Qitad brought Harach to Jose's archives.

As the highest official position in Fort Santiago, he lives in the largest room here, and one side of the room is the archives room.

Here is a two-story stone building surrounded by all sides. The interior is about one meter high. In the middle is a long table covered with blue velvet, which is piled with various books, files, and paper.

There are bookshelfs standing against the wall around them. It can be seen that the bookshelf is made of Filipino specialty rosewood, and are also filled with books, files and paper.

On the top of the bookshelf in the inner wall was a roll of paper that was obviously larger than other files, and Qitad asked Harach to take it off.

As he was slowly unfolding on the long table, Qitad's eyes suddenly lit up.

This is a detailed map of dozens of pictures, including the Philippines, covering the four major governors' jurisdictions of New Spain (Mexico), New Granada, Peru, La Plata, and several generals (including the Philippines, the Philippine Governor is just the governor here because the emperor far away calls him)!

These maps obviously use the contour marks that have just become popular in Europe. The mountains, rivers, mountains, cities, roads, and mines are clearly visible at a glance. The most important thing is that there are key data such as length, height, urban population size, and production on it!

"Hahaha"

Qitade couldn't help but laugh. Even the Masonic, which had great supernatural powers, could not get such a thing.

He asked Harach to close the map carefully and his eyes turned to the long table again.

Finally, I threw it into a thick book isolated on it, not sure whether it was a book or a notebook, with a gray-brown sheepskin cover, with an ink bottle and a quill on the side. Looking at it, someone used this thing not long ago.

He opened this thing.

It turned out to be a notebook.

Almost half of the notebook has been used, and the title page clearly says this.

"Instructed by God, I, Chief Secretary of the Governor, Barbosa Diego Jose, Francesco de Paula Juan Carlos Maria de Los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisimma. Trinida Ruiz wrote down the following"

As the Portuguese son-in-law, Qitad has also recently practiced Portuguese and Spanish, and has a little understanding of it.

The book indeed records the registration of files that each chief secretary has come here. These are obviously not what Qitad cares about. He searched carefully inside and found a line of small characters inside.

"The Far East, with a population several times that of Europe, but I do not feel the kindness of God's care. We, the great Spaniards, came here not for wealth, but it is absolutely impossible to have no wealth. I, Barbosa... Ruiz solemnly swore"

"This year (1600) the gold shipped to Seville left one tenth of it as a fund to walk the great light of God to the Far East. Believe me, I have prayed in my collection and registration"

There were more than a dozen chief secretary registrations later, and Qitad was not interested. He wanted to know how much gold was left behind and how it was hidden there but was not recorded.

However, the words of a chief secretary in the middle still made him laugh.

"God witnessed that it is not that those of us who stay in the Philippines do not work hard, but that the world is in a cold and people are unpredictable. The Chinese and local people here are fierce and naughty people. We naturally want to spread the glory of the Lord all over Asia, but we must first gain a foothold in the Philippines"

"So, from me, I used this batch of gold to build a fund to provide relief, support the families of pioneers who had lost their lives in the Philippines and set up a local Spanish Filipino company to do all of this with its profits"

"Materials, I pray in the cathedral every day. I am quite peaceful these days. The omnipotent God has obviously forgiven me."

Next comes another long name, and the signature date is 1620.

A chief secretary who took office in 1660 wrote.

"Damn Chinese, their greed for wealth is outrageous, and they die in batches, and continue to pour into the Philippines like moths to the flames. God's people are in danger. Due to the death of a large number of Spaniards, the funds can no longer be used on the Spanish who returned to the Spanish mainland or other governors' jurisdiction."

"All whites have been asked to take the oath, and in the future, all this money will be spent on the local Spanish. Remember, it is the local Spanish, not all whites, those hateful French, Dutch, Germans who are stupid like pigs, and Nordics are not listed here"

The last page was obviously written by Jose, the person in charge.

"I, Jose Simon Antonio de La Santos Tennidad Bolivar Pendy Palascis Blanco, in the name of God, 1770"

This time there are finally specific numbers.

"The despicable, greedy, clown-like Chinese Biyao sent one thousand taels of gold, and the governor shamelessly intercepted half, only five hundred taels were returned to the public and entered the warehouse"

"The total profit of local Philippine companies this year is 10,000 taels of gold, was despicablely intercepted by bald Harvey, and only 7,000 taels left to the public to store their warehouses. It's so annoying"

"This year, 10899 local white people died for various reasons, and 30567 babies were born. This requires expenses from Curry, three ships traveling to Guangzhou, Batavia, and the Philippines due to the storm, losing 199 sailors and losing a total of at least 10,000 taels of gold."

"God, please give us blessings so that fewer people will meet you and fewer babies will be born, because fewer people will die in bad weather such as storms"

"In addition, Harvey has recently baptized three Asian women with similar skin to Europeans. They are all young and beautiful, and were taken to work in the Governor's Mansion by Harvey. Others don't know, but I obviously know it."

"Half a year later, these three people have big belly. Also, God, please forgive Harvey. Although he is lustful and lustful, he is really sincere in serving you."

"Whenever the tears flowers bloom in the Governor's Palace's garden, at night, the harsh sound of the Governor's Palace will come from the rooms of the three women. At dawn, Harvey, the bald man, came out of the rooms in disarray, and then returned to his own room"

"Forgive me, when I wrote this, a part of my body changed unsatisfactorily"

"Hahaha!"

