When Ma Shiqialu heard this, his expression changed. No wonder the Duke knew that the companion he handed over was a fake, and now he is asking himself to hand over the person who really protected the smugglers. He had a share in the protection!
Thinking of this, he stammered and replied: "This... this, please speak, Lord!"
"The Ming Dynasty currently has insufficient anti-smuggling ships at sea and cannot expand the scope of anti-smuggling at sea. Therefore, I plan to recruit the idle warships of the Portuguese in Macau to participate in this anti-smuggling operation. How about it?"
As soon as Zhong Jinwei made this request, Ma Shijialu breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that it was not about making friends, so that was fine.
"The prince has an order, and I dare not disobey it. But I have to go back and see how many warships are available." Ma Shijialu quickly agreed, but his authority has not yet reached the level of making the final decision on everything.
, we still have to go back to discuss it, so we are not sure about the number of battleships.
Zhong Jinwei obviously knew what he was doing, but he didn't point it out. He just nodded in agreement and said, "I have already mentioned the benefits of anti-smuggling to you. As for how many free warships you have and how much you can contribute to anti-smuggling, it depends on your wishes."
"The villain dare not, the villain will try his best." Ma Shijialu quickly expressed his stance after hearing this.
The matter has been settled, Zhong Jinwei stopped arguing with the Portuguese and directly told him: "Okay, then you go back and take a look first."
Upon hearing this, Ma Shijia Lu felt that the matter was finally settled. In accordance with the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, he kowtowed again and then slowly faced Zhong Jinwei and exited the lobby.
The magistrate of Xiangshan County witnessed the whole process from the side, and he was completely convinced.
Duke Xingguo just used his words to get the Portuguese to hand over not only the smugglers, but also the Portuguese who were sheltering the smugglers. Although judging from his experience, these Portuguese handed over may not actually be sheltering the smugglers.
If you are a member of the Communist Party of China, if you have such an idea, who would take this kind of thing seriously?
Fortunately, now, Duke Xingguo also asked the Portuguese to send warships to help the Ming Dynasty in anti-smuggling at sea. It can be said that the anti-smuggling crisis was solved in succession, and the anti-smuggling force was strengthened.
In the current Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that only Duke Xingguo has the ability to make the Western barbarians surrender and not dare to resist at all.
Zhong Jinwei did not expect that the magistrate of Xiangshan County on the side would already admire him in his heart, just like the water of the Yangtze River flowing endlessly, like the Yellow River flooding out of control.
He told the magistrate of Xiangshan County: "Go and send an order for Zheng Shoubei to come to see me. There is no need to block the Macau port anymore."
"I obey the order!" The Xiangshan County Magistrate bowed to accept the order and left the office with high spirits.
"My lord, I didn't expect the Portuguese to be so easy to talk to. They are indeed a country that has good relations with our Ming Dynasty!" When Wang Peng saw that they were the only guards in the lobby, he couldn't help but sigh to Zhong Jinwei.
After hearing this, Zhong Jinwei looked at Wang Peng, smiled and shook his head and said: "That's not true. These Portuguese are actually the same as the Dutch before. If my Ming Dynasty is strong, they will surrender. If my Ming Dynasty is weak, they will surrender."
They will be tyrannical in the land of the Ming Dynasty. When you get the chance, if you go out, you will see many countries being bullied by them because they are weak."
"The Duke has the power to destroy the Dutch, but these Portuguese people dare not expose their true nature in front of the Duke." Gu Baichuan was also very emotional and followed.
After hearing this, Zhong Jinwei said with a smile: "To deal with these Western barbarians, you have to have a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, and they will be obedient to your use."
When the guards heard this, they all agreed deeply. Among them, Gu Baichuan was even more thoughtful. Not only Xiyi, but also other people, in fact, don't they all need a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other?
Zhong Jinwei didn't have to wait long at the Xiangshan County Yamen when Zheng Zhihu and Ma Shijialu came back in time.
Mascara is here to report that a total of three-prow warships can be produced for the Duke to recruit.
Zhong Jinwei did not comment on the number of warships, and directly asked Zheng Zhihu to command and arrange the three-prow warships. He asked him to further expand the scope of anti-smuggling at sea, improve the level of anti-smuggling, and ensure that smuggling in Guangdong Province no longer occurs.
The number of warships doubled at once, which gave Zheng Zhihu more confidence. Therefore, he patted his chest and made a pledge to Duke Xingguo.
After everything was done, Zhong Jinwei no longer stayed in Xiangshan. He returned to the Shibosi Yamen in Guangzhou the next day to supervise the progress of the entire anti-smuggling situation and the operation of the Shibosi.
About half a month later, whether someone was complaining or applauding, the continued crackdown has made smuggling in Guangdong Province disappear, at least for now.
The Municipal Shipping Department has also begun to operate smoothly. Import and export cargo ships are queuing up in order to wait for the Municipal Shipping Department to inspect, collect taxes, and issue vouchers.
After Zhong Jinwei saw this situation, he breathed a sigh of relief. Only in this way can the court use different tax policies to regulate the import and export of different goods. Keep the goods that you don't want to sell, and increase the import of goods that the Ming Dynasty needs, such as
food.
On this day, he was working in the Yamen of the Municipal Shipping Department. Suddenly, his bodyguard sent a message saying that there was an urgent delivery coming from the capital.
He didn't know what happened, so he quickly asked someone to fetch the express delivery. After taking a closer look, he breathed a sigh of relief. There was no bad news that suddenly appeared in the express delivery, just feedback on some things.
The first thing is that the Beijing camp has replaced most of the flintlock guns and they have been shipped from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Guangdong.
The second thing is that the Pili Brigade and the troops of Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang have been sent to Yunnan and Guizhou to obey Zhu Shangshu's dispatch. Special arrangements were made for the restless chieftains.
In addition, many envoys have been sent to the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan to describe to the chieftains the benefits of building cement roads. They emphasized the wealth that cement roads brought to the chieftains in order to implement Zhong Jinwei's method.
As for the method of traditional Chinese characters and pinyin, this work has also been presided over by Wen Tiren, the chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Zheng, the minister of Shandong Province, and a group of private scholars.
Emperor Chongzhen knew that Zhong Jinwei might not know Wang Zheng, so he also made a brief introduction in the express delivery.
Wang Zheng's scientific achievements were known as the Southern Xu (Guangqi) and Northern King (Zheng) in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. In the sixth year of Tianqi, he cooperated with Westerners and notated a book called "Western Confucianism Ermuzi" in Roman characters.
Already have experience in Pinyin.
At the end of the express delivery, Emperor Chongzhen also mentioned the Shanyi Society and Xu Zhengming incidentally. He said that Zhong Jinwei came to Guangdong and discovered a lot of good things, and he hoped that Zhong Jinwei would discover more.
As for clan affairs, it is not appropriate to touch them now. We can only wait for other matters to come to a conclusion, and then slowly follow Zhong Jinwei's method to infiltrate the clan forces that influence the countryside.
After Zhong Jinwei read it, he was about to write a memorial to Emperor Chongzhen when he suddenly reported that Liu Xingzuo, the commander of the Jinyiwei stationed in Zhanjiang, had sent someone to ask for an audience.