Chapter 1970： Be the first to occupy the Philippines

Marin remembers that it seemed that he waited until about 1565, when Spanish talents sent troops to occupy the "land of no ownership" in the Philippines. The Spaniards are not without grounds. Their legal basis is that although the Treaty of Todd Silas stipulates the "Papacy Meridian", it does not specify the dividing line in the eastern hemisphere.

After Magellan's voyage around the world proved that the earth was round, the two sides did not immediately determine the "reverse side of the earth" dividing line in the lower eastern hemisphere.

Therefore, the Spaniards later used this as an excuse to dismiss the account, and forcibly occupied the Philippines with the undecided dividing line of the eastern hemisphere, and put forward the shameless claim that the dividing line of the eastern hemisphere was bounded by the western side of the Philippines, which made Portugal popular. However, there is no way to refute ...

No way, when the Treaty of Todes Silas was signed, neither the Spaniards nor the Portuguese knew that the earth was round, and they did not determine the maritime route in the eastern hemisphere. Later, the Spaniards relied on this, and the Portuguese were helpless. Because, according to the "Pope Meridian" stipulated in the Treaty of Todd Silas, the east of the meridian is returned to Portugal. To the west of the meridian, all return to Spain ... And the Philippines, if the pope meridian has been going west, it can also be reached ...

Of course, this refers to the original historical situation. This time and space, because of the crossing of Marin, has undergone tremendous changes. Spain, which had originally monopolized the Americas, gave up the Americas under Marlin's ignorance and instead competed with Portugal for half of India's spice trade. Then, the original Treaty of Todd Silas was also abolished.

After that, the coast of Africa, the countries of western Asia, India and Malacca, and the Ming empire were clearly classified as the “territories” of the Portuguese. However, in addition to the Malacca region, which is clearly a Portuguese colony, several other countries and regions in Southeast Asia did not clearly belong to which country.

It was on this basis that Spain had drilled the loophole of the treaty, and under Marin's suggestion, sent troops to occupy the Spice Islands. But Marin did not expect that Spain, which has already occupied the Spice Islands, was not satisfied yet. He also wanted to build a country based on the Spice Islands and seek to qualify for the tribute trade to the Ming Dynasty ...

At the same time that Marin was blazing and stabbed Spain, he suddenly discovered that-seemingly, except for the Spice Islands, the Southeast Asia region did not stipulate attribution in the treaty, and it looks like the Philippine region did not provide attribution ...

At the time, when the Treaty of Rome was signed, no one except Marin knew about the existence of the Spice Islands and the Philippines. Therefore, the treaty naturally does not stipulate the ownership of these areas. Marin did this deliberately, because at this time, other countries in Australia were not aware of it. It is not clear where Australia is. If Marin sent people to occupy and control Australia, no one can say anything.

Unexpectedly, the unintentional actions at that time made the Philippines not included in the provisions of the treaty. In this way, the operability is great ...

In fact, Marin had considered informing the Portuguese to occupy the Philippines and severing Spain ’s hope of occupying the Philippines. After all, Portugal, which originally owned the entire Eastern Hemisphere under the treaty, won the Philippine region. There is nothing wrong with Spain. After all, Spain can already take advantage of half of the trading rights of India. If you go ahead and fight for the Philippines, if you start before Portugal, if the Portuguese do it first, Spain doesn't have the face to grab it. After all, this year is still in the 16th century, and the Europeans still have a face.

Just as the French later stolen China's porcelain technology and Venice's glass mirror technology, it actually happened during the reign of Louis XIV, the sun king who did not take a shower. Because, from the late 17th century when Louis XIV ruled France, European talents gradually lost their shame and began to become omnipotent. In the 18th century, the shame of the Europeans was completely discarded, and everyone started to race who had no morals ...

In this era, because of the influence of the Middle Ages just past, the nobles were more particular about the knighthood. For example, Maximilian I was also called "the last cavalier king in Europe". In addition to saying that Maximilian I was keen on the research of armor, it also showed that Maximilian I was more serious and more disciplined.

Other European monarchs, although not as obedient as Maximilian I, have not yet lost their shame and are not so bottomless. And the so-called "Sun King" Louis XIV is the important "leader" of the European monarch who has no bottom line and no morality.

Of course, this is not to say that no one has stolen someone else's technology like Louis XIV this year. Rather, when people do this kind of thing again in this era, they will be embarrassed and cover up. And our majesty Louis XIV, who does not like to take a shower, is just sending people to steal technology. This is true of Venetian glass mirrors, as well as China's porcelain firing technology ...

By the middle and late 17th century, European missionaries active in China had been sent from the Holy See to become French missionaries. In the name of missionary, they steal various teachers in China ...

