Chapter 213: Another Maritime Stronghold

The Portuguese governor in Macao, Lida and others, went and stayed, and Lida and others themselves could not say good. Because the ships were sold, he was no longer the commander of the ships. It was not a good idea to go back to Europe, as Portugal had already been annexed by Spain. Then you can only stay in Macau.

But they were naval officers for many years, and as soon as they left their warships, the reluctance in their hearts arose.

Now seeing Li Guo asking where they were, Lida and the others were speechless. Because once you stay here with Li Guo, you will be equivalent to Li Guo's subordinates.

"You can be my advisor, not my men." Li Guo saw their hesitation.

Now, the problem is solved. Therefore, Li Da and others gladly accepted Li Guo's construction and became Li Guo's advisers with peace of mind, but a few years later, these people still willingly became Li Guo's subordinates.

For Lida, Li Guo has a very important thing he wants him to do, which is to let him go back to Europe. The purpose of returning to Europe is to recruit talents, including astronomy, geography, industry, medicine, physics and chemistry, and so on.

After persuasion, Lida finally *≠ little* said. agreed, left his family in Macau, and returned to Europe with the 10,000 taels of silver given to him by Li Guo, and the important reason for him to go back was that Li Guo granted him the title of a viscount.

"Can you make a viscount?" Lida didn't believe it.

Li Guo took out two medals, which were imitations of the Queen's medal, but the avatar on the medal was replaced by Li Guo. This was ordered by Li too long ago, and he knew that Westerners cared about these fictitious titles that seemed to represent status.

Li Guo did not answer Lida's question, he just said to Lida, "I will prepare to hold the award ceremony tomorrow." The title was given to Matteo Ricci because he was my first foreigner's subordinate. If you don't care about my medals, forget it. I would award this medal to someone who wants to help me do something. I just want to tell you that no Westerner has ever won the medal of our East! ”

"I agree." Lida was immediately persuaded by Li Guo, because it was indeed a very surprising thing to be canonized by the mysterious king of the East, even though Li Guo was not the king of the East. Therefore, when Lida thought that he would return to Europe with a medal of the Viscount of the East, he must have been very proud.

Thereupon. After returning to Macau, Lida took a merchant ship to Europe.

Li Guo and others also went to Macao, because Li Guo wanted to make Macao his stronghold. So except for one warship left in the North Sea. For Song Yingxing to study, and to measure the inlay process and size of each ship's plank, the other three warships returned to Macao.

Moreover, there were also thousands of sailors who went to Macao together in ordinary boats of various sizes.

Li Guo prepared to build a naval base in Macau. The naval base in the North Sea was turned into a naval training base and a shipbuilding base.

Lee went to Macau. The Guangxi Liaison Office was set up in Macao. The liaison office and the navy will be under the unified management of Ma Shiyao in the future.

During the Ming Dynasty, Macao was under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, and the Xiangshan County Decree was the chief in charge of the general civil affairs and justice of Macao.

In addition to the prefectural ordinances, the Ming Dynasty government set up in Macao to promote officials (in charge of pirates, traitors, and arrests), Bei Wei (in charge of mobile patrols, arrests and investigations) and other officials and official offices (patrol offices), as well as Chinese officials in the "Senatement" who read the orders of the Ming Dynasty government to the "Yimu" and the officials of the two sides to discuss government affairs.

And on this day, the subordinates of the promotion stationed in Macao were beaten because they suddenly found out. These days, suddenly a large number of ships are docked in the port of Macau. Thereupon. Some of the inspectors went to inspect and found a large number of soldiers on board.

An inspector just went to ask, and was beaten back by someone's eye cannon.

These inspections will be reported to the Referral Office. The surname of the promoter stationed in Macao was Zhang, and when Zhang heard that his subordinates had been beaten, he took all the 180 people to investigate. But he saw that the soldiers on these ships had gone ashore and built houses near the Portuguese governor in Macao.

Zhang Titiao wanted to ask what the situation was, but he saw that there were thousands of people on the other side, and they had knives, guns, sticks, guns, guns, and small cannons in their hands. Before Zhang Ti could come forward to ask, some soldiers even walked towards them with large swords and firearms. It looks extremely fierce.

Zhang Tituo turned around and left immediately. No one is a fool, everyone can see that these individuals are fierce characters, and Zhang Tituo doesn't want to touch his head.

So, Zhang Ti was transferred to Xiangshan County.

"Wang County's order, there are a large number of suspicious people near this Macao and Hong Kong, and it seems that the source is unknown, like pirates." The Xiangshan County Order's surname was Wang, and Zhang Ti explained to the Wang County Order.

