In a sprawling castle in Toledo, Spain, the huge hall is lavishly decorated, with walls covered with religious paintings, large crystal chandeliers overhead, and cashmere carpets from the Ottoman Empire on the floor.

The band is playing light music, and the hall is surrounded by the enchanting aroma of wine and food, and many Spanish aristocrats are enjoying their own Belle Epoque.

Zhao Monkey and a Spanish countess danced slowly and briskly to the music.

It has been almost half a month since he came to Spain, and Zhao Monkey is very busy every day, and every day Spanish nobles invite him to various banquets.

And every banquet, he is the focus of everyone's attention, deeply loved by these Spaniards, for people from the Far East, these Spanish ladies are eager to swallow Zhao Monkey and Jiang Liang into them, and study them carefully.

With the rise of the Renaissance movement, the era of the gradual emancipation of European ideas and the combination of xxx and art was extremely open to this aspect.

"These Europeans have reached a very high level of development in all aspects, and they are the most developed of all the countries and regions I have seen, and in many respects they have even surpassed our Ming Dynasty."

"However, the fox odor on their bodies is really too heavy, why don't they love to take a bath."

Holding the beautiful and moving Countess in his hand, Zhao Monkey's nose couldn't help but move slightly.

Europeans throughout the era did not like bathing, which is a tradition derived from the Middle Ages, and they believed that bathing would bring them sickness, so they did not like bathing from top to bottom.

Although the temperature in Europe is not high, and the sweat glands of Europeans are not very developed, the consequence of not bathing for a long time is that Europe in this era is full of foul smells everywhere.

Even the well-dressed nobles in the hall are like this, all kinds of stench make people evil, plus they like to wear all kinds of perfumes.

When a lot of flavors are mixed together, you can imagine the taste.

"Zhao?"

"You smell so good, what kind of perfume are you wearing?"

Margaret, who was hugged by Zhao Monkey, put her head tightly on Zhao Monkey's body, sniffed it carefully, and a faint fragrance was refreshing.

"It's not a perfume, it's the scent inside the soap."

Zhao Monkey lowered his head and looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, the white skirt, layer after layer, the waist was very thin and full of curvy beauty.

"What is soap?"

Margaret asked, a little confused.

"A special thing for bathing can get rid of the greasy on the body, and we have to take a bath almost every day as long as we have the conditions."

Zhao Monkey smiled and explained.

"God, do you Ming people take a bath every day?"

When Margaret heard this, she opened her mouth slightly and said.

"Yes, taking a bath often is the only way to keep your body clean, so that it is more hygienic and less likely to breed diseases."

"I'll send you a few bars of soap later, I think you'll love it."

"When the time comes, your body will be full of charming scents even if you don't wear perfume."

Zhao Monkey smiled and said that he was thinking that there was not much left of the things he had brought over, and if he sent it like this, it would soon be finished.

But there was no way, the Spanish ladies were too enthusiastic.

"Really?"

"Thank you so much."

When Margaret heard this, she couldn't help but stand on tiptoe and offer a kiss.

Zhao Monkey was busy making girls on this side, but Jiang Liang on the other side was surrounded by a group of Spanish nobles listening to Jiang Liang talk about Daming.

"God, you conquered the Mongols?"

When they heard that the Ming side had defeated the Mongols, some people exclaimed in disbelief.

Back then, the whip of God was so the bodies of the Europeans that they still can't forget, but now Jiang Liang actually told them that they had conquered Mongolia in the Ming Dynasty.

"Yes~ A few years ago, our Ming Dynasty defeated the grassland people, and now their grasslands are also under the rule of His Majesty the Ming Emperor."

"Our Ming Dynasty is extremely vast, from the northernmost Beihai to the southernmost Nanyang Province there are nearly 7,000 miles, if you are riding a horse, you may have to ride for more than a month to arrive."

"We have a very large population in Daming, and if we count the population that has been hidden, the population of our Daming may exceed 10,000 people."

Jiang Liang nodded solemnly, telling about the vastness and vastness of the Ming Dynasty.

