"Meet Your Majesty!" Zheng Zhilong gave up.

"Give a seat." Zhao Han smiled kindly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Waiting for Zheng Zhilong to sit down, Zhao Han asked straight to the point: "How many warships does Spain have in Luzon?" ”

Zheng Zhilong replied: "At most, there were six galleons and more than ten ordinary warships. For several years, the Dutch had been intercepting and attacking Spanish sea vessels, and both sides had some losses. In the past few months, news has come that Spain seems to have suffered defeat in the far east. The four galleons were stuck in the Americas and could not return, as if they were still preparing to fight another war in the Americas. As for ordinary warships, there are less than ten left. ”

"What kind of ship is a galleon?" Zhao Han asked.

Zheng Zhilong said with emotion: "The giant ships with more than 1,000 materials are all made of century-old hardwood. Our navy surrounded one of them with ten ships, and the artillery bombarded them for several hours, but it is estimated that they will not be able to sink them. ”

The Spanish Manila galleons sailed across the Pacific Ocean all year round to engage in trade, so the hull was built to be exceptionally strong.

The smallest of these galleons have a displacement of 500 tons, and the largest can reach 1,200 tons.

Zhao Han asked again, "How is the northern part of Luzon?" ”

Zheng Zhilong replied: "It's all indigenous savages. ”

The Dutch governor really made a good calculation, China and the Netherlands joined forces to attack Spain, and China only got a piece of barren land, but the Netherlands was able to seize the prosperous port, and by the way, also occupy the entire Pacific shipping lane.

Zhao Han asked again: "How many troops do you need to send to capture Manila?" ”

Zheng Zhilong thought carefully and said: "We need to do our best to send another 3,000 strong forces." Manila could not be attacked hard, so it could only besiege the city with heavy troops until the city was cut off from food. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare a large amount of grain and grass, at least half a year back and forth. ”

"How sure are you?" Zhao Han asked.

Zheng Zhilong said: "If there are 3,000 strong troops, even if they can't sink the Spanish galleon, they can still transport troops to land north of Manila by surprise. When the time comes, cut off the food inside and outside the city, no matter how powerful the galleon is, it can only be blindly watched. The Red Devil has few soldiers, and even if civilians are recruited as soldiers, there can be two or three thousand at most. They can't win a war on land as long as they don't siege it. Defeat the Spanish battleships, this is not very certain. Landing and capturing Manila, as long as three months' food and grass are guaranteed, the minister is very sure of victory. ”

"Then fight, pull the Netherlands to fight together," Zhao Han said, "You come to be the coach, take Manila, and make you the Duke of the South China Sea!" ”

Canonization of a duke?

Zheng Zhilong's eyes lit up, and he knelt down and said, "The minister will never give up!" ”

……

Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Ningbo...... The maritime merchants of many ports were called by the political envoys to discuss in their cities.

Zhao Han doesn't have so much money and food to fight naval battles, so he will use businessmen to do things!

Pledged the commercial taxes of the major Philippine ports to issue war bonds to Chinese maritime merchants. In addition, firms that purchase war bonds, with a certain percentage of their goods each year, can have a tax deduction at Philippine ports, and this tax relief can be transferred to others.

As for how many goods can be exempted from tax, it depends on the amount of bonds you buy, and the conversion is also carried out according to the proportion of bond purchases.

Fuzhou.

Hundreds of Fujian maritime representatives spontaneously organized a meeting.

Lin Fusheng was the first to speak: "Gentlemen, the Han people who do business in Luzon are the most numerous, especially our Fujianese. This time, the Red Fan ghosts killed innocents indiscriminately, and everyone suffered heavy losses, some clansmen were killed, and some merchant ships were robbed. Now they don't dare to go to Luzon to run boats, and other business can't be mixed indiscriminately, and many sea ships are idle at the docks. Now His Majesty wants to seek justice for the dead Han people, and he also wants to restore business for our Fujian businessmen. I, Lin Fusheng, am willing to buy a bond of 2,000 stone grain! ”

Buying 2,000 stone grain bonds means transporting 2,000 stone of grain to the battlefield in the Philippines, and Zhao Han returned it to them with interest five years later.

