"I'll write down all your achievements." Lin Xu said softly.

Lin Xu is literate, and this is also the only one of the five vice presidents of the association who has an impermanence book.

There are really not many people in the Ming army who know words, and Lin Xu can recognize words, which also makes him stand out quickly in Luzon.

"Master Xie." The little soldier on the side was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said.

The old soldier from before stepped forward and said,

"It is the work of adults to exterminate the Haikou and chase down the life, and we will just pass it off."

The old soldier pretended not to care, and flattered.

"Soldiers have meritorious service, they should be rewarded, and Daming will not treat any soldier badly." The co-chair stepped forward, took Lin Xu's book of impermanence, and flipped through it.

Lin Xu didn't care, because he knew that this thing was illiterate, but he was just pretending to be in front of his subordinates.

After all, Liu Yu wantonly eradicated illiteracy in the army, teaching soldiers to read and write, and some officers and soldiers who could read and write were promoted faster than those who could not, and generals who could read and write could also be appreciated.

Therefore, whether the commander of the Ming Army, the squad leader and other grass-roots officers would always hold a book of 300 Chinese characters and read it back and forth, regardless of whether they recognized it or not, they just pretended to be right.

"Master Xie." At this time, the veteran soldier of Zajia stepped forward and knelt down to thank him.

The number of prisoners captured by the Ming army was about 500.

Most of them were women, children, old and young, and most of them died under the Ming saber.

The co-ordinator instructed the soldiers to send more than 500 students to the warship and escort them back to Laoag.

The Ming army lacked manpower and animal power, whether it was grain and grass and heavy escort, mining or private slaves of generals.

The Ming Court of Luzon was like a bottomless pit, devouring a lot of human and financial resources.

The co-chair looked at the hundreds of men who were escorted over, and showed a look of disdain.

These days, in order to avoid these rebellions, the Ming army only gave one meal a day.

After a few days, these students have long been hungry and have no strength.

"This kind of soil can only be sent to the mine for mining." The co-chair did not hide his disgust.

"These can be sold for a good price." Seeing several soldiers of the Ming army escorting a group of women and children past, the assistant chief showed a satisfied look.

Since the Ming army moved south, it smuggled 5,000 Han people from the mainland to Luzon.

Basically, they were mainly adult men, and except for a few who started a family in Luzon, most of the Ming officers and soldiers and Han people did not have a mother-in-law.

And the Ming court strictly forbade the robbery of people's daughters, even the local indigenous women in Luzon.

Therefore, the raw women of these islands can be sold for a good price. No matter how bad it is, it can also be given to the Hermes-Epitek so that they can feel at ease in Luzon.

The co-chair looked happy and couldn't help nodding his head again and again.

At this time, an officer waded in from the beach.

"Wang Jianjun." The co-president hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Each town of the Ming army has a corresponding supervising army, obeying Liu Yu alone, who is responsible for rewards and punishments in the army on weekdays, and the town is under his supervision from the town general to the pawn.

"My lord, give it." The co-ordinator hurriedly handed the book of impermanence to Wang Jianjun.

"Li Liu, behead six, Wu Er behead five......" The co-chair looked at what was written in the book of impermanence with great satisfaction.

"In this battle, the first one hundred and seventy-one people were captured, and five hundred and ten people were captured. Well. The overseer nodded, satisfied.

"After returning to Luzon, I will also truthfully report to the imperial court and ask for credit for you." The overseer closed the book of impermanence and returned it to Lin Xu.

The prison army did not stay any longer, and returned to the warship with the Ming officers and soldiers who escorted Shengfan.

They will return to Laoag with the Minghai merchant fleet that came yesterday.

Soon, the Ming soldiers on the island also rushed over, and also brought a four-pounder Franc cannon.

This is the northern coast of the island, which is obviously suitable for building a camp, and Shengfan has left a large number of stone houses, and there is no fear of no place to live.

Since the peace with Manila, the Ming army has placed the defense line in the area of Mingcheng.

For the first time since the last battle of Ming City, the Ming army returned to this Haiphong city.

It is not so much a city as a camp.

After the Spaniards broke through the Ming City, they slaughtered all the thousands of Han Chinese who remained here, and set fire to the city.

The Ming army could only build a new camp on the ruins, but unlike the previous Luzon newcomers, the Ming army had a lot of manpower to mobilize, whether it was the indigenous people of Luzon or the Han people from the mainland.

