"Dear Your Majesty, this season, the warm sea breeze of Lisbon brings the breath of the south, and your faithful servant Francisco de Melo Castro greets you from the Far East."

In the Governor General's Office of Macau, the new Governor Jia Shidu held a quill and wrote on a white letter paper, which was a letter to the Portuguese king Joao V.

"Two months ago, I arrived in the Far East successfully. Thanks to His Majesty and your fleet for escorting. Under the command of the invincible Portuguese warship and General Carlos Andrade, we survived the storm and long journey, and finally set foot on the land of Macau. It has to be said that Macau, the pearl of this empire in the Far East is so brilliant. The customs and customs here even made me forget the sorrow of leaving my hometown. The city buildings like Lisbon even made me feel that I am still in Europe. This is the precious wealth given to the empire by the Holy Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit….”

"Please forgive me, my dear Majesty, I should have written to you as soon as possible after arriving in Macau, but due to some unexpected situations, I realized that the Far East is fighting like Europe, and the scale of the war is even larger than that of the Spanish throne. This Far East Empire called Qing broke out in a rebellion two years ago. The rebellion was not large at the beginning, but because of the rulers of the Qing Empire, the rebellion could not be quickly quelled, which led to the rebellion sweeping over half of the Qing Dynasty.

"Now, the rebels of the Qing Empire have formed four forces in the empire. The largest of them is commanded by a declining prince of the Ming Dynasty that was conquered by the Qing Empire before. This prince now occupies three and a half provinces in the southern part of the Qing Empire, and is continuing to march south. Faced with rebellions from all over the country, the emperor of the Qing Empire is mobilizing military forces to fight with rebel troops, but your majesty, you also know that the Qing Empire in the Far East is too big, big enough to be equivalent to the entire Europe, so I think if this rebellion is not unexpected, it will last for a long time."

Having written this, Jia Shidu was silent for a moment, dipped his quill ink in his hand and continued to write: "Because the prince's army was launching a fierce attack on Guangdong Province, that is, the province where Macau is located. Before, the prince's navy had annihilated the Qing Empire's fleet in the south in a naval battle, so the Qing Empire lost the power to confront the prince at sea. However, their army was still very powerful. Just in Guangzhou, not far from the north of Macau, the Qing Empire had nearly 100,000 troops stationed in the Qing Empire. Unfortunately, the Qing Empire, which had no cover for the navy, would probably lose the initiative in this battle."

"Not long ago, the Qing Empire sent envoys to the southern governor and marshal to ask the Empire's fleet in Macau to help them deal with the prince's fleet. Your Majesty, do you know what kind of reaction I reacted when I heard this news? My respected Your Majesty, the importance of the Far East to the Empire is self-evident. The empire's development in the Far East is even more important than in the New World. Macau is an important land obtained by the Empire in the Far East. Now we are facing a god-given opportunity, which is to extend this land to the country of the Qing Empire, and at the same time, it can monopolize the foreign trade of the Qing Empire, and have the opportunity to travel and preach freely in this chosen place."

"The governor and marshal of the Qing Empire agreed that as long as the empire could help them defeat the prince's fleet, they could meet our needs. These are what the empire has always dreamed of. Over the years, the empire has been working hard, but there has never been hope. But now the opportunity has come. If you give up this opportunity, I am afraid that the Holy Father, Son, and Holy Spirit will be disappointed with his subjects. After asking General Carlos Andrade, I measured the comparison of the maritime power between the two sides. I agreed to this suggestion as the governor of Macau and signed a cooperation agreement with the Qing Empire. Dear Your Majesty, please forgive my actions, because this opportunity came too suddenly and important, so important that I could not make this decision when I contacted you."

"Dear Your Majesty, please rest assured. General Carlos Andrad told me that the power of the Empire's warships in Macau can be fully qualified for this task. You must know that the warships of the Far East Empire cannot compete with the powerful warships of the Empire, let alone Macau now has a powerful fleet, including five second-class battleships and eleven third-class battleships. More importantly, we have the indestructible Enrique. At the same time, I have ordered the mobilization of the armed merchants of the Empire's merchants in the Far East.

Joining the war, with this power, the prince's navy is no match for the empire at all. Your Majesty, the empire will surely create miracles in the Far East and reproduce the glory of the Indian Ocean Battle back then! Perhaps when Your Majesty read this letter, the empire has achieved great victory in the Far East. Let your Majesty's subjects cheer you! Let the glory of the Holy Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit shine on this land! You will become the greatest monarch in Europe, and will also be the pioneer who has stepped out of the government of the Far East..."

