At that time, this Portuguese fleet had eight ships. After one day of repairing on Tuen Mun Island, it was ready to go north again. Because the Portuguese had a serious record in Guangdong at this time, the fleet was blocked by the Ming Navy.

However, the Portuguese relied on the strong ships and the powerful artillery to force the Kaiming Navy to break into the Pearl River (inland river) and arrive at Huaiyuan Post (now the area of ​​Shibafu).

They also knew that they were hated by the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty, so they pretended to be Muslims and claimed that they were here to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Because there were many Muslim countries in Southeast Asia at that time, and there were many small countries, many of them suddenly became extinct, and Guangdong officials were not sure, so they let them live in Huaiyuan Post.

Later, after contacting, they found that they were not Muslims, nor did they have envoy documents, and Franji was not among the non-tributary countries, so they arranged for them to study etiquette at Guangxiao Temple and report this to the court.

The Ming Dynasty court replied that the specialties brought by the Portuguese were converted into silver and returned, the envoys entered Beijing, and the rest of the ships returned (departed from Guangdong).

The Portuguese envoy stayed in Guangzhou to learn etiquette, but the remaining ships did not leave as required, but withdrew from Guangzhou, attempting to occupy the Nanshan Peninsula. Because the Ming Dynasty had troops here, it failed.

So he retreated to Tuen Mun Island and occupied the nearby Kwai Chung Hai O (now the area of ​​Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong, Kwai Chung), to explore the four sides, intending to expand the base.

By 1521 (the sixteenth year of Zhengde), the Portuguese envoy Pilaizi and his translator A San (actually a Han Chinese) finally met Emperor Zhengde in Beijing.

Afterwards, Fired A San was very popular by teaching Emperor Zhengde to learn Portuguese. In addition, Pilaizi had a good relationship with slandered ministers such as Jiang Bin. Fired A San was conscious of his own success and did not take Ming officials seriously, and was often rude.

Something happened.

The Portuguese in Guangdong were naturally even more rampant when they got this news.

However, "the good times did not last long", Emperor Zhengde passed away in April 1621.

Later, Empress Zhang executed Jiang Bin and the Huozhe Yasan according to the opinions of the ministers, and issued an edict to Franji not to come and pay tribute again.

In July, Guangdong officials, according to the intentions of the court, no longer allowed the Portuguese to go ashore for trade.

It was not until Jiajing succeeded to the throne that the court formally ordered the expulsion of the Portuguese and refused to enter the country.

The Portuguese were unwilling to give up, so the "Battle of Tuen Mun Island" broke out.

On the surface, the Ming Dynasty won the victory with its absolute military advantage and successfully expelled the Portuguese. In fact, the Portuguese relied on its strong ships and cannons and was not completely wiped out by the Ming army while its troops were at an absolute disadvantage. A few people escaped.

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After this war, the Ming Dynasty truly realized the power of Fran machine cannons and mesh guns, so it embarked on the road of purchasing imitation...

After being expelled from Tuen Mun Island, the Portuguese were not willing to accept it. After decades, they continued to invade Fujian and colluded with Japanese pirates (pirates) and tried to establish new strongholds along the coast of Ming Dynasty.

But because the Ming Dynasty began to pay attention to coastal defense due to the Japanese pirate rebellion, the strongholds established by the Portuguese were all removed by the Ming government army and none of them could survive.

In vain, the Portuguese still could not establish stable bases on Fujian and the coast of Zhejiang were established. In 1553 (the 32nd year of Jiajing), the Portuguese once again turned their attention to Guangdong.

This year, the Portuguese fleet lied that it encountered a storm, ships were damaged, and cargo was infiltrated, and asked the Guangdong government to borrow a place to dry the goods in a trench mirror.

The request was not allowed by the Guangdong government at first, but after the Portuguese promised Wang Bai, the then deputy maritime envoy, to give him 500 taels of silver a year, the matter was completed.

From then on, Moxijing actually became the Portuguese rented land.

Soon, the Portuguese privately expanded camps, residences, and even built walls, forts and other military facilities, and set up officials to manage them.

By 1572, the Portuguese, whether intentionally or unintentionally, gave the deputy maritime transport envoy 500 taels of silver as in previous years, but they were picked when there were many other officials present.

In order to avoid the crime of accepting bribes, the deputy maritime transport envoy at that time said the five hundred taels were rented by the Portuguese and handed them over to the treasury.

Because after nearly twenty years of semi-public trade and operation by the Portuguese, their rented land in Fujing is like a small town, quite prosperous.

Coupled with other factors within the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty court took the opportunity to formally allow the Portuguese to conduct trade in Macau. As a result, the Portuguese talents officially obtained the right to rent and live in Fujing.

