361. European Eastern Tide
A steamed bun may cause a bloody crime, and a potato may also cause a frenzy.
The potato feast that took place at Westminster Palace soon spread throughout London, then spread throughout Britain, and to surrounding countries.
At this moment, the grand book "History of the Great Empire of China", which specializes in the introduction of Chinese society, politics, economy, culture and customs, was published in Europe, and immediately set off a large-scale "Chinese craze" in Europe.
Confucius, Mencius, Taoism, Legalism, Hanfu, and porcelain began to be widely popular in Western Europe.
However, in a few days, all the European nobles took it as a fashion to speak a few Chinese words. Rich people would wear a jade pendant on their waists, and those who had no money bought a Chinese-style handkerchief to carry with them. The fashion became more and more popular.
Several British nobles said hello in Chinese when they met me. After Jack Bravo saw me, he even asked in a pure Beijing movie, "Brother, have you eaten?"
I was so shocked that I spit out a mouthful of black blood, and my glasses were shattered all over the floor!
However, after vomiting blood, I suddenly realized the huge business opportunity here!
At the first time, I asked Jiugui Zhengxiao to send a clutch to Nanyang to find Uncle Ye and his uncle, and quickly transport the relevant Chinese utensils to Europe in large quantities!
And I also decided that before they arrive, I would add another fire!
The news began in the area centered on London - the mysterious nobleman from the East, the marquis of Mexico, will hold three Oriental Culture and Art Fairs in London, England, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Copenhagen, Denmark, three consecutive Eastern Culture and Art Fairs.
Of course, there are also advertising slogans I instigated in the middle, which makes the arrival of this grand event full of exciting elements.
In the past two months, in order to ensure that the fair achieves better results, I have given many speeches in well-known institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge.
For example, the keynote speech "The Differences and Commonalities between the Hundred Schools of China and the European Renaissance" at Oxford University attracted nearly 5,500 people to participate in the audition.
There are experts and scholars, royal nobles, students, and peddlers. Some of them are sincere in learning, some are art-like, and some are simply picky.
But the ending is that almost everyone gets what they want - what I say is all-encompassing, covering a lot of unknown things to the European people who have just opened up their wisdom, so my speech is more like a perfect lecture.
Of course, some people want to take this opportunity to become famous. For example, the dean of a seminary in a well-known university in the eastern UK raised a sharp question such as "If China does not believe in the Lord, it is disrespect and blasphemy to the Holy Lord."
In this era when everyone is arguing about whom they believe in and who they worship, such inflammatory issues can easily resonate. Someone immediately echoed in the venue, and the theology professor who put forward his own opinions was even more complacent and thought he had obtained it.
But I had no intention of being angry at all - this self-righteous seminary director had no idea that his remarks gave me a better channel to realize my intentions.
I walked out of the lecture with a smile, walked to a place quite close to the audience and asked, "Which are among our audience are Protestants, please raise your right hand!"
Suddenly, half of the people raised their hands, and the rest were looking around, not knowing what I was going to do.
But I continued, "The rest of the things are all traditional Catholics, right? If so, please raise your left hand!"
Suddenly, the remaining people raised their left hands proudly.
I raised my head and said loudly: "Everyone is born equal. You have the right to believe in Catholicism and naturally you have the right to believe in Protestantism. Just as you can mark the cross when you are doing Mass, you can also not mark it."
"To put it more broadly, everyone has the right to believe or not to believe, to believe in one's own right or to believe in that kind!"
"In our Eastern culture, it is emphasized that eclecticism and peaceful coexistence are the world of the world. We should not use it, nor should we look at this world from an either-or perspective! This is a naive, selfish and narrow-minded idea, and it is also something that we Eastern people have been working hard to correct, overcome and eliminate!"
Finally, I raised my voice and said, "This is the wisdom from the east of the world! Today, I will share it with you!"
When I raised my hands and said the last sentence, the entire speech hall fell into a brief deposition, and then there was a burst of thunderous applause!
I bowed to the audience in the audience with great humility, and at this moment, a voice came from behind the hall: "As the Marquis of Mexico said, our great Britain is exactly what it is, equal! Friendship! Charity!"
People turned around, but saw Elizabeth I walking towards the rostrum with the queen's unique pride, accompanied by Isabella and several royal guards!
Everyone, no matter who they are, no matter what they are doing or what they are thinking, stood up and extended even warmer applause to the Queen’s arrival!
When Elizabeth I came to the rostrum, I immediately saluted her. After she nodded slightly and returned the salute, she began to give an impromptu speech.
The speech was very enthusiastic and inflammatory, and the theme was that the great Britain relied on equality, friendship and compatibility, and took hundreds of years to defeat the Nordic Vikings, the Black Death and the Spaniards. In the future, it will still rely on this concept to bring Britain to the peak of the world!
