Lu Ming

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Just when the troops were about to rush into the opposite fort in one breath, the Portuguese defenders suddenly rushed out, blocking the way of the troops with a combination of spears and arquebus.

Therefore, when the troops could not be deployed, the frontal bayonets did not take advantage, and the on-site commander Yang Weili had to issue an order to retreat.

After listening to the report, before Yu Mingjie could react, Wei Yuan, who was watching the fun, laughed loudly: "Spanish phalanx? This is the housekeeping method of the red-haired devil's cheap cousin. Let your kid today I met."

After thinking about it, Wei Yuan, who had personally experienced urban street fighting in later generations, shook his head and smiled again: "Don't tell me, the Spanish phalanx can really come in handy in this particular environment, why didn't we assign troops How about hand grenades?...Deputy Yang Lian, the order to retreat was correct and timely."

Yu Mingjie also reacted at this time, "Yeah, what the hell is this phalanx, isn't it just a matter of a few grenades? Alas, traitors, everything in this world is ruined by traitors!  … Say, Yang Lianfu, how many people were injured or killed?"

Yang Weili: "..."

After this campaign, the cabinet, which was accused of traitors by the commanders of the first-line troops, finally agreed to add a grenade workshop to the newly formed Guangzhou Ishii Arsenal, which is a later story.

The grenade production line is far from being able to quench the near thirst.After the failure of the first siege battle that day, the siege party with a technological advantage quickly found a countermeasure.It's simple: a small number of soldiers in constant contact will do.

The Spaniard's phalanx seemed to work, but it was not so easy to move and retreat.Later in the day, Yu Mingjie ordered that the soldiers take turns to infiltrate and shoot from the slope.

This will kill the phalanx: the target is huge, and the siege soldiers only need to lie down and shoot coldly, which is enough to break up the phalanx with the advantage of range.

After that, as the other two city walls were blasted one after another, the defenders in the St. Paul's Fort finally couldn't stop the cold guns fired from all directions, and began a large retreat.

This retreat gave way to the commanding heights: the heavy artillery erected on the Fort can cover the entire city of Macau.

Three days later, the desperate Portuguese finally sent people out of the city to negotiate, and Macau surrendered unconditionally.

On April 1631, 4, with colorful ribbons dancing and military music, and soldiers wearing big leather boots shouting loud slogans, the ceremony of Macao's entry into the city officially began.

Chapter 558 Receiving ([-])

Time: At noon on April 4, shortly after the Macau Entrance Ceremony ended.

Venue: Macau City Council.

The parliament hall is a traditional European-style dome.This architectural style, born out of ancient churches, not only got rid of the numerous support columns, but also inadvertently conformed to the acoustic principle, which is very suitable for sermons and speeches.

At this moment, a Westerner in a red robe was speaking loudly, and the voice spread to every corner of the hall.

"...Here, I implore...according to the prevailing laws of the civilized world...to give...gentlemen the necessary..."

Master Zong Benzong sat in the corner of the last row of the parliament, observing something with great interest.

In just a few days, Master Zong has let go of himself and completely changed his image.

He not only shaved his hair and cut his head into a handsome middle-aged [-], but also deliberately followed the recommendation of the master of the clothing store in the new district, wearing a set of "formal clothes" that can only be seen on big occasions: a brand-new Fujian-made indigo dyed and woven handmade suit with small lapels Trousers, and shiny buffalo leather shoes under his feet.

Unaccustomed to twisting his body, Master Zong adjusted his sitting posture: he was still trying to adapt to the outfit he was wearing.

In the hall at the moment, Mr. Zong, who wears "new school" costumes, accounts for about one-third of the people in the "Mingfang" camp.

This number is normal. After all, Cao Zongbing has only been in Guangdong for a short time, and it will take time for it to be subtle.Except for Master Zong, who is desperate to take refuge in the natives, most of the rest, even those who are close to the time-traveling forces, still wear long robes in public.

On the podium in the middle of the hall, the "former" Macau City Council clerk Andrade, who was speaking loudly at the moment, and the words he spoke in a weird tone did not arouse Zong Ben's interest.The left and right are just scenes of defeated bandits, the city is open, what's the use of talking about it?

To be honest, Master Zong really didn't expect that the red-haired man in Macau would offer a surrender so soon.

