The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 683 Trembling and Creeping
Xiyi himself had to admit, "Overseas Chinese are employees in all industries, and they are excellent workers who work at reasonable wages. Without overseas Chinese, it is impossible for Manila to survive."

The biggest impact on Coquera is the heavyweight taxation. Before that, Chinese businessmen paid [-] pesos a year in import taxes, and the import taxes paid by Chinese textiles in Mexico were several times higher than those in Manila.

As Xu Gonglie and Ding Yi said, the purchase price of 80 yuan will cost more than [-] yuan to ship to Mexico, and the tax alone will increase tenfold.

therefore.Chinese businessmen do not come to Manila now, and the colonial governments of the Philippines and Mexico cannot afford such a large tax loss.As for all the characters related to the collection of tariffs and license fees, it is not to mention that they can earn more.In short, without the Chinese merchants and overseas Chinese, the Xiyi bandits would not be able to survive.

In November, Coquila decided to relax the rules a little, allowing Chinese businessmen to live in "Jiannei" for a long time, so as to attract Ming Chinese businessmen to come to Luzon again.

But he didn't wait for the Chinese merchant's ship, but first waited for his battleship San Salvador.

On the bow of the San Salvador, Dole and three Spanish mid-level officers were standing on it, with Xu Erxian beside him.

Behind the few people was a large box with various weapons and shells piled inside, and silk and jewelry were piled on the top.

These boxes were piled up high to block the view from behind, and many silks and jewels were placed directly outside, shining brightly.

A large number of Dutch soldiers, Jurchens, Mongols, and Fans stood behind or in the cabin.

The first few rows are all dressed in Spanish military uniforms, with their heads bowed and hats, making sure that their faces cannot be seen even if there is a telescope on the opposite side.

"Smile, please laugh. If I don't see you smiling again, I will cut off your heads with a knife." Zhao Dashan said with a smile.

Behind him was Xu Gonglie, wearing a tall hat to cover his face. Xu strongly demanded to come over in person to see how these robbers got their retribution.

Dole and several officers were forcing a smile on their faces. Just now on the road, two officers couldn't laugh. They were beheaded in public and thrown into the sea. But Dole's smile was uglier than crying.

What made him even more sad was that he had been in business with Zhao Dashan for two years and made tens of thousands of pesos with Zhao Dashan's iron pot, but in the end Zhao Dashan broke into his castle and took it all in one pot.

Thinking of the big brother Zhao Dashan in the past, Dole was almost pissed off. Ming people are really nothing, shameless and shameless, and have no morals at all.

At this time, Zhao Dashan saw someone waving on the opposite side with a telescope.

"Wave." He said immediately.

Dole and the Spaniard could only wave their hands.

There were two Spanish ships in San Salvador, but this time they came with five ships, all flying the Spanish royal flag.

The Spaniards in the port fortress didn't feel that something was wrong. There were often Spanish merchant ships passing by here, as long as they recognized the San Salvador.

"Who did I see? It seems to be Dole. I think he got rich. There are many boxes of silk. Yes, it's silk. It's piled up like a mountain. He's about to get rich. What did he do?" There was an officer on the fort. Recognizing Dole with a telescope, he let out an envious exclamation.

"I heard that some wealthy Chinese businessmen escaped, maybe he intercepted them, haha."

"Damn it, the richest Chinese businessmen have all run away." All the Xiyi cursed one after another.

During the Chinese uprising, the richest people in Manila took the lead in running away, which made Xiyi lose a lot of gains.

"Harvey, I heard that you robbed at least [-] pesos, is it true?"

"God, I swear, it's only forty-five thousand, not fifty thousand."

"Damn it, you should turn it in."

Everyone laughed and cursed.

In this tragedy, these soldiers and low-level officials who charged at the front, killed and looted everywhere, and everyone made a lot of money. Some people wish they could do it once a year.

Amidst their laughter, the San Salvador was getting closer.

"Wow, Dole, you are late." Someone waved to the boat and shouted.

Dole was waving at them too.

The ship was getting closer and closer.

Xiyi has three warships in Manila and [-] merchant ships. They are usually running merchants or parked in the western seaport.

This time, in order to deal with the Chinese, all the navy soldiers went ashore, plundered and killed everywhere, and robbed the Chinese property, so that the warships were parked on the shore during this period, and there was no one on board.

When the San Salvador arrived, there were more than [-] ships parked in the port, most of which were Spanish ships, and two merchant ships were loading goods at the pier. It was obvious at a glance that they were robbing the property of the Chinese.

God helped us, Zhao Dashan looked through the binoculars and saw that the boats in the port were full.

He hurriedly ordered to go south, bypassing the port and driving towards the entrance of the Bashi River.

The city of Manila is built on the Pasig River, and there are forts on the south bank, with a total of twenty 42- and 32-pound cannons, which are very threatening to warships.

The north bank is a residential area and there are no forts, but SIPG ships can only park on the north bank, under the artillery fire on the south bank.

In the middle of the two banks is the river, which directly crosses the city of Manila and is connected by six bridges in the middle.

