Why is Zhang Bin so confident that the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are not a good thing, one of them is the future maritime hegemon colonial power, one is the current maritime overlord, is he a threat, these two hungry wolves will give up the fat of Portugal?

João IV did not believe that these two hungry wolves would easily be frightened by the Ming Empire, and he asked carefully, "Your Royal Highness, take the liberty of asking, how do you let them sign a non-aggression treaty with us?"

Zhang Bin still said lightly: "This is not very difficult, for example, in England, they have nearly three thousand prisoners in our hands, the most important thing, their little Duke Cromwell is also in our hands, they dare not come to sign the non-aggression treaty, they do not sign the treaty, we will not let people."

It was a momentary neglect of this, indeed, with so many hostages in hand, that the English would have come to sign a non-aggression pact, and João IV nodded and asked carefully, “What about the Dutchman?”

Zhang Bin said with a proud note: "The Dutch, we have captured more than two thousand people in the East India Company, and their main fleet of the East India Company is blocked by us in the waters near Ceylon, if they are not honest, the East India Company, none of them can return!"

Is there such a thing?

João IV could not help but turn his head and asked Schweaver a little, after Schweaver's introduction, he nodded slowly: "Well, the Dutch must be more urgent than the British, but what happens after signing the contract, the captives put back, they have no scruples, when the time comes, they may maintain the peace on the surface of the European continent, but the overseas colonies will certainly not let go."What if they attack our overseas colonies without regard to the non-aggression pact?We don’t have any more navies, and we’re not at all at sea our adversaries!”

This Zhang Bin naturally knows that this is also the reason why he strongly supported Portugal, because Portugal has only a million people, and their shipyards and gun factories have been abandoned for more than a century, and the technology has been broken for several generations, and it is impossible to catch up with the development of the European powers.

That is to say, with their current national strength simply not enough to protect their huge overseas colonies, they want to preserve the interests of overseas colonies, slowly embarked on the road of recovery, only rely on the Ming, and because the population is not enough, they can not develop beyond the Ming.

Such an impossible threat of allies, naturally to support, Zhang Bin pretended to be generous, generous: "King, you can rest assured that since our two countries have become allies, our Daming Empire will naturally do their best to help you through the difficulties, this time, our emperor His Majesty on the Holy Oi, left 50,000 army and town far cruisers, Weiyuan battleships, light iron armored ships a hundred, to help you protect the interests of the overseas."

“Really?”João IV could not help but ask excitedly, “Did your Majesty the Emperor really decide to leave so many troops to help us?”

He could not believe that the Daming Empire would give them such great help, fifty thousand army, three hundred warships, this force was enough to crush any of the great powers of the anti-Habsburg alliance, and they could not unite to fight the army left by the Daming Empire, and they could not unite and fight hard with the Great Ming Empire, because their greatest enemy was Spain, the Habsburgs.

If the Daming Empire really left so many troops, then he could rest easy.

In his expectation of the eyes, Zhang Bin slowly nodded: "Of course, it is true that we will not only leave the army to help you deal with the anti-Habsburg alliance, but also help you train the army, and even, the weapons and equipment we can sell to you, as long as you want to buy, guns, artillery, and even warships, our Daming Empire can sell to you!" 」

And such good things!

The excitement of John IV was almost gone, because, according to Zhang Bin, Portugal was not only saved, but even had hope of revival.

He did not think about reviving Portugal, he had been thinking about how to revive Portugal from the moment of independence.

Although Portugal has a small population, but the collection of 50,000 troops is still not a problem, if the army of the poor, even a hundred thousand army can be put together, the key problem is that they have no weapons ah, now do not say artillery, muskets they can not make, no muskets, no muskets, there is no muskets, there is no use in recruiting more people.

As long as the Daming Empire sells weapons to them, he can recruit young and strong, train the army, and the Portuguese revival is no longer a dream!

He tried to calm down with excitement, and asked excitedly, "Your Royal Highness, I don't know what the price of muskets, artillery and warships is."

Of course, these things will not be cheap, weapons are one of the most profitable commodities, Zhang Bin has long thought, you fight, we Daming Empire sell weapons to you!

In this way, most of the gains of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies will fall into the pockets of the Ming Empire, and the more the European powers will be poorer and poorer, and the greater the wealth of the Ming Empire!

He said generously as always: "We are allies, this weapon and equipment will not be expensive for you, so, all the weapons and equipment are half price for you, the new type of gunfinger fifty-two, the thumb gun thrombium eleven; fifty pounds of folang gun, five hundred silver, one hundred silver, the other one, the weight of the other one, the light iron ship fifty thousand two silver, one hundred and two silver, one hundred and two silver.

Sleeping groove, he is selling copper as silver ah, according to his offer, a pound of copper is roughly the price of a pound of silver!

Is this price expensive?Not expensive!

However, João IV did not immediately report the quantity of the purchase, for he did not yet understand what the crows meant, and he turned his head and asked Schweaver softly.

Schweil had been on the warships of the Ming Empire these days, and Zhang Bin had not been able to conceal anything from him, and the function of the indigo had naturally known him.

As soon as he explained, João IV understood in an instant that it turned out that the new type of futon and flame cannons of the Daming Empire could be fired even, as long as you are not afraid of overheating the barrel and barrel, even ten rounds can be shot!

Good thing, how much to buy!

João IV exultedly, “Well, I am ready to recruit and train 50,000 troops, twenty-five thousand men each in the navy and the army, and I am ready to equip all the soldiers with new flame guns, and as for the artillery and warships, we will slowly negotiate and buy after that, my duke, what do you think?”

If each of the guns is five hundred and fifty thousand, if each of the guns with five more cutters, add up to five million two, and Portugal's annual income is now full of about ten million, he also knows that he can't eat a fat man, so he is ready to take it slowly.

Zhang Bin naturally has no opinion, he did not hesitate to nod: "Well, no problem, this time we brought 10,000 new pair of guns and 50,000 cedars, you can sell them first, as for the follow-up of 40,000 thirreats, I will go back to the people to produce, this year will certainly be able to do it."

"Well, buy ten thousand first, and I'll recruit ten thousand."João IV was a little incovenged, and he really did not expect that the Daming Empire would not only help them, but also bring them hope of revival.

Guns, artillery, and warships can be bought, how long can Portugal be revived?

He has begun to calculate, a year 10 million two income, at least five million two to buy weapons and equipment, five million two can buy ...