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Nearly 4o years have passed since the first massacre of the Chinese in Luzon by the Spanish colonizers, and the story of blood and tears that almost spans two generations seems to sink into the abyss of memory at this time. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!) Whether it is the local Spanish colonizers, or the elderly Chinese who survived from the sea of corpses and blood, or the new Chinese who have only moved in recent years, they are all accustomed to the false prosperity behind the peaceful coexistence now.

The waning Spanish Empire no longer had global military, political, and economic influence, and the first to show signs of fatigue was Spain's Far Eastern colony, the Philippines. The addition of Huamei made Portugal in India and Southeast Asia look like a new sprout, the strength of the Dutch East India Company was still retained, and even the English and Danish East India Companies had a place in India and Southeast Asia early, and only Spain, which was more and more indifferent to the affairs of the Far East colonies, was aging.

At the time of the first Manila massacre in history, there were more than 3oooo Chinese Americans, and in the end, only a few thousand remained. But in this new world, hurricanes from butterfly wings have carved out a different landscape on the fragmented island of Southeast Asia. No one expected that a few decades later, the number of Chinese Americans in and around Manila would swell to more than 4oooo again, and the number of Chinese Americans in the entire Luzon Island reached an unprecedented nearly 7oooo people.

The smoother the trade in the Far East flowed under the auspices of Huamei, the more silver was shipped from the Americas to Luzon. The objective pattern that cannot be changed has long made the Philippine colony a far eastern bloody mouth of the Spanish Empire, and it is tasteless. It's a pity to abandon it again.

Now Luzon has almost completely been "kidnapped" by ethnic Chinese. They provided the vast majority of local food, workshop labour, social services, and trade in goods. Taxes from overseas Chinese businessmen account for more than eighty percent of Manila's revenue. The large-scale influx of overseas Chinese businessmen has not only prospered the social and people's livelihood in various parts of the Philippines, but also brought the leading power of society into the hands of Chinese Americans. This situation has kept the governor of Manila City in the throat and helpless.

Caught between red-eyed and precautionary, Governor Coqueira wanted more than once to reactivate the anti-Chinese policy of decades ago and to maintain Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines through a "sheep shearing". But the close proximity of the Gan family, Temasek Liu Xiang, and Luzon's Chinese business leader Li Guozhu are already openly in maritime alliances, and there is even more Huamei, a power that openly acts as an umbrella for Chinese business trade in Southeast Asia. Governor Coquela's imminent mind had to be restrained.

In order to prevent the inflated number of Chinese from challenging the dominance of the Spanish Philippine colonies, and considering the question of the ruling authority, Governor Coquela racked his brains and thought of a special management policy.

In addition to appointing cronies to serve as colonial officials across the Philippines, Coqueura deliberately gave some privileges to nearby indigenous tribes to clash with the Chinese. For example, Bagum, the indigenous leader of southern Luzon, was given the title of land administrator outside Manila by Governor Coquela, and all Chinese land taxes around Manila were delegated to Bagum, and Bagum was privately allowed to obtain a portion of them.

Bagum, of course, couldn't be happier. Bagum, who had long coveted the wealth of the Chinese, suddenly took chicken feathers as an arrow, and all kinds of difficulties and extortion emerged in endlessly. The Spanish colonial officials deliberately turned a blind eye, and every time there was some dispute, most of the fault would be attributed to the Chinese. Bagum, who was secretly connived, became even more unscrupulous, and the acts of expropriation and robbery became more and more frequent, which naturally caused great anger among the Chinese in Luzon against the natives.

to recent years. Coqueira even entrusted the management of some port waters to the local indigenous territories, and imposed a surcharge on the passage of ships by Chinese merchants, which not only collected a lot more money and goods from the Chinese every year than ten years ago, but also cultivated a group of indigenous forces that obeyed the Spanish word, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Break down the relationship between indigenous and Chinese. Use the power of the indigenous people to counterbalance the expansion of the Chinese in Luzon, and even use the hands of the indigenous people to create a new round of "sheep shearing" opportunities. This is the best Governor Coqueyla can think of at the moment. And so far, the effect is actually not bad.

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Monday, April 28, 1642. North Luzon, Lingayan.

