Chapter Forty-Eight: Macao Changes
Felipe ordered the pikemen to march forward with the musketeers in front of them, and hurried to the council chamber. When Captain Felipe led the soldiers into the square, he was furious at the sight of hundreds of beggars gathered in the square, which made him even more angry with the filthy natives.
"Drive them out of the way." The soldiers in front heard the order to hit the beggars with the barrels of their guns, and several of the beggars were knocked to the ground.
Suddenly there was a trumpet, and Felipe was startled, and he saw many ragged people coming from the crowd of beggars, fanning them around, and countless bows and muskets were aimed at them.
Felipe looked back, only to see two carts at the end of the team crossing the road, also muskets, bows and crossbows aimed at them, these muskets are still new flintlock pistols, this he will not be mistaken, no wonder he did not smell the smell of the arquebus, it is over, the back road is broken, if it is a Dutch, English, Felipe will not easily fall into the trap, at least he has to order the arquebus to be lit, the soldier is in the hand of the burning stick. The contempt for the aborigines in his heart led him to think that the natives would surround him and send reinforcements. With their poor courage, they should be passively defensive, how dare they take the initiative to seek battle, come here to ambush, this mistake made him fall into endless remorse.
The rear of the enemy in front of him parted on both sides, and Felipe saw that Alonzo and Mascolu were also escorted up, each with a short gun against their heads.
"Put your weapon down, or you'll shoot after ten breaths." The voice of a deliberative interpreter came.
More than 100 soldiers looked at Felipe, and the surroundings were very quiet for a while, and time seemed to stand still.
Felipe looked up to the sky and sighed, annoyed and threw the cross sword in his hand to the ground, if it was Mascolue, who would care if he lived or died, but Alonzo was different, in the Middle East Alonzo saved his life. If he dies because of himself, he will only have one way to commit suicide. It's really a wrong step, a wrong step, unwilling, as long as you are a little more careful, you value the indigenous people......
There was a chaotic sound of ping-pong, and the Portuguese soldiers piled muskets, spears, cross swords, and shields on the ground. All surrendered, they understood that there was no chance, and the unlit arquebus in their hands meant that they lost.
Alexandra saw everything that happened in front of her in a few minutes, and was dumbfounded, she took the initiative to grab Zhao Lie's hands with her hands, Zhao Lie patted her jade hands with her hands to show comfort, and then led her out of the crowd, Li Hu, Tang Xianwen, and Zhang Gusheng stroked their chests with their left hands: "Tiger." ”
"Tiger." More than 300 soldiers saluted together.
"Tiger." Zhao Lie stroked his chest with his left hand.
Alexandra's hands and feet were cold for a moment. She stared at Zhao Lie with blue eyes, her eyes flashing with surprise, disappointment, and even despair. Unexpectedly, the person who made her heart flutter was actually a pirate leader.
Zhao Lie is also helpless, this situation is too weird, the current argument is pale, and time does not allow, only later.
Alexandra angrily pulled Marta and walked away. The subordinates looked at Zhao Lie with their eyes, and said in their hearts, Boss, let me go, what should I do, you send a word.
Zhao Lie raised his hand helplessly, his subordinates got out of the way, and Alexandra lifted the hem of her skirt with her left and right hands and walked away angrily. Marta kept drawing crosses, as if to drive away some demon.
Yu Dabao grinned, "Childe, otherwise, I'll drag Miss Ya back." He couldn't remember Alexandra's whole name, only the head of Alexandra.
Tang Xianwen and Zhang Gusheng covered their eyes when they heard this, this nerd, the matter of adults and children is also something you can get involved in, and he is really a nerd.
Zhao Lie knocked on Yu Dabao's head angrily, "Foolish." ”
Yu Dabao grinned and smirked, I really don't understand this.
"Yu Dabao, you take a few people to escort the young lady back to the store." Zhao Lie commanded.
"Yes." Yu Dabao returned the gift and left.
