The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 529 Return of Macau
There was almost no fierce battle, and those warships and merchant ships that were surrounded by groups surrendered in a timely manner.

Ships and cargo have become trophies, and crews have become free wage earners.

Guo Huaiyi had a great sense of accomplishment, so he was in a good mood. About [-]% of the ships that sailed into Haojingao could be rounded up, and all the ships that left the port fell into the hands of Huang's family.

It went on like this for several months, until March of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Portuguese in Haojingao realized that something was wrong, because none of the ships that went out to sea returned, and almost no merchant ships from outside were seen.

Merchants come here for profit, and Haojingao’s deteriorating situation is seen by all the merchants. In just over a year, Haojingao has become desolate and sparsely populated. Contrary to them, "Lugong Island" is full of traffic. There is an endless stream of cargo ships and merchant ships.

Mascaro, the Portuguese governor in Haojingao, also saw a new port rising more than ten nautical miles away, but it completely took away all the business of the Portuguese in two or three years.

Although he is the governor, the officials of the colonial empire these days are the pirate chiefs, and every national army is a pirate who kills and robs at sea.

How can you bear seeing someone touch the Portuguese cheese mascarpone?
Ever since, the governor of Haojingao chose to conquer.He dispatched only a dozen or so deck warships in an attempt to attack "Lugong Island". Unexpectedly, the Portuguese were discovered by Huang's observation post when they were mobilized.

Without any suspense, the Portuguese warships plunged into the ambush circle with more than a dozen times their artillery fire and five or six times their number of warships. The Portuguese warships became trophies, and the soldiers became prisoners.

It's really desperate. Originally, Guo Huaiyi was ordered to seize Haojingao, but now the Portuguese governor specially gave him a handle. The Huang family's navy besieged Haojingao and snatched this commercial port that was flowing with gold and silver, and it became a great self-defense counterattack.

Surrounding and annihilating them is the established policy, and the Huang family will fight in their homeland, and time is not a problem.The Portuguese are far away from their homeland, and if they don't know how to weigh each one, it is very possible to die in another country.

The navy besieged Hao Jingao, turning it into an isolated island.

Chen Ruman organized 1000 people from Lugongdao Township to go ashore. With the order of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he dispatched [-] Ming troops to participate in the blockade of the mainland to ensure that Haojingao would not get a grain of food.

In May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Huang Sheng was very busy attacking the city of Dayue, there was no warship in Haojingao under heavy siege. The fate of the island that lost its warship was worrying!
The Portuguese have been operating in Haojingao for seven or eighty years, leaving behind too many stone buildings, and also built a relatively scientific and solid fort defense system in this era.

The Huang family has rifled guns that are beyond the age, and all territories within the range of the guns can be considered for occupation.Organize artillery fire to attack, the enemy can only be beaten and cannot fight back, this tiny place can be taken in a day.

Huang Sheng was not in a hurry, did not want to cause too many casualties, and did not want to destroy Haojingao, so he ordered Guo Huaiyi to surround and kill the Portuguese until they surrendered unconditionally.

If they resisted to the end and refused to surrender, they would not hesitate to let all these invaders starve to death.

Guo Huaiyi was not in a hurry, because Haojingao was unable to communicate with the outside world, and it had been Daming's window for Western trade for decades, and foreign merchant ships that he didn't know about kept coming.

The navy surrounding Haojingao has work every few days, and the harvest value of each shot is more than 10,000+ taels of silver.

It can be seen that making foreign fortunes is the only way to rise!

Because the business route of Haojingao is blocked, and because the commercial tax of "Lugong Island" is only [-]% of that of Haojingao, profit-seeking merchants have long since changed their homes to "Lugong Island" to buy properties and do business, so Haojingao There are no more Ming merchants living here.

Now there are only one or two thousand Westerners and their servants in Haojingao. Knowing that the ultimate goal of the Patriarch is to force the Portuguese Governor to surrender unconditionally, Chen Yiwei, the chief of the "Lugong Island" who is no longer what he used to be, has his mind on it.

He released all the Portuguese and Spaniards captured by the roundup of merchant ships and warships, and let them return to Haojingao by boat from the mainland.

More than 3000 people were returned one after another. It was a surprise that Mascaru also saw his opponent release his compatriots.

Of course he would not refuse anyone who came. Haojingao had weapons, and all the Westerners who ran across the sea had force values. One more person would lead to one more soldier. The Portuguese’s confidence in sticking to Haojingao had increased a lot.

Later, it was discovered that compatriots continued to return, and Mascarlu gradually realized that one more person would consume an extra amount of food, fresh water, and fuel!

It is impossible to deny the entry of those compatriots. They rowed their small boats directly to the shore. Could it be that artillery fire sank their boats?
This was another conspiracy, and Mascarlu was helpless. The grain reserves that could have lasted more than a year were exhausted in less than eight months.

These Westerners did not dare to kill and eat like Zu Dashou did. They had only been hungry for a week, and it was the Portuguese who had just returned them who were the first to clamor for Mascaru to surrender.

These people have already been taken captive once, they have not been mistreated, and they exchanged affordable labor for decent food, so they don't mind surrendering again, because when they came to Haojingao, they had already been looted and now they have nothing.

However, the mentality of the Portuguese who have lived in Haojingao for many years is very different. They have a family, a business and gold and silver treasures. How can they be willing to give up?

Ma Shijialu also made a stupid decision, ordering more than [-] people to surrender to "Lugong Island", and sent negotiators to express the surrender of some soldiers and civilians in Haojingao.

Guo Huaiyi and Chen Manman laughed when they heard about the situation, and they could still partly surrender. Xiyi really wasn't behind it.

The answer from "Lugong Island" is very simple, either surrender or fight to the death, we do not accept surrender.

Gradually, the law and order in Hao Jingao began to have problems, and conflicts between locals and outsiders emerged. The initial mutual abuse developed into fights, and gradually spread into riots.

Because that's the way people are, they don't worry about being few, but about unevenness.

There are too many cheeses and breads hidden in the homes of local residents in Ho Keng Ao, and the outsiders are empty-handed. Many people live in churches, and they can no longer get anything edible except for a little ration.

After several robberies and murders, the Portuguese who were united to resist the invasion of foreign enemies were completely divorced. It was rumored that some people were planning to kidnap Mascarro and surrendered.

The armed force who wanted to surrender was more than a thousand more than the guards organized by Hao Jing Ao. Ma Shijialu also regretted it, thinking that weapons should not be distributed to the three thousand captives released by Ming Dynasty.

Now that a civil war really broke out, the local armed forces may not be the opponents of foreign armed forces.

At the last moment when they were about to face cannibalism, the local bishop came forward to mediate, and the two sides reached a consensus and surrendered unconditionally.

On April [-]th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Huang family acquired Haojingao with almost no bloodshed. The first leased land in Xiyi was taken back by the Han people, and they got too much rent. Huang Sheng was overjoyed when he heard the news and named this place "Macao".

The wealth accumulated by thousands of Buddha Langji people for decades was taken over by Guo Huaiyi one by one. The experienced Guo Huaiyi organized his staff to isolate the aborigines of Haojingao as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)