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In several anti-Chinese incidents in the past, the natives of Luzon rushed into Chinese communities and committed murder, arson, rape and looting at will.
The Chinese cried and struggled helplessly, but what they received in return was only more inhumane abuse; and this time, their evil deeds were rewarded with evil.
After twenty or thirty Qin soldiers were "killed" in the native rebellion, Zheng Sihai not only ordered all the natives outside the city to be rounded up, but also those inside the city were not spared. Although they did not participate in the rebellion last night, they owed more blood debts.
The Qin army in Fusu City has tens of thousands of troops, well-equipped, so it is not difficult to deal with these natives.
Zheng Sihai ordered the four gates to be closed first, so as to catch the turtles in the jar and not let any of them escape.
Under the threat of gunpoint, the natives in the city were also driven into the "sheep pen" in the west of the city.
Outside the "sheep pen", the Qin army's rifles, thunder bombs, rockets, and even naval guns were watching intently. No one dared to rush out of the fence, and anyone who did was shot dead on the spot.
Fusu Port is full of ships, most of which were armed merchant ships of the Zheng family. Most of them have been converted into logistics supply ships by the Qin army, and now they are all used to transport people.
All indigenous women under the age of 45 will be taken as prisoners of war and transported back to Daqin to serve as maids or textile workers.
Another 50,000 young men were selected and sent back to Qinzhou, where they landed and were escorted to Changsha by the army that was sent to represent Guangdong and Guangxi to build roads.
The rest were sent to military farms in Luzon, where women over 45 years old were used to cook and wash clothes.
Of course, it was not easy to transport such aboriginal women back to Daqin, so many merchant ships also joined in. Most of them directly paid to buy aboriginal women, and then transported them back to Daqin for resale.
Aquino felt that he was lucky because he could still be the leader of the vassal army, still be the shogun, and his troops increased further, up to 5,000 people.
As the only lucky ones, these five thousand people and their families were both nervous and full of hope.
Zheng Sihai personally said in front of thousands of vassal soldiers: "You should be thankful that you did not suffer the same fate as them. This admiral warns you that if you do not follow orders and violate military law, you and your family will suffer ten times more than them."
Thousands of vassal soldiers, including Aquino, were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed. Aquino pleaded, "Admiral, we will obey your orders, absolutely, absolutely, and will never dare to disobey."
"In fact, I don't care whether you obey my orders or not. If you obey, you will benefit. If you don't obey, even if you flee to the deep mountains and old forests, we will definitely send people to kill you."
“We listen, we listen, we must listen…”
Zheng Sihai settled the families of these vassal soldiers in the city, and if anyone defected while carrying out orders, their families would be dealt with immediately.
He also implemented a system of collective responsibility among the vassal army. If one person defected, the entire team would be executed, so that they could monitor each other.
This made thousands of vassal soldiers work extremely hard.
In the military farm, the Qin army was only responsible for monitoring from a distance, and the work of supervising nearby was all undertaken by these vassal troops. If anyone was lazy, Aquino and his men would whip him hard, even more cruelly than the Qin army.
The Fusu Port was busy loading people with the constant influx of ships, but a Qin merchant ship returning from Malacca brought important news: the Dongwu Kingdom had once again invaded Siam on a large scale and had even reached Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam.
Ayutthaya was the name given to the capital of Siam by the Chinese in Southeast Asia. The Siamese themselves called it Ayutthaya, which is located slightly north of later Bangkok and means "the invincible city".
This "invincible city" did successfully resist the attacks of the invaders during the first two invasions by the Dongwu army and eventually repelled the enemy.
But will we be so lucky this time
Of course, whether Siam can keep its capital is not what Zheng Sihai and others are concerned about.
What they were concerned about was whether it would be beneficial or harmful to them if Siam could not resist the attack from the Kingdom of Dongwu.
Zheng Sihai once again summoned the generals of each camp to discuss the matter. Wang Guichen immediately became furious and said, "Admiral, Dongwu's invasion of Siam at this time is clearly a slap in the face of our Great Qin. This is intolerable! Admiral, please give me three camps of troops. I will go to Ayutthaya right now and teach Dongwu a lesson."
