After watching the surprising gas crane unloading show, Alonso ordered his entourage to show the dock officials diplomatic documents. After waiting patiently on the boat for nearly two hours, he boarded a beautiful spinnaker boat and turned back to the other side of the Taijiang River, this time directly to the dock of Dayuan Island.

Unlike the bustling and noisy wharves along the Taijiang River, Dayuan Wharf is quiet and beautiful. The trapezoidal cement gravity pier is paved with dark red terrazzo marble slabs, and the smell of power and wealth is thick in the moment outsiders board the pier.

There were already two young men in hand-cut gray linen suits and blue muslin shirts waiting at the pier. Next to them is the only 8-seater electric sightseeing car dedicated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the "world" to receive VIPs.

After a few brief pleasantries, the Portuguese envoy was invited to a milky-white, canopy-covered sightseeing car.

Both young men were clerks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and one of them took French as an elective. So when Alonso got on the bus, he began to happily communicate with young people in French.

The 17th century was the time when French gradually replaced Latin, and by the end of the 17th century, French would officially replace Latin as a place in high society. So in this day and age, European aristocrats, who usually have a background, tend to be able to master both French and Latin.

After the sightseeing bus started, it quickly bypassed the former Dutch Merchant Hall, which had been bulldozed and rebuilt into a port hall, and then drove slowly along a riverside cement scenic road to the embassy area.

Alonso, despite his efforts to maintain the reserved level he deserves, couldn't help but talk to his host about it all when he saw the glass halls and electric cars, the concrete roads, and the garden-like waterfront landscapes on both sides.

However, he did not get answers to these questions, and the electric car soon stopped silently in front of the official hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since some of the bungalows along Binjiang Road have been sold to foreign powers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has left the official hall in its original location for the sake of daily dealings. Except for the addition of a podium on the original basis, not much has been changed.

Cai Feiming was already in place with a smile in front of the official hall. After a few words of conversation with Special Envoy Alonso's more familiar Spanish, the two sides returned to the official hall, and then the special envoy handed over the documents, and after a few simple polite words, a set of diplomatic protocols was completed.

Today's diplomatic career in the country is not the grass platform team that it used to be. After Alonso met Cai Feiming courtesy today, it will be difficult for the two sides to meet again in the future. Generally speaking, envoys from places like Macao are specifically responsible for negotiations by Cai Feiming's deputy, Tang Xiaoqiao.

After the ceremonial cutscene, Alonso and his two entourages were invited to the sightseeing bus again. After continuing to run along Binjiang Road for about ten minutes, the car stopped in front of a beautiful combination of Chinese and Western villas.

The envoy didn't have time to look at the scenery along the way, and his attention was on the Dutch, Japanese, and British flags fluttering on the rooftops of the several villas he passed along the way.

After staring at the Japanese Merchant House for a few moments, Mr. Envoy's face became heavy and sighed secretly.

Alonso certainly has reason to sigh.

In this plane, history is slowly drifting away from its previous trajectory due to the presence of the Crossing Crowd. Not to mention the more and more obvious changes on the side of the Ming Dynasty, let's just say that the colonists who came to East Asia from thousands of miles away, their fate is also changing little by little.

First of all, the Dutch.

Due to the secret bad work of a certain force that is well versed in history, the time when the Red Hairs were closed by the Japanese in this plane was a year earlier than in history.

Of course, the Dutch didn't suffer much. After all, they got a hundred times more abundant than the history of the special goods of the Ming Dynasty industrial products.

The Portuguese also felt the change in history, albeit a little later, when the shogunate officially ordered the closure of the Portuguese merchant houses in Hirado.

In real history, the Portuguese trading houses were not closed until 11 years later.

As for the superficial reasons for this, there were too many bewitched Christian daimyo in southwestern Japan, and the rebellion of the "Cheshitan" sects continued to sell Japanese female slaves to Macao from 1534 onwards, and distributed them to Malay and African slaves, so as to produce offspring and increase the value of slaves

The black history of the Portuguese was so great that the shogunate could find a lot of it if they wanted to find it.

In fact, the expulsion of the Portuguese was the result of a joint attack by a number of Japanese maritime merchants at the beginning of this year, at the strong request of the powerful forces that had crossed the country.

The current shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, had recently officially ordered the expulsion of the Portuguese due to the combined effects of political lobbying, money, and various industrial products.

Sometimes, it is as simple as this to turn the other cheek, and the Japanese merchant group, which has been the pillar of the existence of the Portuguese in history, and constantly used gold and female slaves to trade with the Portuguese, has turned against it this time. Without it, the big man can have more benefits.

Unlike the pleasant atmosphere of the previous months, after receiving the news of the closure, the nobles and businessmen in the Macau City Council immediately wailed.

You see, just before yesterday, the most joyful, enduring and most enjoyable topic of the pre-meeting conversation was the expulsion of the Dutch from the Japanese trade

Now that everyone is even, the Portuguese know that it will not be long before the various forces on the East Asian seas will be able to laugh at them as much as they laughed at the Dutch.

What shocked the Macau Council even more was that what came to Macao with the shogunate's official document was another official document brought back by a businessman who went to Dayuan, announcing the blockade of Taiwan's Formosa Strait with immediate effect.

The content of the announcement was simple: Japanese trade had been monopolized by the Cao clan, and all ships that tried to go to Japan in the future, regardless of nationality, would be sunk.

The issuer of this official document was General Cao Chuan, a guerrilla in coastal defense in Fujian.

The Portuguese were outraged, and this was a naked provocation in the form of a back-and-forth document that bluntly illustrated the fact that the pirate leader was behind the closure of the Portuguese Merchant House.

The parliamentarians could not believe that a pirate who had just received a small official position from the Ming Empire would dare to make such an arrogant announcement to all the maritime powers in East Asia, even though this Cao's force had recently defeated the other Fujian pirates.

However, the anger of the parliamentarians was quickly extinguished in front of the witnesses sent by Liu Xiang, and 10 pirates who had personally participated in Li Kuiqi's series of battles against Cao Chuan testified in the parliament.

After combining the testimonies of the Portuguese businessmen who had returned from the Grand Commission, the Parliament, which had a new understanding of the force of the guerrilla general, urgently dispatched Mr. Alonso, a senior councilor, to the Grand Commissar to find out and negotiate.