Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 276 Those who deceive the Ming Dynasty must be punished! (Two in one)

The Portuguese Indian Governor Amer was brought before the Ming Dynasty Guangdong and Guangxi Governor Wang Hong. As soon as Amer saw Wang Hong, he shouted in poor Ming Dynasty Mandarin: "Your Excellency the Governor, please stop the brutal behavior of your subordinates. They are going against God's will!"

"I don't believe in God! Make him kneel down!"

Wang Hongru looked outside the boat as if he was looking at the scenery, at the Ming officers and soldiers who were launching a retaliatory attack, and did not turn to look at Amer.

"As ordered!"

After Deputy General Dai Dabin said this, he waved his hand and signaled the two Ming soldiers to let Amer kneel down.

"Wait! Your country has abolished the kneeling ceremony, why do you still want me to kneel? Your Excellency Governor, you Chinese have a saying that goes, a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. Please give me the respect I deserve!"

Amel shouted hurriedly.

"You are nothing but barbarians, yet you dare to call yourself a 'scholar'! You are right, my emperor has abolished the kneeling ceremony, and only the most solemn ceremony can be followed, but that is for the people of the Ming Dynasty. You are nothing but barbarians, and you don't kneel before me. Do you want me to break your legs?"

After Wang Hong said this, he suddenly turned around and shouted, "Make him kneel down!"

Click!

Amer's knees were broken by the Ming soldiers' kicks, and he fell to his knees on the deck. Amer couldn't help but scream in pain: "You are humiliating me!"

"That's right, I am humiliating you. What can you do?"

Wang Hong asked.

Amer was speechless for a moment. At this time, the screams from the Portuguese outside made Amer come back to his senses. He realized that he asked to see the governor of the Ming Dynasty to ask him to stop killing his Portuguese. Therefore, Amer hurriedly said:
"Your Excellency the Governor, please ask your subordinates to immediately stop this act of harming our Portuguese citizens! Or please tell me why you are doing this! Your Majesty is a benevolent emperor. Do you want to go against your emperor's wishes?!"

"Because you killed the citizens of my Ming Dynasty! And you enslaved and tortured them to death!"

Wang Hong replied.

After hearing what Wang Hong said, Amei was speechless again, and then reluctantly bowed to Wang Hong:
"I am very sorry for this, but I don't think this should be your way of revenge. We are noble believers of God. You can't treat us in such a barbaric way?"

"Are you allowed to treat the people of the Ming Dynasty like this?" Wang Hong asked.

"We don't want to kill them. We just let them work for us. Besides, they are slaves that we captured and bought. We have the right to deal with them!"

Amer said.

"Very good. You and all the people here are now prisoners of the Ming Dynasty. I have the power to deal with you. I heard from our people that you arrogant, shameless and despicable Western barbarians actually treated the people of the Ming Dynasty as chamber pots, urinated in their mouths and humiliated them! In this case, come! Order all the men on the ship to line up and urinate in the mouth of this barbarian governor! Then fill him with feces, so that he can taste the humiliation!"

Wang Hong shouted, "Open his mouth!"

"Yes, sir!" Dai Dabin gave the order and then personally pried open Amel's mouth. Amel struggled and whimpered, but couldn't get free. He had never expected this day to come. For a moment, he felt regretful, angry and scared.

……

An hour later, Amer was soaked and stinking.

Wang Hong was too lazy to look at him and just ordered:
"Drag him down, and three days later, all the Portuguese prisoners will be brought to the shore for disposal!

They were divided into three groups. One group was tied together and stood separated by barbed wire, serving as targets for the soldiers to test their guns!

Each group is composed of five people, and each five people are tied to a stone to serve as targets for the artillerymen to test their artillery!

The remaining group were tied together and allowed to be tested with swords by the soldiers. They chopped off their heads and built a cement Jingguan!
If we don’t have enough people, we can use the natives here to make up the numbers! Let them know the consequences of humiliating the people of the Ming Dynasty!”

"As ordered!"

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were all very excited, and they all actively carried out Wang Hong's orders to demonstrate the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

Three days later.

At this time, Amer and a group of Portuguese officers and soldiers were taken to the shore in batches.

at this time.

The officers and soldiers were also called together, all with satisfied expressions. Seeing this, Deputy General Dai Dabin could not help but order:
"Put on your cotton armor! Hold your guns steady! Stand straight! Don't become bandits just because you have tasted Western women and killed Western men! Remember, you are still officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty! You are warriors fighting for the empire, so cheer up!"

