My Daming New Empire

Zhu Zhanji also knew that the drama was over. He came here to demonstrate and do business, not to travel thousands of miles to find a difficult enemy for himself.

His meeting ceremony was not to crucify people to death, but he just wanted to show the firepower of the Ming army in this way, and let them know how powerful the Daming guns are.

Only by letting everyone know the power of muskets, after the army returns, no one will want to take advantage of the remaining soldiers.

He nodded and glanced back at Li Liang. "Go and tell Feng Xiaonian, and put him in prison for interrogation."

Li Liang looked weak, he took a group of servants and guards to pass the order, he seemed to be slow in this crowded square, a group of upper-level figures in the Holy See couldn't help gnashing their teeth, wishing to kick him over .

Every extra second of delay may mean the disappearance of a human life!

However, Zhu Zhanji laughed easily at this time, and said in Latin in a preposterous manner: "Now, the matter has been resolved, so don't let this insignificant matter delay our precious time. Please..."

The crowd waited and looked at Zhu Zhanji, who looked like a normal person, and their hearts were tumbling.

To apply a catchphrase in later generations: I have a sentence mmp and I don't know whether I should say it or not!

His soldiers were massacring citizens, and even described the massacre in terms of insignificance.

However, because of Zhu Zhanji's attitude, a group of aristocrats from the Pope's kingdom can't figure out Zhu Zhanji's mentality at all, which will cause great obstacles for them to evaluate Zhu Zhanji from the heart.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming army is easy to assess, and the economic strength is easy to assess, but if they cannot understand the mentality of the coach Zhu Zhanji, it will be difficult for them to make an accurate judgment.

The crowd entered the main hall, and Zhu Zhanji was first led to pay homage to the old St. Peter's Church, then walked through a corridor and came to a magnificent hall.

Seeing this extremely luxurious hall, Zhu Zhanji's heart was moved.

In today's Europe, apart from Ottoman, who is the most powerful and has the most gold and silver, there are several countries that are worthy of attention.

The first is Venice, which is very rich. They control the commerce of the Mediterranean, and their per capita wealth is much higher than that of other countries.

The second is the Holy Roman Empire. Although this country is very scattered, it can't stand their growth.Today's Western Front of the Holy Roman Empire includes the eastern part of France to the Netherlands, and the eastern part to Hungary and Romania.

The south belongs to Genoa on the Italian peninsula, Milan is also their territory, and the north reaches the Baltic Sea.This is a huge empire consisting of nearly two hundred principalities and nearly a thousand knight territories.

It's a pity that this country is only a country in name, and the current emperor Sigismund can't even control his own territory in Hungary and Croatia.

Although they are rich, and the largest gold and silver mines in Europe are in their territory, their business still depends on the Venetians.Doing business with them can't eat a fat man, only a long stream of water.

Portugal and Castile are still poor, Aragon is militaristic, France almost destroyed the country, and Britain has robbed a lot of wealth, but the Hundred Years War also left their pockets empty.

Then there is the Papal State. Although the territory of this country is not large, it has ruled Europe for nearly a thousand years. From the Crusades and the collection of eleven taxes, they have accumulated a lot of wealth in their hands.

In terms of working capital, they may not have as much as Venice, but in terms of overall wealth, Venice may not be as good as them.

Not to mention anything else, just say that they will start to build the new Vatican in a few decades, and the gold and silver consumed will be at least several hundred tons!

Now that Daming is here, their new city has not yet been built, and they must have money in their hands. Of course, Zhu Zhanji is moved.

So at this time, Zhu Zhanji looked at them as if he saw fat sheep.

Zhu Zhanji has dozens of guards and dozens of subordinates, while the Holy See is headed by the Pope, with seven cardinals, dozens of archbishops, and dozens of representatives of big families, more people than Daming.

Everyone came to this fan-shaped meeting hall. After some arrangements, they were divided into two groups and sat down one by one.

Zhu Zhanji and a group of senior generals and archbishops sat in the front row so that they could get up and speak, while others had to apply first if they wanted to speak.

