As soon as Qiao Haipeng sent He Wu away, Lu Gambo came back. When he saw Qiao Haipeng, he complained: "Old Qiao, you asked me to say this about you, the occasion that you should have gone to, but you pushed me to the front line." ”

Listening to Lu Ganbo's words, Qiao Haipeng laughed and said, "You are indeed more suitable for such an occasion than me, I really can't do it." Did you tell them everything we meant? ”

Lu Gambo nodded and said, "I told them, they have no objection to taking a stake in our Far East Company and opening a branch in Manila, and even more than a dozen managing directors of the branch have been elected. Old Joe, do you think we're going to leave some people here? ”

Qiao Haipeng shook his head and said: "No, we went to sea for training this time, and we made such a big thing, and there were casualties, this is already against the order of the Military Commission, and I don't know how to explain it after I go back."

So this time we had to go back with all the staff fully loaded. If we keep people here, what do you want the company to think of our Admiralty, and I don't know that we think that our Admiralty has made a piece of land for itself overseas. ”

In the next few days, Qiao Haipeng, Lu Gambo and other naval officers and men, with the daredevils and some pirates, began to carry out a thorough sweep around Manila, all the way like a bamboo, as if entering a no-man's land.

Ever since they took Manila overnight, some of the Spaniards around them had long since fled, especially when they heard the news that the Spaniards in the Aj. Manila had been killed, causing a great panic throughout Luzon. All the Spaniards abandoned their possessions and fled by boat, fleeing alone.

The leaders of the various indigenous tribes of Luzon also came in person, and brought a large amount of valuable tribute. They were also frightened by the Admiralty's tactics, fearing to anger the murderous pirates.

The Manila branch of the Far Eastern Company was also opened under the guidance of a group of Chinese businessmen in Manila. The Far Eastern Company took a stake in the land and provided them with protection, owning 60 percent of the company's shares. In addition, it can further increase capital and shares in the future. The main business is to engage in overseas trade, and now it is just for them to maintain the prosperity of this place, and then to carry out real development and management when the Far Eastern company settles here on a large scale in the future.

He Wu recruited more than 2,000 pirates, all of whom were small fleets. Because they are all small stocks that have no backing, they can only do some stealing things at sea. Qiao Haipeng did not identify these pirates. All in all.

Anyway, these pirates are not ready to be reused, and in the future the Far Eastern Company will arm them aggressively. Later, let these Chinese pirates rob the Americas, Europe, and even the whole world, and go to all parts of the world to open up colonies. The Chinese of this era, except for these pirates. No one else can be a trailblazer.

After the capture of Manila by the Far East Company, it caused a great sensation throughout Southeast Asia, alarming the Dutch East India Company in Batavia. They also sent an envoy as soon as possible to meet with Qiao Haipeng. The struggle between Spain and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia was fierce, so the Dutch East India Company wanted to form an alliance with the Far East Company to deal with Spain.

Qiao Haipeng talked with them in a false way, and the two sides also signed an alliance contract in a similar way, and both parties were very satisfied. Far Eastern Company is a combat power that comes out. and cruel and ferocious methods, which made the whole of Southeast Asia tremble. Neither side wanted to make a fuss at this time, so a symbolic contract was signed.

For both of them anyway. A contract is no different from a butt wipe paper, and it can be torn at any time.

Even the Muslim pirates of Mindanao sent people to express their goodwill to the Far Eastern Company. These Muslim pirates and the Spaniards have been feuding for more than a hundred years, and the Spanish colonists are powerless against them and have been constantly harassed by them.

The Far East Company also recruited 2,000 local Chinese youths in Manila. The security forces that formed the Manila branch were specially hired to train a group of French mercenaries at a high price. I didn't expect them to have any fighting power, but they were just in charge of law and order in Manila.

The port of Manila was home to a large number of merchants from the Ming Dynasty, India, Arabia, and Europe. Merchant ships that come here every year crowd the port. Camphor and silk and ceramics from the Ming Dynasty, textiles from India, cane sugar from the Philippines, spices such as sandalwood, cloves and cardamom from the Moluccas, gold and pepper from Sumatra, camphor from Borneo, sandalwood from Timor, and tin from western Malaysia all converged to Manila and then shipped around the world.

Because the company would use it in the future, the Admiralty did not plunder the cargo of merchants from various countries. But this time the Admiralty also had a great harvest in Manila, where all the property of the Spaniards was confiscated, including real estate, shops, goods in warehouses, estates in Luzon, and a large amount of land, all of which became the pockets of the Far Eastern Company.

Of course, the most valuable are the large quantities of gold, precious stones and other valuables that are ready to be shipped to the Spanish mainland. and the personal belongings of Governor Victor, plus millions of pesos of silver on four galleons, this time it was a real fortune.

