Dragon Sea Empire

All of a sudden, nearly 2000 Chinese gathered in the river beach area, rushing to the Spaniards and their native servants desperately.Several Pampanga people shot arrows very smoothly just now, and they advanced too far. Unexpectedly, the Chinese suddenly counterattacked. Suddenly, several people were smashed by stones and wooden sticks. awful.

The officer on the horse saw more and more physiological people approaching from all directions, he couldn't help being startled, and hurriedly led them back.The Pampanga archer also turned and followed the Spaniard.

Yin Feng sighed, looked at Li Dan who also breathed a sigh of relief, and said bitterly: "As long as there is a leader, we can still have a chance."

Li Dan shook his head and sneered: "We Tang people are overseas, and the court doesn't care about us. It's just a mess. No one can gather all the overseas Tang people into one group."

"The country's imperial court cannot protect its own people, whether it is at home or abroad, it is incompetent and dereliction of duty." Yin Feng gritted his teeth.

"The imperial court treats us as pariahs, and thinks of us when collecting taxes. How can we have time to protect us?" Li Dan snorted, "Otherwise, why would I shave my head off?"

Yin Feng looked at his cut-cut hair and smiled helplessly.

Li Dan is a Roman Catholic, whose Christian name is Andrea Ditis (Andrea Ditis). In a legal sense, he is a naturalized Spanish citizen.

The Spaniards stipulated that all biological people who believe in Catholicism must shave their hair and make it into Spanish-style short hair. Therefore, if a biological person wants to trade in Luzon Island for a long time, marry and have children in Luzon Island, he must shave his hair and be baptized. Christian.This is also one of the reasons why Li Dan does not return to Quanzhou all the year round, because the hair on his head would be too eye-catching in Quanzhou.Sometimes he stayed in Dongfan for a few months, and returned to Quanzhou when his hair grew.

Since coming to this era, Yin Feng didn't deal with the government much. Ordinary people usually deal with gentry and eunuchs, landlords, powerful, or talented students. When collecting taxes, it is the subordinate officials who represent the government. The Ming court and government are far away and illusory existences.In Luzon, which is thousands of miles away from the motherland, the Chinese in this era do not feel the existence of their own country at all, and they will not have any national strength to support them in anything they do.Therefore, the overseas Chinese before modern times were in a state of disunity. Countless scattered individual Chinese businessmen with limited power competed with the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonists backed by national strength. Prosperous, but still get slaughtered over and over again all over the world.No matter how industrious and willing the Chinese are to endure hardships, they cannot stop the competition of butcher knives and guns.

Yin Feng already had this idea: as long as he can escape from Luzon Island, he will change the fate of the Chinese.This phenomenon of being in a state of disunity and being slaughtered by others can no longer occur.Just for my family and friends, or even for myself as a member of overseas Chinese businessmen, I must change the direction of history!

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In the evening, the governor of Manila, Don Pedro de Aguna, sent a notice requesting that all physiological people must stop fleeing and return to the Balian market area; at the same time, all Spaniards and indigenous people are temporarily not allowed to enter Balian Market District.Tomorrow, Governor Don Pedro will come to Balian with the Chief Justice and the Bishop of Manila to hear the petition and statement of the representative of the biological person.

Early in the morning, dark clouds weighed on the city, and water could almost be squeezed out of the dull and humid air.Li Dan's house was full of people, all of whom were his buddies and business partners.Li Dan was neatly dressed in Spanish-style attire, and walked downstairs.Yin Feng followed behind, also dressed in a suit and leather shoes, but with a Chinese hairstyle on his head.Last night, Mai Xiaoliu and other two sailors supported Magaro back to Li Dan's home.Magaro was beaten badly by the Chinese in Balian.

Over the past few months, the Chinese have been harassed and robbed repeatedly by related Greeks, aborigines, and Japanese, and their nerves are in a state of high tension.The black Magaro had just appeared in the market area, and before he had time to ask anything, he was turned away as a servant of the Ganguan people.Yesterday, a group of Spanish colonists entered the West District to rob. After hearing about the massacre at Maquina Manor, the Chinese who were shocked and furious rose up to resist. The unlucky Magaro happened to pass by during the chaos. Thanks to Mai Xiaoliu and others who arrived in time and rescued him.

So, before they started looking for the Zeng family brothers, they had to return with injuries.

Today, Yin Feng had no choice but to leave Magaro alone, and took two sailors to Balian to find someone.

In an open space in the west of the Balian market area, close to the Intramuros, a row of tables is placed in the center, and Manila Governor Don Pedro de Aguna and Justice Antonio Morga sit in the center, some Spanish The officers sat on either side, and several Spanish officers stood in the rear.Surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed Spanish soldiers, there are more than a hundred indigenous Pampanga archers scattered in the outer blocks.

In front of them, gathered nearly a hundred Chinese representatives from the Balian Chinese District.Most of them are Christian men, dressed in a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and most of them have tight cuts on their heads.

