Now that the tone of the "all-people war of resistance" has been set, there is nothing to hesitate about, just do it.

The gentlemen of the Macau City Council, after unanimously passing the proposal to defend their homeland on the same day, also made a series of arrangements.

First of all, the parliament authorized the Governor of Macau, Geromino Svera, to immediately assume the post of commander of the city's defense, and to take unified command of all the armed forces on the island.

Geromino Schvilla was the third Governor of Australia. It was only in the previous year, in June 1630, that he succeeded his predecessor, Philippe Robert.

Unlike the real history, in the plane of the traverser, the two sides of the "expatriate" governor and the local council, who had a discordant relationship, put aside their differences and contradictions at this moment and reached a consensus.

It's a helpless choice.

Whatever the contradictions within the Portuguese, in the current situation of annihilation, there is nothing left without sincere cooperation. Once Macau is lost, the local council will certainly be ruined and displaced, and the Governor will not end well. Not to mention ominous words like "coexistence with the city", even if it is a title like "the third and last governor of Macao", it probably doesn't sound good?

The word governor itself denotes territory and the duty to defend the territory. The officials of the Ming State are not clear, but in the Western world, the act of sending a governor means that from the perspective of the suzerain, the state has king-like rights over the local area, and needs to send representatives to enforce the suzerain's rights.

Therefore, Governor Schwila was in parliament that day and successfully took over the responsibility of defending the territory. In the early days, the governor's power was mainly military power, so he was called "the head of the army". It was not until 1652 that the powers of the Viceroy were increased when the King of Portugal set up the Overseas Commission to assist in the administration of overseas colonies. As a soldier, war was originally the purview of the governor, and the governor's residence in Schvera was next to the Fortress.

After the installation of the most important military powers, the parliament also made a number of subsequent decisions. This included not only a series of preparations for the battle, but most importantly, the parliament also sent a number of envoys and messengers to try to save the situation at the last minute.

The most important thing in this is, of course, to the Ming ...... To be precise, it should be to work on Cao.

In fact, from the very beginning, the Portuguese never stopped this work, but it was not effective.

As mentioned above, the issue of Macao's status has been the core issue of diplomacy between the two countries in terms of years before this.

"On the side of the couch there is no room for others to sleep soundly." In the eyes of the arrogant and arrogant people who divide their private estates on the world map, the handful of Portuguese people in Macau are just little hooligans who came to give the master eye medicine, and it is impossible not to settle down.

Therefore, even when he was still nesting in Yizhou, the Cao family made public his policy towards Australia, and showed his hostility to the Portuguese nakedly.

The Portuguese, of course, did not take this hostility lightly, not from the beginning. After all, this is a large local pirate group with mysterious power that miraculously rose rapidly and defeated Zheng Zhilong and many pirates. In the East Asian Ocean, no one would take such a force lightly.

However, all the diplomatic efforts of the Portuguese ultimately failed, because the core contradiction between the two sides could not be reconciled - the crossers wanted to reclaim the sovereignty of Macau and turn the Portuguese into foreign guests who applied for green cards, while the Portuguese wanted to occupy Macau for a long time and turn it into their own colony, just as they did in the other world.

This fundamental issue of sovereignty is irreconcilable. Although for more than a year, the Portuguese made all kinds of efforts and concessions in the face of the increasingly powerful crossing forces.

And today, when everyone had a showdown, the Portuguese Parliament had no choice but to respond again: send envoys, send all those who can communicate with the Ming government and the Cao clan to be lobbyists, and take out all kinds of promises and bribes, just for a chance to solve the problem peacefully.

So after the meeting, the envoys set off from Ho Kiang O on the same day. Some of them took a boat, and some of them went directly overland through the lotus stem gate...... The gates are still open. In fact, the crowd did not create tension, at least in the 24 hours since the ultimatum was issued, the gates were closed as usual.

Three days later, news came from all over the Ming Kingdom.

First of all, the Yamen, the chief soldier of Zhangchao, who had the toughest attitude, rejected all the claims of the Portuguese as always, and told the envoy in righteous words that the Portuguese could avoid this war only by fully agreeing to the conditions put forward by the two sides in the previous negotiations. Otherwise, "you will lose everything." ”

The Portuguese were not surprised by the result. After all, the two sides had negotiated N many times before this, and the Portuguese were impressed by the arrogance and uncompromising attitude of the cross-generation.

This was followed by the indigenous officials of the Ming Kingdom.

In the long years before, from the first time the Franz people set foot on the land of the Ming Kingdom to "borrow land to dry goods", the trick of bribing this multi-dimensional has repeatedly shown its power.

