Bentula, a Spanish overseer at the Lanchu gold mine, made his daily rounds of the mines with a leather whip, and when he saw a Luzon miner who showed signs of laziness, he would go up and reprimand him, supplemented by a whip.

Nearly every Luzon miner had been whipped by Pentura, but everyone dared to be angry but not to speak. In the mines, in addition to overseers like Pentura, there lived a small detachment of Spanish soldiers, all armed with muskets and ready to resist the miners.

These days, Pentula always felt that the miners under his command were a little strange, and when they had a little free time, the miners would get together and discuss something with a heavy face, and occasionally cast a disgruntled glance at the Spaniards in the mines. Bentura wondered what the miners were discussing, but whenever he stepped forward, the miners scattered as if nothing had happened. He also tried to find a few miners to ask, but the miners he called all shook their heads, saying that they didn't know anything.

"Trencio, have you noticed that the Luzon monkeys seem to be discussing something lately?" While eating lunch, Ventula spoke to another Spanish overseer.

The overseer, Trencio, munched on the Spanish sausage and said nonchalantly, "Who knows what they are talking about, right?" These Luzon people seem to have an endless number of festivals to live forever, but what does this have to do with us? …… I'm so tired of this place in Luzon, I don't want to spend a day in this place. ”

"I don't like Luzon either, but what can we do when we go back to Europe?" If we can't make a lot of money here, we'll just be poor when we go back. ”

"These Luzon people are too lazy, such a big gold mine can only produce such a little gold in a year." Trencio complained, "In my opinion, these people have to be whipped hard and made them work harder." ”

Ventula shrugged his shoulders and said, "I want to smoke them too, but the mine owner has said, let's not go too far, don't provoke the miners." ”

"It's better to scratch them, and let them taste the power of muskets...... "Trencio said.

As if to prove his crow's beak, Trencio had not finished speaking when a sudden commotion was heard in the mine. At first it was just a humming sound, but then it grew louder and louder, and it sounded like there were thousands of people roaring at the same time.

"Something's wrong!" Startled, Ventula quickly stood up and walked out. Behind him, Trencio and a dozen other Spanish overseers followed.

I saw that in the large stockyard of the mining area, seven or eight hundred Luzon miners gathered, which is almost all the locals working in the entire mining area. At the front of the crowd, there was a miner holding something in his hand, saying something to the crowd, and every time he said two or three words, the miners clamored in unison, as if in solidarity with him.

"What's going on, why don't you go to work!" Buntura walked towards the miners with his whip in his hand, and began to shout loudly from a distance. He spoke a few words of Luzon, mostly to give orders to the miners.

Seeing that so many miners had gathered, the Spanish soldiers in charge of the guards also ran out of their quarters and walked towards the stockyard with muskets under the command of the squad leader.

Seeing the Spaniards coming, the miners quieted down. The miner, who was holding something, turned to face Bentula. Bentura saw clearly this time, the man was holding a carved wooden Buddha statue.

"What's the matter, what are you holding such a thing for?" Pentula asked in Spanish, and a Luzon interpreter next to him hurriedly translated his words.

"Back to the overseer, the villain's name is Qian Wu, this Buddha is invited by all of us, I want to build a Buddha shrine in the mine, please sit here, ** the evil spirit on the mine." The miner holding the Buddha statue said.

The matter of building a Buddhist shrine in the mine naturally came from Chen Guanyu's instigation. After successfully convincing the village chiefs around the mine to believe that there are demons in the mine, Chen Guanyu began to give them advice, saying that they must first build a Buddha shrine in the mine and use the Buddha's evil spirit. Further action will be taken in the future in order to rid all the evil spirits.

As for why they invited Buddha statues, instead of inviting Taoist immortals such as Sanqing and Laojun, it was naturally because the locals believed in Buddhism more and did not trust Taoism enough. Chen Guanyu is an enlightened Taoist priest, and he doesn't care that the monk steals the limelight of his Taoist sect.

Listening to the translator translate Qian Wu's words, Ventura's face suddenly turned red with anger. This is a mine, and there is no evil spirit. Besides, even if you want to be evil, you should invite their God to come and sit in the town, how can there be any reason to invite Buddha statues.

"Hurry up and throw this thing away, give me all the work, and all the wages of everyone will be deducted today!" Ventula shouted angrily.

Pentula was also distracted by the moment, and he didn't care about the Luzon faith at all. As soon as he said this, the following suddenly exploded:

"What, he dares to say that the Buddha is a thing!"

"Amitabha, sin, sin!"

