This is the bank of a tributary to the north of the Pasig River, where Li Dan's home on Luzon Island is located. This is the Dundu Village where the church is located on the north bank of the Pasig River, and it is also the center of Binondo, a Chinese Christian settlement.
This Spanish-style building with a garden is four stories high, with an observation deck on the top floor. Li Dan's family lives here. There are also some Chinese or Western-style residences of wealthy Balian businessmen nearby, and even indigenous-style stilt houses.
Standing on the observation deck on the roof of Li Dan's house, you can see the Balian Chinese District on the south bank of the Pasig River, and you can also see the Intramuros of Manila next to the Chinese District.
Now, the tropical sunshine shines on the Pasig River. Countless small boats, Tagalog canoes, temporary rafts, and bamboo rafts are densely covered with this quite vast river, going back and forth between the north and the south.
Ferrying between the two sides. Countless Chinese relied on these means of transportation, dragging large and small bags, carrying pots and pans, pulling each other, crying and howling as they crossed the Pasig River north. Some Tagalog women followed closely.
As the Chinese husband crossed the river, the baby in his arms was also crying. There were several thick smoke rising from the Balian Market behind them, and further away, at the city head of Manila, the black muzzle of a cannon was pointed at this direction.
Yesterday's massacre has become a household name, and all the Chinese in Balian were stunned for a while. Then, a great flight began. As early as a month ago, Chinese people who were seeking refuge from disaster established a swamp in the north called Tondo.
Now, all the Chinese in Balian want to get as far away from Manila as possible and as far away from the Greeks as possible. Therefore, the shelter in Tondo has truly become everyone's hope.
A large group of Chinese people who had crossed the river walked north through Binondo and Binandu. Many Christian Christians also walked out of the settlements with gold and silver and joined the fleeing army. Everyone in this team was
There are: Mainly domestic traders who spend the winter in Balian, merchants with fixed shops in Balian market, shopkeepers, shopkeepers, craftsmen and their associates, servants, apprentices, and various people doing odd jobs in the market area
Refugees.
Standing on the top floor of Li Dan's house are Yin Feng and Li Dan.
Magaro found Li Dan and found that Binondo was temporarily safe. The Spanish missionaries and church priests all went to the nearby Maquina Manor - the manor where more than 300 Chinese were massacred. The owner was
Captain Marquina of the Spanish Army.
Yin Feng waited until it was getting dark before entering Binondo and arriving at Li Dan's home. By this time, news of the massacre at Maquina Manor had spread throughout the Chinese areas: three Chinese temporarily hid in the jungle on the roadside.
Shit, not only did he escape the disaster, but the news quickly spread throughout the Chinese districts on both sides of the Pasig River and the Chinese temporary shelter in Tondo.
Li Dan's family is also preparing for the worst. After buying the goods in the warehouse regardless of the cost, they are packing up all the valuables they can bring. "Brother Li, are you also planning to escape to Tondo?" Yin Feng asked quickly.
Li Dan had already told him the current situation and was surprised that Yin Feng could come to Manila at this time.
"Things are already very bad. Yesterday's massacre of the Tang people will only make things worse. Although I am a Christian, who knows how far the Latin people will go if they are involved?" Li Dan looked at Yin Feng and pointed to the river.
The people who were fleeing said with a bitter smile: "Look, everyone is rushing to go north, but you are the only one who still wants to go south. The Zeng brothers may also be among these people!"
Yin Feng also smiled bitterly and looked at the panicked Pasig River in the sun. After a while, he said: "I have asked Magaro to take people to the other side to find out the news. You are right, it is time to leave now.
, let’s go to my ship together.”
Several Binong residents passed by the Li family garden, carrying soft packages and hurriedly joining the fleeing crowd.
Li Dan sighed, looked at the busy family servants in the garden, and shook his head: "I am 36 years old this year. I have worked hard here for ten years. Ten years! I was penniless when I first arrived in Manila, and now I am
One of the top Chinese merchants in the local area. I still have half of my property in Manila, and there are countless related people who owe me money for goods that have not yet been repaid. And..." He looked at the busy family members in the yard and suddenly made up his mind.
