"Macau has been cleaned up and reorganized. Two battalions of troops have been stationed in Macau. The Prime Minister of Xiangshan County has also moved to Macau and established a permanent office. In addition, the Guangzhou Shipping Department has also established Macau Customs in Macau."
“All Portuguese people on the island have been censused and registered, and residence permits have been issued to those who meet the requirements. A total of 913 residence permits have been issued. Another 17 people have been found guilty of plundering at sea, robbery and theft along the coast, and human trafficking.
, has been arrested, interrogated, and taken to Guangzhou Prison after conviction."
"There are more than 470 people who are mixed-race children of Portuguese married women from the Ming Dynasty. According to the latest law, for these people, if both parents are Yi, they are Yi, and if one parent is Xia, they are Xia. Therefore, they are given Ming household registration
.”
"The remaining black slaves and Nanyang slaves on the island are tens of thousands. They were originally the private property of the Portuguese, but according to our Ming Dynasty laws, it is forbidden for the Chinese and Yi people to keep slaves, so they are all classified as long-term workers under the supervision of the Royal Young Mansion and given
Temporary residence permit and work permit.”
"In addition, people born of mixed blood between the Portuguese, Japanese, and Nanyang people are also barbarians according to regulations. After registration, they will still be issued a residence permit."
Zhang Huangyan, the governor of Guangdong, reported Macau affairs to the emperor face to face.
Surrounded by Zhu Chenggong's navy and the emperor's tough attitude, Macau's governor, justice, city council, etc. were all cowed. They had no power to resist.
After receiving the Ming Emperor's promise that they could continue to live in Macau and continue to trade, they finally had no choice but to surrender.
It was impossible not to surrender. The Portuguese had already weakened in recent years. They were retreating all the way in India, Ceylon, and Malacca. Each colonial stronghold was captured by the British and the Dutch. Many Portuguese in colonial strongholds were even massacred.
Although there are not many Portuguese in Macau, many of them have settled there for several generations. They are very different from the local Portuguese. Although after their efforts, the King of Portugal also issued an order to recognize Portuguese children born in those colonies.
, also Portuguese.
But after all, Macau is just a distant stronghold, especially after losing Malacca. It is an isolated stronghold and they are unable to protect it.
Being able to stay is better than being captured, driven away or even massacred.
Although the Portuguese were very dissatisfied with the conditions proposed by the Emperor of Heaven, especially the expropriation of their houses and shops on the island and the confiscation of their slaves, this was one of the necessary conditions for them to stay.
Other rights such as autonomy, building forts and armies, collecting taxes, and judiciary were taken away, not to mention that there were no conditions at all.
Zhang Huangyan personally went to the island to handle the matter.
Zhu Chenggong led the imperial fleet and the power of regaining Taiwan and defeating the Dutch. He went directly to the island, took over the forts and castles, stationed troops in every street and alley, and then confiscated their weapons from house to house.
Then the magistrate of Xiangshan County went to Macau to open a government office. The government office had six rooms and three teams, and the subordinate officials started working to organize households and people.
The castles, houses and shops built by the Portuguese were all confiscated and appropriate compensation was given.
Their parliaments and courts were all cancelled, and the governor was sent away from Macau and returned to Goa by ship.
Macau actually does not have a real army. In the past, the Governor-General of Goa, India, would send a merchant fleet over every year. The armed merchant fleet had a commander. After he arrived in Macau, he would stay in Macau for a few months and wait for the next year.
When the monsoon came and he returned to the sea, this period was also a trading time. During this period of time in Macau, he became the top military and political leader of Macau, and the soldiers on his ship naturally became the armed force of Macau.
However, because of frequent conflicts between the Macau Parliament and this commander, the governor was officially appointed as a permanent governor in recent years. After his arrival, the governor also began to seize administrative power and even formed a mercenary team. Even when a battle broke out, the Portuguese
Everyone is also obliged to fight and defend.
Now when the Ming army went up, they confiscated weapons, drove away the governor, and reorganized the people into households.
Residence permits are issued to them and reviewed once a year. If they violate the regulations for living in China, their qualifications will be cancelled, they will not be renewed, and they will be deported.
They can still continue to live in their current houses, but they have no property rights and will have to pay rent to Daming in the future. They can also continue to rent the shops they operate, but they need to pay industrial and commercial taxes, fees, etc. on time.
The original customs was also taken over by the Guangzhou Shipping Department of the Ming Dynasty. Taxes were no longer guaranteed, but collected according to law.
There are less than a thousand Portuguese on the island, so they can't really make waves.
They used to rely on the colonial model and owned tens of thousands of African and Southeast Asian slaves, as well as hundreds of people of mixed blood who were born to residents of the Ming Dynasty, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc.
Tens of thousands more Ming people were hired to work in their artillery factories, shipyards, etc.
When Zhu Yihai first launched his army, he gave a lot of orders to the artillery factory in Macao, which made the artillery factory prosperous, expanded in scale, and recruited many Chinese workers in Guangdong.
Now according to Zhu Yihai's request, the Bujialao Cannon Foundry was restructured, with Zhu Yihai's Royal Shaofu Supervisor occupying 30% of the shares, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty occupying 40%, and the former Portuguese people of Bujialao occupying 30% of the shares.
