Cakir sat in a large courtyard behind the Governor's Palace with a blank expression. He was surrounded by Portuguese people like him who had taken refuge in the Governor's Palace. Most of them were women and children. Except for those ignorant children, the rest

People's faces were either numb or full of fear, and no one spoke. Any noise would cause panic among the crowd.

Cakir is a plantation owner. He owns a large tea garden more than ten miles east of Goa City. After several years of management and care, the tea leaves in the tea garden are ready to be picked this year, such as those picked this spring.

The tea was charged by the Governor-General at a high price

The income from that tea purchase alone has already reached half of Kajir’s investment in the tea garden. I believe that by picking two more harvests this year, he will turn a profit and wait until he pays off the borrowed debt.

, you will become a wealthy person among Portuguese immigrants in one fell swoop.

The future is bright. Even a few days ago, Cakir was planning to take over his wife and children from his hometown in Europe after making money, and then the whole family would live in Goa, which gave him hope.

On the land, when you die of old age, you will pass the tea garden to your son, and this tea garden must not be sold. It will become the ancestral property of the Kakir family and be passed down from generation to generation.

But with the arrival of the Ming Dynasty fleet, all the beautiful illusions of Cakir were shattered. First, the port was blocked, and then the Ming army began to attack the city of Goa. At first, Cakir did not enter the city;

Staying in the tea garden outside the city, after all, the tea garden is his life. Until the last moment, he does not want to give up his hard work over the past few years.

But what Cakir didn't expect was that at the same time that the Ming Dynasty army was attacking the city of Goa, several native kings around Goa actually brought their barbaric troops to kill them. These Indian natives were extremely cruel. As long as

When you meet the Portuguese, men will be caught and their limbs cut off, while women's fate will be even more miserable. Adults and children will all be treated the same.

In addition, the native slaves in the Kakir tea garden were also a little uneasy. After all, Kakir could not take care of such a large tea garden by himself, so he bought many native slaves to help him work. This is also the case around Goa.

A common practice in plantations. Of course, all the money Kajir invested in the tea plantations was borrowed from others.

Therefore, it is natural to try to keep costs down as much as possible, and to squeeze out the slaves who are his private property. At first, it was nothing, and those stupid slaves did not dare to resist, but now with the instability of Portuguese rule and the influence of the surrounding local kings,

The attack caused the natives in the plantation to become commotion.

Although Cakir regarded the tea garden as his life, he did not want the natives to cut off his hands and feet. What's more, several Portuguese supervisors employed in his tea garden were unwilling to stay outside the dangerous city, so in the end, Cakir finally

Kil discussed it with several surrounding manor owners. A group of hundreds of people took advantage of a dark night to sneak to the other side of Goa City, bribed the soldiers at the city gate with money, and then asked the other party to open the city gate and let people in.

A group of them entered the city of Goa to take shelter.

However, Kakir's luck was really bad. Just two days after several of the manor owners and their people entered the city of Goa, the Ming army had already blown up the city walls of Goa to the point of collapse. They watched the city of Goa collapse.

It was about to happen, and there were natives outside the city who were killing people randomly. This made the Portuguese in the city dare not go out at all, and could only stay in the city and wait for the final judgment.

Although Kakir was disappointed with his country's army, he was not willing to wait in the city to die. He had a friend who worked in the Governor's Palace and knew a lot of inside information about the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the last battle of Malacca was

The captured Portuguese soldiers were still working as slaves in the Ming Dynasty and have not been able to come back until now. It was this news that made Cakir understand that the Ming Dynasty was not like the European legend, with gold everywhere, but a powerful and powerful country.

A great empire with a strong sense of revenge.

It was precisely because he knew what happened to the Portuguese prisoners of war that Cakir spent all his money through his friend who worked in the Governor's Mansion in exchange for a place to take refuge in the Governor's Mansion. After all, this place

The Governor's Mansion is very solidly built, and there are enough soldiers stationed there. As long as nothing unexpected happens, even if the city of Goa outside is breached, the Governor's Mansion can still hold on for several months or even a year.

Reinforcements would arrive and they would be saved.

There are not a few people who have the same idea as Cakir. Before the city was broken, these people used money or sex. There are also a few who are relatives or friends with officials of the Governor's Mansion, and finally got in.

The Governor's Mansion, but for the Governor's Mansion, they can't help defend it at all, and they have to consume food every day, so they are basically a burden.

Kajir looked up at the sky. It was already afternoon. The soldiers in the Governor's Mansion were running around, carrying barrels of gunpowder to the wall of the Governor's Mansion. It seemed that they were making final preparations. Listen to

It is said that the city wall outside Goa has been blown open by the Ming army.

