After understanding all the situation, Joao IV immediately made a decision and accepted the arms brought back by Theodosio with great fanfare.

After the order was passed, the first thing was to do was to go to the dock in Lisbon. Joao IV personally presided over the leadership of the carriage flintlock from the steam paddle ship and sent it to every Portuguese soldier.

Almost all Listen, after hearing the news, even closed the store doors and rushed to the port to watch the fun.

"Go and see, Your Highness the Prince is back! It is said that he brought back a lot of things from the Ming Empire!"

"What? There are fifty steam paddle ships alone! The ports are all full, and they are spectacular!"

"More than that, I heard that the army has been driven over, and all have to be replaced with new flintlock rifles!"

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Lisbon passed on word of mouth and called friends to rush to the port. After hearing the news, those in other countries in Lisbon were shocked and immediately rushed to the dock to see the situation.

This situation was deliberately created by Joao IV. It was to let everyone know that Portugal had obtained countless new guns and cannons from the Ming Empire. Anyone who dared to bully Portugal would consider it first.

In fact, fifty steam paddle ships alone are scary enough.

I was busy until dark and finally replaced the Lisbon army. However, there were still many new guns and cannons on the ship.

So he loudly announced in front of everyone that Portuguese troops from other places would be mobilized and all came to Lisbon to change their clothes. He wanted everyone to know all this.

After nightfall, Joao IV returned to the palace to hold a grand banquet to celebrate the prince's return and celebrate this major event.

However, after he arrived at the palace, he was still stunned.

He saw that his other children were like Theodosio and wore Eastern clothes. Even his queen was the same.

"Father, my child also brought you a very handsome set of Ming Dynasty clothes!" Theodosio said with a smile, "You will like it if you keep it!"

Obviously, the gift he brought to his younger brothers and sisters and his mother was the clothing of the Ming Dynasty.

Joao IV hesitated for a moment, but when he remembered his experiences over the past few years, remembered that he was looked down upon by other European countries and bullied by them, the only one of the Ming Empire had been helping him. In the end, he ignored it and immediately agreed and changed into oriental clothes to attend the banquet.

Just like that, during this grand banquet, the other Portuguese nobles were stunned.

They never expected that the king and his family would appear in the situation of an oriental person. Even the eldest prince who had just returned had black hair dyed.

At the banquet, there were naturally a bunch of adults and a bunch of young people, all talking about today’s big happy event.

Especially around Theodosio, there were young people among the Lisbon nobles. They were very curious about Theodosio's years in the Eastern Ming Empire and were listening to Theodosio telling about the things in the East.

However, his sister Catherine was a little awkward about the oriental clothes she wore.

After hearing this, Theodosio couldn't help but smile and said, "This is a dress, the regular clothes of the Ming Dynasty, and of course there are also simple and capable ones. Otherwise, how could the female generals of the Ming Dynasty fight?"

"What?" Catherine asked curiously as soon as she heard this: "There are female generals in the Ming Empire. Aren't they staying at home and unable to go out?"

When the others heard this, especially those girls, they were all very curious and listened to the conversation between the brother and sister with their ears.

"You are hearing-informed, do you know what hear-informed?" Theodosio said with a strong sense of superiority, "You don't understand if I said it. Just say that, the female generals of the Ming Dynasty are all titled, counts, marquis, and even dukes. They lead thousands of troops and fight in the north and south, and are very powerful..."

As he said that, he talked about the legend of the Ming Dynasty, about Qin Liangyu and Zhang Fengyi's deeds. Of course, he could not help but talk about Zhou Yuji's wife, Princess Kunxing, etc.

Catherine was very surprised when she heard these words, but it was completely different from what she imagined, and she was a little skeptical. Theodosio saw this expression, so she patted his sister on the shoulder and said, "You should also go to the Ming Empire to study, otherwise, will it be a frog in the well know? In the Ming Empire, even in the army, there are special female soldiers, and the salary is still very high..."

It can be said that the incidents of the Ming Dynasty were all very novel about the boys and girls among the Portuguese aristocracy. Under Theodosio's narration, each of them could not help but develop a strong interest in the Eastern power.

In his original history, Catherine married Charles II, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and became the Queen of England. However, his brother told him that he also developed a strong interest in the Ming Empire in the Far East.

