I'm really not the carpenter emperor

In addition, there are many wooden models of ships, all over the sea, Western-style three-masted galleys for both military and commercial purposes, and a five-inch long Galen warship.

These ship models are extremely exquisite, and they are all scaled according to the scale. Even where the muzzle is and where the gunpowder is mainly accumulated, it is clearly done.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh, if he had come here and seen this model before the battle of Penghu, maybe he wouldn't have killed so many sailors.

As for the bed, it was decorated elegantly and plainly by Tang Ruowang.

There was a large white quilt on it, which looked similar to the style of later generations. Zhu Youxiao felt very kind in his heart, first he stretched out his hand to press it, and then sat on it directly.

Turning his head, he smiled at the few people who had just chased to the door:

"This quilt is not bad, hurry up and ask the people from the Palace Bureau to come and have a look at you, and make a set for me as usual, and put it in the Qianqing Palace."

"Oh yes, Kunning Palace will also send a set."

"Forget it, each palace should send a set... lest they say I'm biased..."

Tang Ruowang was panting while holding the door, and was taken aback when he heard this.

It was widely rumored that the emperors of the eastern kingdoms were ignorant, incapable of making progress, fearful and resistant to new things, it seemed that they were all rumors of people with ulterior motives.

Seeing Emperor Tianqi sitting on his bed and muttering to himself, Tang Ruowang also felt strange. Are all the emperors in the East so approachable?

He shook his head, threw out this thought, and said seriously:

"Your Majesty is right to remind you. The Pope stipulates that missionaries should not sleep in such a comfortable bed. I am relaxing on myself, which violates the doctrine."

"Holy Lord, this is really unforgivable!"

As he spoke, he began to pray sincerely.

Zhu Youxiao was taken aback for a moment, but also quietly waited for him to stand up after praying, and said:

"You are in Daming now, what do you care about the doctrine?"

"Isn't my words more effective than your so-called pope? In this way, I will give him an order to let him give up this doctrine."

"what do you think?"

It sounded like a joke at first, but Tang Ruowang couldn't laugh at all.

Zhu Youxiao's expression while smiling made him, a missionary, shudder, "Now that I have issued an order, you can sleep however you like!"

"You are not only a missionary now, you are also an orderly officer of the imperial court. I am the Son of Heaven, and the Pope must also honor my imperial decree!"

Although Daming is very powerful, Tang Ruowang still disagrees with such a statement in his heart. He decided not to talk too much about this topic, and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty, you sat on my bed just now, so I can't continue to sleep."

Zhu Youxiao was helpless and asked:

"Why is this again, or is it a doctrine?"

Tang Ruowang shook his head again and again, and said: "This is the will of God. Ordinary people can no longer use the place that the Eastern emperor has done. When ordinary people see such things, they are like seeing the emperor."

"I have to find another bed and get God's permission before I can sleep again."

Zhu Youxiao said suspiciously: "God still said this?"

Seeing Tang Ruowang nodding his head affirmatively, Zhu Youxiao didn't plan to delve into it any further. After all, because of different beliefs, persecution is useless.

Suddenly, as if thinking of something again, he asked:

"Then these books, the bottles and jars you put on the table, and these wooden boats, I have touched them all. According to your god, these are also mine?"

When Tang Ruowang heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched.

But Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to be so shameless, not to mention that few people would know how to bring these things back to the palace, so he laughed and said:

"That's why I said, you Western rules, don't bring them to the East."

"You are in Daming now, your God, it doesn't work to talk here, you have your own 'God' here, do you understand?"

Tang Ruowang was taken aback for a moment, looked at Zhu Youxiao silently for a few seconds, and said humorously:

"What Your Majesty said is that if this is the case, I'm afraid I'll be hanging from the ceiling to read, write and sleep tonight!"

"That's right." Zhu Youxiao's mood improved a lot, and he turned his head and said:

"This envoy from Spain, I see that you have been standing here for a long time. If you have anything to say, just say it. You are not an outsider."

The Spanish envoy immediately took off his hat and said:

"His Majesty the Emperor of the Eastern Empire, the purpose of this visit is to discuss the further signing of a trade agreement between Spain and your country."

"Further signing?" Zhu Youxiao played with the small three-masted galley model in his hand, and said casually: "I think the last trade agreement is very clear."

