Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1319 Luzon Colonization
Nanyang, the country of Luzon.

In September last year, after Luzon defeated the Spaniards in the sea battle of Mindanao, the whole of Luzon ushered in an explosive development.

In order to reward the merchants who participated in the naval battle, the Luzon small court fulfilled the promise made before the war, and reduced or exempted commercial tax, so that a large number of seagoing ships sailed from Luzon to transport the original backlog of goods to Tianzhu, Japan and other places.

On the other hand, for the land on Luzon Island, the small imperial court has given a policy that whoever cultivates it will own it, and the new land will be tax-free for three years.

This policy seems generous, but in fact, most of the land on Luzon Island is in the hands of the natives, which is equivalent to a blank check.

The small court of Luzon does not have the ability to reclaim the land. It is better to encourage the Han people on the island to colonize it. After they reclaim it, the small court of Luzon can still collect taxes three years later. It can be said that it is a policy of ensuring profits without losing money.

Eight years of co-government, in March 1657, it has been more than six months since the end of the naval battle.

During this period, ships from Luzon went to sea frequently, traveling between the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang, Tianzhu and other places.

Gao Yihuan's Sanhe was injured and sent to the Zheng family's shipbuilding workshop for repairs. However, because he took the lead in attacking the Santa Ana and captured the captain, he was rewarded with a lucky boat by the Luzon court. They didn't flock to Tianzhu and other places like everyone else, but went to Daming with cane sugar and tobacco leaves.

The rich people in the Jiangnan area of ​​the Ming Dynasty are growing rapidly. On the streets of Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo and other places, if you throw a brick, you can hit a rich man with a lot of money.

Sugar and tobacco leaves could barely be considered luxuries. As soon as Gao Yihuan's ship arrived at Shibosi, the goods were snapped up, which made him a fortune. The profit was not less than a trip to Tianzhu.

In addition to trade, he came to Daming this time mainly to pick up people.

After the Ming Dynasty reformed the land tax, it only collected taxes according to the number of acres and did not collect per capita tax. In addition, the abolition of the guide system and the flow of population made the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty less strict. Not too much to ask.

Of course, the premise is that it will not be discovered, and the scale is not too large, otherwise, if it pulls tens of thousands of people to Luzon, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not do it.

After the goods were sold, Gao Yihuan ordered Gao Laosan to go to his hometown to pick up people. He did not stay in Ningbo to die, but bought some silk, books, inkstones and other things and traveled to Japan.

In Japan, he sold the goods and exchanged them for Japanese Japanese swords, folding fans, and saltpeter, and through the relationship of Watanabe Shinjiro, he recruited more than 20 Japanese here before returning to Ningbo to pick them up.

At this time, Gao Laosan had led more than 100 people to wait here, but the daughter-in-law of the second brother Gao remarried with her children. It is said that she married a hundred households of the town army to avoid debts. She went to the north and could not find her. up.

This news made the second brother Gao feel sad for a while. Unexpectedly, when his career started, his daughter-in-law would follow someone else, and the child would call someone else his father.

Thinking of this, the second brother felt a burst of remorse, and his heart ached.

For a while, he didn't want to stay in Daming any longer, so he asked someone to sell folding fans and some Japanese knives, leaving more than 300 Japanese knives and saltpeter, and then bought some ironware and agricultural tools, and found a boat to Luzon. When the people received the boat, they returned to Luzon with a lost expression.

This voyage took a total of five months, and when Gao Yihuan returned to Luzon, it was already February of the eighth year of the co-rule.

At this time, the craze of going out to sea in Luzon has not stopped, but after Gao Yihuan returned to the island, he did not participate in this wave of excitement, but devoted himself to the expansion of Gaojiabao and Sanhe Company.

Of the more than 100 people picked up, the men were all assigned to the Sanhe company's guards, and the women helped to deal with some sundries. With the addition of the black domain, Japanese and previously recruited guards, the Sanhe company already has 150 strong man.

