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"There is no governor, there has never been a governor in Macau, it is the head of the soldiers, the heads of the soldiers. The www.biquge.info is only the commander of the Self-Defense Forces organized by the Macau Parliament itself. Macau was never a Portuguese colony. Ribeiro blushed like a drunken man with a jar of spirits, and he looked very excited.

There's no way not to get excited.

Whether it was Robert or Cruls, even François Philippe Perrier, the representative of the French East India Company, and Robin Lustig, the representative of the Swedish East India Company, all cast pity at Ribeiro, and of course there was absolute excitement in Perrier's expression, "He must be gloating now." Robert looked at Perrier like two small swords.

"We've lived here for more than 200 years. But the Portuguese don't have an inch of land here. Not even to buy. It is also not possible to tear down walls or open holes in the home to hang windows or repair ceilings. All of this requires the permission of Tongzhi. And the license price is high. "The Portuguese only have the right to use.

"Our 'peace' with the Chinese government is completely up to their government as they please. Because Macao is so far away from Europe, so far away from our home country, that many Macanese have never returned to their home country once in their lives, and our own strength is so weak. We have no power to resist the Chinese government, because they only need to cut off the food supply to destroy Macau.

In the past 200 years, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, every time the Chinese government has an order, we have completely accepted and obeyed it. There are now more than 22,000 Chinese in Macau, and all Christians, including the old, weak, sick, and black slaves, are less than 7,000. Whether it was the previous Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty that now controls Guangdong, their government only needs to send a few Chinese at will, and each person throws a shoe into the river, which is enough to block the port of A-Ma. "So they didn't dare not send artillery, muskets, and manpower. This was forced by the Manchu Dynasty against them, shouldn't the Fu Han army be sympathetic?

Ribeiro's voice was full of grief and indignation, and the Portuguese in Macau seemed to be a small victim in his mouth, constantly being bullied. In fact, the Portuguese in Macau are far less pitiful than he says. For rules are dead, but man is alive. When it comes to doing things, officials look more at money. Money can be channeled!

Han Teng was not moved by Ribeiro's 'pitiful' at all, and before this meeting, the Fu Han army also made a lot of preparations. Chen Ming even told them not to confuse Macao's interests with Portugal's.

"For the Kingdom of Portugal, Macau is just a small profit. The value of Macau lies in the individual merchants. They fell in love with the land because it brought them yellow gold coins. "Of the six or seven thousand Portuguese and their servants, there will not be a few who are really willing to naturalize. But the Portuguese were powerless to resist now. There was news from the dark camp that the morale of the Portuguese troops stationed in Macao was now very low, first Fernández, and then Blanco, and the combat effectiveness of the Fu Han army had been 'deified' by them. If at this time, the soldiers of the Fu Han army invaded Guangdong and the army drove to Macao, as long as the name was announced, half of those soldiers would take the initiative to put down their guns.

Ribeiro's performance would hurt the Portuguese of Macau if it were to go, and these words seriously hurt their dignity. But as a performer, Ribeiro looked at Han Teng's face that had not changed in the slightest, and his psychological face was as cold as being soaked in ice water.

"Don't talk about yourself too pitifully. On the issue of opioids alone, your presence has endangered the interests of our citizens to a great extent. Han Teng's eyes were fixed on Ribeiro, and then he was still observing Robert, and as soon as the word 'opioid' popped out of his mouth, the expressions of both of them changed.

Ribeiro could still maintain a sad and angry expression of grievance and oppression, but his eyes shrank violently.

"I don't need to talk about the disadvantages of opioid addiction here, right? We have absolute evidence that since five years ago, Portuguese merchant ships have been trafficking more than 1,000 boxes of opium into China every year, and this number is growing dramatically. "The opium trade in this era is really just beginning to sprout.

"Each box of Indian opium costs only 300 rupees, but if you put it in Guangdong, the price of each box of opium you sell is 500 to 600 silver dollars." This silver dollar refers to the Spanish Eagle Ocean, three pieces of Eagle Ocean combined with two taels of silver, which means that they will sell each box of opium at a price of about three or four hundred taels, more than three times the purchase price.

Marx said: If there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move; If there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, capital dares to risk hanging its head; If there is a 300% profit, capital dares to trample on all the laws of the world. Haven't the Portuguese been working harder and harder on the opium trade in recent years?

Only absolute profiteering would have made the British and Portuguese so 'courageous' to run wildly on that sinful road. The British trafficked much more than the Portuguese, with no less than two thousand boxes per year. They also use Macau as a stockpile of their opium.

The French also sell opium, but Macao is no match for the British and Portuguese in terms of being a warehouse, and their opium warehouses can only float on the sea. Cargo ships are used as reserves.

In India, Mawa, Bihar and Binales are the main opioid producing areas in India. And Bihar and Binales, two of the three, were under the direct control of the British colonial government in India. Opium sells for a price in China, it sells for a price in Europe, and as it stands, there are more Britons than Chinese who smoke opioids. Because opium at this time was still a popular medicine for colds and diarrhea throughout Europe, the British felt the real benefits and established a whole set of opioid forced cultivation systems in the two places.

The East India Company now measured the opium cultivation land every year, determined its boundaries and signed contracts through intermediaries with farmers living in opium-growing areas. Under the contract, opium growers receive an advance payment from the company and then sell the product to the company at the price set in the contract at the time of harvest. If local farmers grow and sell opium without signing a contract with the company, their property is immediately confiscated.

