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The city of Morotai.

This is a well-known city in the Sulu region of North Luzon, although it does not have any outstanding features compared to other towns, and its scale is not very large, but it has a long history. As early as 800 years ago, the ancestors of the Duchy of Luzon lived here.

But it was also such a city that gave the Songjiang army the opportunity to do it.

The Songjiang army took the city of Minduluo, and cooperated with the surrendered Agno and other local officers to form a group of caravans, which were responsible for distributing and selling the porcelain and silk transported by the Ninghai division from the mainland. The caravans that passed through the city of Morotai were coveted and attacked by the local chieftains. Several leaders joined forces, mobilized six or seven hundred robbers, thugs and servants of the manor, and severely damaged the two hundred guards of the caravan, and seized all the goods and gold!

In the end, only a dozen people escaped and reported the news to the Songjiang army in Mindu Luocheng.

If it is replaced by other forces, the caravan will be intercepted, and the personnel will suffer heavy losses, but I am afraid that it will be like a thunderstorm. But He Shixiang, who had no reason to do it, was not surprised after receiving the news. The Songjiang Army and the Northern Luzon Garrison Division immediately began to make all-out preparations for war, and at the same time sent people to negotiate with the royal capital Manila, demanding that they compensate for the losses, severely punish the murderers, and hand over a "secretary of the army" who had been lost in the war.

Otherwise, what awaits the Duchy of Luzon will be an unprecedented retaliation from the Songjiang Army!

The threat of a near-war declaration quickly spread in the royal capital of Manila, shaking the upper echelons of the entire Duchy of Luzon.

"Does the news prove it? Could it be a bitter ploy played by the empire itself? ”

The Administrator looked worried, and he was dismissive of outsiders until the Northern Legion and the Medan Legion were destroyed. However, after the destruction of the two major armies and the change of ownership of the Mindu City, the attitude of the administrative officials suddenly turned a 180-degree turn, and it became that everything should be paid attention to. Because of this, he heard the news that the Songjiang army was about to move in Mindu Luocheng. I was also very uneasy.

Seeing that the administrative officer asked about this, someone immediately stood up and said, "Lord Hui, although there has been no news from the city of Morotai, those imperial people have brought all the survivors who were attacked at that time, and presented arrows and bīngqì with tribal marks as evidence. The minister has already ordered someone to inspect it, and he has repeatedly asked for details. Most of the ...... are not fakes"

Although it was said that it was most likely and did not use an unmistakable tone, the ministers of the principality present knew that most of the facts were true. Moreover, they are well aware of the greed of the arrogant local people.

Although the military strength of the imperial people was strong, it was only limited to the battle of Yanjian Island, and the subsequent Mindu Luocheng was taken without blood. Except for the northern part of the Quezon Plains, no one else in Northern Luzon has seen it with their own eyes, and naturally they don't take those rumors about the military power of the Imperials to heart - after all, it was a time of civil war on the island. When the tribes and forces raised their troops, they boasted about their strength to ten times and a hundred times.

This habit will inevitably lead some people to think that the military strength of the imperial people also has a great element of boasting.

Even if you put that aside, greed for gold is enough to lose anyone's mind! And the silky silks, exquisite porcelain and tea utensils brought by the Empire are sold on the island for such an astonishing price!

"These damn Kalinans!"

Suleiman V couldn't help but slap the case fiercely, looking like thunder, and cursed loudly at the leaders of the Sulu region.

He then ordered the nobility and local powers of the principality not to come into conflict with outsiders, so as not to give the other side an excuse to go to war again. I never expected that. It's only been a few months, and some people have emboldened. Dare to attack the caravans sent by the Empire. Now that the Imperials have come to the door again, they have the intention of going to war again if they don't say a word.

"Tell me, what are you going to do now?"

Deflated slightly, Suleiman V sat on a throne encrusted with gold and rubies, watching his courtiers chatter. Hopefully, these people will come up with a solution to the current crisis.

"Do as the people of the empire say, and pay compensation."

Some ministers have proposed a way to calm things down, after all, they are indeed at fault in this matter.

As long as the losses of the Imperial are compensated, presumably the other party will have no reason to expand the incident and continue to act.

"It's easy to say, the Imperial people want us to compensate 20,000 taels of gold!" The Minister of Taxation looked annoyed. Of course, he knows how to lose money, but the problem is that the price offered by the Imperials is too high, and it is simply a lion's mouth. The goods of the caravan were not enough, after all, they were expensive silk and porcelain. But those caravan personnel who lost were marked with a pension of up to twenty taels of gold per person.

This is blatant blackmail!

The local guards and coachmen of the caravan were put in other villages, and if they died, they could pay ten taels of silver, and the other party dared to ask for twenty taels of gold per person! Tie all the dead people together, and they may not be worth it.

