Chapter 127: Make a fortune
When Liu Yu entered the Lavag official residence and the local officials handed over the accounts to Liu Yu tremblingly, Liu Yu knew that he had made a fortune.
The Ming army officials counted the property of the Lavag official residence overnight.
Since the Ming army soldiers who went south to Luzon were basically military personnel, the rest were also craftsmen who were robbed.
Therefore, the Ming army urgently lacked civil servants, especially officials in administrative management.
After taking over Weigan, Liu Yu focused on cultivating local indigenous officials in Weigan, and even allowed Chinese merchants to be officials.
When he came to Lavag, Liu Yu also brought a group of officials over.
It has to be admitted that Spanish officials have quite outstanding financial aid.
In just one night, the officials counted 200,000 Spanish silver dollars in the official residence, which did not include various antiques and gems and other strange treasures.
After the Spanish army in the city put down their weapons, the Ming army also seized a large number of firearms.
A thousand clamps, flintlocks, and dozens of cannons, including dozens of heavy clamps.
In particular, dozens of pieces of plate armor and spears arranged by spearmen were seized.
The thing that Liu Yu has always dreamed of.
As early as the battle of Mingcheng, Spanish spearmen showed amazing combat power.
The plate armor they wore made Liu Yu praise him. He had seized more than a dozen sets before, but the number was too small and could only be sent to some personal soldiers for use.
So far, dozens of sets of such plate armor have been seized, and Liu Yu can form an Iron Man Army.
I remember that the Guo family had such an iron army in his hands, which made great contributions to the Zheng family group.
Liu Yu naturally wanted to follow the example of building such an iron army.
These are just the gains from the Lavague residence.
After taking down the shipyard, the Ming army captured hundreds of ship workers and shipmakers.
There is even a Spanish Class III battleship in the shipyard that is in maintenance.
The shipyard in Lavague is much larger than the shipyard in Vigan.
The shipwrecks and workers they own are not comparable to those in Weigan Shipyard.
After taking down the Lavague Shipyard, it will show that the Ming army navy will have a continuous stream of shipbuilding and hematopoietic capabilities.
The firearms in the city did not disappoint Liu Yu.
After more than 20 Spanish musketeers stationed here surrendered, a large number of firearm facilities fell into the hands of the Ming army.
Hundreds of craftsmen who made firearms and even some Spanish craftsmen who made artillery fell into the hands of the Ming army.
In a cellar not far from the Firearm, the Ming army even seized 300 barrels of black gunpowder.
Lavag is simply a treasure house, and the Ming generals present were dazzled.
Of course, Liu Yu did not leave the Ming soldiers idle either.
After sending troops to control the entire city of Lavag, Liu Yu immediately ordered two hundred Ming soldiers to clear the remains of the Fushang District.
The reason for doing this is not because Liu Yu was so generous and took the initiative to help the Lavague merchants rebuild their homes.
It’s because too many wealthy businessmen were killed in the local area.
There were no less than a hundred Lavag merchants who died at the hands of mercenaries that night, and many of them died in the family.
Although their house was burned by pirates.
However, many stone brick buildings did not collapse. When the Ming army pretended to help merchants clear the ruins, they actually occupied these places.
Lavag is also a place where every inch of land is valuable. Why would Liu Yu take this opportunity to occupy the houses in these core streets?
And Liu Yu also has another purpose.
The mercenaries robbed these wealthy businessmen, but many of the merchants' wealth was not completely taken away by the mercenaries.
These merchants are very savage, and every family has cellars, secret rooms and other places.
You should know that all the businessmen are very smart, and it is impossible to put a large amount of silver in a conspicuous position at home.
They often put precious items such as silver, jewelry and porcelain in secret rooms or cellars, and take them out when needed.
These places are often very secretive, and the mercenaries only robbed for one night, and it was impossible to find them all.
You know, after searching the Weigan Mingjun carpet style for more than half a month, it was only after most of the wealth of Weigan merchants.
Now that the merchants have all died at the hands of mercenaries.
Then Liu Yu had no choice but to take over the property left by these merchants.
There were also many merchants in the city who were planning the same as Liu Yu, but only saw the Ming army act so quickly.
They stomped their feet in anger, but they were helpless.
After all, no one dares to challenge the majesty of Rawag's new ruler now.
After completing these things, Liu Yu went to the port politely and invited Xiao Wu and others who had been impatient to wait to the Lavague official residence.
Xiao Wu did think of rushing his troops into the port directly.
However, there are only a hundred soldiers under his command who can get ashore.
Most of the people used spear shields, and some people used muskets.
Although the number of soldiers in Huben Town who blocked them was only a few dozen, each had a flintlock musket, and each of them had a long knife around their waists.
Even behind them were rolled out several small cannons mounted on the car.
This made Xiao Wu decisively dispel this idea.
But one day, Liu Yu politely came to the port and invited the Duke of Qin to enter the city.
This made Xiao Wu feel a little bit more uncomfortable, and Duke Li, who was standing beside him, knelt down to Liu Yu.
Although Liu Yu immediately pulled up with a smile, Xiao Wu also understood who the Fubo Navy actually held.
I underestimated the young man in front of me.
Fubo, Huben Town, Auxiliary Town, Xiao Wu was walking on the street, silently thinking about the military town in Liu Yu's hands.
In the second Mingcheng Battle, the entire town of Weiwu Town was destroyed. Now there are five towns in the Ming army. Xiao Wu was surprised to find that there was only one town in his hand.
A drop of cold sweat emerged from Xiao Wu's forehead. He even dared not enter the Lavag official residence, for fear that Liu Yu would have the scene of a three hundred swordsman.
After returning to the Lavague residence, Liu Yuhui took the initiative to give Xiao Wu a hundred thousand Spanish silver balls, including more than 100 combs and fifty barrels of gunpowder.
These gifts satisfy the generals of the Navy Town.
"Duke of Qin, the Marquis of Zhongyong, today the Ming soldiers took down Lavag, which shows the power of the Ming Dynasty. Now we should immediately launch troops to attack Franji and the indigenous coalition forces and capture Manila City." A deputy general of the Navy Town spoke.
Xiao Wu glanced at Liu Yu,
"Zhongyonghou means..."
"Mr. Xiao means..."
The two looked at each other and smiled, and Liu Yu immediately ordered Li Du to lead the warship back to Weigan to pick up King Lu.
During the last battle of Mingcheng, the Spanish and the Shengfan army led by Nero raided Mingcheng, causing the entire town of Weiwu Town to be destroyed, and three hundred Ming soldiers were killed in battle, and thousands of Han people in the city were slaughtered.
Zhu Honghuan fled to the merchant ship under the desperate escort of his personal soldiers and survived.
After Liu Quan led the Ming army officers and soldiers and the brave foreign troops in Zhenzhen to assist Weigan, the situation in Weigan City and its surrounding areas also stabilized.
This is why the vassal king has a place to settle down.
Now Liu Yu and Xiao Wu decided to take Zhu Honghuan to Lavag at the same time.
On the one hand, Lavag is more prosperous and prosperous than Weigan. Although he has experienced a month and a half of war and a night of street fighting, most of the buildings in the city are intact and the residents are not injured or killed. It is suitable for the base of the Ming army in Luzon.
Chapter completed!