The Inheritance of the Marquis......

Let others fight for this!

The supreme commander of the Ming reinforcement army mysteriously disappeared as soon as he passed the mountain, along with his twenty-four cruisers and two thousand five hundred soldiers.

When he reappeared, it was already a month later.

But not in North Korea.

But......

Macau.

In the early morning mist of the sea, a three-masted hard-sailed warship quietly drilled out of the narrow waterway between Taipa Island and Hengqin Island like a ghost, and sailed silently forward under the impetus of the rising tide of the sea, just as a hazy shadow appeared on the opposite side, like a sleeping beast hidden in the thick fog.

"Your Excellency, that is Mount Berna, the entrance to the port of Macau."

Salazar said.

In front of him on the right, Yang Dudu stood with his hands in his hands.

He was at the mouth of the Yangtze River with the second ship of Dingzhen and more than 100 southern family members to make peace with Yang Xin.

After all, Yang Xin's 2,500 families went to Guangzhou purely blindfolded, and it happened that many of those shanty people in the south were Cantonese, so they simply singled out them as translators. Although the Cantonese dialect is chaotic, it is better to communicate with others than those in the north. And there are indeed a lot of Cantonese in it, the source of Jiangxi shantytowns is complicated, there are any fugitives and even fugitives, and it is not uncommon to have a few Cantonese ones.

"It's called Guia!"

Yang Xin said.

"Uh, well, it's not called Pena, it's called Guia!"

Salazar said quickly.

The ships under their feet continued to advance into the western channel of the Guia, while behind them continued to pour out of the narrow waterway.

The soldiers who had spent more than a month rushing from Dengzhou to Macao stepped out of their cabins and stood on the deck looking at the faintly visible Mount Pena in the fog in front of them, on a hill that could be called the gate of Macao Port, and no fortifications had yet been built. According to Salazar, not to mention here, the whole of Macau is practically undefended, and since the time when they were allowed to live here, the Portuguese have fought in various ways, trying to build walls and fortresses here, including bribing Ming officials, but the problem is that Ming officials often change, so they relied on bribes to repair them, and then they were forcibly destroyed by the next official.

The most recent smash was last year.

The governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong jointly ordered that a senator of the political secretary personally bring the Ming army to destroy the city wall they had just repaired.

It must be said that Macao was not a colony at this time.

The Portuguese only lived here, like a community inhabited by foreigners, but the Ming Dynasty exercised all sovereignty here, with the Macau Promotion Department as the supreme governor, as well as the Reserve and Investigation Division, which specialized in collecting taxes. Administratively belongs to Xiangshan County, but as an important place of coastal defense, it is under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Prefecture Haiphong Tongzhi stationed in Yongmo and the Guangzhou Haidao Deputy Envoy stationed in Nantou City.

Even the Guangdong patrol is in charge.

But it doesn't matter if the money they give is in place.

As long as the silver is in place, these guys will not bother to be idle, so the internal crimes of the Portuguese are their own management, only when it involves the people of the Ming Dynasty, these Ming officials will take care of it, but as long as they manage it, no matter how they deal with it, it is to hack to death, and the Portuguese have to listen.

As for the defense, the Ming army was in charge.

The Macao promotion is a military attaché, and there is a general and a thousand soldiers in Nantouzhai in the north.

Therefore, the Portuguese were not allowed to build the city wall without permission, including the fact that they had to build houses here had to be approved by Xiangshan County.

Otherwise, private houses are not allowed to be built.

In fact, the Portuguese in Macao, who did not consider themselves to be colonies, did not pay any taxes to the King of Portugal or, or to the King of Spain, but to the Ming Dynasty, and the Draw Office drew one out of ten on all the goods traded there. Previously, this tax was in charge of the Guangdong City Eunuch, who was also the Guangdong Tax Supervisor and the Eunuch, but after Wanli's death, Taichang recalled the Tianxia Tax Supervisor, and this task was transferred to the Guangdong Sea Road Deputy Envoy, which was equivalent to the coastal defense military preparation road and the city ship department was responsible for tax collection.

40,000 taels a year.

A figure that is purely insulting to the emperor's IQ.

This tax is not as good as several land checkpoints in Guangdong.

It is conservatively estimated that the Ming Dynasty loses more than 400,000 yuan a year in this customs.

From top to bottom, from officials to civilians, including the military, everyone is smuggling, countless private smugglers transport goods here in various ways, trade with the Portuguese under the ignorance of local officials, all officials transport smuggled goods here in a grand manner, and there are even military people who simply rob civilian merchants. Originally, the only official in the Chongzhen period in history who really considered the country and cracked down on smuggling, Zheng Junyanming, a Guangzhou magistrate, said that there were three den of thieves here.

Xiangshan County Ya, Xiangshan General, and the City Ship Division controlled by the deputy envoy of the sea road.

And he also came up with a solution.

Then he reported to the leadership with a heart full of concern for the country and the people.

The deputy envoy of Haidao said, what you said is really right, just do it, the inspector said according to the imperial history, the deputy envoy of Haidao, you hurry up and do this matter, the governor of Liangguang said that you should do it accordingly, and you are not allowed to shirk, and then ......

