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Manila, Philippines.

Chen Liangxun had an urgent audience with the Philippine governor: "Your Excellency, I have heard from fellow villagers in Fujian that the Chinese emperor has sent a large army to kill them. We must quickly build city defenses, and please allow more Tang people from Binon to enter the city. We will help the governor to hold on to the city!"

Governor Coquela said: "Binondo's Tang people can help defend the outer fort."

Chen Liangxun suddenly despaired, even at this time, the Chinese were still not allowed to enter the city.

Although the Filipino Chinese were massacred, thousands of them are still alive.It's just that these thousands of Chinese have already believed in Christianity, and they even dress in Western style.

Traditional Chinese, living in Jiannei District, also known as Balian District in later generations.

Religious Chinese, living in Binondo District, next to Jiannei District.

In order to lure the Chinese to convert, the Governor of Spain stipulated that the religious Chinese would be exempted from additional taxes for ten years, and only need to pay the same tax as the natives, and the same tax as the Spanish civilians after ten years.You can freely choose your place of residence (you cannot enter the city), you can freely intermarry with aboriginal people, and there is no limit to the number of places for religious Chinese to live.

After the promulgation of this order, more than 3000 people who have forgotten their ancestors have been born.

Including the second generation of mixed blood they gave birth to with the natives, the population is nearly [-]!

They actively learn Spanish and are ashamed of being Han Chinese, and they don't even wear Han clothes at home.A dictionary was even born spontaneously, recording the conversion of common words between Zhangzhou dialect and Spanish.

Chen Liangxun returned to Binondo district in great disappointment, and the Chinese who converted to Christianity asked one after another: "Father Chen, will the governor let us enter the city?"

Holding the Spanish Bible in his hand, Chen Liangxun forced a smile and said, "The top priority is to defend the forts of the outer forts. This is a very important matter. Your Excellency the Governor trusts us Tang people and is allowed to help the soldiers of the Western Kingdom defend the forts."

"Just don't let us enter the city?"

Everyone was in an uproar, angry and panicked.

A few months ago, the Chinese in Jiannei District were massacred, and they had nothing to do in Binondo District.Even the governor sent soldiers to garrison the Binondo area to prevent the red-eyed natives from intruding indiscriminately.

At that time, although they sympathized with the experience of the Chinese compatriots, it was more of a sense of gratitude and superiority.

Now they complain angrily, the Chinese emperor's army is approaching, how can they live if they don't hide in the city?

From the beginning to the end, Coquila did not trust these naturalized people, let alone let them live in the city.What if there is a rebellion during the war?

"Your Excellency, the Dutch are attacking Cebu Island with Sulu people and Brunei people!" The adjutant reported urgently.

Coquila sighed, "Let them stick to it."

Cebu Island was discovered by Magellan, and it was also the earliest Spanish colony in the Philippines. Its strategic and economic status is second only to Manila.

There is Fort San Pedro on the island, there are more than a hundred soldiers, and there is enough food, it should be able to last the first half of the year.

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When fighting in Southeast Asia, you usually bring helpers.

This time the Dutch fleet went out, the Dutch army was less than a thousand, but they persuaded thousands of natives to help in Borneo and the islands of Sulu.

In Brunei Sultanate and Sulu Sultanate, the upper class nobles are willing to do business with Spain.But middle and low-level civilians and indigenous people hate Spain deeply. As long as someone organizes and instigates them, they are willing to fight Spain desperately.

Zhao Han's Luzon Expeditionary Army also recruited natives in northern Luzon.

The indigenous Filipinos who participated in the Tuhua this time were mainly Pampanga people, who had been tamed into lackeys.And further north, there are Ilok people, Kalinga people, and Negrito people... They are purely oppressed. 70 years ago, the pirate Lin Feng won more than 1 indigenous people on his way to attack Manila. .In another time and space, the Netherlands attacked Manila and also got the help of thousands of natives.

Fang Guike took a hundred soldiers and a few doctors to the northern mountainous area with Fujian businessmen.

"These natives actually have terraced fields?" Fang Guike was shocked. He always felt that the barbarians should drink their blood.

The guide Chen An said: "Many of the food in Manila, especially the rice and corn, are grown by the local natives. The Spanish red-haired ghosts ordered the natives to sell the food at a low price, and there was a quota every year. Immediately send troops to attack. The natives here are mainly planters, relatively docile and polite. Of course, they are also very brave in war. The main enemy in normal times is the headhunters in the mountains. Since His Majesty exempts food import duties and even purchases at high official prices, there are also some Some sea merchants are looking for local aborigines to buy rice."

