Three days later, Yan Zheng officially met with the Portuguese mission.

As soon as they entered the Red Room, Sekra and Opodra knelt down in unison and shouted, "The Viceroy of Portugal and India, the Count of Portugal, the envoy of Sekra de Andrade, has seen His Excellency the Monarch of Eastern Qin."

"Your Holiness of Rome, Franciscan friar Opodra, it is a pleasure to meet His Majesty the Monarch, may the Lord bless you!"

The two translators worked hard for a while to translate the words.

spoke Cantonese, and asked another person to translate it into a new language, so that Yan Zheng understood.

Yan Zheng was instantly dissatisfied, and his brows furrowed: "Portugal can't find an interpreter who can speak our Eastern Qin Xinhua?"

Several interpreters looked at each other, and after the translation passed, Sekra hurriedly said, "This is the first time we have come here, and we don't know what the difference between Chinese languages is!"

"That's good! These translations are all left, and I will teach them for you, and when you learn them, you will put them back!" Yan Zheng unceremoniously retained people, and to deal with Europe, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs always had to reserve some Latin talents.

Sekra said, "It is our Portuguese honor to be able to let them receive the language teaching of Eastern Qin!"

Opodra then said, "We, the Franciscans, are also willing to send scholars to learn the language of Eastern Qin!"

Yan Zheng nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Get up and talk back!"

The two of them hurriedly thanked him, and after getting up, they both hung their heads and secretly looked at the king of Eastern Qin.

I only feel that this person has a classical and elegant temperament, just like an Italian artist's oil painting about the Orient.

Any praise for the Orientals is not too much to use in this king!

Even the maids and officials next to him have an elegant and noble temperament, and the whole room is also full of oriental art.

Sekra and Opodra were deeply impressed and felt that this monarch was very charming!

In fact, in the West during this period, the general yearning and fantasy of the East was full of yearning and fantasy, and the spices were praised as the smell of heaven, and there was even a legend that spices were grown in the closest place to God.

As for China, it is even more mysterious to Westerners, and the artworks that have been passed down through the Silk Road have allowed Italian studios and artists to shape an imaginary East.

Later generations analyzed that the background of the painting "Mona Lisa's Smile" is the soft charm of the East.

After the defeat of several Indian states, the Portuguese had changed their initial praise and reverence for India to equality and disparagement.

However, they still had curiosity and awe for the Celestial Empire, and their evaluations tended to be positive and praised, which was the case until the Qianlong period.

Yan Zheng is also looking at them, the first feeling is ugly, and the second feeling is really sloppy.

"I heard that Portugal is far away in Tessie?"

"Exactly!"

"What about Spain? Aren't you neighbors, why don't you see them coming around India?" Yan Zheng asked.

Sekra smiled: "Your Majesty is really knowledgeable, Spain is indeed our neighbor, but we use the Papal meridian to stipulate that Spain cannot cross the Cape of Good Hope!"

"Papal meridian? Divide the sphere of influence, without the consent of my Eastern Qin, to engage in a map to open up the territory, what is your Pope's intention?" Yan Zheng's tone turned cold.

Sekra knew that he had lost his words, and hurriedly quibbled: "This treaty is only for Portugal and Spain, and it is only for the purpose of settling disputes, not to divide spheres of influence! We will definitely respect and recognize the rights and interests of Dongqin!"

Yan Zheng narrowed his gaze and said, "But you are in India, and you have been attacking cities all the time, isn't this true?"

"We're just looking for a place where we can guarantee trade!"

"Trade? I, Dongqin, value business and trust, if you are just trading, we will welcome you! But what you have done in India makes me very unhappy!

We have an ancient Chinese saying called "cold lips and cold teeth", which means that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold! It's the same today, if India is gone, won't our interests in the South Seas be in jeopardy?" Yan Zheng asked rhetorically.

Sekera looked helpless and said with a smile: "There will never be such a thing, our governor and the king will respect your country's interests in the South Seas!"

Yan Zheng waved his hand and said, "No, the entire Indian Ocean is also where our interests lie! I can allow you to trade in Malacca, and you will be able to supply everything from porcelain, silk, spices, sugar, precious stones, pearls, and even furs to the white of snow!

But we have the sincerity to open up trade, do you Portugal have the sincerity to let me see that you take practical actions to support the interests of my Eastern Qin?"

