It's so difficult to be the king of Spain these days.

His Highness Philip felt that nothing he did was useless and that someone would always sabotage it.

After a long time of hard work, the Portuguese king had just died in the Mahazan River and worked hard to manage it, and sent people to contact the nobles and governors of the Portuguese native and colonial areas to lay the foundation for a successful joint rule of Portugal.

After delaying for several years, the crowning of the Portuguese king can no longer make Philip feel extremely happy.

Originally, since the Meridian of the Holy See, Spain and Portugal plundered the whole world. Philip had wanted to be the king of Portugal since then. What does it mean to be crowned the king of Portugal?

Then the colonies of Spain and Portugal mean the whole world!

Except for the two small countries of Britain and France, the Ottomans and the Ming Dynasty, most of the other lands in the world were their colonies.

How beautiful!

Philip even thought of the words early on, and as long as the unification of Portugal was successful, he would engrave the silver coins on the back: The world is not enough for me.

Then the Portuguese king was really dead.

How great!

But in the past few years, something has happened.

First, the Philippines was gone and was taken back by the Ming Dynasty and renamed Luzon.

Secondly, Macau is still there, but it has been many years since Macau and Portugal cut off contact.

Then, the Spice Islands were gone and were divided into a series of vassal states such as Borneo, Sulu, Java, Phoenix Port, Sumatra, etc.

Then, the Strait of Malacca also turned back from the Portuguese to the Ming Dynasty, followed by Yangon, Aragan, and Goa. Not only did they all disappear, but a Han country emerged. Lin Feng was even more bastard than Barbarossa, and directly made the coast of Africa a prohibited area for whites.

It’s okay if the black slave trade is gone. Yang Ce, the general of the Ming Dynasty under Lin Feng, also brought the black slaves to avenge activities. Philip thought this was very good. He really thought this was very good. The only disadvantage is that there is a wrongdoing and a debt. Your Han ship has been wandering in the Strait of Gibraltar in Greater Spain. Go to the north to find revenge of the English!

We in Spain hold the New World silver mine and do not do anything like trafficking black slaves.

There is also the New World, the vast, beautiful, rich and primitive New World, the pearl in the palm of Philip II's hand, and only the Peruvian Governor's District is located in a corner.

In fact, Philip was happy to see this in the past, and he even laughed at Portugal for this reason: Look at our big Spain, even the Ming Dynasty has to give me face and keep the most profitable Peruvian Governor's District for me.

As long as Peru is still there, the Spanish Kingdom, which occupies both sides of the Atlantic, can still make its power cross the Pyrenees, and its awesome national strength can still scare the king of Paris to fear.

Look at you, Portugal, there is only one unprofitable Brazil left, there is nothing left, just a little bit!

But when he was crowned King of Portugal? My God, Brazil will be gone.

He did unite Portugal as he wished, but now this Portugal is really just Portugal. The Spanish royal family gave Portugal money to exchange them for the captured nobles from Morocco, and opened the border and allowed autonomy. What did they gain in the end?

Only a long western coastline has been harvested.

"I heard that the Governor was having a happy life in Lisbon, riding his own soldiers along the coast, which made me very worried about your safety."

In the palace of Lisbon, the dusty Li Dan was summoned. His face was exhausted and tired, but his expression was very vivid. Philip walked down from the throne and sat with him, saying, "If you want to know the situation of the defense in Portugal, the Duke of Alva knows better, you can ask directly."

"Ha, I care about what I do. I am not a general, and I can't fight." Li Dan smiled sincerely, rolled up his sleeves and looked very excited, and raised his hand and said, "I have gone to many places along the coast, and there is still the south. But I think it's almost the same there. The port of Lisbon is very suitable for setting up tax offices, which can provide the royal family with no less than 330,000 and a half taels of tax revenue a year."

Li Dan said, shook his head and said to himself: "What a great place, how could the Portuguese royal family make it lose money?"

This is completely nonsense. No matter how low the governance level of Portugal is, it will not cause the port of Lisbon to lose money. The Portuguese royal family is the real loss, not the port alone.

The internal taxation system was extremely backward, and land trade had high trade barriers with Spain, the only neighboring country. In the Mahazan River, nearly half of the military nobles were either killed or captured in battle. The high ransom expenditure made it impossible for the country to achieve open source; the main external income was in addition to port taxation and route auctions.

Which other route can Portugal auction now? Goa to Macau, Macau to Nagasaki? Or Lisbon to Goa?

The former has different paths, while the latter has caused a large amount of gold, silver and precious metals to flow out due to Yang Ce's existence.

How can it not lose money?

Now it's Li Dan's turn to sit here and say sarcastic words: "If you want me to say it, you don't have to run out at all. The two ports of Daming Port and Lisbon earn 2 million a year, plus the trade between Mingxi and Western countries is 4 million a year. There is a Ming fleet in the East Ocean, and Gibraltar is protected by the Ming Port Guards."

"Holding these six million and a half taels of coins, His Highness sent domestic nobles to quell the rebellion of the Netherlands, and to compete with France's country bumpkins and the British island barbarians. He asked the emperor to send a few Jinshi to come, and the experts recommended their kindness, and to transform the fiefs and establish prefectures and counties, and to gather great power. When the old nobles died, they used these six million to establish a new army and raise 100,000 troops."

Philip's eyes were straightened, but Li Dan became more and more excited: "When the heavens come to pay tribute to the Taimiao, choose two loyal ministers and good generals. The Lu army leads the army out of Pyrenius Sixichuan to conquer the city and territories, and the navy sets a fleet to block the estuary of the Seine River, and the vast army is coming to the city of Paris. Isn't it a pleasure?"

The king blinked, don't you say you are a businessman?

Why do you talk about the war so excited and even ruthless? What is that?

This king refuses to accept allusions of the Celestial Dynasty!

Fei Laoer didn't take this off at all. He is more concerned about the strength of the Ming army's naval battle, so he waved his hand. "When it comes to the Great Eastern Ocean Sea Defense, I came to you for this matter. The French country bumpkins and British island barbarians you mentioned are gathering a fleet for the pseudo-King Antonio, intending to seize the silver ships for the Mingxi trade."

"I hope you can let go of the Ming Port and go back to the New World."

Li Dan felt that Philip did not understand what he was saying, otherwise he should not be like this official position. He thought what he said was quite operational and very sincere, and basically did not dig a trap for Fei Lao Er.

The only opportunity for mutual benefit is that the old nobles died in the Netherlands and the new army failed to succeed. Spain will face a period of time when military talents are scarce, but this is not dangerous. There are endless military officers in the Ming Dynasty.

But Fei Lao Er was not excited at all, which surprised Li Dan: "Just return to North Asia for this matter, isn't it over to send troops to suppress them?"

"Not only this, I also need you to meet the Grand Marshal of the Eastern Army. In Colombia, Indian rebels named Lautaro are constantly killing my legion soldiers and the citizens of Peru. Every month, more than four hundred soldiers are killed by guns fired from nowhere or the sudden explosion of cannons beside them."

Li Dan said with confusion: So what?

Philip clapped his hands in response to this gaze: "They used to use our weapons, but this year, they have more muskets, which were made in Nanyang in the second year of Wanli."

"And, just three months ago, the Eastern Army sent 1,400 troops to occupy Rio de Janeiro, the governor of Brazil in Portugal, and even seized land from all directions, no, around."
Chapter completed!