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Jiang Dehong still spoke, and not long after Geng Jingzhong left, he poured beans into a bamboo tube and told all the information he knew. There is indeed more than one spy planted by Xiaozhuang on the Geng family's side, but he Jiang Dehong is the one with the highest position.

There were only three of them he knew, and he didn't know if there were others. Among these three people, two are veterans and are now battalion commanders, namely Li Yan, the commander of the twelfth battalion under his own command, and Yao Gui, the commander of the sixth battalion under Bai Xianzhong. The other one was not a person in the army, but Gong Jing, a steward in the palace. His duty is to be in charge of the procurement of the palace kitchen, although his position in the palace is insignificant, but he can always monitor the movements of the people in the palace.

Who Jiang Dehong's family in the capital was and where he lived, he didn't say a word; But he told the details of how he contacted the people in the capital. Including the imperial court's stronghold in Fuzhou City, and the stronghold in Jiangnan.

Geng Jingzhong got the information about Jiang Dehong's confession and lost his temper again. A slap slammed the table, knocking the delicate tea bowl on the table to the ground and shattering, but he didn't take any real action. Arresting according to the list is, of course, a pleasure, but you have to consider the consequences. He doesn't want to turn against the court right now, it's not time yet.

Geng Jingzhong threw these things to Li Guangdi to deal with. The three traitors who had just been dug up, Geng Jingzhong did not intend to make them disappear inexplicably like dealing with Jiang Dehong. What he meant. Find a way to secretly control these three people. Let them turn their backs. For his Geng family's use. If it is smooth, you can use these people to blind the eyes of the capital in the future. Li Guangdi is more careful, and it is most appropriate for him to leave these things to him.

In the past two days, Geng Jingzhong has been busy with his work. The Kunpeng caravan was about to anchor again, since the last time they had just returned from the South China Sea, it coincided with Geng Jingzhong's preparations for the conquest; The caravan stopped at Mawei until now. Calculate the time. The Kunpeng caravan hadn't been out to sea for four months; In the past four months, the loss of the ocean trading company was not a small amount, but more than 1.5 million taels.

This time, the Kunpeng caravan was divided into two groups, each with thirty merchant ships. One group went to the Japanese country, and the other group went to the South Seas. The Wa State said that even if the three new treaty ports had not yet been built, they could still berth these 30 merchant ships with their existing wharves. In the future, they will travel more frequently to the Japanese kingdom, and it is estimated that they will exceed the trade of the South Seas. After all. The total population of the Wa Kingdom is there, and the market is much larger than that of Nanyang.

This side of the South Seas. Manila, Batavia, Da Ni, Champa, Srivijaya and Siam have a lot of populations, but their business is basically only with Western merchants, and those local monkeys in the South Seas are very stupid, and few of them can do business.

This time, the Kunpeng fleet traveled to the South Seas, and followed the elite of sixty intelligence departments with the ship. Like Tian Xin and the others who were sent to the Wa Kingdom, they are all talents specially cultivated by the Future Academy. Although these sixty people are all young, they are quite neat in getting things done. Previously, when the Kunpeng caravan had just begun to do business in Nanyang, some intelligence officers had already taken root here, and the newly arrived elites just filled the gap of the lack of manpower here.

Manila and Luzon to the north of it are still focused on the area around Manila and the Central Plains of Luzon. After these people arrived, they cooperated with the original people, and more than half a year was enough for them to get a thorough understanding of the details of the situation.

Since hundreds of years ago, China has been trading with these small countries to the south. Not to mention other places, there are a large number of expatriates settled in Manila, and there are many Chinese businessmen who often come and go to Manila, so the Chinese have a certain influence in the local area. On the other hand, coupled with Geng Jingzhong's strong support for the development of overseas trade in Fujian in recent years, the number of Chinese arriving in Luzon has increased considerably. The new intelligence elite also has an important task of contacting the Chinese leaders on the Luzon side for next year's operation.

The Spaniards who now occupy the Philippines are different from the countries of the East, they are pioneers of seafaring in their own right, they have always attached great importance to trade, and Spain's domestic treasury is almost depleted every year, and it is supported by these few overseas colonies. And the source of income of the colonies also mainly depends on trade, and in East Asia, they have long lost the market of the Japanese state, so the Governor of the Philippines Francisco. Franco can be said to have attached great importance to the trade between Manila and Guangzhou and Fujian.

