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Chapter 402: Macau

The team arrived at the Pearl River Port and then returned to the shore. Because the Qiongzhou Prefecture's teaching defense was much tighter, officials from the Guangdong Third Division who had already been waiting at the port mobilized almost all the available forces in Lingnan, including three steps, one post, five steps, and even a radius of ten miles.

Another complicated etiquette. The three departments of Guangdong, and all the officials from all prefectures and roads arrived. Zhu Jun landed on a chariot and ignored the officials from Guangdong and entered the office of Panyu Port in Guangzhou Prefecture. What worried Zhu Jun still came. When he was at the end of his journey in southern Myanmar, Zhu Jun lived in a straw shed and ate white rice. However, as the territory grew bigger, bureaucracy finally rose. There were only dozens of guards on a patrol. But now, there were hundreds of warships, and within ten miles of the Ming army and the officials. The money spent was naturally a lot of money. But who could Zhu Jun blame? Are these officials blamed? These officials were also to welcome the sage, and even more so for their own safety. What reason should they use to blame them?

Zhu Jun sat in the yamen office and met with officials from the Third Division in Guangdong. He asked about some government affairs. He glanced at him and saw that there were foreigners among the officials he met. His brows sank and asked, "Who is that person?"

The Guangdong governor's surname is Zhao, with a single name of Gao. This name seriously affected his career. He was the first grade in the seventh year of Chongzhen exam and was awarded a Jinshi and was given a Jinshi. This score could have been at least one of the six ministries in Beijing. If he was lucky, he might be able to join the Hanlin to be a Shujishi. After a certain degree of qualification, he might be able to directly join the cabinet as a prime minister. Before he resigned, he was a minister of the six ministries and the position of the Minister of the Secretariat. Unfortunately, he had a good future. Unfortunately, he was bad here. His name was presented to Emperor Chongzhen. When Chongzhen saw the two characters Zhao Gao, he was unhappy. He originally planned to send it to the Ministry of Personnel to become a Guanzhengshi.

Zhao Gao was sent to the Nanjing Ministry of Rites. This incident naturally made him depressed for a long time. Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng entered Beijing a few years later, and Zhao Gao could have escaped. Later, with his colleagues from the six ministries of Nanjing, he successively established Hongguang, Longwu and other regimes. The Qing army crossed the Yangtze River. Zhao Gao led the 500-town delegation Mingyong to cross the river to fight to the decisive battle. In the end, the entire army was wiped out and rescued by his subordinates. Then he brought a group of refugees fleeing south into Hunan, surrendered to Yongli, and was awarded the Minister of Personnel. Then there was a race following Yongli until Zhu Jun appeared, regrouped, and finally became the Guangdong Provincial Administration Office. It was a tortuous and experienced.

This time the emperor's tour to Guangdong was equivalent to giving Zhao Gao a chance to show his ground. The development zone at the Pearl River Port in Guangdong has been built for two years and is now in prosperity. The arrival of the emperor naturally made Zhao Gao happy. When he saw Zhu Jun frowned and hurried forward, he said, "Your Majesty, this person is a Portuguese businessman named Angela Caulli. Angela is the largest businessman in Jingao."

"Your Majesty, your subjects greet you." Angela Kauri stood up with a self-recommendation.

"Hao Jingao?" Zhu Jun really didn't understand what this place was, but he immediately thought of Macau. In the 32nd year of Jiajing, the Portuguese pleaded that the ship hit a crack and the water was wet, asking for land to be borrowed to dry. Wang Bai, the deputy envoy of Minghai Road, accepted bribes and secretly promised. At first, the Portuguese only used ship trade to live in a thatched tent. However, in less than ten years, the Portuguese in Macau increased greatly, and even built thousands of rooms, with tens of thousands of people, and the number of people increased slightly later. This Haojingao was 80% Macau. At least until now, Zhu Jun could not think of any other place except Macau.

Zhu Jun glared at Zhao Gao. The Portuguese actually occupied the land in the Ming Dynasty. Now Portugal has issued a text of a declaration of war to the Ming Dynasty. Under his rule, enemy troops have entered, but they have not even encircled them.

Zhao Gao was naturally not a fool, so he didn't know why the emperor was angry and quickly explained: "Your Majesty, Angela and some Portuguese merchants are friends of our Ming Dynasty, and they have no connection with the Portuguese government."

"Yes, yes, we are good friends of the Ming Dynasty and have no relationship with Portugal." Angela also added.

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After Zhao Gao explained it, Zhu Jun realized that these Portuguese were indeed descendants of the Portuguese who landed in Macau and had a connection with Yongli in that year.

