Time went back three days ago.

"O God, God..." A panicked Portuguese businessman ran into the conference hall of the Macau soldiers' heads.

Bian Du and others glared at each other. Where did the bastard come from? Didn’t you see everyone in a meeting? He broke in rudely and shouted loudly. He was even more rude than the cheapest black slave!

"Costa? Why did you break in? Where are the guards outside?"

The civil servant called out the man's name.

This is the name of a very famous Portuguese maritime merchant in Macau.

However, Costa ignored the glaring eyes of the people in the conference hall, with a look of fear and extreme panic on his face, and shouted loudly: "Favaggio, Addington, and Johnson, they were all beheaded by the Chinese..."

Frederico Favageggio is a Portuguese, while Addington and Johnson are British. They were arrested by Guangzhou police half a month ago for illegally selling Afroun.

Along with the arrested employees, there were Europeans, Indians and Chinese.

It was also from the arrest of these people that the situation facing Macau suddenly became tense.

First, local newspapers in Guangzhou pointed out that Macau is A Furong's hidden den. If the toxic tumor of Macau is not eliminated, it will be impossible to completely cut off the flood of A Furong.

Soon the provincial newspapers in eastern Guangdong also followed up with reports, and articles clearly pointed the finger at Macau.

Then after several days of fermentation, ten days ago, calls for "Macau" to be withdrawn in newspapers in eastern Guangdong began to appear. Bian Du and other senior officials of the Macau authorities were already panic about Chen Jun's successive capture of Luzon and Batavia, and now they were even more shocked.

They were already scared by the South China offensive launched by Chen Jun.

——The situation that Europeans took hundreds of years to establish was erased by Chen Jun in just two months.

Even Japan announced that it had taken back the Dutch-inhabited island.

However, the Tokugawa shogunate also announced the abolition of the closing order, which was even more good for the Portuguese and the British.

So the Portuguese authorities in Macau were a group of frightened birds. Now there are calls in newspapers in eastern Guangdong that want to take back Macau, and Bian Du and others are all frightened.

What pushed this call to Gao Fei was that just when the call sounded, news came from Jinling that the imperial envoy had already taken a boat to Guangdong Province to thoroughly investigate the A Furong case.

Because Emperor Zhao was extremely disgusted with the fact that some people sucked A Furong.

Previously, Chen Jun had issued a ban after sweeping the southeast. Once someone was found to be trafficking in A Furong, they would be executed; and all the smokers would be put into drug rehabilitation centers, and labor reform would be carried out for at least three years.

As a result, this thing has been repeatedly banned along the southeast coast, especially in eastern Guangdong.

But this time, the judicial authorities in Guangzhou found three foreign merchants, which was an unprecedented first time. They were all tobacco dealers before, and no one expected that they would dig so deeply this time.

The British first negotiated with China, hoping to exchange British personnel such as Addington and Johnson for return.

But Guangzhou didn't let it go at all.

The Macau authorities naturally filed negotiations with the Guangzhou government, but Bian Du and others were just dealing with it.

In fact, it depends on the actions of the British.

After all, they are the leaders of Europe in the Eastern world.

If they take their own businessmen back, then there is no reason why the Guangzhou authorities will not return the Portuguese, and at most they will pay some more.

But no one expected the Chinese to be so straightforward.

Before the envoys from Jinling arrived, the Guangzhou authorities cut off the people directly.

All the participants, including the three of Favaggio, were caught and chopped off their heads.

Costa, the Portuguese businessman who was staying in Guangzhou, was frightened.

He was shocked and immediately rushed back to Macau in a carriage, and then broke into the meeting hall of the meeting.

In fact, the Portuguese are really helpless.

When military threats are completely useless, when they face the strength of the Chinese government, they can only passively accept it. All the Portuguese are clearly aware of the final outcome of this "silent war". So many people are already thinking about where to go.

There are voices in the newspapers of Guangdong Province. Can many native Portuguese born and raised here choose to become Chinese nationality?

So many people in the parliament are already thinking about how to leave a way out for themselves.

During the meeting just now, someone had already made a voice asking for unconditional agreement with the Chinese people's request, just because the strength of the two sides was too great.

Not to mention the regular garrison of Chen Jun around him, even the police in Guangzhou could easily wipe out Macau.

Although this opinion only represents the personal view of an ordinary native Macau Portuguese.

Of course, Bian Du scolded him loudly.

He is the representative of the Portuguese government in Macau and represents the interests of the Kingdom of Portugal. How could he surrender to the Chinese? This is a great shame to the Kingdom of Portugal.

But his clamor was just a useless barking of a defeated dog.

Even he himself dared not say no to Guangzhou, otherwise he would not have had a meeting.

In the 49th year of Qianlong's reign, the Governor of Macau, supported by Queen Maria I of Portugal, reformed the autonomous organization and strengthened the power of the Governor. In this year, the Portuguese government spent 80,000 taels of silver to buy a convention booth from the Qing court and transformed it into a building of the Advisory Bureau. In this year, the Portuguese government paid another fee to the authorities of the Manchu and Qing dynasties in order to organize a Tianzhu guard composed of 100 musketeers and 50 gunners to replace the original guard.

Then in the 52nd year of Qianlong's reign, that is, the third year of the revolution, Queen Maria I appointed the position of local chief in Macau, replacing the duties of Judge Wang, who was originally appointed by the Governor of Portuguese and India. The local chief also manages administrative, judicial and customs judges, and can also serve as the acting chairman of the deliberation bureau if necessary.

However, as a tradition of 200 years, Judge Wang served as a part-time member of the Deliberation Committee, and the latter two still have considerable power in Macau.

Later, even Maria I had to approve the documents conveyed by the Chinese government. The Chief Civil Affairs Officer must read them at the meeting of the Board of Directors, and the documents sent to the Chinese government should also be prepared at the meeting of the Board of Directors.

It can be seen that even with the Queen supporting her, the Governor of Macau is not a one-handed person in Macau.

After all, time is too short.

Bian Du was already very upset. Now that Costa broke in and shouted "God, God", he became even more irritable and angry.

But before Bian Du could send out this anger, he was extinguished by the news from Costa. It was like a basin of cold water pouring on his head in the cold winter. At this moment, Bian Du only felt that his bones were trembling and cold!
Chapter completed!