Liu Xin's major is geography. Before this, the main role of her major was very simple, which was to indicate where there were minerals, how big the reserves were, and how high the grade was. Apart from that, it did not play any other role.
But this time it was different. Liu Xin's major seemed to be used in another aspect. She told Gao Pragmatic that although she had never been to Manila, she had learned a little about Manila during her "study days" and knew about Manila.
Where was the city first established?
"Study days" was obviously meant to prevent Gao Mo, who was standing by, from hearing something he shouldn't have heard. Gao Pragmatic knew very well that she was referring to the college days.
Liu Xin said that she learned that the entry point to Manila is two churches, one is called Manila Cathedral and the other is called St. Augustine Church. As far as she knows, both churches were built when Spanish colonists first entered the Philippines.
, especially St. Augustine’s Church, she “clearly remembered” a sentence: “St. Augustine’s Church is located in the central area of the colonial capital of Manila.”
From this, she believed that the current location of Manila could be accurately judged from the location of these two churches, especially the location of St. Augustine's Church.
The location of St. Augustine's Church is very simple, not far from the south bank of the mouth of the Pasig River, and not far from the sea. As for the later city of Manila, it expanded inland with the development of the city.
"You mean, the fleet's heavy artillery can bombard the city of Manila from the seaside?" Gao Pragmatic asked with some surprise.
"I'm sorry to tell you that it shouldn't be possible." Liu Xin sighed and said: "St. Augustine's Church is nearly two miles away from the sea. I don't know what heavy artillery can effectively cause damage to the Spanish bastion at such a long distance.
harm."
Obviously, sea-going ships cannot dock directly on the shore that is not a deep-water port, as that would lead to stranding, so the distance of two miles is not yet a feasible bombardment distance.
In other words, if Gao Pragmatic wants the Beiyang Fleet to bombard the city of Manila directly on the seashore, unless the effective range of Jinghua's artillery against the bastion exceeds three miles - this is pure fantasy. If there is no accidental intervention, the artillery in a hundred years may be
None can reach this level.
Liu Xin saw the regret on Gao Pingshi's face and couldn't help but joked: "What's wrong? Do you think that the Nanyang Fleet used the black tiger to steal the heart and directly destroyed the great cause of Thang Long City?"
Gao Pragmatic laughed and admitted frankly: "It's hard not to think about it."
Liu Xin also smiled, and then said: "The Annan people certainly didn't expect that the war could be fought like this, so the city wall of Thang Long City is too close to the Red River, and Jinghua's fleet can hit it even if it is parked in the river. But the Spaniards definitely can't
They would make such a mistake. After all, they are 'overseas colonists'. How could they not think of guarding against enemies coming from the sea? So it is predictable that this strategy will not be effective against Manila."
"So, what is your solution?" Gao pragmatically asked.
"My method is actually not a new one. This method has almost been worn out by the ancients." She stood up and took a piece of paper from Gao Pragmatic's desk, and then took a Jinghua unique charcoal pen.
I simply drew a few strokes on it to form a minimalist map and showed it to Gao Pragmatic.
Pointing to the map, Liu Xin said: "Look, Manila City is here, and the sea outside is Manila Bay, which is a natural haven. The river to the north is the Pasig River. The river surface is relatively wide. Although the runoff is not small, due to
It’s an estuary, so the water flow is not very fast, so it’s suitable for engineering operations.”
"Huh?" Gao Pingshi was moved in his heart and interrupted: "Do you mean engineering work..."
"It's just what you think - a section of the river is dug from the south side of the Pasig River to store water. When the water is sufficient, the temporary reservoir suddenly collapses and floods the city of Manila!"
"Hiss..." Gao Pingshi took a breath and asked tentatively: "Manila City was established not long ago, but there are currently at least 20,000 to 30,000 people in the city."
Unexpectedly, Liu Xin rolled her eyes and said angrily: "Gao Situ, I was born in the generals of the Ming Dynasty. I have been used to killing people and bleeding since I was a child. I am not the Saint of the White Zuo who came to mind when you mentioned this issue.
their appearance.
For me, since the other party has become an enemy that needs to be solved through combat, there is essentially no difference whether it is to blow him up with gunpowder or drown him with river water. As for whether it will cause civilian casualties? Sorry, in
In this era, I can’t be particular about that much, as long as the casualties are not civilians of the Ming Dynasty.”
