Is Rawagfu rich? Manila is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

But as a seaport city, a large number of merchants and craftsmen lived here, and the wealth accumulated was also greater than that of Vigan.

The Ming army cleaned up the ruins on a large scale and counted the number of wealthy merchants who died.

In just a few days, hundreds of thousands of Spanish silver dollars, porcelain, gold jewelry, etc. were collected from the cellars, secret rooms and even hidden silver vaults of major merchants' residences, not including all kinds of goods piled up in the merchant ships and warehouses at the docks.

Liu Yu generously sold the jewelry and porcelain to other wealthy merchants in the city, although he did not have a good impression of the Ming people, but when he saw the Ming army selling the precious jewelry and porcelain at a price lower than the market, the rich merchants in the city still rushed to pay the money.

In a few days, he also earned 80,000 silver yuan, and Liu Yu, the goods in the port, were sold to the Four Seas Trading House at the market price.

It happened that the merchants of the land and sea were also in the open sea, and several merchants bought more than 30 merchant ships at the wharf and the goods of the port at extremely favorable prices.

Liu Yu calculated, recklessly sucked Weigan's people's fat and people's ointment, and squeezed out 600,000 silver yuan, although 200,000 were taken away by the English, as well as the establishment of a trading house, the purchase of mercenary merchant ships, and the daily ordnance maintenance consumption of the Ming army's military expenses, there were few assets left.

Now that he has taken Laoag, Liu Yu has saved more than 300,000 silver yuan.

Now Lu Hai can still bring Liu Yu an objective tax every month, it can be said that the finances are still tight, but at least it will not be beyond his means.

In order to avoid unrest, the Ming army accepted the ruling foundation and laws in Laoag after capturing Laoag.

This allowed Laoag to avoid even greater chaos, and now in addition to the core of the wealthy merchant quarters, order and life are gradually returning to the rest of the world.

For the Ming army in the city, Liu Yu issued the same order as Wei Gan, and the soldiers of Huben Town complied with Liu Yu's order.

And Xiao Wu's Shuishi Town did not do anything out of the ordinary under Xiao Wu's strict orders.

In addition, Liu Yu continued to deliver grain to Laoag, suppressing food prices and maintaining law and order in the city, and the civilians of Laoag were not so resistant to the arrival of the Ming army.

In order to restore the economy, Liu Yu also reduced half of the taxes paid by the craftsmen in the city.

It also increased the goodwill of the residents in the city towards the Ming army.

Although there were still many affairs to be done in the city, Liu Yu left the affairs to Wuda and other Wigan officials, and he and Xiao Wu inspected the Laoag docks and shipyards.

Compared to the shipyard in Wigan, which can only repair merchant ships, the shipyard in Laoag can not only repair all kinds of ships, but also build large merchant ships.

Previously, Liu Yu moved all the shipwrights in Mingcheng to Weigan and began to expand the Weigan shipyard.

This gave the Vigan shipyard the ability to build large bird ships.

The Laoag shipyard has hundreds of shipwrights and labourers, and the shipyard is much larger than that of Vigan.

In the shipyard, there was even a Spanish battleship of the third rank under repair.

It is a testament to the size of the shipyard and the technical competence of the shipwright.

Xiao Wu and Liu Yu attach great importance to this.

Although the current Ming army has experienced a series of losses in naval battles, even a large fortune ship has sunk.

However, after the capture of Vigan and Laoag, the number of warships has increased to a certain extent.

By exterminating pirates, the Ming army captured more than 100 pirate ships, including eleven three-masted ships.

And Liu Yu bought six armed merchant ships from the mercenaries.

After the Spanish surrendered in the city of Laoag, they took eight armed merchant ships from the Spaniards.

You must know that these eight armed merchant ships are all merchant ships in the hands of the Spaniards, and they are loaded with many heavy artillery pieces that the Ming army is excited about.

Basically, they were armed with galleons, and the Spanish Navy also recruited these merchant ships on weekdays to coordinate operations.

For example, when Lawag was besieged by pirates, the Spanish fleet had armed merchant ships to assist in the battle, and of course, several of them were later burned down by the Ming army with arsonist ships.

In this way, Liu Yu had 14 more armed merchant ships in his hands.

