Chen Ju stopped, and his stop made Chen Mu realize that he had said too much - no one cared what he wanted to do, others just wanted to know, whether he knew what he was doing.

Xu Wei's hand-translated Xiyi's "Seamen's Treasure" was beaten back by Chen Mu, except for asking Xu Wei to help him write an official war report sent to the cabinet, Chen Mu could hardly use this talent.

Mr. Xu, who thought he was a military advisor, was ordered to write a book in Manila, and put the essence of the famous generals of the southern Xinjiang naval warfare such as Yu and Qi in the new book, and Chen Mu named it "The New Book of Naval Warfare", and asked him to compile it and then send it to Chen Mu for review, and after correction, he was sent to the Guangdong Jiangwu Naval Academy as a teaching material.

It was not easy to be a staff member of the Chan shogunate.

This handsome man can hardly use others in military strategy, because he and his staff are blind to the Philippines and basically know nothing.

Manila's shipyards and cannon foundries are a valuable asset given to Chen Mu by Salcedo, and Manila has no shortage of wood and craftsmen. From the construction of cities to the construction of ships and cannons, the Spaniards used Han Chinese craftsmen, who came from the most powerful empires in East Asia and had the best craftsmanship and were able to do almost all the work except the design drawings.

The drawings of the Spaniards made up for the shortcomings of the Han craftsmen very well, from the fortress to the Galen ship, from the artillery to the heavy musket, there were all the blueprints, and there were even captured Spanish blacksmiths who were willing to work for Chen Mu, as long as he was not allowed to repair the city wall and do hard labor.

However, the Spanish blacksmith is actually not very useful in his craft, his name is Louis, his father's surname and his mother's surname are too long for Chen Mu to remember. The name is basically as casual in Spain as Deng Zilong's boat, obviously lacking the love of his parents and revealing his humble background.

Chen Mu asked if this was indeed the case, this was a blacksmith who became a monk halfway, his father was a farmer, he was conscripted into the army after a few years of fighting, and after two years of fighting, he was conscripted to serve as a shipwright on the ship of Navy Captain Salcedo, and then he went to Chen Mu's prison.

In the matter of building weapons, Chen Mu's military craftsmen know more than him, but he is very versatile, it is not easy to be a blacksmith in the lord's village in Spain, he can write and calculate, and in the past there was his very conspicuous blacksmith shop in the center of Manila Binodo.

In addition to being a craftsman, he was also a dentist, veterinarian, surgeon, and business intermediary with livestock stores and farmers, and was appointed head of the village and church governor of Benodo, albeit only for three days.

It took three days for the Luzon and Han Chinese of Pinodo to elect him, one day for the Spanish magistrate in the royal city to decide, and three days as the village chief, and Chen Mu entered the city.

General Chen accidentally ruined a blacksmith's Spanish dream of achieving a class jump.

But it doesn't matter, now Louis is the deputy of Zhao Shizhen, the magistrate of Manila, who is mainly responsible for collecting taxes and planning ironwood raw materials for sailing ships and artillery.

Manila's shipyards were huge, and the Spanish colonies in the East had great ambitions, and it seems that this shipyard was built specifically for the manufacture of Galen ships. However, it may be that the time is still short, and the necessary equipment for building a big ship is not perfect, but this is not a big problem for Chen Mu - he has no intention of building a big ship in Manila at all.

All he needed was that the Manila shipyard could provide him with a continuous stream of small shark boats in a year's time, and the big ships would still be built by Nanyangwei and Guangdong.

Before the arrival of July, he met with Lin Daoqian, whose fleet had been intercepted, in Manila, and was joined by another brave and skilled pirate. However, he didn't let Lin Daoqian go to join Lin Feng, he had a better place to go.

The pirate leader who came from Fujian had nearly 100 400-material white-ship ships, more than 2,000 new and old pirates and more than 1,000 women and children, and in addition to old-fashioned firecrackers, arquebuses, small cannons and other weapons, there were also farm tools, seeds, and rations.

