If Madrid is compared with Sevilla, the latter will undoubtedly be worthy of the capital of a vast and wealthy kingdom like Spain.

Madrid was full of decay in Li Dan's eyes. Although the architecture was magnificent, the rustic tones of the earth and the depressing clothes and faces of people coming and going. Even if they were just walking on the street, the pulling horse's hooves would involuntarily speed up.

He thought that the first place he went to after entering Madrid would be a royal palace or somewhere, but he didn't expect that the place they were going to be a monastery.

Escorial Palace.

Philip built a monastery with a church, palace and tomb for himself.

Here, Li Dan met Fei Laoer, the famous Dongyang Military Mansion. As soon as the guards pushed open the heavy hall gate for him, he heard the king who had once ruled over the world and the oceans.

"For your father's sake, you don't need to be polite, please sit down."

The dusty Li Dan was determined not to think of how much effort His Highness Philip had made for this meeting. He almost spared no effort to maintain the majesty of the defeated king.

From how to speak to avoid the embarrassment of Li Dan's refusal to kneel down, to wearing a wig bought from an English merchant at a high price to hide the increasingly deserted hairline, and even which pair of boots to let the Ming Dynasty people who were not aware of the goods know his wealth.

From England to Spain, from Spain to Italy, from Italy to the Ottoman, from the Ottoman to the Ming Dynasty, the whole world is enthused in this kind of etiquette of kneeling, which is not exclusive to China.

This statement was pretty good, which made Li Dan, who was halfway through, a little embarrassed, but he still offered his hand. After all, in the context of Ming people, "no need to be polite" is just a polite word. He should say hello when he comes to someone else's house.

The wig was also very good, which made Li Dan secretly amazed in his heart why Fei Lao Er looked different from the painting he had seen in Seville before. His hair grew too fast and even the color changed.

But the boots were not chosen well, which was a bit embarrassing, because when His Highness Philip was floating on the sea half a month ago, he received the news that Duke Alva sent back from a fast horse by land. He began to prepare the clothes for the meeting, but found that no matter what he wore, Li Dan, who had the function of envoy, would find it difficult to recognize the goods.

No one in the Ming Dynasty could see whether it was the Spanish sheepskin boots, the English stockings boots, or the precious shoes and hats of Milan or Venice.

In the end, he shouldn't have been sure. He picked a pair of New Spain's former governor Almansa and gave him tribute to him with leather boots, green satin as the face, and three leather back-stitched front stalks; raw cowhide as the bottom and eight layers of leather strips were decorated, beautiful, majestic, comfortable and breathable, but one thing was not good - he had the same shoes as Li Dan.

The boots were worn by third-rank officials. The leather boots that flowed out of Changsheng should be just this pair. They were given to Almansa by Chen Mu, after all, they were the deputy governor of New Spain. In addition, long leather boots were never sold in border trade, only short boots and pizza Gexi.

The so-called leather trunk is to tie a circle of leather tubes on the calf outside the short boots and tie them inside the tangle. Because ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty could not wear boots, even in Beiyang, officers above the small flag were wearing boots, while the flag soldiers wore leather trunk shoes.

Li Dan took office as Sevilla's loaned land, and his official position was the commander of the Secheng Guard of the Eastern Army, and he was the third-ranked governor of Sevilla.

This situation made him laugh when he saw Fei Lao Er’s shoes: Oh, brother, we are on the same level!

Philip, wearing fake shawl hair, didn't know the twists and turns of the Ming Dynasty clothing system. He also thought the shoes he chose were good, you see, they were like messengers.

"I heard from the monks that your habit is to talk about important things during meals. Why not chat first and prepare a banquet for you later, and then we will talk about state affairs?"

The so-called monk was naturally Acosta, but Li Dan shook his head and refused the proposal. He really thought the Spanish banquet was quite boring. He actually wanted to walk around by himself, making him feel like moving the tent of the Mongolian Khan into the palace.

"Your Highness, that's not our habit. It's just that the adoptive father is busy with everything and has no time to listen to others' words when he is busy with things, so he is used to talking about things during meals."

Li Dan sat on a chair and spread his hands and said, "It's okay for me. You can talk about the serious matter now. Your Highness the King should know how much we have done to collect this rental land in Spain."

Philip had already felt that the earliest candidates sent overseas by the Ming Empire might be the same as those of Spain... Perhaps he would not be able to see the true elite of the Ming Empire in this life.

This elite is not talking about the elite in combat.

Even if you just look at it with your eyes, you can see that Li Dan is not from a noble family.

"Don't worry, young man." Philip asked with a smile, "Please tell me, what are the benefits of renting the land to the Ming Kingdom for me?"

It seems that I had guessed that the answer given by Li Dan was probably 'no good'. Philip raised his hand and said, "Don't rush to answer. The treaty did not explain how big this leased land was. Sevilla was very big. You should know that not every place has a suitable coast and port. This requires us to discuss so that both sides can get good results... You are very good at doing this."

Philip's goodness was not ironic. Until Alva led his army back to Portugal, the king would not have thought that he would be the beneficiary of the Second War in Mingxi.

He and his country, enemies and empires have benefited from the war, so who has suffered losses from the war? Some of the new nobles and some of the merchants, anyway, he made a profit.

Now he wants to make more.

"Since the king is asking, the first benefit is that your country does not have to be enemies with the Ming Dynasty; we go out to sea not to rule anyone, although we can, but we really don't want to, just want to make friends and make money."

"The second benefit is that we have gained allies like the Ming Dynasty. Although in order to avoid your country's fear, the adoptive father decided to station a flag army of thousands to five thousand households in Sai City, we can protect the king very well. There have been too many court coups in our long history, and the king often has no trustworthy army, but His Highness can absolutely trust our army."

"The third benefit is royal income. In the treaty, three of the goods sent by the Ming merchants became the tyrants of the king. The more goods imported from the leased land, the higher the king's palace income; in addition, the tax on the city taxes, the tax on goods traded in the leased land is 30%, one of which became the use of the construction of the leased land, one became the income of the Ming Dynasty, and the other became the income of the king."

"The fourth advantage is that the Ming Dynasty can bring support to the king's war. As long as the royal family pays, the fleets that cross the ocean can transport muskets, artillery, military uniforms, armor, flags, tents, and kettles to the king... all the tools that the king imagines, at the same price, can buy the best things in the world."

"As for the last fifth benefit... do your Highness know that, in fact, I, Li Dan, the governor of Seville in the Ming Empire, is also a devout Catholic. When there is no Beiyang Banner Army around me, the king can call me Andrea Didith."

Li Dan didn't blush when he said this, and sat upright and picked up his fist in an extremely serious manner.

He didn't feel that he had deceived his pious second brother. He did feel that he was very pious. He worshiped him seriously every time he went to sea, and never left anyone behind.

Well, the reason why he lost someone is because he is not only a devout Catholic, but also a devout Mazu believer, a devout believer in the sky, and an extremely devout believer of Dragon and Tiger Taoist Lord.
Chapter completed!