Lin Fei knew that Yuan Zhengxiong had something important to talk about, so he looked at him intently, and Yuan Zhengxiong finally said: "It's not very easy to beat Brother Bato." ”

Lin Fei asked, "Is there anything difficult about Cotabato?" ”

Yuan Zhengxiong said: "Cotabato was established by the Spaniards after destroying the Majindanao Sultanate, and the purpose of establishing this city is to prevent Muslim counterattacks, so the city wall is more than ten meters high, Cotabato is still the center of Spanish rule in Mindanao, and the governor of Mindanao is in Cotabatar, I see that his troops are not 3,000 but 5,000, you want to fight there, but you will pay a big price." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Thank you Mr. Yuan for reminding me, I remember, but Cotabato has a large population and many factories, so I have to knock it down no matter what." ”

Yuan Zhengxiong heard Lin Fei say this, laughed twice, and said no more, Lin Fei asked him to go back, and then began to arrange the matter of marching to Cotabato.

Cotabato is located in the middle of Mindanao, more than 200 kilometers away from Wuduan City, there is no road in Mindanao at this time, and it takes a long time to walk more than 200 kilometers, so Lin Fei decided to adopt a step-by-step strategy, taking the villages between Wuduan City and Cotabato one by one, turning these places into his own logistics base, and then attacking Cotabatar.

Lin Fei took out the list of villages and distribution maps counted by the Spaniards, and found that there were 35 villages with a population of more than 5,000 people, more than 40 villages with more than 1,000 people, and the number of agricultural population around Wuduan City was about 400,000.

Lin Fei thought to himself, I might as well use economic control methods in these villages, the people in these villages will definitely come to Wuduancheng to sell grain in exchange for salt, cloth, tea, wine and other items, I will force the villagers to use RMB for exchange, and when the RMB circulates in the villages, I can use RMB to buy grain and recruit migrant workers.

At this time, the first batch of renminbi had already been transported from the city of Baza Khai and sent to the Bank of Santander to exchange for pesos and gold in the city, so I didn't need to do much with economic control, but it was not enough to have economic control, but I also had to find a way to win the hearts of the people and make the people in these villages willing to support the Chinese Empire.

Is there any way to get them to submit willingly? Land reform is definitely a good way to do it, in this era in Mindanao, land is the only means of production, and in the absence of outside intervention, the means of production will certainly be gradually concentrated in a small number of people, that is, there will definitely be a group of people who will own a large amount of land, and there will be landlords in the villages.

If I take the land of these landlords and distribute it to those landless peasants, I will not worry that they will not support the Chinese Empire, and after seizing the land, I can also recruit Chinese to plant, so that the population of the Chinese Empire will be larger.

However, land reform is not an easy task, first of all, you need to carry out land clearance, to figure out how much land there is and who owns it, which is not too worrying, because the Spaniards have carried out land clearance, and the relevant numbers are recorded.

After the land is cleared, someone will need to carry out the reform, and it does not take too many people to implement the reform, because after arriving in the village, you can let go of the local Chinese, but even so, the candidates must be carefully considered, and the people who implement the reform need both soldiers with guns and literati who can speak well.

The role of the military was to subdue those who dared to disobey, and the role of the literati was to publicize the exploits of the Chinese Empire and make the locals loyal to the Chinese Empire.

Lin Fei made up his mind, so he told the General Staff about his plan, and asked the people of the General Staff to make a detailed plan.

Lin Fei heard that it was Niu Dalong's voice, raised his head and rushed to the door and said, "Come in." ”

Niu Dalong pushed the door in, Lin Fei was stunned when he saw it, only to see Niu Dalong's face was bruised, his clothes were torn, and he was fighting with people at a glance, Lin Fei never allowed any fights in his own troops, Lin Fei's creed was that what kind of ability to fight his own people, and he had the ability to fight the enemy on the battlefield.