More than 2 kilometres north of Manila, along the shores of Lingayen Bay, a new colonial town has flourished over the past decade. Today, there are more than 1oooo Chinese residents in and around the city, accounting for almost 90% of the town's population, while the local Spanish colonists have less than 1,000 people.

In addition to the fortress forts in the port, the buildings, streets, shops, and farmsteads inside and outside the city are almost all in the oriental style, and from the appearance alone, most of the time the maritime merchants who come and go will mistake it for a city under the rule of the Ming Empire, and it is almost difficult to imagine that this is a colony under the rule of the Spanish Governor of the Philippines. In a letter to the king, Philippine Governor Coqueira once dejectedly referred to Lingayen as "a colony of the Far Eastern Ming Empire built on the Spanish colony".

Refugees or businessmen from the Ming Dynasty have almost perfectly replicated the life of their homeland in the fertile land around Lingayen. The advanced agricultural civilization brought by the Chinese "occupied" the local area as expected, and the social network of self-preservation was formed, so that the surrounding Luzon natives who were lazy and lazy could only follow the Chinese immigrants to make a living, and they were not much bold to make waves.

Compared with the natives in other places who rely on Spain's support for the tiger, the indigenous territories around Lingayen are still a little more restrained, and it is basically difficult for them to do whatever they want like Bagum in Manila. On the one hand, there are a large number of local Chinese, and on the other hand, a considerable number of the Chinese in Lingayen are new immigrants who have been in Luzon for less than ten years, and they seem to be more hardened than the Chinese in Manila who have been submissive for decades.

Early in the morning, a Huamei OUCP 8oo merchant ship appeared at the mouth of Lingayen Bay, and the Spanish officials in the port fortress recognized the identity of the owner of this beautiful merchant ship at a glance without raising a telescope to distinguish the flag on the ship.

According to the Far East Trade Agreement signed that year, East West Union Union Group only needs to pay a lump sum tax to the Governor's Office of Manila every year. Its merchant ships will be exempt from miscellaneous taxes at the ports of the Luzon colonies for the whole year.

If it were other Luzon or Ming Chinese maritime merchants, it was probably not so easy to fight. Even more than a decade ago, the Manila Accords stipulated a clause on "protection and preferential treatment for Chinese businessmen". However, the current Governor of the Philippines, Coqueira, only made superficial statements, and behind the scenes, he carried out all kinds of disguised detours, and the situation of the Chinese businessmen gradually returned to the same situation as before.

Big embarrassment and blackmail may not be on the table, but the small actions carried out by the hands of the indigenous people are endless, and people are tired of it. In the past, there would always be a few Luzon natives who would happily row canoes on behalf of the Spaniards in the city to collect the "surtax", but this time, a wave of Luzon natives squatting in the shade of the harbor directly smacked their lips and stayed where they were, and then stared at the merchant ship with envy, jealousy, and hatred. Then it stopped at the dockside.

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The weather is just hot and unbearable, even the Chinese people who endure hardships and hard work at the wharf all day long are a little sluggish, but the port in front of them is a merchant ship with Huamei Oriental Union Group, which means that the livelihood of the next few days has been settled again, and suddenly more than a dozen men are calling friends under the scorching sun. A small Spanish official also had to wipe the sweat from his forehead to go about his routine.

"Ha, Mr. Almend. We meet again! ”

The planks were lowered, and the young European captain, dressed in a gorgeous short dress, walked ashore with an exaggerated smile and took off his hat very enthusiastically to the approaching Spanish officials.

"What a coincidence, it's actually Mr. Pedro, you're in the Far East again!"

The Spanish petty official, who was not in good spirits, was slightly stunned, and immediately recognized the merchant captain of the Huamei Oriental Union Group who had met several times in front of him.

"If you stay on shore all the time. I think I'm going to die. You know, the sea is my paradise, and I've taken my family to Pearl Island, so I don't have to rush back to my hometown every Christmas. ”

Pedro is an ordinary Portuguese teenager who immigrated to Huamei nineteen years ago because his mother is of Hispanic descent. So I also speak fluent Spanish. Pedro, who spent his entire teenage years in Huamei, is now a merchant captain at the Oriental Transportation Company, a subsidiary of the OUCC Group. And mainly responsible for running the trade routes from Pearl Island to Luzon overseas.

