"Who are you? What qualifications are you to surrender to the Portuguese Macau to the lonely family? Where is Rotoni? Where is San Paul? Why don't they surrender?"

"The prince, the little old man is the acting bishop of Macau, Luo Wenzao. Macau Governor Rodoni and Bishop Sang Paul left an hour ago on the Angel Gallery parked at the dock outside Macau."

"Run? Go back to Europe?"

"I'm afraid I don't dare to go back to Europe. They lost Macau and didn't dare to go back to Europe. They should have gone to Guangzhou to be slaves to the Qing Dynasty."

"What? Become a slave to the Qing barbarians? They are not afraid of embarrassing."

A surrender ceremony is underway outside the west gate of the outer city of St. Paul's Fortress in Macau.

Zhu Hezang's army had actually entered the city, and had built barricades inside the city gate, lances were set up, and mortars were set up to fire super-caliber flowering bullets, and musketeers were also deployed on the city wall.

In addition, Andong Aoi, the "Ghost Leader Party" who had made meritorious service as soon as he joined the gang, also led a group of old men and priests dressed in black robes and Red Riding Hoods out of the city, saying that they were coming to surrender on behalf of the Portuguese Macau. The leader was Luo Wenzha who had heard Jesus speak before.

As soon as Rotoni, San Paulo, de Figo and more than a dozen other Portuguese priests and warriors ran away, a situation of no leader appeared in Macau. Although there were a lot of monks in this and that monks in the city, the roots of these monks were in Europe, and no one dared to be the surrendered bird.

After searching for it, there was only Luo Wenzha, the "Hu Jianren", who was not afraid of the Holy See, nor was he afraid of the Portuguese Regent. So everyone could only pinch his nose and elect Luo Wenzha as the acting bishop. He asked him to negotiate the surrender and surrender, but he could not be unconditional. He had to negotiate.

"Criminal, please check this list!" Luo Wenzao surrendered "at the order of Jesus", but "whether it is beautiful or not" is also related to his future.

So he used that hour of surrender preparation time to prepare a list of property for the church and the Governor's House!

Zhu Heying took the list and saw that what caught her eye was her beautiful calligraphy.

Obviously, Bishop Luo is a great talent who is well-versed in Chinese and Western learning!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heting started to read the content on the list again, and this is the key!

"There are forty 12-pound long cannons, and the 8,820 heavy convex guns are so many? How many people in Macau are there? How many muskets are there?"

Luo Wenzao had known that Zhu Hezhi would have this question for a long time, so he replied with a smile: "Report to the Prince, there are more than 5,000 Portuguese people in Macau, and there are seven or eight thousand black slaves, and more than 13,000 people in total. Among them, there are about two thousand people who can carry guns, and they can all be used by the Prince."

"More than 2,000 people are equipped with more than 8,800 guns? One person carries four guns?"

"The prince doesn't know that the governor of Macau will be replaced every few years. Most governors come from Europe and spend money. So after taking office, they have to do some military preparations."

He said this and it was over, and he understood everything!

The world is like a crow, and being an official thousands of miles away is a fortune! Moreover, the Portuguese governors come from thousands of miles away, so how can they not make money? So after each governor comes to power, the first thing is to send orders to the blacksmith shop and Bujialao gun factory in Foshan. If you don’t buy good ones, you only buy expensive ones!

The heavy-duty combing gun, which is the so-called turtledove foot musket, is just one of the arms projects purchased by these Macau Governors.

In addition to muskets, they also reserved a large number of ship helmets, light plate armor, spears, swords, nail hammers, halberds, axes and other various weapons and equipment for the Macau colonies. With muskets, the number is enough to arm an army of 15,000 people!

The Governor's Office of Macau also reserved a large amount of gunpowder and food in the Fortress of St. Paul to deal with the long-term siege of the enemy.

In addition, in order to be able to fight outside the Fortress of St. Paul and the invading place, the Governor of Macau even set up a military horse farm and raised more than 100 Lusitano horses!

