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582 [Heart of Kindness]

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The merchants and people in the city not only opened the city gates wide, but also came to watch the elegance of Mrs. Yipin Gaoming.

An old man was tremblingly subdued from the carriage, rushed to Song Linger and knelt down, and said in an excited tone: "The old man Lin Zhu paid homage to my wife. He abandoned the people and lived overseas for a long time. Unexpectedly, he was able to admire the nobles in the capital. I have no regrets in this life!"

Song Ling'er hurriedly offered her support: "Master, please get up."

Other merchants also came to pay their respects, with admiration on their faces.

Wang Yuan has a high reputation in Nanyang because he presided over the opening of the sea, allowing a large number of middle and low-level maritime merchants to take off their shackles and go to sea freely. In the past, this was monopolized by the wealthy coastal families, and ordinary maritime merchants could only rely on the wealthy families.

If you don't obey, you will easily be labeled as a pirate.

As for the maritime merchants who settled in Port Beaufort, most of them were middle-level merchants. Who from the rich family would come here to thrive?

Take the old man named Lin Zhu in front of you as an example. When he was young, he went to sea to make a living. Once he went to Luzon to do business, and the port in his hometown was destroyed by officers and soldiers. He was afraid of being accused when he returned, so he could only settle down in Luzon Island and secretly

Bring your family to settle down.

The merchants presented the most luxurious carriage and invited Song Ling'er and Wang Ce to ride into the city. They also prepared the most sumptuous banquet in the city.

Uh... well, it's basically the same treatment as the remote states and counties of the Ming Dynasty. This port city is the size of a poor small county. The city's population is only about 10,000, more than half of which are Han Chinese and nearly half of which are indigenous.

Because there is Tortoiseshell Port further south, also known as Lingayen Port and Lingayin Port. Most maritime merchants go there directly, and the trade in Vigan Port is not prosperous.

Song Ling'er inquired about the basic situation, and immediately took out a blank document with a big seal and filled in Lin Zhu's name: "Old sir, I want to rule Luzon, and I would like to ask you to be the magistrate of Mian County!"

"This... this..." Lin Zhu was shocked, "The Ming Dynasty wants to annex the Luzon Kingdom?"

Song Ling'er pointed at Wang Ce: "My son wants to rule Luzon."

All the merchants were shocked and then delighted.

It is better to let a Han be the king, as long as there is no excessive taxation, than to be ruled by a foreign race.

Lin Zhu did not hesitate for too long. He quickly took the appointment document, knelt in front of Wang Ce and said, "Your Majesty, Lin Zhu, pay my respects to the Lord!"

Does this make him the leader of the country?

Wang Ce was a little confused, always feeling like everything was child's play.

Song Ling'er added: "Lin Zhi County, there will be immigrants here every year from now on. You should properly arrange land for the immigrants to cultivate. I will build some soldiers and recruit five hundred soldiers in Mei'an County. These soldiers will be temporarily dispatched by the magistrate. Those who are disobedient will

The natives will just defeat them."

Lin Zhu was also an old fox, otherwise he would not have become the leader of the Han people here. He suggested: "Luzon Island is extremely hot and humid, and there are mosquitoes and miasma in the rainforest. You can drive the indigenous people inland, and even give them food and seeds to let them go

Cut down the rainforest and open up wasteland. After ten or twenty years, when the cultivated land around the county has been allocated by the Han people, they will seize the cultivated land of the indigenous people and continue to drive the indigenous people inland to cultivate wasteland."

"This is a wonderful plan!" Song Ling'er was very happy.

Wang Ce couldn't bear it, thinking it was too immoral and cold-blooded.

As a young man, well-dressed and well-fed, and taught by sages, he naturally did not know the darkness of this world. On the contrary, Song Ling'er had lived in a barbarian land since he was a child, and he had seen many dirty things done by Guizhou chieftains.

