Varadas was completely awake at this moment. He looked at the training of the company's guards for a while and thought to himself: "You must meet Yin Feng and figure out what's going on!"

When Yin Feng was not in the company, Zeng Jingshan was in charge of daily company affairs. Last night, after everyone's discussion, he sent two young members of the guard team to follow Varadas in the name of accompanying him. In addition to Yin Feng and Li Lihua, now

Several people on Taiwan Island are not good at dealing with foreigners. Although Valadas introduced himself as a friend who had a connection with Yin Feng, he had never heard Yin Feng talk about it. He might be a spy from the Spanish, so

You still have to be vigilant.

Valadas could only wander between the inn and the company headquarters in the next few days, and wanted to go to the large playground behind, but was firmly blocked by two young guards. Valadas had been in China for many years and was suspected

It was common for surveillance. He knew it was useless to be angry, so he had to stay in the inn and watch the Bible to live. Ju Wenhui, who was in the same room, was treated much better because he had been traveling all over the town in the past few days.

He told Varadas that the China United Corporation is training a large number of troops, and it is said that it has bought a large number of weapons from foreigners and will be transported to it soon. He also saw it in the coastal harbor of "Tainan Port".

A shipyard is under construction to build a batch of merchant ships.

What was even more surprising was that he also saw a craftsman wearing a cross, probably a Catholic! He was surprised to say hello and ask what was going on, but they were all very busy and had no time to deal with Juventus.

Varadas felt that the company was very mysterious and interesting. He warned Juventus to have a good relationship with the locals. This is a completely different place from the inland Ming Dynasty, full of vitality and mystery. So, the founding of this company

Yin Feng, the leader of the people, should also be a mysterious and interesting person. Baradas is looking forward to meeting Yin Feng, but at this time, Yin Feng is planning an assassination operation in Macau, thousands of miles away from the south.

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Macau has been having a hard time in the past two years because the massacre of Dutch prisoners of war led to revenge by the Dutch; within two years, several Portuguese merchant ships were robbed by the Dutch in Malacca and the Indian Ocean. Last year, the 31st year of Wanli (1603) 6

In the month, the Dutch captured the Portuguese galleon "Catharina" departing from Macau near Malacca. The ship was loaded with valuable artworks, lacquerware, silk and ceramics obtained from China. After being transported to Europe by the Dutch.

, the auction revenue in Amsterdam reached 3.4 million Dutch guilds (about 5.7 million taels of Chinese silver dollars), causing a sensation throughout Western Europe. At the same time when Yin Feng went to Luzon to save people, on July 30, 1603, two Dutch warships were

A brig into Macau's inner port with a brig boat, intercepting the commander of the Sino-Japanese Trade Fleet, Gonzalo Rodrigues de Sousa, a large black ship "Nabaomaru" sailing from Macau to Japan.

The total value of the trophy for the "Netherlands guild is 1.4 million Dutch guilds (equivalent to more than 2 million Chinese silver dollars), of which 2,800 bags were included in the raw silk, each bag worth 500 guilds. The Dutch unloaded the goods on the ship and moved them for 10 days.

The Dutch fired fire at the downtown area of ​​Macau. Fortunately, they did not want to capture Macau, but just avenged their murdered compatriots.

The old pirate Portuguese met the emerging pirate Dutch, and was robbed and suffered heavy losses.

Therefore, when Yin Feng came to Macau this time, he felt that the market here was a bit depressed. It was in the Chinese settlement area in the southern part of the peninsula. Although it was the day when Portuguese ships came from the south to Guangzhou for trade, the coolie who was chatting was still a vague and coolie.

There were piles of sitting there with nothing to do.

Since the beginning of this year, Dutch warships have approached the Macau waters many times. The Portuguese warships in Malacca have been on high alert and have notified that many Dutch ships in Macau have appeared in the South China Sea. This year, the number of Portuguese ships traded in Macau has decreased a lot, and those

There are also fewer Chinese ships smuggled.

The Macau Municipal Council is holding a meeting of parliamentarians to discuss how to deal with the current difficult situation. Bernardo also went to the meeting, and Yin Feng stayed at his home and was drinking tea and chatting with his nephew Andrew. The tea leaves just appeared.

Fujian black tea, the method of drinking tea was also given to the Bernardo family by Professor Yin Feng.

The two of them were on the balcony of the Spanish-style bungalow, looking at the white sails in the harbor in the distance. The young Andrew had just come to Macau from Goa and was very curious about everything. He regarded Yin Feng as a Chinese encyclopedia and kept asking him about each other.

The situation of planting China: "Mr. Yin, does China really have a population of 60 million? God, there are probably not so many people in the whole of Europe! How do you support so many people?"

Yin Feng smiled and replied: "Sixty million is just a count of the officials of His Majesty the Emperor. Many people who avoid paying taxes, wandering around the country and going abroad are not counted. The actual population is more than 60 million.

