open sea

Chapter 334 Compensation
Just as Chen Mu thought, the merchants who fled Manila because of the midnight fighting were brought back by Shi Qi, and those who did not come back, Chen Mu didn't plan to take care of them, they just ran away if they wanted to.

Salcedo, who was planning to flee back to Cebu Island after the defeat, was also brought back with him.

Another commander in Manila, Martin de Goitti, was killed by Li Dan, and now the beautiful Milanese plate armor has become his trophy, and he is wearing it in the street.

This set of expensive plate armor is indeed very beautiful. When Li Dan presented it to Chen Mu, he was indeed a little tempted, but it was not important to him. After he accepted the plate armor, he gave it to Li Dan.

This kind of feeling of taking something from others and giving it to others is not bad.

There were many prisoners in the city, including Westerners, Han Chinese, and Luzon people. The captured Han people were taken outside the city by Li Dan to supervise the repair of the fortifications by the captured Luzon people.In fact, Chen Mu knew that they would not rebel, because their leader, La Candura, and many nobles from the same family were captured, and they were all honest.

"I heard you want to see me, what's the matter?"

Chen Mu looked at Salcedo, who had a bruised nose and a swollen face, and said with a smile, "I'll ask someone to prepare some medicine for you later."

When they were in custody, Salcedo and Lacandura were locked up together, because Chen Mu heard that Lacandura also resisted for several months before accepting Regasbe's friendship, and the later acceptance of the friendship was actually not as good as Said to surrender.

As expected, Salcedo, who had lost his armor, was no match for Lacandura in the cell and was almost killed.

"As you can see, I didn't get along well with the leader of La Candura." Salcedo shrugged like a normal person, and laughed at himself, but his arms were tied behind his back, and he seemed a little awkward, saying: "I listen Said that you are a biological general, barbaric guy! You sent someone from Portugal to send us a message, and then brought the fleet to fight over?"

Chen Mu wanted to have a good chat, but he actually said that he was barbaric. This person came from a country that was idle, poor, crazy, and attacked other countries. Others were living well in their own land, but they came to destroy the land and destroy the country. The guy who later generations call him the Great Geographical Discovery dares to call him barbaric!

Who wants you to find out!
So he nodded as a matter of course, and said: "Your navy's attack on Haojing was repelled. On their ship, we found priests making a plan to attack Daming. Dozens of people? Now it seems that you need to reassess the threat."

"That's just a plan! You crazy!"

Salcedo didn't care who wanted to attack Daming, he just couldn't accept the result and needed a breakthrough where he could vent.Now that he saw Chen Mu, he had a vent.

Chen Mu understood his hysteria very well, but this did not prevent him from angering this person even more.

"Let's not talk about those high-sounding excuses. The reason why I sent troops to attack Manila was just because I was confused. It has nothing to do with your attacking Ming Dynasty. The reason why I was confused is that you didn't prepare the 27 taels of silver compensation I asked for."

"You have now received the compensation you want. Your soldiers have looted our royal city, leave here, leave our Philippine Islands!"

Chen Mu got up, raised a finger, and said: "Your statement is wrong, this is not your Philippine Islands, nor mine, it belongs to Luzon people, and Suleiman will come back to govern his country soon. As for everything in the royal city, my soldiers have not looted it, and Binoldo outside the city is safe and sound, why should I take away everything in the royal city?"

"This is my trophy. I can take whatever I want, right?" Chen Mu said seriously, "You haven't paid back what you owe me, so I need you to keep an account for me."

"27 taels, you refused to pay. Now I come to ask for the debt, but you can't afford it. It's the first offense. I won't raise the interest. Let's settle the debt this time."

"Don't interrupt and remember everything. Every word of these words means a dead person. You will be told to tell your king in the future, so remember it clearly." Chen Mu took two steps, turned around and said: "So far , I killed 260 nine soldiers in the army and 390 soldiers in the navy. The price of cattle is that I tricked you, so you don’t need many lives. Each life is 1 taels of silver, 660 million taels of silver, now you sign me for 700 , Forget it, you can’t remember, [-] million taels.”

"Remember, you owe me 700 million taels of silver now, and you can pay with equivalent gold, silver, copper, iron, and wood horses."

In Salcedo's eyes, Chen Mu is not only a war madman, but also obviously a madman, because only a madman can say such big words, shaking his head and saying: "General, I don't think you can get this 'arrear', You may be able to defeat me with a sneak attack, and you may be able to defeat the governor, but you don’t know how to sail, none of you know how to sail, and you can’t cross the ocean, so where can you go to claim what you owe?”

"When our fleet makes a comeback, you won't have the chance to meet the king, er, maybe—your head."

"Hahaha!"

Chen Mu laughed hard. He raised his finger and pointed at Salcedo, and said with a smile: "You are right, you are very smart. Although we can sail, the advantage I rely on is that we have a lot of soldiers. Compared with Luzon, I Your country is like the sea, and our supplies are not enough to cross the ocean to attack your country, so I look like no threat."

"Do you think I'd be so foolish as to travel thousands of miles to attack Spain? You'll see, when I win this war, you'll see, and you'll go back to the Iberian peninsula and tell the poor king with all your heart, and with all your heart Help me persuade him to get the compensation as soon as possible, believe me, if you are a patriot, you will definitely do this."

Chen Mu smiled contentedly, and finally reiterated: "The 700 million taels is limited to the possible casualties of the war and the interest I want. When you return to China, you may bring me a compensation contract of 500 million or even 2000 million taels."

"Heh, two thousand soldiers were killed in battle. They are all regular troops. Can your country bear it? Even if it can bear it, for the Philippines, a land that lacks both gold and silver, two thousand soldiers were killed in battle. Could it be that your emperor can bear it?" Let you continue to command the army? You will be hanged."

This is not because Salcedo has never seen the world. Two thousand regular troops were killed in a protracted war, which means that [-] or more regular troops need to be mobilized, and the regular army requires huge consumption of logistics and weapons, just for such an archipelago. I don't believe that the Ming Dynasty is willing to pay such a price.

"What's the significance of this island, you don't know, but it is very important to me, not to mention that there was never a year in Ming Dynasty that did not kill tens of thousands of people because of the war. If I told them 100 taels of silver to recruit a soldier, more than 10 people would be willing Turn your life into 100 taels of silver. Well, I know you miss your king, enjoy your meal, and stay calm."

"I'll have you guys meet soon."

Chen Mu opened the stool and left, leaving Salcedo in the dark cell. This Spanish man-made cell was finally used to imprison him, a Spaniard. Thinking of this, the strange food in front of Salcedo It's getting bland.

Walking out of the cell, Chen Mu's mood was so good that he couldn't get any better. He asked Long Junxiong: "How many banner troops have been transported by the military ships from Nanyang?"

(End of this chapter)