In the vast blue waves, the sky is covered with white clouds, and the summer sea breeze ripples. The fleet, led by the big black ship, headed southeast, and this fleet made arrow-shaped ripples, as if breaking into a fairy tale world.

Far from the hustle and bustle, everything is as if it were natural, and the islands that pop up from time to time have not been destroyed by humans. The coral reefs in the shallow water are sucking on tiny floats in the water, and schools of colorful fish are shuttling in and out, and everything seems so harmonious.

Oh......

A seagull had just landed on the mast to rest, only to be driven away by a small golden monkey. The latter let out a crisp chirp, and then spread its wings and flew towards the island not far away, which was an island with fertile water and grass.

On the bow of the boat, the tiger girl in a bullfighting suit held a monocular binocular, the moth eyebrows were slightly raised, and the clear big eyes were shining a little, squinting to meet the gentle sea breeze.

Behind her, there are Little Rabbit, Little Pig and Little Fox, as well as Ali, Shen Yan, Mu Ying, Fan Jar, and Shen Qiang, Weng Huasong, Chen Zhizhi and other young young men of the second generation are also accompanied.

On this voyage, Hu Niu did not come over to play, but was very well-behaved to share her brother's worries. He went to Luzon as his brother's spokesperson and completed the things that his brother had told him.

Sometimes, he really didn't understand what his brother thought, obviously she had always been very good at doing things, and everything would definitely help him do it properly, he almost believed Lin Dahu and didn't believe her.

But fortunately, my brother is not too stupid, and in the end he found his way back. Now the matter has been officially entrusted to her, making her the de facto helmsman of this fleet.

"Forward!"

The tiger girl seemed to be in a good mood, and waved the monocular forward with the monocular, and gave a command in a crisp voice.

At the helm was Ah Qiang, the Changlin family, but when he heard this, he turned his head and said: "Hu Niu, according to our itinerary, we should go to Dongsha Island over there to rest now, and then set off tomorrow!" ”

Obviously, reality slapped someone in the face, I'm afraid she wasn't as powerful as she thought.

"That's it!" Hu Niu frowned and made a thoughtful gesture, and then pointed to the island over there and compromised: "Then rest on the island, and we will continue to set off tomorrow!" ”

It is thousands of miles from Ho Jing to Luzon, but thanks to the sea currents and monsoons, it can actually be reached in five or six days, and Guangdong is not too far from Luzon.

With such a short voyage, it is natural that you will not be bothered by water and food. After resting in the Dongsha Islands, the fleet again headed straight for Luzon and arrived at Luzon in a few days.

Different from the countries to the east of the South Seas, such as Annam, Champa and Siam, they are all located in the southeast peninsula, directly connected to the continental plate, and are all traditional agrarian societies. The countries on the western route of the South China Sea are all island countries, and their agricultural economies are very weak, and many countries have to make a living from fishing.

Luzon's agricultural situation is already relatively good, thanks to a legendary Xu Chai Lao.

Due to the close relationship between Luzon and the Ming Dynasty, many shrewd merchants brought goods to Luzon to engage in maritime trade, and Xu Chailao, a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, lived in Luzon and became the richest man and overseas Chinese leader in the region.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He, the eunuch of the three guarantees of the Qin Mission, passed through Luzon and appointed Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon by the edict of the Yongle Emperor, taking over the political, economic, military and cultural power of the country.

During his twenty-year tenure, Governor Xu brought Fujian's technology to Luzon, which gave Luzon the technology of pottery making and tea cultivation, and vigorously promoted the development of agriculture.

Of course, Xu Chai Lao is just an ordinary wealthy businessman, not the reincarnation of a real god, and it is impossible to really cause Luzon to be "reborn", at most it is just a little better.

It is precisely in this way that Luzon was able to have certain agricultural facilities, thanks to the governor of Luzon at that time, Xu Chaylao.

The fleet sailed along the western route of Luzon and immediately saw the pristine atmosphere of the island. Fine white sand, brown gravel beaches, rows of tall palms, and the occasional pristine village.

Wow......

Some bare-armed children were fishing for floods on the beach, and when they saw the fleet, they shouted excitedly, as if they had seen an aircraft carrier for the first time.

Although Luzon, with the help of the Ming Dynasty, had already transitioned from a city-state slave society to a feudal society, it was affected by many objective factors and did not really evolve into an agrarian society.

As a result of Luzon's weak agriculture, food was scarce, which severely limited their population. Luzon Island is not small, but it has only a few hundred thousand inhabitants, and the population is not as large as that of a city of Guangzhou.

At first, they relied on pearls, precious stones, tortoiseshells, frankincense, and silver to trade with the Ming Dynasty, but this one-way trade was destined to be unsustainable.

"Tiger girl, look there!"

The little pig was eating pastry, but suddenly reached out and pointed to the beach in the distance and said loudly.

But on the silver sand, a chase was being staged, and a group of soldiers with weapons in their hands were chasing a large group of ragged natives, and the more qualified soldiers were about to catch up.

"I'm fighting with you!" A native with a long stick in his hand suddenly burst out, gritting his teeth and saying.

A leader in light armor greeted him, and stabbed the knife into the body of the native-male holding the stick alof, and blood splattered out, splashing the white sand.

Facing the trembling natives, he pulled out his knife, looked at one of the little old men coldly, and said, "Do you pay this tax or not?" ”

"It's not that we don't want to pay, it's that the food was really robbed by pirates!" The tribal leader was a little old man, but he complained seriously.

The leader's eyes narrowed slightly, and he flashed a murderous intent: "Luo Ja has an order, your northern mountain region has repeatedly resisted taxes, causing many tribes in Luzon to follow suit!" If you don't kill it today, and Luo Yan's Wang Wei is not there, you will all be killed! ”

Nina was hiding behind her grandfather, and when she heard this, her face turned white, knowing that this time it was a catastrophe. Not only her and her grandfather's character, but the entire tribe is afraid that they will die here.

It's just that she is very unwilling, she doesn't want to die yet, she hasn't been to Manila yet, and she hasn't been to the legendary Daming.

"Up!"

Without the slightest hesitation, the leader commanded with a wave of his hand.

The soldiers behind him were already sharpening their knives, and they were about to harvest the lives of these people with their weapons, hoping to find something valuable from them.

Bang!

But at this moment, a cannonball weighing as much as ten pounds fell from the sky and smashed heavily on the shallow water, immediately splashing a column of water with sand.

What's going on?

The leader turned his head in horror to see a bloody streak on his face from the flying stones, but he was greeted by behemoths, much larger than their Luzon tribute ships.

What shocked them even more was that they didn't know if they missed it or did it intentionally. A black cannonball flew over their heads, and the sound of a large palm branch breaking behind them immediately cast a deep shadow on their hearts.

At such a distance, with such a lot of lethality, is this really still a cannon?