At this time, Macau had not yet established the position of governor, and there was no democratically elected or appointed resident supreme officer in Macau. Therefore, the commander of the Sino-Japanese Trade Fleet acted as the resident supreme minister, and the commander of the trade fleet acted as the resident supreme minister. The phenomenon of holding office lasted until 1623, when the Kingdom of Portugal formally appointed the Governor of Macau.
When the Chinese United Company's fleet appeared outside the port of Macau, the commander of the Sino-Japanese trade fleet was doing business in Nagasaki, Japan. The current highest administrative body of the Portuguese in Macau is the Municipal Council.
The Municipal Council, also called the Council, is elected.
There are 3 members, 2 ordinary judges and 1 prosecutor general. They are elected every three years. Portuguese people born in Macau and Portuguese free people from other Portuguese territories who have settled in Macau have the right to vote. The term of members is three years. Years can be renewed. Members must be over 40 years old, and ordinary judges must be over 30 years old to serve. Once elected, they cannot refuse to hold public office. If they fail to do so, they will be punished or even lose their civil rights. The election of members It can be carried out freely without interference from the king and the Portuguese-Indian Governor. The Council does not have a full-time head, and three members take turns presiding over the meeting. The Council usually holds a regular meeting once a month, with only members participating; if there are major events, the bishop is often invited , senior clergy and representatives of the citizens held a city-wide conference (conselhoGeral).
Amidst the ringing of church bells across Macau, the city's citizens' meeting has been held at the city hall. The Royal Prosecutor, Anthony Dias, the top local judge in Macau, was also specially invited to attend the meeting during this special period in response to the Portuguese in Macau. An unprecedented crisis for mankind.
The local Chinese are passing through the city and retreating to Xiangshan County through the northern checkpoint. Many local sailors, businessmen, and hawkers have long been reminded by thoughtful people. As soon as the entire city of Macau was alerted, they immediately retreated to the Ming Dynasty government area. , a large number of Chinese people left Macau carrying luggage, crowded but orderly. Those who are interested will find that among the chaotic evacuations, there are always one or two people who stand up to direct the surrounding crowds.
On the street, members of the Municipal Guard were running towards the harbor. Most of them were armed black slaves. The officers were all Portuguese whites. Their weapons were also uneven. Some held matchlocks, some held crossbows, and some were armed. Half of the black slaves were armed with spears and axes.
Among the noisy crowds on the street, near St. Paul's Church, a small group of people clung to the corner of the house and quickly approached the prison set up by the Portuguese in Macau.
The Portuguese have prisons in Macau, which the local Chinese call "shit prisons". The Macau-Portuguese authorities have a certain degree of judicial power in Macau: general civil and criminal cases that occur within the Portuguese (including other foreigners) are governed by The judge holds a court hearing; for major cases, other officials must be summoned to organize a high court for trial, and the case must be submitted to the Governor of Portugal and India for approval before execution; if it is a homicide case.
They need to be tried and executed by officials from Xiangshan County in the Ming Dynasty of China. Generally, prisoners tried by the Macau authorities are imprisoned in the Macau Prison and Shit Prison.
This small team is the members of the China Company's special team led by Colonel Coutre and Luo Aquan. They have been lurking in Macau for nearly two months and have long figured out where Bernardo is being held. The reason why they have not found out until now They took action because Li Lihua had an accident later, and they had an additional rescue mission.
Macau prisons are generally guarded by guards and police officers holding red sticks. The Chinese call them "Red Stick Officers." Now is a period of alert for the whole city. There may be armed municipal guards to participate in the supervision, but Luo Aquan and others simply cannot He didn't take the prison guards to heart. They were elites selected and trained by Yin Feng himself. They were one of the elite escorts. They fought guerrillas with the headhunting natives on the island of Taiwan all the year round, and carried out sneak attacks and pursued unruly pirates along the coast. , the special team has now become a myth among the escorts, there is nothing they cannot do.
Of course, the Chinese company's escort team only has a history of more than two years, and the actual combat experience of the special team is still too little. In many cases, the combat experience of the old mercenary Colonel Coutrey still needs to be learned.
The timing of this rescue operation was actually decided on an ad hoc basis. The China Company's warship suddenly appeared, and there was no way to notify Coutre and Luo Aquan in advance. The hidden informants of the China Company's Military Intelligence Department in Macau also did not receive timely notification. There was nothing that could be done about it. Firstly, the communication conditions at that time were too backward. Flying pigeons could be used occasionally to send messages, but they were prone to errors if used frequently. Either the pigeons were eaten by other raptors, or they did not reach their destination at all; secondly, although The fleet commanded by Yin Feng set off as soon as it received the flying pigeon message from Han Jing. However, the fleet sailed at an unlucky time, just in time for a southeasterly wind blowing on the sea, and was delayed for several days along the coast of Fujian Province before arriving in Macau. The time was five or six days later than scheduled.
Coutre and others did not wait for Yin Feng's fleet within the agreed time, so they had to stop and continue to lurk. On this day, Coutre found out from the royal judge that the prosecutor had decided to let the Inquisition transfer the relevant prisoners to Goa. Judgment, this time, they absolutely cannot wait any longer.
