Chapter 2946
Chapter 2946
Chapter 2946
Masbate Town does not have any special properties. The Spaniards chose to establish a colonial settlement here, mainly because of the geographical advantage of guarding the important waterway in the central part of the Philippine Islands.
However, because it is too close to the Haihan ruled area, and has been wiped out by the Haihan army many times before, the Spanish colonial authorities dare not build large-scale construction and develop commercial industries here, so most of the Spanish immigrants living here only make a living by farming and fishing. , had to pay taxes to the colonial authorities, and the standard of living was really low.
Zheng Agui led people to search thirty or forty families one after another, most of them were poor families with no valuable possessions at all, and the addition of everything in a house might not be enough to exchange for a gun.It would take considerable investment to expect these people to arm themselves against Haihan, and the colonial authorities clearly had no such intention.
"These people are too poor...The immigrants in Bangui who have just moved from Fuguang to settle down are much better off than them."
Zheng Agui lowered the torch while talking, took a look at the situation in the room, shook his head and was about to leave.There was so little space in this wooden shack that if the torches were held too high they might set the house on fire.
Qin Bo continued his conversation and said: "It is said that the residents here have to hand over half of their income to the government. Of course it is difficult to get rid of poverty."
They got out of this shanty and were about to leave, but Qiu Yong held Zheng Agui back, then made a gesture of silence, and then pointed to the shanty they had just checked, indicating that there seemed to be another article here.
Zheng Agui knew that Qiu Yong's sense of hearing and smell were extremely sensitive, and seeing his reaction or discovering something, he immediately signaled Qin Bo to take the others away.Qin Bo comprehended, and asked the sailors accompanying the team to make some noise, and slowly walked away with torches.
The rest of the people, together with Zheng Agui, stood silently in the darkness and waited.
After a while, sure enough, there were some noises coming from that hut, but it was not like human voices.Qiu Yong slowly lay down on the ground, tilted his head and put his ears on the ground, stood up after a while, and signaled Zheng Agui to go away and speak.
The two walked out on tiptoe, and Qiu Yongcai said in a low voice: "There is a cellar in that house, and there should be people hiding in it."
Zheng Agui said: "Are you sure?"
Qiu Yong replied: "Definitely!"
Zheng Agui immediately asked the sailors to guard the perimeter, while he led people back to the shanty again.I took a quick look at it before, but didn't find anything wrong. At this time, a few people searched carefully, and sure enough, they found something tricky very quickly.
The bed boards of this family were placed on the ground. At first glance, there was no hiding space under the bed, and no one had turned over the bed boards to see.Unexpectedly, when the bed board was pushed aside at this time, there was actually a two-foot-wide hole in the ground, and there was a ladder leading into the hole.
Although the cave was pitch black and there was no light, someone could already faintly hear the sound of rapid breathing.Zheng Agui patted Qiu Yong, indicating that he did a good job.If it wasn't for his keen hearing, how could he have guessed that there is actually a secret hiding place in this room.
Zheng Agui threw a torch down, as expected someone below exclaimed softly, and immediately the torch was extinguished by the people inside.Zheng Agui yelled a few words to the bottom, but the people inside fell silent, as if planning to continue the stalemate.
If the people inside didn't take the initiative to show up, Zheng Agui certainly wouldn't risk going down. He expected that there was no other way out in the cellar, so he arranged for everyone to guard the entrance of the cave, and asked someone to call a Spanish translator to persuade them to surrender.
Sure enough, he still wanted to speak Spanish well. After some communication with the translator, he told Zheng Agui that the people below asked for assurance that his life would not be hurt before he surrendered.
Zheng Agui thought to himself, it is extremely unreasonable to dig a hiding cellar under the bed slabs in such a shabby shanty without any valuables in the house.Moreover, when the local civilians realized that there was no way out, most of them immediately chose to surrender. Under such circumstances, those who still wanted to hide to avoid the limelight were probably not ordinary people.
Zheng Agui asked the interpreter to agree to the other party's request. After a while, several disgraced Spaniards climbed up from the cellar, including old and young, men and women.Judging by his attire, he really doesn't look like a commoner living in such a dilapidated shanty.
The identity of the nest of ground mice that was pulled out was quickly verified. It was the Vargas family, the colonial chief of Masbate Island that the Haihan Army was hunting down.
