Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1465 Changes in Southern Border ([-])
Liu Xin's major is geography. Before that, the main function of her major was very simple, that is, to indicate where there are mines, how big the reserves are, and how high the grade is.Other than that, it didn't play any other role.

But this time is different, Liu Xin's major seems to have been used by her in another aspect.She told Gao Wushi that although she had never been to Manila, she had learned a little about Manila during her "study days" and knew where the city was first established.

"School days" was obviously said in order to avoid Gao Mo who was on the side hearing what he shouldn't have heard. Gao Yushi was very clear that she was referring to the college days.

Liu Xin said that she learned that Manila's entry point is two churches, one is called Manila Cathedral and the other is called St. Augustine Church.As far as she knows, these two churches were established when the Spanish colonists first entered the Philippines, especially the St. Augustine Church. She "clearly remembered" a sentence: "The St. Augustine Church is located in the central area of ​​the colonial capital of Manila."

From this, she believes that the current location of Manila can be accurately judged from the location of these two churches, especially the location of St. Augustine Church.

The location of St. Augustine's Church is very simple. It is not far from the south bank of the Bashi River estuary, and its location is not far from the sea.As for the later city of Manila, it extended to the interior with the development of the city.

"You mean, the heavy artillery of the fleet can bombard the city of Manila by the sea?" Gao Wushi asked with some surprise.

"I'm sorry to tell you that it should be impossible." Liu Xin sighed and said, "St. Augustine's Church is nearly two miles away from the sea. I don't know what heavy artillery can be effective against the Spanish bastion at such a long distance. harm."

Sea-going ships obviously cannot go directly to the shore that is not a deep-water port, that will lead to grounding, so the distance of two miles is not a feasible bombardment distance.

In other words, if Gao Shishi wanted the Beiyang Fleet to bombard the city of Manila directly by the sea, unless Jinghua's artillery had an effective killing range of more than three miles to the bastion - this is pure nonsense.If there is no accidental intervention, the artillery in 100 years may not be able to reach this level.

Seeing Gao Wushi's regretful face, Liu Xin couldn't help but joked: "What's the matter, did you think that the Nanyang Fleet used black tigers to steal their hearts and directly took away the great achievements of Shenglong City?"

Gao Wushi laughed and admitted frankly: "It's hard not to think about it."

Liu Xin also smiled, and then said: "The people of Annan must not have imagined that the battle could be fought like that, so the city wall of Shenglong City is too close to the Red River, and Jinghua's fleet can be bombarded in the river. But the Spaniards definitely don't want to." They will make this kind of mistake, after all, they are 'overseas colonists', how could they not have thought of guarding against enemies coming from the sea? So it is predictable that the trick will not work against Manila."

"So, what's your solution?" Gao Wushi asked.

"My method is actually not a new method. This method is almost useless in the hands of the ancients." She stood up and took a piece of paper from the high-level desk, and took a charcoal pencil unique to Jinghua, I simply drew a few strokes on it to form a minimalist map and showed it to Gao Pragmatic.

Pointing to the map, Liu Xin said: "Look, Manila City is here, and the sea area outside is Manila Bay, which is a natural shelter from the wind. The river to the north is the Pasig River. The river is relatively wide. Although the runoff is not small, due to It is an estuary, so the water flow is not very urgent, which is suitable for engineering operations."

"Huh?" Gao Wushi's heart moved, and he interrupted: "Do you mean engineering work..."

"It's exactly what you think - dig a section of river from the south side of Pasig River to store water, and when the water is full, suddenly blow up the temporary reservoir and flood the city of Manila!"

"Hiss..." Gao Wushi gasped, and asked tentatively, "Manila City has not been established, but there are at least 3 to [-] people in the city."

Who knew that Liu Xin rolled her eyes directly, and said angrily: "Gao Situ, I was born in the Ming Dynasty, and I have been used to killing and bleeding since I was a child. their appearance.

For me, since the opponent has become an enemy that needs to be resolved by combat, there is essentially no difference whether to blow him up with gunpowder or drown him in river water.As for whether it will cause civilian casualties?Sorry, I can't pay that much attention in this era, as long as the casualties are not civilians of Ming Dynasty. "

Gao Yushi was a little surprised and said: "You seem to have misunderstood what I mean. I mean that the Spaniards gathered 3 or [-] people in the city so quickly, which means that most of the powerful people around Manila may have been forced to urbanize by the Spaniards. .

