Manila.

Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Luzon, personally went to the dock to greet the emperor's envoy.

After some politeness, Liu Hanyi was taken to the Governor's Palace, which was the castle left by the Spaniards.

Before entering the castle, I heard a burst of cheers and shouts from the northeast of the city.

"Dada-da-da!"

As soon as the horse came galloping, the soldier turned over and dismounted, and said to Zhang Huangyan: "Qi Qi General System, our army has won a complete victory. Only 6 people were slightly injured, 1 person was seriously injured, and 1 person was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, so he leveled 5 barbarian villages, beheaded more than 300 barbarians, and captured more than 1,600 barbarians! ”

"Good!"

Zhang Huangyan was very happy.

Liu Hanyi was curious: "There are often wars in Luzon? ”

Zhang Huangyan explained: "The barbarians who were on this expedition often attacked Han Chinese farms and occasionally attacked indigenous tribes close to the government. The previous governor mainly pacified, who knew that those barbarians had to gain an inch, and the governor could not bear it anymore and raised troops to fight. ”

"I see." After Liu Hanyi heard this, she was more confident to persuade Zhang Huangyan to send troops.

The previous governor of Luzon, Zheng Guozhong, had only sent troops once during his seven years in office. Its main energy was to resettle the Han people, educate the natives, build ports, build roads, and dig canals, and often resolved minor frictions on the periphery of the territory by peaceful means.

Today's Zhang Huangyan is obviously much tougher, and he directly sent troops after only half a year in office.

Zhang Huangyan was afraid of being misunderstood by the emperor's envoys, so he said in more detail: "The natives of Luzon are mainly Tagalogs. These Tagalogs were scattered into large and small tribes, and there was no subordinate relationship between them. They speak the same language, they can farm, they can weave, and the closer they are to the sea, the easier it is to educate. But the further they went into the mountains, the more unruly they became, looting Han farms and even hunting Han heads every year. The Han people on the border have become unbearable, and even if I don't send troops, those Han landlords will unite to conquer it. ”

The Tagalog people are the main ethnic group in Luzon.

Tagalog is very close to Miyako. The Miyako Islands, located between Taiwan and the Ryukyus, are currently under the jurisdiction of Ryukyu Prefecture.

The Tagalog people are deeply influenced by Indian culture and have long been in contact with the Han Chinese. The Tagalu people in the coastal areas have a very high degree of civilization, are good at planting and weaving, and cannot be regarded as ordinary barbarians, as long as the school is popularized, two or three generations can be sinicized in a large area.

Liu Hanyi asked to see the triumph of the army, and Zhang Huangyan took him to the northeast of the city.

Small boats returned with soldiers and baggage. There were also sergeants on the shore, escorting the captives along the river, and many female captives were crying.

The 3,000 Datong troops stationed in Luzon have already brought their families to settle here. Each person is fully allocated 100 acres of land, and a few hundred acres of land are a few hundred acres of land, which can be said to belong to small landlords. If there is a battle loss, it will be replenished by conscription from among the local Han Chinese.

The soldiers' armor also changed, and they no longer wore cotton armor, because it was too hot to fight in the tropics. Now all the chain mail and chain helmet, and then wear a bamboo hat to shade the sun, and on rainy days, they will also wear a standard coat, and the 100% armor rate is enough to crush the natives.

Liu Hanyi asked, "What should I do with those prisoners?" ”

Zhang Huangyan replied: "Priority is given to the soldiers to be tenants (in essence, serfs), and the rest is sold to the local Han people." Children are kept in orphanages, and when they grow up, they become Han Chinese. It's not that the government doesn't practice benevolent government, but that such barbarians, fearing authority and not accepting morality, have repeatedly plundered farms. Since the troops have been dispatched, of course, they must be done once and for all, and the captives must not be released and returned to the mountains. ”

"That's true." Liu Hanyi echoed.