Chen Mu sealed Lin Daoqian as a thousand households in Sanyu, ordered him to land in Sanyu with his subordinates, and allowed him to set up three thousand households after sweeping away the Xiyi on the island, and recommended two thousand households to train troops in Sanyu Agricultural Reclamation to defend all the Spaniards he saw.

Because Chen Mu's next target is Mindoro Island in the south of Luzon, which is a large island that produces gold and copper. Sanyu is one of the three islands southwest of Mindoro Island, and it is a strategic island that holds the shipping route, and there is Lin Daogan there, which can prevent the Spanish reinforcements from the Malays or support the war on Mindoro Island in advance.

However, Chen Mu did not rush to raise troops on Mindoro Island, because it had been raining since the end of June.

The rain in the Philippines was worrying, because Chen Mu did not know which would come first, the rainy season or the typhoon, so he was not prepared to continue to push south, but only sent troops to sweep Luzon Island, help Suleiman eliminate the rebel tribes on the island, and then measure the land and formulate a tax law.

It's such a headache.

"I don't even measure the land, how did Luzon collect taxes in the past?"

Chen Mu listened to the return of Zhao Shizhen's recent work, put down the Ming Dynasty bird gun aimed at the haystack, and turned to look at Zhao Shizhen helplessly.

He believed in Zhao Shizhen's talent, although he was not a jinshi, but he also studied in Guozijian for more than a year, but he never expected that the governance of the place would start with measuring the land, and the tax law was even more blank.

"In the past, the state of Luzon was ruled by several great chieftains, and to the south of Manila was Tongdu, and Manila was Suleiman along the coast of various villages up to Chenlai Island; There are other chiefs who go over the mountains to the east, and they each collect taxes from their respective tribes, and they collect more in good years and less in famine years, and the last time they measured the land was ...... year of Yongle."

"Wait, wait." Chen Mu raised his hand and approached Zhao Shizhen and asked, "They don't collect taxes uniformly, so how can Xiyi collect taxes here?" ”

I don't know what Chen Mu's words made Zhao Shizhen think of, Secretary Zhao, no, Zhao Zhixian glanced at Louis angrily, and said to Chen Mu: "Ming Gong Mingjian, Xiyi is shameless, their taxes are actually determined by race and country!" They only collected Manila's commercial taxes, and the nobles were divided into various places around Manila, where they enjoyed fiefdoms that allowed them to eat and drink. ”

"Xiyi does not charge taxes on buying and selling in Manila, mixed-race Xiyi pay double the tax, Luzon and mixed-race Han people pay twice the tax, and we Han people pay four times the tax!"

Zhao Shizhen exaggeratedly raised his four fingers and widened his eyes, Chen Mu rarely saw a scholar with a crooked skill tree so indignant, but his heart was very calm, even if he didn't know about the quadruple tax, the unequal treatment of the Han people under the Spanish rule was only expected.

He also bullied the Portuguese in Haojing, because he held the lifeblood of those merchants, even if he could still make money by paying more taxes, the Portuguese would not object, just like the Han merchants in the Philippines.

"Han Chinese pay four times as much tax, why can mixed-race Han people pay half less tax, Mr. Louis." Even if it was expected, Chen Mu was still unhappy in his heart, and looked at Louis with a crooked neck and an unkind expression, and said, "Can you answer this doubt for me." ”

"Great, my lord, I'm just a blacksmith, I don't understand, I've only heard a little." Louis's life was pinched in Chen Mu's hands, and he was extremely afraid of this young biological general, and stammered: "In New Spain, the resistance of the natives is fierce, although it has been suppressed, but people are worried about rebelling again in a few decades, after all, there are few of us...... So. ”

"Killing men, turning wives and daughters into slaves, and making their offspring think that they have noble blood, to erase their will to resist, because of this, many people have the sore-bearing Spanish disease."

Chen Mu raised a finger and tapped his temple, glanced at Zhao Shizhen, and then looked at Louis, and said, "I remember, the letter on the Spanish ship, some of you want to attack the Ming Dynasty, and you also want to have children with our women, this is also the purpose, right?" ”

"Fuck."

"When the crowned monkey in the Iberian Peninsula pays back the money owed to me, all the ports of Daming will charge them ten times the tax, these lowly things!"