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Loochoo junks, sailed up the coast and established factories at Ningpo in Chehkiang and Tsuanchou in Fuhkien.

From that time the record changes. Perez de Andrade's brother, Simon, arrived in command of a squadron in 1518, and at once commenced a career of rapine and violence. He established a colony on Shang-chuan island (near Macao) and erected a fort there, making no attempt to conciliate the Chinese and by his conduct conveying the impression that the Portuguese were bent upon extending their career of conquest even to China. It was doubtless at this juncture that the Peking Government began to regard the tribute-bearing countries in the Southern seas as useful buffer States, from which foreign aggression ought to be warded off in the interests of the Chinese Empire's security. A Portuguese envoy (Thomas Pirez) had reached Peking and had found there a friendly welcome. But after receipt of the news of Simon de Andrade's continued depredations, the Peking authorities presented to the envoy a demand for the evacuation of Malacca, China's tributary, and on his refusal threw him and his suite into prison, executing one member of the mission and sending the others back to Canton, where the envoy himself died in jail. Thereafter (1521) Simon de Andrade and his squadron were attacked and expelled from Shang-chuan, in spite of their heavy guns, to which the Chinese gave the name of "Franks." The adventurers