But don't you give it?

In case the Imperials really attack on this ground and attack the outside of Manila, who is responsible?

In a solemn atmosphere, someone suddenly spoke: "Erchen thinks that this money cannot be compensated!" ”

It was Prince Rahman of Suleiman V who spoke.

Among the princes, this one was the most talented, and Suleiman V was once considered the next successor in his heart. At this moment, under the gaze of the ministers and Suleiman, Prince Rahman spoke eloquently: "The people of the empire are ambitious, and they have long wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble. Even if we lose money, they will find other reasons to continue to use troops! ”

After looking around the hall and seeing that someone seemed to want to refute, the prince said in an accentuated tone: "Weakness will not work!" Even if the other party really backs down after receiving the benefits this time, what about next time? Who can guarantee that there will be no next time, or even next time? If the compensation continues in this way, the principality will only become weaker and weaker, while the strength of the enemy will be nourished and strengthened. Therefore, the best thing to do is to fight! ”

Even if they can't defeat the Empire completely, as long as they can realize the determination of the Principality and know that the Principality is not easy to mess with, most of them will restrain their actions.

However, this passionate rhetoric did not get much echo.

"His Royal Highness the Prince said lightly, can't he have forgotten how the Northern Legion and the Medan Legion were destroyed?" General Bunge spoke coldly, and there was a kind of mockery in his tone that was not easy to hear: "If the Imperial people were really so easy to deal with, our 30,000 troops would not have been completely annihilated on Yanjian Island." ”

"Not bad."

The administrative officer also said with some concern: "It is easy to start a war, but has His Royal Highness the prince ever thought about the fate of the principality in case of repeated defeats?" ”

No matter how rich the Principality of Luzon is, after all, there is only one large island, and there is not much depth to speak of. Moreover, in the case that the existing four major legions have already been killed by the enemy, in case the royal capital legions are defeated again, what awaits them is likely to be a direct annihilation of the country - this is by no means alarmist, but a fact that is very likely to happen!

"But ......"

Prince Rahman was clearly a little unwilling.

As a young man, he believed that the previous failures of the Duchy were largely accidental. On the premise that the enemy will not be underestimated, the rematch may not be defeated. On the contrary, if you continue to weaken and retreat in this way, you will incur the enemy's inch, and then die a slow death in the incessant bleeding. This kind of unwillingness made him quickly think of a counterattack and asked: "Okay, even if we compensate for these losses, what about the other two demands of the enemy?" Punish the murderer and find the lost clerk? ”

The nobles and leaders of Morotai City have been arrogant for a long time, and with a few words from the royal capital, they will never bow their heads and hand over the murderer.

As for the clerk who was lost in the chaos, God knows where the other party fled, or he died directly in the chaos.

"This ......"

The officials in the hall were speechless, and even Suleiman V had a headache. The second point is not too difficult, even if the first evil can't be handed over, it can still be done by finding a few lower-level substitute ghosts. Anyway, those imperial people didn't see with their own eyes who instructed it, so it was an explanation after all. But the lost clerk was a big problem.

Suleiman suspected that the missing clerk was a fiction of the Imperials. But the envoy sent by the Imperials was so conclusive that it seemed to be true.

"Sue the people of the empire, we are willing to pay for the money, and the lost people are also trying to search, but it will take time."

Eventually, Suleiman V made up his mind to try to get the help of the chiefs of the Sulu region while trying to stabilize the people of the empire as much as possible. Even if you do tear your face in the end, you will have more time to prepare.

Maybe it's time to return to the light, and the decaying Duchy of Luzon has become serious and has finally burst out with a little more power. With far greater efficiency than usual, a three-pronged approach was initiated: pacifying the Empire, negotiating with the leaders of the city of Morotai, and speeding up the rebuilding and training of the Northern Legion.

Just in case, the royal capital also issued two holy decrees in succession, asking the Cebu army to march east to deal with the possible attack of the empire!

If the Duchy of Luzon is allowed to do so, they may be able to survive this crisis. However, He Shixiang finally waited for such an unmistakable excuse, and how could he be willing to give Luzon a chance?

On the third day of the envoy's arrival, the Songjiang army made an ultimatum to the Duchy of Luzon: by tomorrow evening, it must be handed over!

This was, of course, difficult for the strongman, and it was only in the face of this outrageous demand that Luzon finally realized that the Imperials had no sincerity for a peaceful settlement from the very beginning.

It's a pity that this realization came too late.

The Songjiang Army, which had already been prepared, did not even wait for the appointed time to pass, and marched straight south from the military camp in Mindu Luocheng one day in advance. The towns along the way, due to their lack of decent strength, were all bypassed by the Songjiang army, and they rushed straight to the royal capital of Manila and the nearby Krabi City as fast as possible! (To be continued.) )

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