Geert took his quill pen, looked at the four treasures of the Daming study room placed on the desk, sucked a little ink, and continued to write slowly.

The Ming Dynasty was very large, and it took several days to reach Tianjin in the north from Songhu in the south, and it is said that there was an equally large land area from Songhu to the south.

The Ming people are very proud and confident, they think that the Ming is the largest and most powerful empire in the whole world, and the whole of Europe is as big as them.

I didn't believe it at first, but I always felt that Europe was the center of civilization, and that the world outside Europe was a world of ignorance.

But when I came to Tianjin, I realized that we were wrong.

Tianjin is very large and very populous, and it is said that the population of Tianjin alone is more than the population of the whole of Spain, with a huge population of more than 6 million.

You might think that if such a large population is concentrated in one city, the city must be terrible, with disgusting stuff everywhere, pungent smells everywhere, etc.

But you are wrong.

Tianjin is very clean, there are many high-rise buildings, the streets are very spacious, and they use a building material called cement, which is a very magical thing.

Add a little water and sand and mix it together, and it will be as hard as a stone in a few days.

The Ming people use cement to build bridges and pave roads, build houses, their cement roads are very wide, can let more than ten four-wheeled carriages walk side by side at the same time, build straight cement roads to connect the Quartet, and the traffic is extremely convenient.

It is said that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty allocated tens of millions of taels of silver to build cement roads connecting the north and south and east and west in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.

My God!

When I heard the news, I was speechless in shock.

As I have already said before, the Ming Dynasty is vast, and you can compare it with the whole of Europe, can you imagine building a road from Constantinople to Lisbon?

The kind of road that allows many horse-drawn carriages to travel together at the same time.

It takes a lot of money, a lot of courage and, more importantly, very advanced construction technology.

It's beyond imagination.

The wealth of the Ming people can be seen from this alone, and their emperor was keen to build concrete roads, river embankments, reservoirs, bridges, and so on.

They shouted a slogan, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

Oh God, what a rallying slogan.

In fact, if you come to Daming to see it in person and feel the spaciousness, comfort and convenience of this cement road, you will deeply agree with it.

There are more than 100 kilometers of road from Tianjin to Wangdu in Daming, and if there is no cement road, it may take several days to arrive.

But with the concrete road, it only takes them a day to get there.

Tomorrow I plan to visit the cement factory in Daming to see if I can learn how to make cement, and I think that if I can learn how to make cement and build a cement factory here in Europe, I will definitely be able to get rich overnight.

Speaking of wealth, I have to mention what I saw today in the port of Tianjin.

God I swear, I have never seen so much gold and silver in my life.

The fleet that came back from the Americas, more than fifty large ships, each of which was loaded with gold and silver, and they piled it up on the dock like a hill.

I will never forget that enchanting light.

There is definitely a lot of gold and silver in the Americas, and I don't have any exaggerations.

It is said that the Ming conquered two large Indian kingdoms and made them avert for their sins by piling up gold and silver into pyramids.

In addition, from the Ming people, we know that the Ming people have established dozens of colonies on the west coast of the Americas, where they have found thousands of gold and silver mines, and they have tens of thousands of people mining here in the Americas.

If we don't step up the development of the Americas, I think it won't take a few years for the entire Americas to be occupied by the Ming people.

However, if you come to the Ming Dynasty, you will sadly find that even if we Spain is the whole of Europe combined, it may not be able to compete with the huge Ming Dynasty.

In the port of Tianjin alone, I saw thousands of ships, and their port was very large, and it was full of countless ships.

And this is just a port in Daming, like this port, there are many more in Daming, Songhu, Quanzhou, Ryukyu Port, Guangzhou.

I'm going to have a good trip here in Daming in the coming days.

In addition to this, the Ming Dynasty also has a strong military force.

It is said that the total number of the Ming army combined was more than half a million people, including a specialized naval force, and they also had a professional Royal Military Academy.

