The value of the existence of the Spaniards in the Philippines, the biggest embodiment is their trade with the Ming Dynasty, if this trade is cut off, then the existence of the Spaniards in the Philippines will not have much significance, but the Spaniards over the years, unlike the Dutch, they rarely sail to the Ming Dynasty to trade, but sit and wait for the Ming merchants to send the goods to Manila, and then they will purchase and re-export to Europe or the Americas, so they have stronger requirements for the stability of trade routes.

This is also the reason why they are willing to pay some money this time to make the sea wolves give up the continued blockade of merchant ships going to Manila to trade, 15,000 pesos seems to be a lot, but as long as they can sit on the ground and buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, then they can quickly earn back the silver.

In fact, only some of the Spanish sailors and soldiers captured by the sea wolf this time were Spaniards, and the sailors of this era came from all over the world, including Europeans, some Southeast Asians, and some Chinese, even among Europeans, many were not Spaniards, but Italians, Germans and even Danes.

Now that Europe is at war, you are going on for thirty years of war, and there are quite a few displaced Europeans, and they have to find something to eat, so many people go to sea to find a way to survive, and risk anyone to be a sailor.

Therefore, among the Spanish sailors and soldiers captured by the sea wolf, only some of them were Spaniards, and the rest were scum from all over the world, after all, sailors in this era are almost synonymous with scum, and Blanco is too lazy to spend money to redeem these scum who are not Spaniards.

It just so happens that the sea wolf still has a demand for these scumbags, they have already signed a five-year service agreement with the sea wolf, Blanco doesn't want them, and Yu Xiaotian naturally won't be generous to put them back.

In the end, Blanco only ransomed about a hundred Spanish prisoners, but on the condition that he had to pay fifty pesos for each sailor, thirty pesos for ordinary infantry, and two hundred to five hundred pesos for the rest of the officers or important personnel such as the captain and captain of the ship, and in the end he had to pay seven thousand pesos to the sea wolf.

Of course, before seeing these white pesos, these people still have to stay in the territory of the sea wolf and continue to serve Yu Xiaotian, taking advantage of this time, Yu Xiaotian can almost squeeze their usefulness.

As for the non-Spanish hired sailors or soldiers, Blanco didn't bother to spend money to ransom them, so these people could only continue to stay in the sea wolf and serve Yu Xiaotian according to the agreement.

As for the two captured ships, Blanco also tried to redeem them, but this was categorically rejected by Yu Xiaotian, because now he can't buy this kind of big plywood ship even if he has money, and he finally caught two, how can he let the Spaniards redeem them again, not to mention that he has already made great efforts to repair these two ships, and then they will be incorporated into his fleet to become his ship, naturally it is impossible to return it to the Spaniards, if there is a condition, he still wants to get a few more to come back to support the scene, At least until he can build a better ship.

And Blanco didn't continue to dwell on anything in this matter, because he knew very well that as a ship captured by the vanquished, under normal circumstances, no one would return it to the vanquished, and since Yu Xiaotian didn't pay it back, he had nothing to complain about.

In addition to these, the two sides also talked about cooperation, starting with the release of the blockade of the Manila route by Seawolf after the Spaniards paid the ransom and reparations.

And then the sea wolf will send people to Manila to set up a commercial hall, in a sense, it is the consulate of the sea wolf in Manila, enjoy a certain degree of immunity, when the sea wolf's merchant ships enter and leave the port of Manila, they will get tax exemption and preferential treatment, and no longer pay taxes to the official Manila government, the main reason for this is that the Spaniards want to continue to do business with the sea wolf in the future, after all, the sea wolf will buy many goods from them that the Chinese merchants did not want before, if the sea wolf does not go to trade with them, then they these cloth, canvas, Cotton and other materials cannot be sold.

Therefore, the Spaniards are happy to use the tax exemption method to express their willingness to continue to do business with the sea wolf in the future, which can be regarded as a gesture.

Of course, in exchange for their ships in the future, they can also enter and leave Tamsui Port and Jilong Bay, and also get duty-free benefits, but Yu Xiaotian added a clause to this condition, that is, if the Spanish ships want to trade in the port of the sea wolf, half of the goods on board must be the goods they specify, and these goods are mainly some raw materials, such as hardwood, grain, metal, cloth, saltpeter and other materials for shipbuilding.

Blanco also immediately nodded and agreed, after all, they had lost the opportunity to continue to occupy the island of Taiwan, and now they also saw that although the Dutch wanted to help the Ming government clean up the sea wolf, the sea wolf and the Dutch would become hostile in the next step, but Yu Xiaotian did not plan to drive the Dutch away from the island of Taiwan now.

