Chapter 36: The Tributary (Page 1/1)

The typhoon came and went, and Chen Mu didn't know if Regasby had sent a fleet to blow the wind at sea.

At Suleiman's request, military doctors and bannermen who knew how to do gold sores and surgery were selected to heal the wounded Luzon.

There are more than 300 people sent out, but in fact, it is not necessary to treat so many injuries alone, the key is the dead.

The continuous torrential rain for half a month has caused many landslides and mudslides in the mountainous areas northwest of Manila, as well as casualties caused by the collapse and collapse of houses, drowning, starvation, stoned to death, damage and looting of fields, and hundreds of cases have been reported by more than a dozen tribes in the surrounding area alone.

Many times, when a house collapses, it fills the door when it is smashed.

If the same damage had occurred in the Ming Dynasty, there would have been a sprawl of displaced people and bandits, but this was not the case in Luzon.

What is there to flow, the fruit trees on the island can live, the land is vast and sparsely populated; What is there to rob, every family is almost rich and poor, and they are all poor.

The main reason why Suleiman found Chen Mu was that he found that Chen Mu had a way of dealing with the plague, killing so many people in northern Manila, and there was no plague in the corpse capital, he must have a means to avoid the epidemic, so he asked the Ming army to deal with the aftermath.

The reason is very legitimate, so that Chen Mu can't refuse - these are all the people of the Great Tomorrow, measuring the acres of land and arranging the households, and there is no room for error.

Originally, after Suleiman returned to Manila, he was a little tired of the Ming army wandering all over the ground, especially when he came over, he saw Li Yuxi hiring people to collect sulfur, and Chen Mu also occupied the royal city, which made this heroic warrior leader feel unhappy.

But the unhappiness quickly dissipated.

"Great king, please see, this small one is the tribe of the past, and this big one is Luzon, and now Luzon Island has no hundred officials and no king canonized by the Son of Heaven, only one leader, so it is impossible to centralize power."

Chen Mu pointed his finger at Manila and said: "This should be set up as the national capital and trade port, in the future, all Ming ships will dock here, and the Luzon State will be taxed uniformly, and tax laws and laws must be formulated, such as a lucky ship carrying sulfur, how much tax to pay to the palace according to the value of the goods, it needs to be estimated by a special person." ”

Suleiman's eyes lit up.

"After arranging the households and measuring the acres of land, every common man must pay taxes, money, grain and labor to the palace every year; These incomes can be used by the king to govern the country, spend money on the royal court, and arm a standing army to protect the king, not a wartime conscripted man, but a truly seasoned samurai. ”

Suleiman's eyes brightened.

"Eight hundred, one thousand seventeen or eighteen-year-old soldiers were recruited by the king, and the Ming generals were hired to practice, from birds, armor, military uniforms to artillery, and warships, the king could buy them from the Yamen, the minister of the South Seas, and the tributary parliament had the same first-class armament, first-class training, and first-class elite in the world as the Ming army."

Suleiman opened his mouth and asked, "Same as General Chen's soldiers?" ”

He didn't know how Chen Mu won the battle, and even the Luzon soldiers who were captured after the defeat couldn't tell how they won, in short, he knew that the opponents Chen Mu encountered were not weaker than his past army, and the army guarding Manila was even stronger than him, because he was defeated by the Spaniards.

In the battle reports he knew, the enemy was all and crushed at the first touch.

Chen Mu nodded heavily and said: "The same, the Luzon people are brave and fierce, they grow up to trek through mountains and rivers, and their physical strength is even better than that of you and my banner army, they are born excellent warriors." It's just that they don't have good training, good weapons, and armor that can protect them, so they will be defeated. ”

"With these, they will be an invincible army under the command of the Great King."

Chen Mu arched his hand: "How?" ”

In the candlelight, Suleiman looked at the map that had expanded more than three times, thinking about Chen Mu's elite banner army and the title of King of Luzon in the future, and asked, "Please teach me how to pay tribute." ”

Is this matter to be taught by Chen Mu?

He hasn't paid tribute!

"When the rainy season passes, the wind and waves are calm, and the injuries are better, the king had better not go alone, but go north with his family, and I will send a fleet to Guangdong, and from there to Peking, and select the heirs who will inherit Luzon and the sons of several countries who will be in charge of the power in the future...... Just a few reliable tribal leaders, go together, go to the country to study, and come back in the future to better govern the country. ”

Chen Mu knew that the closest thing to the tributary was the brother-in-law's kind of fetters and consolation, anyway, the reception specifications of the tributary country would only be higher than Yang Yinglong, not lower than him, and he added another sentence: "In the next ten thousand years, every generation of heirs can get the opportunity to enter the Guozijian to study; Of course, every year an envoy was sent to the suzerainty to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven and offer treasures. ”

"When the king is not there, I will temporarily take charge of the affairs of the kingdom, continue to expel Xiyi to the south, and help the king unify Luzon."

Chen Mu said that Luzon is not Luzon Island, but Luzon Islands, his hand on the map to the south across the entire Luzon Islands, and finally stopped at the border with Sulu, said: "Until here, after the great dynasty pays tribute, there should be a court to send a governor to govern the country, help Luzon to enrich the country and strengthen the army, in the absence of internal worries, I will take part of the Luzon army with me to continue the southern expedition to rescue other countries." ”

Suleiman was eager to ask Chen Mu what he was here for, it sounded like the Spaniards forced them to believe in a god.

When the country is in danger, he suddenly leads the heavenly army to arrive, expel the enemy, bring wealth and technology, finish all the difficult things, and pat the ass to save other countries.

Spain, on the other hand, played the absolute villain in this tribute.

What can Suleiman say? Now everything depends on Chen Mu's arrangement, and in his opinion, this situation is not bad, the Ming Dynasty has neither the will to rule them, nor force him to do anything, everything is exchanged in a fair way, even if he suffers a loss, this is nothing more than another exchange.

Fair enough.

Chen Mu, who walked out of the palace and turned around and rode back to the royal city, was refreshed, and next he was going to take the island of Mindoro, which had gold mines, which was very important, not only in the gold mines.

Taking Mindoro Island would allow the surrounding islands to form a line, and the fleet could completely blockade the northern part of Cebu, and many of the islands there were relatively flat and should have been affected by typhoons recently.

If you don't make the enemy feel worse, then the snow is meaningless.

He was going to discuss with Chen Lan and Deng Zilong about attacking Mindoro Island.

However, before the discussion, a flag army along the coast came to Bao Xin quickly, saying that Sun Ao from Chenlai Island had intercepted several boats of Japanese people, and sent someone to send a message that the Japanese people were on the way to send them over, so that Manila could prepare for the handover.

Chen Mu scratched his hair towel, how could there be Japanese people coming?

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