Compared with the credentials from Philip II, who coveted the Portuguese throne for two years and finally got his wish, and wanted to marry a daughter to the Ming Emperor like a celebratory achievement, the ship from the Daming port of Seville made Chen Mu look forward to it, and he believed that Li Dan could bring him an answer about where Spain would go next.

But the war on the other side of the sea has not yet been extinguished.

In the first half month of the ninth year of Wanli, Chen Mu had been anxiously waiting for a letter from the Daming Port in Seville...... Fei Lao Er sent a message from Spain to Panama, and the messenger traveled south from the west coast into Peru, and then the governor of Peru sent someone north to deliver the letter to himself.

The time difference in the middle was enough for Li Dan's sailors to send more convicted news.

But no, the messenger who came faster than Li Dan was a messenger from Zhu Xiaoen, the king of Ailan, a small banner of the Restoration Army under Fu Yuan's command in the past, came to Changsheng with a message, informing Chen Mu that King Ailan's troops had landed in the port of Ireland in August last year, and the land in the south had not yet been seized by England, so there was no direct war, and time was favorable to King Ailan, allowing him to effectively unite the chiefs of the various tribes and gradually encroach northward.

"England didn't know about it until you returned?"

Xiaoqi of the Restoration Army smiled shyly and responded to Chen Mu's question: "How can we know whether they know or not, it was all Shang Jia's words, they said that the King of Portugal is dead, England is busy rescuing the new King of Portugal, and Shang Jia can't even control the entry of Shang Jia into the Ailan Kingdom." ”

The King of Portugal is dead and busy rescuing the new King?

Chen Mu frowned and thought about it, but he couldn't figure out the relationship between them, and turned his head to look at Zhao Shizhen, who was sitting in the second seat.

He couldn't even think of what he couldn't understand, and the mechanics unit didn't understand it anymore, and asked, "What are they doing to rescue the King of Portugal, so far away." ”

"This lowly official knows that when he passed through Bordeaux on the way back, he heard from his subordinates that it seemed to be an alliance between the two kings of England and Portugal two or three hundred years ago, saying that he believed that if there were two kings and their heirs who urgently needed their support, according to this agreement, they would be able to help them and protect their borders and goods, and keep this alliance unswerving."

The little flag officer said with a little smile and said, "The two warships under the Nine Classics General chased the escorted Francis ship until they reached the port, but they didn't catch it. ”

Chen Mu raised his elbow to support the tea case, pursed his mouth and slowly knocked on his temple, it was difficult for these small pieces of information to be gathered in one place to make him clear about the battle situation across the ocean, and just asked, "How many months is this?" ”

"Just two months ago."

From the New World to England, it takes 60 days to get there, but from England to the New World, the north is against the water and wind, and the fastest route is to go south to Spain, North Africa, and back from the equator.

Although this route will be nearly half farther, it can avoid the wind, waves and hardships at sea.

Chen Mu asked a few more words, but Xiaoqi of the Restoration Army didn't know much, even if he heard it occasionally, he was more concerned about Ireland or England, and it was not helpful for the situation in Spain and Portugal that he wanted to understand, at most it was just about the cowardice of the Portuguese generals and the fact that the border defense town was looking down on the wind.

However, just when Chen Mu wanted to let the small flag of the Restoration Army go to rest, he heard him inadvertently say in a mocking tone that England had done a favor and made great efforts to save people, but the new King of Portugal stayed in Paris, France and became the queen mother's guest.

"It was my surprise that he didn't go to England."

When the little flag officer left, Chen Mu spread his hands helplessly and said, "Until now, we don't even know what the new Portuguese king is called. The envoy sent by the military government to Brazil still did not see the governor of Brazil? ”

Zhao Shizhen shook his head and said: "The envoy has been waiting in Rio for two months, and the latest letter is still a letter of guilt, and the governor of Portugal is still out on an expedition and has not returned, but in the past two months, there have been people coming and going in the governor's palace, and there are not a few ships that set sail. ”

"The expedition has not returned, the governor has gone out on an expedition and has not returned?"

