Guo Songtao (April 11, 1818 - July 18, 1891), the word Yunxian, a native of Xiangyin, Hunan, a politician in the late Qing Dynasty, was born in Jinshi, one of the founders of the Hunan Army, and Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang are sons and daughters. In 1847, he was a Jinshi, from 1854 to 1856, he was appointed to the Zozeng State Domain, and in 1862, he was awarded the Susong Grain Storage Road, and he was transferred to the two Huai Salt Transporters. In 1863, he was appointed governor of Guangdong, and in 1866 he was dismissed and returned to his hometown, where he lectured at Changsha Chengnan Academy and Sixian Lecture House. In 1875, he was recommended by Wen Xiang, Minister of Military Aircraft, to enter the Prime Minister's Yamen, and on January 21, 1877, he went to England from Shanghai. In 1878, he concurrently served as an envoy to France, and the following year he was forced to resign due to illness. In the seventeenth year of Guangxu (1891), he died of illness at the age of 73.

Now Guo Songtao has been systematically instilled into the empire as a vice minister of foreign affairs and an official at the level of vice minister. Many historical celebrities have become officials under Lin Hong with the help of the system. Some of them were all arranged by Lin Hong to study at the Imperial University, except for Lin Zexu, who had died in battle, and the rest such as Shen Baozhen and Ding Richang were all officials in various ministries in various places, and they would participate in national affairs after a few more years of training.

This time, Guo Songtao served as the emperor's special envoy and went south to inspect the coastal areas.

In the early morning of June 30, 1840, the sea fog had just cleared in Macao, and the sun was rising from the eastern sea, and the earth was covered with a layer of gold. The Mayor of Imperial Macau, Jiang Lion, and the Portuguese Ambassador to China and the Consul of Macau, Bian Du, led their subordinates to greet them outside the Samba Gate. Since the empire regained Macau, the Portuguese governor in Macao, Biandu, became an ambassador. Although Portugal was very unwilling to hand over Macao, China opened the coastal areas to Portugal, changed the previous maritime ban, and greatly reduced the role of Macao, so Portugal sold it to China for a price of one million Chinese dollars, of course, nominally returned.

Although only two days have passed, the news that the Chinese have seized Singapore has spread in Southeast Asia, and soon the whole world will know that the Chinese have seized Singapore, the throat of Southeast Asia. A few days earlier, Bendu had written a long letter to the king, detailing the battle of Singapore. At the end of the letter, Bian Du wrote with emotion: The greedy Englishman actually woke up a sleeping lion.

Bian Du, who was still immersed in thinking, was awakened by the sound of the gong. What surprised Bian Du a little was that the "Minister of the Imperial Mission" did not sit in a sedan chair, nor did he gather in the mighty and silent soap service. This broke his usual thinking, and the Chinese really changed, except for the driver and the person who sounded the gong next to the coachman, the carriage was full of neatly dressed cavalry in front and behind.

This obviously solemn army made Biandu's heart sink vigorously, and if the sentence he wrote a few days ago that the British woke up the sleeping lion was still a bit of a conceptual. Today, Bian Du specifically saw the claws of the awakening lion.

Bian Du waved his hand to let the Samba Fort light the cannon, and the Portuguese officials and military attachés under his command also solemnly formed a team, and these people acted as a guard of honor at Bian Du's instructions. One of them sounded drums, one flew flags, and the military attache stationed in China straightened out their uniforms. Ascend and dance the gun as a lead. With the roar of the 19 rings of the robe, the residents of Macao who consciously came here to greet the "Minister of the Imperial Mission" Guo Songtao lit firecrackers, and some people put incense tables on the road, which were piled with flowers and other things.

Seeing that the salute was over, Bian Du let the military band play the welcome song, these brass orchestral music, Guo Songtao is no stranger, he is familiar with the trumpet in the army camp, and some foreign students have learned Western music, and some people play it in China, so Guo Songtao is not curious about these Western music at all.