Freight, risk, borne by the seaman!

At first glance, it was a loss-making deal, and the maritime merchants were certainly unwilling. But what they value more is the Philippine market and the annual Philippine port tax relief.

Even if the tax is not cut, if Zhao Han can take Manila, the Fujian maritime merchants will wake up laughing from their sleep.

Because in the Philippines, only Chinese ships have the heaviest tariffs, even twice as much as the merchant ships of other countries! In and around the city of Manila, it is also the Chinese who have the heaviest taxes, and each Chinese has to pay an additional poll tax.

Fujian maritime merchants hesitated, fearing the risk of transporting grain and not being able to capture the Philippines.

Finally, someone gritted his teeth and said: "It's out, my Li family subscribed for 500 stone bonds!" If we continue to wait like this, I don't know when we will be able to recover, and if we don't beat Manila, who will dare to do business in Luzon in the future? ”

Of course you dare, businessmen seek profit.

Historically, only a year after Spain's massacre of China, Fujian maritime merchants went to do business again. It's just that they don't dare to settle in the Philippines, they don't dare to do business in Manila, transport goods to the port for trading, and leave as soon as they finish repairing and replenishing.

Isn't it cheap?

Because the maritime merchants had no choice, the Ming Dynasty was almost finished at that time, the war was devastated, and the domestic market environment was very poor, so they had to ship the goods out for sale. How many men are waiting for food, how many craftsmen depend on them to survive, and they can only smile when they are massacred.

Now, Zhao Han, the emperor of Datong, wants to give them a head, and Fujian maritime merchants suddenly burst into enthusiasm.

In just one month, Fujian maritime merchants subscribed for 60,000 stone bonds. In other words, they have to spend their own money to buy grain, and they also have to send their own people and ships to transport 3,600 tons of grain to the battlefield in the Philippines.

As for the maritime merchants in other provinces, they have little interest in it, they do not have a market share in the Philippines.

……

Zhao Han made an appointment with the Netherlands to send troops immediately after the beginning of spring.

Governor Anthony Van Dimen could not wait, and in the winter he sent out a fleet to attack any Spanish ship he could see.

Even if Zhao Han doesn't make a move, the Netherlands itself will make a move, but the timeline has changed.

Historically, the massacre of China in the Philippines occurred much earlier, when the Netherlands was at war with Portugal and really couldn't spare their hands to make trouble with Spain. In the second year after Chongzhen hanged himself, the Dutch began to attack the Philippines in a big way.

The Dutch sent 18 ships and 800 soldiers to attack in three directions.

All the way to the northern Philippines, inciting the indigenous rebellion against the Spanish, and intercepting Chinese merchant ships from Fujian (cutting off Spanish supplies). The second route went further east to intercept galleons coming from Mexico, when Spain's Pacific shipping lanes had been restored. The third route cut off Luzon and Borneo and prevented Borneo supplies from reaching Manila.

After completing the preliminary plan, the three sides gathered to launch a general attack on Manila.

Eighteen Dutch warships and 800 Dutch soldiers laid siege to two old Spanish galleons in the port of Manila. The two sides exchanged shells for five hours, and the bow of the Dutch flagship was shattered. The Netherlands suffered heavy losses, while the Spanish did not lose a single ship and not a single person died.

Subsequently, two more galleons returned from Mexico, and the Netherlands did not dare to fight any more naval battles, and eight hundred soldiers began to land for operations.

The siege lasted for two months, and 30 Spanish soldiers fought with a large army of servants.

We don't know how many native servants died, but none of the Spanish soldiers died, and more than a hundred Dutch soldiers died. A month of confrontation ensued, and naval battles broke out again, with the Dutch fleet fleeing in disarray.

