Zhang Bin is going to travel far again, but this time he is not going to Liaodong, not to Dongying, not to the northwest, not to return to Fuguang, but to cover thousands of miles and go to Europe.

Although this era is the Age of Discovery, however, navigation technology is far less developed than later generations, and there is no weather forecast and satellite cloud imagery, navigation is a very dangerous thing, encountering storms, and there are countless people who die in the belly of fish.

Another point is also terrifying, that is, disease, medical technology at this time is not very developed, once you contract the disease at sea or in a foreign country, there is basically no cure!

This is not alarmist, like the famous navigator Zheng He and Da in history. Gamma both contracted the disease in a foreign land and died, and they both died in the same place, the country of Guri.

There are also some inexplicable accidents that can kill people, such as the famous navigator Magellan who died in a conflict between indigenous tribes during the voyage!

In short, this era is far from being as safe as in later generations, and it is a very dangerous thing to go to sea and travel far away, especially when traveling thousands of miles away, if you are not careful, you may lose your life.

Zhang Bin even secretly wrote a will for this, handed it over to his brother-in-law Qi Yuangong for safekeeping, and summoned Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and other cronies, and carefully told him that if he unfortunately had an accident, what should Daming do, what should his family do, what should Dongshengtang do, etc., he made arrangements one by one.

In fact, he can not go into danger at all, and it is the same to send a cronie to the matter of the alliance with Portugal, Qi Yuangong, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, etc. are all strongly opposed to him personally taking risks, and they are all willing to go to Europe on his behalf.

However, this time, he did not listen to anyone's opinion and insisted on going to the continent in person.

As for the reasons, there are many.

For example, no one has his knowledge, because he has hundreds of years of history in his mind, and he has a certain understanding of the basic development trajectory of the various powers in the colonial era and the development trend of the whole world.

For example, everyone has no vision for him, why do they want to develop water power, why they want to colonize, why they want to form alliances or wars with the so-called barbarians, and so on, except for them, there are many things that people in this era do not understand why they want to do it.

In addition, it is difficult to explain the strategy against the great powers in his mind, and if he can't fully understand his strategy, how can he implement it?

This world is like this, the law of the jungle, if you are complacent and stagnant, you will be overtaken by others, and after being overtaken by others, people will come to attack you, like Spain and Portugal, how strong and powerful they were at the beginning of the Age of Discovery and the Colonial Age, and all the colonies in the whole world were divided by them, so what was the result?

They did not convert the benefits obtained by the colony into their own strength, and after nearly a hundred years of confusion, the overall strength is still stagnant, with such rich resources in hand, but there is no strength to protect them, it is strange that people don't fight their ideas.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty must step into the stage of colonial hegemony, through the interests of the colonies, continue to strengthen itself, and at the same time suppress the powers, do not let them surpass, once they are surpassed, the consequences are simply unimaginable, because the land and wealth of the Ming Dynasty are enough to make the powers salivate!

He can't explain these to anyone at all, so he must go to Europe in person to take a solid first step for the Ming Dynasty to truly step into the stage of colonial hegemony, no matter how many dangers, he must go out firmly.

Sometimes, people have to have the courage to move forward, if they think about it, they are afraid of this and that, and they don't want to succeed.

Of course, this courage is not to think about nothing, not to care about anything, to ignore everything, to rush forward with your head covered, and the preparations that should be done still have to be done.

After Zhang Bin arranged everything in the capital, he took Zheng Chenggong, the Portuguese envoy Svera and a group of relatives and thousands of personal guards to step on the Zhenyuan cruiser that came to meet him, and went straight to the avant-garde city in Dongfanzhong.

When Svera first stepped on the Zhenyuan cruiser, he was really frightened by this super giant ship, this kind of giant ship, Portugal does not have it at all, Spain does not have much, the Netherlands may have some, but the volume is definitely not so large, among the warships and battleships he has been on, the Zhenyuan cruiser is definitely the largest, and this time there are ten such giant ships that came to greet Wei Guogong, looking at the thousands of pounds of giant guns in the bow, he only felt a tingling of his scalp, this guy, one shot down, the main battleships of the Portuguese Navy are estimated to be sunk, The Ming Navy is really terrifying!

He didn't know that Zhang Bin was actually acting in a low-key manner, if it weren't for too many guards, he wouldn't have transferred so many Zhenyuan cruisers over, it seemed that he was pompous, this pomp and circumstance was taboo, if someone insisted on getting along with you, he could completely impeach you for violating the system or even bullying the king!

Zhang Juzheng has suffered such a loss, when he leaned towards the government and the opposition, people gave him a big sedan chair, which was a fully functional room, he liked it very much, so he sat back to his hometown, and as a result, he was impeached and died, just because the sedan chair was bigger than the dragon chariot that the emperor was sitting on!

This kind of villain has to be guarded against, and this kind of trivial matter must also be paid attention to, so Zhang Bin rarely puts on a show, but Shi Weila thinks that this Wei Guogong is putting on a show, just going back to Fuguang to send ten such super giant ships to meet him, what is he doing if he is not putting on a show?

He thought so, so when he arrived at Dongfan Dayuan Port, Shi Vera was simply stupid by the scene in front of him, Daming actually had hundreds of such giant ships!

He really couldn't believe his eyes, such a giant ship, hundreds, what kind of concept, when the Dutch East India Company dominated the Far East, there were only dozens of such giant ships, and the warship was not as big as the warship of the Ming Empire!

The strength of the Ming Empire is simply beyond his expectations, he really didn't expect that the navy of the Ming Empire has become so strong, of course, this also has something to do with Zhang Bin's good secrecy work, the Zhenyuan cruiser and Weiyuan battleship of the Fujian Navy Division are generally stationed in Dongfan, and will not appear on the southeast coast, except for the last time they hit Dongying, at other times, they try to avoid appearing in the sight of others, even if they want to go to Nanyang and other places, they will not take the channel of merchant ships.

Zhang Bin did this to surprise the great powers, and he held back five or six hundred super warships in one go, and asked if you were afraid!

At this time, he had decided to lead Daming into the ranks of the colonial hegemony, so naturally there was no need to hide it anymore, so Schvera was fortunate to be the first European to see the true strength of the Ming Navy.

Hundreds of super giant ships more than 20 zhang long were neatly arranged together, coupled with thousands of light ironclad ships, it was really spectacular, even Zhang Bin couldn't help but show a proud expression, and Schvila was even more stunned, like a sculpture.

Zhang Bin slowly glanced around at the huge group of warships, and then couldn't help but say proudly: "How about it, Your Excellency the Governor, can this battle bluff Spain and the anti-Habsburg allied powers?" ”

Just kidding, this battle is not just to bluff people, if so many warships are to drive over, any European power on the continent will be so frightened that they pee their pants, and I don't know if there are so many of them in the total of all the warships of the anti-Habsburg coalition powers!