"Your Highness, this is a Franchi businessman named Shabotai Alvarez, and the other two are his deputies."

Xia Yuanji took the lead in introducing Zhu Yunxi.

But the Spanish businessman named Sabotea Alvarez shook his head, and then looked at Zhu Yunxi with a smile on his face: "Your Highness, the Imperial Grandson of the Ming Dynasty Supervisor, I actually have a Central Plains name."<

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Zhu Yunxi looked curious and said: "Oh? What's the name?"

Sabotai Alvarez said: "Your Highness, my name in the Central Plains is Fan Chong."

Xia Yuanji on the side was slightly startled.

Zhu Yunxi was also a little surprised, but then he understood immediately.

Then he joked: "I didn't expect that you also know the founder of Shangdao in the Central Plains. It's just the Central Plains writing, but I still need to learn more."

A joke.

Xia Yuanji, who didn't understand at first, finally understood it now.

This businessman from Folangji actually knew Fan Li, so he took Fan Li's name.

Just...

These Yi people are really unruly and have even started to change their family names and surnames.

Fan Chong said with a smile: "There are many saints in the Ming Dynasty. The land is vast and rich in resources. We conquered the ocean and defeated the huge waves to arrive in the Ming Dynasty. We heard about the figures in the history of the Central Plains. Fan Li's deeds inspired us very much."

Zhu Yunxi hummed twice and said: "Then you should give someone the surname Shen. He is the biggest businessman since the founding of the Ming Dynasty."

Fan Chong immediately bowed and whispered: "Shen Wansan is stupid, he is already dead."

Zhu Yunxi was stunned when he heard the sound.

Shen Wansan was sent to Yunnan in the sixth year of Hongwu's reign. In the past twenty years, little has been heard about him.

Unexpectedly, this Fan Chong from Fo Langji was also familiar with Shen Wansan.

Zhu Yunxi's eyes couldn't help but sink slightly: "I wonder what you want to donate?"

But Fan Chong puffed up his chest and said with a smile: "We heard that His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson is willing to reward tens of thousands of gold and even the title of Marquis and Earl of the Ming Dynasty for the reward."

When he said these words, Fan Chong's face was full of hospitality and smile.

He is bargaining.

Xia Yuanji immediately said in a deep voice from the side: "I have already written a letter to offer a reward. Anyone who offers it will be rewarded, but it is not something you have heard of."

Fan Chong bowed down again, faced Zhu Yunxi and said: "The Ming Dynasty is great, and the Emperor Sun is kind. We came to the Ming Dynasty from the distant Spain. I heard that the Ming Dynasty was offering a reward, so naturally we were willing to donate it.

”

After a test, Fan Chong turned to look at a follower beside him.

The man immediately took out a cloth bag from his arms, and then took out a red but shriveled thing from the cloth bag.

When he first saw him, Zhu Yunxi raised his eyebrows.

Xia Yuanji also took a second look. Isn't this the pepper that Taisun originally drew on the paper?

Fan Chong has already explained: "We found this thing on the way to the Ming Dynasty. According to the reward offered by the Ming Dynasty, this thing seems to be called pepper?"

"When we found the pepper, it was growing on the land, and the fruit was extremely bright. We wanted to take it back to Spain and plant it in the garden for viewing."

….

"For this reason, we sacrificed the lives of several of our best sailors."

Probably because not long after he first entered the Ming Dynasty, Fan Chong's Mandarin was intermittent, and he would pop out a few Spanish sentences from time to time.

But everyone can still hear that they want to get a big reward.

Zhu Yunxi gave Xia Yuanji a look, and the other party took the cloth bag from Fan Chong's entourage and sent it to Zhu Yunxi.

Opening the cloth bag, Zhu Yunxi saw several different kinds of chili peppers in the bag.

There are slender red peppers, fatter green peppers, and more of an oval, shriveled red pepper with some orange.

[Recommended, wild fruit

Reading and chasing books is really useful. Come and try it.】

Zhu Yunxi took a red pepper, broke open the shriveled skin, took out a pepper seed and put it in his mouth.

At this time, Fan Chong immediately reminded: "The seeds of these fruits are poisonous. If you eat them, it will be very painful in the stomach and will also cause a fever."

Zhu Yunxi turned a deaf ear and just refused the chili seeds carefully.

A familiar hot feeling instantly spread in the mouth as the pepper seeds were broken, and the stomach that had been fed by Mu Caiyun before leaving the palace instantly began to feel hungry again.

Zhu Yunxi took a sip of tea and couldn't help but raise his head and look deeply at Fan Chong.

