My Daming New Empire

Of course, Habayashi is determined to go with him. In addition, there are half of the young army, which has nearly [-] fully armed troops, plus the escorting navy, missions, and the number of people. It also reached nearly [-].

Except for a few countries, most countries do not have such a large reception capacity. Just to arrange Zhu Zhanji's itinerary is an extremely cumbersome task.

This time, the pregnant Shen Dai'er was also left in Ceuta, and as punishment, the two childhood sweethearts and green bamboo girls were also kept.Liu Chenghui arranged for two Persian girls who had learned the Ming dialect to be in charge of taking Zhu Zhanji's bath personally.

They don't have complicated background relationships, and they are relatively fresh, if you use them well.Zhu Zhanji plans to arrange a group of foreign girls to wait on him in the future, so as to save the women in the harem from worrying.

After receiving the task arranged by Zhu Zhanji, Liu Chenghui attached great importance to it, because if a third-party force really formed in the harem in the future, as the concubine who formed this force, her power would increase greatly.

During this period of time, she has been busy training these girls, secretly identifying their identities, and training them to be her own help.

She is very satisfied with her original choice now. Only by staying with Zhu Zhanji can her strengths be brought into play.

Although she is still a Chenghui now, she believes that as long as this matter is done properly, she will definitely have a place in the future harem.

And following His Royal Highness's voyage for hundreds of thousands of miles, the experience gained during this experience is even more incomparable to other concubines.

During Zhu Zhanji's visit, he first arrived at the Kingdom of Granada, which is the closest to Ceuta.

Since the eighth century, the Arabs have ruled the Iberian Peninsula. During the 700-year rule, the Arabs and the Romans have actually merged into one except for their differences in belief.

Beginning in the fourteenth century, the Castilians raised the banner of expelling the Arabs. In today's Iberian Peninsula, most of the Arabs were driven to Portugal, as well as the Kingdom of Granada in the southeast.

The Kingdom of Granada has also become the last stronghold of the Arabs on the European continent. According to Zhu Zhanji's impression, it seems that the Kingdom of Granada was not destroyed until 80 years later.

As for the country of Spain, decades later, the people of Seville, Castile, Granada, and Aragon joined together to form the new country of Spain.

In other words, there is no such country as Spain now.

The Ming army easily expelled the Portuguese in North Africa, and it also gave the Granadas enough confidence that they did not think that they would definitely fail.

Of course, in order to defeat the Castilians, it is not enough to rely on themselves, they need the support of a nation of Marlins, and even Daming.

Therefore, in order to please the Ming people, they almost broke their fortunes to trade with Daming. Except for some daily necessities, they basically did not ask for any luxury goods, but bought all the iron weapons shipped from Daming.

The quality of Daming's spears and iron knives has improved a lot after raising the furnace temperature and learning to remove the carbon in the molten iron.

Today's spears and iron knives are no longer iron, but steel.The people of Granada tested the sharpness and tenacity of Ming's weapons, regardless of the cost, and bought all the weapons that were not many in the first place.

Although firearms are now popular in Europe, today's firearms are very backward.Today's European muskets are expensive, but their efficiency is low, less than two rounds per minute, easy to explode, and gunpowder is difficult to manufacture.

Therefore, although most of the army is equipped with muskets, muskets have not yet become general-purpose weapons and can only be used as auxiliary weapons.

The resources of the people of Granada are not enough, and they are also unable to equip a large number of firearms, so these steel weapons are not far behind.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji hopes that these Granadas can continue to fight against the Spaniards. The stronger they are, the more they can delay the development time of the Spaniards.

At the famous Sun Beach in Spain in the future, Zhu Zhanji met with King Muhammad VIII of Granada. Although the two parties did not sign any paper contract, Zhu Zhanji promised that when the next batch of Ming fleet arrives, Provide a batch of weapons to Granada for free.

Carrying countless gold and silver, Zhu Zhanji separated from Muhammad VIII, and the fleet continued northward to Barcelona, ​​the capital of Aragon.

Today's Aragon is actually more powerful than Castile. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, after they annexed Catalonia and Valencia, they became a local power.

In the late thirteenth century, they defeated the Kingdom of Sardinia and Sicily, and annexed Sardinia and Sicily.

Just when Zhu Daming's fleet arrived in the Mediterranean, Aragon's fleet attacked the Kingdom of Naples, annexed all the southern part of the Italian peninsula, and became a Mediterranean power.

Their kinship with Castile and Portugal is very complicated, involving love and hatred of several generations.Internally, they fight endlessly, but once faced with external enemies, they will quickly unite.

