Bugalo, who had no idea of ​​the situation, immediately sent someone to Qianshanzhai to protest to the Taiping Army, believing that Zhou Shixiang's request for garrison was very unreasonable, and the public security in Macau was also very good, and there was no bandit problem. Therefore, the Portuguese did not need any help from the Taiping Army.

Bugalo also angrily condemned the Taiping Army's blockade of Guanao City as an extremely barbaric act. This move will cause the Portuguese and all Westerners in Macau to be troubled by disease and hunger. If the Taiping Army continues to insist on such barbaric behavior, the Macau authorities will protest to your court and reserve the right to take the next step.

In response to this, Zhou Shixiang's response was that Macau has been the territory of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times. The reason why the Ming Dynasty allowed the Portuguese to live in Macau was that it was completely a humanitarian spirit that pitiful of these Westerners who came from afar, so that they could have a place to stay without wandering on the sea all day long. However, this does not mean that the Ming government gave up its jurisdiction over Macau and gave this territory to the Portuguese. Therefore, as the general officer of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Guangdong, Zhou Shixiang regarded sending condemnation troops to Macau to maintain public order as a matter within its duties. It was also an important manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's jurisdiction over Macau, which was completely in line with the law and morality.

"Of course, if Governor Bugalo must protest to the court, then I will not obstruct. Oh, our court and His Majesty the Emperor are in Kunming, Yunnan, which is far from Xiangshan. You have to send people quickly, otherwise it will take too long. Before this, my army will not lift the blockade of Guanao City Wall, and will also send a navy to the waters around Macau to prevent pirates from raging."

"I hope you can understand that our actions are entirely for the long-term stability of Macau. We have no intention of treating you as our enemy, but we have noticed that many spies and pirates from the Qing Dynasty used Macau to cause harm to our army, so we must send troops into Macau to eliminate those threats."

"Please go back and tell Governor Bugalo that if he can face up to the jurisdiction of our Ming Dynasty over Macau, then I can sit down and have a good talk with him."

Zhou Shixiang friendly reminded the envoy of the specific location of the Ming Dynasty court, and at the same time intimidated the navy to block the waters of Macau. Finally, he said that he could negotiate with Bugalo in order to reach conditions that both sides could accept.

There was no navy, Zhou Shixiang, and the Taiping Army's water camp currently has only more than a thousand people. There were only two warships. All they could do was to use the rivers of Xiangshan to transport materials. It was a dream to go out to sea to block Macau.

However, the Taiping Army did not have a naval army. But it does not mean that Zhou Shixiang could not get help from the navy. The Ming army in Guangdong lacked nothing and could do nothing, but it did not lack warships, nor did it lack naval officers and soldiers who could fight water.

The navy of General Linghai Chen Qice was the most powerful navy force that Zhou Shixiang could leverage. Chen Qice's troops, who had hundreds of warships, were much stronger than the Portuguese, who had only a few warships. As long as he was willing, he could spend some money and food to ask the old general to send some warships from Tanjiang to sea to Macau to scare the Portuguese.

As for the Portuguese navy, it was a joke. Zhou Shixiang never worried. According to Xiao Bailang, there were only a few Portuguese warships in Macau, and the main force of their Eastern fleet was in Goa, India, and it would take as long as half a year to arrive from there.

Half a year is enough. When the Portuguese fleet in Goa arrives, the daylily will be cold.

At sea, the Taiping Army may not be able to defeat the Portuguese. On land, the Portuguese have to consider whether they have the ability to land and fight for a long time.

Bugalo's messenger left the former village in anger.

Zhou Shixiang was not in a hurry, the blockade had just begun. Judging from the blockade situation in the past few days, the Portuguese were far from being anxious to jump over the wall - they still had some savings.

The right battalion of the infantry army transferred back from the northern line assumed the heavy responsibility of blocking the Guanao city wall. The 10-mile area along the city wall was a forbidden area, and no one could approach it. Let alone transporting food, fruits and vegetables to Macau behind the city wall.

The village security teams in the villages in the former village also set up checkpoints on all roads to Macau to prevent those smugglers from secretly transporting grain to Macau. In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the villagers, Zhou Shixiang promised that if the villagers actively reported suspicious figures to the Taiping Army, once the investigation was found, they would be rewarded.

Shao Chengguo's cavalry was also transferred here, searching for smugglers who tried to cross the blockade line and smuggle to Macau every day.

The blockade against Macau can be said to be a narrowing board of the Qing Dynasty's sea ban. These days, in order to shock those smugglers who took risks, the Taiping Army also hung some heads outside the Guanao city wall.

These people were captured and killed on the spot because they secretly crossed the border. However, the Taiping Army did not kill them without asking about the Qing Dynasty like the Qing Dynasty. They just chopped off the smugglers and bandits among them. The rest of them secretly wanted to transport grain because they were concerned about the lives of their relatives in Macau, confiscated their grain and detained them for several days before releasing them.

In order to completely block the Guanao City Wall, Zhou Shixiang issued a strict order, and no one should be favored. Anyone who dares to let anyone go privately will be found. Once seized, the officers and soldiers responsible for the blockade will be severely punished. If the circumstances are serious, they will even be immediately subject to military law.

Under this strict order, it took only three days for the Guanao City Wall, which lasted more than ten miles, was completely blocked, and within ten miles there was no one else except the Taiping Army patrolling.

The Portuguese had no way to obtain supplies from the sea because most of the coastal areas of Guangdong were controlled by the Ming army. However, in case of precautions, Zhou Shixiang still sent someone to ask Chen Qice to cooperate and transfer some naval warships to the waters of Macau. At the same time, Chen Qice and Zhu Tong helped to contact the Ming army units along the coast, hoping that they could cut off any maritime transactions with Macau, so that the Portuguese could not obtain grain supplies from the coastal areas of Guangdong.

For this reason, Zhou Shixiang was blackmailed by Zhu Tong again, and one-quarter of the supplies stolen from the two northbound two times were sent to Xinhui. In addition, under Zhu Tong's coordination, Zhou Shixiang received 30% of the supplies after the success of the work received help from various departments of the Ming army along the coast. These included General Wang Xing, Hu Ben, and King Zhu Yue, Tang, in Wen Village, Taishan.
Chapter completed!