In Manila, Luzon, in the Spanish Governor General's Office, the Governor Diago asked West, a little concerned about the Dutch leader who had just entered the door, and said: "You Governor of Batavia, is your Excellency Anthony, you are about to arrive?"

"According to the Governor's intention, it should be coming soon!" West said as he said, while finding a chair to sit down, shaking his butt, he felt comfortable, and then said, "But what does this matter? Even if the Governor's arrival, can he still be afraid of these indigenous people in the East? It's hard to say on land, what are you afraid of on sea?"

The fleet of Spain and the Netherlands combined has a total of nearly fifty warships. This maritime power, even if it is placed in Europe, is a fleet that cannot be ignored.

However, when Diago heard his tone, he always felt condescending, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

It was as if Spain was afraid of Ming, and it was bullied by Ming, but these Dutch people were not afraid of Ming, and they could win Ming, as if they could win.

Diago felt that this would not work. I, Spain, are still the suzerain country, and in the local area, you, the Netherlands, are still rebellious! So he was about to speak and remind the Dutch to pay attention to his tone in a roundabout tone.

However, before he could speak, West crossed his legs and continued to say to him: "The Ming Dynasty's attack on Luzon must be their army on land. However, it is not enough to have fewer land troops, and this determines that their food and supplies must be a lot of...

After hearing that he began to talk about specific things, Diago suppressed his intention to speak and listened to what he said first.

"...If so many food and supplies are transported from Annan to Luzon, it will be a bit far away. If there is a storm or something, it will be a trivial matter for the ship transporting food and supplies to be gone. What will the army that arrived in Luzon eat? So..." West said this and said in a very confident tone, "The food and supplies of the Ming army must have not been transported from Annan."

Hearing this, Diago thought for a while, and it seemed to make sense. However, he nodded and heard West say again: "And there is another point. Annan has just experienced a war. As for Annan, there is definitely not so much food and supplies for the Ming Dynasty to attack Luzon. Therefore, the Ming army's food and supplies must be allocated from other places in the Ming Dynasty. If you come through Annan again, it is obvious that this will be unnecessary..."

Speaking of this, he paused and said in a very certain tone: "So, the food and supplies they needed to attack the Ming army in Luzon must have landed from Fujian to Taiwan, and then to the northern part of Luzon. The Ming army from Annan will only bring food and grass for ten days and half a month, and they will eventually meet somewhere in Luzon."

After hearing this, Diago had to admit that the Dutchman made a very reasonable analysis. This means that the Dutchman still has the capital to be arrogant.

However, before he could nod, West said to him with a little scolding tone: "What are you doing? This thing should have been done long ago! Some of the natives gave us a reward of silver, and some of them informed us."

Dyag felt very uncomfortable after reaching such a conclusion.

However, for the sake of the overall situation in front of him, he still did not show it. Instead, he asked with a modest attitude: "So how should we deal with it?"

"Is there any more to ask?" West heard it, looking at Diago like an idiot, and then said in an orderly tone: "Immediately send someone to find out the news, see if there are any movements of the Ming army in northern Luzon, and see which harbor their food will be stored? As long as we get this exact news, we will dispatch a fleet to catch the Ming army off guard and burn their food and grass. In this way, the Ming army will either retreat or be defeated if the food and grass are exhausted!"

After saying that, he added proudly: "This is the way to deal with the natives of the East. Don't be too strong, as long as they are holding on to this point, even if the army is large, it will collapse and it will be easy to fight!"

That's right, this is how they did when they fought against the Javanese army.

Although West's attitude made Diago very dissatisfied, his suggestion was indeed pertinent, so he had to endure it and asked someone to attract Philot and explained to him: "You bring two fast ships, go north along the coast, search for traces of Ming ships, and find where the Ming army stockpiled food and grass, come back quickly to report."

After hearing this, Philot quickly agreed, but before he could say anything else, West next to him interrupted and explained to Diago: "You also offer a reward for the natives along the way. Anyway, it is just a coercion and inducement, so that they can be our eyes and ears, and can prevent you from missing anything..."

Philot was so angry when he heard this. It would be fine if the Governor ordered me to do things. What are you? You are a rebel and you are also pointing fingers here and saying I am blind? My ears were cut by Mingren, but where are you blind?

