Chen Ju calmed down, and his calm made Chen Mu realize that he had said too much - no one cares what he wanted to do, others just wanted to know, whether he knew what he was doing.

Xu Wei hand-translated "Seaman Treasure Mirror" by Chen Mu was beaten back. Except for asking Xu Wei to help him write a document to the cabinet, Chen Mu had almost no place to use this talent.

Mr. Xu, who thought he was a military advisor, was ordered to write a book in Manila, and influenced him with the essence of famous generals in the southern border such as Yu and Qi. Chen Mu named it "New Book of Naval Battles". He asked him to compile it and then send it to Chen Mu for a review. After correction, it was sent to Guangdong Martial Arts Naval Academy as a textbook.

It is not easy to be an aide to the Chen shogunate.

This handsome man had almost no time to use others in military strategy, because he and his staff were both disgusted and basically knew nothing about the Philippines.

Manila's shipyard and gun casting factory are precious treasures given to Chen Mu by Salcedo. Manila has no shortage of wood, and there is no shortage of craftsmen. The Spanish used Han craftsmen from building cities to building ships and guns here. From the most powerful empire in East Asia, they had the best skills and were competent for almost all work except design drawings.

The Spanish drawings made up for the shortcomings of the Han craftsmen, from the bastion to the Garen ship, from artillery to heavy muskets, all design drawings, and even captured Spanish blacksmiths were willing to work for Chen Mu, as long as he was not allowed to work hard to repair the city wall.

However, Spanish blacksmiths are not very useful in their craftsmanship. Their name is Louis. Their father's surname is too long to remember Chen Mu. This name is basically the kind that comes out casually in Spain, just like Deng Zilong's boat. It obviously lacks the love of parents and reveals a low background.

Chen Mu asked this, this was indeed the case. He was a blacksmith who became a monk halfway through the journey. His father was a farmer. After fighting for several years, he was recruited into the army. After fighting for two years, he was recruited to serve as a boatman on the ship of Navy Colonel Salcedo, and then he went to Chen Mu's prison.

Chen Mu knew more about building weapons than he did, but he was very talented. It was not easy to be a blacksmith in the lord's village in Spain. He could write and calculate. In the past, he had his very conspicuous blacksmith shop in the center of Binnodo, Manila.

In addition to craftsmen, he was also a dentist, veterinarian, surgeon and livestock shop, and a business intermediary for farmers. He was appointed as the village chief and church director of Binnodo, although only three days later.

The Luzons and Han people in Binnodo took three days to select him, and one day the Spanish municipal officials in the royal city ruled that after three days of being the village chief, Chen Mu rushed into the city.

General Chen accidentally destroyed a blacksmith's Spanish dream of leaping through class.

But it doesn't matter. Louis is now the deputy of Manila magistrate Zhao Shizhen, who is mainly responsible for collecting taxes and raising iron and wood materials required for sailing and artillery.

Manila's shipyard is very large, and the Spanish are ambitious in the Eastern colonies. It seems that this shipyard is specially built for making Garen ships. However, perhaps because the days are short and the necessary tools for building large ships are not perfect enough, but this is not a big problem for Chen Mu - he did not plan to build large ships in Manila at all.

He only needed the Manila Shipyard to provide him with a continuous small shark boat in a year, and the large boat was still built by Nanyang Guard and Guangdong.

Before July arrived, he met Lin Daogan, whose fleet was intercepted in Manila, and another brave and warlike pirate under his command joined. However, he did not let Lin Daogan meet with Lin Feng, so he had a better place to go.

The pirate leader who came from Fujian was under his command of nearly 100 white-haired ships of 400 materials, more than 2,000 pirates mixed with old and new pirates and more than 1,000 women and children. In addition to old-fashioned muskets, mesh rope bird guns, small cannons and other weapons, there were also agricultural tools, seeds and rations. This was an excellent immigration team.

Chen Mu conferred Lin Daogan as the Thousand Houses of Sanyu, ordered him to land on Sanyu with his subordinates, and allowed him to wipe out the Western barbarians on the island to set up three Thousand Houses, and elected two Thousand Houses to train troops in Sanyu Agricultural Reclamation to defend all the Spanish people they saw.

