The Balian Chinese District is a small world surrounded by ditches and walls. This small world is crowded with various Chinese-style small buildings. Although Luzon is now a vast and sparsely populated island, there may not be a total population of 1 million on the large island.
However, the only area designated by the Spaniards for the Chinese to live in was the area under the cannon of Fortress Santiago. The reason why it was so narrow was not because the Spaniards were reluctant to part with the land of Luzon. Rather, they want to ensure that the home of every Chinese living in Luzon is within the range of their cannons!
If the Chinese in Luzon dare to resist the Spanish rule, no, they will resist the Spanish killings. The shells will immediately fall from the sky...
Of course, the Chinese on Luzon are not fools. They also know that the Spaniards do not welcome the Chinese, and they also know that these lunatics will go crazy every once in a while. But I can’t stand it. The money in Luzon is so lucrative!
Nervous Spain! If there were no more lucrative profits than elsewhere, no one would come to Luzon! Nanyang is so big, where can’t we try our luck? Why do you have to come to Luzon? There is no other reason than that silver is easy to earn - on the one hand, the Spanish butcher knife scared off most Chinese businessmen, and only a few dared to come; on the other hand, American silver also gave the Spaniards stronger purchasing power, and they were better than The Dutch and English are more willing to spend money.
Therefore, Luzon Island has always been a place for Nanyang Chinese to make quick money, and most of the Chinese who get their first pot of gold on Luzon Island will choose to leave in time. Start a new career elsewhere and live a comfortable life for a few years.
But there are quite a few people staying in Luzon, otherwise the Balian Chinese District wouldn’t be so crowded.
The people who stayed were divided into two types. Most of them didn't make enough money. No matter how easy it was to make money in Luzon, only a small number of people got rich. Therefore, most of the Chinese who came to Luzon to work hard ended up making a lot of money. Don't have enough money to live a comfortable life elsewhere.
The other was that the Spaniards did not allow them to leave. Most of them were the more than 400 Chinese who walked out of the Santiago Fort alive during the massacre in 1603 or their descendants.
In the eyes of the Spaniards, only these Chinese people are truly afraid of Spain in their bones! It is in the best interests of Spain to retain them as leaders of the Chinese in Luzon and govern the Chinese in Luzon through them.
And these Chinese leaders in Luzon Island, like ordinary Chinese, must make their homes in the Eighth Chinese District!
This arrangement of the Spanish is not only to allow these first-class Chinese to more effectively control the ordinary Chinese below, but also to let the first-class Chinese know that... their lives are also in the hands of the Spaniards, and they can take them whenever they want. , just pick it up anytime!
However, the many years of stable life from 1609 to the present have made the more than two dozen Luzon Chinese business leaders gathered in the Chinese Business Association in the center of the Balian Chinese District today almost forget their own identities, thinking that they and those who may come at any time. What is different about the middle- and lower-class Chinese who were devoured by the Spaniards?
It wasn't until Lu Peter brought an order from the Spanish master requiring all wealthy merchants to enter the Santiago Fortress with their property that these people knew that the catastrophe of 1603 was coming again.
After Peter Lu said the Spanish order, there was silence in a Catholic church located in the center of the Eighth Company District, where senior Chinese people from the Eighth Company gathered. Everyone knew their true status, but they didn't expect the disaster to come so suddenly.
Why did the Ming Dynasty suddenly rise to prominence? Why did they suddenly send troops to attack Luzon Island? Although everyone has heard some rumors (the Spaniards deliberately released them to create a public opinion basis for the massacre), no one thought that this matter was actually true...
This is how to do ah?
To go or not to go?
If you go, you will escape death.
Don't go...The Spaniards may soon bring the Japanese and Pampanga people to the Eighth Company District to kill people!
Resist? It's easier to say elsewhere, but the Eighth Company is right under the mouth of the Spanish artillery. If you dare to hurry up, just wait to be bombarded!
The worst thing is that they have nowhere to run! Those Chinese living outside the Eighth Company District can still run to the mountains... Although they are just hanging on, they can live a little longer.
But where can the Chinese in the Eighth Company District go? The Spaniards have sent Pampanga soldiers to guard the exit... There is no way to escape!
Just when everyone was despairing about their future and preparing to go to the Santiago Fortress to fight for a one-tenth chance of survival, someone suddenly pushed open the closed door of the church, and then heard the sound of cannons and gunfire. Sounds, shouts of death, and screams came in, and the sounds were heard.
Everyone was startled by the sudden sound and looked towards the door one after another. They saw a young man in a dress standing at the door, breathing heavily.
When Lu Peter saw the young man, he stood up from his chair and asked loudly: "Trinidad, why did you come back to the Eighth Company? When did this happen?"
The man who came turned out to be Lu Peter's younger brother, his foreign name was Trinidad. He was only 19 years old this year. He was studying business at the Lu family business in Cavite Commercial Port. He could have found a place to hide, but unexpectedly he died. He threw himself into a trap and returned to the Eighth Company.
"Brother!" Trinidad Lu shook his head. His face, which was a little darkened by the scorching sun at Cavite Port, was full of fear and shock. "Cavite has been slaughtered... ....First, the people of Pampanga massacred the Japanese town, killing everyone they saw, leaving no man, woman, old or child alive! Now the Cavite commercial port has become a river of blood, dead people are everywhere, and everything is in chaos!
Brother, now the Japanese are killing Pampanga and Westerners again. They kill everyone they see and leave no one alive... The sky of Luzon Island is about to fall! "
"What?"
"How can this be?"
"What happened?"
The Chinese business leaders in the church couldn't believe their ears! Aren’t the Spaniards, Japanese, and Pampanga people all in the same group?
Aren't they in the same group? Why did you start killing yourself?
At this time, several more strong-looking Chinese workers rushed in carrying poles. Peter Lu knew them. They were all dock workers in Cavite. The dock workers had gangs and were controlled by this group of high-ranking Chinese in the church.
When trouble arose on Luzon Island, Lu Peter mobilized some of them to guard several gates of the Eighth Company District.
The ones who broke in now were some of the dock workers guarding the doorway.
Unlike Trinidad Lu, these workers all looked excited.
"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, the foreigners and natives in Cavite were all chased and chopped down by the Japanese. Those who had no place to hide, all came to the Eighth Company... What a rare opportunity! "
"Mr. Lu, our chance for revenge has come!"
"Mr. Lu, give the order quickly!"
Lu Peter was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth when he heard this...Are these guys crazy? Dare to kill Pampanga and foreign devils? They really thought that the Japanese... No, it seems like there are soldiers from the sky coming to kill them now! The Japanese soldiers suddenly rebelled again and killed so many Pampanga people. The Spanish rule on Luzon Island might really be over!
"Brother!" Young Trinidad Lu also reacted, "The time for revenge has come! As Jesus once said, a gentleman's revenge will last thirty years! And now there is chaos on Luzon Island. The Japanese, The Pampanga people and the Spaniards are all involved, is it possible for us to stay out of it?”
Did Jesus say this? Lu Peter thought hard, and actually nodded: "It seems there is!" He gritted his teeth, "It seems that the Spaniards are going to be finished, we have to take action, otherwise Luzon Island will be dominated by the Japanese in the future, and we will still be the ones in charge." slave!"
The breathing of several Chinese business leaders became rapid. Now is really the time to take revenge... If you don't take revenge now, you will still be slaves in the future! Only by giving it a try can you become the master of Luzon Island in the future!
