I am the king of the dead

Chapter 972 A Demon Wandering in Taixi

Miss Filippa is the daughter of the esteemed Prince Pedro, Duke of Coimbra.

Prince Pedro’s older brother is King Duarte I of Portugal, who is loved by his superiors for his kindness and wisdom; while Pedro’s younger brother, Prince Enrique, is brave and good at fighting in the army. He once followed his father in the battle of Ceuta, Portugal. Ceuta was captured only at the cost of 8 deaths.

Prince Enrique never married and dedicated his life to the Kingdom of Portugal. He personally led the Portuguese navy to conquer the Atlantic Ocean. He was also the discoverer of Equatorial Guinea. In addition to being a navigator, Prince Enrique In addition, the Portuguese Maritime Academy was established, and the honorary title "Navigator" was established to reward the improvement of navigational instruments.

The caravel sailing ship, in the era of great navigation, was the first ship capable of oceangoing, and it was a nautical weapon that appeared under the leadership of Prince Enrique.

Navigation and astronomy are closely related. For this reason, Prince Enrique also built an observatory and a naval arsenal to study weapons for ocean warfare.

Duarte I, Prince Pedro, Prince Enrique, three brothers, are known as the outstanding generation of the royal family.

Similarly, in the hands of the three of them, the Portuguese kingdom's sphere of influence on the sea has grown rapidly, and a large number of slaves and gold raids have made Lisbon the most dazzling pearl in the entire West.

Fortunately, the current Portuguese King Afonso V killed his uncle Prince Pedro, and Prince Enrique also died of illness four years ago.

The nobles hated those nouveau riche who became rich because of sailing. For the nobility, it was wishful thinking that those nouveau riche had so much gold in their hands that they could be compared with their generations of inheritance.

But... these upstarts are really rich.

At present, the situation in the Kingdom of Portugal is divided into two factions. One is the unswerving faction of opening the sea, which is dominated by the emerging nobles left by the three princes, and the other is the stubborn nobles who oppose the opening of the sea. A lot of wealth came, but this wealth did not fall into their pockets.

Afonso V is a typical example of both wants and needs, wanting to be in charge, so he relied on the nobles to kill Prince Pedro, but also wanted the benefits of opening the sea, so he married Prince Pedro's daughter Isabel, hoping to get The support of the emerging aristocracy.

But the current Portugal is led by the old nobles, who firmly oppose the counterattack of Cape Liberty and Liberty City.

And Alfonso V himself tends to counterattack, and has won the strong support of the emerging nobles, and Alfonso V has recently planned to conquer the city of Liberty himself.

Kuai Lin had been waiting. After the sunset, the captive Pedra led a group of people to the tailor shop. When these people came, they were dressed very gorgeously, but they parked the carriage far away, because the rally It shouldn't be too ostentatious to arouse the vigilance of the old nobles, although these old nobles are extremely arrogant.

Kuai Lin narrowed his eyes and looked at the crowd. There were seven people in total. The coat of arms of Earl Ricks, the iris.

This represents the noble blood of Earl Henrix, the Capet family, a flourishing family in Taixi.

"Please come in quickly." Kuai Lin signaled everyone to enter the tailor shop. He closed the door carefully and turned on the lime blowtorch on the table, and the light immediately filled the whole room.

That's why the maids in the tailor shop always think that Kuai Lin is a magician. Just turn the switch lightly, and the light will illuminate the whole room.

What incredible magic.

"This is really surprising. Is the noble Roman nobleman really a magician?" Henriques looked at this scene in amazement, but the lime blowtorch was too dazzling for him to look directly at.

Kuai Lin sat down and said seriously: "Didn't Captain Pedra tell you? I am not a magician, nor a Roman nobleman. I come from Daming, a visitor from an ancient civilization. In the east, the inheritance of Daming Dating back to more than [-] years ago, I have no faith, and I will be nailed to the wall of no faith after death."

Henriquez's complexion changed, and he said politely: "I can see the firmness of faith in your Excellency's eyes. It's not the eyes of no faith, but the faith is not a god that cannot be described in words, but a god that can be given to the world. The Ming emperor who brought good news and disaster."

