It's hard to be King of Spain these days.

His Royal Highness Philip felt that it was useless to do anything, and someone would always tear it down.

It took a long time to manage the Portuguese king as early as the death of the King of Portugal in the Mahazan River, and sent people to contact the nobles and governors of Portugal and the colonies to lay the foundation for a smooth union of Portuguese rule.

After several years of procrastination, the coronation of King of Portugal could no longer make Philip feel great joy.

Originally, since the meridian of the Holy See was drawn, Spain and Portugal plundered the whole world, and Philip wanted to be the king of Portugal from then on, what does it mean to be crowned king of Portugal?

The colonies of Spain and Portugal mean the whole world!

Except for the two small countries of Britain and France, the Ottomans and the Ming Dynasty, most of the other lands in the world were their colonies.

How beautiful!

Philip even thought of the words early on, and as long as the union with Portugal was successful, he would engrave it on the back of the coin: "The world is not enough for me."

Then the King of Portugal really died.

How wonderful!

But in the past few years, something has happened.

First of all, the Philippines was gone, and it was taken back by the Ming Dynasty and renamed Luzon.

Secondly, Macau is still there, but it has been many years since Macau and Portugal cut off contact.

Then, the Spice Islands were also gone, and were divided into a series of vassal states such as Borneo, Sulu, Java, Phoenix Harbor, and Sumatra by the Ming Dynasty.

Then, the Strait of Malacca was also transferred back from the hands of the Portuguese to the hands of the Ming Dynasty, followed by Yangon, Arakan, and Goa, all of which were gone, not to mention, and a Han country appeared, that Lin Feng was more bastard than Barbarossa, and directly made the African coast a no-sail zone for whites.

The black slave trade is gone, forget it, Lin Feng's Ming general Yang Ce also took the black slaves to rise up revenge activities, Philip thinks this is very good, he really thinks this is very good, the only fly in the ointment is that there is a debtor and a master, your Han ship has been dangling in the Strait of Gibraltar in my Greater Spain, go to the north to find the English to take revenge!

We, Spain, hold the silver mines of the New World and do not do such an unclassy thing as the slave trade.

There is also the New World, the vast, beautiful, rich and pristine New World, the jewel of Philip II, and only a corner of the Viceroyalty of Peru remains.

In fact, in the past, Philip was happy to see this, and he even laughed at Portugal because of this: Look at our big Spain, even the Ming Dynasty has to give me face and keep the most profitable Peruvian Viceroyalty for me.

As long as Peru remains, the Kingdom of Spain, which dominates both sides of the Atlantic, can still make the king of Paris tremble.

Look at you Portugal, there is only one Brazil left that does not make money, there is nothing, slightly!

Can when he was crowned King of Portugal? Oh my God, Brazil is going to be gone.

He did unite Portugal as he wished, but now this Portugal is really just Portugal, and the Spanish royal family sent money to Portugal to exchange them for the captured nobles from Morocco, and opened the borders and allowed autonomy, what did they gain in the end?

Only a long stretch of the western coastline was harvested.

"I have heard that the Governor is having a good time in Lisbon, riding along the coast with his own soldiers, which makes me very worried about your safety."

In the royal palace in Lisbon, the dusty Li Dan was summoned, his face was tired and tired, but his expression was very vivid, Philip stepped down from the throne, sat with him, and said: "If you want to know about the defense situation of Portugal, the Duke of Alva knows better, you can ask directly." ”

"Heh, I care about what those do, I'm not a general, and I don't know how to fight." Li Dan smiled sincerely, rolled up his sleeves and looked very excited, raised his hand and said: "I have walked many places along the coast, and there is still the south that I have not finished, but I want to come over there is similar, the port of Lisbon is very suitable for setting up a tax office, which can provide the royal family with no less than 330,000 yuan and a half taels of tax revenue a year." ”

Li Dan shook his head as he said and said to himself: "What a good place, how could the Portuguese royal family let it lose money?" ”

This is complete nonsense, no matter how low the level of Portuguese governance is, it will not make the port of Lisbon lose money, and it is the Portuguese royal family that is really losing money, not just this port.

