New Ming Empire mixed in America

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The Macau Peninsula is so big, and there is no land reclamation yet. Even Taipa and Coloane are small islands that exist alone.

And because the Macau Peninsula is close to the mainland, it is even more popular with the Portuguese.

So most of Portugal's resources have been invested in the Macau Peninsula, well... it should be said that it started during the Ming Dynasty.

What is even more tragic is that the Portuguese occupation of the Macau Peninsula started with a rent of 500 taels of silver per year.

You read that right, when the Portuguese leased Macau, the annual payment was five hundred taels.

As the combat meeting progressed, Li Mingqi also roughly understood the abilities and combat personalities of his officers.

For example, Cheng Yuanliang's combat ideas tend to be conservative. He always wants to arrange all aspects of the battle as much as possible before the battle, and then fight step by step.

So now, under his leadership, the Pacific Fleet has begun to integrate and the positions of all warships and gunboats have been figured out.

For example, the role of the two new ironclad ships is to protect the entire fleet. That is to say, during battle, they do not need to engage in long-range bombardment with the enemy. They will only cruise around the fleet to prevent possible warship raids by the opponent.

The combat meeting has entered the final stage, and the staff officers participating in the discussion have begun to sort out the content of the meeting.

Li Mingqi also classified the combat ideas of these officers.

The first category is the radical faction headed by Liu Erhe, who believe that when attacking, they must resolutely implement the tough approach of the New Ming Empire.

In other words, you fight and kill all the way, and all the buildings on the road are burned down.

The officers led by Cheng Yuanliang believed that the Macau Peninsula had been designated as the outpost of the New Ming Empire in the Puppet Qing Dynasty, so they should try their best to ensure the integrity of the system here.

In this way, the empire can save a lot of money, and it can also allow the Xinming Empire to integrate into the Puppet Qing Dynasty and other countries in the world as soon as possible.

Both sides have their own reasons, so Li Mingqi can only...can only favor Liu Erhe.

Because Li Mingqi doesn't care at all about the loss of buildings on the Macau Peninsula. There can be better planning for reconstruction.

Of course, the most important thing is that after hundreds of years of development by the Portuguese, the architecture on the Macau Peninsula has been completely European-style.

Including customs, thoughts, language...etc.

Rather than leaving it to change slowly, it's better to take this opportunity to completely format it.

Li Mingqi did not have time to consider the thoughts of the banana people on the Macau Peninsula at this time, and he would not let these people create a special zone.

Therefore, it is better to completely demolish it and rebuild it, so that the Macau Peninsula can become Chinese-style again—change it back to its core.

So after the meeting, Li Mingqi approved the request for the Imperial Guard to participate in the war.

As for officers like Cheng Yuanliang, they must also change their operational thinking.

If the Xinming Empire wants to completely integrate into the mainstream countries of the world, it must abide by the rules of these people.

Agree with the various rules they set and the fact that they divide the world.

But Li Mingqi thinks these are all farts, and what the Xinming Empire will do in the future is not to follow the rules.

If everything were to be regulated, then the Xinming Empire, let alone occupying the West Coast, might still be negotiating with others over the ownership of San Francisco.

So Li Mingqi's idea is that whoever has the strongest fist has the final say.

Now that the Xinming Empire is obviously more powerful than Portugal, it should be the Xinming Empire that has the final say on the ownership of the Macau Peninsula.

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Even if the Portuguese godfather brings Ying here, it won't work.

After two days of pre-war deployment, the Pacific Fleet was ready for battle, and the transport ships of the Wehrmacht and Guardsmen were also ready for landing.

The airship had also replenished its ammunition and was just waiting for Li Mingqi's order to begin the battle to regain the Macau Peninsula.

At this critical moment, Li Mingqi actually received a notice, saying that he was the British consul in Macau, the three consuls in Macau, the American consul in Macau...

There were a total of twelve consuls scattered here and there, and Li Mingqi even received the consul from the Puppet Qing Dynasty in Macau... No, it should be the commissioner established by the Puppet Qing Dynasty to take charge of everything on the Macau Peninsula.

Despite the nice-sounding title, this guy is actually worse than a consul in the Macau Peninsula.

Because these pseudo-Qing officials did not even dare to come out of the area designated for them.

Every day, I just submit a letter of protest to the Portuguese Council in charge of Macau affairs as if it were business.

Negotiations between the Qing Dynasty and the Portuguese on the issue of the Macau Peninsula are now underway in Tianjin.

Moreover, the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty also hired three envoys to serve as referees, and the result can be imagined.