Liu Hanyi pointed to the boaters and asked, "The oarsman has dark skin, isn't he a Han Chinese?" ”

Zhang Huangyan said: "Most of them belong to the Pampanga people, and when the Spanish ruled here, the indigenous servant army was all Pampanga. They spoke Chinese and Spanish, and at the Battle of Manila, most of the Pampanga soldiers were killed, and all the rest were loyal. This race is very obedient, and more than 2,000 people have been naturalized as Han Epitek one after another. They were afraid that the government would not trust them, so they converted to Mazu one after another, and even spoke Chinese at home. ”

To put it bluntly, it is Mu Qiang.

In the past, he worked as a lackey for Spain and converted to Catholicism en masse. Now he is a lackey for China, and he has collectively converted to Taoist Mazu - the Datong army came to Luzon, and the most killed were the Pampanya people, and the more they were killed, the more they obeyed the rule of the Han people!

Nowadays, among the people of Pampanga, they can speak Chinese and be superior to others, and they can walk with wind on both feet. On any occasion, the Chinese language is deliberately spoken to show off, and the spread of the Chinese language is very rapid.

Other tribes also need the government to persuade and educate.

The people of Pampanga, on the other hand, took the initiative to accept the indoctrination and asked the government to allow their children to enter the school.

Liu Hanyi asked as she walked: "Can the indigenous people of Luzon have writing?" ”

Zhang Huangyan explained: "What used to be was destroyed by the Spaniards. As long as there were books written in the local language, the Spaniards burned them all, but it paved the way for us to educate the natives. ”

Some tribes of Luzon actually gave birth to writing, but they did not create their own writings, but borrowed some Indian scripts.

After the Spanish colonization, the Luzon script was completely banned, and only some oral literature remained, such as oral epics, plays, myths, riddles, proverbs, and so on. The Ifugao people, who are good at terraced farming techniques, still have narrative poems such as "Aligurong" and "Hunting Song".

After reviewing the triumphant troops, Zhang Huangyan took Liu Hanyi into the city again.

Zhang Huangyan pointed to the block in front of him and said, "When the Spaniards were there, the various ethnic groups had to live in separate areas. Now it is necessary to mix in the city to facilitate the assimilation of the ethnic groups. ”

"It's easy to mess up this way." Liu Hanyi raised concerns.

Zhang Huangyan explained: "There are constant small disputes, but there are no big messes. Because in the city, the Han people are the most numerous. In every neighborhood, there is a police station. Eight of the ten policemen were Han Chinese. Two police slots are left for other communities in the neighborhood. ”

This is not explicitly stated, 20% of the police of different races, who must be positive, will settle their own residents of the same race.

Once there is a mess, the alien police will be pushed out to take the blame: the government is good and treats the people well, and the bad things are done by the alien police. Punishing police officers of different races can not only calm the anger of the people, but also gain the hearts and minds of the people.

And those scapegoat policemen are not wronged, they are doglegs in front of the Han people, and they naturally have to make up for it from their compatriots, and even corrupt and pervert the law to oppress their own clansmen.

Liu Hanyi observed the neighborhood along the way, except for the castle, most of the other areas of the city belonged to Chinese-style buildings, and at first glance she thought she had returned to China.

There are beggars too, but there are no Han beggars.

Every once in a while, the government would clean up the beggars and sell them to Han landlords as tenants. This is certainly unfair, the Han landlords in the suburbs will rob the natives of their living space, and the natives can only go to the city to seek a way to survive. The lucky ones can make a living for themselves, and the unfortunate ones will be dealt with by the government.

To put it bluntly, it is still engaged in colonization.

It's just that this kind of colonization method is countless times more merciful than the European ghosts, and there is no red fruit to squeeze to death, and it will not exterminate people for no reason - the tribes attacked by the Luzon Datong Army are all robbed of farms repeatedly.

And the Netherlands was the most murderous, killing all the small Liuqiu Island in Taiwan, because they actually captured female slaves and distributed them to soldiers and crews. In the Spice Islands, more than 100,000 indigenous people were exterminated because there were too many indigenous people who were prone to rebellion. Many of the Han wives in Batavia are from Bali, and the Dutch slaughtered the indigenous tribes of Bali in order to retain the Han Chinese, and snatched the women and sold them half to the Han people to settle down.

