, and there are also cities in the Yangtze River estuary area and Hainan.

By contrast, the naval presence at the mouth of the Yangtze River began to decline and shifted southward, especially in areas such as Hainan, which were vulnerable to pirate harassment. In accordance with Zhu Youxiao's order, the navy began to establish maritime defense in the Hainan region, and the main target of prevention was pirates.

At present, the Ming navy is mainly concentrated in the Taiwan Strait, and there are many ports along the coast of Hainan Province, which has become a new pirate paradise. It's just that in Hainan, these pirates don't have a mass base. The fishermen of Hainan also have a disgust with these pirates, because they are one of the risks they take when they go to sea.

The Ming Navy is already relatively strong in terms of strength, but it is relatively lacking in ocean experience. I don't know much about the hydrology and climate of the sea.

To this end, in accordance with the order of Colonel Zhu You, the Navy began to build archives. And send people to survey and map the sea area. For example, which coastal area is a few meters deep, where there are reefs, and how the tides change, these are all things that need to be mapped.

The defeat of the Dutch actually greatly deterred the Spaniards, but the troupe soon received reports that the Ming Royal Navy had appeared in the Lingayen Bay area on the northern coast of Manila, and had entered the area through the estuary and made a forced landing there. And a base is being set up.

Now the Spaniards are furious, and the intention of the Ming Royal Navy to appear in Lingayen Bay is very obvious. That is the Philippines, which wants to capture their Spain.

The reason why the Ming Royal Navy chose to land in the Lingayen Bay area and set up a stronghold. The aim was to gain a foothold and then attack Manila south.

If Manila is attacked from the port, it will be directly confronted with the heavy artillery of the Spaniards, and the warships will have to pay a price for rushing in. But it will be different to gain a foothold in Lingayen Bay, and when the time comes, it will come up from the transfer of tens of thousands of marines. Just carve a road from the land to Manila.

Even if the Spaniards built the castle relatively strongly, the Spaniards did not have enough troops to fight the Ming Marines in the field.

At that time, even if Manila can't be defeated, these Spaniards will be surrounded and killed.

When the Spaniards received the information, they immediately realized this possibility. It was immediately decided to dispatch warships to Lingayen Bay to expel the Ming Royal Navy.

As for the land, forget it. It is a bit of a fool's errand to ask the Spaniards to walk more than 150 kilometers to fight in the north. What's more, the Spanish troops in the Philippines are not very large, that is, only a few thousand.

The Ming Royal Navy set up a stronghold in the area without much effort, and the Spaniards did not have any defenses here.

The whole of the Philippines was full of landing sites, and the Spaniards could not have set up forts everywhere. In these years, the colonists basically fortified around a ruling center, and the ruling center of the Philippine region was naturally Manila, in addition to the Spaniards, there were also indigenous ruling classes who submitted to the Spaniards' muskets and helped the Spaniards rule the Philippines.

Against this background, in June of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, a brief naval battle broke out between the Spanish fleet and the Ming Royal Navy in the Lingayen Bay area.

The Spaniards dispatched fifteen warships, but they were beaten by ten warships of the Ming Royal Navy, and fled in embarrassment in less than half an hour.

The gap between the artillery of the two sides is too big, and there are many warships in the Ming Royal Navy, once these warships are successfully taken over, it is basically over.

Four of the fifteen warships dispatched by the Spaniards were sunk, two were captured, and the remaining nine warships ran away to Manila in disarray.

After the Ming Royal Navy won the naval battle, it immediately began to pay close attention to the management of this stronghold, and began to continuously emigrate and increase troops to this stronghold.

A large number of material resources are constantly being transported from Taiwan and Fujian to the base, and the journey is not very far. For those private merchant ships, it may be a risky behavior to keep running back and forth. However, at present, the merchant ships manufactured and ordered by Royal Capital are all of 1,000 tons, and the navigation safety is relatively guaranteed. And sailing against the wind, although the speed will be a little slower, it is still very safe.

In addition, it is also a problem of navigation technology, at this time, the navy and the merchant ships under the Royal Capital have used sextants for positioning, and they are not afraid of being blown lost by the wind at sea.

The more dangerous is the typhoon climate that occurs frequently in summer, but there are signs before a typhoon, as long as you escape from the center of the storm.

So in the summer monsoon climate, the constant round trip is not a big problem. A round trip is about half a month, and the period also includes the time to stop decoration materials and repair.

It is not very difficult to send supplies and people to the Philippines, but it is necessary to be able to stand firm in the past to transport goods and personnel.

After the Spaniards were defeated in naval battles, it was basically impossible to harass them from the sea. After the Marines landed, they faced some natives with low combat effectiveness.

Those natives are lazy, so naturally they can't afford to build a stronghold, and the role of these natives is generally to do some tedious and less manual work in the plantation.

But things like building and clearing wasteland, these natives are not very capable. So the Dutch and the Spaniards were constantly taking advantage of the Ming labor.

The Dutch had not colonized Indonesia for a long time, so they were still forcibly arresting Han Chinese. There were more Han Chinese in the Philippines, which aroused the jealousy of the Spaniards, so they incited the indigenous people to massacre the Han Chinese.

However, the good days of slaughtering the Han people were almost over, and the Ming Dynasty had begun to set foot in this land.

Immediately after the landing of the marines, they began to raid the plantations in the Lingayen Bay area, and the Spanish developed the plains near Manila to a decent extent, although they were not fully developed, but there were still many plantations near the Lingayen Bay.

The plantations started by the Spaniards were mainly to grow sugar cane, cotton, rice, and pepper. The Han Chinese played an important role in the development of these plantations, as the Han would organize the reclamation of the land. Both the indigenous and Spanish were much less organized.

So on the island of Luzon, there are also many plantations belonging to the Han Chinese. However, after the massacre, many plantations became directly owned by the Spaniards.

The Marines began to enclose a lot of land, and plantations were carved out to sell to agricultural companies.

There were also plantations owned by immigrants, and the size of the plantations of these immigrants depended on how much wasteland they could cultivate.

In order to open up the wasteland, the marines began to capture a large number of natives, and the ideological indoctrination they received in the army included the teaching materials of how these natives slaughtered the Han people, and the navy was very disgusted with these natives who had slaughtered the Han people. It is naturally impossible to kill all the natives, and it is not entirely reliable to rely on slavery as a form of enslavement.

However, the stronghold had just been established, and the Ming Dynasty's dominance over these natives had not yet been established. At this time, the most effective was slavery, which directly captured indigenous labor and put it into the production of plantations.

The Ming did not drive the Spaniards out of Luzon, but this did not prevent the Ming from colonizing Luzon. The place is so big, do the Spaniards have the ability to dare to put the Royal Marines into the sea? With the strength of the Spaniards in the thousands, to come here is to seek death.

Fighting while colonizing, step by step, the Spaniards could not play too much with the Ming Dynasty, whether they were facing each other head-on or fighting a war of attrition, and it was only a matter of time before the Ming Dynasty captured the entire island of Luzon. (To be continued.) )