open sea

Chapter 212 Bishop
"How could you kill him without trial!"

Pereira's roar came from behind, and Chen Mu, who had already walked out of the municipal office surrounded by family soldiers, turned his head, frowned and looked at Pereira, turned his head for a moment and continued walking forward.

After taking two steps, Chen Mu turned around and said, "He insulted me, why did I kill him?"

"He is a nobleman, even if he is captured in battle, he is eligible to pay the ransom." Pereira paused, and then stood behind the wall of Li Dan's subordinates and said loudly: "How can you kill him directly?" !"

Everything happened too quickly, even though Pereira had expected it when Davega spoke rudely, he thought that Chen Mu would not let this matter be easily exposed, and might pull him out of the municipal government office to beat the board in a smart way, But he didn't expect to shoot when he said to shoot, and killed Davega with his pistol like the latest flintlock of the extreme westerners.

Da Vega, who sailed across the ocean from Lisbon and served in India with his outstanding command ability to obtain the status of the head of the Macau army, died in this way before he had enough knowledge of the new continent east of Malacca after landing seven days ago.

But Pereira, who is the leader of Haojing, has nothing to do. They have no power here. Even though there are hundreds of Portuguese and thousands of Christians on this small island, they seem to be unable to become a bargaining chip to threaten Chen Mu.

Now, hundreds of sailors with knives and guns outside the municipal yamen block the few Portuguese in the yamen, and people have nothing to do.

"He could have been immortal. I know that he can't get the trade rights of Malacca. This is not up to you. If he can respect me like you, I will respect him like you. Unfortunately, he doesn't."

When Chen Mu said this, his face was full of reason. Now his depressed heart due to pleading guilty was relieved a lot. He raised his finger and said: "This land is not under the jurisdiction of your king, so there are no nobles. He is not a businessman or a Being a merchant, you don’t even have any identity, I just want you to understand one fact - Haojing is the land of Ming Dynasty, this matter will never change, unless you send troops to occupy this place.”

"Don't forget, how many years have we been fighting since you captured Manchuria, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty? For 60 years, there was no truce, and no one conceded defeat. Although trade was opened in Haojing, it was only for merchants to trade, country to country, no truce .”

"General Chen!"

Bishop Carneiro of Haojing, who was over fifty years old, squeezed out of the crowd wearing glasses and a large priest's robe, but was stopped by Li Dan's strong black sailor, who opened his hands and shouted Chen Mu's name.Seeing that Pereira was speechless, Chen Mu, who was about to leave, turned his head again, waved his hand with some annoyance, and said, "Let him come over, what's the matter with the bishop?"

"You said something wrong."

Bishop Haojing with a big gray beard squeezed through the crowd, stood three steps away from Chen Mu and straightened his robe, then said to Chen Mu: "I must tell you, in our doctrine, Noah was not given by the Lord, but It was the guidance of the Lord that guided our ancestors to build it and survive."

"You are right, maybe you are asking for others rather than yourself, but the Lord is with us, Davega does not have a protector like you to protect him, but we also have people who are willing to sacrifice their lives for others! The Lord guides me— —to duel with you!"

As he said that, Carneiro, who was very old, took off his priest's robe, revealing the mottled half-body armor under the robe, still holding the Bible in his left hand, and the cross still hanging on his chest. He said, "Please give me a long sword, Even in the face of a tiger, the shepherd will protect his lamb!"

Chen Mu suddenly laughed, and raised his arm to give orders: "Get out of the way! Give him a long sword!"

Outside the municipal yamen, both Han and Han exclaimed. No one thought that such a high-ranking member of the commander would be willing to accept the challenge of a barbarian. No matter Li Dan Huayu or Long Junxiong, they were vying to replace Chen Mu in the battle.

Of course, Chen Mu didn't plan to compete swords with Canelo normally.

Just as the sword fell into Canelo's hand, Chen Mu also held the other pistol in his hand, pointed at Canelo within a few steps, and then pulled the trigger without hesitation.

boom!
The voice was clear and clear, the hand gun shot the lead ball at a short distance, and the long sword was thrown away, and it was inserted obliquely into the soil not far away. Chen Mu smiled while holding the smoking hand gun, "Shepherd, the victory has been divided... But I kind of like your church, haha!"

"If your governor agrees to my request and the seven merchant ships are open to trade, I will allow you to come to my yamen and talk about your teachings. I want to hear it."

Throwing two pistols to the servant to load the medicine, Chen Mu, who got on his horse, raised his whip, finally looked around the entire municipal square, leaned slightly and said, "Ascetic monk, maybe you will become the new pope in the future."

Chen Mu smiled more happily than ever, and after ordering Li Dan to cooperate with the three hundred households to block the port and arrange for Pintuo to board the ship to Malacca, he went all the way north with the escort of his family soldiers and cavalry.

The news that Hao Jing was blocked by three hundred households quickly spread throughout Xiangshan, and along with the news that Chen Mu called five thousand households to discuss matters, it caused an uproar in the entire Nanyangwei.

There is only one purpose in convening five thousand households, which is to train troops.

"General, is it inappropriate this time? I don't mean to be disobedient in a humble position." Deng Zilong clasped his fists and said, "The general has just been impeached by the speaker, but at this time he wants to raise troops to fight against the Portuguese. Once the speaker finds out, I'm afraid everyone will The Chinese speeches are very powerful, the military affairs in Guangxi have not been peaceful, if troubles arise, even the princes of the imperial court will be punished."

Deng Zilong was very worried, while Sun Ao and Huang Dexiang's reactions were similar, basically as if they were too lazy to tell Chen Mu too much - let this man make trouble, anyway, he wouldn't listen to what he said.

At this time, Deng Zilong thinks the most about who is the real talent. He has a vague understanding from the Guangzhou government to Guangdong, Guangxi, and even the entire ruling and opposition situation; while Huang Dexiang and Sun Ao have a little understanding but not enough to refute Chen Mu.

As for the remaining two thousand households, Shao Tingda and Shi Qi's reactions were almost similar. Shi Qi clasped his fists and responded readily to Chen Mu's words, while his younger brother Shao Tingda clasped his fists and said to the few thousand households: "Guangcheng beat Zeng Yiyi, you They all went to war, and Brother Mu told me to watch the old governor, who had no military exploits, what happened? Thousand households in Shunde. Never mind what Brother Mu said, it must be right!"

"Do Portuguese people dare to fight Haojing? Dare."

Chen Mu was dumbfounded by Shao Tingda's words, waved his hands to let them sit down, and then continued: "But is he willing to fight with me? No. This trade is too important to them, they bought the goods from Haojing at a high price , but these things can be transported to the west of Malacca in exchange for five times and ten times the huge profits. If there is a war, they will get nothing."

"They are most likely to tow, and give a quota for one boat, or five, and at most ten will not be exceeded. With this number, it is impossible to fight."

"Just like Chen was thinking about finding someone to make up for the gap in Haojing's drawing before deciding whether to go to war or not. up, and he—can't make it up!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)