You Chinese secretly build Chinese schools, I can't bear it. You secretly circulate Chinese newspapers and flyers, I copy what I see, and I can't do anything if I don't see them.
If you organize gangs to fight with the natives, I will take care of what I can. As long as you don't disrupt the order of the big cities, I won't say anything if a few natives die in remote areas.
But you absolutely shouldn’t, how can you smuggle arms? This is a big taboo!
The Spanish colonial government discovered the Chinese smuggling operations in June. In the San Fernando area north of Manila, large-scale fighting broke out between indigenous people and Chinese over the fifty-hectare rubber plantation industry.
In this hellish place in Southeast Asia, fighting is too common. The indigenous people are poorly educated and very lazy. They are neither able nor willing to open up wasteland, and they do not understand basic agricultural knowledge, so they have always worked for the Chinese who have technology and capital. of.
Of course, Europeans also have plantations, but Europeans prefer the high-profit quick money of ocean trade and don't like tedious and boring planting.
Even if Europeans owned large fields, they would leave it to Chinese housekeepers to take care of it while they enjoyed their own leisure.
In the eyes of the Spanish rulers, the Chinese were a group of extremely docile skilled workers. Although their population was smaller than that of the indigenous people, they could create the most wealth.
And those greedy natives will never let go of fat people like the Chinese. They bully the Chinese because of their small population, and unite with the colonial government to start plundering the assets of the Chinese in an organized way.
There were often conspiracies to frame Chinese landlords, falsely accusing them of murder and smuggling, and then sentencing them to confiscation of their property, thereby committing plunder in disguise.
This is considered civilized. In some areas where the number of Chinese is too small, the natives even directly kill Chinese landowners at night and then occupy properties and plantations.
In June in San Fernando, a Chinese family of 20 was attacked by indigenous thugs, and a fifty-hectare rubber plantation was occupied by a local indigenous tribe elder.
This incident aroused the anger of the surrounding Chinese, and two newly established Chinese halls, Long Liao Hui and Wuyi Nanquan Hall, asked for help from all Chinese halls in Luzon.
In three days, the number of Chinese gangs gathered in San Fernando exceeded 600. The local police and garrison rushed to stop them. However, under the protection of local snakes, these gangs broke into pieces and entered the rainforest.
The massacre lasted for a whole week. There were more than 800 warriors from the indigenous tribe hidden deep in the rain forest. During the week of bloodshed, all the clan leader and six elders were killed. Only 100 of the 800 men survived with disabilities.
The remaining women and children in the tribe have all disappeared, no one alive or dead!
This killing shocked other tribes in the rainforest. Nearly two thousand indigenous people began to chase and intercept the Chinese gang with weapons such as spears, javelins and even blowing needles.
The matter finally got serious, and the Spanish garrison had to go deep into the rainforest to suppress and mediate. That is to say, they were dumbfounded when they encountered a firefight by chance.
Everyone couldn't believe their eyes. These Chinese gangsters actually used the famous American Spencer gun.
It is said that the Spanish officer looked at the ridiculous minigun in his hand and subconsciously ordered the entire army to retreat one kilometer.
Spencer is not a very good weapon, its accuracy and range are not outstanding, but what is outstanding is its rate of fire, rate of fire, rate of fire!
In the tropical rainforest, when the two sides meet, they will shoot at close range. Accuracy and range are not important. What is important is fire suppression.
They thought that it was enough for these gangsters to have one Spencer each, but after observing secretly, they discovered that the number of Spencers was actually 5 for each person.
These six hundred gangsters actually brought nine hundred Spencer rifles, and they also had some standard grenades on them.
With such a firepower configuration, it would be a brutal killing to kill the natives. Not even the Spanish garrison could withstand such firepower!
Who in this world can get so many Spencers at once? Apart from the Americans, they are the Chinese, which means that the Chinese are secretly smuggling weapons to the Philippines.
This is indeed the case. When the Chinese regular army began to popularize Mauser, what to do with those obsolete weapons? Of course, it cannot be recycled and destroyed, nor can it be sold casually. It is of course the best choice to use it to arm the guerrillas in Southeast Asia.
Nine hundred Spencers appeared in the Philippines. This was a huge case. This time no one cared about the life and death of the natives. The garrison went all out to hunt down these gang members.
However, after more than ten days of siege and suppression, the garrison had no other results except the seizure of more than ten rifles and the killing of more than 20 Chinese gangsters.
On the contrary, the revenge of these gangs came very quickly. More than twenty brothers were killed, in exchange for three months of assassinations against the garrison and local police.
It's better to be stationed in the military. After all, you can be much safer in the military camp as long as you don't leave the military camp, but those police officers have to be in contact with society.
Assassinations continued in northern Luzon. Those Spanish police chiefs and indigenous police officers would be attacked as soon as they were left alone. They were shot, stabbed, poisoned... and various methods were used in an endless stream.
In the end, the police department was forced to ask the Chinese Mr. Su to come forward to negotiate. On the premise of promising to protect the Chinese property from being infringed, the conflict came to an end.
The overt conflict was resolved, but the secret conflict continued. Botila ordered a strict investigation of smuggling operations. All ports must be searched ship by ship, and no gun must be released into Luzon.
For half a year, the Spanish garrison in the Philippines began an arduous anti-smuggling operation. Not to mention some real results, they confiscated more than 500 guns of various types in four months.
This result is not unfruitful, but the governor cannot laugh. More than 500 have been found, so how many have not been found?
Has the Chinese infiltration into the Philippines reached this serious level?
Botila sent a telegram to Madeira, but the answer he received was to ask him to try to stabilize the situation and prevent serious conflicts from breaking out!
Botila protested to Ryukyu Power Generation, but Xiao Hexin, who stayed behind, vowed to increase security and strictly investigate smuggling.
Between the mother country's inaction and the Chinese people's ridicule and blame, the governor was so depressed that he was about to explode!
And at this juncture, just seven days before Christmas, a piece of information sent by a French businessman from Hong Kong was placed on his desk.
"A Chinese fortune ship, the Arowana, sailing from Hong Kong to Manila will smuggle three thousand Spencer rifles, one and a half tons of various types of explosives, and countless bullets..."
This information frightened Botila. He couldn't bear it anymore. The furious governor ordered the smuggling ship to be blocked!