Because Chen Mu's next goal is Minduro Island in the south of Luzon Island, which is a large island, where gold and copper are produced. Sanyu Island is the three islands southwest of Minduro Island, and is a strategic island that guards the route. With forest roads there, it can prevent the Spanish from reinforcements from Malay or support the war in the Minduro Island in advance.

However, Chen Mu was not in a hurry to raise troops to Minduluo Island, because it had been raining since the end of June.

The rain in the Philippines is worrying. Because Chen Mu didn't know which rainy season or typhoon came first, he was not going to continue to advance southward. He just sent troops to sweep Luzon Island to help Suleiman clear the rebel tribes on the island, then measured the land and formulated tax laws.

This is a headache.

"Even the land is not measured, how did Luzon collect taxes in the past?"

Listening to the rewards of Zhao Shizhen's recent work, Chen Mu put down the Ming Dynasty bird gun aiming at the haystack, turned around and looked at Zhao Shizhen helplessly.

He believed in Zhao Shizhen's talent. Although he was not a Jinshi, he was also in the Imperial College for more than a year of study abroad. However, he never expected that the management of the land would start by measuring the land, and the tax laws were even more blank.

"In the past, Luzon State was ruled by several great leaders. Manila was Tangdu to the south, Manila followed the villages on the coast to Chenlai Island, and Suleiman; climbed the mountains eastward and other leaders, who each collected taxes from their respective tribes, and collected more points in a good harvest, less points in a desert, and last time they measured the land in the year of Yongle..."

"Wait, wait." Chen Mu raised his hand and walked towards Zhao Shizhen and asked, "If they don't collect taxes in a unified way, how can the Western Yi collect taxes here?"

I don’t know what Chen Mu’s words made Zhao Shizhen think of, Secretary Zhao, no, the magistrate Zhao looked at Louis angrily and bowed to Chen Mu, “Ming Gong Ming Jian, the Western barbarians are shameless, and their tax collection depends on the race and country! They only collect commercial taxes from Manila, and the nobles were assigned to various places near Manila and enjoy fiefs, which gave them enough food and drink.”

"The Western barbarians do not collect taxes when buying and selling in Manila. The Western barbarians pay twice the tax, the Luzons and the Han people pay twice the tax, and we Han people pay four times the tax!"

Zhao Shizhen raised four fingers exaggeratedly and widened his eyes. Chen Mu rarely saw the scholar who was slightly crooked in his skill tree so indignant, but he was very calm. Even if he didn't know the four times the tax, the unequal treatment of the Han people under the rule of the Spanish was only expected.

He also bullied the Portuguese in Haojing because he grasped the lifeline of those merchants and could still make money even if he paid more taxes. The Portuguese would not object, which was exactly the same as the Han merchants in the Philippines.

"The Han people pay four times the tax, why can the mixed-race Han people pay half the tax, Mr. Louis." Even as expected, Chen Mu was still unhappy. He looked at Louis with a bad expression and said, "Can you answer this question for me?"

"Big, sir, I'm just a blacksmith. I don't understand. I only heard of it a little." Louis's life was held in Chen Mu's hands. He was extremely afraid of the young physiological general and said stutteringly: "In New Spain, the natives resisted fiercely. Although they were suppressed, people were worried that they would rebel again in decades. After all, we have few people...so."

"Kill men, turn their wives and daughters into slaves, and make their descendants think they have noble blood to eliminate their will to resist, because many people have a Spanish disease with sores."

Chen Mu raised a finger and tapped his temple, looked at Zhao Shizhen and then looked at Louis, saying, "I remember, some of you want to attack the Ming Dynasty and have children with our women. Is that the same purpose?"

"damn it."

"When the money that was wearing a crown on the Iberian Peninsula pays back the money I owe me, all the ports in the Ming Dynasty will charge them ten times the tax. These low-cost things!"

Good morning, today is the origin tip for syphilis. Syphilis: The French name "Naples Disease"; the Naples talked back and insulted the French ancestors, calling it "Gallic Disease". Italy, the British and Germans called it "French Disease" because it was brought back by people who joined the army in France; Russia said it was "Polish Disease" because it was transmitted from Poland; Poland said it was "German Disease", Denmark, Portugal and some areas in northern Africa called it "Spanish Disease."
Chapter completed!