"You are so happy, I heard that Pearl Island has the most beautiful English dancers in the Far East......" The Spanish petty official, who is also of mixed Portuguese and Spanish descent, looked at the other party in high-end clothes with a little jealousy, and secretly swallowed his saliva.

(Note: During the Age of Discovery, England has always been ridiculed by European countries as an exporter of "tertiary industry women", and almost all European cities have English comedy girls.) ）

"The harvest in Lingayen this year looks good, and hopefully the price of cereals will be fairer." Pedro glanced at the figures of several Spanish soldiers on the port fortress, turned around and took out a handful of silver coins from his pocket, and secretly stuffed them into the hands of the "fellow", "This time I brought wine, cloth, medicine, tools, and fertilizer, and I also had to buy at least 3ooo Rust (about 6oo tons) of grain." Probably needs more people to help, and expect more people to have a delicious rum tonight......"

"Of course, Mr. Pedro can choose any of the movers on the docks, and your merchant ship will not be hindered in any way! Do you need a few more referrals? The eyes of the small Spanish official lit up, and he didn't even look at the list of goods handed by the other party, but directly bent down and saluted with a hippie smile, and hinted that the transaction tax would definitely give the greatest preferential treatment in the future.

The simple bribery of the lower-level officials was completed with ease, and looking at the Spanish petty officials who were gradually moving away, a subtle sneer appeared in Pedro's eyes. Just as he turned and walked towards a warehouse near the dock, a young man of Chinese descent in ordinary clothes appeared on the deck of the ship.

"It's Second Brother Liu, Second Brother Liu is back!" On the side of the dock, a Chinese guy with a cart wiped his sweat and was about to go up to grab some carrying work, when he suddenly saw an acquaintance who he hadn't seen for many years appear on the side of the pass, and hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice.

The young Chinese stepped off the board with a smile and came together with a group of dock movers, knocking on the chests of acquaintances quite affectionately. Liu Erchun, a native of Luzon, was born and raised in Luzon, and his family used to work as a tailor in Manila, and later the family moved to Lingayan, one of the Chinese families who have lived in Lingayen for a long time.

"Second Brother Liu, have you been to sea for five years? I'll finally see someone again this time! Your father and mother said they miss you last time! Hey. This material is really good, Second Brother Liu has made a fortune at sea! Several movers gathered around Liu Erchun with a smile. looked at each other with envy at each other's well-textured clothes, and the youngest of them even reached out to touch them.

"Everyone, help unload things, it's all big boxes, be careful not to break them, they're not bargains." Liu Erchun took out a cigarette from the backpack behind him, and regardless of whether he knew all of them or not, he scattered them one by one for the Chinese movers present.

Although high-end Double Happiness Huamei cigarettes are not an uncommon commodity in Southeast Asia, the average Luzon Chinese mover does not have the capital to enjoy it. Seeing Liu Erchun's shot, it was a pack of high-end cigarettes per person. Only now did everyone really feel that the other party had affirmed a lot of wealth in the past five years.

With the help of the manpower triangular pulley frame, heavy large boxes were lowered one by one from the merchant ships of Huamei Oriental Union, and for the local port trade of Huamei Oriental Union Group, the Spanish soldiers standing guard on the distant port fortress have long been commonplace, and they are too lazy to take a few looks.

Under Liu Erchun's instructions, several Chinese moving guys also deliberately unloaded a rectangular wooden box and put it on the board car, and then followed behind Liu Erchun. Head to a wharf warehouse that belongs to the Oriental Union Group.

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"This is Mr. Wei, who is very prestigious in Lingjiayan!"

"This is Mr. Liang, our old friend in Manila, and a friend of Mr. Li Guozhu!"

In the warehouse, Pedro and a few Chinese businessmen in Luzon who were waiting here early at an unknown time gathered together. When several of the movers who carried the cargo boxes left, Pedro quickly introduced several of the older ones to Liu Erchun.

"This Second Lieutenant Liu. I used to serve in the Gray Wolf Brigade of our Foreign Legion, and now I have returned to Luzon, and I will cooperate with you in the future. Pedro pushed half a step away and let Liu Erchun out.

"Liu Erchun was born in Manila. Both parents are in Lingayen at the moment. According to my father, my ancestors were originally in Manila. After a tragic death at the hands of the Spaniards, we were left with a remnant. Liu Erchun looked around the inside of the warehouse, and now in addition to a few middle-aged and elderly businessmen, there were more than a dozen big men guarding the key corners and looking out.

