The layman roars lively, and the insider listens to the doorway... COP> When Alonso heard the other party's threat to close the gate, he suddenly felt like someone had pinched the egg, and he couldn't be arrogant anymore.

Alonso knew that General Cao's fleet could not enter Guangdong in large numbers at this time, which would violate the taboo of the Empire. But if the other party manipulates several gate operations through the bureaucracy of the Ming Empire, it should not be difficult.

That's what the Portuguese feared.

Since the Portuguese occupied Macao, the food problem has not been solved. Because Macao is a small land, and the whiteskins are not here to farm, so Macao's food and daily necessities are all purchased from the Ming Dynasty.

In 1574, the imperial court set up a gate on the lotus stem of Xiangshan County, and set up a Xiangshanzhai general to guard the gate to remotely control Macao.

At first, the gate was opened every 5 days. The Portuguese who received tickets from Xiangshan County could go through the gate to buy food and daily necessities from the Ming merchants in the bazaar.

However, with the increasing number of Portuguese and the accumulation of contradictions between the Ming and Portuguese sides, the border gate became a 20-day event, and the Ming government began to use the food supply to control Macao.

For the Portuguese, this trick still worked, according to Merlo Castro: "There is food in Cochinchina, but in the southwest of Macau, the distance is 100 leagues." The surrounding islands are inhabited and can also provide food, but only cows, pigs, chickens, and ducks. co

"The bazaar was once every five days, then once every two weeks, and as a result, some of the poor people in Macau starved to death."

At that time, Cambodia, which was closer to Macao, could also provide food, but at the instigation of the British and the Dutch, the king of Cambodia not only refused to allow the Macao priest to stay, but also did not allow the Macao envoy who came with the ship to stay

Therefore, during this time period, although the Portuguese have been entrenched in Macau for decades, they still have a weakness.

And the Guangzhou officialdom also made full use of the weakness of food to deal with the Portuguese.

Just three years ago, in 1625, the Governor of Liangguang, Ho Shijin, ordered his old friend Cai Shanji, then a member of Lingxi Daoist, to go to Macao to convey the governor's edict: tear down the earthen walls, pillboxes and forts.

The royal noble-born governor Mascono not only refused to obey his orders, but also prepared to disobey by force, and then the gate was closed.

Overnight, the price of grain on the black market increased three or four times, and Mascoluye, under the complaint of the Portuguese residents, finally had to send someone to knock on the gate and express his willingness to tear down the fort.

Generally speaking, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the great invasion of colonists during the Republic of China, the government's response is becoming more and more difficult: whether this government is the Ming court, the Qing court, or the Republic of China... COP> With the growing power of the colonists, the Canton officialdom could no longer do whatever they wanted in Macao: in order to capture some Portuguese criminals, in order to demolish the forts, the governor of a province had to repeatedly "make a big move" to order the closure of a small land and cut off food

Strength is strength, and it is not something that some small means can stop for a long time: the biggest action that the Ming court finally made was nothing more than banning the Portuguese from trading in Canton in 1640. At this time, the government was no longer able to drive away the Portuguese who had strong ships and cannons.

The seemingly clever but passive means of cutting off grain and merchants was inherited by the Qing court - there are countless examples of the braided court treating Britain and France and other powers in this way, until after one crow and two crows, the weak were completely smashed open by the strong and established a concession, and naturally no one dared to cut off the grain and grass of the foreign lord at that time.

And in the plane of traversal, as the beginning of a series of intimidation threats against the Portuguese, the stalk of closing the gate and cutting off food is still somewhat useful.

In fact, this is impossible to achieve - it is impossible to command the governor of Liangguang to pass the gates of Macao, which would cost too many political resources and would not have a substantial effect: the Cantonese officialdom did not have the courage to blockade the Portuguese for a long time.

However, the Portuguese did not know this, so Alonso now habitually believes that the Crossing Crowd is capable of causing trouble in Macau from a distance.

In this situation, whether it is the public announcement to snatch the right to collect taxes in Macau, or the threat to shut down the grain gates, Alonso has found that these are not his small energy decisions.

It was not the same information he had received when he set off. This entrenched force seems to have a special ill feeling towards the Portuguese.

So, after getting a first glimpse of the country's terror of industrial prowess and sinister political intentions, Alonso decided to leave everything to Governor Mascorono and the Macau City Council, someone who now thinks he can't afford to have too few shoulders to bear.

As for the traversal, no one took Alonso's departure to heart. Like a bulldozer on a construction site, no matter how the Portuguese responded, the stronger side just pushed through.

It's still the same sentence: long-distance and close-range. There is a detailed timeline for crossing the country to settle the Portuguese.

First of all: on the question of entering Guangdong on a large scale, the crossing is not worried, because history has clearly given the answer.

In real history, due to the complete reversal of Zheng Zhilong after Zhao'an, Liu Xiang Group began to invade the coastal areas of Fujian on a large scale.

And Zheng Zhilong also mobilized all forces, and with the help of the Ming Dynasty official army, he fought six battles against Liu Xiang Group. In the meantime, the two sides launched a series of battles on the sea surface of Fujian: "One broke it in Shiwei, then broke it in Dinghai, three broke it in Guanghe, four broke it in Baigemen, five broke it in Dadan, and six broke it in Qianao." ”

And Liu Xiang fled back to the waters of Guangzhou after the defeat - at this time, please note that Zheng Zhilong's army reasonably and legally pursued to the surface of Guangzhou. And Liu Xiang Group, because it wanted to recover quickly, began to loot the merchants of Guangzhou during this time of hide and seek, and the so-called last madness was nothing more than that.

Then Liu Xiang was tragic: the Fujian Fuyuan and the angry Liangguang Ministry, and the press court quickly reached an agreement to suppress the meeting.

Then Zheng Zhilong was hit on the head by the official hat descended from heaven: the deputy chief soldier of South Australia.

You must know that Nanao Island is the territory of Guangdong, and in order to support Liu Xiang, Guangdong officialdom did not hesitate to give Lao Zheng a hat of deputy chief soldier.

Zheng Zhilong, whose morale was greatly boosted, gathered the essence of the division and launched a decisive battle with Liu Xiang at Tianwei Yang on April 8, 1635; After catching up with Zheng Zhihu, a fierce general, Liu Xiang was finally completely eliminated.

Therefore, from the above historical facts, the traversal can clearly judge the next action strategy: only need to block the front line of Xiamen, so that Liu Xiang cannot go north, and force Lao Liu to loot on the border of Guangdong.

Historically, Zheng Zhilong only eliminated Liu Xiang in the seventh year after Zhao'an, and it didn't take that long to cross the crowd: no pirate of any size could evade Xiamen's destroyers, radars, and drones.

Therefore, Liu Xiang is now a wolf in captivity, and the crossing only needs to wait for him to do things in Guangdong, and then the Guangdong officialdom will naturally play a twist and turn to "lure the wolf into the room".