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Chapter 380 Extraterritorial Jurisdiction

In the autumn of the 11th year of the Age of Revelation, Macau was officially established as a prefect, and Ren Gong was a Jinshi Guan Shaoning in the eighth year of the Age of Revelation.

Before Guan Shaoning took office, Zhu Youxiao specially summoned him to the Ganqing Palace and asked for a brief sentence. This also shows Zhu Youxiao's eager expectation of relying on Macau to open a new window for maritime trade.

Moreover, it was not just a small town that directly promoted Macau to a government-level administrative agency. Zhu Youxiao ordered the order to send an order to Gu Sanmazi, the general of the South China Sea Fleet, and ordered him to station military farms in Xin'an County (now Hong Kong) and convert them into a port.

Zhu Youxiao planned to temporarily build this place into a military port, and finally gradually make it an important trading port outside Macau, and form a corner with Macau in order to prepare for the military strategy of the Florians' return in the future.

It can even be foreseen that after years, the Pearl River Delta with Guangzhou Prefecture, Xin'an County and Macau Prefecture will form the Ming Dynasty economically-prosperous Pearl River Delta.

After Guan Shaoning took office, he immediately began to form the Macau government office and began to invite businessmen from all countries to meet. As the prefect and the Macau Maritime Bureau, Guan Shaoning, who was also the governor, will officially announce the Ming Dynasty's tariff collection regulations and trade encouragement policies.

Like this, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Zhou Zuo, also formally banned the Guangzhou Prefecture's maritime ban policy and encouraged the people to go out to sea. However, bulk goods and goods that need to be controlled by the state must also be approved and inspected by the Maritime Bureau before they can be allowed to be imported and exported.

For example, some foreign animals and plants are also included in the control scope. Although people do not know what biological invasion is, according to past experience and the special instructions of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, a special agency has been established to control this barrier. Any creatures that did not have in the Ming Dynasty will be subject to strict inspection measures to allow entry into the Ming Dynasty.

Turiya was unable to abandon the temptation of the Ming Dynasty market, and finally accepted the invitation of the Macau prefect Guan Shaoning, and once again set foot on the land of Macau as a representative of the Flangji businessman.

However, this time, if he wanted to live in Macau for a long time and operate his own business, he had to pay the taxes stipulated by the court, and was not allowed to operate any goods that were prohibited from trading, and of course, smuggling was prohibited. Once it was revealed, the Ming Dynasty would move to the extraterritorial legal power.

Guan Shaoning also gave this explanation to these foreign merchants about what extraterritorial legal power is.

Therefore, after Turiya returned to Macau again and learned about the current attitude and policies of the Ming Dynasty towards them, such as foreign businessmen, he was found by the Macau police and was escorted to the jail of the Macau prefect for suspected smuggling opium and killing innocent fishermen.

In this way, Turiya became the first prisoner detained since the establishment of the government office in Macau, and the first foreign prisoner.

Turiya was very angry about this. He did not expect that the Ming Dynasty was so untrustworthy. He originally said that he would invite them, such as foreign vendors, to go back to Macau to discuss the transaction, but who knew that he had just finished the transaction and arrested himself.

"What extraterritorial power? I want to meet your prefect! I am the baron of Folangji. When will it be your turn to be detained and judged? You are limiting my freedom in life!"

Turiya grabbed the prison door with both hands and kept shouting, but no one paid attention to him. After shouting for a long time, the original Macau residents who were appointed as prison by Guan Shaoning because they were proficient in the language of Folangji could not help but curse: "What are you howling? Didn't you read the Daming Daily? His Majesty has issued a clear order half a year ago to add an extraterritorial legal authority to the Daming Law. The purpose is to manage you Western fans. Don't think that if you violate the law in the Ming Dynasty, you can really be opened by Yousi.

As stated in the Ming Dynasty law, no matter in any country or region, as long as the Ming Dynasty violates the laws and other rules of the Ming Dynasty, you must follow the rules of the Ming Dynasty! Don’t say that you are a member of the Polangji, or the mission from the North Korean state was executed immediately because a member of the royal family killed a commoner on his mission. It is said that he is the crown prince of the King of Korea. Many ministers advised His Majesty to make a fuss about this. After all, killing a crown prince without permission due to the death of an ordinary citizen will affect his relationship with the North Korean state.

But His Majesty the Emperor was a person who loved the people. He immediately scolded the ministers, saying that they did not take the people seriously, and that such things must be done in accordance with the rules of the Ming Dynasty. The prince violated the law and committed the same crimes as the common people. The crown prince of the North Korea State was also so, so he was beheaded.

And who do you think you are? What a pholang machine, is my big chicken? I want you to be put on it, just dream!"

After hearing this man's words, Turiya could only sit in the wetland covered with straw in depression. At the same time, she regretted that she should not have returned to Macau so easily, but she did not expect that she would become a prisoner.

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However, although Turiya and other foreign merchants who participated in the siege of Guangzhou and sold opium were imprisoned by Guan Shaoning, the absolute majority of foreign merchants were still treated preferentially by Guan Shaoning, except for those who refused to pay taxes and did not apply for a residence permit. Guan Shaoning had to order people to directly expel them from the country.

Few businessmen are willing to fight against the Ming Dynasty court, which has completely controlled Macau. Even though they learned that some of the people including Turiya had been detained in prison, they still did not show strong protest.

Because they knew that protests were ineffective and they urgently needed the Ming market, most of them chose to cooperate with Guan Shaoning's new policies.

As a result, in just one month, a large number of foreign sailing ships began to gather near Macau, but now most of them are pure merchant ships. The Macau government originally stipulated that no armed merchant ships were allowed to enter the Macau port, but after these Western negotiations, it was explained that pirates are rampant and they must have certain self-defense capabilities. After obtaining the approval of the court, Guan Shaoning allowed these caravans to lead small armed merchant ships into the waters near Macau.

Then, less than three months after the establishment of the prefectural government in Macau, it received a tax of more than 7 million silver dollars. This was the first quarter and when many trades were not fully opened.

At the same time, Royal Industries and Royal Weaving Bureau also began to establish their own branches in Macau. Among them, Royal Industries' high-quality glass products were purchased by these big vendors less than half a month after they appeared in Macau. The same is true for Royal Weaving Bureau.

Gong Yonggu and Mao Yisheng both submitted memorials to Zhu Youxiao at the same time. In less than half a year, the court may add tens of millions of silver dollars a year.

Zhu Youxiao was naturally very happy when he found out. While adding Gu Sanmazi to the left governor, he also changed the right deputy censor of Shang and Zhou Zuo directly to the right censor. At the same time, Guan Shaoning also added the title of deputy envoy of the sea channel in order to prepare for the opening of Guangzhou and Xin'an County after the Macau portal was fully opened.
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