Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 1022 Send the Princess

Spain and the mainland of the Netherlands are small places. They can't even stop the Ming Marine Corps. How can they stop the attack of the Warsaw Pact allies.

Under the attack of the navy and army of the seven Warsaw Pact countries, Spain and the Netherlands were captured in five days.

Zhu Youjian originally wanted to include Spain and the Netherlands into the territory of Ming Dynasty this time.

I didn't expect the Warsaw Pact countries to be so enthusiastic. Seeing Ming Dynasty attacking Spain and the Netherlands, they immediately sent troops to attack these two countries from land.

After taking down these two colonial powers, Ming sent troops to occupy five cities with large shipyards and transportation companies, including Ajax and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and let the Warsaw Pact countries carve up other areas.

Within two days, the Sea Coachman Netherlands was divided among eight countries. Of course, the seaport cities with geographical advantages and manufacturing industries were all in Daming's hands.

Even so, the other six countries of the Warsaw Pact were also happy from ear to ear.

There are frequent wars in Europe, nothing more than for that little territory, sometimes fighting for decades to occupy a piece of land.

But now they are following behind the big brother, not only winning every battle and expanding their country's territory, they even have overseas colonies.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was also kind to these little brothers. Every time he won a country, as long as they participated in the war, Ming Dynasty would give them benefits and never be stingy.

After partitioning the Netherlands, the Warsaw Pact countries began to partition Spanish territory.

Of course, as Huayue's eldest brother, Daming must first choose the place he wants.

Ming also didn't want to become a big empire like Mongolia. It was very difficult to manage too many territories, and God knows if it would be able to hold on in the end.

For the land of Spain, Ming only wanted Barcelona and Madrid, leaving the rest for the other six countries to carve up.

Originally a small European country, Portugal, which was later developed and powerful due to overseas colonization, was already in a panic at this time. He knew that the next target of the Warsaw Pact countries might be them.

In order not to be partitioned by the Warsaw Pact countries like the Netherlands and Spain, they immediately sent envoys to Daming, expressing their willingness to become the Ming Dynasty, and gave the Portuguese princess to the Ming emperor as a concubine.

Zhu Youjian did not expect that Portugal would give him the famous princess Catherine.

But the Portuguese princess was only 12 years old at this time. Although Europeans are tall and burly, the 12-year-old girl is still too young for Zhu Youjian, and he can't speak!

Now that they are all sent, Zhu Youjian will not refuse him to raise him for two years before talking.

The young Portuguese princess Catherine (1638-1705) was young and beautiful, dignified and generous, with a slender figure and a light body, full of the beauty of traditional Western women.

As a European, Catherine's living habits are a bit different. She doesn't like coffee and other drinks, and prefers Chinese black tea exported to Portugal.

Because Catherine, who later became the queen of England, liked to drink tea, she was called the first "tea-drinking queen" in British history.

In 1662, the beautiful Princess Catherine married King Charles II of England and became Queen of the British Empire.

At the grand wedding between Catherine and Charles II, the princes and nobles were all overwhelmed by the queen's beauty and charm, and they raised all kinds of fine wines to express their sincere congratulations to Catherine.

However, the honorable queen always declined with a smile, and just raised her own goblet full of red juice to clink glasses with people to express her gratitude.

What kind of expensive drink is the red juice in this goblet?Catherine's actions aroused the great curiosity of the French queen who attended the wedding.

So, she approached Catherine coquettishly, wanting to taste the expensive drink in Catherine's goblet for herself.

The clever Catherine saw what the French queen was thinking, and before she asked for anything, Catherine drank it naturally and quickly.

The French queen, who failed to achieve her goal, was disappointed at first, and then developed a deep jealousy.

After returning to the place where she was staying, the French Empress immediately ordered her guards to sneak into the British palace to find out what kind of "precious drink" the "red juice" Catherine drank was.

So, the French guards who were ordered quietly entered the British palace, and after careful searching, they found the "red juice" that Catherine drank.

When the French guards wanted to steal part of the tea for the French queen, they were discovered by the British court guards and arrested.

Afterwards, the French guards were executed.This is the sensational British "black tea case".

Early Chinese tea was mainly exported to countries such as the Netherlands and Portugal.

Therefore, people in Britain, France and other countries are far inferior to people in Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries in their understanding and drinking of tea.

At that time, most of the tea exported to Europe was grown and produced in Xiamen, Fujian. Therefore, the pronunciation of the word "tea" in English was called "Tea" according to the pronunciation of the Xiamen dialect.

When the Portuguese princess who liked to drink Chinese black tea married to England, she also brought Chinese black tea to England as a high-end and expensive drink.

This is undoubtedly a rare "treasure" for people in Britain, France and other countries who knew little about tea at that time.

In addition, "stealing" is an illegal act, so the "black tea case" happened that is unbelievable today.

Stimulated by the "black tea case" and under the influence of Catherine, the British tea drinking fashion gradually spread to the British royal family.

In order to satisfy the queen's hobbies, the British royal family arranged and laid out a luxurious "tea room" dedicated to drinking tea in the palace.

Make tea drinking fashion more admirable.Therefore, people at that time respected Catherine as the "Queen of Tea Drinking".

In 1663, Catherine's 25th birthday was also her wedding anniversary.

The British poet Edmund Walter dedicated a hymn "The Song of the Tea Queen" to her in congratulations:
The god of flowers loves autumn, and Chang'e loves laurel.The beauty of laurel and autumn scenery is hard to compare with tea.

One is post-Chinese and British, and the other is Qunfang the most.Wufu is called Dongtu, and it brings a sense of warrior.

Help me to think clearly, clear my mind and make me tired.Happy to meet the post-feast, so I wish you a birthday.

This beautiful "Song of the Queen of Tea Drinking" is not only a congratulation to Catherine's birthday, but also a tribute to Chinese black tea.

When the queen was happy, Catherine invited some noble ladies to drink tea in the palace, thus making tea drinking a social event of the upper class.

Due to the queen's praise, the aristocratic women also started to drink tea.

Subsequently, some housewives of wealthy families followed suit and built elegant, luxurious and luxurious teahouses at home to show their quality of life.

After the [-]th century, due to the large increase in the number of imports, the price of tea became increasingly low. Therefore, tea drinking gradually spread from the upper class to the folk, replacing coffee, cocoa, etc., and became the popular drink in Britain.

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