Chapter 217 Rebellion

Late at night, Cassigolan is quiet, and the slender Saint-defonso Peninsula is like a sword across a huge bay, surrounded by cliffs like blades and rugged reefs.

When it was supposed to be quiet at night, a bonfire suddenly lit up on the shore of the sea. The sweeping sea breeze blew down, and the flames were about to burn more and more, reflecting it within ten meters.

Liu Hengqi found a big stone and took out a cigarette from his pocket. Originally, he didn't smoke, but since Slo built a cigarette factory not long ago, he gradually got used to the faint smell of tobacco.

Behind him, Wen Xiu stood solemnly with several night eagles, and his eyes swept coldly over the Luzon people next to him, faithfully playing the role of bodyguard.

Kati Punan, in Chinese, means the most noble Philippine Children's Association, but Wen Xiu did not find any dignity in front of the people in front of him. Except for one or two well-dressed people who look like gentry, the rest are more like rednecks who have just come out of the deep mountains and forests.

His eyes first stared at the head of the Luzon, and while secretly talking about the name Andre Bonifaxiu in his heart, a thin line suddenly crossed his eyes.

The first goal, the founder of Kati Punan and the current leader of the Luzon armed forces, it is said that as many as more than 100,000 workers and poor people have become his followers. Even some low-level local officials in the colonial axe are inextricably linked to him, and their ability has to be alarmed.

He looked back and moved to the well-dressed man.

Emio Aquinado, a gentry in the Luzon Jiama region, has a large tobacco plantation. The local gentry and landlords under his control are the most important source of funding for Katipunan, but Wenxiu doesn't understand why the young master listed him in the second goal. It is reasonable to be Katipunan's second figure, Hasinto. It should be in the front row.

I don't understand. Wenxiu still firmly carved his shadow into his mind, and then turned to the third-placed Hasinto. Just after remembering the character of Mr. Li Enfu in Katie Punan, there was a flash of light on the dark sea.

After the light spot flashed three times, Liu Henghui immediately greeted everyone to light the two piles of firewood next to him. The people who had been waiting impatient for a long time also stood up quickly, and their faces were red and short of breath.

Seeing that the flashing lights were getting closer and closer, there was also a sound of gas motors on the sea, and soon two boats appeared in everyone's sight. Looking at Liu Guishan, who was familiar with standing in the bow of the ship, Wen Xiu immediately nodded quietly to Liu Hengqi, who was immediately relieved to meet him.

After the boat was stable, Liu Guishan communicated with Wen Xiu at the corners of his eyes, pretended to be rude and shouted, "Who is Liu Hengqi?"

"That's it." Liu Hengqi hurriedly answered and walked to the front.

"The goods have arrived." Liu Guishan pretended to glance at Liu Hengzhi, carried a pistol, and took several companions around every waiting member of Kati Punan. He looked at Aquinado and others repeatedly, as if to firmly engrave their fat sheep in his mind.

Liu Hengqi naturally knew that this was the way that Ye Ying had come up with to remember the leaders of Kati Punan here. In order to prevent them from doubting, he deliberately said, "Don't worry about it. They are like this. They don't like to trade with strangers, but for the first time, I believe they won't doubt it."

Several people who were angry at the heart were relieved after hearing Liu Hengqi's words. It turned out that they wanted to recognize themselves clearly and facilitate the next transaction, so they generously let everyone see it.

Liu Guishan and others circled a few times. After remembering the main members, they stood in front of everyone like a bandit, holding a pistol with their hands on their waists, and continued to shout, "Where's the money?"

Liu Hengqi hurriedly said a few words to Bonifaxiu and Aquinas in local language. The former immediately asked people to bring two suitcases, which were neatly folded for 100,000 pounds.

Looking at a neat pile of banknotes, Liu Guishan laughed a few times and immediately nodded to his fellow partners. Everyone quickly took out a few long boxes from the boat and pried open the boxes in front of Ponifaxiu and others.