"Got it, that's what you're under your jurisdiction, you just have to go and take them." Wang Xian Ling was too lazy to take care of this idle matter.

Zhang Tituo listened to it, this anger, and thought, if I can control my search for you? However, he still had to rely on Wang County's order, so he laughed with him. "My lord, I see that those people are dressed like the costumes of the Ming army, but I don't know where they came from."

"Then why don't you ask?" Wang Xianling said.

"But these people look very strong." Zhang Tituo really had no tricks, so he had to tell the truth, which meant that he didn't dare to ask.

Wang Xian Lingxin said, if you don't go, let me go? I'm not going either!

In the middle of prevarication, Menzi came to report that it was Li Guo, the acting envoy of the prefect of Guangxi Taiping Prefecture, who asked to see him.

The official positions of the prefect and the envoy were much larger than the county order, and although Guangxi and Guangdong were two provinces, the etiquette of the lower officials to the higher officials was indispensable. What's more, the prestige of this Li Guo is known to the world, and Wang Xianling and Zhang Tituo admired him very much, and when they heard that Li was coming, they hurried out to greet him.

Li Guo was welcomed in by two people, and they couldn't help but greet each other for a while, admiring each other.

Although Wang Xianling and Zhang Titiao also knew about Li Guo's defeat of Houjin in the Shanxi area, they were most interested in Li Guo's battle to sweep Annam.

At the moment, he didn't ask anything, Wang Xianling tentatively wanted to keep Li Guo for a light meal here, and Li Guo agreed at that time, which made Wang Xianling happy for a while.

The three of them drank together.

Wang Xianling and Zhang Titiao asked Li Guo about the fight against Annan, and Li Guo talked about it, and when he said that he had annihilated more than 200 enemy war elephants in one fell swoop, Wang Xianling praised "The general is brave, and he has the courage of the British Gong Zhang Fu when he became an ancestor." ”

Zhang Tituo shook his head, "Lord Li is stronger than the British Duke back then, because General Li has too few people after all!" ”

Li Guo didn't have a little severance, so hurry up and be humble. It seemed that he suddenly remembered again, and said, "Look at it, patronizing and talking, no, I have beaten elephants in Annam, and I have taken back those ivory, and specially brought one for each of you." ”

"Oh?!" "Yes!" "How does this work!" "Excuse me!" Wang Xianling and Zhang Tituo were flattered and didn't know what to say.

Li Guo's men had already come in two tusks, and there were 1,000 taels of silver under each tusk.

Wang Xianling and Zhang Tituo were taken aback, "My lord, what is this for?" ”

Li Guo frowned, "Actually, there is something I want to bother the two of you." ”

"You say! As long as we can do it, we will do it for you! Wang Xianling and Zhang Titiao were very moved by Corporal Li Guo's Lixian and began to fight for righteousness.

"His grandmother's!" Li Guo scolded, startling the two of them.

"Fuck these dog-stricken Portuguese!" Li Guo continued.

The two of them hurriedly asked.

"You may have heard that I am a good man, and that these Portuguese ships were blown to the North Sea by a typhoon, and when I saw that they were pitiful, I entertained them. I didn't expect these guys to gamble, although Lao Tzu couldn't gamble, but he couldn't lose the momentum of the Ming Dynasty, so Lao Tzu bet with them! Li Guo spoke.

"Won or lost?" The two men asked.

"Win! That's why I'm so angry that I'm going to die! Li Guo explained: "They don't have any money! I was so angry that I took possession of their boats, but the weeping of these Portuguese made me soften. I asked them, what should I do with the money I owe to Lao Tzu? They said that they could only go to Macao with them, collect some taxes on their own merchant ships, and add the protection fees for escorting merchant ships, and slowly pay them back! No, I brought people to Macau. ”

"My lord, those thousands of centaurs are yours?" Zhang Ti asked.

"Yes, although it is my people, they are not established, they are all militia groups, and they are not transferred out of the army without authorization. The purpose of sending these people here is to keep an eye on these Portuguese people, to get my money back, and to ask them to take care of me in the future. Li Guo gave a deep salute to the two.

Wang Xianling and Zhang Ti looked at each other, and it turned out that this was the case. The two of them thought about it for a while, and couldn't stop nodding, "Killing people to pay for their lives, paying off debts, it's a matter of course!" ”

Wang Xianling said, "It's good to ask the adults to send a proper person to manage it, and don't cause trouble!" ”

"Good!" Li Guo agreed. (To be continued......)