Zhao Han, the deputy minister, pondered and said, "General Wang said that Dongwu was slapping the face of Daqin. It barely makes sense. The envoy of Siam has just arrived in Nanjing to accuse your majesty of the crime of Dongwu invading Siam. Please ask your majesty to uphold justice for Siam.
Your Majesty also issued an imperial edict to the world to punish the Kingdom of Dongwu. At this time, King Helong of Dongwu did not go to Nanjing to apologize, but instead brazenly sent troops to invade Siam. This is equivalent to challenging the Qin Dynasty and not taking the Qin Dynasty seriously. "
This was exactly why Wang Guichen was furious. He immediately took advantage of the situation and said, "So the deputy minister also agrees to send troops to Ayutthaya immediately?"
"Not really." Zhao Han shook his head and said, "The entire Nanyang is like a chess game. Where should we make the first move and where should we make the second move? This requires an overall layout and we need to sort out the order first. Otherwise, we will only disrupt our pace if we treat the symptoms instead of the root cause."
Shi Lang also said: "I also think that now is not the time to attack Dongwu. In the entire Indochina Peninsula, Dongwu is the most powerful country, and its land area occupies two-thirds of the Indochina Peninsula. Its invasion of Siam is not necessarily a bad thing for Daqin.
It is not difficult for us to destroy small countries like Siam and Champa, but we lack a justification for sending troops. Let Dongwu Kingdom attack them first, or even destroy them first, and then the Qin army will have a reason to send troops.
Besides, the country is currently working hard to build a straight road, and the southwest has not yet been transformed into a state of common people. Without the cooperation of the army, it will be difficult for us to truly destroy the Dongwu Kingdom."
Zhao Han added, "General Shi is right. If we destroy small countries like Siam and Champa without any reason, the people will not be loyal to us and it will be difficult to govern. If we destroy Dongwu first and then send troops, it will be more beneficial for Qin to rule these places in the future."
Wang Guichen said: "Although what you said makes sense, we can't keep messing around in Luzon with our 10,000-strong army. Your Majesty wants to build a road, which will cost a lot of money and hundreds of thousands of laborers, and they all rely on our Royal Navy. There is no money to be made in Luzon for the time being.
General Hai went to Baguio to look for gold mines. He has been gone for more than a month, but there is no news. He does not know when he will find gold mines. It is not easy to mine gold mines even if he finds gold mines. Since everyone says that they will not dig holes in our country, why don’t we continue to go south and settle accounts with the Dutch in Java Island? "
Zheng Sihai shook his head and said, "The strength of the Dutch on Java Island cannot be underestimated. We have to leave some troops to guard Fusu City. It will not be easy to defeat them with only half of the South China Sea Fleet.
Your Majesty's edict clearly states that the British have agreed to cooperate with us, and I believe the Portuguese are also willing to join. Once the British and Portuguese have assembled their warships, it won't be too late to attack Java Island together. We can also get a feel for the British and even Portuguese's combat methods and capabilities, so that we can know ourselves and the enemy, and accumulate experience for future westward advances."
The Qin Dynasty's Royal Navy is still very young, even in its infancy. It is right to learn from the Western powers, or at least to understand them better.
Qin Mu warned them more than once not to become arrogant and to never give up on humbly learning from others. Only in this way could they become stronger.
In future naval battles, it will not be possible to block the enemy in the harbor like this time and maximize the power of our small and medium-sized warships.
In the future, naval battles with Western countries will mostly be fought in waters that are unfamiliar to the Qin army, so it will never be wrong to know more about the opponent.
Wang Guichen said, "It's a bit of a waste of manpower for all 10,000 soldiers to stay in Fusu City. Since it's not appropriate to attack Dongwu Kingdom and the Dutch for the time being, we might as well find a few weak targets to squeeze first, so that we can get more silver and labor for His Majesty."
Zheng Sihai laughed and said, "Of course, we have nothing to do anyway, so we have to let everyone go out for a walk."
"Alright, Admiral, where should we attack?"
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