With the small boat in front, the fleet entered the port in turn, because there are still a few days of the Ming Spring Festival, there are not many merchant ships in the port, only less than ten, there are lucky ships, there are Guangzhou ships, and I can vaguely see the three Portuguese warships in the northernmost harbor, three masted soft sails, because they are parked in the port, the main sail and oblique sail have been put away, and several ships are not very big compared to the Galen ship, but compared to the lucky ship and the Guangzhou ship, it is not small, Zhao Lie looked at it greedily for a long time.

After the boat stopped, leaving Zhao Da in charge, Zhao Lie led Li Hu, Huang Han, Yu Dabao, Tang Xianwen, Qi Wei and other more than 30 companions to get off the boat, when Zhao Lie's feet stepped on the dock, his legs were slightly weak, so long floating on the sea, Fang Yi landed, not very adaptable, after walking dozens of steps, a feeling of steadfastness was abundant in the whole body, Zhao Lie had never had such a long experience of sitting on the boat, and felt the kindness of the land for the first time.

For the first time, all kinds of people on the wharf gathered around, the Portuguese, the Ming people, each with a different accent, but it is not a coolie who carries the work, or a tooth man who is on the seam, after all, many maritime merchants bring goods unloaded, the location and price of procurement are related to these people, there are not many maritime merchants under the root of the year, they all want to take a job to celebrate the New Year, they can provide the things that the merchants need, and even let you have a number of prices, and you can also hire them to travel to Macao, in short, you only need to pay silver, they can help you work.

Anyway, there were not many goods, so Huang Han stepped forward to talk to a few tooth people, Zhao Lie and others watched from the sidelines, only to see that most of the neatly dressed people were Portuguese, and most of the Ming people were coolies who carried the work, each in ragged clothes, with yellow muscles and thin faces, and unkempt hair. The Portuguese people are proud, looking around, looking like they are in charge, and they are the masters of the land under their feet.

Zhao Lie pouted, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, Macao is the foreigners are the superior people, the Ming people are second-class slaves, the administration, finance and taxation, garrison, and justice are still in the hands of the Xiangshan County Order of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, in fact, the Portuguese have the final say, and the master of the Ming Dynasty is to collect a little land rent a year, 120,000 taels of commercial tax tablets, tsk, the annual rent of the Macao Peninsula is 20,000 taels of silver, it is really speechless, really cheap, not to mention the distant boundary comparison, compared with Nagasaki, Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate set up Nagasaki trade, the Ming, the Netherlands, The Francos only had the right to buy shops to operate, and the administration, finance, taxation, justice, and garrison were all presided over by the long-term administration appointed by the Tokugawa family.

Zhao Lie had no intention of staying at the dock any longer, leading everyone out of the dock, walking along the street to the north, most of the streets are lined with Western-style buildings, unified round-arched doors and windows, and the people who enter and exit are half Portuguese, most of them have black beards, brown eyes, men's and women's clothes are tighter than those of the Ming people, and the colors are much brighter.

After all, Portuguese women are different from Ming women, some of them stared back, causing a lot of pig brothers to laugh and laugh, and some of them threw a flattering eye, so that a group of people immediately lost their souls, in short, these Daming buns were full of jokes.

Zhao Lie has deep experience in his previous life, although he has never been married, but he has experienced several girlfriends, and knows that good women are hard to find, good skins are easy to find, and inner beauty is hard to find. Laughed at the appearance of the crowd.

"Tang Xianwen and Qi Wei, the two of you each lead three people, carefully investigate what activities are in Macao during the Spring Festival, especially the governor, the commander of the city defense, the battery, and the whereabouts of the army, don't be stingy with silver." Zhao Lie commanded.

"Yes." The two bowed in response.

After a few people left, Zhao Lie continued to walk north along the street and came to a large Chinese-style courtyard, only to see a plaque hanging in the council hall above the main entrance, and Portuguese writing below.