Entering the Vatican, the translators that Ming brought came from Portugal and Aragon. As for the Arabs, they were not allowed to enter the Vatican.

The Vatican has also arranged several translators, all of whom can speak Arabic. Today they all sat at the front, and each one was a little restless.

Before everyone sat down, there was another disturbance, because an archbishop was unwilling to leave because he was in a hurry to urinate, so he asked a servant to bring in a urinal for him, and took it out in front of Zhu Zhanji. Out came the bird.

In the eyes of everyone in Daming, this could be said to be indecent. Yi Qingzi's long sword was placed on his neck with a swipe, and he was so scared that the urinal fell to the ground, and he urinated all over himself.

However, Zhu Zhanji had been prepared for a long time, and it was convenient when he got off the car, so he was watching it as a joke at this time.

After finally calming down, another guard came to report the results of the battle outside.

In the battle that lasted less than a quarter of an hour, more than [-] soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were injured, most of them were stoned at the beginning, and two of them died.

However, the Romans who only had long swords suffered many casualties. More than 1000 people were killed or injured. Relying on their backward treatment methods, being injured means waiting to die.

This massacre made the people of the Holy See look unkindly at everyone in Daming, but they wisely did not choose to explode.

Zhu Zhanji deliberately downplayed their emotions, and suggested to Martin V: "Your Excellency, the time has come to noon, why don't we wait until after lunch for formal consultations."

Martin V showed a surprised expression. "Didn't you already have breakfast? Want to eat now?"

The Portuguese translator recruited by Daming replied for Zhu Zhanji: "Although the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty basically eat two meals a day, the generals eat three meals a day."

Just eating three meals a day aroused their curiosity and asked about Daming's grain production and what they ate for each meal.

If you don’t eat a meal, you won’t die from starvation, not to mention that Zhu Zhanji won’t be hungry at all. As soon as he sat down, Liu Wan and the others put more than a dozen desserts from the palace in front of Zhu Zhanji, and made a pot of fragrant Longjing.

Although there were no snacks in front of the others, they all made a cup of fragrant tea.

There was no fire in the hall. In order to drink a cup of tea, dozens of people needed to boil the water from the resident, and then transport it here quickly without being out of the supervisor's sight. This kind of waste stunned a group of archbishops.

Zhu Zhanji is here to show off. From the beginning to the end, he wants to give these Europeans a concept that you are very backward and we are very advanced.

Negotiations finally started officially, but although the European etiquette of this era has its own set, the international rules of procedure do not yet have a set of standards.

Facing the complete set of rules of procedure presented by Zhu Zhanji, it took them an hour to finally settle down and follow the set of rules of Daming.

In fact, this is not the rule of procedure of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor has the final say on everything, or whoever is in power has the final say.

This kind of mutual consultation and mutual compromise rules of procedure is actually a copy of the set of later generations.

Of course, he won't come up with Robert's rules of procedure. Da Ming doesn't need to be too fair, he must occupy the ruling power at any time.

What Zhu Zhanji did was to ask to determine the framework and content of the discussion, and then negotiate in order, and no one can change the procedure at will.

Secondly, during the deliberation process, any objection must be more recognized than previous opinions before it can be accepted, and it cannot be opposed for the sake of opposition.

Although there were many negotiations at the beginning, the meeting on the first day did not last too long.

The two sides determined the scope and rules of the consultation, established the framework for the consultation, and then Zhu Zhanji, on behalf of Daming, explained the purpose and significance of this trip to Europe.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji would not say that he came to Europe to curb their development, but put trade at the forefront.

All the goods he brought with him were what Europe needed, even wanted.

They took great risks to develop navigation for the purpose of gold, silver and spices.

Now, Daming placed the goods they needed directly in front of them, and they could get "cheap" goods without them needing to take any more risks. Compared with their previous trade with the Ottomans, the cost has been reduced a lot.

Zhu Zhanji didn't even need to explicitly say that they were not allowed to go to sea. When the cost of going to sea was greater than the benefits they could obtain, they would naturally not take risks.