After discovering the attack of the Haihan fleet, Vargas, the colonial chief, fled with his family immediately, but because it took a lot of time to clean up the gold and silver at home, they were a step slower when they planned to leave the town. Landings from the south cut off the escape from the town of Masbate to the forests of the island.
Vargas ordered his armed guards to challenge the blockade of the Haihan Army, but needless to say, the group retreated into the town after leaving behind dozens of corpses.But Vargas knew that if he retreated to his home in the center of the town and stood firm, it would also be a dead end, so he ordered his men to break out in multiple ways, but he took his family to hide in a secretly prepared shelter.
Vargas originally planned to hide in this cellar, and after the Haihan army searched Masbate Town, he would find a chance to swim out of the sea and escape to the nearby coast.But there was a monster like Qiu Yong in the Haihan army who never wanted to search here, and he actually heard the movement in the cellar, thus revealing his whereabouts.
Of course, Vargas is not a high-ranking official. He is just one of the dozens of colonial chiefs appointed by the Spanish in the Western Pacific region. He is in charge of the entire Masbate Island in name, but the actual jurisdiction is only the town of Masbate. Just a small area.This should be placed in Haihan, at best he can be regarded as the mayor of the town.
According to the style of the Spanish colonial authorities, people like Vargas were mostly paid for official positions, but the money was not enough, so they were sent to remote areas like Masbate Island as magistrates.And there is no special industry in this place. If Vargas wants to recover his investment, he has to squeeze the local residents desperately.
In the cellar where he was hiding, the soldiers found two boxes full of silver coins, seven or eight gold bars, some packed silverware, food, water bags, clothes and other personal belongings.The family fled with so many things, no wonder they failed to escape before the Haihan army landed.
Vargas quickly saw Zheng Agui's status as a military officer, and kept begging the translator to convey his willingness to beg for mercy to Zheng Agui, hoping to use the property in exchange to let his family go.
Of course, Zheng Agui couldn't agree to his conditions. After identifying Vargas' identity, he immediately sent someone to report to the battalion headquarters.
Not long after, the battalion commander rushed over and praised Zheng Agui.If the Spanish magistrate was not captured, the attack on Masbate Town would not be considered complete anyway, and Zheng Agui and others just filled in this vacancy.
(End of this chapter)
Masbate Town does not have any special properties. The Spaniards chose to establish a colonial settlement here, mainly because of the geographical advantage of guarding the important waterway in the central part of the Philippine Islands.
However, because it is too close to the Haihan ruled area, and has been wiped out by the Haihan army many times before, the Spanish colonial authorities dare not build large-scale construction and develop commercial industries here, so most of the Spanish immigrants living here only make a living by farming and fishing. , had to pay taxes to the colonial authorities, and the standard of living was really low.
Zheng Agui led people to search thirty or forty families one after another, most of them were poor families with no valuable possessions at all, and the addition of everything in a house might not be enough to exchange for a gun.It would take considerable investment to expect these people to arm themselves against Haihan, and the colonial authorities clearly had no such intention.
"These people are too poor...The immigrants in Bangui who have just moved from Fuguang to settle down are much better off than them."
Zheng Agui lowered the torch while talking, took a look at the situation in the room, shook his head and was about to leave.There was so little space in this wooden shack that if the torches were held too high they might set the house on fire.
Qin Bo continued his conversation and said: "It is said that the residents here have to hand over half of their income to the government. Of course it is difficult to get rid of poverty."
They got out of this shanty and were about to leave, but Qiu Yong held Zheng Agui back, then made a gesture of silence, and then pointed to the shanty they had just checked, indicating that there seemed to be another article here.
Zheng Agui knew that Qiu Yong's sense of hearing and smell were extremely sensitive, and seeing his reaction or discovering something, he immediately signaled Qin Bo to take the others away.Qin Bo comprehended, and asked the sailors accompanying the team to make some noise, and slowly walked away with torches.
The rest of the people, together with Zheng Agui, stood silently in the darkness and waited.
After a while, sure enough, there were some noises coming from that hut, but it was not like human voices.Qiu Yong slowly lay down on the ground, tilted his head and put his ears on the ground, stood up after a while, and signaled Zheng Agui to go away and speak.
The two walked out on tiptoe, and Qiu Yongcai said in a low voice: "There is a cellar in that house, and there should be people hiding in it."
Zheng Agui said: "Are you sure?"
Qiu Yong replied: "Definitely!"
