Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

You Chinese secretly set up a Chinese school, I will endure this. You will secretly walk around Chinese newspapers and leaflets, and copy whatever I see.

As long as you don't disrupt the order of the big cities, I don't care about the local people dying in these remote areas.

But you shouldn't have. How can you smuggle arms? This was a big taboo!

The Spanish colonial government discovered the Chinese smuggling operation in June, when a massive gang fight broke out in the San Fernando area north of Manila over fifty hectares of rubber garden property.

In this damned place of Southeast Asia, gang fighting was so common that the natives, educated and lazy, would not and did not want to go into the wilderness, nor would they have any basic knowledge of agriculture, so they were always working for the Chinese who had the technology and capital.

The Europeans had their own plantations, of course, but the Europeans preferred the Ocean trade's fast money, which was very profitable, and did not like the tedious and boring way of growing them.

Even if the Europeans owned a large piece of land, they would still leave it to the Chinese stewards to take care of it while they went to enjoy the good fortune.

In the eyes of the Spanish rulers, the Chinese were a group of extremely docile skilled workers who, though less populous than the natives, could create the most wealth.

The greedy natives would never let go of a fat like the Chinese. They bullied the small Chinese population and united with the colonial government to start organized looting of Chinese assets.

There were often conspiracies to frame the Chinese landlords, framing them for killing, smuggling, and then sentencing them to confiscation of property, thus transforming them into looting.

In some areas with too few Chinese, the natives even killed Chinese landowners and took up property and plantations during the night.

In June, a 20-year-old Chinese family was attacked by native thugs in San Fernando. Fifty hectares of rubber garden were taken over by a native tribal elder.

This matter had aroused the anger of the surrounding Chinese people. The two recently established Chinese Hall, Dragon Lice Association and Wu Yi Southern Fist Hall had come to the Luzon's Chinese Hall for help.

Within three days, the Chinese gang gathered in San Fernando numbered more than six hundred. Local police and garrison troops stopped them, but the gangs were protected by local snakes and entered the rainforest.

The massacre lasted for a whole week. More than eight hundred warriors of the local tribes, who had been hiding deep in the rain forest, were killed by the clan leader and six elders. In the end, only a hundred handicapped men survived.

The women and children from the remaining tribes had all disappeared. They were all dead!

This massacre shocked all the other tribes in the rainforest. Nearly two thousand local people, armed with spears, javelins and even needles, started to encircle and intercept the Chinese gang members.

Now that things had gotten out of hand, the Spanish garrison had no choice but to enter the rainforest to suppress and mediate.

No one could believe their eyes. These Chinese gangsters were all American Spencer.

It was said that when the Spanish officer looked at the ridiculous Mini in his hand, he had subconsciously ordered the entire army to retreat one kilometre.

Spencer is not a very good weapon. His accuracy and range are not excellent, but what he is good at is the firing rate, firing rate, or even the firing rate!

In the tropical rainforest, the moment the two sides met, they would be shooting close range. Accuracy and range weren't important, what was important was the suppression of fire.

Originally, they thought that each of these gangsters would be heaven defying if they could defeat Spencer. However, when they secretly observed, they discovered that Spencer was actually equipped according to the quantity of 1.5 per person.

The six hundred gangsters had brought nine hundred Spencer rifles, and some of them were armed with standardized grenades.

With such a firepower allocation, killing the natives would be a slaughter. Even the Spanish garrison would not be able to withstand such firepower!

Who in the world could get so many Spins all at once? Other than the Americans, there were only Chinese, which meant that the Chinese were secretly smuggling weapons into the Philippines.

That was indeed the case. When the Chinese army started to popularize the Maoists, how would they deal with the weapons that were eliminated? Of course, they couldn't be destroyed by the backfire, nor could they be sold casually. Fighting the guerrillas in Southeast Asia was definitely the best choice.

Nine hundred Spencer's appeared in the Philippines. This was a huge case, and this time, no one cared about the natives anymore. The garrison was fully focused on killing these gangsters.

However, after more than ten days of sieging, the garrison had nothing to gain from the battle other than obtaining more than a dozen rifles and killing more than twenty Chinese gangsters.

On the contrary, these gangs' retaliation came very quickly. More than 20 brothers were killed in exchange for three months of assassinations of the garrison and local police.

After all, as long as they didn't go out of the military camp, they would be much safer. However, those policemen had no other choice but to come into contact with the society.

There were constant assassinations in the northern part of Luzon. Those Spanish Sheriff and aboriginal police officers, as long as they were alone, they would be attacked, shot, knife stabbed, and poisoned … There were all sorts of methods.

In the end, the police had no choice but to request the Chinese elders to come forward and negotiate, and the conflict ended with a promise to protect Chinese property from being infringed upon.

The open conflict was resolved, but the secret conflict continued. Bai Tila ordered a strict investigation of all smuggling operations, all ports had to be searched one by one, they absolutely could not let a single gun flow into the Luzon.

For a full six months, the Spanish garrison in the Philippines began a painstaking campaign against smuggling. Not to mention that they had made some gains, they had collected more than 500 guns of all types in just four months.

The results were plentiful, but the Governor was unable to smile. He had already found more than 500 vials, so how many could he possibly not find out?

Had the Chinese infiltrated the Philippines to this extent?

Bai Tila sent a telegram to Madeira, but the answer was that he had to try his best to stabilize the situation and prevent any serious conflicts from breaking out.

Bai Tila protested to the Ryukyu, but Xiao Hexin, who was left behind, vowed to increase public security and investigate the smuggling.

On one side, there was the inaction of the Home Country, and on the other, there was the ridicule and evasion of the Chinese.

At this juncture, just seven days before Christmas, an intelligence report from a French businessman in Hong Kong appeared on his desk.

"A lucky Chinese ship, the Dragonfish, headed from Hong Kong to Manila, will smuggle three thousand Spencer rifles. Explosions of all types will explode out in a ton and a half, with countless bullets …"

This piece of information scared Bai Tila silly, he could not tolerate it anymore, and the irritable Governor ordered for him to stop this smuggle boat!