In addition to these large seizures, there were also large quantities of scattered silver coins, gold ornaments, gold and silver objects, and porcelain, which were distributed among the pirates and Dutch sailors. The Japanese Death Soldiers are now part of the company's regular troops, so they are not immediately assigned.

In addition, there are a large number of silk products, cotton cloth, porcelain, flour, tea, and lacquerware from the Ming Dynasty, blankets, cloth, and pepper from India, sandalwood, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, tin, cane sugar, and a large amount of grain from Southeast Asia. More than 20 sailboats were filled to the brim.

The Admiralty chose a dozen sailing ships in good condition, including four Spanish galleons, which were slow but sturdy enough to carry a lot of cargo, and could not have been better as logistical support vessels for the Admiralty. And their hulls were large enough that they could later be easily converted into sailboats.

Then there are the fast merchant ships of the British pirates. Although the British clipper and the Spanish galleon belonged to the same galleon, the concept of naval warfare of the two galleons was very different.

Spain's concept of naval warfare still cannot get rid of the thinking mode of land warfare. In fact, the Spanish giant ship is a mobile fortress on the sea, a carrier of the army. The dominant force in naval warfare was the soldiers who fought on the side, not the artillery.

However, the British Navy's combat philosophy believed that artillery would dominate future naval warfare, and designed a new type of warship, also known as "fast ships". Compared with the huge Spanish galleons, the clipper was much smaller in size, narrow and long, with a low broadside, and the front building was completely eliminated and the rear building was reduced, so that the center of gravity was greatly reduced, and it could be equipped with large-caliber heavy guns without affecting the stability of the hull.

Therefore, Qiao Haipeng decided to bring back to Vladivostok the twelve British fast merchant ships in the best condition, and if these twelve British "fast ships" go through a large-scale refit by the shipyard, their combat power will definitely rise by a few grades.

It is absolutely a once-in-a-century blessing to be able to capture so many British fast merchant ships in East Asia at once. Even India's British East India Company could not get together so many clippers at once. If it weren't for the conspiracy of these British royal pirates to loot the Manila galleon, it would not have been possible to gather more than twenty ships in the waters off Luzon.

Most of the Chinese in Manila are small traders and craftsmen, and they all work in Manila as carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors, masons, shoemakers, cooks, etc.

In Manila, even the sailboats of merchants from all over the world are most willing to hire hard-working and capable Chinese, many of whom do some middle-level management work on sailboats, and foreign devils abuse Filipinos like slaves.

Even the Spanish galleon Manila, all the cargo holds are packed by the Chinese, and they will use every inch of space to pack the goods neatly and without any waste.

For such Chinese, Qiao Haipeng has been red for a long time, and before leaving, he did a large-scale census of the Chinese in Manila, and then asked He Wu to lead the pirates, and very "politely" invited Qiao Haopeng to the Spanish royal city.

Qiao Haipeng and the officers and men of the Admiralty were very enthusiastic about these Chinese brothers and extended a warm welcome to them for taking the initiative to join the Far East Company. A bunch of Chinese were stupid at the time, and they all cursed in their hearts, when did I agree to join your company.

But when these Chinese saw the fierce pirates standing on one side and the terrifying Japanese daredevils on the other, and remembered that a while ago, they pulled out a cart of corpses of Francos from Wangcheng, and they had no choice but to sign a ten-year contract with the Far East Company very "willingly".

More than 1,000 of these Chinese were sailors who had worked on sailboats, and these people joined the Admiralty directly, and when they returned to Vladivostok, they received intensive recruit training. They may not be as good as the Dutch sailors, but they are much better than the new and old officers and men of the Admiralty, and after the training of the recruits is over, they can go straight to work on the sailboats.

The remaining 2,000 or so are artisans from all walks of life, as well as farmers and herders near Manila, where most of the infrastructure work in the development zone was completed last year, and the requirements for labor have changed.

After several months of winter training to eradicate illiteracy, tens of thousands of Liaoning people can also select a large number of excellent conditions to enter the staff technical school, but if they want to make the various enterprises in the development zone operate, they still have to face a large number of labor shortages.

Without a large number of workers in basic industries, no matter how much equipment you have and no matter how advanced the technology is, it is impossible to make the enterprise work. And these Manila Chinese, who have a strong skill, have a much stronger foundation than those Liao people who are mainly farmers, and after a period of training, they can go to work faster than Liao people.

They had been working here for almost a month to get things done in Manila. After finishing the affairs of Manila, the fleet was loaded with supplies, and quietly left Manila in the early morning of one day. (To be continued)

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