Seeing this, Qitade couldn't help laughing again.

Next to the notebook is a golden cross. I guess this Jose wrote it down while holding it and praying.

He slowly closed the notebook and thought to himself: "Since these money is registered here, it must be hidden here. Where is it?"

"By the way, according to Zhou Jixun, the white battalion officers and soldiers in Fort Santiago are all composed of local white people, which means that money may also be hidden here."

However, he and Harach were searching in the archives for a long time, and the ground and walls were knocked on, but nothing was found.

He came out of the archives room, went to the corridor outside, walked around the corridor, and finally found something.

There is no other room between Jose's bedroom and the archives room, but a solid wall about three meters wide is left. This is too unusual. There is no need to build a thick wall or partition wall like a city wall deep inside the military fort here.

Returning to the archives room again, this time he finally found the clue.

Although the four walls are all leaning against large bookshelf, strangely, there is still an oil painting hanging on each wall. If it is the first time I have entered here, at first glance, I thought this place was not an archive room before, but an ordinary room, which was later changed to an archive room, but the oil painting was not taken away.

Qitad signaled Harach to remove the oil paintings on the wall of Jose's bedroom.

Then a square hole was exposed.

The hole is about one foot square, and there is a candlestick without candles inside. "Is it a coincidence?"

Qitade's figure is very tall in this world (nearly 1.8 meters). After careful observation, he hammered the wall with his hand, and found nothing unusual.

He couldn't help but get angry now, holding the candlestick and pulling it hard!

"Crouch..."

At this moment, a violent muffled sound came out, as if it was an unpleasant sound from the friction between the boulders.

Then a door appeared!

At this time, Zhou Jixun happened to come over, and Qitade smiled and said, "It just so happens that you two will go in and count the property. I'll take a rest in Jose's bedroom"

Faced with the huge amount of wealth that may be possible, he can still sleep.

But this is Qitad. He knew very well that even if he found the property, it was not his, but Truchen's, Qitad, Truchen was closely linked.

When he wakes up, it's another night.

"Your Majesty"

Seeing Zhou Jixun's handsome face with a bright red face, Qitade was leisurely drying two bowls of white rice, ate a fish, and half a pound of ham stored by the Spanish, plus half a bottle of Spanish high-quality wine, and then looked at them after burping.

"Tell me, how many are there?"

"Your Majesty, we're so busy. It's full of gold ingots and some locally minted gold coins. However, there is no portrait of the Spanish king on it. It's a whole house full of them, which adds up to nearly one million taels of gold!"

"Million taels? That is about ten million taels of silver?"

"Yes, you can cast 20 million Truchen silver coins!"

"Oh," Qitade sighed, "You know that our country spends at least five million silver coins every year. In addition, we have recently won Hexian Town. If we want to expand the immigration efforts there as soon as possible, we have to spend at least ten million silver coins"

"The remaining silver coins can only meet the needs of two years of immigration"

Zhou Jixun smiled and said, "Isn't it even more worthwhile in Fernando, Cebu City?"

Qitad shook his head, "Although Fernando is the hereditary Duke of Cebu, he is only temporarily staying here. His base camp is still in Spain. The money left there is only one million silver coins, which is better than nothing."

"I am going to take over Cebu Island, Leight Island, and Baohe Island, and the money is just enough for construction"

"By the way, is there any news outside?"

"Your Majesty, there is no movement in Manila City. It seems that they are going to defend the city, but there is a news coming from outside"

"Oh?"

"It's news from the Malay Peninsula. Nowadays, the congregation of the world has been compressed to Peking University. All the land occupied before has been lost, and their manpower has also been greatly damaged."

"Oh? The Malays are so powerful? Didn't we support Li Tongkuan and the others and then install flintlock guns?"

"Your Majesty, many Bugis people have come to the peninsula. These people are obviously not from the Malay Peninsula. There is only one possibility that they can arrive at the peninsula so quickly"

"Dutch?"

"Yes, there are also a large number of Bugis people in Java. They are one of the thugs used by the Dutch to deal with local natives and Chinese. In order to win over them, the Dutch also allocated the Banten area near Batavia to them"

"Li Tongkuan sent several batches of envoys to Timur City. It is said that there were at least 20,000 Bugis people involved in Shanghai's besiege of Peking University, and the total number was around 50,000. If our warships were not still at the port of Peking University, I'm afraid Li Tongkuan's people would not even send out the envoys for help."

Qitade calmed down and thought about it carefully.

"Oh, fish and bear's paws cannot be bothered. Forget it, let's give up the Malay Peninsula and let our people negotiate with it. The Malay Peninsula, except Singapore, all Chinese people withdraw there and move to Hexian Town"

"The Sudans from various countries go to say it themselves, which is obviously much better than the persuasion we one by one. As far as I know, there are at least 100,000 Chinese on the Malay Peninsula"

"So many people besiege the city, I'm afraid the sultans of Sumatra, which are separated by a sea, will also participate. Well, let them all withdraw and gather in Hexian Town"

"But we have to make it clear to the Sudans that Garcia's fleet is responsible for migrating the Chinese. All their property must not be intercepted or hurt anyone. If it is a crime, it is said that I said it will slaughter the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra!"

"I believe that the news from the Philippines has reached there, I believe it will be effective"
Chapter completed!