Daming Military Empire

Chapter 643 The Sudden Marriage

Originally, there was no road from the mouth of the Guadiana River to Madrid. This place is located in the southeast corner of Spain and the border between the two countries. It is far and backward, and has always been of little value.

However, since the Ming Empire built a port here to establish a commercial area, the originally barren land quickly became a prosperous capital, especially after the railway to Madrid was completed, it became the most important port in Spain.

Because it is relatively close to the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of New Spain, whether it is maritime merchants traveling between the colony and the mainland or explorers who go to the colony to find opportunities, they gradually regard this place as an important foothold. Local passenger and freight transportation has become extremely busy, and sometimes even queues are required.

However, since the anti-Habsburg alliance went to war with Spain and Portugal, the bustling here has ceased, and the trains to Madrid have gradually become rare, and sometimes there is not even one for a few days.

On this day, three passenger cars suddenly appeared on the railway line, lined up, went hand in hand, and went straight to Madrid.

Among these three passenger cars, the front and rear two are very common, they are [-]-section passenger trains produced by the Ming Empire, but the middle one is very special. With glittering golden light, it is extremely gorgeous.

This is the king's special train specially made by the Ming Empire for King Philip IV of Spain. Both the exterior and the interior are made of the best materials. It is elegant and luxurious.

However, it was not King Philip IV of Spain who sat in the special train this day, but Admiral Zheng Chenggong of the Ming Empire Navy, and Princess Maria Therese of Spain.

By the way, how did these two people get together? It seems that they don't know each other, right?
In fact, this was specially arranged by Philip IV. Princess Anna, the imperial concubine of the Ming Empire, was not joking when she said that she would introduce her cousin to Zheng Chenggong. She wrote a letter to his uncle Philip IV the next day, saying that Zheng Chenggong praised him fiercely, and urged his uncle to marry his daughter to the No. [-] figure in the Ming Empire after His Majesty the Emperor.

Philip IV is also a shrewd person, without Princess Anna boasting, he also knows how honorable the Zheng family of Ming Dynasty is. In this world, apart from the royal family of the Ming Empire and the Habsburg royal family, the Zheng family of Ming Dynasty is probably the most noble. He is also very interested in the marriage of the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty.

No, when he heard that Zheng Chenggong was coming to Madrid as a guest, he not only sent his own special train to pick him up, but also brought his own daughter on board. It was a pretense of letting his daughter go out to relax, but it was actually a blind date.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong's mind is in a mess. He originally wanted to think about how to negotiate with Philip IV on the expansion of armaments on the train, but now he can't rest for a moment, because Princess Maria is Sitting opposite him and chatting endlessly!

This Princess Maria is only fifteen or sixteen years old, at the time when she is the most innocent, she looks a bit like Princess Anna, but she is not as charming as Princess Anna, but has a cuteness and a rare innocence among nobles .

To be honest, Zheng Chenggong was moved. This had a lot to do with his childhood experience. He didn't have many playmates when he was young. The emperor was busy with state affairs, and the queen Qin Mingyue was also a teacher and a mother. It is very strict, only Princess Anna has nothing to do all day, and he likes his little brother very much, so he spends most of his time playing with Princess Anna during his days in the palace.

Because of Princess Anna, he does not reject the appearance of foreigners, he even likes foreign beauties with high nose bridge and big eyes, and this Princess Maria is a delicate foreign beauty, coupled with her innocent look Such a cute expression, it would be a lie to say that she is not impressed.

This princess Maria is also a special case among the royal family and nobles, she is very heartless, when her father asked her to come here to play, she was very happy, because she had long wanted to see how the Ming Empire's army was It is not as majestic as in the legend.

She didn't even think about it, this is the front line, and it's a bit unreliable for a princess to play on the front line.

She is so heartless and heartless, and she really thinks that she is here to play. She will go to the fort for a while, enter the bastion for a while, and board the giant treasure ship like a mobile fortress. Ship to see..

If it was someone else who ran here and ran around, Zheng Chenggong would have sent him away long ago. The problem is that she is a princess from an allied country, and she is also a very beautiful girl. Zheng Chenggong has nothing to do with her. She walked away, and she had to be with her all the time, for fear that something would happen to her.

There is only such a princess in Spain now. If something happens, even if the emperor does not deal with him, Philip IV and Princess Anna will not let him go.

This is how people are. If they just meet by chance, without a smile, and each walks their own way, they are irrelevant passers-by. However, once there is an intersection, two people who are strangers will become adults.

Zheng Chenggong accompanied here and there, and the two of them became mature when they accompanied them. It seemed that they were destined in the past life, or they might be destined in this life. Not only Zheng Chenggong was moved, but Princess Maria was also moved.

The man in front of him is handsome, handsome, talented, powerful, and rich. He can speak Chinese well, as well as Portuguese and Spanish. He has hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers under him, and his family has several territories the size of Spain. He is also the most trusted person of the Emperor of the Ming Empire. His family also manages a Daming Royal Western Trading Company that provides luxury goods for European nobles. There is no other person like this in the world. Girls will lose resistance in front of him.

Maria found that she was deeply in love with the son of the Zhennan Prince of the Ming Empire. She wanted to be with him all the time, and when she slept with him, the first thing she did was think about him and how to dress herself up beautifully. She went to see him beautifully, but when she lay down at night, she felt extremely uncomfortable, always complaining that the night was too long, so she couldn't pass quickly, so she could see His Royal Highness early.

Zheng Chenggong is also intoxicated by it these days. He knows to accompany a little girl to wander around all day long. He can accompany her wherever she wants to go, and accompany her to see whatever she wants to see. He is so involuntary and deeply trapped. in.

Fortunately, the others are still normal. His uncle Zheng Zhihu hasn't seen this nephew in charge of the army for a few days, and finally couldn't help running to ask: "Success, how to fight next, you should say something!" "

A word awakened the dreamer, and Zheng Chenggong remembered that the emperor issued a secret decree, asking him to discuss with Philip IV and João IV about expanding the army. It happened that Philip IV even sent a special train. Alright, let's go to Madrid first.

In fact, he might not be fully awake yet. The reason why he chose to go to Madrid first was not to meet Philip IV. In his heart, he still wanted to stay with Princess Maria for a few more days.

PS: I recommend "The Iron Guard of the Ming Dynasty" by Xiaoyu Feifei, a cutting-edge writer in the same period. The story of a poor military household who rose up in the late Ming Dynasty is a wonderful story that should not be missed.

(End of this chapter)