When Zhu Yicheng walked out of the tea shop, the two had already quarreled for some time. When Zhu Yicheng had just stood still, the young Westerner was blushing and suddenly took off his gloves from his hands and threw them hard on the other person's face. When the white gloves fell on the face of the bearded Westerner, the other person's face suddenly changed. He said something directly, and then pulled out the Western sword at his waist.

Pan Mengyuan, who was with Zhu Yicheng, flashed and stepped in front of Zhu Yicheng the moment the young Westerner threw out his gloves, and had been the governor of Xinming for so many years. Pan Mengyuan had a lot of knowledge about Western customs. The young man threw gloves at the other party, which showed his attitude of duel with the other party, especially throwing them directly in the other party's face. This was a stance of immortality.

Zhu Yicheng is now in a white dragon fish suit. Although he is protected by the Jinyiwei around, who can guarantee that there will be no accidents in the chaos? Pan Mengyuan stepped in front of Zhu Yicheng to prevent any incidents. At the same time, he whispered that Qianhu, the Jinyiwei who had just reacted, and the other Jinyiwei immediately escorted Zhu Yixing back to the tea shop.

Zhu Yicheng was not nervous, even a little curious. He knew some English, but the two Westerners did not speak English, it seemed to be French.

In this era, English was not the so-called "world language" in later generations. The strongest country in Europe was naturally the French Empire. Compared with Britain on the island, France was synonymous with Europe, and elegant French was more suitable as a noble language, rather than a vulgar English that was despised as a country bumpkin.

In addition to French, today, the use of Spanish and Portuguese is much more widely used in the world. In history, the rise of English was after Britain became the empire of the sun never set. After World War I and II, with the rise of American hegemony, it completely replaced French as the world language.

Of course, in this era, due to the emergence of the Ming Dynasty, Chinese had already had a huge impact. With the expansion and strength of the Ming Dynasty, Westerners envied Eastern culture and worshipped the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and Chinese gradually increased its status in foreign languages ​​in the Western world.

People are curious, and even Zhu Yicheng is no exception, and he has only heard of the duels in Western culture but has never seen them with his own eyes.

However, how dare Pan Mengyuan and Jinyiwei let Zhu Yicheng watch? If something goes wrong, they will die.

Just as Pan Mengyuan and Jinyiwei were escorting Zhu Yicheng to retreat to the tea shop, a burst of rapid footsteps came, and soon several policemen on the street rushed over.

In the Ming Dynasty, the police have replaced the original three yamen runners and become the basic organization for local public security. Unlike the yamen runners, the police are semi-militarized institutions and are directly managed by special police departments. The local government no longer directly controls the police as before. Local officials do not have administrative jurisdiction over the police, but are guided by local officials in public security work. This can prevent the infiltration of local rights in police institutions and ensure judicial justice.

The police in the Ming Dynasty are now composed of three members, one of which is the previous three yamen runners directly incorporated into the police force, the second part is the conversion of retired soldiers into police, and the third is to recruit and trained police from the society.

As time goes by, the majority of police officers currently account for the majority of the police officers are retired, and the amount of the three yamen runners has been much smaller, and the number of police officers recruited and trained is the smallest. Of course, from the future, retired soldiers and the recruited and trained police officers will completely replace the original three yamen runners, thus becoming the backbone of the police, especially the latter, which is the Ming Dynasty's tendency to professionalize the police force in the future.

The police arrived very quickly, and the team led a middle-aged policeman wearing the rank of lieutenant. It is not difficult to see from the policeman's behavior that he was once a veteran on the battlefield.

When the police arrived, the onlookers quickly dispersed, taking the initiative to make way for the police. The police in the Ming Dynasty were well treated and had a high social status. Moreover, the people still had a sense of fear of the police's previous yamen runners' governments. It was a serious crime to stop the police from handling cases. Over the years, many similar matters have been dealt with in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. Tianjin, as an important city close to the capital, has long understood this.

As soon as the police arrived, they directly controlled the two Westerners who had already drawn their swords to look at each other, and at the same time asked what happened. As an open coastal city, Tianjin has many people dealing with businessmen from various Western countries, so naturally some of the onlookers explained it to them.

After understanding the situation, the police led the team did not say a word and asked their subordinates to take the two Westerners back first. At this time, both Westerners had been disarmed by the police. When the escort was escorted, the two Westerners intended to struggle and distinguish, but the police ignored them and directly used coercive means to control the two of them and dragged them away.

In a blink of an eye, the two Westerners were taken away by the police, and there was no one to watch the fun, and the crowds around gradually dispersed.

When Pan Mengyuan confirmed that it was safe outside, he breathed a sigh of relief. In order to avoid any unpredictable problems, Zhu Yicheng suggested that he would go back to the palace first. Zhu Yicheng thought about it and nodded, agreed with Pan Mengyuan's suggestion, and the group left the tea shop and returned.

