The Balian Chinese District is a small world surrounded by trenches and walls. This small world is crowded with all kinds of Chinese-style small buildings. Although Luzon is now vast and sparsely populated, the large ones

There may not be a total population of 1 million on the island.

However, the only area designated by the Spaniards for the Chinese to live in is the area under the cannon of the Santiago Fortress. The reason why it is so narrow is not that the Spaniards are reluctant to part with the land of Luzon. It is that they want to ensure that everyone living in Luzon

The homes of the Chinese in Song Dynasty were within the range of their cannons!

If the Chinese in Luzon dare to resist the Spanish rule, no, resist the Spanish killings, cannonballs will immediately fall from the sky...

Of course, the Chinese on Luzon Island 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 if they can't stand it, the money in Luzon Island is so profitable.

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Nervous about Spain! If there are no more lucrative profits than elsewhere, why would anyone come to Luzon? Nanyang is so big, where can’t you try your luck? Why do you have to come to Luzon? There is no other reason than that it’s easy to make money——

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 more willing to spend money than the Dutch and English.

Therefore, Luzon Island has always been a place for Chinese people from Southeast Asia to make quick money, and most of the Chinese who have made their first pot of gold in Luzon Island will choose to leave in time to start a new business elsewhere and live a comfortable life for a few years.

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But there are quite a lot of people staying in Luzon, otherwise the Balian Chinese District would not 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.

I don’t have enough money to live a comfortable life elsewhere.

The other type was that the Spaniards did not allow them to leave. Most of them were the more than 400 Chinese who walked out of Santiago Fort alive during the massacre in 1603 or their descendants.

In the eyes of the Spaniards, only these Chinese are truly afraid of Spain in their bones! It is in the best interest of Spain to keep 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 since 1609 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 be there at any time.

What’s different about the middle- and lower-class Chinese who were swallowed up by the Spaniards?

It was not until Lu Peter brought an order from the Spanish master requiring all wealthy merchants to bring their property into the Santiago Fortress that these people knew that the catastrophe of 1603 was coming again.

After Lu Peter told the Spanish order, there was silence in a Catholic church located in the center of the Eighth Company District, where senior Chinese from the Eighth Company gathered. Everyone knew their true status, but they did not expect that disaster would come.

So suddenly.

Why did the Ming Dynasty suddenly rise to prominence? Why did it suddenly send troops to attack Luzon Island? Although everyone has heard some rumors (it was deliberately released by the Spanish to create a public opinion basis for the massacre), no one expected this

It's actually true...

What can we do?

To go or not to go?

If you go, you will escape death.

If you don't go... the Spaniards may soon bring the Japanese and Pampanga people to the Eighth Company District to kill people!

Resistance? It's easier to say elsewhere, but the Eighth Company is right under the mouth of the Spanish artillery. If you dare, hurry up and wait to be bombarded!

The worst thing is that they have no place to run! Those Chinese living outside the Eighth Company District can also run to the mountains... Although they are just hanging on, they can live for a while longer.

But where can the Chinese in the Eighth Company District run? 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 reached my ears.

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, whose foreign name was Trinidad. He was only 19 years old this year. He was studying business at the Lu family business in the 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 into pieces...

....First, the people of Pampanga massacred the Japanese town, killing everyone they saw, leaving no one alive, men, women, old or young! 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, killing everyone they see and leaving no one alive...The sky of Luzon Island is about to fall!"

"What?"

"How is this possible?"

"What happened?"

The Chinese business leaders in the church couldn't believe their ears! Aren't the Spanish, Japanese, and Pampanga people all in the same group?

Aren't they in the same group? Why did they just start killing each other?

At this time, a few 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 also influenced by this group of high-ranking people in the church.

Chinese control.

When chaos 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 foreign devils 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!

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"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 think that the Japanese...isn't right,

Now it seems that the Japanese soldiers are coming to kill! The Japanese soldiers suddenly rebelled and killed so many Pampanga people. The Spanish rule on Luzon Island may really come to an end!

"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, "The Spaniards seem to be over, we have to take action, otherwise Luzon will be Japan in the future.

People are the masters, but we are still slaves!"
Chapter completed!