The twenty-sixth year of the Ming Dynasty Yongli, early March.

Macau, as well as the adjacent border gates and former cottages, were already firmly under Zhu Heji's control!

Shang Kexi originally placed a full battalion of soldiers and horses in the Qianshan stronghold near the Guanzha market. However, in order to send troops to Jieyang, the soldiers and horses in the Qianshan stronghold were drained. There were only less than a hundred people left, who could not resist Lin Lin.

The offensive of the Jinyi troops led by Ahu.

After Lin Ahu captured Qianshanzhai, the land passage from Xiangshan County to Macau Island and the customs clearance field was completely blocked.

Therefore, Zhu Heji could calm down and sort out the government affairs of Macau and the Jinyi troops stationed in Macau.

Macau's government affairs are very complicated. You can neither be too indulgent nor too rigid. Too much indulgence can easily lead to trouble... The foreign businessmen and Catholic groups in Macau are very powerful. Among them, the foreign businessmen are very powerful.

There is a citizens' meeting here, and in the past, Macau was co-governed with the Governor of Macau, who represented the Portuguese royal power.

There are even more Catholic groups. In addition to a religious college, a cathedral, and a main church, as many as a dozen religious orders have also set up branches or offices in Macau.

It is no exaggeration to say that Macau is both a country of merchants and a city of religion.

And now Zhu Heji needs to maintain the openness and prosperity of Macau... He also needs to conduct equal trade with European colonists.

His perfume, sugar, rum, ironware from Foshan and porcelain also produced in Chaozhou all needed to be exported through the channels of Western merchants.

Therefore, Zhu Heji adopted a strategy of pressure and pull against these foreign businessmen. The so-called pressure meant temporarily controlling departure. Now they are just not allowed to leave. After the situation stabilizes for a while, other methods may be used to retain them. For example, letting them stay.

They pay a fine and let them pay taxes for their beliefs...

The so-called pull, of course, is to support the Bello family, who is related to the Yanping Palace, to be the first merchants of Macau Portuguese and mixed-race Portuguese.

He asked Bei Jiaxin, the eldest daughter of the Bei family, to be his Latin teacher, firstly because he was eager to learn; secondly, because he really liked beautiful female teachers... Thirdly, of course, it was to establish a relationship between himself and the Bello family.

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As for the religious forces in Macau, Zhu Heji mainly focused on suppression!

The reason is very simple, these gangsters are so damn rich!

Zhu Heji has frozen their property worth one million and several hundred thousand taels of silver, and it is mainly in cash!

How could Zhu Heji vomit out such a huge windfall? And he couldn't vomit it out... because he had to give a sum to Qiu Hui and Qiu Rong! The rest had to be given to the officials and soldiers below.

When it comes to pay, especially since the Jinyi army is about to expand, there are opportunities to spend money everywhere.

Therefore, Zhu Heji is now like those monarchs who initiated the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is impossible to be friends with the Catholic Church anymore.

However, Zhu Heji was very willing to win over Luo Wenzao, the priest who was Xu Guangqi's second, so he not only made Luo Wenzao the bishop of Macau, but also made him the general manager of Macau's shipping, and he and Bello were in charge of Macau's civil affairs.

In addition to foreign businessmen and priests, there is actually a third force in Macau, which is mercenaries. They include Portuguese soldiers, mixed-race Portuguese soldiers, Japanese mercenaries, black slave soldiers, etc. If you include black slave soldiers, the total number is

About 2,000 people. Some were killed or wounded in the previous battles, and more than 200 people ran away with Rodoni, and some were "purged"... not killed, just disarmed, and then placed under house arrest.

In the end, there were 1,200 or 300 people left in the stronghold, and they were all handed over to Aoi Anton to take charge of.

Although Anton Aoi's attitude changes a bit quickly, he is good-looking and dignified, not like a devil, and he is a pure oriental.

Therefore, they were the oppressed class in the original Macau mercenary system. Now Zhu Heji has promoted these oriental faces and asked them to oppress white and mixed-race white mercenaries.

