Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 375 Destruction of Smoke Soil

When Halloxi said this, Turia was even more curious, and he was unwilling to give up such a precious land as Macau.

Therefore, he didn't care whether it was the fleet of the Ming Empire that suddenly attacked Macau and robbed him of his property. What he cared about was not losing Macau just like that.

Because, he knew that once he lost such a transit point as Macau, his Franc machine would lose enough income to be worth a total amount of Nanyang trade.

But when Turia led his fleet, which had no logistical support, back to the waters not far from Macau, he was greeted by artillery fire all over the sky.

At the beginning, in order to prevent the Ming armed forces from taking back the city of Macau, the Francobot Turia spared no expense to set up a large number of forts around the port, and its firepower can cover almost 360 degrees without dead ends.

However, because the South China Sea Fleet took advantage of the empty defense of Macau to attack the recovered Macau, the whole set of fort systems he set up in Macau by Turia did not play any role, but now they are fully utilized by the soldiers of the South China Sea Fleet up.

Turia didn't expect his fleet to suffer a head-on blow so soon. He couldn't help being very annoyed and wanted to launch a counterattack immediately, but found that there were already two groups of warships on the left and right sides of him, and the cannons had been opened. He opened up an offensive posture and was just in the upper air.

Naturally, Turia would not suffer this loss, so he hurriedly ordered his own fleet to retreat.

Fortunately, the fleet of the South China Sea Fleet did not catch up, because Zhu Youxiao's instruction to Gu Sanmazi was to temporarily stop the pace of external expansion when taking back Macau, and in principle avoid large-scale conflicts with any maritime forces , Before the imperial court and Zheng's Group tear their faces apart, they should hurry up to expand the strength of the South China Sea Fleet, and strengthen the coastal defense of the South China Sea and the control over the Nanyang area.

Therefore, Gu Sanmazi did not continue to pursue Turia, not to mention that he also knew that Turia's fleet was not as underestimating as Zheng Zhibao's, and its own strength was still there. The loss was severe.

Moreover, my own South China Sea Fleet has just gone through two battles. Although it didn't take much effort to attack Macau, it still took a lot of energy to fight the Zheng Zhibao fleet. The latter is stronger, so the loss and cost of the South China Sea Fleet swallowing Zheng Zhibao's fleet is not small. Once there is another conflict with Turia's Frangji fleet, it may be really difficult to complete the next move by Zhu Youxiao. It is a task for them to control the entire South China Sea and radiate to the South China Sea.

Although Gu Sanmazi was bold, he was unwilling to fight uncertain battles. After driving away Turia's fleet, he ordered someone to immediately notify Shang Zhouzuo, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, in order to prepare for the restoration of Ming Dynasty's administrative management of Macau.

However, although Turia had to accept the fact that his Frangji had lost control of Macau, he was still unwilling to let it go. At least he wanted to get back his [-] catties of opium soil, which he spent half a year on. The purchase of profits is also an important prerequisite for whether he can complete the tasks assigned by the king in the second half of the year.

And now Turia is basically sure that the fleet occupying Macau is the fleet of the Ming Empire, and it is also the South China Sea Fleet that Zheng Zhilong mentioned.

At the same time, he also learned that the South China Sea Fleet had just annihilated Zheng Zhibao's fleet shortly before capturing Macau, and that the commander-in-chief of this fleet turned out to be Gu San, who also defeated Zheng's pirates in the Ryukyu area. pock.

As a result, Turia gave up the idea of ​​immediately taking back Macau by force, and chose to solve the problem of the [-] catties of opium still stranded in Macau through negotiation.

But Gu Sanmazi directly rejected Turia's attempt to get back [-] catties of opium, because Zhu Youxiao has already stated that when it comes to overseas sales, once there are foreign smugglers or illegal traders, the judgment will be based on the type of goods The way the government treats these foreigners.

Among them, the most severe punishment is imposed on the opium trade. Not only must it be taken back, but it must be destroyed directly, and there are even officials of the criminal authority and sellers.

Therefore, when the Turia sent people arrived near Macau and tried to get back the opium they bought, they found that a group of migrant workers were being transferred into pools under the command of a group of military officers, and they kept pouring opium into them. Lime, causing billowing smoke.

"They actually want to destroy my smoke soil!"

Turia couldn't help being very angry. He really wanted to stop these people, but when he saw the densely packed forts and the warships that would come out of the harbor from time to time, he could only watch his efforts for half a year go to waste.

Turia didn't know that according to the original historical trajectory, such a scene would appear in Humen in hundreds of years, but at this moment, although the South China Sea Fleet was carrying out the order of gunpowder, Turia and the Francobots would not dare to follow Yingji Libi of later generations could only choose to back down.

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Turia's voluntary departure made the siege of Guangzhou City immediately resolved, and Shang Zhouzuo, who was trying to fight back, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he is in charge of the important military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi. Once the prefecture falls into the hands of the enemy, he can only go to prison for dereliction of duty.

But now that Guangzhou Fucheng has lifted the crisis, Shang Zhouzuo can focus on Macau wholeheartedly.

However, Shang Zhouzuo didn't know the reason why the enemy troops who had besieged Guangzhou for a long time suddenly withdrew. However, he didn't have time to understand the situation in detail now, so he could only guess that it might be because of the South China Sea Fleet.

"My lord, this is an official letter from Chief Gu of the South China Sea Fleet, who said that he has taken back his right of residence in Macau by surprise, and all the Westerners in Macau have been slaughtered. , and now we are waiting for us to send someone to manage this empty city.

Shang Zhouzuo couldn't help standing up when he heard this, patted the table and said: "It's really great, what a military officer Gu, I saw an editor named Zhang Dai praise him in the Daming Daily, I was still He said that he was just a warrior from a pirate background, so he didn't pay much attention, but he didn't expect this person to be so powerful. He solved a big problem for me, and immediately reported it to your Chief Gu, and I came here immediately. But the most urgent thing now is to immediately submit another urgent report to the cabinet, and report to the imperial court to approve the independence of Macau and separate county or state capital."

After Shang Zhouzuo finished speaking, he went to the study to write an urgent memorial, and immediately left for Macau.

According to Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, Macau's military and administration must be controlled by Daming, but it's not that Macau doesn't welcome foreigners to do business here, and even encourages more foreigners to come here, so Shang Zhouzuo has to be in a hurry Re-establish the order in Macau, and re-encourage foreigners to come to Macau to do business, so that Guangdong and Guangxi can have more income.

As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Shang Zhouzuo had no choice but to do so.

(End of this chapter)