"Before the five-year deadline, you sent people to sign the agreement again, and you said it was a further signing. What kind of further step is it?"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youxiao came to his senses and looked at him with a smile:

"Dias?"

This person, Zhu Youxiao, seemed to have met once, and he had some acquaintance with him. He was the envoy who came to sign the trade last time, a Spanish royal family from Lisbon.

The envoy was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said:

"It's me! It's me."

"Your Majesty still remembers me, and this subject is very honored!"

Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly, and had a general understanding of the current situation in Spain. When the agreement was signed two years ago, the Netherlands was only nominally independent, but now it has officially declared independence.

The development of the Netherlands is much faster than the decline of Spain.

In addition, it seems that the Portuguese region co-ruled by Philip IV, also known as the Little Franchi in the Ming Dynasty, is also fighting for independence recently.

Coupled with the threat of the only positive trade income, Philip IV couldn't stand it anymore. This time, he sent Dias back again, probably to sign a military alliance.

If this is the case, Zhu Youxiao has to think about it...

Is it worthwhile to give up the rising Britain and the Netherlands, and to be an enemy of Ottoman Turkey, a Spain that claims to be an empire on which the sun never sets, but is no longer worthy of its name?

Of course, there is the Holy Roman Empire on the other side of Spain.

It's just that the attitude of the Dutch is very arrogant recently. The Netherlands and the UK are allies, and they both want to directly grab Ming. Only Spain has taken the initiative to carry out fair trade with Ming.

Chapter 645 Agreement on Mutual Military Assistance between Ming and Spain

All the officials in the court knew that the more the emperor was interested in something, the more likely he was not interested in it. In the past two years, even Tang Ruowang understood a lot.

However, Dias, a nobleman of the Spanish royal family, obviously did not understand what is called the emperor's mind in the East.

Seeing Zhu Youxiao looking at those ship models over and over again, he just thought he couldn't put it down, and he planned to complete Philip IV's explanation in his heart, so he said quickly:

"If the emperor of Ming Dynasty likes these, the ministers will ask our emperor to order a few ships when they go back this time."

Zhu Youxiao was taken aback for a moment, and the movements in his hands were also paused. Facing the Galen battleship on one side, "I also sent a few models of this ship."

Dias smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "No, that's not the case. What I just told His Majesty the emperor is a real ship that is exactly the same as these two models and a hundred times bigger than them!"

"It's a real three-masted sailing ship sailing on the Rhine River, as well as the main Galen battleship of the Great Spanish Empire's Armada!"

Now, it was Zhu Youxiao's turn to be surprised.

I thought I was going to give myself a few models for fun, but I didn't expect that Spain had such a big shot, so I had to order a few ships to send over.

"It's just..." Dias had a difficult face when he said this.

Zhu Youxiao's heart was as expected, and he asked lightly: "What?"

"His Majesty the Emperor also knows that the Netherlands and the barbarians of the British Isles have formed an alliance to launch independence, and our Royal Army is in a state of anxiety."

"Three months ago, the Armada in the Spice Islands was defeated by the Netherlands. These ships are easy to build, but it is really not easy to send them across the ocean."

Speaking of this, he did not hide the scorching gaze in his eyes at all:

"I have seen the Ming fleet at the seaside, sailing to block out the sun, with a large number of sailors. If you can send the fleet to guard the offshore area, it will be much easier..."

That's right, what Dias saw was the second echelon, the Fujian Navy reorganized after the Penghu Sea Battle.

The Fujian navy as a whole still uses the Cangshan warship as the main force. This kind of warship is much smaller than the main Western Galen warship. It can only bear a Hongyi cannon on the bow, so it is not organized for expedition missions.

However, as the second main force built by the imperial court, the Fujian Navy still has good combat capabilities.

Its main feature is that there are many ships and many people, not many heavy artillery, but a lot of small artillery.

The Fujian Navy under the command of Fujian General Yu Zizao has brought wolf pack tactics to the extreme. The main tasks it is currently undertaking are to combat smuggling in the offshore and guard against pirates and Japanese pirates.

Of course, in addition to this, the large-scale reorganization of the Fujian Navy has another purpose, which is to deter the Zheng family fleet that has gradually risen in recent years.

