Lin Hongzhong lived up to his trust, quickly inquired clearly, and brought back good news and bad news.

The good news was that the news of the expulsion of the Portuguese from Macau was a smoke bomb released by the Jiangnan clique to exert pressure on the negotiations.

The bad news is that if the Portuguese don't bow their heads, they have the power to make the threat come true.

Through such a long period of observation and contact with the Ming government, the Portuguese have long discovered that China is too big and Beijing is too far away, and if they want to play well in Guangdong, they don't need to care too much about the attitude of the Ming emperor, as long as the officials in charge of Guangdong Province can provide them with shelter.

Therefore, the official who had the right to decide whether to accept or reject Portuguese trade was actually the governor of Guangdong. And that governor has a very close relationship with the Jiangnan Group. I heard that even his life was saved by Jiangnan Group......

How can the Portuguese play now? Domingo originally planned to settle accounts with Jiangnan Company, and then talk about how powerful the Portuguese Empire was, and then list his own conditions. These include but are not limited to sharing the Japanese market, opening the port of Jiangnan, prohibiting trade with the Spaniards, and compensating for the losses suffered by the cessation of trade for half a year.

After a burst of impotent rage, he could only tear up the draft he had racked his brains and let Lin Hongzhong contact the other party.

At the moment, people are like knives, and I am fish and meat, and the fierce negotiations in preparation will naturally not happen, so Zhao Liben can only say what is it. So the old man successfully completed his grandson's entrustment, and he overfulfilled the task. Let the Portuguese recognize the monopoly of the Jiangnan clique on trade with Japan. It was guaranteed that the Portuguese fleet would not sail through the Ryukyus. and that the fleets of both sides should refrain from engaging in any seas......

At the beginning, Zhao Hao and the Jesuits only talked about the first two, and he didn't dare to hope for the third.

Although the agreement is only valid for three years, it is already overjoyed for Zhao Hao. Three years is enough time for him to quadruple the fleet and strength of the garrison! What's more, he will definitely go to war with the Spaniards in three years, which can avoid being attacked on the back!

What if he has packed up the Spaniards and the agreement expires? Zhao Gongzi can even kill the Spaniards, what storm does the Portuguese dare to stir up?

On the Jiangnan Group's side, it only needs to agree to return the two Western ships and the crew on board. and promised to give priority to the supply of goods needed by Portuguese merchants, and not to trade with the Spaniards.

These three may be of great significance to the Portuguese, but they are not relevant to the Jiangnan group. Although Zhao Gongzi would sooner or later get involved in the galleon trade with the Americas, it was not something that should be considered in three years.

Originally, the Portuguese side wanted to add one, and the Jiangnan Group's fleet could not cross the Ryukyus to the south. was sternly rejected by Zhao Liben. The entire East and South China Seas are the sea areas of the Ming Dynasty, who dares to prohibit the ships of the Ming Dynasty from sailing? Isn't this forcing the group to go crazy?

The Portuguese had no choice but to stop talking nonsense.

Zhao Gongzi was very satisfied with this, and he was in a hurry to ask Yang Fan to put together the Oriental Beauty before he officially renewed the contract......

He asked Jiang Xueying to sign and seal the treaty sent by the old man in an expedited manner of 800 li, and then sent it back to Lingnan in an expedited 800 li.

Today is the day of the official exchange of contracts between the two sides, because the Portuguese cannot leave the island, so the old man agreed to deign to go to Macau and hold the exchange ceremony on the ground of the Portuguese.

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Getting back to the point, seeing Zhao Liben stepping out of the hall, Lin Huichun and Ye Zimei hurriedly greeted him and supported him instead of Hantao and Cailian.

"Keep an eye on your step, the boss."

"My lord slept well last night."

"Huh? Today, there are two adults. Zhao Liben said hello to the two with a smile? They will attend today's contract exchange ceremony as witnesses of the agreement.

"It should be, it should be."

"Can you serve the Boss? What a glorious place! "The two officials are offering him as an ancestor? I heard that Zhao Liben thinks that there are many red-haired women? I also deliberately found him a black pearl, but unfortunately the old man is old? At night, your eyes are not good, and you can't see where to start? and only kept as a handmaiden.

However, the filial piety of the two, the old man still arrived.

Zhao Liben sat in the eight-lift sedan chair prepared for him? The two adults also got into the sedan chair, and then set up a guard of honor and drove to Ho Jing O.

Although Lin Hongzhong, a sea merchant, has the title of a thousand households in Haiphong? But he neither sat in a sedan chair nor rode a horse, and followed Zhao Liben's sedan chair to listen to the call.

He stammered to Zhao Liben? But he went to Jiangnan Group and Zhao Gongzi. Whether it is the Portuguese or the people in the government, it is not as good as him to see the great prospects of the Jiangnan Group.

Because of the things he did, in fact, it was almost the same way as Zhao Gongzi, but it was weakened too much. But because of this, Lin Hongzhong can better appreciate how great Zhao Gongzi is.

Can you imagine? Backed by the rich land of Jiangnan? With the support of the emperor and a monopoly on trade with Japan, the Jiangnan Group, which has a monopoly on trade with Japan, will grow over time, so why is it such a behemoth?

He was eager to meet that boy and see if he could get on this boat, of course, he had to please Grandpa Zhao.

At this time, the sun was already a little stuffy, Zhao Li ordered people to open the four-sided sedan curtains, while enjoying the wind from all sides, while smoking Lin Hongzhong's filial cigar with Erlang's legs crossed.

