Zhu Cijiong naturally knew about Gasstone's sneaking away, now that it is okay, the European peace talks are completely impossible, plus the cultural invasion and economic invasion have also been solved, even if the goal of his European trip is completely completed, the next thing is to really visit relatives.

On the third day of Gasstone's departure, Zhu Cijiong officially left Philip IV and embarked on a journey to visit relatives in the Holy Roman Empire, followed by another ten boring days before they arrived at the port of Valencia, where he did not immediately set off, because there was still a large piece of land to receive.

Regarding the construction of Daming Trade City, Zhu Cijiong has discussed several times with Xu Erdou, Sun Zhishu and others on the road, and he has put a lot of effort into the first business base established by Daming in Europe, and he has put forward a lot of ideas in combination with the business model of later generations.

If you want to do a good business, this traffic is naturally the primary condition, only when there are more people coming and going, the business will be hot, Daming Trade City is originally next to the port, the traffic is okay, but Zhu Cijiong feels that this is far from enough, he has thought of a lot of ways to create and convenient transportation.

First of all, he decided to set the starting point of the Valencia to Madrid railway behind the Daming Trade City, anyway, the railway is built by the Ming Dynasty, of course, this condition should be used well, in this way, the Ming Trade City is in the middle of the port and the railway station, to take the train to Madrid must pass through the Daming Trade City, to go to the port to take a boat to the sea also have to pass through the Ming Trade City, so that the flow of people is difficult to think less.

Then, he also decided to build a small ring road to connect the port, the old city of Valencia, the Daming trade city and the railway station, and all with viaducts, anyway, there are no super-tall vehicles in this era, and it is enough to erect three or four meters high, with the current technology of Daming, it is not a problem at all. This will not affect the land transportation, but also create a novel attraction, and the people who will come to see it will not know how many.

This loop is only planned for forty or fifty miles, but Zhu Cijiong decided to equip it with ten trains, so that each station will have a train pass through almost every five minutes, and it is very convenient to transport people and goods.

In the end, he also decided to help Spain renovate the port of Valencia, and the docks were all equipped with steam-powered hoists, and the kind that could be lifted directly onto trains, so that the cargo throughput of the port of Valencia could be increased by more than ten times.

In the internal structure of the trade city, he decided to introduce the model of the pedestrian street, of course, now the civilian travel is basically walking, this pedestrian street mainly does not refer to whether to sit in a car, but refers to the setting of shops, he asked Xu Er Dou He Sun Zhishu and others to divide all the commodities of the royal business into categories, and all the shops are opened into the nature of the specialty store, each shop only sells one kind of goods, not like that kind of grocery store to sell everything, so that people have to look for a long time, in addition to all the shops including the road to build a fashionable and beautiful, Add some special food and drink and build some leisure and entertainment venues, so that people feel that shopping is the same as traveling.

After the general layout and planning of the trade city was decided, Zhu Cijiong left 10,000 brocade guards here to assist Xu Erdou and Sun Zhishu and others in building the trade city, and then set foot on the Daming and rushed to the Holy Roman Empire.

Zhu Cijiong originally thought that there was nothing to do along the way, such a huge fleet, so many super battleships, even if it was in Europe, who dared to provoke him, unless the powers were well fed, it was impossible to gather a huge fleet to provoke him.

However, no sooner had the fleet left the Mediterranean, and the fleet escorted by Spain had just returned than his combined fleet was stopped!

Zhu Cijiong was so strange, he hurriedly picked up the binoculars and ran to the bow of the Daming, and looked at it nervously.

This look, he didn't put his nose crooked, and there were more than a dozen ships in front of him, and the first one was still a fortune ship battleship, it turned out to be Schvila's cargo, you said that you want to return to the team, just follow up, block in front of the fleet, look for death, in case Zheng Zhihu and Huanglong's tendons are wrong, don't stop the boat, just run over, you won't burp!

At this time, the sailor who was watching from the mast suddenly climbed down and knelt down in front of him to report: "Your Majesty, the striker has raised the flag, and an important person has come to visit." ”

Important people? In Zhu Cijiong's eyes, only kings and emperors can be regarded as important figures, the problem is that he knows the king of Spain in Europe, is it possible that the Holy Roman Emperor personally came here to greet him, it is impossible, even if people really come, at least it is a large fleet of hundreds of ships, how can there be only more than ten ships.

Zhu Cijiong thought about it, and simply asked people to lift the dragon chair and place it in the middle of the deck, and then spread the red carpet in front of the dragon chair, and then lined up more than 100 palace maids, 100 eunuchs and 100 brocade guards on both sides of the carpet, and then sat directly on the dragon chair and waited for this important person to "visit".

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the Fufu battleship borrowed by Svera finally passed through the heavy guards and approached the Daming, and after a while, Svera led a tall man who was nearly forty years old to the front of the red carpet, and the tall man should be a nobleman of relatively high status.

This time, Schvera didn't run up to meet him, but followed the tall man in a regular manner, and slowly came to the front of the dragon chair.

The tall man's expression was not very nervous, but he seemed to be a little excited, he came to Zhu Cijiong, put his right hand on his chest and bowed his head slightly, and then said a word in Portuguese, Zhu Cijiong naturally couldn't understand, he sat on the dragon chair and looked at Shi Weila curiously, waiting for his explanation.

Shvera also gave a chest salute, and then explained: "This is the crown prince jointly elected by our Portuguese nobles, a descendant of João I of the Aves dynasty of Portugal, His Royal Highness the Duke of Bragança. “

Dizzy, that is to say, this is the future king of Portugal, Zhu Cijiong still attaches great importance to Portugal, an ally, he quickly stood up from the dragon chair, made the same chest salute, and greeted in Spanish: "His Royal Highness the Duke of Bragança, hello, it is rude, because I don't know your identity, so I didn't arrange a grand reception, please forgive me." “

Duke Bragança saluted again with emotion: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, hello, I took the liberty of coming in a hurry without notifying you in advance, please forgive me." “

Duke Bragança used Spanish this time, Zhu Cijiong understood, he looked around, this broad daylight, it didn't seem to be very suitable, the current status of the crown prince could not see the light, he simply led Duke Bragança and Shi Weila into the study on the second floor, closed the door, and discussed secretly.