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Chapter 377 Destruction of Soot

After Harroxi said this, Turiya was even more curious. He was unwilling to give up such a treasure land as Macau.

Therefore, no matter whether these sudden attacks on Macau and seized his property or not, he didn't care whether the fleet of the Ming Empire was the one who cared about it. What he cared about was that he couldn't just lose Macau.

Because, he knew that if he lost such a transit station in Macau, his Florida machine would lose enough to meet the total Nanyang trade income.

But when Turiya led his fleet without logistics back to the waters not far from Macau, he was greeted by artillery fire.

In order to prevent the Ming army from retaking Macau, the Florian Turiya spared no expense to set up a large number of forts in key passes around the port. The firepower of the vassal kings could cover almost 360 degrees without blind spots.

However, because the South China Sea Fleet took advantage of the emptiness of Macau's garrison, the complete set of turrets set up by Turiya in Macau did not work at all, but now it has been fully utilized by the soldiers of the South China Sea Fleet.

Turiya did not expect that his fleet would be hit so quickly. He couldn't help but be very angry and wanted to launch a counterattack immediately, but he found that two groups of warships were already appearing on both sides of his left and right, and each muzzle had been opened, and he was in an offensive posture, and was just in the forefront.

Turiya naturally would not suffer this loss, so he hurriedly ordered his fleet to retreat.

Fortunately, the fleet of the South China Sea Fleet did not catch up, because Zhu Youxiao's instructions to Gu Sanmazi were to temporarily stop the pace of external expansion when taking back Macau, and in principle, avoid large-scale conflicts with any maritime forces. Before the court and the Zheng group broke their faces, they should quickly expand the strength of the South China Sea Fleet and strengthen the coastal defense and control of the South China Sea area.

Therefore, Gu Sanmazi did not continue to pursue Turiya, not to mention that Turiya's fleet was not as underestimated as Zheng Zhibao, and his own strength was still there, so his rash attack would only cause serious losses.

Moreover, his South China Sea Fleet had just experienced two battles. Although it didn't take much effort to attack Macau, it still took a lot of energy to fight against Zheng Zhibao's fleet. After all, the South China Sea Fleet was stronger than Zheng Zhibao's fleet at that time, so the South China Sea Fleet's fleet lost and consumed a lot of money. Once it reunited with the Flang fleet of Toria, it might be really difficult to complete the next task of Zhu Youxiao asking them to control the entire South China Sea and then radiate to the South China Sea.

Although Gu Sanmazi was bold, he was unwilling to fight an unsure battle. After driving away the fleet of Turiya, he ordered people to immediately notify the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang and Zhou Zuo in preparation for restoring the Ming Dynasty's administrative management over the Macau region.

However, although Turiya had to accept the fact that his Flang machine had lost control of Macau, he was still unwilling to give up. At least he wanted to come back with his 100,000 kilograms of opium. It was purchased by him after spending half a year of profit and an important prerequisite for whether he could complete the task assigned by the queen in the second half of the year.

Now, Turiya is basically sure that the fleet of the Ming Empire is occupied by Macau, and it is also the South China Sea fleet that Zheng Zhilong mentioned.

At the same time, he also learned that the South China Sea Fleet had just annihilated Zheng Zhibao's fleet not long before it captured Macau, and also learned that the general of this fleet turned out to be Gu Sanmazi, who had also defeated the Zheng pirates in the Ryukyu area.

In this way, Turiya gave up the idea of ​​immediately regaining Macau by force and chose to resolve the problem of 100,000 kilograms of opium that he still stayed in Macau through negotiation.

But Gu Sanmazi directly rejected Turiya's attempt to return 100,000 kilograms of opium, because Zhu Youxiao had already stated that when it comes to overseas trading, if there is a foreigner smuggling or illegal trader, the government's handling of these foreigner smuggling is based on the goods category.

Among them, the most severe punishment is imposed on opium trading, which not only needs to be reclaimed but also directly destroyed. There are even officials of the authorities and sellers who have been punished.

Therefore, when the Turiya people arrived near Macau and tried to get back the opium they bought, a group of migrant workers were transferred into pools under the command of a group of officers, and lime was poured into them constantly, causing thick smoke to roll.

"They actually want to destroy my opium!"

Turiya couldn't help but be very angry. He wanted to stop these people, but when he saw the densely packed artillery and the warships that would come out of the harbor, he could only watch his efforts for half a year go to waste.

Turiya did not know that according to the original historical trajectory, such a scene would appear in Humen in hundreds of years. It was only at this moment that although the South China Sea Fleet was executing the order of smoke, Turiya and other Flangers did not dare to compete with the later English Li, and could only choose to retreat.

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Turiya's voluntary departure caused the situation of Guangzhou Fucheng being besieged. Shang Zhouzuo, who was trying to fight against the enemy, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi's military affairs. If any of the capitals fell into the hands of the enemy, he would have to stay in the imperial prison for dereliction of duty.

But now that Guangzhou Fucheng has resolved the crisis, Shang and Zhou Zuo can devote themselves to Macau.

However, Shang and Zhou Zuo did not know what was the reason why the enemy troops who had been besieging Guangzhou for a long time suddenly evacuated. However, he had no time to learn more about the situation now, so he could only guess the reasons for the South China Sea Fleet.

"Master Taiwan Master, this is the official letter submitted to you by General Gu of the South China Sea Fleet. General Gu said that he had recovered his residence rights in Macau by surprise, and all the Westerners in Macau have been slaughtered. Now we are waiting for us to send one person to manage this empty city.

After hearing this, Shang and Zhou Zuo couldn't help but stand up and slammed the table and said, "It's so great. What a general officer Gu. I saw an editor named Zhang Dai in the Daming Daily that praised him. I also said that he was just a pirate warrior. I didn't pay much attention, but I didn't expect that this person was so powerful. I solved the problem of my first year. I immediately returned to your general officer Gu. The official came immediately. But now the most urgent task is to immediately report it to the cabinet immediately and report it to the court to approve the independence of Macau and separate the county or prefecture."

After the Shang and Zhou Zuo finished speaking, he went to the study to write an urgent memorial and immediately set off to Macau.

According to Zhu Youxiao's arrangement, Macau's military and administration must be controlled by the Ming Dynasty, but Macau is not unwilling to welcome foreigners to come here to do business, and even encourage more foreigners to come. Therefore, Shang and Zhou Zuo had to hurry to re-establish Macau's order and encourage foreigners to come to Macau to do business, so that Guangdong and Guangxi could have more income.
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