"After captives, Jia Shidu and Andrad have been arranged to escort to Beijing by the South China Sea Fleet. They will arrive in about a few days." Deng Bing said this. After taking over the Tongshu Office, Deng Bing was extremely efficient, especially for Macau. Of course, this is inseparable from Zhang Ran's Jinyiwei's arrangement for Macau before.

Compared with the official report of the military, the Public Affairs Office submitted the information to Zhu Yicheng first. After listening to Deng Bing's report, Zhu Yicheng nodded slightly.

The fate of Jia Shidu and Andrad is already destined. As the culprits in provoking the Battle of the South China Sea, the Ming Dynasty must conduct a severe trial on the two. What awaits them will be the end of the Ming Zhengdian punishment. This is also Zhu Yicheng's explanation to the entire Ming Dynasty with their heads, and in this way, he told the people of the Ming Dynasty that as a country above the Celestial Empire, the dignity of the Ming Dynasty cannot be violated.

In addition, after the trial, there will be a memorial to the fallen soldiers in the South China Sea initiated by the Ming army, and Zhu Yicheng, as the emperor, will also participate in it personally. These are all pre-arranged.

On the surface, the Macau affairs seemed to be over, but there were still many subsequent work. After the Macau change, the Macau side would send a letter to the Portuguese king on behalf of the Council of Parliament to explain the situation in Macau in detail. Of course, in this letter, the reason for the Macau change was of course caused by Jasdu and Andrade's unauthorized war. In this war, the Portuguese fleet was defeated, Jasdu and Andrade were defeated and died, and the Portuguese Far East Fleet was wiped out. It was precisely because of this war that the Portuguese Kingdom's rights over Macau changed. With the efforts of the Macau Council of Parliament, Macau barely won the conditions for the autonomy of the free port and free city under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the letter, Fernando will also use the content of the imperial edict of the Ming Dynasty and the appendix of the copy of the official documents issued by the Ming Dynasty to Macau to confirm these situations. Fernando, as a nobleman, was fully confident that when the letter was delivered to the king, even if His Majesty the King was angry, he would be powerless to do anything about it.

The fait accompli in Macau cannot be changed. The reason why I wrote this letter is that most of the people living in Macau are still Portuguese. No matter how good they lived in the Ming Dynasty, their families and roots are still in Europe. Many people will return to Europe one day, so it is still necessary to report the situation to the king and let the king distinguish the truth of the matter. It is also the best way to appease these people.

As for the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was not worried that Portugal would retaliate against the Ming Dynasty. The distance and strength of the two countries were obvious. No matter how powerful Portugal was, it was impossible for it to send an expeditionary force to the Far East to start war. Even if it came, the Ming Dynasty would have confidence to make it come and go.

After receiving ten battleships from the Portuguese Far East Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet not only restored its combat power before the war, but also became much stronger. In the Far East, no fleet can compete with the South China Sea Fleet. Even in Europe, the power of the South China Sea Fleet is enough to be a powerful fleet.

The next thing is for future foreign policy and diplomatic considerations. With the southeast to the South China Sea all belong to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has now mastered the entire 708-eight-tenths of China's seas and coastal areas. With the development of maritime trade and the expansion of maritime forces, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably have practical contact with more Western countries.

The Macau change is also a demonstration of the Ming Dynasty's attitude to all Western countries and promotes the Ming Dynasty's force. And it is true. After the Battle of the South China Sea, with the pacification of the South China Sea, the Ming Dynasty's maritime trade was much smoother than before. Because of the great reputation of the South China Sea fleet, the Netherlands, Spain, and other countries in the South China Sea, including Britain, which is still near the Indian Ocean, have a very different attitude towards the Ming Dynasty than before.

"While Fernando sent a letter to the local area, he had sent people back to Europe to recruit personnel. According to the emperor's request, the first batch of personnel will arrive in the Far East first in at most half a year." Deng Bing continued to report.

Zhu Yicheng thought about it and reminded him: "You follow up on this matter yourself and report it to me immediately if there is any news."

"I understand, please rest assured, the emperor." Deng Bing nodded quickly.

Deng Bing's ability made Zhu Yicheng very satisfied. As his former military secretary, Deng Bing was orderly and had clear ideas. He was indeed the most suitable candidate for serving as a general office. The facts now also proved Zhu Yicheng's vision.

Fernando recruited personnel from Europe, which was specifically explained by Zhu Yicheng. It seems that Fernando did a good job, but the result depends on the situation of the people he recruited six months later. Zhu Yicheng had his own considerations for the recruitment of European talents. In fact, in this era, the Ming Dynasty's technology and Western technology were not much different, and in some aspects, the Ming Dynasty was even ahead of Western countries.

However, stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade, but the basic science of the West is stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty. After the Western Renaissance movement in the 14th to 16th centuries, the development of Western countries gradually deviated from the ignorance and backwardness of the Middle Ages and began to move in the right direction.

After the curtain of the Age of Discovery begins, the development of Western countries will be even more and more mile. In another twenty-thirty years, the first industrial revolution will officially begin. Now is the eve of Western countries' accumulation of science and technology and will soon be transformed.

In this case, the Ming Dynasty had to take the lead in order to complete its own transformation before the industrial revolution of Western countries. In fact, Zhu Yicheng had already started when he was in Ningbo, but due to the weak basic science of the Ming Dynasty and the four people's strategies for thousands of years, industry and commerce were not valued by rulers, and the progress was not satisfied with Zhu Yicheng.

Given this foundation, Zhu Yicheng decisively turned his attention overseas, and the Macau change was precisely his best opportunity to open up this gap.

With the support of Fernando and Portuguese merchants in Macau, the Ming Dynasty was able to absorb a large number of talents from the West through this channel. These talents include some scholars with basic science, craftsmen with excellent abilities, especially craftsmen in shipbuilding and smelting. In addition, Western business models and culture can also make up for the source of the Ming Dynasty's weaknesses in this regard. Why was the Tang Dynasty so strong in history? It was precisely because the Tang Dynasty was broad-minded and all-encompassing, which caused the collision between the East and the West to produce a brilliant and colorful culture.
Chapter completed!