After all, such a golden basin as the Four Seas Commercial Bank still has to be held in its own hands.

Seeing that Xiao Wu was not polite, Liu Yu had no choice but to agree.

After all, the current Luzon Ming Army still needs to be united, and in terms of Shuijun Town, he does not have Xiao Wuda in terms of influence.

In terms of naval warfare, Xiao Wu's command ability is still quite outstanding.

Before returning to Taiwan, he did not want to be hostile to Xiao Wu.

And most importantly, this time, Xiao Wu brought to the Ming court more than just a contribution to the suppression of pirates in northern Luzon.

The Three Towns Naval Division crossed the Babuyan Strait.

Occupied most of the islands of the Babuyan archipelago, such as Fuga, Camiguin, etc.

The pirates entrenched here were basically wiped out by the Ming army, and the remnants could only flee to the islands further north.

This is really great news for the Ming army.

Because the Ming army only needed to cross the Bass Strait after occupying the Batan Islands to reach southern Taiwan.

After explaining in detail to King Lu the location of the archipelago between Luzon and Taiwan.

King Lu was also excited, after all, it was always a little awkward to stay in a place like Luzon, where he was unfamiliar with life.

Seeing that he had taken a step back from Taiwan, he was naturally overjoyed.

What the Ming court needed now was to accumulate strength, especially to build warships and expand the sailors.

It's no wonder that Xiao Wu is so eager to establish the two towns water army.

In fact, in the two months since Xiao Wu left, Liu Yu expanded the water division of two more towns.

The two big bird boats at the Wigan shipyard have been launched, and the transformation of merchant ships at the Laoag shipyard has been fruitful.

Liu Yu transformed eight armed merchant ships in one go, and then added two self-built large bird ships, plus a series of auxiliary ships, and formed two more water towns.

This is also the reason why Liu Yu did not object.

You build a water town, I also build a water town, everyone knows it, and there is no need to blame each other in the court, right?

Of course, the taxes of Ravagvigan and other coastal towns in northern Luzon alone could not support such a large army.

Not to mention the construction of a water town, even if this army of several thousand people eats and drinks every day, the daily expenses are enough to give the local officials of Laoag a headache.

Like Vigan, all the indigenous officials of Laoag left behind by the Spaniards were taken over by the Ming army.

There is no way, who called the Han people in Luzon are either soldiers, or businessmen and few literati.

There are a few who seem to be literati, and they have also been divided up by Xiao Wu and Liu Yu.

Therefore, whether it is Rawag or Vigan, the local government is basically composed of local indigenous officials.

The Ming army basically did not intervene in the livelihood of the people and the management of the indigenous people.

It was only a civil servant who was mainly a Chinese merchant to be responsible for the administration of taxes and wharves.

Of course, these Chinese businessmen are basically Liu Yu's people.

"The Duke of Qin is really a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he has exterminated the sea disaster in just a few months."

After getting off the court, Liu Yu and Xiao Wu walked straight on the street.

"Hehe," Xiao Wu waved his hand, his face also with a hint of joy.

"The Ming court of Luzon still needs to rely on the loyal and brave marquis, but I didn't expect that the old man had not returned to Luzon for several months, and Luzon had turned into Han soil."

Looking at the bustling crowd on the streets of Laoag, Xiao Wu couldn't help but sigh.

More than two months have passed since the Battle of Laoag.

The harbour city of Laoag is also gradually regaining its vibrancy.

What is different from the past is that there are fewer red-haired ghosts with high noses and blue eyes among the pedestrians coming and going on the streets, but there are many more gorgeously dressed Chinese businessmen and Hermes-Epitek.

Lu Hai's smuggling on the mainland was quite successful, and in just two months, more than 5,000 Han people were smuggled from Chaozhou and other places in Guangdong.

These Han Chinese were either men who worked in the fields all year round, fishermen who made a living from fishing, and some were members of the wealthy merchants of Luzon.

Some come voluntarily and some involuntarily.

After coming to Luzon, most of them were integrated into the rule of the local Ming army in Luzon.

Although there are also ships that have encountered strong winds and waves during the voyage, and even some ships have encountered typhoons, which have sunk and drowned many civilians.

But it was always the majority who came to Luzon alive, and the fortune ships that came to the Laoag dock from Guangdong made the Luzon Ming court continue to grow.

The Han Chinese who plundered from the mainland were basically adult Han males.

After a short period of adaptation, the Ming court screened it.

The fishermen who were proficient in water were directly incorporated into the newly formed water town by the Ming court.

Some of the men who worked in the fields all the year round were incorporated into the new auxiliary town by Liu Yu, and some were incorporated into the Four Seas Commercial Bank as coolies.

After all, labor is needed both on land and at sea, and it is not safe to leave the local people with the hard work such as transporting goods at the wharf and other places, but it is natural to feel at ease if you have compatriots.

The 5,000 Han people were instantly divided by several forces such as the Ming army and the Four Seas Commercial Bank.

And these are far from enough for the Luzon Ming army.

Luzon had a lot of barren arable land that needed to be cultivated, and the merchants of the four seas still needed more labor to help them transport their goods.

The Luzon Ming army also needed more soldiers and sailors.

The town generals also need more servants and maids.

What Liu Yu never expected was that he chose to smuggle people from the mainland in order to expand the population of the Luzon Ming Dynasty.

A large number of businessmen are involved in human smuggling and trafficking.

Even in the underground black market in towns such as Laoag, there is even a case of smuggling of Han Chinese populations.

This made Liu Yu, who learned about it, dumbfounded.

This kind of thing has to be forbidden.

Of course, such a serious act of human trafficking naturally attracted the attention of the Guangdong government.

Just a few days ago, a ship that came to Laoag informed a message.

The Qing authorities imposed total martial law in Guangdong, prohibiting any ships from going to sea.

For Liu Yu, although he was mentally prepared, he was still taken aback by the reaction of the Qing court.

"The Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period was really in the rising stage, and its ability to control the coast was really not comparable to the late Qing Dynasty." In this regard, Liu Yu can only sigh.

Fortunately, most of the people in Guangdong were not implicated.

Some had already followed the smuggling ships to Luzon.

Some spent a lot of money to dredge, and most of them were fine.

The local government symbolically cut off a few heads and ordered martial law in the coastal areas to prevent ships from going to sea.

"Since Guangdong is not good, then focus on Fujian and Zhejiang." Seeing that the Qing court was under martial law in Guangdong, Liu Yu naturally set his sights on the Fujian area.

In fact, most of the Luzon Ming army were Hokkien people, and absorbing local Han people in Fujian was also more able to integrate into the Luzon Ming army.

After all, when Zheng Chenggong was in power, he had migrated a large number of Han people from the coastal areas of Fujian to Taiwan.

Only this time, it changed from Taiwan to Luzon.

But Liu Yu also knew that such a thing would not last long, after all, Fujian had a powerful Qing court sailor.

The Qing court occupied Taiwan not long ago, and the coastal areas of Fujian naturally had a strong armed force.

The Fujian sailors entrenched in Penghu alone are the existence that Liu Yu does not want to provoke now.

This is also the reason why the migration of people chose Guangdong, not Fujian.

Now that the Qing court is under martial law in Guangdong, then the Four Seas Commercial Houses can only start from southern Fujian.