Cakiel sat in a compound at the back of the Doge's Palace, surrounded by Portuguese like him who had taken refuge in the Doge's Palace, mostly women and children, except for those who were ignorant, and the rest were either numb or frightened, and no one spoke, and any noise would cause panic in the crowd.

Kakir is a plantation owner, he has a large tea plantation more than ten miles east of Goa City, and after several years of operation and care, the tea leaves in the tea garden can be picked this year, such as the tea picked this spring, it was purchased at a high price by the Governor's Palace, and the tea income alone has reached half of Kakiel's investment in the tea plantation, I believe that when he picks it twice more this year, he will turn his losses into profits, and when he pays off the borrowed debts, he will become a rich man among Portuguese immigrants in one fell swoop.

The future is bright, and even a few days ago, Kakir was planning to wait until he earned money, and then he would take his wife and children from his European homeland, and then the family would live in Goa, the land that gave him hope, and when he died of old age, he would pass on the tea plantation to his son, and this tea garden could never be sold, it would become the ancestral business of the Kakir family, passed down from generation to generation.

But with the arrival of the Ming fleet, all the good illusions of Kakir were shattered, first the port was blocked, and then the Ming army began to attack Goa City. At first, Kakir did not enter the city, but stayed in the tea plantation outside the city, after all, the tea garden was his life, and until the last moment, he did not want to give up his hard work for several years.

But what Kakir didn't expect was that at the same time as the Ming army attacked Goa City. Several of the earth kings around Goa actually brought their savage armies to slaughter. These Indians are cruel. Whenever they saw the Portuguese, the men would be caught and cut off their limbs, and the fate of the women would be even more miserable, and they would be treated the same regardless of adults and children.

In addition, the native slaves in the Kakir tea plantation were also a little unstable, after all, it was impossible for Kakir to take care of such a large tea plantation alone, so he bought a lot of native slaves to help him work, which is also a common practice in the plantations around Goa. Of course, the money that Kakir put into the tea garden was borrowed from others, so naturally he tried his best to keep costs down, and naturally tried his best to squeeze those slaves who belonged to his private property.

Although Kakir regarded the tea plantation as his life, he did not want the natives to cut off his hands and feet. Not to mention, the few Portuguese overseers employed in his tea plantation were reluctant to stay outside the dangerous city any longer, so in the end Cakir consulted with several of the surrounding manor owners. A group of hundreds of people took advantage of a dark night to quietly touch the other side of Goa City, and bribed the soldiers at the city gate with money, so that the other party opened the city gate and let them enter the city to hide.

However, Kakir's luck was too bad, and two days after several of their lord of the manor entered Goa City with their people, the Ming army had already blown Goa's city walls to the ground, and Goa City was about to be broken. Moreover, the outside of the city were full of natives who killed people indiscriminately, which made the Portuguese in the city dare not go out at all, so they could only hide in the city and wait for the final judgment.

Although Carkir was disappointed in his country's army, he was not willing to wait in the city to die, he had a friend who worked in the Doge's Palace, and knew a lot of inside information about the Ming Dynasty, it is said that the Portuguese soldiers captured in the last Battle of Malacca were still working as slaves in the Ming Dynasty, and they have not been able to come back until now, and it is this news that makes Carkir understand that the Ming Dynasty is not like the European legend, full of gold, but a strong and vengeful empire.

It was precisely because he knew what happened to the Portuguese prisoners of war before, so Kakir spent all his money through his friend who worked in the Governor's Palace, and in exchange for a place to enter the Governor's Palace, after all, this Governor's Palace was built very strongly, and there were enough soldiers stationed there, as long as there were no accidents, even if the Goa City outside was breached, the Governor's Palace could still hold out for a few months or even a year, and maybe the Kingdom's reinforcements would arrive, and they would be saved.

There are not a few people who have the same idea as Kakir, these people either used money or color before the city was broken, and a few were related or friends with the officials of the Governor's Palace, and finally mixed into the Governor's Palace, but for the Governor's Palace, they can't help defend at all, and they have to consume food every day, so they are simply a burden.

Kakir looked up at the sky, it was already afternoon, the soldiers of the Governor's Palace were running around, carrying barrels of gunpowder to the walls of the Governor's Palace, it seemed that they were making final preparations, I heard that the city wall outside Goa had been blown open by the Ming army, which made the kingdom's army only block in the city, but now the kingdom's army suffered heavy casualties, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Ming army will hit the Governor's Palace, Their safety would then depend only on the strong walls of the Doge's Palace and the valiant soldiers.