As if to say: "These family members, as well as my more than 100 workers in Jian, I can't abandon them and walk away!"
After sighing, Li Dan patted Yin Feng on the shoulder: "Since you are here, I want to entrust you with something. In the world today, there are not many men like you who risk their lives to save their friends and are loyal and loyal. I believe in you.
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Yin Feng shook his head: "That's too much praise. I just want peace of mind."
Of course, Li Dan didn't know that he could know about the Manila Massacre in advance, so he thought he was still being modest: "Don't be polite in front of me. Although we are just business partners, after these two years of interaction, you are the person I trust most now."
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He walked down the stairs and motioned for Yin Feng to follow.
The breeze blew, and the fine gauze curtains in the corridor fluttered with the wind, brushing Yin Feng's cheek. Li Dan opened the door of the room on the second floor, and a girl wearing a Spanish white dress stood in the middle of the room.
Revealing her slender figure; her big eyes flashed on her pretty face, with a smile, she bent down towards Li Dan and said a blessing: "Brother..."
Yin Feng rubbed his eyes. Such a beautiful Chinese girl in a dress suddenly appeared in a Chinese family in the early 17th century, almost making him wonder if he had traveled back in time. Li Dan looked back at him, very satisfied with his surprised expression.
He smiled knowingly: "This is my sister-in-law, Lihua, who is 17 years old. She has lived here for 10 years and has learned the same as those foreign ladies who have a good relationship."
Yin Feng quickly closed his open mouth, swallowed, and nodded in greeting.
Yin Feng's surprise seemed to Li Dan to be a normal reaction: Chinese women are very rare in Luzon.
At that time, Fujian and Guangdong Chinese were relatively taboo about bringing women on board, and at that time, Chinese women generally lived in closed families, and Chinese who came out to explore the world could not bring their families. Therefore, there were very few Chinese women in the Balian Chinese area, and the gender ratio was serious.
Imbalance has even led to the emergence of many homosexual phenomena.
Homosexuality was relatively common in China during the Ming Dynasty, and Chinese traditional culture was not particularly objectionable; the Spanish were different. The Roman Catholic Church strongly opposed homosexuality, and Spain was a country with relatively strong religious sentiments among European countries at that time. Therefore, the Archbishop of Manila, Don
.Father Miguel de Benavidez often used this to attack biological people during Mass in the church.
This bishop is also the most active advocate of harsh measures against biological people.
Yin Feng's mind turned around in the historical data, and suddenly he thought of a question: Li Dan had a family in Quanzhou. Although his family was poor, he was now extremely wealthy. There was no reason to bring his sister to Luzon.
Living with related people.
Li Dan sighed and said: "Just in case, just in case... you just take Lihua and take her back to Quanzhou. This is my entrustment."
Yin Feng didn't know whether he was happy or worried for a moment, his expression was very strange.
Li Dan was whispering something to Lihua, and Yin Feng looked at them: It was obvious that the girl in the dress treated Li Dan with the same respect as she treated her father.
Suddenly, there was a burst of musket shooting from the direction of the Pasig River, followed by bursts of sharp cries and roars.
Yin Feng was startled, turned around and ran up to the top floor, and Li Dan followed him.
On the north bank of the Pasig River, a large group of fleeing Chinese were heading north in a scattered manner. The sound of gunfire came from the direction of the Marquina Manor in the east. Several Spanish officers rode on tall horses and led a dozen Spanish armed men to appear there. A group of
The Pampanga archers followed, and after approaching the Chinese crowd, they began to draw their bows and shoot arrows. The Spanish officer commanded his men and horses to rush towards the Chinese with swords, driving the people to flee, leaving behind the dead and injured everywhere.
The Spaniards also had armed men dressed as civilians, who were probably colonists like Spanish planters.
