On March 25, the 26th year of Yongli, China's largest trading port, Macau Port.

The Dadongfang armed merchant ship led nine old gate ships, rolled up snow-white waves, and slowly sailed into the front mountain and waterway.

The terrain of Macau is a bit similar to that of Dahao, the big boss Hui family. Macau’s original name is Hao Jingao, and it also has the word “Hao”, which is also a small island close to the mainland.

On the west side of Macau Island, there is a front mountain channel connecting the West River, and on the north side of the island there is a Guanzha River, and on the southeast sides of the island are Modaomen Haikou and Jiuliangyang.

Although Macau Island is surrounded by water on all sides, there is no suitable place for building a good harbor on the southeast sides of the island. Although Guanzha Hanoi on the north side of the island can be moored, it is too narrow after all. Therefore, the most important port on Macau Island is located on the west side of the island, a piece of water belonging to the front mountain channel, but it is called the water surface of the inner port of Haojiang.

If anyone wants to sneak attack Macau from the waterway, they have to break through the entrance of the Qianshan Riverway and enter the inner port of Haojiang.

However, the water surface of the entrance to the front mountain waterway is less than one mile wide, and the waterway is very close to the St. Paul's Battery in Macau. The straight-line distance between the west coast of the waterway and the Macau Battery in Macau is less than four miles.

In other words, the entire front mountain channel is within the firepower coverage of the twelve-pound bronze long cannon on the Macau turret!

In addition to the patron saint of St. Paul's Battery, the Portuguese Macau fleet is also an extremely difficult opponent.

It’s not that this fleet has many strong ships and sharp guns, but that this fleet is equipped with small galleys that are very suitable for moving in narrow waters.

Moreover, these galleys are equipped with many mercenaries who are good at fighting jump gang wars. These people are either adventurers from the West or Japanese mercenaries who have been fighting on the battlefields of Southeast Asia for many years. They are all outlaws.

If a large seaship that comes from the outside is blocked by these desperate small boats at the entrance of the waterway, it will become a living target for the twelve-pound cannons on St. Paul's fortress, and it will be a dead end!

If it weren't for the British Great Oriental, Zhu Hetian's fleet would have been delusional to enter the Inner Port of Haojiang in Macau from the former mountain channel!

Now, Zhu Heying, accompanied by Ji Dabao, Daboling, and the stupid Qing Dynasty sesame official Zhou Chaoxian, who was caught in Jieyang County, stood on the stern deck of the Dadongfang, holding a thousand-mile mirror and looking at the Macau Fort not far away.

"Criminal Master, the location of the St. Paul's Macao Fortress is very tricky. It happens to be between the entrance of the front mountain channel and the inner port of Haojiang. The red cannons mounted on the fort can block the front mountain pass and attack the inner port of Haojiang. It is really difficult to deal with."

The person who was explaining the terrain and defense of Macau to Zhu Hetong was the ninth-rank sesame official Zhou Chaoxian.

This guy and the county magistrate Wu Xiaobao are probably corrupt officials who are not very greedy for money. They have not raised the ransom for just 10,000 taels for a few months!

Moreover, this Zhou Dynasty was even worse than Wu Xiaobao. Wu Xiaobao was gentle and elegant, and he claimed that he had a 15 or 16-year-old lady from his family who could offer it to King Zhu Tian, ​​so he released it without paying the ransom and became the clerk of the Dingwang Mansion.

But Zhou Chao was so dark that he said that he didn’t look like a lady from a family in his family!

So Zhu Hezang planned to tear the ticket, no, he planned to kill him for the flag. Everyone mentioned that Dahao was about to start killing, and was still verifying his true self, the home address he reported saved his life.

This Zhou Chaoxian turned out to be a native of Cuiheng Village, Nanlangdu, Xiangshan County!

According to him, his family has been in business for generations, and his father is one of the top wealthy people in Xiangshan County. Logically speaking, taking out 10,000 taels of silver to redeem him is a piece of cake, but he just waited for a few months, but the money was sent!

So Zhou Chao had to work hard to save himself!

And his way to save himself is to try hard to lead the way. He is familiar with Xiangshan and Macau! He bought it, no, before he passed the imperial examination, he often smuggled between the two places!

However, Zhou Chao would never have thought that Zhu Hezang was more familiar with Macau than him. He had been here in his previous life for many times. He could go down the turret with his eyes closed and then go to the Lisboa Hotel to play for two more times.

