"Oh, I'll go there now."

How did they contact Sheyang Lake? How many days have they been logged in? Zhao Xin was a little annoyed. When he arrived at the communication room, he happened to hear a familiar voice in the telephone and asked anxiously: "Are you here? Please urge me again."

Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment before he realized that the person calling out to Xu Dayong was Xu. He walked to the table, picked up the phone and said, "Xu Dayong, are you itchy? Are you happy with me if you have nothing to do?!"

Xu Dayong on the other end of the line seemed to be stunned. After a while, he asked excitedly: "Sir, is it really you? Sir, are you really okay?"

Zhao Xin was upset, so he said angrily: "I can't die! Tell me if you have anything to do!"

"Sir! Don't be angry, listen to me first. That, Mr. Shen, Miss Shen, and Brother Shoushan, led more than 20 subordinates. They took a boat south to Guangzhou overnight yesterday!"

"Ah?!" Zhao Xin was shocked and asked quickly: "What happened?"

At this time, I heard a whisper on the other side for a while, and then Xu Dayong's voice came: "Sir, are there anyone around you? Brother Shoushan explained this before leaving, and I asked me to tell you alone."

As soon as he said this, the two correspondents in the room could not sit still and quickly got up and went out. After the two of them closed the cabin door, Zhao Xin then said, "There is no one now, tell me."

Only then did Xu Dayong tell Zhao Xin about the past and after.

Yesterday afternoon, Shen Jingdan and Shen Xuan suddenly arrived at the village in Sheyang Lake, which surprised Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong. Has he been leaving for a few days? Why are the Shen family father and daughter back again!

Unexpectedly, when Shen Jingdan saw Lu Shoushan, he said that something might have happened to Zhao Xin and asked him to take his good men from the village to Guangzhou to find Zhao Xin. When Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong heard this, they were frightened on the spot! They quickly asked what was wrong.

Shen Jingdan couldn't say anything about such a big thing, so he talked about what Shen Xuan felt a few days ago.

Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong were confused when they heard this. How could such a thing be used as a reason? If Zhao Xin was fine, he would have to have a meal without saying anything.

Just when the two were hesitating, Shen Xuan, who disguised as a man, actually knelt down for them, which scared Lu Shoushan and Xu Dayong to death. Both of them knew about Zhao Xin and Shen Xuan's engagement. The future mistress begged them to be here, so let's not talk, just bite the bullet and do it!

Afterwards, the two of them decided to take someone to accompany the Shen family's father and daughter to Guangzhou, and Xu Dayong was in charge of Sheyang Lake. In addition to their original subordinates, Lu Shoushan also brought Chen Jishan's brother and sister and more than a dozen good players recruited from the village. The reason for bringing Chen Jishan's sister was to serve Shen Xuan on the way.

Because the Shen family's father and daughter were anxious, Lu Shoushan gathered good people and left as soon as possible. They boarded a sand boat at night that day, and it was estimated that they were almost at Shanghai County.

When Zhao Xin heard Xu Dayong say that Shen Xuan was feeling something, he was very surprised. How could Shen Xuan react when something happened to him? Besides, the jade pendant should have nothing to do with Shen Xuan. This incident happened so strangely!

Although taking a boat is faster than land, according to the speed of sand ships in this era, it will definitely not be able to arrive without ten days and half a month.

In ancient times, China's navigation was not calculated at the speed of the hour, but at the "update". Even in the Qing Dynasty, the speed was 6.75 knots. The ancient navigation charts told you which direction to go, and then change directions to go, and where to go. As for the speed of the boat, it all depends on the weather and the experience of the bow (captain).

Zhao Xin and his team headed south from Sheyang Lake, not counting their stay on Flower and Bird Island, but had a total distance of nearly 1,100 nautical miles. The Thor relied on the nautical radar and sailed for more than three days at a speed of 20 knots per hour. If this was replaced by the turtle speed of the sand boat, it would be fast for ten days!

Do you have to wait here for half a month? But if you take the initiative to look for it, the sea is vast. Who knows that Chen Xuan and the others are sitting on the boat? Do you go over to check when you see a sand boat?

Thinking of this, Zhao Xin couldn't help but complain about Chen Xuan. It would be great to buy a dowry in Yangzhou honestly, what are you doing?

The eyes turned to Liu Sheng and the others. The group took a watermelon boat from Tanzai Island in the morning. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when the boat sailed into Macau.

"Mr. Liu, Captain Ding, we will be at Nanwan Pier soon." Matos introduced Liu Sheng and the others with a smile on his face.

The Macau Peninsula in this era was 2.78 square kilometers, much smaller than the Macau in later generations. The mountains on the entire peninsula are not high, and the highest Dongwangyang Mountain is only 91 meters above sea level.

Macau in the Qing Dynasty was also called Hao Jingao in the Chinese population; among the Portuguese and other Western populations, it was called "Chinese Ma Jiao Shen Ming Port" and abbreviated as "Ma Jiao Port". As for the later term Macau, it comes from the homonym of the Mazu Temple on the island.

Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng walked out of the cabin and stood on the deck to look at Macau. They saw beautiful houses that looked quite like the Italian style of later generations. The coast was protected by a wide grassland. The outside of the grassland was surrounded by a seawall with low walls. The scenery was very beautiful. Looking north from the pier, the famous Grand Sanba Temple was in the corner (Saint Paul Cathedral, Sanba is transliterated). The hill next to Grand Sanba Temple is where Grand Sanba Fort is located.

In addition to this fort in the center of the peninsula, Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng also noticed that there were two forts at the east and west corners of the Macau Peninsula.

"Liu, do you think there is a casino at this time?" Ding Guofeng asked Liu Sheng beside him.

"Maybe, I've been here once before."

When Liu Sheng came to Macau in another time and space, he was still working as a bodyguard for rich people. Although his salary was high at that time, most of the money was sent home to his ex-wife, and he saved money. At that time, Macau gave him the impression that eating was too expensive, and ordering Mapo tofu cost 70 yuan.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Haha, Liu, you can't eat Mapo tofu in Macau now." Ding Guofeng said right. Mapo tofu will not be available until the Tongzhi period, and it will take almost ninety years.

"At worst, we can invent it in advance. When I go back, I will ask Chef Hu to make it out, and then I will call Fatty Hu tofu!"

When the two talked and laughed, the watermelon boat leaned on the shore.

Nanwan, locals call it Nanhuan. The reason why they dock here is because according to the requirements of the Qing court’s Guangdong Customs, all outsiders who come to Macau must land from here and can enter the country after being inspected by the Nanhuan Taxation Museum of the “Macau Customs Department”.

The tax center is located next to the Nanwan Wharf, and it is only a few steps to get ashore. This place is a small house, surrounded by wooden fences outside the door, and there is a porch with a sun-shaded ceiling at the door. Under the wall on the west side of the tax center, there are more than a dozen guys sitting, watching Liu Sheng and his group pointing fingers.

As soon as the watermelon boat landed, a middle-aged man wearing a green cloth gown walked out of the house. Liu Sheng had met this person, the man named Zhou who had boarded the ship and had a close conversation with Wang Ping, and an aide to Guangdong Governor Tusab.

The man surnamed Zhou came out immediately after two patrolmen, with the words "Macau Passing Station" written on his chest.

When the man surnamed Zhou saw Wang Ping walking up the dock, he winked at the other party. Wang Ping, dressed in Beihai Town soldiers and wearing a thunderbolt, nodded slightly. When the man surnamed Zhou saw it, he turned back into the house.

A yamen runner in the lead came over and asked the boatman who was driving the watermelon boat, "How many people are these?"

The boatman looked back at Liu Sheng and others, bowed and replied, "Not counting the director and his entourage, there are a total of seventeen foreigners. They are all here."

"Well. Let them all come in, we're going to check our luggage."

Liu Sheng frowned when he heard this, and was about to speak, but someone pulled the sleeve of his clothes. He turned around and saw that it was Wang Ping. Seeing that the other party had a wink at him and nodded, he stopped talking and walked towards the tax hall with great strides. Ding Guofeng waved to his subordinates, and the group all arrived at the entrance of the tax hall.

The man surnamed Zhou was sitting behind a desk in the room. Seeing Liu Sheng and a group of people going in, he quickly shouted: "What a moral character to come in one by one!"

At this time, Liu Sheng and Wang Ping had already come in, while the two patrolmen were standing outside the door to guard.

"Three days? Not enough?" The man surnamed Zhou seemed to be worried about the secret conversation on the ship before, and asked in a low voice again.

Wang Ping nodded and whispered: "Don't worry!"

The man surnamed Zhou stopped talking, picked up a brush, lowered his head and wrote on the booklet on the table. Liu Sheng looked carefully at what the other party wrote on the booklet, and almost got over it. He thought that this would be OK?

"Now, 16 American crew members landed on the shore, and their ships were parked at the outer island pier. The ship was named Clayden. The barbarians did not bring cargo, and each person only had one backpack with them, and they collected one or five cents of luggage tax based on the head..."

The man surnamed Zhou finished writing the booklet and said to Liu Sheng with a stern face: "Pay the money!"

After landing for more than 20 taels of silver, Liu Sheng was very upset. He thought it was too expensive!

Seeing Liu Sheng's face unpredictable expression, Wang Ping whispered: "Master Liu, this is the rule. Guangzhou collects more than Macau."

Liu Sheng took a silver bar from Beihai Town from his bag and gave it to the Zhou surnamed. When he issued the document, he said to Wang Ping: "Manager Wang, will you follow us later or?"

Wang Ping hurriedly said, "No need for Mr. Liu to bother, I will go with this person in a while."

Liu Sheng nodded and stopped talking. He took the tax payment certificate issued by the Zhou surname and turned around and left the door. At this time, Wang Ping quickly entered a small house in the tax hall. After he changed his clothes inside, he could leave with the Zhou surname.

When Liu Sheng walked out of the tax hall, he was about to talk to Ding Guofeng when he suddenly surrounded several guys wearing blue cloth gowns and said a lot to Liu Sheng. He heard that Liu and Ding rolled their eyes.