Lin Hongzhong called this thing a tamba mushroom, and when he saw that Zhao Shouzheng also liked it, he bought the best Cuban cigars from the Spaniards in Luzon to pay tribute.

"It is said that this cigar is all rubbed out of the thighs of a beautiful girl." Zhao Liben spit out a smoke ring in enjoyment.

"It's no wonder that the red-haired ghost doesn't make it himself, and he has to let the Cuban girl rub it." Lin Hongzhong smiled: "There is too much hair, how painful it is to rub it." ”

"Oh, hahahaha, that makes sense!" Zhao Liben couldn't help laughing, and suddenly felt that this kid was a fellow practitioner.

In a joke, the destination has arrived.

Lin Hongzhong became a tour guide for the old man, and he said that the name of this place was 'Hao Jing O'.

Because it's a peninsula. There are circular bays on the east and west sides, and on a quiet moonlit night, the sea glows with silver and is as smooth as a mirror, like the inner wall of an oyster shell, so it is called an 'oyster mirror'. Later, because the word "oyster" was vulgar, it was changed to Haojing.

In Fujian and Guangdong, 'Macao' refers to a place where boats can be parked on the seaside, and because the topography of Haojing resembles a 'gate', merchants also call it 'Macao'.

Zhao Li was determined to see that the Macao Peninsula had a long and narrow land connection with the mainland, and the area was really not large, but it was only 'four or five miles of building a city on the mountain'.

On that narrow stretch of land, there was a gate building, and on either side there were round Western bunkers, on which stood heavily armed Franc machine musketeers.

Zhao Liben couldn't help frowning and said, "This is out of the border?" ”

"No, no, in the past, the gate was still the boundary of our Ming Dynasty, and we still have to obey the king." Lin Hongzhong hurriedly explained: "Originally, there was no such gate, didn't the Portuguese help the official army to repel Jukou Zengyi last year?" In order to prevent the Haikou from retaliating, Kaido Liu observed that the Tern quasi-Portuguese built a wall to defend themselves...... In our Guangdong side, watchtowers are very common. ”

"Hehe, it's going to be a pawn." Zhao Liben saw it thoroughly, this was the rhythm of Laipi tenants wanting to be landlords, but he was too lazy to meddle with things.

Seeing the county magistrate and the official coming, the Portuguese hurriedly opened the gate and let the group in.

Zhao Liben looked at it coldly, and saw that the city of Macao is not big, and the city is divided into four parts by a cross street, and the streets are paved with rubble of primary colors, and there are two or three exotic small buildings along the street. The ground floor is a stone porch, the walls are painted in various bright colors, the windows are white shutters one by one, and there are flowers and plants on the windowsills.

There are even more people of all races on the street, including red-haired people, Ming people, black people that the old man has seen, and there are many varieties that he has not seen.

Lin Hongzhong introduced to him that those with brown complexion and curled hair were Indian Ah San. The people who are short in stature and have the eyes of thieves are the natives of Southeast Asia. There are also red-skinned ...... It was an American with red paint on his face, a slave of a Spanish merchant who had come to Macau to do business.

Zhao Liben really opened his eyes, he saw that the women on the street might be too hot, many of them were wearing knee-length short skirts, and only wrapped their bulging breasts with strips of cloth, it was so exciting...... Oh no, it's so immoral!

"Phew, shameless." Zhao Liben generally stared at it, while criticizing fiercely. "But it's a pity that it's covered by this convex and backward curved." He couldn't help but fantasize about what a beautiful scenery it should be for Daming girls to dress up like this.

"Hehe, how else can it be said to be a barbarian, the Taixi people are okay, and there are women who come from hot areas and don't wear clothes." Lin Hongzhong said with a smile.

"Where, where?" Zhao Liben was busy looking around, but he didn't see a single barehead.

"The old parents strictly forbade it." Lin Hongzhong said busily.

"It's a pity, oh no, it's forbidden!" Zhao Liben coughed twice, feeling quite regretful.

While talking, he arrived at Basutargu Street, where the official residence of the commander of the Macau Detachment of the Malacca Fleet was located.

"What kind of broken name is this?" Zhao Liben got off the sedan chair with the support of Lin Hongzhong.

"Yes, the Portuguese like to name their streets after their names. We're all called 'Basu Spanking You Street'. Lin Hongzhong said with a smile: "General Domingo has come out to greet the three of you." ”

Two rows of neatly dressed Portuguese musketeers lined up in front of the mansion with their guns raised.

On the steps of the red carpet, stood a Portuguese nobleman wearing a square hat with black trim trim, a solid gold medal around his neck, a gorgeous blouse with padded shoulders, a pair of white leggings on the bottom, and a large lump of bulging crotch.

The military and political chief of Macau, Major General Domingo, was probably in his fifties, not tall, with gray hair, a hooked nose, and a square chin that looked very resolute. When he saw the three of them, he was neither humble nor arrogant, so he took off his hat and bowed, and said a bird language.

The magistrate of Xiangshan was afraid that Old Zhao Lang would be angry, so he hurriedly explained: "The red-haired ghost can't bend his legs and can't kneel, so let's not embarrass them." ”

Lin Hongzhong, who served as the interpreter, naturally followed the meaning of the magistrate and said that Domingo also apologized, and they had a problem with the structure of their knees, and they couldn't get up when they fell to the ground, so they really couldn't kneel.

"That's pathetic." Zhao Liben smiled disapprerovingly: "Hurry up and change the contract." ”

The two sides don't understand the language, and there is nothing to say, so it's better to get down to business and go to a Macau casino to find a sexy dealer to play.

ps. Keep writing, try to make up for the previous chapter, don't wait, read it tomorrow morning.