Pedru stood with his bow in front of King Alfonso V of Portugal, as well as the Portuguese Chancellor of the Exchequer, Minister of Ministers and many other high-ranking officials, Pedru did not tell any story or his own experience in the East.

Only one sentence was spoken: "Your Majesty, our ocean has offended the majesty of a male lion." ”

After saying this, Pedru said again: "I am wrong, we should have offended the majesty of a dragon." Leaving Africa to the east, that land, that sea belongs to a powerful empire, how should we Portugal face it next? One thought would have us all of Portugal disappear from the map, and we would only be left in the history books! ”

The fleet was not a phantom, many people saw it.

At this time, there were still some ships in the Portuguese palace that did not enter the Strait of Gibraltar.

"How much do you know?" Alfonso V's brow furrowed.

He was later known as the Liberal Alfonso and also known as the Alfonso of Africa. The former is that he publicly burned the list of all opponents and conspirators before he inherited the throne. That is to say that he forgave his enemies, so he was called the magnanimous Alfonso.

Another reason for this is that he led Portugal in the African War.

Not to mention so many ports on the African coast, Morocco alone brought Portugal a large amount of land, a lot of wealth, and an important port in the Strait of Gibraltar.

The reason for Portugal's maritime dominance is also because of the coast of Africa and Gibraltar.

"You know, five years ago, a fleet of ships crossed the Strait of Gibraltar at night and left the Mediterranean, when a thirteen-year-old girl was looking for protection, but we, the Holy See, refused. Servants of the Lord, all servants have no one to protect them. ”

The man Pedru is talking about. Everyone here knows that.

It was the last princess of Byzantium who had fled and the last blood of the royal family.

The reason is simple, it is a conflict between the old and the new, Byzantium represents the old religion and the pope represents the new religion.

"Her Royal Highness the princess is gone, and there is no place for them in the whole of Africa. In the east of Africa they were pursued by the Arabs, and then in the east they were defeated and captured by Ottoman merchants. This is how the story begins, just three days later, a powerful force slaughtered the Ottomans in the blink of an eye. ”

"Because of her beauty!"

"No, because the Ottomans ignored the pride of the dragons, and they appeared in the sea where they should not be, and there was an emperor there who declared that the sea needed to follow their rules."

It's very domineering. But a mighty empire is qualified to say this.

"And what's next?" Alfonso V asked again.

Next, Her Royal Highness the Princess was taken to the Eastern Empire, where she and her retinue entered the Eastern Empire as shipwrecked. Here, the princess meets a man with a crest of a sacred beast from the East, the crane, who likes to exchange science with the Byzantines, the study of Byzantine alchemists, and prefers to let the scientists around him discuss science with alchemists. This man is a contradictory, cruel and benevolent character. ”

Alfonso was confused. How can cruelty and mercy be accommodated together.

Some of what Pedru knew, some of which he knew when he studied Chinese with the Ming people, and some of which he observed.

"This man has enemies in the Eastern Empire, and people who also have great power and prestige do not get along well with him, and some people have even slapped him in public, but he has never cared about this. Even these people are still consulted academically and intellectually. But ......"

Speaking of Dan at the time. Pedru stopped, he even admired these people of the Eastern Empire a little.

"Your Majesty, the people of the Eastern Empire are very united. Today they attack each other for different opinions and will scold each other. But when confronted with people outside the empire, this man's enemies will let go of their contradictions. Do everything in your power to help him deal with people outside the Empire, including us in Portugal. ”

Alfonso sighed heavily, this is a very great country, a united country can never be conquered.

This man declares that the people in this world whom he follows are the nobles, or rather, who are the nobles, who are the commoners, and who are the slaves. In his eyes, only his Emperor Majesty was qualified to demarcate, and without the approval of his Emperor, anyone was inferior. ”

"It's so domineering, does he want to be the enemy of the world?" Alfonso did not believe that anyone would dare to be the enemy of the whole world.

"My Majesty, you are wrong. It's not that he's the enemy of the world, it's that the world needs his approval. Pedru emphasized that he believed that no one would dare to fight against such a fleet.

"Okay, you go ahead!"

"Your Majesty, all I know is. Her Royal Highness got acquainted with the real princess of the Eastern Empire, who was known as the most noble in the entire Eastern Empire and the most beloved sister of the Emperor of the Eastern Empire. Then the Byzantine princess and the princess of the Eastern Empire jointly married a man named Shirachi, and on this day, the emperor of the Eastern Empire became angry. ”

"One man marries two princesses, which is wrong."