After the Fortress was captured a few days ago, Master Zong also lined up to greet Cao Zongbing.I don't want to think that the next day, when everyone moved to the Fortress with great interest, preparing to watch another big show of attacking the city of Macau... the red-haired man surrendered.

Maybe it was because of the cannon that was hung on the city wall overnight, or because the elite soldiers in front of the gate had put up a sesame formation again. In short, the red-haired man, who had suffered heavy casualties in the first battle, conceded defeat.

In this way, there will be no big drama to watch.The red-haired man first came out to communicate with envoys, officers and soldiers, and after a few final twists and turns, everything was settled, and another day later, the city of Macau opened early in the morning.

After the opening of the city, the red-haired nobles and the defenders filed out and offered weapons to the officers and soldiers.After that, first the officers and soldiers entered the city for defense, then many bigwigs entered the city, and after that, it was the turn of the "local sages" like Mr. Zong to enter the city.

Since most of the Ming people in Macau had left before this, there was no scene of elders welcoming the old people when the army entered the city, and there were only deserted streets, which made Zongben, who was used to the bustling Macau, very uncomfortable.

After entering the city, as a guest, Master Zong followed the boss into the city hall to watch the ceremony.Although the Portuguese had already submitted the surrender form when they were outside the city, the ceremony was simple after all. Now that high-level executives from both Ming and Portugal came to the city council, naturally there are still many formalities to go through.

What follows is the signing of a series of documents on the aftermath of Macao.The most important thing here are some documents issued by the traversers, which have the legal concept of later generations.

The Portuguese don't struggle too much in this regard. After all, the cities are open now, and people are fighting against each other, so it doesn't matter what they sign.

However, when the final document on property settlement in Macau was signed, the Portuguese were still not reconciled... The so-called good fortune is hard to give up, and that's why Andrade stood up to speak on behalf of the "civilized world" and "the government of the Ming Dynasty" A scene of struggle.

Regarding property, the disagreement between the two parties is as follows: the government of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the traveler, intends to confiscate all valuable things in Macau, including all public property and private property.

Seeing this condition, the Portuguese naturally refused.The Chinese-speaking clerk Andrade stood up and argued for reason, citing the European nobles' war regulations, saying that the Portuguese agreed to confiscate public property, but private property was sacred and inviolable, and the Ming government could not treat the civilized world so rudely. gentlemen.

Master Zong Benzong scoffed at Hongmao's tricks.In the eyes of a native of the Ming Dynasty like him, since ancient times, wars have focused on a winner and a loser. Now that the Franji people have been killed and their courage is broken, and they sacrifice their city to the officers and soldiers, they are lambs to be slaughtered. ... Is there such a thing as massacring cities and genocides in the history books?Now this group of Francophone losers traded with the winners for some belongings, this is really a way to die!

After understanding the intentions of Franji, Zongben no longer paid attention to Andrade who was speaking passionately, and turned his gaze to the center of the hall.

In the "Ming Kingdom Phalanx" at the front of the hall, the ones currently occupying position C are undoubtedly two red-robed officials: He Zongbing and Cao Zongbing.At the parliamentary table between Ming and Portugal, a group of officials from Ming and Portugal in shirts and robes sat around the table.The most conspicuous thing here is wearing a green official robe, the only one who truly represents the government of the Ming Dynasty, the magistrate of Xiangshan County, crossing his brother-in-law Zhong Sheng.

But what really attracted Zongben's attention at this moment was a traveler he had never seen before.

This person has an ordinary appearance, with a lot of fat on his face, and his body is also fat and fat, with a rich appearance.As for age.Due to the common shaved face and reasonable nutritional mix among people across time travel, Ming people are often unable to judge their real age. Zongben can only guess that this person is between 35 and 40 at the moment.

Like most of the time-traversing people, the master Zong Ben observed attentively also had short curly hair and was wearing a formal suit... More than Master Zong's, it was a red tie.

What attracted the attention of Master Zong and other interested people was first of all the seat position of this crossing crowd: he was right beside Cao Zongbing.

The second is the attitude of this big guy.In the current solemn occasion, this person crossed his legs and whispered to Cao Zongbing with a smile on his face, with a look of indifference.

What surprised Zongben, an old Jianghu, was that, perhaps it was an illusion, he actually felt that Mr. Cao was a little... backed down to this one?Or fear?

