Wanli Xinming

Chapter 309 The Drunkard
Felipe II finally chose to refuse.He really couldn't give up the birthplace of the spice trade because of Ming's threat, although Manlaga was corrupt and barely offered him much profit compared to Mexico and Peru.

While escaping the showdown, Felipe II also hoped for a miracle to happen. Maybe Sirius, the greedy emperor, suddenly died of a sudden illness?
Although Xu Guangqi was tasked with negotiating with Felipe II, Zhu Yijun was not so naive that Spain could voluntarily give up the Spice Islands.So for the mission, the failure of this mission did not affect morale.In fact, the colony negotiations with Felipe were a low priority for the real mission of the mission.

After Felipe II made the decision to refuse to return Luzon and the Spice Islands, it was better for Xu Guangqi.Deep down, he didn't want a conflict between the two sides—after all, no one wanted to fight a war that was inevitable.Therefore, he hopes to use Xu Guangqi to feed back a message to Zhu Yijun: Felipe II is not bad, maybe there is still hope for peace, just continue to put some pressure or temptation on Spain.

When the mission began to advance to Rome, the list of the first batch of returnees was also produced. Thirty people need to leave the mission to escort Xu Guangqi's report back to China.

Xu Guangqi objectively and detailedly recorded the exchanges of the mission in Spain.In the big ship that returned to Manraga following the report, the first gifts brought back by the mission were ale samples and brewing methods, hop seeds and cultivation techniques.

As a physicist, Xu Guangqi is keenly aware that the ale that has been sterilized at low temperature can be stored for a longer time than fresh water, which will be extremely beneficial for long-distance voyages. With the invention of the microscope, the low-temperature pasteurization method has been used before Xu Guangqi's envoy. Controlled by the Grid.

Departing with the return ship, there were also various plants, including kidney bean seeds, and flower seeds, as well as the cultivation techniques and edible methods obtained from the mission's visit.

The largest shipment was a living thing—forty merino sheep.The fine wool sheep, which Spain has no intention of cherishing, are now all over the Americas and Africa, so the mission's livestock team bought them for ten ducats.

Although sheep are not expensive, hiring sheep herders is expensive.In order to prevent shipwrecks, the forty sheep, like everything else, were divided into five boats, so each boat had to have native Spanish herdsmen familiar with the sheep to take care of them.

To let people leave their hometown to live thousands of miles away, it is inevitable that they will bring their wives and children, and they will also have to pay a huge settlement fee, otherwise no one will make up their minds.Of course, everything has a price, and the gentlemen from Sirius are so generous that everyone who is selected has no way to refuse.

When the mission left Madrid, Carlo Medici also left the University of Salamanca, and he wanted to accompany Xu Guangqi to travel across Spain to Rome.

Through the close communication with the Chinese embassy these days, Carlo Medici firmly believes that if he finds a job as a low-level affairs officer or secretary in Madrid, his future will be far worse than following Xu Guangqi himself.This is obvious, whether Xu Guangqi recommended him to a certain court when he left Europe, or he followed Xu Guangqi back to the East - a magnificent picture of life will be opened.

In order to achieve his goals, Carlo Medici studied Chinese every moment, and gave up meaningless wine and ballroom dances, devoting all his time to the work of the mission.

With the addition of Carlo, Luo Mingjian's burden is lighter, at least he doesn't have to accompany Xu Guangqi to introduce some common sense to him.Because of their status, low-level priests with Luo Mingjian are not qualified to accompany Xu Guangqi, but Carlo's age is similar to Xu Guangqi's, and it is harmless to be a follower.

Now that the Medici family is very powerful in the Holy See, since Carlo Medici has already climbed the big tree of Xu Guangqi, Luo Mingjian doesn't mind giving this illegitimate son more opportunities.

After the mission's trip to Madrid, the mission will traverse the whole of Spain and board the ship in the city of sunshine "Valencia" to travel to Italy and Rome.

Because of the "winter", southern Spain has entered a season of comfort - the Mediterranean is blowing the heat of a summer to the whole of southern Europe, the sky is clear, the sun is warm, and the air is clear.

Such a pleasant climate made the embassy feel good.They hurry leisurely every day, improve their lives when they encounter cities, and happily visit when they encounter nobles with castles—except for homesickness, this day should not be too beautiful.

At the same time, [-] miles away, the capital of Daming also entered winter.Although it is early winter, under the gloomy sky, the north wind is mixed with the smell of sand, fallen leaves and choking soot, which makes people feel only depressed.

At dusk, at the entrance of Goulan Hutong in the southeast of Dongcheng, a Portuguese man with a gourd swayed out.As he walked, he gestured backwards and turned his head to curse something.Immediately behind him, there was a scolding from a prostitute: "Donkey Manzi, you stink! Don't enter this alley if you don't take a bath in the future, you won't have to spoil the interest of the guests and girls!"

The Portuguese with a dreadlocked yellow beard scolded indignantly and walked away.Seeing his body shaking, several men at the entrance of the alley came around and said, "This brother is going to the Siyi Pavilion? Just take a taxi, and ten eldest sons will take you there!"

The Portuguese glanced at the coachman who was soliciting business, shook his head and said, "No! I don't have ten in total, eldest son, all books are gone! There are no more beans, Lao Fu is bankrupt!"

After speaking, he shed two tears from the corners of his eyes, put the red lacquer gourd in his hand to his mouth, and took a big gulp.

The man in front of him twitched his nose: "Yo, this is Erguotou from Taibai's house! Your gourd is enough for me to work for a day!"

"Go away, this is my wine!" The Portuguese was a little flustered when the men began to praise his wine, and hurriedly clenched the gourd and lowered his head, about to slip out of the crowd.

How could those guys let him go like this - it's okay to be idle in the cold weather, and it's okay to be bored for a while.There were two standing in front of him, and the other grabbing his leather jacket from behind—"Barbarian, your jacket is not bad either! If you don't want to go to the pawnshop to get some wine money, the money for the car will come out too!"

The Portuguese drunk was scrambling left and right in the crowd, but he couldn't break the tacit encirclement.After a while, he was sweating profusely on his forehead, and a pile of white foam came out from the corner of his mouth.

A few coachmen were making trouble when they suddenly heard someone coughing and said, "Okay, it's almost done!"

An idle man turned his head and scolded: "You—yo, it's the sixth master, why do you have to hang out today?"

The man who was called Sixth Master was dressed in a delicate satin robe and had a green jade wrench on his left thumb. Hearing the rude words of the coachman, he raised his right hand to make a mouth.

"roll!"

The majesty of this Dongcheng local snake is no trivial matter, and several coachmen walked away embarrassedly.When the Portuguese got a gap, he squatted and wanted to run.He was grabbed by a companion behind "Six Master" and said, "Mr. Ines, what are you running for? Our Six Master has something to do with you. It's a good thing to make a fortune!"

This drunk is exactly Ines who came to the capital with the Roman embassy.In the second year after Portugal was annexed, the Governor of Goa, Alfonso, resigned, and the Spaniard Almeida Julioc took over as the Governor, which directly caused the first secretary, Mr. Ines, who remained in the capital, to lose his biggest patron. .

He originally wanted to leave China, but the achievements and honors the mission had won in China made him reluctant—in a diocese with less than [-] members, the cardinal appointed three at once, and it was unheard of for Ines to grow up so big.

This mission is bound to go down in history forever, but Ines' position is very embarrassing.After Lisbon was occupied by Felipe II, Ines was forgotten by the Madrid court - and the Portuguese nobles who have just experienced the pain of subjugation, who can remember the former first secretary beside the defeated dog Alfonso?
(End of this chapter)