All of a sudden, nearly two thousand Chinese people gathered in the river beach area, and they rushed towards the Spaniards and their indigenous servants at all costs. A few Pampanga people had just shot too smoothly and advanced too far forward. Unexpectedly,
The Chinese suddenly counterattacked, and several people were immediately hit with stones and wooden sticks, causing their heads to bleed, their skulls to be cracked, and they died miserably.
The officer on horseback was startled when he saw more and more physiological men coming from all directions, and quickly retreated with his men. The Pampanga archers also turned around and followed the Spaniards.
Yin Feng sighed, looked at Li Dan who also breathed a sigh of relief, and said bitterly: "As long as there is a leader, we can still have a chance."
Li Dan shook his head and sneered: "We Tang people are overseas, and the court doesn't care about us. We are just a piece of loose sand. Gathering all the overseas Tang people together, no one can do it."
"The national court cannot protect its own people, whether at home or abroad, it is incompetent and derelict in its duties." Yin Feng gritted his teeth and said.
"The imperial court treats us as untouchables. It will think of us when it collects taxes. How can it usually have time to protect us?" Li Dan snorted: "Otherwise, why should I shave my head?"
Yin Feng looked at his short head and smiled helplessly.
Li Dan is a Roman Catholic, his Christian name is Andrea Ditis, and he is a naturalized Spanish citizen in a legal sense.
The Spaniards stipulate that all physios who believe in Catholicism must shave their hair and have Spanish-style short hair. Therefore, if a physio wants to trade in Luzon for a long time, get married and have children in Luzon, he must shave his hair and be baptized to become a Catholic.
Christian. This is one of the reasons why Li Dan does not return to Quanzhou all year round, because the hair on his head would be too conspicuous in Quanzhou. Sometimes he would stay in Dongfan for a few months, waiting for his hair to grow before returning to Quanzhou
.
Since coming to this era, Yin Feng has not had much dealings with the government. Ordinary people usually deal with gentry, country officials, powerful landlords, or students and scholars. When collecting taxes, it is the subordinate officials who appear on behalf of the government, and
The court and government of the Ming Dynasty are distant and illusory existences. In Luzon, thousands of miles away from the motherland, the Chinese in this era cannot feel the existence of their own country at all, and they will not have any national strength to support them in anything they do.
Therefore, the overseas Chinese before modern times were a piece of scattered sand. Countless scattered individual Chinese businessmen with limited strength competed with the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and British colonists who were backed by national strength. Therefore, although the overseas Chinese brought great influence to the colonies of the great powers,
Although the economy is prosperous, they will still be massacred again and again all over the world. No matter how hard-working and willing to endure hardship the Chinese people are, they cannot withstand the competition of butcher's knives and guns.
Yin Feng has already had this idea: as long as he can escape from Luzon Island, he will change the fate of the Chinese. This kind of scattered situation, at the mercy of others, cannot happen again. It is just for his family and friends, or even
Just for myself as a member of overseas Chinese businessmen, I must change the direction of history!
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In the evening, the Governor of Manila, Don Pedro de Aguna, sent a notice requiring all living people to stop fleeing and return to the Balian market area; at the same time, all Spaniards and indigenous people were temporarily prohibited from entering.
Balian Market District. Tomorrow, Governor Don Pedro, together with the Chief Justice and the Bishop of Manila, will come to Balian to hear the petitions and representations of the representatives of biological persons.
Dark clouds descended on the city early in the morning, and the dull and humid air could almost squeeze out water. Li Dan's house was full of people, all of them were his clerks and business partners. Li Dan was neatly dressed in Spanish-style clothes.
, walked downstairs. Yin Feng followed, also dressed in a suit and leather shoes, but his hair was still Chinese style. Last night, two sailors, including Mai Xiaoliu, helped Magaro return to Li Dan’s house. Magaro was
The man was beaten to a bloody head and was beaten by the Chinese from Balian.
The Chinese people have been harassed and robbed by the gangsters, natives, and Japanese for several months, and their nerves are in a state of high tension. The black man Magaro just appeared in the market area, and before he could ask anything, he was regarded as a gangster.
They were slaves of the Greeks and were turned away. Yesterday, a group of Spanish colonists entered the Western District to rob. After hearing about the massacre at the Marquina Manor, the Chinese were furious and rose up to resist. During the chaos, the unlucky Margaro happened to pass by.
The accomplice who was considered to be related to the wax man was also beaten, but thanks to Mai Xiaoliu and others who arrived in time, he was saved.
As a result, before they even started looking for the Zeng brothers, they had to return injured and disgraced.
Today, Yin Feng had no choice but to leave Magaro behind and take two sailors to Balian to find someone.
In the west of the Balian Market area, in an open space near the Intramuros of Manila, a row of tables is placed in the center. The Governor of Manila, Don Pedro de Aguna, and Justice Antonio Morga are sitting in the center. Some Spanish
The officials sat on both sides, and several Spanish officers stood in the back. Surrounded by hundreds of fully armed Spanish soldiers, there were also hundreds of indigenous Pampanga archers scattered in the outer neighborhoods.
In front of them, nearly a hundred Chinese representatives from the Balian Chinese District gathered. Most of them were Christians, dressed in a combination of Chinese and Western clothes, and most of them had short haircuts.
