Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 679 Recovering Macau and 5000 million debts
The gray-blue Ming ironclad ship "Zhongshanwang" fired its first shot at the Franji second-class battleship "Green Field" on his left.

The solid fuel burst out from the bottom of the cannonball, and the cannonball shot across like a shooting star, and hit the "Green Field" in a short while.

Boom!
The French second-class battleship "Green Field" was directly blown over by the shells carrying a large amount of nitrate explosives, and the mainsail was also plunged into the sea upside down.

A large number of Francobots with chicken feathers on their heads and skirts fell into the sea.

The ironclad ship "Zhongshan Wang" rushed forward like a vanguard, and plowed towards the other fleeing Frangji battleships like a plowshare.

boom!
The speed of the ironclad ship "Zhongshanwang" is too fast!
Three large steam units provide strong power, making him gallop like a galloping horse on the prairie.

soon.

The iron-clad ship "Zhongshan Wang" directly caught up with a second-class battleship "Lai Texi" of Frangji, and directly smashed it to pieces.

The Ming army navy on the battleship directly picked up the pull-type rifles and lined up to shoot the Frangji officers and soldiers who were still struggling around the broken hull wreckage.

The beeping bullets shuttled into the sea water, bringing up touches of blood red color.

Then, the iron-clad ship "Zhongshan Wang" slammed forward again, knocking over three Frangji battleships on the spot.

……

"Surrender, raise the white flag and surrender!"

The governor of Macau, De Waal, collapsed directly, and hurriedly ordered the remaining warships to raise the white flag to surrender.

Only then did the Ming Fleet stop attacking.

However, when Zheng Chenggong came ashore, he still ordered the Ming Nanyang Fleet to block the mouth of Macau.

At the same time, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi personally dispatched troops to Macau.

After the Ming army in Guangzhou area stationed in Macau, Zheng Chenggong immediately announced the latest will of the Ming emperor.

Because these Frangji people have not paid taxes since the lease of Macau, and have not paid enough rent to the central cabinet of the Ming Dynasty since the 32nd year of Jiajing (5000 in the Western calendar), and owed taxes and rents in total. Plus interest, a total of [-] million silver dollars! "

After hearing this, De Waal, the governor of Frangji Macau, was dumbfounded: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, why are there so many, 5000 million, we can't afford it back!"

"How could you not be able to pay it back? Your country has leased my Daming Macau for many years, let alone earning tens of millions of Yingyang every year. Even if you can't pay it back, your company, your Francine country can pay it back, and you have been colonizing the world for so many years. , I don’t believe that I can’t afford it, if I really can’t afford it, I can use the territory to pay for it!”

With that said, Zheng Chenggong announced: "Register and report to the cabinet all these Frangji people. According to the regulations, they must first serve ten years of hard labor! This is to repay the interest from Chongzhen for 35 years!"

"My God, why do we have to serve for ten years? After ten years of service, I will be 65 years old. At that time, if you let me go back, what else can I do, woohoo!"

De Waal burst into tears.

"You have been used to being domineering in Macau these years, and you should be punished. The reason why you have served for ten years is because you will be 60 or [-] years old in these ten years. I am letting you serve to pay off your debts. It’s not for your old age!”

Zheng Chenggong said and shouted: "You don't want to serve, you can! Our empire is enlightened and respects your choice. There is a ransom of [-] silver dollars per person. If you have money, you can redeem yourself and your friends!"

"You are oppressing, you are insulting us, we refuse to accept it!"

De Waal yelled.

Zheng Chenggong pulled out his gun on the spot and fired a shot at De Waal's balls. The pain made De Waal clutch his lower part on the spot and screamed.

"Who else is not convinced!"

The gunshots stopped.

The Franz robot present had already been honest, and did not say anything at all.

"Take him down for first aid. Now that I am officially in labor, I can't let him die. He is worth [-] silver dollars."

When Zheng Chenggong said this, the doctor accompanying the army hurriedly asked the nurse to carry De Waal down to give first aid on the spot. When he tore off De Waal’s pants, he couldn’t help saying: “The general’s marksmanship is too accurate, it can only be castrated, and it’s impossible to save it.” !"

Soon, all the Folang machines in Macau were driven onto the merchant ships of Ming Dynasty, and began to be transported to Guangzhou, where they reported to the cabinet, and then the cabinet clearly marked the price and sold them or arranged them directly into state-owned companies.

It just so happened that it was the construction stage of the western railway, and most of the Flang machines were dispatched to the deserted jungle in the west to do coolies, move rails and earthwork, etc., and made outstanding contributions to the railway construction of Daming.

Macau naturally returned directly to Daming's hands.

However, the Ming Dynasty did not demolish the building facilities and trade facilities here, but recompiled the Han people who remained here, and also established the Macao government, which belongs to Guangdong and Guangxi.

But this is not enough.

The 5000 million debt owed by Franz is not just a joke.

Zhang Huangyan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, is a chief assistant who likes to do things. To be precise, he likes to build.

Due to the influence of the sacred teachings, in his opinion, as long as all the people have money, Daming can maintain long-term peace.

Therefore, Zhang Huangyan was spending money desperately, and he believed that the prosperity of the people depended on the courage of the cabinet to spend money. Even though the treasury revenue of Ming Dynasty was increasing day by day, the savings were not much.

Zhang Huangyan originally wanted to collect more taxes from domestic capitalists to help the poor, but the capitalists were not as great as him and were unwilling to cooperate with him.

Although Zhang Huangyan could impose a mandatory tax increase, he did not dare to increase too much. After all, he also had to take care of the capitalists' emotions and could not be the second Zhang Juzheng, so he set his mind on foreign officials.

"I heard from Your Majesty that Francois, England, France, etc. made a lot of money in the global colonization, and they made a lot of money just by reselling black slaves and raw materials. Through the occupation of the Netherlands, what our Ming Dynasty has obtained You can get a glimpse of wealth, I, Ming, have missed a hundred years, and they have earned all the wealth in the world, so don’t we get something back?”

This is what Zhang Huangyan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, said when he gave a speech in the Imperial University Hall.

Therefore, he has repeatedly emphasized that the remaining debt of 5000 million must be returned in full.

Of course, Zhang Huangyan, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, did not want to ask His Majesty to agree to let the Grand Marshal's Office come forward to ask for the debt. He decided to send important officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Cabinet to Frangji to demand the repayment of the debt.

"Yan Yingyuan, immediately issue a decree to Zheng Chenggong, transfer him to lead the 'Zhongshan Wang' iron-clad ship to Africa, serve as the commander-in-chief of the Ming African Fleet, and station at the Cape of Good Hope, once the cabinet has no way to come to the remaining 5000 million of the 3000 million The silver dollars will be directly requested by the Grand Marshal's Mansion, and the fraction of 3000 million will be used as the hard work of the Grand Marshal's Mansion for dispatching the navy."

Zhu Youjian issued such a decree to Yan Yingyuan, the new deputy privy envoy of the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

(End of this chapter)