For the first time, there was silence in the cabin.

"I don't understand, for you exiles, such an agreement is actually the best option." Sir Gore sighed.

He had some regrets, after all, this was already the lowest bottom line that the Spaniards could accept.

"You've always been a very shrewd kid, I don't understand ......"

"You won't understand." Liu Yu interrupted Sir Gore's words.

"Because you have not lost your country." Liu Yu said coldly.

"Not only will I not accept it, but neither will the hundreds of Ming soldiers who died in Luzon."

"The tens of thousands of Han Chinese who died under the butcher's knife of the Spaniards will not accept it either."

Liu Yu took a deep breath and slowly said the words that had already accumulated in his heart.

Perhaps for this group of East India merchants, such an agreement was already the best option for both sides.

But for the Ming army, it will never be accepted.

Ming City, Vigan, Rawag, every inch of land was fought down by Ming soldiers.

They bled to death and fell on a foreign land that did not belong to them.

So that those who can survive can one day kill back to their rightful land.

How could he possibly sign such an agreement with the Spaniards.

They didn't lose, they won.

With steel swords and muskets, they defeated the invincible Spanish Empire.

If Liu Yu really signed such an agreement today, then what else is there to talk about counterattacking Taiwan, opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and directly committing suicide.

Yes, they are indeed a bunch of exiles.

They were defeated, lost to a bunch of barbarians.

From Shanhaiguan to Nanjing, from Nanjing to Myanmar, from Myanmar to Taiwan.

Lost the land where they had lived for thousands of years,

Although not for the first time, the same bloody and brutal.

But they didn't give in.

From the 100,000 people who died in Yashan to the thousands of Han soldiers who fled to Luzon.

Setting foot in Luzon is not only Liu Yu's belief.

It is the choice of thousands of Han people who are unwilling to be slaves.

They may have nothing left, but they still have the only bit of dignity left in this era of this nation called Han.

Wuda stood there awkwardly, and Liu Yu's words touched him a little.

As an official of Wigan, how could he not be a slave of the Spaniards?

No, all of Luzon was a slave to the Spaniards.

It's just that now he is a slave to another group of exiles.

After listening to Liu Yu's words, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

But he didn't express it, because in this cabin, he didn't have the qualifications.

After all, the talks ended unhappily.

Liu Yu and Wu Da walked out of the cabin with a calm face.

They did not stop, but boarded the clippers of the Ming army and left the merchant ships of the British.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Liu Yu." Sir Gore stopped Liu Yu from the deck.

"Don't forget your firearms." Sir Gore shouted.

After listening, Liu Yu smiled bitterly, it seems that this time he was really slaughtered.

Although Liu Yu did not sign the agreement with the Spaniards, the arms trade must continue.

The rest of the things didn't need to be supervised by Liu Yu personally, and they were directly handed over to the local officials in Weigan.

At the same time, the merchants of the Four Seas Trading Company led by Su Langqing also couldn't wait to board the merchant ships of the East India Company.

It was easy to get rid of the shackles of the Spaniards and the local natives of Vigan.

Like a dragon entering the sea, the enthusiasm for sea trade is unprecedented.

The arrival of the merchant ships of the East India Company was like rain and dew for the Chinese merchants.

Liu Yu was also happy to see the maritime trade between Luzon and the East India Company.

After all, it was not the Spaniards who now accounted for the majority, but the Ming army of Vigan.

The merchant ships of the East India Company came prepared.

Armed merchant ships carrying firearms docked at the pier and unloaded boxes and crates of firearms.

Of course, as a trade, wooden crates loaded with silver dollars were also brought into merchant ships by East Indian sailors.

In addition, Sir Gore gave an additional 20 barrels of black powder.

The Ming army was not short of gunpowder, and Vigan, as a seaport city, was most important in maritime trade.

And merchant ships also need artillery protection when they go to sea.

Although the Spaniards explicitly forbade the private casting of cannons.

But gunpowder workshops are indeed common.

After all, this thing is indispensable for chambers of commerce and merchants who need it.

Therefore, there are large and small gunpowder workshops in the city of Vigan, both official and underground.

After Liu Yu took control of Weigan City, he incorporated all the large and small gunpowder workshops in the city into the Firearms Division.

The output is enough to meet the needs of the current Ming army.

Looking at the busy and noisy port of Vigan, an indescribable emotion poured into my heart.