For Taixi, it is difficult for them to understand the authority of the emperor of the ancient eastern country. When this authority is interpreted as the trinity of human gods, it is immediately clear.

Kuai Lin already knew who Henriquez was in front of him, the current King of Portugal, Alfonso V.

The reason why Kuai Lin is so sure is not only the family emblem of the iris flower, but also because he has seen a portrait of Alfonso V, which is exactly the same as the person in front of him.

Everyone wore vests to talk, Kuai Lin wore Li Binyan's vest, and Alfonso V wore Henriques' vest.

Kuai Lin said with a serious face: "The original intention of the Haili Alliance was to safeguard our interests in the ocean. We can sit here because we need to find a way out under the siege and interception of the old nobles. We, for the sake of protect our interests."

"The most urgent thing we have to do now is not how to deal with those rigid, old-fashioned old aristocrats who hold power, but to prevent our king from conquering Freetown himself."

Alfonso V's complexion changed, and he said sharply: "The Haley Alliance wants to safeguard our maritime interests! The evil guests from the east have occupied our promised land, but you said that you want to prevent our Portuguese king from conquering Frei!" Don, is this protecting the interests of the sea?"

Freetown is the territory of the Songhai Empire. It has been there since more than 1300 years ago, but after being occupied by Portugal, it was renamed Freetown, the City of Freedom. As for its original name, no one knows.

"Yes." Kuai Lin looked at Alfonso V, and said quite accurately: "Our Portuguese king is very dangerous now. Can we really take down Freetown by sending troops so hastily? Our Portuguese king can Will you bear the price of defeat?"

"The distant oriental villains, their ships are strong and powerful, and the 1 loyal navy of the King of Portugal are really the opponents of the Ming Dynasty's ocean-going fleet? If you want to surrender to the old nobles, you must close the country and stop all ocean trade."

"It's a bigger loss, Henriquez, what do you think?"

Alfonso V looked thoughtful, and after a moment of silence, he said uncertainly, "What if we win?"

Kuai Lin was taken aback, and told the story of King Jili's personal conquest of the civil fort from beginning to end. The news of King Jili's defeat finally spread from the Ottoman Kingdom to Lisbon, the westernmost city-state in western Thailand.

"This is the price after defeat." Kuai Lin must educate Alfonso V about the evil consequences of his defeat in the personal conquest.

In the free city of Freetown right now, the Daming Navy has only [-] ships, less than [-] regular troops, and hundreds of merchant ships, but these merchant ships are currently busy grabbing black land, and it will take some time for support to arrive , Liberty City also needs to be carefully sorted out. The reason why Kuai Lin came to Lisbon instead of being a good governor was to find a way to mediate and prevent Alfonso V from personally conquering.

Alfonso V personally conquered Freetown, and Ming was alone in the city of Liberty, so it was hard to say that he was sure of winning.

"The King of Portugal will face not only powerful opponents in his own expedition, but also the arrogance and disobedience of the nobles in the country. Will these people make the King of Portugal's expedition go smoothly?" Kuai Lin added another bargaining chip, which will be a pressure The last straw for the dead camel's back.

The captive Pedra immediately said loudly: "The nobles won't, the nobles just want to turn the King of Portugal into a marionette, answering the voice, the nobles can't profit from maritime affairs, so they will destroy it, because the nobles don't want to see some People or groups that challenge their status appear!"

"My family, the Sinde family, is an example! In just four years, they have turned my family into this."

Alfonso V was finally shaken. He was silent for a long time and said: "The nobles in the country, they hope to see the king's humiliating defeat in the expedition. If this is the case, then the king must listen to the nobles in order to maintain the king's authority. .”

"However, if our king does not go on an expedition, how can he fight against these nobles? Whether it is the king's father or his uncles, through the expedition, they have established their authority and made all the nobles obey."

Alfonso V was very confused. He used the nobles to kill his uncle. After taking office, he found that these nobles were not as good as his uncle.