When getting on the carriage, Zhu Yicheng recruited one of the Qianhus whom he accompanied and asked him to go to the police station to inquire about the situation of the two Westerners just now. He could ask Qianhus as the Jinyiwei, but he should not hinder the police from handling the case. He would directly report it after understanding the whole story.

It was already evening when I returned to the palace. After visiting for most of the day, Zhu Yicheng was a little tired. He went to the room to rest for a while, took a short nap and washed his face. He went to the study outside to pick up the memorial on the table and looked at it. Not long after reading it, he came to report outside and said that he was going to inquire about the news. Qianhu, the Jinyiwei, who was going to inquire about the news, was back.

According to the information obtained by Jinyiwei Qianhu, the youngest of these two Westerners were French, and the other with a beard was British. But they did not come from Europe, but from the New World.

In other words, the young Westerners came from New France in the New World, and the other from New England in the New World. These two people knew each other. The two families were business partners before. If we look at this point, according to the Ming Dynasty, the young French people should also call the older British "Shi Shu".

But more than a year ago, all this changed. With the change of the situation in the New World, there was another battle between France and Britain. Due to the resignation of Louis, the current Governor of France's New World Governor Louis, the current Governor was simply a pamper. In the face of the aggressive British, war broke out between the two sides. New France not only suffered military failures, but also occupied part of the territory by the British.

The failure of the war led to the occupation of the territory. France's life in the New World is difficult now, and the manor position of the young Frenchman was an area occupied by the British. At that time, in order to preserve his family property, the old manor owner of the young Frenchman found the older British, intending to use the other party's identity as a cover to ensure that his manor was not confiscated by the British colonial government.

To this end, the British agreed readily. Out of trust in their old friends, the French signed a document for transfer of the estate with the British, intending to change the ownership of the estate in this way, but in fact, they ensured that their family's property was not confiscated by the British government.

But no one expected that shortly after the document was signed, the British turned against each other and drove his old friend, the old manor's family, out with a dozen British soldiers, and threatened that the other party's property now belonged to him and had nothing to do with the other party. If he did not leave, there was no guarantee that the British army would use force.

Faced with the sudden betrayal of his old friend, the old manor was extremely angry, but he was powerless under the musket of the British soldiers. Overnight, as the manor and property that had been hard-working for decades became someone else's property, the old manor who was driven away from his home could not swallow this breath and soon died of serious illness. Before leaving, he held his eldest son's hand and told him that he must find a way to get the property back and avenge himself.

The young man lost his father overnight and his home, and even his mother passed away shortly after the death of the old manor.

The deep hatred made the young man extremely hated the British, but under that situation he could not do anything, and he lost the manor, and even his own life became a problem. In desperation, the young man could only sell all his remaining property and take the money he raised to the Ming Dynasty on a boat with others, thinking of having a chance to make a comeback in the Ming Dynasty.

But this is such a coincidence in this world. Shortly after the young man came to the Ming Dynasty, he actually met his enemy, that is, the British, on the streets of Tianjin. The enemies were particularly jealous. If the Ming Dynasty had not stipulated that foreigners entering the country were not allowed to carry firearms, the young man might have pulled out his musket and opened fire on his enemies on the street.

This is also what Zhu Yicheng saw before. The young man first accused the British of his treason, and then threw out his gloves to resolve the hatred between the two families in a duel. Unfortunately, the duel was stopped by the police who rushed to the scene. Now the two have been temporarily detained in the police station. According to the Ming Dynasty's legal intentions, although the private fight is not a serious crime, fines and detention cannot be escaped.

As for the hatred between the two families, this has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, because it did not happen on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, neither local police nor other judicial organs would make any disposal or judgment for this.

After listening to the story of Qianhu, the Jinyiwei, Zhu Yicheng nodded slightly, and did not say anything, and asked him to retreat.

Although the young man was pitiful and the British were hateful, it had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yicheng would not do anything because of an ordinary young man in the West. He was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not the emperor of the French. This matter had nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty in essence.

However, what Zhu Yicheng noticed was the change in the pattern of the New World. He had received news that Wang Dong had sent back from Xinming before. The news was that Britain and France started a war in Xinming. Given the war between these two countries, Zhu Yicheng was not too surprised, because both France and Britain were potential opponents of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the competition between the two countries in the New World has been in a state of intense heat in history. It was just that the emergence of the Ming Dynasty led to the delay of the war between the two countries for a few days.

But today this incident reminded Zhu Yicheng that with Louis' resignation, France and Britain had a clear advantage in the competition between the New World, which was not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty's rule in the New Ming Dynasty.

Once the British directly expelled France's power in the New World, the British's power in the eastern part of the New World will inevitably expand rapidly. Thinking about some of the British's secret actions against the Ming Dynasty in recent years, Zhu Yicheng has made Zhu Yicheng extremely alert to changes in the British national policy. After careful consideration, if France can maintain a tit-for-tat confrontation with Britain in the New World, it may be more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!