Xiao Ruxun really has no trust or expectation for the Catholic Church. They are in a slew of love with the Spanish government, and they don’t know what kind of results they will come to play hide-and-seek with Xiao Ruxun, but Xiao Ruxun knew very well that it would be impossible for the Bishop and Matteo Ricci to persuade the Philippine Governor’s Office to release people. They must have other plans and ideas to swear themselves.

France and Genoa are currently enough to safeguard China's commercial interests in Europe, so they signed a commercial alliance with them, bound their relationship with them, and jointly maintained the profit. After that, Xiao Ruxun arranged the specific matters to Yuan Huang and asked him to arrange the supply to Europe. Xiao Ruxun had other things to do.

The secret agents who returned from the Philippines brought important news.

Three years ago, after the fleet that was receiving people returned from the Philippines, Xiao Ruxun had this idea, putting his people inside the Philippine islands and mixing them with the local Chinese groups in order to obtain effective intelligence, spy on the military forces of the Spanish authorities and the number of local indigenous servants, etc.

These spies selected from the most trusted personal guards of Ningxia headquarters are Xiao Ruxun's earliest intelligence forces.

The number of people was initially only thirty, and it was carefully selected from the confidants of Ningxia headquarters. The leader was Zhang Wu, who was Xiao Ruxun's fellow villager. He followed his family private soldiers from his hometown. He was twenty-seven years old and was a deputy captain in the personal guard. He was very careful and cautious. Xiao Ruxun asked him to select the most reliable thirty people in the personal guard and form the initial intelligence unit. Xiao Ruxun personally named it Heishui.

At first, the thirty people were only responsible for infiltrating into the Philippines to investigate the location of the Chinese and the intelligence of the Spanish armed forces. After the thirty people returned, Zhang Wu explained to Xiao Ruxun that the group of people recruited twenty young and strong people in the Chinese settlement area in the Philippines and volunteered to assist the army in the attack on the Philippines, on the grounds that the Chinese there were being abused by the Spanish and Chinese merchants.

The group of people that Xiao Ruxun could not take away were hidden in other deep mountains and forests to engage in heavy physical labor such as logging and mining. Life is worse than death. Some people who escaped will be killed, and some people who are passive and lazy will be killed.

Moreover, most of the people who killed them were the tycoons of Chinese merchants. The Spanish watched the show on the side and rarely took action, which made Xiao Ruxun even more angry.

Afterwards, Xiao Ruxun expanded the Blackwater troops to 100 people, sneaked into various islands in groups of the Philippines, drew maps of the Philippines, put them in his combat conference room, and collected the Philippines' geographical and hydrological data bit by bit.

Not only did he collect population data, but he also collected information including the distribution of military power and naval ships in the Philippines. The mission was successfully completed, and there was no accident in the past three years and no one lost. This made Xiao Ruxun look at Zhang Wu with admiration.

This time it was a regular reconnaissance mission. Zhang Wu, who came back from the Philippines, brought back the latest information. The map and military population distribution of the entire Philippine island are almost complete, and the preparations for attacking the Philippines are almost the same. It depends on the timing now.

Xiao Ruxun personally met Zhang Wu, who returned from the Philippines.

"Zhang Wu, it's not bad, it's done well."

Xiao Ruxun looked at the maps and hydrological materials he brought back, and patted his shoulder happily: "Reward! A lot of rewards! Every secret spies under your command have to reward. With these information, I have a lot of confidence in those foreigners, and it will be much easier to deal with them. You have done a good job!"

Zhang Wu smiled, expressed his happiness, and then told Xiao Ruxun a very important news.

"Silang, this time we went to Luzon, we contacted the Chinese people there as before, and then got a lot of information. I think there is something in it. "

Xiao Ruxun looked up at Zhang Wu: "Say."

"On May 20th, several official ships from the Ming Dynasty arrived in Luzon. They went to the island to find some people and asked about some things. They stayed for almost half a month before they all returned to the Ming Dynasty."

Xiao Ruxun showed doubts on his face.

"Official ship?"

"Yes, the official ship, and I heard that it was from the palace. Because there were eunuchs in the crew, the person who gave us news was sent to serve the people from the palace. The foreigners didn't know what they were doing and did not dare to stop them, so they sent people to serve them inquire about the information.

The information I came back from inquiring about was that the purpose of the official ships came here was to find gold, silver and bronze mountains. It is said that there were rumors in the Ming Dynasty that there were gold, silver and bronze mountains in Luzon Island."

Xiao Ruxun blinked and asked in confusion: "You have been in Luzon for so long. Do you hear that there are gold, silver and copper mountains in the area? There are in Myanmar and in Japan, but if there are Luzon, why don't I know? Luzon is most famous for its spices, not gold?"

Zhang Wu replied: "I thought it was the same. The locals in Luzon have never mentioned the legend of Kingsoft. How did the court know? There is no reason to know that the locals don't know about it? There should be something wrong with it. The court will not send people to Luzon for no reason. If it is really for some gold and silver mountains, who will give the court the news?"

Xiao Ruxun thought for a while, but still couldn't understand.

"When I beat Japan, there were a lot of gold and silver mountains and bronze mountains in Japan. Now they are under our control. Wu Weizhong is staring at it, but why did the gold and silver mountains appear in Luzon again? If it appears, I will know first, how could the court know? This is really hard to understand! Japan has gold and silver mountains, so no one in the court thinks that Luzon also has gold and silver mountains, right?"

Zhang Wu shook his head and said, "It seems that the foreigners are also confused about this matter. I heard from our informant that the foreigners seemed very nervous and were discussing what the Ming Dynasty official ships and the eunuchs in the palace came there. It seems that they have sent several ships to Macau to find out the news recently, and also sent several ships to Siam to find out our news. I just don't know what's going on."

"The court is short of money again? Isn't that true? There is so much silver in Japan. We pay 100,000 kilograms of copper to the court every year, so why don't we have no money? Millions of taels of silver are not enough for the court to squander? I'm rushing to find gold and silver everywhere, so why are you?"

Xiao Ruxun was puzzled and Zhang Wu had no idea. Xiao Ruxun could only instruct Zhang Wu and the others to continue to inquire about the relevant news about the Philippines. If there was any news, he would not care much about the others.
Chapter completed!