"May I ask, Lord Marquis, how to deal with those Xiyi ghosts in Haojing? Should they also be expelled?"

Shortly after Wang Bing led the fleet out of Moon Harbor, Chen Lin, the admiral of the Royal Navy, came to ask Wang Bing for instructions on how to deal with the Portuguese in Hao Jing.

"Lao San, Haojing is different from Nanyang. The imperial court has officials there, who are still managed by Ming officials. The Portuguese only rented the land in Haojing to live in, and they still have to pay land rent and taxes to the imperial court every year.

As for the tariffs, why should we waste time here? We might as well go and fight those Western barbarian ghosts in Nanyang as soon as possible."

After hearing Chen Lin's request, before Wang Bing could say anything, Li Chengming and others, who were eager to rush to Nanyang, proposed to ignore Haojing for the time being.

"What about land rent? It's just that after the Portuguese bribery was discovered, the civil servants had to change their stories in order to get away with it..."

When they heard Li Chengming and others talking about Hao Jing's land rent, Chen Lin and Deng Zilong, two veterans who knew the whole story, curled their lips in disdain.

It turned out that in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, the Portuguese was awarded the title of General by the then Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi for helping the court to exterminate the Japanese pirates He Yaba, and thus obtained the qualification to participate in the Guangzhou Trade Fair that year.

Then at the trade fair, the Portuguese took the opportunity to bribe local officials in Guangdong. I don’t know whether it was intentional by the Portuguese, or the official who accepted the bribe was unlucky. When accepting the money, he was given money by another official.

Found.

Therefore, in order to avoid being accused of accepting bribes from foreigners, the official had an idea and said that the bribe money was the land rent money from the Portuguese for renting Haojing.

At this point, the Portuguese obtained the right from the court to live in Haojing by paying land rent.

Later, as the Portuguese and other Western merchants gradually expanded their territory, the imperial court immediately set up an Ao guard in Haojing and sent a city official to station there. Together with the Ao guard, they participated in the security, defense and taxation of Haojing.

The Portuguese leader was also appointed as a second-level official in the government office of Shou'ao, called "Yimu", to participate in the management of Haojing.

At the same time, I don’t know what those civil servants were thinking, but they actually gave the Portuguese a very special preferential treatment, which was to allow the Portuguese in Haojing to set up their own customs in Haojing and collect taxes from Portuguese merchant ships.

It can be said that the Portuguese in Haojing were managed by the court as subordinate personnel similar to a vassal state.

But as a result, not to mention anything else, in terms of customs tax revenue, the court would not know how much money it would lose every year.

"Haha, with a land rent of 500 taels and a tax of 20,000 to 30,000 taels, these local officials in Guangdong are really 'loyal to the country'!"

After finding out how Hao Jing was loaned out by the Portuguese, Wang Bing couldn't help but sneer!

Like Yuegang, Haojing is also a major external port on the southeast coast. Although it is not a port explicitly designated by the imperial court like Yuegang, the number of ships that come to trade every year is not much less than that of Yuegang.

The imperial court only received 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver in taxes and 500 taels of land rent every year. You can imagine how much money the local officials in Guangdong took from this.

"Third brother, although the Portuguese's method of renting Haojing was a bit dirty, the court has allowed it after all. If we..."

Seeing Wang Bing's attitude, Li Chengming couldn't help but frown.

"Cheng Ming, you don't need to say anything, how can you rent the land? What's more..."

After waving his hand to stop Li Chengming's persuasion, Wang Bing made the decision to take back the rental rights of Haojing.

"As for the imperial court's permission, haha, so what? You have forgotten that we still have the prince. At worst, we can just ask the prince to issue a decree to take back the lease rights, hahahaha!"

In the end, Wang Bing directly pushed out the Crown Prince Zhu Changluo!

"Uncle, you are just a small mirror. My father has asked you to be responsible for the military and political affairs of the southeastern coastal provinces. You have the right to handle it yourself, so why do you need me to issue a princely decree? Besides, if I issue a princely decree,

Don’t all the civil servants know that I’m in the army?”

When Zhu Changluo heard that Wang Bing asked him to give the crown prince's order, he couldn't help but be speechless.

"Why are you so cowardly? You are the crown prince! The most the civil servants can do is whisper a few words in your father's ear. Is there anyone who dares to come to the army to take you back, haha!"

…

"The Prince of the Ming Dynasty taught: In the past, the Portuguese from the West bribed local officials and defrauded the people of Haojing into renting Haojing. Because they believed that they had done a good job in assisting the court in exterminating the Japanese pirates, the court did not pursue the case and still allowed them to rent the land in Haojing... However, now the Dutch barbarians have occupied it.

After Penghu, the Spanish barbarians were so mad that they massacred more than 30,000 of our Ming people in Luzon... In view of the collusion between the Western barbarians, I decided to take back the right of the Portuguese barbarians to rent Haojing. All the Portuguese barbarians' right to self-governance was abolished...

"

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the fleet of the conquest army suspended Haojing. Under the order of Wang Bing, the Prince-in-law Cao Rong led a thousand-man Fujian town army, together with Xiangshan County Magistrate Cai Shanji, Macao officer Lu Tinglong and others, Yu Hao

The Mirror Session Pavilion read out to Anthony 'Yimu' the crown prince's decree that Zhu Changluo took back the lease rights of Hao Mirror.

