The Spaniards paid the price for their recklessness, and the price was control of northern Luzon, which was almost entirely given to the Australians, and the entire area of more than 20,000 square kilometers of northern Luzon became Australia's new foreign territory.

Since the occupation of Luzon in 1571, Spanish dominance has been so strong that even the Dutch, who were in their prime, were unable to take advantage of the region.

This time, if it weren't for the cooperation project with the Australians on the steam engine ship, the Spaniards would not have paid so much blood to sell northern Luzon to Australia.

For Luzon Island, it can be said that Australia has been coveted for a long time, and since the edict of the Yongle Emperor appointed Xu Chalao, the leader of overseas Chinese in Jinjiang, as the governor of Luzon, he oversees the political, economic, military and cultural power of the country, and after serving for 20 years, the status of the Chinese here has been relatively high.

In addition to the large number of Chinese, even mainland residents also have a sense of belonging here, the reason is that it is called Luzon, because of the frequent trade exchanges with the Central Plains.

Luzon is dominated by rice and banana coconuts, while Australia lacks rice, which is certain, and although there is a large area of cultivation in the Malay Peninsula, the climate of Luzon is the most suitable for cultivation.

It is precisely for this reason that the Australian government has taken a fancy to this place and is ready to establish a large-scale rice planting base here, as long as the rice in Luzon is ripe, there will be no food crisis in the whole of Australia.

After the Spaniards occupied this place, they imposed harsh rule on the Chinese here, and this phenomenon did not improve until the emergence of the Australians.

Before that, the life of the Chinese overseas has not been very good, although they can create everything with their own hands, but the ruling class is quite afraid of the Chinese, afraid that one day they can replace them.

So all along, as long as the Chinese are bigger. It will inevitably be suppressed by the locals, and this situation has been continuing, even if the local colonists want to solve the problem for the sake of the Australians, it still does not work.

But in any case, now northern Luzon has changed owners, and his master is the Australians, and the Australians were able to take this place not by chance, but by calculating the timing, if there is no time, they simply can't take this territory.

The Spaniards did not want to administer northern Luzon, mainly because they were shrinking their forces to Manila. and the struggle for the Malay Peninsula.

There have been many clashes between the two sides on the Malay Peninsula, and although there was no large-scale war in the end, it has also brought relations between the two countries to a freezing point.

The current Spain can be said to be no match for the Netherlands at all, except for being able to draw with the Netherlands on its own soil, it is basically on the defensive in the battle for overseas colonies, and there is no offensive posture at all, which makes the Dutch feel very defeated, because it is always so easy for them to grab territory from Spain, and there is no challenge at all.

There is no goal to challenge. The most despised is an adversary like Spain, who was once a maritime power, but now has fallen into such a field.

Even if the Dutch are pitying Spain in no way. But the pace of their offensive will not change at all, and the continuous expansion in the Malay Peninsula will inevitably touch the interests of the Spaniards, and in order to consolidate the interests of the Malay Peninsula, the Spaniards will not think so much about selling Luzon.

The main reason for this is the desire to calm the anger in the hearts of Australians. After all, the spy they sent to Australia was caught, and it was good that they were caught, but the crux of the matter was that they came out with evidence. In addition to the evidence, there are also the Dutch who are behind the scenes, which allows them not to sacrifice some interests.

What does it mean to be at odds with the Australians at this time, it means that they automatically give up the cooperation of steamships, and the Dutch always wish they did this, in the final analysis, it is the Dutch who are behind the trouble, and their purpose is to take over the steamship project of Spain and the Australians.

Needless to say, the importance of the steamship is known, and it is indispensable for future maritime transportation and naval warfare, as long as there is one more steamship, it means that the certainty of victory is greater.

In exchange for a Luzon that was already considering giving up, it would definitely be worth it, there was nothing not worth it.

Spain needed steamboats, even if they were working on it themselves, but so far they had not worked out anything of value, which is one of the main reasons why they were afraid of it.

If Spain were able to develop a steamship on its own, I believe that no one would want to exchange it for vested interests.

The purchase price of the whole of northern Luzon did not exceed 100,000 Spanish silver dollars, and all of them were converted into weapons and weapons, so that in this way, Australia did not lose anything.

Spain converted the money into weapons and equipment, which is equivalent to invisibly adding a driving force to the Australian economy.

In the current situation, the main things that Australia can export are weapons, equipment and other things that are less exported, so the government has been committed to developing the internal economy and expanding new markets to maintain the operation of the whole government.

The news that the Australians took northern Luzon undoubtedly gave the Dutch a blow to the head, but they didn't expect to make such a big fuss, but in the end they let Australia take such a big advantage, as for the Spaniards, they just lost a colony.

As for the Spaniards, the Dutch did not care about their life or death at all, they only cared about the expansion of the colony by the Australians, which would have a great impact on them.

Although the northern part of Luzon has been classified as Australia, Australia does not plan to station troops here at present, firstly, the current number of troops is not enough, and secondly, due to the influence of the situation of the Ming Dynasty, there is no surplus force to effectively manage this area, so it is still managed by Spain.

Let Spain take care of it, which can not only save some of the expenses, but also ensure that the place is not occupied by other forces. Because there is still some Spanish property here, they will not abandon it easily.

It is said that making the law and order here better will also help the relationship between Spain and Australia to be better, and the contradictions between the two sides caused by a spy incident can be completely resolved, which is also what the Spaniards want to see.

Therefore, at the handover ceremony, Australia only sent a representative to northern Luzon for a handover, and did not send troops to carry it out, which also made the Dutch wonder why the Australians did not send troops to garrison them, is there a fraud in it. (To be continued.) )