In addition to the original five armed merchant ships in Fubo Town, Liu Yu also had 19 large warships in his hands.

With this, Liu Yu split Fubo Town into Fubo Left Town and Fubo Right Town.

As for sailors, Liu Yu joined more than a hundred pirates and locally recruited sailors from Laoag.

Whether it's a pirate or a local sailor, Liu Yu has to make the best use of it.

Not to be outdone, Xiao Wu also formed the former town of the Sailor Division, using pirate ships and pirates.

As for the shipyard in Laoag, Liu Yu did not order them to continue building large ships.

One is that the funds are not enough, and the other is that the construction time is too long.

Liu Yu chose to directly select suitable merchant ships from the hundreds of merchant ships in the port and transform them into warships.

Gun decks were added, gun bays were added, and the hull was protected with custom copper skin.

It takes much less time to rebuild a ship than it does to build a warship, and the cost is much lower.

Liu Yu thought about these armed merchant ships, even if they were not good, it would still be possible to beat Shi Lang's Fujian sailors.

During this time, the Ming army and pirates captured a lot of artillery in battles with the Spaniards.

Although most of them are old-fashioned small and medium-caliber guns, lacking high-power heavy artillery, there are indeed quite a few of them.

Some of the lighter three-pounder and six-pounder guns were not equipped by the Ming army Lu Zhen.

Most of them were thrown into Watertown, where the guns could be retrofitted to armed merchant ships.

As for the twelve-pounder cannon and the above heavy artillery, Liu Yu planned to start with the East India Company.

I don't know if the English will sell it, and even if they do, the price is estimated to make Liu Yu vomit blood.

After all, he is the only one who can sell more than 20 six-pounder guns at sky-high prices.

Fortunately, these red-haired guys also felt that this money was too easy to make, for fear that the Ming army would not give them 400,000 arrears.

I took the initiative to send some artillery technicians and craftsmen as after-sales service.

In this regard, Liu Yu did not refuse to come, and accepted all the orders.

The current Ming army is not short of firearms, at least if the population is too limited to expand the army on a large scale.

Wigan's firearms workshop worked overtime to produce more than 100 flintlock muskets a month, especially after working with the English. With the assistance of some firearms craftsmen affiliated with the East India Company, improvements to the self-fired pistol and imitation of the Spanish flintlock pistol were successful.

Now they have taken the firearms workshop in the city of Laoag, which belonged to the Spanish army, and these craftsmen, technicians and facilities for the production of muskets and gunpowder for the Spaniards have fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

Manpower was also transferred from Vigan, and Huang Youde personally arrived, believing that Laoag's firearms production would resume soon.

He was accompanied by Zhu Honghuan, the king of Lu.

The vassal king was obviously much thinner than before, and his eyes had lost their former brilliance.

When he arrived at the Wharf of Laoag on the warship of Fubozuo, the hundreds of soldiers of the Ming Army on the wharf shouted in unison.

"Welcome King Lu to the city of Laoag."

Zhu Honghuan was not too happy about this scene, and he only barely showed a smile after seeing Xiao Wu, Liu Yu and others again.

"King Lu." Everyone saluted, and they were still courteous to the former vassal king, after all, the banner of the southern Luzon still needed this vassal king.

Several people immediately welcomed King Lu into the official residence, because most of the original rich merchant residences occupied by Liu Yu were destroyed by fire and are still being rebuilt, and at the same time, the Ming generals were explicitly forbidden to occupy the merchant residences without permission, so there is no good mansion for the king of Lu to live in, so he had to be wronged to stay in the official residence temporarily.

Of course, as the office of the officials of Laoag, the decoration is also quite good, and there are also houses for the officials to live and rest.

At least it's a lot better than Mingcheng.

Now Zhu Honghuan doesn't care about this, Mingcheng was raided by Shengfan and the Spaniards, and the annihilation of Weiwu Town was inseparable from him, and the tragic death of thousands of Han people made him miserable.

If it weren't for the desperate protection of several of his own soldiers, I'm afraid he would have died in the chaos.

At this time, he also settled down a lot, especially after seeing the morale of the Ming army in the city, although there was a haze in his heart, he was also a lot more steady.

After welcoming this prince into the official residence, Xiao Wu and Liu Yu smiled together.

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