At the edge of the woods beyond the reach of Yin Feng's naked eyes, a disheveled Zeng Yue and a Zeng family servant fled under a tree, exhausted and sat down on the grass. The servant looked around anxiously for a while and panted.
He sat down and said, "Sir, the Qianlu people have gone towards the river beach. What should we do?"
Zeng Yue took out a few ingots of silver from the baggage he was carrying, then stuffed it back and handed the baggage to his servant. He gasped and said, "Take this, because the wax people are chasing after them. Throw the silver to them, maybe
If you can escape with your life, I have to go find Jingshan, you can go to Tongduo first."
The servant said in panic: "Sir, what do you want to do?"
Zeng Yue smiled bitterly and said: "There are still mistresses and the others who have not escaped. The money earned on this trip is still with Jingshan. I'm not worried!" The servant shook his head: "How can this be done? It can't be like this, sir. I'll go find Mr. Jingshan."
Go to Tondo quickly! Mr. Li
The people should be there already."
Zeng Yue pushed him and said: "Stop nagging, run away. You have quick legs and feet. Maybe there is a chance of survival. Leave me alone. I can't run anymore!" Tears rolled out of his eyes, and he lay in despair.
On the grass, the servant was wringing his hands at a loss. Zeng Yue's despair was not only for the hundreds of thousands of taels of goods lost this time, nor for Zeng Jingshan who had just been separated by the river, but more for himself.
He may never return to Quanzhou. In the past few years, he has been in charge of a good business firm, and the people who travel abroad are Zeng Jingshan and Yin Feng. In recent years, the Zeng family's business has relied entirely on these two people working hard outside. Zeng Yue is actually a
A strong person is just calm by nature, and outsiders can't tell. This year Yin Feng was injured and fell ill, so he insisted on taking Yin Feng's place and came to Luzon to do business. He also wanted to prove his talents to the older generation in the family.
Yin Feng's guilt and insistence on coming to Luzon to save people are partly due to Zeng Yue taking his place.
People continued to cross the Pasig River. They and the people who were driven back by the Spaniards gathered together to form a large group of panicked and clueless people. They ran around on the river beach in terror. From time to time, some people were shot by Pampanga bows and arrows.
Shot in the hand, he screamed and fell down.
Gunfire rang out again, and Spanish officers riding large horses appeared on the edge of the river beach. A Tagalog followed them, shouting something to the Chinese who were running around in panic. He could speak Chinese, but his accent was
It was very heavy. It roughly meant that people should stop participating in the rebellion and return to Balian immediately. No one among the Chinese listened to what he was saying, and they were still running around on the river beach to avoid the Spanish cavalry. The leading Spanish officer
He reined in his horse, raised his hand and fired, with a "bang!" sound, knocking a Chinese man who had just landed onto the river into the river, and a stream of bright red blood emerged from the river.
Yin Feng had that unreal feeling of watching a movie again. It was so absurd! So unscrupulous! This is how the Spaniards, who pride themselves on being Christian civilization, treat people of other nationalities.
These are his compatriots, being treated like animals and being killed at will, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart. He turned around and was about to go down; lest the world be in chaos, the reporter's nature of going to the scene in person emerged again. Li Dan
I was already prepared for his tendency to have an overflowing sense of justice. I stretched out my hand to grab him, stopped him and said, "What do you want to do again? You can't save them!" Fortunately, he had been a pirate before and was strong enough, otherwise
He may not be able to win over the tall and powerful Yin Feng.
Yin Feng stared at him with wide eyes, took a breath and calmed down.
At this time, the cornered Chinese people took bamboo sticks, wooden sticks, stones from the river, and branches broken from trees. Under the leadership of a big black man, they gathered together braving arrows and bullets. Some people were constantly hit by arrows.
He was shot and fell to the ground, but once someone took the lead, the Chinese no longer ran around like headless chickens. Many angry Chinese youths who were forced to follow the big black man rushed towards the Spaniards with branches and stones in their hands, while shouting
After shouting loudly: "Folks, there are just a few foreign devils, kill them! Go ahead!"