And this Yu is in charge of doing this, nothing more than to keep the Dutch and compete with their Spaniards, so that they will not have the initiative in trade in the future, in order to obtain greater profits from it, so the next conflict between the sea wolves and the Dutch will be limited to a certain range, and sooner or later they will have to resume trade with the Dutch.

The Dutch are on the island of Taiwan, and they have unique conveniences, if they don't offer high enough conditions, then the sea wolves can only trade with the Dutch, and they don't need to go to Manila to trade with the Spaniards, so in order to attract sea wolves to maintain trade relations with them, they must offer good enough conditions.

In addition, the Spaniards did not often go to the coast of China for a long time to actively trade, but sat in Manila and waited for Chinese merchants to come to trade, now it seems that they have to change, in the future, they must send several ships every year to the port of the sea wolf to trade, otherwise, they will also lose a lot of opportunities.

The reason why Yu Xiaotian was able to negotiate with Blanco to get such a condition was because he had enough cards to play, and at the moment, don't look at the Fujian official fanfare to launch an attack on him, but he is not worried about the government's attack and suppression this time, and he is confident that after the end of this war, he will control the entire Fujian coast in one fell swoop.

And Fujian itself is the most important entrepot base for Ming merchants to trade with Japan, Korea and the Philippines, most of the Ming maritime merchants who go to these places every year must start from the coastal areas of Fujian, and the tea, raw silk, silk, porcelain and other important export products produced in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Nanzhili and Huguang are also gathered in Fujian nearby, and they are loaded from the coastal areas of Fujian to the sea.

Although China's maritime history is very early, once far ahead of the world's countries, in the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chinese ships have even sailed to Africa, and can use their own technology, direct navigation to Japan for trade, but after the Ming Dynasty, China's navigation technology not only did not continue to carry forward, but there was a serious regression.

Although China invented the compass very early, and it was also used in navigation very early, and invented the astrological technique, as an important technique of navigation, but after this era, China's navigation technology has been stagnant, and has never created the warp and weft, so after the Ming Dynasty, China's sea ships not only did not retain the previous skills of transoceanic navigation, but retreated to the point that they could only sail along the coastline and mark the landmarks on the shore, even if it was better. It is also necessary to have islands as references along the way in order to sail the voyage.

So that after this era, when the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty went to Japan to trade, they had to strictly follow the needle road, starting from Fujian, and going around the Ryukyu Islands in a circle to sail to Japan, and there was no way to take a direct voyage from other places to sail directly to Japan, in the season, they must also wait for the trade winds, set sail in October, and return before May of the following year, and a ship can only run to Japan once a year.

So at this time, whoever controlled the coastal area of Fujian controlled the trade with Japan, and many ships had to depart from Fujian and go to Manila for trade.

This is also the reason why Zheng Yiguan just gained power, so he did not hesitate to turn against Yan Siqi, and did not hesitate to be enemies with the sea wolf and Chu Cailao, but also to seize the coast of Zhangquan and other places, as his territory, because Zheng Yiguan's roots are in Japan, he also inherited Li Dan's legacy, Li Dan's business is mainly Sino-Japanese trade, and if he does not control the land of Zhangquan, he will not be able to continue to maintain trade with Japan, but unfortunately he met Yu Xiaotian in this time and space, so that in the end, he fell short, not only was he not able to control the land of Zhangquan, Instead, he was driven out of the Taiwan Strait by Yu Xiaotian and ran to Guangdong.

So now although Zheng Yiguan has not been destroyed, but after losing his foothold in Fujian, he has lost the conditions to continue to maintain trade with Japan, and he has lost important financial resources, even if Yu Xiaotian no longer pursues and beats him in the future, he will sooner or later lose blood until he is finished, unless he arrives in Guangdong, he resolutely gives up the trade on the Japanese side and reopens a trade route to Nanyang to obtain financial resources, otherwise his demise is a matter of time.

Now Yu Xiaotian has begun to send people to take over the trade route to Japan, and send personnel and ships to go to sea first, to Japan to open up the trade route, and gradually squeeze Zheng Yiguan's power out of this route, in less than two years, Yu Xiaotian can take his place and completely control Sino-Japanese trade.

Therefore, in this era, whoever controls the coastal area of Fujian is equivalent to owning a mountain of gold and controlling most of China's maritime trade, Blanco can certainly see this, which is also the conditions he dared to call the shots and promised Yu Xiaotian.