This time, Master Zong had already made up his mind to find an opportunity to visit this new lord: Could it be that Zhuge reincarnated and Kong Ming was reborn to make Master Cao so humble?

……

Naturally, Zhang Dongdong didn't know that his inadvertently revealed body and facial language actually betrayed his true thoughts on Li Dazui to the aboriginal Ming people who were "very rustic and ignorant" in the eyes of the people who traveled through.

Yes, as far as Li Dazui is concerned, Zhang Dongdong is naturally a little bit afraid from the perspective of passing through the crowd.In other words, most of the time-travelers look at this product differently.

Li Dazui, as mentioned earlier, is a cheater.This gentleman knew Mr. Cao's true ability before he traveled, but this former street writer and wholesaler of slippers still chose to travel without hesitation, leaving the old world to Mr. Cao.

In this way, no one can cure Li Dazui after he crosses.Emperor Cao was ashamed, and now he was about to be crowned as the one-word side-by-side king, so other people, especially those high-ranking people who had already been in power in the crossing crowd, must be somewhat on guard against this coercion.

Fortunately, Li Dazui didn't have any big ambitions. Although he did all kinds of messing around after time travel, he did it as he pleased. He didn't have any ambitions at all, which reassured some people a lot.

No, Li Dazui, who used to lead people to carry out forced demolitions in the New District every day, immediately became interested when he heard that Macao was going to be attacked, and planned to supervise the entire Macao.

Li Dazui wanted to be assigned as a Macau governor to play on a deserted island, and the cabinet manager Xia naturally approved it at the speed of light, so this guy came to Macau happily before the opening of the city.

However, when he came here, Ding Liqiu of Guangzhou Futai, who originally planned to participate in the city entry ceremony, and Tang Xiaoqiao, the boss of Nanyang Headquarters, all retreated... Only Cao Zongbing, who had to come, was left with all his strength to accompany Li. Dazui chatted in the city council.

Just like that, Cao Zongbing finally waited until the Portuguese representative who was speaking on the field stopped talking, which made him heave a sigh of relief—he knew that it was time for Li Dazui to do the job, after all, He wanted to be the governor of Australia, so naturally he had to dismiss the Portuguese himself.

Sure enough, Li Dazui, who was still doing nothing, saw that Andrade had finally finished talking nonsense, so he immediately got up and walked to the opposite side of the Portuguese phalanx.

Glancing at the Portuguese with serious faces and complex eyes, Li Dazui laughed and stretched out three fingers of his right hand, and said loudly in Mandarin: "I am LI, the new Governor of Macau. Regarding the previous defense of Mr. Andrade, I Answer three points here."

"First: In the cultures of Eastern countries, the winner takes all is a recognized law, so please don't apply European rules to the East. After all, this is Macau Island, not the Iberian Peninsula."

"Second: Even according to the European rules of engagement, the nobles and lords captured in the war will only be freed after paying a personal ransom."

Li Dazui's face became playful: "Dear gentlemen, it seems that you are not used to your status change... Don't forget, you are captives now."

"third."

A charming smile appeared on Li Dazui's face: "Now here is a piece of good news. After reconsideration by the officer, considering the need to be in line with international standards in the future, this time the ransom will be reduced to a reasonable level. Well, after all We are all nobles, nobles, we always have to take care of each other."

After Li Dazui finished speaking, he waved his hand lightly, and an interpreter stood up next to him, loudly speaking in Portuguese what he just said.

After listening to the translated language, the Portuguese phalanx began to whisper among each other, and there was a buzzing sound in the council hall.

Chapter 559 Receiving ([-])

Li Dazui's speech seems casual, but it actually fits the general ideology of the Transit regime.

Considering the long-term world structure in the future - the traversers did not intend to unify the earth and physically inactivate all "other people", so the future is bound to have such words as "international situation", and it is also fundamental for the East and the West to recognize each other's titles operate.

With the current ecological structure of the traversers, the monarchy is a certainty.Since it is an imperial system, there must be a clear and public noble/civilian social class.In this way, it's not good to be too unreasonable to this group of Francois, even if there are not even one-tenth of the nobles certified by the Portuguese royal family among these gangsters.

Of course, no matter what, the Francoids were the losers in this war after all, so they must bear their due losses.This is a plane where time travelers have the final say, and there is no such thing as a way for the defeated to make a profit through negotiations with an arrogant backhand.