At that time, King Zhu Youlang of Gui was supported as emperor in Zhaoqing, Guangdong and established the Yongli regime. However, at this moment, the Yongli regime did not have a stable jurisdiction. There was no complete regime organization that could provide manpower and material resources. The regime organization was very loose; in military terms, the Yongli court and the remaining forces of Emperor Longwu stationed in Guangzhou------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope. People's hearts are disintegrating.

The main supporters of the Yongli regime were mostly Catholics, or had a Catholic background. For example, Pang Tianshou, Qu Shi, Jiao Lian, Ding Kuichu and others. They had a very close relationship with Western missionaries. In that time of crisis, some people strongly recommended Western missionary Bi Francis to Yongli to use his good relationship with Macau and seek military assistance from Macau.

In order to save the empire that was timid and as timid as a mouse, Emperor Yongli would naturally not let go of any life-saving grass. Therefore, he valued Bi Francis quite a lot and sent him to visit Macau and borrowed troops to buy weapons.

At this time, the Portuguese in Macau were also afraid that the Qing Dynasty would threaten their interests after the capture of Guangdong, so they attached great importance to the request of the Yongli regime. The mercenary formation work was completed efficiently, and soon recruited soldiers, several cannons, and a group of muskets. Ferreira was sent as commander, with the Jesuit Qu Shawei as the priest of the army. These Macau reinforcements arrived in Guilin and became the anti-Qing ally of the Ming army.

A year later, Shang Kexi's Qing army attacked Guilin from Hunan, and Qu Shi commanded the generals to guard the city gates. The Qing cavalry was charged and was fiercely fired by Portuguese firearms. The Ming army went out of the city to fight and defeated the Qing cavalry.

Later, due to Yongli's timidity and fear of death, the Qing army had already fled when it came again, and the Portuguese mercenaries had to disband.

Later, after Zhu Jun rose in the South China Sea, he swept the South China Sea and restored Jiangnan. Then Portugal and the Ming Dynasty fought each other and declared war on each other. Of course, the Guangdong Fufu Department did not dare to shelter the Portuguese in Macau, but in view of past relationships, Zhao Gao did not deliberately make things difficult for him. He just issued a final reply and ordered the Portuguese who were stationed in Macau to leave within a specified period of time.

The Portuguese people in Macau have lived in Macau for hundreds of years. To be more precise, this is their real home. If they return to Portugal, they may not even know how to cook their future lives. The relatives who were a hundred years ago have long cut off contact, and even the Portuguese language has gradually begun to have accents. In short, they cannot go back. Going back means losing everything, which means that they will leave their hometowns and start over in a strange environment.

The Portuguese in Macau were panicked and they could not go back, but the Ming Dynasty was no longer the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was still fooling around and could play tricks. However, the Ming Dynasty now had to hook its fingers and send a warship and corps to razed the entire Macau to the ground. After several big merchants were nervously discussing, they finally came up with a solution. They submitted a petition to the Guangdong Provincial Government Office, expressing that they were willing to break away from their identity as Portugal and become the people of the Ming Dynasty, and requested the Ming Dynasty to send officials to the jurisdiction, and they were willing to pay taxes.

Zhao Gao naturally did not dare to make a decision about this petition, so he submitted it to the cabinet. The cabinet minister who read the memorial was Mu Tianbo. In his eyes, this was not a big deal. It was just a barbarian request to become subjects of the Ming Dynasty. With a big stroke, he approved it. From then on, these Portuguese people transformed into subjects of the Ming Dynasty. As for the Portuguese royal family that was once loyal to, it would be better to get out of the way. The brothers were born and raised here, built houses and made a living, who was interested in being driven back for the royal family to start over.

After hearing the report, Zhu Jun's face calmed down a little and asked, "How many Portuguese people are there in Jing'ao now? How many Han people are there?"

Zhao Gao breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that Zhu Jun had no intention of pursuing it, he hurriedly said, "There are 4,200 Portuguese households, with a population of about 28,000. In addition, there are other Westerners stationed in Haojingao, with a total of 5,12 households and 5,900 people. There are 2,000 households and 13,000 people."

Zhu Jun said to the uneasy Angela: "Since this is the case, I will grant you the permission to settle down in Macau, but you must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise you will be severely punished."

"Thank you, your Majesty, you are a good person." Angela seemed extremely honest and kept bowing: "Actually, I am here to petition this time by all the merchants in Macau."

Zhu Jun frowned again. Westerners were indeed in trouble. In the words of the Han people, it was called a stingy face. He had just signed up as their subjects and came to petition again.
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