Coincidentally, just as they were preparing to take action tonight, the Chinese United Company's fleet appeared outside the port. In the chaos, Kutre, Luo Aquan and others agreed to take action immediately, take action in broad daylight, and rescue the people. Mixed in the fleeing Chinese crowd and escaping from Macau City, if the Ming Dynasty officials discovered that something happened in Macau and blocked Macau's land ports, making it impossible to evacuate Macau from the land, then the rescue plan would be very troublesome; during the war, , it is really difficult to seize the boat and go to sea at the pier that is tightly guarded by the Macau Municipal Guard.
There is a small church at the entrance of the alley in front, and inside the gate next to it is the Macau Prison. It seems that the Portuguese did not strengthen the defense of the prison. They did not expect that anyone would come to rob the prison.
A total of eight "Red Stick Officers" were guarding the gate, four of whom were Indian guards. The door of the small church on one side was closed and no one came in or out. Luo Aquan and others had already surveyed the terrain here countless times. Every one of them was guarded by Indians. The details are all well understood; what Yin Feng emphasizes the most is the investigation before taking action, and Luo Aquan and others have completely accomplished this.
What happened next happened as quickly as the wind. Four members of the special team armed with small trigger crossbows flew over and shot the four "Red Stick Officers" to death with crossbow arrows. Then they threw away the crossbow and used the daggers in their hands. Quickly dispatched the other four people who had not yet reacted.
Four members of the special team were divided into two groups and guarded at both ends of the street. Colonel Coutre stepped forward and knocked on the door. The red stick officer inside the door had no idea what was going on outside and opened the door without even asking.
The person who opened the door was a black slave. Colonel Coutre immediately covered his mouth and cut his throat with a knife. Colonel Coutre had long known that the guard inside the gate was a black man, so he took action himself; if it was a Portuguese, he would Luo Aquan and other team members will be asked to take action.
More than ten members of the special team swarmed in, quickly moved around each cell room, and quickly killed other guards in the prison one by one. All the guards were in a state of confusion before they died, and had no idea what was going on.
This type of special operations is something that is beyond everyone's imagination, with careful planning in advance, spotting and surveying every detail, and being quick, decisive, and decisive when executing tasks without any sloppiness.
However, the originally perfect rescue operation had an accident. Only Mr. Bernardo was rescued from the cell. Li Lihua was not here. She was not in the Macau prison at all.
I'm afraid rescuing Li Lihua is more important than rescuing Bernardo, and everyone involved in the operation knows this.
When Han Jing came to Macau for negotiations, Yin Feng brought a Portuguese letter to Colonel Coutre through him, repeatedly asking him to rescue Li Lihua intact. The delicate relationship between Yin Feng and Li Lihua, almost all management members of China United Company They are all talking about it in private, and everyone consciously does not discuss it in public. Even foreign shareholders like Kurtre are very familiar with this matter. If something happens to Li Lihua, it will be a big trouble. Kurt While Lei had someone put Bernardo into the Chinese clothes he had brought beforehand, he said to Luo Aquan with a gloomy face: "What's going on? Call Mr. Lu who has been monitoring the prison."
Luo Aquan also had an ugly expression on his face, showing no joy at all about the success of his operation. He walked out the door with a straight face. After a moment, the team member responsible for surveillance stumbled into the room, opened his mouth in surprise, and looked at the corpses on the floor. What? No words can come out.
"What's going on? Where did Miss Li go? You were the one monitoring the gate last night. Didn't you notice anything unusual?" Coutre, who was already very fluent in Chinese, asked the team member named Lu sternly. : "Damn it, if anything happens to Miss Li because of your negligence, go and apologize to Captain Yin yourself,"
"No, I have indeed been monitoring, and there was absolutely no oversight,"
Luo Aquan said on the side: "Mr. Colonel, Mr. Lu is a dedicated soldier, I believe in him,"
Courtre was still very annoyed and said: "You can believe him, and I believe you, but where is Miss Li?"
Luo Aquan looked around the prison, frowned and said, "Is there another exit here, or is there a secret passage or a secret room or something?"
Only then did Coutre and others remember that there was a serious mistake in their actions: the special team members killed them too smoothly, all the guards were silenced, and no one was left alive. There are no living people left.
"Ask the other prisoners," the team member named Lu suggested cautiously.
There was only one black female slave in charge in the female cell. Li Lihua's original cell was next to hers. After Courtre interrogated the female slave, he learned that the fleet of the China Company had just appeared today, and when the city's bells rang, they would immediately Priests from the Inquisition wearing black robes appeared in the prison and took Li Lihua away.
The special team has been monitoring the prison gate and surrounding streets, but has never found any priest entering or leaving the prison. This proves that there is a secret passage or secret door in the prison. There is no time to search for the secret door now. The team members on the outside lookout have already A warning was issued that someone was approaching the prison. Besides, even if the secret door was found, Li Lihua's whereabouts would probably remain a mystery.
The special team quickly evacuated the Macau prison with Bernardo, who had changed his clothes.
At this time, Yin Feng was on the flagship "Flying Dragon" battleship, issuing the order to attack.