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Viscount Don Perez had been the Spanish governor of the Luzon colony for a few years, and in recent years he had rapidly changed his waist from a fierce naval officer to a brothel owner. However, this did not prevent him from wearing all his medals and command knives when he received guests.

When he listened to the speech of others, one of his subconscious movements was to stroke the gem set in the handle of the command knife at his waist, and if he was interested in this person's speech, his other action was to hold his round chin with his fingers.

Gray-blue eyes, a hooked nose, typical Iberian facial features, and a slightly mocking expression at the corners of the mouth, look full of arrogance.

José, on the other side, is the son of his aunt, and moreover, the two are the godsons of a godfather.

The cousins have enjoyed a lot of small trade over the past few months, and now José and his team are trying to expand the scale of this trade to make it even more profitable for themselves.

The purpose of José's visit, in addition to handing over Don Perez's due benefits to him, was to persuade his cousin, "Open your treasury and exchange the gold and silver in your treasury for greater benefits!" ”

After listening to José's statement, Don Perez couldn't help but have a greedy glint in his eyes.

Damn yellow-skinned monkeys! It's really rich! The rich East is indeed paved with gold and silver!

"How much cargo do they still have? The Ming Dynasty governor surnamed Li you are talking about? ”

"Oh! Thousands of quintals of raw silk, countless exquisite silk fabrics, as well as a large number of tea, porcelain, dyed cotton cloth. José seemed to see countless golden pesos flying towards him, and he began to play up what he had seen and heard.

"He alone has a wealth almost equal to the entire Dutch East India Company!"

Don Perez's eyes couldn't help but light up, if a local officer of the Ming Dynasty had such wealth, then, I, as the governor of the great Spanish Empire in Manila, could I let this wealth be owned by the Empire? All for me?

As the governor of the Spanish Empire in Manila, he certainly knew the value of these oriental specialties described by his cousin, and that even if they were fulfilled according to the terms of commerce that Jose had agreed with the so-called governor of the Ming Dynasty, Governor Li, he could make huge profits.

In Ha Tinh, Jose talked with Li Shouhan for three days, and finally made Li Shouhan accept his so-called compromise plan.

José's plan was as follows: the 1.2 million taels of silver he had shipped were delivered as a deposit to Li Shouhan's financial department, and part of the customs duties were deducted in advance in accordance with Li Shouhan's relevant documents on import and export trade tariffs.

Hearing such news, José almost fell to his knees and praised God! In this way, the road to wealth will be as smooth as a stone, and the moat will also change the way! (Damn!) How did the Spaniards know Taizu's verses? Could it be that this guy is also a traverser?! ）

Second, since the rest of the payment could not be seen until Manila, if the Spaniards paid in silver, they had to be paid at the price of the Dutch in Batavia, and in gold, at a ratio of one to four.

Damn the guys! Treacherous and the same as those Italians! More greedy than the Jews! My God! Why don't you let this guy go to hell?!

However, the East has never been God's territory, and, according to Li Shouhan, Brother Su has a good relationship with him. In the end, Jose still agreed to Li Shouhan's conditions with a sad face. In his mind, the wealth that could buy the whole of Spain quickly shrank to just enough to buy Madrid.

for he also had to share the benefits with his lovely cousin.

He knew that if his cousin was willing to use Manila's treasury to buy these goods, he would have to be paid enough benefits, otherwise, that despicable fellow would never have come up with a riyal!

"You'll get 10% of your total profits." This is not the final bottom line given by the trade group, the bottom line is 20%. But if you can, why not take a little kickback in between?! José's wishful thinking is that the lovely cousin had better be able to recognize this into the profit and open the door to the treasury in time. Then he ate the difference of 10% himself, and then José was ready to go back to Madrid to the opera house to discuss his artistic life with those beautiful ladies.

"What is the total value of this shipment?" Don Perez wants to know the details of the contract.

"Two thousand quintals of high-quality raw silk! 600 taels of silver a load. A total of 1,200,000 taels. ”

"Tea! Great tea! A thousand packs! Satin! 130,000 horses! Fifteen taels of silver per horse! 100,000 dyed muslins. Two taels per horse, a total of 200,000 taels, white sugar, 200,000 bags! The self-carried price is five taels of silver per package. A total of one million taels. Fine porcelain ......"