Zhang Mingwei's time travel also changed her destiny.

It has to be said that the demonstration role of the head of state of the king is still very large.

The family of Joao IV wore oriental clothing at banquets, which had a great impact on the promising Portuguese aristocrats. Adults may have a smaller impact, but the young girls became very fast, and after they went back one by one, they all began to customize oriental clothing.

Under the leadership of Theodosio, wearing Ming clothing became the fashion in Lisbon!

A few days later, the Dutch and British envoys who stayed in Lisbon had almost figured out the situation, so they asked Joao IV to buy some arms from Joao IV.

At first, Joao IV ignored them, but couldn't resist them finding a way out. In the end, Joao IV discussed with Johnson and Theodosio, he figured out the meaning of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and finally agreed to the British's procurement requirements.

After all, although Portugal has obtained so many important military and national weapons, it is a small country after all, and it also needs the alliance of other countries to deal with various problems, such as oppression from Spain.

But although I agreed, the price is not low.

As for the Dutch, they were enemies of the Ming Empire, and they robbed Portugal's colonies in South America and wanted to buy the Ming Dynasty's military and national weapons. Even if the price was higher than that of the British, that would be impossible!

In the end, the British bought five steam paddle ships at a high price, and in addition, five thousand rifled flintlock guns and five hundred different rifled guns.

After hearing this news, the Dutch did not dare to fight with the British again and admitted defeat and signed a contract. Just like in the original history, the Dutch gave in to the first battle between Britain and the Netherlands.

When the news spread, France immediately sent people to Lisbon to purchase, which can be said to be spared no expense and promised to form an alliance with Portugal to fight Spain.

Before, Spain's Felipe IV did too much. Even if Joao IV wanted to disgust Felipe IV, he was willing to agree to France's request. In the end, he sold five steam paddle ships to France, as well as 10,000 rifled flintlocks and 500 rifled artillery types.

When Spain heard this, Felipe IV was furious, but he had no choice but to send Joao IV's father-in-law, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, to emphasize the friendship between Spain and Portugal, and to bring Princess Maria Theresa to marry the Portuguese prince Theodosio.

But who knows that Maria Theresa was disliked by Theodosio, either that her nose was too high or that her hair was too ugly. Anyway, she didn't want to pick on it.

If it were the case before, Ruo Ao would definitely care about this. Why is it too tall and his hair ugly? Isn’t everyone like this?

However, for Joao IV today, he was so happy that he would disgust Felipe IV. He didn't care at all. When asked, he said that the young people's affairs should be solved by themselves.

Before he formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, he actually used his children's marriage and tried every means to seek political marriage. Now, this attitude has changed by 180 degrees, as if his children can marry independently.

How could the Duke of Medina Sidonia not know what the real reason is? In the final analysis, Felipe IV did too much before, and now Portugal has the confidence, so naturally he has to take revenge!

However, he had no choice but to do what Felipe IV had assigned him. In the end, he gave the bottom line and asked Portugal not to sell arms to other countries.

However, Joao IV disagreed.

When there is something wrong, he will send his father-in-law. When there is nothing wrong, he will be afraid that the cat and dog will come to show off his power. This card is no longer easy to play!

At this time, not only were the entire Portuguese army equipped with new firearms, but there were more steam paddle-wheel warships than Spain. Not to mention, relying on arms trade, France and Britain became allies of Portugal.

In the end, the Duke of Medina Sidonia returned with Maria Theresa in disappointment.

Felipe IV was furious when he knew this.

It just so happened that the Dutch could not beat the British, and they could not get new guns and steam paddle ships in Portugal, so they could only find Spain. In the end, the two companies began to join forces.

The previous arsenals are now in the hands of the Spanish, and they have also sent additional personnel to expand the production of new guns and steam paddle ships.

To be honest, rifled guns can be imitated, but the output is only high and low. Especially when the war is fighting, I can't wait to build it myself.

All European countries, even countries that are temporarily far away from Spain, are worried. They try to equip new guns and cannons, so they all run to Portugal to buy arms.

So, Portugal ignored Spain at all. While selling arms, he quickly sent Johnson to Shalian in Dongwu and then purchased goods from the Ming Empire.

The situation in Europe has been incited by butterflies and has changed a lot.
Chapter completed!