Europe is not big, but there are a lot of countries, big and small. The relationship between countries only talks about interests, and if you can't reach an agreement, you will get the guy. Whoever has the final say is the big fist, the smaller fist can only endure it, pinch your nose and accumulate strength, and find opportunities to get it back. In the entire European Middle Ages, this is almost the way.

Pierre was a qualified diplomat. Because of this, after witnessing a vast and powerful empire on the train, he adjusted his foreign policy in time. Those who should bow their heads down, although the Ming Dynasty was far away, their influence could not be underestimated in Europe. Not to mention the far away, the French and Spain wars basically reversed the situation after the French army purchased arms, and Spain had been beaten to the ground. It was a matter of time before they could admit defeat.

While thinking about foreign policy, I still have to worry about how to convince His Majesty the Emperor when I go back? The original meaning was that France and Ming dynasties had a reciprocal diplomatic relationship, and even France had a sense of superiority. Now this sense of superiority has been smashed, and the gap is indeed a bit big. Just like a country in the dynasty, someone was pressed on the ground for more than a hundred years, which directly caused psychological shadows.

The psychological gap between the French was very large, and it was the cultural center of Europe. As a result, a group of nobles arrived in the Ming Dynasty and became the feeling of rural people coming to Shanghai during the Republic of China. The European nobles on the entire train were unexpectedly silent.

I reached out and pulled the rope. The light in front of me was on. This thing was too terrifying for the French nobles. It exceeded my cognition and many people were scared. So on the train, there were still many people talking privately about it, and their hearts were frustrated after being looked at by people. It was really not a good feeling. The key was that those who looked at them with their eyes were ordinary waiters in the hotel, serving them. Just like a nobleman in the French countryside, after arriving in Paris, he was looked down upon by the servants of the Paris nobles' families.

"I must let His Majesty the Emperor know all this." Pierre said to himself, looking at the dark night outside the car window, using the Ming version of the pen and notebook, he began to record every bit of his Ming execution. Of course, there are many personal imaginations in the middle, such as seeing the train, thinking about the endless steel production of the Ming Dynasty, seeing the steam engine, thinking about the Ming Dynasty's technological leadership, and surpassing the European era. Then record the nights seen on the streets of Shanghai. The brightly lit nights, the crowds of people on the streets, and the Ming city where everything seems so clean and tidy.

When recording these contents, Pierre could not hide his inner anxiety and urgency. On the third night of his arrival in the Ming Dynasty, he had already shouted strongly in his heart: "France needs everything from the Ming Dynasty, but we don't have so much precious metal to pay for the goods. Learning and catching up have become the historical mission of this generation of French people."

"The actual leader of this huge empire is not the emperor, and the person on the dragon throne is essentially a symbol. It is said that one day and one night, I can see the greatest cabinet prime minister of the Ming officials today. How to face him? I have no clue. May the Lord bless and point out the direction."

"Today the train passed a river, and the river water was yellow. The Ming officials told me that this river was called the Yellow River, and it was the birthplace of Chinese civilization. As early as five thousand years ago, their ancestors lived here and created a civilization that has continued to this day. Five thousand years ago, as far as I know, only the history of Egypt can be compared with it. Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty was still a great empire with Chinese civilization. What about Egypt? When it comes to Egypt, I remember that the army of the Ming Empire had occupied the entire Egypt. There, 50,000 Japanese legions, which they called second-class people, defeated the Ottoman Turkish Empire that Europe once feared. Well, none of the above said was the focus. The focus was that when crossing the river, I found that the bridge was made of steel. The accompanying officials told me that the superstructure of this bridge was completely made of steel."

The importance of steel to a country is often linked to the hard power of a country from the day it was discovered and used by humans. Of course, there are exceptions, but Pierre did not know that there was a rather strange dynasty in the history of Chinese civilization called the Song Dynasty, and he did not know that the Ming Empire had fallen to the same level.

Europeans' understanding of China is more about the travel notes written by a guy named Marco Polo. As for how much water there is in this travel notation, Europeans can't tell it anyway. What Pierre knows is that the Ming Empire was based on driving away the powerful Tatars, and now it has become the master of the Tatars.

It is said that less than a hundred years from the Tatars dominating this country to the completion of this great feat. "Yellow Peril" was basically synonymous with nightmares for medieval Europeans. When the Ming Empire solved the Tatar problem, it received maritime provocations from a small European country, which triggered a maritime revolution of the Ming Empire.

Well, these understandings are based on what others told Pierre. Anyway, the officials of the Ming Dynasty understood this way. About thirty years ago, the Netherlands came uninvited and occupied the island officials of the Ming Dynasty, but also frequently invaded the Ming Dynasty's coastline with warships. This move angered the Ming Dynasty, thus triggering an explosion of the Ming Dynasty's maritime power. It was just an outbreak, and the Ming Dynasty's maritime power became the well-deserved maritime overlord in the world in just twenty years.

The Ming officials who told this matter looked relaxed, as if they were doing these things were very simple for the Ming Dynasty. The problem is that Pierre believed it. Because what he learned from Europe was roughly the same. The Ming people, who were originally gentle in character, even tolerated the deception of the Portuguese, but unfortunately the Dutch idiots awakened the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty in another way.

The two-day and three-night train journey from Pukou to the capital, Pierre kept asking questions and recording during the day. After summarizing it at night, he summarized it with his own understanding. When the official on the train informed him that he was standing in front of the window, Pierre stood in front of the car window, and the train had slowed down, and a huge city appeared in his sight. The tall city walls were like a huge beast lying on the plain. The outer edge of the city was not a desolate place, and a straight road was parallel not far from the railway. There were dense houses on both sides of the road.