After Dai Dabin said this, under the orders of officers at all levels, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty straightened their chests and waited for the next order.

When Dai Dabin saw this, he asked the musketeers to test their guns first.

A group of Portuguese officers and soldiers were escorted in front of the musketeers and tied to wooden frames. A shooting ring number marking chart was also pasted on their chests, but these Portuguese men still struggled desperately. They all realized that they were going to be shot, so they were all panicked.

"Woo woo! Oh God, I, Kerke, don't want to die yet! Why are these Orientals so cruel!"

"I regret coming here, I want to go back to Lisbon!"

"Dear noble Orientals, I was really wrong. Please don't do this. For God's sake, please forgive us!"

……

No matter how these Portuguese officers and soldiers shouted, the Ming soldiers were not affected by them. They all held their guns seriously and stood in front of these Portuguese targets.

"Raise the gun!"

Under the command of the military officer, the musketeers raised their guns as instructed.

"aim!"

The military officer gave an order, and the musketeers immediately took aim using the crosshairs!
"shooting!"

Immediately, the military officers gave the order to shoot, and the musketeers pulled the trigger. Bullets shot out of the barrels with a cloud of dust, and like the sound of frying beans, they shot the Portuguese to death on the spot. Blood splattered everywhere, and the Portuguese trembled violently, then lowered their heads.

"Target report!"

After the military officer gave the order, the soldiers walked up to the Portuguese in unison and began to report their targets in sequence.

"Report! Ten rings, people dead!"

"Report! Jiuhuan, someone is dead!"

"Report! Jiuhuan, someone is dead!"

"Report! Eighth Ring, the person is not dead!"

"Report! Eighth Ring, the person is not dead!"

"Report! Ten rings, people dead!"

The soldiers started reporting their targets one after another.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty’s officers and soldiers would not let go of some Portuguese who were not shot dead immediately. The military officer in charge of command immediately ordered: "Hold your guns and practice bayoneting! Listen to my orders!" As soon as the military officer finished shouting, all the Ming Dynasty’s musketeers raised their guns.

Immediately, the military officer shouted loudly: "Stab!"

Then, countless sharp knives with cold light pierced into the chests of these Portuguese with a "pop". The Portuguese who had been shot to death began to bleed again, while the Portuguese who had not died from the shooting screamed again and died immediately.

Seeing this, Amer shouted again, very angry and sad: "Oh my God, you are killing people! You are so cruel!"

……

at this time.

On the other side, four Ming Dynasty sailing battleships were lined up in a row.

On the beach outside the Ming sailing battleship, there were many large rocks distributed in an orderly manner. Portuguese were tied to these rocks, just like the Portuguese tied the people of the Ming to the gun platforms and masts.

"Check the guns!"

The artillery commander ordered.

"Cannon No. 1 has been inspected!"

"Cannon No. 2 has been inspected!"

"Cannon No. 3 has been inspected!"

……

Immediately, various types of artillery began to respond to orders, and at the same time, the flag signals of each ship were also conveyed to the commander.

Upon seeing this, the artillery commander immediately gave the order: "Fire!"

then.

The eighty huge cannons of the Ming Dynasty spewed out flames and poured dozens of shells onto the stones.

Suddenly.

These stones burst directly!

The people tied to these stones were either blown to pieces or blown away along with the stone chips, becoming debris!

Even those who were not killed directly by the explosion became disabled and wailed on the beach like bloody masses.

"Shoot again! Change the gun!"

boom!
At the command of the artillery commander, the battle line formed by the four Ming Dynasty sailing battleships once again poured countless shells, and these Portuguese officers and soldiers were now extremely regretful and begged: "Noble Orientals, please forgive us! Please forgive us!"

of course.

It is too late to talk about forgiveness at this time.

The artillery once again turned these Portuguese people and the stones into pieces!
The entire beach was in a mess, like a Shura hell, with broken arms and legs everywhere!
"Oh my God! This is my fault. I shouldn't have brought them here. I should have taken them back. I shouldn't have let them provoke the Orientals! Their shells can actually break into pieces and hurt the enemy when they explode. We really can't provoke such an empire. I was wrong, I was really wrong! Oh God, are you going to let the Orientals punish us for our greed?"

Amel was so upset when he saw this tragic scene that he almost burst into tears.

"Go quickly!"

At this time, the Ming army soldier escorting him shouted an order at him, and Amer also saw a Ming army soldier in front of him holding a knife with a thick back and a wide blade. He recognized that it was a beheading knife.