"Oh God~"

"It takes more than a month to ride a horse to be able to reach the northernmost part from the south~"

"Population over 10,000~"

When the surrounding nobles heard this, they couldn't help but exclaim again.

It sounds like the whole of Europe is not as big as the Ming Dynasty, and the people in the whole of Europe are not as large as the population of the Ming Dynasty, what a huge empire this is, and everyone can't help but imagine it in their minds.

"I really want to go to your Daming to have a look and see the prosperity of your Daming~"

"What do you think of our Spanish cities?"

"Compared to your Daming city, who is bigger and more prosperous?"

Some nobles asked eagerly, for the curiosity of Daming, they couldn't wait to ask all aspects of Daming carefully and clearly.

"Your city is also very large and prosperous, I have been to many countries and regions, and your Spanish city is the largest and most prosperous city in addition to our Daming city."

Jiang Liang smiled and replied.

He is a navigator, he has been to the Japanese country, to Korea, and to the countries of the South Seas, and he still has some knowledge, I have to say that the Spanish city is still relatively large and prosperous.

"We have a lot of prosperous cities in Daming, such as Beijing, Tianjin, and Nanjing in our Daming, and in our Daming Tianjin, it is very large and prosperous."

"Because Tianjin is so big and developing too fast, it doesn't have walls."

"In our Ming Tianjin, there are many high-rise buildings, there are high-rise buildings everywhere, spacious cement roads connect the four directions, there are many factories in the factory area, and when it comes to commuting, the two-way four-lane cement road will be congested."

"Here in the bustling port of Tianjin, there are hundreds of ships moored in the port at any one time, and the population of the whole Tianjin is more than five million."

Jiang Liang's eloquence is not very good, and his Spanish is not very good, when describing the prosperity of Tianjin, he doesn't know what to describe from which aspects, he can only talk about some of the content in the Ming Morning Post that he has read.

"A city with a population of more than five million?"

"God, what a huge city!"

The people around couldn't help but exclaim again, in Europe in this era, cities are generally not large, the number of residents is generally a few thousand, and cities with a population of more than 20,000 are considered big cities.

Even the famous cities of London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, etc., have a population of two or three hundred thousand at most.

In the 14th century, Europe experienced the terrible outbreak of the Black Death, and the population plummeted, and almost a century later, until the current European population is slowly recovering.

Now I heard that the population of Tianjin exceeded five million, and these people present were also deeply shocked, such a huge population, even comparable to the population of a country in Europe, you must know that in Spain around 1500, the population of the whole country was about five million.

The population of a single city in Daming is about the same as the population of their entire country.

"It's terrible~"

"How can you have such a big city in the Ming Dynasty?"

"How do you have a large population?"

"The Mighty Kingdom of the East~"

The people around couldn't help but sigh, through Jiang Liang's description, they were generally able to make up for the vastness and strength of the Ming Dynasty in their minds.

With a huge land and population, and very strong, even the Mongols with the whip of God were conquered by them, how strong the Ming is, what a huge empire.

"Are you Ming as Marco Polo depicted, where everyone wears silk and everyone uses porcelain?"

"I heard that you Daming are very rich, you must have a lot of gold somewhere, right?"

After the sigh, the people around him began to ask curiously.

They are like curious babies, there are always endless questions, they are eager to know the bits and pieces of the Ming Dynasty, and know everything about this distant country.

"Not everyone in our Ming Dynasty can afford to wear silk, silk is very expensive, and only nobles and rich people can afford to wear silk in our Ming Dynasty."

"As for porcelain, there are so many pieces in every household, of course, this kind of thing is still very common in our Ming Dynasty, and really high-quality porcelain is also very expensive, and not everyone can afford it."

Jiang Liang took a sip of wine, grape wine glow-in-the-dark glass, this kind of wine made from grapes, the taste is still okay, and compared with Daming wine, it has its own merits.

Hearing Jiang Liang's words, everyone also nodded, silk and porcelain are really expensive, even these nobles present, not everyone has clothes made of silk, and not every family has porcelain plates and vases and other ornaments.