There are more. What kind of living we Chinese rely on, you can tell if you look at the ports in Macau.”

Andrew looked at the port in the distance with curiosity and said with a smile: "You might as well tell me directly. Uncle Bernardo said that Chinese people speak very implicitly. Haha, I can't see any connection between the port and my problem."

"Diligence." Yin Feng pointed to the port and said seriously: "Diligence is the secret of China's ability to support so many people. You should note that every morning when you Portuguese just got up, we Chinese have been working for a long time.

It’s time for the port to get some Chinese people busy before dawn, and you are still dreaming. When we Chinese people are busy for a day and are about to rest, you may have dreamed in bed."

Andrew nodded: "Really, when I first came to Macau, I always saw the Chinese people busy, and they didn't need to use a whip to drive them, and they never seemed to have to rest. God, your emperor has such a hard-working people, how can you

Will you not protect them?"

"Are you talking about the Manila incident?" Yin Feng's body shook, his eyes closed, and he seemed to see the days and nights of bloody fighting on Luzon Island. He sighed long, but the young Andrew

He did not notice his strangeness, but still touched Yin Feng's wound: "So many people were killed by the Spanish, no matter what, the Chinese emperor should declare war on the Spanish!"

The Bernardo family was a former Spanish Jew who was driven out by the Spanish more than a hundred years ago. They had a family feud towards the Spanish. Andrew said: "There are so many people in China. As long as they recruit 100,000 troops, they can occupy Luzon Island.

.Why is there no news of war?”

Yin Feng took a sip of tea, calmed his emotions and said lightly: "Do you like war so much?"

"No, I just like to see Spaniards get beaten!"

Yin Feng smiled bitterly: "Our emperor treats us businessmen who do business abroad as untouchables. He will not declare war on the killing of us. In all dynasties, only after the royal face was insulted, will he launch an external campaign.

War. The emperor will not go to war for merchants he does not want to manage.”

Andrew thought about the problem according to Western thinking, and could not understand Yin Feng's explanation anyway: "It is impossible, even the untouchables are people protected by His Majesty the Emperor. Tens of thousands of citizens were massacred by people from other countries. No matter what the reason is, this matter

In any country in Europe, it will be a reason for a war to break out."

Although European nationalism has not yet emerged, there are indeed many examples of wars for commercial interests in European history. Yin Feng cannot explain to this young man the difference between dynasty and nation-states, nor can he explain why businessmen are among the four people.

Not yet, when he was planning how to answer, Lin Xiao appeared in a hurry. He said sweating profusely: "The ship owner, you have already inquired, there is indeed..."

Yin Feng raised his right palm and signaled him to pause. Lin Xiao saw Andrew on the balcony at this time, and quickly bowed and said, "Hello, Young Master An!"

Andrew's Chinese is very limited, just a level of greeting, but he knew that Yin Feng and others had something to do, so he said very cleverly and tactfully: "Mr. Yin, I will listen to you next time to tell you about your heroic deeds in Luzon.

I'll go to the city hall first to see if Uncle Bernardo has finished the meeting."

When Andrew disappeared at the stairs, Lin Xiao drank a glass of wine on the table, wiped the sweat and said, "Everyone has been arranged, the brothers of the support team and the cover team have been in place. Chen Zhongji, the kid, also inquired.

Arrived at the residence of the Greek officer: the residence of a monk - a monk. They had just arrived in Macau yesterday, and there were 15 people and 5 people who got ashore. In addition to the officers, there were two other guards and one a ghost merchant.

, a monk in black robe."

"Where is their ship?"

"It's a small boat, our Tang people's sloop, probably the Tang people's sailing ship found by the Greeks in the Port of Manila."

Yin Feng nodded: "Yes, I don't think they will drive the Carac sailboat. So, how about the local pirates contact?"

"Brother Lu's subordinates have contacted most of the sea brothers on the coast of Guangdong. There must be brave men under the reward. Haha, they all come to grab the first prize. Also, our brothers from Yazhou also contacted Guangzhou.

Brothers of the Hanmin, they have already laid a spy near Macau. Even if the Greeks want to escape, they can't escape from the coast of Guangzhou." Lin Xiao sat at the table, poured tea for himself, and drank it in big gulp.

"Thank you for your hard work, these days have been hard." Yin Feng threw an orange to him and watched him finish eating: "Guangze, how sure do you think this action is?"

Lin Xiao frowned: "I said, the ship owner, is it necessary to mobilize such a group of troops? According to me, just kill the missionary's house tonight and kill the Greeks."

"That won't be true. These Westerners value religion and regard missionaries as teachers in China. If you do this, you will stab the hornet's nest if you hurt that missionary."

Lin Xiao scratched his scalp and asked again: "I still don't understand why I have to kill these dependents? How did you know that there will be dependents coming to Macau?"
Chapter completed!