"I'll help you." Kuai Lin said quite firmly: "The previous Portuguese king wrote a book called "The Loyal Imperial Advisor". I think I should be very good at dealing with these nobles."

The current emerging aristocratic Kaihai faction is in a serious disadvantage because of the loss of its leader, and Kuai Lin needs to support them, so that the strength of the Kaihai faction and the old nobles is in a delicate balance, and the Kingdom of Portugal is caught in a party struggle. Opening the sea, let Da Ming's journey on the west coast of West Africa proceed smoothly.

In this process, Kuai Lin will forget his own moral cultivation. To use Taixi's words to describe it more accurately, he will sell his soul to the devil.

Did Kuai Lin sell his soul to the devil, or is Kuai Lin himself an existence more terrifying than the devil?

Kuai Lin said with a smile: "Then let's see what these nobles are going to do recently? Oh, they are going to form a maritime academy. This is a good opportunity."

"Should we stop him?" Alfonso V was extremely troubled by this matter. These nobles were not obstinate, they were just usurping benefits in their own way.

Kuai Lin stretched out a hand and said, "No, we want to support."

"Henriquez, this is called Beizhi in our Ming Dynasty. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just do as I say. Within three months, their Maritime Academy will become a hot potato. Throw it away, we just take it in."

In the matter of internal fighting, Kuai Lin directly used a unique move, which was so powerful that even the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would have to avoid it by three points. If it weren't for the butcher's knife hanging high, the New Deal of Ming Dynasty would have been completely destroyed long ago up.

Alfonso V didn't understand, but since he couldn't solve it, why didn't he try Kuai Lin's method?

Alfonso V stood up and said: "Then let us see the tricks of the royal advisor and tailor Bin Yan Li."

Just one month later, Alfonso V obtained the Maritime Academy established by the nobles, and it was only after repeated requests from many nobles that Alfonso V reluctantly accepted the newly established Maritime Academy.

During this month, Alfonso V kept going to Kuai Lin's tailor shop. Kuai Lin made calls at several key points. The old nobles didn't even know what happened, and they were defeated.

In fact, it is very simple. Going to sea and pursuing profit at sea is a business with your head pinned to your belt. Everyone who goes to sea is a pirate. Apart from wind and waves, the biggest enemy is other armed privateers. is a torture.

With the strong support of King Alfonso V, the nobles have seen the cruelty of the sea. For the nobles who have already occupied a lot of social resources and are used to lying down and collecting rent, it is easier to kill them than go to sea to fight for their lives. .

Even in the calm Tagus River, these noble students vomited faintly. The food on the boat could not be said to be unpalatable, it could only be said to be difficult to swallow. Those taboos and legends on the sea made them tremble with fear .

Therefore, the Maritime Academy established by the nobles has undergone several major changes in just one month, spending a lot of money to recruit teachers, overcrowded schools, and countless noble children dropping out of school because there are very few students and insufficient financial support. The teachers recruited with huge sums of money could not pay their salaries. In the end, the Maritime Academy was unsustainable, so they could only ask Alfonso V to take over the Maritime Academy at a low price.

If there is no such thing as Kuai Lin, the nobles will think about the recruiting targets of the Maritime Academy; they will think about how to maintain the operation of the academy; Run to the captain, first mate, and second mate; think about how to train businessmen to use their power to make profits, instead of directly ending up in person.

The establishment of an extremely extravagant academy, the high cost and the large amount of money to hire the old captain as a teacher, have become straws that overwhelm the school.

In short, Kuai Lin's strong support is to make the tune of the song of the Maritime Academy of the nobles rise too high, and they can't sing it in the end.

Alfonso V was in an extremely wonderful mood. He selected a lot of gifts from the court and planned to visit Li the tailor. This mysterious oriental man had methods that were simply unheard of.

Miss Philippa's car was earlier than Alfonso V's, and she often came to this tailor's shop. Even though the stories about her and the tailor were widely spread in Lisbon, Philippa didn't care at all.

A woman who falls in love probably only has love in her eyes, but she doesn't know that she is in love with the devil.