The internal tax system was extremely backward, the land trade had high trade barriers with the only neighbor, Spain, nearly half of the military nobles in the First World War of the Mahazan River were killed or captured in battle, and the high ransom expenditure made it impossible for the country to open source; The main external income, in addition to port tax, is the auction of shipping routes.

Which routes can Portugal auction off now? Goa to Macau, Macau to Nagasaki? Or Lisbon to Goa?

The former is different, and the latter has caused a large outflow of gold, silver and precious metals due to the presence of Yang Ce.

How can it not lose money?

Now it's Li Dan's turn to sit here and say cool things: "If you want me to say, you don't have to run out at all, Daming Port and Lisbon, the two ports have an annual income of two million, plus the Mingxi trade is four million a year, and the Dadong Ocean has its own Ming fleet, and Gibraltar is protected by the Daming Port Guard." ”

"With these six million and a half taels in hand, His Royal Highness sent the domestic nobles to quell the Dutch rebellion, and it is more than enough to compete with the Francy hillbillies and the small British islands, and ask the emperor to send a few jinshi over, and the experts will push the grace, turn the feudal towns into prefectures and counties, and gather great power in one, and use the six million to form a new army and raise 100,000 soldiers when the old nobles die."

Philip's eyes straightened when he heard it, but Li Dan became more and more energetic the more he spoke: "When the time comes, I will pay tribute to the Taimiao, choose two loyal ministers and good generals, and the land division will lead the army out of the Pyrox Si Xichuan to attack the city, and the sailors will block the mouth of the Seine with the fleet, and the mighty army will come to the city of Paris, wouldn't it be happy?" ”

The king blinked, don't you say you're a merchant?

Why is it so exciting to talk about the war, and Tuen, what is that?

This king refuses to accept the allusion of the Celestial Empire!

Fei Lao Er didn't accept this stubble at all, he was now more concerned about the strength of the Ming army's naval battle, so he waved his hand; "Speaking of the Great Eastern Ocean Coastal Defense, I came to you for this matter, and the Francie hillbillies and British Isles you mentioned are gathering a fleet for the puppet king Antonio, intending to rob the silver ships of the Mingxi trade."

"I hope you can put aside the matter of Daming Harbor and go back to the New World."

Li Dan felt that Philip didn't understand what he was saying, otherwise he shouldn't have been this business-like appearance, he thought that what he said was quite operable, and he was also very sincere, basically he didn't dig a trap for Fei Laoer.

The only reciprocal opportunity is that after the death of the old nobles in the Netherlands and the new army is not successful, Spain will face a period of scarcity of military talent, but this is not dangerous, the Ming Dynasty has an endless supply of officers.

But Fei Lao Er was not the slightest excited, which made Li Dan extremely surprised: "Just go back to North Asia for this matter, and send troops to kill them, won't it be over?" ”

"Not only that, but I also need you to meet the Generalissimo of the Oriental Army, in Colombia, the Indian rebels named Lautaro are constantly killing my legionnaires and Peruvian citizens, and more than 400 soldiers are killed every month by guns fired out of nowhere or by cannons that suddenly explode around them."

Li Dan said with a puzzled look: So what?

Philip clapped his hands at this gaze and said, "They used to use our weapons, but this year, they have more muskets, and these muskets were made in Nanyang in the second year of Wanli. ”

"Moreover, just three months ago, the Oriental Military Government sent 1,400 troops to occupy Rio de Janeiro, the Viceroyalty of Portugal and Brazil, and also encroached on land in all directions, nay, and in all directions."

Philip was furious, angry that he was speaking according to the language of the Ming people: "I want you to go back and ask what your father wants to do!" ”