Under the influence of the Xiaoice River, Jiangnan is still a little cold at night, but Lingnan is already so hot that dogs stick out their tongues.

In the mansion of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, the peach blossoms have been gone, but the bauhinia azalea kapok is in full bloom, and it is full of flowers, which makes people happy.

Zhao Liben sat in front of the dressing mirror in good spirits, and Ye took three maids to comb his hair, trim his beard, cut his nose hair, and dress and tie up his boots.

After cleaning up, the big girl Han Tao trembled and held a black gauze cool hat, and Ye put it on his head for him.

The old man, supported by Cai Lian and Hairpin Chrysanthemum, slowly stood up and walked outside the house.

This is the 100th day he has come to Guangdong, Baiyun Mountain has also climbed, West Lake has also swam, Shiquan Tonic soup has also been drunk, and the sexy dealer has also seen it.

Under the corridor outside the door, Lin Huichun, the magistrate of Xiangshan, and Ye Zimei, the official of Macao, two local civil and military officials who manage Macao on behalf of the imperial court, and Lin Hongzhong, a maritime merchant who has settled in Macao for a long time, have been waiting for a long time.

This time, the old man came to Xiangshan County to negotiate, and the main contact was with these three people. The first two helped him put pressure on the red hair together, and Lin Hongzhong ran at both ends as a middleman.

As for the Portuguese, they were allowed to leave Macao twice a year only in spring and summer to trade in the city of Canton, and were not allowed to leave Macao for the rest of the year.

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Zhao Liben was cunning and cunning, and when he arrived in Guangzhou, he did not immediately contact the Portuguese, and even Xiangshan County did not set foot in Xiangshan County, but fought fiercely with a provincial government official.

He is the old waiter of Zhishi, and he is treated as an elder by the governor, and he is the arbiter of the Yangzhou salt merchants, the grandfather of the famous Zhao Gongzi, and he is also rich in old nose. Naturally, he soon had a hot fight with a group of Guangdong provincial officials, and they drove a yacht together all day long, held a Haitian feast and flower party, and had a lot of fun.

Don't look at the old man's extravagance on the surface, but in fact, he is just using hobbies to cover up his true purpose. In the midst of the staggering, he found out the details of the Portuguese from the mouths of Guangdong officials, and most importantly, the attitude of Guangdong officialdom towards them!

He knew that Macau was still under the control of the Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese were just guests living here.

Is Macau located in Xiangshan County? Although in the thirty-second year of Jiajing, the Portuguese bribed Guangdong Haidao? The dead skin and face occupy the island of Macau, but the civil justice of the people of Macao is still under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate of Xiangshan. Furthermore? Because Macau is a foreign trade port? In addition, Guangdong Haidao is responsible for its coastal defense affairs, and the Municipal Department of Maritime Affairs is responsible for its trade management and tax audit.

Is it the current Macau or the undisputed territory of the Ming Dynasty? The Portuguese were only allowed to live and trade on the island.

The overbearing Portuguese don't want to be so honest either? Helplessly, they lost two large-scale attacks on Guangdong, making them realize that this is a big country that cannot be conquered as easily as a small country in the southeast? I had to lower my figure and focus on bribery? Actively paying taxes and embracing regulation? Still obeying the dispatch of the Guangdong government? Fight pirates and help defend Guangzhou Bay.

After so many years of running-in? Especially Zeng Yi, who repelled the attack on White Goose Pond last year? The Portuguese finally gained the trust of Cantonese officialdom.

Of course? This is inseparable from the mediation of the two devils. For example, this maritime merchant named Lim Hong Chung and his companions have become rich from doing business with Malacca for a long time. He has his own armed smuggling fleet? When Macau is under the threat of piracy? He also fought against the Portuguese. Even joined the Catholic Church in Macau? Naturally close to the Portuguese.

But at the same time, they also obeyed the dispatch of the government and were used as firefighters to relieve the pressure on coastal defense. The 'Battle of Tuen Mun' and the 'Battle of Sai Cao Wan', which were organized by the Ming Dynasty to resist the invasion of the Portuguese, were the main forces of their fathers and grandparents. It is because Lin Hongzhong also has the title of a thousand households in Haiphong, and the relationship with the government is also very good.

But in any case, the conservative forces in the officialdom have always existed, and they are often clean officials with super combat effectiveness, a so-called 'enlightened' official who can fight ten people covered in.

It was precisely because of the presence of conservatives that the Portuguese were never able to obtain the lease of Macau that they had so much desire. In other words, they are still all black households, illegally staying in the same way!

After figuring out this layer of details, Zhao Li knew how to deal with these red-haired ghosts.

During a drunken disorder, he casually mentioned to the high-ranking Guangdong officials who were playing together, and Governor Lin didn't like the red-haired ghosts.

This made the Guangdong officials, who had been speculating all day about the governor's new official taking office, and where these three fires would be lit, suddenly thought that there must be a fire point in Macao.

So after the adults went back, they gathered their staff and masters, and wrote a note to Lin Run, saying that 'Ao Yi has stolen Xiangshan, Haojingao, Gongchangdu and other places, and it has been more than 20 years, and there are thousands of teeth. Although there is a fetter of mutual markets, it is not my race, the ship is strong, and it is a hidden disaster for Guangcheng's elbow and armpit for a long time! ''It may not be a hundred years of hidden worries at sea!'' And so on.