"Back then, Li Da's shopkeeper secretly selected Luzon's children to go west to Huamei, train soldiers and practice martial arts, and now that the five-year period has passed, there are finally talents who stand out. Such a heroic posterity should be a blessing for my Luzon Chinese! The middle-aged businessman surnamed Liang pinched his beard, and his eyes flashed with a smug look, it seemed that he had a share in funding the selection of Chinese children from Luzon to go to the Huamei Foreign Legion.

"Sure enough, he is young and promising, and he is my son of Lin Jiayan, not bad, not bad!" Seeing Liu Erchun's temperament completely different from that of ordinary Chinese young people, the old man surnamed Wei, who was obviously much older, had his eyes shining and nodded again and again.

"I won't say much about the vulgar etiquette, two gentlemen, please look here!"

In the face of all kinds of praise, Liu Erchun just smiled slightly, didn't talk nonsense, reached out and took an iron drill from the side, and pried open the rectangular wooden box at his feet.

A ray of bright sunlight penetrated through the cracks in the wooden wall of the warehouse, which shone on the unsealed wooden box, and I saw that eight brand-new, swarthy 34A rear-loading flint guns and matching bayonets were neatly stacked in the box.

"This is a Huamei Model 34A rear-loading flint rifle that can be reloaded in a few breaths. The range, accuracy, and ease of operation are far superior to the 21B front-loading flint rifle in the hands of the Spaniards in Luzon! This time, Mr. Pedro brought in a total of 400 pieces, as well as a large number of ammunition packs. ”

Liu Erchun scooped up one, loaded the bayonet very quickly, simulated the action of loading ammunition, and then aimed at the window. A few seconds later, he lowered the muzzle of the gun again, and held it in front of the old man surnamed Wei with both hands: "Mr. Wei, this is the ordnance that Huamei funded my Luzon Huamin, although it is not as good as the rear-loading rifled rifles and machine guns of the Huamei Foreign Legion, but it is also a rare weapon in the East China and the South Seas. ”

"Good...... Good...... At that time, I was in Manila, unarmed and slaughtered...... With such a sharp weapon, if the years can be reversed, I will be blind to death......" The old man surnamed Wei trembled and took the flint rifle, and two lines of hot tears flowed, as if he thought about the nightmarish memories of decades ago.

"Wei Wengxiu is going to be angry. Over the years, Mr. Li has contacted maritime merchants from all over the world and moved Chinese people to Luzon, and now there are more than 40,000 Chinese people in Manilan. Lin Jiayan Huamin is also powerful, Xiyi does not dare to bully, and our Huamin self-reliance and self-improvement should be a great success! The businessman surnamed Liang on the side hurriedly supported the old man's body, and was also very satisfied with the ordnance brought by Liu Erchun.

"The old man recognized the heart of the big shopkeeper Li Da for the people this time, and the old man also has a little thin face in Lin Jiayan. and these things. The Wei family is up and down, forty-five old and young, and they will obey the orders of Li Da and Liang Bao! The old man surnamed Wei clasped his hands together. The expression on his face became extremely solemn.

"Liu Erchun, you have been practicing in the US military in China for many years, and now that the ordnance has arrived, how should you stop?"

The businessman surnamed Liang saw that Lin Jiayan, the most powerful old man, finally agreed to cooperate, and he immediately became very happy. The beckoner carried away the arms in the box and hid them, and quickly pulled Liu Erchun aside.

"Don't hide it from Mr. Liang, now the service period of the three hundred Luzon children of the Gray Wolf Brigade of the Huamei Foreign Legion has ended, and they are all resting on Pearl Island now. More than 300 people are employed in Temasek's mercenary team at the Huamei Blackwater Security Company. He also rested in Temasek and could return to Luzon at any time to hide his identity. However, there are too many people in total, so they can only come in batches. ”

"There are more than a dozen people who returned to Luzon with me this time, all of whom served as non-commissioned officers at the class or platoon level of the Chinese Foreign Legion before retiring, and have rich experience. With them as the backbone, they scattered all over the country along with six hundred veterans. Secretly train the young and strong, and after half a year, there will be thousands of elite soldiers available! The only thing that is lacking is the insufficient number of ordnance. The Spaniards were extremely vigilant, and every time a Chinese merchant ship or cargo entered the port, it would be opened and strictly investigated, except for the guns, ammunition and a few cannons that Mr. Pedro and Mr. Li Guozhu had secretly brought in over the years. Far from enough. ”

Liu Erchun, who has changed his context over the years, regardless of whether the other party can fully understand what he means, immediately dipped in tea and gestured on the table.

