Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1500 Luzon New Era (Part [-])
It is not the first time for Gao Pragmatism to rename a city. For example, Dingnan City, which is under construction, can actually be regarded as the renaming of Bangkok in later generations to some extent.

As for Manila, it is one of the top cities in Asia in later generations, and even enjoyed the reputation of "New York of Asia" for a period of time.

The city was not built from scratch by the Spaniards on a wasteland, and its history can be traced back to 3000 BC.According to the research of later generations of scholars, the aborigines of Australia first discovered and migrated to Luzon Island and became the most primitive residents of Manila.Subsequently, Malays and Polynesians also settled here.

As for the origin of the place name Manila, there is such a saying: In the middle of the 16th century, there was a gate fort next to the river and facing the sea near the ruins of the later ancient city.In this fort and its vicinity lived a water nation named Dejiale, who was a descendant of Malay immigrants.

At that time, except for the dense residential area near Zhabao, the rest of the place was a desolate wilderness, with a vine and white flower plant growing over it. The Dejiale people called it Maynilad, and the Tagalog language was called Maynilad. Its Chinese transliteration It is "Menil", and the city got its name from this, which means "the place where there are flowers".

After the Spanish colonists invaded and occupied the city of Menila, it was designated as the colonial capital, and construction was carried out to expand it.At that time, Legazpi, the governor of the Philippines, changed his pronunciation slightly and renamed it Maynila, which means Manila.

Prior to this, the city prospered rapidly during the Tangdu Kingdom period, especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to direct trade with China. From 1485 to 1521, the Bolkiah royal family of the Kingdom of Brunei took advantage of the prosperous trade between the Kingdom of Tangdu and Ming Dynasty to establish the Kingdom of Manila nearby.

Afterwards, the Kingdom of Manila became a satellite state of the Kingdom of Brunei and paid tribute to it every year.With the influx of businessmen from Arabia, India and Southeast Asia, Green Cult spread rapidly in the Kingdom of Manila.

On June 1571, 6, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the conqueror of New Spain (Mexico), invaded and occupied the Philippines from the mainland of Manila. Castles and forts were built.Since then, Manila has been the capital of the Spanish colonial authority in the Philippines.

From 1565 to 1851 in the original history, the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade lasted for three centuries, promoting trade in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

During this period, silver from Mexico and Peru was transported to China, India and Southeast Asia via Manila, silk from China, gemstones from India, and spices from Southeast Asia were also transported to various parts of Europe, and red wine and olives from Europe and North Africa Then it was transshipped to Manila via Mexico.

All in all, it can be regarded as a world-class maritime trading hub during this period.

At this time, although Gao Wushi only said "it can be considered", Liu Xin said: "My personal suggestion, if you want to change the name of Manila, you'd better do it as soon as possible, don't all the people below get used to it, and you suddenly order the name change , not only will everyone have to forcibly change their words, but it will also be more troublesome administratively, at least a lot of changes must be made in various aspects of writing."

"Oh...then change the name to Fubo City." Judging from Gao Yushi's very casual attitude, he probably didn't think much about it at all.

"Fubo?" Liu Xin thought for a while, nodded and said, "This name is good, it has a good meaning, and it sounds very Chinese. I have the impression that there was a general Fubo in the Han Dynasty, Ma Yuan. The word 'horse leather shroud' came from It came out of his mouth, does your name have anything to do with him?"

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "You can also understand it that way, after all, this is one of the reasons."

Liu Xin nodded slightly, and replied: "Then I will record it first." At the moment, there was no ink on her desk, so she picked up Jinghua's unique charcoal pen to write down, and asked: "What should Fubo City do in the future?" It still exists as the capital of the Kingdom of Luzon?"

"Of course, do I have to bother to build a new Luzon capital?" Gao Wushi leaned his head back again, closed his eyes and said, "I don't think that's necessary for the time being. The location of Fubo City is good. Fubo Bay (Manila Bay) is a large natural good port, and there is a more famous but smaller natural deep-water good port in the northwest of it, which is..."

