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"What?" The Governor of Macau, Major Belchiordo Amaralmeneses, looked at the members of the Macau Council in front of him. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info) "Gentlemen, are you crazy? You must know that the Ming ** team of the big man has just won a big battle with a scale of 100,000 people, and at this time, let the kingdom navy fight them, no, no, even if the Qing regime puts pressure on us, we must not take advantage of it. ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, the reason why we ask the Royal Navy to demonstrate to the Dayuan side is not only a request from the Qing State, but also because the British Merchant House of the Dayuan has sent back an ultimatum to the Dongning side, demanding that all merchant ships from all countries going to Naha pay a tax called the Tonghai Tax in Penghu, which will deal a fatal blow to Macao's economy and Macao's business community."

Due to Japan's closure and the closure of Korea, Portugal, which used to dominate the Asian maritime trade, has lost its leading trade position in Northeast Asia, and its merchant ships can only rely on Naha as a transit to obtain Japan's gold, silver, copper and northern furs.

"The royal navy in Macao had only two twenty-gun cruisers and one smaller communication ship, while according to the intelligence of the Qing people, the Ming navy had six or seven small cruisers, and the Ming people also had a large number of junks." The Wenlishi tried to reject the red-eyed merchants with facts. "The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, we simply don't have enough strength to compete with each other, and sending ships is tantamount to death."

"Your Excellency," said the merchant-turned-councillor, but he only confessed to death. "Now that the Qing people have imposed a sea ban and only occasionally sold some Chinese goods in Guangzhou, this has made the merchants of the kingdom feel heavy economic pressure, if the shipping route to Naha is blocked again, do you want to watch the merchants of Macau go bankrupt one after another?"

But the Wenli shrugged his shoulders for the gains: "Personally, I think you can pay taxes to the big people, just a little less." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, do you know what you're talking nonsense?" As soon as they heard Wenlishi's remarks, several commentators were furious. "It's not a matter of making a little less, there is an extremely sharp confrontation between the Qing State and the Ming Kingdom, and the war can only be ended by destroying one family, if the Qing State knows that I pay taxes to the Daguan, the Qing State will definitely completely cut off the supply of goods to us, and it is even possible to take back Macau, can Your Excellency bear such consequences?"

"Actually, I don't think you have to go through the Lequeopequeno Strait to guò." Wenlishi gives a plausible suggestion. "Then why not follow the example of the Dutch and the Spaniards from the eastern waters of Formosa? In this way, reasonable tax avoidance can be achieved. ”

"We also figured out how to pass on the eastern side of Formosa, but there is information that the Ming ** team of the big men has established a cruising base in the northern part of Formosa, and it seems that this base is very close to Naha, and even if our merchant ships do not pass through the strait, they will be intercepted when they arrive in Naha. It is precisely because of this that we hope that the kingdom's navy will be armed with patrols, and I believe that coupled with the artillery fire of the armed merchant ships themselves, the Ming people will not attack the kingdom's merchants lightly. ”

"So, the Dutch merchant ships and the Spanish merchant ships can't escape the sea tax, either?" Hearing the councillors say this, Wen Lishi suddenly smiled. "Isn't this very good, the Netherlands and Spain will definitely not give up, it is better to see what they do first, and then we will make a decision."

"The Spaniards are negotiating with the Ming people." A commentator broke the news. "The Ming agreed to withdraw the settlers from the Philippines, while the Spanish agreed that the ships would no longer sail to Naha, and the two sides set up trading houses in Dayuan and Manila, and although the treaty had not yet been formally signed, the Spaniards could not count on it."

"Although the Dutch have irreconcilable contradictions with the Ming people, the destination of the Dutch merchant ships is mainly Nagasaki, so the commercial tax levied in Naha has nothing to do with them, and the Dutch have been deceived by the Qing people, so it is impossible to expect them to take the fire for the Qing people."

The two major colonial powers in Southeast Asia were unwilling to have a direct conflict with the Ming Zheng, and Wen Lishi naturally did not dare to make a mistake in this regard, so he strongly refused: "Gentlemen, in this case, I will either give up the route of Naha or pay taxes to the Ming people, and the royal navy will never lightly get involved in the conflict between the two giants in the East." ”

"Coward! I am going to appeal to Goa and remove you from the post of Governor! "The thunderous commentators were excited." For a true knight who can protect the merchants of the kingdom."

