The Portuguese were very determined to occupy Macau. They negotiated with the Ming government through cultural invasion, threats of force, peaceful negotiations, etc., and finally got what they wanted.

They have strong military strength in Macau and have their own artillery factory and other facilities.

In the fourth year of Tianqi tomorrow, Emperor Zhu Youxiao sent guerrilla Zhang Tao to Macau to buy four cannons from the Pocahlao artillery factory. The Portuguese gunner John Goria was escorted to Beijing. Due to a gun test crash, John Goria was killed.

The Netherlands launched many attacks on Macau. Just the second year of the Tianqi revelation tomorrow, 13 Dutch fleets joined forces with two British warships to attack Macau. They fought fiercely for three days and were finally repelled. 300-500 people in the Netherlands were annihilated, while only a dozen of Portuguese died, and only more than a hundred black slaves died.

It can be seen that these Portuguese are not weak in combat.

By this year, in the second year of Chongzhen, according to information sent by Zheng Zhilong, there were about 26,000 people living in Macau at this time, and the number of Portuguese had reached an astonishing 4,500 people.

As combat soldiers, the Portuguese were about 500, but they also ruled about 8,000 black slaves, all African slaves brought by the Portuguese from the colonies of Angola and Mozambique.

African black slaves were the backbone of the Portuguese war against the Dutch invasion in the second year of Apocalypse, and a Dutch general reported during the battle: "Our soldiers saw almost no Portuguese."

Zheng Zhilong wanted to expel foreigners in Macau, naturally, including those black slaves, although they were not human in the eyes of Western Europeans.

When the Portuguese learned about this, they felt very angry because they occupied the place for a long time and had regarded it as their territory. Some Portuguese even went to the Ming government to protest.

However, the local government obviously did not dare to care about Zheng Zhilong, the current first-rank military minister, so they all stayed in the door.

At this time, Macau was nominally still belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Portuguese stationed troops here, built castles, immigrated and lived in, and promoted their culture, the nature of the territory did not change.

It took Macau to truly become a Portuguese colony until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

So after Zheng Zhilong issued the notice, he directly sent soldiers to the near the Macau Peninsula.

First, he asked the fleet to dock at the Pearl River Estuary of Shuizai Island on the south side of the Macau Peninsula, and blocked the waterways coming to Macau from the south to prevent any possible Portuguese foreign aid from coming.

At the same time, the soldiers of the navy and land battle camps from the two guards landed from the north and east sides respectively, and the armored cruisers were also allowed to swim in the waters on the south side of the Macau Peninsula.

The fleet and soldiers were both blockade on the periphery and did not get close to the Portuguese residential areas and military defense occupied areas.

If the previous battle between the Portuguese and the Dutch was a war to prevent aggression, then this time, if the Portuguese took the initiative to provoke the war, they would be the evil side.

Three days passed quickly. During these three days, Portugal Macau Governor Lobo, who served as the "Yimu" established by the Ming Dynasty, walked around with officials from all over Guangzhou many times, but did not receive the support he wanted.

Basically, all the Ming officials chose to stay closed to him, which made Luo Bo feel that he was insulted in personality!

On the afternoon of the third day, Lobo gathered most of the Portuguese and black slaves who had not left, with about 7,000 people, and began a passionate speech.

"Macau is our home. We paid the Ming Dynasty rent and leased it as a platform for friendly trade. However, the Ming Dynasty unilaterally issued an eviction order to us regardless of the contract, allowing us to leave our lives.

Just like those Dutch people, they are all robbers who want to take away our property, our land, our homeland!”

Most of the Portuguese who came here were vicious people who could not survive in Europa. They were originally homeless, but now they have finally found a place to stay, so they naturally regard it as important.

When they heard Robo's words so stimulating in his heart, they were all full of anger, while those black slaves who were not sure of the truth were angry with their masters.

Lobo saw the expression on everyone's faces and felt very satisfied, and continued, "Can we agree to them do this? Can we give up the home we have worked so hard to build to these rude robbers? Tell me loudly, can you?"

"cannot!!"

The Portuguese began to roar, louder and louder, and the black slaves also shouted together. Although they didn't know why, they were just angry.

Perhaps this is why Western Europeans like black slaves so much!

"Then let us take up our weapons and resist these tyrannical robbers. I believe that as long as we unite, we will definitely defeat them. Just like the robbers who drove out those Dutch robbers, the Ming robbers could not take away this land that belonged to us from us!" Lobo said passionately.

It has to be said that Europa is generally good at speaking, and those Europeans are also extremely easy to be induced. Some words are inexplicable to the Ming people, but after listening to them, the Europa people became very impressed.

They all seemed to be having fun, and quickly followed Robo to pick up their weapons, quickly elevating the Portuguese armed group, which was originally less than 500 people, to 2,000 people.

Both men and women, and even those 14 or 15-year-old children were also given a knife or other weapons.

Things like a mesh can't be used if you send it to someone right now, and they don't have much inventory here, and in the end they just armed 800 people.

Of course, this power is not weak anymore. After all, they used less than 150 people to kill more than 800 Dutch soldiers back to the ship and fled.

It is precisely because of this that Lobo is very confident in resisting the "invasion" of the Ming Dynasty.

He even felt that it was easier to deal with these Ming people than to deal with the Dutch, after all, they didn't even have such an excellent weapon as a medron.

The Ming army was just a defeated general under the Dutch, so how could it be the opponent of the elite Portuguese soldiers who defeated the Dutch!

"This time, these Ming troops must see the power of the Portuguese Empire. Maybe they can take over Shuizi Island with this! The king will definitely reward me, and maybe they will transfer me back to enjoy a happy old age in the Portuguese Empire."

Lobo thought beautifully that he had begun to imagine how to celebrate after he won.
Chapter completed!