Because of the Battle of Ceuta, they had a very vague attitude towards Ming at first, and even recalled the Italian fleet for defense.

But after the Portuguese Ming reconciled, they actively started trade with Ming.

The nation of the Iberian Peninsula is a nation that enjoys luxury very much. During the Age of Discovery, Spain brought back countless gold and silver from the Americas, and countless silks, tea, and spices from Asia, all of which became nobles. bragging rights.

They use this wealth to buy all kinds of luxury goods and build luxurious churches and palaces, but they never give any benefits to the common people.

This also led to the country's prosperity and decline very quickly. After being defeated by the United Kingdom, it gave up the title of the empire on which the sun never sets, and gradually declined into a second-rate country.

But this characteristic is very in line with the interests of Daming. In the trade with Daming, countless silks and spices have been turned into wool and gold and silver, making Daming a huge profit.

Because the capital of Castile, Toledo, is far inland, the local nobles in Seville have already gone directly to Ceuta to trade with Daming, so the trade between Daming and Castile is also carried out in Barcelona.

When he left from Barcelona, ​​there was one more gold ship for Daming, and then a few more ships filled with wool, which were arranged to be sent back to Ceuta.

When the fleet arrived at the south coast of France, the Ming fleet also received a warm welcome. A month ago, the Daming Mission arrived here, and then countless nobles transported gold, silver, and perfume to several cities on the south coast, waiting Trade with Ming.

Although France today lost half of its territory in the war with Britain.But for the nobles, it's because of the dog-eat-dog battle for the throne, whoever takes power can't do without their support, so they don't really care who is king.

The goods of Ming Dynasty were both a luxury and a necessity for them. They were reluctant to give the king a little military support, but they were willing to exchange countless gold and silver for silk, tea, spices, and exquisite porcelain.

When Zhu Zhanji arrived in Barcelona, ​​he went ashore with great interest to meet the nobles of Aragon, but as soon as he entered the city, he was suffocated by the stench all over the sky.

This made him lose the slightest interest in Europe in this era. In the port of Sète, Zhu Zhanji didn't go ashore at all.

But when he arrived in Marseille, not only many great nobles from France came, but also a special envoy sent by King Charles VI of France, so Zhu Zhanji could only hold his nose and entered Marseille.

In later generations, due to the application of modern electrical appliances, the major cities in Europe look antique and full of sense of history.

But nowadays, these fortress-like houses are dilapidated because the windows are too small, the walls are made of earth and stone, and there is no electric lighting.

What is even more unacceptable is their unhygienic behavior. Regardless of gender, they defecate anywhere. Even though the locals have cleaned up these yellow and white things because of Zhu Zhanji's arrival, the city is still filled with lingering odors. stench.

The houses here are not as good as those of Daming, and the clothes of the people are even worse than those of Daming.

Most people wear clothes made of linen that look like sacks. They put the sacks on their bodies and tie them with hemp ropes to become clothes.It can be untied when sleeping and can be used as a quilt.

Whether it is a small nobleman, a commoner, or a soldier, most people are dressed like this.

Only the rich can afford the cotton cloth brought by the Arabs, and the silk from the Ming Dynasty is the most luxurious enjoyment, and only the nobles can afford it.

But it does not mean that the market for silk is small, because even a small piece of silk handkerchief can become fashionable.

Those women who don't take a bath all year round, no matter how poor they are, still have to save money to buy a handkerchief or shawl made of silk. If there is any opinion on clothes made of silk, they will definitely become the envy of everyone.

Apart from silk, perfume was also an essential necessity for them.

Both southern Europeans and Arabs are proficient in perfume making.In addition to wool, horses, gold and silver, paper, and perfume are also important goods for the exchange of goods between Daming and Europeans.

All kinds of perfumes with different fragrances were loaded onto the ship one after another, and those craftsmen who could make perfumes were also worth a hundred times more and were recruited by Daming.

Everywhere the Ming Fleet went, countless craftsmen recommended themselves, hoping to be picked up by the people of Daming and go to the wealthy Daming.

There are countless agricultural talents, perfumers, and countless architectural talents.

Because of the versatility of mathematics and geometry, Europeans are actually not inferior to Daming in terms of architectural design, and even worse.

They were able to build stone halls with a height of more than 60 meters in this era, but even the Ming Dynasty could not build them.Zhu Zhanji also intends to bring these talents back to China, to erode the current Confucian monopoly of academics from the side, and change the atmosphere of Ming Dynasty that emphasizes literature over art.