"Please, everybody." Wenli said indifferently. "But I would like to remind you, gentlemen, that it is no longer Da Gama and Abuqua (note: Alfonso?) Morality? Albuquerque Afonsode Albuquerque, Caesar of the East, Lion of the Sea, Portuguese God of War, Second Viceroy of Portugal of India) is the time, we must face up to the weakening of the kingdom in the East"

Malacca was known as Manraka in the Ming Dynasty. As early as the Hongwu period (1396 AD), a prince of Srivijaya Palembang (note: Sumatra) Bairi Missula fled to the Malay Peninsula to escape the attack of the Majapahit kingdom from Java, and then conquered the local natives to establish the Manchurian Sultanate (Malacca dynasty), and called himself "Sultan Iskandarshah" (note: "Sha" is the name of the ancient Persian monarch, "Iskanda" seems to be transliterated as Alexander). After that, the Sultan of Manraka had endless contacts with the Ming Dynasty in order to resist the invasion of Siam, and Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, visited the place many times when he went to the West.

In the first half of the 16th century, the Malacca dynasty was overthrown by the Portuguese, and Malacca became a European colony, after which in 1641 AD, the Dutch seized Malacca from the Portuguese with the help of the Sultan of Johor. However, although the Dutch occupied Malacca, due to their limited power in East Asia, they were not interested in developing Malacca into a regional trading center, so the importance of Malacca as the center of Southeast Asian governance in the Portuguese era was gradually replaced by Batavia.

"Sir, there's a junk ship in port." The native soldiers on duty reported to the Dutch military commander who was in charge of the trading port that there were only one hundred and twenty Dutch in the whole of Malacca at the moment, and the number of soldiers did not exceed fifty, so these puppet troops played a considerable role. "Do you want to send someone to check?"

"Junk?" The red-nosed military cao was drunk, so he subconsciously thought the other party was a merchant ship from Siam or Quang Nam. "You don't have to check, you remember to collect taxes from them, collect taxes, as long as they don't run around, give money"

After paying twenty taels of business tax, Deng Kejian Shi Ran walked down from the sea boat, and the Baba (note: that is, Peranakan) who was soliciting customers on the shore immediately surrounded him as soon as he saw his Ming appearance, some wanted to guide the way, some introduced the inn, some solicited goods, and made a lot of noise, although most of the Baba spoke Hokkien, but there were too many Malay and Siamese words mixed in, so that he was dizzy to hear, it can be said that he knew seven tricks and six tricks and one clue.

"You!" After a long time, he reluctantly found a relatively sharp Hokkien dialect from the crowd. "What's the price of the translation?"

"Half a guilder a day, only six guilders a month." The man, who called himself Huang Jinwen, quoted that according to the ratio of three guilders of silver coins to one tael of silver, the asking price for a single day was too high, and the price for the whole month was quite reasonable. "If the master stays for a long time, this honorarium can be negotiated again."

"It's up to you," Deng Kejian settled without making a counteroffer. "You take me to find a place to live first." The sailor on the ship could not leave the ship, but he had to break into the local Han Chinese immigration circle, so he had to settle down first. "When it's over, accompany me to the market for a while, but the traitor is playing tricks and making profits, don't blame the lord for not giving you a flower difference."

"What does this old man say, whether you are close to your hometown or not, you are always from your home country, and Baba will not lie to you even if he wants to deceive you." Huang Jinwen groveled. "You want to find a place to live, that's just right, the Baba family still has a spare house, cheap, food and living together, only six guilders a month."

"Okay, let's settle it together then." Deng Kejian nodded indifferently, and asked Deng Kejian to help hire two husbands, take his salute off the boat, and then explain two sentences to the bow of the ship, and then Shi Shiran followed Huang Jinwen all the way out of the dock area, and asked Deng Kejian as he walked. "Baba Nyonya? How are you doing now? ”

"If you go back to the master, you will have a bite of food." Huang Jinwenchu thought he was asking himself, so he replied casually, but later found that Deng Kejian was still looking at him, so he suddenly responded. "Half of Thailand has their own fields, and only a few are helpers, but the Dutch have too high taxes and life is not easy."

"Then has anyone ever thought about going back to China?" Deng Kejian asked seemingly casually. "Owner, then I can say a few words."

"This?" The so-called three generations of Cheng Ba, with the Han people of Malacca, have long adapted to the local society, and they really have no such psychological preparation to let them suddenly give up this qiē and return to China. "The master is joking, but if there is such an opportunity, there will not be too many people who want to go back, and most of them are new guests who have just escaped from China." In fact, the newcomers are not necessarily willing to return to China, after all, they fled for the sake of not being the Shunmin of the Manchu Dynasty, and Huang Jinwen's words are actually more perfunctory. "Master, can I take the liberty of asking, where are you from?"

"Dongning." This can't be hidden, even if it is concealed now, it will be exposed when Deng Kejian recruits people to return to Taiwan in the future. "You're not going to tell the Dutch about your reward."

"Look at what you always said, although Baba knows that Dongning has a holiday with the Dutch, but in the early years, Lord Liu Guoxuan's fleet has not come to Malacca to trade, and I haven't seen how the Dutch are doing, so it's safe here, so you can rest assured that you can stay."

"That's good."

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