And this means that if these people lose a lot, then in a period of time after the war, the commercial capabilities of Manila itself will inevitably decline significantly, and the locals..."

"How useful are the locals?" Liu Xin said disdainfully, "Although I don't care about politics as much as you do, I've heard about the lazy, ignorant and anti-China traits of the Nanyang natives.

In my opinion, since you are planning to seize Luzon, it is best to treat Luzon as another Taiwan.Only by using a large number of Chinese immigrants to change the local population structure can it be truly controlled and achieve long-term stability.This is the same as the naturalization household registration system that you pioneered in Annan. "

Well, Gao Wushi agreed, nodded and said, "You mean that short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. Why don't you take advantage of this battle to change Manila's blood?"

"That's right, and I even suggest that you consider changing Manila's name, just like Dingnan, changing it to a Chinese name."

This is true, just like the Philippine Islands. The name actually refers to Philip II. Of course, Philip II did not name it himself. It was the colonists' way of currying favor with him.

But Gao Wushi heard what Liu Xin said, but he thought that the name Lu Song was actually incomplete.Incomplete means that Luzon does not actually refer to the entire Philippine archipelago, it is just a large island in the Philippine archipelago.

In addition to Luzon, there are eleven major islands including Mindanao, Samar, and Mindoro, and the entire archipelago consists of more than 7000 islands.From this perspective, it is not very appropriate to use one Luzon to refer to the entire Philippines.

As for Liu Xin's thought of exchanging blood, Gao Pragmatism actually agrees with it. Judging from the situation in the Philippines in later generations, exchanging blood should indeed be better.

Although the Philippines has been inhabited by humans for a long time, as a broken archipelago country, its civilization developed very slowly in ancient society.Compared with the Eurasian and African river basin regions in the same period, the social division of labor among the residents of the Philippine Islands has always been relatively rough.

From the perspective of natural conditions, the development and agricultural conditions of the tropical Philippines in the early days of civilization were very poor, and the Philippines was one of the countries most affected by typhoons in the Western Pacific, which was a hellish start for the ancient agricultural society.

Similarly, limited by the small land area and rugged terrain of the islands, although the islands in the Philippines are not far apart, even without the action of external forces—referring to the strong intervention of people with a higher degree of civilization—it is difficult to integrated into one unified country.

To be honest, even in the 21st century, geographical differences are still evident in this archipelago.The Philippines is comparable in size and population to a province of China, but there are 182 independent languages, of which 19 are officially recognized as teaching languages.

The country is small but there are many ethnic groups and languages, and the islands lack the conditions and necessity for mutual communication, so deep ethnic integration is difficult to achieve.

In addition to language, religion is also an important factor in the lack of centripetal force in this archipelago country.Before the Spanish colonial rule, the main religion in the Philippines was primitive tribal beliefs, and each island and each tribe had different main gods.

There are also obvious differences in the social development status of the various island groups.Before outsiders ruled the archipelago, four main social forms had been differentiated in this country of 7000 islands, namely hunter-gatherer tribes, bandit-like military tribal alliances, highland agricultural social groups, and city-state-like port political entities.

In underdeveloped conditions, different parts of tropical islands are often controlled by different powers, and each island repeats this pattern, resulting in more fragmentation within and between islands, and loose alliances.

In the early days, the different regimes on each island maintained exchanges with the outside world. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, they had close trade relations with China and were included in the tribute system of the central dynasty. The widespread Chinese cultural symbols in the relics unearthed in the Philippines have been confirmed.

Compared with the influence of the Central Plains culture, the impact of another Asian civilization on the Philippines was obviously more direct and in-depth—at the end of the 14th century at the latest, Green Cult spread from Sumatra to the Sulu Islands in the southern Philippines. The continuous entry has greatly affected the Sulu Islands.

Different from the local island tribal civilization, the members of the Green Cult have a stronger sense of group identity and a more efficient organizational form.In this context, a Green Sultanate around the Sulu Sea was established, including the Sulu Islands, eastern Kalimantan, Palawan and a number of islands in the southwest.

