. "No, it's about twenty years." Bugalu said seriously.

Buga Road was in the first year of Hongguang. The mercenary leader recruited by the emperor's confidant eunuch Tian Cheng in Macau. The newly established Hongguang Dynasty was in a turmoil. The emperor himself had no confidence in the final victory of the Hongguang Dynasty. He once wanted to use the help of the mercenaries to flee overseas. Later, he gave up this plan and led the army several times to personally fight, changing the fate of the Ming Dynasty.

Despite this, the mercenaries made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty and participated in many major battles. The biggest battle was the war in the two years of Hongguang. In this year, more than 100,000 people of the Qing Dynasty went south, and the emperor personally led the Yulin Guard to fight. The two armies fought bloody battles in Jinan, Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places. In the end, the Ming army gathered the main force of the Qing army in Matouzhuang, an originally nameless place, and reversed the whole form.

In this series of wars, this mercenary was seen, and this mercenary also paid more than half of the casualties. After that, the mercenaries basically did not participate in the war. A few years later, the mercenaries were disbanded, some people left with money, and some people joined the Yulin Guard and became the official army of the Ming Dynasty.

Bugalu later received outstanding evaluation of Gongyun in the Shrine, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Xiping. In addition to Bugalu, how many other mercenaries were awarded, but Bugalu had the highest title and still serve in the Yulin Guard.

"Yes, twenty years have passed, time has passed so quickly." Fei Susha sighed.

When Buga Road joined the mercenary, Feisusha was still a small businessman who had just arrived in Macau. He was reluctant to participate in his business. Now Buga Road has become the marquis of the world's most powerful country. Even in Europe, Buga Road has become a legend, and Feisusha once became the governor of Macau. However, this position is incomparable to the marquis of Buga Road, and moreover, Feisusha has now been revoked.

"Marquis, Marquis..." When Fesusha and Buga Road reminisced about the past, Bi Francis, Qu Ande, Nan Huairen and others also stepped forward to say hello to Buga Road. Today's events are related to the rise and fall of their respective countries. Although Fesusha and Buga Road are both Portuguese, Bi Francis, Qu Ande, Nan Huairen and others will not be polite.

Buga Road also nodded to everyone one by one. He knew that the purpose of these people waiting for him at the station was nothing more than to come for the train. To be precise, for machines that could drive the train to run. Unfortunately, the steam engine is not a product for the Ming Dynasty. These people are destined to be disappointed, and perhaps not necessarily disappointed. Buga passed by, so he naturally had a purpose to achieve.

At this time, the steam engine of the Ming Dynasty was a high-tech technology. It took more than a hundred years from the work model of the Frenchman Dennis Baben to the British Watt transforming the steam engine into a truly practical steam engine in 790. It is still more than ten years away from the work model of the steam engine in the West.

What's more, the technological content of the Ming Dynasty steam engine is still higher than that of Watt's modified steam engine. It took Watt 30 years to transform the steam engine and make the steam engine practical. The problem of air leakage between the piston and the cylinder is only solved in the end. With the guidance of Wang Fu, the Ming Dynasty has no effort to deal with this problem. This is the charm of the prophets and the foresight.

Wang Fu did not expect that the technology of the steam engine could be blocked for hundreds of years, as long as it could open up the gap between the East and the West. When the Western steam engines were studied to the practical stage, the Ming Dynasty would release the restrictions on the steam engines and use mature technology to defeat them, always maintain the technological leadership of the Ming Dynasty, and carry forward the things done by the United States in another time and space.

Everyone greeted at the station for a while, and Fei Susha invited his carriage on Buga Road. Buga Road was a prominent magistrate. When he came to Shanghai, local officials would come to greet him no matter what, but Buga Road did not notify Shanghai officials, so naturally no one would welcome him. He agreed to Fei Susha's invitation.

The carriages of Fei Susha and others were parked not far from the platform. All countries have business associations in Shanghai. Their carriages are almost the best carriages of the business association. More than a dozen large and gorgeous carriages are placed together, which is a beautiful scenery.

These carriages are all four-wheeled carriages, brought to China by Europeans. At the beginning, these carriages were a little dissatisfied. They were far less easy to walk on uneven roads than two-wheeled carriages. With the renovation of roads in various places in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, many places even paved with cement roads, four-wheeled carriages have grown. Due to the need for freight in Shanghai, four-wheeled carriages have replaced two-wheeled carriages and become the main model.

At the greeting of Fesusha, Buga Road boarded the carriage, and the people followed the crowd and got on the carriage prepared by the Portuguese. Looking at the carriage of Fesusha on Buga Road, Bi Francis, Qu Ander and others all showed a look of anger on their faces. They undoubtedly wanted to invite Buga Road to board their carriage, but who made Buga Road not a person from their own country?