"It seems that their governor doesn't want to see me...... Chen Mu gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, narrowed his dangerous eyes and shook his head and said softly: "How bold?" ”

Originally, he thought that in the face of the annexation of Spain, Portugal would be eager for the protection of the Ming Dynasty, but now it seems that things are developing contrary to his ideas.

The Portuguese did not seem to expect his protection and were unwilling to deal with him.

Brazil is somewhat out of control - of course, this is just Chen Mu's wishful thinking, he couldn't control Brazil originally, but in his heart, the entire New World is Ming.

This was not only about the reluctance of the governor of Portugal and Brazil to meet his envoy, but also about the deviation between cognition and reality, which made Chen Mu's heart burn with a nameless fire and irritation.

The Brazil in his eyes is not just the little place where the Pope's meridian belongs to Portugal, but the entire southern part of the New World, and the Oriental military government has called the land occupied by the Ming Dynasty North Asia in a unified voice, and can they still call it back to South America?

Chen Mu raised his hand, knocked on the table, and said with a sudden realization: "I know why Philip is in a hurry to have someone send the certificate of marriage." ”

His hunch was right, Philip's unification of Portugal was ironically the hardest part – it had nothing to do with Portugal.

Now that the French and the British have been involved, Da Ming can't stay out of the matter, as long as Chen Mu still wants Brazil, he can't let himself stay out of the matter.

At this moment, there was the sound of leather boots from far and near from outside the main hall, and after a while, Juniper pushed the door in, took a deep breath and hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, the ship of Daming Port in Saicheng has docked, and Governor Li's messenger is still on the way, so he sent a rider to deliver the letter first." ”

"Bring it!"

Chen Mu almost used the action of 'grabbing', grabbed the letter in his hand and unfolded it.

Li Dan's letter was very long, covering all aspects of the current confrontation between Spain and Portugal, and in Li Dan's words, the Portuguese people and the magnates had many differences over the king's affairs.

The duchess, of the three heirs, had no support and hastily withdrew from the race; Due to the long-term border conflict, the common people and the lower class of monks were extremely disgusted with Spain, and Portugal was not a normal Euroian feudal state, and the territory could be roughly divided into three parts.

There is rich but scarce land in the northern mountains, which are the fiefs of the old aristocracy; In the central part of Lisbon, where the maritime trade led to the prosperity of the handicraft industry, more common people under the industrial and commercial owners obtained wealth through labor, which almost destroyed the original feudal relations; The south, like Andalusia in Spain, was vast and ruggedly governed, ruled by new nobles and haciendas.

According to Li Dan, Philip won before the war, and he promised to remove border tariffs; a loan to profligate Portugal to cover the costs of ransom for the Moroccan captive nobility; Portuguese nationals were allowed to study and sightsee in Spain.

The most critical, and what Chen Mu is most concerned about, is that Philip promised Portugal that the Portuguese territories could trade freely with the Spanish territories, and the Spanish territories could not trade with the Portuguese territories.

Chen Mu raised his hand and nodded one after another according to the letter, and said to Zhao Shizhen: "The last one is the reason why the governor of Brazil does not want to see my envoy, and this France, who has not been beaten enough. ”

"The letter said that Antonio, the king of Portugal who had the support of the people, was defeated in the first battle of Lisbon, and on the way to the north, he was picked up by an English ship and sent to Paris, and he promised the Queen Mother of France that he would give Brazil, my Brazil, why did he give my Brazil to the French!"

Chen Mu's face was normal, but his expression in Zhao Shizhen's eyes only felt extremely vicious, this was a very classic 'small force sees great strength', he saw this handsome man who had just taken Brazil for himself pointed his fingers in turn, and finally pointed to himself.

"Philip of Spain, Antonio of Portugal, Catherine of France, and finally the unworthy governor of Brazil...... Do they think that in this great Oriental affairs, they can bypass our Oriental Military Mansion and play by themselves? ”