Liu Yu, who was staying in Wigan at this time, naturally did not know what was happening in Manila City.

At this moment, he is supervising the training of the soldiers of Huben Town.

The Ming army now entrenched on the island of Luzon can be roughly divided into five towns.

The water division town is a water town, with more than 20 large and small ships and 600 personnel.

At the moment, Laoag is fighting alongside many pirates.

Lu Zhen has mighty warriors, tiger ben, auxiliaries and Xiaokou town.

The number of Weiwu Town reached more than 800 people, of course, after coming to Luzon to absorb the local Han Chinese and natives, to assist in the defense of the Ming City, and at the same time to confront the Luzon native army near Banggui.

After Liu Yu's strengthening, especially after the original Shenji battalion was split, the strength of Huben Town reached more than 800 people, the most well-equipped, and the Spaniards' artillery team.

The town was recruited from among the Han Chinese who had fled from Luzon, and since the mobilization order was issued in Manila, about 4,000 Han Chinese have fled to the Ming camp.

Some of these Han people made a living from handicrafts and farmed land, and Liu Yu flicked a pen with a stroke of his pen, and all the adult males were incorporated into the army.

There were about 500 people in the auxiliary town, and the equipment was very poor, only some steel knives and spears, and even the armor could only be worn by the co-ordinator.

There is also a town called Xiaokou Town, which was the idea that Liu Yu came up with after witnessing the brave fighting power of the indigenous people of Luzon in Mingcheng.

Since the Spaniards could use these natives to fight, why couldn't Liu Yu.

Starting with the most trusted Eloques, and adding the captured Tagalogs, Liu Yu aligned and split them into the compilation.

Divide different ethnic groups such as Tagalogs, Iloch, etc. into the same association.

In this way, the possibility of riots is avoided.

At the same time, with Han Chinese who knew the local tribal language as translators, a colonial army was born.

As the old saying goes, money can make ghosts grind.

As long as you have enough money, anyone can recruit you.

The salary of Xiaoyong Town was the same as that of the Ming army towns, which led to adult men from many tribes near Vigan signing up to join the army.

This made Xiaoyong Town, which originally had only more than 300 people when it became an army, suddenly expand its army to more than 700 people.

It once became the most powerful town in the Ming army.

Of course, Liu Yu was not equipped with firearms in the town.

Now that the strength of the five towns is combined, there is a considerable number of more than 3,500 people.

This does not include the six armed merchant ships owned by the Four Seas merchant ships, including two armed Galen merchant ships with twenty guns.

After using arson ships to wipe out the Ichthyosaurus flotilla near the port of Wigan, Liu Yu also sent sailors to salvage more than a dozen cannons on pirate ships, with a total of more than 50 large and small guns.

But most of them are three- or four-pounder cannons, spinning cannons.

There were only eight pieces of heavy artillery over ten pounds, like the redcoat cannon.

Liu Yu planned to fit them all on the two big bird ships under construction.

Some of the rest of the small cannons were loaded on the clipper, and some were thrown directly to Lu Zhen.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and now Liu Yu is not short of silver and grain.

In addition to the 200,000 taels of Spanish treasury silver paid by the Vigan Chamber of Commerce before, the Ming army also collected more than 800,000 Spanish silver yuan, more than 10,000 gold coins, and other jewelry, calligraphy, paintings, antiques, etc. from the cellars of private houses throughout the city.

It is said that Liu Yu now sits on the city of Wigan, has an army of 3,500 people, six warships, more than 100 merchant ships, and has millions of Spanish silver yuan.

In addition, the entire 100,000 Luzon natives under his control cultivated the land and provided military supplies for their labor.

Thinking about it now, Liu Yu is still a little excited.

Just when Liu Yu was excited about the great cause he had created.

A local official in Wigan hurried over.

"Oh no, my lord, there's a fleet of ships hovering outside the harbor." The person who came was none other than Uda.

"Fleet, Spaniards?" Liu Yu was taken aback when he heard this, and then hurriedly asked.

"No, look at the flag is the East India Company, the English people."

Liu Yu nodded, and then remembered that when he went south to Luzon, he did encounter the fleet of English people on the way.

I didn't expect that after a few months, I would be able to meet these British people again in Luzon.

"Let the East India Company's fleet come into port, they're here to do business." Liu Yu commanded.