"I'll go! What are these guys talking about!"

At this time, the person who surrounded him suddenly showed surprise and said in a bad official language: "Master, I really didn't expect you to say our official language! We are all professionals in Guanzhongxingtai. Master, you have so many people, please find a few more."

Liu Sheng asked: "We want to stay in Macau for more than two days, how do you calculate the money?"

Another news report quickly replied: "It's not expensive, five cents a day, plus two cents of fire consumption."

"Is it even more to waste someone asking?" Ding Guofeng was amused and laughed and cried when he heard this.

"Ah! This master can speak official language, too." A few people are very concerned about why this foreign official language is even smoother than me. "This is the rule of the court, please be compatible with me."

At this time, Matos, who was standing by, said to Liu Shengdao in Cantonese: "Liu, you can only invite them. This is the regulation of the coastal defense yamen."

"Oh, thank you for your help." Liu Sheng said to several other news: "We all speak official language. If you have one, you have to invite eight people. You are not enough."

"Enough enough!" As soon as he finished speaking, a few guys stood up under the tax room wall. They were not as good as those in front of Liu Sheng, and they were all patched on their clothes.

Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng looked at each other, then nodded again, which meant that it was just like that...

At this time, outside the gate of Dasanba Church, a welcome team led by the Macau Municipal Committee and his group had been waiting for a long time. These people were all dressed in gorgeous European formal attire, and several Portuguese women wearing European long skirts and veils were also chatting.

Behind them was a team of Portuguese soldiers holding guns, who gathered together in three or three; all the soldiers were wearing European uniforms and wrapped in a white bupa on their heads.

When Matos led Liu Sheng and others over, the captain led the commander ordered the soldiers to beat the drums and the others lined up to stand. At this time, five salutes sounded from the Sanba Fort to show their welcome.

Several Portuguese women saw Liu Sheng walking beside Matos and couldn't help but turn their heads and exclaim: "What a tall man!"

When Liu Sheng and others approached, the Portuguese Australians looked at the visitors wearing snow-white uniforms and strange-looking big-brimmed hats in front of them, and were stunned.

A municipal official led by the leader stepped forward and said, "Sir, I only represent the Macao Municipal Committee and all residents in Macau. Welcome to you!"

Liu Sheng and others were also frightened by the formation in front of them, so he ordered his subordinates to line up to salute to show their solemnity. However, unexpectedly, the movement in Beihai Town shocked a group of Portuguese Australians.

The sixteen people were all wearing snow-white naval uniforms, with horizontal and vertical lines, and uniform salutes, which made the captain of the soldier with a headplate and his subordinates very ashamed, and they wanted to find a mouse hole to crawl in and count them. The eight translators were standing aside, looking at Liu Sheng and the others lined up with a smile, pointing their fingers.

The tall Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng were wearing captain's suits with ribbons. They looked tall and mighty and heroic, which made several Portuguese women jumped carefully and kept glaring at the two of them.

After the welcoming ceremony of the Municipal Council, a grand welcome dinner was held at the home of a wealthy municipal official. The long table was covered with snow-white tablecloths and a variety of Portuguese dishes were radiant.

From fish to pork, beef and mutton, all are served with fresh vegetables and excellent olive oil, and are accompanied by mellow red wine. However, because Liu Sheng had warned before, the soldiers did not let go of eating and drinking; and most people were not used to red wine at all.

When the officials and women saw that Liu Sheng and others had to stop eating many dishes, they couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. They spent a lot of effort on this meal, but they didn't expect that the other party didn't like it.

Matos quickly said to Liu Sheng: "Your Excellency, I want to apologize for our inadequate greetings. I ignore that you are all Orientals."

Liu Sheng shook his head and said, "Don't mind. Because the climate is cold, my subordinates are already accustomed to greasy and heavy-tasting foods. They just think these Mediterranean-style dishes are a bit too light."

After dinner, when Liu Sheng was about to say goodbye and return to his residence to rest, Matos suddenly told him that tomorrow morning, Sir Faria, the governor of Macau, would meet Liu Sheng and the others.

Because Zhao Xin did not come, Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng were a little overwhelmed by the Portuguese's enthusiasm. They thought that this time it was just a simple business investigation and didn't buy anything. Why were the Portuguese so enthusiastic?!

What he didn't know was that the Portuguese in Macau were actually doing a very miserable situation now.

The so-called "If one is not a race, one's heart will be different." The Qing Dynasty seemed to take care of the Portuguese, but was actually very careful. In order to curb the power of the Portuguese, Guangdong Customs stipulated that foreign merchants could not live in Macau for a long time, the Qing people could not live in Macau, and the Portuguese were not allowed to trade in Guangzhou, etc.; and foreign merchants who came to China could go directly to Guangzhou after completing inspections abroad; in addition, Portugal's country is increasingly declining, which seriously affected Macau's foreign trade.

Nowadays, the Portuguese authorities often indulge smuggling, and some Portuguese have become opium smugglers. Yes, there are more than 2,000 boxes of opium that flow into the Qing Dynasty every year, and a thousand boxes of them are smuggled from Macau.
Chapter completed!