As the box opened, both Bonafa and Aquinado were short of breath. Guns, all rifles, are placed in boxes one by one, and there are yellow and orange bullets next to them. As the boxes are opened one by one, it seems that even the air is full of a unique smell of gun oil.

Liu Guishan found a big stone and sat down. While counting the money, he said rudely: "Twenty thousand rifles, 200,000 bullets, damn it, it's cheap for you."

Next to

, Wen Xiu wanted to laugh. He didn't expect that Liu Guishan's pretending to be a bear was also quite good, and he didn't expect that this batch of 20,000 guns collected from Japan could be sold at a high price of 100,000 pounds, and even the actual value directly doubled. It seems that selling arms is really a good business.

As the boat unloaded the sample and left, a large cargo ship gradually appeared on the sea. As the cargo ship gradually approached the dock, the people of Katipunnan could no longer control it.

"A Bao, you are our great benefactor in the Philippines!" Bonifaxiu jumped up excitedly first and rushed forward to hug Liu Henghui tightly, but his eyes could no longer be taken back from the ship.

In the past few years, he and Hasinto and others have been secretly seeking Luzon's reading ability, printing newspapers, pasting slogans, secretly lobbying local gentry, and gathering those at the bottom of the society. Up to now, there have been hundreds of thousands of supporters.

But he knows that these are not enough. If you want to overthrow the Spanish colonists and defeat Spain and the Luzon rebels they formed [***], you must have strong armed forces.

To this end, he used his influence to raise money to buy arms everywhere, but due to the blockade of the Spanish colonial axe, he has only armed less than 10,000 troops so far, and most of the guns are old, and the ammunition is seriously insufficient.

In the past few years, he has been worried about arms. It is impossible to avoid the Spanish colonial political axe when purchasing arms from Europe. As for the United States, it is okay. Unfortunately, the price offered by the American [***] fire dealers is too expensive, and because of the relationship with Spain, arms dealers require them to ship them back. .

If you can break through the Spanish naval blockade and bring arms back, do you still need to make a revolution?

Originally, he also planned to purchase arms from the Pacific Army, but he didn't expect that the Pacific Army was defeated by the Pacific Army, and he had no time to protect himself. Although he also wanted to contact the Pacific Army, he couldn't find a way.

Who would have thought that at this time, Liu Henghui, who secretly provided himself with explosives and repaired firearms, suddenly came to the door and said that he had contacted a batch of guns. Although the price was slightly more expensive, there were 20,000.

The news almost drove him crazy. In addition, Katy Punan had recently been discovered by the Spanish colonial axe and besieged everywhere, so he didn't even think much about it, so he rushed here with the 100,000 pounds raised and the main members.

When the bonfire was lit, he had been worried about whether Liu Hengqi had lied to him. He wanted to take the opportunity to embezzle the 100,000 pounds he had finally got. It was not until the boxes in front of him were opened one by one that he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

This is simply a pie falling from the sky. With this batch of arms, he believes that he can soon launch an uprising to overthrow the evil Spanish colonial ax!

Compared with the Bonifa Show, Hasinto, another real power figure in Katipunan, was even more excited to tears. For a long time, Katipunan, who lacked guns and ammunition, had to rely on broken weapons to fight against the Spanish colonial army armed to the teeth. In just a few years, thousands of people were sacrificed, all because The scene of being arrested without weapons or directly beaten to death is really sad!

Now with this batch of guns, although it is a little less than expected, it is enough to carry out a real reading uprising! Compared with the two elders, Aquinado, who had just contacted Kati Punan, was a little cautious. For nothing else, he hung the Spanish flag on the munition ship.

Unlike Jacinto and Ponifaxiu, Aquinado is not a clay figurine. As the largest landlord and bourgeoisie in the Philippines, he has received a good education and is also associated with the Spanish colonial axe. What makes him more eye widened is that the freighter that is slowly landing has accepted him a few days ago. He was entrusted to help him deliver a batch of tobacco.