Li Mingqi was really eye-opening about the bizarre diplomatic operations of the Qing Dynasty.

First, they asked Tsarist Russia, which was beaten violently by Dai Ying and the other five countries, to mediate the Second Opium War initiated by Dai Ying. In the end, it was useless and a large amount of land was lost.

Now, the three envoys who were most active in setting up concession areas in the Puppet Qing Dynasty were appointed as referees in an attempt to restrict Portugal's lease regulations.

It would be shameful for Na San to stand on Portugal's side openly, but the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty actually wants the other side to come...

"Let them go to the conference room. I just want to see what tricks they can come up with!"

After finishing speaking, Li Mingqi returned to the lounge and changed into a dragon robe similar to Qian Ming's style.

There are commissioners from the Puppet Qing Dynasty participating in the meeting today, and Li Mingqi wants to remind them of the previous Ming Dynasty.

They are all Han people. If these Han ministers who worked hard for the Qing Dynasty still have a sense of shame, they should not take the side of the European countries in the meeting.

It's a pity that all Li Mingqi's hard work was in vain.

When he appeared in the conference room wearing a Ming Dynasty dragon robe, the Han officials who came from the Qing Dynasty reacted most violently.

"You are so impudent that you dare to wear a dragon robe openly. Are you going to rebel?"

A pseudo-Qing official stood up and scolded Li Mingqi loudly. Li Mingqi was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Liu Erhe beside him.

Liu Erhe was almost furious because of this guy's rudeness, but now he received Li Mingqi's look.

So the actions of drawing the gun, aiming, shooting, and closing the gun were all done in one go.

Just when he put his pistol back into the holster, the body of the pseudo-Qing official who was hit in the head just started to fall towards the ground.

The room was quiet for a moment, and then exclamations in various languages ​​rang throughout the conference room.

"Remember, this is not the Puppet Qing Dynasty!" Liu Erhe glanced at the consuls from various countries around him, focused on the corner where the Puppet Qing Dynasty officials were, and said:

"If anyone dares to insult our Xinming Empire, this is the fate!"

Li Mingqi acted as if he didn't see what happened just now and let Liu Erhe do whatever he wanted.

"Chief Li, you are also from the Qing Dynasty. Do you just watch your men murdering Qing officials?"

The pseudo-Qing envoy stood up, looked directly at Li Mingqi and protested loudly, and deliberately called Li Mingqi the leader in his words. It was very obvious that he refused to recognize the Xinming Empire as a country.

Li Mingqi didn't even raise his eyelids, he looked directly at the consuls of various countries and said:

"Who is the British consul? Please come forward and speak."

Seeing that Li Mingqi was deliberately ignoring him, Pseudo-Qingzheng's face turned red with anger, his body even trembled a little, and he shouted loudly:

"This is the Qing Dynasty, and issues here in Haojing must be approved by the imperial court!"

He knew that he could not let Li Mingqi speak to the consul who led Ying, otherwise with the current weakness of the imperial court on the Macau issue, there would really be nothing to say.

This time Li Mingqi finally looked at the pseudo-Qing envoy and said:

"Does Haojing's issue require your consent?"

"When you allowed those clowns in Portugal to invade the Macau Peninsula, why didn't you stand up and say this?"

"Why didn't your court say this when you compromised with the Portuguese when you killed the martyr Shen Zhiliang a few years ago?"

"When the European powers blatantly joined forces with the Thirteenth Bank to open the Piglet House (an organization that traffics in Chinese) in Macau, why didn't your court say this?"

Several questions in a row made the pseudo-Qing envoy look very ugly.

He had also heard about Shen Zhiliang. At that time, the Portuguese governor of Macau, Amal, bombarded Chinese merchant ships, sank Chinese fishermen's sampans, opened a road outside Sanba Gate, destroyed customs gates, and leveled tombs.

They also brazenly arrested the officials of the Nanhuan Pass of the Macau Customs and expelled them from Macau. They announced that the houses and properties at the pass would be confiscated and auctioned off.

He also led troops to attack the Macau Customs Office, closed the doors and expelled the Ding servants.

Shen Zhiliang led a group of farmers to ambush the Portuguese executioner, but was eventually trapped by Guangdong Governor Xu Guangjin.

More than five months later, the puppet Qing government killed Shen Zhiliang for the so-called bullshit theory of "temporarily inconvenient conflicts with foreigners."

As for the problem of the piglet house, the pseudo-Qingzheng envoy became even more clear.

