He first entered Seville to Madrid, then stayed in Ávila for three days, returned to Seville, and then set sail for the west to Amerika, where he also took the opportunity to make a stop in Lisbon, Portugal, whose language, culture, and ethnicity were different from mine. ”

"Its land is large and wide, the stone is the city, there are round stones, horses, walls, it is heavily guarded, the land is fertile, there is no way to cultivate, the fields are very thin, so the people are not clothed, and they are very poor. There are many monks on the coast who boil the sea for salt, and there are many craftsmen in the temple who specialize in making them, up to the weapons and armor down to the wine and salt, there must be a square in the center of each city, and there must be a perennial market in the square, and the monks go back and forth day and night to transport the temple goods to the city market to sell them. ”

"The climate and season are close to me, the people of the country, the noble warriors have white and yellow skin, near the Western Regions, the clothing and armor are still black, the men wear more swords, only like to straddle the red silk, half draped in a black canopy, wear a round-brimmed soft hat and more red blue bird feathers, thinking that they are dignified."

The monks of the country were very powerful, and the king was also very confused, and the monks often shaved their hair and kept the sides to show their piety, and wore large robes and silver shelves to identify their identities. There is no national law in the country, the country is governed by the law of monks and temples, the royal palace is the pleasure of honors and nobles, every time there is a dispute, the people of the country are looking for the 'Inquisition', the people of the country are fierce and martial, and they cannot help fighting privately, and every wine shop is not good at speaking is the enemy, and they draw their swords in the market to cut each other. ”

Yang Tingxiang recounted his knowledge of Spain with a blank face in a tone of the Celestial Empire's view of overseas barbarians: "In Seville, I met several people from the coastal areas of our country, all of whom were deceived in the early years and trafficked to America or Portugal by the Japanese invaders, and were called 'Indians' locally, but in fact they were the people of Shuangyu, most of whom had married wives and had children in their countries, and the oldest was forty out of eighty, and their fates were reversed. ”

"This time he returned from the West, and brought back sixteen foreign people, one of whom was named Zhai Ge'er, who was taken away from Shuangyu by the Portuguese governor Castañeda in the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing, and was only six years old when he left home, and there were fifteen people who were taken away on the same ship, and he traveled through Lima and Panama for several years, and met French pirates on the way, and was forced to Lisbon, where he was sold to the shoemaker's house as a servant, and eleven years ago, he was deceived by the monk Morales to Seville."

"In Seville, Zhai Geer made shoes for Morales in the temple, and accumulated a small remuneration to wait for him to send him back to Ningbo according to the agreement, until after the Battle of Linlai, Morales wanted to make a fortune in Amerika, and sold him for ninety-two ducats, and when he went down to Madrid, it happened that Zhai Geer sued the monk Morales in the Inquisition."

Speaking of this, Yang Tingxiang, who had been stating expressionlessly, showed a proud look for the first time, and said: "According to the treaty, the Yi people have no right to try and dispose of the people of our Celestial Dynasty, so the trial was held in the city market of Madrid, and 477 cases were handled in three days, and 94 Ming people living in Madrid were innocent. ”

"But I have been puzzled for a long time, and I hope Chen Shuai will solve my doubts."

Chen Mu has long been immersed in the story he told about the child Zhai Ge'er on Shuangyu Island, and is thinking about waiting for the end of the discussion to let Yang Tingxiang find someone to find this Zhai Ge'er, who has lived in the Americas and Europe for more than 20 years, and the common sense he has been exposed to is much more valuable to Daming than his lifelong shoemaker's craftsmanship.

But to put it mildly, this Yang Tingxiang was really bold enough to go to the capital of Spain, where there was a war in the Ming Dynasty, to try the case - Chen Mu always thought that although the treaty had been signed at this time, the real implementation would have to wait for the army to pass, but he didn't expect to let Yang Tingxiang do it at this time.

