After Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong arranged the things here, they still continued to sail south with Captain Carlos, but after the incident of changing the chief, Carlos treated the two of them differently. Carlos can now clearly determine that the two must have the official background of the Ming Dynasty, so it seems that it is much more than before. When passing by Mo Sanbi, he not only replenished enough fresh water and food, but also went ashore to trade a lot of commodities, and Niu Jinxing sent back more than a dozen warships full of native products and gold.

When sailing forward, Carlos told Yu Hualong that the place ahead was the territory of the English, and there were many Dutch and Germans, although they would not rob openly, but they would definitely not let us go ashore to replenish, and the other was that the current climate at the Cape of Good Hope was not suitable for sailing, so we needed to wait for some less time.

In this way, Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong spent the Spring Festival of the sixth year of the Apocalypse in the Portuguese colony of Mo Sanbi, in order to make everyone happy, Niu Jinxing decided to give everyone a double salary, anyway, there is money on the ship, why not let the soldiers be happy, and there is still a long way to go after the New Year, listen to Captain Carlos, now only a third of the walk, if the morale drops, the soldiers will not have the heart to fight. Yu Hualong also asked the soldiers to go ashore in batches to go around the city to see if there were any things they needed to buy for their families.

The long journey made the soldiers tired, after nearly three months of sailing, finally from Mo Sanbi to rush to distant Europe, along the way in addition to the necessary port of call to replenish, are in a hurry, and now finally arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, the fleet of 200 ships now has more than 150 ships, one is Niu Venus sent back to the country part, and then the long journey damaged more than a dozen, because the amount can not be repaired, had to be abandoned, although distressed, but also helpless.

Now that he has arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, Carlos naturally wants to give Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong convenience, after all, he saved him twice during the trip. Carlos helped Niu Jinxing register a fleet in Portugal, so that they could do some business conveniently at any time, and after the rest of the fleet arrived in Lisbon, they also registered companies with the help of Portuguese brokers hired by Niu Jinxing, and for a time there were seven or eight thousand more Chinese in Lisbon. Of course, for the current Lisbon, these seven or eight thousand people are not a big deal at all, this is one of the largest ports in the world in the seventeenth century, there are endless people of all shapes, Carlos also knows about this, but he doesn't care, anyway, these people are not here to colonize, just to do business, Lisbon, an international city, is not bad at all these thousands of people.

Carlos also introduced the bull Venus and Yu Hualong to King Philip IV of Portugal, and also introduced some complicated succession to the throne of European royal families, as well as the complex competition between countries. Niu Venus then knew that Portugal and Spain are now one country, but he has two kings, and there are many complicated relationships between kings, in a word, it is not clear about the relationship.

It doesn't matter if you can't figure out the relationship, the key is to figure out the relationship of interests between them, which is what Niu Venus is most concerned about. So Yu Hualong and his soldiers rented a place here to camp and quietly train soldiers. Niu Venus bought a lot of books here, whether it was astronomy and geography, mathematics and literature, in short, he bought any strange books, and then he thought of finding the Portuguese who came back from Macao to translate these things into Chinese, and then he studied those useful things, such as the relations between European countries, the kinship between kings, and planned to get the next step from them.

In order to further understand the situation in Europe, Niu Jinxing also hired many people in Portugal to go around other European countries with silk, tea, and porcelain brought by ship, and told the Portuguese that when they go to every city, they must go to the place where they buy books, and all books related to research, whether they are used or not, must buy some back. Because Niu Jinxing found a lot of things that he was interested in but didn't understand by reading these books, he wanted to bring some of these things back to China, so that the students of Daming Academy could understand what their European counterparts were studying now, and see if there was any knowledge that could be used for reference.

In fact, these things were not something that Niu Jinxing could come up with by himself, but Zhu Youxiao told him before he came and asked him to do this, but he didn't expect Niu Jinxing to do it so seriously. Zhu Youxiao considered that although he came from later generations, the modern knowledge he mastered must be much more advanced than the current European science and technology, but this modern knowledge has a fatal flaw, and many theories are out of touch with the current foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to form a systematic theory. Zhu Youxiao plans to learn from the basic theories of Europe, and quickly popularize the ways and methods of learning and research, so that these knowledge have a clear structure and facilitate the learning of ordinary students in the future, after all, not everyone wants to be a genius like Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing, and Bi Maokang. When there is a theoretical discontinuity in the knowledge system, although it can be ahead for a while, after a long time, there will be a slow regression, which is unacceptable to Zhu Youxiao.

The waiting time is long, Niu Venus and Yu Hualong are still patiently waiting for Carlos to go to sea again, because their purpose is the American continent, and their mission will not be completed if they don't reach the American continent, but they don't know when Carlos will have his next voyage, so Niu Venus is still studying the route to the Americas to see if he can follow others and even go on a solo trip to the Atlantic.

Time is a long time for Niu Jinxing and Yu Hualong, but Carlos feels that time flies too fast, he is now enjoying family fun with his wife, son and daughter, and the long time at sea makes Carlos cherish the time at home even more. He had so much to do to spend time with his family and keep an eye on the development of the family business, so he always felt that time was too short and he didn't even have enough time to rest.

The Carlos family is in crisis, something that Carlos didn't expect on the outside. On the one hand, the Kingdom of Spain was constantly at war with the believing maritime powers of England and the Netherlands, which increased a large amount of taxes and hollowed out the wealth of many Portuguese families. On the other hand, the English and Dutch navies continued to harass the coast of Lisbon, and as a result, a large amount of commercial trade was cut off and a large number of goods were looted. The hapless Carlos family was also robbed several times, which made their business operations difficult.

After all, Carlos has been floating on the sea for decades, and he has a very clear understanding of the strength of European countries, Portugal has few people, and it will definitely not be able to withstand the long-term suppression of England and the Dutch, and its decline is an inevitable result. Instead of waiting here for a slow death, it is better to go out and explore a new world, Carlos has this vision, it does not mean that the rest of the family also has this vision, he must convince the majority of the family to agree with him, after all, the relocation of the family is a very important matter.

Carlos described in detail what he had seen and heard abroad to his people, and he judged that Portugal would inevitably decline in the future, and that more and more Portuguese would go to South America, which would inevitably become more and more developed, and that it would develop more rapidly than others while it was still vast and sparsely populated. When Carlos finally did the mental work of the family, the migration of the entire family became an inevitable result.

Carlos's family relocation action is very huge, all the family property should be sold, can be taken away, a full twenty merchant ships are used, these merchant ships are his own family, a few unwilling to move must also leave them some property, this has caused some contradictions, for the later sea voyage left a lot of trouble, if it is not for Niu Jinxing, Yu Hualong help, there will even be a risk of bankruptcy, the whole family is in danger.

The reason for the incident happened to an illegitimate child, who thought that he did not get his fair share, and his mother was also a rat-bellied woman, coupled with the fact that he usually received countless white eyes, and his heart was full of resentment, and the contradiction broke out to the extreme when the family moved this time, and he leaked the information about the migration of the Carlos family to the pirates of England and Holland, and told them that these ships carried countless wealth, hoping that they would be able to rob this fleet, For this, the bastard child received a lot of money. In Lisbon, an international seafaring city, there are many people who are looking for information and selling information like this, so this information is quickly sold to those pirates, and Carlos at this time has no idea that he has been betrayed, and he is still busy and struggling for this migration.