Liu Xiang also has more than 2,000 21B flint rifles in stock, as well as a batch of grenades, explosives packets and original ammunition. I have received authorization from Mr. Kim. I can transport it to you at any time. As for the price, Mr. Li Guozhu should be negotiating with Liu Xiang. Pedro replied after a moment's thought. Immediately make the eyes of those present light up.

"Since there is no problem with weapons and ammunition, then we can speed up the contact with Chinese businessmen with status in various places, but they must be people that Mr. Liang and Mr. Wei can trust. It would be bad if the Spaniards were unprepared. ”

Liu Erchun glanced at Pedro, who was ostensibly the captain of the merchant ship of the Oriental Union Group, but was actually an agent of the Huamei Asia Intelligence Department, and spread out a plan for an armed uprising in Luzon that had been written on the ship.

"Second Lieutenant, I think I should recuse myself. Your Excellency Director Kim has made it clear that apart from providing information, Mr. Fan, the head of Far Eastern Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will not provide any further assistance after your public actions, so you must organize yourself. ”

Pedro shrugged, saying he was not qualified to question the command of the Luzon War of Independence. But for a young ensign who had served in the Foreign Legion, he actually returned to Luzon to preside over the construction of Luzon's armed forces, Pedro felt a little funny in his heart, but it was just hard to say.

"No problem, as long as Huamei is willing to give us a signal of the best time, and find a reason to block the shipping routes and ports after we successfully capture Manila, we can do the rest independently!"

Liu Erchun had long known the bottom line of cooperation between Luzon and Huamei, and felt that Huamei had done a lot for Luzon over the years, so he also understood the meaning conveyed by Pedro.

"Of course, you still have at least half a year to prepare, and during this period, our Blackwater Security Company will provide some instructors to help you. If that fails, we'll find a way to get the most important of you out. Although Pedro grew up in Huamei and had a lot of dealings with Chinese, he was still a little too straightforward in the way he spoke, and the words he said made the businessman surnamed Liang present frown slightly.

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Pedro left because he still had a superficial job to do, which was to purchase local rice from the Chinese merchants in Guò Lingayen.

The land around Lingayan is fertile, and the agriculture run by ethnic Chinese is very prosperous, and the average price of rice is as low as US$7 per tonne, and you can get nearly double the profit if you pull it to the Daming coast. Since two years ago, nearly 4,000 tons of rice have been exported to Hong Kong or Pearl Island every year, making it one of the important rice import channels of OUCC in Southeast Asia.

Most of the profits from the rice trade between the Oriental Union Group and Luzon went to local Chinese businessmen, which was also the material basis for Li Guozhu and others to secretly smuggle and reserve Chinese military equipment.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and some people in Huamei do not want the Chinese in Luzon to develop some habits of over-dependence, or feel that it is a matter of course for them to receive help. No matter what the channel, most of the arms obtained by Chinese businessmen in Luzon need to pay a certain amount, which is the basic mode of Huamei secretly supporting Luzon independence while also trading with Li Guozhu, but the price will be much cheaper.

While Liu Erchun and others were actively preparing plans for an armed uprising, Li Guozhu, the biggest boss behind the Luzon independence movement, stayed in Temasek's Liu Xiang's new lair, bargaining over some things.

According to the plan secretly led by the Huamei Asia Intelligence Department, in order to prevent possible leaks, Huamei will cut off the secret contact with Luzon in advance from now on, and turn it to the cooperation between Liu Xiang's semi-pirate group, the most arrogant and domineering group in Southeast Asia, and Li Guozhu, and Liu Xiang will provide Luzon with the necessary maritime support and arms smuggling trade at that time.

Of course, judging from Liu Xiang's character, as long as you don't go too far, being able to knock out a sum of money on Li Guozhu, a wealthy businessman, is really the biggest pleasure in life.