Strength and status are all fought through war. Only by showing your muscles can you let others know that you are strong. Otherwise, what ...... cannot be obtained on the battlefield, it will not be obtained at the negotiating table.

The war, which lasted only two days, dealt a heavy blow to the Portuguese rulers of Goa. The Portuguese army lost seven or eight hundred men, the artillery was almost completely lost, two armed merchant ships sank and fled, the religious system in the city collapsed, and the spiritual pillar was completely broken.

The Europeans in the city are currently talking about the 'East' and are full of merchants and residents who are negotiating in tandem, and no one can come up with a suitable solution. It wasn't until Muhammad, an Arab merchant in the city, brought back news that the king of the East had asked the merchants and residents of Goa to send representatives to a meeting on how to do business better.

"Coming to Goa was His Majesty the Emperor of China, a strong and decisive man, full of majesty and flexibility. He told me directly that this war was to show you what he was capable of. The next thing is to hope that you will serve him better, and His Majesty the Emperor has prepared enough wealth to reward those who are loyal to him. ”

In front of the Church of Jesus the Merciful, which had collapsed due to the fire, Muhammad stepped on the ruins and exclaimed: "Anyone can get wealth from His Majesty the Emperor through trade, and he wants you to go to his fortress and receive his banquet with confidence." It is not mandatory, but only those who are willing to serve him can be protected by him. ”

In front of the ruins of the church gathered no less than two or three hundred people, all of them panicked Goan merchants and residents. Upon hearing Muhammad's message, someone immediately asked: "Why do you have to use the means of war to bring us to our knees if we are going to trade?" ”

"Because His Majesty the Emperor feels that a war can sweep away a lot of trouble, the key is that he is strong enough and does not want to be bound by the old system."

These words caused everyone to be in an uproar, but the words were not rough. Another asked, "What price do we need to pay to be protected?" Is it enough to go to the emperor's banquet? ”

"The property of the Doge's Palace will be used as compensation to offset His Majesty's military expenses, and he has no intention of depriving you of your wealth, nor even of collecting your taxes. He knows that you have doubts, so he does not force you to pledge your allegiance to Him right away. He even spared the prisoners of this war. ”

Lord Mohammed beckoned, and Antony, whose face was pale, was pushed up, "Look, Lord Costa's nephew is still alive." He also followed me to meet His Majesty the Emperor in person. He can testify that I didn't lie. He was even treated, and it was His Majesty the Emperor himself who took care of him. Once again, I would like to say that His Majesty the Emperor is more powerful than you can imagine. ”

Anthony was depressed, but he still spoke a few words. The Portuguese asked him questions, and the whole meeting lasted a whole day. Anthony finally said, "The tyrant has asked you to go to the feast tomorrow night. He said that he would keep you safe, but I just paraphrased it, and I don't know if it's true. See for yourselves. ”

Anthony's decadence is a living sign that the white people of Goa are now completely gone.

On the fifth day of the appearance of the Eastern Fortress, Zhou Qingfeng sent a receiving team led by Wen Ruolan, He Zhuo, and two phoenixes into Goa. They brought with them hundreds of militiamen and began to accept the estates and wealth that had been under the control of the Viceroy of Portuguese India.

After the defeat of the Portuguese army, there was large-scale looting in Goa. However, it was mostly the poor people and sailors of the city who did it, and the governor of Cordino had not yet led the army to escape. And when the Portuguese officials began to retreat, they could not take with them the huge wealth they had accumulated over the past hundred years.

What's more, Zhou Qingfeng also mastered a number of leading parties, and Father Marcelo was one of them. Before the governor of Cordino had fled, he had secretly returned to Goa City to recruit suitable men for his new master, stabilize the situation, and facilitate Zhou Qingfeng's rule over Goa.

"Madam, this is the Goa Governor's Palace." Marcelo personally led the way and led Wen Ruolan to the center of Goa's rule.

Governor Cordino led the fleeing party, but he was unable to take with him the large number of native slaves in the Doge's Palace. These people have basically retained, but they have a new owner. Even the original governor's butler was left behind by Marcelo's recruitment.

Wen Ruolan is not interested in the opulent architecture and decoration, but the ice phoenix likes to sneak around and play tricks on the slaves inside. The former demanded that the steward immediately hand over all the property in the name of the Viceroyalty of Portuguese India, and sternly warned the other party that if he dared to conceal it, he would be severely punished.

When Wen Ruolan said this, Jia Gang, who was wearing a cloak and hiding his body in the shadows, was behind her. Others could ignore Wen Ruolan's words, but they were extremely afraid of this skeleton that could walk freely in the sun. Under this kind of deterrence, Wen Ruolan's harvest is extremely rich.

The governor of Cordino left in a hurry, but took with him a lot of gold and silver. But there were still a lot of precious metals hoarded in the cellars of the Doge's Palace. Most of the silver was shipped from Portugal for the Far East trade, and gold was raided by the indigenous Indians, who were particularly fond of gold and an important source of gold in stockpiles.

