Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 470 Morocco

The voyage around Africa took the Global Fleet a long time, even longer than the journey from Tianjin Port to the Persian Gulf.When Bai Mingxiu led the fleet to Morocco in North Africa, it was already November 1664, and the global fleet had been sailing for almost a year.

As soon as the Global Fleet arrived in Morocco, the European diplomats and businessmen accompanying the fleet hurried back to their own countries, preparing to report this event that might shock Europe.Bai Mingxiu wanted the Europeans to digest the news that the Daming Global Fleet was about to visit for a few more days, so he planned to stay in Morocco for a few more days.

Morocco may have been overlooked as a North African country.Like Italy and Spain in southern Europe, this place belongs to a country with a Mediterranean climate, and its land has a lot of fertile land with a warm climate and plenty of sunshine.

When the Ming Dynasty Global Fleet arrived in Morocco, the original Saad dynasty had already collapsed, and the Tafilalet family and the Dila family were vying for the right to rule Morocco, and they even had no time to care about outsiders.

Bai Mingxiu was really not polite and landed directly in Rabat, the capital of the later Kingdom of Morocco.This area was not the largest city in Morocco at this time as it would later be, but it still had a pleasant climate and fairly rich products.Especially coming to this place in winter is a very good place to escape the cold.

Liang Haisheng was very interested in Morocco, and said: "It's hard to imagine that Morocco, a place with such strategic value, now has a large area of ​​coast belonging to 'no man's land'. This is a core fortress that controls the entry and exit of the Mediterranean Sea, and it is still a land of hidden dangers." An area rich in oil and capable of producing large quantities of Mediterranean crops."

Bai Mingxiu couldn't even think about why he, a diplomat, was now more interested in seizing new territory than himself.

"Both the Ordinary Portuguese and the Spaniards established colonies here. Oh, a few years ago, the Portuguese also gave Tangier, south of the Strait of Gibraltar, to Britain as a dowry."

Liang Haisheng still insisted with a smile: "These countries simply don't have the strength to develop Morocco. If it is managed by Ming for ten years, it will become an important node for us to enter and exit Europe."

Bai Mingxiu did not deny this.

It's just that Morocco is not peaceful now, the two families are at war, bandits and horse thieves are roaming everywhere in this land, and the people are in dire straits.

Even after the Ming army entered Rabat, there were still some small groups of bandits trying to rob it. The outcome is very clear, these desperate Berber bandits were all killed by the Ming army.

However, soon after some local people discovered that the Ming army did not cause trouble everywhere like robbers, a group of local people actually organized a market outside the Ming army's Rabat camp, and began to talk to the Ming people here. Trading.Olives, citrus, and furs are exchanged for flour, sugar, salt, and various industrial products in the hands of Ming people.

A few days later, because some poor people found that there were no bandits in the suburbs of Rabat, they slowly and carefully lived outside Rabat.Even because the wise people in Rabat sometimes give a little charity when they show kindness, the Moroccan people who have suffered from war and poverty simply ask for a bite here.

Bai Mingxiu stood on the white low wall of Rabat, looking at the magically formed market, and couldn't help but sigh: "In this era, most people's lives are not easy."

Not so long ago, the people of Ming Dynasty lived in extreme hardship just like the people here, suffering from the effects of war and hunger.Even now, when Daming is on the road of high-speed industrialization and industrial revolution, the living standards of many people are still unsatisfactory, and this is what Bai Mingxiu tried his best to change.

Daming occupied Rabat and this area along the coast of Morocco, and the two major families did not come to manage it at all, and the Spaniards and Portuguese here knew that Daming was a role that could not be messed with, so they did not show up.This caused Da Ming to come to Morocco as if entering a land of no man. Without any military resistance, Da Ming successfully established control along the coast.

More than a week after the Ming army came to Morocco, a relatively heavyweight figure came to Rabat.Prince Pedro of Portugal is also the younger brother of King Alfonso VI of Portugal.

This Prince Pedro is very young, only 18 years old, but he has great self-confidence when he looks forward to it, showing good aristocratic cultivation.He likes to look people in the eye and speak directly.

After meeting with Bai Mingxiu, Prince Pedro explained his purpose very quickly.

"...Your Excellency Commander, it is an exciting thing for the Ming Dynasty Global Fleet to visit Europe. It is a good thing to let European countries see what the most advanced and greatest country in the world is like. , because there is an atmosphere of stupidity permeating the whole of Europe. They don’t know the heights of heaven and earth, and they don’t understand what progress is. It’s disgusting.”

Bai Mingxiu was polite.

Prince Pedro immediately said: "The relationship between Portugal and the Ming Empire is very close. We hope to become close friends and even allies of the Ming Empire at all levels. I know that when Daming comes to Europe, he will deal with it. Regarding the war with the two European countries, I would like to express to you that Portugal is completely on the side of Ming, and supports Ming to treat the two warring countries and obtain all necessary compensation."

The Dutch once besieged Lisbon for three months, and Spain even once ruled Portugal. Neither of these two countries could deal with Portugal. Portugal naturally wanted to see Ming Dynasty deal with these two countries.

Bai Mingxiu smiled and said: "We are almost done talking with the Netherlands. The next step is to deal with Spain."

Prince Pedro raised his brows and said: "Spain is simply an evil country, and it is still trying to annex us. In the battle against us this year, the Spaniards even falsely claimed that Portugal, together with the non-Catholic Eastern country Ming Dynasty, fought against Spain, which also belongs to the Catholic camp, uses the name of God to do bad things, which is really disgusting. Regarding Spain, Portugal hopes to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty and teach this inferior country a lesson!"

The reason why Prince Pedro ran to Morocco to meet the Ming people in such a hurry was that he had heard that the Ming army’s combat effectiveness was exceptional, including the deeds of defeating the Mughal Empire and the Turks, and even the huge Ming fleet. Prince Dro and a group of Portuguese nobles firmly believed that as long as they could unite with Daming, it would be very easy for them to defeat the Spaniards.

(End of this chapter)