"Please also ask Your Majesty to explain what we should do!"

"Quite simply, Portuguese expansion cannot enter eastern India, when the island of Sri Lanka is the boundary! At the same time, we want to balance the interests of India, and the relevant rights and interests of the treaties signed between your country and the Indian states must be shared by us! Also, the ports you occupy must be opened to me for trade and supplies in Eastern Qin!" Yan Zheng threw out a paperwork.

Sekra naturally couldn't understand it, and several translators were busy taking it down to translate.

After the translation was finished, Sekra was instantly shocked, none of which he could decide.

With a bitter face, he said, "Your Majesty, this ...... I can't really make any decisions about that, and if I can, I'd like to go back and talk to the Governor!"

"That's the best, and I'll send you back!" The sooner this matter is implemented, the sooner the trade between the two sides will be carried out smoothly!"

"I will definitely do my best to make this happen and ensure the friendship between the two sides!"

Yan Zheng smiled, waved his hand and said, "Your envoy has come from afar, and I have also prepared a gift!"

Two maids walked up to Sekra with a box, pulled it open halfway, and displayed it in front of him.

Sekla's eyes instantly widened, his mouth opened wide, he couldn't speak in surprise, and his face turned rosy with excitement.

Opodra looked sideways, his expression amazed and envious, his eyes as if they were pinned to the work of art.

This is a piece of bone china, thin and round, with a new glaze on it, which looks very lifelike.

This is placed in Dongqin, and it can be regarded as high-grade porcelain. Because the paintings on the top are generally painted with some gods and Buddhas, or some Rui beasts.

It was specially used to sell to the wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the nobles of Japan and Korea.

For the Portuguese, who have never seen anything good, it is like seducing them fiercely in their hearts.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Sekra knelt down with interest and kowtowed in thanksgiving.

Yan Zheng said with a smile: "This is what you deserve, you should understand that as long as you do business with our Dongqin, there will definitely be no shortage of porcelain like this in the future!" We've got a lot of goodies, enough to drive the royal families of the Tessie kingdoms crazy!"

Sekra nodded and said, "I must inform the Governor that Eastern Qin is so generous and powerful, invincible, the greatest country, and His Majesty the Monarch is also the greatest king, the King of Philosophers!"

"Praise!" Yan Zheng leaned back in his chair and asked again, "What is the current situation with Taixi, what is the conquest of the New World?"

"At the moment, Tessie, the most powerful is Spain, Portugal is not bad, Spain is strong in the army, Portugal is strong in the navy! Britain and France have just been at peace for decades, and neither side is not rich, and the issue of heirs is causing them internal contradictions!

The Holy Roman Empire has long ceased to be powerful, and the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway in the north have long since withdrawn from the stage.

As for the Italian peninsula, there are now the Papal States, the Kingdom of Naples, and the Kingdom of Venice, which are not as generous as they used to be............ Speaking of which, there is no country in Taixi that can compare to the rich and powerful Eastern Qin." Sekra poured beans into a bamboo tube and told everything he knew.

"What about the New World?"

"On the New World, Spain has established the Viceroyalty of Colombia, and I don't know the specifics. However, from the New World, Spain can bring back a lot of sugar and specialties every year.

We, the Portuguese, opened the first settlement and port in Brazil, but there are no merchants willing to go there, only mahogany buyers, who will go there to trade!"

Yan Zheng smiled with satisfaction, it seems that in the New World, the power of Western countries is still relatively small.

However, Spain had already established the Viceroyalty of Colombia, which showed that Spain was colonizing the New World faster than Portugal.

"Have you cultivated the crops you got from the New World?"

"Yes! A lot of crops have come back from the New World, and we have grown a lot of crops from the New World on African soil."

Yan Zheng was overjoyed and said, "Then this time I will send an envoy to accompany you, hoping that you, the governor, will be able to offer the seeds of these new crops. And then there's all kinds of livestock, and I've heard that there's a tall horse in India, and if you can help with that, I'm very thankful!"

As he spoke, Yan Zheng glanced at the maids, and they quickly took out a few more pieces of porcelain.

This time, not only Sekra, but also the missionary Opodera, who had been unable to interject, also received a few.

In fact, the Great Exchange of Species began the year after Columbus discovered the New World, and more than ten years have passed since then.

Some new crops, although not yet popular in the West, have begun to be cultivated and promoted sporadically.

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