June in Beijing is already a little hot, and it’s fine sooner or later. The cool breeze is blowing, which is very comfortable. However, once the sun rises, the temperature rises sharply, and the roast is hot. Zhu Cijing is also hot now. Of course, this hotness is not about his body, but about his heart.

Portugal finally sent an envoy to negotiate the trade issue, and the person who came was the new governor of Macau, Schvira. Although Macau was a little bit big, it was also rented from the Ming Dynasty. He, the governor, was a real senior minister, equivalent to the six ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Being able to send a governor here proves that the Portuguese have already valued the Ming Dynasty very much. Of course, the European powers were a group of hungry wolves who eat people and don’t spit bones. It is not necessarily a good thing that they value you, but Portugal is different, at least now, because now their homeland has been annexed by Spain and are working hard to restore the country. Naturally, they will not easily provoke a powerful country like the Ming Dynasty.

There is also this reason why Zhu Cijiu chose to cooperate with Portugal. Other European powers are arrogant now. Who will pee you? It is better to help you in time than to add icing on the cake. For example, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are crazy now. Even if you put on a hot face, they will only give you a cold butt. Portugal is different. Now they need friends. Now they will definitely have many benefits to cooperate with them.

He was really guessed that during this period of restoration, Portugal frantically sought support from foreign countries to fight against Spain and recover lost territory overseas. They kept asking for help from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Rome, and even expressed that Portugal was willing to join the Bourbon family group led by France and fight against the Habsburg family group led by Spain. However, these countries were ungrateful and did not provide substantial help after taking the benefits of Portugal. As a result, Portugal gradually declined and gradually became a second-rate country. It can be said that the once glorious Empire of Sun-Downfall was buried by the Portuguese.

Schvira came to the Ming Dynasty this time to see the strength of the Ming Dynasty. Before he came, one of the most powerful figures in Portugal now, the Indian Governor Condede personally told him: Trade is second-hand. When you go this time, you mainly look at the strength of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty is not strong, try to lower the price and make as much money as possible. If the Ming Dynasty is still strong, give them some profits appropriately and make friends. If the Ming Dynasty is strong, you must try your best to win over them and make them twice as much money!

Zhu Cijing happened to let them see the strength of the Ming Dynasty. If Portugal could fool him and seek help from the Ming Dynasty, he would make a fortune.

So, Shivera was shocked. Zhu Cijiu pulled all the people in the Jing camp to the inner city and the imperial city, from Zhengyang Gate in the inner city to the Meridian Gate in the Forbidden City. More than ten miles in front and behind, the elite troops in the Jing camp equipped with new flintlock rifles were lined up on both sides. Before that was over, Zhu Cijiu also drew most of the Jinyiwei staff in Beijing, and the city walls on both sides were full of Zhengyang Gate, Chengtian Gate, and the Meridian Gate. From the Meridian Gate to the Huangji Gate, there were even more Jinyiwei Generals in fresh clothes and angry armor, and from the Huangji Gate to the Huangji Hall were filled with martial eunuchs.

Schvira was arranged to enter the inner city from Zhengyang Gate. At the beginning, he was quite arrogant. He raised his head and his chest, and his nostrils were almost raised to the sky, and he did not take the officials of the Ministry of Rites who came to greet him seriously.

When he saw the densely packed Jinyiwei on the inner city walls, his head was slightly flattened, and his eyes finally turned back to the ground from the sky.

When he saw the elite Beijing camps lined up between the inner city and the imperial city, the arrogance on his face disappeared. There were about ten miles along the way, how many troops would be there!

When he saw the dense Jinyiwei on the walls of the imperial city, he was a little shocked. Why is the city wall still full of soldiers?

When he entered the imperial city, he was completely shocked. There were still dense troops on both sides of the road. How many troops did the Ming Dynasty have?

When he saw the Forbidden City wall, he was already numb. Why did he still have the city wall? It was still a dense army!

When he entered the Huangji Sect, he completely lowered his arrogant head, because the two sides were densely packed with troops, but armed eunuchs. How many people would have to be castrated? Should I be so extravagant!

He did not doubt that these troops were pretending. As a governor, he also had troops under him. He could tell at a glance whether they were real soldiers. These soldiers along the way were obviously elite troops that had been trained and civilians could not pretend to be.

Along the way, I saw at least more than 100,000 troops, which was more than the sum of all the troops in Portugal's heyday. There were also those flintlock rifles, Schvira had inquired about the range of these flintlock rifles made by the Ming Dynasty, which actually reached a terrifying five hundred meters, which was even more powerful than the flintlock rifles made by them in Portugal. There were also more than 100,000 naval troops under Zheng Zhilong. The Ming Empire was strong enough!

He had already thought about it that this negotiation would at least give some profit to the Ming Empire, because the Ming Empire was already stronger than their Portugal. As for whether to win over them desperately, it remains to be seen. The Ming army was stronger than their Portugal, but in front of the Spaniards, this army was not enough.