The Ming court, especially the Guangdong officialdom, took a series of countermeasures to the Fran Jiren after the Ming Dynasty, all of which were inseparable from the word bribery. Of course, the word "courtesy" must be added to this.

You must know that the Franji people are the best group of people among all the colonists when dealing with Ming officials. This undoubtedly poked the itch of the Ming officials who were full of the idea of "the heavenly kingdom". Therefore, compared to other colonists, the Portuguese got the greatest benefit from the Ming Kingdom: Macau.

This time, however, it was different.

Whether it was a high-level or low-level Ming Guangdong official, most of them closed their doors to help their illnesses after the Portuguese envoys came to their doors.

A small number of officials who can't hinder the past and the current courtesy, when they meet secretly, they are also serious/frightened and carefully persuade the visitor: "That person has even slaughtered countless tartars, and now the emperor has to pinch his nose and pet him, and he wears a pair of pants with the surname Xiong, and he is the demon king of Fujian and Guangdong!" Go back and tell your family, Master Diego, don't put it right with the big worm, this person can't go against the grain...... Let's go along with it, there is a way to live. ”

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After all the news came back, they knew that if they admit defeat or defeat this time, the gentlemen will not only lose their homeland, but also lose their trade privileges in East Asia, so everyone abandoned all distractions and prepared for war with peace of mind.

Next, a large number of families flocked to the sailing ship docked in Macau's inner harbor.

The War of Resistance does not mean that women and children should be forced to block bullets. While the Portuguese were frantically preparing for war, they naturally had to send their families out of this small land first.

No matter how loud the slogans and how high the morale was, the Portuguese top brass knew in their hearts that this war was a bad one.

So send the women and children away first.

In the years prior to this, colonists from other European countries had organized landing wars on more than one occasion to try to seize Macau from the Portuguese, coveting Macao's crucial role in trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The Dutch were the most zealous.

Between 1601 and 1627, the Dutch invaded Macao five times, the largest of which took place in 1622.

At that time, under the orders of the Governor of Bataviacohen, the Dutch hooligans united with the British hooligans, and the two sides were commanded by Admiral Lai Jiechen, and the Macao landing force composed of 1,000 ships and 1,000 soldiers was put together, and once broke through the city wall of Macao.

However, the Anglo-Dutch hooligans were eventually thwarted by the valiant Portuguese soldiers and priests.

Therefore, if there is a war waged by other forces, the Portuguese are not worthwhile.

However, this time is different. This time, it was the Ming country itself that started the war. Although the Portuguese knew very well that the actual planner and promoter of the war was not the Ming Emperor, but the ambitious pirate Count Cao.

However, this was the reality: since Cao was able to push the Ming court to agree to his war plan, it meant that the Portuguese would soon have to face the inexhaustible manpower of the Ming state...... Of course, there is also the elite army and navy under Count Cao.

No Portuguese top brass can maintain a realistic optimistic forecast. This is not the 1,000 people cobbled together by Dutch hooligans, this is a Ming soldier with unlimited logistics in tens of thousands.

Therefore, it is necessary to send the women and children away first, and then use the strong city defense and God-given courage to win a decent post-war agreement.

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In the face of those large and small ships that left Macao in a hurry, the crossing crowd would not be stopped.

The goal of the crossing was only to occupy Macao and resume the exercise of sovereignty, and then gradually shift the center of gravity of East Asian trade to the Guangzhou New Area. As for whether the Portuguese ran away or died in battle, it didn't matter if they crossed the crowd. After all, after the war, Europeans were still needed to come back and pay to digest those products on the assembly line.

So in the last few days of the seven-day deadline, there were two streams of people in the city. The first is the fleet that is leaving Macau one after another. These ships ranged from Chinese to Western-style galleons, and were filled with Portuguese women, children, old and infirm.

As for the whereabouts of the ships...... Does this need to be asked? Naturally, the new Emperor of the Portuguese, His Majesty Philip, had the Philippines in East Asia. Is it possible to go to Batavia, where the Dutch are entrenched? Aren't you afraid that Dutch hooligans will take women and children hostage?

The second flow of people in Macau is towards the Ming Dynasty.

A large number of Ming merchants and their families in the city of Macao, carrying sedan chairs, sailors, vegetable vendors, fishmongers, etc., as long as they are yellow-skinned and black-haired, all carry their bags in the last few days, and pass through the lotus stem gate in an endless stream.

Soon, in the small city of Macau, there were only Francos and their servants left.

The total number of those left behind is still quite large. Over the decades, even if you don't count the trade merchants and sailors like migratory birds, the number of native Australians alone has exceeded 2,000. And that's not even counting their servants—a huge number of Japanese, Indians, blacks, and slaves of different races, colors, and creeds, who were sold from all over the world by the colonizers.