The negotiator for the European embassy this time was Coquguian, the governor of Manila, Spain. Because he successfully purchased 100,000 flintlocks from the Ming Dynasty last time and persuaded His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire to send a fleet to the continent, the Spanish King and the Holy Roman Emperor attached great importance to him. Not only did he hand over the negotiations to him in full responsibility, but he also promised that if he could buy all the weapons and equipment needed by both countries, he would be awarded the title of Earl!

Earl! An earl may not be anything in the Ming Dynasty, but it is amazing in the continental region. You must know that the duke in the continental region is qualified to fight for the throne of a country. In other words, the earl is already the largest aristocratic title below the king. How glory and noble it is!

After Kokuen received this promise, he felt like he had taken stimulants and was full of energy. In order to win the title of Earl, he even planned to use his private property to make friends with His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and beg them to speak good things to him.

Before coming to the Ming Dynasty, he was quite anxious because these weapons and equipment not only related to his personal title, but also to the victory or defeat of a war. Now almost the entire continent knows that because France did not listen to the notes of the Habsburg Dynasty and insisted on participating in the war between the Catholic and Protestant alliances, the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire have decided to send troops to attack France. Perhaps this year, or next year, or the war will begin after the fleet of the envoys left the continent.

This battle can be said to be a key battle that determines the outcome of the two major alliances. You should know that France is a traditional European power. Before the Age of Discovery, he was the well-deserved continental overlord. Now Denmark and Sweden, the main players of the Protestant League, have both been defeated and are still determined to end the war. It is because they still have France, and they believe that France can lead them to turn the tables!

The Catholic Alliance also knew that as long as France was defeated, the European hegemony that lasted for more than 30 years would be over, and the Habsburgs would rule the entire continent! Therefore, they eagerly sent envoys, and even took over the pearl of Princess Anna, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, to get a large number of weapons from the Ming Empire as soon as possible.

Kokuian was in a very urgent mood, but His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire was not in the mood to talk to them at that time. As soon as they arrived in the Ming Dynasty, they were notified that the emperor had no time during this period. You can travel around the Ming Dynasty for a while.

When this basin of cold water was poured down, Kokui's heart was very cold. Seeing that the continental region was about to start fighting, he was in the mood to travel, which was related to his rank of count. If the coalition forces of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire were defeated, wouldn't his rank of count be ruined?

He was not in the mood to travel, but the other envoys who accompanied him were quite interested in the scenery of the Ming Empire. Of course, some people might have other tasks, such as spying on the military technology of the Ming Empire. In short, no matter what they want or don't want, they all embarked on a journey.

There are many things that surprised them during this trip. The first thing that surprised them was that their tour guide turned out to be a Portuguese aristocrat!

This Portuguese nobleman was naturally Earl Schvira. During this period, he went to America to purchase rubber and Ceylon to plant rubber trees. He was tired and died of exhaustion, so he gave himself a vacation and went to the capital to rest for a while. He was resting. He heard that the envoys from the continental region were coming, and the emperor intended to ask them to travel to Liaodong. He happened to want to know the recent situation in the continental region, and he also happened to want to visit his old friends in Liaodong, so he volunteered to be a tour guide.

Portugal is also a country under the rule of the Habsburgs, so the envoys are still very welcome to Schvira's arrival. It is better to have their own people lead them than to let those Ming Empire officials who are not able to speak.

As soon as they set off, they were shocked again because this time they actually went on a train! In fact, they saw the train from afar when they first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, but at that time they set out to the capital with His Highness Regent of the Ming Empire. It was naturally impossible for a large team of nearly 100,000 people to take the train. In addition, the translators were arranged to serve His Highness Princess Anna along the way, so although they were curious, they didn't know what the moving iron box was.

After getting on the train, they realized that this thing was a carriage that could run by themselves. Of course, the name of this carriage was not very appropriate, because it did not require a horse at all. As for how it ran by itself, Schvira didn't know this. However, Schvira's Damingtong was not a fan. It can be said that he didn't know how the train ran by itself, but he knew everything else. So along the way, the envoys were so shocked that they couldn't even close their chin.

If they were surprised to see something new, then they were at least 10,000 shocks along the way! Under Schvira's explanation, they finally realized how powerful the Ming Empire was.

The first stop was Beidaying. At this moment, the Tianxiong Army and the First Border Defense Army Corps were stationed here. Under the leadership of Schvira, they visited the military camps, visited the houses, and stopped on the city wall covered with artillery. A city is an army of 200,000, and a city can accommodate millions of people. This is equivalent to a medium-sized country in the continent!

The second stop, Shanhaiguan, the world's number one pass was shocking enough. Schvira also introduced them to the history of this pass for thousands of years and how many wars it has experienced. Well, thousands of years ago, most parts of the continent were still wilder than their ancestors.

At the third stop, Ningyuan Guard and Shiweila introduced the system of the Ming Empire's garrison system. Ningyuan Guard was a relatively large garrison in the Ming Dynasty. There were more than ten thousand households and tens of thousands of garrisons. Generally, there were five thousand households under the garrison, more than 5,000 people, and of course there were tens of thousands of people. For example, the Jinyi Guard, there were fifty or sixty thousand people. For such internal and external garrisons, there were more than 300 such garrisons in the entire Ming Empire! Isn't it mean that the Ming Empire had at least one million and a half million troops, and there were only a few countries with a total population of more than 1.5 million in the continental country!

At the fourth stop, Haizhouwei, they saw the endless green ocean. According to Schvira, this crop planting area alone is tens of thousands of square kilometers! The ones who bought cakes, tens of thousands of square kilometers, planted all crops. This is just one piece. There are several countries in the continental region that are big in this farmland!

At the fifth stop, in Guanning City, Shivera took them to commemorate the great war on the city wall. It is said that the total number of soldiers participating in the war exceeded one million, and the number of casualties alone exceeded 300,000! This seems a bit exaggerated, but they cannot believe it, because next, Shivera took them to the Liaodong Martyrs Cemetery outside the city to pay tribute to the martyrs who died in the war. Just looking at the scale of the cemetery, you can know that at least 400,000 troops can be stationed, and the dense tombstones that cannot be seen at a glance. The soldiers who died in the Ming Dynasty alone would probably not be less than 100,000. As the defeated side, the casualties must be greater! This is a great war. If it were in the continental region, even the most powerful Spanish Empire now, if so many soldiers were killed, they would have destroyed the country long ago!
Chapter completed!