Poor Paul didn't know that he was wearing his best and most gorgeous clothes today. You must know that he bought them from France for a lot of money when he was in Russia to reflect his noble spirit. Even when he met Tsar Peter, he was not willing to wear them every time.

"But... why do everyone's eyes look strange when they look at them?" Paul was puzzled, thinking that the wig on his head was crooked, so he specially reached out to support him. Unexpectedly, his actions made the smile in others' eyes even stronger.

Just when he was puzzled and was about to ask the people around him, a dull drum sounded softly, and then the court officially began. Paul followed everyone to the hall with mechanical steps under his guidance from the Foreign Ministry officials beside him.

When he arrived at the temple, his majestic aura became stronger, which made Paul almost breathless. Although he tried his best to show his demeanor to match his identity and status, it was a pity that Paul was not those traditional European aristocrats after all, and his background was a little worse. He was almost tripped by his left and right feet in a hurry, and finally stood firm.

When Zhu Yicheng stepped out of the ceremony and sat on the high throne, the invisible pressure that came from him made Paul awe and envious.

After completely feeling the majesty and demeanor of the Ming Dynasty, Paul had earth-shaking changes in the so-called court etiquette of the Russian Empire. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind, that is, this was the true empire atmosphere. Those so-called European nobles, including their culture, were so naive and ridiculous, and could not reflect one percent of the powerful empire.

"Maybe, when you return to the empire, you will introduce these things from the Ming Dynasty to Your Majesty. Your Majesty, who is good at learning, will definitely listen to his own opinions, so that the Russian Empire can truly escape from the barbarians and show the demeanor of a real empire?"

In his heart, Paul thought so, and at this moment, he even temporarily left aside the idea of ​​thinking about finding a way to stay in the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, everything he saw was something he had never seen in his life and could not even think of.

Under the huge impact of his mind, Paul's worldview has undergone tremendous changes at this moment. After the meeting officially began, Paul gradually calmed down and slowly adapted to all this.

The Great Dynasty had specific rules, and everything was followed by etiquette. So after the dynasty meeting began, it was soon to enter the theme of today, which was the procedure for the envoy of the Russian Empire to submit a letter to the Ming Empire by the Russian Tsar Peter.

With the assistance of the Ming Dynasty’s Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Rites, Paul naturally practiced this procedure, not to mention that he was accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When he was reminded, Paul stood up according to the etiquette he had learned before. At this time, he had become the focus of everyone's attention. Paul took a deep breath, held the book of the country in both hands, and took a step forward. When he arrived at the stop, Paul did not adopt the European etiquette, but directly knelt down at Zhu Yicheng, who was sitting on the throne, and spoke in fluent French to start the scene of his official post on the book of the country.

Listening to Paul's story and a loud translation on the side, Zhu Yicheng looked at His Highness Paul with a smile. After the other party finished speaking, Xiao Jiangzi reached out to take the letter of state from Paul, and then retreated to Zhu Yicheng to hand over the letter of state. When Zhu Yicheng took the letter of state and opened it a few times, then closed and nodded slightly, asking Xiao Jiangzi to take the letter of state and keep it, the most important scene in today's meeting was over. At this moment, the Ming Dynasty, who received the letter of state in the Russian Empire, also represents the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the Russian Empire, so that the two congresses exchanged and communicated in various aspects in accordance with the previous negotiations.

Of course, apart from these, there are other arrangements, which are nothing more than some official responses and rewards from the Ming Dynasty to the Russian Empire.

Regarding the reward, Zhu Yicheng did not have the kind of swelling and fat people like those of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing emperors in the previous Ming Dynasty. Except for the so-called rewards, apart from the fast land of the embassy area that had been marked in the capital and the construction of the embassy, ​​the other things were all things that seemed good but were not worth much.

However, although these things were inconspicuous in the Ming Dynasty, they were luxury goods when placed in Europe. Not to mention Russia, even in France, they were still works of art that the top nobles had forgotten.

As for the rest, Zhu Yicheng spoke naturally and had a minister to hold it, and the dynasty meeting officially ended. Paul, who had experienced this scene, was also greatly psychologically impacted. Although he was a little rude in front of the temple, what he saw and heard today subverted everything that Paul had before. In order to have such an experience, this was enough for him to brag about for the rest of his life.

He was even thinking on the way back that he might be able to write down these experiences, and perhaps his reputation would be spread after being passed on back to Russia, just like Marco Polo hundreds of years ago, and his family would completely break away from the previous "low-level" and become the real European aristocrats at a higher level.

This is true. When Paul completed his mission and returned to the Russian Empire again, he not only formally asked Tsar Peter to go to the Ming Dynasty to serve as the Minister of the Ming Dynasty, but also wrote his experiences along the way into a book.