"The Subic Bay Naval Base of the U.S. Army before 1991." Liu Xin interjected: "In [-], that place was covered by volcanic ash, and then it was taken back by the Philippine government. When I was in college, the teacher talked about natural disasters. Mentioned this."

"I said, why did you pay attention to this back then." Gao Wushi suddenly said.

"Then how did you pay attention to it?"

Gao Wushi spread his hands: "I'm different from you. For men, military fans and puppet military fans are very common. For example, Cam Ranh Bay, I also attach great importance to it, right?"

"Oh, that's true." Liu Xin smiled and asked, "Then there is Sasebo in Japan, don't you also covet it?"

Before Gao Wushi could answer, Liu Xin suddenly remembered something by herself, and said in surprise, "Oh, you chose Shimadzu's house as Jinghua's bridgehead in Japan. Could it be that you are going to Kagoshima Bay?"

Gao Wushi shook his head: "Your words have revealed that I didn't care about history and the military. If I wanted to choose a military port in Japan, how could I choose Kagoshima Bay? Yokosuka, Kure Port, Sasebo, Maizuru, etc. Better? Even if I have to be in Kyushu, then I should choose the Omura family, anyway, Omura Kizen has Sasebo in his hand."

Liu Xin resentfully said, "Who is Omura Kizen, I've never heard of it."

Gao Wushi still didn't open his eyes, and said indifferently: "This person... a brief introduction: trash."

"Pfft!" Liu Xin couldn't help covering her mouth and sniggering: "This introduction is indeed simple and straightforward, but what did he do, and why do you judge him so?"

"That's where the problem lies." Gao Wushi sighed: "During the time of great changes like the Azuchi-Momoyama era, I don't even have any impression of what this guy did. Do you think he might not be a waste?"

Liu Xin was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly said: "So that's the case... But there is some truth to what you said."

Of course, in an era where heroes are born in large numbers, he is unknown, and he didn't even get the opportunity to be a sharpening stone for others, so he just became a transparent person, so what kind of character can he be expected to be?
Gao Wushi brought the topic back, and said, "Don't think about expanding your sphere of influence, we just won a horse... Fubo City, now we should first consider how to recover the entire Luzon Island, And how to bring the entire Philippines under the rule of the Kingdom of Luzon, these are serious matters."

Who knew that Liu Xin's answer was extremely simple, she opened her eyes wide and said, "What's there to think about! The Spanish navy was defeated, and the army's strength is far inferior to mine. How dare they stay in Luzon Island?
As for continuing to go south, it is also very simple. We have obvious advantages in military strength, and the Philippines is a land of archipelagos. As long as the navy seals the island, the land division will transport it over and beat it up.

I estimate that the Spaniards should withdraw all the way directly to their hometown in the Philippines - the island of Cebu, which was the first to land.However, Cebu Island is not big, and it is in the middle of the archipelago. There are other half-sized islands in the southeast, northwest, and it is easy to be blocked.

In other words, as long as you are sure that it is impossible for Spain to send large-scale aid, they will not be able to stay in the Philippine Islands at all.After the expeditionary force regained the entire Luzon Island, as long as they pushed all the way south, the Spaniards would leave sooner or later. "

Gao Yushi didn't comment, but asked: "Then what about other small local kingdoms, especially the southernmost island of Mindanao, I remember that there are also small countries like Maguindanao."

"I guess what you are asking is not how to fight, because it is impossible to have any major difficulties in beating them. Are you worried about the name of the teacher?" Liu Xin shook her head and said, "It doesn't have to be so troublesome. These small countries have a certain meaning Generally speaking, they are just political orphans, and they have never had any strong allies or backers. You can conquer them in the name of the Kingdom of Luzon."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "Under absolute strength, the name may indeed be a dispensable thing, but if it is not difficult to obtain, I am still willing to get it first before doing it.

It is indeed possible to directly conquer in the name of the Kingdom of Luzon, but have you ever thought about it? From another perspective, this is also for the Kingdom of Luzon.Especially for some uncivilized natives, if they can't turn their heads, they may even think that their "Kingdom of Luzon" is so powerful-note that he may not know that this is the strength of Jinghua, but It is not the strength of the Luzon Kingdom. "

"Oh, you are afraid of causing this kind of misunderstanding." Liu Xin seemed a little surprised, but she nodded, and after thinking about it, she said, "Not to mention, in this age when people's wisdom has not yet developed, and in this kind of people's wisdom' Especially in undeveloped areas, those natives may actually have this situation."