The ship is a red man belonging to the Spanish authorities. Not long ago, he bought a rubber plantation in his hand. He is the nephew of the governor of Guam. Is it Mr. Slo, the big boss of the Philippine trading company, which can no longer be described as Jindoujin? How can such a pure Spaniard be used to resist the military movement? What about sending arms?

Is this a trap?

Aquinado subconsciously looked around. Except for himself, the people on the dock were empty, not like there was an ambush. He couldn't help looking at Liu Hengqi suspiciously and wondered how he did it. Can the Spaniards deliver arms for him?

With a glance of suspicion, Liu Hengqi immediately knew what the other party was thinking. In fact, he also knew something about Aquinado. This person was not only the biggest gentry among the Filipino natives, but also hooked up with the Spanish authorities. He was a standard conservative, so he was also a little curious about how such a person could talk to What about the radical Katipnan coming together?

"Mr. Aquinado, please rest assured that they rented the ship in the name of the Americans. All the crew have been replaced. They are all Chinese from the Qing Dynasty." Liu Hengqi smiled and interrupted Aquinado's doubts.

"So that's it." Hearing Liu Hengyu's words, Aquinado was relieved and more curious about Liu Hengyu. If such a person can control such a means in his own hands, then...

In Aquinado's thoughts, the freighter slowly leaned against the wharf. Because the wharf was too narrow, it had to stop obliquely, and then loaded a box of munitions on the boat with the crane arm on the ship and transported it to the wharf.

Soon, the dock was full of large and small boxes, and when several heavy 50mm cannons appeared on the boom, almost everyone rushed over excitedly, eager to hold the cannon and kiss them.

As the wooden boxes were opened one by one, a brand-new rifle appeared in front of the crowd. Everyone shouted excitedly. It was not until Liu Guishan finally counted the money and greeted him with a smile and was ready to leave that everyone woke up.

"Wait a minute." Liu Hengqi hurriedly pulled Bonifaxiu and others to stop Liu Guishan and said with a smile, "Sir, I don't know if you still have any goods? My friends hope to buy some more.

"Do you want more?" Liu Guishan pretended to frown his eyebrows and took out a cigar from his pocket. Next to him, Hasinto quickly took out the matches and lit the others.

"How much do you want?"

"Five thousand." In Liu Hengji's translation, Bonifaxiu quickly slapped and looked at Liu Guishan with shortness of breath. 250,000." Liu Guishan thought for a thought and suddenly gritted his teeth: "Pound!"

250,000 pounds!

Hiss~~!

After Liu Hengyu's translation, not to mention the Ponifa show, even a self-congued rich Aquinado took a breath of cold air. The previous 100,000 pounds has made Katipnan almost squeeze dry up and down. Because the other party only needs pounds or gold, the circulating peso can't be used, so let alone 300,000 at this moment, even No one can make up 30,000.

"Can I pay with peso?" Aquinado quietly pulled Liu Hengqi and asked him to ask. Liu Hengqi asked a few false questions and shook his head. Seeing that these Luzon's armed men were disappointed, Liu Guishan shouted, "It's okay if there is no pound or gold. Use someone to exchange it."

"Change of people?"

"Yes, one gun and twenty bullets for three people, and ten cannons for one gun for one hundred people!" Liu Guishan carelessly revealed the price, as if he was not afraid that the other party would not agree. Bonifaxiu and Aquinado were also a little stunned. Are there any people who don't want to pay these days? Besides, why do they want so many people?

After Liu Hengqi's translation, the people of Kati Punan soon understood that recently, some people in the Far East were conscripting a large number of hard workers to build railways, and they could pay according to the number of people, so these people had the idea of exchanging guns to find people to sell to Don't be a droop and earn a high price difference.