"Are they willing to sell to Han merchants?" Fang Guike asked.

Chen An replied: "Yes, because the price of grain bought by Han merchants is much higher than that of Spanish red-haired ghosts."

Fang Guike was one of the missionary officers of the expeditionary force. Looking at the terraced fields all over the mountains and plains, he nodded and said: "Since the natives can grow food, they can be educated. You just need to treat them fairly, teach them to speak Chinese, teach them Writing Chinese characters, one hundred years later, you can still be a Chinese.”

As soon as I said this, hundreds of aborigines rushed out of the forest, holding spears, and yelled at Fang Guike's soldiers.

Chen An took the initiative to step forward and said in the native language: "We are Tang people. The red-haired ghosts slaughtered the Tang people in Manila. The Tang Emperor was furious and sent a large army to conquer the red-haired ghosts. As long as the red-haired ghosts are driven away, no one will bully you again. The people of Tang need your help. We have brought many gifts and asked to meet your leader."

The Ilok people are not a unified race. They form one tribe after another based on blood clans, similar to a large number of villages and towns.

However, they have relatively similar customs and languages, and have superb terrace planting techniques.Can make pottery, weave, smelt metal, and even simple writing was born.

They belong to the Malay race, but their style is very different from that of the Malays, and they are more influenced by Chinese civilization.

Fang Guike and Chen An soon met a tribal leader.

"Dear guests, you are very welcome," said the tribal leader, Buffalo, who is over 40 years old. "When the red-haired ghosts came to collect grain, there was news that the Tang people were massacred in Manila. I felt very sad about it. We prefer to do business with the Tang people."

Chen An said: "The Emperor Tang has sent an army to conquer those red-haired ghosts. The Emperor Tang is kind and will not bully Lu Song people. This time, His Majesty the Emperor Tang brought gifts for the leader."

Here is a gift, a bolt of gorgeous silk.

The leader buffalo stroked the silk and said happily: "The great Tang emperor, the gods will bless him to live a hundred years."

Chen An took the opportunity to say: "The army of the Tang people has countless battleships, as well as firecrackers and cannons. But we still need help."

The buffalo immediately said: "As long as the red-haired ghost can be driven away, everything is worthwhile. I am willing to send thirty warriors to follow, and my son will go out with weapons himself."

Fang Guike came to Luzon in advance, and he wanted to connect the tribes one by one.

You send out thirty warriors, and he sends out fifty warriors. If you add up the scattered ones, there are tens of thousands of people.

Chapter 494 [Diplomatic Ancestor]

Since the Netherlands captured Malacca, it has set its sights on the Philippines.

In the past few years, troops have been dispatched almost every year.But they did not dare to attack Manila directly, but plundered Spanish merchant ships and Chinese merchant ships by the way, and then took Leng Zi to land and fight to remove Spain's outlying strongholds on the southern islands.

In a narrow sense, Cebu Island is just a large island.

Broadly speaking, Cebu Island also includes the surrounding archipelago.

Magellan forced the aborigines on the island to convert to Christianity, and then helped the aborigines fight in the war, hoping to turn all the aborigines in the nearby islands into Christianity.Then, Magellan was killed by hostile natives.

The archipelago extends in all directions, and there are Spanish forts everywhere. In recent years, more than ten places have been destroyed by the Netherlands.

For this Teddy behavior, the Spaniards are very troublesome, but their strength has declined too much.Every time they encounter a Dutch attack, they can only shrink in the castle to defend, and sometimes the shore forts just give up.

This time, the Netherlands sent 20 warships, carrying not only Dutch soldiers, but also more than 3000 indigenous people from Brunei and Sulu, and marched towards Cebu Island.After landing, they quickly pulled out the outer strongholds and surrounded Fort San Pedro near the port.

However, only the natives fought with the Netherlands, and the sultans of Brunei and Sulu did not agree to assist the Netherlands in fighting.

Even the Sultan of Brunei is more inclined to support Spain.

When the Netherlands besieged Cebu Island, before the northern battle broke out, a Chinese fleet sailed towards the capital of Brunei.

