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Chapter 1520 Poor people must be hateful

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    "Alas, young people today can't keep their composure at all." Tang Baolu squatted down, picked up the piece of candy, blew the dirt off it, and put it back in his pocket.

    "Aren't you stretching too hard?" Ximen Qing chuckled and said, "When are you going to release the doves?"

    "Wait a minute, it's not the time yet." Tang Baolu shook his head, looked at the dark clouds in the sky and said, "Let's talk after we enter the house."

    Seeing that it was going to rain, the overseas Chinese also hurried back to their respective shacks.  It was a wooden house on stilts covered with palm leaves. It was certainly incomparable to the Minnan-style brick and stone houses they had in the city.  Fortunately, it's still cool, but it will have to be rebuilt if a typhoon passes through.

    Luzon has entered the rainy season since May. The weather is hot, humid and rainy. It rains heavily almost every day, and it often rains for several days in a row.  The stream is located on the delta of the Pasig River, so the room is naturally extremely humid.  Even the floor of the stilt house was wet and full of water droplets.

    After the two of them entered the house, they stripped down to just a pair of shorts.  Ximen Qing asked the orderly to get water to wipe his body, sat down on the bamboo chair and lit a cigarette, and then he felt a little better.

    "With this damn weather in Nanyang, even smoking this cigarette smells like mold" Ximen Qing spat out the door depressingly. It was already raining heavily outside.

    ¡°Eat sweets, they are not afraid of moisture.¡± Tang Baolu also stripped his fleshy upper body, peeled off a piece of mint candy and handed it to Ximen Qing.

    "You'd better eat it yourself." Ximen Qing rolled his eyes. This guy didn't know what it meant to treat someone to candy in the Coast Guard.

    "Of course I did. Eating candies can make people happy." Tang Baolu threw the mint into his mouth and closed his eyes to enjoy it.

    They came to Manila last month to take charge.  Tang Baolu is now the director of Nanhai Group and the son of Chairman Tang, so he is very valuable.  Jin Ke sent Ximen Qing to lead a capable force, disguised as bodyguards and crew members of the business store, to protect him.  In the event of an emergency, don't leave him without troops at hand.

    After Tang Baolu arrived in Manila, he had been visiting overseas Chinese leaders under the introduction of Liu Xuesheng to understand the local situation.

    The situation in Luzon can be said to be very pessimistic.

    First, the Spanish were much more powerful than expected.

    On Luzon Island alone, there were 1,000 Spaniards, 2,000 Mexican soldiers, and 2,000 black slave cannon fodder.

    In addition, in order to maintain their rule in Luzon and attack Mindanao and Bo Ni, the wealthy Spaniards also hired tens of thousands of cheap indigenous soldiers from Southeast Asia.  Among them, the brave and capable Pampanga people have allied themselves with the Spaniards, and the two sides have become a community of interests The Spaniards have stable rule in Luzon, and they are the best among people.  If the Spaniards were defeated, the Pampanga people would have no foothold in Luzon, so they fought very hard.

    ¡°And in Cebu, the original home base of the Spaniards, there were another five hundred Spaniards, a thousand Mexican soldiers and a considerable number of black slave soldiers.  This allows them to be each other's horns and support each other.

    Although Cebu is more than 1,500 miles away from Luzon, it would take some time for reinforcements to arrive. However, after the Spaniards captured Manila, they made great efforts to strengthen the original Royal City of Manila and added thick stone walls to the earthen walls.  , and also built a complete fort, which was enough to hold on until reinforcements arrived.

    The greater difficulties come from within the overseas Chinese.

    As Chen Yongquan hates, the hearts of overseas Chinese are quite uneven.

    ??We come to Luzon from different places, different clans, and with different purposes. It is almost impossible to get them to think in the same place.

    Of course, they also have something in common, that is, distrust of the court.

    They think that in the eyes of the imperial court, they are sinners and abandoners of the people. Can the imperial court make a good decision?  Even if he really comes to fight with the red-haired ghosts, he will still settle accounts with them.

    But if you say, our Nanhai Group is not a government government.  That would be even less trustworthy How could a civil society defeat the powerful red-haired ghost?  When the time comes, you slap your butt and run away, what will we do?

    What is frustrating is that many people think that as long as they are obedient and obedient, the Spaniards will not do anything to them.

    Some people even think that the reason why the Spaniards are hostile to overseas Chinese is because they have too many people.  Some people should be asked to leave voluntarily to eliminate the red-haired master's worries.

    ¡°If it weren¡¯t for Liu Xuesheng¡¯s repeated assurances to them, Nanhai Group would definitely protect us.  Tang Baolu also threatened them that if they dared to fight among themselves, the voyage would be cut off, so no one of his own would fight first

    Under these circumstances, Tang Baolu delayed sending homing pigeons to notify the task force in Kenting to go south again.

    He lay on his back on the bamboo chair, enjoying the cool and numb feeling on the tip of his tongue.strongholds and attacked missionaries from various tribes.

    Led by them, the tribes that had already surrendered under the Spanish power rose up to resist again and joined in the attack on Spanish ships, churches and settlements.  For a time, war broke out in Northern Luzon, and the rebellion even reached the central plains where the Royal City of Manila is located.

    The besieged missionaries and subordinates had to be rescued. Spanish Governor Sander had no choice but to continuously send troops to the location of the rebellion to rescue his own people who were besieged.

    As a result, the army in Santiago City decreased sharply, reaching less than one-third of its maximum strength.

    Normally, the red-haired ghost would not gather so many Pampanga people at this time.  Although the two sides have formed an alliance, there is still the possibility that the Pampanga people will suddenly rebel and instead of helping the Spaniards, they will take the opportunity to steal their home base.

    An experienced Spaniard would never make such a stupid mistake

    "Unless" Ximen Qing raised his head, looked at Tang Baolu and said, "They have something else that can feed these natives."

    "Yeah." The two of them looked at Liu Xuesheng together.

    The violent storm seemed to overturn the shack. Liu Xuesheng's face was pale and pale, looking pitiful, weak and helpless.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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