The total was about less than eight million taels of silver.

However, if it is shipped to Madrid, or even more distant to Mexico, the amount of this wealth will be multiplied several times, or even add a zero to the end.

In the Manila treasury in Don Perez's hands, there was enough gold and silver to pay for the goods. Even according to the requirements put forward by Li Shouhan, it is sufficient.

Because the Spanish Empire would send galleons to Manila every year to transport gold and silver from the American colonies to Manila for the purchase of Oriental products. Generally, a total of about 4 million taels (150 tons) of silver is transported back every year, and sometimes it may reach five or six million taels.

Moreover, Luzon itself is also a large gold producer. The gold reserves of the nanny country are the third in the world, and it has long been among the world's five largest gold producing countries, and at its peak, it can produce more than 30 tons per year. In this era, it can also reach the point of producing tens of thousands of taels of gold per year.

The worst thing is that because of the failure to compete with the Dutch for Formosa, the trade route to the Ming Dynasty was blocked, and there has been no large-scale trade with the Ming Dynasty for three consecutive years. However, gold and silver from the Americas were still shipped every year, and the gold and silver from Luzon were mined in large quantities.

Countless times he looked at the piles of gold and silver in the treasury, and Don Perez prayed countless times in his heart that a heroic figure would come to Manila and trade away these things that could neither be eaten nor made into beautiful robes and cloaks to wear.

Now, however, when the hero he had been waiting for had arrived, and his vast fleet was anchored in the waters off Manila Bay, a terrible thought had sprung up in the Governor's mind.

"When will their first cargo ships arrive in Manila?" Governor Don Perez fiddled with the beautiful firebolt......

"If it were me, I would never have made this deal with you!"

Zhang Xiaohu leaned on the long chair in Yuehailou, with a look of wistfulness on his face.

On that day, under the identification of many pirates, Zhang Xiaohu, who knew that he could not escape from the clutches of the Han guard, stood up very singlely and admitted that he was the famous pirate, "Tiger Shark" Zhang Xiaohu.

To the surprise of Zhang Xiaohu and several boat owners who were pulled out, Li Shouhan did not push them out and cut them down, or tied stones to their bodies, and let them be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

"Probably let us eat before sending us on the road." A shipowner with a fat elbow in his mouth exchanged views with the big guy in a vague manner.

After eating and drinking, Zhang Xiaohu was brought to Li Shouhan.

"Little Liuzi." Li Shouhan was very satisfied with the bad taste of being a warlord marshal. "Hehe, what a cool thing it is to be able to call a person like this!"

"You?!" Looking at the hairy boy in front of him who didn't seem to be as old as his eldest nephew, Zhang Xiaohu wanted to rush up and give him a violent beating, and then snatch the boat and leave. But he knew that this idea basically could not be realized.

"Your subordinates only won me by luck by virtue of the speed of the ship, and if I have a ship like yours, your men and horses are not enough for me to clean up." Zhang Xiaohu expressed his opinion.

Originally! Career at sea has always been the artillery fire after the two ships approached, and then the respective sailors jumped into the gang and engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat on the ship, and finally, to see which side was crushed by the other.

"How can I convince you?" Li Shouhan kind of likes the arrogant-looking guy opposite.

"Either give me your so-called wind ship, and we can fight it at sea once fairly, or you fight it again with someone else, and let me see if it is reasonable for me to lose."

As a result, Zhang Xiaohu and several ship owners appeared in Li Shouhan's sailors as a group of crew members with extremely special identities.

"Why not make this deal? Don't you want these goodies? Li Shouhan motioned for Mo Jin to add a cushion to Zhang Xiaohu's back, this guy was scratched on the back by the wood chips flying by the shell, and he needed to lean softer.

"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I don't want to do business with you!" Zhang Xiaohu corrected the misunderstanding of our young master Li's thinking. "You stick your little head out and look at the terrain, if I were the governor of the Franco, I would trick you and your fleet into this bay with clever words, and then, block the exit with the cannons on the batteries on both sides, and use the gunboats to kill your wind ships one by one, and then, those good things are mine, even if it is a little loss, it is a transaction without capital!"