"Sir, we are wronged! We have never colluded with the Dutch. The Dutch wanted to attack Haojing before, and we tried our best to stop them. As for the Spaniards' massacre of the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is even more incompatible with us.

It has nothing to do with it!”

After listening to Cao Rong read out the prince's decree to take back the Portuguese leasehold rights in Haojing, Anthony couldn't help but screamed that he was wronged.

"Humph, unfair? There is no relationship? Then tell me, what is the relationship between Felipe II and your Portugal? Even the king is the same person, how dare you say there is no relationship?"

Looking at Anthony who was shouting that he was wronged, Cao Rong couldn't help but look cold and directly revealed a fact that the Portuguese could not refute at all.

"This this……"

Anthony, who was still shouting that he was wronged, suddenly couldn't help but change his face after hearing Cao Rong's cold snort and rhetorical question, but he smiled bitterly and could no longer utter a word to refute.

It turned out that in the eighth year of Wanli, King Enrique of Portugal died. Because he had no heir, according to European tradition, Portugal had to choose another member of the royal family closest to him to inherit the throne.

After much selection, the one with the closest blood relationship to Enrique was King Felipe II of Spain.

Therefore, in the ninth year of Wanli, Felipe II, the King of Spain, was crowned King of Portugal.

At this point, Portugal, which had fought with Spain for three hundred years before becoming independent, once again fell under Spanish rule.

Needless to say, the reason why Cao Rong, the prince-in-law, knew this was because Wang Bing, who had the biggest cheating device, told him.

"Don't feel wronged. At the moment, you Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch are organizing a coalition to try to stop our tomorrow's army. His Highness the Crown Prince still allows you to live in Haojing and do business. It is a great favor that you are not driven out of Haojing.

You have to hand over all your weapons within half a day, otherwise, you will all be deported!"

Finally, Cao Rong spoke coldly again, limiting the time for the Portuguese to disarm!

What do you mean when people sit at home and disaster comes from the sky? For the Portuguese who finally obtained the right of residence in Haojing, this is it! It was obviously the Spaniards who caused the trouble, but they were allowed to follow suit.

"I'm your official... I obey your orders!"

Faced with Cao Rong's order to disarm within a limited time, Anthony had no choice but to obey in the end.

There was no way, right at Haojing Port and on the outer sea, there was a huge fleet moored at this moment that made them unable to resist at all!

So far, the lease rights of Haojing, which the Portuguese had worked so hard to obtain, were lost again because of the Dutch and the Spanish. This saved Haojing from becoming what it was in the original history.

Colonial situations occurred.

…

"Third brother, since the Portuguese and Spaniards in Haojing have become one family as early as the ninth year of Wanli, why not give them a 'ga' together? We Han people in Luzon were massacred by them, more than 30,000

People! And even if you don’t want to kill them, you can’t be like this..."

Just when Cao Rong and others were collecting the Portuguese weapons in Haojing, the Zhenhai flagship was moored outside Haojing Port. Li Chengming, Zhang Weiming and other generals who had previously advocated leaving Haojing aside for the time being turned to Wang Bing.

I was very puzzled that these Portuguese people were let off so easily.

"Although Portugal and Spain now have a common king and are a country in name only, it is only in name. In fact, the affairs of Portugal are basically managed by the Portuguese themselves. Therefore, the affairs of Luzon have nothing to do with them...

…”

After shaking his head, Wang Bing began to 'exonerate' these Portuguese people.

However, in fact, it is not that Wang Bing has never thought of treating the Portuguese and Spaniards in Hao Jing equally.

However, in his opinion, the Haojing Portuguese have lived here for a long time. Over the past few decades, they have been too deeply involved with local officials and some people in Guangdong. If they are touched now, it will affect his time to send troops to Southeast Asia.

Therefore, in order to reach Nanyang as soon as possible, he had no choice but to let the Portuguese go for the time being to see the consequences!

…

"Lin Youyi, these weapons and Haojing will be left to you and your brothers for safekeeping. Don't worry, when we get to Nanyang, our Yulin Guards will help you kill more Xiyi ghosts, hahahaha!"

Half a day later, on the city wall fort built by the Portuguese, after handing over the confiscated Portuguese weapons to a thousand Fujian soldiers ordered by Wang Bing to temporarily station in Haojing, Cao Rong could not help but look at the leader with a smile on his face.

A guerrilla general, a 'senior' who 'jumped' from the Yulin Guards to the Fujian Zhenbing.

"You are so young, I am still a Yulin Guard now!"

Seeing that the battle in his hand was gone, Lin Daoqian, who was extremely depressed, was speechless for a while.

"Brother, you have forgotten that the general said that he would treat the Portuguese 'to see the consequences'. They are here called a lease, but they have occupied it for so many years. How can they be so willing? Hehe!"

Seeing Lin Daoqian's depressed look, before leaving, Cao Rong pulled Lin Daoqian aside and chuckled softly.

"You boy, you are worthy of being a prince-in-law. Why did I forget this, hahahaha!"

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