She flattened her lips slightly, and frowned, wondering: "But in this case, the name of being a teacher is not so easy to find, especially if you still want to be a teacher of civilization, mighty, and victory." ... and so on, it's even more troublesome."

"It may not be as troublesome as you think." Gao's pragmatic tone sounded quite leisurely: "There is an old but very useful routine, do you want to listen to it?"

"Oh? What kind of trick?"

Gao Yushi said indifferently: "I will serve the emperor to ask for disobedience."

Liu Xin suddenly realized when she heard the words, but she felt that there was a small problem with this sentence, and said: "It seems that the original sentence of this sentence should be 'follow the emperor to order you not to be a minister'?"

"If the order is not obeyed, how can I refuse to ask for it?" Gao Wushi snorted softly: "For example, the order of the emperor is to order Luzon to unify the Philippine Islands. Can those small countries that are to be unified agree? I think they may not be so talkative , so in the end we still have to 'discuss' anyway."

"Are you so sure that you can persuade the emperor?" Liu Xin was a little puzzled: "You sent troops this time, and you didn't have any formal edict to approve the action in advance. After that, you want to make up for the ticket, and you plan to use the tiger's skin as a banner. Don't worry about what the emperor will think this time?"

"You worried too much this time. It's easy to make up the ticket at the emperor's place for sending troops this time."

"why?"

Gao Wushi spread his hands together, and Shi Shiran said: "Because this war is very simple in nature for the emperor, it is a 'private fight'-the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is about to expand its business to Luzon. It is expected that the Spanish Governor’s Office of the Philippines saw that the money was open, and temporarily raised the tax rate again and again. The Maritime Trade Alliance couldn’t persuade it, and finally couldn’t bear it, so it had to come and teach the Spaniards who don’t talk about credibility.”

Liu Xin snorted and asked, "If you want to explain the reason for the outbreak of war in this way, then if the emperor asks you what is going on with the Luzon Kingdom, how will you answer?"

"It's enough to answer truthfully: we are teachers of gentlemen who have received the excellent traditional education of the Ming Dynasty. How can we remain indifferent after discovering that the Kingdom of Luzon has fallen, and don't take the initiative to help them 'survive and die'? Don't you think so? "

Liu Xin said with a smile: "Yes, that's right. But if it's just 'survival', how can you persuade the emperor to issue an edict to let Luzon unify the entire Philippines?"

"I have inherited a fine tradition. I don't know if you have heard of this tradition: if you are poor, you will put aside disputes, and if you are rich, it has been since ancient times." Gao Wushi finally opened his eyes, and said with a half-smile: "Of course, I will fight with the emperor on the bright side. It is said that if the Philippine Islands are not fully controlled, then the Kingdom of Luzon, the silver transit point in America, will not be safe enough."

"Aha, I understand." Liu Xin laughed: "You have been promoting the new Ming Dynasty banknotes under the silver standard system, and the emperor must have known the importance of American silver, so you plan to use this One point was used more thoroughly, making him think that Luzon, a silver transfer station, must be in his own hands to be safe.

However, the Ming Dynasty had always had some internal constraints in mobilizing troops abroad, most of which were words like "warrior must die", so it might not be convenient for the imperial court to go out in person.Coincidentally, it was not just Jinghua who came to fight Luzon this time, but almost the entire noble family of the Jingnan clan... The noble family and the royal family are almost like vines and trees, so the emperor must be more at ease in this way. "

"Hahaha, Secretary Liu, your political consciousness is improving day by day, and the Headquarters is really gratified."

"Praise and praise are all due to the boss's advice." Liu Xin replied pretending to be coquettish, and then asked in an even more coquettish tone: "But boss, you see, I have been working with you for so long. Didn't even give me a day off, isn't that a little too much?"

Gao Wushi was startled, and said in surprise, "Do you want to rest, or do you have something to do?"
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