Chapter XXVIII Reparations

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Just as Chen Mu thought, the merchants who fled Manila because of the fighting in the middle of the night were brought back by Shiqi, and the remaining people who didn't come back, Chen Mu, didn't plan to care about them, just run if you want.

He was also brought back Salcedo, who planned to flee back to Cebu Island after the defeat.

Another commander in Manila, Martin de Goiti, was killed by Li Dan, and now his beautiful Milanese plate armor has become his trophy, which he wears to swagger around.

This set of valuable plate armor is indeed very beautiful, when Li Dan dedicated it to Chen Mu, he was indeed a little tempted, but this thing was not important to him, after he accepted the plate armor, he gave it to Li Dan.

This feeling of taking other people's things and giving them to others is not bad.

There were many captives in the city, both Westerners, Han Chinese and Luzon, and the captive Han people were taken by Li Dan outside the city to supervise the repair of the fortifications by the captured Luzon. In fact, Chen Mu knew that they would not rebel, because their leader, Lakandula, and many nobles of the same family had been caught, and they were all very honest.

"I heard you want to see me, what's the matter?"

Chen Mu looked at Salcedo, who had a blue nose and swollen face, and said with a smile: "Go back and ask someone to prepare some medicine for you." ”

While in captivity, Salcedo was imprisoned with Lacandura because Chen Mu had heard that Lacandura had resisted for several months before accepting Regasby's friendship, and that accepting friendship later was actually more like surrender.

As expected, Salcedo, who had lost his armor, was no match for La Candura in his cell and was almost killed.

"As you can see, I don't get along well with the leader of Rakandura." Salcedo shrugged his shoulders like nothing and laughed self-deprecatingly, but his arms were tied behind his back and he looked a little awkward, and said, "I heard that you are the general of the biological man, a barbarian fellow!" You sent a message to us from Portugal, and then you brought the fleet to call? ”

Chen Mu wanted to have a good chat, but he actually said that he was barbaric, this guy from an idle and poor man who attacked other countries, others were originally alive and well on their own land, but they came to destroy the land and destroy the country, and their descendants also called the guy who made the great geographical discovery dare to say that he was barbaric!

Who wants you to find out!

So he nodded as a matter of course and said, "Your navy's attack on Haojing was repulsed, and on their ship we found that the priests were making a plan to attack the Ming Dynasty, dozens of people?" Now it seems that you need to reassess the threat. ”

"That's just the plan! You lunatic! ”

Salcedo didn't care who wanted to attack Da Ming, he just couldn't accept this result and needed a breakthrough to vent. Now that I see Chen Mu, I have an outlet.

Chen Mu understood his hysteria very well, but this did not prevent him from angering this person even more.

"Not to mention those high-sounding excuses, the reason why I sent troops to attack Manila is just because I am confused, and it has nothing to do with your attack on Daming. The reason for my confusion is that you are completely unprepared for the compensation of 270,000 taels of silver that I requested. ”

"You now get the compensation you want, your soldiers have sacked our royal city, get out of here, leave our Philippine Islands!"

Chen Mu got up, raised a finger, and said, "Your statement is not right, this is not your Philippine Islands, nor mine, it is Luzon, or it will not be long before Suleiman will come back to govern his country." And everything in the royal city, my soldiers did not ransack, and Binodo outside the city was safe and sound, why should I take everything from the royal city? ”

"It's my spoils, I can take whatever I want, right?" Chen Mu said very seriously: "You still haven't paid back what you owe me, so I need you to help me keep an account." ”

"Two hundred and seventy thousand taels, you refused to pay, and now I come to ask for a debt, and you can't afford it, thinking about it for the first time, I won't raise the interest, calculate the account this time."

"Don't interrupt and remember, every word of these words means a dead man, and you will be asked to tell your king in the future, so remember it clearly." Chen Mu groaned and walked two steps, turned around and said: "So far, our army has lost 269 soldiers and 393 navy, the price of cattle is that I have cheated you, and I don't want many lives, 10,000 taels of silver for each life, 6.62 million taels of silver, and now you sign me 608, forget it, you can't remember, 7 million taels." ”

"Remember, you now owe me seven million taels of silver, which can be paid for with the equivalent of gold, silver, copper, iron, and wood war horses."

In Salcedo's eyes, Chen Mu was not only a war maniac, but also obviously a madman, because only a madman would say such big words, shook his head and said: "General, I don't think you can get this arrears, you may be able to defeat me by sneak attacks, and you may be able to defeat the governor, but you can't sail, you can't sail, you can't cross the ocean, where can you go to ask for your arrears?" ”

"When our fleet returns, you won't have a chance to meet the king, well, and your head."

"Hahaha!"

Chen Mu laughed very hard, he raised his finger and pointed at Salcedo, and said with a smile: "You are right, you are very smart, although we can sail, but the advantage I rely on is that we have a lot of soldiers, Luzon is like an offshore sea relative to my country, and our baggage supplies are not enough to cross the ocean to attack your country, so I don't look like a threat." ”

"Do you think I'm going to be stupid enough to go all the way to attack Spain? You will see, when I win this war, you will see, and then you will willingly return to the Iberian Peninsula and tell the poor king, and you will sincerely help me to persuade him to pay the indemnity as soon as possible, and believe me, if you are a patriot, you will do it. ”

Chen Mu smiled contentedly, and finally reiterated: "Seven million taels, limited to the possible casualties of the war and the interest I want, when you return to China, you may bring me fifteen million or even twenty million taels of compensation treaty." ”

"Heh, two thousand soldiers were killed, they are all regular troops, your country can afford it? Even if you can bear it, for the Philippines, a land that lacks both gold and silver, and 2,000 soldiers are killed, can your emperor still let you continue to command the army? You're going to be hanged. ”

It's not that Salcedo hasn't seen the world, the death of 2,000 regular troops in a protracted war means that 20,000 or more regular troops need to be mobilized, and the regular army needs huge consumption of logistics and weapons, just for such an archipelago, he doesn't believe that Ming is willing to pay such a price.

"What is the significance of this island, you don't know, but it is very important to me, not to mention that there is no year in the Ming Dynasty that does not die tens of thousands of people in war, if I tell them to recruit a soldier for one hundred taels of silver, more than 100,000 people are willing to turn their lives into one hundred taels of silver. Well, I know you miss your king, enjoy your meals, and be at ease. ”

"I'll let you meet soon."

Chen Mu pulled out the stool and left, leaving Salcedo's dark cell, this Spanish man-made cell was finally used to lock up him, a Spaniard, when he thought of this, the strange food in front of Salcedo became more and more bland.

Walking out of the cell, Chen Mu's mood was so good that he asked Long Junxiong: "How many flag troops have been transported by the ships that came from Nanyang to help?" ”

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