Penglai City, where Cortez lives in the room.

Cortés took out a thick nautical diary and a quill pen and began to record what he saw today.

"God, it's unbelievable, here in the Americas, I actually met the Ming people, and they named this newly built city Penglai City, which means the city of fairyland, and also means the city of the far east."

"These Ming men have powerful artillery and excellent muskets, they are well trained, they are numerous, and they are very difficult to mess with, and the St. Mary's just approaches, and they open fire."

"Luckily, they just warned me and didn't really mean to go to war with me."

"They built a fort here in Penglai City, and set up a lot of artillery, I wanted to visit it, but unfortunately it was ruthlessly refused."

"The Ming proclaimed that America was their territory, and they thought that we had violated their land, and even threatened to send a powerful fleet to attack Spain."

"God, as soon as I thought of this, I quickly showed him the goodwill of our Spain, our Kingdom of Spain has no intention of being an enemy of the mighty Ming, we just want to do business with them, we want their silk, porcelain, and that magical leaf."

"Speaking of miraculous leaves, I can assure God that the tea I drank today still has a lingering aftertaste, and it makes people talk with a smell of tea."

"Their tea leaves are amazing, and I'm going to buy a lot, a lot of tea, silk and porcelain to take home, and all sorts of amazing glass products, especially this beautiful glass lamp, it's so beautiful."

"It's hard to imagine that these Ming people were able to make colorless glass, and that incredible mirror, which is extremely magical, and it all shines clearly."

"Oh God~"

"I can already imagine that if such a mirror were to go to Europe, the ladies would be crazy about it, willing to empty all the silver coins in their pockets."

"Yes, you have to bring some mirrors with you, too."

"The Ming people are just like Marco Polo wrote, they are very rich, they wear gorgeous clothes, their food is very good, the food they serve me is very delicious, it is said that here in the Ming Dynasty, there are hundreds of delicacies made of wheat flour alone."

"God knows how they did it, we've always had bread anyway."

"Forgive me for writing messily, because what I saw and heard today was really shocking."

"The Ming people said that the Indians here in the Americas are their branch, and the whole of America is their Ming people, although I am skeptical about it, but I have to say that they look too similar to the Indians, if these Indians wear the clothes of the Ming people, I can't see any difference."

"The people of the Aztec kingdom are very respectful to the Ming people, and they seem to be helping the Ming people build cities, and in this regard, these Indians may really be a branch of the Ming people."

"But we in Spain certainly can't give up the Americas, where there is an infinite amount of gold and silver, and vast, fertile land."

"I guess these Ming people may not take this place very seriously, and this is our chance."

"But it is said that on the west coast of the Americas, the Ming people have established a lot of cities, and at the same time, many, many people have immigrated and began to strengthen the development and use of the Americas."

"So we Spaniards must also speed up our pace and strive to have a strong force on the east coast, otherwise we will definitely not be able to compete with the Ming people."

"I haven't seen the ships of the Ming people yet, but judging from the docks they built, their ships should be large, at least no worse than us."

"Today, I tried to learn something from the Ming people, and wanted to figure out how far this America is from the Ming Dynasty."

"But in the end, it all failed."

"The person in charge here is called Tian Erniu, he is very vigilant and careful with me, and he is unwilling to reveal many things to me, and now I don't understand the language of Daming, so it is difficult to really understand their strength and situation."

"Of course, I didn't reveal much to him about our Spain and Europe, and I have a hunch that these Ming people are very likely to become the strongest opponents of us Europeans at sea."

"But now, it's a good thing to be able to meet the Ming people."

"I've negotiated a price with them, and I'll be able to buy silk, porcelain, and spices from them at a very low price, and I'll be able to get rich overnight if they get back to Europe."

"As for the rest, let the king have a headache."

At this point, Karl slowly closed his nautical diary.

Then in his room, looking closely, everything was so new, he had a kind of conflict, he wanted everything here to move back to Europe.

On the other hand, Tian Erniu is also writing his own navigation diary.

