Time: At noon on April 18, shortly after the end of the Macau Entry Ceremony.

Venue: Macau City Council.

The council hall is a traditional European-style dome. This architectural style, which was born from the ancient church, was not only free from the columns that stood there, but also inadvertently adapted to the principle of acoustics, which was very suitable for sermons.

At this moment, there was a Westerner in a red robe, talking loudly, and the voice spread to every corner of the hall.

“..... Here, I beg you to ...... According to the prevailing laws of the civilized world...... Give...... Gentlemen necessary ......"

Master Zongben sat in the corner of the last row of the council, observing something with interest.

In just a few days, Master Zong has let go of himself and completely changed his image.

Not only did he shave his hair and cut his handsome middle-aged hair, but he also deliberately wore a set of "formal clothes" that can only be found in the big scene according to the recommendation of the master of the ready-to-wear store in the new district: a brand-new Fujian indigo blue dyed and woven handmade suit trousers with small lapels, and shiny buffalo leather shoes under his feet.

Unaccustomed to twisting his body, Master Zong adjusted his sitting posture: he was still trying to adapt to the outfit on his body.

In the hall at this moment, people like Master Zong, who are wearing "new" clothes, occupy about one-third of the number of people in the "Ming Fang" camp.

This amount is normal, after all, the time when General Cao came to Guangdong is still short, and there will be a time process for it to imperceptibly. Except for those like Master Zong, who are desperate and can be regarded as the most radical defection to the natives, the rest of the people, even if they are close to the crossing forces, are still wearing robes in public.

On the podium in the middle of the hall, the "former" clerk of the Macau City Council, Andrade, who was speaking loudly at the moment, and his strange tone of voice did not arouse Zongben's interest. The left and right are just some scenes of defeat, this city is opened, what's the use of saying this?

To be honest, Master Zong really didn't expect that the red-haired people in Macau City would surrender so quickly.

After the fort was captured a few days ago, Master Zong also lined up to give Cao Zongbing a happy welcome. I don't want to move to the Fortress in high spirits the next day, ready to watch another big drama of attacking Macau City...... The red-haired man fell.

Maybe it was because of the cannons that were hung on the city wall overnight, or because the elite soldiers in front of the gate put up a sesame array, in short, the red-haired man who suffered heavy casualties in the first battle admitted defeat.

This time, there is no big drama to watch. The red-haired people first came out to send envoys and officers and soldiers back and forth, and finally after several rounds of negotiations on everything, another day later, the city of Macao opened early in the morning.

After the opening of the city, the red-haired nobles and the defenders rushed out and offered weapons to the officers and soldiers. After that, the officers and soldiers first entered the city for defense, and then many bigwigs entered the city, and after that, it was the turn of the "local sages" such as Master Zong to enter the city.

Since most of the Ming people in the city of Macao had run away before this, there was no drama of the elders welcoming the pot pulp when the army entered the city, only the deserted streets, which made Zongben, who was accustomed to the prosperity of Macao, very uncomfortable.

After entering the city, as a guest, Master Zong followed the big guy into the city hall to watch the ceremony. Although the Portuguese had already submitted the table of surrender when they were outside the city before, the ceremony was simple after all, and now that the high-level officials of the Ming and Portuguese sides have come to the city council, there are naturally many formal procedures to be done.

This was followed by the signing of a series of documents on the aftermath of Macau. The most important of these are some documents issued by the traverser that have the legal concepts of later generations.

The Portuguese didn't struggle much in this regard, after all, now that the city was open, people were swordsmany, and no matter what was signed, it was just that.

However, when the final document on the settlement of Macao's property was signed, the Portuguese were still not reconciled after all...... The so-called good money is hard to give up, and this is the scene where Andrade stood up and spoke on behalf of the "civilized world" and the "Ming government" to fight hard.

Regarding property, the disagreement between the two sides was as follows: the Ming government, that is, the traversers, intended to confiscate everything of value in the city of Macau, including all public property and private property.

Seeing this condition, the Portuguese naturally did not agree. Andrade, a Chinese-speaking clerk, stood up for his arguments, citing the European aristocratic regulations of war, saying that the Portuguese approved the confiscation of public property, but that private property was sacrosanct, and that the Ming government could not treat the gentlemen of the civilized world with such rudeness.

Master Zongbenzong scoffed at the set of red hair. In the eyes of the Ming natives like him, since ancient times, conquest has focused on a king and defeat, and now the Franji people have been killed and sacrificed to the official army, that is, to be slaughtered lambs, and encounter tyrannical military leaders...... Is there still such a thing as slaughtering the city and exterminating the clan in the history books? Now this group of Francois defeated and returned to the winner for something outside his body, this is really the way to die!

After understanding Francis's intentions, Somoto stopped paying attention to Andrade, who was speaking passionately, and his gaze fell to the middle of the hall.

