Under the influence of the Little Glacier, it was still a bit late in the night in Jiangnan, but Lingnan was so hot that the dog stuck out his tongue.

In the mansion of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, the peach blossoms have faded, but the Bauhinia and azaleas are blooming in full bloom, and the flowers are blooming, which makes people happy.

Zhao Liben sat in an energetic manner in front of the dressing mirror. Ye took three maids to comb his hair and cut his nose hair, and tied his clothes and lifted his boots.

Just clean up, the maid trembled with a black gauze hat, and Ye put it on his head.

The old man slowly stood up and walked out of the house with the help of Cailian and Zanju.

This is the 100th day he has been to Guangdong. He has climbed Baiyun Mountain, traveled to West Lake, drunk Shiquan Dapu Soup, and experienced the sexy dealer. He has finished the appointment with Folang Jiren today, and it is almost time to go back.

In the corridor outside the gate, Lin Huichun, the magistrate of Xiangshan, and Ye Zimei, the official guarding the Macau, representing the imperial court to manage Macau, and Lin Hongzhong, a maritime businessman who has been living in Macau for a long time, have been waiting for a long time.

This time, the old man came to Xiangshan County for negotiations, and the main contact was these three. The first two helped him put pressure on Hongmao together, and Lin Hongzhong ran away as an intermediary.

As for the Portuguese, they can only leave Macau twice a year in spring and summer and trade in Guangzhou. They are not allowed to leave Macau at the rest of the time.

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Zhao Liben was very cunning. When he arrived in Guangzhou, he did not immediately contact the Portuguese, and even did not set foot in Xiangshan County. Instead, he fought with a group of officials from the vassal state government in the provincial capital.

He was the old minister who retired and was treated as an elder by the governor. He was also the arbitrator of the salt merchant in Yangzhou. The grandfather of the famous Mr. Zhao, and he was rich. Naturally, he soon had a passionate fight with a group of officials in Guangdong Province. He held a yacht party all day long and held a feast and a flower party in the sea and sky, and had a lot of fun.

Although the old man appeared to be extremely debauchery, he was actually just using his hobbies to hide his true purpose. While he was drinking and chatting, he found out the details of the Portuguese and, most importantly, the attitude of the Guangdong official towards them!

He found out that Macau was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, and the Portuguese were just living here.

Macau is located in Xiangshan County? Although in the 32nd year of Jiajing, the Portuguese bribed Guangdong Haidao and occupied Macau Island with a stern face, the civil affairs and judicial affairs of Macau people were still under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County. In addition, because Macau is a foreign trade port? Guangdong Haidao is also responsible for its coastal defense matters, and the Maritime Supply Department is responsible for its trade management and tax audit.

Is it because of Macau or the undisputed Ming territory? It is just that the Portuguese are allowed to live and trade on the island.

The Portuguese, who are used to being domineering, don’t want to be so honest? Unfortunately, they lost both of their big attacks on Guangdong, which made them realize that this is a big country that cannot be conquered as easily as a small Southeastern country? They had to lower their stature and focus on bribery? Actively pay taxes, embrace supervision? They also obey the orders of the Guangdong government? Strike pirates and help defend Guangzhou Bay.

After so many years of running-in, especially Zeng Yiben, who defeated the attack on Baietan last year? The Portuguese finally gradually gained the trust of the Guangdong officialdom.

Of course? This is inseparable from the central reconciliation of the two Japanese devils. For example, this maritime merchant named Lin Hongzhong and his companions have become rich by long-term business with Malacca. He has his own armed smuggling fleet? When he was threatened by pirates in Macau, he also fought against the Portuguese. He even joined the Catholic Church in Macau. He has a natural relationship with the Portuguese.

But at the same time, they also obeyed the government's orders and were used as firefighters to relieve the pressure on coastal defense. The "Tuen Mun Sea Battle" and "Westcall Bay Sea Battle" organized by the Ming Dynasty to resist the invasion of the Portuguese, the main force was their father and grandchildren. Therefore, Lin Hongzhong also had the title of Qiangu, the coastal defense household, and his relationship with the government was also very good.

However, in any case, the conservative forces in the officialdom always exist, and they are often honest officials with super combat power, one so-called "enlightened" official who can beat ten so-called "enlightened" officials who are covered in shit.

It is precisely because of the existence of conservatives that the Portuguese have never been able to obtain the right to rent in Macau that they are thinking about. In other words, they are still illegal residents and are illegally stranded!

After finding out this background, Zhao Li already knew how to deal with these red-haired ghosts.

During a drunken affair, he casually raised his mouth to the Guangdong senior official who was playing with him. Governor Lin didn't like the red-haired ghost.

This made Guangdong officials who speculate all day long about where the new governor took office and where these three fires would be lit, suddenly thought that there must be a fire in Macau.

So after all the lords returned, they summoned their staff and wrote a message to Lin Run, saying, "Aoyi secretly occupied Xiangshan Haojingao, Gongchangdu and other places. It has been more than twenty years since then, and has been a huge loss. Although there are restrictions on the mutual market, they are not from our race. The ships are strong and cannons are powerful. They have been a hidden disaster for Guangcheng for a long time!" and so on.