It didn't take long for the second brother Gao who returned to Luzon to come out of his sad mood. His ability to come to Luzon shows that he is a man who will not be tied down by any fetters.

These 150 people, including the sophomore himself, were trained by Shinjiro Watanabe and Guigui Zhao.

By the end of March, Second Brother Gao felt that something was going on for a while, so he began to visit several nearby fortresses to discuss a major event.

The area controlled by the Luzon Kingdom is only near Luzon Bay. Gao Yihuan and his group arrived in Luzon relatively late. They fled to Luzon to avoid debts during the brief economic turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, so they were assigned to Luzon. outskirts of the capital.

Being on the periphery means facing the harassment of natives all the time, which is dangerous, but at the same time there are opportunities.

If he was near the capital, there would be other villages around, and it would be difficult for Gaojiabao to expand, but if he was on the periphery, there would be more opportunities.

Not far from the north of Gaojiabao, there is a native tribe of 4000 people, facing Gaojiabao and the nearby Zhaojiabao and Chenjiabao across a stream.Almost all the nearby Han villages have been harassed by him.

After the Han people established their country in Luzon, the native nobles who were originally on the island were very dissatisfied with this.They feel that they should establish the Luzon Kingdom, so they are very hostile to the Han people on the island.

After Zhu Yihai established the country in Luzon, because of insufficient population and troops, he controlled Luzon Bay and drove away the natives nearby, but he did not go into the deep mountains and dense forests to beat the natives everywhere.

In principle, the Luzon court adopted a defensive and counterattack strategy, and wooed some native tribes to divide and disintegrate the natives. Before digesting the land in Luzon Bay, it seldom took the initiative to attack the natives.

At the end of March, the weather in Luzon is getting hotter and hotter.

At noon, twenty miles north of Gaojiabao, in the native village on the other side of the Longxi River, it was very quiet. The men were lying in the shade, drinking coconut juice, eating melons and fruits, smoking cigarettes in boredom. The women are still working in the fields outside under the scorching sun.

At this time, on the south bank of Longxi, a caravan drove several mule carts loaded with four or five suitcases, and under the guard of more than a dozen staff, traveled westward along the stream.

On the other side of the Longxi River, a few working native women straightened up from the field and felt a little surprised when they saw the caravan from a distance. They immediately washed their hands in the paddy field, wiped their bodies, and immediately ran to the stockade .

The leader of the natives is a 30-something-year-old thin man with a sullen face. He is lying in a wooden house, puffing and puffing. Come, pick up an iron knife, stand in the middle of the village and shout.

After a while, the native men sitting or lying in the shade in the village gathered in the middle of the village with spears, bows and arrows and other weapons.

The skinny native leader immediately led two or three hundred bare-chested natives wearing only a pair of shorts, hurried out of the stockade, ran to the front of the caravan, and then waded across the Longxi to stop the group. Caravan.

Facing the natives who suddenly rushed out, the caravan stopped slowly, and a native came forward and said in native language: "We came from Wangjing to do some small business, and the leader is accommodating."

"Wang Jing? Do business?"

The skinny leader gave a dark smile on his face. Recently, the Han people were so heavily guarded that they couldn't even grab the tobacco leaves, let alone meet a caravan to do business. "What business do you do?"

"We are here to buy some tobacco leaves, please look at the leader."

The guards at the back lifted the tarpaulin covering a car and leaked yellowed tobacco leaves. Many natives immediately looked over.

The leader was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately waved his hand, "Give it up!" The naked natives immediately rushed forward.

The leader took the lead, and at this moment, a guard next to the native suddenly pulled out a Japanese sword from the tobacco. Seeing the light of the sword flashing, the skinny native leader screamed in pain, his face Leaving a slash, he was killed on the spot.

The sudden change stunned the natives who rushed up, and more than a dozen guards suddenly broke out. They pulled out Japanese swords from the car one after another, held the handle of the knife with both hands, and rushed towards the natives...

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