There was no road from the mouth of the Guadiana River to Madrid, which is located in the southeast corner of Spain, and the border between the two countries.

However, since the Ming Empire built a port here to establish a trade area, the original wasteland soon became a prosperous capital, especially after the construction of the railway to Madrid, it became the most important port in Spain.

Due to its proximity to the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of New Spain, it was an important base for both maritime merchants and explorers looking for opportunities in the colonies, and for a while, passenger and freight traffic between the two places became extremely busy, sometimes even in queues.

However, since the war of the anti-Habsburg coalition against Spain and Portugal, it has ceased to be bustling, and trains to Madrid have become scarce, sometimes not a single one for several days.

On this day, three passenger cars suddenly appeared on the railway line, lined up in a row, and went straight to Madrid.

Among the three passenger cars, the front and rear two are very ordinary, that is, the twenty passenger trains produced by the Ming Empire, but the middle one is very special, the body is actually golden, as if gilded, exuding a sparkling golden light in the hot sun, gorgeous.

This is the Ming Empire for the Spanish King Philip IV specially made the king's train, both the exterior and the interior, using the best materials, graceful and luxurious.

However, on this day, it was not King Philip IV of Spain who sat in the special train, but Zheng Chenggong, the generalissimo of the Ming Empire, and the Spanish princess Maria. Terex.

Anyway, how did these two get together, it seems that they don't know each other, right?

This was actually specially arranged by Philip IV, when Princess Anna, the imperial concubine of the Ming Empire, said that it was not a joke to introduce her cousin to Zheng Chenggong, she wrote a letter to his uncle Philip IV the next day, praising Zheng Chenggong fiercely, and urging his uncle to marry his daughter to the second person in the Ming Empire after His Majesty the Emperor.

Philip IV is also a shrewd person, he doesn't need Princess Anna to boast, he also knows how noble the Ming Zheng family is, in addition to the Ming Empire royal family and the Habsburg royal family, he may be the most noble in the Ming Zheng family, and he is also quite interested in marrying the Ming Zheng family.

No, as soon as he heard that Zheng Chenggong was going to Madrid as a guest, he not only sent his own special train to pick up people, but also brought his daughter with him.

Zheng Chenggong's mind was a mess at this time, he originally wanted to think about how to negotiate with Philip IV on the train to expand the armament, but now he couldn't be idle for a moment, because Princess Mary was sitting opposite him and chattering endlessly!

This Princess Maria is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and she is at her most innocent, looking a bit like Princess Anna, but not as charming as Princess Anna, but with more loveliness and innocence rare among nobles.

To tell the truth, Zheng Chenggong was moved, which had a lot to do with his childhood experience, he didn't have many playmates when he was a child, the emperor was busy dealing with state affairs all day, and Queen Qin Mingyue was also a teacher and a mother, and she was very strict with him, only Princess Anna had nothing to do for a day, and she especially liked him as a little brother, so during his days in the palace, he spent the most time playing with Princess Anna.

Because of Princess Anna's relationship, he is not repulsive to the appearance of foreigners, and he even likes foreign beauties with high noses and big eyes, and this Princess Maria is a delicate foreign beauty, coupled with her innocent and lovely expression, it is fake to say that she is not impressed.

This princess Maria is also a special case among the royal family and nobles, especially heartless, when her father asked her to come here to play, she was simply very happy, because she had long wanted to see if the army of the Ming Empire was as majestic as the legend.

She didn't want to think about it, this side is the front line, and a princess running to the front line to play, how can it be a little unreliable.

She was so heartless, and besides, she really thought she was here to play, and she was going to see the fort for a while, to go into the fortress for a while, and to board the treasure ship like a moving fortress to see the .......

If it was someone else, running here and running around, Zheng Chenggong would have blown people away a long time ago, the problem is the princess of the allied country, and she is also a very beautiful little girl, Zheng Chenggong has no way to take others, not only does he dare to blow people away, but he also has to accompany him all the time, for fear that something will happen to her.

Spain is now such a princess, if something happens, even if the emperor does not clean him up, Philip IV and Princess Anna will not let him go.

People are like this, if they just meet by chance, they don't smile when they meet, and they go their own ways, they are irrelevant passers-by, but once they intersect and get along a few times, no matter how strange they are, two people will become mature people.

Zheng Chenggong came and went, accompanied by the two of them, and became mature, as if they were destined in the past life, or they may be destined in this life, not only Zheng Chenggong was moved, but Princess Maria was also moved.

The man in front of him, handsome, handsome, talented, powerful, rich, speaks Chinese well, Portuguese, Spanish is also good at speaking, hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers under his command, several territories as big as Spain at home, he is still the most trusted person of the Ming Emperor, he is also in charge of a Ming royal Western trading company that provides luxury goods for European nobles, such a person, the world can no longer find a second, such a person, any girl will lose resistance in front of him.

Maria found herself deeply in love with the prince of Zhennan of the Ming Empire, and wanted to be with him all the time, bed together, the first thing was to think about him, thinking about how to dress up beautifully to see him, and felt very uncomfortable when she lay down at night, always complaining that the night was too long, and she couldn't pass at once, and saw His Royal Highness the Prince early.

Zheng Chenggong has also been intoxicated these days, and he knows that he is walking around with a little girl all day long, she can accompany her wherever she wants, and she can accompany her to see whatever she wants, so involuntarily, so deeply involved.

Fortunately, other people are still normal, his uncle Zheng Zhihu hasn't seen this nephew to take care of the army's affairs for a few days, and finally couldn't help but run and ask: "Success, how to fight next, you have something to say!" “

A word woke up the dreamer, Zheng Chenggong remembered that the emperor had issued a secret decree to ask him to discuss the expansion of armaments with Philip IV and João IV.

In fact, he may not have fully woken up yet, and the reason why he chose to go to Madrid first was not mainly to see Philip IV, but in his heart, he still wanted to stay with Princess Maria for a few more days.

PS: I recommend the new writer Xiao Yu Feifei's masterpiece "Daming Iron Guard" in the same period, which crossed into a poor military household and rose in the late Ming Dynasty, which is wonderful and should not be missed.