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Chapter 1139 National Policy
It's really hard to be the king of Spain these days.

His Royal Highness Philip felt that it was useless for him to do anything, and someone would always tear things down.

It took a long time. As early as the Portuguese king died in the Mahazan River, he worked hard and sent people to contact the nobles and governors of Portugal and its colonies to lay the foundation for a smooth joint rule of Portugal.

After years of procrastination, the crowning of the King of Portugal could no longer give Philip any great pleasure.

Originally, from the meridian of the Holy See, Spain and Portugal plundered the world. Philip wanted to be the king of Portugal from then on. What does it mean to be crowned the king of Portugal?
Then the colonies of Spain and Portugal mean the whole world!

Except for the two small countries of Britain and France, Ottoman, and Ming Dynasty, most of the other lands in the world are their colonies.

How beautiful!
Philip even thought of words early on. As long as the United Portugal is successful, he will engrave on the back of the silver coin: The world is not enough for me.

Then the King of Portugal really died.

How wonderful!
But in the past few years, something has happened.

First of all, the Philippines is gone, and it was taken back by Ming and renamed Luzon.

Secondly, Macau is still there, but Macau and Portugal have been cut off for many years.

Then, the Spice Islands disappeared, and were split by Ming into a series of vassal states such as Borneo, Sulu, Java, Phoenix Harbor, and Sumatra.

Then, the Strait of Malacca was also transferred from the Portuguese to the hands of Daming, followed by Yangon, Arakan, and Goa. Not to mention all of them were gone, and there was a Han country, that Lin Fengbi Barbarossa is also a bastard, directly making the coast of Africa a no-go zone for white people.

It’s fine if the black slave trade is gone, and Lin Feng’s Daming General Yang Ce took the black slaves to take revenge. Philip thinks this is very good. He really thinks this is very good. Your Han ship has been swaying in the Strait of Gibraltar in my great Spain, go to the north to seek revenge from the English!
We in Spain embrace the silver mines of the New World and don't do such unscrupulous things as slave trafficking.

There is also the New World, the vast, beautiful, rich and primitive New World, the jewel in the palm of Philip II, and only a small corner of the Viceroyalty of Peru remains.

In fact, Philip was happy with this in the past, and he even laughed at Portugal because of it: Look at our great Spain, even Daming has to give me face, and keep the most profitable Peruvian governorate for me.

As long as Peru exists, the Kingdom of Spain, dominating both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, can still cross the Pyrenees, and the mighty national power can still scare the king of Paris trembling.

Look at your Portugal, there is only Brazil that does not make money, and there is nothing left, just a little bit!

May when he is crowned King of Portugal?My God, Brazil is gone too.

He did unite Portugal as he wished, but now this Portugal is really just Portugal, and the Spanish royal family sent money to Portugal to exchange them for captured nobles from Morocco, opened the border, and allowed autonomy, and finally harvested to what?
Only a long stretch of the western coastline was harvested.

"I heard that the Governor was having a good time in Lisbon, and led his soldiers to ride horses along the coast. This makes me very worried about your safety."

In the royal palace in Lisbon, the travel-worn Li Dan was summoned. He had a tired and energetic face, but his expression was very lively. Philip stepped down from the throne and sat with him, saying: "If If you want to know about the deployment of Portugal, the Duke of Alva knows better, so you can ask directly."

"Oh, I care about what those people do. I'm not a general, and I don't know how to fight." Li Dan smiled sincerely, rolled up his sleeves and looked very excited. After walking, but it’s the same if you want to come there, the port of Lisbon is very suitable for setting up a tax office, and this place can provide the royal family with tax revenue of no less than 33 and a half taels a year.”

Li Dan shook his head and said to himself: "What a wonderful place, how could the Portuguese royal family let it lose money?"

This is completely nonsense. No matter how low the level of Portuguese governance is, it will not cause the port of Lisbon to lose money. It is the Portuguese royal family that is really losing money, not just this port.

The internal taxation system was extremely backward, and land trade had high trade barriers with the only neighboring country, Spain. Nearly half of the domestic military nobles were killed or captured in the First World War on the Mahazan River. The high ransom payment made it impossible for the country to open source; the main external income In addition to the port tax is the route auction.

Which route can Portugal auction now?Goa to Macau, Macau to Nagasaki?Or Lisbon to Goa?
The former took a different path, while the latter caused a large outflow of gold, silver and precious metals due to the existence of Yang Ce.

How can it not lose money?

Now it's Li Dan's turn to sit here and make sarcastic remarks: "If you want me to say, there is no need to go out at all. Daming Port and Lisbon, the two ports have an annual income of 200 million, plus Mingxi trade is 400 million a year. The Daming Fleet, Gibraltar is protected by the Daming Harbor Guard."

"With the 600 million and a half taels in hand, His Highness sent domestic nobles to quell the rebellion in the Netherlands, more than enough to compete with the French bumpkins and British island barbarians. Please ask the emperor to send a few Jinshi over here, to extend their favor and transform the feudal city. Set up prefectures and counties, gather power in one body, and when the old nobles die, use the 600 million to form a new army and raise [-] troops."

Philip's eyes were straightened, but Li Dan said more and more vigorously: "When the time comes, call the Taimiao, choose two loyal ministers and good generals, the army will lead the army to attack Xichuan in the Pyrenees, and the navy will block the mouth of the Seine with the fleet. Wouldn't it be nice to see a mighty army coming to the city of Paris?"

The king blinked, don't you say you are a businessman?
Why are you so excited about the war, and you still tweet, what is that?
This king refuses to accept allusions from the Celestial Dynasty!

Fei Lao Er didn't take this issue at all. He was more concerned about the strength of the Ming army's naval battles now, so he waved his hands and said, "Speaking of the coastal defense of the Great East Ocean, that's why I came to you. The British islanders are gathering a fleet for the false king Antonio, intending to snatch the silver ships for Mingxi trade."

"I hope you can put aside the matter of Daming Port and go back to the New World."

Li Dan felt that Philip didn't understand what he said, otherwise he shouldn't be acting like this. He thought what he said was quite feasible, and he was also very sincere, basically he didn't dig a trap for Fei Laoer .

The only chance for mutual benefit is that after the old nobles died in the Netherlands and the new army failed to form, Spain would face a period of time when military personnel were scarce, but this was not dangerous, as Ming had inexhaustible officers.

But Fei Laoer was not the slightest bit excited, which made Li Dan very surprised: "I just went back to North Asia for this matter, and sent troops to suppress them, wouldn't it be over?"

"Not only this matter, I also need you to meet the Generalissimo of the Oriental Army. In Colombia, the Indian rebels named Lautaro are constantly killing my legionnaires and Peruvian citizens. More than four times a month Hundreds of soldiers were killed by guns fired from nowhere or by cannons that exploded around them."

Li Dan said with puzzled eyes: So?

Philip clapped his hands against this gaze and said, "They used our weapons in the past, but this year, they have more muskets. These muskets were made in Nanyang in the second year of Wanli."

"Moreover, just three months ago, the Dongyang Army sent [-] troops to occupy Rio de Janeiro, the Governor-General of Portugal and Brazil, and seized land in all directions, no, in all directions."

Philip was very angry, and the anger was that he was speaking according to the language habits of Daming people: "I want you to go back and ask, what exactly is your father trying to do!"

(End of this chapter)