This makes the kingdom's army can only block the attack in the city, but now the king's army has suffered heavy casualties. It is estimated that it will not be long before the Ming army reaches the Governor's Mansion, and then their safety will only depend on the Governor.

The strong city walls and those brave soldiers.

"Boom, boom, boom~" The artillery on the wall of the Governor's Mansion finally fired. Although the thunderous sound made people feel a sense of security, Kakir was shocked when he heard it, because it marked the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The army has already reached the Governor's Mansion. Now it depends on whether the soldiers can hold on to the Governor's Mansion?

The Governor's Palace is a polygonal fortress. In fact, the Goa city wall outside is also the same. It is also a regular polygon. This kind of city wall is called a bastion, which can greatly exert the power of the artillery on the city wall, making defense impossible.

Shooting at the blind spot, the entire Governor's Mansion is also a shrunken bastion.

Although the area of ​​the Governor's Mansion is small, the city walls are built stronger than the city walls outside. In addition, there are sufficient troops in the Governor's Mansion to defend the entire city wall. This makes the Ming army unable to attack the Governor's Mansion.

They suffered repeated setbacks, and even though they mobilized the artillery on the battleships, they still could not take advantage.

Shenzhou didn't expect that even though the city of Goa was destroyed, there would be a small fortress hidden inside the city, and it was built so solidly. Unless he let the soldiers use their lives to fill it regardless of casualties, it would be impossible to conquer it in a short time.

Come down.

Since it can't be defeated, then just don't attack at all. The soldiers under Shenzhou are all elites who have accumulated hard work over the years. Every death is his loss, so he will never let his soldiers take their lives.

Filled in, and the city of Goa has been regarded as the Ming Dynasty’s enclave in India, and the rear

The dispatched garrison is also on the way. Although the presence of the city lord's palace in Goa city makes people feel uncomfortable, and may even come out to bite people at critical moments, but as long as the defense is tight, there should be no problem. The worst is a stalemate.

Wait for a few months, and when the food inside is used up, the other party will naturally come out and surrender.

However, although Shenzhou did not attack the Governor's Mansion again, he was not completely relieved about the Governor's Mansion. At the beginning, he demolished all the buildings near the Governor's Mansion, and then used these to dismantle the industry.

A wall of bricks and stones was built around the Governor's Mansion, and this wall was used to completely isolate the Governor's Mansion. Even if the people in the Governor's Mansion wanted to break out, it would not be easy.

The people in the Governor's Palace were ignored for the time being, but Shenzhou then began to launch cruel actions against the Portuguese in the city. The number of Portuguese in Goa reached nearly 20,000, and a small Governor's Palace alone could not accommodate them.

There were so many people, so most of the Portuguese could only stay at home in the city. Those who had the courage to pick up their muskets were ready to protect their families. If they didn't have the courage, they could only hug their families and huddle in bed and tremble.

Originally, in Shenzhou's plan, as long as he captured Goa, he would clean up the Portuguese forces in the local area, but the most important thing was only the Portuguese troops. As for the ordinary Portuguese residents, he did not want to do anything to them.

At most, it would be to collect some money from them, and it would not implement a brutal massacre policy like Portugal did to the natives. After all, the Portuguese still had many craftsmen and scholars, which might be useful to the Ming Dynasty.

But now the situation has changed. Although Goa has been captured, the Governor's Palace inside is still in Portuguese hands. In addition to officials like Vasco da Gama, the number of soldiers in the Governor's Palace has reached nearly 2,000. With such an army

In addition, the city of Goa is full of Portuguese. If the army in the Governor's Palace mobilizes the Portuguese in the city to cause chaos, it may end up causing the Ming Dynasty's army to suffer heavy losses, and even be driven away by a force of anger.

Maybe at sea.

It was precisely in consideration of the above that Shenzhou quickly made a decision, that is, to move all the Portuguese people in Goa out, and they must not be allowed to stay in the city. As for where to move the Portuguese, this is not

Question, anyway, there are many plantations outside the city of Goa. For the time being, the Portuguese will be assigned to a few

If he works on the plantation and then hires some natives as overseers, there shouldn't be any problems in a short time. As for how to deal with the Portuguese in the future, he doesn't need to waste his brain on this. Anyway, there will be Governor Wang Shouren in the future.

When the officials come to take over Goa, it will be left to the civil servants to have a headache.

Shenzhou was a military general and would do whatever he thought of immediately. Therefore, on the second day after occupying the city of Goa, the Portuguese in the city were driven out of their homes by the Ming Dynasty's army. Although many people tried to resist during the period, it was a pity that they could not resist at all.

They were no match for the professional armies of the Ming Dynasty. It took a few days to finally move out the entire Portuguese population in Goa. (To be continued...)
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