The audience burst into applause like thunderous mountains and seas. At this moment, they only had the queen who brought them confidence and fighting spirit. They even said it bluntly - under the premise of theological propositions, the image of the queen seemed to be covered with a layer of sacred cloak!
I stood aside and clapped gracefully, not minding the queen's use of power at all - after all, this is the duty of a king, and I also achieved better speech results because of her affirmation.
In other words, this is a win-win deal!
After the queen's elegant and inflammatory speech, she was ready to leave gracefully. She waved her sleeves gently, so cool that she did not bring up a cloud at all.
But I clearly saw from her eyes that she cherished her talents, expected, helplessness and resentment.
The eyes were too complicated, and I couldn't face them directly for a while. I could only pretend to respond to the enthusiasm of the fans next to me and turned my head away, not taking a look at that thrilling look.
Let go of this and not be marked for the time being. My speech was recognized by Queen Elizabeth I and closely combined with the current situation in Britain, my propaganda of the culture of the Eastern Power entered a new and higher stage.
Many people have begun to recognize and learn and study this oriental culture, but more people tend to be more similar or imitated in form, so all the objects I brought from the East before were sold at high prices that make people laugh in their dreams!
For example, porcelain originally purchased and sold on cabins, the profit of a cabin was between 800 and 1,000 gold coins, and even in the pandemic, it only increased by about 50%.
Under my previous crazy campaign, the profit of each set of fine Jingdezhen porcelain reached 150 gold coins, and this cabin must be more than 300 sets!
My dumping caused many people to be jealous. A considerable amount of inferior counterfeit products poured into the market, causing a brief confusion. After that, the quality governance of high and low made consumers choose to vote with their feet.
Many people also thought of going to the East to buy high-quality goods and bring them back for sale. However, this time it takes as little as half a year to go back. When their fleet comes back, what the popular trend has become, and only God knows.
But the news I received showed that after receiving my news, my uncle and uncle Ye and others had already left the port a month ago. They are currently rushing to London like lightning and are expected to arrive within a month.
My tours in Amsterdam and Copenhagen also achieved very good results. The human group is a mob who follows the trend and rear-end, not to mention that I have such a high-end letter-mounting model, few people can avoid the vulgarity.
Therefore, when my uncle and his fleet arrived, the whole of Europe had fallen into a fanatical pursuit of Chinese culture!
The Oriental Expo, jointly organized by me and the British royal family, will be held as scheduled, which has attracted great interest and attention from the princes and nobles of neighboring countries.
Of course, I promise to pay 20% of the income to the British royal family as special taxes and as a specific action to support the construction of the British Royal Navy, which is naturally another win-win situation.
In the villa that should have been renamed Wenhai Pavilion and re-hanged the plaque, I held a glass of red wine and savored silently.
Buhui knocked in the door and came in. He was very surprised by the recent business situation, but I knew that he must have doubts in his heart.
Sure enough, this guy sat down opposite me, smiled and poured himself a glass of red wine, took a sip, and smiled at me, "I still like to drink the white wine from my hometown. This red wine is sweet and I can't get used to it."
I shook my cup gently and said with a smile: "It's normal not to be used to drinking alcohol, just like you can't figure out many things, it's the same."
Buhui immediately laughed and threw down his cup and said, "I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Qi Lan, I haven't understood something!"
I glanced at him and smiled, "You want to ask me why I was suddenly so interested in this business? Is it necessary to spend so much effort to set up the atmosphere, right?"
Buhui immediately patted his thighs and said excitedly: "Yes! Yes! That's the problem." Then he frowned again, shook his head slightly and said: "But what is the reason?"
"Our investment is very successful, and there is another extra income recently. You shouldn't be for the money, right?" Buhui continued to ask.
I smiled silently again, picked up the wine glass and put it in front of me, staring at the ordinary cup and said lightly: "There is a lion in the east of the woods, but it is very sleepy. It always feels that it is invincible in the woods, but it never thought that its bad habits will actually lose its dominance."
"The west of the woods is a group of wolves, who bit each other in their own realms, but do not understand the things in the east."
"One day, the little lion finally discovered that the big lion had made him weak and poor due to his long-term unhealthy life, but he didn't know it. So the little lion decided to let the wolf pack know the situation in the woods in the east, lure them over and attack the lion."
Buhui frowned and said, "But, wouldn't that put the big lion in danger? I don't quite understand such logic."
But I smiled bitterly and shook my head, and said lightly: "Born in distress, die in happiness. Boiling a frog in warm water can only make the frog die peacefully, but it cannot make it stronger! History...is history!"
Buhui seemed to understand a little, but he still asked: "But how does the little lion know how history will develop?"
Chapter completed!