Editing Fernão Pires de Andrade (section)

====Andrade's brother and spoiled relations====

Simão de Andrade, brother to Fernão Pires, sailed from Malacca to China with a small crew on three [[Junk (ship)|junks]] in August 1519.<ref name="cambridge 337 338">Wills, 337&ndash;338.</ref> Simão immediately made a bad impression upon the Chinese when he built a fort at the center of [[Tuen Mun]], an island designated for all foreigners to trade.<ref name="cambridge 337 338"/> Soon after, Simão ceremoniously executed a Portuguese and barred other foreigners (mostly [[Thai people|Siamese]] and other South East Asians) from trading on the island, which drew even more attention to him.<ref name="cambridge 337 338"/> When a Chinese official visited the island and began reasserting Ming authority over it, Simão became aggressive and hit him, knocking the official's hat off.<ref name="cambridge 338">Wills, 338.</ref>

The greatest offense to the Chinese was the supposed kidnapping of children by the Portuguese so they could eat them.<ref name="cambridge 338"/> In reality, Simão had earned the Portuguese a bad reputation for [[Slavery in China|buying young Chinese slaves]], presumably some of whom were kidnapped after Simão offered local Chinese huge sums of money for child slaves.<ref name="cambridge 338"/> In fact, some boys and girls from wealthy Chinese families were later found by Portuguese authorities at [[Diu, India|Diu]] in western India.<ref name="cambridge 338"/> However, there were no official reports of Simão's abuses, even though he stayed until September 1520; yet rumors of his behavior (which became associated with all Portuguese) no doubt reached as far as the court of Beijing, which would soon condemn the Portuguese for this and other reasons.<ref name="cambridge 338"/>

Although he had left Canton, Simão de Andrade landed at [[Xiamen]] and [[Ningbo]], establishing settlements there.<ref name="douglas 11">Douglas, 11.</ref> Simão continued to defy local Chinese laws at Ningbo, and when his men were cheated on a trade deal with a Chinese man in 1545, Simão sent a band of armed men into the town, pillaged it, and took local women and young girls as their captives.<ref name="douglas 11"/><ref name="williams 76">Williams, 76.</ref> The outraged locals banded together and slaughtered the Portuguese under Simão.<ref name="douglas 11"/> A similar episode occurred later when Coelho de Sousa seized the house of a wealthy foreign resident in Jinzhou of [[Fujian]], which led authorities to cut off supplies to the Portuguese; the Portuguese then attacked and ransacked a nearby village for supplies, which prompted Chinese authorities to destroy thirteen of their ships while thirty Portuguese survivors of this settlement fled to the [[Portuguese Macau|Portuguese settlement at Macau]] in 1549.<ref name="williams 76"/><ref name="douglas 11 12">Douglas, 11&ndash;12.</ref>