Looking at Liu Ru's resentful eyes, Li Guo smiled happily.

But seeing that Liu Ru's sideburns were loose, her clothes were disheveled, and she looked like a delicate begonia blooming, Li Guo loved it in his heart. didn't expect that this Liu Ru, who was born in the dust, turned out to be a perfect person, but Li Guo didn't expect it.

"If so, I'd like to ask you for a favor." Li Guo looked at Liu Ruis lovingly.

"Don't help!" Liu Ru glared at Li Guo, "Who made you a disciple!" ”

"Okay, don't help, right?" Li used to squeak Liu Ruyi's armpits, Liu Ru giggled, and the two of them fought.

Coincidentally, Huang Xiu passed by this room, heard the laughter in the room, and walked in. I didn't expect to see Li Guo and Liu Ru playing in bed in disheveled clothes. Huang Xiu's face flushed, and she retreated.

Liu Ru scolded Li Guo for being careless and not plugging in the door, and hurriedly put on his shoes to find Huang Xiu. After all, Huang Xiu is the main room, and Liu Ru is now like this, so he still has to meet Huang Xiu.

When Liu Ru saw Huang Xiu, the two women didn't realize that their faces were red.

Huang Xiu smiled, "Our lord likes to mess around, in broad daylight." Okay, isn't this also fulfilling your wish, find a good day in two days, invite some people to have a glass of wine, hold a ceremony, and you will be a member of the Li family. ”

Of course Liu Ru was willing, and whispered, "Thank you, sister." ”

In this way, Liu Ru can be regarded as entering Li Guo's door.

And Li Guo also told Liu Ru his idea, that is, to go to the Ji Courtyard to contact a few old and decrepit Ji girls.

"What do you want these people to do?" Liu asked.

"I just want to find a few wives for those Portuguese people, so that they can stay with us." Li Guo explained.

"Why do you want a girl? Innocent girls don't have it? Liu Ru said strangely.

"They deserve it too! Besides, these Franco people don't like to be steady, and in addition, their aesthetics are not the same as ours. Just find them some big cheekbones, big mouth forks. Li Guo instructed.

What can Liu Ru say, she is just a husband and wife now, so she wrote a letter to Gu Hengbo in Nanjing Mansion and talked about it.

At that time, the most popular age of Ji girls was normally between fifteen and twenty-five, unless some people who were both good at color and art were still praised in their thirties. Generally, most of those over twenty-five are good.

But it just so happened that there were a few girls in the painting boat who were getting longer and more stupid, and no one wanted them.

Gu Hengbo carefully looked at Liu Ruyi's letter. confirmed that he didn't pick the beauty and ugliness, so he found those girls.

Determined that those girls really wanted to be good, Gu Hengbo said to them. I want to marry them to the Portuguese. Those girls were already living poorly and were worried, but when they saw such a thing, of course they were willing.

"Actually, it's just our lives. As long as you can live a stable life, it's good. We also want to live a normal life. A girl named Cuilan said.

"That's no problem, General Li will arrange it for you." Gu Hengbo believes that Liu Rushi and Li Guo can do it.

So, these girls came to Nanning Mansion in Guangxi. But Li Guo did not let them rush into contact with Matteo Ricci, but specially invited some people to teach them cooking, cooking, and housework.

Li Guo's idea is that since he has left his previous life, he has to be a new person. Of course, some of the female soldiers who taught them were engaged in propaganda. For a while, Cuilan and others publicized how Li Guo saved them from the sea of suffering, and Li Guo's greatness.

Liu Ru also came to visit Cuilan and the others. Cuilan and the others admired Liu Ru very much, and now they heard that Miss Liu had become Li Guo's side room, and their trust in Li Guo was even greater.

Li Guo was not in a hurry to marry Ricci and others, and he has now formed a deep friendship with Ricci.

Ricci is actually at a loss right now, and Ricci is a Portuguese stationed in Macau. Because in the original time and space, the position of the Portuguese hegemon was gone, and the country was gone. Between 1580 and 1640, Portugal was occupied by Spain.

