The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

Shikina was stunned by the question of family propaganda. Who appointed him as governor?Of course he is the King of Portugal!

But they are facing a new problem here. Although they rented this Macau from the Ming Dynasty, they only have the right to live in it, and the sovereignty is still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, his appointment as the Governor of Macau by the King of Portugal was actually illegal.

Shikina hesitated and couldn't answer for a while.

"Okay, I don't have time to hang around with you here. This time, I am here to inform you on the order of His Majesty the Emperor."

"His Majesty decrees that the Portuguese states that have illegally occupied our Macau region must immediately disband the illegal armed forces in Macau, dismantle the forts, and pay back the rent of Macau from 1553 to the present, which is calculated as 1 dragon dollars per year, totaling 113 million dragon dollars.

In addition, commercial taxes are also paid at the rate of NT$226 million per year.The total of the two is 339 million dragon yuan. Let me give you a round number, a total of 340 million dragon yuan! "

Shikina was shocked when he heard the back taxes announced in the family document.

Taking an integer turns out to be just how much difference there is in the mantissas.Which teacher taught you?I want to talk to him.

340 million dragon yuan!

How big is Macau?Even if you scrape off a layer of Macau's skin, you won't be able to get so much money.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has been destroyed for so long, and now the period of Man Qing rule is also included in the calculation of back taxes!

This is really true. You can obviously rob it directly, but you still have to come up with a name to make you pay taxes!

"God! General, you are definitely not kidding me! 340 million dragon yuan! This is simply blackmail! There is no way we can pay that much money."

"And we have an agreement with your Majesty the Emperor Tianqi. The annual rent in Macau is 500 taels of silver! And our annual rent is given to the Guangzhou government! You cannot break the agreement without reason!"

Shikina argued with a red neck.

He originally thought that the Ming army came here this time to discuss the excessive handover of rent in Macau. The most they could do was to increase the rent, and just add some benefits and the matter would be solved. After all, this was how they operated after the Qing Tatars seized the country. .

But who would have thought that he would be asked to pay such a huge amount of money!

"Oh? Agreement? What agreement? Why don't I know? Is there a signed document? Take it out and take a look." (There is very little information on the Ming-Portuguese lease treaty. The other 500 taels of land rent were given to the court. In fact, the customs duties were the bulk. The charging standard is 20% of the value of each ship's goods, plus the anchorage tax, the annual tax is basically 2 to 4 taels, plus bribes, Guangzhou officials make a lot of money.)

Jia Wenxuan sent out several messages in succession and once again asked Shi Jinzhi.

How could he have produced the signed document?

The ancestral teachings of the Ming Dynasty: If there is no marriage, no indemnity, no land cession, no tribute, the emperor will guard the country, and the king will die in the country.

Back then, Emperor Tianqi, under the lobbying of corrupt officials, only agreed to lease the Macau area to the Portuguese. How could such a trivial matter require an agreement to be signed?

Later, the Portuguese privately built and expanded the city in Macau, formed an army, and built forts. This was all conveniently obtained by bribing officials.

This is because of the concealment of corrupt officials and the emperor did not know.

If Emperor Chongzhen knew about this news, with his strong character, the Portuguese on the Macau Peninsula might have to suffer another "Three Lights".

At this time, the cold sweat on Shikina's forehead began to break out uncontrollably. He had already felt that Daming's appetite was really big this time!

"Your Excellency, General, do you think we can discuss the matter of paying back taxes?"

While wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he winked at the officer next to him. The latter immediately handed a small box that had been prepared to Jia Wenxuan and opened it directly.

What was inside was a box of pearls. Each of these pearls was about the size of a little finger, and each one was round and full, with a lustrous color. In this era, they were definitely considered rare treasures.

If you hand this thing over to those Tatar officials, you probably won't be able to get anything other than thin underwear.

But the person in front of him was Jia Wenxuan, a senior officer of the Ming Army who came from the system!

There was no emotion on Jia Wenxuan's face, he just looked at it lightly and said.

"This box of pearls should be worth one to twenty thousand taels of silver. If Sir Shikina wants to use this to pay taxes, it's not enough!"

Hearing this, Shikina was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

When this box of pearls was put on the market, it would fetch at least 5 taels of silver. As a result, the value of Jingjia Wenxuan's upper and lower lips shrank by more than half as soon as they touched it. And did he want to use these pearls to pay taxes?

Skinner howled helplessly in his heart.

"If Mr. Skina really can't come up with the money, I have a suggestion here. The people in Macau and your former illegal armed forces can join our Ming Foreign Legion."

"Your Majesty has always been very generous to his own people. The amount of back taxes should be reduced."

At this time, Jia Wenxuan said calmly.

Of course Zhu Heyi knew that the Portuguese would never be able to afford more than 300 million dragon yuan.

At this time, Macau was only that big, with a total population of only over 6000 people, of which more than 1703 were women. (In fact, there should be more than 50 women, and most Portuguese men died in the war with Timor. By the end of [-], there were less than [-] men in the city, but in the parallel world, I have the final say, and the war is gone.)

Moreover, Macau exists only as a distribution center and material transfer center to serve European merchant ships, and it itself has no output.

More than 300 million dragon dollars is undoubtedly a sky-high price for the Macau Governor's Office. They had to save for more than ten or twenty years to get it together.

So Zhu Heyi has helped these people think of a way out in advance.

The Indochina Peninsula will soon become lively, but Zhu Heyi does not plan to directly send a large number of regular Ming troops to the scene for the time being.

The Foreign Legion will be the main intervention force, so additional manpower is needed.

Compared with the indigenous people on the Nanyang Islands, the small countries on the Indochina Peninsula are much more difficult to deal with.

It’s not that they are very powerful in battle, but that these people are monkeys and are very good at getting through the woods.

In order to prevent the Ming army from being held back by these people and to avoid unnecessary casualties, this job was left to the Foreign Legion.

Moreover, if a massacre or something happened, the Ming army would not take the blame.

Everything can only be blamed on the poor discipline of the Foreign Legion. After all, they have already set a precedent.

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