Chen Lizi never expected that his words of expanding the Americans actually made Lin Chunhong propose an enterprising policy of exploring the ocean...

He once thought that his proposal to expand the Americas was already shocking, but he never thought that Lin Chunhong was even more crazy than him. Not only was he full of greed for America, but he also turned his attention to all unknown seas.

In fact, the expansion of the American business was a countermeasure that he and Li Siming had just come up with after Chen Tianyao made it clear that he was unwilling to be a concubine. They believed that whether it was trade with the West or trade with the local Ming Dynasty, the local Han people in Luzon were not rivals of Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Jingzhou merchants. Instead of fighting with the merchants on these routes, it would be better to find another way and make a way that others could not walk or dare not take.

A policy of developing routes in the Americas came into being.

Compared to Lin Chunhong's view of the future of China, Chen Lizi felt that he was a little short-sighted.

He suddenly thought that this was a great era, and any troubles in this era will always be remembered by history and worshipped by future generations.

Chen Lizi suddenly became confused by whether he was the time to play tricks or to stick to the cautiousness of businessmen.

Just as he was very confused, Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "If anything is not driven by profit, it is a tree without roots. As long as the Han people can work hard to explore the ocean, even if they attribute all the income from the newly discovered land to explorers, what's the harm?"

These words made Chen Lizi suddenly realize. What’s wrong with fighting for profits of business? Where can we expand without competition? This time I was thinking about developing routes in the Americas, isn’t it just for the profits of business?

Chen Lizi felt that in this month, he had lived for two lifetimes again. The extremely powerful Spanish authorities, like a building that was about to collapse, avenged his blood. Then, Lin Chunhong painted an extremely beautiful prospect for him, almost making him crazy.

After a deep conversation with Lin Chunhong, Chen Lizi formally invited Lin Chunhong to the Chen family for a banquet in five days. Lin Chunhong was about to take the opportunity to get to know the Han people on Luzon Island, so he agreed happily.

Besides, he was very curious about the lovely daughter of the Chen family and was a little looking forward to seeing Chen Tianyao again.

In the past few days, the negotiations between Li Siming and Hidalgo are being carried out closely.

Hidalgo seized the weakness of Bangtai in protecting the lives of the Han people in the city, and directly treated the Han people in the city as hostages, constantly threatening Li Siming, declaring that Spain could give up Luzon, but they had to leave safely.

This condition was naturally rejected by Li Siming.

Li Siming proposed that if the Spaniards want to leave safely, they would not agree to share the Pacific route and allow the Han people to go to Acapulco to lure trade.

Hidalgo dared not be good at it and asked Koquela for instructions.

How could Koquera have this power to decide this? And he also knew that His Majesty the King would rather give up all the Spaniards in Luzon than agree to this condition.

As a result, the negotiations fell into a deadlock.

During the stalemate, the Dragon and Tiger Army and the Dragon Guard Army finally took action and easily captured the Vera Fort within two hours. Bangtai used his fierce military actions to show that even if the Spaniards killed all the Han people in the city, Bangtai would not blink.

The barefoot ones are not afraid of wearing shoes, Bangtai does not take the lives of the Han people in the city seriously at all, and Koquela loses his last bargaining chip.

Bangtai did not take the lives of the Han people in the city seriously, but he dared not. He was sure that once a large-scale attack on the Han people occurred in Manila, all 60,000 to 70,000 Spanish people would be buried with these Han people.

So, Koquila had to order Delibes to protect the Han people more strictly.

Just when Koquila was at a loss, Li Siming proposed the revised conditions at the right time: in the 31st year of Wanli, those who participated in the massacre of Han people must pay their blood debts; after the 31st year of Wanli, those who violated the Han people must be handed over to Bangtai for disposal; if there were no obvious evil deeds, they must serve hard labor for ten years, and after ten years, they can obtain temptation.

At the same time, Li Siming also listed the list of beheading and being tried, and Coquila and Delibes were on the list of trials.

Coquila could not accept this condition at all. According to the charges listed on the list, he and Delibeth were likely to be hanged.

Moreover, some deadly members on the list saw that they could not survive, and frantically shouted to kill all the Han people and fight to the death with the pagans outside the city.

The situation in Manila City is becoming increasingly uncontrollable.

This made Koquila extremely anxious and immediately sent Hidalgo to continue contact with Li Siming.

"Dear Lord General, you will be defeated by the death of the enemy. You are not willing to see the end. Please consider our conditions seriously. Our conditions are that the Governor General and Major General Delibeth cannot be listed on the trial list anyway. The years of hard labor should be limited to three years."

Hidalgo almost burst into tears and begged. He knew that once the negotiations between the two sides broke down, he would have to pay the price of his life, and Li Siming, who was sitting on the other side, just needed to speak and issue an order to attack. The future and fate of both sides were so different, which forced him to be extremely anxious.

Li Siming said calmly: "Koquila and Delibes must be on the trial list. However, General Lin has the virtue of living a life and can promise that when Coquila and Delibes are tried, they can be pardoned! After the pardon, Coquila and Delibes must also serve hard labor for ten years."

Li Siming finally relaxed the conditions and gave Koquela and Delibes a way out, which gave Hidalgo some hope. He continued to plead: "The ten-year period is too long, so please reduce the period to three years!"

Li Siming said without any doubt: "Since the Jiajing period, you have started to serve the Han people on the island. How many Han people have been sent by you over the years? I have been very kind for ten years. Please don't be too arrogant!"

Hidalgo said with a bitter face: "When the Spaniards in the city heard that they would serve hard labor for ten years, they all expressed their willingness to fight to the end. If you persist, you may not get anything in the end."

"Oh? That's down to eight years?"

"No, four years!"

"Six years! No more fewer, if there is less, all the Han people on the island will have to be violent and chaotic!"

Hidalgo's face was solemn, and he thought for a long time, and nodded, "I want to go back to the city to ask the Governor, and please wait for a while with peace of mind!"

...

Finally, Coquera signed the surrender book and raised a white flag in Manila. All the Spaniards became prisoners, waiting for Bontai's mercy.

On the day of surrender, some unwilling Spanish launched a riot and were easily suppressed by the well-prepared Dragon and Tiger Army and the Dragon Guard soldiers.

The Dragon and Tiger Army and the Dragon Guard Army quickly controlled the entire Manila, drove all the Spaniards out of the city, and transported them to Guangzhou, Jinpu and Qiongzhou in a row.
Chapter completed!