After adjusting his mentality, Schvira was naturally extremely respectful in front of Zhu Cijiong. He rarely bowed one knee and shouted in broken Chinese: "See Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire, on behalf of the Portuguese Empire, I will negotiate with your country about trade agency rights."

When the ministers on both sides saw him kneeling on one knee and bowing straight, they couldn't help but frown. The envoys of this country were too rude. I wonder if they were to kneel on both knees and kowtow to the emperor?

Zhu Cijing was quite satisfied. It was rumored that foreigners could not bend their knees at that time in the Qing Dynasty, because they never thought that Emperor Xianfeng and Empress Dowager Cixi had curtsy, and at most they could bow their hands. Zhu Cijing really wanted Cixi to see her now. Who said that their knees could not bend, isn’t they bend now?

Of course, Zhu Cijing not only wanted their knees to bend, but also wanted to attack the powerful. It was just the beginning. It was good to bend them to bend their knees. He pretended to be naive and said, "Yeah, no gift, have you seen my Imperial Guard? Is that okay?"

Imperial Guard? Did he refer to the thousands of soldiers in armor in the imperial city? Schvira slowly stood up and gave a lame compliment: "It's OK, it's OK, the Imperial Guard inside is OK, and the army outside is OK."

Zhu Cijing thought for a long time before he understood what he meant. After a long time, he thought that only the General of the Jinyiwei in the Imperial City was the Imperial Guard. How could it be? Pretending to be misunderstood was the most unbearable. He quickly corrected: "There are my Imperial Guards inside and outside, and you see them today."

Schvira rolled her eyes when she heard this. If it were the emperor of the enemy country, he really wanted to mock him: "Can you die if you don't brag?"

They are all imperial guards, what are you kidding? More than 100,000 imperial guards, who are you lying to?

However, this was not the emperor of the enemy country, and he didn't know how to express his dissatisfaction after being deceived, so he fell silent.

After a while of silence, he secretly glanced at Zeng Dezhao, a member of the Ministry of Works' Military Affairs Office among the Ming Dynasty officials, and wanted him to come out to ease the awkward atmosphere.

Logically, a low-level official like Zeng Dezhao cannot enter the Huangji Palace, but this time the emperor wants to meet his fellow villager, and he is quite good in Chinese. If he needs to translate, he can also temporarily recharge the numbers, so he was licensed to come in.

When Zeng Dezhao saw Shivera secretly glance at him, he thought Shivera was asking him if what the emperor said was true. Of course, it was true. The Jingying and the Jinyiwei were both imperial guards. So he nodded slightly and said a silent "yes" in a Portuguese lip.

Nodding and saying yes? Schvira didn't react for a moment. When he reacted, his eyes were almost glaring out. It was really all the Imperial Guards, more than 100,000 Imperial Guards!

He couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "His Majesty the Emperor has so many imperial guards!"

To show off, one must pretend to be the end. Zhu Cijiong pretended to regret and said, "This Imperial Guard is nothing. I was originally planning to recruit 500,000 new Imperial Guards, but someone suddenly rebelled in the northwest. I had to transfer all of these 500,000 troops to the northwest."

When Schweila heard this, she was so shocked that she almost bit off her tongue. He couldn't help but look at Zhu Cijiong with his eyes bulging and stammeringly said, "Five, Five, Five Hundreds of Thousand!"

Zhu Cijing continued to show off, and he pretended to be careless and said, "Is there a lot of 500,000? There were two million troops in the prime of the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, it is less than half now. I am planning to recruit all 2.7 million troops in the past few years."

Two million and seven hundred thousand! True or false, Schvira felt that he had lost the ability to think, and he couldn't help but look directly at Zeng Dezhao.

Zeng Dezhao has been fascinated by the history of the Ming Dynasty recently, so he naturally knew this. Although he was a Portuguese, he is now an official in the Ming Dynasty. When he talks about the glorious history of the Ming Dynasty, he also feels honored. Now that Shivera comes over, he naturally makes his head a little without hesitation.

He also nodded. The Ming Empire really once had an army of 2.7 million! You should know that Portugal now has only more than one million people, and 2.7 million people are more than twice the population of their country. Even when Spain was the strongest, it only had an army of 400,000 or 500,000 troops. How powerful is the Ming Empire!

Schvira was already shocked and could not speak. He stood there in amazement, and there was no movement for a moment.

Seeing that the effect of pretending to behave is almost done, Zhu Cijiu will be scared if he pretends to be dead. He quickly eliminated his skills and asked with a smile: "Aren't you here to discuss trade issues?"

Schvira nodded mechanically, but howled excitedly in her heart: "I'm just talking nonsense, you can do whatever you want. If such a powerful country can help us Portugal, let alone restore the country, it is very simple to recover the lost land overseas! We must win over it well and do whatever it takes!"
Chapter completed!