A year and a half ago, when the Kunpeng caravan went to trade in the South Seas, Geng Jingzhong began to investigate the situation on Luzon. At that time, Geng Jingzhong had no intention of taking Luzon, but the information that came back broke Geng Jingzhong's only good impression of the Spaniards. He forgot the situation of the Chinese in Nanyang for hundreds of years, and forgot the hateful anti-Chinese incidents in later generations. So, Geng Jingzhong began to formulate this plan. This plan, apart from Geng Jingzhong himself, is only known to Li Guangdi. The intelligence elite here went to Luzon to contact the Chinese leaders who had lived in Luzon for a long time, and Lee Guangdi was worried at the beginning, but then he put this worry behind him!

From ancient times to the present, Southeast Asian countries have a history of Chinese exclusion. Indonesia is the worst, followed by the Philippines and Malaysia, and Singapore is slightly better. Historically, in the 17th century, there were four large-scale massacres of Chinese in Manila, each of which was very tragic.

The reason why Spain dominated the maritime trade in Southeast Asia at that time was that in addition to its strong military strength, especially its navy, it had the backyard of the Ming Empire, which could directly convey huge benefits. After occupying Cebu in the Philippines in 1567 and Luzon four years later and building the city of Manila, Spain actively sought trade with the Ming Empire. Three years later, the Guangdong pirate Lin Feng group was routed by the Ming army and fled to Luzon, where they were exterminated by the Spaniards. Because the Spaniards helped Ming to defeat Lin Feng. The Ming Dynasty allowed him to trade in China.

1575. The Spaniards who came to trade in China were received by the Ming government. However, their trade along the coast of Canton was thwarted by the Portuguese. After that, the Spaniards turned to trade in Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan in China, and asked the Ming court to designate a place for them to live and trade, which was rejected by the Ming court. In 1626, the Spaniards occupied the northern part of Taiwan by force and used it as a base for trade with China, until they were driven out by the Dutch fifteen years later.

The Philippine archipelago is barren, and some daily necessities are supplied from overseas. In order to maintain colonial rule, the Spaniards encouraged Chinese merchants to come and trade. After the Ming Dynasty, China also opened the sea trade independently. It is recorded that in the late sixteenth century, and in the half-century to the early seventeenth century, the number of Chinese merchant ships arriving in Manila within a year reached a maximum of sixty. Chinese cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, chickens and ducks, poultry, raw silk, cotton cloth, linen fabrics, porcelain, iron, copper, tin, lead, food, fruits, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, sugar, and flour all entered the Philippines. Among them, raw silk and silk fabrics account for about ninety percent. Spain, on the other hand, was responsible for the distribution, reselling to the local natives, Spain, and early Chinese, maintaining colonial rule. The Spaniards also sold Chinese silk and porcelain to their American colonies, thus forming the "Pacific Silk Road", a trade known to Western scholars as the "galleon trade".

But it happened for the first time in 1603. The emperor at that time was the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor who opened mines everywhere and collected gold and silver, and listened to the reports of Yan Yinglong and Zhang Wei. It is said that "Luzon Jiyishan produces gold and silver, and picks it." You can get 100,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver! So the Wanli Emperor did not listen to the advice and sent a "mining tax messenger" to Luzon with an exploration team. Undoubtedly, this aroused great suspicion among the Spaniards, who seized the explorers and "wanted to kill them", but fortunately "the Chinese were relieved and returned".

This incident touched a sensitive nerve among the Spaniards, who feared that the tens of thousands of Chinese in the Philippines would become an internal response to the invasion of the Chinese army. So, they got into action. The first step was to collect the iron weapons that could be used as blades in the hands of the Chinese, and the method was very simple, the colonial government announced that it would be requisitioned to foreign countries and buy iron tools at a high price. In the second step, the Spaniards ordered the names of Chinese to be recorded, divided into 300 people, and they were annihilated as soon as they entered. The massacre of these 300 people in batches is completely similar to the "final settlement" of the Jews by the Nazis and the "Katyn Massacre" of Polish officers massacre by the Soviet Union.

The Chinese who woke up did not sit still, so they resisted, but because they were unarmed and had not undergone combat training, they suffered heavy casualties in a battle, and then they hid in the Dalun Mountain and fought a guerrilla war with the Spanish army.