Suddenly, he heard that Yang Tingxiang had doubts, nodded and motioned for him to speak, and then saw Yang Tingxiang take two steps and said: "In the more than 400 cases tried in Madrid, most of them are America natives pretending to be Ming people, and they want to restore their status as free people. ”

"I don't know about this matter, maybe the ancestors crossed the sea and moved east? The north of America is very close to the hometown of Nurgandus, and our Ma Shuai is frozen in the North Sea in winter, so he walks over on two legs while the sea is not careful. ”

The Oriental Marshal made himself laugh when he said a witty remark, and then said: "It doesn't matter how they passed or were born there, their monarch was executed, the country was destroyed, and they don't know where they came from and where they are going, and now the enslaved are enslaved, and the unenslaved are scattered all over the place." ”

"The people of the Western Kingdom can use captivity, enslavement, mixed blood, and drive to make them stronger, and we must accept them with the same body and skin, and make them return to their hearts—Yang Junzan, since you are so curious about where they came from."

Chen Mu lowered his head and raised his hand to flatten the wrinkled official robe sitting on the chair, raised his head and raised his eyebrows, and said, "Their history, you can write it." ”

"No one is born willing to be enslaved, as long as we hold the present in our hands, their future will be bound to the Ming Dynasty, and when they become a part of the Ming Dynasty and become us, everything will be solved. For thousands of years, the world has prospered; decline, the world declines; China is the world. It is not the turn of others to define what we are, we have to define not only ourselves, but also them. ”

"America, tens of millions of people are looking forward to the acceptance of the Son of Heaven, it only takes forty years, two generations, for the emperor to have a steady stream of troops in America."

Chen Mu smiled with a short beard on his chin, patted his palm on the armrest of the Taishi chair, and said, "Tell me about the war, Jun Chan is through the East, so he won't just come back after seeing some customs, right?" ”

Yang Tingxiang chuckled confidently when he heard this, then arched his hand to Chen Mu, slowly walked out of the hall and gave a few words to people outside the door, and then came back to everyone: "The king of the Western Kingdom invited me to see his military formation in the Plaza de Armas in Madrid. ”

"Only the gunners have two more rows in the military formation, and the spearmen have two less rows, and there are about 300 warriors with swords and shields in a three-thousand-man legion, such an establishment did not appear in the Battle of Linlai, but there were sword and shield warriors who participated in the battle when Chen Shuai pacified the Western Rebellion in Luzon."

"I guess that more gunners and heavy armored infantry troops are to fight against Chen Shuai's Zongfan army that used 40% guns and 60% spears when Chen Shuai was in Nanyang. In addition, in Xiyi itself, each legion has more cavalry, not only a few dozen cavalry seen in Luzon or Guam, but more than 500 cavalry in one legion, armed with spears and swords, and all men and horses are heavily armoured. ”

"In addition to this, it was not seen with my own eyes, and when I disembarked the fleet to Seville, I did not see Siyi building ships along the coast. But Zhai Ge'er said that since the Battle of Linlai, the king ordered forests to be cut down everywhere to make larger warships, and all the cannon foundries in the country were making larger copper cannons. ”

As he spoke, a military officer Wu Ben took a long painting into the room, and after getting permission, he unfolded the scroll in front of Yang Tingxiang, and drew a huge battleship with fine brushwork, striking the single-layer gun deck arranged with more than ten guns and the curved gun emplacements in the bow, although the deck was only one layer, and it carried at least thirty-five guns.

However, although the middle and rear parts of the ship in this picture are drawn with the same strokes, they are blurred in many places, and some ship parts are unique to the Ming ship and do not exist in the western ship, which makes Chen Mu look at Yang Tingxiang with doubt.

"In the Ming people who lived in the west of the country secretly bribed the shipwright, and got the bow map of the ship ordered by the king of the west to be built, and then the hull and stern were drawn for granted, the name of the ship was giant Galen, and it belonged to the western country's 'gods' god-favored, lucky and great fleet', and now it is only known that its country built dozens of such large ships, according to the calculation of the bow map, the ship is made of three thousand to four thousand materials, the draft is more than two zhang, and the carrying force should be three or four hundred, and the ship cannon is built from the bow gun position, and the bore diameter is more than six inches."

Yang Tingxiang said, and arched his hand: "Chen Shuai, as far as I know, the largest Nanyang ship is only 2,500 materials, and against such a huge ship, I am afraid that it will not be able to catch it." ”/14_14088/