Of course, the status of black mercenaries is still very stable, firmly entrenched at the bottom!

Among all the mercenaries from the East, Anton Aoi has the best attitude and is the fastest to surrender.

And after discovering that Zhu Heji didn't have enough people around him, he immediately sent his daughter Aoi Saiwu to the fort to work as Zhu Heji's personal maid...

With this relationship, Anton Aoi was naturally reused and became Zhu Heji's "head of the barbarian soldiers", leading all the barbarian soldiers in Macau.

While rectifying the treasure land of Macau, Zhu Heji also began to recruit strong men from the customs market to join the Jinyi army - but he did not recruit too many people at once, only more than 1,800 people were recruited.

The twenty territories he brought to Macau were expanded to 150 men each, and the entire army was expanded to 3,000.

The reason why he recruited so few was because he was worried that the pace would be too big to digest... After all, his team had just opened, and it had expanded from one or two hundred young soldiers to three thousand troops in a few months, which was already very radical.

The young men who lead the troops need time to adapt, and the young soldiers do not have enough experience. They cannot be allowed to take charge of the old men from the beginning. They have to let the young men take charge of the young ones. After the young men have accumulated some experience, they have also established some prestige.

, and then let them take care of the adults, then there will be no problem.

Therefore, the first batch of soldiers Zhu Heji recruited from the Guanzha forges were all poor young men aged sixteen or seventeen.

In order to quickly form an army of these 3,000 young Jinyi soldiers, Zhu Heji also ordered Aoi Anton to select a group of mercenaries who knew Cantonese to serve as instructors.

Everything went according to plan and looked very good.

But on the morning of March 8th, when Zhu Heji had finished handling his few official duties and was thinking of going to Zhao Bei for a lesson in Latin, Lin Ahu, who was in charge of managing the customs market, suddenly came flying over.

When they arrived at the Macau Castle, they also brought news that Zhu Heji did not expect.

"What? A plague?"

"Your Majesty, the customs clearance market has made a profit. There are more than 2,000 people suffering from diarrhea, and some people are getting sick one after another!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The worst is dysentery, which can easily break out in places where people gather, sanitary conditions are poor, and drinking water is contaminated!

The Customs and Excise Department seems to be such a place where diseases easily breed!

"Your Majesty, it would be great if the profits really increase now!"

"That's right, Your Majesty, there are tens of thousands of people over there at the Guanzha Gate... If only ten or twenty thousand of them fall ill, what should we do?"

"Your Majesty, we must seal off the market to prevent the immune disease from spreading to the island of Macau!"

"Your Majesty...you have to be careful over there in the former village!"

When Military Advisor Zhuge, Master Guo, Luo Wenzao, and Da Bo Ling received the news, they all arrived at Zhu Heji's study as soon as possible and began to give Zhu Heji advice.

It's said to be a suggestion, but they don't have any clever ideas, and even this idea is a bit bad.

Zhu Heji, on the other hand, was quite confident... He might not be able to deal with other diseases, but this diarrheal disease was really not a problem for him.

Moreover, in his view, this epidemic is not only not a crisis, but even a God-given opportunity!

Because Zhu Heji happens to know the extraction method of an antibiotic that can treat dysentery and common diarrhea...this antibiotic is allicin!

As a senior perfume expert, Zhu Heji himself is very proficient in extracting the essence of various spices...including extracting the essence of garlic! Because he once tried to produce a "garlic-flavored" perfume!

That's right, it's the smell of "garlic bone"! People who have never worked in this industry cannot imagine that the distance between perfume and the kitchen is so close... What about peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, etc.

Cardamom and bay leaves can all be used to make perfume, and of course garlic can be used!

Although the "garlic bone" flavored perfume ended up being a joke, Zhu Heji still mastered several methods of extracting allicin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and three of them can be used in the 17th century

Tools for local extraction!
Chapter completed!