The Macau Peninsula had become the largest exporter of Chinese labor at this time, and there were more than 200 piglet houses of various kinds.

Everyone was a little tired after talking too much about the Chinese workers, but what happened later was even more brutal.

In 1910, under the pretext of "suppressing bandits", the Portuguese in Macau brazenly attacked and bloodbathed Coloane Island.

In 1922, a Chinese woman was insulted by Macao-Portuguese soldiers in Macao, which triggered protests and demonstrations by Chinese residents in Macao. The Macao-Portuguese authorities dispatched troops to brutally suppress the incident, killing 70 demonstrators on the spot and injuring more than 100 others.

There are many similar things like this, and these atrocities can only be summarized in four short words in history, that is: ‘Foreigners are cruel’.

These are relatively sensational things. Similar ones include inciting black people to attack Chinese residential areas, charging high taxes on Chinese people, and wantonly oppressing Chinese workers who rush to work in Macau...

These things are all clearly recorded, but unfortunately the locals in Macau may not remember them now.

How many corpses are buried under the masonry of each European-style building?

Are the foundations of churches red?

"I protest, this is an insult to our Kingdom of Portugal!"

At this time, representatives of the Macau Council stood up.

At this time, the new Governor of Macau, who came from Portugal, was already negotiating with the puppet Qing Dynasty in Tianjin. He believed that the days when the council members held power were short, and now he just wanted to take advantage of this period to resolve the issue with the new people as soon as possible.

Conflict between the Ming Empire.

But Li Mingqi mentioned Portugal just now, so he had no choice but to stand up and protest.

"We have had sovereignty over Macau for hundreds of years. If you don't believe me, you can look at the historic buildings that were moved here in Macau. Which one was not built by us Portuguese?"

"What's more, our sovereignty here in Macau has been recognized by all countries and has irrefutable legal effect!"

The representatives of the Portuguese Parliament spoke impassionedly and even mentioned the names of other countries.

When things got here, no one paid any more attention to the pseudo-Qing official who was shot dead just now.

They wouldn't even blink an eye if they had dozens of lives in their hands, not to mention a single life.

This time it just happened in front of their eyes, otherwise they wouldn't even scream.

"You are right, the buildings here are all in your Portuguese style."

Li Mingqi nodded, indicating that he agreed with the statement of the Portuguese Council representative, and then changed the subject and said:

"So I will demolish them all in the future and build your Portuguese landmark buildings on the pier..."

After saying that, he ignored the other party and turned his attention to the direction where the representatives of the Portuguese Council had looked for help many times.

There was an old man with gray hair. He was wearing a tailored tuxedo and the gold-encrusted cane in his hand was very eye-catching.

"You must be the consul who led Ying?"

Looking at this old guy, Li Mingqi gave a very direct warning.

"I hope you will stop doing those disgusting little tricks, otherwise your fleet in the Pacific will end up like the fleet that expedition to the west coast!"

"I give you one last chance, don't mess with me. I don't care what you do in other countries in the world, and I don't have time to care about it. But for the disgusting things that happened to the Xinming Empire, once is enough!"

After finishing speaking, Li Mingqi looked in the direction of the American representative and asked, without waiting for the other party to speak:

"I heard that you signed the so-called 'Wangxia Treaty' with the Qing Dynasty?"

Upon hearing Li Mingqi's question, the American envoy first looked at Consul Dai Ying, who had a gloomy face but did not speak, and then said:

"Yes, the Treaty of Wangxia was negotiated in Macau between us on behalf of Gu Sheng and Qi Ying on behalf of the Qing government, and signed in the back garden of Puwan Zen Temple in Wangxia Village. This is a legally binding treaty!"

After listening, Li Mingqi suddenly smiled and asked a question that made the American envoy very embarrassed.

"You said you represent Washington, does that mean you are following the orders of the Northern Federation?"

Now the Civil War has entered a white-hot stage. According to the original history, the battle between the two sides was about to come to an end at this time.

However, due to Li Mingqi's strong intervention, the Southern Alliance is still very powerful now.

It is foreseeable that the bloodletting on both sides will continue for a long time.

The Southern Alliance, which holds loans from the Xinming Empire and uses Xinming base weapons, is still on the active fighting side.

Although the relationship between the Xinming Empire and them has reached a freezing point since the second half of last year, this does not mean that the Southern Alliance will directly fall into passivity.

Because the weapons and equipment are in stock, the loan has already been received.

As long as they tighten their belts, Confederate soldiers can still compete with the Northern Confederacy.