On Philippe's way to Lisbon, he talked a lot with Li Dan.

About the dowry, about the Ming Dynasty, about the West Indies, about the maritime trade after the unification of the two countries, and even about Brazil.

When Li Dan tried to propose Brazil as a dowry to King Philip of Spain, Fei Lao Er immediately rejected the proposal without much thought.

"No, if I take Brazil as a dowry, my daughter will not have the slightest status in the court of the Ming Emperor, because her dowry is shabby like a hillbilly in Valois, France."

King Fei Lao Er slightly retracted his big chin, raised his hand and pointed at Li Dan, a pair of copper bell eyes carefully stared at all the expressions that flashed on Li Dan's face, and asked cautiously, "Can I trust you?" Andre Dietis. ”

Li Dan didn't make a sound, and in a few short seconds, his body shook slightly with the bumps of the carriage, and the hand that was holding his mouth moved forward, and he didn't say anything one after another.

"Although the land in Brazil is very large, there are no gold mines, no silver mines, the value is pitiful, and there is a long coastline to guard against pirate attacks, if the situation in Portugal is stable in a few years, it doesn't matter if that land is given to Daming except for the coast."

"But now, I need that worthless piece of land for me in exchange for the loyalty of the Portuguese nobles and merchants, and let them know that nothing has changed in their favor except for me."

"And what is good for me is good for Daming, we are one in terms of interests, how much does Daming earn from Spain every year? I'm afraid even you can't count them. ”

Li Dan really wants to say that Fei Lao Er can't look down on that piece of land, Daming can take a fancy to it, that land is too good for Daming.

But he couldn't say that Philip's meaning was very clear, first of all, it was beneficial for him to master Portugal, and secondly, Philip was worried that it would become a springboard for the Ming to attack eastward - so he said that it didn't matter if it was all given to the Ming along the coast.

Li Dan let out a long breath and didn't say anything more about this matter.

He just felt that in the eyes of King Philip of Spain, it seemed that the existence of the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the West Indies was of the greatest significance that there was a buffer zone between Mingxi.

In this era, the ocean is no longer a boundary between countries.

Although New Spain and the Islands may not be able to meet Philip's requirements for them, if Li Dan is allowed to look at it from his point of view, the Spaniards over there have indeed fulfilled this mission well.

The number of ships sailing each month from the port of Ossi, the cargo on board, and the more accurate information on some merchant ships calling at Havana or San Juan, were three to five months late, and the report was already available to Philippe in Madrid before those ships arrived in Spain.

This meant security, both physical and psychological security for Philip.

"There are countless merchants and workers in the Ming Dynasty, and I am not only the most powerful king in Europe, but also the country with the closest relationship between the Ming Dynasty in the whole of Europa......"

Philip's generous statement was only halfway through, and Li Dan on the other side wanted to stop talking several times, so he had to wave his hand and say, "Am I not?" Who else but me, who buys more than three million and a half taels of goods from New Spain and from the port of Daming every year, eh? Could the governor still be able to find a second king? ”

Li Dan, who was in the carriage, rubbed his hands in front of him, and said in a slow and gentle tone as much as possible: "Your Highness, according to my brother General Jiujing, King Navarra intends to send an envoy to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty after the end of this war. ”

Flutter.

King Philip couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

"Navarre, a hillbilly who doesn't even have a coastal port, is not only at war with the hillbillies of Valois, but also with my enemies, and when he wants to inherit the throne of France, I will go to war with him, and the invincible Habsburg army will march into Paris and beat them to pieces."

"I don't know how your emperor will be chosen, but if it were General Chen of the Oriental Military Mansion, your stepfather, he would probably be standing by the holder of the Potosi Silver Mine, not that hillbilly."

In Philip's words, Li Dan saw his own success - he successfully rooted the image of the emperor and bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty as the emperor and the bureaucracy of the Celestial Empire, who only spoke about righteousness and did not value profit, deeply rooted in Philip's mind.

And all the corresponding negative words such as greed, light righteousness and heavy profit were added to his father-in-law, the rebel of the mainstream ideology of the Ming Dynasty, and the invincible Marshal Chen Mu.

It is not only the Ming Emperor who has a good face, but also as the boss of Europa, His Royal Highness Philip has almost the same problem: "Your Nine Classics General joined this war between Navarre and Valois, and I am more inclined to believe that the reason is that your stepfather wants to make this war last longer...... It's better for all of us. ”

"I don't think that Navarre can win the heart of the Ming Emperor by sending two boars to the emperor, and I even plan to send my daughter over, isn't this enough to express Spain's desire for a long-term alliance with the Ming Dynasty?"

"The Ming is my most desirable ally, we have fought on the battlefield, and the Ming is different from us in religion, there are many differences between the two countries, but this simple trade is more acceptable, the Ming wants money, and the Great Spain also wants money - Valois can ally with the pagan Ottomans, so why can't I have a closer relationship with the Ming who is not a pagan?"

Li Dan paused and said, "Your Highness should know about King Alan, his Restoration Army defeated three times the enemy with inferior forces on the French battlefield, and planned for the Han army as the main force to withdraw from the battlefield. ”

Knowing that the same report had been sent to Madrid after the battle earlier than it had been sent to Li Dan in the port of Daming, he spread his hands and said, "They are more like the Ming army than the Han army." ”

The Han army they mentioned was the army under Yang Ce that could do nothing but advance, retreat and turn around.

In the eyes of the king, whether it was the Baishan Battalion, the Fusang Battalion, the Oriental Army or the Han Army, they were all Ming troops, nothing more than troops from different places of the Ming army.

In his eyes, his favorite unit is not the Beiyang Banner Army, which is high-spirited, well-trained, and well-armoured, and one out of 10,000 miles, but Yang Ce's Han Army.

Yang Ce's Han army had all the qualities of what Philip considered a good army...... Training quickly, saving military expenses, listening to signal orders, the biggest point is that in addition to saving money, Yang Ce can't even equip his soldiers with armor, and the muskets can't be ready, but he can still go to the battlefield and play a better record than conscripting people.

Isn't that the best army?

As for the Restoration Army, Philip did not pay so much attention, no matter who was given enough salary, enough armor, and enough training, he could make such an army, which was indifferent compared to their expenditure.

"The Restoration Army, I heard that they went to Ireland, which is also a barbarian land, how much can the Ming get by trading with them?"

Li Dan had a polite smile on his face, and spread his hands and said, "Ailan Kingdom has paid tribute." ”