Of course, these guys received a lot of money from Portuguese and maritime merchants, and made clear statements, but their butts were still crooked. Because they gave solutions, they just set up institutions in Macau and strengthened control. The Portuguese army was incorporated into the foreign army system, such as the Miao people and Yao people on land, obeying the orders of the imperial court.

I actually want to legalize it if I say it is wrong.

But those Qingliu conservative officials who adhered to the firm attitude of "defending the barbarians and the Chinese" saw that the situation was good, how could they not take the opportunity to expel foreigners? They hoped to drive all the Folangji people out of Macau, transfer trade to Langbai Sea, and restore the foreign trade system 32 years ago in Jiajing.

In fact, since Lin Run took office, on the one hand, he was still exploring the situation in Guangdong Province, and on the other hand, he spent a lot of energy to mobilize the food and grass of Guangdong Province to support Yin Zhengmao's battle in Guangxi. In this era, the localism in various provinces was very serious, and Lin Runguang's orders were useless. He had to run around in various prefectures and counties in person and lead the army to open warehouses to transfer grain to transport the food away. Otherwise, the gentry mobilized the people and could grab the grain back in minutes.

So he didn't care about the Macau issue? After finishing his work that day, he returned to Zhaoqing and was about to deal with the accumulated documents. He found that the officials in the provincial capital had even attacked the Folang Jiren in unison.

How smart is Lin Run? He immediately became abnormal. Because lending Macau to Portuguese to do business is very beneficial to Guangdong Province and the officialdom is also very profitable. However, this matter is incompatible with the system and is suspected of colluding with foreigners. Therefore, the Guangdong officialdom has always adopted an attitude of not admitting, not reporting, and not knowing.

When the court asks, it will be a symbolic investigation, and drive away the situation. If you don’t ask, just leave it alone.

Therefore, most officials in Guangdong Province should be very secretive about Macau's issues and wish they would forget those red-haired ghosts. How could they rush to express their opinions, fearing that the world would not know? There is only one possibility that they could smell an unusual atmosphere and could not wait to express their opinions in advance and draw a clear line.

Since even the governor has been banned, he must have thought that he, the governor, was going to touch the red-haired man.

But the problem is, I didn’t have time to consider this issue at all, okay? What’s going on in the Guangdong officialdom?

While he was wondering, the door reported that Mr. Zhao had arrived. Lin Run immediately understood that it was this old guy who pretended to be a tiger.

He personally welcomed Zhao Liben into the signing room. As soon as he came in, Old Man Zhao cried and said that he was old and had no idea what to do, and caused trouble for the governor.

Lin Run asked, what's going on? Old Man Zhao told him about the story.

Finally, he said with aggrieved expression: "You said they asked me, don't you know what Zhongcheng thinks of Folang Jiren? Can I still say you like the red-haired ghost? I can only say that you definitely don't like it. Who knows that these people are so sensible and holding chicken feathers as command arrows, and I really think you want to deal with those Aoyi."

"..." Lin Run was speechless after hearing this. He knew that Zhao Li had other tasks in Guangdong besides wintering. Unexpectedly, this old guy was using it.

But just like Zhao Liben said, what else can he say? Say no, I like the red-haired ghost.

He only heard a bitter smile on his nose and said, "You are not wrong, you are not wrong. Who would like a red-haired ghost who is neither human nor ghost? Unless he is a blind man."

"It's not okay for blind people, it's too smelly." Zhao Liben echoed repeatedly: "This red-haired ghost woman cannot be touched. Not only is it smelly, but she has more hair on her body than me."

"Uh..." Lin Run looked at Mr. Zhao, who was seventy years old, and thought to himself, how did you know so clearly?

After a while, I said, "Take care, take care of yourself, go back to Jiangnan early after work... Guangdong is too hot."

"Oh, I forgot if you don't say it." Zhao Liben slapped his forehead and said as if he was just remembering it: "My grandson still has some serious things to do."

"Where is the old man going? I'll send someone to escort you there." Lin Run took the initiative to let him use it this time. Now he just wants to send the old god away quickly and don't let him fan the flames anymore.

"How can you be so embarrassed?" Zhao Liben said embarrassedly: "Xiangshan County."

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Therefore, the old man was sent to Xiangshan County by the Governor's guard. The leader of the guards returned it to the magistrate of Xiangshan. Each of the Australian officials asked them to give appropriate care.

Can these two civil and military officials who manage Macau not serve Zhao Liben like they serve their ancestors?

After hearing that he knew his purpose, Ye Zimei immediately led his troops to Macau to crack down on pornography and gangsters, arrested dozens of red-haired ghosts, and threw them into the Xiangshan County prison.

Major General Domingo, the highest commander of Portugal in Macau, was in panic all day long for rumors in Guangdong officialdom. He felt that he was in trouble. He just lost two large sailboats and a crew member before the New Year, but he was in danger of being driven out of Macau the next year.

If those two big sailing ships were there, he would still have the confidence to not leave. But now he is really unsure of the remaining dozen old gate ships.

Now the government has broken the tacit understanding that officials are not in Macau and openly come in to arrest people. This makes Domingo have to worry about whether this is a prelude to expel them?

He quickly asked Lin Hongzhong to go to the yamen and asked what posture he would be posing this time so that he could let them go.
Chapter completed!