Compared to the English of the Spaniard East India Company, it is indeed very sincere, and of course making money is another matter.

They even brought with them a group of firearms craftsmen who had belonged to the East India Company.

What the Luzon Ming Army lacked most now was people, especially all kinds of craftsmen and sailors.

For example, in the Battle of Mingcheng, the Ming army captured the Spanish nine-pounder Saiko cannon and gun carriage.

Liu Yu attached great importance to this, and specially ordered people to work overtime to make such a Western-style artillery car.

But after all, it was just a look, and the goods were destroyed in a few days.

The reason is also very simple, the craftsmen of the Ming army did not have such technical experience, and they lacked manpower.

Therefore, the new artillery carriages to equip the army can only be stopped.

I looked at the East India merchant ships moored at the docks.

Liu Yu thought that if the sea trade was reopened in the future, he could send people to the East Indies to hire some craftsmen at a high price.

Similar examples are not uncommon,

For example, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court also specially hired Francois from Macao to make firearms.

It's a pity that for some reasons, these Franc machine craftsmen finally fell into the hands of the Qing army.

became the minions of the Qing army's iron cavalry to capture the Central Plains.

Future generations will not forget their predecessors.

To hire a craftsman from the West, you must be well prepared.

Liu Yu didn't want to repeat the old path of the Ming Dynasty.

Suddenly, a big hand slapped on Liu Yu's shoulder.

It turned out to be Liu Quan, after the last time the pirates of the Ichthyosaurus Gang attacked the docks.

Liu Quan fell ill, which is why Liu Yu was eager to solve the root cause of the Weigan Chamber of Commerce.

"Uncle,"

Liu Yu was overjoyed,

Liu Quan is only 40 years old, but at the moment he looks like an old general in his fifties and sixties.

"How's it going, Yu'er, how are you talking to those red-haired ghosts?" Liu Quan asked.

"I spent a lot of money and got a batch of firearms from the red-haired ghost."

Liu Quan nodded after listening, "Silver two is a trivial matter, I'm afraid that the red-haired ghost is not just here to sell firearms this time." Liu Quandao.

Presumably, Liu Quan also knew the willingness of the Spaniards to negotiate peace.

"I didn't choose to sign an agreement with the Governor of Franc Ji, it's a trivial matter to spend some silver, and I can earn it back in the future, but if this agreement is really signed, we will really be controlled by others."

Liu Yu's choice made Liu Quan quite satisfied.

From fleeing south to Luzon to Mingcheng and then to Vigan, Liu Yu has always been the core backbone of this Ming army, and he had to protect this nephew by himself before, but he didn't expect that during the period of his cultivation, he actually controlled the situation in Vigan.

There's nothing more gratifying than this.

"Foreigners are cunning, whether they are Francois or English, they are all raccoon dogs, and they must not be trusted." Liu Quan admonished.

"It's a pity that we are located in Nanyang, and we have to be controlled by others." Liu Yu was quite helpless.

Although the Ming army had a few town troops, as Sir Gore said, Luzon was only a colony, and even if the Spanish colonial army on Luzon was defeated, the Spanish Empire could still transfer troops and warships on a large scale from the mainland and the Americas, and even more ruthlessly, and the Manila authorities could even inform the Qing court.

After all, there have been precedents, such as working with the Ming court to exterminate the great pirate Liu Xiang.

So peace talks with the authorities in Manila, south of Luzon, are the best option.

However, Liu Yu could not accept the demands made by the Manila authorities.

"The situation on the front line of Banggui is not very optimistic, Bo Lu's men have gathered more than 2,000 indigenous soldiers, as well as five hundred Spanish mercenaries, and now Weiwu Town can only stick to Mingcheng, and you have pressed several times for help from the prison country, this time, you have rejected the peace talks of the Francos, I'm afraid that the Francos are really going to attack." Liu Quan's expression was worried, in the past, he was just a town general and didn't need to think about this, but now it is different.

"They suffered a crushing defeat in Mingcheng, and the mercenaries and natives couldn't defeat Mingcheng with a full 2,000 people, and now our strength is even stronger, presumably Bo Lu will not dare to attack." Liu Yu has a trace of contempt for these natives,

"The fact that the English dare to sell us firearms is already very telling."

"Let's not talk about anything else, Bolu will definitely not dare to invade Mingcheng."

"Yes, General Talu."

There was a man in the army, and that man's face was different from that of ordinary Han Chinese, with deeper skin and a shorter stature.