Chapter 943: Protectorate

"Wooooo..."

The steamship's whistle sounded clear.

The Jinghai slowly docked at the port.

Before the warship arrived, the Marines landed first.

In order to ensure Zhao Xu's safety, they quickly cleaned up the battlefield to prevent any enemy soldiers from shooting coldly.

At this time, the soldiers led by Pan Chang also entered the trench, accepting the surrender of the Portuguese while controlling the entire battlefield.

When Zhao Xu set foot on the land of Manila, Pan Chang had already brought the Governor of Luzon Ferrero and his Colonel Valenza over.

"Your Highness, how do you deal with them?" Pan Chang asked.

There was an overseas Song person next to Ferrero.

Hearing this, he immediately translated Pan Chang's words.

"Your Highness, King Yan, I have surrendered, please spare my life." Ferrero was like a defeated rooster, with a begging look on his face.

At the same time, he carefully looked at Zhao Xu.

He naturally didn't expect that the Great Song King Yan would come to Luzon in person.

And the King of Yan is still so young.

"Who said that surrendering can save you from death? Isn't it because there is no hope of victory that you surrendered? If you surrendered from the beginning, I might consider it, but now..." Zhao Xu's eyes turned cold.

Ferrero's eyes widened suddenly, his legs weakened, and he shouted wildly in fear, "King of Yan, I am the governor. If you kill them, you will offend the Portuguese and the Western Land. They will not let you go."

"It's as if they will let me go if I let you go." Zhao Xu laughed even colder.

After a pause, he said: "You have been in Luzon for 20 years, and I know every dirty thing you have done. There are more than 20,000 overseas Song people who died under your butcher knife. If you let you go, who will pay for their lives?"

Ferrero was stunned.

When he slaughtered the Song people, he never thought that one day someone would avenge them.

After all, in his eyes, these overseas Song people are not even as good as the natives of Luzon.

Killing them is just like killing a dog.

But now, the revenger has come.

And the reason given by the King of Yan is perfect.

"Even if I am judged, it should not be you who judges me. The Western world should judge me." Ferrero was still quibbling.

Zhao Xu was too lazy to listen to him anymore.

He just waved his hand and asked his soldiers to take Ferrero and other surrendered Portuguese officers away.

They would hand over the surrendered Portuguese officers and soldiers to the Marine Corps for trial.

Those who were guilty of serious crimes should be executed.

The rest were sent to the plantation to let them experience the pain of overseas Song people being imprisoned in the plantation.

Then, he entered the Governor's Palace in the center of Manila from the coast under the escort of the soldiers.

This is a three-story white castle-style building.

Ferrero, Portuguese officers and civil servants all work here.

Now, the Portuguese in this Governor's Palace have been driven out by the Dasong soldiers.

Arriving at Ferrero's office, Zhao Xu saw a scribbled world map on the wall of the office.

This map is of course not accurate, but it has the general outline of various regions of the world.

On the map, the color of Portugal is purple, and Luzon is also purple.

In addition, the west coast of South America is also purple.

The location is equivalent to Panama, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and other regions.

Presumably these are all colonies of Portugal.

It is considered to be part of Portugal.

However, as far as he knows, its colonies in South America have been eroded by the United States.

There are some documents on the table of the office, and there is also a bottle of red wine and a glass wine glass on it.

"Your Highness, what should we do next? The King of Luzon also supported the war between the Portuguese and us. We drove the Portuguese away, but we can't let him get away with it." Zhou Yi followed Zhao Xu.

Soldiers kept coming to report to him about the situation in Manila.

"Of course we can't hand Luzon over to him." Zhao Xu said, "Besides, he is not the king of the entire Luzon, but just one of the three kings."

Luzon is actually composed of three regions.

The northern region with Manila as the core, the scattered islands in the middle are called Cebu, and there is a larger island in the south called Cotton Island.

There is a king in each of the three regions.

That is to say, the current Luzon is not a concept of a whole country, but a region.

After pondering for a while, he said: "In fact, after conquering Japan, this king had an idea to establish a protectorate in the conquered area."

"Protectorate?" Zhou Yi was stunned. He had never heard of this term.

Zhao Xu nodded. He was not surprised by Zhou Yi's reaction.

Because there is no scenery of the Han and Tang Dynasties here, there is naturally no protectorate.

"Well, the duty of this protectorate is to comfort the vassals and pacify the foreign invaders." Zhao Xu explained.

The protectorate in the Han and Tang Dynasties was not a direct management agency. At that time, the small countries in the Western Regions that surrendered to the Han and Tang Dynasties were directly governed by their respective leaders.

The Protectorate is actually a military agency. The word "Protectorate" means military supervision and protection.

At present, he has set up garrisons in Goryeo and Japan. In fact, the functions are basically the same as the Protectorate.

It's just a formal name.

But before, he only had this idea vaguely.

Now that Luzon has been taken, this idea has become clear.

This is what he said, military support for overseas Song people.

In general, in terms of ruling the Southern Region, he will allow overseas Song people to enter the power center of the Southern Region, and even become the king in the future.

On the other hand, he will establish a protectorate to protect the Southern Region.

He has already thought of the name of this protectorate, which is called the Southern Region Protectorate.