Then Zheng Junyan was dismissed.

The smuggling in Guangzhou was completely eroded and systematic, and none of the officials was innocent, and the former governor of Guangzhou, He Shijin, earned an average of more than 100,000 yuan a year.

Cleaning is also needed here.

Yang Xin looked at the Guia Mountains in front of him with embarrassment......

Suddenly, two fires flickered on the top of the mountain.

"Shelling!"

He didn't hesitate to yell.

The next moment the whistling of shells was accompanied by the sound of cannonballs.

Next to his battleship, two columns of water rose at once......

"Shoot back!"

Then he yelled.

With that, he walked straight to the cabin.

Salazar was dumbfounded.

"Your Excellency Admiral, I swear there will be no batteries when I leave!"

He shouted in panic as he chased after Yang Xin.

"Shoot back, blast them out, or I'll stuff you into the cannon and shoot them out!"

Yang Xin said angrily.

"Shoot back, open fire on the starboard side!"

Salazar hurriedly shouted.

Needless to say, the soldiers had already fired, not only on this battleship, but also on the twenty-five battleships that were entering the channel behind them all hurriedly entered the cabin, and then one by one the muzzles were rolled out, and fired shells at the two cannons on the top of the Guia hill that fired the second time. Fortunately, this hill was about sixty meters high, and it was still six or seven hundred meters away from them, and two cannons could not suppress the two or three hundred cannons on this side at all, and after the fourth round of shells was fired and a battleship was slightly damaged, the two cannons did not move again in the bombardment of nearly 300 naval guns.

"Uncle, four and a half pounds of cannonballs."

Yang Huan looked at the flag from the wounded battleship and said.

"It's not a shore defense artillery, it's a vigilant sentry!"

Yang Xin said.

At this time, he could roughly see the top of the mountain.

There is indeed no fort there, only one is estimated to be built, but half of the remnants of the destruction were repaired, and the cannon should have been fired by the Portuguese guard post on the top of the mountain, and the cannon was directly used to alert Macao, and the six-pounder gun could not be used as a coastal defense gun.

"Beat out the guard of honor of the governor of Pontus!"

Yang Xin said.

It's an excuse to send it to your door.

dared to openly bombard the coastal military affairs of the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese in Macao could be described as a rebellion.

Immediately after that, those soldiers put out his honor guards one by one, as the highest-ranking officer of the Ming Dynasty, his honor guards were very numerous, all kinds of flags, all kinds of brands, official rank lanterns, and in a blink of an eye, the deck was almost nowhere to stand. Then Yang Huan presented the Shang Fang sword with both hands, and the people were holding the Shang Fang sword, Yang Dudu obviously felt that this was not domineering enough, so he simply carried it on his shoulders......

It's a bit big after all.

The Governor of the Ming Dynasty Coastal Military Affairs, the Right Governor of the Later Military Governor's Office, and the Fusi of the Northern Town, the re-added Admiral Dangkou Army, the Korean Economic Envoy, just carried the sword of Shang Fang on his shoulders, wore a python robe, and appeared in Macao and Hong Kong with the rising sun. At this time, the Portuguese on the shore were already armed and ready for battle, one by one with arquebuses or axe guns, and even a dozen cannons of various calibers, one by one they looked at the fleet that was clear with the sunlight, and looked at the nearly three hundred cannons pointed at them on the sea.

There are several Ming officials among them!

One of the blue-robed military attachés looked at the pile of honor guards on Yang Xin's ship in astonishment.

And, of course, his python robe.

"Down, down, down!"

Hundreds of meters away, Yang Xin heard his terrified shout.

With the shouting, the blue-robed military attache turned around and waved desperately to signal the Portuguese to put down their guns, and several other officials and their subordinates could also pounce on the cannons, kicking and cursing to urge the Portuguese to turn the muzzles.

The same goes for several Portuguese who are familiar with the Ming system.

Just as chickens and dogs jumped on the shore, Yang Xin's ship slowly approached the dock......

"The lowly Haojing promoted Li Yuan to see the capital."

The green-robed officer lay on the dock, shouting with a group of kneeling officials behind him.

Although he still doesn't know who this is, because he can't read the handwriting clearly because the guard of honor is on the boat, he knows the honor guard of the governor's military affairs, and he is a sesame officer who has just offended the governor again, so he still quickly knelt down at this time, not to mention that the python robe alone scared people to death. As for the honorific title of the governor, the governor is the title of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, so the capital is honored as the capital, not only the Ming officials, in fact, the Portuguese in Macao at this time also called the governor of Liangguang.

The next moment, Li Tituo suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground in front of him.

He cautiously raised his head and looked at Yang Dudu who fell from the sky, as well as the genuine python robe on this guy's body.

Then quickly bow your head.

Yang Dudu didn't care about him, Yang Dudu, who was carrying Shang Fang's sword, was looking at the Portuguese who were still in a daze.

"Why don't these barbarians kneel?"

Yang Dudu said gloomily.

(Today's two chapters)