On August 5, 2017, Tie Niu Jinhu Li Quan Xue Dingyue and Li Jifa returned to Fengtian Prefecture and personally told Zhu Haitao about the good news of the successful conquest of the Sulu Sultanate.

"Your Majesty, this time we completely eliminated the army of the Sulu Sultanate, occupied the Sabah area on Borneo on Holo Island, Palawan Island, and this thousands of small islands were all included in our territory!" Li Jifa said excitedly.

Although some of these small islands are not inhabited at all, they are also included in the territory of the Ming Kingdom. Even though they are useless for the time being, they look very good on the map.

"Hahaha! You guys did a good job! How are our casualties?" Zhu Haitao continued.

"We sacrificed six brothers this time, all of whom were killed in the process of fighting with the natives in the dense forest. They were injured more than a hundred times, but after all, they were all medicine, they could continue to jump around in a few months!" Li Jifa continued.

In fact, because Zhu Haitao developed several effective anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics, these soldiers could survive. Otherwise, in this era of underdeveloped medical treatment, a small piece of skin might be scraped in the dense forest, and they could die due to bacterial infection.

According to previous experience, many of these injured soldiers could not survive. However, because of Zhu Haitao's existence, they were able to continue to survive and contribute their own light and heat to the restoration of the Han Dynasty.

"Okay, all these soldiers must be paid in several military salaries. The injured and sacrificed soldiers must be properly placed." Zhu Haitao reminded. He did not want the kind of thing that made the heroes bleed, sweat and cry. If these most respectable people are not handled properly, they will bring serious unstable factors to the entire society.

"How is the recruitment of troops in Sandakan Kota Kinabalu and Holo City?" Zhu Haitao continued to ask.

All three cities have many Chinese people. If they can be fully mobilized, it will be a great help to Zhu Haitao's career. Before this battle, Zhu Haitao had already planned to form the Eighth Division with the Chinese in these three cities as the main ones.

"Your Majesty, their willingness to join the army is not high. Now there are only more than 2,000 people in the Eighth Division, but I dare to guarantee that I will definitely summon all of these 8,000 people next month." Li Quan said in particular about this matter.

"To them, be kind and powerful, and give them a big stick!" Zhu Haitao said, "The military pay of our Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty is far greater than that of middle-class families, and even wealthy families are not inferior! On the one hand, you have to talk about the benefits of joining the army, and on the other hand, if they are unwilling to join the army, they will increase taxes so that they can come in and join the army!"

Li Quan is now in the military and civilian governments. Because there are many wars in Borneo, he is still in a state of military control so far.

"Well, I've recorded it, Your Majesty." Li Quan said.

"We must also make plans for immigration now. Immigration without a predecessor is ready. They will come to Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan to live. The new houses and roads are under construction, and the work of inspecting the land is also underway." Li Rongren said about the civil affairs matters.

"I see that the soldiers who did not get land in the Second Division and the Third Division were given priority to obtain land in the Sabah area of ​​Borneo. The officers and soldiers who did not obtain land in the First Division obtained land in Holo Island and Palawan Island, and those who did not get married were taking care of nearby care." Zhu Haitao continued.

"Yes!" everyone responded.

Just as Zhu Haitao and his ministers were acting together to digest the fruits of this battle, in the city of Manila to the north, Gonzaros San Antonio Conde, the Governor of the Spanish Philippines, was furious.

It turned out that a Chinese businessman named Li Hongtao came to the Governor's Office in a hurry, saying that he knew the clues of the disappearance of the Spanish fleet.

"So these damn Chinese pirates did it?" Kong De looked at a thin Chinese man standing in front of him and said angrily.

"Yes, Governor! My ship is often plundered by these pirates, and I suffer heavy losses every time! Therefore, I have long wanted to ask you to help eliminate these guys! But I didn't expect that they were so brave and dared to rob His Majesty the King of Spain's gold, which really surprised me!"

The Chinese said anxiously, it was like someone in his family was sick, and it was even more anxious than Comte.

"Where are they now? Are they still on the broken island you mentioned?" Conde continued to ask.

"A few months ago, my boat passed through the sea where they often appeared, but they disappeared! I was curious for a moment and asked someone to find their nest, but now there are only a few left behind to take care of their fields, and the others have disappeared out of thin air!"

"It disappeared out of thin air? How could it be? If they could plunder the ships of the Royal Spanish Navy, at least there would be thousands of people. How could it disappear?" Kong De said in confusion.

"Yes! I don't understand. The friend I asked couldn't ask anything on the island either, but one night on the island, he saw a small leader of the pirates returning to the island. He overheard the chat between the pirates and learned that they had established a country on Mindanao!"

The news was so shocking. When Kong De heard this, his big eyes widened.

"Li Hongtao, if you say nonsense, I will throw you into Manila Bay to feed the fish!" Kong De shouted, "These people are not God, nor are the demons and monsters you Chinese believe in. How could they establish a country in such a short time?"

"If you don't believe it, you can send someone to investigate! I dare to use my head as a guarantee! Now, the country named after the Ming Dynasty that perished more than a hundred years ago has just unified Mindanao a few months ago! Moreover, they did the last incident of the Dutch fleet attacking Holo Bay!" The man said confidently.

Kong De attached more importance to this shocking news.

Last year he lost several warships, and the gold transported to Spain disappeared into the vast sea. At first he thought it was done by the Dutch or the Portuguese, and even the British who were plundering at sea were possible, but after several months of investigation, they were eliminated one by one.

As for the Qing Kingdom to the north, he had never even thought about it. As for their so-called "navy", even the pirates here in the South China Sea could not defeat them, let alone traveling thousands of miles to come to the South China Sea to attack Spanish warships.

But what he didn't expect was that just today, this Chinese man named Li Hongtao solemnly told him the news. Seeing that he looked like he was not like he was talking nonsense at all.
Chapter completed!