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June in the capital is already a little hot, morning and evening are fine, cool breeze, very comfortable, but once the sun rises, the temperature rises sharply, and the roast people are hot. Zhu Cijiong is also fiery now, of course, this fiery is not his body, but his heart.

Portugal finally sent an envoy to negotiate trade issues, and the person who came was the new governor of Macau, Shi Vera, don't look at Macau is a little bigger, and it is also leased from the Ming Dynasty, he is a real ministerial-level senior official, equivalent to the six books of the Ming Dynasty.

Being able to send a governor over proves that the Portuguese already value the Ming Dynasty quite a lot, of course, the European powers are a group of hungry wolves who eat people and don't spit out bones, and it is not necessarily a good thing for them to value you, but this Portugal is different, at least not now, because now that their homeland has been annexed by Spain and is trying to restore the country, it is natural that they will not easily provoke a powerful country like the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Zhu Cijiong chose to cooperate with Portugal is also for this reason, the other European powers are now invincible, who will pee on you. The icing on the cake is not as good as charcoal in the snow, like Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are going crazy right now, even if you put a hot face on it, they will only give you a cold ass. Portugal is different, now is when they need friends, and there are certainly many benefits to working with them now.

He really guessed correctly, during this period of restoration, the historical Portugal frantically sought foreign support to fight against Spain and recover the lost territory overseas. They constantly appealed to England, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Rome for help, and even expressed Portugal's willingness to join the Bourbon bloc led by France to fight against the Habsburg bloc led by Spain. But these countries are all white-eyed wolves, receiving the benefits of Portugal but not giving substantial help, as a result, Portugal is declining day by day, gradually reduced to a second-rate country, it can be said that the once glorious empire of the sun never sets was buried by the Portuguese themselves.

Schwila came to Daming this time to see the strength of Daming, one of the most powerful people in Portugal before he came, Indian Governor Conde personally explained to him: trade is secondary, you go this time mainly to see how the strength of Daming is, if the strength of Daming is not good, try to reduce the price, try to make more money; If the strength of the Ming Dynasty can still be right, give them some profits appropriately, and make a friend; If Daming is strong, then he will try his best to win them over, and let them earn twice as much money!

And Zhu Cijiong just wanted them to see the strength of Daming, if Portugal could fool him to ask Daming for help, then he would make a fortune.

As a result, Shi Weila was shocked, and Zhu Cijiong pulled all the people in the Beijing camp to the inner city and the imperial city, from the Zhengyang Gate of the inner city to the noon gate of the Forbidden City, more than ten miles before and after, and the two sides were lined up with the elite of the Beijing camp equipped with new flintlock guns; That's not all, Zhu Cijiong also transferred most of the Jinyi guards in Beijing, and filled the city walls on both sides of Zhengyang Gate, Chengtian Gate, and Wumen Gate; From the noon gate to the Huangji Gate, there are even more Jinyi Wei generals in fresh clothes and angry armor, and the Huangji Gate to the Huangji Hall is full of martial eunuchs.

Shi Vera was arranged to enter the inner city from Zhengyang Gate, and at first he was still quite arrogant, with his head raised and his chest straight, and his nostrils were almost tilted to the sky, and he didn't pay attention to the officials of the Ministry of Rites who came to greet him.

When he saw the dense brocade guards on the inner city wall, his head was slightly flattened, and his eyes finally returned from the sky to the ground.

When he saw the elite of the Beijing camp lined up on both sides of the road between the inner city and the imperial city, the arrogance on his face disappeared, this road can be more than ten miles, how many troops must be there!

When he saw the dense brocade guards on the walls of the imperial city, he was a little shocked, why are there still two layers of the city walls, and the city walls are still full of soldiers!

When he entered the imperial city, he was completely shocked, there were still dense troops on both sides of the road, how many troops did the Ming Dynasty have!

When he saw the walls of the Forbidden City, he was already numb, how could there still be walls, or dense troops!

When he entered the Huangji Gate, he completely lowered his arrogant head, because the two sides were densely packed not with troops, but with armed eunuchs, how many people had to be castrated, should you be so extravagant!

He didn't suspect that these troops were pretending, as a governor, he also had troops under him, whether they were real soldiers or not, he could tell at a glance, along the way, these soldiers looked like elite divisions that had been trained for a long time, and civilians could not pretend to be.

Along the way, I saw at least more than 100,000 troops, which was more than all the armies of Portugal in its heyday combined; There are also those flintlock pistols, Schvera once inquired, the range of this flintlock pistol newly made by the Ming Dynasty has reached a terrifying five hundred meters, which is more powerful than their Portuguese-made flintlock pistol, and the naval army under Zheng Zhilong also has more than 100,000, the Ming Empire, strong enough!

He had already thought that this negotiation should at least give some profit to the Ming Empire, because the Ming Empire was already stronger than their Portugal. As for whether to desperately win them over, it remains to be investigated, the army of the Ming Dynasty is stronger than their Portugal, but in front of the Spaniards, this army is not enough.