Of course, the Emperor Branxi also recovered a life. Because, the French missionaries brought cinchona cream and cured Kangxi's malaria. But the funny thing is that after listening to two French missionaries talking about advanced medicine and other scientific knowledge in the West, the emperor Branchi realized that if the common people learned this, they would open up the wisdom of the people, how could they still fool the people? Therefore, Kang Mazi later ordered that the people should not be allowed to learn this, but he learned it himself. Then, for the sake of ignoring the people, Emperor Kang Mazi also bragged about the invincibility of the bowman and deliberately degraded the firearms. As a result, his grandson Qianlong took it seriously for this set of flickers. When he saw the advanced firearms presented by the Westerners, he dismissed them ... this is the highest state of flickering-not only fooling the people, but even his descendants Fumbling ...

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The geographical location of the Philippine Islands is very delicate-it is north of Mindanao on the southern tip of the Philippine Islands, and north of Luzon Island, the main island of the Philippine Islands, is the main colony of the North Sea in the Far East, Taiwan Island. At the same time, this is also the area ruled by Ma Xiaoyun.

At present, it seems that only the Sulu Islands in the southwest have a Sulu Kingdom. In addition, on the southern island of Mindanao, there is a green religious regime established by Arab businessman Said in 1450.

Of course, this regime is not large. After all, it is a regime established by foreign Arab businessmen and has little influence on the local indigenous people. However, this was the beginning of the green religion entering Mindanao in the Philippines. In later generations, Mindanao became a wonderful area in the Philippines, dominated by Catholicism. At the same time, because of the existence of the green religion, Mindanao has become a frequently troubled area in the Philippines.

The Luzon Island and other islands in the north are still in a wild period, and even the green religion civilization is far inferior ...

Of course, these are not important. The important thing is that Luzon Island, the northernmost part of the Philippine Islands, has a very good location. If it is occupied by the Spaniards as it was in history, then it will be a very good smuggling location.

At that time, as long as the Spaniards are willing to pay a high price, there will always be bold smugglers from the Ming Dynasty who will smuggle silk and porcelain to the Spaniards regardless of the danger.

Therefore, in order to put an end to this situation, Marin decided to let Kongtai, the governor of Dongfan Island, seize the Spanish and occupy Luzon, the main island to the north of the Philippine archipelago, and most of the islands.

As long as the Spanish have taken the lead, the Spaniards are late, and they are embarrassed to start with the "allies" of the North Sea. By that time, most of the islands in the northern part of the Philippine archipelago will be included in the "Governor of Dongfan District" under the administration of Kongtai.

As for how to conquer those native Filipinos? Marin said that it was very simple-on the island of Dongfan, with good treatment, recruit local aborigines as warriors, equip them with good weapon armor, and use them to conquer the indigenous people of the Philippines ...

The Japanese also played this trick during World War II. On the Japanese island of Taiwan, they recruited 200,000 people to join the Japanese army. A large part of it was sent to Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines, which is very close to Taiwan.

These indigenous Taiwanese islands are very adaptable to the tropical rainforest climate. They are not easy to get sick in the jungle because of the lack of soil and water, and they are extremely adaptable to the climate of the tropical jungle. They are an important vanguard for the Japanese army to conquer Southeast Asia during World War II.

Marin felt that the trick of devil is worth learning. Recruit brave and warlike local native warriors who are familiar with the tropical jungle climate environment on Taiwan Island to join the army and help themselves to occupy and enter the Luzon and Palawan islands in the northern Philippines. In this way, the Spaniards are not easy to snatch. Then, they naturally had no chance to use Luzon Island as a base ~ www.novelhall.com ~ encouraged Ming merchants to smuggle silk and porcelain to them. And if it is based on the Spice Islands, it is too far for Daming businessmen ...

In addition, recruiting a large number of indigenous warriors from Taiwan Island natives can not only help occupy and control the Philippine islands, but also reduce the potential of Taiwanese indigenous people to resist their colonial rule. After all, the most capable young soldiers were recruited by themselves, and the rest were weaker against colonial authorities. Therefore, recruiting Taiwanese natives to conquer the Philippine islands can not only use their strong fighting ability to adapt to the tropical jungle, but also weaken the indigenous people's ability to resist colonial rule on Dongfan Island.

In particular, Marin has always coveted the Tainan Plain, which is occupied by the indigenous people, which is the most elite part of the island. It is a pity that the indigenous people on the island mainly gather here, but they are very capable of playing, making it difficult for Kong Tai to start.

Therefore, Marin decided to simply take advantage of this opportunity and recruit those elite indigenous warriors on the Tainan Plains with generous treatment, and take them to attack the natives of the Philippines. Then, let those Taiwan Island indigenous warriors stay in the Philippines, and then take their families away ... Then, the Tainan Plains will be emptied, which is convenient for the introduction of Han people to develop ...

In this way, Kong Tai does not need to use violent means to seize the land from the indigenous people, he can mobilize those indigenous people, and then get the land. Of course, those natives are not losing money. Because, Contai will not only give them generous treatment, after they are stationed in the Philippines as soldiers, Marin will also let Contai allocate a lot of land to some conquered indigenous Filipinos as their slaves. Then, the Filipinos assigned to them will help them reclaim a lot of land and produce food for them ... Then they can become a privileged military class on the Philippine islands ...