After two days of cleaning, the results of the Battle of Manila were finally counted.

In this battle, the Ming army killed 103 people, and 353 injured, most of whom were injured when filling the moat under the city.

The Ming army killed more than 800 Spanish soldiers and more than 3,600 indigenous soldiers. The remaining more than 4,000 were all captured, including 58 officers, including Governor Salquedo.

More than 4,000 captured people, many of them were seriously injured, and hundreds of them died in two days.

Because the Ming army lacked medical treatment, they gave priority to treating their own people and ignored the prisoners. In the end, the seriously injured prisoners died without treatment.

During this period, there was a proposition from the Zanghua, who was full of sympathy, and the prisoners should be given priority, so that the foreigners in the observation group could experience the style of the Ming Dynasty's great power.

However, the Ming army's chief general, Huang Degong's adopted son Li Yu, rejected the proposal. He said, "These smelly black and white devils have caused trouble for this general. I have not killed them one by one, and I still want to occupy our army's resources to dream."

Abusing prisoners is an instinct for animals, and preferential treatment of prisoners is a political need.

To put it bluntly, the praise painting is analyzed from a political perspective. The starting point is to better implement the military ideological construction formulated by Zhu Cilang, so that soldiers can overcome the instincts of animals, and thoroughly implement the political program.

In the end, this incident reached Zhu Cilang's ears. This kind of idea was very advanced, but he did not intend to adopt it.

Because in his eyes, a hundred Spanish and indigenous people were not as precious as a Ming soldier, what is the face?

If the Ming army had sufficient medicine, they could barely treat a few prisoners. Now I can't even care about it, so I can't save it.

However, Zhu Cixuan was deeply impressed by the proposed praise painting. This person was a courageous and visionary talent who could express such opinions under pressure in this environment.

Zhu Cilang made an exception and summoned the Zanhua and asked about his name.

The painting of the pamphlet is called Yao Qisheng. He is nearly thirty years old, with a medium figure, slightly shaped body, and has short beards on his chin. He looks very neat and looks smart.

When he reported his name, Zhu Cilang raised his eyebrows and looked at him twice more.

Li Yu did not have any unpleasant views on Yao Qisheng because of his unrelenting opinions. On the contrary, Li Yu tried his best to introduce Yao Qisheng in front of Zhu Cilang.

"Your Majesty, the last general heard that Yao Qisheng has been a heroic spirit since he was a child. When he was young, he encountered two soldiers plundering a woman. He stepped forward and pretended to persuade him, seized the sword and killed the soldiers, rescued the woman and sent it back to his house."

Seeing that the leader appreciated him and strongly recommended him to the emperor, Yao Qisheng was excited and felt that his life was full of hope.

Who is Li Yu the adopted son of Duke of Jingguo Huang Degong? Now Huang Degong is the chief military minister, in charge of the Tianwu Army in Zhili and guarding the capital, which is a high power

Li Yu himself is also an earl, and his future is unlimited. He has appreciated and recommended it, but his future is poor.

Just when Yao Qisheng was excited and Li Yu was recommending it hard, Zhu Cilang waved his hand and said, "I understand, you guys should step back."

Li Yu was a little confused. Didn’t Your Majesty like Xia Wanchun who helped him when he saw something wrong? Why did Yao Qisheng and Xia Wanchun have similar experiences? Why didn’t they win the Sacred Heart?

Naturally, he did not dare to ask the emperor on the spot, so he had to quietly retreat with Yao Qisheng, who was also confused.

"Yao Qisheng"

Zhu Cilang muttered silently and stopped thinking about him.

Those famous figures in history, Mr. Zhu has seen many famous people over the years, and Yao Qisheng can't even be ranked.

However, when it comes to knowing Yao Qisheng, Zhu Cilang knows a lot more than the young Li Yu, a minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, and a guy from Taiwan.

