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Chapter 333 Church
In the early morning, Intramuros Manila.

Just a week ago, the Philippine Governor Legaspi, who had expelled Suleiman, announced to King Philip II on Cebu Island that Manila is the new capital of the Spanish East Indies.

A week later, the night battle lasted for half an hour, allowing the capital to change hands effortlessly.

I'm afraid Philip II will be furious.

Chen Mu didn't ask his subordinates to take the trouble to clear the settlement named Binuoduo in the east of Wangcheng. He just asked Long Junxiong to take Lian Dou to search outside the city for a while, and did not engage in street fighting.

Street fighting is meaningless, especially street fighting at night, taking down the king's city and blocking the main roads, allowing the Spaniards in the city to escape on their own.With such a big incident happening in Manila, they would always flee to Cebu Island. Shi Qi was patrolling outside the city, and Lin Feng cut off the only way they had to pass in the Batangas area.

For the Spaniards, the safest place is actually only Binodo, but they must want to escape, and they will be caught if they escape.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Mucai climbed to the top of the city and looked down at the royal city that the Spaniards failed to build and the settlement of Binoldo under the city. The place near the bay of Binoldo is the Mingren Market, where and Binoldo are within the range of the artillery defense of the royal city. within.

"Handsome, we searched the castle and the church, and found many letters that were too late to burn, and this one. There are decrees written behind it, which I can't understand."

The people brought by Long Junxiong carried a few wooden boxes, which contained letters and books, and he himself handed a stack of thick leather paper to Chen Mu.

Chen Mu took the paper and spread it on the ground, looked at Wang Chengli, and said, "It's a design drawing, you can't understand it normally, you have to look at it this way."

It is the design drawing of the Royal City sent from Cebu Island. It shows the design drawing of the Spanish and Philippine Governor Regasbi for the Royal City of Manila. There are roads, mansions, gardens, arsenals, stables and other facilities planned. On the north side of the drawing, it is marked With a paragraph.

'Law: Only Spaniards can live in the royal city; locals and Han people can only live outside the city. '

The Spaniards here include the Spaniards of the Iberian Peninsula, the Spaniards born in the Philippines, the descendants of Spanish men and Chinese women or Malay women.

This Chen Mu knew that the Spaniards did not allow women to intermarry with locals or Han Chinese.

Colonization is not occupation or annexation, colonization is plunder and blatant discrimination.

"I have to say that their planning is pretty good, and the building materials are all ready." Chen Mu got up, handed a few pictures to Long Junxiong, and said, "Send someone to send this back to Nanyang, and let Laoguan spend a copy of it." Learn, let him plan and send it back without changing the overall framework, and then follow the new plan to build this big city—the church will be useless, and none of us will believe it.”

"General, how can you ignore me at a time like this? Although I am old, am I not your subordinate when I am old?"

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, Pinto next to him jumped up anxiously, and it was fine if he didn't mention it normally, but now Chen Mu actually wanted to discuss the removal of the planned church in front of him, how could this be possible.

Of course, in Pinto's choice of words, Chen Mu felt that he had considered it carefully.

"Old man, I believe you can see it. I respect your beliefs very much, but is it possible to build a cathedral for one person? It is impossible for you to find me a missionary who is loyal to me."

Pinto retorted: "Why not? Maybe the Spanish missionaries captured by you in the royal city can be loyal to the general."

"Don't be kidding, the missionary down there just yelled at me for robbing their castle, and when their fleet comes back, they will tie me to a log and burn me to death." Chen Mu smiled lightly and shook his head, saying: "These Spanish missionaries hope To attack the Ming Dynasty, force the people to believe in religion, and then use our wealth to help their emperor conquer the world-similar to the purpose of your Jesuits in Haojing."

Long Junxiong snorted justly: "This kind of person has no asshole!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Jesuit missionaries can't marry and certainly can't have children."

Chen Mu turned back to stop Long Junxiong, and said very seriously to Pinto: "It is possible to preach, to trade, to spy on military conditions, to spy on national conditions, and even to start a war, but missionary work is difficult, spying has the risk of spying, and war is naturally There will be a price for war."

"You can't talk about preaching but spy on the military behind the scenes, kill the king and enslave the people when you see the weak; you can't say this as devotion to the Lord with malice in your heart, and try to start a war in vain.

"A person has the freedom to believe in any god, but this is never the capital for doing bad things and evading punishment, because these villains who are ordered to spy on the military and start wars will kill other people who are more devout than him."

"So until I can confirm some things, Manila will not build a new church. In fact, even the church in Haojing, I am considering whether to demolish it."

Pinto had nothing to say, Chen Mu even understood the Jesuits better than him to a certain extent, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, okay, General, you are right, although sometimes I don't like those fanatics too , but Haojing Church should not be demolished.”

"If the church is demolished just because of my few words." Pinto looked at Chen Mu, put his hand on his chest and said, "The Lord will punish me."

Chen Mu smiled, "It's good that you know the Lord won't punish me—Junxiong, what's in this city?"

Long Junxiong has been waiting by the side for quite a while, and he doesn't understand why Chen Mu is so keen on talking useless nonsense to this old man, dismantling it as soon as he wants, and not dismantling it if he doesn't want to, it's not just a matter of a word from the handsome man.Hearing Chen Mu calling him, he clasped his fists and said, "There is a shipyard on the west bank of the city. Most of the craftsmen are Han Chinese. There are also a few Xiyi craftsmen who ran away and were arrested."

"The bazaar in the southwest is called Balian Shengsi Market by the locals. The shopkeepers are all Han Chinese. Apart from selling silk, there are other industries. Merchants are worried about the war last night, and some people fled the city to seek refuge."

"The Ming army called them, why are they running?" Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "It's okay, after running away for two days, Shi Qianhu brought them back. Apart from the shipyard, isn't there any other important things in this city?"

"Yes, there are gunpowder depots, armories, cannon foundries, and blacksmith shops. The gold and silver treasures, gunpowder, and weapons in the city are being counted. There are 24 cannons in the city. A few were broken yesterday, and there are horses. "

As Long Junxiong said, he raised his finger and pointed to the open space in the city. The Banner Army just came out leading the horse, "There are more than 20 horses, which are two heads higher than the northern horse. They are very handsome."

"Andalusia, their name is Andalusia, these horses are good horses even in Portugal."

Pinto introduced to Chen Mu that as long as Chen Mu saw these horses, he couldn't move his eyes away. Before seeing these horses, he actually didn't think Mongolian horses were short, but now he really felt that Mongolian horses were too small.

"These horses are easy to take care of. I went to the Han people who had raised Xiyi horses in the city to ask how to raise them. I saw that they are not as good as Mongolian horses. Don't raise them to death."

"Also, handsome." Long Junxiong said: "General Deng sent someone to ask, the fleet is resting, the west wall was broken yesterday, what should we do next?"

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, let the fleet patrol the bay and send people to Hawksbill Harbor and Chenlai Island. Next, we will attack Cebu Island. It's time to bring Suleiman to govern the subjects."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)