After Alfonso V entered the tailor shop, he happened to see the flushed Philippa, and said with a smile: "Oh, cousin, you are here too, I heard people say that you are getting married, it is true Is it? I thought you would never get married for the rest of your life just like Third Uncle. "

"Are you going to marry our tailor Bin Yan Li?"

Alfonso V and Miss Philippa are cousins, and their fathers are brothers. Of course, Miss Philippa is also the sister-in-law of Alfonso V. Kuai Lin believes that this relationship is abnormal. Lipa didn't think there was anything abnormal, as consanguineous marriages like this were very common throughout Tessie.

Kuai Lin said with a smile: "As far as I know, Miss Philippa will never marry."

But Philippa raised his head, looked straight at Kuai Lin and said, "If it was him, I would."

Kuai Lin was stunned for a moment, he knew that he had been recruited, and today Philippa and Alfonso came back and forth, just for this marriage, a beautiful love story witnessed by the king.

Alfonso V looked at Kuai Lin and said seriously: "Your Excellency is a smart man. He already knew my identity before and did not attack Freetown himself. I need to give an explanation to my citizens. Then uncle's The daughter is married to Your Excellency, and Freetown will be used as a dowry, so you can confess."

Is this reasonable?Kuai Lin thinks it is unreasonable, but in terms of Taixi's values, it is extremely reasonable.

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Knowing the purpose of Bin Yan Li, but couldn't help wanting to make a deal with him, he is a devil, a devil wandering in Taixi land. - Alfonso V.

Chapter 973 The Born Navigator Arrives at Cuba Island

Kuai Lin married Miss Philippa as the Governor of Liberty City in the Ming Dynasty. This wedding caused a huge shock in Portugal, because Miss Philippa was never married. There is no one who is worthy of the identity of Miss Philippa. Obviously, the identity of the governor of Liberty City complements each other.

Kuai Lin did not pay too much dowry, because Miss Philippa did not have a dowry, and Liberty City and the Free Islands were not dowry. The dowry, that is the territory conquered by the villains from the east.

So Kuai Lin just married Miss Philippa according to the customs of Ming Dynasty, with three matchmakers and six hires.

In Lisbon, Kuai Lin and Philippa completed their wedding in the presence of Cardinal Jaime, another sister of Philipa.

In Liberty City, Kuai Lin married Philippa in a Chinese wedding ceremony. This mixed wedding between Daming and Taixi made Philippa terrified. She never thought that her wedding could have two customs, even for the sake of Alfonso V chose to get married only after the political exchange, but Philippa was still very satisfied with his wedding.

Kuai Lin is very familiar with the temperament of Thai and Western ladies, so he doesn't care much about whether Philippa is faithful in marriage. He is a devil, but after marriage Philippa actually read the female ring, yes What Kuai Lin never thought of anyway.

After he returned to the City of Liberty, he began to pick on the whole of Thailand and the West again. The deep-rooted contradiction between Britain and France became hot again. Facing the Teutonic Knights who were retreating in Poland, it was like a sudden He was as brave as taking a Dali pill.

Kuai Lin also met the envoys of the Songhai Empire. The envoys asked Daming to return the City of Freedom, the Freedom Islands, and the lands occupied by the Juanma River. The empire's back is on fire.

After two confrontations, the Songhai Empire finally realized clearly that Portugal is not easy to mess with, and Ming is even more difficult to mess with.

Because Daming took the opportunity to capture a large number of natives, cut off the eggs and sent them to the manor, which not only satisfied the developed plantations, but also had spare energy to transport them to the outside world. To Kuai Lin's great surprise, they came from Portugal and Spain. The merchants in the country do not want eunuchs, but natives with bells. However, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty had a decree that eunuchs were still the main ones sent to Taixi.

During the confrontation, Kuai Lin also discovered some unknown past events of the Songhai Empire.

In a large number of stone inscriptions of the Songhai Empire, there is a saying that there is land on the other side of the sea.

This kind of stone carving is full of strange power and chaos. In the description of the stone carving, there are countless sea monsters in the Atlantic Ocean, including the banshee who confuses sailors with singing, sea beasts as big as mountains, and a vast and boundless land.