The reason why Zhu Cilang didn't like this person was also due to historical reasons. He did not exclude all ministers who worked in the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

For example, Li Guangdi and Zhou Peigong, who was only aged when Chongzhen hanged, was still underage, and Yao Qisheng

Yao Qisheng was born in the fourth year of Tianqi. In history, when Chongzhen hung the southeast branch, he was already in his early twenties, but he followed the Qing Dynasty and entered the Han army's red flag.

An adult Han man, who was also a scholar from Zhejiang, did not join the Southern Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing army captured Jiangnan, he took the initiative to go to the area of ​​Beijing to seek official positions.

No matter what big thing you did later, you have no homeland philosophy, your butt is crooked, and your character is broken

To put it bluntly, it is no different from a traitor, and it cannot be compared with Xia Wanchun.

Of course, in this era, Yao Qisheng was a praise of the Ming army and a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Cixuan had no strong malice towards him, and he simply disliked him, so he would do whatever he should do.

It is obviously impossible for Yao Qisheng to take a shortcut in the Tianwu Dynasty, and it will never be possible in this life.

Zhu Cixuan continued to look through the list of seizures handed over by the Pianhua Department with great interest.

The Ming army found a large number of gold and silver in Manila City, with a wide variety of gold and silver coins from various countries, as well as some gold and silver ingots, and even many dragon yuan from the Ming Dynasty.

After a rough estimate, this time, property worth about four million silver dollars was seized.

What surprised Zhu Cilan was that one-third of the money was found in Augustine's Church.

It seems that these foreign monks in Manila are also the ones who became rich first. While spreading the gospel, they have excellent methods to make money.

In addition, the Ming army also occupied the Manila shipyard and seized more than a dozen ocean-going merchant ships, which were of great value.

This time, I sent troops to Nanyang, not only did I lose money, but I also made money

No wonder colonial expansion is a powerful means of the original accumulation of European capital. It turns out that this money is really easy to make money. Really rob money.

Zhu Cilang was very happy. The Ming Dynasty not only made a strategic breakthrough, but also earned all the wealth accumulated by the Spanish in the Luzon region for more than 80 years of colonization.

Next, Zhu Cixuan would use the Pacific route opened by the Spanish to open up the trade line to the Americas, and sent a fleet to sea to find Hong Chengchou and other two Tartars.

The grass is cut without eradicating the roots, and the spring breeze is blowing again. Zhu Cilang is also very concerned about the old traitors such as Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui.

The secret spies of the Jinyiwei have long been overseas, mainly in South Asia and Europe. There was not much infiltrated in the land in the Americas by the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the strict supervision of the Spanish, the spies of the Jinyiwei could only first invade into the Governor's Manila's Governor's Office, and then cross the Pacific Ocean to the Americas with Spanish merchant ships.

It took a long time to pass on the information, and it was extremely inconvenient to transmit information.

So far, Zhu Cixuan has only received a piece of information from the Americas, saying that the Second Tartars had arrived in North America, and Hong Chengchou also established the Great East Kingdom and actively expanded to the outside world.

This information was obtained by the spy of the Jinyiwei in the Spanish colonial palace of the American colonial government. It was obvious that the Spanish realized the threat of the Great East and wanted to suppress them.

Zhu Cilang was in a good mood and summoned the Navy Minister Chen Shouchong and ordered him to organize a fleet to go to the Americas as soon as possible to collect intelligence and immigration activities.

According to the archives of the Governor's Office of Manila, in 1600, there were 250,000 Spanish people in the Americas, including mixed races, and about 30,000 Portuguese in Brazil.

Two hundred thousand in Britain, France, the Netherlands and other countries such as Denmark, Sweden also migrated to North America and the Caribbean, but half died of illness.

After fifty years of reproduction, Zhu Cixuan speculated that there are currently about 500,000 Spanish and 50,000 Portuguese in the Americas, mainly in Mexico and South America.

It is very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to capture the vast Spanish colony in America, so it must be well prepared.
Chapter completed!