After the restructuring, joint-stock operations were established, a new board of directors, a board of supervisors, etc. were established, each occupying a director seat, and a new management team was established. After the restructuring, the gun foundry was preserved, and even received more orders and higher profits.
Although the Portuguese gave up 70% of their shares, if they did not cooperate, the artillery factory would lose orders from Ming Dynasty. With their current situation, they would not be able to survive at all.
Macau's shipyards, gun factories, etc. have basically undergone such restructuring.
After the restructuring is completed, the Portuguese jobs in Macau are basically intact. However, they will no longer be able to enjoy the autonomy of a country within a country, but at least they can continue to live in Macau. Even those with skills in those factories will still receive the same benefits.
Quite high.
Those who engage in business and open shops can also continue to operate.
There were also losses. Land, houses, shops, even castles, churches, ports, docks, and forts were all returned to the court, and even their slaves were taken away.
They were also deprived of the right to buy, sell and keep slaves in Macao and were only allowed to hire slaves.
"It's thanks to you Cang Shui that Macau can settle down so quickly. After He Tengjiao returns to the court this time, he will not return to Guangdong and Guangdong again. I plan to let you serve as the governor of Guangdong."
"Your Majesty, I don't dare accept it. I am only on patrol."
Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "Don't refuse in a hurry. Although it was only the seventh rank before the patrol, I changed the official system before and it was already the fifth rank. You first patrolled Fujian and then Guangdong. You worked hard in the local area.
Running around and working hard has achieved great results. In fact, you should have been promoted long ago. It's just that Lingnan needed you before, so I felt wronged by you.
Now this time we have to adjust the officials in Lingnan together and put you in the right position."
Inspectors, governors, and governors may seem similar in appearance, but in fact they are very different in terms of grade.
Before the Shaotian Dynasty, the governor was actually an official sent by the central government to patrol local areas on behalf of the emperor. At the earliest, he was divided into governors dispatched by the Ministry of Household Affairs and governors dispatched by the Ministry of War. Later, the powers were gradually unified, and the governor became a universal and permanent position.
The governor then added the constitutional post of the Inspectorate of the Capital, and later he also added the title of Minister of War.
After Jiajing, he even began to be stationed in the local area. Although he was a capital official, he was stationed in the local area and became the chief military and political officer of the local province. He could also train troops, command troops, and even command operations in the border areas. He had tens of thousands of troops under his command.
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Although many governors were established in the late Ming Dynasty, the relationship between governors and governors was not that of superiors and subordinates, but that they were on the same level and restrained each other.
Therefore, later on, governors, managers, etc. were set up to control governors, governors, and even command several provinces.
The position of governor was actually established after the governor was stationed in the place. The reason for the establishment was precisely because the governor was stationed in the place. After becoming the military and political chief of a province, his original responsibilities actually changed.
Therefore, the imperial court needed to send another Beijing official to patrol the local areas on behalf of the emperor, especially to supervise local officials, including supervising governors and governors.
Therefore, although the inspectors were selected from among the thirteen supervisory censors in turn, and they were only at the eighth level, they had great power.
As the power of the governor increases, so does the power given to the governor.
By the late Ming Dynasty, the prestige and power of the governor in the local area was higher than that of the governor, and the local officials were far more afraid of the governor than the governor.
Because the governor has become a de facto local official, while the patrol governor is the real imperial envoy who patrols hunting on behalf of heaven.
Known as hunting on behalf of the emperor, the chief executives of provinces, prefectures, and counties are all subject of inspection. Major matters are reported to the emperor for judgment, and minor matters are handled immediately. The power is extremely high.
In the Shaotian Dynasty, Zhu Yihai simply defined the governor and governor as local officials. The governor and the governor were not superiors and subordinates. Two or three provinces had a governor, and each province had a governor. The province where the governor was stationed also served as the local governor, and there was no need to set up additional governors.
Governor, avoid conflicts and contradictions.
The rank of the patrol supervisor has also been raised from the eighth grade to the fifth grade.
He is still a special imperial envoy sent by the imperial court to patrol hunting on behalf of the emperor, so his status has actually been improved a lot.
The rank of a patrol officer is not as good as that of a governor or governor, nor as an envoy or inspector, nor even as high as a local patrol officer. However, in terms of local ranking, he is on par with the governor and governor, and is above the governor.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prefects and other prefects had to kneel down to worship the lower-ranking inspectors.
Of course, under normal circumstances, although the patrol inspector has weight, his rank is low after all. He is just a special dispatch from the central government. As a rule, the inspection censors of various departments usually take turns to patrol, usually for one year, and then return to the Metropolitan Procuratorate after one year.
, and then another censor goes on tour.
Censors and inspectors are both official positions that are easy to be promoted. Even the selection of inspectors has strict regulations. They must be from Jinshi background. They are not allowed to use instructors, ministers, officials, or new officials.
Don't use the old and the weak.
Even after the supervisory censor was selected as the inspector, he was temporarily no longer affiliated with the Metropolitan Procuratorate and was given the greatest authority.
They supervise personnel at the local level, assess political performance, supervise local justice and military affairs, and even directly command and train troops, manage food and wages, direct wars, etc. Their power is boundless.
Anyway, this central commissioner, the leader of the central inspection team, has the authority to take charge of all local officials and affairs. The powers are actually similar to those of a governor, except that one becomes a local governor and the other is a special commissioner from above.