The current Balian Chinese General Manager Huang Kang, who is short and thin, looks about 50 years old, standing in the front with a worried face; behind him is the first Balian Chinese General Manager Shi Yuan, who looks smart and capable, with gray hair, although his head is
He has short Western-style hair, but is wearing a Chinese-style gown; Li Dan is standing at the back with his head lowered and is relatively low-key. Although he is a very powerful figure in the Chinese district, he still has juniors in front of these senior Chinese leaders.
consciousness.
A trumpet sounded, and a herald in a formal dress came to the center of the square and shouted: "The Governor of Manila, Don Pedro de Aguna, has arrived!"
All physiologists bowed at the same time, and Yin Feng turned around and left the venue.
After Yin Feng accompanied Li Dan to Balian, he immediately started looking for someone.
Of course he had long known that such petitions and negotiations had been held several times in Manila in 1603, which were completely meaningless, and the massacre still occurred. After the Jiyi Mountain incident, the Spanish ruling class in Luzon Island could not believe it in any case: a
The emperors of great empires would easily believe fairy tales like "golden beans grow on branches". They suspected that the envoys sent by the Chinese emperor were spying on the reality of Luzon Island. This created a long-standing curiosity about the mysterious Chinese empire.
There were countless rumors: such as the Chinese emperor would send thousands of warships and 100,000 troops to attack Manila.
Not many Chinese have come to Luzon this year, but with the "winter" in Balian last year, the total number of Chinese has exceeded 30,000. However, the number of Spanish colonists living in Manila all year round has never exceeded 1,000. The Chinese have a huge advantage in number.
The Spaniards were very taboo about the increase in the number of Chinese, fearing that if the Chinese emperor's fleet really came, the more than 30,000 people would be internal responders. Therefore, starting from the beginning of the year, Manila City began to strengthen its city defenses, and built a series of defenses in the Balian market area and
A moat was dug between Intramuros and Manila. The builders of these projects were all Chinese laborers, and even the costs were collectively funded by Chinese businessmen.
Huang Kang, the governor of Balian, tried his best to deal with the Spanish rulers and the Chinese, asking the Chinese businessmen to cooperate with the Spanish rather than suffer some losses, hoping to eliminate the suspicion of the Spanish. However, his efforts were ineffective, and Manila
Archbishop Father Benavidez publicly attacked the sexual behavior of biological people during Sunday church services, attacked biological people as pagans, and attacked everything Chinese.
News that the Chinese fleet was about to attack spread throughout Luzon. In fact, some people suspected that the rumors of the Chinese fleet's attack were fabricated and spread by this archbishop. Father Benavidez publicly said: The Ming envoy saw the Spanish in Manila
If a man is very rich, the emperor will covet the gold and silver Zhang Yi promised him to conquer Manila.
As a result, the Spaniards began to rob and beat the Chinese in Balian. A month later, the Japanese from the "Japan Town" encouraged by the Spanish also began to break into Balian and openly rob and kill people. Some Chinese began to flee, and in the Tondo Swamp north of Manila
Build a shelter in the ground.
That's what happened. Robberies, murders, and escapes occurred alternately, and became more and more intense. After several months, the collective massacre at the Marquina Manor in Binondo finally occurred. In fact, after this massacre, there was a tense relationship between the Chinese and the Spaniards.
There is no longer any sense of trust. Yin Feng has no Western calendar and lunar calendar date comparison table to look up. Although the specific date is not clear, a full-scale massacre of the Chinese is indeed imminent.
Yin Feng inquired about the location of the Zeng Family Trading Company from Li Dan, and without thinking about his meaningless petition, he asked one of Li Dan's men to lead the way, and he and Mai Xiaoliu went straight to the West District of Balian where the Zeng Family Trading Company was located.
The entire Balian is a large market with 400-500 shops, selling products ranging from silk to needles and threads, and all daily necessities. The buildings are mainly Chinese-style buildings made of wood and bamboo, and there are one or two here and there.
Western-style houses. The central area is still very neatly planned. Although after many days of riots, some facades have signs of fire damage, the streets are still relatively clean. However, there are very few shops open for business, and most of the shops have hangings hanging on the door.
There are signs such as "cheap sale" written in Spanish and Chinese. Although the things sold in these shops are sometimes too cheap for Spaniards to buy, but now the stores really want to "sell at low prices".
"Drop all the goods, take as much money as you can get, and then leave Balian and run for your life.
The closer you get to the East District, more and more shops have been destroyed, and some have been burned into ruins by fire. The architectural pattern here is originally chaotic, the alleys are winding like a maze, and there are even fewer pedestrians on the street.
The pedestrians I met occasionally were merchants who were fleeing with soft packages. They walked forward tiredly in small groups, and many of them were crying and lamenting.
The doors of shops in many places were open, and there was no one inside. The ground was in a mess, and there were still some traces of blood. Yin Feng's heart became heavier and heavier, and his steps became faster and faster.
I finally saw the storefront of Zengjia Haohao Store.
Half of the store's facade had been burned by the fire, and the heads inside were shaking. Finally, there were still people there! Yin Feng took a deep breath and walked quickly forward to enter the door.