The king's shopkeeper's carak galleon did not have a name, and the Han Chinese did not have the habit of naming the ship, such as this ship, which everyone called "the king's ship" or "the ship bought from the Dutchlanders".

This made Yurien, a shipwright who had been employed for 5 years after being bought by the king's shopkeeper, and Santos, the translator, very uncomfortable for a while, they were used to having her name on every ship, so they named the king's ship.

The name was given by Santos, who had always suspected that the so-called state of Higashiyama was the area of the New World discovered by Columbus that had not yet been conquered by the Francis.

This is a bad thing for the Franciscans, who have always been considered a place in their backyard, and another resident comes in, and he is a resident who can't win.

However, it was a good thing for Yurien and Santos, who was a native of the Netherlands and had been hostile to the Frangi Empire since his successful independence from the Francis. Santos, the fruit tooth man, has been seeking independence from the Franciscans. When Francois is unlucky, they are happy.

"Santos, didn't he say he was joking?"

"Yurien, he's lying."

The Northern Continent has 4 floors of cabins, the lowest floor is the cargo hold, and the penultimate floor is where the ordinary crew lived, and it was also used as a cargo hold when there was a lot of cargo. The penultimate floor is the shelling cabin, but the shopkeeper Wang removed all the artillery and changed it to a cabin and crew cabin, and Feng Shuo and his family lived here.

The top floor is the middle open-air deck, but because of the special design of the Karak ship, there is another floor in the stern and the bow, which is the captain's cabin and the cabin in good condition, and Liu Yifeng lives in the cabin on the bow floor.

Yurien and Santos are all dependent on two people for the maintenance of the soft sail system, and they belong to the senior crew on the ship, and they live in the third-to-last crew cabin in relatively good condition.

"Santos, how do you know he's lying?"

"Because he knows the Pope!"

Yurien still looked confused, not understanding how Santos could judge that Liu Yifeng was lying when he said that he had made a joke that was not funny.

"Yurien, you believe me, you have been in contact with these Ming people for too short a time, and you don't know them at all."

Yurien glanced back at the rest of the crew lying on deck, jumped out of the hammock and took Santos out of the cabin.

The hammock is the standard bed for Europa seafarers, making it easy to pack away and not taking up space when not in use. But the crew of the Chinese cultural circle is not used to sleeping in hammocks at all, they are still used to finding a flat ground in the cabin to spread a blanket and start sleeping, if the weather is not cold, the blanket is too lazy to sleep directly, anyway, except for the captain and the shopkeeper, no one cares about hygiene.

The two stepped past the sleeping crew on the floor and onto the deck. There was only one crew member on the entire deck on duty at the highest point in the stern, and he glanced at the two of them before turning around. At night, there are often crew members who can't sleep to come out to breathe, which is the norm.

"Yurien, I have lived in Guangzhou for 2 years and Quanzhou for 3 years, and I am more familiar with those Ming people than you." Santos said in Dutchland: "These Wise people are very arrogant, they think that they are the only ones in the world. ”

Yurien pursed his lips and didn't speak, because Da Ming is really powerful.

"Unless these Ming people are officials of the Ministry of Rites, they are not interested in understanding us at all, that shopkeeper knows the Pope, he is definitely not an ordinary person!"

Yurien somewhat understood.

In this era, the three talents of navigation, colonization and liberalization of commerce are not enough.

On land, Genghis Khan's descendants are saying that the Central Plains Dynasty that defeated the Golden Family has conquered Mobei, and they want to follow the route of the Mongols to conquer the western countries and exterminate all the people with Mongol blood along the way!

This was, of course, a rumor spread by the Warat and Yarkand Khanates, in order to get the numerous Mongol descendants of Central, West and South Asia to support them against the Ming dynasty.

Whether the effect will unite the Mongols or scare them is left alone. Muscovy, the easternmost state in Europe, had been affected, and sent emissaries to express goodwill and hope that the Ming would join them in dividing up Central Asia and establishing trade.

On the sea, after losing to the English at the Battle of Gravoline, the Franciscans were finally defeated by the Ming in the distant South China Sea.

After the news was transmitted back to Europa, although the Francos insisted that the Ming Navy had nothing to do with them, they had negotiated peace in order to continue trade with the Ming. But no one in the whole Europa believed it, or in their hearts, they also laughed at Franco.

This has to do with the current political position of the Francois Empire in Europa.

The Francois Empire was the first country in Europa to break the feudal system and begin to transform into an absolute monarchy after the Middle Ages, which made them the most powerful country in Europa in a few decades.

The advantages and disadvantages of centralization for the development of the country are extreme, but the Franz Empire is still enjoying the dividends of absolute monarchical centralization.

This has also led to the fact that both on the sea and on land, the Francois Empire has many enemies. The enemy made a fool of himself and explained that he didn't lose or something like that, and if he could listen to it, there would be a ghost.

And Marco. Polo's "Oriental Observations" has a huge influence in Europa to this day, and it is not normal for Franc to lose to the country of silk and ceramics in the East.

The various words about the power of the Ming Dynasty brought back by the Dutch merchants also bear this out.

The people of such a powerful country don't care about their Europa at all, although it is very frustrating, but it is not incomprehensible. And a man in such a kingdom not only knows the language of the British Isles, but also mentions the "Pope" very accurately, and afterwards he said that it was a joke, which is not a lie?

Yurien's face changed again after figuring this out.

"Santos, is the mighty Ming really going to intervene in the religious wars?"

Santos shook his head and said, "I don't know. ”

"If they do step in, which side will they support? Could it be that they have already intervened? I heard that the Islamic infidels supported us, but I didn't hear that they sent troops at all, could it be that the Ming Dynasty had already dragged them on land? ”

Santos continued to shake his head: "I don't know. ”

"But didn't Da Ming fight with Francie, will he continue to be hostile to Francis? In that case, they're rooting us back? ”

Santos still shook his head: "I don't know. ”

"You're not going to say anything else?"

"I really don't know, what are you asking me to say?"

Santos sighed and said, "Yurien, you'd better not get your hopes up. Daming is too far away from us, even if they support us, it is actually difficult to really do anything. But correspondingly, if they really support the Holy See, it is difficult to do anything, at most, to contain those Islams. Also, Islam is heretic, and don't forget that the Ming are also infidels! ”

Santos's words calmed down Yurien, especially the sentence "Don't forget that Da Ming is also a heretic". These Mingmen were completely free from the brutality, bloodthirstiness, barbarism and uncivility of the pagans propagated by the clergy, and were more learned and humble than most people in Europa, but they were still pagans.

Europa is embroiled in a religious war, and the scale of the war is becoming more and more intense, but the situation of the two sides is generally equal, and neither can defeat the other at once. At this time, if the Ming Dynasty, a foreign power, intervened and took sides, it would be a devastating blow to the other side in the religious war.

The Ming didn't even have to send troops, announcing that they would only trade with merchants who believed in the religion they supported, and the other side would be broken. The two largest traders in Europa are currently on the two sides of the war.

The two were silent for a while, and Santos said, "I'll try him again tomorrow." ”