In the end, with the so-called preferential treatment, the Franji people only kept their house and some private property.In fact, some of them can't even keep this little thing, because every noble lord has to pay the ransom fee, and those whose property was not in good condition before have now become paupers overnight.

No matter what plane or era, poor people will not end well.So in the next few days, a large number of Francine poor ghosts who were kicked out of their homes were quickly produced in the city of Macau.

……

In the early morning, Master Zong Benzong sat on a lychee wooden chair and stared at himself in the mirror.

Different from the bronze mirror used by the ancestors, the glass mirror on the table has a width of seven inches, and the mirror surface is crystal clear. With the morning light, the person in the mirror is meticulously reflected.Looking in the mirror, Master Zong's shaved face was radiant and energetic, as if he was more than ten years younger than before.

"En." After checking his clothes for the last time, Zongben stood up and straightened his tie: "It's getting late, let's go."

"Yes, sir."

The boy who had been waiting by the side brought a thin suit for the master to put on, and then used a soft brush to help the master gently brush away the non-existing floating dust on the back of the shoulders.

After tidying up, Master Zong reached out for a gray tulle top hat that is popular nowadays, put on a pair of quartz sunglasses that are popular nowadays, and finally picked up a machine-made mahogany walking stick by the door...the one in the new district is called Civilization Stick.

At the moment outside the door, there are already seven or eight people of different ages, but they are all wearing canvas jackets and trousers, and their neat subordinates are waiting.Seeing the master fully armed and walking out of the room, there was a tidy voice: "I have seen the master."

Seeing these old fellows, Zong Ben felt a little emotional.While pacing slowly, he said in a loud voice: "The situation forced me a few days ago, my lord, I had to sell out of Haojingao...well, the foundation in Macau. About this matter, the brothers probably don't think so. I know."

"But now it seems that my lord won the bet after all." Zong Ben laughed: "The money was exchanged not only for Nanyang's share, but also for the big backer of the General Military Mansion!"

When Zong Ben said this, his complacency was beyond words.Thinking of him as a concubine who was kicked out of the house, now he has transformed into a guest of the General Military Mansion... "Hmph, let's wait and see, one day, the man will kill back, so that I can teach you how powerful it is!"

Thoughts flashed by.After regaining his senses, Zongben waved his hand when he saw his subordinates who were still respectfully waiting for him to speak: "What is that little foundation? With a big backer, what foundation can't be built?"

Having said that, Zong Ben paused for a while: "Look at this city of Macau, the owner has changed within seven days... Hmph, the one who will follow me to pay a visit today, my lord, is the new lord of this city Already. Give it all to the master, I stand up, and remember, from now on, wherever you are in Mr. Cao’s territory, we men will be masters!"

"Congratulations sir!"

Amid the congratulations, Master Zong walked out of the gate of the guild hall.

Since Zongmoto had already sold out all his properties in Macau before, and most of the hotel employees ran away during the war, after entering the city, Zongmoto could only take his entourage with him. Dongguan guild hall for left-behind personnel.

Now five days have passed since General Dasheng entered the city, and the guild hall is gradually gaining popularity.Zongben, on the other hand, posted a post three days ago to contact Li Dazui, the mayor of the Macau Special Administrative Region...Mr. Li Long...Li Dazui's name is Li Long.

After leaving the gate of the Dongguan Guild Hall, there was already an exquisite carriage parked in front of the gate.This car is a preferential gift from the government of the new district to the businessmen below, and the body is marked with a unique nanmu badge.

The content of this wooden badge is very simple: five rings painted and hand-painted.Later generations are familiar with this icon because it appears in the public eye every four years.

Now this badge is the monogram of the newly formed "Chinese Chamber of Commerce".

From the badge and name, it can be seen that this must be a thing made by the people who traveled through it.That's right, this newly opened Chinese Entrepreneurs Association is an official organization used by the people of Transit to attract "progressive businessmen".And the vanguard Zong Benzong is now half an official and one of the twelve permanent directors of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

After the attendants waited for the master to get on the carriage, they divided into two rows and followed the carriage, and followed the carriage slowly on the narrow gravel road in Macau in the [-]th century.

The city of Macau has just experienced a moderate war, so there are few pedestrians on the road, and it is far less prosperous than before the war.As the carriage passed by, half of the shops along the way were still closed.

