This was the second day of my arrival in Tianjin.

In the morning, I woke up in a comfy bed.

This kind of bed is different from our European bed, I specifically opened a study first, this kind of bed, the Ming people called it a spring bed, there are a lot of springs made of steel under the bed.

People who are on it, very soft, very comfortable.

I have to sigh again at the wisdom of the Ming people, this bed is really comfortable.

After waking up, I went to the bathroom to wash up.

The cities here in Daming have a kind of tap water, turn on the faucet, the water will flow out by itself, and the reason why their city is very clean is all because of this tap water.

They built a huge underground drainage and sewage system in the city, through which all the dirt in life was discharged underground, and then disposed of in a unified manner.

It's very clean, and it's also very convenient and comfortable.

They use a toothbrush and toothpaste for brushing their teeth in the morning, the toothbrush is made of pig hair, and the toothpaste is a white paste, which I try to use.

It's very easy to use, it's also very comfortable, the teeth have turned white, and the bad breath seems to have disappeared.

In Daming, I have some inferiority complex, as if I am a barbarian who came to a civilized country, and I don't know a lot of things, I don't understand, so I have to ask the shopkeeper in the store.

Breakfast we ate here in the lobby of the inn.

Daming's breakfast is very varied, noodles, rice noodles, steamed buns, dumplings, wontons, cakes...... My favorite thing is their noodles, and I ate five bowls of them.

While eating breakfast, I noticed an interesting phenomenon.

The Ming people like to read the newspaper while drinking morning tea.

The newspaper was a very magical thing, and because I knew very few words, I couldn't read it, so I asked the innkeeper.

He told me that the newspaper is an important tool for everyone to understand the world's major events, and almost everyone here in the Ming Dynasty likes to read the newspaper.

Hearing this, I made up my mind to learn the words of the Ming Dynasty so that I could understand the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty and know the major events that happened on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

I was very curious about what was in the newspaper, so I asked the innkeeper to tell me something about what was written in the newspaper.

The owner was very nice and very happy to accept my request.

He said that today's newspaper mainly reported on the Ming Dynasty's encouragement to immigrate to the three provinces of Xianglin, Jiaozhi and Zhenghe.

In order to encourage the Ming people to immigrate to the new province of Nanyang, every Ming person who immigrated to Nanyang could get 30 acres of land and tax exemption for five years, and at the same time, the Ming court would bear the cost of accommodation in the immigration process.

The Ming Dynasty recently launched a war on the Nanyang side, annexed many places one after another, and incorporated these places into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so in order to develop these places, the Ming court was encouraging immigration.

I asked my boss in detail about the situation in Nanyang.

Nanyang is located in the south of the Ming Dynasty, where there were originally many countries, but these countries offended the Ming Dynasty because they joined forces, so the Ming side will raise a crusade.

The Ming Dynasty was extremely powerful, and it is said that it sent 100,000 troops and used hundreds of warships to easily sweep the Nanyang countries, destroying several countries and incorporating these places into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, it is said that from this side of the South Seas, it is possible to reach India, Persia and the Middle East all the way west.

God, you know how excited I was when I heard the news.

I can already draw a rough picture of the world map of the planet we live in.

From our Europe to the east, that is the Middle East, and then you can reach Persia, the east of Persia is India, and the east of India is almost to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty went east, crossed the vast Pacific Ocean to reach the Americas, and the Americas went east, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and returned to Spain again.

I had the idea that when I returned to Spain, I was going to return to Spain by the routes of the South Seas, India, the Middle East, and Africa, but I was afraid that I would have to take a Portuguese ship to return.

The Portuguese had already arrived in the Indian Ocean a few years earlier, arriving in India, presumably they had already met the Ming people.

After breakfast and leaving the inn, Pablo and I began to walk around Tianjin very leisurely.

The first place we went to was the shopping street.

There are many large and small shops here, and there are many kinds of goods, which is dazzling.

Here, in addition to goods from all over the Ming Dynasty, there are also goods from Korea, the Wa Kingdom, the South Seas, the West, the Western Regions, the Middle East, and Persia.

There is a wide variety of goods, and most of them are not cheap, especially those from the West, the Middle East, and Persia, which are extremely expensive.

But business is very hot.

The Ming people are very fond of pearls, jade, jade, coral, ivory, gemstones, agarwood, etc., and are willing to spend a lot of money to buy them.

The silk and porcelain I am most interested in are very cheap here in the Ming Dynasty.

In our Europe, silk and porcelain, which are equivalent to gold, can be bought here for only a few taels of silver, and as for porcelain, if it is only porcelain for daily life, the price is very cheap.

They even made a kind of porcelain, which was used to spread on the floor and stick to the wall, which was very clean and beautiful.

The cloth of the Ming Dynasty is very cheap, they use cotton and wool to weave cloth, there are special factories to weave cloth, the output is said to be very high, so the price is very low.

A single Ming silver dollar can buy several pieces of cloth, and if the amount is large, the price can be lower.

I took a closer look at their fabrics, and they were of very good quality, much better than our European fabrics, and they all had beautiful colors and patterns.

Therefore, I think that in the future, the Ming Dynasty can sell the cloth of the Ming Dynasty to Europe, and such cloth can be sold for two or three riel in Europe.

There are a lot of kinds of food here in Daming.

Their staple food is rice and flour, but in addition to millet, sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes brought back from the Americas, the price is also very cheap.

Daming has a vast land and a huge population, shipping is extremely developed, and goods from all over Daming converge to Tianjin, so that people here have endless food.