Lin Fei frowned, with anger in his tone, and said, "You fought with others? Didn't I say you weren't allowed to fight? ”

Niu Dalong said aggrievedly: "Report to the captain, I didn't fight." ”

Lin Fei slapped the table and said angrily, "No fight? So what's going on with your face and clothes? ”

Niu Dalong raised his head and said stubbornly: "I was beaten by someone, I didn't fight back, it's not a fight!" ”

Lin Fei almost laughed angrily, he slapped the table lightly and asked, "Who were you beaten?" ”

Niu Dalong said: "An old farmer. ”

Lin Fei burst out laughing, pointed at Niu Dalong and said, "Haven't you practiced fists and feet?" You often brag about what kind of closed disciple you are, why was you beaten by an old farmer? ”

Niu Dalong said helplessly: "He is a Chinese, and he is a handful of age, so I am embarrassed to fight back." ”

Lin Fei asked, "Why is the old man still so angry?" Why did he hit you? ”

Niu Dalong said: "I took people to patrol the grain store today, and found that several peasants and the grain store owners had a dispute, and I went to ask only to find out that those farmers were here to sell grain, and they refused to accept renminbi, but they had to ask for gold. ”

Lin Fei's heart moved, and he secretly wondered why the Chinese didn't use the renminbi? If this is spread, it will be extremely detrimental to the prestige of the Huaxia Empire, Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What about those peasants?" ”

Niu Dalong said: "We have caught them, and now they are outside." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "Call the one who is the leader." ”

Niu Dalong walked out, and after a while, he brought in an old man in his fifties, who was dark-skinned, wrinkled, and white, and his face was full of fear.

Lin Fei stood up, moved a chair for the old man, asked the old man to sit down, poured another glass of water for the old man, and asked, "Old man, which village are you from?" What do you call you? ”

When the old farmer saw Lin Fei so gentle, his panic went a little and said, "I am from Dawaxi Village, and my Chinese name is Zhang Wu, so I won't mention my Spanish name." ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Dawasi Village? I know that village, it is the closest to Wuduan City, there are more than 10,000 people in the village, and it is one of the largest villages in the vicinity of Wuduan City. ”

Zhang Wu Lao nodded, and Lin Fei then asked, "Old man, why don't you use RMB?" ”

The old farmer sighed and said, "These grains must be exchanged for gold, otherwise my family's life will ...... It's gone! After the old farmer said this, his eyes were full of fear, and his tears actually fell down.

When Lin Fei saw that the old peasant was so scared, he was furious, a murderous aura covered his face, and he said angrily: "Who is so bold that he dares to bully the Chinese under the rule of my Huaxia Empire?" Don't be afraid, old man, who said this to me? ”

The old peasant's face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice, "Yes...... It's the Bishop. ”

Lin Fei was stunned for a moment and asked, "Bishop?" What bishop? ”

The old farmer said: "There is a church in the village, and the head of the church is called the bishop, and his name is 'Dado', and more than half of the land in the village belongs to them, so we can only rent their land and plant, and after planting, we will give them more than half of the harvest." ”

It turned out that in Mindanao, the Spanish rule in the grassroots villages mainly relied on the Catholic Church, which nominally carried out religious activities, but secretly took advantage of the privileges of the Spaniards to occupy land and plunder wealth.

Most of the villages in Mindanao are Muslims who believe in Islam, and the Catholic Church has a conflict of faith with them, and they dare not blatantly bully Muslims, but the number of Chinese in Mindanao is the smallest, and the Central Dynasty is not only far away, but also regards these Chinese who go to the South Seas as "traitors" and does not pay attention to them at all, so the helpless Chinese have become the target of wanton oppression by the Catholic Church.

Lin Fei knew all these things, he originally planned to clean up those Catholic churches when the land reform was carried out, but he didn't expect them to oppress the Chinese so much, so Lin Fei said to the old peasant: "Don't be afraid, old man, I will make decisions for you, when will the bishop let you go back?" ”

The old farmer said, "Just go back by tomorrow evening." ”

Lin Fei said: "Okay, you stay with me for one night first, and then tomorrow I will take the land reform team to your village in person and destroy that bullshit bishop!" ”

The old peasant said suspiciously, "Is what you said true? With a large group of thugs under the Bishop and three quick guns, can you be an opponent? ”

Niu Dalong laughed on the side: "Why don't you talk with brains like this? Our Emperor His Majesty wiped out all the Spanish troops in Wuduan City, hear it clearly - it's the Spanish army, everyone has a fast gun, our emperor can even destroy them, and he is still afraid of a group of thugs? ”

Niu Dalong got the old peasants out as he spoke, and Lin Fei immediately asked the General Staff to step up the implementation of the candidates, and the next morning, a land reform team was built, which consisted of 100 people, two of whom were seconded from the army, 80 were newly trained city guard soldiers, and the rest were people in charge of propaganda and administration.

This was the first time that the land reform team had carried out a mission, and it was about the future of the Chinese Empire, so Lin Fei took five members of the sniper team to follow him in person, and went out of the city to Dawasi Village.

Everyone walked forward quickly, and soon approached the village, when Lin Fei suddenly noticed a strange thing.

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