In the "Ming State Phalanx" at the front of the hall, there are undoubtedly two officers in red robes who are currently in the C position: He Zongbing and Cao Zongbing. At the parliamentary table between Ming and Portugal sat a group of Ming and Portuguese "two countries" documents wearing shirts and robes. The most conspicuous of these is the Xiangshan County Cheng who wears a green official robe and is the only one who truly represents the Ming State government, crossing his brother-in-law Zhong Sheng.

And what really attracted Zongben's attention at this moment was a traversal that he hadn't seen before.

This person has a mediocre appearance, a lot of fat on his face, and his body is also wide and fat, and he looks rich. As for the age. Due to the fact that the common shaved faces of the people look young and the nutrition of the takeaway is reasonable, the Ming people are often unable to judge their true age, and Somoto can only guess that this person is between 35 and 40 years old at the moment.

Like most of the people who crossed the crowd, the master who was carefully observed by Zongben also had his short hair and wore a formal suit...... More than Master Zong's set, it is a red tie.

What attracted the attention of Master Zong and the rest of the people who cared about it was first of all the seat position of this traverser: he was next to Cao Zongbing.

The second is the attitude of this big guy. On the current solemn occasion, this person crossed Erlang's legs and whispered and laughed with Cao Zongbing with a smile on his face, looking unconcerned.

And what made Zongben, an old Jianghu, secretly frightened, perhaps an illusion, he actually felt that Lord Cao was a little ...... Concession? Or is it jealousy?

At this moment, Master Zong has already made up his mind to find an opportunity to visit this new adult: the one who can make Lord Cao turn in such a broken way is not Zhuge reincarnated Kong Ming resurrected?

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Zhang Dongdong naturally didn't know that the body and facial language he inadvertently revealed actually betrayed his true thoughts about Li Dazui to the Ming natives who were "very earthy and uninformed" in the eyes of the traversing public.

Yes, as far as Li Dazui is concerned, from the perspective of traversing the inside, Zhang Dongdong is naturally afraid of three points. In other words, most of the people who travel through the crowd are a little different about this product.

Li Dazui, as mentioned earlier, belongs to the open person. This gentleman learned Mr. Cao's true ability before he crossed over, but this former street writer and wholesale slipper still chose to cross without hesitation, leaving the old world to Mr. Cao.

In this way, after Li Dazui crosses, there will be no one to cure him. Emperor Cao was ashamed, and now he was appointed as the king of one word, so the others, especially those high-ranking people who were already in power, must be a little more wary of this hanging.

Fortunately, Li Dazui doesn't have any big ambitions, although he does things after crossing, he does everything he wants, and he doesn't have any ambition at all, which makes some people feel at ease.

No, Li Dazui, who was still leading people to carry out forced demolition in the new area every day, immediately became interested when he heard that he was going to attack Macao, and planned to do it for the entire governor of Macao.

Li Dazui wanted to be self-appointed as the governor of Macao to play on a desert island, and the cabinet manager Xia naturally approved it at the speed of light, so this goods came to Macao happily before the opening of the city.

However, when he came, Ding Liqiu, the Taitai of Guangzhou Prefecture, who originally planned to participate in the entrance ceremony, and Tang Xiaoqiao, the boss of Nanyang Corporation, all retreated...... There was only one Cao Zongbing left, who had to come, and he was in good spirits to accompany Li Dazui to chat at the city council.

In this way, Cao Zongbing finally waited for the Portuguese representative who spoke on the field to close his mouth, which made him breathe a sigh of relief - he knew that it was time for Li Dazui to come out, after all, he wanted to be the governor of Australia, and the Portuguese were naturally sent by himself.

Sure enough, Li Dazui, who was still doing nothing, saw that Andrade had finally finished talking nonsense, and then got up and walked to the opposite side of the Portuguese phalanx.

Glancing at these Portuguese people with serious faces and complicated eyes on the other side, Li Dazui smiled and then stretched out three fingers of his right hand and said loudly in Mandarin: "I am the new Governor of Macau. With regard to Mr. Andrade's previous defence, I would like to reply here with three points. ”

"First: In the cultures of the Orient, it is a well-established law that the winner takes all, so please don't apply European rules to the East, after all, this is Macau Island, not the Iberian Peninsula."

"Second: Even according to the laws of war in Europe, the nobles who were captured in the war would not be freed until they had to pay a private ransom."

Li Dazui's face became playful: "Dear gentlemen, it seems that you are not used to your identity change...... Don't forget, you are now captives. ”

"Third."

A charming smile appeared on Li Dazui's face: "Now there is good news here. After the official reconsidered, considering that it will be in line with international standards in the future, the ransom will be appropriately discounted and reduced to a reasonable level. Well, after all, we are all nobles, nobles, we always have to take care of each other. ”。

After Li Dazui finished speaking, he waved his hand lightly, and an interpreter next to him immediately got up and said aloud what he had just said in Portuguese.

After listening to the translated language, the Portuguese phalanx began to talk one after another, and there was a buzz in the council hall.