"Your Highness is not worried about this. When you come, your Majesty has made up all for you." Zhang Pan walked to a corner of the palace, looked at the view of the Java Sea, was amazed in his heart, and said with his back:

"According to the Ming Dynasty and the Red Barbarians, oh, yes, you call them the Netherlands? It's almost the same anyway. The Red Barbarians gave up their possession of Manila, but this place must become a free city."

"I don't understand what exactly means. Your Highness just needs to remember that this will no longer be the capital of your old Hong Kong Kingdom from now on."

After hearing that there was no movement after a while, Zhang Pan turned around and asked:

"What, is there any difficulties?"

"Actually, you don't have to be too sad. Without the Ming Navy, even this Manila is still in the hands of the Red Barbarians." Zhang sat down cross-legged and said:

"Your Majesty allows you to choose another place to set up a capital. The capital of the Xuanwei Department of the Old Port is located in Manila City. The Ming Navy will be stationed here all year round."

"To ensure the safety of you people, is there any problem? After all, without us, what if the Red Barbarians come back?"

Zhang Pan's words were somewhat unscrupulous, but this was exactly the fact.

The facts are often not good, but they are helpless.

Su Lu thought this now. He looked at the princess and saw a deep sense of powerlessness in each other's eyes.

There is no way, this is all there is to do!

Compared with the Spanish and Dutch people in front, the Ming Dynasty was like God.

The old Hong Kong Kingdom has long been in name only. Now, with the help of the Ming Dynasty, it has restored its country in name only. Can it choose one place to build a capital? What kind of bicycle do you need?

Seeing the king and the princess had no idea, Zhang Pan smiled and stood up and said, "Since that's the case, I will not disturb the two of your nobles."

"Mr. Liu Qian, write these words on the notice in various languages ​​and declare them to the people in Manila City."

"Tell them that the Ming Dynasty only targets the red and Japanese people, and handing over the locals who participated in the persecution of the Ming people can be regarded as meritorious service."

It is easy to capture a certain land, but it is difficult to achieve long-term stability.

After a bloody attack, the people of all countries in Manila and local Indonesian natives must have been very frightened.

At this time, a notice is needed to declare peace.

Liu Xingzuo also knew in his heart that instead of returning the territory to these weak indigenous countries, it would be better to be held in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Manila City is controlled by mountains and seas. It has been a place of four wars since ancient times. This is why Zhu Di set up the Xuanwei Office here.

Java Island, where it is located, also has extremely rich spice resources. As long as it is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, the spice trade in European countries will be somewhat restrained.

If you set up a card here, the tariffs you receive every year will definitely be astronomical!

European countries were shocked when they heard the news from Manila.

Manila has a very special geographical location. Although it is nominally a free market, it was selected as the seat of the Old Port Xuanwei Department, which was just established in the Ming Dynasty.

If the spice trade in the East Indies wanted to transport it to the West, it had to pass through the Port of Manila. After occupying Manila, the Ming Navy stationed here, repaired the port and built forts.

This so-called free market has become the southernmost military port of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is no different from being controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, whoever has strong firepower will be reasonable. The Ming Dynasty just won the Dutch Far East Fleet, so naturally it has the right to monopolize Manila.

Anyone who is dissatisfied can call back.

But they also knew that it was easy to fight back, and it was a troublesome to deal with the more violent counterattacks in the Ming Dynasty.

Under various trade-offs, countries such as Great Britain, France, and even countries such as Ottoman began to make their merchant ships pay tariffs to Manila.

Otherwise, the 17th century was an era of great voyage, and the Manila tariffs made Zhu Youxiao laugh.

In addition, there were also Brunei, the three colonies ceded by the Dutch, and the Ming army was also stationed in Manila.

Although these two places are not big, they have rubber, pepper and numerous spice resources. After the Ming army took over these two colonies, they are negotiating with local Chinese leaders.

The Ming army planned to hire local Chinese to exploit scarce resources in these two colonies on a large scale, the most important thing was rubber.

As for what rubber is used for, Ming Jun doesn't know yet, and it is the first time they know about this thing.

With the mining activities of the Ming army in Borneo and Manila, a large number of goods that were originally unheard of on the local area but were circulating around the world began to flow into the Ming Dynasty.

The Military Equipment Department is working overtime to try to apply novel mineral resources such as rubber and rare earths to various fields.

For example, rubber, the Military Equipment Corporation soon discovered that this kind of thing has a soft texture and is even more useful than cloth. It can also be used as foot boots.

Rubber-made wheels are also easier to use than the original wooden and iron wheels.

Tin ore has excellent rust resistance and can also be combined with copper to form bronze. Some minerals can even be used on cannons and muskets to improve power and stability.

After getting the benefits, Zhu Youxiao realized the benefits of overseas expansion, and it was even more impossible for Manila to let go.

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The apricot blossoms are drizzling, and the willows are green.

Since ancient times, scholars have preferred spring rain in the north because they like it to moisturize the dry soil for the winter just right, and to close it in time, cleanly come and go neatly.

In contrast, the rain in the south continues all day long, always like a pen that is dipped in ink, wetting the rice paper, making people feel restless.

A few days ago, the first rain in the spring of the sixth year of the Heavenly Revelation fell from Shandong.

This time, as it was in the past, the water vapor condensed in the air, entrusting the people's hope of a bumper harvest, landed in the dust and dissipated above the clouds and mist.

But when the rain fell, wailings came from the air.

The spring rain dripped in clothes, locusts soaked in puddles, starving bones to death, which caused some unknown signs of disaster in the entire year of the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

Jinan Prefecture, Licheng.

"Good brother, wake up quickly." In a dirt house, the little girl shook the teenage boy who had not had enough food for several days, her eyes were wet.

"It's raining in spring, good brother, wake up quickly..."

But no matter how she shook, the boy lying on the yellow kang kept his eyes closed with no sound.

A few days ago, their parents starved to death one after another. In order to protect their sister, the young brother had to go out to beg and gave her all the food.

However, in this year of disaster, the six prefectures in Shandong had no harvest.

Although the imperial court vigorously provided disaster relief, people could not defeat nature after all. A large number of people still starved to death and migrated every day.

After all, this "good brother" closed his eyes forever last night, and the only one who was still alive was left in his heart.

After shaking for a while, the girl seemed to realize something, lay on the body of the good brother, crying silently.

And just outside the house, there were a large number of skinny and hungry people passing by.

A man glanced at the house silently, then walked away step by step with his heavier legs.
Chapter completed!