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he understood why Philip IV sent Dias here this time.

What I thought before was correct, Philip IV couldn't bear it anymore.

He wanted to draw a strong ally in the east, on the one hand, involving part of the troops of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, on the other hand, guarding the trade routes, and continuing to make money through trade.

After all, three years ago, Daming had already proved through the Battle of Penghu that he still had some strength and retained his status as the so-called hegemon in Asia in the eyes of Westerners.

In the eyes of Westerners, Ming Dynasty is also the only eastern country capable of participating in the great voyage.

After hearing the results of the Penghu Battle, Philip IV became more interested, thinking that developing Ming into an ally would also have a certain impact on the situation.

But he didn't know what Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the East, thought. Just like signing a trade agreement before, he always had to show his sincerity.

You must know that under the successive attacks from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the total number of ships in the Spanish Armada in the world has dropped from more than [-] in its heyday to less than [-].

Among them, the performance of the main Galen warship was completely surpassed by the light Galen warship transformed by the Dutch man-made shipbuilder, and less than [-] ships were sunk.

And this number is still declining.

Now, a fully equipped Galen warship was sent directly, and for Philip IV, it was indeed a little bit of capital.

Zhu Youxiao is actually a little anxious. The Dutch are developing too fast in this era. Almost every five years, they will have a warship with better performance.

The light Galen battleship was transformed by Dutch shipbuilders in the past two years and put into naval battles.

In the case of the old seven decks, without losing firepower, the flexibility is greatly improved, and the number of crew members is reduced at the same time.

In other words, if such a new type of Galen warship came to the Penghu naval battle three years ago, the Fujian navy's flexible advantage in offshore waters would no longer exist, and it would be even more difficult to win.

In the end, the Dutch relied on the combat advantages of the new Galen warships to form a comprehensive suppression of the Spanish Armada in the Atlantic Ocean.

But the Spanish Armada was a skinny camel, and it couldn't die for a while. It joined forces with the Knights of St. John in the Mediterranean to repel the British Royal Navy.

At least for now, Philip IV still holds the hegemony of the Mediterranean in his hands.

As for why he didn't directly send a light Galen warship, Philip IV had nothing to do, because now his royal shipbuilder is researching it day and night.

The Dutch light Galen battleship has only come out in the past two years, that is to say, it will take time to be equipped with every fleet in the world.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

At least the Dutch fleet coming this time will not have such a perverted battleship with both flexibility and firepower.

But thinking about it this way, joining forces with Spain seems to be the best result.

Philip IV didn't want to see his former subjects ride shit on his head, and Zhu Youxiao didn't want to see the Netherlands rise up as a "chariot driver" as smoothly as in history.

Zhu Youjiao was thinking about it, but Dias knelt down directly:

"I implore His Majesty the Emperor of the East to consider this proposal. The Netherlands is about to invade Ming Dynasty again. In this matter, we have a common enemy..."

"If the Netherlands completely defeats the Armada, a large number of troops will be released to the east. His Majesty the Emperor doesn't want to see this situation either!"

As he said, seeing that Zhu Youxiao hadn't replied yet, he simply gritted his teeth:

"Ryukyu has been the territory of Ming Dynasty since ancient times, and the advance team of the Netherlands has landed in Ryukyu. Our defeated Armada still has some strength near Ryukyu, which can help Ming repel the advance team of the Netherlands."

"After repelling the Dutch, this Armada will purchase the right to lease the southern port of Ryukyu according to law, and share any naval equipment with the Great Ming Navy!"

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao felt that the price was almost reached, so he sat down on Tang Ruowang's chair and said:

"Talk about the conditions of your alliance this time."

6Chapter 16 Ming and Western military mutual assistance agreement

Hearing these words and looking at the expression of the Eastern emperor, Dias finally breathed a sigh of relief. If he returns home with this news, his emperor will surely be ecstatic.

If Ming can participate in the war in the east, then the Armada will draw a large number of fleets back to the home country, continue to maintain hegemony in the Mediterranean, and compete for the lost control of the English Channel.

Even when Philip IV dispatched Dias, he was already gearing up to think of an idea of ​​transferring back to the ocean-going fleet for a large-scale expedition to the Netherlands.

Of course, all of this requires the formal signing of the agreement!