Of course, in addition to cultivating officials himself and putting power in the countryside, Zhu Hongyu could also establish a clan.

There is indeed no landlord and gentry class on Luzon Island, but there are clans!

Many Chinese who go to Southeast Asia use clans as units.

If Zhu Hongyu chooses to compromise with the clan, he can temporarily gain control of the local area.

However, this is the last solution!

The priority of this choice is only to collude with the Spanish manor and squeeze the Chinese together.

Most of the clans are family members and family members.

Especially these Chinese clans in Nanyang are generally relatively united because they cannot survive without unity.

There are very few clans who rely on oppressing their own people and seeking profit from them!

In the Central Plains, there may be such an inverse clan, but in Nanyang, the clan forces are so united!

If Zhu Hongyu lets these very united clan forces control local population and grassroots regimes, the clans may transform into aristocratic families at any time.

It's true that you can just turn the history back!

Once Zhu Hongyu let go and chooses to let the clan govern the territory, the consequences will be more terrifying than giving power to the landlords and gentry.

If possible, Zhu Hongyu still wants to establish a regime and go to the countryside.

Let the Restoration Army directly control every population and every little material under its rule.

In that case, he can bring out the potential of war under his rule to the extreme!

Whether it is against the Spaniards or counterattacking the mainland in the future, the regime goes to the countryside and firmly control every little war resource under his rule, it will be his greatest capital.

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Manila!

Governor's Office!

Governor Barossa sat upright behind the desk, dressed in exquisite clothes, which made his slightly bloated figure look more upright.

The study room is exquisitely furnished, with huanghuali wood desk and bookshelves and fragrant coffee in high white porcelain cups in Jingdezhen.

There was a thick, half-read Latin book on the desk.

In the crystal-like ink bottle, there is a pen tip that is decorated with gold, which looks very delicate.

However, these luxurious and exquisite decorations cannot make the Governor's face slightly calmer, even if it is just a trace.

Barossa looked at Rogeff, who was standing respectfully in front of him, frowned, and was a little disbelief in his words.

"You mean that the Chinese rebels built a bastion in the mountains?"

"Rogeff, are you kidding me? Do you know how time-consuming and laborious it is to build a bastion?"

"How long has it been? Even if the Chinese are hardworking and able to endure hardships, how can they build a bastion?"

"And, you 4,000 people have suffered a great loss in front of such a temporary bastion?"

"Are you telling me mythical stories?"

Rogerff wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and spoke.

"Governor, although I don't want to admit it, it's the truth!"

"The Spanish boys were bleeding from the front of the bastion. The light cannons we brought into the mountain could not hit the bastion at all."

"The Pampanga natives who followed the army to the mountain suffered heavy losses. They were beaten to death and injured seven or eight hundred people in just two attacks."

"Col. Robin needs heavy artillery reinforcements, reinforcements, and more materials to wipe out the Chinese rebel."

Rogerff expressed his request.

Barossa took a deep breath, thought for a long time, and then spoke.

"I got it, I will watch the arrangement!"

After pondering for a while, Barossa spoke.

"I can transfer two 24-pound heavy siege artillery to Robin, and there will be more!"

Manila's city defense is not small, and the 24-pound siege heavy artillery is naturally not top-notch.

The thirty-six pounds and forty-eight pounds that were upwards were not allowed, but they were not transported into the mountain!

In this era, the most powerful heavy artillery in the West was probably about 64-pound artillery.

If you convert the unit, just one shell weighs more than fifty pounds.

Such heavy artillery, even a first-class sail battleship, can only be equipped with one or two at most.

If you install too much, you will be afraid that the recoil will shake the hull when the fire is opened.

The twenty-four-pound siege heavy cannon is a long-barreled cannon. The weight of a cannon alone is six or seven thousand kilograms.

In addition, gun mounts, as well as supporting gun cars, artillery, shells, etc.

How much it is can be imagined!

Even if such weight is convenient for water transportation, it is not easy to transport it into the mountain.

This is just a twenty-four-pound cannon!

The more powerful thirty-six-pound cannon and the forty-eight-pound cannon rolled upwards!

If the Spaniards gritted their teeth and could still transport one or two balls into the mountain, the thirty-six-pound cannon and forty-eight-pound cannon, then don't even think about it.

Thirty-six-pound cannons and forty-eight-pound cannons are all of the kind of ship cannons, shore defense cannons, and fortress cannons.

Transfer is not an ordinary trouble!

Robin wanted to attack the city and reinforce the heavy artillery, and Barossa could only give him two twenty-four-pound cannons at most.

However, in terms of military strength, Barossa performed more generously.

"I will send another five hundred musketeers to Robin and recruit two thousand Pampanga natives."

"If he could not destroy the rebels, he, Robin, would not have to come back to see me!"

Of course, the Five Hundred Musketeers are not all pure blood Spanish whites.

The pure-blooded Spanish whites are at most one-fifth, and the rest are mixed-race whites born in Manila.

However, even so, Barossa has tried his best to get such a 500-man musketeer.

The Spanish's troops in Manila are limited. Including Robin's losses this time, since the Restoration Army launched a total of killings and arrests, destroying seven or eight hundred troops in Manila.

Among these seven or eight hundred people, most of them are Spanish pure blood 100.

Although the Governor's Office still has two or three thousand troops, this refers to the total number of all the Spanish troops in Manila and the entire Spanish.

Most of these troops cannot be mobilized at will, and they must guard the forts and ports in Cebu Island, Palawan Island and other places.

Cities such as Batangas, Pasai, and Kavannaduan on Luzon Island.

And the most important places such as the royal city of Spain, the fortress in Manila, etc.

Now Barossa can truly mobilize mobile troops at any time, at most six or seven hundred people.

It’s not as many troops as Zhu Hongyu can mobilize!

Now, Robin has another breath to one hundred musketeers, and recruited 400 mixed-race men from the people. Manila's troops are even more powerful. If Robin is defeated in this battle.

Next summer, the sailing fleet arrives in Manila, bringing some reinforcements to Manila.

Manila has no choice but to take the Liberation Army.

Unless Barossa can make up his mind to give up, all the achievements of the Spanish operating in Luzon for more than a hundred years, gather all the troops, enter the mountains and fight to the death with the Restoration Army.

Rogerff spoke again.

"Praise the generosity of the Governor, I think Your Excellency the Colonel will not let you down!"

Barossa nodded and waved his hand to Rogerff to go down.

Rogerff drew a cross on his chest and spoke.

"May God bless the Governor!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.

Five days later, Rogerv, with the heavy artillery recruited by the Governor, as well as five hundred musketeers and two thousand indigenous people, left Manila and entered the mountains to continue to encircle and suppress the Restoration Army.
Chapter completed!