Gao Yihuan looked at the cavalry, galloped away, and hurriedly unfolded the file to see, Gao Yiyan, Gao Laosan and several other men surrounded him, with a worried look on his face, and asked one after another, "Second brother, what's the matter?" ”

Luzon required that all firms be registered with the government, how many ships there were, and what style of ships they were, and then the government issued a flag to the firm.

If the official ship is not checked, it can be traded with the Ming Dynasty in Luzon, and if it is not checked, it is smuggling, once it is found, the ship and the goods will be confiscated, and the person will be arrested and seen as an official.

This is naturally done for the sake of tax collection, and it is also convenient for the government to grasp the information of the firm.

The tax in Luzon is not high, and even in order to attract businesses to come, the tax is lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, so the general business will go to the government to register, and Gao Yihuan's Sanhe Company is no exception.

He unfolded the file and read it quickly, it was a requisition order from the government, Luzon was preparing for a decisive battle with the Spaniards on the island of Sulu, and all the ships on the island were requisitioned to help in the war.

Gao Yihuan sighed and closed the scrolls, "The king is going to have a decisive battle with the Spaniards, and our Sanhe company is registered and will be ordered to go to war." ”

The forces on the sea are complicated, and after going to sea, there is no royal law, and it is all on their own, so even the merchant ships have guns and cannons, and they are a sailor when they are gathered together.

Luzon had few small people and could not afford to raise sailors, so only some of the main warships were retained, and the remaining ships were basically transferred to various merchants, which was also a means of hiding troops from the people.

In fact, not only the sailors, but also the land divisions in Luzon were only maintained at about 3,000 people, and the rest were all forts for joint defense and self-protection.

Although there are not many land divisions in Luzon, when they fight with the natives, they use tens of thousands of exercises, although they are not well trained, but they can still fight the natives.

When Gao Yiqi and the others heard that they were going to fight the Spaniards, they were shocked and said in a panic: "Then why don't we go to Daming?" Second brother, the goods are going to be loaded onto the ship, can you not go? ”

Compared with going to the Ming Dynasty, going south to fight the Spaniards is undoubtedly more dangerous, and several men immediately discussed.

Gao Yihuan was silent for a while, shook his head and said: "It's definitely not okay if you don't go, the ship didn't go to sea, and the government recorded miles." If we don't go, we won't be able to enjoy preferential tax payments in the future, and the government will leave a foundation and some ways to deal with us. ”

Gao Yiqi hesitated: "But we only have two cannons!" ”

"Let's get the goods to Zheng Guogong to exchange them first!" Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice.

Gao Yiyan and the others still stood reluctantly, and Gao Yihuan had to say again: "The Spaniards are nesting in Sulu and eyeing Luzon, not only threatening our route to the south, but also preparing to attack Luzon at any time. If we don't go, and if other businesses don't go, then our Luzon country will be a plate of scattered sand, and the king will not be able to fight Spain. ”

Gao Yihuan glanced at them, and said seriously: "Take a long-term view, don't just take care of your own altars and jars, you have to consider the overall situation, if everyone is not united, let the Spaniards kill back Luzon, then what's the use of you guarding this little thing, you forget the more than 20,000 Han people who died in Luzon before?" ”

This group of people are all from the countryside, and they still have a strong small-scale peasant mentality, so they think about their own one-third of an acre of land, and they don't want to look at the external environment and lack the overall situation, but this is also determined by China's social structure.

Hearing Gao Yihuan say this, everyone moved, and I don't know if they understood.

After a short time, the goods were loaded, which was originally to be transported to the Ming Dynasty to exchange for silver, but now they had to take it to the Zheng family to exchange guns, and everyone was reluctant.

Gao Yihuan called more than 30 men to his side and said, "We are going to sea, and the artillery on the ship must be missing, so it is better to take this opportunity to complete the cannons." Now the king is going to fight against Spain, and it will be in our favor if he wins. After beating off the Spaniards and making the route safe, we happened to be on our way to the land of the Black Domain. ”

"What the second brother says to do, let's do it!" Someone among the men said.