But the territory sovereignty of the hawkjing still belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in order to effectively manage the increasingly prosperous rich mirrors, the Ming Dynasty court gradually set up yamen, officials, and stationed troops in the military and political control of Macau.

In terms of administration, he assigned the Fujing to the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture.

Officials were dispatched by Xiangshan County, setting up three administrative departments, preparing for Japanese and patrolling, and responsible for public security of the treasury. Whether it was Ming or Portuguese, all crimes committed in the treasury were handled by Ming officials in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty.

He also appointed the Coast Defense Tongzhi to settle in Fujing to be responsible for Fujing defense.

Later, the Maritime Warehouse Department was moved to Fujing to facilitate tax collection and to provide certain control over Macau's business.

The officials of the above-mentioned government offices were collectively called the Shou Ao Officer (Hao Jing was also called the Hao Jing Ao at that time).

If the measures and regulations for the rich mirrors formulated by the Ming Dynasty could be implemented effectively, the Portuguese would be just rich mirrors tenants, which was essentially completely different from the concessions in the Qing Dynasty.

Unfortunately, no matter how good the regulations are, the person who implements them cannot do it, and the country's strength is weak, it will be like a piece of paper.

After several decades, in the late Wanli period, the Portuguese saw that the Ming Dynasty's national strength declined from prosperity and ambitions expanded again.

In order to gain the dominance of the Mirror, they began to privately recruit Japanese ronin as thugs, build city walls, and re-assuming the fort.

At the same time, it also accepted Japanese merchant ships that were explicitly prohibited from coming to trade in the Ming Dynasty and launched trade with Japan.

During this period, some officials from the Ming Dynasty also noticed the ambitions and abnormal movements of the Portuguese, and carried out targeted suppression and control.

For example, in the 36th year of Wanli (1608), Xiangshan County Magistrate Cai Shanji took advantage of the civil strife of the Portuguese, sent troops to quell the rebellion, and formulated the "Ten Articles on the Constitution of the O" to severely punish the illegal Portuguese.

In the 41st year of Wanli (1613), Yu Anxing, the assistant of the Guangdong patrol, expelled the Japanese slaves and Japanese ronin who were raised by the Portuguese, and warned the Portuguese not to do this again.

Later, he asked the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhang Minggang to formulate the "Haida Ban" Zhou Yingqi, ordering the Portuguese to abide by it in order to safeguard the sovereignty and legitimate rights and interests of the Ming Dynasty in the Fujing.

Unfortunately, Nurhaci rebelled against Liaodong in the late Wanli period, and the Ming Dynasty was defeated in Sarhu.

In the Tianqi Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty continued to lose battles in Liaodong, and the She'an Rebellion in the southwest ended.

During the Chongzhen period, there were natural disasters. In many provinces, farmers rose up because they could not survive and became bandits and ravaged all over the country. It can be said that they were both internal and external troubles and were extremely weak.

In this case, the control over the rich mirror naturally fell to the bottom.

Zhu Meiyu succeeded to the throne as emperor in Nanjing. Except for moving the former Maritime Warehouse from Haojing and renamed it Customs, he only left it in Haojing as a customs office, and did not take any other measures against Haojing.

Although the Portuguese knows the Ming Dynasty much better than other Westerners, most of the Portuguese who are rich in mirrors are even a little bit sinic and have been associated with the Ming officials and gentry. They know that the Ming Dynasty's national strength has risen sharply in recent years and have achieved a series of military victories.

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But greed still prevents them from spitting out the "food" that has already reached their mouths.

As the negotiations between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands were decided on the moat, the Portuguese forts and other military facilities inside were still not demolished, and many Japanese slaves raised by the Portuguese and the ronin did not expel them, and regarded the many rules formulated by the Ming Dynasty as nothing.

Zhu Ma could not bear this situation, but she felt that she would not mobilize the army to engage in a war.

So he issued an order to Chen Jitai and other officials responsible for negotiating with the Netherlands, so that they could solve the problem of the rich mirror before the negotiations.

First, if the Netherlands saw the Portuguese in the mirror, they would probably look down on the Ming Dynasty, which would increase the difficulty of the subsequent negotiations.

The second is to dig a hole for the Dutch - didn’t you want to negotiate in a place controlled by the Ming Dynasty (Dongfan Island)? I thought it would be possible to avoid it by changing to a treasury?

I just let you know that the rich mirror is also from my Ming Dynasty, and you can only negotiate in places controlled by my Ming Dynasty!

Yesterday, it was a blind date that took a whole day and I didn’t come back until after nine o’clock in the evening, so I could only have a day.

Fortunately, this matter should be over.

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