Lu Ming

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, please...give gentlemen what is necessary according to the prevailing laws of the civilized world"

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.Unexpectedly, the next day, when everyone moved to the Fortress with great interest, and was about to watch another big show of attacking Macau City, 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 the property settlement in Macau was signed, the Portuguese were still unwilling to give up the so-called good fortune. That's why Andrade stood up and fought hard on behalf of the "civilized world" and the "Ming Dynasty government". scene.

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. The one more than Master Zong's 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 made Zongben, an old Jianghu, secretly startled, maybe it was an illusion, he actually felt that Mr. Cao was a little.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. Chatting at 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 identity 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.

(End of this chapter)