Batavia.

Peter, the commander who had returned from Cambodia, roared in front of Governor Van Dimen: "Your Excellency the Governor, we should send troops to attack Jimi (Cambodia), otherwise the East India Company will lose face in the Far East!" ”

"Spain is the real enemy, the disobedient King of Gimil, and I'll take care of him when I have time." Van Dimen said.

Teddy Holland at sea, who recently went to provoke Cambodia, was captured by Cambodia with two warships......

Two armed merchant ships, to be exact.

They went out with more than a hundred Dutch soldiers to demand that the Cambodian king return the bribes, because the Cambodian officials did not do anything after receiving the money. Not to mention the disastrous defeat of the army, two Dutch armed merchant ships actually sailed to the inland river to show off their might, but the Cambodian army blocked the river with obstacles, and then grinded to death with a large number of inland river boats.

By the way, the Netherlands is still at war with the kingdom of Banten.

In addition, the country of Matalan on the island of Java is also in a fierce conflict with the Netherlands, and is thinking about attacking the Netherlands together.

But it didn't matter, the Dutch East India Company was used to the situation of fighting on all sides.

Twenty-six years ago, the Dutch had just occupied Batavia, and within a year it was besieged by the British, Jakartans, and Bantenes. The Dutch enemies were also funny, the Dutch asked for surrender every time, but they did not negotiate because of the terms of surrender, and then they did not have enough food to withdraw from the siege themselves.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Letter from the Emperor of China." The adjutant hurried in.

After reading the letter, Fan Dimen immediately frowned.

Because the letter from the Chinese emperor only said that the northern part of Luzon would be handed over to the Chinese navy in April of the Western calendar, and that the Chinese soldiers would incite indigenous rebellions along the way.

How to share the results of the battle, the Chinese emperor has never said.

If you don't make this clear, who will go down Manila?

Knowing that the Chinese emperor was not satisfied, Van Dimen wrote a new letter and sent it, offering to hand over the tortoiseshell city and the northern part to China.

Tortoiseshell City, the capital of a princely state in Luzon, fell more than 100 years ago, and there are many Chinese and natives. The local Chinese were slaughtered twice, and the later Lanfang Company also established the Lanfang Republic in that area.

Van Dimen thinks he is sincere enough to give Tortoiseshell City in a geographical location that is second only to Manila in Luzon.

The Netherlands wants Manila, China wants the tortoiseshell city, and the two sides are fair and cooperative.

Zhao Han didn't bother to reply to the letter, so he called and said it again!

In order to send troops to the Philippines, Zhao Han specially formed the "Luzon Expeditionary Force". Peasant soldiers were recruited in Fujian and Guangdong, musket training was carried out in winter, and a total of 3,500 medical soldiers were added.

In Li Banghua's view, it was unwise to send troops this time.

However, Zhao Han didn't want to let go of the opportunity.

Avenging the tragic death of the Chinese and demonstrating China's national prestige is only one of the reasons. In addition, the Spaniards carried out massacres and offended all Chinese merchants, and now they are all united in sending troops.

If you wait a few more years, the Chinese maritime merchants will not remember to eat and fight, and go to do business with Spain. When the time comes, if the army is dispatched, many maritime merchants will still be dissatisfied, feeling that Zhao Han, the emperor, is delaying their business.

Historically, Zheng Chenggong's general, Lin Feng, led an expedition to the Philippines. is a Chinese maritime merchant who leaked Lin Feng's army information and helped the Spaniards come up with ideas.

At this time, Manila was in chaos, the galleon was blocked in the Americas, and there were no Han people on the side of Spain, which was the weakest time for the Spanish colonists!

The Dutch governor Van Dimen saw it clearly, and Zhao Han certainly understood it very well, and the two coincidentally wanted to join forces to kill Spain.

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