Of course, these guys did not take less money from the Portuguese and maritime merchants, and they made their statements clear, but their butts were still crooked. Because they gave a solution suggestion, it was just to set up an agency in Macao to strengthen control. The army of the Portuguese was incorporated into the Fan soldier system, such as the Miao and Yao people on land, and obeyed the dispatch of the imperial court.

Saying that it is not my race, in fact, I still want to legalize it.

However, those Qingliu conservative officials who uphold the firm attitude of 'Yixia's defense', seeing that the situation is very good, how can they not take the opportunity to expel the foreigners? They hoped to drive all the people out of Macao, transfer trade to the open sea of Langbai, and restore the foreign trade system that existed before the 32nd year of Jiajing.

In fact, since Lin Run took office, on the one hand, he is still trying to find out the situation in Guangdong Province, and on the other hand, he has spent great energy to mobilize grain and grass in Guangdong Province to support Yin Zhengmao's operations in Guangxi. In this era, the localism in the provinces was very serious, and it was useless for Lin Runguang to give orders, and he had to personally run around the prefectures and counties and lead the army to open warehouses and transfer grain before the grain could be transported away. Otherwise, the squire mobilized the common people and could snatch the grain back in minutes.

So how can he care about Macau? After returning to Zhaoqing after this busy day, I was about to deal with the backlog of official documents, only to find that the officials in the provincial capital had come to crusade against the Francophile in unison.

How shrewd is Lin Run? He immediately tasted the anomaly. Because the matter of lending Macao to the Portuguese for business is itself very beneficial to Guangdong Province, and the officialdom also has a lot of profits. However, this matter is not in line with the system, and there is a great suspicion of collusion with foreign countries. Therefore, Guangdong officialdom has always adopted an attitude of not admitting, not reporting, and not knowing.

If the court asks, it will be symbolically checked, and it will be driven away, and it will be left alone if it is not asked.

Therefore, most officials in Guangdong Province should be very secretive about the Macao issue, and they wish they had forgotten about those red-haired ghosts. How can they compete to express their positions, lest the world not know? There is only one possibility, they smell something unusual, and they can't wait to express their stance in advance and draw a clear line.

Since even the political envoy has been put on the Chen, it must be that he, the governor, is going to move the red hair.

But the problem is, I didn't have time to think about it at all, right? Guangdong officialdom has an overly strong desire to survive, what's going on?

Just as he was wondering, Menzi reported that Old Man Zhao was here. Lin Runden immediately understood that it was this old guy who was a ghost with a fake tiger.

He personally welcomed Zhao Liben into the signing room, and as soon as he came in, Old Man Zhao cried, saying that he was old and confused, and he didn't have a door on his mouth, and he caused trouble for the governor.

Lin Run asked, what's the situation? Old man Zhao told the story again.

At the end, he said with a face full of grievances: "You said that they asked me, I don't know what Zhongcheng thinks of the Francophone man?" Can I still say you like red-haired ghosts? I can only say that I definitely don't like it. Who knew that these people were so capable of attaching themselves to the group, holding chicken feathers as arrows, I really thought you were going to clean up those Aoyi. ”

"......" Lin Run was speechless for a while after listening, he knew that Zhao Li originally had other tasks in Guangdong besides spending the winter. I didn't expect to be used by this old guy like this.

But just like Zhao Liben said, what else can he say? Say no, I like red-haired ghosts.

I pinched my nose and smiled bitterly: "Uncle, you are not wrong, how can anyone like a red-haired ghost who is not a ghost or a ghost?" Unless it's blind. ”

"Blind people can't do it, the smell is too big." Zhao Liben echoed again and again: "This red-haired ghost woman can't touch it, not only is it smelly, but there is more hair on her body than the old man." ”

"Uh......" Lin Run looked at Zhao Shilang, who had lived for seventy years, and said in his heart, how do you know so clearly?

After a while, he held back a sentence: "Take care, uncle, I'll go back to Jiangnan as soon as I'm done...... It's too hot in Guangdong. ”

"Oh, I forgot if you didn't say it." Zhao Liben slapped his forehead, as if he had just remembered, and said, "My grandson still has something to do." ”

"Where is the old man going, I will send someone to escort you over." Lin Run took the initiative to let him use it this time. Now I just want to send this old immortal away quickly, and don't let him fan the flames again.

"What's so embarrassing about that?" Zhao Liben said embarrassedly: "Xiangshan County." ”

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The old man was sent to Xiangshan County by the governor's escort, and the head of the guard also gave the Xiangshan magistrate and the governor a copy of the governor's name, asking them to take proper care.

Can these two civil and military officers who manage Macao not serve Zhao Liben like they serve their ancestors?

Hearing his intentions, Ye Zimei immediately led his troops to Macao to sweep away pornography and crime, arrested dozens of red-haired ghosts, and threw them into the Xiangshan County Prison.

Major General Domingo, Portugal's supreme commander in Macao, was in constant fear of rumors of Cantonese officialdom. He felt that he was very unlucky, he had just lost two galleons and a crew member a year ago, and he was in danger of being kicked out of Macao the next year.

If those two galleons were there, he would still have the confidence not to leave. But now with only the dozen or so old lock boats left, he really has no bottom in his heart.

Now the government has broken the tacit agreement that officials are not allowed to enter Macau, and openly comes in to arrest people, which makes Domingo have to worry, is this a prelude to expelling them?

He hurriedly asked Lin Hongzhong to go to the yamen and ask what posture he wanted to pose this time before he could let them go.

It is really a shame for the great powers who carved up the world to be on this......