On April 13, the Ming fleet bypassed the coast of Spain and arrived at Lisbon, the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.

Over the past few days, many merchants and soldiers on each ship stood on the deck, and everyone was in high spirits because in the past few days the fleet finally escaped from the desolate sea and saw the scene of thousands of sails competing. The lonely sailing ended!

There are only a lot of boats along the coast of Lisbon, like a swim-out school of fish.

Since the Kingdom of Portugal established its capital in Lisbon four hundred years ago, it has developed into an important trading city in Europe and the Mediterranean, and is also the commercial center of Europe.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Dagama was sent by the King of Portugal to lead a ship from Lisbon to find a maritime route to India.

"No wonder His Majesty wants to vigorously develop naval and commerce. There are too many ships in Europa!"

Wu Zhong sighed and ordered the fleet to follow the Portuguese pilot ship into the port.

The port of Lisbon was surrounded by people who came to watch. The leader was the Portuguese King Joao IV, who sent Portuguese officials who came to welcome the Ming mission.

After floating on the sea for a long time, Wu Zhong stepped onto the land with his feet and felt that he could hardly walk anymore, which made people extremely uncomfortable.

He looked at the master of Guo, uncle and others. Everyone had a bit of a strange pace, and then he felt relieved.

In the end, the Ming delegation and his group were arranged to a small western-style building in Lisbon, which was not far from the Portuguese Palace.

After moving in, something unpleasant happened.

Wu Zhong and Zhu Cheng, the main and deputy envoys of the mission, had their suites separated by three private rooms, and even the suites of the uncle Xu Bohan and several other major members of the mission were separated by a private room.

Zhu Chenggong, the master of Guo, frowned and said, "Why is this room still separated?"

The Portuguese steward who was responsible for serving them smiled and explained, "Sorry, General, before you came, the messengers of the Kingdom of Spain, France, and England were already living here."

As the head of the East Factory, Wu Zhong had been playing with information for more than ten years and could see the tricks at a glance.

He chuckled, went to Zhu Chenggong and lowered his voice, saying, "I don't know anything about Guo's surname. This is the useful trick of intelligence agencies to monitor foreign diplomats. Those so-called suites occupied by envoys from other countries are actually spies next door to the Portuguese country..."

After hearing this, Zhu Chenggong was about to get angry and threatened to hit someone.

Finally, with the persuasion of Wu Zhong and others, he gave up.

At Wu Zhong's instructions, Zhu Chenggong and others came to his suite. As soon as they entered the door, two elites from the East Factory immediately took action to clean the room quickly.

They first searched the suite up and down to see if there were any dangerous items.

Immediately afterwards, they tapped the wall gently and identified the thickness of the wall by sound.

A Dongchang Chairman lowered his voice and said, "Master, this wall is covered with a layer of wooden boards. As long as you put your ears on the wooden board in the next room, you can basically hear our speech."

Wu Zhong nodded slightly and said, "You have heard it too. We are all around us. Remember, pay attention to your words in the future. Do not talk about any major national affairs to prevent leaks!"

"Yes, sir."

Back to their respective suites, Zhu Chenggong became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it.

When did my country's surname have suffered such crimes? I remember that I was a prisoner of Emperor Tianwu, but I was just a soldier in front of me and stood guard every day.

At least he was open and upright. Unexpectedly, when he came to Europe, he was treated like a thief!

This almost rude surveillance made Zhu Chenggong very annoyed!

He walked a few steps in the suite and suddenly shouted loudly: "Damn it! What a bullshit country! There is not even a connected suite. I look down on me!"

"That shitty Spanish country was so arrogant in the past and dared to provoke our Ming Dynasty. Now, they were driven down from the sea by our Lord Tianwu Emperor in Nanyang to feed fish. In the colonies in the east, there was no breath left!"

After scolding the street, Zhu Chenggong became more agitated and picked up the tea cup and drank the tea sips.

Zhu Chenggong's large entrance was unobstructed, which scared the Portuguese spy next door.

An hour later, two Portuguese officials came to the door and personally changed the suite for the Ming Dynasty mission, saying that the Spanish envoy next door had left.

In fact, there is no bullshit Spanish messenger next door, everyone knows it well.

Zhu Chenggong didn't care either, but just squinted his eyes and smiled and cursed a few words in Fujian dialect.

In the next few days, the whole of Europe became lively, and the Ming Dynasty defeated the Spanish colonial army and captured Luzon and spread.

The Portuguese King Joao IV, who had been delaying not to summon the Ming mission, finally sent an invitation to Wu Zhong and made an appointment to meet at the palace.

As soon as Wu Zhong and his group left the small foreign building, several "reporters" with pens appeared outside. Most of them were Europeans and came to interview the Ming Dynasty mission.

Not only did the Ming Dynasty have newspapers, but also Europeans. In 1450, printing newspapers using printing techniques appeared in Europe.

However, European newspapers were not published frequently in the past, and were only published temporarily when big news appeared. For example, in 1493, when Columbus discovered the New World, he went to the newspaper.

In the 37th year of Wanli (1609), Thorne published the "Aveshu Affairs" in Germany, once a week, which was the earliest newspaper published regularly in the West.

Since then, newspapers have become popular in Europe, and the sources of news generally rely on wide-ranging businessmen.

Merchants and handicraftsmen urgently need to understand the origin, market, and related transportation, politics, military and other situations of commodity raw materials.

So some people become early journalists by collecting and selling political and religious news, commercial markets, sailing periods and other news.

The Ming Dynasty's military operations in Nanyang were spread by them.

European journalists gathered around and interviewed the Ming delegation in broken Chinese.

"I am a reporter from the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, "Avesus Affairs". May I ask the Ming Ocean is sending an imperial envoy, is your trip to Europe targeting the Kingdom of Spain?"

Wu Zhong was not used to this kind of "interview", but he still kept smiling and replied: "Our fleet is here to trade!"

"Then will your Ming fleet participate in the British-Dutch war?"

Wu Zhong smiled while walking: "His Majesty the Emperor of our country said that the Ming Dynasty will not participate in the war between England and the Netherlands. We are here for trade and exchanges!"

Another reporter who came out of nowhere came up and asked: "The emperor of your country sent troops to Southeast Asia and seized Luzon, a Spanish colony in the East. Do you want to dominate Asia?"

Wu Zhong was a little unhappy, so I would like to ask about such a mentally retarded question?

Zhu Chenggong replied coldly: "Luzon has been a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times. The Spanish shamelessly occupied Luzon through force and slaughtered the local indigenous people and Chinese!

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, considering the unscathed vassal relationship, decided to send troops to help Luzon and help him restore the country. Later, due to repeated requests from the leaders of various Luzon tribes, he voluntarily included it in our Ming territory!"

The reporter was disgusted and was blocked by the Jinyiwei.

A local reporter from the Kingdom of Portugal quickly came over. The questioning pattern of CCTV reporters in the future asked politely: "How do you think of our Kingdom of Portugal? Do you like it here?"

If you don’t hit people with a smile, Wu Zhong naturally wouldn’t say that your Portugal Kingdom is a declining empire. If you are out of date, he also smiled and said, “There is a different style here, you are very enthusiastic.”
Chapter completed!