The gray-blue Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" fired its first shot at the Franc aircraft second-class battleship "Midorino" on his left flank.

Solid fuel burst out of the bottom of the shell, and the shell flew like a meteor, hitting the "Green Field" in a matter of moments.

Boom!

The Franc 2nd class battleship "Midorino" was directly overturned by a shell carrying a large amount of nitrifying explosives, and the mainsail was also plunged into the seawater.

A large number of Francophiles in skirts with chicken feathers on their heads fell into the sea.

The ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" had already rushed over like a vanguard, plowing like a plow into several other fleeing Franc battleships.

Bang!

The speed of the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" is too fast!

Three large steam units provided a strong power, allowing him to gallop like a horse galloping on the prairie.

Soon.

The ironclad ship "Zhongshan Wang" directly caught up with a Franc aircraft second-class battleship "Latsi" and directly smashed it apart.

The Ming army and navy on the battleship directly picked up the pull-and-pull rifles, and lined up to shoot the officers and men of the Franc machine who were still struggling in the wreckage of the ship's hull.

The beeping bullets swerved into the seawater, bringing a touch of blood-red color.

Then, the ironclad ship "Zhongshan King" rammed forward, directly knocking over three Franc battleships on the spot.

……

"Surrender, raise the white flag and surrender!"

The governor of Macau, Dewar, collapsed directly, and hurriedly ordered all the remaining warships to raise the white flag and surrender.

Only then did the Ming fleet stop attacking.

However, as soon as Zheng Chenggong came ashore, he still ordered the Ming Nanyang Fleet to block Macao's access to the sea.

At the same time, the Governor of Liangguang personally sent troops to Macao.

After the Ming army in the Guangzhou area was stationed in Macao, Zheng Chenggong immediately announced the latest will of the Ming Emperor.

Because these Francophiles have not paid taxes since they lent Macao, and have not paid enough rent to the central cabinet of the Ming Dynasty since the 32nd year of Jiajing (1553 in the Western calendar), they owe a total of 150 million silver dollars in taxes and their rent plus interest! ”

After hearing this, Dewar, the governor of Macau, was directly dumbfounded: "Your Excellency, Chief Soldier, why is there so much, 150 million, we can't afford to pay it back!" ”

"How can you not afford to repay, your country has leased my Daming Macau for many years, not to mention that you have earned tens of millions of eagles every year, even if you can't afford it, your company, your country has repaid, and the global colonization has been for so many years, I don't believe that I can't afford to pay it back, and if I can't afford it, I can also take the land to pay!"

As he spoke, Zheng Chenggong announced: "Register all of them and report them to the cabinet, according to the regulations, they will first serve for ten years of hard labor!" In order to repay the interest from Chongzhen for thirty-five years! ”

"Oh my God, why do you want us to serve for ten years, I will be sixty-five years old after ten years of service, and if you let me go back at that time, what else can I do, woo!"

Dewar burst into tears.

"You have been used to being powerful and blessed in Macao for all these years, and you should be punished, and the reason why you have served for ten years is because you will be fifty or sixty years old after ten years, and I will let you serve to repay your debts, not to provide for your old age!"

Zheng Chenggong said and roared: "If you don't want to serve, you can!" Our empire is enlightened and respects your choice, a ransom of 100,000 silver dollars each, and if you have the money, you can redeem yourself and your friends! ”

"You are oppressing, you are bullying us, we don't accept it!"

Dewar shouted.

Zheng Chenggong pulled out his gun on the spot and fired a shot at Dewar's balls, which hurt so much that Dewar covered his lower place on the spot and screamed miserably.

"Who else is not convinced!"

The gunfire stopped.

The Francophile who was present was already honest and didn't say anything more at all.

"Take him down for first aid, now when I officially confirm the labor, I can't let him die, he is worth 100,000 silver dollars."

As soon as Zheng Chenggong said this, the military doctor hurriedly asked the nurse to carry Dewar down for on-site first aid, and when he pulled off Dewar's pants and looked at it, he couldn't help but say: "The general's marksmanship is too accurate, this can only be castrated, and it can't be saved!" ”

Soon, all the people of Macao were driven onto the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and began to be transported to Guangzhou, which reported to the cabinet, and then the cabinet clearly marked the price for sale or directly arranged for the state-owned company.

It happened that it was the stage of the construction of the western railway, and most of the Franc machine people were sent into the inaccessible jungle in the west to do coolies, move rails and transport earthwork, etc., and made outstanding contributions to the railway construction of the Ming Dynasty.

And Macau naturally returned directly to the hands of Daming.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not demolish the building facilities and trade facilities here, and reorganized the Han people who remained here into a register, and also established the Macao government, which was subordinate to Liangguang.

But that's not enough.

The debt of 150 million is not a joke.

Zhang Huangyan, the first assistant of the cabinet, is a chief assistant who likes to do things, to be precise, he likes to engage in construction, and he especially likes to build railways and roads in poor and remote areas, and likes to do some poverty alleviation.

Due to the influence of Shengxue, in his opinion, as long as all the people are rich, they can keep the Ming Dynasty peaceful for a long time.

Therefore, Zhang Huangyan spent money desperately, and he believed that the prosperity of the people depended on the cabinet's daring to spend money, and although the treasury income of all the Ming Dynasty was increasing day by day, there was not much savings.

Zhang Huangyan originally wanted to levy more taxes from domestic capitalists to help the poor, but the capitalists were not as great as him and were unwilling to cooperate with him.

Although Zhang Huangyan could force a tax increase, he didn't dare to increase it too much, after all, he also had to take care of the emotions of the capitalists and couldn't be the second Zhang Juzheng, so he put his idea on foreign countries.

"I heard Your Majesty say, Franco, England, France, etc. have made a lot of money in the global colonization, just reselling black slaves and raw materials have made a lot of money, through the occupation of the Netherlands, we can get a glimpse of the wealth obtained by the Ming Dynasty, I have missed a hundred years in the life of the Ming Dynasty, and the wealth of the world has been earned by them, don't we take back some similar words?"

That's what Zhang Huangyan, the first assistant to the cabinet, said in his speech at the Beijing Normal University Hall.

Therefore, he repeatedly stressed that the remaining debt of 150 million must be returned in full.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan, as the first assistant to the cabinet, did not want to ask His Majesty to agree to let the Generalissimo's Office come forward to ask for debts, so he decided to salute first and then soldiers, and asked the cabinet and foreign affairs to send important officials to Francophone to ask Francoji to repay the debt.

"Yan Yingyuan, immediately give a decree to Zheng Chenggong, transfer him to lead the 'Zhongshan King' ironclad ship to Africa, serve as the chief officer of the Ming African Fleet, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, once the cabinet can't come to the remaining 130 million silver dollars of this 500 million, it will be directly asked by the Generalissimo's Mansion, and then the fraction of 30 million will have to be used as the hard work of the Generalissimo's Mansion to dispatch the navy."

Zhu Youzhen gave such an order to Yan Yingyuan, the new privy deputy envoy of the Generalissimo's Office.

(End of chapter)