Liu Hanyi passed by a blacksmith shop, heard the conversation inside, and couldn't help asking, "There are still widows?" ”

Zhang Huangyan said: "A few years ago, the Japanese ronin rioted, and the shogun wantonly arrested and killed the ronin. Many ronins fled to the Ryukyus, and His Majesty was afraid of the instability of the Ryukyus, so he moved some of the Japanese ronins to Luzon. Taiwan, Palembang and Malacca have all received some ronin, ranging from a few hundred to more than a thousand. ”

The two entered the castle and came to Zhang Huangyan's office.

Zhang Huangyan took the initiative to ask: "Wow, I've heard about it, how are the angels going to do it?" ”

Liu Hanyi told the details of Su Minggang's explanation, and said: "Please send 2,000 troops to General Zhang, and then mobilize the Luzon and Taiwan navies to defeat the Dutch Batavia City!" ”

Zhang Huangyan was taken aback, he knew that the envoys who went to sea were bold, but he never expected that he would be so bold, and he immediately cried and laughed: "The angel is really heroic, I thought that the angel was going to send troops to capture the Murmur Wow, and teach the rebelled Murn Wow Sultan a lesson." ”

"What is there to conquer with a mumble, wow? If you want to fight, you can fight Batavia! Liu Hanyi said loudly.

Zhang Huangyan said: "But the order I received was that once the Dutch attacked Ranbawa, Luzon would send troops to rescue and occupy Ranbawa according to the situation." Sending troops to Batavia has exceeded the authority of the governor of Luzon. ”

Liu Hanyi asked: "The order that Mr. Zhang received, can you say what should I do if I defect to the Netherlands?" ”

"No," Zhang Huangyan shook his head and said, "So, this matter still needs to be consulted by the imperial court." ”

"Ask the court for everything, how many hours will it take to come and go? When the time comes, it is estimated that the Dutch will be muttering about building a castle," Liu Hanyi said, "I don't know how to fight, but I also know the story of Wei Wei and saving Zhao." Our army took Batavia directly, and the Dutch defenders who murmured wow would inevitably return to the division to rescue, and murmur wow would be self-defeating. Even if our army can't take Batavia, it's always okay to retreat safely, right? Isn't it easier to occupy Mur Wow on the way to withdraw than to attack Mur Wow directly? ”

"That's true." Zhang Huangyan nodded in approval.

Liu Hanyi continued: "I have inquired that the Dutch sank one battleship and severely damaged three warships by the Portuguese in order to capture Ceylon. In addition, a few years ago, the Dutch battleship was heavily damaged by our Datong Navy, and it has not been fully restored until now. Although the number of ships has been replenished, most of them are converted from merchant ships, which cannot defeat our Datong Navy at all. As long as the navies of Guangdong, Taiwan, Luzon, Palembang, and Malacca are dispatched, they can suppress the Dutch naval ships and successfully send the army to Batavia for landing. ”

Zhang Huangyan asked: "Our army is small, how can we capture Batavia?" ”

Liu Hanyi said: "There is no need to attack, with the support of the local Han people, as long as we give silver, we can buy enough food on the spot." Our army has few soldiers, the Dutch soldiers are even less, and Batavia has only a little more than a thousand defenders. They did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so they could only be surrounded until they ran out of ammunition and food. ”

Zhang Huangyan also said: "The sultan of Mataran is a puppet of the Dutch, will Matalan send troops?" ”

Liu Hanyi said: "The nobles who instigated Mataran to rebel, they rebelled once in the past two years, occupied the capital of Mataran, and killed all the old sultans of Mataran. The current sultan of Mataram relied on the support of the Dutch to quell the uprising and return to the capital. As long as we keep the Dutch in check, the Mataran nobles will respond. When the time comes, the Sultan of Mataran will not be able to take care of himself, where will he still have the ability to rescue Batavia? ”

"Since the angels have all thought about it, then I will send troops." Zhang Huangyan is actually not willing to be lonely, he needs enough reasons to convince himself.

And the troops sent to Batavia did not disobey the orders of the imperial court.

When Zhao Han gave the order, he took into account the rapid change of the situation, so the military order was very vague, giving enough autonomy to the governor and officers and soldiers at the front.

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