Nanyang, Luzon.

In September last year, after the Battle of Mindanao and the defeat of the Spaniards in Luzon, the whole of Luzon ushered in an explosive development.

In order to reward the merchants who participated in the naval war, the small court of Luzon fulfilled the promise made before the war and exempted the commercial tax, so that a large number of sea ships went to sea from Luzon to transport the original backlog of goods to Tianzhu, Japan and other places.

On the other hand, for the land on Luzon Island, the small imperial court gave a policy that whoever cultivates it will own it, and Xintian will be exempt from tax for three years.

This policy may seem generous, but in fact, most of the land on Luzon is in the hands of the natives, which is tantamount to a blank check.

The small court of Luzon did not have the ability to reclaim the land, so it was better to encourage the Han people on the island to colonize, and they reclaimed it, and the small court of Luzon would still be able to collect taxes three years later, which can be said to be a policy of steady profit and no loss.

In March 1657, after eight years of rule, more than six months had passed since the end of the naval battle.

During this time, Luzon's ships frequently went to sea, traveling to and from the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang, Tianzhu and other places.

Gao Yihuan's Sanhe was injured and sent to the Zheng family's shipbuilding workshop for repair, but because he took the lead in attacking the Santa Anna and captured the captain, the small court of Luzon rewarded him with a lucky boat, but he did not flock to Tianzhu and other places like others, but loaded with cane sugar and tobacco leaves, and ran to the Ming Dynasty.

The rich people in the south of the Daming River are growing rapidly, and on the streets of Hangzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo and other places, a brick can be smashed out to a rich man with a lot of money.

Sugar and tobacco can barely be regarded as luxuries, and as soon as Gao Yihuan's ship arrived in the city, the goods were snapped up, making him make a lot of money, and the profit was not less than a trip to Tianzhu.

When he came to Daming this time, in addition to trade, he mainly picked up people.

After the reform of the Ming Dynasty's land endowment, only taxes were collected according to the acres of land, and no tax was levied, coupled with the abandonment of the road introduction system and the flow of population, the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty was not too strict.

Of course, the premise is not to be discovered, not too large-scale, otherwise if tens of thousands of people are pulled to Luzon, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not do it.

After the goods were sold, Gao Yihuan instructed Gao Laosan to pick up people in his hometown, he did not stay in Ningbo to die, but bought some silk, books, inkstones and other things and went to Japan.

In Japan, he sold the goods in exchange for Japanese swords, folding fans, and saltpeter, and took advantage of the relationship of Watanabe Shinjiro to recruit more than 20 Japanese here before returning to Ningbo to pick up people.

At this time, Gao Laosan had already led more than 100 people to wait here, but the daughter-in-law of the second brother Gao remarried with her children.

This news made the second brother feel sad for a while, but he didn't expect that his career had just started, but his daughter-in-law followed someone else, and the child also called someone else's father.

Thinking of this, it made the second brother feel remorse in his heart, and his heart ached.

For a while, he didn't want to stay in Daming, so he found someone to sell folding fans and some Japanese knives, leaving more than 300 Japanese knives and saltpeter, and then bought some iron tools and farm tools, and found a ship to Luzon, took people on board, and returned to Luzon with a disappointed expression.

This voyage took a total of five months, and by the time Gao Yihuan returned to Luzon, it was already February of the eighth year of his reign.

At this time, Luzon's boom in going to sea has not stopped, but after Gao Yihuan returned to the island, he did not participate in this wave of excitement, but devoted himself to the expansion of Gaojiabao and Sanhe Company.

Of the more than 100 people who were brought in, all the men were assigned to the guards of the Sanhe Company, and the women helped to deal with some miscellaneous items, and with the addition of the Black Domain, the Japanese, and the guards recruited before, the Sanhe Company already had one hundred and fifty strong men.

The second brother who returned to Luzon, it didn't take long for him to come out of his sad mood, and the fact that he was able to come to Luzon showed that he was a man who would not be bound by anything.

