Chapter 16 Bishops
"How could you kill him without trial!"
Pereira's roar came from behind. Chen Mu, who had been surrounded by family soldiers, walked out of the municipal government office, turned around and frowned at Pereira, and turned his head for a moment to continue walking forward.
Taking two steps, Chen Mu turned around and said, "He insulted me, why did I kill him?"
"He is a nobleman, and even if he is captured in the battle, he is qualified to pay ransom." Pereira paused, then stood behind the wall of human beings composed of Li Dan's subordinates and whispered loudly: "How can you kill him directly!"
Everything happened too quickly. Although Pereira expected it when Davega spoke rudely. He thought that Chen Mu would not let this matter be exposed simply, and might pull him out of the municipal government to hit the board in the way of a Mingren, but he didn't expect that he would use the gun to move and use his pistol that looked like the latest flintlock rifle of the Westerners to kill Davega.
Davega, who traveled across the ocean from Lisbon and served in India with outstanding command, had to obtain the status of a Macao soldier. Davega, who had not yet had enough knowledge of the new continent east of Malacca for seven days after landing, died like this.
But Pereira, the leader of Haojing, had no choice but to do anything. They had no power here. Even if there were hundreds of Portuguese and thousands of Christians on this small island, this seemed to be a bargaining chip to threaten Chen Mu.
Now, hundreds of sailors outside the municipal yamen hold swords and guns, blocking a few Portuguese people in the yamen, and people have no choice but to do anything.
"I knew that I could not have died, and I could not obtain the trade power in Malacca, which is not something you can decide. If he could respect me as much as you, I would respect him as much as you do, but unfortunately he did not."
Chen Mu's face was right when he said this. Now his heart was suppressed by confessing guilty and raised his hand to the heavenly way: "This land is not something that your king can govern, so there are no nobles, he is not a businessman or a businessman, and he has no identity. I just hope you understand a fact-Hao Jing is the land of the Ming Dynasty, and this matter will never change unless you send troops to occupy this place."
"Don't forget, since you captured the Ming vassal state Manta Ka, how many years have we fought? For sixty years, there was no truce, and no one admitted defeat. Although trade was opened in Haojing, this was just for merchants to trade, and countries had no truce."
"General Chen!"
Bishop Canelo, who was over 50 years old, wore glasses and a wide priest robe, squeezed out of the crowd. He was stopped by Li Dan's strong black sailor, and shouted Chen Mu's name with his hand. Seeing Pereira speechless, Chen Mu, who was about to leave, turned his head again and waved his hand with some boredom: "Let him come over, what's the matter with the bishop?"
"You said something wrong."
Bishop Haojing, who had a big beard, squeezed out the crowd and stood three steps away from Chen Mu's robe, then said to Chen Mu: "I must tell you that in our teachings, Noah was not a gift from the Lord, but a guidance from the Lord, who guided our ancestors to build it and survive."
"You are right. Maybe it's better to ask for yourself than to ask others. But the Lord is with us. Davega does not have a protector like you who protect him, but we are also willing to give our lives for others! The Lord guides me - to duel with you!"
As he said that, the old Canelo took off his priest's robe and showed his mottled half-body armor under the robe. He still held the Bible in his left hand and a cross fell on his chest. He said, "Please give me a long sword. Even when facing a tiger, the shepherd will protect his lamb!"
Chen Mu suddenly smiled, raised his arms and gave orders: "Get out of the way! Give him a long sword!"
No matter how the foreigners were outside the municipal government, they exclaimed. No one expected that such a commander with a respectable status would be willing to accept the challenge of a foreigner, whether Li Dan and Huayu or Long Junxiong, they would compete to replace Chen Mu to fight.
Of course, Chen Mu did not intend to compete with Canero normally.
Just as the sword fell into Canelo's hand, Chen Mu also held the other hand gun in his hand, pointed at Canelo within a few steps, and then pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang!
The sound was crisp, and the pistol fired a lead ball at a short distance and broke the sword and flew out of his hand, and inserted it into the soil not far away. Chen Mu smiled with the pistol that was still smoking, "Shepherd, the winner is decided... But I like your teaching a little, haha!"
"If your governor agrees to my request, seven merchant ships will go to my office and tell you your teachings, I want to hear it."
Two hand guns were thrown to the servants to fill medicine. Chen Mu, who was turning over the horse, raised his whip, finally looked around the entire municipal square, leaned over and said, "Assince monk, maybe you will become the new pope in the future."
Chen Mu smiled happier than ever before. After escorting Li Dan the matter of coordinating with three hundred households to block the port, he made an arrangement for Pingtuo to board the ship to Malacca, he was escorted by the family riders and headed north.
The news that Hao Jing was blocked by three hundred households spread rapidly throughout Xiangshan, and the news that Chen Mu convened five thousand households to discuss the matter caused an uproar throughout the Nanyang Guard.
The five tribes and thousands of households were convened, with only one purpose, to train troops.
"General, is it wrong this time? There is no intention of disobedience to the position of humble position." Deng Zilong clasped his fists and said, "The general had just been impeached by a censor, but at this time he had to raise troops to fight the Portuguese. Once the censor knew about it, I am afraid that Guangzhong's remarks would be very powerful. The military affairs in Guangxi were not settled. If the trouble arises, even the imperial court would be punished."
Deng Zilong was very worried, and Sun Ao and Huang Dexiang's reaction was similar. They basically looked like they were too lazy to talk too much to Chen Mu - let this man do it, and he wouldn't listen to him anyway.
At this time, he could best see who is a real talent. Deng Zilong thought the most, and he had a vague understanding of the situation in the government and the country from Guangzhou Prefecture to Guangdong and Guangxi and even the entire government and opposition; while Huang Dexiang and Sun Ao had both a little understanding but were not enough to refute Chen Mu.
As for the remaining two thousand households, Shao Tingda and Shi Qi's reaction was almost similar. Shi Qi responded to Chen Mu's words and clasped his fists and responded with ease. His brother Shao Tingda clasped his fists and showed up to several thousand households: "Gather Guangcheng fought Zeng Yiben, you all went to war. Brother Mu told me to look at the boss's governor, and there was no military achievements. What happened? Qianhu in Shunde. Don't bother what Brother Mu said, it must be right!"
"Does Portuguese dare to fight the Mok Jing? Dare."
Chen Mu was amused and crying by Shao Tingda's words, waved his hand and let the few people sit down, and then continued: "But is he willing to fight with me? I don't want to. This trade is too important to them. They bought goods from Haojing at a high price, but these things can be exchanged for a huge profit of five or ten times when transported to the west of Malacca. If the war begins, they will get nothing."
"They are most likely to drag and give a quota for one boat, or five, at most no more than ten. Just this number will not be able to fight."
"Just just as Chen considered who to ask the court to fill the loopholes of Haojing to draw the battle before deciding whether to start a war or not, the Portuguese Governor on the sea also thought about this, and the difference was that Chen could make up for it, but he couldn't make up for it!"
Chapter completed!