After becoming king, the Ming Kingdom was established on Mindanao. The establishment of Luzon Province in Mindanao shows that Zhu Haitao next turned his attention to the Spanish colonies in the north.

The senior official was held by Li Rongren. He shouldered the positions of Prime Minister of the Cabinet and a senior official of Luzon Province. He had a heavy burden and was older. He would be unable to bear it if he continued like this for a long time.

Therefore, Zhu Haitao is now looking for a replacement. In his opinion, Wu Hai, who was the first to join him, has this potential. He has been staying by Li Rongren's side to help these days, and has improved a lot in his ability. In addition, he was the first to join him, and everyone is convinced by him. Therefore, Zhu Haitao promoted Wu Hai to Vice Premier to assist Li Rongren to complete his work.

However, Nanyang is not as good as the mainland. Most of the people who come here are "piglets" with no culture. Those with culture are busy taking the imperial examinations of the Qing Dynasty. Who would risk their lives to go to Nanyang to come here to make a living?

Therefore, Zhu Haitao attaches great importance to education. He also asked Wu Hai to serve as Minister of Education and set up an education system from elementary school to university to teach them mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. Of course, various schools of thought are also necessary courses. Zhu Haitao cannot make them forget the culture of their country.

What he lacks now is the talent to teach foreign languages. Although there are many Chinese in Nanyang who know Spanish, English, Dutch and other languages, the number is still not enough.

Of course, Western science in this era was not as strong as it was later, and the requirement for learning foreign languages ​​was not so urgent. It was mainly to prepare for the next level of equal exchanges with European countries, so that there would be no need to cultivate so many talents.

Zhu Haitao's ambition is to let everyone in the world learn Chinese in the future and let them also experience the pain of learning another language. This depends on further promoting the industrial revolution and the level of science and technology. If China is very strong in science and technology, it will naturally be admired by other countries.

Of course, many people in this era do not know this, and they think that as long as there is a large population and a large land, they can occupy favorable situations.

In the following days, Zhu Haitao established the Royal Steel Group, Royal Coal Group, Royal Shipbuilding Group and Royal Infrastructure Group in Fengtian Prefecture. This kind of heavy industry and infrastructure are industries with low return on investment, and it is difficult to start with private capital. Therefore, Zhu Haitao used the power of the royal family to invest in these things so that they can grow rapidly.

In addition, he also asked Qian Youren to serve as the president of the Ming Bank, responsible for handling financial issues in Ming Dynasty.

In addition, Zhu Haitao also reorganized the army.

The Royal Army now has seven divisions, and the Chief of Staff is arranged by Li Jifa. The commanders of the First Division to the Seventh Division are Tie Niu, Jin Hu, Li Quan, Tsui Hark, Duan Long, Zhu Mao and Qian Yonghao.

Zhu Haitao was the commander-in-chief of the newly formed Royal Navy, but the commander-in-chief of the First Fleet was Xue Dingyue. I believe he will definitely turn the Royal Navy into the world's number one.

After preparing these, Zhu Haitao called Li Rongren, Li Jifa, seven mayors, Xue Dingyue and Gonzalovic to discuss how to deal with the Philippines issue in the north.

The name of the Philippines comes from the Spanish colonization of the Luzon Islands. In 1521, the Portuguese explorer Magellan led a Spanish fleet to "discover" the Philippines, but he died here. In 1542, in order to share the trade of the Spice Islands with Portugal, five ships led by the Spanish explorer Biarlobos set sail from Mexico and conducted a surveying expedition to the archipelago. In 1543, in order to pay tribute to Philip, who was still the crown prince at the time, the commander Villalobos named the central Philippines islands the Philippine Islands after Philip. Although the Portuguese protested that Spain violated the Zaragoza Treaty between the two countries at that time, the Spanish still claimed sovereignty over the entire archipelago.

In early 1564, Spain's Philip II felt that he should share the world's spice trade, so he sent four expedition forces to explore the East India area, trying to control the spice trade to earn wealth, but all failed. In that year, Miguel Lopez Gasby led a fleet to set off in Mexico, and in early 1565, he arrived near Cebu Island in the Philippines and began to open up colonies here.

In 1571, the Spanish conquerors Regasby invaded Luzon Island and arrived in Manila to build the city of Manila. Afterwards, they carried out cultural, religious and military invasions on the Philippines step by step. The Catholicism sprouted in the Philippines at this time.

Zhu Haitao knows very well about the above history. What he needs to be clear now is how strong Spain is in the Philippines.

Gonzalovic was very clear about this, so he told Zhu Haitao the deployment of the Spaniards there.

"When I left last time, the Kingdom of Spain deployed a total of ten infantry regiments and three artillery regiments here. The commander was Major General Gonzaros, who was a wine bag, and was sent to Manila because he made a mistake in the Kingdom. Because most of them were fighting with local natives, they were not advanced in equipment. The muskets were flintlocks equipped in the last century, and the artillery was not updated all year round."

"In addition, Spain has also recruited about 20,000 to 30,000 minions from local natives, but their equipment is even worse, and there is only the clamps that should have been eliminated long ago, which is at most a security force."

"Because we were going to compete with the Dutch in the South China Sea and the remaining Portuguese, the Kingdom of Spain deployed more important naval forces here. There were three first-class warships, six second-class warships, ten third-class warships, and more than twenty fourth-class warships. They were organized into the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, and the commander of them was Lieutenant General Alfonso. He was a naval commander in the Caribbean. The deputy commander was Major General Lockeby. He was an incompetent person. He was only sent here to command the navy with the glory of his ancestors."

"The city defense forces in Manila are usually just three infantry regiments under the control of Governor Conde. Their shore defense artillery was installed in the last century and has not been repaired for many years. Now it is probably rusted."

After listening to Gonzalovic's description, everyone fell into deep thought.

"It seems that it's easy for us to destroy the Spanish army!" Tienniu said after hearing Gonzalovich's description.

Zhu Haitao pondered for a while and continued to ask: "How many people are there in Spain in the Philippines? How many Chinese are there?"

Few? How many natives are there?"

"After all the troops, the Spaniards had a total of about 60,000 to 70,000. In addition to the army soldiers, they were mostly merchants and farmers. The Catholic Church had relatively powerful forces there, so there were also many pastors and nuns. As for the Chinese, I estimate there were more than 100,000 people, maybe more. Most of them rely on business and crop cultivation to make a living, and there were more natives, and they might even exceed one million people." Gonzalovich said.

"So that's it." Zhu Haitao said, "It seems we need to prepare well."
Chapter completed!