According to Li Laiheng, the Japanese can no longer be beaten. Those would-be robbers are simply mobile ATMs!

In this way, many people have forgotten the danger of the soldiers, so they want to make military merits, like the bitter haha back then, that is, Li Laiheng, make military achievements, and change Ming'er can also return to his hometown and return to his hometown in fine clothes!

This made the county magistrate of Mizhi County, and even the prefect of Yan'an Prefecture and other local magistrates reap unexpected surprises. After the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army returned to Shaanxi one after another to visit relatives, the government became extraordinarily smooth.

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When Qin Di was jubilant, in the south, thousands of miles away, there was Xiyi Zheng who encountered a special headache.

This place is called Hao Jing O, and the headache is the Franc machine man.

In the center of the town in Ho Ching O, a group of Ming soldiers led by a military attache on horseback surrounded a sedan chair. On the side of this sedan chair, there were two depressed Xiyi, who were guarded by the Ming soldiers in shackles.

And in front of them, there were many Franco-robot soldiers, both white and black. Each of them looked a little nervous, clenching the flintlock pistol in their hands.

However, they didn't speak, just watched the few Francophiles in front of them communicate with the officials of the Ming Kingdom.

The general, who rode on his horse and did not get down, looked at a few Xiyi in front of him condescendingly, and shouted sternly: "I really regard you as friends from afar, and give you a place to live and rest, but I don't want you to wait for the wolf's ambition, and dare to send people to help the Dian land rebel against the imperial court, what can I say now?" ”

The members of the Macau Council, who had only hurried to hear the news, looked at the two Xiyi one by one, and the expressions on their faces were really very surprised and resentful. One of them immediately learned the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, and replied in the standard Ming official dialect when he heard it: "This general, we don't know these two people, why do you say that they are our Franc Machine?" I dare to guarantee that our people are all in Daming, and that's just a proper business! ”

The council has been dealing with Ming officials for a long time, so it is natural to be able to speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty. However, the new governor standing next to them was named Du Chen, who had just arrived this year, and he could not understand the language of the East at all, so an interpreter was carefully translating beside him.

The shackled Francophone man was Carlos, who was sent to Guangdong after being captured by Emperor Chongzhen, and he knew that the negotiations between the Ming officials and the compatriots in Haojingao would decide his fate, so he listened with his ears pricked up.

He couldn't understand the words of the Ming officials, but he heard the words of the translator, and suddenly, he panicked, and hurriedly raised his head to stare at the compatriot who was dealing with the Ming officials and said loudly: "My name is Carlos, I am from Annan, and I am from ......."

The speed of his speech was fast and urgent, which showed how frightened he was in his heart, and to the Ming army, it was a grunting bird language, and he couldn't listen to it at all.

However, Francois could understand it, and after hearing him explain his situation, he immediately understood that this man was really their Portuguese.

However, the person at the head of the council, named Johnson, sneered and said to him: "You say yes, but there is evidence?" Our side is doing business with the rules of the Ming Dynasty, and we can even send people to help the Ming Dynasty fight the barbarians in the north, how can we help the Ming Dynasty rebel against the imperial court. You're certainly not Portuguese! ”

For him, the interests of the Portuguese in Macau were above all else, so he thought of cutting off this trouble directly.

However, before he finished speaking, he heard the new Governor of Macau, Du Chen, interject and say: "He is right, I have met him in Goa and know that he was sent to Annam by the Governor of Goa. ”

Among the overseas colonies of the Portuguese, the Viceroy of Goa ruled over the colonies in the Far East. Although Macau, also known as Ho Kiang Macao, was not a Portuguese colony at this time, it was also under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Goa.

At this time, Du Chen's statement is equivalent to confirming Carlos's identity, and also breaking Johnson's desire to solve this trouble simply and rudely.

In fact, Du Chen can actually pretend not to know, so as to save trouble. However, although he is the Governor of Macao on behalf of the Portuguese royal family, his actual power can only be the military power to govern Ho Kiang Macao. As for the executive power and other powers, they are in the hands of the Macau Council.

The cost of the troop allocated to the Governor of Macao shall be borne by the Macao Council. Therefore, naturally, there has always been a contradiction between the Governor of Macao and the Macao Council.

The so-called strong dragon and the snake in the south, these Macao governors sent from abroad, were basically used by the Macao Council to use various means to stand up and make things difficult. It is also for this reason that the governors of Macao in front of Du Chen basically do not serve for long. Even in the previous term, he only got out after serving as the governor of Macao for a year.