Fortunately, the time traveler is now in power, so the special zone immediately mobilized a large number of migrant workers to enter the city.As migrant workers entered the city, it gradually became popular in the city, and some businesses that had business dealings with the Zongbingfu also opened their doors in time to start business.

After the carriage passed through the commercial street mixed with Chinese and Iberian-style buildings, it didn't take long to arrive at the center of Macau: the Portuguese area.

Most of the Portuguese quarters are relatively high-end European-style mansions. There are churches, church headquarters, and various municipal buildings here, which are the core of the city.

When the carriage passed by here, through the glass window, Zong Ben was pleased to appreciate the tragic scenes of "the country was ruined and the family was destroyed": armed soldiers surrounded in front of the mansion, holding registration books and wearing white shirts, responsible for inspecting the property The clerk, and the red-haired master who stood in front of his house with his arms outstretched and outstretched arms tragically, tried to stop the "thieves".

Watching the show all the way like this, Mr. Zong...Zong Huidong arrived in front of the city hall in a carriage.

Since it is still in the stage of military control, there are not only registrars at the gate of the city hall, but also the platoon leader on duty.After getting out of the car surrounded by entourages, Master Zong first registered at the gate, and since he was a prominent member of the council, a special registrar led him into the gate of the city hall.

In just a few days, the old-fashioned building has changed its appearance.The windows have been replaced with large glass that transmits bright light. In the previous hall, there are now rows of desks, and behind each desk is a clerk with short shirt and short hair who is busy.

The corridors on both sides of the hall now have guards walking back and forth.These guards have firearms on their waists and short sticks in their hands-the attention of the guards is the people who come to do business sitting on the benches in the corridor.

Among the people who came to do business, there were Chinese businessmen and foreign businessmen.They uniformly wore temporary passes with white lacquered wood carvings on their chests, and many of them held a wooden box in their arms.

Master Zong knew that the wooden box was full of land deed documents. It seemed that these people were forced to "respond to the government's call" and "voluntarily" come to the city hall to register their property and exchange for a new version of the land deed.Coincidentally, Mr. Zong also saw his old acquaintances in it: the Portuguese translator, old broker, Mr. Niu Xijian.

In the past, Master Zong would definitely go up to greet Master Niu who bought his property.However, today is different from the past, the Zonghui Director is now a registered person in the Zongbingfu, and he is a big figure who can participate in the general implementation of the Zongbingfu's business. People like Master Niu are no longer in the Zonghuidong's eyes.

So Mr. Zong turned his eyes to the sky, leaned on a civilized stick, and walked past the front of Mr. Niu swaggeringly under the smiling service of the registrar, all the way to the back hall.

In the back hall, Comrade Li Long Li Dazui, the newly appointed Governor of the Macau Special Administrative Region, was chatting happily with several board members who had arrived earlier.

Li Dazui, who was half lying on the chair with his leather shoes turned up high, was sitting on the red cypress table made in Taiwan, when he saw Director Zong in a suit and trousers enter the door, he immediately laughed and offered his hand.

Li Dazui had a good impression of Director Zong.This Master Zong, after the ceremony on the day he entered the city, was the first Ming native to come forward to congratulate him.In front of Zongbing Cao, Mr. Zong dressed well and spoke nicely, which made Li Dazui feel a lot of face.

Seeing Mr. Li stretching out his hand, Zong Dong hurriedly stepped forward to shake hands across the table.Now the aborigines of the Ming who are close to the crossing people all know that these officials from the General Military Mansion do not like to receive gifts, and it is easy to receive gifts on weekdays. In Zongben's own words: "True people are people who do things."

After happily shaking hands, Zong Huidong also joined in the previous heated discussion.As for the content of the discussion, after several directors came in one after another, under the leadership of Li Dazui, it turned to such a big topic as how to develop Macau in the future.

When it was noon, seeing that the discussion was almost over, the confident Li Dazui stood up and said that he would invite everyone out for a meal first, and then take everyone on a field trip to understand the blueprint of Macau in his mind.

So a group of people chatted and laughed out of the back hall.

When passing by the front hall, a program suddenly appeared: I saw a figure in a copper-rust satin robe, suddenly rushed over and hugged Zong Ben's thigh and shouted: "Master Zong, you have to testify for my brother, this time The title deed was transferred from you before the war!"