Hundreds of years of trade between the East and the West, including the British, continued to import silver into China, but it was still not enough to make up for the trade deficit caused by the rapidly expanding import of Chinese goods. The British East India Company, which monopolized official direct trade with China, had repeated difficulties in its capital turnover in Guangzhou. In 1762 of the Western calendar, the East India Company still had a balance of more than 200,000 taels of silver in the treasury of Guangzhou, but in the **** year, there was a deficit of 220,000 taels. Today's deficit is as high as more than 900,000 taels, which is still the figure after they erased a large part of the deficit after they made two arms trades with the Manchus.

Of course, the overall trade volume between the two countries is different from that of individual traders. Taking the opium dealers as an example, the East India Company used the model of lending and lending to closely link the Chinese dealers with their opium smuggling, strengthening the turnover capacity of the Chinese opium brokers, and using the limited funds in exchange for unlimited profits. And as a result of this by the British, the price of opium will be 'up' as they expected.

This kind of lending, but it is standard usury. The annual interest rate is generally 18 to 20 percent, the high one is almost 40 percent, and the monthly interest rate can reach 5 percent.

Therefore, buying opium into China is an absolutely lucrative business, and if history has not changed in the slightest, the British will soon be completely intoxicated with the huge profits of the opium trade. As for the squalor of this sinful path, they don't mind and fear it.

"Mr. Ribeiro and all the gentlemen sitting in the column, if any of you thinks that opioid smoking is harmless, then you can raise your hand and explain it to me. I will have the attendants provide ample opioids to the gentlemen in the days that follow. Have it? The answer, of course, is no. Therefore, the Fu Han army has the 'right' to attack Macao.

Han Teng's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and finally stopped on Robin Lustig, the representative of the Swedish East India Company, "On the issue of opium, on this ugly and sinful trade issue, I sincerely hope that you can learn from Sweden."

In the 40 years since direct trade between China and Sweden began, the Swedish East India Company has never sold a single box of opium to China. ”

The interpreter bowed his head to translate to the person he was responsible for, and Robin Lustig's face immediately turned red as if he had fainted. At this time, he was really like he was drunk, and he felt that his feet were a little fluttering. Han Teng said this, which was an absolute praise for Sweden. As for whether it will be united by Britain and France, Lustig is not worried. How can the politics between countries be influenced by small opioids?

The talks didn't start right away, just because Ribeiro was too anxious to ask about the definition of Macau as soon as he entered the hall, Han Teng had to answer 'bluntly'. It's just the right time to drink on the head!

Ribeiro lost his energy after Han Teng left.

Lustig and his retinue were brought into the lodgings by the manor's attendants and interpreters, and it was a very oriental courtyard with a corridor at the entrance, wooden pillars and horizontal pillars carved in elaborate relief, and a bluestone paved path in the center, flanked by pine and cypress flowers. Then enter the door is the bedroom, the interpreter walked to the bedroom and opened the window at the back, facing a pool of blue pools, the breeze was blowing slowly. At this time, the lotus flowers in the pond are blooming just right, and there are green weeping willows and stone round tables and square stools next to it.

"Mr. Lustig, the name of this courtyard is 'Hibiscus Garden', and hibiscus in China means lotus, which is synonymous with holiness. The lotus grows in the black mud, but it is not stained with the filth of the sludge, just like the honest and friendly Swedish East India Company. This courtyard was specially ordered by His Royal Highness Duke Lu to be prepared for you. ”

Lustig was really flattered. Sweden has long since been beaten down by the giant bear of Russia, and it is no longer the superpower of the 17th century. The trade volume of the Swedish East India Company in China can only be regarded as a fraction of that of the British.

After the interpreter left, Lustig was overwhelmed with excitement. The Swedish East India Company could not compete with the big names of Britain, France and the Netherlands, but it also had a few merchant ships. Every time you go back and forth, it's a splash of wealth.

On January 11, 1745, the "Gothenburg 1" set off from Guangzhou to return to China, loaded with goods from China, including tea, porcelain, silk and rattan ware. At that time, if the goods were to be auctioned at the Gothenburg market, they were estimated to be worth between 2.5 million and 2.7 million Swedish silver coins.

Eight months later, the "Gothenburg 1" sailed to the sea about 900 meters away from the port of Gothenburg, and the crew who had been away from Gothenburg for 30 months could already see the land of their homeland with the naked eye, but at this time, the bow of the "Gothenburg 1" hit the reef and sank, and the people who were waiting for the triumph of the "Gothenburg 1" on the shore had to watch the ship sink into the sea. The Swedes salvaged 30 tons of tea, 80 horses of silk and a large amount of porcelain from the wreck, which was enough to cover the entire cost of the trip to Guangzhou for the "Gothenburg 1" after being auctioned on the market, and was able to make a profit of 14%.

In this era, every European country that went to the East to trade was running for the money of Chiguoguo.

Nor did Lustig, who had come to China once or twice, understand very well how powerful politics was in the daily life and trade of this ancient empire. The monarchs of Europe were pitiful creatures compared to the emperors of China, if the Swedish company could gain the friendship and care of the Han kingdom......

Lustig shook his head violently, he saw something, he saw a great river of gold coins rushing towards him. (To be continued.) )