Although the Spanish occupation of Portugal was not long, and Spain did not send a fleet to the East during this time, the Portuguese in Macao became a homelandless during this period.

"Oh." Li Guo nodded: "Then how are you living in Macau?" ”

Ricci immediately stood up, "Back to my lord, it's finally okay!" ”

"Sit down, sit down, don't be too polite. Tell us more about your stay in Macau. Li Guo said.

Ricci thought to himself, don't you have to be too polite? In the first two days, because of his admiration for Li Guo's knowledge, Ricci shook hands with Li Guo warmly, so that Niu Decao could see it. When he arrived at the land where there was no one, Ricci told Niu Decao to beat him up severely. Yes, now Ricci is respectful to Li Guo.

Now listening to Li Guo ask him to talk about Macao, Ricci Ricci did not dare to hide it, and talked about it 1510.

Because without the backing of the state, the Portuguese in Macao are quite honest.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's control of Macao at that time was quite effective. At that time, the Portuguese were obliged to pay land rent and obtain the right of the Chinese government to allow them to live in Macao.

Although the Ming government allowed the Portuguese to exercise some autonomy in Macao, it retained the right of final disposition in China, and exercised sovereignty by adding troops around Macao and building special administrative measures such as the construction of border gates. These include the acceptance of the annual land rent paid by the Portuguese in Macao, the establishment of a customs office to collect foreign taxes, the placement of Macao officials and the implementation of administrative power by the Xiangshan County Ordinance, and the enforcement of the final judicial disposition.

And with the fall of the Portuguese Empire, the profits of Portuguese merchant ships were low. And the Portuguese warships in Macao did not leave the port very much, because they really did not know what to do next.

Even during the Wanli period, a special preferential measure given to the Portuguese by Ming officials was to allow the Portuguese in Macao to set up their own customs in Macao to collect additional taxes from Portuguese ships in order to maintain the operation of the Portuguese Autonomous Institutions in Macao. It was really a bit difficult to get along in Macau, so the situation of the Portuguese in Macao at that time was very bad.

Li Guo nodded, "Very good." ”

"It's bad." After listening to what Li Guo said, Ricci thought that Li Guo didn't understand.

Where did Ricci know Li Guo's thoughts, since he knew that Portugal had warships and merchant ships in Macao, Li Guo moved his mind. Grandma's, why did you co-opt these people!

"Your ship was wrecked by a typhoon this time, will you be punished when you return to Macau?" Li Guo then inquired.

"It's not going to be a punishment, but the errand is gone, and life is even worse without the errand." Ricci was worried.

Li Guo nodded, "I originally wanted to ask you for help, to come to Macau to help me hire some of you Portuguese, follow me to do the work of making ships, I want to hire at a high salary, now that you have no errands, you can stay if you are willing to stay." ”

"My lord, I do." Ricci immediately nodded, Li had already ordered the opinion of several of them to be consulted on this matter. Each person is in charge of food and housing, and also takes care of his daughter-in-law, twenty taels of silver a year, and Ricci is fifty taels. This treatment is already very generous for the lonely and helpless Portuguese.

"I want to make a family for a few of you, you all know it, you all agree?" Li asked.

Ricci knelt down for Li Guo, "Lord Hui, we all agree." Since the end of our country, we have all come to the East with the dream of making a fortune, but unfortunately, the wealth of the East is not easy to make. Moreover, no one would marry us, we were very depressed! ”

"Well, since you agree, I'll give you the marriage after a while." Li Guo was even more satisfied.

Ricci knew that China was an arranged marriage at that time, and he could only follow the local customs.

"But you have to go back to Macau." Li Guo commanded.

"My lord, now that I'm your man, what am I going back to Macau for?" Ricci is weird.

"Because I also want to hire some Portuguese, and I also want to invite your chiefs, captains, and first mates stationed in Macau to come here and attend your wedding!" (To be continued......)