Because the English, who sailed on a long voyage, captured three Galen ships, intercepted two whaling ships, and six ships of the Japanese State Zhuyin and the Daming Junk.

It was clear that the English would make a lot of money on their trip to the East, as was the case throughout history.

Savoury and plundering, they sent more warships and armed merchant ships to develop them, and finally even crushed and embezzled the Dutch East India Company.

More than 100 years later, the English ran India as the jewel in the Queen's crown.

Now that history has changed, the British would not have imagined that their first trip to the Far East would turn into a fire.

Weddell came to the Far East as if he were invincible, and he was filled with pride.

Under the fire of the first-class warships of the British Empire, all the warships and armed merchant ships in the field of vision only trembled, and basically faced a few rounds of shelling, and the other side raised the white flag and surrendered.

They finally entered the Daming Sea and came to the coast of Guangdong, and found the place called Macao rented by the Portuguese.

The Portuguese did not have a good impression of the English, and of course it was impossible to share the colony with them, and they did not remind Wilson to take the throne not to easily provoke this large and ancient Ming Empire.

This is also because Wilson, who had a smooth ride along the way, was domineering, which caused the Portuguese of the old colonial empire to look angry.

Dominic, the Governor of Macau, I hated the arrogant English, and deliberately stumbled on them.

In fact, at this time, Portugal was no longer an independent kingdom, and was ruled by Spain for more than 60 years, but Macao has never surrendered to Spain and has been flying the Portuguese flag.

The Portuguese have been working hard to restore their country, and Spain, the world's first empire on which the sun never sets, has been in decline since their armada was defeated by the British many times, and the spring of the Portuguese seems to be not far away.

The Portuguese governor of Goa agreed to the British to share the Far Eastern trade, of course, in order to use the power of the British against the Spanish, but the Macau side apparently did not buy it.

This, of course, is a matter of interest.

At this time, Macao's trade routes with Goa and Lisbon had been blocked by the Dutch fleet, and navigation was very difficult, and it often faced heavy losses in both ships and cargo.

The Governor of Macau could only maintain the trade routes between Nagasaki and Manila, but unfortunately the trade with Nagasaki was also due to the expulsion of Catholics from the Japanese Kingdom, which led to the expulsion of foreigners who came to trade except for the Ming Dynasty, so the Portuguese business was also not good.

It was also because of the frequent robbery of the armed merchant ships of the Japanese that the Portuguese had to abandon the Japanese trade, and now only Manila is left to maintain close trade relations, and the trade volume still reaches millions of taels of silver every year.

If the British were allowed to open up the Ming market and take a slice of it, the little trade benefit that the Portuguese had left would also be lost.

Without the windfall profits of maritime trade, how could there be money and grain to support Macao's armament? How is it possible to feed a few thousand people?

Of course, the Portuguese did not have tuntian in Daming, and they had to purchase grain, vegetables, meat, poultry and eggs, and they needed a lot of silver every year.

The reason why Macao was able to break cattle and other Portuguese colonies all flew the Spanish flag, but they still flew the Portuguese flag and refused to surrender to Spain.

It is because of the huge profits made by relying on the goods of the comprador Daming that the armed forces have been propped up.

Macau was even able to manufacture high-quality Hongyi cannons and arquebuses to sell to the Ming Dynasty, and sent mercenaries to fight for the Ming Dynasty with silver, which shows that the armed forces of the Portuguese in Macao should not be underestimated.

The British could not attack Macao with six ships, and the St. Paul's Battery, built by the Portuguese on a hill in Macao, had as many as 32 heavy guns, which was high enough to sink the ships in the shooting field.

Moreover, the Portuguese not only built this fort, but also a few relatively small ones, which were completely capable of forming a firepower network.

The British had traveled thousands of miles to the East, but the Portuguese in Macau refused to follow the instructions of the Governor of Goa and did not allow the British to share in the trading privileges of Macao.

Seeing that the Portuguese were so uncooperative, Weddell simply tore his face and decided to simply bypass Macau and open up a trade route on his own.

The British, who were in a daze, ignored the sovereignty of other countries and chose to openly provoke the Ming Dynasty.

They actually prepared to forcibly enter the mouth of the Pearl River, and after the Ming army stationed at the Humen Fort issued a warning gun, Weddell found that the Ming artillery had a short range and little power, and decided to seize the Humen Fort and knock on the mountain and shock the tiger.

The Ming army of Humen Fort was really humiliating to the national body, they were shelled by six British warships and turned into a pot of porridge, and they found that hundreds of strangely dressed British troops with arquebuses attacked the fort in a formation and actually dispersed in a hurry.

In the first battle with the Ming Dynasty, the British killed more than 100 Ming troops with negligible casualties, captured the Humen Fort, captured 35 guns and transported them to their ships.

The first victory in the first battle of the English was invincible, Weddell was full of spirits, it turned out that this great country was so weak! He was full of confidence, looked down on the Ming army in his heart, and pondered choosing a piece of land to establish a colony.

In order to show off, Weddell also sent out an invitation to invite the Portuguese in Macao to see how easily the British Empire defeated the great eastern power and captured dozens of artillery pieces.

Domini, the Portuguese Governor of Macau, saw Weddell's letter, and learned that the British had killed hundreds of Ming soldiers and captured thirty-five cannons, and immediately realized that something was wrong with the arrogant English.

The Englishman had no idea that he had awakened a sleeping lion and flaunted it in front of the Portuguese, and Dominime was laughing from ear to ear.

In the 36th year of Jiajing, the Portuguese asked the Ming Dynasty for the right of residence in Macao, and it has been nearly 100 years since then.

They never doubted that they could capture one or several castles of the Ming Dynasty by force, but this great country had thousands of castles, and it was not at all something that any European country could conquer.

The English were too arrogant, and this time they had to be taught a lesson, and the Portuguese governor of Macao, Noreti, sent his lieutenant Noretti with a few men to mediate at the mouth of the Pearl River, and admonished

"Mr. Noretti, you must paralyze the British when you go to them this time, and when you go to Canton to mediate, you must show friendship with the Ming Dynasty, and even condemn the banditry of the British."

Noretti has been in the East for many years, how can he really provoke the Ming Dynasty, no matter how many forts there are in Macau, they will be conquered.

The main reason is that the Portuguese have been conquered by the Spaniards, and the isolated land of Macao is destined to be unable to receive reinforcements, how to compete with the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of hundreds of millions?