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Chapter 468: The Death of Da Gama

Civil strife occurred in the Governor's Mansion in Goa City, which had been besieged for more than half a year. The news was not beyond Wang Shouren's expectations. That day, when he was observing the soldiers on the wall of the Governor's Mansion with a telescope, he found that there were soldiers eating in the guardhouse behind him.

The meals were very simple and could not be full, and some soldiers even had conflicts with the person who delivered the meal.

Although this is just a small matter, Wang Shouren felt very keenly that the Portuguese army had begun to be dissatisfied with the logistics system of the Governor's Office. As long as the army cannot eat enough, there will be only two results. One is that the defensive power is very weak, and finally it is

The other one is to surrender when the Ming Dynasty conquered it, but if someone dared to obstruct the surrender at this time, then the conflict would naturally occur.

Dagama is unwilling to fail, so he keeps guarding the Governor's Mansion. This guy has made a journey from Europe to India alone. It is not easy to do this. At least he has to travel through an unfamiliar sea area and find feasible.

The route is impossible for those with strong will to complete this arduous task.

However, tenacious will is a good thing in some aspects, but on the other hand it will be called stubbornness. For example, when it comes to whether to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, after being besieged by Shenzhou's army for several months, the Governor's Mansion

Most of the senior executives have already tended to surrender. After all, they are just coming to India to make money, rather than throwing their lives here. What's more, the ordinary Portuguese who are not full of food keeps resisting, although they are suppressed by them.

But the feeling of massacre of my own compatriots was not very good.

Unfortunately, Da Gama was stubborn and firmly believed that the kingdom would never give up on Goa and would send reinforcements soon. At that time, they would cooperate with the reinforcements at sea and would soon drive away the Ming army outside.

.Regain control of Goa.

As the governor of Goa, Dagama directly controls all the military forces in the governor's palace, so as long as he disagrees, it will be useless no matter how hard others insist. After all, in this case, the army is the most powerful and the most powerful.

Reliable power.

In fact, the reason why Dagama was unwilling to surrender was not only that he stubbornly believed that the Kingdom would send reinforcements, but also had his own selfish intentions. He was the first to discover that the route from Europe to India not only brought huge benefits to the Kingdom of Portugal, but also

He made him successful and became a hero of the Portuguese Kingdom. Everyone would sincerely exclaim when they mentioned him. But if Da Gama had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and threw away such an important place in Goa, it would have

The reputation he had finally accumulated was ruined, and even if he could return to Portugal in the future, he would only be scolded by countless people.

It is precisely because of this selfishness that Da Gama would rather die in Goa than use his reputation to exchange for a chance to survive. Moreover, in order to strengthen his control over the army, he cruelly reduced the ordinary Portuguese residents.

and then use these foods to ensure the diet of the army. In addition, he was the governor of the Portuguese king, so the Portuguese army naturally dared not disobey his orders. Even if they were asked to massacre their own people, they would also do the same.

Go and hand.

However, Dagama's plan to misappropriate food can only be used for a while. With the decrease in food in the Governor's Mansion, everyone's diet was restricted. Even Dagama, the Governor, could not eat enough, and occasionally eat one.

White bread is like a holiday, and as for the army, it also began to provide diet in a regular manner.

Originally, the Portuguese soldiers in the Governor's Office were scared by the Ming army. In addition, they were besieged for so long, so they had no courage to fight head-on with the Ming army, and now they can't even eat enough

, so the army's resentment towards the Governor Da Gama gradually accumulated.

The Governor's Office is not just a Governor like Da Gama, but there are also many officials who belong to the Governor's Office of India. Most of these people hope to surrender early. After all, with their current situation, it is always more common to fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty than every day.

If they hadn't had enough food, they would have to blame Gama for their current situation. If he hadn't stubbornly thought that he could conquer Malacca, the kingdom's fleet would not have been wiped out, and they would not have fallen into it.

Now this is the case.

In the past, Dagama had the army of the Governor's Office, so no matter how much the officials wanted to surrender, they had no chance. However, as the grain in the Governor's Office was in a hurry, even the army had to reduce the supply of food. As a result,

This caused dissatisfaction among the army. Those officials who did not want to starve to death with Da Gama immediately seized this opportunity and provoked some officers to launch a rebellion. It was the rebellion that Yofu and the chefs encountered.

I was so scared that I closed the big iron gate and didn't dare to go out.

I have to say that the actions of Yofu and others were very correct, because this rebellion was different from the past. In the past, ordinary unarmed Portuguese launched rebellions, and their weapons were all confiscated when they entered the Governor's Mansion.