The north is a square, there are more people, Zhao Lie and his party came here, only to see a lot of stalls selling goods, but also some beggars, large and small, shivering in the cold wind, the current Zhao Lie is not Zhao Lie in the previous life, for the Ming Dynasty homeless, beggars have more or less immunity, but see the ragged beggars of dozens of people around the square, or sigh, how difficult the people's livelihood is.

A burst of crying came, a place surrounded some people, Zhao Lie took a closer look, only to see a woman lying on the ground, a boy, a girl kept crying, Yu Dabao stepped forward to check, turned back to Zhao Lie and shook his head, ** year old girl looked at everyone while crying, dirty hair, dirty face, dark tearful eyes stinged everyone, three or four-year-old boy was crying helplessly with his hands.

Zhao Lie sighed, called two companions, and ordered to buy a coffin and bury the woman. However, these two children really gave him a headache, it is said that it is best to go back to Shandong with him and enter the refugee camp, but after all, the children are small, I don't know if they can withstand the wind and waves, and who will stay here, and ask the surrounding crowd, there is a good hall here, and it is not known, at this time, a Portuguese woman in her thirties approached, and said in stiff Chinese: "This gentleman, my young lady has decided to adopt them." ”

Zhao Lie looked at the woman and hesitated, then he saw a blonde Portuguese girl walk in, only to see that she was one meter tall and in her early seventies, wearing a lilac skirt, with a tightened waist and a hem on her chest, revealing her good figure, wearing black leather boots, long golden hair and shawl, her face was fair, her cheekbones were slightly prominent, her cheeks were slightly sunken, and her blue eyes looked at the two children, with tears in her eyes. This girl's appearance made Zhao Lie lose his mind for a while, because most of the Portuguese have black beards and brown eyes, and only a few are blonde and blue-eyed, and the beauty of the current girl is even more amazing.

"Sir, my uncle is doing business here, and he is still quite wealthy, and now I see that the children are pitiful, I am the master to adopt these two children, and I hope that Mr. will be successful." The girl bent her knees slightly, and said in a more blunt Chinese dialect, her tone was blunt, but her voice was crisp and pleasant.

Zhao Lie stroked his chest with his left hand and bowed slightly, "Miss is worried, I also see them pitiful and help them bury their mothers, but after a while, I will go to sea by boat, I am afraid that the children will not be able to stand the bumpy, and now a young lady has come forward to adopt them, I can't ask for it, thank you Miss." ”

The girl looked at Zhao Lie suspiciously, Zhao Lie, who was dressed in a Ming costume, didn't look like a person who knew Western-style etiquette, but this person's gift was a Western-style ceremony, she bent her knees slightly, called the woman to pick up the boy, pulled up the little girl herself, and wanted to turn around and leave, Zhao Lie asked Yu Dabao to take out twenty taels of silver and offer it, but the girl refused.

"Miss came from Portugal to adopt my Ming children, and we and other Ming people don't do our best, isn't it shameful." Zhao Lie insisted.

"Well, thank you, sir." The maiden succumbs.

"Miss, can you tell us about your name?" Zhao Lie smiled and asked.

"My name is Alexandra. Lopez. The girl replied that in Western European etiquette, it is not wrong for a woman to tell someone else's name.

"My name is Zhao Lie." Zhao Lie returned his name.

After the girl returned the salute, she and the woman went north with their two children.

Zhao Lie looked at the two of them and was moved.

"The hair is yellow, and the eyes are blue and sunken. There are still such people in the world, tsk, son, today can be regarded as an eye-opener, an eye-opener. Yu Dabao muttered with a smile.

"Rare, strange, ignorant. You're a mallet. Zhao Lie glanced at Yu Dabao.

"Yes, I was originally a mallet, and my mother always said that about me." Yu Dabao laughed even more.

I went to go, and when I met this fool, Zhao Lie was also speechless.

ps, please collect and recommend, the rivers and lakes are in a hurry.