Zheng Guozhong disembarked at the festival, surrounded by a hundred soldiers to protect him, and under the leadership of Fujian maritime merchants, he went straight to Brunei King City.

Abdul Jariru Abba, Sultan of Brunei, did not understand what was going on for a while.Seeing that the Chinese fleet seemed to be very powerful, he sent ministers to meet with the envoys to find out what the Chinese were here for.

Half a day later, Minister Su Laiwen rushed into the palace: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of China wants to canonize you as King Boni."

Sultan Abba felt that it was nonsense: "I am the king, why should I be canonized by the Chinese emperor?"

Minister Su Laiwen explained: "Your Majesty, your ancestors are Chinese, and Brunei used to be called Boni Kingdom. The Chinese envoy said that your ancestor's tomb is in Nanjing, and he has sent someone to repair it. If... if……"

"What if?" Abba Sultan asked.

Su Laiwen bit the bullet and replied: "The Chinese envoy said that if your majesty does not recognize their ancestors, the Huang family should recognize them. At that time, they can only canonize the Huang family as kings of Boni. If the Huang family does not recognize their ancestors, then choose whatever you like." Choose a person surnamed Huang, and adopt him to the royal family of Boni as the king."

"He is a threat!" Abba Sultan was furious.

The Brunei royal family is half of Chinese descent and the other half of Arab descent.

Hundreds of years later, the flag of Brunei has two slashes, representing the two princes in history, one of which is Huang Senping.

Huang Senping was the commander of the Tengchong Guard in Yunnan under Zhu Yuanzhang, and he built the Stone City in Tengchong.Even the name "Sen Ping" was bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang because he defeated Japanese pirates at Sen Ping Beach.

After arriving in Kalimantan, Huang Senping helped King Boni successfully resist the invasion of the Sulu and Malays.The king married his daughter to Huang Senping as his concubine, and the king's younger brother married Huang Senping's younger sister. The two families jointly ruled Boni Kingdom, but they had their own territories.

After the king's death, Huang Senping and the king's brother served as regents.

After the king's elder brother died, a palace coup broke out, and Huang Senping supported a prince to succeed to the throne.

In his later years, Huang Senping lost his leaves and returned to his roots, and died of illness when he arrived in Nanjing.He left three last words: first, to assign his territory in Boni Kingdom to the territory of Ming Dynasty; He was buried in Daming.

Huang Senping's daughter, Huang Guigu, married King Aheman of Boni.After Ahman's death, Huang Guigu became the Queen of Boni.

Huang Guigu's daughter, succeeded as the second generation queen.The family was recruited from Ali, a businessman from Arabia. After the death of the queen, Ali became the king, and it has been passed down hereditaryly since then, even hundreds of years later.

The Sultan Abba of Brunei in front of him has the blood of Huang Senping flowing through his body.

As for the Huang family, they still live in Brunei and have their own territory.But in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Huang family had withdrawn from Brunei's political arena, and became lords with peace of mind, farming and doing business to earn a small amount of money.

Abba certainly knows who his ancestors are, because the royal blood has never been broken, and the genealogy of the past dynasties is clearly recorded.

His distant ancestor was an Arab businessman, and his grandmother was a daughter of the Huang family, who also gave birth to two queens.

The meaning of the Chinese envoy is obvious. If Abba does not accept the canonization of the Chinese emperor, then find a descendant of the Huang family to be canonized and directly provoke a civil war in Brunei!

Su Laiwen said: "Your Majesty, the Spanish red-haired ghost, it really shouldn't be slaughtered by this guy. The Chinese emperor is already angry, and even joined hands with the Netherlands to send troops. We have already refused to cooperate with the Netherlands. Are we going to reject China's canonization again? Can't at the same time Offend the Netherlands and China."

Aba has been a sultan for 46 years. He is an experienced old king. He said with a sad face: "Once you accept the canonization of the Chinese emperor, you have to help China fight the war. In case Manila cannot be broken, after China and the Netherlands withdraw their troops, Spain What if you send troops to attack us?"

Su Laiwen sighed: "If you don't agree, I'm afraid it will not be Spain who will attack us, but China and the Netherlands will come together."

Aba thought about it, but there was still nothing he could do. The king of a small country is so helpless.

