717 [Luzon Little China] (for the leader of the Bodhi tree without
Within the cabin.
Prince Henry said: "The Grand Master promised to lend me two thousand troops, but I have to wait for another two years."
Princess Mary holds her mixed-race daughter: "When you stabilize the situation in France, I need your help. As long as I become Queen of England, I will return the Calais region to France."
"Deal!" Prince Henry said happily.
The Hundred Years' War between England and France ended with France's victory.
However, Britain still has territory in France, which is the Calais region on the western coast.
Historically, the Calais region of France was recovered by Prince Henry. The opportunity for Henry to regain his homeland happened to be in the year of Mary's death, when Britain fell into civil strife due to the death of the Queen.
The world is so wonderful, Mary directly exchanged territory for Henry's opportunity to help her become queen.
Princess Mary added: "I am the Queen of England and you are the King of France. Britain and France can form an alliance to fight against Spanish expansion."
"Okay," asked Prince Henry, "what about religion?"
Princess Mary smiled and said: "My father supports Protestantism. If I want to be queen, I must unite with the Catholics in the Privy Council."
Prince Henry was very happy: "It just so happens that I also hate Protestantism."
An Anglo-French alliance against Protestantism, coupled with Spain's opposition to Protestantism, would probably make the Protestants tremble.
The French king must support Catholicism because the Pope has signed a religious treaty with France in order to suppress Protestantism. The French king has the right to appoint bishops and abbots, and most of the church's income belongs to the king.
And who are the Protestants in France?
Low-level commoners and local lords!
The common people at the bottom believed in Protestantism because they naturally wanted to get rid of religious constraints. The local lords believed in Protestantism because they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make profits and decentralize power from the king.
In order to centralize power and suppress local lords, the French king had to support the Pope and Catholicism.
If Henry had the strength and wanted to establish his power and fight a war, he would most likely attack Geneva directly. There was a "Protestant Pope" there. As long as he occupied Swiss territory and destroyed the "Protestant Pope" in Geneva, he would become a great monarch in the Catholic world.
Mary's idea was much simpler. She would oppose whatever her father supported. Only in this way could she please the Privy Council, gain the support of the old-school nobles, and have sufficient reason to usurp the throne and establish herself.
It just so happened that Wang Ji was also a little tired and wanted to find a piece of land to settle down temporarily.
Wang Ji has been wandering all over the world over the years and has discovered many islands. He even learned about the existence of the New World in the South from the pirates in the South Seas, and specially took a boat to Australia, where pirates were everywhere.
It's a pity that the place is barren and there are many poisonous insects and snakes, so the pirates are willing to settle there.
Australia in this time and space has no official name and is derogatorily called the "Pirate Island".
The current residents of "Pirate Island" are mostly pirates, some fugitives, and various criminals who are not allowed to live in the South China Sea.
They captured the local natives as slaves, and they thought the female natives were too ugly, so they went to Java Island to capture women and start families. There is also a difference between female natives and female natives. The women in Java Island can at least look at it, but the women in the "Pirate Island" are really difficult to
describe.
Master Wang's reputation was really great. After Wang Ji revealed his identity, the ferocious pirates didn't even bother him.
Wang Ji sailed around Australia and even discovered New Zealand next to it. However, it was of little value for the time being and could only become a paradise for pirates and criminals. Large-scale development would have to wait another hundred years.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Ji sailed to Europe again.
The King of Denmark has formed an alliance with the German Protestant nobles to jointly deal with the expansion of Spain and the suppression of Catholic forces. Obtaining loans from the German Protestant nobles, the King of Denmark has also built a naval fleet. Although he cannot compete with the Spanish fleet, he can block his own straits.
Prevent Dutch merchants from doing business in Northern Europe.
Dutch merchants therefore put pressure on the King of Spain, and Charles V was forced to make peace with Denmark.
The German Protestant nobles were very angry because they found out that they had been tricked. The King of Denmark, who had made peace with Spain, withdrew from the alliance with them. As a result, the German Protestant nobles had to fight alone. After Spain was freed up, Spain began to persecute the Protestants in Germany.
The current Danish king does not get involved in any diplomatic disputes and concentrates on managing his own territory. His goal is to re-annex Sweden.
Wang Ji thought it was very interesting and wanted to borrow troops and ships from his eldest brother, join forces with Sweden to overthrow the King of Denmark, and take his wife Princess Margaret to become the Lord of Northern Europe.
This guy doesn't know yet that Henry and Mary are going back. Once the three of them meet, it will probably be an alliance between Britain, France, and Northern Europe, and their common enemy is Spain.