Hearing this, Li Shouhan's face couldn't help but turn pale! Oh, yes! The Spaniards are not decent men and gentlemen, and the reason why they were able to conquer the Inca Empire with more than 100 people back then was not due to various intrigues and intrigues, in addition to technology and epidemic diseases?!

It seems that in order to verify that Zhang Xiaohu is a qualified prophet, good spirits are not bad spirits. The watchtower of Yuehailou signaled that a ship had entered the port.

Looking out from Shouhan's position, you can just see several ships entering the harbor along the waterway, those ships whose hulls are full of gunpowder smoke and bullet marks, and several sails are also full of bullet holes and fire marks.

Shouhan's eyebrows couldn't help but rise, and he felt as if he had been thrown into an ice hole, and every pore was emitting cold air.

"My lord, the statistics of the loss of cargo and ship personnel have come up." Chen Tianhua was holding a leather book in his hand, as if he was holding a hot cannonball in his hand.

"Five Fortune Ships, including the sailors and cargo on board, were captured, two Hurricane ships were seriously injured and needed to be repaired, three Hurricane Ships and four Fortune Ships were slightly injured, and all the cargo on board was discarded."

"The total number of sailors lost to the ships was four hundred and sixty-three, of whom one hundred and forty-five were killed, seventy-three were seriously wounded, and one hundred and twenty-two were lightly wounded. 123 persons were missing or captured. These personnel do not include the sailors of the five ships that were clearly captured. If you count the sailors of these five ships, then our personnel losses are added to the fact that we have almost three hundred people. ”

Shouhan listened to Chen Tianhua's report that he tried not to carry any emotion, and he still heard a trace of anger and tremor in his voice, not because of fear, but because of the slight tremor brought by anger and excitement.

"The loss of property should be more than 1 million taels, of which the captured ships and cargo alone are as high as nearly 500,000 taels, and the losses of goods and ships, personnel losses, and bereavement services abandoned along the way are also around 500,000 taels. At present, several damaged ships are being repaired in the dockyard, and it is estimated that the repair materials will be quoted soon. ”

"What about the Franc merchants?" This was the biggest loss Shouhan suffered in several years, and his trading fleet was attacked by the local Spaniards in Manila, capturing more than half of the cargo and inflicting heavy losses on his own property and personnel.

To be honest, Shouhan didn't care much about those goods, anyway, they were exchanged from the mainland with salt, and it could almost be said that there was no cost. However, those ships and sailors, but they had worked hard to get their belongings, were lost in vain, which really made Shouhan a little angry. He was going to ask the person who started the matter, Jose the Spaniard.

"My lord, José was injured and sent to Alfonso for treatment. According to the sailor's brothers, it was Jose who called the police to them so that they could have a chance to escape, otherwise if we had traveled a few more miles and entered the bay, none of our boats would have returned. José's ship was also wounded by the batteries in Luzon, and he himself was hit by a sail with his right arm. ”

The officials and officers present were angry, for many years, they had been robbing under the leadership and command of Li Shouhan, oh, the wrong words, to rob other people's territory and seize other people's goods, and now, someone actually hit their own heads, which is unbearable!

People waved their arms and weapons, and shouted loudly that they wanted to teach these short-eyed Franc machine people a lesson!

In comparison, Shouhan was not as excited as the generals, and for some reason, a voice in the depths of his mind shouted with great excitement: "Passionate Spanish girl! Lao Tzu is here! ”

"Herald!"

All the people present immediately stopped shouting and scolding, stood up in a proper manner, saluted the guards with fists, and waited for the dispatch.

"All battalions and units, gather up the personnel, tie up the weapons, and check the ships. At your disposal! ”

Half a month later, Shouhan's huge fleet arrived at the entrance of the strait in Manila Bay. He raised his binoculars and looked at Manila Bay, where his fleet consisted of fifteen gunboats, fifteen schooners, and a few fortune ships that served as troop carriers, and more than thirty ships, large and small, were moored at the entrance to Manila Bay, and gunboats were guarding schooners and fortune ships full of soldiers.