Seeing that Zhu Heying had read the list of military preparations in Macau, Luo Wenzao handed over another list and said with a smile: "Criminal, this is the inventory list of Macau's Bishop, St. Paul's Cathedral, and St. Paul's Theological Seminary!"

The Governor's Office of Macau spent more money and saved less, so the list of weapons and equipment was a long list, but only a little saving was saved. Zhu Heying didn't care at all. However, the list of vaults for the Diocese of Macau, St. Paul's Cathedral and St. Paul's Seminary was delivered, and Zhu Heying's eyes were lit up.

"So much money? There's so much money!" Zhu Heying stared at the Chinese characters and numbers on it, and couldn't help but scream. Then he didn't care about his composure and raised his head and asked, "Where did you missionary people get so much money? Why do you want so much money?"

Luo Wenzhao smiled and replied: "Criminal, you don't know that this Macau Island is a Catholic mission center east of Malaya, including the bishops and main clergy of many dioceses such as Chinese diocese, Japanese diocese, Korean diocese, Vietnam diocese, etc. They are all under the jurisdiction of the Bishops of Macau. Before taking office, they will also study at St. Paul's Theological Seminary in Macau. Therefore, Macau naturally became the place where Catholics' wealth storage is east of Malacca!

As for the source of these wealth, it is mainly the donation of believers. In addition, the church itself will also engage in some financial businesses, such as money lending and remittance."

Luo Wenzao paused and said, "Criminal, if you are willing to maintain the current situation of the Catholic Church in the east of Malacca, then the church is willing to give you the wealth stored in Macau to you as a protection fee."

Zhu Hetian glanced at Luo Wenzao, "Protection fees? Are these money not spoils?"

"This" Luo Wenzhao explained with a smile, "If your enemies are not the Grand Duke Church, then these wealth will not be your spoils. After all, they belong to the church rather than the Governor's House of Macau."

"I understand!" Zhu Hezang nodded, "Biden Luo, I will temporarily freeze this money."

"Frozen?" Luo Wenzao was stunned, "What is freezing?"

Zhu Hezang explained: "The freezing means that the money is still from the church, but it must be kept by us. The church can no longer withdraw and use it until our Ming Dynasty court and the Roman Catholic Church reach a new agreement."

Luo Wenzao was stunned and stunned. How could he do this? Money belongs to the church, but the church just cannot be used! Not only can it not be used, but even a glance and touch it may not be possible.

Zhu Hezang then said: "At the same time, the Ming Dynasty court will also freeze all activities of the Dagong Church in China except Macau!"

"What?" Luo Wenzao was shocked. He originally thought that Zhu Hetong would not take too strict attitude towards the Catholic Church, but he did not expect that he would "freeze" all Catholic activities in China!

Of course, he cannot control the whole of China now, so the actual scope of application of this "freeze order" is very limited.

But there is no doubt that Zhu Hezhan's position towards the Catholic Church is not very friendly. However, the Macau Church now has no bargaining qualifications to bargain with Zhu Hezhan, only the Holy See, the Kingdom of Portugal, and perhaps the Kingdom of England.

Seeing Luo Wenzao's face was surprised, Zhu Hezang said to him with a gentle voice: "Mr. Luo is well-versed in Chinese and Western learning, and his talent is not inferior to Xu Wending. Moreover, he has such talent and does not serve in the Qing court. He is obviously unwilling to be a barracks for the Tartars. The lonely family wants to revive the world, so he wants a scholar like Mr. Luo, not to do it for the Roman Pope, just be the lonely Macau bishop and general manager!"

Luo Wenzao has been waiting for this sentence for a long time!

He has been with the Grand Duke Church for so many years and cannot even be a bishop. Is this fair? This is unfair!

It’s better to change to a wise master. Will it be better to be either a Grand Secretary or an Archbishop in the future?
Chapter completed!