Thinking in my heart, the face immediately became a little ugly.

However, West didn't care at all and said, "If you haven't found any traces of the Ming army, either you missed it or the Ming army has not come from Taiwan. You can also go to Taiwan to see. As long as you can find where the Ming army stockpiled food and grass, we will win half of this battle. Maybe when our Governor arrives, we can send you good news to make the Governor happy!"

Oh, together with you, we are directing us to do this and that, just to rush your Governor to have a meeting ceremony after the arrival. Philot suddenly realized and thought in his heart angrily.

But before he could object, Diago next to him waved his hand and said to him: "Go quickly, just do what he wants!"

Speaking of this, he raised his voice again and emphasized: "The most important thing now is to repel the Ming army and cut off the idea that the Ming emperor wanted to reach out to Nanyang."

Philot knew that the Governor made sense, so he glared at the Dutchman fiercely, and endured the tone first, turned around and left, ready to execute the order.

However, West stopped doing it and immediately shouted, "Why are you glaring? Am I wrong? If you weren't for your trash asking us to the Netherlands, would you think I'm happy to come here, and you would join forces with you?"

Philot's feet stopped and he was furious. These rebels were really lawless!

When Diago saw this, he quickly stood up, turned the table, went to the front, pushed Philot and said, "Why don't you go and execute the military order?"

He knew that if he didn't care about this, he would definitely start arguing. The relationship between the two sides would be bad. If it started arguing, if the Ming army accidentally came, the two sides of his side would start fighting first before the Ming army could come.

After being pushed down by the Governor, Philot was angry and had no choice but to go with the flow.

But when he arrived at the door, he heard the Governor General coming from behind and said to the Dutchman: "How could he be glaring at you? His eyes are so big."

"..." Philot's steps stopped again, and he was so angry. My eyes were always as big as a bull's eye? Why do you have to be so respectful to a rebellious person? Especially the court officials in China have such virtues, so these Dutch people rebel, and the Portuguese rebels!

But no matter how much he thought about it, he still didn't turn around and argue how big his eyes were, and sighed helplessly and left.

In the office, Diago and West were talking, and suddenly, a guard at the door came in and reported: "Governor General, Fidenandi of the Bonda Department is asking for a meeting outside the door."

When Diago heard this, he frowned and said, "What are he doing?"

Even though he said so, he knew that the indigenous leader came to ask for a visit, and there must be something wrong. So he asked the guards to bring the people over.

"Dear Governor!" Fidnandi immediately saluted respectfully as soon as he entered the door, and then said, "There are probably many remnants of Ming people gathering on the outside of Manila Bay. I'm also asked the Governor to send troops to help suppress the damn Ming people's remnants!"

Hearing this, Diago frowned again and said with a little unhappy: "I gave a silver reward. I have to come to me for the rest of the Ming people. Don't you want to reward silver?"

"That's not what it means!" Fednandi heard it and was a little frightened and quickly replied, "At the time before, the people I sent had never come back, so he sent people over there, but there was still no news. There was almost fifty people around here. It would be fine if I asked me to send more people. However, I was worried that the more people I sent, the remnants of the Ming people would run away. Only fewer people would go there, and they might not run away, so they would easily catch them!"

West was listening with his legs crossed his legs. When he heard that about fifty people were all quietly solved by the remnants of Ming people, he was a little strange, and he interrupted and asked, "What are the crooked melons and jujubes you sent? Is it easy for a group of remnants of Ming people to be solved by the remnants of Ming people? Could it be that the people who came later did not even teach a lesson and would not leave a message?"

Of course, Fednandi knew who this was, and he didn't dare to offend him. He quickly defended himself: "No, they are all strong men from my tribe. There were nearly twenty people in the last group. I also specifically advised him, but none of them came back!"

After hearing this, West became even more curious. If there are such things, should there be many things that have missed the net?

Thinking of this, he stood up and said to Diago, "Then I'll go and have a look!"

After hearing this, Diago was reluctant and quickly agreed.

West immediately walked out and said, "That all the spoils will belong to me!"

He knew more about Mingren, just an old ox, and his money was often hidden and spent. Those remaining Mingren would definitely have a lot of money. This time, if you didn't get any other benefits, you could just collect some interest first.
Chapter completed!