"If I want to keep the loss of cargo a little smaller, I will think of having your cargo ship in front and gunboat behind, and when the cargo ship passes through the guò battery, the battery will immediately open fire to intercept and shell your escort gunboats. Let your gunboats watch as my gunboats capture your ships laden with cargo. Even if you rush into the bay, so what? My gunboat is waiting for you there! Sink your ship, and then report back to the top that I will destroy the pirates. ”

As a special guest of the water master, Zhang Xiaohu's voice came from behind him, like a bucket of cold water splashed on Li Shouhan's head.

"I'll let you talk nonsense!" Mo Jin, who is rarely spoken on weekdays, rushed to Zhang Xiaohu and hit him with a cannon punch.

"Stop!" Li Shouhan stopped Mo Jin's impulse, "Signal and all ships are on alert." Also, you go to the kitchen, see if there is any wine, and give it to Zhang, Zhangtou to get some. ”

"Your Excellency, this is not possible! You have violated the basic principles of commercial trade not so long ago! Now, under my painstaking mediation, the other party has expressed due sincerity and continues to come and trade with us, but if you continue to do so, what is the difference between us and those shameless Albion pirates?! On the battery in Manila Bay, after listening to Don Perez's terrible design, José spoke out against it.

"What a beautiful boat!" Through the lens of the telescope, the Doge took a closer look at what his cousin called "the best ship I've ever seen." ”

"Each of the ships you see is equivalent to ten ships of the Invincible Armada. Think about it, Manila has so many warships?! Is there anything you can do to deal with Governor Lee's terrible artillery fire?! Is your fortress stronger than Poseidon's palace?! Although José is greedy, he knows very well that this cousin of his belongs to being carried away by money.

José is saddened to find himself a rat in the bellows, caught between two powerful forces.

Yesterday, when he conveyed to his cousin, the Spanish Governor in Luzon, Don Perez, as the entrusted representative of Ha Tinh, a reasonable demand for the punishment of the perpetrators and compensation for the damages, and conveyed the goodwill of General Lee, if the above demands and conditions were met, Ha Tinh was willing to continue trading activities with Manila.

However, the lovely cousin in front of him was obviously fascinated by those shiny gold pesos.

He wanted to continue to seize the goods by force, and then let the honest accountants transfer the gold and silver from the treasury to his own pockets at the price of the goods.

Although the high-sounding banner of Li Shouhan's visit was to demand that the Luzon authorities punish the perpetrators, compensate for the damages, and continue to trade, José, although injured, did not lose the ability to observe and analyze things; The heavily armed soldiers in the ships have already explained a qiē.

War is inevitable.

Was Spain still the time of the Earth Lord?

The naval fleet was being rebuilt after being defeated by the dastardly Albion pirates, and His Majesty Ferdinand was still struggling in the quagmire of war, even if the young General Lee poured his fury and cannonballs on the roof of the Doge's palace in Luzon, and the emperor in Madrid could not do anything.

This is such a terrible thought, what kind of consequences will lead to zhì, José dare not imagine.

"Major Juan! I command you, get ready for battle! Don Perez shouted orders to the commander of the battery.

"Yes! Your Excellency the Governor! Our twenty-four-pounder guns were already in a hurry to go into battle. ”

It's obvious! The officers in Manila did not think that the ships on the other side could possess the terrifying firepower described by Hose.

"Just in case, though. You, Captain Oscar, lead your men to the Eighth Company outside the city! All the Chinese living there were put into custody and awaited my orders. If they dare to resist, order the cannons at the head of the city to preach the gospel of God to them! ”

The wise Governor had laid out what he thought was a well-thought-out plan, "All right, folks, go back to your respective posts and prepare for our riches!" My Pizarros! Today is our lucky day! Tonight, I will celebrate this great and glorious victory with a grand ball at the Governor's Palace. ”

The Spanish officers roared yes and rushed to their posts with a thirst for money and greed.

A ship from the Governor's Mansion quickly left the bay and headed for Li Shouhan's fleet.

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