Wang Yue smiled and said, "If you want to buy goods, you can go north to Shanghai County to trade." ”

Afraid that they were not familiar with this place in Shanghai, Wang Yue took out the map, pointed and said: "This is here, the raw silk, porcelain, and tea you want to buy are all produced near here, and there are other commodities, as long as you have enough silver, you can buy them." ”

Weddell and Mason Mountney's eyes lit up, wasn't this the kind of free trade they had always dreamed of?

"Your Excellency Lord Wang, we, we can really purchase freely in Shanghai?" Mount Mountney's tone was incredulous, mainly frightened by the Ming officials.

"Isn't that nonsense?" Wang Yue glared at him and said, "This official is the governor of Yingtian, and this place is my jurisdiction, but if you shop here, you have to pay 20% of the customs tariff according to the total value of the goods." ”

Mount Mountey was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Lord Wang, thank you!" ”

I didn't expect things to be so simple, I knew that it was so why bother tossing around Guangzhou, how good it would be to go directly to Shanghai.

Wang Yue waved his hand and said, "You guys take care of the matter in Guangzhou first, and I will send someone to send you to Shanghai." ”

Then he said to Zhuang Suwen: "Commander Zhuang, you let them loosen their ties and arrange a room for them to be held for a while, but don't treat them badly." ”

Zhuang Suwen ordered the soldiers to take Weidel and the others down to make arrangements, and then asked Wang Yue in confusion: "Why does the commander treat them preferentially, since he captured them and confiscated their goods." ”

Wang Yue shook his head and said, "That's called killing chickens and taking eggs, I need them to bring more trade." ”

Seeing Zhuang Suwen bowing his head and thinking, Wang Yue smiled and said, "If you look and think more in the future, you will naturally understand." ”

The speed of the naval warships of the Tiance Army was too fast, and Weddell's fleet was captured here, and Li Yanqing, deputy commander of the Nantouzhai Naval Division, arrived with the warship.

Wang Yue repaired a letter and asked Li Yanqing to send it to Ge Zhengqi, the governor of Guangdong, explaining the beginning and end of the matter and his opinions on the handling of the British army.

Weddell and others slapped Guangzhou in the face, and the work of paying compensation and apologizing had to be done.

Guangdong Governor Ge Zhengqi received Wang Yue's letter, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the British warships and ships were strong, and the Guangzhou authorities could only strictly defend and could not take the initiative to attack.

Wang Yue still holds the title of a soldier squire, and it is not considered to have crossed the line.

At this time, Zhang Jingxin, the governor and governor of Liangguang, had also arrived, and out of politeness, Zhang Jingxin warmly invited Wang Yue to Guangzhou for a meeting, so the naval fleet of the Tiance Army came to Guangzhou, causing a sensation.

Wang Yue's visit to Guangzhou is also a reminder to Guangzhou, let's build a base in Hong Kong, don't come to make trouble if you have nothing to do.

From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty's policy of closing the country to the outside world, the maritime trade that Hong Kong wants to do in the future is naked smuggling, and Guangzhou may interfere, but this is all for the future.

Weddell and others paid a fine of 20,000 taels of silver, as well as artillery and arquebuses, and handed over the perpetrator Terry, and Canton released three British merchants.

In fact, the Irishman Terry is just a sailor, Wang Yue is also blind to it, and all Guangzhou wants is to save face.

On 5 October, the square in front of the yamen of the Governor of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and nearly 1,000 people, including officials of the fifth rank and above in Guangzhou, some well-known squires in the city, merchants from various industries, and representatives of Macao, gathered in the square to see the Governor-General's public handling of Hongmaoyi's offense against Guangdong.

"Zhang, the governor of Liangguang, the king of the military department, and the governor of Guangdong, declared the officials and gentry at all levels in Guangzhou. In June of this year, Weddell, the leader of the English in the Western Ocean, led six ships to pay tribute, and traveled to Haojingao, where he was deceived by the Franco, and then was deceived by Li Yerong, the scum general of Guangzhou, and clashed with the officers and soldiers of our Ming Dynasty, each with casualties, and the English also robbed five villages, plundered seven cattle, thirty pigs, and more than 100 chickens and ducks. At the time of the conflict, the governor had not yet arrived, and after many unsuccessful negotiations with Ge Xun, fortunately, Wang Yue, the squire of the military department, led the sailors to attack and captured the English in one fell swoop. Due to his ignorance of the laws of the Celestial Empire, coupled with the blindness of the traitors, Weddell regretted it. Therefore, I decided to apologize, hand over Terry, the captain who fired the first cannon, and accept the whipping of my Daming. In addition, I will compensate the Ming Dynasty for the loss of 20,000 taels of silver, as well as muskets and artillery, and as for the matter of tribute, the governor has already played to the court. ”

Hearing the announcement, the squires and merchants below cheered. These days, the city of Guangzhou rumors that the Ming Sailor is defeated by the Hongmaoyi, the Hongmaoyi is about to attack the city of Guangzhou, I heard that the Hongmaoyi is ferocious, kill when he sees people, and rob when he sees wealth, which makes these landlords and old wealth frightened, after all, Guangzhou is the most open city in the country, and he still knows some about the power of Xiyangyi. Unexpectedly, Wang Yue, the squire of the military department, led the fleet to capture the enemy in one fell swoop, which made them raise their eyebrows one by one.

"Another investigation found that the Macau Franc Machine did not pay the land tax for two years, manipulated the market price, deceived the vassal states that came to pay tribute, and did not try to repay the grace of the Heavenly Empire, but fooled the Yingyi. Therefore, the governor detained Liu De, the head of the Macao, Shen Luxi, and the Yimu Rong Mao Zhou to the province. The officer sentenced these three men, as well as Terry, the captain of the ship who caused the accident, to thirty lashes, and the execution is now commencing. ”

Zhang Jingxin, the governor of Liangguang, was ranked in the second grade, so he was ranked ahead of Wang Yue.

Macao's current administrative, judicial, taxation and other sovereignty still belongs to the Ming Dynasty, not a concession in the late Qing Dynasty, and administratively falls under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. If the Portuguese in Macao committed a crime, Xiangshan County would still rush in and arrest them, especially in the case of a serious murder of Chinese businessmen, the murderer would be taken to Guangzhou and executed according to the law.

The Ming Dynasty government treated the Portuguese in Macao as if they were ethnic minorities in remote areas, believing that they had come to touch the light of the heavenly kingdom. As for the management of Macao and Portugal on the island, the Portuguese were appointed as "Yimu" officials and given some powers to administer Macao, referring to the Tusi system of "governing the local people with toast" in ethnic minority areas.

Our Han dynasty does not exclude foreigners from settling in China, such as those blue hats who returned to Jews in the Song Dynasty and settled in Kaifeng.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty government was still very strict in the management of Macao, but the annual rent of 500 taels of the Portuguese was indeed too funny, and it was just a symbolic meaning, which was also a manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's consistent arrogance. The rent of 500 taels was originally for bribing officials, but when it was exposed, it became rent.

Wang Yue does not plan to intervene in the Macao issue now, that place was originally a small fishing village, and the Portuguese came to some extent and engaged in some construction, and in the context of the Ming Dynasty's closure of the country, Macao has undoubtedly become a window for the Chinese people to open their eyes to the world.