Although he is a little unaccustomed to Chinese officialdom, Du Bian, like most foreign businessmen, is a little unaccustomed to it. But now is not the time to think about it. Dubian turned his mind to Portugal's attitude towards the war zone, and in any case, Portugal remained neutral in the war, and Bian Du had nothing to worry about. Britain and China are both big powers that Portugal cannot afford to provoke. Since you can't afford to provoke it, then don't provoke it, and neither side will be offended.

Lin Feng Temple is located at the foot of Lin Feng Mountain in Macau. It was built in the early years of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1592) and in the first year of Yongzheng in 1723. Residents raised funds to expand, repaired to the current scale, the temple hanging "Zhongwai En " and "En Guang Hao" plaques, respectively written in the Ming Wanli period and the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period. Lianfeng Temple is located in the necessary place to enter Macao, and many officials who visited Macao in the Qing Dynasty were stationed here to handle official business. Therefore, the Lotus Temple is the only official temple in Macau.

When Guo Songtao and his entourage marched to the Lianfeng Temple, the Lianfeng Temple was already very lively.

Crowds of people watching the excitement have gathered outside the courtyard. In the courtyard, the Macao councillor and Chinese officials were already waiting there. Various gifts, including silver, silk, tea, pigs, and calves with red ribbons tied on their horns, were also displayed at the main entrance of the temple.

The first to arrive was Wang Dayong, the commander of the cavalry regiment on horseback, and with Wang Dayong's arrival, a group of army soldiers wearing navy blue military uniforms guided Guo Songtao's carriage appeared.

In the Lianfeng Temple, Guo Songtao used a wooden shrine platform as a temporary desk. Received interviews with officials from the Biandu and Portuguese Embassy. Guo Songtao announced to them the decree of the Imperial Cabinet, reaffirming the ban. He also talked about the hope that the Portuguese in China would abide by the law.

Bian Du asked the translator to tell Guo Songtao: For more than 200 years, the Portuguese have lived and worked here in peace and contentment, and it is too late to be grateful, how can they dare to violate the law and discipline?

These words were just for Guo Songtao, but in fact, Guo Songtao didn't know that he had dealt with these foreigners a lot as vice minister of foreign affairs, and how he didn't know their nature. To put it bluntly, foreigners are talking about the strength of the Chinese. Now the Chinese have just won the war in Singapore (news from North America has not yet come). Naturally, Portugal wanted to sell it and curry favor with the imperial officials.

Although there is a small abacus in the stomach. The talks between the two sides were still going on in a friendly atmosphere, and Guo Songtao also presented gifts such as silk silk, folding fans, tea leaves, and rock sugar to Portuguese officials on the spot, and signed a three-year trade contract with Macao, agreeing to increase the annual trade of tea to Portugal by 500,000 catties.

After the one-hour meeting, the guests and hosts dispersed happily, and Bian Du insisted on accompanying Guo Songtao to complete the tour of Macao. They passed through the forts of Samba, A-Ma Temple, and Nanwan, and along the way, Guo Songtao was ceremoniously welcomed by the 19th salute. On the road that Lin Zexu must pass through, the Chinese along the way even put up incense sticks to warmly welcome Guo Songtao's arrival.

The area around Nam Van is a place where foreign merchants live, and it is also the center of opium smuggling and trafficking in Macao. It was here that Guo Songtao sent his entourage to focus on random checks on the household registration, on the one hand to see whether it was consistent with the registration, and on the other hand, to check whether there was still opium in the hiding place. It was only then that Bian Du realized why three months ago, Guangdong Province ordered a census of Macau. It turned out that Guo Songtao had planned a long time ago, and if there were still British businessmen who had sneaked into Macao, they would be arrested and interrogated. Bian Du looked at this Chinese official more and more differently.

Because of the inspection of British merchants, Guo Songtao and his party stopped for a long time in Nanwan. After the inspection was completed, the group turned back to the small three buses, walked into the alley, walked along the big pier, and walked all the way to the gate of the leprosy temple, then walked on the hospital road, turned around under the three bus forts, and finally went out from the gate of the Kao temple. During this journey, Guo Songtao passed through the main business districts and cultural centers of Macao at that time, observed the most famous buildings and military facilities in Macao at that time, and also inspected the residential areas of Westerners in Macao.