Su Laiwen persuaded: "Your Majesty, it is better to turn to China and obtain the asylum of the Chinese emperor. This Chinese emperor is different from the previous ones. According to Chinese maritime merchants, the emperor has fully opened up Chinese ports. Now, for Lu The Tang people who died in the Song Dynasty sent troops, and they will definitely expand their influence at sea in the future. Brunei has the support of the Chinese emperor, and the Netherlands, Spain, Sulu, Mataram... these countries dare not bully us anymore!"

Aba got up and walked around, pondered for a long time, and said: "Then surrender more thoroughly, and tell the Chinese envoy to ask the princess to marry the Chinese emperor as his concubine."

This Sudan has many sons and daughters, and the daughters are basically married. Only No. 13 daughters are young and unmarried.

Just turned 12...

Not too young, according to their teachings, a girl should marry at the age of nine.

The royal family of Brunei has Chinese blood. This information was provided by Fujian maritime merchants. Zhao Han immediately sent envoys to Borneo.

This battle at sea is the close cooperation between the imperial court and merchants.

For their own benefit, Fujian maritime merchants can be said to fully support the emperor in fighting.A lot of people contributed money and efforts, and there were also many people who offered advice and suggestions. All kinds of Nanyang intelligence were scattered to Nanjing like snowflakes.

After Tainan is the Netherlands, Dutch warships cruise between Taiwan and the Philippines all year round, intercepting any Chinese merchant ships they see, and forcing Chinese merchant ships to trade in Zeelandia (Tainan).Those who are disobedient will be looted directly!

In order to obtain greater profits, Fujian maritime merchants tried every means to go to the Philippines, and even used smaller and faster ships for transshipment in Kinmen.

They are all willing to bear the risk of shipwreck and death, so why not dare?Even in my dreams, I want China to actually control the Philippines!

Brunei King City.

The Chinese envoy Zheng Guozhong read the canonization edict, the Brunei Sultanate was renamed the Boni Kingdom, and the Brunei Sultan Abba was given the name Huang Nianzu. Every generation of kings in the future must have a Chinese name.

The old Sultan Abba prostrated on his knees, sincerely accepting the canonization of the Chinese emperor, no wonder he was old.

Then, twelve warships and 500 soldiers were sent to fight with the Chinese army.

The fleet of Chinese envoys, with the warships of Brunei, ran to the neighboring Sulu Sultanate, also wanting to forcibly confer the king of Sulu.

A Chinese Muslim who was found at random was led by the envoy Zheng Guozhong to the Sulu King City to recognize his relatives.

The ancestors of the King of Brunei were buried in Nanjing, and the ancestors of King Sulu were buried in Dezhou, Shandong.

At that time, the whole family went together to pay homage to Zhu Di in Beijing.On the way back, the king died in Dezhou, and the eldest son returned to Sulu to inherit the throne, while the queen, second son, third son and entourage all stayed in Shandong. Many Hui people in Shandong are their descendants.

Facing the sudden appearance of Chinese relatives, Sultan Sulu expressed that he could not explain it in words.

The Sulu Kingdom was also bullied miserably by Spain. They also sent troops to resist. As a result, the territory was beaten less and less.Moreover, a large number of Green Christians in Sulu were killed by Spanish colonists.

Let's put it this way, apart from Luzon Island, Spain's main expansion direction in the Philippines is to seize the island from Sulu!

One-third of the territory of the Sulu Kingdom has been eaten by Spain!

Although the people at the bottom are still resisting, the nobles of Sulu Kingdom basically choose to lie flat.

Now the Chinese envoys came with "royal relatives" and insisted on the canonization of Sulu King, and said that they might not lie down anymore, so get up and resist with China.

The Sultan of Sulu was really frightened by the beating. He pretended to be deaf and dumb, and treated the Chinese envoys respectfully, but he was unwilling to accept the canonization, let alone follow China to attack Spain.

In fact, it would be nice to change to a Sudan.

In history, another Sultan of Sulu even took the initiative to contact the Manchu Qing, requesting the canonization of the Manchu Emperor, and wanted to use the Manchu Qing to send troops to resist Spanish encroachment.

After eating and drinking for several days, Zheng Guozhong suddenly couldn't sit still, and left with one sentence: "If you don't want to return, you are the enemy by the way. Wait for the emperor of Datong and the Netherlands to attack together!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The Chinese fleet and the Brunei fleet fired directly at Sulu King City after leaving the port.

Fire a symbolic shot, just hit a few shots and leave.