Chapter 2114: The First ‘Intimate’ Contact

After the meeting, the next step is to discuss their respective needs.

Sending an embassy was necessary.

Because Hong Bao's attitude was unclear, Dok sent several groups of messengers to urge the king to quickly select personnel and gifts, and then get here as soon as possible.

As for Frank, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's messenger has arrived, accompanied by an envoy, and the envoy will be Abel.

This is the greatest sincerity!

So Doc felt the pressure, and the messengers kept coming.

Hong Bao, on the other hand, was very leisurely. He even asked someone to take him to see the farmers and the nearest small town.

Doc agreed, but he sent a lot of cavalry to accompany him, secretly telling them to restrict the scope of activities of Hong Bao and his party.

On the edge of the farmland, Hong Bao watched the farmers working.

"Father, their farm tools are worse than Ming Dynasty's."

There were 'experts' who knew about planting and breeding accompanying them. After just one glance, they concluded that Ming Dynasty was at least more advanced than them in agriculture.

All the way to the outside of a small city, Hong Bao frowned and said, "What does it smell like?"

The accompanying interpreter said with a surprised look on his face: "It has no taste!"

After a slight cough, Doc came over and handed over a bouquet of flowers and plants.

Hong Bao's brows furrowed tightly. He turned around and retched, tears filling his eyes.

Doc said awkwardly: "It's just the smell of something..."

"Father, it's the smell of feces and urine."

The dozen or so people accompanying him were holding back and their faces were red.

The vomiting reaction is always there.

"Father-in-law."

A man who was responsible for growing vegetables on the ship suddenly squatted on the ground and vomited like a spurt.

Hong Bao's face looked a little ugly. He was trying his best to endure the desire to vomit.

Doc's face didn't look good either, but he felt that Hong Bao was a little pretentious.

Could it be that the cities of the Ming Dynasty were just filled with birds singing and flowers fragrant?

Hong Bao turned his back to Xiaocheng and took a sip of water, then forced a smile and said: "Let's go into the city."

…

Zhang Wang felt that Thai and Westerners looked a bit "wild".

Wild, ignorant wildness!

So he kept the fleet on alert, but the Thais became much friendlier, especially the Frankish envoys who arrived early. They would tentatively contact the people in the fleet, seemingly very friendly.

But they had a disgust and hatred for the Plantagenets, which they never concealed.

Zhang Wang wanted to go back. After the fleet experienced the initial novelty and joy, he gradually became more homesick.

Zhang Wang also missed home, but Hong Bao was gone and he had to keep an eye on the fleet.

What is home? Home is where I want to go back when I'm tired, even if it's the place where we quarrel.

After the threat was removed, everyone's tense nerves were relaxed.

"Go home, go home!"

There will always be someone who suddenly screams and then continues to sleep depressed.

After experiencing too many hardships, they need adequate rest and adequate and fresh food to recuperate their bodies.

The return journey was not far away, and after the Frank delegation was in place, everyone was thinking about going home.

"Sir, someone is coming from Lisbon."

Zhang Wang had already seen the ship, and as the ship approached the dock, he saw an acquaintance.

Henry frowned and said to his entourage: "Tell them my identity."

His entourage went over to negotiate, but Henry's eyes remained on the fleet throughout.

"His Royal Highness Prince Henry."

Henry nodded, then left his entourage to negotiate. He walked along the edge to Zhang Wang's warship, smiled and said, "Are you okay? My friends."

Zhang Wang said coldly: "It's okay."

The bruise on Henry's face has healed, and he smiles very kindly.

"Isn't the messenger here?"

He was trying to get close, and Zhang Wang was dealing with it word by word.

When Doc accompanied Hong Bao on his return trip, he received the news.

"The Lisbon people are coming and they are restless,"

Doc looked at the dock with cold eyes.

"Just let the Franks get involved.

But the Lisbon people... they were very ambitious, and when they saw our truce, they panicked..."

"Mingren will be happy to see this situation, so we need to let them know who is the strong one in Tessie as soon as possible. By following Frank and Lisbon, Akito will only gain two cowardly friends and will only ask for support from them. And if you don’t understand, there will be no reward.”

When the group arrived at the pier, Hong Bao said: "I have waited too long to come out and have seen the Thai and Western customs. If there is nothing else, I have to prepare for the return trip."

Abel, who came over, glanced at Doc and said, "Frank is ready to meet his friends and can leave at any time."

Doc smiled and said: "Let's trade. Plantagenet can eat any amount of goods. What does Ming want?"

"Gold and silver! Apart from this..."

Hong Bao said regretfully: "Other than this, our family has not found anything worth exchanging."

This request did not surprise Doc. He nodded and said, "Yes, Plantagenet has prepared the gold and silver. Let's get started."

The conversation between the two completely ignored Abel, because the Franks brought what was exchanged, but gold and silver only accounted for a very small part.

This is stupid self-confidence!

Doc nodded slightly to Abel, feeling extremely ridiculous in his heart.

After that banquet, Dok never asked Hong Bao to eat. Instead, he often went to eat with him, and the gifts were fresh ingredients.

Daming doesn’t need Taixi’s goods!

This was what Doc realized after several contacts, so he immediately adjusted his countermeasures and mobilized a lot of gold and silver.

But what bothered him most was the warship.

No matter how much he tried, Hong Bao still didn't allow them to get close to the warship. His vigilant look was as if there was a sun hidden in the ship.

Hong Bao got on the ship and hurried into his cabin.

"Ugh!"

Zhang Wang was stunned outside for a while, and wanted to ask the people who went out with Hong Bao.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

Most of those who followed Hong Bao to investigate were vomiting.

Vomiting is contagious, and the last two people who didn't vomit also looked pale, and their throats were surging.

"What did you encounter?"

Zhang Wang couldn't imagine a group of men going out, and when they returned, they all looked like they were pregnant, and their morning sickness was very severe.

What the hell did they encounter that made people disgusted?

"Ugh!"

There was only one person standing in front of Zhang Wang.

This was a livestock owner. When the fleet went out to sea, they would raise a lot of livestock and poultry along the way.

People who do this kind of work are probably exposed to the stench all day long. After a long time, they will no longer smell the stench of an abalone shop.

So he made it to the end, but his face was ashen.

"Sir, it's all... feces and urine..."

Zhang Wang frowned and said, "Who fell into the manure pit?"

The 'livestock expert' retched and said with a pale face, "It's all manure pits. There is feces and urine everywhere in the city. You can see it everywhere..."

Zhang Wang thought about the 'grand occasion' and retched, and was glad that he didn't go.

"If you don't walk carefully, you will step on it. Those rich people wearing high heels walk in the manure pile, and they have to look up frequently..."

Zhang Wang had a bold and terrible guess, so he asked, "Could it be that above..."

"That's right, sir."

The man covered his mouth and said with horror, "Sir, there will be feces and urine falling from above..."

"Ugh!"

Zhang Wang listened with a pale face and felt it was ridiculous.

Feces and urine flying in the air?

"No wonder they wear hats..."

Zhang Wang imagined the scene of those people walking in the city in fear, and suddenly felt that the Ming Dynasty was heaven.

"The father-in-law has been enduring it, and so have we. If it weren't for the father-in-law, everyone would have run away long ago."

The scary place, Zhang Wang felt that the world outside the Ming Dynasty was really scary.