Luzon Island was not fully developed in the mid-Ming Dynasty. If it were directly developed by immigrants, the injury rate would probably be very scary. After all, it has a tropical rainforest climate.

Lin Zhu's method is very cruel but effective, which is to let the Han people seize the indigenous territory and drive the indigenous people to the rainforest for reclamation and development. When the indigenous people develop the new territory, the Han people will seize it again, forcing the indigenous people to continue to go deep into the rainforest for development. They can even teach the indigenous people

Advanced farming technology and giving them food seeds will allow them to develop faster.

Vigan City is located near a river delta, and the land is extremely fertile. Even if tens of thousands of immigrants are thrown into the surrounding area, each person can be allocated a large amount of land.

Lin Zhu asked again: "I wonder how to collect taxes?"

Song Ling'er didn't understand this, so she might as well let Prime Minister Bao Chao explain it.

Prime Minister Bao Chao took out a pamphlet and said: "Lin Zhi County only deals with land tax and shop tax. The tax types and tax amounts are all in this book. If there are new crops in the future, they will only be revised. As for maritime trade tax, the state

The main meeting will set up the Municipal Shipping Department, which will collect the taxes uniformly."

Lin Zhu carefully read the tax brochure and found that the agricultural tax and shop tax rates were lower and more friendly to the people than the tax amounts set by the Luzon State. At the same time, immigrants' newly allocated land would be tax-free for three years.

And there is no poll tax, so the income is directly divided into acres!

Lin Zhu bowed in admiration and said: "The Lord is kind."

Wang Ce blushed a little. As the leader of the country, he seemed to have done nothing. Everything was arranged by his parents.

Everyone settled in Vigan City and could no longer send troops.

Because it rained, it was hot and humid.

They set off from the base in early September. Although they avoided the hottest period, it was still at the end of the rainy season.

The climate of the tropical rainforest is very humming, and it doesn't stop as soon as you get up.

It was not until half a month later that the rain finally eased and the fleet headed south to Panga.

This is also a river delta, but there are almost no Han people. The indigenous people live in a semi-primitive state. There are cities but only simple fences.

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Song Ling'er held the telescope and forgot to take a look at it. She said without interest: "We will fight again after the immigrants are transported."

Continuing southward, the conditions along the coast are similar until we reach Hawksbill Bay.

Tortoiseshell Bay does not produce hawksbill turtles. The chief of this country once paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty with his ship, and the chief's name was hawksbill turtle. Therefore, the Han people called this place Tortoiseshell Bay, Tortoiseshell Port, and the official name of the place was "Fengjiashilan Country".

The first landing site of Japan's invasion of the Philippines.

When doing business from Guangdong and Fujian to Luzon, there is no way around this place, so it has formed a large port over hundreds of years.

There are thousands of Han people in the city, two to three thousand merchants from various countries, and about 50,000 to 60,000 indigenous people.

Although this poor place is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually a large tribe subordinate to the Luzon state.

There were many merchant ships in the port. When they saw the fleet coming, they thought they were doing business. There were even tax collectors happily waiting to collect taxes.

"We're finally going to fight!" Song Ling'er boarded the deck fully armed.

Wang Ce observed through a telescope and found that the port was not fortified at all. This poor place could be taken by simply leading troops.

Historically, during the Wanli period, the pirate Lin Feng went to Manila to fight the Spanish and killed the Spanish commander-in-chief Goit in Manila. Unfortunately, he was attacked by Spanish warships carrying troops from both sides. What should he do if he could not defeat Manila? Lin Feng retreated to Tortoiseshell Bay and occupied this place.

In order to directly claim the kingship, Tortoiseshell Port was defenseless against large-scale pirates.

"Get off the boat!"

Song Ling'er landed excitedly under the escort of the personal guards, and Wang Ce followed closely to protect her mother's safety.

The merchants and people on the dock were shocked and shouted for cover, and the tax collectors immediately fled. This city of more than 60,000 people also had no city walls, and Song Ling'er led his troops and drove straight into it.