I have seen the artillery and muskets of the Ming people, they are very advanced, even more advanced than our Europeans, and I think it would be wiser for us Spain not to offend the Ming people.

The mighty Ming could send a fleet of hundreds of large ships to sweep away one side at any time, and when I was eating in the restaurant, I heard a lot of people discussing one thing.

The Ming have recently won a great victory in the southern seas of the Ming Dynasty, and they have conquered the disobedient countries on this side of the South Seas, and it is said that the amount of compensation alone is more than 50 million taels of silver, which is roughly equivalent to the financial revenue of our Spain for decades.

God, what a magical East, where gold is everywhere.

Even if it is not the Ming Dynasty, other countries in the East are also very rich, and the war reparations are often tens of millions of taels of silver.

At this point, Geert paused slightly, his eyes were red, and continued to write slowly.

If we Spain can conquer the countries in the East, it will not be a problem to get rich overnight.

It's so rich here.

Today, my friend Mr. Wang Dashan, who is an ocean-going captain and navigator, is very wealthy.

His house here in Tianjin is worth thousands of taels of silver, and he has a large plantation of his own in the southern sea islands of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course he was also a very generous, warm friend.

He invited me to eat at a restaurant called Wanghailou in Tianjin.

God, I swear that the food is the most delicious I have ever eaten in my life, and all the dishes I have eaten before are like the stinky rats on the ship.

Daming's food, this is definitely not to be missed, you must try it when you come to Daming.

Of course, the price is also quite expensive.

There were only three of us, me, my friend Mr. Wang Dashan and my deputy, Mr. Pablo, just the three of us, and we ate twelve taels of silver in one meal.

Twelve taels of silver, which is almost equivalent to ten silver coins in Spain, is enough for the expenses of our ordinary Spanish family for almost a year.

And that's just a meal for the three of us, and you should be able to pretty much know how expensive it is.

Speaking of which, I have to emphasize once again the wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

The consumption here in Tianjin is very high.

Because I am not an envoy sent by the King of Spain, I need to take care of all the expenses on the Ming side.

Here in Tianjin, even the inn where I live now, its price is still very expensive, and it costs almost three taels of silver for a day for twelve of us.

If we want to stay in the best inn here, a room will cost a hundred taels of silver.

God, the Ming people are so rich, so rich.

I think I might have to save some flowers in the future, otherwise the little silver and gold I brought with me might not last long.

In our Europe, porcelain, which is as expensive as gold, is just ordinary tableware used in daily life, and the clothes worn by people are very brightly colored.

The windows here are all made of glass, and the light is very good, and at night, when you overlook the city of Tianjin from a high place, you will be deeply shocked.

It is a city that never sleeps, and the night is very commanding, and everywhere is resplendent and dazzling.

They use a lot of all kinds of glass, the chandeliers made of glass are beautiful, and the oil lamps are lit, and the whole room is as bright as daytime.

There are a lot of mirrors here and they are very big.

Believe me, don't bring your wife to Tianjin, she'll definitely spend the last riel in your pocket here.

The clothes in the shop here are so beautiful.

There are also Ming people are very bathing, they like to use a thing called soap when they take a bath, this kind of thing is indeed very good, after taking a bath with it, I feel that the whole body is extremely refreshing, and there is a faint fragrance.

When I want to go back to Europe, I must bring some of this soap with me, and it will be very popular.

But there's one thing I'm very confused about.

In our Europe, we have always said that bathing will make people sick, so we don't take a bath in the whole of Europe, but here in Daming, Daming people are very bathing.

They believe that if people don't take a bath, their body will be very dirty, which will breed all kinds of diseases, and bathing can clean up their body and make themselves healthier.

At the same time, the Ming people also liked to shave off their hair and beards, they were their navigators, and they all had short hair and shaved beards.

They think that this is not only easier to live and work, but also healthier, and that their hair and beard are too long, which is easy to breed all kinds of diseases.

I'm really conflicted, and I don't know who's right, but in my experience with Ming and sailing, it's a good idea to shave my hair and beard.