After adjusting his mentality, Shi Weila was naturally extremely respectful in front of Zhu Cijiong, and he rarely knelt down on one knee and said loudly in broken Chinese: "See His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, on behalf of the Portuguese Empire, I have come to negotiate with your country on the issue of trade agency." ”

The ministers on both sides couldn't help frowning when they saw him kneeling on one knee and saluting upright, the envoys of this state were too rude, I don't know if the emperor wants to kneel on both knees and kowtow?

Zhu Cijiong was more satisfied, it was rumored that the knees of foreigners could not bend down in the Qing Dynasty, because they never thought that Emperor Xianfeng and Empress Dowager Cixi had curts, at most they would bow their hands. Zhu Cijiong really wants Cixi to come and see it now, who said that they can't bend their knees, aren't they bent down now?

Of course, Zhu Cijiong didn't just want them to bend their knees, but also wanted to fight the five bodies of the great powers, and now it was just the beginning, it was not bad to be able to make them bend their knees, he pretended to be naïve and said: "Mmmm, excuse me, have you seen my Praetorian Guard, is it okay?" ”

Praetorian Guard? Was he referring to the thousands of soldiers in armor in the Imperial City? Shi Vera slowly stood up and gave a lame compliment: "It's okay, it's okay, the Praetorian Guards inside are very good, and the army outside is also okay." ”

Zhu Cijiong thought about it for a long time before he understood what he meant, and after doing it for a long time, he thought that only the Jinyi Guard General in the imperial city was the Praetorian Guard, so how could he do it, pretending to be misunderstood, this was the most unbearable, he quickly corrected: "The inside and outside are all my Praetorian Guards, and what you see today is everything." ”

Schwila rolled his eyes when he heard this, if it was the emperor of the enemy country, he really wanted to mock: "You can die if you don't brag?" ”

It's all Praetorian Guards, what's the joke? More than 100,000 Praetorian Guards, who are you fooling?

However, this is not the emperor of the enemy country, and his broken Chinese does not know how to express his dissatisfaction after being deceived, so he is silent.

After being silent for a while, he secretly aimed at Zeng Dezhao, a member of the Tuntian Qing Officials of the Ministry of Industry among the Ming officials, wanting him to come out to ease the embarrassing atmosphere.

It stands to reason that such a low-level official as Zeng Dezhao cannot enter the Imperial Palace, but this time the emperor wants to meet his fellow countrymen, and he can Chinese well, in case he needs to translate, he can also temporarily fill the number, so he was allowed to come in.

Zeng Dezhao saw Shi Vera peeking at him, and thought that Shi Vera was asking him if what the emperor said was true, of course it was true, Jingying and Jinyi Wei were not all Praetorian Guards. So, he nodded slightly and said a silent "yes" in Portuguese.

Nodding your head, or saying yes? Schvila didn't react for a while, but when he reacted, his eyes were about to pop out, they were really all Praetorian Guards, more than 100,000 Praetorian Guards!

He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "His Majesty the Emperor has so many Praetorian Guards! ”

Pretending to be forced is naturally to pretend to be to the end, Zhu Cijiong pretended to regret and said: "This point of the Praetorian Guard is nothing, I was originally going to recruit 500,000 new Praetorian Guards, but there was a sudden rebellion in the northwest, and I had to transfer all these 500,000 troops to the northwest." ”

When Shi Vera heard this, he was so shocked that he almost bit off his tongue, he couldn't help but look at Zhu Cijiong with puffed eyes, and stammered: "Five, five, five hundred thousand!" ”

Zhu Cijiong continued to pretend to be forced, he pretended not to care and said, "Is 500,000 a lot?" When the Ming Dynasty was in its heyday, there were 2.7 million troops, but unfortunately now they are less than half, and I am ready to recruit all the 2.7 million troops back in the next few years. ”

Two million seven million! It's really fake, Shi Vera felt that he had lost the ability to think, and he couldn't help but look directly at Zeng Dezhao.

Zeng Dezhao has recently been obsessed with the history of the Ming Dynasty, which he naturally knows, although he is Portuguese, but now after all, he is an official in the Ming Dynasty, speaking of the glorious history of the Ming Dynasty, he also feels and honored.

Nodding his head, the Ming Empire really once had an army of 2.7 million! You must know that Portugal now has a total of only more than one million people, two million and two million, which is more than twice the population of their country, and even when Spain was at its strongest, it only had four or five hundred thousand troops, how powerful the Ming Empire is!

Schwila was speechless in shock, and he stood there dumbfounded, and for a moment there was no movement.

Zhu Cijiong saw that the effect of pretending to be forced was almost over, and if he pretended again, he would be scared of his life, so he hurriedly put away the pretending and asked with a smile: "Didn't you come to talk about trade issues?" ”

Schwila nodded mechanically, but howled excitedly in his heart: "Let's talk about a fart, you can do whatever you want, such a powerful country, if you can help us Portugal, not to mention the restoration of the country, it is very simple to recover the lost territory overseas!" Be sure to win over at all costs! "Reading, a better reading experience.