Several Spanish dukes were told that Her Majesty needed a half-hour rest and that refreshments were prepared for them.

Sophia, on the other hand, was taken to the side room.

On the other side, Skanderbeg was ushered into the garden, where a young man was sitting at a table, fiddling with the precious porcelain from the East, without looking closely.

Phil, full name Phil von Siegfried Mikhail.

Skanderbeg was about to salute, and the white crane stretched out his hand to block it with a tea pen, and Phil said: "His Majesty the Prince believes that meritorious people do not need to touch their knees to the ground, which is a reward for loyalty. Please sit down, this is the husband of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Majesty! ”

Skanderbeg gave his chest and sat down at the table.

Phil took over the place of Shira, who straightened up and asked, "This is tea, if you don't like it, I have wine." However, it's better to drink after getting down to business. "The translator has Phil, which is why she is sitting here, as the daughter of a nobleman, she knows even more about the power of the white crane than Angela.

"There are many very brave people in my hometown, my ancestors, the former owner of my sword, heroes, and many others......

Shirana Crane told two stories and spent more than an hour.

The translation is very hard, even if he has lived in Daming for three years, Phil still grasps many words, repeatedly explaining a special event and words.

Bai Qi, Yue Fei!

After listening to the deeds of these two figures, Skanderbeg was in awe of the white crane, the descendant of an ancient family, the descendant of a great god of war.

"Please, write their names to me." Skanderbeg stood up and pleaded earnestly.

It is not difficult to write, and the white-named crane is no longer the white-named crane who has just arrived in the Ming Dynasty. That stroke is very, very far from the real calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, but for ordinary people, this stroke can already be said to be handy, even Yu Qian also thinks that Bai Minghe's character is barely passable.

Bai Minghe wrote three pairs of words, and the first pair had only two words: Bai Qi. The second pair is also two words, Yue Fei. The third deck has a little more word count: Albanian Eagle!

Phil specifically explained the significance of this Albanian Eagle. This is the calligraphy of the Ming Empire, and the meaning of this word is heavy.

"Thank you for your gifts, I am sure these gifts will last forever. Even if I die, there will be someone who will inherit my soul. My soul will always be loyal to Her Majesty the Empress! "Skanderbeg had a chivalrous spirit and believed that allegiance was eternal.

"Speaking of gifts, I have a gift for you." Bai Minghe clapped his hands lightly, the guards beside him whistled, and several Ming soldiers came in with a team of slaves carrying boxes. The people of the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to the use of slaves during this month's time, and have become accustomed to having slaves do some chores.

Box. It was a rattan box. When opened, there is a set of knight's plate armor.

"You are in command of the cavalry, and what I don't know is who has the strongest cavalry here. Some people say that it is the three major knights, do you think this statement is appropriate? Bai Minghe asked with a smile.

The three major orders of knights are the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar, and the Teutonic Knights.

"There is also a French hoplite cavalry unit, which has fought the British for more than a hundred years and is extraordinary. There are two points that I wish you could listen to. Although this is somewhat disrespectful to you. First of all, I don't know enough about the Navy. But I know the Mediterranean, and I see the fighting power of your men. ”

Bai Minghe motioned for Skanderbeg to sit down, and his views on army reform could be heard.

"You have super-heavy artillery with a range of more than five miles. However, only a few ships are equipped, and most of them are equipped with normal guns that are comparable to your over-heavy guns. May I understand that you think that such a cannon will be enough for the Mediterranean? Of course. It's safe to say that the Mediterranean has only two-thirds the range of your guns. ”

Phil didn't understand military affairs, and it took a lot of effort to translate it clearly for Bai Minghe.

Bai Minghe also understood what this general who had fought all his life wanted to express, that is, since he was going to fight, he had to use absolute superiority to kill the enemy. Let the enemy despair. The Ottomans, in particular, were now in a position where the Ottomans were able to raise their troops and devote themselves to the navy.

With the current national strength of the Ottomans, within three years, they may be able to compete with the fleet of the White Crane in the Mediterranean.

They also have a real Caspian Sea, the Black Sea. The Ottoman Black Sea Fleet has not moved, and they will not move again.

Then Skanderbeg said, "The port you got was given up by the Ottomans. Their focus is still on annexing the Arab world, and when they no longer have to worry about the future, they will turn around and come back to fight you with all their might. ”

"Of course, the second point I would like to make is that none of the main armies of the Ottoman Empire appeared. They are still observing you, the Ottoman Empire was a very powerful, and brutal empire, which they thought could conquer a qiē. Of course, I don't know your kingdom and I don't know if your kingdom can sustain a full-scale war against the mighty Ottoman Empire! You, you need vassals, as well as mercenaries, which, of course, require huge financial resources? ”

Bai Minghe was silent, the general was telling the truth, and it was very much in line with the actual situation now.