These 150 people, including the sophomore himself, were all trained by Shinjiro Watanabe and Zhao Guigui.

By March, the second brother felt that it had barely been like that for a while, and began to visit several nearby forts to discuss a major matter.

The area controlled by the Luzon State was only near Luzon Bay, and Gao Yihuan's group arrived in Luzon relatively late, and fled to Luzon to avoid debts when the Ming Dynasty broke out in a short period of economic turmoil, so they were assigned to the periphery of the national capital.

Being on the periphery means being harassed by the natives all the time, which is dangerous, but at the same time there are opportunities.

If he is near the national capital, there are other villages around, and it will be difficult for Gaojiabao to expand, but if he is on the periphery, there will be more opportunities.

Not far from the north of Gaojiabao, there is a native tribe of 4,000 people, facing Gaojiabao and nearby Zhaojiabao and Chenjiabao across a stream. Almost all of the nearby Han villages have been harassed by him.

After the Han people established a state in Luzon, the native nobles who were originally on the island were very dissatisfied with this. They felt that they should establish the state of Luzon, so they were very hostile to the Han Chinese on the island.

After Zhu Yihai established the country in Luzon, because of the lack of population and troops, he controlled Luzon Bay and drove away the nearby natives, but he did not go into the deep mountains and dense forests and fight the natives everywhere.

In principle, the Luzon court adopted a strategy of defensive counterattack, and co-opted some indigenous tribes to divide and disintegrate the indigenous people, and rarely took the initiative to attack the indigenous people before digesting the land of Luzon Bay.

At the end of March, the weather in Luzon is getting hotter.

At noon, twenty miles north of Gaojiabao, in the Turen village on the other side of Longxi, it was very quiet, the men were lying in the shade, drinking coconut water, eating melons and fruits, bored and smoking, and the women, under the scorching sun, were still working in the fields outside.

At this time, on the south bank of Longxi, a caravan drove several mule carts with four or five boxes on them, and under the escort of more than a dozen men, they traveled west along the stream.

On the other side of Longxi, several working native women straightened up from the field, saw the caravan from a distance, and felt a little surprised, they immediately washed their hands in the paddy field, wiped their bodies, and immediately ran to the house.

The leader of the natives was a man in his thirties, who was thin and had a gloomy face, and he was lying in a wooden house, swallowing clouds and mist, and when he heard that there was a Han caravan marching along the Longxi, he immediately stood up, lifted an iron knife, and stood in the middle of the village and shouted.

After a while, the local men who were sitting or lying in the shade in the house gathered in the middle of the stockade with spears, bows and arrows and other weapons.

The thin leader of the natives, who was not a few thin, immediately led two or three hundred topless natives wearing only a pair of shorts, hurried out of the stockade, ran to the front of the caravan, and then waded across the Longxi River to stop the caravan.

In the face of the sudden outburst of natives, the caravan slowly stopped, and a natives stepped forward and said in the native language: "We are from Wangjing, do some small business, and the leader is accommodating." ”

"Wang Jing? Doing business? ”

The thin leader smiled gloomily on his face, recently the Han people have been heavily guarded, and they can't even grab tobacco leaves, so they can't even say that they have met a caravan to do business. "What do you do for business?"

"We're here to buy some tobacco, chief."

The guards in the back lifted the oilcloth covering a car and leaked the yellowed tobacco leaves, and many natives immediately looked at it.

The leader was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately waved his hand, "Rob it!" The naked-knaked natives immediately swarmed up.

The leader took the lead, and at this moment, a guard next to the natives suddenly pulled out a Japanese knife from the tobacco, and when the knife flashed, the thin natives leader screamed miserably, leaving a slanted mark on his face, and was killed on the spot.

The sudden change stunned the natives who rushed up, and more than a dozen guards suddenly attacked, pulled out their swords from the car, held the handle of the knife with both hands, and rushed towards the natives······