"Jiliguala!"

The chief organized an army to resist, and street fighting broke out between the two sides.

Song Ling'er shouted: "Formation!"

Three thousand new recruits, who had been training for more than a year, were fighting for the first time, and they were in chaos when they formed a formation.

Song Ling'er's personal guards reacted the fastest, shooting forward with guns and firing more than 20 firecrackers, which actually defeated the more than 2,000 indigenous troops.

Song Ling'er said depressedly: "It's too inexperienced and very boring. Ce'er, you come and lead the troops!"

Wang Ce didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and led his troops straight to the chief's residence. This time it was really hard to fight, because there was a stone castle, which would be difficult to capture in a short while.

"Drag the artillery over here!" Wang Ce ordered.

Ten artillery pieces were aimed at the city gate, firing from only a distance of more than fifty meters, with a loud bang, while the musketeers provided cover fire.

The bows and arrows of the indigenous people are very rubbish. After all, the high humidity climate is not conducive to the maintenance of bow strings, and the range is far inferior to the javelins they throw.

Not a single soldier was lost, and the city gate was broken.

The soldiers in the castle ran away, while some knelt down and begged for mercy.

In less than half an hour, Wang Ce led his troops in. In the chaos, the chief had already fled, but he captured the chief's family and found valuables worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Prime Minister Bao Chao was busy cleaning up the aftermath. He sent people to post notices to calm the people, announced the occupation of Tortoiseshell City, and convened a meeting with Han merchants in the city.

A merchant named Chen was elected and Song Linger appointed him as the magistrate of Tortoiseshell County.

Then, it rained again...

Song Linger, Wang Ce, mother and son are not in a hurry. Tortoiseshell City is a large port and the number of Han citizens must be increased.

Wang Yuan's caravan dedicated twenty ships to recruit immigrants at various seaports in the Ming Dynasty. Many poor people in coastal provinces like to beg at the ports in recent years, waiting for the opportunity to go to sea to make a living, so recruiting immigrants has become very easy.

Within two months, more than 4,000 Han people were transported one after another, and they all disembarked at Tortoiseshell City, doubling the number of Han people here.

There are too many indigenous people here to be driven out or killed directly. Then the big indigenous landowners will be singled out, the men will be put to death, and the women will be allocated to the immigrants, and their land will also be allocated to the immigrants.

Don't think it's cruel, the natives are just as ruthless in killing the Han people.

Historically, Emperor Wanli, who liked to plunder places, heard that there were gold and silver mines all over Luzon Island, so he actually sent a mine supervisor to seize the mines.

The King of Luzon was so angry that he detained officials from the Ming Dynasty and announced that he would fight war with neighboring countries and recycle civilian weapons at high prices. Most of the Han people in Luzon Island were merchants, so they sold their weapons at high prices. The King of Luzon immediately sent troops to kill the Han people and kill the Han people.

More than 20,000 people were driven away, and the Han people in Luzon were harvested as fat pigs.

If we don't use bloody methods now, there will definitely be big trouble in the future!

You see, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands have caused countless murders in Southeast Asia, and the natives can only accept it. On the contrary, the Han people, who do not use swords and guns, are the fat sheep in the eyes of the natives of Southeast Asia, and have been massacred by the natives many times.

Many times, if you are ruthless enough, others will not be able to be ruthless.

Wang Ce stood outside the city, watching the indigenous landowners being beheaded en masse on various charges, and there was always some knot in his heart that was difficult to resolve.

To put it bluntly, Wang Ce's living environment was too generous since he was a child, and he was influenced by the articles of sages. It is difficult for a kind heart to quickly adapt to reality.

Chen Li, who grew up in a pirate den, was different. He was about the same age, but he could kill without blinking an eye.

Of course, kindness is not a shortcoming, it is just a bit inappropriate in Nanyang.


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