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Living in the inn, looking at the completely unfamiliar furniture and decorations, Nassau still felt a little unreal, he really came to the country where Marco Polo came, to China.

Walked around the inn with interest, this is a very lively inn, brick and wood structure, the first floor is a place to eat, a group of people wearing various clothes and decorations are here to drink and eat, look at the appearance of these people, Nassau knows that these are not gentlemen, sure enough, there are lower class people everywhere in the world, including China.

On the lobby side of the first floor, there is a wooden staircase leading to the second floor, the second floor is a house, the supporting structure is wooden, which is quite different from Western architecture, but there is no difference between superior and inferior, in fact, Western buildings, in addition to churches and palaces, most of them are brick and wood structures, and even the fortresses built by Westerners in the colonies also use a large number of wooden structures.

Nassau walked around the hall for a long time, attracting a group of curious eyes, Nassau did not feel that the loyal Count of Daming neglected him, on the contrary, he liked to approach a real China, after all, the message sent back by Marco Polo and those missionaries was too unreal to praise the Chinese.

Seeing this group of lower-class people gave Nassau a new understanding of the country, more direct and real.

Rejecting Jones and the others' request to drink, Nassau returned to his room, which was the best room in the inn, and from this point of view, the Earl of the Ming Dynasty still took good care of Nassau.

After thinking carefully about what he had seen and heard along the way, Nassau spread out his pen and paper and began to write.

"Dear Christina!"

He first wrote letters to his mistress.

"You probably won't believe where I'm writing to you, yes, you guessed it, you must have felt amazing when I arrived in China, right? Because at this time I am writing to you in an inn in China, it is full of magic in itself.

Christina, I miss you so much. You don't know what a horrible ordeal I went through along the way, I thought it would be no different than going to Brazil. In fact, it is a hundred times more difficult to come to China than to go to Brazil. Our boat spent ten months on the road, passing through the Gold Coast, the Cape of Good Hope, India and the East Indies. Sadly, my retinue died on the ship, and I was lucky that I fell ill three times during this time. I thought I wouldn't survive, but the captain left me a special medicine, the kind of tea that is a specialty of China, and it saved me three times.

Well, speaking of which, you must be in a hurry, you want to hear about the situation in China, right? Well, I'm not going around in circles. Actually, I would like to tell you what I have seen and heard in China, but I have just come to China, and what I have seen and heard is still very barren, and I cannot describe a complete China for you.

I'm going to share with you what I've seen. Our boat passed through a large and wide river. After walking upstream for ten days, I arrived at a prosperous capital, which was the capital of China. It is a count who rules here. The Count was welcoming and very aristocratic. He personally greeted us at the port and entertained us with a delicious Chinese meal.

Dear Christina, if you had not been to China, you would never have been able to imagine how elaborate Chinese was to eat, and if nothing else, the ritual of eating alone would be comparable to that of the kings of the United States, and the delicacy of their food was a hundred times more exquisite than that of any monarch in Europe.

I'm not appreciating China. It's not an exaggeration, I'm telling the truth. So you must not doubt.

In addition, the Earl invited us to visit his castle, and I will definitely share with you the scenery of the Chinese castle as soon as possible.

So be it. I'll write to you again, love you João! ”

After writing to his mistress, Nassau did not stop, but continued to write on paper, this time to the East India Company.

"Dear Directors of the East India Company,

I have arrived in China safely, please don't worry. I am writing to you in an inn on the port of a city called Nanking.

I heard from the staff of the East India Company that the capital was one of the most prosperous cities in China, and for more than two hundred years it had been the second capital of the Chinese, and that it was now ruled by a Ming count who married the emperor's daughter, and perhaps thus ruled the prosperous capital.

However, the Chinese have been subjected to internal rebellion for more than a decade, as well as Tatar invasions, and I have heard that Lord Count has repelled many Tatar invasions, but I am still worried.

I am very responsible to report to the directors that operating in China is risky, the biggest risk comes from the current war, because it is not only the Tatars who invade China, I heard that the Tatars have allied with the terrible Mongols, so although the Count has defeated the Tatars many times, I am still not very sure whether the Chinese will win this war, because you all know that the Mongols are as many as the weeds in the steppe, and it is difficult for you to be optimistic about fighting the Mongols. ”

It is not that the number of Mongolians is really much more than that of Westerners, but that before the Industrial Revolution, the West was so poor in its organizational ability that the organization of 10,000 people was a grand event, while in the East, it may be just a bazaar.

Nassau continues:

"Today I visited the city's port, the facilities of the port are quite large, the docks are very busy, and what attracted me the most was that there was a huge waterwheel on the shore where our ship passed, and this waterwheel was as tall as the windmill in our hometown. It seems that in terms of machinery, the Chinese are not inferior to us.

In addition, I have met some Chinese, who, judging by their clothing, are not much richer than the sailors of our country, and also wear linen, a few in cloth clothes, and very few in silk, which I did not expect. From what I've seen so far, it's hard for me to be optimistic about the Chinese market.

Maybe I was overthinking, maybe it was only because of the war that caused the temporary barrenness.

Please rest assured that I will continue to do my best to get Piaget to allow us to operate in China. ”

Nassau put away the letter, and then opened the window, through the window on the second floor, he could see the local situation of the harbor, and he could also see the towering walls on the other side, he did not know what was going on in the city, because he had not yet been allowed to enter the city.

The Chinese Count very warmly invited himself to visit his new castle, and Nassau thought to himself that he would not have a chance to enter the castle until he had visited it, and Nassau decided that no matter how rough the Earl's castle was, he must also offer the most beautiful eulogy. (To be continued)