If you launch a rebellion, you can only rob the soldiers' weapons. It can be said that the weapon alone is enough to defeat those ordinary rebels.

But this time the rebellion was launched by soldiers holding weapons. They not only had rich combat experience, but also had enough weapons. So when the rebellion was launched, the entire Governor's Mansion was in chaos and everyone was involved

In this rebellion, the soldiers involved in the rebellion were in a row with the soldiers who did not participate in the rebellion, and the bullets flew around and could be killed by accident. It can be said that it was too chaotic and chaotic. Fortunately, those of you guys hid quickly.

, otherwise you may be killed by mistake.

Although the soldiers who launched the rebellion were not prepared enough, there were many soldiers participating in the rebellion, and many soldiers who did not participate in the rebellion did not want to stay like this anymore. They felt that even if they were captured by the Ming Dynasty, they would stay in the Governor's Mansion every day.

It is necessary to feel comfortable inside. After all, the high walls of the Governor's Mansion are no different from those of the prison in their eyes.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that the rebel soldiers did not encounter strong resistance. There were even many soldiers who did not participate in the rebellion who surrendered directly on the battlefield after the fire exchange and participated in the rebellion.

In the end, the number of rebels increased, and finally eliminated a few armed forces that firmly supported Da Gama and surrounded Da Gama's office.

If it were someone else, in this situation, they would have either committed suicide or were scared to collapse into a ball. However, the pirate leader Dagama is more courageous than anyone else, even in such a desperate situation.

He did not repent at all, and even took up weapons to fight the rebels. He was shot and killed by a rebel officer. Unfortunately, he also aroused the rebels' anger and beat Da Gama with a spoiled gun

As a sieve, a figure who was enough to leave a name for his navigation history put an unsatisfactory end to his life.

After Da Gama's death, the rebellion finally won. The next thing was very simple. These rebels opened the gate of the Governor's Mansion to surrender to the Ming army and presented Da Gama's head. Wang Shouren

There was no unexpected expression. When he heard gunfire sounds from the Governor's Mansion, he had already guessed that the other party would surrender from the city.

Although Wang Shouren agreed to the surrender of the Portuguese in the Governor's Mansion, he delayed the surrender for so long in order to punish them, which put heavy pressure on the Ming army. Therefore, all the Portuguese in the Governor's Mansion

They were arranged to work as a hard worker in the plantation. Only after working for a year can they get rid of this heavy labor and then sort and select it and send it to the Ming Dynasty for work.

However, these Portuguese people who came out of the Governor's Mansion, whether soldiers or ordinary people, need a period of maintenance to do heavy work. Especially the ordinary Portuguese who were imprisoned, are as thin as skeletons.

Generally, it is impossible to work. Even after surrendering, the Ming Dynasty provided them with enough food, but was overwhelmed to death on the spot. This scared the others and never dared to eat the scattered.

.

Kakir was lucky that he escaped the rebellion of the Governor's Office, and after surrendering, he was not suffocated by the food provided by the Ming Dynasty. It is worth mentioning that after surrendering, he was actually arranged to his original plantation.

The supervisor who worked and supervised him was his former slave, but this caused Kakir to suffer a lot, but these sufferings were nothing compared to the life he was besieged in the Governor's Mansion.

As the besieged Governor's Office was also included in the jurisdiction of Goa, the entire Goa finally fell completely into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Regarding this happy event, Wang Shouren naturally wrote the memorial at the first time and then asked someone to give a message to

The fastest speed was sent to the Zhao Palace in Beijing. Although Zhou Chong is no longer the governor of the Four Seas, he has now officially taken over all maritime affairs in the Ming Dynasty, especially in India, which is the focus of Zhou Chong's attention.

Wang Shouren's memorial crossed India and crossed the Strait of Malacca, then headed north and took several months to deliver it to the Zhao Mansion in Beijing. As a result, Zhou Chong was overjoyed when he saw this memorial, Goa was completely controlled.

, which means that the Ming Dynasty has truly settled its position as the overlord on the west coast of India. In the future, even if the Portuguese reinforcements come, it is impossible to drive the Ming Dynasty away from there, let alone Zhou Chong believes that with a population like Portugal

How many troops can it send to recover Goa just after a small country that has arrived in a million?

However, after Zhou Chong received the good news from Wang Shouren, he was not happy for too long. He soon thought of another troublesome thing. He had been overwhelmed by this matter during this period. Every time he thought of this matter,
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