When the door of the cellar was opened to Wen Ruolan, the Portuguese immediately changed owners after a hundred years of hard work. Seeing the piles of gold bricks, even Huofeng, who was accustomed to seeing the world, sighed: "That bad boy has made a fortune now." Spanning thousands of miles, the expedition carried out by the reckless army returned to its roots at once. ”

After a simple count, more than ten tons of silver alone are worth hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, plus more than one ton of gold. Half of the military expenses for this expedition were recovered. And this is only the inventory of the Governor's Palace, which then Wen Ruolan also cleared the property of the Catholic Church in Goa, which is nothing compared to the Church.

The war had destroyed many churches in Goa, and priests and priests had very little to take with them when they fled, and they were reluctant to destroy their religious buildings on their own initiative. As a result, almost all the wealth looted by the Church was left behind—the ability of religion to amass wealth was more than a hundred times greater than that of the governor.

When Wen Ruolan magically removed the ruins of the Church of the Mercy Jesus, she saw a prayer room made of gold, which had been used by successive Archbishops of Goa. Two or three tons of gold were used in this prayer room alone.

"Extravagant, too extravagant. It's just a luxury. Even if the entire church building has been burned down by the fire phoenix, you can still see how these church leaders are spending money from the few decorations and utensils preserved between the ruins and broken walls.

Archbishop Xavier died in his prayer room, his body reduced to a charred corpse. Huofeng covered his nose and looked at the burned house beyond recognition, and ordered the militia to come and clean up. There is also a silver coffin of Saint Xavier in the church, the whole coffin weighs more than ten tons, and it is all made of silver.

It's so rich.

And that's just a part of the church's wealth. Relying on the contributions and offerings of believers, the Church held more than ten times more wealth than the Doge's Palace. Exactly how many, even the local Portuguese themselves do not know. But when it comes to the church, everyone knows that the clergy are particularly wealthy.

"Xu Bing once said that the 'revolutionary army' was developing too rapidly. Due to the lack of gold and silver, the currency was not issued enough. Now that Goa has gained these gains, she must have been happy for a while. "He Zhuo was in charge of the church. When a large amount of gold and silver products were taken out and piled up on the wagons, she also felt that this trip to Goa was not in vain.

In addition to gold and silver, Zhou Qingfeng also received a large amount of physical wealth this time. Not to mention the real estate in Goa, most of the city belongs to the Governor's Palace and the Church, and there are also large quantities of agricultural products piled up in warehouses.

Due to capacity constraints, the colonists rarely transported low-priced commodities such as agricultural products in the early days. That doesn't mean they won't hoard, after all, controlling food is tantamount to controlling the population. Goa has a tropical monsoon climate, and the local rice production is not small. In addition, large quantities of Indian cotton and homespun cloth were shipped from here.

"I've seen that there are about twenty or thirty large granaries in the city, which are specially used to meet the food needs of tens of thousands of people here. It's hard to count the exact number, but at least there are millions of stones. Huo Feng just looked at it casually, and it exploded into a fairly high value.

This is only a rough archive of data in the morning, and the detailed numbers are sure to be even greater. Even by the most conservative estimates, Zhou Qingfeng's direct wealth in Goa would not be less than 20 million silver dollars.

On the fifth day of the appearance of the Eastern Fortress, the hard-working flatfur flew back in a biplane. This time the biplane came up with several financial officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 'Revolutionary Army'. According to Xu Bing's original words, if my man doesn't get those fat sheep in Goa in five days, he won't be worthy of sleeping with his mother.

The financial personnel who rushed to the scene naturally didn't dare to repeat the original words, they only said that they were ordered by Minister Xu of the Ministry of the Interior to come to accept the inventory and solve problems for the handsome - Zhou Qingfeng was happy by these words. He fought hard and fought, but the benefits were all Xu Bing's. But he still asked these account offices to take inventory and file to ensure that the harvest of this Goa strategy was not discounted.

After all, gold and silver wealth needs to be transformed by Xu Bing to become real strength.

Taking over the property of the Portuguese Viceroyalty and the Church was only the first step for Zhou Qingfeng to take control of Goa, and he also sent people everywhere inside and outside the city to advertise and recruit workers. The local indigenous labor force cannot be wasted, and a large number of people can be brought in by taking care of the food. Although these people are of extremely poor quality and have many problems, they can still be used for construction under the whip of the whip.

In addition, Zhou Qingfeng also needs more and more professionals, such as the local Portuguese, some of whom have lived in Goa for generations. Some of them are good at winemaking, some are familiar with the routes, and some are skilled at craft, and these people can be used. As for the question of whether they are happy or not, they must be happy when they are cornered.

The construction of the city in Goa is not very good, and the style is completely based on the dirty mess of European cities. The hired natives first had to clean up the ruins of war, build roads, repair sewers, and clean up the city's garbage.

In these years, most of Europe's cities are garbage heaps, and due to the accumulation of garbage over hundreds of years, not to mention the accumulation of garbage, it is even so much that it affects the groundwater. Goa has inherited the same problem.

Seeing the Orientals appear in Goa to receive and clean up, the merchants and residents of the city were at ease. At the very least, this means that His Majesty the Emperor of the East does not want to completely destroy this important commercial city, but really wants to use the city, the population and the trade network in the city.

Under such circumstances, many people decided to attend His Majesty's dinner in the middle of the wait-and-see. Aside from the festival or something, Europeans don't care about this in their history and traditions.