Ordinary large boats cannot enter the river, only small boats under a thousand materials, or small boats that are not too tall can enter.

Of course, merchant ships that come to do business rarely go in. Only some nobles have such privileges. In order to save walking, they directly enter the city center by boat and then disembark at the pier in the city center.

According to regulations, Zhao Dashan's boat should dock on the north bank, but at this time his boat was driving more and more in the middle, and soon it was a little bit south, and it was getting closer and closer to the fort.

But when viewed from a few hundred meters away, it is not very obvious.

After entering within 100 meters, this deviation is a bit obvious.

"Harvey, tell them to go north, go north, what is Dole doing?" Someone asked strangely.

There is only a fort here, and there is only a small pier at the pier, which is used to unload ordnance, and can only park one ship. What are they doing here?
"Do you want to replenish the ammunition?" Someone asked strangely.

If the San Salvador is short of ammunition, it is also possible to drive the battleship here to replenish ammunition. After all, their ammunition is stored in the fort warehouse here.

But obviously, the last three are not their warships, they seem to be merchant ships.

Fortunately, the merchant ship went to the north bank, so the five ships were divided into two, one went south and four went north.

The people on the fort were wondering that the lead San Salvador had entered within 50 meters.

The bow of the ship was getting bigger and bigger, and Dole on it smiled from a distance and continued to wave to them.

Everyone reflexively smiled and waved to Dole.

"Is Dole here to show off his booty?" Someone laughed.

Everyone laughed together, it looks a bit like it, those warships are full of all kinds of boxes.

After a while, the San Salvador was slowly approaching their pier.

There is already Xiyi below ready to dock, pick up the deck.

Closer, closer, closer.

Zhao Dashan and the others on the deck were actually quite panicked, and Zhao Dashan kept staring at the Spaniards with binoculars.

In the binoculars, he didn't see the panic of the Spaniards, but only saw the smiles on their faces, and Zhao Dashan knew that he could get closer.

So, finally, the San Salvador stopped slowly. At this time, except for the pier in the middle, the bow of the ship was only less than 15 meters away from the second floor of the fort.

Both parties can clearly see each other's face.

Several Xiyi soldiers stood on the second floor of the fort.

Harvey yelled at Dole at the crenel: "Dole, what are you doing? Are you here to show off?"

Dole wanted to scream but didn't dare to scream, so he blinked at him.

At this time, a strange face appeared, and it was the Dutch soldiers on board. Most of the San Salvador's soldiers were Dutch soldiers, and they were about the same size as the Spaniards.

The Dutch soldier was all smiles, picked up a black object in his hand, waved to them, swish, and threw it over.

This thing looks a bit heavy, and it's only a dozen meters away, so it took a lot of effort to throw it.

The people on the fort were inexplicable, and Harvey reached out to pick them up.

Plop, it feels heavy in the hand, what is this?
He shook it and felt that there was some liquid in the middle, shaking.

"What the hell is this?" he called to Dole.

At this moment, Zhao Dashan poked his head out from the back box, already holding a lit Hundred Enemies in his hand: "Hi."

Whoosh, threw it over.

Almost at the same time as he threw it, swish swish, several people behind rushed out and threw them onto the fort one by one.

One didn't throw it properly, and threw it directly on the wall of the fort, and then fell into the sea.

But it doesn't matter, a lot of people threw it in.

Boom, Hundred Enemies first exploded on the spot, and then, with a bang, the gasoline exploded again, and the flames swept all directions.

"Ah!" The people on the fort didn't even have time to shout, and were wiped out almost instantly.

"Up and up" Zhao Dashan gave an order, and the Dutch soldiers took the lead and jumped onto the fort along the deck laid out by Xiyi on the opposite side.

Those Xiyi were bewildered. They didn't know what happened? They thought their own people were beating their own people.

But seeing a lot of flintlock guns suddenly protruding from the bow of the opposite ship, bang bang bang, the Xiyi at the pier was swept away.

"Kill." A Jurchen yelled frantically, slashed Nador with a single knife, and several Xiyi on board were also chopped down one after another.

The boat behind Zhao Dashan approached the north bank directly, and a large ship full of infantry arrived at the north bank first.

This ship is a captured Spanish ship. It is full of Jurchens and Mongols, just because they are afraid of being bombarded by shore artillery.

But Zhao Dashan's surprise attack was successful, and the shore guns did not fire, and their boat had already landed.

At this time, a large number of Jurchens and Mongols rushed up one after another. As long as they rushed ashore, it didn't matter if the artillery on the south bank destroyed the ship.

Zhao Dashan also gave them an order, regardless of Western Yi, aboriginals, or Japanese, anyone who dared to resist would be killed.

In this era, whether it is Xiyi or the local aborigines, they are easy to recognize.

The Japanese are also easy to recognize, their clothes are completely different from the Chinese.

Manila suddenly fell into a bloodbath.

The previous confrontation between the Chinese and the authorities, the poor organization of the Chinese, did not impact the city of Manila, so the city was very glamorous before, but from now on, they will tremble and crawl under the butcher knives of Jurchen and Mongolia.

(End of this chapter)