The Ming people like to eat vegetables and sea fish, the consumption of sea fish is extremely huge, every day there are a large number of fishing boats here in Tianjin port, providing them with a variety of fresh sea fish.

The price of sea fish is also extremely cheap, as long as a few copper coins a catty, copper coins are the smallest currency they use, a copper coin minted with copper, a thousand copper coins are almost equivalent to a Ming silver coin.

In addition, the Ming people also conquered the steppe people in the north, that is, the Mongols who fought in our Europe back then, because they have a vast grassland.

Therefore, there is a steady stream of mutton and beef delivered in, and the price of mutton and beef has become very cheap, as long as the price of a dozen copper coins can buy a catty.

There are many kinds of spices here in Daming, all kinds of spices, and the prices are extremely cheap, so cheap that you can't believe it.

A single silver coin can buy a lot of spices, and if these spices are shipped back to Europe, their price can be at least a hundred times higher.

I swear that after I return to Europe, I will definitely form a fleet to do business with Daming, and I will definitely be able to make a lot of money casually.

After shopping in the commercial street, I went to the industrial zone of Tianjin.

The founder of Tianjin City, a great nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, named Liu Jin, is said to be very, very young, and it is said that the entire land of Tianjin belongs to him.

God, I really can't imagine how rich he is, to be able to have such a big city as Tianjin, I'm afraid that even the king of France didn't make him rich.

He divided the whole of Tianjin into many districts, such as living areas, industrial areas, commercial areas, port areas, and so on.

The area of the industrial zone is very large, and it is divided into areas by wide cement roads that extend in all directions, and each area has a large number of factories and workshops.

Thousands of workers are busy in both the factories and workshops, and it is said that the largest factories here employ more than 100,000 people at the same time, and the rice and fish consumed every day are loaded in wagons and wagons.

The concrete roads here are full of horse-drawn carriages, and the cars are very busy.

Originally, I wanted to visit the factory, but the factory management here is very strict, and I didn't get permission, so I could only look outside.

Here in Tianjin, there are cement factories, textile factories, shipyards, car factories, glass factories, dyeing factories, coal factories, furniture factories and so on, all kinds of factories and workshops.

The goods produced here not only meet the huge demand of the Ming Dynasty, but also sell them overseas through the large and small trading houses here.

Speaking of which, I went to a very important place here in Tianjin, Ten Mile Foreign Travel!

Shili Foreign Bank is the most important street in Tianjin, the street is very long, both sides are high-rise buildings, each high-rise building is an overseas trading firm.

I don't know how many large and small trading houses there are, these trading houses not only built factories and workshops on the side of Daming, but also had fleets to trade all over Daming and overseas.

They also set up huge plantations on this side of the South Seas, growing sugar cane, which was then boiled into sugar.

My God~

Speaking of sugar, I have to admire again.

Sugar is a very expensive thing in our Europe, and only the real aristocracy and rich people can enjoy it.

But on the side of Daming, its price is very cheap, a Daming silver dollar can be sold for a few catties of sugar, and they even have to add sugar to it when drinking tea, which is extremely luxurious.

Sugar is made by the Ming people planting sugarcane in Nanyang, and in order to meet the demand for sugar in the Ming people, the Ming people have established countless plantations in Nanyang.

I even suspect that the Ming people did not start the war on the Nanyang side because the Nanyang people offended the Ming people, but because the Ming people used it to obtain their land for sugar cane.

Sugar is a very important thing, and it can be sold to Europe in the future, and it will definitely make a lot of money.

There are a lot of trading houses here in Shili Foreign Bank, and they are all doing big business and big business, and they all use silver tickets.

The silver ticket is the currency issued by the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which is just a piece of paper, but it can be used like a silver coin, which is very convenient and exquisite.

Since I am a European Spaniard, we were very warmly received by the owner of the comptoir.

I talked to them all morning, invited me to tea, and invited me to lunch.

I had a great time chatting with them, they wanted to know about Europe from me, and they were very eager to do business in Europe.

I told them that I was a big Spanish aristocrat, that I had a huge business in Spain, and that if they wanted to, they could contact me when they came to Europe, and I would be able to help them.

Therefore, I have made some good friends in Daming, and maybe when I come to Daming to do business in the future, things will become much simpler.

The owners of these trading houses, they are very addictive, many people own a lot of merchant ships, they have a lot of industries in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, they have their own factories, workshops, and their own plantations.

Even the Ming Dynasty recently passed a bill that allowed the Ming firms to have a certain amount of private armed forces overseas.

God, I can foresee that in the future, the great ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty will walk on every ocean in the world, and no one will be their opponent, but can only submit to their great power.

At noon, I had a pleasant dinner with the Ming merchants, and in the afternoon, they warmly invited me to watch a football match.

I swear anyone who comes to a football game will immediately fall in love with the damn sport.

Soccer is a sport in which 11 players on each side are chasing a soccer ball, and whoever scores more goals wins.

I dare to say that the football stadium in Tianjin is even bigger than the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and the people of Daming, who live a rich life, basically watch football games in the afternoon.

A football stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and it is said that every football game is full.

Daming people love football very much, of course, if you come to watch a game in person, you will be like me, immediately fall in love with this magical sport.

Every time a goal was scored, the whole stadium cheered and turned into a sea of celebration, and of course, the hot dancing at the beginning and the white money after the win.

Thank God, I won hundreds of taels of silver on this side of the football field today.