The carriages appear to be very balanced when walking on the cement road. Shanghai is one of the first places to use cement. The entire Shanghai County has paved about 20 kilometers of cement roads. It is not that Shanghai County does not want to pave more cement roads. The price of cement is too expensive at present, with a price of 4.5 silver dollars per barrel and a ton of barrels. In this way, cement is more expensive than iron tools and is only slightly cheaper than steel. The cement road surface that can be used for four carriages is parallel, and the construction cost per kilometer is more than 32,000 taels of silver. Even if it is rich in Shanghai, it is difficult to bear it. It only built twenty kilometers before it stopped.

However, Shanghai rich businessmen have a special liking for cement. Shanghai Millions have countless people who are rich because of sea trade. A property of 10,000 taels can only be considered a small wealth. A 10,000 taels can barely squeeze into a middle-class wealth. A real rich family has a wealth of no less than one million taels, but still hundreds of thousands taels. The names of Wang Baiwan, Li Baiwan and Zhao Baiwan can be seen everywhere in the city. The earliest legendary families of Xu Baiwan, Hou Baiwan and Xia Baiwan have already reached a huge amount of tens of millions of taels.

These people are so rich that they naturally don’t care about the price of cement. Three or four-story buildings with cement buildings can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, and the highest one is even six floors. Because it was built too high, the Hou family almost got into a lawsuit. Fortunately, the emperor only approved it, so it was preserved. However, it also set a demonstration for later generations, and no one dared to build a high-rise building that exceeded six floors.

Since getting on the carriage, Fei Susha has been thinking about how to open an opening with Buga Road. Although they were friends before, they had not met for twenty years. Moreover, Buga Road has become a marquis of the Ming Dynasty again. They have different interests. Fei Susha does not want to leave a bad impression on Buga Road.

Seeing that Fei Susha had not spoken, Buga Road focused on enjoying the street scenery on both sides. Except for the emperor inspecting the Jiangnan Shipyard last year, Buga Road was fortunate to accompany the emperor to Shanghai once, Buga Road had arrived in Shanghai five years ago. Last time, he accompanied the emperor to the emperor and had no time to carefully appreciate Shanghai. Now he can make up for this regret.

Over the past five years, Shanghai has changed a lot. Most of the tall buildings were built in the past five years. These tall buildings are majestic. The two floors below are shops, and the third floor is truly occupied. There are a wide range of goods and all kinds of treasures. It is afternoon, and people can be seen from time to time in the shops. This place is worthy of the name of the place where wealth gathers all over the world.

Fesusha was also looking at this traditional city. Compared with Shanghai, the most prosperous cities in Europe: Lisbon, Spain, Paris, France, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, were like the countryside. The gap between them and Shanghai was as big as that between them in the European countryside.

"Marquis..." Fei Susha thought for a while and was called a title.

Bugalu retracted his eyes from looking outside and smiled, "My old friend, don't be so polite, just call me by my name."

Fei Susha breathed a sigh of relief and asked tentatively: "Bugalu, have you ever thought about going back to Europe?"

Bugalu's face was now filled with regret. Although Europeans have no idea that fallen leaves return to their roots, no matter who they are, they will always feel homesickness over time.

"Old friend, you also know that I have relatives in Europe. Thinking that they may live a life of not having enough food or wearing warm clothes, I wish I could fly to my hometown to bring them back to the Ming Dynasty, but you also know that Europe is too far away." Bugalu couldn't help but sigh.

Compared with Europe, the current Ming Dynasty is just like an ordinary citizen. If he hadn't been poor, how could he leave his family and come to the Ming Dynasty to meet the mercenaries thousands of miles away, and live a life of nearly a lifetime. Fortunately, these have become the past.

Fei Susha's expression also became solemn. Although he had not returned home for a long time, it had only been more than 20 years since his independence from Spain. He had fought with Spain several times in the past 20 years. The situation in China would never be good. The relatives of Bugalu might not be sure whether they are there or not.

"My old friend, you should go back to Europe. Your deeds have become legends in Europe. I think His Majesty the King is also very happy to meet a marquis from the Ming Dynasty and create a legend in the Far East."

"Is that?" Bugalu seemed very excited: "I'm really a European legend?"

"Of course, you helped the king of the Kingdom of Gold to defeat the barbarian invasion. When you return to Lisbon, you will definitely accept the cheers of countless people. You are the hero of the Portuguese. I think that at that time, countless ladies will fantasize about you climbing onto their beds." Feisusha said slightly exaggeratedly.

"It's not the king, it's His Majesty the Emperor. Under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Emperor, we defeated the barbarians and made the Ming Dynasty the Lord of the world again." Bugalu corrected.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor."

In Europe, only the Roman Empire had an emperor, and it had to be crowned by the pope. However, Fesusha was still wisely changed his words. The glory of the Roman Empire had long declined, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty was incomparable to the entire Europe.
Chapter completed!