"Today in Penglai City, on the east coast of the Golden Continent, I met Europeans, they came from Spain, the ships were relatively large, with artillery and muskets, and they all did not look like regular troops, but like a group of ruffians."

"The man at the head is called Colster, and it is said that he is a Spanish nobleman, and the smell of his body is extremely unpleasant, as if he has not bathed for many days."

"I know a lot from him, they are currently on an island called Hispaniola, they have established a colony on it, and there are already a lot of people."

"These Spaniards are very ambitious, and as soon as they came, they began to constantly inquire about the situation of our Daming and the situation of the Golden Continent."

"I solemnly tell them that this Golden Continent belongs to our Ming Dynasty, and the descendants of Yin Shang here are our branches of the Ming people, warn them and let them know a little more about it."

"But obviously, this kind of verbal warning has no effect, and the other party may not believe me."

"From Kolster, I learned that it only takes about two months to get to Europe from the east coast of the Golden Continent."

"The world we live in is really a big ball, Europe is in the west, but you can get to Europe all the way east, which is enough to show that."

"They liked our silk and porcelain, but this time we brought very little, and this Cortez was willing to buy a batch from me at a very high price."

"Maybe in the future, the development of Penglai City may have to rely on this to drive, and it will develop rapidly by doing business with the Spaniards."

"But this financial route must still be in the hands of our Tianjin Ocean Trade Company."

"The Golden Continent is too big, and we still have too few people here in the Golden Continent."

"Now that the Aztecs have been successfully conquered, I have them atone for their sins with gold and silver, and they believe in the sun god and the alfalcoatl, and I have taken advantage of that."

"It is estimated that this time, we will be able to obtain at least more than 50 million taels of gold and silver, and every year in the future, these Aztecs will have to atone for their sins with a large amount of gold and silver, and they are working hard to mine gold and silver."

"After the next thing on the Penglai City side is completed, I am ready to continue to conquer the Inca Empire."

"After the conquest of the Inca Empire, I opened up the north and south of the Golden Continent, and I could establish a large number of colonies here on the west coast of the Golden Continent, radiating the entire West Coast."

"Well, recently I plan to send more than a dozen ships back to Daming to report back to the situation here in the Golden Continent, and by the way, to transport the gold and silver we have obtained now back to Daming."

"The emergence of the Spaniards means that we must speed up our operations on the east coast of the Golden Continent, and we must lay out the layout on the East China Sea as soon as possible, so that we can quickly monopolize the entire Golden Continent."

Tian Erniu slowly closed his navigation diary, then thought about it and took out a pen and paper and began to write a letter, a letter to Liu Jin, explaining the situation of the Golden Continent to Liu Jin in detail.

Now the Golden Continent, it is no longer just the Golden Continent, it is very likely to become a transit point between the Ming Dynasty and Europe, once the news here spreads.

Tian Erniu could imagine that there would inevitably be a steady stream of European merchants flocking to the Golden Continent, and silk, porcelain, spices, and other things had a fatal attraction to Europeans.

With the arrival of a large number of European merchants, if the strength of the Ming Dynasty on the side of the Golden Continent is insufficient, these Europeans will inevitably snatch the Golden Continent, which has a huge impact on Liu Jin's plan to monopolize the Golden Continent.

And if the news spreads on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the major trading houses of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably flock to it, everyone knows that silk and porcelain are equivalent to gold in Europe, and they only need to transport these things to the Golden Continent here, and then sell them to European merchants, not to mention the equivalent price of gold, it is enough to easily make a lot of money.

If the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company wants to get the lion's share and get enough benefits in the future, it must sit down and be prepared, on the one hand, it must send more powerful forces to the Golden Continent to deter these Europeans who are like robbers.

Another aspect is to mobilize enough goods to the Golden Continent in order to satisfy the appetite of these European merchants and obtain the maximum profit.

Tian Erniu was clearly aware of this, so he was going to send some ships back to Daming on a regular basis to transport gold and silver back, and at the same time to report everything that happened here in the Golden Continent.

The first collision between the two great civilizations of the East and the West did not spark each other, but they had already found each other's existence.