"Do not doubt the wealth of His Majesty, who possesses silk that could spread all over Europe. And this is just one item in his vast wealth, behind His Majesty the Prince, there is the even more powerful Ming Empire. ”

Phil thought that Skanderbeg had despised the white crane, so he spoke.

Shira-Natsuru asked Phil what he had just said, and smiled after listening to it.

"Well, I'd like to have a good conversation with you, but time isn't running out. Today I am also going to see the King of Portugal, so let my general tell you about the gift I have given. I hope that Byzantium will also have three major cavalry regiments, the Albanian Eagle! ”

"Albanian Eagle!" Skanderbeg raised his fist proudly.

Skanderbeg departed, and after the White Crane's guards explained the characteristics of the gifts, a large number of slaves moved the gifts to a warehouse in the city of Athens, and of course gave him an additional ten loads of silk and a hundred loads of white linen from the Ming Dynasty.

After Skanderbeg left, Whitename asked Phil to ask the King of Portugal to wait outside and take a rest. He would then give a banquet to Alfonso V of Portugal.

Before meeting Alfonso V, the white crane invited a few people to the garden.

Blue Ocean, Fleet Commander. Thunder shattered, the commander of the left detachment of the fleet. There are also two civil officials who are still young for Wenchen, Peng Shi and Yue Zheng.

Peng Shi, the champion of orthodoxy for thirteen years, is a person with a very high heart. After the madness of Bai Minghe in the court, the speculative mentality in his heart slowly disappeared, and he was already thirty-eight years old, knowing what he needed, and after the real Qingliu re-entered the stage, he had a clearer positioning for himself.

This time, he took the initiative to ask to come with him, hoping only to make some practical facts.

However, from the time he went to sea to this day, he was not even allowed to take care of the statistics of the warehouse, and the only job of letting him be idle was to record what he saw and heard at sea, on the grounds that he was the champion and could print these things into a book in the future.

Peng Shi did not complain, silently doing his job, he was waiting, waiting for Bai Minghe to start crazy again.

The other one, Yue Zheng! Thirteen years of orthodoxy.

In a martial arts family, the grandparents, fathers, brothers, and even nephews are all martial artists, but he abandoned martial arts and became a scholar, and he was admitted to Tanhua. There are some chivalrous minds in the character, and they are happy to take revenge. If you're good to me, it's fine. If it is not good to me, what you have done, I will do.

Such a person is not suitable for officialdom, but as a tanhua, he cannot be reused at all.

This time he went to sea as a marching scribe, and this was a position that his uncle in the army had fought for him.

However, Bai Minghe likes such a person, it is not easy to use in Daming, and this person is of great use here, so he was specially transferred.

"The Ottoman Empire, with a population of 30 million. Of course, with the addition of their vassals and slaves, sixty million is not much. The land area is larger than my Daming, and the terrible thing is that even the Golden Family does not dare to confront them head-on. We have a population of 100 million, but only more than 2 million soldiers. They had a population of 30 million and 20 million soldiers. Tell me about it! ”

"My lord, there's not much to say. They are Turks, and they are almost at our doorstep. There are them in the South Seas, and there are them in the North of Tianzhu. Their merchants are active in the Western Regions, who dares to say that they are not exploring the way and want to attack our Ming Western Regions, these people are too ambitious, they are wolves, more terrible than the Watt Thorns! ”

When Bai Minghe's voice fell, Yue Zheng jumped up.

Syllable! Lan Hai slapped the table and shouted coldly: "There are no rules! ”

That's right, it's just that there are no rules, let's not talk about whether Lan Hai has spoken, that is, several generals have not spoken. The Ming Dynasty in this era is not the era of civil officials, the two civil officials are five-grade petty officials, and the worst general sitting here is also from the third grade, and both have the position of governor.

Yue Zheng hurriedly lowered his head, he is a Ming man, no matter what his personality is, the concept of respect and humility is colonized into the bone marrow.

Bai Minghe's pre-designed lines are stuck, and Yue Zheng is too aggressive. Of course, Bai Minghe likes Yue Zheng's radicalism, especially after this fanaticism, because he is a civil official, the influence he has on the generals is huge.

But! He said too much, and even if it was true, it lost its sense of reality.

In the modern era, it was said that if the earth's resources are endlessly exploited, one day the earth will be destroyed.

Yes, this theory is true, and there are many people who believe it. But do ordinary people care? Do you care about the troubles in a hundred years, or a few hundred years?

So, Yue Zheng is a fool.

"Lord Yue thinks about the long-term, but there are some things in front of us to discuss first, although it is said that people without long-term worries must have near-term worries, but we will discuss the affairs of the past three or five years today, and then discuss the longer-term."

"Lord Bai, please!" Yue Zheng only thought it was a white crane and left him in front of him. (To be continued......)