Chapter 27: The Church (Page 1/1)

Early in the morning, the Intramuros of Manila.

Just a week earlier, Regasby, the Philippine governor who had ousted Suleiman, had announced to King Philip II on the island of Cebu that the Intramuros of Manila was the new capital of Spain's East Indies.

A week later, the night battle, which lasted half an hour, allowed the capital to change hands without much effort.

I'm afraid Philip II will be angry.

Chen Mu didn't let his subordinates go to great lengths to clear the settlement called Binodo in the east of the royal city, he just asked Long Junxiong to take the lotus bucket to search outside the city for a while, and did not engage in street fighting.

Street fighting was pointless, especially at night, taking the royal city to block the main roads and allowing the Spaniards in the city to flee on their own. Manila had such a big incident, they had to flee to Cebu Island, Shi Qi patrolled outside the city, and Lin Feng cut off the necessary route in the Batangas area.

For the Spaniards, the safest place was Pinodo, but they must have tried to escape, and if they escaped, they would be caught.

Early the next morning, Chen Mucai climbed to the top of the city to look down on the royal city that the Spaniards had not built and the settlement of Binodo under the city, and the place near the bay of Binodo was the Ming market, which and Binodo were within the range of the Wangcheng artillery defense.

"Shuai, we searched the castle and the church, and found many letters that were too late to burn, and this one, with a decree written on the back, I can't understand it."

The people brought by Long Junxiong hugged a few wooden boxes, which contained letters and books, and he himself held a stack of thick paper and handed it to Chen Mu.

Chen Mu took the paper and spread it on the ground to look at the royal city, and said, "It's a design drawing, you can't understand normal, you have to look at it like this." ”

It is a design of the Intramura sent from Cebu Island, which depicts the design of the Spanish Philippine Governor Regasbi for the Intramural City of Manila, with roads, mansions, gardens, arsenals, stables and other facilities, and a passage is marked on the north side of the map.

'Law: Only the Spaniards were allowed to dwell in the royal city; Locals and Han Chinese can only live outside the city. ’

The Spaniards here include the descendants of Iberian Peninsula Spaniards, Filipino-born Spaniards, Spanish men and Han Chinese women or Malay women.

This Chen Mu knows one thing, the Spaniards do not allow women to intermarry with locals or Han Chinese.

Colonization is not occupation or annexation, colonization is plundering and undisguised discrimination.

"I have to say that they have planned very well, and the building materials are ready." Chen Mu got up, handed a few pictures to Long Junxiong and said: "Send someone to send this back to Nanyang, let Lao Guan spend a study, and then let him plan it and send it back on his own without changing the overall framework, and then build this big city according to the new one—the church will not be needed, and no one will believe it." ”

"General, how can you ignore me at this time, although I am old, am I not your subordinate when I am old!"

As soon as Chen Mu finished speaking, Pinto next to him was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and he usually didn't mention it, but now Chen Mu actually wanted to discuss in front of him to remove the planned church, how could this work.

Of course, in Pinto's diction, Chen Mu felt that he had considered it.

"Sir, I'm sure you can see that I have great respect for your faith, but it is possible to build a cathedral for a man, and you will not be able to find me a missionary who is loyal to me."

Pinto retorted, "Why not? Maybe the Spanish missionaries in the royal city who have been captured by you will be loyal to the general. ”

"No kidding, the missionary down there just yelled at me that I had robbed them of their castle and would tie me to a log and burn me to death when their fleet returned." Chen Mu chuckled and shook his head, "These Spanish missionaries hope to attack the Ming Dynasty, force the people to become religious, and then use our wealth to help their emperor conquer the world—similar to your Jesuits in Haojing. ”

Long Junxiong scoffed appropriately: "This kind of child is not ***!" ”

"Don't be foolish, Jesuit missionaries can't get married, and they certainly can't have children."

Chen Mu turned around to stop Long Junxiong, and said to Pinto very seriously: "It is okay to preach, you can trade, you can spy on the military situation, you can spy on the national situation, and even start a war, but it is difficult to preach, there is a risk of espionage, and war will naturally have a price for war." ”

"It cannot be said that the missionary is behind the scenes, but spies on the military situation, and when he sees the weak, he kills the king of the family and enslaves the people; With malice in his heart, he said that this was devotion to the Lord, and tried to start a war, but when the sword soldiers came to the end, they said that they were only preaching. ”

"A man has the freedom to believe in any god, but this is never the capital to escape punishment for doing bad deeds, because these scoundrels who are ordered to spy on the military and wage war will kill others who are more religious than him."

"So until I can be sure of something, there will be no new churches in Manila, in fact, even the church in Haojing, I am considering whether to demolish it."

Pinto had nothing to say, to some extent Chen Mu even knew more about the Society of Jesus than he did, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, okay, General, you're right, although sometimes I don't like those fanatics, but don't tear down the Mirror Church." ”

"If it's just because of my few words that the church will be demolished." Pinto looked at Chen Mu, put his hand on his chest and said, "The Lord will punish me." ”

Chen Mu smiled, "It's good that you know that the Lord won't punish me—Junxiong, what's in this city?" ”

Long Junxiong has been waiting by the side for a while, and he doesn't understand why Chen Mu is keen to talk useless nonsense to this old man, if he wants to demolish it, if he doesn't want to dismantle it, he won't dismantle it, it's not a matter of the handsome man's words. Hearing Chen Mu call him, he hugged his fists and said: "There is a shipyard on the west bank of the city, and most of the craftsmen are Han, and there are also a few Xiyi craftsmen who ran away and were arrested. ”

"The bazaar in the southwest, the locals call it the Barian Silk Market, the shops are all Han Chinese, in addition to selling silk, there are other walks of life, merchants are worried about the war last night, some people fled the city for refuge."

"What are they running when the Ming army is coming." Chen Mu waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I ran over and brought them back from Tianshi Qianhu, except for the shipyard, there are no other important things in this city?" ”

"Yes, there are gunpowder magazines, armories, cannon foundries, and blacksmith shops, and the gold and silver treasures, gunpowder, and weapons in the city are being counted, and there are twenty-four cannons in the city, and a few were broken yesterday, and there are horses."

Long Junxiong said and raised his hand to the open space in the city, and the banner army just led the horses out, "More than twenty, two heads taller than the northern horse, the divine horse is very." ”

"Andalusia, their name is Andalusia, these horses are good horses even in Portugal."

Pinto introduced to Chen Mu, Chen Mu's eyes couldn't move as long as he saw these horses, before seeing these horses, he didn't actually think that Mongolian horses were short, but now he did think that Mongolian horses were too small.

"These horses are easy to take care of, and I asked the Han people who had raised Xiyi horses in the city how to raise them, and they didn't look as good as Mongolian horses, so don't raise them to death."

"And, Shuai." Long Junxiong said: "General Deng sent someone to ask, the fleet is resting, the western city wall was damaged yesterday, what should I do later?" ”

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, let the fleet patrol outside the bay, send people to Hawksbill Harbor and Chenlai Island, and then we attack Cebu Island, it's time to bring Suleiman to govern the subjects." ”

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