Gao Pragmatic said with some surprise: "You seem to have misunderstood what I meant. I mean that the Spaniards gathered 20,000 to 30,000 people in the city so quickly, which shows that most of the more powerful people near Manila may have been forced to urbanize by the Spaniards.
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And this means that if a large number of these people are lost, then in the post-war period, Manila's own business capabilities will inevitably decline significantly, and the local people..."
"Are the locals of much use?" Liu Xin said disdainfully: "Although I don't care about politics as much as you do, I have heard about the lazy, ignorant and anti-Chinese characteristics of the Nanyang natives.
In my opinion, since you are planning to seize Luzon, it is best to treat Luzon as another Taiwan. Only by using a large number of Chinese immigrants to change the local population structure can you truly control it and achieve long-term peace and stability. This has nothing to do with what you are doing here.
The naturalized household registration system pioneered by Annan is the same principle."
Well, Gao Pragmatic agreed, nodded and said: "You are saying that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, so we might as well take advantage of this battle to change Manila's blood, right?"
"That's right. In addition, I even suggest that you consider changing the name of Manila, just like Dingnan, changing it to a Chinese name."
This is true, just like the Philippine Islands. The name actually refers to Philip II. Of course, Philip II did not name it himself. It was the colonists' way of currying favor with him.
However, when Gao Pragmatic heard what Liu Xin said, he thought that the name Luzon was actually incomplete. The incomplete meaning was that Luzon did not actually refer to the entire Philippine Islands, it was just a large island in the Philippine Islands.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition to Luzon, there are eleven major islands such as Mindanao, Samar, and Mindoro, and the entire archipelago consists of more than 7,000 islands.
Island composition. From this perspective, it is not very appropriate to use one Luzon to refer to the entire Philippines.
As for the idea of blood transfusion expressed by Liu Xin, Gao Pragmatic actually agrees with it. Judging from the situation in the Philippines in later generations, blood transfusion should indeed be better.
Although the Philippines has been inhabited by humans for a long time, as a broken archipelago country, its civilization developed very slowly in ancient society. Compared with the large river basins of Europe, Asia and Africa at the same time, the social division of labor among the residents of the Philippine Islands has always been relatively rough.
From the perspective of natural conditions, the development and agricultural conditions of the tropical Philippines in the early civilization were very poor, and the Philippines was one of the countries most affected by typhoons in the Western Pacific. This was a hellish start for the ancient agricultural society.
Similarly, due to the small land area and rugged terrain of the islands, although the islands in the Philippines are not far apart, even without the influence of external forces - referring to the strong intervention of people with a higher level of civilization - it is difficult to
Integrated together into a unified country.
To be honest, in the 21st century, regional differences are still very obvious in this archipelago. The Philippines is equivalent to a Chinese province in terms of area and population, but it has 182 independent languages, among which the officially recognized teaching language is
19 species.
The country is not big but has many ethnic groups and languages, and the islands lack the conditions and necessity for mutual communication, so deep ethnic integration is difficult to achieve.
In addition to language, religion is also an important factor in the lack of centripetal force in this archipelago country. Before Spanish colonial rule, the main religion in the Philippines was primitive tribal belief. Each island and each tribe had a different main god.
There is also a clear distinction in the social development status of each island group. Before outsiders ruled the archipelago, this country of 7,000 islands had differentiated into four main social forms, namely, hunter-gatherer tribes and bandit-like military tribal alliances.
, highland agricultural social groups, and port political entities with a city-state nature.
In underdeveloped conditions, different parts of tropical islands are often controlled by different forces, and each island repeats this pattern, making both within and between islands more fragmented and alliances looser.
In the early days, different political systems on each island maintained exchanges with the outside world. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, they had close trade exchanges with China and were included in the tribute system of the central dynasty. The widespread presence of Chinese cultural symbols in relics unearthed in the Philippines has been confirmed in later generations.
Compared with the influence of the Central Plains culture, another Asian civilization had a significantly more direct and profound impact on the Philippines - by the end of the 14th century at the latest, the Green religion spread from Sumatra to the Sulu Islands in the southern Philippines, and the Arab missionaries
The continuous intrusion has had a great impact on the Sulu Islands.
Different from the local island tribal civilization, Green Cult believers have a stronger sense of group identity and a more efficient organizational form. In this context, a community encompasses the Sulu Islands, eastern Kalimantan, Palawan and Southwest
A Green Sultanate of islands surrounding the Sulu Sea was established.
