The first thousand two hundred and fifty-four chapters
After the New Atlantic entered the Yangtze River Estuary, although it entered the Huangpu River, it did not continue deep into the urban area of Songjiang Prefecture.
Because their goal is not Shanghai, just the Wusongjiang Naval Base.
If the New Atlantic is performing an ordinary passenger transport mission and carrying ordinary passengers, then it will naturally enter the urban area of Songjiang Prefecture in the hinterland of the Huangpu River and dock at the Trade Zone Pier.
But now the New Atlantic has been chartered by the Palace Affairs Department, and it is carrying the Tang Dynasty's wedding delegation and the Spanish marriage delegation, and among these people is Elizabeth.
Before, Elizabeth was probably just a princess of the Kingdom of Spain and a duchess of the colonial Principality of Chile. In the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, she was nothing, just a barbarian!
However, Elizabeth has ended her canonization in the Tang Dynasty and was named Zhaoyi.
Even though Zhaoyi's rank in the Tang Dynasty's harem is lower than that of concubines, concubines, and concubines, in fact, in the current Tang harem, Zhaoyi already has the highest title that most women can obtain.
Because titles above concubine are usually awarded to concubines who have given birth to princes and daughters.
The title of concubine is only given to concubines who have given birth to a prince.
As for the imperial concubines, currently only a few adult concubines have been granted the title of king, which is a special case.
If she cannot give birth to a son and a half for the royal family, no matter how favored she is, then at most she will only have one Zhaoyi.
Judging from the title alone, Elizabeth's Zhaoyi title is neither high nor low.
But this girl was not an ordinary concubine from the beginning. She was not a concubine who entered the palace through a draft, but was the product of a marriage. She came to the Tang Dynasty with a large dowry and political implications.
Even if the people of the Tang Dynasty looked down upon the barbarians, as long as the Tang Dynasty needed Spain to resist the Tatars in Europe, it was impossible to look down upon Elizabeth too much.
Even if they don't look at this, the people of the Tang Dynasty will give Elizabeth enough respect because of the fact that Elizabeth directly brought the entire Chile as a dowry.
When the New Atlantic slowly sailed into the Wusong River Naval Base, Elizabeth and others on the ship were already familiar with the many warships and civilian ships along the Huangpu River.
After all, this has shocked me many times and it has been a long time.
No matter how shocked or surprising you are, you will gradually get used to it if you see it too much.
With the assistance of a steam tug, the New Atlantic was successfully moored at the pier berth.
Immediately afterwards, many people began to take action.
When members of the royal family travel, it is inevitable that there are many rules and grand pomp. Although Elizabeth is Spanish, she is now a serious member of the Tang Dynasty royal family.
Therefore, there are no shortage of rules and etiquette.
When preparations were made at the dock, Elizabeth on the New Atlantic had already put on a full Tang Dynasty palace dress, a soft-topped wide hat with a gauze cover under the wide hat.
At this time, the old nun sent by the Palace Affairs Office came forward to help Elizabeth out of the cabin.
After stepping onto the deck, Elizabeth saw through the gauze that there were people on the deck, not just on the deck, but also on the pier.
With the support of the old grandma, she slowly walked across the trestle. When she was about to leave the trestle and step onto the pier, her steps were slightly hesitant!
If you take this step, you will truly step onto the land of Datang!
Many people know what this means, and Elizabeth herself also knows very well that a small step for her represents a big step for the marriage between the Kingdom of Spain and the Tang Empire.
This will bring countless benefits to the Kingdom of Spain!
The moment she left Spain, she already knew that at least a dozen ships loaded with ordnance and various supplies had sailed into Cadiz and other ports in the Kingdom of Spain.
There are various materials worth at least millions of Tang Yuan, and they are all kinds of ordnance, weapons and even food that Spain is in urgent need of.
And these are all free!
Because this was part of the dowry gift given to Elizabeth in the Tang Dynasty.
And this is just the beginning, there will be more in the future. Of course, it will not continue to be given away for free as a betrothal gift, but will be provided to the Spaniards in the form of preferential trade.
What's more important is that the banking group of the Tang Empire will also provide the Spanish royal family with a huge loan of five million Tang yuan to maintain the war in Europe.
These are all changes after the marriage between the Kingdom of Spain and the Tang Empire.
Although the Datang Empire also supported the Kingdom of Spain before, this support was more verbal or even in the form of coercion. But now, the Datang Empire is preparing to provide loans and preferential trade to the Kingdom of Spain.
support.
This is very important for the Kingdom of Spain, which is already heavily in debt, the people are in dire straits, and the entire social and livelihood system is facing collapse.
The European wars that have lasted for many years have completely brought down European countries, including the Kingdom of Spain.
Even countries such as England and Scotland on the other side of the English Channel seemed to be far away from the war, but they were still consumed by the war, because under the strong military and political pressure of the Tang Dynasty, they had to send expeditionary forces to the European continent to resist whether they wanted to or not.
Tatars.
For the Tang Empire, there was no need for a European country that did not resist the Tatars!
Therefore, although countries such as Spain, Portugal, the British Isles, and Naples are far away from the front line, in fact, the war pressure they bear is not small.
Even the Ottoman Empire, after fighting a tacit war with the Tatars for many years, was forced by the Tang Dynasty to launch a so-called counterattack in the Balkans last year.
As a result, tens of thousands of troops and countless supplies were lost.
Is the Ottoman Empire willing to fight and counterattack the Tatars?
Damn it if you want!
The Tatars no longer take the initiative to provoke them. They have lived a good life in recent years, so why should they fight with the Tatars to death?
Only last year, the European fleet of the Datang Navy passed through the Dardanelles Strait and held a large-scale military exercise in the Marla Sea. Subsequently, it also went to the Datang Embassy District in Istanbul to conduct a landing operation with a scale of 1,000 people.
Live fire exercise.
When the dignitaries of the Ottoman Empire witnessed with their own eyes, the naval guns of the Tang Dynasty almost completely covered the entire suburban beach of Istanbul and exploded into craters.
During this period, a Tang Dynasty cruiser accidentally fired a 150mm artillery shell into the city of Istanbul. It landed in the palace and razed a small palace to the ground on the spot.
Later, people from the Tang Dynasty said that this was purely accidental, and we don’t know why the cannonballs flew into your palace!
After all, the man made a mistake and the cannon was fired incorrectly. We are all old friends, so I guess you won’t disagree!
What? You have an opinion? Oops, the naval gun went berserk. Hurry up and hide. The naval gun is going to fire on its own...
After this exercise, the dignitaries of the Ottoman Empire were greatly inspired, and finally mustered up the courage to launch a counterattack against the Tatars!