Soon after Lei Yili said this, the Ming warship began to dock.

Louis, the governor of Xiyi Franc Ji, did not stop him, and also took the initiative to cooperate to prepare a place for the Ming army officials to stay.

Admiral Chen Lan also asked officials such as Liu Yingqiu, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to take charge of the evacuation of overseas Chinese, announcing to the Chinese that the imperial court was about to use troops in Luzon and that they would be taken away to avoid the encroachment of the authorities in Manila.

As soon as Liu Yingqiu arrived in Manila, the wealthy businessman Li Hai first stopped Liu Yingqiu with a group of Chinese.

As soon as Li Hai and the others stopped Liu Yingqiu, Li Hai first took out a notebook and held it in front of Liu Yingqiu:

"Please send it to the Son of Heaven, and the overseas Han people bathing respectfully ask the Son of Heaven to rest and trade with the Son of Heaven, so as not to cause misery in the four seas, increase the casualties, and make the crying of the small people in the world increase sharply, and greatly damage the holy virtue!"

"I have heard for a long time that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has the ambition of Yao Shun and loves the people like a son, and please observe the will of the small people such as us, and do not use swords and guns to force the people of the four seas to be ruined, and make the sea and the border ......restless."

Liu Yingqiu didn't expect that when he set foot in Manila City and saw the first batch of Han Chinese, he actually wanted to dissuade the Ming Emperor from raising troops in Luzon.

This made Liu Yingqiu quite embarrassed.

On the sidelines, Louis and Lei Li, who politely greeted Liu Yingjie and other Ming Dynasty officials on Wanli's face, and were also surveillance, smiled secretly when they saw this.

Therefore, Liu Yingqiu lowered his face at this time and asked, "So, are you unwilling to let Master Wang take you away?" ”

"Naturally I don't want to!"

"We just want to do business here in a down-to-earth manner, support the Han people who have settled here, and ask the imperial court to complete it!"

Li Hai replied intently at this time, and glanced at Liu Yingqiu.

"Please fulfill the imperial court!"

Many wealthy Chinese businessmen who came with him followed suit.

Liu Yingqiu said: "When the imperial court recovers here, it is not that you will not be allowed to continue trading, but that the tax rate will be lower, why are you unwilling to go?" ”

"Then we're not leaving! Just stay here. ”

"Please fulfill the imperial court!"

Lehi replied.

After hearing this, Liu Yingqiu asked again: "Are you not worried that they will not retaliate against you because you are Chinese, swallow your money, and even kill you all under the pretext that you are spies?" ”

Liu Yingqiu asked as he pointed to Louis, Lei Yili and others.

And Lei Yili didn't explain much, just looked at Lehi.

At this time, Lehi replied: "Returning to heaven, not all people are ignorant of etiquette, the officials of Manila are here on behalf of the Lord, they are here to preach the gospel and love, and they have baptized us for this, they have always attached great importance to virtue, and we are all honest people who are willing to do our duty, so naturally we will not worry that they who have been baptized together will not treat us with kindness, but with swords and guns." ”

After hearing this, Liu Yingqiu couldn't resist the urge to further persuade these Han rich businessmen, but only took the recital and said:

"Your request will be presented by the mission, but don't get your hopes up."

"Because the Xiyi here already has the heart to destroy my China, and has slaughtered all the natives of Sheliao Island in the entire Dongpeng Prefecture, and still owes countless lives to our Han people in Huangshan Town, and even killed my officers and soldiers, it is impossible for my emperor to sit back and watch the existence of such a rebellious thief, and if the Son of Heaven does not find justice for his country's dignity and the people who died tragically, it will be even more destructive!"

"Hang'er and the others are just businessmen, and they don't know much about political affairs, so they don't care about it, but if you think about it carefully, why wouldn't a person who dares to raise a butcher's knife in Dongpeng Mansion dare not raise a butcher's knife here?"

"Isn't the kindness it shows a disguise?"

After Liu Yingjie said this, he walked to the surrounding area of ordinary Chinese businessmen behind him and asked, "Don't you want to return to China?" ”

"We are willing to follow Master Wang back to China!"

"They have ordered us to hand in our weapons, and their intentions are self-evident, aren't we staying here waiting for death?"

Then.

There is an ordinary Han businessman who is an undercover agent of Jinyiwei who said a word, and a few Han businessmen who were good with him said: "Everyone, it's nothing to make less, you will earn it back, and now since the imperial court is willing to spend thousands of miles to pick us up, what else can we say, we can't really bet here that the war won't affect us, it's better than the imperial court not caring whether we live or die and just come and open fire, right?" ”

"Brother Zhang is right!"

"Let's go back with Master Wang!"

"We are also willing to go back with Master Wang!"

……

For a while, many Chinese businessmen and merchants agreed.

Louis and Lei Xili couldn't help but look pale, but they couldn't say anything at this time, after all, they had promised the Ming army to allow these Chinese to leave freely.

But there are also many Chinese who are reluctant to leave, especially baptized Chinese.

Because most of these Chinese are local landlords, and they also have the status of wealthy merchants, they have some close relations with the local Spanish officials, so it can be said that these Chinese are their compradors, and they have a lot of trust in the local Xiyi officials.

However, Liu Yingqiu still wanted to persuade some Chinese to leave as much as possible based on his concern for his compatriots.

For this reason, Liu Yingqiu specially found Huang Kang, the largest wealthy businessman, and said to him: "Is Huang Yuanwai willing to return to China or not?" ”

Huang Kang, who is famous as a student, said with a smile: "Students have long been accustomed to being here, and there are so many industries here, they can't move away for a while, and there are many people who stay here who also rely on me to support, so I won't go back." ”

Liu Yingqiu couldn't help but say urgently: "Aren't you worried that after we leave, they won't harm you?" I heard that you also took the initiative to persuade the Chinese to hand over their weapons? ”

"What can we do if we don't hand it over, we are the people here, and the people don't fight with the officials."

"As for whether the officials here will harm us because of the use of troops by the imperial court, please rest assured, the students have been dealing with them for many years, they know them very well, and they will not hurt good people."

Huang Kang replied.

Liu Yingqiu smiled: "What do you say about the matter of Dongpeng Mansion?" ”

"This, the great tomorrow is not clear, is it not clear that the difference between the heavens and the earth is not clear, how many officials of the imperial court are not exaggerated to cater to the preferences of the imperial court, and even framed for it?"

Huang Kang asked.

Liu Yingjie suddenly slapped the table and said, "You are quibbling!" Pedro and Marquina personally told me, and you still don't believe it. ”

"Students don't dare to believe it!"

"Heaven is angry!"

Huang Kang replied, and then said: "As soon as the words are said here, the students will also tell each other frankly, even if things are really as expected in the future, it will be my own doing, and I will not complain that the sky is not forcing us to go." ”

After hearing this, Liu Yingjie said: "Then you can cooperate with the imperial court to persuade those Chinese who are unwilling to leave to leave, everyone knows that you Huang Dashan is famous here." ”

"This, although the student has a little name, how can he force others!"

Huang Kang declined with a smile.

(End of chapter)