In later generations, 83% of the Philippine population believed in Catholicism, and another 9% believed in Protestantism due to the influence of the United States. The southern region, after hundreds of years of colonization, still preserved the beliefs and religious activities of Green Christianity.
While Spain was frantically carrying out colonial plunder on the American continent, it also sent a warrior to conquer the Philippine Islands. This warrior was Miguel Lopez Legazpi, after whom the city of Legazpi in the Philippines was later named.
Named after him.
From a Spanish perspective, Legazpi’s achievements as Governor-General of the Philippines can be described as his greatest achievements. He accomplished the following major things under his rule:
The Spanish Philippines established several colonial settlements centered on Cebu Island;
The expedition to Luzon deposed the native king and established Spanish management of most areas of the Philippine Islands;
Built the city of Manila to become the western hub of trans-Pacific trade and later became the capital of the Philippines;
The comprehensive promotion of Catholicism allowed white images such as Jesus and the Pope to become the spiritual sustenance of the indigenous people of the Philippine Islands, which facilitated Spanish colonial rule and gave the islanders a common Catholic identity;
It resisted the expansion of Portugal, Japan and Britain externally, suppressed the uprisings of indigenous tribes internally, and continuously consolidated the Spanish government's rule over this colonial area.
To put it simply, without the Spaniards, Manila would not have emerged, let alone rise. Now that Gao Wuchen is going to capture Manila, it is actually a bit of a magpie's nest. Of course, he will never have a bad conscience.
Based on the above situation, the name change mentioned by Liu Xin is indeed necessary. Name change is easy to handle and does not take much effort. However, if a blood change is required, planning and preparation must be made in advance.
The impact of the Little Ice Age in the Ming Dynasty has become more and more obvious. Previously, Gao Pragmatic's plan for the immigration of the newly built Fuxin and Dandong cities was to relocate victims from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Beizhili. In fact, the victims obviously would not only
Limited to this time, which year will not suffer disaster?
But then again, when Gao Pragmatic moved people from the Ming Dynasty to various parts of southern Xinjiang, he generally focused on "nearby resettlement." For example, in Annan, the Ming people from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian were the main ones; in Taiwan, people from the south directly
Li, Zhejiang and Fujian are the main areas.
Although disaster victims from various provinces in the Yellow River Basin are occasionally sent to southern Xinjiang, the number is still relatively small so far. It’s not that Gao Pragmatic thinks that northerners can’t stand the heat in the south. This is actually not that serious – even European colonists did not die from the heat.
, could it be that Ming people in the North China Plain and the Huanghuai Plain would die of heat?
The key here is that there is a cost issue. After all, migrating to nearby areas has shorter distances, better adaptability of the migrant population, and faster resumption of production and work, so Beijing does not need to spend too much effort.
Moreover, at this time, the northern provinces usually grew wheat. After going to southern Xinjiang, they would definitely have to switch to rice. Don’t think this is a trivial matter. It is actually a very troublesome matter. At least in the first few years, the immigrants
At a time when they were not familiar with the various conditions of rice cultivation, Jinghua needed to spend huge manpower, material and financial resources to help them.
It was not a big problem to do this in the past, because Jinghua had abundant cash flow at that time, but now it is still very tight. Doing this will obviously put pressure on Jinghua itself. But if Jinghua does not invest enough, it will in turn lead to the immigrants’ failure.
Production efficiency is reduced, and even survival is threatened, which in turn may lead to low enthusiasm for subsequent immigration.
In short, before a single move can affect the whole body, you must first be prepared.
However, when Gao Pangshi was still thinking about how these preparations should be carried out in an orderly manner, Liu Xin said: "In addition, I also think that you'd better not treat the attack on Luzon as an isolated operation."
Gao Pragmatic was stunned and asked, "How do you say that?"
Liu Xin curled her lips and said: "You beat the Spanish in the Philippines, what do the Portuguese in Malacca think? I know that the Spaniards and the Portuguese have serious competition, but no matter what, they now share the same monarch. Since Philip II
The plan to attack Britain from Lisbon shows that this religious lunatic king still has good control over Portugal.
So once he knew that the Philippines was lost, wouldn't he let the Portuguese do some work and start causing trouble for Jinghua? If you want to avoid this kind of trouble, I think the simplest and most effective way is to take action first and capture Malacca.
The forces of the Spanish and Portuguese Empire were completely driven out of Nanyang."
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