In a stone inscription of the Songhai Empire, it is clearly recorded that the natives of the Songhai Empire reached the other side of the sea, communicated unfriendlyly with the local natives, and returned successfully.

But the Songhai Empire believed that the seas of these sailors were unknown, and sank them all into the sea, and burned all the goods they brought back.

There are not many of these stone carvings, and Kuai Lin did not record them in any of his inscriptions, so he chose to destroy them.

The first time to cross the Atlantic Ocean will be the Daming Ocean Fleet, the Skyrim Exploration Fleet led by Tang Xing.

"Our current location is 154° east longitude, 22° 42 north latitude, about [-] miles away from the capital." Sailor Fan Dexing put down the sextant in his hand, made some calculations, and added it on the globe After that, it's a whole new world.

The Age of Discovery is still going on.

He is not using a simple quadrant to determine the latitude and longitude, but a more accurate sextant, and three copper watches given by the emperor for confirmation. It has been more than two years since he went to sea, and these are extremely accurate. The copper watch is still an artifact of positioning on the voyage.

"A boat master who can pinch and count." Tang Xing put down the binoculars in his hand and looked at the thirteen ships staying in Shuosui Bay, feeling quite relieved.

There are two volcanic craters in Shuosui Bay, the big one is about two hundred feet high, and the small one is only three feet high. Under the volcanic rocks, there is a quiet beach. On the beach, there are countless flamingos. The sailors were hunting flamingos to improve their food. This long journey finally had the time for the toothbrush festival.

There are also some sailors who are burying monuments, which is what the Ming Dynasty Ocean Fleet must do wherever they go.

What a huge wave of three feet high, in front of the free Tang Xing, still couldn't take away even a boat from him.

Shuosui Bay was named by Tang Xing, because the bay here is like a fat ear of wheat. The once active volcano brought extremely fertile land here. Tang Xing named the island 'Wojing Mountain', 'Wojing Island' means a fertile and prosperous scene. (Now the island of Cuba.)

Fan Dexing looked at Tang Xing and had to admire this man who belonged to and conquered the ocean, and the ocean was his home.

During the voyage, the compass suddenly failed, which terrified everyone, and even the needles of the clock jumped. Fan der Xing immediately timed and prepared an hourglass. After leaving the sea area, he re-timed to prevent loss. exact location.

He has been trained many times in the Maritime Hall for these things, but what makes it difficult for Fan der Xing is that when even the compass cannot guide the direction, the astrology on the Atlantic Ocean is difficult to provide accurate directions, and the fog is confusing. When he couldn't even see the sun, Tang Xing was able to accurately guide the fleet to reach this sea area smoothly.

Tang Xing, a born navigator.

"The appearance of islands means the appearance of land." Tang Xing said to Fan Dexing: "There should be a vast land to the north, and there should also be a vast land to the south."

"Because of our position, we can clearly see that to the north and south, there are islands and they are getting denser."

Tang Xing has rich ocean-going experience. If it was just an isolated island in the sea, he would not have guessed this way. However, what the Daming Ocean-going Navy has discovered is an archipelago, and there should be continents from north to south.

Fan Dexing nodded and said, "I think so too."

"We're going to separate here, and we're still meeting here after three months." Tang Xing immediately made a decision. The ocean-going fleet is not just sailing around the world. There are some things along the way, and we need to bring back some information, especially about The gold, silver and copper that Daming lacked, as well as various crops, had to be brought back.

For some landmark buildings, monuments should also be named.

Tang Xing told Fan Dexing: "Don't have any trust in the natives. We look different from them. In their eyes, we are not too different from monkeys. Don't get in touch with them too much. The disease they carry has passed on to us, and everyone will suffer."

"Finally, I wish each other the best of luck."

In the early morning of the next day, the morning mist was hazy, and the Daming Ocean Navy divided into two, and started a new exploration. Three months later, all the ships returned to Shuosui Bay again. After exchanging information, Tang Xing joined forces again and headed south , heading south.

There are indeed continents in the north and south, and the level of civilization is almost the same as that of the Songhai Empire.