Then he whispered: "The best sailors? Aren't they in what is now Portugal and France? On land, your Ottoman and Roman countries are not weak. I heard that they have been at war with Byzantium?"

Xia Yuanji's eyes gradually became curious, and he tilted his head to look at the emperor's grandson. He didn't know that the emperor's grandson was so familiar with the land of Europa.

Fan Chong was also shocked.

His Royal Highness, the young Crown Prince of a country in the Far East, actually knows so much about the situation in Europe.

Zhu Yunxi, however, took a sip of tea and continued quietly: "If you can be more sincere, I don't think England will replace Spain."

"English?" Fan Chongdi cooed, and then smiled: "They don't have any advantage on the ocean."

Zhu Yunxi smiled, took the topic, and said, "Do you have anything more to offer?"

"Your Royal Highness, the Imperial Grandson, we can only donate pepper, a plant that the Ming Dynasty has offered a bounty for." Fan Chong said truthfully.

Zhu Yunxi frowned. Chili peppers can only improve the taste of the people in the Central Plains and make life more flavorful, but it cannot solve the problem of yield per mu in the Central Plains.

He turned his head and glanced at Xia Yuanji: "Where is their fleet docked?"

"It's parked at Longwan Pier." Xia Yuanji immediately spoke and asked, "Your Highness, are you going to take a look?"

Zhu Yunxi nodded. When he returned to Beijing a few days ago, he didn't see these Spanish ships at Longwan Pier. It seems that he was driven away from Longwan Pier by the court that day so that he could dock and disembark.

Fan Chong had been observing the situation, and when he saw that the Ming Dynasty’s Emperor Taisun wanted to see the Spanish ship, he immediately said: “It is our honor to allow His Majesty the Ming Dynasty’s Emperor Taisun to board the Spanish ship.”

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly and glanced at Xia Yuanji.

….

Typical white-skinned remarks.

In a short time, Zhu Yunxi, escorted by a group of royal guards and cavalry, appeared on the Longwan Pier outside Jinchuan Gate outside Yingtian City.

The entire long river bank belongs to the scope of Longwan Pier.

Ships are docked right next to the pier, and there are some anchored ships docked in the deep water further away, waiting to dock at the pier.

While walking towards his merchant ship.

Fan Chong looked eagerly at the Ming Dynasty treasure ships and various warships and merchant ships docked in the water, with strong desire in his eyes.

Zhu Yunxi smiled the whole time and remained silent.

Fan Chong gushed: "The shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty is the most advanced in the world. If we in Spain can have such warships, the entire European ocean will belong to us."

The treasure ship is more than 100 meters long and 40 meters wide. It carries nine masts and twelve sails. The anchor alone weighs thousands of kilograms. The thick hull and the black holes of the cannons all attract Fan Chong's attention.

Attention.

No country in Europe can build such a giant ship.

A large ship with a load capacity of five thousand materials and a displacement of several thousand tons is the pinnacle of concrete insurance in the world's shipbuilding industry.

After all, nine-masted treasure ships are a minority. Even in today's Ming Dynasty Navy, they are often used as the flagships of naval commanders and leading generals.

There are even more blessing ships that can hold 2,500 materials and displace about 1,000 tons

and various smaller warships and grain ships with displacements of hundreds of tons.

Along the way, even though it was not the first time to see the Ming Dynasty’s shipbuilding craftsmanship at close range, Fan Chong was still sighing one after another.

Zhu Yunxi, on the other hand, was filled with happiness and turned to look at Xia Yuanji: "I ordered Longjiang Shipyard to draw many shipbuilding plans and seal them in the palace, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, etc."

Xia Yuanji nodded, looked at Fan Chong who was walking at the front due to excitement, and whispered: "When the Yi people enter the capital, they are secretly followed by Jin Yiwei. They can't get close to places like the Longjiang Shipyard."

My grandson is good at everything.

It seems that he has always been full of contempt and vigilance for people outside the Central Plains.

Xia Yuanji and Xie Jin and others are well aware of this.

But Xia Yuanji also agreed that since the Ming Dynasty's treasure ships and fortune ships were widely loved by the barbarians, the Ming Dynasty should keep the secret of shipbuilding well.

"Your Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, this is my Carrick Ship of Fortune."

Finally, at the edge of Longwan Pier, there was a docking place for barbarian merchant ships. Facing the docking place of European merchant ships, Fan Chong finally showed a rare hint of pride.

Walking past the Ming Dynasty treasure ships with a displacement of thousands of tons and a length of hundreds of meters, these merchant ships were like a small hill under Mount Tai.

The Fortune Carrick ship pointed at by Fan Chong is the highest mountain in this hilly area.
To be continued...