"Whether we want to or not, how can the Atlantic Ocean bypass the Ming Dynasty."

After the end of the war in Portugal, the Duke of Avar led an army to welcome Philip II into Portugal on the border with Spain.

The king rode in a black four-wheeled carriage from the convent of the royal palace in Madrid to Lisbon, accompanied by 1,400 palace guards and envoys.

They were tall knights in black armor, warriors with swords and shields wearing red silk on their breastplates, heavy musketeers in colorful yin and yang trousers, nobles from Milan, Italy, and monks from Rome.

In addition, there is also a Ming army cavalry escort composed of the Oriental flag army, waving the red flag, following the left side of the royal carriage, leading a group of envoys from all over Europa to Madrid, following in the same direction.

Li Dan sat in the king's carriage, and his brother Hua Yu drove the speckled blue-gray Andalusian war horse outside the carriage, while also leading another one.

Opposite him, the King of Spain, dressed in intricate gold-patterned blackboard armor, wore a beige floppy hat on his head, took it off with some trepidation, pointed to the netless hairscarf on his head, and asked, "What do you think of this, it can block my disadvantage?" ”

"I will be crowned the first Philip of Portugal in a few months, and although the great nobles of Portugal had correspondence with the court before the war, most of them had not seen me, and I need to let them know that the new king is mighty, wise, and perfect."

As he spoke, in the leather gloves under the iron plate armor, his index finger swayed towards Li Dan.

"Don't worry about Your Highness, it can cover all the hairless places on your forehead, if you are still worried about this, you can tie another piece of this." Li Dan said and handed out a round jade piece, and said, "This is called Jade Guanzi, and it can make the hair towel tighter after tying it...... We generally wear nets a lot. ”

Fei Laoer's baldness symptoms are getting more and more serious, Li Dan can't help but slander in his heart, since he is bald, he should obviously continue to grow his hair long and tie a bun on the top of his head, so that wearing a net towel will not only not show baldness, but also make people feel that the hair volume is very large.

But the court physician in Madrid instructed Fei Lao Er to shave his bald head again and again, and even the only remaining hair was gone.

Before entering Lisbon, he found Li Dan to enter the palace to see what good way he had, what good way Li Dan could have, and simply asked someone to make a pair of net scarves to cover him, just because no bun would make people feel a little weird.

The result was unexpected, Philip liked this hair scarf, not only the hair scarf, but also the scarf, the big hat, the black yarn, and he even wanted to get a wing good crown, but this crazy idea was stopped by Li Dan.

The Wing Shan Crown can only be worn by royal clansmen.

"If the marriage between the two countries is successful, then I can wear it, and you must get me a top, the best." Philip was expressionless when he talked about this, and he was very serious in his heart: "It must be the best, it can be inferior to the emperor, but it can't be better than them like Korea, Annam, Sulu, Luzon, and Ryukyu you said." ”

Are you thinking about marrying your daughter to the emperor for the sake of wearing a crown of wings?

Li Dan sighed and said, "King, I'm still a little worried, you should discuss the marriage with me first, that's your daughter, my father probably thinks that this matter is an insult to Spain and the Ming Dynasty, and he will think that you want to be the ruler of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Even though you've said this to me many times, I still don't understand."

Philip spread his hands in the carriage, his face full of doubts: "What kind of insult, marriage is the best way to consolidate friendship, I, why do you think it is an insult, can not marriage make the country bigger?" Da Ming is really strange. ”

Li Dan leaned back, tilted his head and raised his hand to open the curtain and look out, what he saw was the endless mountains in the distance and the pastures near the border between Spain and Portugal.

Is Da Ming really strange?

You're weird, aren't you? married his uncle's daughter, and felt that this was normal.

Philip raised his hand and knocked on the seat with some chagrin, and said: "Okay, I can't help it, the situation was urgent, I had to tell your father the news of the crowning of the King of Portugal first, in fact...... Actually, I'm a little afraid of him making trouble. ”

"The affairs of Portugal are complicated enough, the Ming still has to deal with the relationship with France and England, there is no need to get involved in this, I don't want to pay tribute directly to the Ming, but I can give the emperor a fortune in the form of a dowry, in exchange for the Oriental military government not to get involved in this matter, isn't it very good?"

Li Dan raised his eyebrows, this sentence was too informative, so he couldn't help but educate the ignorant king of Spain.

He said: "Spain should pay tribute to the emperor, and the father-in-law often talks about rights and obligations, and the merchants of the Ming and Western trades profit from it, so didn't the king profit from it?" ”

Philip nodded, he was arrogant in this matter, and admitted: "Daming's goods can be sold at a good price, and I can use half of the goods to speed up the speed of the new fleet by one-third every year." ”

"This is the obligation, friendly trade, mutual exchange between the two countries, but this is only economic; And militarily? If Spain paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, Spain's disputes with other countries could be supported by the Ming Dynasty, and the suzerainty had the obligation to protect the tributary state, which was the right of the tributary state. ”

"But we already have an alliance agreement, the two sides support each other, if the Ming Dynasty returns the Philippines to me, the Ming Dynasty supports me in the Atlantic; In the South Seas, I support the Ming Dynasty...... As I said earlier, trade spends my fleet building by a third every year, and by next year at the latest, Spain will have a fleet of more than 100 warships, enough to deal with all enemies in the Atlantic. ”

"Others are not as strong as the Ming Dynasty, General Chen in Bordeaux knows very well that the French warships are vulnerable to the Liujia ships, and there are only two kinds of best warships in the world, the Liujia ships of the Ming Dynasty and the giant Galen of Spain."

As he spoke, Philip pouted and said, "And you didn't protect the Ottoman infidels, didn't you say that they also paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty." ”

What can Li Dan say, Fei Lao Er knows a lot, he can't say that before Emperor Wanli, no one cared about whether the tribute was paid or not, right?

Organizing the language a little, Li Dan said righteously: "Your Highness, the Ming Dynasty has religious freedom, and there are no infidels; In the past, we were too far away from the Ottomans to send troops on an expedition, but we could not help them, but this is different for Spain now. ”

"There is also the dowry mentioned by the king, which is directly delivered to the imperial court, I think I am afraid that everyone does not care much about the dowry, but if it is given to the father-in-law, maybe a dowry that suits his heart will make him go from opposing to intentionally promoting this."