"You've got it figured?"

That night, Yang Xin had already turned his back to the image of suffering, looking down at Yimu kneeling at his feet like the Pope of the Vatican.

The latter was the chief of the Portuguese in Macau.

At this time, there was no governor of Macau, and although the king of Spain had appointed one, the latter did not come to take office, and the first governor to take office arrived next year......

Nor can it be said to be the governor-general.

The appellation was purely a matter of later translation.

In fact, the local Portuguese in Macao are contemptuously called the head of the soldiers, captains, captains, in short, many European names in Chinese are translated pots, and the translations at the end of the Qing Dynasty always use many words of our Qing Dynasty, including Macao, the head of the soldiers, became the governor, if it was officially turned into a Portuguese colony at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the position of the governor was worthy of the name, but the Ming Dynasty was the head of the soldiers that the Portuguese hated.

At the moment the Portuguese here are the councils.

The most powerful member of the council was the Attorney General, who himself was the head of the Ming Dynasty, but every year Portuguese warships would arrive during the trade season and go from here to Japan.

In fact, it was a merchant ship, at first the Portuguese went to the East for free trade, but later it became a concession authorized by the king, so every merchant ship that set sail from Goa had to be issued a permit issued by the governor, which was actually the king's money, because a license was even as high as tens of thousands of pesos. The merchant ships then elected a chief, who was temporarily appointed commander of the king's fleet, and set sail for the fleet in April and May each year, reaching Macao in two months, from where it sailed north to Japan, returned to Macao in November, and then sailed south to Goa on the winter currents and monsoons.

According to Portuguese law, the commander of the fleet was the local governor during their station.

But this is in the case that Daming doesn't know, Daming seems that they are merchants, in fact, the Portuguese here don't like this guy either, in short, Macao at this time, in the eyes of the King of Spain, is his colony, but the local Portuguese never think so.

"Your Excellency Dutang, we are willing to pay a fine for Long Huamin's matter, but we hope that Your Excellency Dutang can give us a little time."

Yimu said cautiously.

Originally, he still wanted to spend money and ask those familiar officials to help, but Yang Xin actually arrested all the main officials in the surrounding circle, and the latter didn't even have the courage to resist.

The high status of this murderous Ming official is terrifying.

At least there is no one in Guangdong who can deal with it.

You must know that they have been with Guangdong tax eunuchs for decades, and those tax eunuchs are said to have great power.

But the tax eunuchs are not so cruel.

Two million is not much.

Relative to the city's annual silver inflows, it is nothing at all.

But this can't be paid by them, the first Long Huamin is a member of the church, and the protectorate of the East belongs to the king of Portugal, of course, in fact, the king of Spain, the two families originally fought for many years over this issue, Portugal finally firmly controlled the protectorate, but unfortunately the Portuguese crown was worn on the head of the king of Spain, I have to say that this is really embarrassing.

Then the King of Spain is responsible for this.

These merchants in Macao are just transit merchants, and what they really rely on in Macao behind them are countless merchants in the real colonies of Malacca, Manila, and Goa, and theoretically they are still under the control of Goa. So two million is definitely not a big number, they can afford it, but they can't pay it, at least not all of them, once they are expelled, it's the whole Portuguese and Spanish trade network in the East, so everyone has to make up the money.

But that will take enough time.

After all, this kind of thing needs to be pulled off, and it is estimated that there will be no results this year, but it is definitely not possible to let Macao pay this money by itself.

"Yes."

Yang Xin readily agreed.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for your kindness."

Yimu said.

"But why should I help you?"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"We would like to give you 20,000 pesos as a thank you."

Yimu said.

He's still very sensible.

"No, I don't want silver, as I said, I'm not interested in silver, I'm an honest and just person, and silver is an insult to me."

Yang Xin said.

"Uh, so how do we thank you?"

Yimu said.

In other words, he has seen a lot of this face.

The Ming officials, the colonial governors of Goa, the bishops of the church, the big people in the East and the West all have such faces, they don't want silver, they want other things, precious stones, gold, and even beautiful women, but in the end this is definitely a little difficult. It's not that they are reluctant to give a fellow female to this guy, but there are very few young Portuguese women in Macau, and most of them are ugly, at least he doesn't think this guy will be interested in those women.

In fact, most of them themselves are married to Ming women.