After receiving Liu Yu's instructions, Wuda hurriedly ran back to the port before he could catch his breath.

Luzon lacks horses, and even Liu Yu does not have his own car, let alone Wuda.

"I didn't expect that so long has passed, these Britons have been waiting for so long, and now they are finally willing to bet?" Liu Yu laughed, and he suddenly felt that he was one step closer to taking Taiwan.

"Soldiers of Huben Town, stationed in the port of Vigan."

Vigan Port,

Rows of soldiers lined up beside the docks.

Not far away, in the harbor, six ships hanging the East India Company sailed into the harbor.

The size of the East India Company's fleet was a bit beyond Liu Yu's expectations.

The East India Company fleet he had encountered before had only three merchant ships, but this time there were six.

The English did not want to disembark and board the docks, but instead lowered a clipper ship with a few sailors in it, and it was clear that the Mingmen went on their own.

Since the diplomat Mr. He Bin was no longer there, Wuda naturally became Liu Yu's translator.

Wuda, a local official in Vigan, knew a lot of languages, and Liu Yu heard at least six different languages and dialects in his mouth.

Liu Yu didn't bring guards, so he wasn't worried.

Because the Captain Gore was standing on the deck and waving at him.

"My friend." Captain Gore angrily helped Liu Yu jump onto the deck.

The two didn't have too many pleasantries, they didn't understand the language, they could only use the translation of Uda, and both of them were preoccupied, so they quickly entered the cabin to talk about business.

Sir Gore poured two cups of black tea peculiar to India.

Liu Yu was not polite, and drank the black tea very generously.

"I heard from the Spaniards in Manila that there was a prince who lost his country and fled to the Philippines, are you?" Sir Gore asked.

After listening to Wuda's translation, Liu Yu smiled contemptuously.

It seems that the British in front of him regard himself as King Lu, after all, the two are of the same age.

Having said that, King Lu stayed in Mingcheng and hadn't seen him for a month.

The conditions in Mingcheng are bad, far less comfortable than Vigan City, and after stabilizing the situation in Vigan, I forgot to take him back to Vigan.

"Sir Gore, I am the general of the Ming army, and it is my idea to let the army go south." Liu Yu explained.

"The last time we met, you impressed me, so when I learned that there is a prince in his 20s in the Philippines, my first impression was of you, but I didn't expect it to be you." Sir Gore was a little surprised, and there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes that quickly disappeared.

"Well, then, General, it is unfortunate that you have deceived me." Sir Gore looked at Liu Yu with an unkind face.

"The last time you told me that your Mingzheng group wanted to go south to Luzon to protect your clan, I believed you."

"But the truth is that you have deceived us, the Emperor of China has conquered Taiwan and wiped out your dynasty, and in Macau I heard from the Governor of Portugal that the Emperor of China has set up an administrative structure in Taiwan."

Liu Yu smiled after listening to Wuda's translation and savored the black tea.

"Actually, you defected from Taiwan, right?" Sir Gore crossed his hands on the table.

"I don't like it when someone cheats on me, especially a hairy boy." Lord Gore said.

"Sir Gore, this doesn't stop us from making deals, does it?" Liu Yu looked indifferent.

He knew from the beginning that he had told a lie that the British would inevitably find out when they went to Macau.

It was just a reluctant decision made by Liu Yu after escaping from Taiwan at that time.

However, it is clear that this lie brought out this transaction, so Liu Yu does not care very much.

If the English had been really angry and angry that they had deceived them, they would not have come here.

"The most important thing for a businessman is integrity, and we don't like to do business with businessmen who don't have integrity." Sir Gore finished his cup of tea and motioned for his servant to pour another one.

You British people still talk about honesty, what a big joke.

Liu Yu glanced at the British knight in front of him, but he said in a calm tone.

"For a businessman, it is indeed necessary to be honest, but I am not a businessman, but an official."

"Sir Gore I told you that we were going to the Philippines to rescue our countrymen, and now we have done it, and we have not only rescued our own countrymen but also captured the city of Vigan, and to the north our navy is besieging Laoag."

Liu Yu paused and continued: "For both of us, shouldn't the issue of integrity be put after the facts?"

"The fact is that we have most of Greater Luzon in our hands, and thousands of our elite soldiers can take Manila at any time, and that's the truth."