In fact, he didn't remember Li Dan's religious name, and in retrospect, he said it casually, but he really didn't expect it to have a miraculous effect.

Philip hadn't heard that the famous Li Dan was also a Catholic!

Li Dan felt that this was like divine help!

He saw Philip's eyes suddenly light up.

There is no way, not to mention that it was the Portuguese monks who baptized him, and even the Spanish monks, who would not be ashamed to mention that they had done such a failed mission.

Li Dan's identity undoubtedly shortened the distance between the two people in Philip's heart, and this kind of closeness to human nature is mysterious and even unreasonable.

Everyone Philip saw every day was Catholic, but those people didn't give him that closeness.

And it is precisely the appearance of Li Dan, a Ming native who has never known him in his life, and Ping feels close because of this relationship, just like meeting a fellow countryman in a foreign country, it is a sense of security that people suddenly get when they are surrounded by uneasiness.

Sometimes this sense of security fades away without other conditions, but sometimes it can quickly improve the relationship.

His Royal Highness the King remained silent, he knew very well that his good impression of Li Dan was good, but now the matter they were talking about was not a private matter, he slowly described: "This space is wide, I need to know a more accurate situation, for example, the first benefit, not to be an enemy of the Ming Empire, so where is the boundary of the Ming Empire?" ”

"Will General Chan be content with constant victories, governing New Spain, and leasing Seville, or will he be ready for the next war? I don't want a guarantee, I want to know what you want. ”

Philip never understood what Chen Mu was doing, if he said that he was hostile, even if Chen Mu did nothing, the Spaniards would think that the Ming Empire had extremely high hostility and threat to them.

However, after the war, the Ming Dynasty did not take away the silver-producing Peru and the rich and strategically located West Indies, but chose the inhospitable northern part of the Americas, half of New Spain, and a desert in South America.

Just as Philip did not understand why the Spaniards ruled the New World in the face of an endless stream of Indian rebellions, the Ming Empire was able to organize them into a common people.

This phenomenon can be attributed to the perception gap, which is that only a small percentage of the Spanish monks who did not hold much power mentioned giving the Indians the right to be 'people', but that was only for religious purposes and in a little embryonic humanism.

The Renaissance affirmed the value of human beings and valued human nature, which changed the inherent cognition of feudal society, but the changes were limited in a short period of time.

The Renaissance that took place in Europe was very great, but it had little reference significance for the Ming Dynasty - first of all, it was the bourgeoisie, who gained a part of the voice of the feudal aristocracy in the past through the accumulation of wealth, and strengthened their status, but it had little to do with the largest number of peasants.

Secondly, even if the peasants are all human beings, it is useless, because there is no theological restraint in ancient China, what is the restraint of human nature? Even the mating position is prescribed by the church, and only missionaries are allowed.

Da Ming didn't, Da Ming not only didn't have a little greedy for pleasure to the point that the etiquette collapsed, and the pictures were painted, bottles and cans, Tang Yin's, and Qiu Ying's, drifting across the ocean to the whole world, including Europe, standing, holding, sitting, lying, sideways, cross-legged, in the pavilion, in the wild, on horseback, which greatly enriched the experience and knowledge of the European people.

Let them know what true freedom is!

In this door last year, when did the human face become like a peach blossom, huh?

There was so much that Philip didn't understand.

"Da Ming wants to make friends and make money, and has no intention of conquering more of your land, my father-in-law specifically instructed me when I came, the Ming and Western countries do not know much about each other, and they value each other and need different things, so I need to deal with it carefully."

"My stepfather is not a good person to get along with, according to his opinion, due to insufficient understanding and poor communication, the two countries can only use guns to complete the dialogue, and now Spain can't speak, so it can only adapt."

Philip was still confident, and although he lost twice, he still said: "If the war starts again, the Ming Empire may not be able to win as smoothly as it is on the Spanish sea." ”

Li Dan nodded, and he recognized it.

Philip was right, the Spanish fleet had good combat effectiveness, and he estimated that if it wanted to fight a meaningless war at sea with equal strength, the Oriental military government that had built an Asian outpost in five or ten years might have the strength to fight a war, but according to the current situation, it was still necessary for the North Ocean to have a strong logistical capability to fight a war off the coast of Spain.

In order to fight a war, at least the fleet must be equal in size, and the strength of a ship in a decisive battle will not play a decisive role, and it may be unlucky to catch a cannonball that fires a stone cannon and be hit with a big hole.

But fools only fight, as long as three Rokko fleets attack coastal ports day and night, burn a port this month, burn a city next month, and run away after grabbing, you can't live in Spain, and the Dutch rebellion is still peaceful?

"Don't worry, my father-in-law, my father-in-law has given me full authority over the Seville lease and Spanish affairs, and I only know a few superficial truths."

"First, there are many ways to make money, and wars come and go as fast as they come."

"Second, if you are good to me, I will be good to you; The reverse is also true. ”

"Third, what I, Li Dan, promised others, no matter what, I will do it."

"Fourth, if you do something wrong, you must correct it."

"Now I believe in the king, and I want to trade with the king, and promise to sell the total number of trade goods to the king at a price of 10% below the market price, and earn 10% of the tariffs and 10% of the local taxes to the royal family."

Li Dan said a word and raised one finger of his left hand, and when the five fingers were opened, he slowly lowered his hand, looked at Philip and said, "Now, what can the king give me?" A piece of land with no port to use for pigs? ”

Fei Lao Er took a breath slowly, to be honest, Li Dan said that Chen Mu was not easy to get along with, but in fact, His Royal Highness felt that Chen Mu was easy to deal with...... At least he can listen to whatever he says, without guessing or thinking, and firmly believes in a truth.

He has big fists, and he bullies you; If you have a big fist, you will bully him - in the eyes of this person, winning or losing is everything.

But Li Dan is different, Philip feels that Li Dan is more difficult to deal with, because he is like a woman.

This is not a pejorative meaning, but the difference between Li Dan and Chen Mu, Chen Mu will tell people what the consequences will be if they don't listen to him, and then tell you what you should do.

Li Dan doesn't tell you the consequences, and gives you the right to choose, let you choose the answer he wants you to choose, and all the wrong answers will bear the consequences of what he didn't say.

It was a strange feeling, and the king should not be afraid of a foreign minister, but Philip was a little worried at the moment that he had said the wrong thing.

Even if it was only for a moment, he was worried.

"Personally, I can accept that someone like you governs part of Seville in my kingdom, but as the king of Spain, Portugal, England and the Low Countries, I can't accept that the customs are in the full control of the Ming Empire, you are not the same as the merchants, so I need to re-sign a treaty."

"Like you said, you're good to me, I'm good to you. The treaty remained largely unchanged, but the articles on tariffs and so-called extraterritoriality had to be redrafted. ”

"In return, I agree to lease all the west banks of the rivers in Seville to the Ming Empire as the boundary of the inland river, and hire His Excellency Li Dan, the Governor of New Seville, to serve as the Grand Tax Officer and ** Officer of New Seville, with a salary of 66% of the tariff revenue of the leased land, of which 33% is the construction of the leased land, and the other 33% is paid to the Oriental Military Government of the Ming Empire as a retainer money, which is paid by the royal court for a period of 100 years."

Li Dan clasped his hands in front of him, he knew what Philip's change of words meant, he pondered for a moment, raised his head and said, "Sixty-seven, I can't let you earn that one point!" ”