The surrender was straightforward and clear, without any loss of mud and water.

Europeans are definitely more accustomed to surrender than Easterners. After all, for them, there is no "becoming a righteous man".

Even after surrendering and finally finding out the identity of the enemy, Risle shouted loudly.

"Your Excellency, although we are in a state of hostility, I still ordered the protection of the Ming Shang's security. I hope you can treat us with kindness and treat us in a way that is civilized."

Look, for Westerners, the so-called "civilization" has always been relative civilized people. They should deal with civilized people in the way of civilized people.

In fact, when he said this, Risle was unsure of it. After all, that Lord Zheng did kill the British captain and turned all the sailors into slaves.

Civilization...The Ming Dynasty is a civilization, but it also treats "barbarians" in a barbaric way.

However, for Zheng Zhilong, he was not interested in dealing with these prisoners. Killing prisoners was not a habit of the Ming Dynasty.

After arriving in Malacca, he went directly to the right bank. The Ming Shang had been operating in Malacca for more than two hundred years. In this city with a population of 30,000, there were more than 15,000 Han people and mixed-race descendants. After the merchants learned that the arrival of Pinghai Hou, they came to greet him.

A white-haired and white-bearded old man surrounded by a group of people rushed to Zheng Zhilong and bowed, and said excitedly:

"Old King Hai pays homage to the Marquis!"

Zheng Zhilong hurriedly helped him:

"The father-in-law is not given a gift."

The rest of the Ming Shang looked at Zheng Zhilong with a respectful face.

Regarding the popularity of Ming officials overseas, I am afraid that few of them can compare to Zheng Zhilong. After all, he is the "ship king" of the Ming Dynasty and the "Dragon King of Minhai" who once dominated the sea.

Among the maritime merchants in Malacca, many of them were originally Fujianese. Even if they were not Fujianese, they had been famous for this "Dragon King of Minhai" and "Ship King". In the past, they only heard his name and talked about his legend, but now, this person is standing in front of them, so how could he not be excited?

The Ming Shang in Malacca had already prepared a very sumptuous banquet in the city.

Uh... In addition to good wine and dishes, there were more than a dozen Portuguese and mixed-race musicians dancing during the meal. These mixed-race women's slim figures and charming eyes have always been Ming Shang's favorites.

OK, food, sex, and so on.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong was no exception, especially when these women cast charming and hot eyes, he couldn't help but be moved.

These Western women know how to inspire others better!

However, Zheng Zhilong did not forget the main business. After learning about the basic situation in Malacca from Wang Hai, he immediately ordered someone to take out the blank document with a seal and fill in Wang Hai's name:

"Mr., since I have taken Malacca from the Ming Dynasty, I appointed Mr. Malacca as the county magistrate! I wonder what the old man thinks?"

The magistrate of Malacca must be entrusted by the court. No, the "Fuyi Department" should be appointed as a Jinshi and Juren here to serve as a juren, but Zheng Zhilong can entrust the local county magistrate and other assistants.

"this……"

Wang Hai said in surprise,

"The Ming Dynasty wants to annex Malacca?"

Zheng Zhilong smiled.

"What's the saying of annexation? Malacca itself is a vassal state of our Ming Dynasty and is occupied by the Portuguese. Today, our Ming Dynasty is just taking back the old land."

All the merchants were shocked and relieved.

It's not bad to be ruled by the Ming Dynasty. I haven't heard of the government's excessive taxes on the Nantianmen. In any case, it's better than being ruled by those barbarians.

Is it considered occupying this way?

Even if it is expanding its territory?

Even the reason is to recover the old land.

Everything in front of us made Wang Jiezhi, the head of Fuyi Si, a little confused, and always felt that all this was so unreal.

Didn’t the ancient books say “War by fighting, killing people to fill the wilderness; fighting for the city to fight, killing people to fill the city.”

Just a few people died, and they expanded their territory...

All this is too weird!

...

After resting in Malacca for three days, the fleet once again embarked on a journey of mighty times, and this time the destination was Colombo.

A century and a half ago, the Portuguese landed on Ceylon Island. This legendary island of gems, wood and spices was abundant. They then signed a covenant with the Kingdom of Cote in the southwest of the island and established the Colombo City. In fact, this city was first built by the Arabs. In 1330, the Chinese traveler Wang Dayuan visited this city and was called Kaolangbu at the time. Because it is located between the Cape of Good Hope and Malacca, its geographical location is extremely important.

It is also the most important battle of this expedition.

Five days later, when the fleet arrived in Colombo City, a hurry bell echoed over the city, the city gates were closed, and the gunners operated artillery and watched the fleet at the sea with vigilance.

Unlike other Portuguese colonial cities, in the past seventy or eighty years, people here have become accustomed to attacking the outside world from the outside. The territory of 1587 was located in the deep inland. After conquering the land along the coast of the Kingdom of Cote, they turned their attention to Colombo. As a result, Colombo offensive and defensive war broke out.

After eight months of fierce battle, the Stanvaca King, who had nearly 100,000 troops, failed to defeat Colombo, which had only hundreds of defenders, in the next few decades, the Sinhalese insisted on attacking Colombo regularly. The Portuguese withstood the military pressure brought by the local indigenous peoples every time. The situation changed after the Dutch arrived.

But even so, the Portuguese still stubbornly withstood the attacks between the Sinhalese and the Dutch. Because they experienced too many attacks, the Portuguese in the city reacted very quickly. Almost when they found a large number of mast tips, they immediately rang the bronze bell. While warning, the city gates quickly closed, and then they looked at the fleet from the sea with vigilance.

"Not a Dutch!"

"Not Sinhalese!"

"who are they?"

As the fleet got closer and closer, they all looked at the strange fleet on the sea with confusion.

This fleet is really unfamiliar.

Their ships were neither Dutch sailing ships nor Galliot Clippers, nor were Sinhalese boats.

who are they?

"Who are they?"

Governor Matthias of Colombo once again picked up the telescope, his eyes full of doubt.

Where did these guys come from? What are you doing here?

No wonder he was so confused. The news that the Ming army occupied Malacca has not yet reached this point, even though there were a few Portuguese ships that escaped from Malacca, these missed fish are still sailing on the sea. The old-style sailing ships cannot be compared with the Ming Navy's fast cruise ships. After all, those ships are two hundred years ahead of the era.

"They, they may be from Ming! It must be..."

Suddenly, a man pointed at the fleet at the sea and said loudly.

"That is a fast cruise ship that only Ming Kingdom has, and its sail surface is larger."

This is a fact. After all, the Ming army's fast cruiser was born from flying scissors. The most obvious feature is that the sail area is large. Although it cannot catch up with the real flying scissors, it is definitely far superior to the merchant ships of various countries.

Why did the people of Ming Dynasty get here?

Just as everyone was confused, a small boat leaned on the shore and then handed them an ultimatum.

"Ultimatum!"

For a moment, everyone was stunned. What made everyone even more stunned?

It was the ultimatum time. It was only two hours!

As far as they know, there is probably never such a short ultimatum in human history.
Chapter completed!