After writing the last long silly words, Jia Shidu signed his name at the end of the letter. After writing the letter, he carefully folded it, then took the candlestick to seal the letter, and then stamped it with the logo on the ring. After doing this, he called the servant waiting outside and told him to hand the letter to the captain of the merchant ship returning to Europe and bring it to his respected Majesty.

Jasdu was a Portuguese nobleman and had the title of viscount. He was deeply trusted by the Portuguese monarch Joao V. Shortly after Joao V ascended the throne, Joao V, who ascended the throne at the age of seventeen, is now only twenty-eight years old. He is a young man with great enthusiasm.

After ascending the throne, Joao V was wise and powerful, defeated the Portuguese aristocracy's conspiracy against the royal family in one fell swoop, thus firmly grasping the Portuguese regime. It can be said that Joao V was the first true monarch in Portugal's history. Under his leadership, the Portuguese Empire flourished and its national strength was strong.

In recent years, the Spanish throne war swept across European countries, but Joao V took this opportunity to use the huge wealth obtained from the New World to build a powerful fleet. Joao V was not willing to be the king of Portugal only. What he really wanted was an imperial monarch who spanned several continents and had vast colonizations all over the world. Under his influence, the subjects of Portugal also had a huge pioneering spirit, and Jia Shidu, as the king's confidant, was of course a radical faction. This was also the main reason why he found that the Qing court was fighting with the Ming Dynasty and other rebels after he arrived in Macau. When Guangdong asked Macau for help, Jia Shidu keenly seized this god-given opportunity and decisively cooperated with the Qing army.

In Jia Shidu's view, as long as the Ming Dynasty's maritime power was defeated, the Ming army landed south of Guangzhou would be cut off from retreat. It was obvious that the Qing army won this battle with the help of Guangzhou's troops and the assistance of Portuguese warships.

After winning, Portugal will not only get the opportunity to expand Macau into Guangdong, but also gain a monopoly position in business. In addition, there are many other benefits. How could Jia Shidu give up such a good thing?

As for whether his decision would fail or even bring trouble to the Portuguese Empire, Jia Shidu had no such concern at all. You should know that he could hold a powerful fleet in his hand now. The Portuguese Navy was not the Qing navy, with strong ships and powerful guns, and well-trained soldiers. Back then, the Portuguese Navy defeated the combined fleet of the Ottoman Empire, Venice, Egypt, Greece and India in the Indian Ocean with just eighteen warships, 1,800 soldiers and 400 Indian soldiers.

At that time, the Combined Fleet had 2,000 warships, which was a terrible difference in number. 1:2,000. Almost no country was optimistic about the Portuguese Navy's battle, but the final result was that the Combined Fleet lost more than half and withdrew from the battle in a panic. The Portuguese Navy did not lose one ship but died, and only dozens of people were injured.

Jia Shidu had seen the warships of the Ming Navy. In his opinion, these Eastern warships were far inferior to those of Portuguese warships in terms of ship size, artillery power, ship speed, etc., among which the most powerful warships of the Ming army were only barely competing with the third-class warships of the Portuguese Navy. In this case, it was obvious that Portugal won the victory, and the result of the Indian Ocean Navy that year would reappear in the Far East.

"Governor General, General Andrad is here."

Jia Shidu immediately stood up, walked out of the study quickly, and when he arrived at the living room, he saw General Andrad was already waiting for him.

"Governor!"

"Oh, my dear general, have you gone out for a walk and met those little mice? How do you feel?" General Andrad told Jia Shidu a few days ago that he was going to take a few boats out for a walk. As for what he was going to go for a walk and what the purpose was, the two of them knew very well. So when he saw General Andrad, Jia Shidu asked with a smile.

"Little mice are little mice. These Orientals should not come to the sea at all. I think rivers and lakesides are the places they should stay." General Andrad was in a very good mood. He took the boat out for a walk, and casually sank and captured more than 20 Ming army ships, including many Ming army warships.

Fighting with the opponent is simply an adult bullying the child. The Ming Navy's warships were simply vulnerable. After two battles, the Portuguese Navy simply and neatly dismantled the opponent. The battleships that went on to fight were not lost at all. If this was his opponent, General Andrade had full confidence in the subsequent battles, and with his power, he could completely destroy all the Ming warships in the south.

When he returned to Macau, General Andrad's confidence increased. He came to Jia Shidu to discuss the time for the formal battle. If Jia Shidu did not object, he would prepare to assemble a fleet to fight immediately and kill the Ming Navy as quickly as possible.
Chapter completed!