After Du Chen came to Macao, he naturally inevitably had conflicts with the Macao Council. He was uncomfortable, so he naturally didn't mind, and it also made the Macau Council uncomfortable, so he came forward to prove Carlos's identity.

When Carlos heard this, he couldn't help but be very grateful to Du Chen.

Johnson didn't know that if there was no basis on the side of the Ming government, it would be impossible to bet a white man over to be Portuguese. At this time, it was confirmed by Du Chen, and it was impossible to turn a blind eye. After all, there is also a translator on the side of the Ming officials, and they will translate the words here.

Sure enough, I heard the military general shouting: "Hugh has to deny, reply quickly!" ”

Johnson had no choice, looked left and right at the other council members, and saw that they all asked him to deal with it, and no one wanted to come forward to take trouble, so he had to squeeze out a smile, arch his hand to the military attaché, and then said to the sedan chair: "My lord, it's been hard all the way, it's better to rest first." The stakes are high, and I'll have to discuss it with the others first, no matter what. ”

He naturally knew that it was not the military attache on horseback who made the final decision, but the civil official sitting in the sedan chair, that is, the county magistrate of Xiangshan County, who governed Haojingao.

Hearing what he said, the military attache really stopped talking, and waited for the county lord in the sedan chair to speak.

As the parent official who is in charge of these Portuguese people in Haojingao, he naturally knows that the Francois people have to discuss things together. This matter is indeed very important, so after a little hesitation, he said: "That's fine, but you must reply within half an hour, and this official has to return to the prefect." ”

After finishing speaking, a servant on the side stepped forward and lifted the curtain in front of the sedan chair, and a civil official in a green robe stepped out of the sedan chair.

When Johnson saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward, accompanied by a smile, and gestured with his hand, guiding the county magistrate of Xiangshan County to the luxurious reception hall dedicated to entertaining Ming officials. When he was walking on the road, he loudly told the others to hurry up and prepare the Nanyang specialties he had just arrived.

Ordinary Ming soldiers naturally don't have this treatment, so they can only stay outside. After the military attache and the county respected entered the reception hall, they were separated by different statuses. The military attache remained in the outer hall and was entertained by the other Francs, while the prefectural magistrate entered the inner hall and was entertained by Johnson himself.

There are no outsiders, and the attitudes between the two are obviously different. I saw that Johnson also relaxed a little, but still with respect, he said to the county magistrate of Xiangshan County: "My lord, let's make a price, how much silver can be turned into a big thing and a small thing this time?" ”

Speaking of this, he hurriedly added: "My lord, you also heard just now that these two people are actually not the Francos of Haojingao, but from Annan's side. To be honest, this really has nothing to do with Hao Jingao's side. This...... This is a no-brainer! If the adult overpriced, it will be difficult for me to do it. ”

When the Portuguese first came to the Far East, they also wanted to deal with the Ming as they did with other colonies, but they were taught a lesson by the Ming. So he learned to be obedient and did things according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the pretext that they had sailed away, the goods were soaked and they needed a place to stop to rest, so they went to the Daming local government to rent this Haojing Ao, which was not very populated at that time, and the rent was 500 taels of silver a year.

For the Daming local government at that time, it was a place with few people, and it was possible to get five hundred taels of silver every year, so why not do it!

Therefore, Franc has a foothold in Ho Jing Ao, and has been waiting for a long time.

In the process of dealing with Ming officials, they slowly figured out how to deal with Ming officials, and it can be said that they bribed local officials of Daming to make them stay very happily in Haojing Ao.

Not only that, but they also tried to deal well with high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, or the Ming court. not only sold Hongyi cannons to the Ming Dynasty, but also sent their people to be mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty to train the Ming soldiers to use firearms, and even went into battle to fight for the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this has something to do with the huge price paid by Daming's side. The cost of hiring these Franc robots is high. At that time, the leader of the Franc Mercenaries, Gongsha Xilao, had an annual salary of 150 taels, plus an additional 15 taels per month, and the rest of the people were paid 100 taels a year, and another 10 taels of food money were given every month.

At that time, the ordinary Ming soldiers were about two taels of silver a month, and it was only twenty-four taels a year. Basically, it's only one-tenth of the treatment of these Franc machines.

At this time, after Johnson said his bottom line, he waited for the county order of Xiangshan County to make an offer. This time, he knew that it should not only be the county order that should be beneficial, but also the officials above him and the prefect. There is psychological preparation, there is a blood to come out once, but there is also an upper limit.

He also knew that these Orientals liked to bargain. He has also learned, just wait for the county order to make a price, and then he will bargain again, and he can cut as much as he can.

This time, however, he made a big mistake.

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