The first official reader of this book was Tsar Peter. After reading the contents written, even Peter, the Great Emperor, had to admit that if everything written in Paul was true, the greatness of the Ming Empire was indeed not comparable to that of European countries, especially the centralized power of the Ming Empire, which was the dream of Tsar Peter in his life.

Afterwards, this book gradually spread from the palace and became the primary source for the nobles at all levels of the Russian Empire to understand the Ming Empire. Compared with Tsar Peter, he paid more attention to the descriptions of the Ming Empire in the book, such as politics, culture, military, education, etc., and other nobles were more interested in the style, humanities, art and etiquette of the Ming Empire described in the book.

With the spread of this book, Paul did get a huge reputation as he wished. Later, because he served as the ambassador to the Ming Dynasty, he returned to the Ming Dynasty and lived for a full ten years before returning to the Russian Empire. Because of his reputation, merit and nepotism, he was promoted from an earl to a marquis and became one of the leading high-ranking members of the Russian Empire.

Moreover, everything about the Ming Dynasty brought back by Paul gradually affected the changes of the Russian Empire. Then, decades later, during the reign of Catherine II of the Russian Empire, he once again reformed and developed the Russian Empire, and also absorbed a lot of Paul's understanding of the Ming Empire. On the basis of Peter the Great, the Russian Empire became more and more prosperous and became another "emperor" of the Russian Empire.

These are all later stories. Zhu Yicheng would not have thought that just a seemingly ordinary thing would bring such a big change to history, and also made the Ming Dynasty have such a great impact on the world.

A few days after the dynasty meeting, the Ming Empire continued to advance according to the national policies formulated by Zhu Yicheng. At this time, Zhu Yicheng received an unexpected gift. This gift was not presented by a vassal state or other Western countries with diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty, but was presented by the South China Sea Fleet.

"it's beautiful!"

When I saw this gift, whether it was the queen Li Juaner or the prince Zhu Bo?, or other concubines and princesses in the harem, or even everyone who saw this gift would express such emotion.

Especially the princess Zhu Qingyan looked at her eyes with joy and curiosity in her eyes. She relied on her deep love for Zhu Yicheng and the love of the prince's brother since childhood, and even had the courage to reach out to touch the extremely beautiful feathers on the bird.

Even though he was almost pecked by a bird, Zhu Qingyan did not show any fear, but even made bursts of laughter like silver bells. The eyes of the younger princes and princesses were full of envy.

"Father, where did this beautiful bird come from? Can I raise it?"

"Of course I can raise it." Zhu Yicheng laughed and looked at the children who were surrounded. In addition to the prince and the second prince, the third prince and the half-year-old son were also curious, but after all, they were boys, and they were more concerned about politics and military aspects in the Royal Academy.

However, the other children showed the same expectation expression as the eldest princess. Zhu Yicheng added another sentence, telling them that the bird was kept in the palace and asked several princesses and the little prince to take turns to raise it. As soon as the words fell, they immediately attracted a burst of cheers from everyone.

"Father, what is this bird called? Where did it come from?" Zhu Qingyan asked happily.

"Xiao Jiangzi, come and answer." Zhu Yicheng said to Xiao Jiangzi beside him with a smile.

Xiao Jiangzi responded quickly, and then told several princes and princesses about the origin of the bird. When he said that this bird was discovered by the South China Sea Fleet on a large island, and the island was extremely large. Because he did not know the place name and found this big-tailed feathered bird on this island, he called this island the feathered bird, and this bird is also called the big-tailed feathered bird.

"Bigtail feather bird, this name is a bit..." Hearing the bird's name, Zhu Qingyan frowned. Such an ordinary name does not match such a gorgeous bird at all. Could it be that a bigtail feather directly gives such a name?

Seeing Zhu Qingyan’s thoughts, Zhu Yicheng had a smile on his eyes and joked that since he thought the name of this bird was not good, then Zhu Qingyan would just name it.

This suggestion immediately made Zhu Qingyan's eyes lit up. She tilted her head and thought for a while: "Father, my daughter saw that this bird looks like a zoo and a five-colored text. Now my Ming Dynasty is in its prosperous era. This bird appears in the South China Sea again. My daughter feels that the world is peaceful and this bird appears. Isn't this a phoenix?"

Zhu Qingyan's words made Zhu Yicheng stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.

That’s right, the Ming Dynasty was strong and the world was peaceful. The birds came out, so what if it wasn’t a phoenix? What’s more, the name of the phoenix was in ancient times, which was better than the so-called bliss. In addition, the great princess said it was auspicious for its birds. This bird has been called a phoenix since today!
Chapter completed!