Luzon, Yanzhou City (Manila).
Wang Ce said to Wang Ji: "I just received the letter. My father has probably gone south. He is going to Zhejiang on the way. He is expected to come to Luzon after spring."
"Really? The whole family is moving here?" Wang Ji said happily.
Wang Ce shook his head and said, "My father is taking his family to Tianzhu. Your Majesty has crowned my father the King of Tianzhu."
"There is no place for fighting in that place." Wang Ji is now an expert on global situations. His understanding of all countries in the world has surpassed anyone else. "Tianzhu has a lot of messy countries. With my father's ability, he will definitely sweep all countries."
But it is easy to conquer, but difficult to govern. Hundreds of ethnic groups are mixed there and the languages are different. If you want to send officials to various places, language is a big problem."
Wang Ce smiled and said: "It's similar in Luzon. We just kill a group of people, scare a group of people, and the rest will slowly immigrate and develop."
Wang Ce's Luzon Kingdom has expanded beyond Luzon Island to include the entire Philippine Islands. Counting uninhabited islands and small islands with only a few hundred people, Wang Ce now owns more than 7,000 islands.
It sounds majestic, but in fact the rule is very rough.
If it doesn't produce gold and silver, what can a small island with a population of several hundred do? It's just a matter of rushing over to conquer the islanders and asking them to hand over as many specialties as they want each year, and it's not even worth sending a tax collector.
Wang Ce only does three things now: immigrating Han people, educating the indigenous people, and mining gold and silver.
In the area around Baguio alone, several gold and silver mines have been discovered, as well as several gold rivers in the southeast. Wang Ce can be said to be extremely rich.
He was also very arrogant in attracting immigrants.
First determine how many Han people can be immigrated to an island, and then go to the Ming Dynasty to recruit immigrants with the quota. Ordinary immigrants will be free of travel expenses. When they arrive, each person will be allocated one hundred acres, and they will be given seeds and farm tools to open up wasteland. No one will be accepted within ten years.
Taxation. Those who have the merit of being a child and are willing to work as teachers in the place where they were born will be directly given 500 acres of land. They will also capture the nearby natives and make them slaves. They will also be given a one-time payment of one hundred taels of silver to go to sea.
Officials from Fujian and Guangdong provinces were confused by Wang Ce.
A large number of old students and scholars who had no hope of taking the imperial examination would immigrate to Luzon with their families if their families were in difficulty. They would get one hundred taels of silver upon boarding the ship, and they would have five hundred acres of land of their own, and each family member would be given another one hundred taels.
acres of land, and the king also helped capture the indigenous serfs. He risked his life to do this!
The whole process was very bloody. Take a certain island as an example. There were hundreds or even thousands of ordinary immigrants, paired with a cultural immigrant. All the land on the island was occupied by the Han people. The natives on the island were either assigned to teachers as serfs or were
Caught to mine for gold.
Almost switching from island to island, Wang Ce has immigrated hundreds of thousands of people to the Luzon Islands!
Because the coastal states and counties in Fujian and Guangdong, which are closest to Luzon, are the worst off, tenants, craftsmen and military households have fled in large numbers. In some states and counties, those who go to the sea and those who do work have actually led to a severe shortage of tenants, and they can only go further inland.
Prefectures and counties recruit tenants.
Give Wang Ce another year or two, and I'm afraid there will be more than one million immigrants in Luzon, and the gold and silver he mined will be spread out like running water.
As the eldest son of Wang Yuan, who grew up attending classes with the young emperor, how could Wang Ce not be influenced by his father?
This guy received a pure imperial education!
In Wang Ce's view, the foundation of a country is its people, and only when it has a sufficient population can it run its affairs. Next, the population must have a unified language and culture, otherwise it will be difficult to manage and even cause serious internal strife.
Therefore, at least half of the gold and silver mined in Luzon every year is used for immigration.
Moreover, it is very convenient to immigrate because it is so close to the Ming Dynasty. Han Chinese from Guangdong and Fujian provinces can reach their destination in a few days by sea.
Today's Yanzhou City (Manila) is even called "Little China" by maritime merchants.
In order to expand the scale of immigration, Wang Ce even refused to fight against the Sulu Sultanate, because fighting costs money, people, and food. Why not immigrate tens of thousands more if he has the time?
Therefore, Mindanao, the Sulu Islands, and later parts of Brunei are still under the rule of the Sulu Sultanate.
There will definitely be a battle between the two sides in the future, it just depends on when Wang Ce wants to fight.