Just as Zhu Hezhi held the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and carefully observed the familiar and unfamiliar Macau in front of him, the Great Oriental had slowly entered the front mountain and waterway.

Two Portuguese gallops came up routinely, and the British East India Company ships could only enter and exit the front mountain channel without restrictions. But at this time, the Great Oriental also carried a long list of old gate ships, which was a bit unusual.

Seeing the Portuguese ship coming to check, Zhu Hezhang turned to Ji Dabao and said, "Mr. Ji, go and look at Smith and the others, and tell them not to talk nonsense. If the Portuguese want to check, let them go to the dock of the inner port of Haojiang to check again. If you need to spend some money to deal with it, just ask me for it!"

"The grass-roots follow the order!"

Ji Dabao did not accept Zhu Hetian's official position, Zhu Hetian, the third grandson of Zhu Hetian, was not trustworthy, did not abide by the rules, and was particularly good at raising hatred. Not only was he the number one enemy of the Qing Dynasty, but he also offended the four "world empires" of Spain, Portugal, England and the Netherlands.

Such a master is not worthy of loyalty, so he is now just calling himself a sage.

After getting Zhu and Jin's words, he bowed and went to the bow of the ship to meet Smith, Goff, Jones and the other three.

"Criminal Master," Daboling saw Ji Dabao leave, then approached Zhu Heying and whispered, "Do you really believe in this fake foreigner? The eyes of the slave flickered, and there must be a ghost in his heart!"

Zhu Heying smiled, "If there are ghosts, there are ghosts. Anyway, I can't understand Portuguese. Sister Ling, do you understand?"

Daboling shook her head. Just as she was about to say something, Zhou Chaoxian next to her spoke first: "Criminal Master, the young man can say something about Portuguese, I will help you listen to it."

Zhu Heying looked back at him and nodded in praise, "This is a master of Chinese and Western learning! Very good! But you don't have to listen to what they say, because the lonely family is not afraid of the twelve-pound long cannons on the big turret firing!"

Not afraid?

Zhou Chaoxian thought to himself: "Can Zhuge Liang pass on some tricks to avoid cannons? It must be like this. It seems that I am a blessing in disguise this time and can be a founding hero in the future!"

"Sister Ling," Zhu Heying did not explain much to Zhou Chao first, but said to Daboling, "Go and give orders to Zhao Hongkui, Su Zhanshan and the others! Let him prepare smoke bombs and mobilizers!"

It turns out that Zhu Hezhi’s real killer weapon is smoke bombs and mobilizers!

Smoke bombs are also sugar-drug bullets, but the ratio of white sugar and tinder is different. Without rust, you are not afraid of getting damp. The smoke is even stronger if you get damp! When the smoke comes, the ship will of course be covered. The artillery on the turret cannot see the target clearly, so they can only fight blindly with their eyes closed.

As for the molten bottle, it is easier to make it. Light crude oil and gum arabic thicken, and you can also add some sugar. Then stir it and pour it into the porcelain bottle. When you need to use it, pull out the stopper and replace it with a special cloth strip. After ignite the fire, you throw the Portuguese sail boats and get it over with a molten bottle!

Just as Zhao Hongkui was commanding his brothers to prepare smoke bombs and mooring bottles, Smith, Charlie Goff and Jones were "forced" to coax the Portuguese who stopped the Big East.

Because it was "forced", foreigners of all colors on the Dadongfang were bare-handed and did not carry any weapons.

Moreover, there is at least one soldier with a sword and a soldier in Jinyi's arms around each foreigner!

Smith, Charlie Goff and Jones also followed the Embroidered Uniform Guards behind them, and they also suspected that the Embroidered Uniform Guards who followed them were all senior talents who were proficient in English, Portuguese, Spanish and Latin, so they could only be forced to cooperate honestly to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

"Yes, yes, the Great Oriental plus nine old gates, a total of ten ships are all property of the British East India Company, and can be exempted from inspection into the port according to the treaty."

“The boat is filled with sugar and champagne rum”

"Yes, a whole ten ships of sugar and rum!"

"We have a great boat, Chaozhou Black Rum and Golden Rum. We will sell a batch of rum in Macau and then put it in supplies. We can give you a few barrels of black rum at that time! That's really great rum, maybe the best in the world!"

I don’t know if the friendship between the British and the Portuguese was really so solid, or if the barrels of black rum promised by Charlie Goff played a role.
Chapter completed!