Huang Kang, who is short and thin, looks about 50 years old, and stands at the front with a worried face; behind him is Shi Yuan, the first Chinese manager of Balian, who looks shrewd and capable, with gray hair, although his head He has short Western-style hair, but he is wearing a Chinese-style long gown; Li Dan is standing at the back with his head lowered and relatively low-key. Although he is considered a very powerful figure in the Chinese district, there are still younger generations in front of these senior Chinese leaders. self-awareness.

A trumpet sounded, and a herald came to the center of the square in uniform and shouted: "Governor of Manila, Mr. Don Pedro de Aguna, has arrived!"

All the physiological people bowed at the same time, while Yin Feng turned and left the venue.

After Yin Feng accompanied Li Dan to Balian, he immediately started looking for someone.

Of course he had known for a long time that such petitions and negotiations had occurred several times in Manila in 1603, and it was meaningless, and the massacre happened anyway.After the Mount Jiyi incident, the Spanish ruling class in Luzon could not believe that the emperor of a big empire would believe in fairy tales like "golden beans growing on branches".They suspected that the envoys sent by the Emperor of China were spying on the reality of Luzon Island. Their long-standing curiosity about the mysterious Chinese Empire has created countless rumors: such as that the Emperor of China will send thousands of warships and [-] troops. Attack on Manila or something.

There are not many Chinese coming to Luzon this year, but the total number of Chinese in Balian last year has exceeded 3.The Spanish colonists who lived in Manila all the year round never exceeded a thousand.The huge advantage in the number of Chinese made the Spaniards very taboo about the increase in the number of Chinese. They were afraid that if the Chinese emperor's fleet really came, the more than 3 people would be internal responders.Therefore, at the beginning of the year, the city of Manila began to strengthen its defenses, and a moat was dug between the Balian Market area and the city of Manila.The constructors of these projects are all Chinese laborers, and even the expenses are collectively funded by Chinese businessmen.

Huang Kang, the director of Balian, tried his best to deal with the Spanish rulers and the Chinese, demanding that the Chinese businessmen would rather suffer a little loss and cooperate with the Spaniards, hoping to dispel the doubts of the Spaniards.However, his efforts were in vain. Father Benavidez, the Archbishop of Manila, openly attacked the sexual behavior of biological people in Sunday church services, attacked biological people as heretics, and attacked everything about Chinese people.

The news that the Chinese fleet was about to attack spread throughout Luzon.In fact, some people suspect that the rumor of the Chinese fleet's attack was fabricated and spread by the archbishop.Father Benavidez publicly said: The envoys of the Ming Dynasty saw that the Spaniards in Manila were very rich, and the emperor would covet the gold and silver promised to him by Zhang Yi to conquer Manila.

As a result, the Spaniards began to rob and beat the Chinese in Balian. A month later, the Japanese from the "Nippon Town" encouraged by the Spaniards also began to break into Balian to rob and kill people openly.Some Chinese fled and established shelters in the Tondo Swamp, north of Manila.

That's how it happened, robbery, murder and fleeing occurred alternately, and became more and more intense. After several months, the massacre at Binondo's Maquina Manor finally occurred.In fact, after this massacre, there is no sense of trust between the Chinese and the Spaniards.Yin Feng did not have a comparison table of Western and Lunar calendar dates to look up. Although the specific date is not clear, the massacre of the Chinese is indeed imminent.

Yin Feng inquired about the location of Zeng's House from Li Dan, and ignoring his meaningless petition, asked one of Li Dan's subordinates to lead the way, and went straight to Balian West District where Zeng's House was located with Mai Xiaoliu.

The whole of Balian is a large market with 400-500 shops, dealing in goods ranging from silk to needles and threads, and all daily necessities are available.The buildings are mainly Chinese-style buildings made of wood and bamboo, and occasionally there are one or two western-style houses.The central area is still planned very neatly. Although after many days of riots, some facades have traces of fire damage, but the streets are still relatively clean.However, there are very few shops open for business, and most of the shops have posters such as "Low Price Big Sale" written in Spanish and Chinese.Although usually the things sold in these shops are sometimes too cheap for the Spaniards to buy, but now the shops really want to "sell" all the goods, take as much as they can get for the goods, and then leave Balian ran for his life.

The closer we got to the East District, more and more shops were destroyed, and some of them had been burned to ruins.Originally, the architectural pattern here was quite chaotic, the alleys twisted and turned like a maze, and the pedestrians on the street seemed even rarer, and the pedestrians I encountered occasionally were merchants fleeing with soft packages. Walking forward, many people were crying and lamenting.

The doors of shops in many places were open, and there was no one inside, the ground was in a mess, and there were still some bloodstains.Yin Feng's heart was getting heavier and heavier, and his steps were getting faster and faster.

Finally, I saw the storefront of the Zengjiahao brand name firm.

Half of the shop's facade has been roasted by the fire, and there are people shaking inside, and finally there are still people there!Yin Feng took a deep breath, and quickly stepped forward into the gate.