"Why don't these people live in the city wall?" Pierre couldn't help but ask Zhang Guangde, who came to ask him to get off the car, got the answer very simple: "There are too many foreign populations in the capital, and they expand too quickly, and there is no suitable land in the city. These people relied on the capital to have a meal and had to live outside the city. Yesterday I heard that there was news that Shuntian Prefecture was going to relocate to Tongzhou, just in a city not far east. This matter is said to have been reported from the cabinet, and the meaning of Prime Minister Chen, that Tongzhou will be part of the capital in the future."

Why did the capital expand too fast? Pierre couldn't understand this question. Because Zhang Guangde couldn't figure it out. So Pierre cheered up and tidied up his clothes and got out of the car. When he was standing on the platform, he saw someone pulling a banner waiting. Zhang Guangde translated in time and realized that this was a welcome ceremony organized by the diplomatic department of the Ming Dynasty. The legendary Ming Dynasty's greatest cabinet prime minister did not appear. Think about it carefully, this adult who actually grasped the power of the empire was indeed impossible to welcome him.

It was Li Mingrui who presided over the welcome ceremony and read an official article, which was nothing more than understanding the relationship between the law. We should be kind, work hand in hand, etc. There was no real information at all, and everyone had to stand up straight and deal with it with the best mental outlook.

Pierre was even more disappointed about what happened next. He was loaded into a carriage and pulled to a hotel in the city. Li Mingrui disappeared, and Zhang Guangde also disappeared. He asked the reception officials, and they told him very disliked: "What are you anxious about? The Prime Minister is busy with so much work. How can you meet when you meet? Wait for the summons with peace of mind. Remember to take a bath every day, don't make it like a savage in the mountains."

The person who said this was an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, equivalent to the current director and scholar. He was not very careful about the barbarians. His attitude was not very good. Pierre had to accept it, especially about bathing, which made him ashamed for a while. The trend of the French people did not like bathing was led by His Majesty the Emperor.

France, thousands of miles away, only to know that the rules in the Ming Dynasty were like this. If you don’t like taking a bath, you are a savage? Do you think about the feelings of the French people? You have a night off and get up in the morning to continue waiting.

When Pierre waited helplessly, there was no good news. The delegation lived together and was not restricted in its actions. The only requirement was that to leave the inn, the registration must be filed first, and then the diplomatic department provided guidance and translation. Except for some important and sensitive departments, other places were open to them.

After understanding this rule, Pierre immediately went to find Zhang Guangde's European beloved, Madame Toulabuyer, but unexpectedly, the marquis did not live here. As soon as the man got off the train, he took several servants to a carriage and disappeared into the traffic flow of the Ming Dynasty. It was so excessive, as if the organization was undisciplined.

Soon Pierre learned another thing. The European ladies in the entire team, whether they had or did not, had already inquired about the news. Before Pierre went out to visit the capital of the Ming Dynasty, they had already set out early in the morning.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Xie habitually sat down on a big chair in the office, looked at the thick stack of documents waiting for signature on the table, looked up at Wu Meicun who was standing in front of him waiting for his orders and said, "Is there anything important today?"

Wu Meicun, who was a Jinshi, was criticized for being a senior secretary for Chen Xie. But that was the past. Now everyone knows that this position is a fat person. Wu Meicun is currently the office director. After the September election, he was the one appointed by the Minister of Education. In other words, many people are now seeking this position but are unable to do so.

"The French delegation has settled. Lord Li has been complaining, being too polite to those barbarians. He will still pay for the burning of some dirty clothes for them?" Wu Meicun said this in a joking tone. Chen Xie immediately smiled and waved his hand and said, "Don't listen to his noise. He actually likes the 200,000 special approvals. Each French nobleman makes three sets of Ming Dynasty clothing as gifts, and this cannot be changed. Even those servants, each person's clothes are necessary. I just want to see what sensation can the French people wear Ming Dynasty clothing and return to Europe. Not to mention this, where is Li Mingrui?"

Wu Meicun smiled and said, "I'm waiting outside. By the way, the people from the Ministry of Construction came again early in the morning. The relocation of Shuntian Prefecture should have brought the planning map of Tongzhou." Chen Xie smiled and shook his head: "It's impossible for this matter. Those guys can't get up early. They must have come for the houses and land left after Shuntian Prefecture relocation. This is official property. Tell them not to have bad ideas. Shuntian Prefecture has long had ideas on the specific destination of the land. So, if the people from the Ministry of Construction want to make a fuss about it, they should go to Shuntian Prefecture to discuss it."

It was really scary to want to play such a trick in front of a Prime Minister who had suffered from high housing prices. Chen Ge Lao saw through their tricks at a glance, so let the two departments slowly bite each other. It would be a waste of effort to take over Chen Xiangye's power.

When Zhang Guangde yawned into the cabinet compound, his mind was not very clear. This trip to return to China to report on his work was really a timely rain for Lord Zhang, who was in a relaxed and slutty lifestyle. For him, staying in the Hero Port Concession was a painful one. I don’t know what European ladies thought. They all came to the concession to travel and then brushed a wave of the ss named Zhang Guangde. In fact, the purpose of these European ladies was very clear, which was to provide quotas for luxury jewelry from the Ming Dynasty.

The goods obtained by European merchants in Xinghai City or Shanghai can indeed be sold at a good price when they return to Europe, but those goods are popular things compared to the sources of goods in Zhang Guangde. In order to demonstrate their own status, European nobles do not care about the price. Then the problem arises. Various products marked with the words "Specially used by the Ming Dynasty Royal Family" on the trademark are destined to become top luxury goods in Europe. To obtain the sales quota of these limited quantities of goods, European merchants have gotten a lot of gold coins. As for Zhang Guangde, a guy, simply arranges only one agent in a country. (~^~)
Chapter completed!