About half an hour.
Over at Fo Langji, the official finally arrived.
The language they use is Portuguese. Today's Portugal is in the Avish dynasty. The king is Joao I. It is still at war with the Kingdom of Castile.
Castile, probably Spain.
The person who arrived was none other than João I, accompanied by a boy who seemed to be one or two years older than Zhu Xuan. His name was Enrique. He directly identified himself in Portuguese and asked Zhu Xuan who they were.
Zhu Xuan explained his origin and then took the people off the boat, but the Jin Yiwei continued to protect him.
"Are you really from the East?"
João said in surprise: "Is it the East where Marco Polo went?"
Marco Polo, when Kublai Khan was still there, went to the East and wrote a travelogue when he came back. This book was very popular in Europe and aroused Europeans' yearning for the East, thus promoting the opening of new sea routes.
Those Westerners basically go to sea to find routes to Asia. They believe what is said in travel notes that the East is full of gold. The so-called opening of new routes is mainly driven by human greed and is done for profit.
Before Zhu Xuan traveled through time, he had a lot of contact with foreigners, and happened to have learned some Portuguese. There was finally no barrier to communication, and he said, "Yes, we come from the Ming Dynasty in the East."
João asked in confusion: "Isn't the one in the East the Yuan Dynasty?"
"The Yuan Dynasty has long since disappeared."
Zhu Xuan said: "The Mongolian dynasty has been replaced by our Ming Dynasty. All those Mongolians were driven back to the grasslands by our Ming Dynasty. Now there is only the Ming Dynasty in the east."
The change of dynasties does not seem like anything to João and others.
In their west, dynasties were often defeated and new dynasties emerged.
Seeing that Zhu Xuan could even speak Portuguese, Zheng He and the others were surprised, but at the same time they didn't understand, because Zhu Xuan had been in Yingtian since he was a child, and the furthest place he had ever been to was Srivijaya.
Like them, Zhu Xuan came to the west of the mainland for the first time.
"I would like to ask the emperors and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty, why are you here?"
João asked curiously.
Zhu Xuan took an enamel color from Hou Xian's hand and said: "We came to the West from the far East because we want to cooperate and trade with you. I heard that you like porcelain, and this is one of the porcelain we brought. "
Even if they have never been to the East, it is a fact that they like porcelain.
In the past, so many Ming merchants who went to sea would bring some porcelain to Europe through Tianfang and other places. However, due to the lack of transportation and information in ancient times, it was not easy for Europeans to find a route from the sea to the East.
In addition, the Ottomans cut off the land passage from Europe to Asia, so Westerners could not go to Asia by land like Marco Polo, and could only take the sea route.
"Is this... porcelain?"
João took the enamel color and his eyes suddenly lit up.
João is well aware of how popular Eastern porcelain is in the West. In his treasure house, there are two porcelain collections from Central Asia, blue and white porcelain, which are regarded as treasures.
Take any one out, it's priceless.
But the enamel color in front of me is more vivid than the blue and white porcelain.
I am used to seeing blue and white porcelain, which leads to aesthetic fatigue.
Now seeing some other porcelain, Joao loves it without hesitation.
"Yes, this is porcelain."
Zhu Xuan nodded and said: "King Joao, what do you think of our porcelain?"
From Joao's expression, he could tell that this was a priceless treasure, but he still asked deliberately.
"It's a baby!"
João came back to his senses and looked at Zhu Xuan's three large ships. They must be full of treasures. He smiled warmly and said: "Of course we welcome the emperor and grandson of the Ming Dynasty to come to do business. Please invite the emperor and grandson, and we will discuss how to cooperate."
Zhu Xuan took back the enamel color, threw it to Hou Xian, and said, "Then please ask King Joao to lead the way, but I want to lead the troops into the city."
He left a thousand men led by Zheng He on the ship to defend.
The people from the Shenji Battalion and the Guard Battalion, as well as the Jinyi Guards, all disembarked from the ship and followed him to ensure safety.
Joao hesitated for a while, wondering: "I can let you bring five hundred people into the city, and the rest can only stay outside the city."
Zhu Xuan thought about it for a long time and agreed: "That's okay."
He then said to Hou Xian: "Go back to the ship and bring down two more enamels to give to King Joao."
Hou Xian hurriedly boarded the boat, and after a while, he brought two more enamel-colored porcelains down.
Zhu Xuan gave it directly to João, who pretended to refuse it many times and finally accepted it happily.
After a round of polite exchanges between the two parties, Zhu Xuan followed Joao into the city.
"The people here look very strange."
Xu Miaojin said softly: "High nose, deep eyes, cat eyes and eagle beak, fair face, curly hair and red beard."
Their Ming Dynasty Mandarin is incomprehensible to the locals.
You can say it casually and unscrupulously.
On the contrary, João did not dare to talk nonsense because Zhu Xuan understood their language.
After entering the city, they looked around curiously.
The appearance and characteristics of the people in this area are completely different from those in Central Asia, Africa and other regions. Even their customs and habits are different.
Zhu Xuan still remembers that the West in the Middle Ages was not very civilized. There was excrement everywhere. High-heeled shoes appeared just to avoid stepping in excrement. The Rhine River was still a smelly ditch. People here did not like to bathe and only used perfume. Covered with stink and strong body odor.
"It stinks!"
Cen Hua smelled the body odor and had to pinch her nose.
Even perfume can't cover up the smell.
"It does stink."
Zhu Xuan frowned and said, "The people here are very uncivilized. We take more showers on the boat than they do."
Cen Jing shook his head and said: "It is indeed uncivilized. Does it look like dung to you?"
They looked to the street next to them, and sure enough they saw a pile of feces lying in the middle of the road, with some yellow liquid surrounding it, which looked disgusting.
"We are not even as good as some mountain people in Shunzhou." Cen Jing shook his head.
"Okay, stop talking."
Xu Miaojin covered her nose and said: "Tonight, we must go back to the ship. We must not stay in this place."
When they were talking about the people here.
When the locals saw the arrival of the oriental people, they also talked a lot and stopped to watch. They were deeply curious about the people with oriental faces.
"Your Highness, the people here are so dirty, can they really make money?"
Wu Yongfeng expressed doubts about the Avish dynasty.
Zhu Xuan said: "Look at the people around you, just in terms of clothing, they are much better than those in Ceylon, Adang and other places. This place is richer. Trust my judgment."
They glanced left and right for a while, and it was true that the people here were relatively wealthy, but what was the specific situation? Let's continue to see how the situation was.