Zheng Agui immediately asked the sailors to guard the perimeter, while he led people back to the shanty again.I took a quick look at it before, but didn't find anything wrong. At this time, a few people searched carefully, and sure enough, they found something tricky very quickly.
The bed boards of this family were placed on the ground. At first glance, there was no hiding space under the bed, and no one had turned over the bed boards to see.Unexpectedly, when the bed board was pushed aside at this time, there was actually a two-foot-wide hole in the ground, and there was a ladder leading into the hole.
Although the cave was pitch black and there was no light, someone could already faintly hear the sound of rapid breathing.Zheng Agui patted Qiu Yong, indicating that he did a good job.If it wasn't for his keen hearing, how could he have guessed that there is actually a secret hiding place in this room.
Zheng Agui threw a torch down, as expected someone below exclaimed softly, and immediately the torch was extinguished by the people inside.Zheng Agui yelled a few words to the bottom, but the people inside fell silent, as if planning to continue the stalemate.
If the people inside didn't take the initiative to show up, Zheng Agui certainly wouldn't risk going down. He expected that there was no other way out in the cellar, so he arranged for everyone to guard the entrance of the cave, and asked someone to call a Spanish translator to persuade them to surrender.
Sure enough, he still wanted to speak Spanish well. After some communication with the translator, he told Zheng Agui that the people below asked for assurance that his life would not be hurt before he surrendered.
Zheng Agui thought to himself, it is extremely unreasonable to dig a hiding cellar under the bed slabs in such a shabby shanty without any valuables in the house.Moreover, when the local civilians realized that there was no way out, most of them immediately chose to surrender. Under such circumstances, those who still wanted to hide to avoid the limelight were probably not ordinary people.
Zheng Agui asked the interpreter to agree to the other party's request. After a while, several disgraced Spaniards climbed up from the cellar, including old and young, men and women.Judging by his attire, he really doesn't look like a commoner living in such a dilapidated shanty.
The identity of the nest of ground mice that was pulled out was quickly verified. It was the Vargas family, the colonial chief of Masbate Island that the Haihan Army was hunting down.
After discovering the attack of the Haihan fleet, Vargas, the colonial chief, fled with his family immediately, but because it took a lot of time to clean up the gold and silver at home, they were a step slower when they planned to leave the town. Landings from the south cut off the escape from the town of Masbate to the forests of the island.
Vargas ordered his armed guards to challenge the blockade of the Haihan Army, but needless to say, the group retreated into the town after leaving behind dozens of corpses.But Vargas knew that if he retreated to his home in the center of the town and stood firm, it would also be a dead end, so he ordered his men to break out in multiple ways, but he took his family to hide in a secretly prepared shelter.
Vargas originally planned to hide in this cellar, and after the Haihan army searched Masbate Town, he would find a chance to swim out of the sea and escape to the nearby coast.But there was a monster like Qiu Yong in the Haihan army who never wanted to search here, and he actually heard the movement in the cellar, thus revealing his whereabouts.
Of course, Vargas is not a high-ranking official. He is just one of the dozens of colonial chiefs appointed by the Spanish in the Western Pacific region. He is in charge of the entire Masbate Island in name, but the actual jurisdiction is only the town of Masbate. Just a small area.This should be placed in Haihan, at best he can be regarded as the mayor of the town.
According to the style of the Spanish colonial authorities, people like Vargas were mostly paid for official positions, but the money was not enough, so they were sent to remote areas like Masbate Island as magistrates.And there is no special industry in this place. If Vargas wants to recover his investment, he has to squeeze the local residents desperately.
In the cellar where he was hiding, the soldiers found two boxes full of silver coins, seven or eight gold bars, some packed silverware, food, water bags, clothes and other personal belongings.The family fled with so many things, no wonder they failed to escape before the Haihan army landed.
Vargas quickly saw Zheng Agui's status as a military officer, and kept begging the translator to convey his willingness to beg for mercy to Zheng Agui, hoping to use the property in exchange to let his family go.
Of course, Zheng Agui couldn't agree to his conditions. After identifying Vargas' identity, he immediately sent someone to report to the battalion headquarters.
Not long after, the battalion commander rushed over and praised Zheng Agui.If the Spanish magistrate was not captured, the attack on Masbate Town would not be considered complete anyway, and Zheng Agui and others just filled in this vacancy.
(End of this chapter)