Chapter 704, Spain

When Liu Jin and Zhang Mao commanded the Ming army to conquer Annam and Champ, on the other side of the world, on the sea of the port of Cádiz, Spain, two Spanish sailing ships were slowly heading towards the port.

"Great Kingdom of Castile, I'm back!"

On the deck of the St. Mary's, Colster looked at the port of Cadiz in front of him, and the whole person couldn't help but roar.

He was so excited.

Every route to the Americas is full of endless dangers, and it is very likely that it will never be returned, and it is a joy to be able to return.

Especially this time, they finally came into contact with the Ming people in the far east, and he used all the wealth he had obtained in the Americas to buy silk, porcelain, and glass mirrors from the Ming Dynasty, which he believed would definitely make him rich overnight as long as he arrived in Spain.

Wealth is what he loves most.

"Finally in Spain?"

Jiang Liang looked at the excited Colster beside him, and then looked at the port city in front of him, which was becoming clearer and clearer, and the whole person was also slightly excited.

He became the first Ming to come to Spain.

Things have to start a few months ago, Karst met Tian Erniu and them in Penglai Port, after the first encounter between the two sides, Spain on the island of Hispaniola in the Americas and Cuba Island were excited, and they went to Penglai Island here to contact the Ming people here.

They used the gold and silver in their hands to buy almost all the silk, porcelain, mirrors and other things in the hands of the Ming people here on Penglai Island.

They then immediately sent two ships back to Spain to bring back the good news.

Since Columbus opened the route to the Americas, the place they most wanted to reach was the far east, and they wanted to find the Ming people, so as to obtain the silk, porcelain and spices of the Ming people.

However, the route to the Americas has been opened for ten years, and they have never reached the far east and have not met the Ming people.

Now that they finally had news of a faraway and rich country, they were so excited that they wanted to send it back to Spain immediately.

In order to make more people believe that they had found the Ming Dynasty and had come into contact with a distant rich country, Karst also sent an invitation to Tian Erniu's side, inviting Tian Erniu's side to send some people to follow them to Europe and Spain.

After thinking about it for a while, Tian Erniu decided to respond to Karlster's invitation, so he sent a team of 20 people led by Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey to follow Karst to Europe.

This is a deliberate and deliberate process.

The Europeans opened up new routes to the East, and on the Ming side, many trading houses led by the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company also wanted to go to Europe, because in Liu Jin's description, the porcelain and silk of the Ming Dynasty could be equivalent to gold on the European side.

If you can travel to Europe, it means opening a door to wealth, exchanging a shipload of porcelain and silk for a shipload of gold and silver.

Of course, following Karster to Europe is also a way to know how far this golden continent is from Europe, and it is also a proof that the earth is indeed a sphere, whether it is from the east or from the west, it can reach the same place.

Now Karst was invited to go to Europe, which was naturally the best, and by the way, he could also learn the navigation skills of the Europeans.

After arriving in Europe, you can also understand the situation in Europe clearly, which provides a basis for Daming's follow-up decision-making.

The two sides hit it off, so Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey followed Karster's fleet to Europe, and after 63 days of sailing, they finally arrived at the port of Cádiz in Spain.

"After 63 days, I finally arrived in Europe."

Jiang Liang's side, Zhao Monkey also looked at the exotic city in front of him.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the port of Cádiz began to flourish with the discovery of America.

In addition to Columbus's first trip to the Americas from the port of Barros, the next three trips to the Americas departed from here, and the entire port of Cádiz also prospered rapidly with the opening of the American route and the African route.

Shipbuilding, fishing, and the slave trade flourished, making this port city a faint rival to Lisbon in Portugal.

At this time, the port of Cádiz, large and small ships are moored in the port, which is very busy.

"Haha, I'm back~I'm back~"

Before the St. Mary's was completely moored, some of the sailors on board the Colster couldn't help but shout excitedly in the harbor, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the harbor.

"St. Mary's is back~"

"Karlst, the down-and-out nobleman, is back~"

"I don't know how much gold and silver they brought back this time~"

"How come there is a very strange group of people on this ship?"

