The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 59 Why buy if you can grab it?
But this does not mean that all the natives in Luzon really surrendered to the Spaniards!

The natives who surrendered to the Spaniards are only a small part of the weak bones of the millions of natives in Luzon.

More indigenous tribes had bad relations with Spain, or had no contact at all.

For example, in the depths of Luzon Island, there are many cannibals.

They are more stubborn, and they like to use the Spaniards they caught for barbecue.

Walking with the Inquisition of a certain cult belongs to yes!

The natives who surrounded the recovery army's mining team this time should also be the kind that have a bad relationship with the Spaniards, or have little contact with them.

Otherwise, these natives would not have surrounded the mining team and would have to negotiate with the Liberation Army.

Instead, he would choose to directly destroy the mining team of the Liberation Army and sell them to their masters.

What can prove this even more is the location of this indigenous tribe.

Where the Liberation Army discovered iron ore and coal mines, there was a large indigenous tribe nearby.

If I guessed correctly, it should be that tribe that surrounded the recovery army.

The tribes that are closely related to the Spaniards are basically located around the city of Manila, not in such deep mountains and old forests.

The level of development over there is much higher than that in the deep mountains, and the living conditions are much better than those in the deep mountains.

Therefore, in Luzon, under normal circumstances, one only needs to look at the position of the tribe to know their position.

Zhu Hongyu had a bold idea, through this negotiation, to pull this tribe that had a bad relationship with the Spaniards into his chariot.

Even use this to influence more indigenous tribes, make them hostile to the Spaniards, and even encourage them to attack the Spanish manors and villages.

In this way, the pressure faced by the Liberation Army will naturally be greatly relieved.

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The mining team of the Liberation Army was besieged in an open field.

In the surrounding dense forest, figures flickered one after another.

Many natives with grass around their waists, armed with weapons, and naked from the upper body kept making strange screams.

Deterring the Liberation Army mining team surrounded in the open space!
It's just that their weapons and equipment are really backward.

Spears are sharpened wooden sticks, axes are sharpened stones and tied to short wooden sticks, and the arrows of hunting bows are mostly stone arrowheads, with only a small amount of bronze arrowheads.

The mining team also had guards, each musket was leveled, and the surrounding area was carefully guarded.

However, both sides have exercised restraint.

The aborigines didn't do anything other than scream, and the Liberation Army did the same. They didn't even light the matchlock of the musket.

Although the Restoration Army has already started to convert the matchlock gun into a flintlock gun, after all, the time is short, and only a few have completed the modification.

Moreover, most of the refitted flintlock guns were handed over to the Restoration Army for practice and use.

The guards of the mining team still used matchlock guns. If they want to shoot, they need to light the matchlock first.

In the dense forest, there were several extremely tall and burly aboriginal warriors among the aboriginals.

A well-dressed, slightly obese aborigine leader with extremely divine eyes is surrounded in the middle.

Beside them were some native soldiers.

These aboriginal soldiers were all fairly strong in stature, and they all held bronze weapons in their hands. They looked more elite than those aboriginals exposed to the mining team's sight.

"Abba, why are we negotiating with the Chinese, they are obviously invading our territory!"

Beside the native leader, a girl with a wheat complexion and sharp facial features asked.

The girl looks like she is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but her figure is already well-developed, with her lordosis and back curled up.

There is very little fabric on her body, and she wears a bit like a navel dress.

Stretch the body a little, and the strong vest line of the abdomen will be exposed.

Her eyes are extremely aggressive, like a fierce "female leopard".

The indigenous leader who was called Abba by the girl beside him explained to his daughter.

"Because they have what we need!"

"The coal and iron mines near the tribe are indeed ours, and we discovered them first, but in our hands, the coal and iron mines are just coal and iron mines."

"We can't smelt iron ore, and coal can only be used for fire!"

"But in the hands of those Chinese, coal and iron ore can be turned into iron, and iron can be turned into weapons, iron pots, and farm tools..."

"So, we need to negotiate with them!"

"Through negotiation, pay a certain price, and get what we want from them!"

The meaning of the tribal leader is very clear, he wants to do ironware trading with the Restoration Army.

However, as soon as the leader's voice fell, another tall and strong-looking indigenous youth on the side raised a different opinion.

"Abba, why do we have to negotiate with the Chinese instead of just grabbing it? Isn't that more troublesome?"

The young man's words spoke out almost everyone's aspirations.

Why spend money to buy things that can be obtained by looting?
In ancient China, many civil officials regarded the mutual market as a good solution to border troubles, while ignoring the importance of the army in it.

But why don't they think about it a little bit, if people can grab it by hand, why spend money to buy it?

If you don't have a strong army as a deterrent, who the hell will do business with you? !
Wouldn't it be nice to grab him directly? !

A typical example is that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the big bosses in the court indulged the eight major Shanxi merchants in collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and sent various materials to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.

I want to use this to relieve the material pressure inside the Manchu Qing, and further make the Manchu Qing unintentionally invade the border.

It is an iron fact that Shanxi merchants are traitors who colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, and there is nothing to refute.

But in the matter of Shanxi merchants collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, some bigwigs in the court also played a disgraceful role.

There must be a protective umbrella, but not all officials are protected by the eight Shanxi merchants.

Shanxi merchants transport so many materials outside the customs every year, where do the materials come from?Which way to send it outside the customs?How to pass the inspection on the nine sides of the Great Wall?What should I do if I encounter border soldiers who inspect and smuggle?
These are all problems!
So, it is impossible to hide the fact that the Eight Shanxi Merchants colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country.

Other provinces dare not say it, but the officials of the Third Division of Shanxi must have known about it.

However, why did no one of these officials report the affairs of the eight major Shanxi merchants, so that the Manchu Qing obtained a large amount of materials from the eight major Shanxi merchants, and developed little by little?
There are many reasons!
First of all, these officials must have collected money, there is no doubt about this.

The problem of official administration in the late Ming Dynasty was better than that of my Qing Dynasty after the atonement silver system. How normal is it to have corrupt officials?
It is strange that there are no corrupt officials!
There is also the pressure from the umbrella of the eight major Shanxi merchants in the court, which is also a very important point.

However, apart from these two points, there must be other reasons.

Although there were many corrupt officials in the late Ming Dynasty, there must have been good officials who were not afraid of death or tiredness, and were dedicated to the court.

These people chose not to pierce the big pustule of the Eight Shanxi Merchants, and it will definitely not be due to the above two reasons.

……

The third one!
Now I shouldn't owe...

(End of this chapter)