The Spaniards were quite nimble, and sent men to negotiate peace and said that they regretted it, but the Chinese did not believe it and killed the messenger. The Spaniards were furious and returned to the city, but set up an ambush outside the city. The Chinese, short of food and clothing, led their army to attack the city, but were ambushed, killing and wounding more than 25,000 people. The uprising lasted only 41 days, and then quickly turned into a massacre of overseas Chinese, instigated and deceived by the Spaniards, including the indigenous Filipinos and Japanese overseas Chinese, all parties participated in the massacre, according to statistics, the number of overseas Chinese killed in this massacre was between 30,000 and 40,000.

In order to avoid provoking the Chinese government and provoking war, the Spanish governor ordered that all the plundered Chinese assets be "sealed in the storehouse", and then sent a letter to Xu Xueju, the governor of Fujian, saying: "The Chinese will plot rebellion, and the family of the deceased will be ordered to take their widows and money." At the same time, after this massacre, Chinese businessmen were afraid of the Philippines and no longer went to the Philippines to do business; It had a great impact on the local economy of the Philippines, with a shortage of materials, economic depression, and a deterioration of the financial situation, and at the same time, the Spaniards in the Philippines were also afraid that the Ming Dynasty would retaliate, so they sent envoys to China to clarify the situation.

In the face of this tragedy, Emperor Wanli was completely stunned when he learned the news, and immediately arrested Yan Yinglong and Zhang Wei, who were the first to go to Luzon to pan for gold. Although he found out the truth of the Manila massacre, because the Ming Dynasty was exhausted at that time, it was unable to raise troops to conscript the Philippines, and at the same time, China was not too concerned about overseas affairs, so he just wrote an "Edict to Luzon" to the Philippine authorities, accusing them of "killing without permission" and "ordering the wife of the deceased to return", but to no avail, and in the end it was not done.

On the surface, the cause of the Chinese massacre in Manila in 1603 was accidental, but in fact, the bitter feud between the Spanish colonists and the local Chinese was the result of a long period of accumulation. Because the Philippines was originally a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, it was later forcibly occupied by the Spaniards. As a result, the Spaniards have always been wary of China. The number of overseas Chinese in the Philippines is extremely large, and it has also formed a huge force. Naturally, it would also arouse hostility from the Spanish colonists. In addition, the Chinese have also created great wealth in the Philippines by virtue of their hard work and wisdom. This will in turn give rise to the greed of the colonizers, and the exclusion and slaughter of China with the ferocious nature of the colonists will inevitably occur.

The connivance and inaction of the Ming Dynasty also made the Spaniards more emboldened by the oppression of overseas Chinese in the Philippines. As a result, in 1639, 1662, and 686, there were three massacres of Chinese, and although the scale of the latter three massacres was smaller than the first, the number of Chinese who died on both occasions reached more than 20,000. In addition, the Catholic missionaries in Manila also played a significant role in the massacre, because the Chinese in the eyes of the missionaries in Manila were heretics.

Although the number of Chinese is large. But the strength is not strong. Because the Chinese lack the support of the Chinese government behind them, and they do not have a strong leader; There was no armed force and there was no internal unity, on the contrary, there were a small number of Chinese who did not hesitate to act as lackeys of the Spanish colonizers in order to protect their own personal interests. Therefore, in each massacre, although the overseas Chinese organized uprisings and rebellions, they could not escape the result of defeat in the end.

But what makes people very entangled is that the economic development and prosperity of the Philippines are inseparable from the Chinese and Chinese merchant ships. Therefore, after each massacre, the power of the Chinese was greatly reduced, and the Spanish colonists would pretend to make some repairs; For example, some of the survivors were released and their property was returned, of course, mainly relying on some traitors and lackeys to return to China to encourage Chinese businessmen to do business in the Philippines.

And the Chinese are indeed not a people who hold grudges, and businessmen have multiple interests and light righteousness; As a result, after each massacre, it took only a few years for Chinese merchant ships to continue to dock in the Philippines. Helping to restore the local economy. The Chinese slowly gathered in the Philippines, and when they reached a certain scale, the Spanish colonists immediately began to carry out a new round of massacres. To put it mildly, the Spanish colonists treated the Chinese like pigs, fattened and then killed, and then raised, and so on.