At this time, a group of Portuguese were being escorted and pressed on a long stone. When a soldier lowered his flag, the guillotine fell directly, and the thick back of the blade carried a strong inertia and chopped directly at the neck of the Portuguese.

Click!

The Ming Dynasty's high-carbon steel knife was extremely sharp. When the knife chopped down, the head was cut off, but the blood had not yet come out. After a moment, it suddenly erupted like a geothermal spring, rushing directly into the sky and dyeing the sky red.

Amer was so frightened that he couldn't help but tremble. He was extremely scared and vaguely realized that he was going to be beheaded like this. He hurriedly backed away: "No, no, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die! I am the governor of the Great Portuguese Empire, you can't execute me! I don't want to be chopped!"

"be honest!"

A Ming soldier shouted at him and dragged him over. Just as he was about to press him down on the bloodstained long stone, Amer knelt down and begged, "Please, spare me. I am willing to compensate you with all my gold and silver! Compensate the Han people who were humiliated and enslaved by us!"

"We are not short of gold and silver. What we lack is to use your blood to tell everyone that the people of the Ming Dynasty cannot be bullied by people of any race!"

Wang Hong came over and said, then waved his hand and said, "Cut!"

Click!

Amer's head was cut off.

Meanwhile, the Ming engineers were mixing cement concrete, and it had just been completed. Meanwhile, the Portuguese heads were piled up and placed in the most conspicuous place in the harbor of Goa, that is, the location of the lighthouse, to form a Jingguan!

Then, the Ming Dynasty's engineers poured cement concrete on these Jingguans. Carbohydrates and cement concrete combined to form the most solid triangular tower. At the top of the triangular tower, there was only a solidified face cast with cement. That face was Amer, the Portuguese Governor-General of India. Perhaps he never thought that he would exist in this way.

The Ming Dynasty dragon flag was hoisted on Amer's head and then poured with cement to solidify.

At the same time, Wang Hong ordered people to carve a line of words on the seaside of the Jingguan Tower. The words read: Anyone who bullies the people of the Ming Dynasty must be punished!
This is the end.

The Ming Dynasty has truly occupied the city of Goa!
After a few days, the Jingguan Tower had completely solidified, becoming a monument to the Ming army's first visit to the Indian subcontinent!
The precious goods such as gold, silver, ivory, musk, cloves, etc. that the Portuguese had accumulated here for many years were completely owned by the Ming Dynasty, including their buildings!
The Ming Dynasty turned the church into a school for teaching Chinese. The Ming people who were once enslaved by them became the first aristocratic residents here. They were given land, buildings, and slaves.

The so-called slaves are these Indian natives.

Ever since Wang Hong knew that these Indian natives were not friendly to the Ming people who were enslaved by the Portuguese and even aided them, he announced that these Indian natives were not the subjects of the Ming Dynasty and should be expelled. However, considering that the Ming Dynasty needed sufficient labor to develop Goa, he ordered that these Indian natives be demoted to untouchables and allowed to be bought and sold. In addition to distributing some of them to the residents of the Ming Dynasty here, the rest could be sold by the Imperial Maritime Trade Corporation.

After all, this was the early days of colonization, and as an official of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong would not maintain enough respect for people from other countries like the modern emperor Zhu Houzhao who traveled through time.

Therefore, for Wang Hong, what he needs to consider is how to maximize the interests of the Ming Dynasty. It can also be said that in his worldview, only the people of the Ming Dynasty are considered human beings.

of course.

Not everyone has the same thoughts as Wang Hong. There are also people like Han Wen who are like saints.

Han Wen, who was originally demoted to Goa and was responsible for sinicizing the natives, has now forgotten the sadness that his favorite prostitute Yu Ai left him and a businessman after learning that he was demoted to a commoner, and has actively devoted himself to the movement to fight for the rights of the local natives.

While teaching these natives Chinese characters, he also asked Wang Hong to abolish the untouchable system and treat the local natives as citizens of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Han Wen's views were not supported by most Ming officials, especially the civil and military officials in Goa City, who all believed that Han Wen was the farmer in the story of the farmer and the snake.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many great scholars who supported Han Wen. They impeached Wang Hong's behavior in Goa as being against benevolence, and even directly accused the Ming Dynasty of occupying Goa as an inhumane act. They requested Emperor Zhu Houzhao to order Wang Hong to withdraw, allow Goa to re-establish its country, and make it pay tribute.

(End of this chapter)