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The Guangdong government officials at that time had already seen through the true colors of the Portuguese and took strict precautions against them.
The reason why the Portuguese landed in Macau was agreed.
One is because Wang Bai, the deputy envoy of Guangdong Haidao at that time, was concentrating on encircling and suppressing Japanese pirates, and he was unwilling to make extra troubles.
The second is that the Ming Dynasty government at that time faced the situation of fighting on two fronts, Mongolia in the north and Japanese pirates in the south at the same time.
Some ministers suggested that it is best to open part of the sea ban in order to divide and disintegrate the Portuguese while increasing fiscal revenue.
The court accepted the minister's proposal to allow the Portuguese the right to land and temporarily reside in Macau.
After the Portuguese arrived in Macau, they paid commercial taxes and rents to the Ming Dynasty government and obtained the right to do business in Macau.
(Everyone knows what happened later. They forced the Dongyao regime to cede Macau. During this period, the Portuguese had a very high status in Macau. They seemed to be the masters, which aroused strong resistance from the people and failed to assassinate the Governor of Macau many times.)
Seeing the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty, they started eyeing Zhuhai again, but before they could do anything, the imperial edict of Ming Dynasty came, and the Portuguese had to leave Macau within five days.
Chapter 362 The Wolf's Ambition
Macau Governor Alfonso sat in the castle and drank coffee leisurely.
Beside him are two fair-skinned, blond, and blue-eyed ocean horses.
There are also two Japanese actresses dancing to the music in the hall.
Alfonso squinted his small eyes and stared at the twisting figure of the Japanese actress, causing the big horses around him to roll their eyes.
"Governor, the officials stationed in Macau of the Ming Dynasty are asking to see you."
Portugal only has the right of residence in Macau, and this right of residence is obtained by bribing officials in Guangdong, and it has to hand over 1000 taels of silver to Daming every year.
But in the past two years, not only did they not pay one tael of silver, but they also started to attract Zhuhai's attention.
If it weren't for the concern that Daming's skinny camel would be bigger than a horse, they would have started attacking him a long time ago.
Hearing that officials from the Ming Dynasty wanted to see him, Alfonso didn't bother to pay attention to them. He thought of using these people in the future, so he waved his hand:
"You all stand down and let the officials of the Ming Dynasty come in!"
"Yes"
The four beauties got up and retreated, and the guards turned and came out to lead the Ming Dynasty officials in Macau.
The local official Xu Kun and the others all know each other, and today there is a young man by the local official's side.
After Xu Kun came in, he greeted Alfonso with a smile all over his face, but the young man was indifferent.
He didn't say hello to Alfonso at all, but just took out a letter and handed it to the Portuguese Governor of Macau.
Alfonso was very upset, he didn't answer the letter at all, and he looked at the young man coldly.
Said arrogantly
"I am the Governor of Portugal in Macau. If you have anything to say, hurry up. I don't have time to receive you."
Xu Kun's face was a little ugly, but he didn't say anything.
But the young man was not polite at all:
"Macao is the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Your term as governor ends today. There is an order from the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to limit you to evacuate for three days, or you will bear the consequences."
This young man is no ordinary person, he is Baihu, the deputy commander of Daming Jinyiwei.
Originally, these foreigners were allowed to leave the country for five days, but Bai Hu saw that this guy was so rampant, so he shortened the time limit by two days.
"What? What did you say? Say it again..."
Alfonso jumped up from the soft chair as if his bottom was on fire.
He stared at those blue eyes, looking at the white tiger in disbelief.
Baihu shook his hand and threw the letter on Alfonso's desk.
"Whoo... Kacha..."
The letter directly smashed Alfonso's coffee cup, which shocked Alfonso again, and he looked at the broken coffee cup with an unquestionable face.
Bai Hu didn't even look at him, turned around and walked out of Alfonso's residence, Xu Kun hurriedly followed.
"My lord, isn't it impolite for us to do this?"
Bai Hu looked back at Xu Kun, his cold eyes made Xu Kun tremble all over:
"Impolite? Isn't it polite for them to run all the way to my Ming territory to show off their power?"
Xu Kun knew that Baihu was the Jinyiwei sent by the emperor, so how dare he offend him.
"My lord, this... these three days are too short, they can't even move their property!"
Xu Kun's words made Baihu sneer:
"It's best if you don't move away. Even people will stay in Macau forever if they leave late. We don't plan to let them take everything away."
What Xu Kun said is correct, the Portuguese have been operating in Macau for many years, who is not rich.
Let them leave suddenly, and all their business for so many years will be in vain.
After the white tiger walked for a while, Alfonso finally realized. Looking at the broken coffee cup, he was extremely shocked and thought to himself:
"Huaxia Kungfu is really good, it is far from what we can compare, but if your martial arts are world-class, how can you still compare with my flintlock gun?"
Reaching out to open the letter that he didn't want to read, his face was even more ugly at that time.
This letter was written by Sun Chuanting, the chief assistant of the Ming cabinet. Of course, he asked them to leave Macau, and the tone was more severe than what Bai Hu said.
The Portuguese have long regarded Macau as their territory, how could they leave.
After reading the letter, Alfonso couldn't help becoming angry, and he tore the letter into pieces with a groan.
Now that the matter has come to this point, they don't have to hide it anymore, and directly control Macau by force, turning Macau into Portugal's territory in the east.
"Come on."
Hearing the Governor's call, a captain hurried into the hall and gave Alfonso a military salute:
"My lord, what are your orders?"
Alfonso's face was livid, and he didn't know how to explain to the king if he lost Macau.
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