Of course. The situation of overseas Chinese in the Philippines is also a microcosm of the situation of overseas Chinese in China after the 17th century, in the final analysis, it is still because there is no support from the state, and the strength of overseas Chinese alone is far from being the opponent of the European colonizers with a national background. If it is said that in the first three massacres of the Chinese in Manila in the 17th century, the Chinese did not receive state support, because at that time China was in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the civil war was continuous, the national strength was weak, and the Chinese who wanted to support Manila were more than willing but not enough.

Then in 1686 and 1782, two more tragic massacres occurred in Manila, and at that time China was in the period of prosperity of the Kangqian Dynasty, which is known as the strongest in history, and the country was extremely powerful, and it was fully capable of protecting its people abroad. But the Chinese rulers at that time still did nothing, and the only emperor in Chinese history who used "Holy Ancestor" as his temple name took the measure of banning Chinese from doing business in Manila and the reason why the state did not support overseas Chinese was simply because of a lack of maritime awareness.

Zheng Chenggong, who retreated to Taiwan ten years ago, once thought about protecting overseas Chinese in the Philippines. Not only did he send a letter to the Governor of the Philippines, condemning him for his crime of killing and plundering overseas Chinese, and strictly ordering him to change his ways, but also organized and prepared an army to prepare for the conquest of Manila. However, before Zheng Chenggong sent troops to Taiwan, there was civil strife, and soon after Zheng Chenggong died of illness, his son Zheng Jing did not have his father's ambition, but was just settled in a corner of Taiwan. If Zheng Chenggong or Zheng Jingzhen had sent troops to capture Manila at that time, then the rest of history might have to be rewritten.

Seven years have passed since the last Luzon Massacre, and Geng Jingzhong had not yet come to this era. However, the situation is different now, and the Mawei Navy is strong enough to deal with the Spaniards in East Asia. Therefore, he had to change this situation, and he could not let the Spaniards raise the Chinese like pigs and slaughter them when they were ripe! Not all the Chinese on Luzon are good, and there are many people who help in the abuse. The intelligence team also has another task, which is to find out the details of these people so that they can be liquidated in the future.

Two or three years after each massacre, Luzon would become very depressed, and the lackeys would come back and encourage the merchants to do business, and the Luzon trade would slowly recover. It just so happened that four and a half years ago, Geng Jingzhong came to this era and vigorously developed maritime trade, and at the same time indirectly promoted the development of Luzon Manila. The place is more prosperous now than it was seven years ago, before the massacre began.

In recent years, many merchants and workers have settled here in Guangdong and Fujian, and their influence has gradually developed, and there are a few Chinese forces, which are stronger than the original Spanish lackeys. At present, the largest Chinese force in Luzon Island is the remnants of the last naval division of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the officers and soldiers of the Leizhou Guard Station in Guangdong Province are extremely dependent.

The original Leizhou Wei Qianhu official was called Haixi, and one of his ancestors was a cow, the famous "Hai Qingtian" Hai Rui. He is not a descendant of Hai Jui, but a descendant of Hai Jui's cousin. But that's it, having such a powerful person is enough for the Hai clan to be proud of. Haixi's grandfather was more competitive, and he was promoted to a thousand households with his military merits in the guard, and it was passed on to Haixi's generation. It's a pity that the Qing soldiers were too powerful, and the Nanming forces gradually came to an end, and he Haijia would rather die than surrender, and took his own soldiers and family members to hide on the island.

The Hai family was originally a local powerhouse, but no matter how much gold and silver they had on the island, life would not be easy, and if they went ashore, the Qing soldiers on land would never let them go. It so happened that the Spaniards in Luzon sent their lackeys back to encourage the Chinese to settle in business, and so six years earlier, in 1663, more than 600 people had moved to Luzon. Coming here, due to the massacre just passed, Luzon was in a depression, and the Hai family, especially the eldest son of the Hai family, Haijing, with his extraordinary mind, developed his strength to the first Chinese in a few years!

A year and a half ago, after the first wave of intelligence officers who came to Luzon sent back information to Luzon, Geng Jingzhong made up his mind to approach the Hai family. At the same time, the two circles of the Mawei Navy around Manila are not without effect, at least, the Chinese in Manila are obviously much better than before! Presumably, when the intelligence officers really start to contact the set target, considering all factors, the Chinese should be happy to cooperate with Geng Jingzhong! (To be continued......)

PS: Old time, it's hard enough! Today's difference of 500 words reaches 6,000, and I will definitely make up for it tomorrow!