The number of Ming people here far exceeds that of the Portuguese, and many of them are Nanyang women or widows, and even Korean women.

There were a lot of Japanese slaves before!

However, it was forcibly expelled by the Ming officials, at this time the Portuguese in Macao had a large number of slaves, black slaves and Luzon slaves, Japanese slaves, Korean slaves, Ming officials did not care about what they raised, but the nature of raising Japanese slaves was different, and finally the Portuguese in Macau sent all their Japanese slaves to other places under the threat of Ming officials.

"I need horses, give me a hundred horses from India, half male and half female, and they must be Mawari horses or Arabian horses."

Yang Xin said.

The war horses of the Ming Dynasty must be changed.

And the nearest option left in addition to Central Asia is undoubtedly the Indian Mawarima, although the European ones are more beautiful, but the cost of introduction is too high, at this time, the efficiency of shipping, it will take a long time to achieve, but Mawarima does not have this problem.

"Your Excellency, the number of deaths of maritime horses is extremely high."

Yimu said.

That's a lot more expensive than 20,000 pesos.

A hundred horses may not be left alive, so at least two hundred horses must be transported, which is not comparable to a few boatloads of spices.

"I don't care about this, in short, I want a hundred horses, and then you must prepare 200,000 taels, which is the first amount of fine, and the rest will be paid within two years, and you will be expelled from Macau if it is overdue.

Don't have a fluke mentality, you will be finished if you leave the Ming Dynasty, but you are dispensable to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has no shortage of people to buy goods, if we expel you, it is a big deal to let the Dutch replace you, and the annual influx of silver in Guangzhou will not be reduced because of this, on the contrary, the merchants of Manila and Goa will cry.

Don't think I'm some other Ming official.

Indeed, they do not know what you are, and you can easily deceive them.

But I know everything about you, I also know what you are in Europe, without the trade in the East, the Portuguese would starve to death, a hundred years ago you may have been qualified to say that you were a great power, but unfortunately now any one in Europe is stronger than you, even your king has become Philip. And the strongest on the sea now is the Dutch East India Company, you are just because of the gift of the Ming Emperor, you have obtained the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and your survival depends on the gift of the Ming Emperor.

Portugal's survival depended on the blessings of the Ming Emperor.

If you don't know how to be grateful, then the Ming Emperor can take back his gift at any time.

The Dutch, the English, are waiting in the back, and even the Dutch can't wait. ”

Yang Xin said.

Yimu lay on the ground and was silent.

He knew that Yang Xin was right, they worked tirelessly to build the city wall, because the Dutch would take everything here by force at any time, and with their knowledge of the local officials of the Ming Dynasty, the latter would not provide them with any protection.

Unless the Dutch attack Macao.

"Your Excellency Dutang, but if we are deferential enough to the Ming Emperor, will the Ming Emperor be able to protect us?"

He said cautiously.

"You mean the Dutch, right?"

Yang Xin said.

"Do you know what I do? The Governor's coastal military affairs, the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty are protected by me, this is the coast of the Ming Dynasty, Macao is the land of the Ming Dynasty, any attempt to occupy this place by force without the permission of the Ming Dynasty represents a war with the Ming Dynasty, and I, as the supreme commander of this theater of operations, will send any invaders to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish. In the short term, my fleet and I will continue to be stationed in Macao, as for the continuation of your trade with the merchants, but you must abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the taxes must be paid, and then you don't need to worry about the rest, if the Dutch invade Macao, my fleet will deal with them. ”

He went on to say.

He chose to go south this year to target the Dutch.

Because this year is the second battle of Penghu, the first time is the 32nd year of Wanli, the Dutch occupying Penghu were expelled by Shen Yourong, but this summer the Dutch went north again, occupied Penghu and triggered a war that lasted until the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and finally ended with the Dutch defeating and withdrawing from Penghu, and even captured some and sent to the capital to behead and pass on their heads.

"Thank you for your kindness, we will make up the first fine as soon as possible, and the horses you want will need to be procured by a special ship to India, and it will be at least a few months before they arrive."

Yimu said.

"Yes, but I have to see them before the end of the year."

Yang Xin said briskly.

This season also catches the tail of winter.

In fact, these guys don't need to go to India, they should be able to scrape together enough horses in Malacca City, but they can't just go to Bangladesh to buy, and their trade network is all over India.

By this time, Mawarima had already spread all over India.