In later generations, 83% of the Philippine population believed in Catholicism, and another 9% were influenced by the United States to believe in Protestantism.In the southern region, after hundreds of years of colonization, the belief and religious activities of the Green Church are still preserved.

While Spain was frantically colonizing and plundering the American continent, it also sent a team of titans to conquer the Philippine Islands.This titan is Miguel Lopez Legazpi, and the city of Legazpi in the Philippines is named after him.

From the perspective of Spain, Legazpi’s achievements as the Governor of the Philippines can be described as the greatest contribution. Under his rule, he did the following major things:

The Spanish Philippines established several colonies centered on Cebu Island;

Expedition to Luzon dethroned the soil king and established Spanish administration in most of the Philippine Islands;
Construct the city of Manila, making it the western hub of trans-Pacific trade, and later the capital of the Philippines;

The full implementation of Catholicism made the images of white people such as Jesus and the Pope the spiritual sustenance of the indigenous people of the Philippine archipelago, which facilitated the colonial rule of the Spanish and allowed the islanders to have a common Catholic identity;

Resisting the expansion of Portugal, Japan and the United Kingdom externally, suppressing the uprising of indigenous tribes internally, and continuously consolidating the Spanish government's rule over this colonial area.

Simply put, without the Spaniards, Manila would not have emerged, let alone rise.Gao Wuzhen is now going to capture Manila, which is actually a bit like a magpie's nest.Of course, he will never have a bad conscience.

Based on the above circumstances, the change of blood and name mentioned by Liu Xin is indeed necessary.Changing the name is easy and doesn't take much effort, but if you want to change the blood, you have to plan and prepare in advance.

The impact of the Little Ice Age in the Ming Dynasty has become more and more obvious. Previously, Gao Pragmatism had planned to emigrate from the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and North Zhili regarding the immigration of the newly built Fuxin and Dandong cities.In fact, the victims of the disaster are obviously not limited to this time. When will there be no disasters now?
But then again, when Gao Yushi migrated people from Daming to various places in southern Xinjiang, he generally paid attention to "placement nearby".For example, in Annan, there are mainly Ming people in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian provinces; in Taiwan, people in Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian are the main ones.

Although the disaster victims from the provinces along the Yellow River Basin are occasionally sent to southern Xinjiang, the number so far is still relatively small.It’s not that Gao Yushi thinks that the northerners can’t stand the heat in the south. This is actually not that serious—the European colonists didn’t die from the heat. Could it be that the Ming people in the North China Plain and the Huanghuai Plain would die of heat?

The key here is the cost issue. After all, the distance to the nearest migration is shorter, the adaptability of the migrant population is better, and the resumption of production and work is faster, so Jinghua does not need to spend too much effort.

Moreover, at this time, the northern provinces usually grow wheat. After going to southern Xinjiang, they must switch to rice. Don't think this is a trivial matter, but it is actually a very troublesome matter.At least in the first few years, when the immigrants were not yet familiar with the various conditions of rice cultivation, Jinghua needed to spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to help them.

It was not a big problem to do this in the past, because Jinghua had abundant cash flow at that time, but now it is still very nervous, and doing so will obviously put pressure on Jinghua itself.However, if Jinghua does not invest enough, it will in turn lead to a decline in the productivity of the immigrants, and even threaten their survival, which in turn may lead to low enthusiasm for subsequent immigrants.

In short, if one hair can move the whole body, one must first be prepared.

However, when Gao Wushi was still thinking about how to carry out these preparations in an orderly manner, Liu Xin said, "Also, I think you'd better not treat the attack on Luzon as an isolated operation."

Gao Wushi was taken aback, and asked, "How?"

Liu Xin curled her lips and said, "You hit the Spaniard in the Philippines, what do the Portuguese in Malacca think? I know that the Spaniard and the Portuguese have a serious rivalry, but no matter what they are now, they are still under one king. From Philip II It can be seen from the plan to attack the United Kingdom from Lisbon that this religious lunatic king has a good control over Portugal.

So once he knew that the Philippines was lost, wouldn't he ask the Portuguese to help and start making trouble for Jinghua?If you want to avoid this kind of trouble, I think the easiest and most effective way is to take down Malacca first, and completely drive the Spanish and Portuguese empires out of Nanyang. "
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