"Your Majesty, you're wrong again. The reason for the anger of the emperor of the Eastern Empire is that as a man, your wife's hometown was destroyed and your parents were killed. It is not allowed to marry until the wife and parents have been sacrificed. So, he led his troops to the Mediterranean, came for Constantinople, and according to the soldiers of the Eastern Empire on board, killed the Ottoman Empire, and then took back his homeland, which is what a man should do! ”

Well, Alfonso was a little speechless.

This reason made him speechless, and the war must be waged for profit, for the land. Of course, there are wars waged for women, but every war waged for women is a tragedy without exception.

For example, the Battle of Troy was for the woman Helen.

"And then they came."

"Yes, my majesty. As he left the Eastern Empire, another fleet escorted him across the straits. It was the same in Gibraltar then. All ships are avoiding, and every port and wharf is closed. Pedro's eyes changed, thinking of such a scene, but unfortunately it was not the Portuguese fleet.

Alfonso stood up: "A very critical question, how big is the Eastern Empire?" How many ships does he have? ”

"My majesty. The whole of Europe combined is not as big as the Eastern Empire, and according to the soldiers of the Eastern Empire, if their country is used, it will take three months to go from south to north by land alone, and four months from east to west. As for talking about their fleet. I've only heard a few names! ”

Ming Imperial Praetorian Navy.

When he heard this name, Alfonso could imagine how large the Praetorian Guard of His Majesty the Emperor of the Eastern Empire was, and as an emperor, he would never let a detachment of troops be stronger than his own Imperial Guard in terms of quantity, quality, and equipment.

"In addition to the Royal Praetorian Navy, there are four fleets. This time, I only know that it was the commander of their third fleet who led the fleet. Escorted to sea was the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Empire. ”

A huge empire, so how should Portugal deal with it?

"Your Majesty, all our ports in Africa have been attacked. All ......"

"All ......," Alfonso repeated.

"陛xià. The fleet once stopped the war between the two countries on a large island, and I was on another ship, but I saw this scene from afar, and they demanded that the war be stopped, and then the peace talks, and then the fleet left. And did not attack there. The first real attack was on a small island occupied by the Arabs. The reason is that the Arabs once attacked the fleet of Her Royal Highness the Byzantine princess here. ”

This is understandable, retaliatory attack.

"The second battle. It was in the port of Durban that it was our Portuguese eight ships that attacked a small detachment of six ships in the Eastern Empire. The reason for this. I guess it's because a captain of a ship has declared that the Pope has crowned us Portugal as the overlord of the sea, and the rules of the sea are made by us Portugal! ”

Alfonso didn't quite understand: "So, why didn't they attack our homeland?" ”

"When I was leaving the Eastern Imperial fleet, I was received by Lord Bai. He asked me to tell you to make a choice. But he didn't tell me what kind of choice it was. ”

Choose. How to choose.

Alfonso V wanted Portugal to rise, he was not afraid of war, but did not know how to face an invincible enemy.

There was no way to continue the meeting, and the more I learned about it, the more terrible it felt. Unless Portugal can muster the strength of the whole of Europe, it will not even be able to face the fleet in front of it.

If you can talk. So how much will Portugal sacrifice.

What's more, Morocco, all of Africa, Portugal is once again trapped in the Mediterranean, and Portugal's future is dark.

The entire kingdom of Portugal was silent, both the army and the merchants.

Ten days later, the fleet stopped again. This time it stopped, not for the sake of war, but for the sake of peace.

The Greek Patriarch stood in the harbor and watched the Empress Oliviale flying the flag of the Byzantine Empire slowly dock in the harbor, and he cried with gray hair, two years ago when Constantinople fell. Half of the four Orthodox patriarchs are dead, and he is the only one alive, as well as the two heads of Alexandria.

The once mighty empire was under constant attack from the Ottomans.

A united Greece killed many bureaucrats and businessmen who had defected to the Ottomans and organized resistance. The port of Athens was the last line of defense, and they no longer had many ships, so they could only organize resistance in the harbor.

How long they can resist, no one knows, but no one wants to give up. It was not until a fleet suddenly appeared on the sea that the Lord's favor once again shone on the earth. (To be continued......)

PS: Speaking of this typo problem, let out a long sigh.

I checked myself, and the result was that I checked it, and it still exists.

RQPW, that is, the white crane, in fact, after RQP, the white crane came out directly. So what is RPQ? Zhu Qiyu!

Long live, become a wind, prejudice, and ten thousand nets. The input of the four words is exactly the same, which of course, is also the reason why the check is not careful enough.