It's not big news to use people for guns. These days, let alone change guns, there are many people for opium, but if you want to collect the remaining guns and arms, it will take at least 100,000 people! With so many people, where are they going to do it?!

Ponifa Xiu wants to refuse such a deal directly, but now he can't guarantee whether the uprising will be successful. You should know that during this period, the Spanish political axe has been severely attacked. Every day, members of Katipnan are killed or captured. If he doesn't do anything, I'm afraid that Katipn will be killed before the beginning. Kill it all!

But the compatriot went to change guns and ammunition. If he was known, I'm afraid that Katipnan's good reputation would also be tarnished and the impact would be very great, so he hesitated all of a sudden.

What should I do?!

The Ponafa Show looked at the richest Aquinado, who didn't know what he was paying attention to and shook his head to show that he would not be able to take out the money.

Seeing this, Liu Henghui immediately came to Aquinado: "Mr. Emmio, I heard that many places in Medan are still in a wild state, and some large tribes have tens of thousands of people. Is it true?"

When Aquinado heard this, he suddenly shook his body, and his two sharp eyes stabbed Liu Hengqi. However, Liu Henghe did not show timidity, but hooked the corners of his mouth: "Mr. Emili, with all due respect, as far as I know, many large tribes have turned to the Spaniards and have great influence in the local area. It is always a hidden danger for these people to stay there."

"Most importantly, if we get power, how should we deal with them? Do you still give them power to continue to keep the country in a state where rights cannot be unified? And don't you think our soldiers need some basic training after getting the gun?

Looking at Liu Hengyu, who was talking, Aquinado's eyes gradually narrowed into a thin line, especially about the unification of the regime and training, which hit his heart heavily.

He is an ambitious person. From the beginning, he has never thought about sincerely cooperating with Katipnan. In his opinion, these people don't know how to manage the country at all. Let's see who support them. Unemployed workers, ignorant farmers, and those idle hooligans, if these people are in power, what should they do? You should know that those people are almost all the rivals of the gentry and the landlord!

So on the surface, he supports Katy Punan, but he doesn't want to take the opportunity to seize power and completely control this power in his own hands all the time, so he will never be willing to hand over power to people like Bonifaxiu, and he doesn't want to see that after driving away the Spaniards, there is a shabby decree that can't leave Lu. The regime in Song Dao.

He wants to be the most powerful person in the Philippines, not the most powerful person in Manila!

Thinking of this, he suddenly turned to Boniface and Hasinto, pulled them to the corner, and then heard bursts of fierce quarrels, and then the quarrel gradually subsided until the three of them reappeared in front of everyone.

"Mr. Bao." Ponafa showed a gloomy face, bit his lips and looked at Aquinado. He took a deep breath and said, "Please tell them for me to bring the goods to Medan. I will do my best to prepare what they need."

Boniface's words made Liu Hengzhi relieved. The young master was right. In the face of power and **, for Luzon, who has a complex ethnic composition, and for Kati Punan, it is really difficult to resist to sell a small number of other tribes and ethnic groups in exchange for greater success! Especially when the Spanish army has begun to pay!

As the sky was getting brighter, the narrow dock was quickly filled with large and small wooden boxes. When the last box of shells was unloaded, Liu Guishan agreed with the other party about the details of the transaction in Medan and patted his buttocks and set sail with two boxes of money.

Looking at the mountain-like munitions, Bonifaxiu even forgot the unhappiness just now. While organizing people to be transported away, he began to discuss the time and plan of the uprising on this dock.

"Mr. Boniface, excuse me, I think we should start immediately instead of continuing to wait." Listening to several people discussing the plan, Liu Hengqi interrupted.

"Do it now?" Bonifaxiu shook his head and said, "Abao, didn't you just say that we should use those tribes to train soldiers? You should know that soldiers need to be familiar with these arms. If they do it now, there will be a lot of casualties.