In the port of Cádiz, a large number of people gathered at the dock where the St. Mary's was moored, and their eyes were fixed on the St. Mary's.

Since 1492, when Christopher Columbus opened the route to the Americas, the New World has become synonymous with wealth, and many people who go to the Americas have become rich overnight, which has made every ship returning from the Americas the center of attention.

But soon, everyone also focused their attention on Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey on the deck, Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey's appearance, clothing, and appearance were completely different from them, as if they stood out from the crowd, and suddenly became the focus of everyone.

The Spaniards in the port looked at Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey, and Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang also looked at the Spaniards in the port.

The Spaniards of this era were not wealthy, and most of the people in the port were civilians, and their clothes were mainly black and gray robes, with only some women wearing white skirts.

At the same time, all the men have thick beards, and because of the lack of care, they give people the feeling of being messy and very dirty.

"Blue eyes, high nose bridge, golden curly hair, exactly the same as the Europeans described by Liu Gongzi."

Zhao Monkey looked at Spain one by one carefully, and then smiled and said to Jiang Liang beside him.

"Karlster, who are these?"

The Spaniards in the port looked at Zhao Monkey, Jiang Liang and the others in front of them very curiously.

At this moment, Jiang Liang and Zhao Monkey were wearing Da Ming satin, with short hair and neatly shaved beards, which was unlike anyone they had seen before.

"Gentlemen and ladies, allow me to introduce to you that they are the Ming people from the Far East that we have been looking for for all along."

Karst looked at the anxious eyes around him, smiled, and then introduced Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang to the Spaniards present very loudly.

"These two are Mr. Zhao and Mr. Jiang from the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company under the command of Liu Jin, a great nobleman from the Far East!"

Karst pointed to Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang and introduced the identities of the two to everyone.

In Europe in this era, the most important status is respectful and inferior, nobles are nobles, and commoners are commoners, so when introducing Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang, it is also emphasized that the next two are people under the command of Liu Jin, a great nobleman in the East.

"What?"

"They are the Ming people from the Far East?"

In the port, all the Spaniards who heard Karlster's introduction couldn't help but buzz their heads, these people in front of them turned out to be Ming people, they turned out to be Ming people from a distant rich country.

At this moment, Spain in the port looked at Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang, and their eyes became extremely hot.

They finally got in touch with the Ming people from the Far East.

"Is the Earth really a sphere?"

"It's really possible to go all the way west to the far east?"

Then everyone's heads were buzzing.

People have always believed more in the theory that the sky is round and the place where they live is the center of the world, but with the rise of the Renaissance movement, more and more evidence has begun to prove that the world they live in is a round sphere.

But this has never been confirmed.

Columbus, who believed that the earth was a sphere, chose to sail westward, believing that if the earth was a sphere, then it would be possible to reach the far east if it had been westward.

For this reason, he had the support of the Queen of Spain, and had made three voyages, but he never found the Ming people, and did not come into contact with the rich countries of the Far East.

This has made many people wonder if they can reach the Far East all the way west.

But now, Karst has brought back a group of Ming people, which is tantamount to a bombshell, which exploded here in the port of Cadiz in an instant.

The news also spread rapidly at the fastest speed in the first time, and more and more people gathered here at the port, and everyone wanted to come and see if they were the same as the rich oriental country depicted by Marco Polo.

The dock where the St. Mary's was moored here, the surrounding water was impassable, and a pair of eyes looked at Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang, with a light in their eyes, and they wished they could study it carefully at close range.

"Hello everyone~"

"My name is Zhao Monkey, I am from the distant Ming Empire in the East, and I am very happy to be able to come to great Spain."

Zhao Monkey looked at the eyes in the port, smiled and waved his hand, and then greeted the people in the port in a somewhat broken Spanish.

"Oh God~"

"He speaks Spanish~"

"Is the garment he wears made of silk?"

"Mr. Zhao, welcome to Spain~"

"Oh~"

"Whew~"

Immediately, the Spaniards in the whole harbor could not help cheering, the men waved their hats, and the Spanish women were a little breathless with excitement.