"Why are we deducting our wages, we are just asking for a Buddhist shrine to be repaired. The disaster was caused by the red-haired ghost, and we asked the Buddha to save us? ”

Qian Wu hugged the Buddha statue and said with a stiff face: "Master Overseer, you can scold me, but you must not insult the Buddha, that is to be punished by God." We just want to build a Buddhist shrine, but we don't have much space. You foreigners are mining here, and you didn't ask anyone to do it, and you caused trouble, so we asked the Buddha to bless us. ”

"You, throw this Buddha statue away!" Bentura didn't listen to Qian Wu's explanation at all, he felt that Qian Wu and the other miners were completely looking for trouble. He would never accept the miners' requests. Otherwise, you can build a Buddhist shrine today, and you can build a ancestral hall tomorrow, and this mine will become a village for the Luzon people.

Of course, Qian Wu could not throw away the Buddha statue, he insisted on telling his demand, while Bentura became angrier and angrier the more he listened, and the more the two sides talked, the more stiff they became, and the smell of gunpowder could already be smelled in the air.

"Roger!" Ventula shouted back.

"In!" The squad leader of the Spanish guards replied.

"Come here, two people, pull this troublemaker down, and smash the toy he was holding!" Bentura ordered, he was too lazy to grind his teeth with Qian Wu, believing that force would bring the miners to their knees.

Two Spanish soldiers rushed up, one of them pressed a musket to Qian Wu's chest, and the other tried to snatch the Buddha statue from Qian Wu's hands.

"You can't snatch my Buddha!" Qian Wu shouted, while desperately guarding the Buddha statue in his arms.

"Foreigners want to rob the Buddha!"

"The foreigners said they were going to smash the Buddha!"

The miners all scratched, and some people who were close ran forward to help Qian Wu protect the Buddha statue. There were also people who used their bodies to block the Spanish soldiers, so that they could not get close to Qian Wu. Seeing this, the other Spanish soldiers also rushed forward and drove the miners away with muskets. Trencio and the others also picked up their leather whips and whipped the miners who were guarding the Buddha statues.

"Slam!"

With a crisp sound, the gun went off!

The whole yard suddenly fell silent, and the miners were all stunned, not knowing what to do. Taking advantage of Qian Wuyi's stunned moment, Bentula stretched out his hand and snatched the Buddha statue and smashed it on a piece of ore next to him.

With a "snap", the wood-carved Buddha statue shattered into several pieces and splashed into the mud next to it.

The miners were slightly startled, and then a fire appeared in their eyes. If everyone can tolerate Bentula's insulting words before, this kind of smashing of Buddha statues has already violated the bottom line of the miners.

"Fight with the red-haired ghost!"

Somebody shouted, and the miners poured over Pentula and the other Spaniards like a flood that had burst its banks.

"Fire! Hurry up! Ventura's reaction was the first to strike, he jumped a few steps back and shouted at Roger.

The Spanish soldiers also saw that the momentum was not right, and before that, the Luzon miners had always been honest, and even when they were beaten, they were low-brow and pleasing to the eyes, and did not dare to say a hard word to the Spaniards. But now, they saw the miners with anger written on their faces, brandishing various tools in their hands, rushing towards them.

"Slam! Impeach! Slam! ”

The muskets of the Spanish soldiers were already loaded, and before the squad leader could give the order, they raised their guns and began to shoot at the miners.

Several miners who rushed ahead were shot and fell to the ground clutching their wounds. But the miners who followed them rushed forward without hesitation, and in an instant they were in front of the Spanish soldiers, and raised their iron pickaxes high.

"Red-haired thief, eat Lao Tzu's pickaxe!"

The miners shouted, and the pickaxes smashed into the heads of the Spanish soldiers and overseers.

Seven or eight Spaniards died in an instant, and the rest, seeing that the situation was not good, turned around and ran. The miners were hesitant to hurt people at first, but when they saw the blood, they became fanatical, screaming and chasing the fleeing Spaniards.

After all, the Spaniard is tall and long-legged, and he shows his advantage as soon as he runs. With the exception of a few overseers, who were usually pampered and could not run, the rest quickly escaped from the Luzon miners and fled into the barracks of the guards.

"Hit, hit!" The Luzon miners, after all, had no experience in warfare, and they spent all their time dealing with the Spaniards who had fallen behind. Those Spaniards were beaten to the bone in an instant, and even if they didn't die, they would have become invalids. But the Spaniards, who had fled into the barracks, took the opportunity to erect barriers and prepared to refuse.

"Slam! Impeach! ”

The Spaniards' muskets rang out incessantly, and several miners who were leading the charge to the Spaniards' barracks collapsed, blood gushing from their wounds. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other miners quickly stopped, and found cover nearby to hide themselves, not daring to run any further. (To be continued.) )