Seeing this, Gao Yihuan immediately said: "Okay, Gao Yi, I will leave you ten brothers, and twenty black clans and muskets will also be left for you." You show me Gaojiabao, if something goes wrong, I can't spare you when I come back. The other twenty-eight brothers, plus twenty black clansmen, all got on board and went with me to help the king in the battle. ”

Gao Yihuan founded the Sanhe Company, still wanting to make it bigger, and if he wants to become bigger, he must first follow the government, and secondly, he must be able to go to India and the big food trade, so he must go.

After he finished ordering, he waved his hand, "Let's go back and prepare, let's leave in the afternoon!" When they heard this, they went back to the fort and packed up.

Since the beginning of last year, when the Spanish occupied Sulu, the route from Luzon to Johor has basically stopped, and trade has been seriously affected.

The goods that the merchants collected in Luzon could not be transported to the Mughals in exchange for money, which caused the merchants to lack money and do other things, which in turn caused the tax revenue of Luzon to plummet.

By this year, Luzon was a little unbearable, and the major merchants could not bear it, but they could not sell the goods bought from the Ming Dynasty at a high price, so the merchants were also eager to defeat the Spaniards and restore the smooth flow of routes.

At the end of August, Luzon received news that the Spaniards were running out of action on the island of Sulu. There was a revolt among the Sulu people on the island, which caused many problems for the Spaniards. This made Zhu Yihai and Zheng Chenggong feel that the time was ripe and they could fight.

At this time, Spain had 30 large ships, and the flagship St. Philip was a giant ship with a length of 70 meters, a mast height of 50 meters, a weight of 1,200 tons, and 90 guns, including 30 24-pounder guns, 36 18-pounder guns, and 24 12-pounder guns, with a crew of up to 550 people. In addition, there are 4 warships with 70 guns and a crew of about 1,000 tons with a crew of 350 people.

Spain had already declined, but the rise of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the policy of opening the sea, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's alliance with Portugal and Spain against the Netherlands a few years ago, allowed Spain's silver mines in the Americas to continue to buy goods from the Ming Dynasty.

These five ships were the main force of Spain in Sulu, and the remaining 25 were a little worse, mostly armed merchant ships and baggage ships, but they were all equipped with artillery, with more than 50 ships and fewer more than 20 guns.

On the Luzon side, the flagship is Zheng Chenggong's three-masted gunboat, equipped with 70 guns, about 1,000 tons, but the largest cannon is only an 18-pound Hongyi cannon, and the 24-pounder cannon is only equipped with three ships by the strong East China Sea Division, and the main warship of the Luzon Naval Division is still not as good as the Spanish flagship.

There were only 5 thousand-ton gunboats of the Luzon Naval Division, and most of the rest were armed merchant ships of fortune ships and merchants.

Gaojiabao was not far from Luzon City, Gao Yihuan set sail in the afternoon, and arrived at the bay outside the capital at dusk, along the way there were many armed merchant ships flying the Luzon flag to come with them.

This made the men who were hesitant before suddenly a little excited for no reason, and their hearts were full of enthusiasm.

They didn't know that this was a collective sense of honor hidden in their bones, and the senior senior on the side saw a ship and exclaimed, "Another one, are you going to fucking Spain?" ”

Along the way, they have seen more than 20 large ships sailing in the direction of Luzon City, which makes them feel that "the road is not alone".

The sun was sinking in the west, and the sea was sparkling, and at this moment they had entered the bay, and the wide sea was full of ships, most of them of three-masted shape, but there were also many small boats, no less than five hundred.

Gao Laosan looked at the flags hanging on those ships, his face turned red, and he pointed and exclaimed, "That's the ship of Quanzhanghui, ah, the ship of Zhenhai Merchant is also here······

Gao Yihuan glanced at him and said with a smile: "Don't shout, their big business doesn't know how many goods they have in the backlog, and they are more anxious than the king to defeat the Spaniards, how can they not come." ”

Saying that, he shook his head, "Okay, let's find a place to park the boat first, and then go to Zheng Guogong to change the gun······"

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