Li Dan finally landed on Spanish soil, for which he waited for many years.

They sailed through the port of the Strait of Gibraltar into the river, the prosperous port was much larger than Li Dan had imagined, and he knew that this was probably the leased land that was about to belong to the Ming Empire, and the ship continued to go.

The banks of the river gradually lost their noisy people, forming large fields for cultivation, and the Spanish knight who was the guide said that this was Andalusia, the most fertile plain in Spain.

Sugar cane, bananas, grapes and cotton, the knight ceremoniously recommended to Li Dan the wine produced here, called sherry, which has a very ancient history.

The Phoenicians began trading wheat and olives with Portugal in the eighth century B.C., and the Romans praised Portugal after the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, but it was not until the name sherry was coined that the owners were Arabs.

Despite the expulsion of the Arabs, the name sherry was retained and became a specialty here.

And olive oil.

The young knight who guided Li Dan and his entourage was very talkative, and he had a keen interest in Li Dan and his entourage, and asked as the warship sailed through the fields on both sides of the strait, "I have heard that your country is rich in gold, silver, spices, porcelain, and beautiful women, is it true?" ”

When he looked at Li Dan, he felt that the abundance of beauties in the Ming Empire should be true, which made the Spanish knight's heart throb, but when he looked at Li Dan with a cautious gaze, followed by the fierce Jurchen warriors with fierce hair braids and weather-beaten faces, short figures, fierce faces, and sword handles, as if ready to give a jump to the person in front of him, the beautiful illusion seemed to be shattered.

This is not to blame him, nor to blame the warriors on the ship, who can sit in the same boat with Li Dan are the most superb and meritorious soldiers under his command, with the blessing of the same level of science and technology, the more difficult the living conditions, the easier it is to breed fierce warriors.

Most of Li Dan's personal soldiers were from the savage Jurchens, and even the samurai who were adept at using swords could hardly match them, and they had strong muscles and rough skin, which was manifested in the face as high cheekbones, broad jaws, and smaller eyes.

In European legends, there are indeed countless beautiful women in the mysterious East, all of which are to blame for Marco Polo, but it is possible that Marco Polo never visited China, and his sights and stories most likely came from his uncle and father.

The East may not be rich in beautiful women, but what if this time is set in the dark Middle Ages of the West?

That's right, the East is full of beautiful women, and before the nineteenth century, in all peaceful and stable times, at least people were clean.

Li Dan smiled: "Take care of your own business, how far is it to Seville?" ”

The knight muttered, Li Dan converted it in his heart, shook his head and said, "That's really far." ”

After landing from Gibraltar, it was necessary to sail 240 miles by river to reach Seville.

But the long voyage was worth it for Li Dan.

It was the next morning when his heavily armed fleet reached the port of Seville in the distance, and the sound of Seville's bells in the morning mist made him think that he had returned to the mirror of his growth.

It's too much of a resemblance.

Countless ships of all kinds are docked on both sides of the river in the prosperous port, thick masts are erected with folded sails, and there are more than a dozen huge skeletons of warships waiting to be built on the west bank of the river, where they look like shipyards, and countless people on the bridge deck carry goods on their shoulders or donkey carts to the city.

He didn't ask where Seville was, because he was already in Seville.

It's a city like no other.

Even if Li Dan had never come into contact with the scenery under the jurisdiction of the Western military government, he could recognize the variety of architectural styles here, the shops were built along the river, the river was two steps down the door, and the small oars were tied to the pillars at the door, and the armed merchant ships were transporting goods from the Mediterranean to the shops in small boats.

The spire of the mosque can be seen farther away, but it is actually a Catholic cathedral, which is said to have been built by the Arabs, but the Arab kings at that time had a good relationship with the Catholic Church, and Catholic craftsmen were hired to build the church, so it has the appearance of a Catholic church in its original form.

After the expulsion of the Arabs, the appearance of the mosque was retained, but the interior was renovated according to the needs of the Catholic church, and later repaired in the earthquake and fire, but with the increase in the number of repairs, the style of the mosque became less and less.

Surrounded by more than 30 soldiers, the Rokko ship was too large to pass through the bridge, and his fleet would sail into the port of Seville, where he would rest until Li Dan confirmed the size and location of the leased land to the Spanish crown.

The signing of the treaty of the First War was vague in terms of the specific location, because at that time, everyone, including Chen Mu, had a limited understanding of Spain, not to mention that there was no way to directly reach Spain, so it could only be said that it was an attempt to ask for a leased land.

At that time, why wasn't this the reason why Don Juan agreed to this condition? The Ming Dynasty defeated Spain off the coast of the Ming Dynasty and demanded a piece of land in Spain on the other side of the sea, and neither country would take this condition seriously at that time.

But it was realized by Chen Mu.

Unlike Madrid, the streets of Seville are wide, and there are many taverns near the port that can provide accommodation, and the knight who leads the way walks on the bridge, explaining to Li Dan the year of construction and the background of each building.

The square was built by the Romans, the palace was built by the Arabs and their destination, and the Seville Merchant Exchange is a 'modern' Renaissance building, with a high, double-storey tic-tac-toe flat-roofed building on the east bank of the river, surrounded by shops that look like a palace from a distance.

It was a city that belonged to merchants, at least on the banks of the most prosperous rivers, and as Li Dan saw along the way, all the buildings except the church were related to commerce.

"Your Excellency may be in the city for the next two days, and Brother Acosta says that the news of the king's summons will soon come from Madrid, and that the local nobles have prepared a grand banquet to welcome your Excellency, and it will be tomorrow night."

"But there is one more thing I must remind you that Spain and New Spain are not the same as in your country, and I will prepare a carriage for you, and it is best to travel in a carriage. If Your Excellency were assassinated in Spain, things would go in a bad direction, which the king and most of the nobles did not want. ”

Li Dan nodded slowly, he had been prepared for this matter for a long time, everyone knew that the young people of New Spain were crazy and even stabbed their own governors, let alone him.

However, the knight followed him and looked around Li Dan at the heavily armed guards, and added: "But I think that if someone wants to assassinate Your Excellency, I am afraid that the entire company will have to be mobilized, and a transfer of this scale will not go unnoticed." ”