"Boom boom boom~" The artillery on the wall of the Governor's Mansion finally fired, although the thunderous sound gave people a sense of security, but Kakir was shocked when he heard it, because this marked that the Ming army had reached the Governor's Palace, and then it was up to the soldiers to hold the Governor's Palace?

The Governor's Palace is a polygonal fortress, in fact, the Goa city wall outside is the same, it is also a regular polygon, this kind of wall is called a fortress, which can greatly exert the power of the artillery on the city wall, so that there is no shooting blind spot when defending, and the entire Governor's Palace is also a reduced fortress.

Although the area of the Governor's Palace is small, the city wall is built stronger than the outside wall, and the troops in the Governor's Palace are sufficient, which can defend all the city walls, which makes the Ming army repeatedly frustrated when attacking the Governor's Palace, even if the artillery on the battleship is mobilized, but it still fails to take advantage.

Shen Zhou didn't expect that the city of Goa was broken, and there was still a small fortress hidden in the city, and it was built so strongly, unless he let the soldiers fill it with human lives regardless of casualties, it was impossible to defeat it in a short time.

Since it can't be defeated, then simply don't attack, the soldiers under Shen Zhou are all elites who have accumulated over the years, and every death is his loss, so he will definitely not let the soldiers take their lives, and the city of Goa has been regarded as the enclave of the Ming Dynasty in India, and the garrison sent from the rear is also on the way, although there is a nail in the city of Goa that makes people feel uncomfortable, and may even come out to bite people at critical moments, but as long as it is tightly defended, there should be no problem, It's a big deal that the stalemate lasts for a few months, and when the food inside is eaten, the other party will naturally come out and surrender.

However, although Shen Zhou did not attack the Governor's Mansion again, he did not completely let go of the nail of the Governor's Palace, at the beginning, he demolished all the buildings near the Governor's Palace, and then used these demolished bricks and stones to build a wall around the Governor's Palace, and used this wall to completely isolate the Governor's Palace, so that even if the people in the Governor's Mansion wanted to rush out, it was not so easy.

The people in the governor's palace didn't pay attention to it for the time being, but Shen Zhou then began to carry out cruel actions against the Portuguese in the city, and the Portuguese in the whole Goa reached nearly 20,000, and a small governor's palace alone could not accommodate so many people, so most of the Portuguese could only stay at home in the city, and those who had the courage to pick up muskets and prepare to protect their families could only hug their families and huddle in bed and tremble if they didn't have the courage.

Originally, in Shen Zhou's plan, as long as Goa was conquered, he would clean up the local power of the Portuguese, but the most important thing was only those Portuguese troops, for ordinary Portuguese residents, he didn't want to do anything with them, at most he would scavenge some money from them, and he would not implement a cruel slaughter policy like Portugal did for the natives, after all, the Portuguese still have a lot of craftsmen and scholars, which may still be useful to the Ming Dynasty.

But now the situation has changed, although Goa has been defeated, but the Governor's Mansion is still in the hands of Portugal, in addition to Da Gama's officials, the soldiers of the Governor's Palace have reached nearly 2,000 people, there is such an army, plus the city of Goa is full of Portuguese, in case the army in the Governor's Palace mobilizes the Portuguese in the city to rebel together, then in the end it may make the Ming army suffer a big loss, and even be driven to the sea by a force.

It was precisely with the above in mind that Shen Zhou quickly made a decision that all the Portuguese in Goa City should be moved out, and they must not be allowed to stay in the city. As for where to move the Portuguese, this is not a problem, anyway, there are many plantations outside Goa, temporarily arrange the Portuguese to work in a few plantations, and then hire some natives as overseers, there should be no problem in the short term, as for how to deal with those Portuguese in the future, this does not need him to waste his brain, anyway, there will be officials sent by the governor Wang Shouren to take over Goa, and then it will be handed over to those civil officials to have a headache.

Shen Zhou is a military general, and he will do whatever he thinks of, so on the second day of the occupation of Goa City, the Portuguese in the city were driven out of their homes by the Ming army, although many people tried to resist during the period, but unfortunately they were not the opponents of the Ming professional army at all, and finally it took a few days for the Portuguese in the entire Goa City to finally be relocated. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sorry, I'm late for something today, this is the first shift, and the second shift is on time at night.