"The more casualties you have, the happier I will be." Liu Hengxin said, but his face was still very solemn. He said, "Yes, I know, but we don't have time, because I heard the news when I went to the United States not long ago that there had been a riot in Cuba, and the Spanish political axe was sending troops there on a large scale. I heard that there were at least 50,000 people!"

"This is a good opportunity for us!" Liu Hengqi aggravated his tone.

Several people, Liu Heng, said, "We." They were all very satisfied, but when they heard the news that Liu Hengqi deliberately exaggerated, their eyes were shocked one by one, and the Spaniards wanted to send more troops to 50,000 to Cuba!

Not only Aquinado, but also Jacinto, who is the least knowledgeable about the military, stared. Everyone knows that if the Spaniards send more troops to Cuba, it means that their strength in Luzon will be weaker.

The Spanish army stationed in Luzon now is only 10,000 people. Even if you add those rebels [***], there are only more than 30,000 people. If it is launched at this time, it will be said that the success rate is much higher!

Seeing that several people were stunned by the news he had fabricated, Liu Hengqi felt the need to add another fire and said, "In my opinion, we are not ready, and the Spaniards are also not ready. While they don't know that we have got this batch of arms, we can just catch them off guard. As for the training To train soldiers, we can send people to Medan while fighting, so that we can not only urgently purchase arms urgently, but also have enough well-trained soldiers to use in case of problems.

Aquinado was first moved by Liu Hengqi. The largest gentry in the Philippines has learned some military tactics. He knows that the biggest advantage at present is undoubtedly that the news of this batch of arms has not been known by the Spanish authorities. But once the soldiers are trained on a large scale, the news will inevitably be leaked. At that time, it is certain to be defeated. The Spanish army must have paid a lot of price, so he said, "I agree with Bao's idea. I immediately launched an uprising and caught the Spaniards off guard."

"But don't forget that the Spaniards have a fleet, and our strength is too small?" Another elder of Katipunan, Hasinto said with some concern.

Liu Hengqi just wanted to speak, and Aquinado had already said first: "The fleet doesn't matter. They can't fight on land. As long as we move quickly, we can take advantage of the opportunity of Spain to send more troops to Cuba to gain enough advantage and seize some cities and build our own bases! We can't continue to hide. If we want to get the support of all the people in the Philippines, we must launch a full-scale offensive. At that time, even if they reinforce here, the soldiers we train in Medan can be put into use!

A sharp flash in Liu Hengyu's eyes. This Aquinadole deserves to be the young master's key name. He can actually see through Katipunan's biggest weakness at a glance, that is, there is a lack of a base to support a big war!

"If you do it immediately, I can contact Chinese businessmen to raise some military spending! And you can also let the Chinese help you do it together!" Liu Hengqi withdrew his eyes and pressed the largest resource in his hand.

Chinese Filipinos have always been the richest class in the country. Even if the Spanish massacred many Chinese after the occupation, they still firmly control nearly one-third of the country's wealth and have a lot of private armed forces. If these people can join the action against Spain, it will undoubtedly increase greatly. The success rate of the uprising has been added.

After calming himself down for a while, he glanced at the crowd in front of him and waved fiercely: "Then let's do it!"

After getting the news that the armed uprising was confirmed, the generals next to him cheered one by one. Liu Henghui was also relieved and shouted "Revolt!" in his heart, because they did not rebel and fought with the Spaniards to death. How could the young master have the opportunity to get involved here!

When the munitions began to be transferred by boxes of boats, and saw that Bonifaxiu and others were gradually leaving, Aquinado suddenly walked to Liu Hengyu, patted him on the shoulder affectionately, and smiled, "A Bao, if you have time, how about visiting my house?"

Liu Hengqi's pupils suddenly closed, and a smile was wiped at the corners of his mouth. He knew that Aquinado was ready to win him over. Who would have thought that the proud and noble Filipino daughter was doomed to split before she started!

(to be continued)