A full 2,000 laborers re-established the Ming city for the Ming army.

Mingcheng has a good geographical location, down to Banggui and up to Vigan.

It is located on the main road to the north of Spain, so the Ming court attaches more importance to it.

In order to avoid the need to buy and sell military supplies in Mingcheng from other places, Liu Yu also encouraged the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce to open shops in Mingcheng, making Mingcheng a town.

At first, Ming City was only a military fortress, and at the beginning of its construction, it was only to quickly gain a foothold on Luzon Island, and the Ming army did not build too many residential areas, which is why Liu Yu moved a large number of craftsmen to Vigan City after taking Vigan again.

However, when it was about to move the Han people, it was blocked, and then it was stopped because the Ming army went north to Laoag.

Who would have thought that the Spaniards would raid Mingcheng and eventually lead to the tragic death of thousands of Han people.

This time, Liu Yu's rebuilding of Mingcheng is also a kind of determination.

In order to show his determination to rebuild the Ming City, Liu Yu mobilized and relocated a large number of civilian traders to the rebuilt Ming City.

Mountains and seas also needed to trade overland in Luzon, and Mingcheng could also be a distribution point for trade, so it was also particularly supportive.

In addition to personally mobilizing a part of the small traders to open shops in Mingcheng, he also gave a lot of money and taels, and the Ming army also specially reduced the taxes for one year for the traders who went to Mingcheng to open shops, which made many small traders determined to develop in Mingcheng.

Since the Ming City was regarded as an important town on the border, the Ming court naturally attached great importance to it, and split and transferred from the Huben Town and the auxiliary town to form two new towns, named Wuwei Left and Right Towns, each with 500 officers and soldiers.

At the same time, he recruited Shengfan from the Irok people in northern Luzon and the Tagalu people, and established two Xiaoyong towns, which were ordered to be the front and back towns of Xiaoyong, plus the two towns of Xiaoyong, and the Ming army actually had four towns composed of Shengfan.

In order to avoid uncontrolled birth, in addition to limiting the number of people in each town to 500, Liu Yu also deliberately divided the four towns and deployed the four towns to four places.

Xiao Yong is the strongest in the right town, commanded by Talu, and 500 mercenaries are stationed outside the city of Ravag to be responsible for guarding with Huben Town, and they are also supervised by Huben Town on weekdays.

Zuozhen was sent by the Ming army to the high mountains in the northern part of Luzon, and was responsible for collecting the tribes from all over the high mountains.

The front and back towns were deployed to Vigan and Ming City.

As for the population that the Ming court can control now, the household department has also made a detailed statistics.

Since the Ming army only controlled the towns of Laog, Vigan, and Tulaogbang, and a large number of Shengfan tribes were only dependent, the Ming court statistics only counted the townspeople and the Han people of Luzon.

After nearly a year of development, including the relocation of 5,000 Han people from the mainland, the Ming court now counted about 10,000 Han people, plus the population of 30,000 people in major towns, about 40,000.

The population of the large and small tribes in the northwestern part of Luzon that depended on the Ming court has not been counted, but the scale is about 70,000 or 80,000.

Not counting the more than 2,000 soldiers, the number of the Ming army was about four or five thousand, of which 2,000 were sailors, officers and soldiers of the naval division and pirates who surrendered to the Ming court.

It can also be seen from this that the number of Ming officers and soldiers on the island is only more than 2,000 people, and they not only have to face the Spaniards and Shengfan army south of Mingcheng, but also have to control the Shengfan army whose number in the army is not less than that of the Ming army.

Although 5,000 Han people were relocated from the mainland, it was impossible to pull all of them to serve in the army, and the Han people on the island were less than 10,000 people, and after conscription, most of those outstanding Han people had been conscripted into the army, and if they were recruited again, the quality of their soldiers could no longer meet the requirements, so it was difficult for Liu Yu to expand the army even if he wanted to.

After all, the population base is there, and there are only 40,000 urban residents, 5,000 are soldiers, and 8 people supply one officer and soldier, not counting the students hired at a high price.

Even if most of the time they collect taxes, grain and grass from the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the indigenous people of Shengfan, it is impossible for the Shengfan tribe to supply grain and grass and pay taxes without restrictions.

Because of the large-scale expansion of the Ming army, the military needs were insufficient, and the wanton exploitation and plundering of raw food, money, etc., has led to several rebellions.

If it weren't for Manila's high price for Talu's head, it would have been the opposite of this old man.