Elizabeth's send-off party included only various maids and hundreds of servants.
Then there are hundreds of knights who serve as guard of honor and so on.
Although in the end only a few of these maids were able to stay in the Tang Dynasty with Elizabeth, the others had to get out.
But there still had to be a procession to send off the bride. After all, Spain was a colonial power, and it also valued its marriage with the Tang Dynasty, so the scene had to be held up.
In addition to the procession of sending off the bride, the Kingdom of Spain actually prepared a lot of dowry for Elizabeth, not to mention gold and silver and other common goods. Don’t talk about money with anyone but the Tang Dynasty royal family.
However, the small amount of money in the dowry is nothing. What really matters is the title and the territory that comes with it.
In order to show that the Tang Dynasty was a Spanish family, the Kingdom of Spain attached great importance to this marriage. To show its sincerity, Spain had already conferred the title of Duke of Chile.
This also means that after the Holy Emperor marries Elizabeth, he will be able to directly obtain Spain's Chilean region in South America.
Although the Tang Empire has little interest in South America, especially Chile, for the time being, it does not have too much territory, so it is just right to merge and manage the Argentina and Chile regions under Datang's control.
Of course, there are many other reasons why Spain gave this place away. For example, it is difficult to develop this place and it has to go around South America. Moreover, because of the existence of the Tang Dynasty, they are now afraid to develop it.
Just send it out once and for all.
However, there were conditions after it was given away, stipulating that the title of Duke of Chile could only be inherited by the children of Elizabeth and the Holy Emperor.
In addition, according to the painful inheritance laws in Europe, theoretically, Elizabeth and her descendants still have the inheritance rights to the Spanish branch of the Habsburg Dynasty, that is, the Kingdom of Spain and its many dependencies. Not only that, in fact
She has the right to inherit the entire Habsburg Empire's territory and titles.
What’s more interesting is that her father is Henry II of the Vacava dynasty of France, and her mother is the witch Catherine, which means that Elizabeth and her descendants also have the right to inherit many territories and titles such as the Kingdom of France.
Although the above-mentioned inheritance rights only exist in theory, because there are still a lot of heirs lining up ahead.
But no matter what, the identity of this woman is not simple. If one day a meteorite falls from the sky, and a large number of European nobles die, and many heirs in front of her die, then Elizabeth or her descendants can
Justifiably inherit almost all of Europe!
That's right, it's such nonsense
Well, it’s not just Elizabeth. In fact, if you pull out any royal member from the European royal family, you will find that this person will have many territories and inheritance rights to the title, but the order is very low. Unless a miracle occurs, there is no way to inherit it.
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People in the Tang Dynasty didn't understand it at first, and they didn't understand it after they learned about it.
From the perspective of the people of the Tang Dynasty, how could it be possible for outsiders to inherit a dynasty? Even people from other countries came to inherit. As for female inheritance, it was even more impossible.
But it doesn't matter if they don't understand or not. When they knew that Elizabeth had a lot of inheritance rights, they were immediately tempted.
This means that in the future, the Tang Dynasty may even control many territories without a single blow.
As for Elizabeth having a long list of heirs ahead of her, that's not a problem at all.
As long as the Tang Dynasty wants to and has this need, it can ensure that all the heirs ahead of Elizabeth disappear!
He is so awesome, so powerful!
Judging from the title of Duchess of Chile and a lot of potential inheritance rights, the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty still attached great importance to Elizabeth.
Otherwise, Datang would not have decided to give her the title of Zhaoyi in advance.
Even if this title has not been officially canonized, this woman is not yet the woman of the Holy Emperor, but when the angel arrives in Madrid, the canonization will be carried out, and by then this Elizabeth will be the legitimate Zhaoyi of the Tang Dynasty.
Since she is the woman of the Holy Emperor, she cannot be neglected in any way, so the Palace Affairs Office booked the second half of the voyage of the New Atlantic to welcome Elizabeth Zhaoyi to the Tang Dynasty.
But after missing the New Atlantic, it is impossible for these passengers staying in Europe to take the new luxury liner back to their homeland in a short time. They can only choose to take the passenger ship of several thousand tons.
After all, there are still too few passenger ships of 10,000 tons!
After so many years of development, the Pacific Shipping Company of the three major shipping companies has only built a total of eight 10,000-ton passenger ships, and half of them still operate along the mainland coast and in the South China Sea.
For example, the golden passenger route from Tianjin to Shanghai and then to Guangzhou has always been a key route for competition among major domestic shipping companies. Pacific Ocean Shipping Company also uses four of its latest and most luxurious passenger ships for the operation of local coastal routes.
As for the ocean-going ships, there are actually only four ships, and two of them go west, passing through Malacca, India, South Africa, Ceuta in Europe, New South Port in North America, and Port of Trois-Rivières, and then bypass South America and enter the west coast of North America.
Finally, it passed through the Sandalwood Islands and Beihai Province and arrived at Shanghai and other ports.
The other two ships took the opposite route, crossing the Pacific from Beihai Province to Xinjinshan, then going to Xinangang, Ceuta, etc., then South Africa, Ceylon, Malacca and finally returning to the mainland.
This is true for the 10,000-ton passenger ships of Pacific Shipping Company, and the same is true for the 1,000-ton passenger ships of several other shipping companies. There are still relatively few that run global routes, and they mainly focus on domestic and Southeast Asian routes.
If you just run like this, the voyage will be very long because you have to go around Africa and South America. This is why the Tang Empire planned to dig the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal, in order to shorten the voyage to and from Europe and America.
Among them, the Suez Canal is more troublesome, because this place is still in the hands of the Ottoman Empire. In the past two years, the Tang Empire has also talked with the Ottoman Empire and wants to get the canal area, but the Ottoman Empire cares more about territory than the Ottoman Empire.
The Spaniards treat their colonies the same way, they sell them as long as the price is right.
This has been discussed for several times without reaching an agreement. The patience of Datang's senior officials has been almost exhausted. Especially the military, whether it is the army or the navy, hopes to open the Suez Canal as soon as possible to strengthen the empire's control over Europe.
regional control.
Once the Suez Canal is opened, a large number of ships from the subsequent empire will be able to enter the Mediterranean directly from the Indian Ocean. By then, it will be much more convenient to transport supplies or directly dispatch troops.
This was also an important strategy for the empire to control the situation in Europe and encircle and suppress the Tatars.
But the people of the Ottoman Empire were stubborn and refused to give up Egypt no matter what.