Port Daming, Seville, Spain.

On the Guancheng Pavilion on the mountain wall, Li Dan raised his hand to smooth the folds of the crimson silk robe, took a small sip of the blue and white drink called chocolate by the Spaniards, raised his eyebrows, and motioned to Yang Ce, who was sitting opposite, to relax.

"Taste, the Spaniards get cocoa beans from Asia, grind them into powder, add water and sugar."

Yang Ce is not as leisurely and elegant as Li Dan, he shook his head and overlooked Daming Port, the camps under the mountain are scattered, houses and shops have been built on the coast near the port, the streets and courtyards are surrounded by huge warehouses, and those turrets, all of which show that Daming has completely incorporated this land into his palm.

Nor could he show the same indifference as Li Dan, whose ship had just docked when the plague appeared in Seville.

The Han ships were here to replenish supplies, the production capacity of the Azores was not enough to support a large number of garrisons, and they had been stationed on the island for much longer than the original information had been known, so in order to avoid an accident when the island did not have enough supplies to deal with the siege, a fleet would go to Seville every few days to purchase supplies.

It is not only official business, but also a holiday for the pirates on board.

But he didn't expect to encounter the plague, he didn't even let people ask what the plague was, and he didn't care about the food left on the shore, so he fled into Daming Port with his sails empty.

It is no exaggeration to say that although neither the Great Emperor himself was crowned the King of Min of the Han Kingdom nor the Four Sea Kings recognized by the Han State, Yang Ce and his pirates were the most feared ones on the coasts of Europe and Africa in the Great Eastern Ocean.

The emergence of hegemony put everyone in danger to the maritime pirates on the west coast of Europe, and when he was entrusted to intervene in the European continental war, it completely disrupted the strategic deployment of France, Britain, and the Netherlands.

With his superior professionalism, he buried his counterparts throughout Europe.

In fact, if the European pirates had such an achievement, they would basically be able to retire...... Such great achievements will be celebrated hundreds of years later.

But as a Ming person, no.

Piracy was also a shameful profession for Europeans, but those who were reduced to piracy at sea often did not care about this shame.

The Central Plains Dynasty is not good, the ancient pirates can be traced back to the time of Confucius, the old man traveled to the sea, and when he came back, he told the monarch of Lu to "build a city to prepare for the Emperor", in Europe, the English can cross the sea to rob Spain, the Portuguese can cross the sea to plunder France, and they still have a serious identity when they go back.

The pirates of the Central Plains Dynasty went to sea from Guangdong to rob Fujian, and from Fujian to the sea to rob Zhejiang.

Naturally, there are not many choices left for them, either they will be exterminated by the official army, or they will accept Zhao'an, if they don't want to choose either of these paths - the predecessors have also broadened the advanced career tree for the juniors: the king.

Therefore, there are almost no real pirates in the Central Plains Dynasty, or the identity of those pirates is no longer pirates, for example, Chen Zuyi, who was rewarded by Zhu Di with a silver reward of 7.5 million taels, his identity is the king of the Bolin State of the Three Buddhas, and the war of the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the pirate Chen Zuyi can also be called the battle of the Bolin State to destroy the country.

Just last year, Lin Daoqian of Phoenix Harbor also brought the lord of the Three Buddhas Qi Flying Dragon Kingdom to report to the Nanyang Military Government, hoping that the emperor would crown the Lord of Feilong as the king, because their former lord Zhang Lian, a pirate from Raoping County, Chaozhou Prefecture, called himself the Flying Dragon Emperor back then.

Of course, I didn't report this to the emperor, but I just wanted the emperor to be crowned king, because in the official records of the Ming Dynasty, the Flying Dragon Emperor should have died under Yu Dayou.

However, although Yang Ce and his European counterparts are not climbing a professional tree, he is also afraid of the plague.

People always hope and believe that tragedy and bad news will only befall others, only in the ears of people who are close at hand but thousands of miles away.

And he is free from calamity, and he is forever free from pain and wailing.

Watching from the sidelines has power only when it doesn't happen physically.

Yang Ce still hadn't recovered from the fright of the plague, and said suspiciously: "Are you sure there is no plague in Daming Harbor?" If it doesn't work, let's go, let's go, go to the Azores, and if not, go back to Asia. ”

"Don't panic, drink this, the plague is more than ten miles away from here, you are safe now, all of you are safe, look at Seville, that city is not panicking."

Li Dan looked in the direction of Yang Ce, his eyes crossed his shoulder, and he could see the majestic Seville Cathedral, this pavilion built on the mountain wall was named the Pavilion of the View of the City, in fact, standing here, you could not see the city of Seville, only this church.

"In the past, I wondered why it took decades or even hundreds of years to build a church, the more magnificent the better, until I saw this."

He looked at the cathedral and showed obsession, in fact, there was a reason for the hard work to repair the church, not only because it was beautiful, but more importantly, because it had practical benefits.

For example, Lao Maozi believes in Orthodox Christianity, because the Rus' people look at Constantinople, wow, there is still this thing in the world, it's spectacular!

Build wonders to increase cultural influence.

"Don't worry." Li Dan turned around and said to the impatient Yang Ce: "There is no plague in Daming Port, not only is there no plague, but the plague cannot enter. ”

Li Dan had been preparing for a long time, and he had been waiting for the plague in Seville for two years.

"The Spaniards are proud of Seville, they say it's the gateway to the New World, the gold in the city can build a bridge to Asia, but beneath the opulence is the dirty dirt streets, and there are such slums in the world."

Li Dan admits that he is well-informed, but in Seville he has greatly broadened his horizons.

Growing up in Haojing and living with a group of street children, he knew that children can be very poor, that people can be so bad that they can't eat for a few days, and that there will be extreme phenomena no matter where they are, but he doesn't know that people can have this kind of poor method.

Especially in a prosperous age.

This era was definitely in the prime of Spain, and Seville was the richest city in Europe, and locals would even compare it to Rome, which they had never been to and never seen, and say that Rome was an old city.

But Seville is full of street children, and in the dark and cramped alleys, street children gather in groups to steal, rob and kill.

They have no teacher, because no one wants to take them, not even the old thief, because the old thief is also poor.

It's hard to understand, but it's hard for thieves in Seville to live a decent life, and the gap between rich and poor in the city is too great.

The poor can't steal anything of value, but they can only steal from the poor.

An inappropriate example, in Daming, even the most clever thief would not choose to steal Chen Mu's money, even if Chen Mu stood in front of him defenselessly.

As long as he knew that it was Chen Mu, as long as he still wanted to live, he would not steal Chen Mu's money, because he knew that he couldn't run away.

What's more critical is that Li Dan didn't know that the old people in this city could also be very poor.