In order to make money, people can give everything.

Businessmen with or without government backgrounds in France and Genoa set out from their country with red eyes and spent half a year bringing a ship of gold and silver to China to do business.

Then he stayed in China for a month or two, then returned to his country with a lot of goods, and the profit was several times higher than that of his turnover.

The huge business opportunities stimulated more European merchants to come to China to do business by boat, which also stimulated Chinese merchants to go to Europe to do business. When they arrived in Europe, they found that it turned out that they were not only the goods in their hands, but also the Chinese identity was valuable.

He is literate, understands etiquette, and knows how to cook. Many European nobles are willing to find such Chinese people to serve themselves at a high price.

It is said that in addition to the Chinese-style life, the highest-end configuration of the continental aristocrats is accompanied by a Chinese scholar, teaching etiquette and Chinese culture, and then a Chinese private chef.

Many people will be envious of Chinese scholars as personal entourages and Chinese chefs serve privately.

This is the trend brought about by the Governor of Genoa. This guy has to take Chen Zurong everywhere he goes, pretending to be the upper class of the continent.

In this way, not only did the five traders in Daqin flourish, but the ports in Genoa and France gradually flourished and developed.

Such increasingly close business ties naturally made other European countries drool.

Seeing that people made a lot of money, the Genoese nobles and French nobles became richer and richer. Every family wore gorgeous clothes made of expensive Chinese silk, ate colorful Chinese food, and had the service of Chinese chefs. This was simply enviable.

So the Spanish Empire, which was strongly rejected by the Chinese, seemed particularly unhappy at this moment.

In the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in September 1598, Spain's King Philip II died in a mixed bag of worries and passed on the throne to his son Philip III.

Just three months after Philip II's death, Xiao Ruxun launched the Lugou Bridge mutiny outside Beijing, overthrew the Ming Dynasty and established the Qin Dynasty.

It's only a few months apart.

The trade with Europe, which began in the Myanmar era, began to scale after the founding of the Qin Dynasty.

In the first year of Longwu and the second year of Longwu, there were 17 and 26 Chinese merchant ships that arrived in Europe respectively. By the third year of Longwu, the number exceeded 100. By the fourth year of Longwu, the number of merchant ships exceeded 200.

At present, the number of merchant ships is still increasing, but all are heading to France and Genoa, and there are no other countries, especially Spain.

Because of the Luzon incident, after clarifying the political situation in Europe, the Qin government led by Xiao Ruxun implemented the policy of exclusion and contempt for Spain, cleared out all the Spanish forces in the South China Sea, and also used the Portuguese forces to themselves, turning the Nanyang into its own back garden.

This undoubtedly became a great failure of the Spanish government. During his lifetime, Philip II tried to organize an expeditionary force to attack China and regain the sphere of influence of Luzon and the Southeast Asian countries.

However, under the political environment of internal and external difficulties, he failed to accomplish this.

The Netherlands Revolution and the English-Spanish War and the religious war against France consumed Spain's national strength and military strength. The destruction of the Invincible Armada in 1588 AD greatly affected Spain's maritime power, making Philip II powerless in the expedition.

Subsequently, Xiao Ruxun fought against the Northern Expedition and overthrew the Ming Dynasty and established the Qin Dynasty. Philip II died of illness and Philip III ascended the throne.

Philip III was far inferior to his father's talent in politics, military and diplomacy. When Philip II was alive, he was very disappointed with Philip III and predicted that he would be controlled by powerful officials throughout his life, and this prophecy was tragically fulfilled.

After Philip III ascended the throne, his interest in sensuality and enjoyment was far higher than his interest in politics, diplomacy and military.

In order to enjoy it better, he handed over all the power of the government to his favorite minister, Duke Lemar, who liked hunting, dancing and opera, and was immersed in singing, dancing, banquets, bullfighting and farces all day long.

The national conditions of the Spanish Empire in the late reign of Philip II were no longer as dangerous as before, especially after the destruction of the fleet, the plunder of America and Africa also paused. The wealth accumulated before was consumed by war and trade, but there was no more open source afterwards.

Philip III inherited a country full of crisis, and he obviously had no ability or interest to deal with it.

He would rather listen to an opera and hold another banquet than deal with another state affairs. He didn't even want to pay attention to the war between Britain and France, let alone China, which was thousands of miles apart.

What Duke Lemar is more interested in is to enjoy more power and honor, live a luxurious life, and get more money.

Simply put, it is to act as a mighty person, and he is not interested in fighting wars or anything else. After he took power, he tried to truce with Britain and promoted the process.

In addition, it is to use your power and status to earn a lot of money for yourself to squander.

Of course, it is even more impossible to spend a lot of money to organize the expeditionary force to find China's trouble, let alone this may not necessarily win.

After the French merchants and Genoa merchants who participated in the military parade of the Qin Empire in the second year of Longwu, they returned to China and widely spread China's powerful army and excellent weapons, saying that the Spanish were defeated by the Chinese. The Chinese not only had extremely excellent civilizations, but also had strong military power.

Their emperor was an emperor from a general who liked war and advocated force. He was a complete political and military strongman. All the noble officials in China were his leader, and his power was beyond anyone's imagination.

After Duke Lemar learned about this news, he forever ruled out the government's administrative proposal to cause trouble in China.

It has to be said that this is wise, otherwise Xiao Ruxun would have the confidence to let Spain go bankrupt twenty years earlier and let Europe hold a grand Spanish party to divide the country.

But this is not very useful, because Xiao Ruxun decided to make the Spaniards pay the price.

China only carries out government and business cooperation with France and Genoa, but ignores Spain, refuses to accept it, refuses to cooperate, and does not allow Spanish to come to China to do business, and Chinese businessmen will not go to Spain to do business.

After the Chinese fever completely swept across the European continent after the third year of Longwu, the Spanish were surprised to find that they had nothing to get and were not even allowed to go to China to do business.

The profits obtained from commercial trade between China, France and Genoa in the fourth year of Longwu made the Spaniards jealous, but they still found that they could not get any understanding, and the Chinese Daqin government refused to have any contact with them.
Chapter completed!