At this time, Zhu Beiguo, who was on the Pride, also had a feeling of emotion, facing Macao in the 17th century, he had a sense of history in his heart, and while observing in the telescope, he excitedly introduced the situation to his partners.

"You see the red spire next to it, is it St. Paul's College? It was the first Western-style university in the East, and it is said that there was a printing office in it, which was a printing house with metal plates, and it was where Matteo Ricci drew the map of all countries, and it was here that the map dedicated to the Ming Emperor was drawn, and I remember that the famous Xu Guangqi Xu also worshipped in it......"

"Did I hear me right?"

"Brother Zhu said that Xu Guangqi still studied at this university?"

"Of course I studied, and it seems that I was baptized here and finally became a devout Christian."

It was Wei Hong who said this, who had been in the computer library for a long time before going to sea, and had learned a lot of historical knowledge.

"That white building on Battery Hill is the Church of Our Lady of the Snow, right? It's not exactly the same as what I saw when I traveled to Macau! ”

Wei Dongli, who was standing next to him, sighed.

"Huh? Why didn't you see the Guia Lighthouse? ”

"Oh, by the way, it hasn't been fixed yet......"

"Hurry up and let everyone sort out the housekeeping, tell the boys, get in good spirits, we are going to really step into this new world, this is a day of historic significance......"

At this time, Gu Jin, who was in the cockpit of Nicole, put down the binoculars and instructed Xu Zhi on the walkie-talkie.

Then he looked back at Sun Lao again, and saw that the latter was still looking at him with a telescope, so he smiled and said:

"Elder Sun, it's time for you to prepare, next step you sing the leading role, we are all tricks......"

"Don't talk about the main character, I'm actually nervous right now, after all, this is our first official appearance in this new world, uh...... This is our first public diplomacy, right? ”

"Of course yes, in fact, there is nothing to be nervous about, we discussed various situations in the plenary meeting, and now we can just follow the agreed resolution......"

Gu Jin responded lightly to Sun Laofeng, and it could be seen that the latter was indeed a little nervous.

Captain Gu refers to the plenary resolution that refers to what was discussed at the plenary meeting before going to sea---- our trade strategy, specifically to make a fortune and hold high the banner of free trade, and that important declaration:

"The door is open, and the interests are equal".

Of course, this is only a framework thing, and at least a more detailed and systematic written document is needed in the future.

This task was given to Zhu Beiguo and Li Junming, and in everyone's eyes, when it comes to this kind of thing, the two belong to the standard professionals.

This document is a famous historical document that has been handed down to future generations:

Declaration of Macao 1657.

During the period when the fleet sailed north, the group also discussed the situation in Macao and the action steps to be taken after arriving in Macao.

The most systematic and comprehensive discussion was in early December, when the fleet had just arrived at Zixia Island, and everyone was still busy repairing the dock in Zixia Bay, and there was nothing to do at night, and I don't know who started the conversation in the restaurant where everyone gathered, probably the people from the Huotang Club, in short, they often get together to initiate discussions on "big topics".

This time the discussion was about our future diplomatic strategy, so they gave Zhu and Li a task: they asked them to give a detailed keynote report to all the personnel, the subject of which was to introduce the various systems of Macao and its relations with the Qing court, the Dutch, Spain, and other Western countries, especially to study the current relations between Macao and the Qing court, and so on.

The two of them had done this study long before the Macao Declaration was drafted, and it was a very detailed study.

At this forum, Zhu Beiguo first gave a lecture on Macao's history and current situation, especially on Macao's current historical status and relations with neighboring forces.

Zhu Beiguo said: Macao is currently the only territory in Europe located on the Far Eastern continent in this era.

According to the travelogues of missionaries and navigators, it was a dream city for adventurers from East to West, a bustling free trade port, and the "City of God's Name", which the Portuguese had painstakingly managed for nearly a hundred years.

At present, the port city is less than two square kilometers in size, and the total resident population within the city walls is about 50,000 to 60,000, with a roughly two-to-one ratio of Chinese to Westerners, in addition to a small number of Arabs, blacks, Japanese, Nanyang natives, and even Portuguese-Spanish people in the Americas.

Therefore, at this time, Macao is a veritable international city in this era, the floating population is very large, according to the literature, the daily floating population is about the same as the number of resident population, if there are markets and festivals, the local Han people in the vicinity will also come to Macao to catch up with the market to do business, in those days, the population of the entire Macao area will skyrocket to the size of more than 100,000 people.

In order to defend against pirates, the city was walled on all three sides, except for the inner harbor to the west, and several forts were set up on a high ground, the one called Guia Hill.

However, Zhu Beiguo immediately emphasized that Macao in this era is not an independent colonial city as everyone usually imagines.

The city of Macau is completely different from the colonies established by the Portuguese in other parts of the world.

First of all, legally speaking, the Portuguese Viceroy of Macau had no jurisdiction over the local Chinese---- even the Chinese living in the city of Macau.

Don't be surprised, because at least in the law, the so-called Governor of Macao, in the eyes of mainland officials, is just a group of "foreign" chieftains, who are responsible for paying the land rent to the Xiangshan County Decree every year.

As for the management of the Yi people, the Ming Dynasty has always followed the concept of "in China, then in China, and if you go to China, you will be barbarian", since the customs of Huayi are different, and they are unwilling to be the same as my Huaxia, then the county lord is too lazy to bother to manage, and it is just a matter of "self-restraint" for the barbarians.

In other words, in Macao, the judicial and judicial power of prison is vested in the Ming Dynasty or the Xiangshan County Order of the Qing Dynasty.

Second, the land here does not belong to the Portuguese, and the "Yangyi" is only rented, and the annual rent is more than 500 taels of silver.

In addition, they also have to regularly go to the "Macao Guarding Officials" in the front military village---- most of which are concurrently served by Xiangshan County Cheng, pay a fixed amount of commercial tax, and if there are large transactions with mainland Chinese, there is another tax amount.

This is a rule that has been handed down since the Ming Dynasty.

However, now that the world is in the Qing Dynasty, these rules have changed slightly.

First of all, the fixed amount of commercial tax has increased a lot, and the Qing Dynasty still has "remnants of the Ming Dynasty", which is very much in need of silver, and the Portuguese can't twist their arms and thighs, so they have to spend money to buy peace.

Fortunately, this also caused an unexpected benefit, it turned out that there were still Ming sailors on the sea to inspect and collect taxes outside Macao and Hong Kong, but now the Qing Dynasty has not, this is because the Portuguese gave enough silver, and secondly, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty could not play the sailors, and the imperial court was unwilling to vigorously build the sailors, which were both expensive and difficult to control.

Therefore, the sea outside the mouth of the Xijiang River and the Pearl River has become the world of the Portuguese and the captains of Western countries.

However, this situation does not seem to last long, more than ten years later, Kangxi destroyed Taiwan's Zheng clan and reopened the sea ban, and the Qing Dynasty's water inspection ships appeared.