open sea

Chapter 1340 Trust
In this era, Germany and Italy are divided, just a geographical concept.

Chen Ju traveled around the world with the Wanli Fleet and entered Gibraltar under the protection of the Spanish Daming Fleet.

There, on behalf of the emperor, he successively met with the kings of Sotan and Songhai of Morocco in North Africa, signed agreements on trade, exchange of envoys, and protection of the emperor's fleet, and then led the crowd into the Mediterranean Sea.

In the Mediterranean, his escort fleet was even stronger.

On his left wing, the Nantang ship sailed with the Naples fleet from Spain; on his right wing, the Taiyue ship sailed with the Speed ​​Tan galley fleet from Morocco; the Shuanglin ship, representing the eunuch, was the forerunner, visiting Marseilles belonging to the French .

Since Marseille has no members of the direct Valois royal family, under the strong demands of the nobles and merchants in the city, Chen Ju can only sign an unreliable treaty with the city. Of course, everything must be equal, so Marseille directly faces It is the Daming Port in Spain, where the two sides traded together, and the guards of the Daming Port sent 110 and two flag troops to Marseille to help the city defense.

The envoys of Marseilles are permanently stationed in Mexico City, where the Oriental Army is stationed.

Here, Chen Ju became the protector of Marseille again.

The fleet continued east, followed by Genoa. In Genoa, Chen Ju was warmly welcomed by bankers and financiers, as well as arms and armor merchants who came from Milan. Uncharacteristically, he didn't bring any presents.

But in the eyes of others, he brought the incomparable power of Ming Dynasty to defeat Spain and expand its power to the Mediterranean.

As long as he didn't fire a cannon, he'd already brought a lot.

Chen Ju has stayed in Genoa for a long time. Compared with Marseilles, it is more prosperous. The locals are both willing and able to provide supplies for its huge fleet. It just so happens that he needs to make some preparations.

During this time, people came from Milan and Florence to visit him. People were full of curiosity about China, a country that had been in their ears for a long time.

In this era, sea travelers all over the world point their compass to the east, and the focus of the east is the capital of Yuan Dynasty.

The flash in the pan of the New World attracted everyone's attention, and after Spain and Portugal lost the New World, people's wishes came true, and Daming came after hearing the news.

In the "Feast of the Gods" by Bellini, the founder of the Venetian School of Painting and the painter who made Venice the center of the late Renaissance, the gods wore silk and used Yongle porcelain plates. Pope VII once called the Mongols As the conqueror of the world, now Da Ming has taken the most extensive land in the world from the Spaniards and stands before their eyes.

Chen Ju is about to go to the Vatican in Rome, but he hasn't figured out what to call the Pope. Whether people like it or not, there is only one and only one emperor in this world, and everyone else should know and avoid it.

In the past, the Ming people did not know enough about the outside world, and they were bewitched by the Portuguese, making people think that the pope had the power of an emperor, but now they saw that this was not the case.

Killed by the French and almost starved to death by the Spaniards, the only troops that belonged directly to him were mercenaries from Switzerland.

At best, the power is equal to the king of Zhou in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, a decoration.

In Genoa, his interpreter looked through the classics and found a suitable title in the Canon Law: Roman Priest.

That's what people call themselves.

After staying in Genoa for three full months, Chen Ju finally bid farewell to the Genoese merchants who had signed the treaty of commerce and trade, and sent the merchants from various kingdoms and city-states as before from Marseille, Spain, Daming Port, Morocco, and Songhai countries. The envoys took them to the ship, left a banner army of a hundred households to garrison, and continued to sail to Rome.

Rome is very important to him on this voyage, which is related to Chen Mu's great trust.

Now, the purpose of the Wanli ship traveling around the world has changed, and Chen Ju is not just sailing to prove that the earth is round.

The earth is round, which was proved by Yang Ce a long time ago. His fleet brought back the rum from the Western Ocean to the Eastern Army, completing a great relay.

Before Chen Ju set sail from Daxiport, Mexico, Chen Mu chatted with him all night and instilled in him a concept: he was sailing to establish world order.

They need envoys from various countries and city-states to formulate rules for the world that belong to Ming Dynasty.

Tell them a reality: Ming has the ability to send the Ming army to any corner of the world.

Chen Ju clearly remembered that Chen Mu had a sarcastic smile when he said this, and then added: This sentence is not true, but it is true for those who heard it.

If you hear it, it means that you have seen a Daming person, and if you see it, it means that this sentence is true.

Italy, like Germany, is not a unified country, and Chen Ju believes that these two places may never become a unified country.

Because Germany has Holy Rome and Italy has the Vatican.

Holy Rome wants to unify Europe from the secular world. To unify Europe, an independent nation cannot be formed. Without the concept of an independent nation, how can a secular power be formed?
The Vatican wants to unify the world from the realm of theocracy. To unify the world, it must pay attention to the religious power. The Vatican, which pays attention to the religious power, is also the biggest obstacle for Italy to form an independent country.

In this way, the armed parade fleet led by Chen Ju finally arrived at the gate of the Roman priest.

But people can't say that they are very welcome.

Informed by the Naples Fleet in Spain, the Vatican already knew that envoys from Ming would come to visit as early as when Chen Ju first sailed into Gibraltar, but the Roman priest Gregory the Thirteenth refused.

It is rumored that he also wrote a letter reprimanding Fei Lao Er, blaming him for allowing these thugs who attacked the New World of Spain to sail into Gibraltar, directly threatening Rome, and ordering the Naples fleet assigned by Fei Lao Er to escort the Wanli Fleet to wipe out this fleet from Ming Dynasty at sea .

Out of the corner of the eye, the bald man in black leggings at the Madrid court read the letter as if he had seen a bubonic plague patient.

Squinting her eyes, she carefully pushed the letter from the corner of the table to the ground, and asked the court servant to bring the brazier. She commanded the servant with trembling hands, "Burn it, burn it all!"

are you crazy?If the Wanli ship is sunk, Spain will be gone.

Even if not to mention Chen Mu and his Ming warriors who are far away in the New World, Fu Yuan, who is stationed on the border between Spain and France, has completely guarded the gate of the Pyrenees, and he can release Chen Jiujing, who is making a fuss in France, at any time. Come in.

Not to mention that there are Yang Ce's pirates in the west who are making trouble with Spain all day long to enter Gibraltar, and Li Dan in Daming Port in the south is smiling all day long. The ghost knows what he is thinking in his heart.

Sure enough, the Pope doesn't care about Spain at all. At this time, he still wants Spain to sink the Wanli fleet?
In the empty palace, Philip clasped his hands nervously, muttering to himself: "The pope is possessed by the devil! I am the son of God, Rome is not worthy of trust...not worthy of trust! "

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at noon.

　　
　
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