When Mascoluye and Alonzo were brought to Zhao Lie, both of them were a little suspicious, this person in front of them was too young, could it really be the leader of these pirates?
"Gentlemen, the current situation, I don't need to say more, you also understand that you have failed, I hope you will cooperate with the port and the fortress to surrender, as a condition, we will not make ransom demands for the gentlemen and ladies of Macau," Zhao Lie simply and neatly demanded. For Europeans, the important thing is whether your conditions impress him, and not like the Ming officialdom, which is obviously a balance of interests, on the contrary, it is also a cloud and a mountain of fog, and it has to be covered with a high-sounding excuse.
"Sir, how can we trust your words, knowing that you are pirates?" Mascolu also said disdainfully, expressing his contempt for the natives and pirates unabashedly, and I, Masgarlu, have also been in battle for a long time, and have the dignity of being a Portuguese nobleman and governor in Macao.
"First of all, you are the robbers, and you set out from the Mediterranean and went east from Egypt, Persia, India, Ceylon, and Malacca, to Macao, and Japan. Along the way to Brazil in the Americas, with your guns, you brought iron and blood, a so-called civilization stained with the blood of millions of natives. Zhao Lie looked at Mashigaru with disdain, with contempt in his eyes that everyone else understood, "It's just that you are robbing in the name of the country and putting on a legal cloak for you, and these countries have not invited you to kill people and set fires, rob wealth, occupy garrisons, and humiliate women." ”
When Mascolu heard this, he looked around with a weak heart, the Portuguese here knew how these overseas territories were obtained, but no one would say anything about it, they had always hypocritically claimed that they were just missionaries, but now they were broken by this young Ming man, and took off the cloak of hypocrisy.
"By the way, how many black slaves you send to your homeland in your overseas territories in Africa every year, how many die on the way, and every time you go to church, do you pray to your dear God, these souls are caused by you accidentally." Zhao Lie teased uh said, he exposed the hypocrisy of the European colonists, Mascolu was also the former governor of India and Goa, these things are clear, he was surprised that this young man was so familiar with European things, and he exposed what they did in overseas territories, this is the first time that an indigenous person has thoroughly understood the European continent.
"You are just using all kinds of grandiose excuses to deceive and rob, to rob the weak, and to deceive the powerful like Daming." Zhao Lie squinted at the poor two with disdain, "Even the crooks who can think of such a lame excuse as drying fishing nets can strengthen the thieves," Zhao Lie looked at Mascoluz playfully: "This Portuguese nobleman, a fishing net can be dried for fifty or sixty years, tsk, you have to add the title of scoundrel." ”
Mascolue and Alonzo were hot and uncomfortable on their faces, and what were the representatives of the elite like liars, robbers, and scoundrels in their own country for two hundred years. If you are an indigenous person who knows nothing about Europe, you can still use the excuse of spreading the gospel of the Lord, but now it is better to avoid disgrace.
"In any case, we are not sure that it is true, we are not familiar with it, and we do not have reliable credit." Alonzo had no choice but to talk about interests.
"Don't worry, I won't exhaust the fish, after all, with you, it will be of great use to resist the Dutch and the English, I heard that in the past two years, you have just defeated their sneak attack," Zhao Lie looked at the two with a smile, "If you lose too much blood, it will only cheapen the Dutch, first for you, they are the great enemy, don't forget that your own country is already in trouble, and today, the Spanish Empire has gone downhill." ”
The two of them looked at the young man in front of them in amazement, this Ming man knew so much about Europe, once again beyond their cognition. A few sentences point to the current situation among the countries of Europe.
"Of course, if your hesitation causes a large number of casualties to our army, and my subordinates make some inappropriate moves, I can't be responsible," Zhao Lie added the naked threat.
It was the straw that crushed Alonzo.
"Sir, I hope you will remember your words." Alonzo gritted his teeth.
"Of course, what my Ming people say is more credible than your words." Zhao Lie didn't forget to make fun of these two adults.