June 23, 1880 AD.

England, London

“Welcome to England!”

The customs lady with a Chinese and British appearance clearly showed a sweet smile to Zhu Guoqiang, and her bright big eyes showed endless tenderness.

The girl's fluent Jianghuai Mandarin made Zhu Guoqiang feel the illusion of returning to Nanjing.

In these parts of England, Chinese is often standard Mandarin and rarely influenced by the Celestial dialect. This is the result of official education.

Walking in the airport, the signs you can see are often Chinese characters, and English is almost impossible to see. As the world's number one power, Chinese has become the popular language in the world. As for English... it is just an "dialect" of Europa, backward and ignorant, that is, there is no elegance of Chinese, nor does it have the unique culture of Chinese.

In England, as early as the Gansheng period, many nobles were proud to speak Chinese and perform Han rituals. It seemed that ordinary people in the folk also used the identity of bringing a few Chinese words when speaking. The Ming Dynasty dressed and Chinese in that era symbolized culturalization, civilization, and modernity!

And now?

If there weren't many English people around who looked very different from those of Ming people, Zhu Guoqiang would even have an illusion - being in the Ming Dynasty, at least being in the Xia Dynasty.

"Two hundred years, two hundred years ago, we came to this land, bringing them civilization and civilization, but now they let us leave."

The banker who was following along the way suddenly said.

"But even if we leave, what if we do? Their elites still speak Chinese, and their nobles still look forward to the beauty of the Qinhuai River. Even those who stand on the streets and keep saying that they want to gain freedom and save England from the clutches of the Eastern dragons speak Chinese and English, and they themselves think it's too vulgar."

This is a fact. After all, in history, English matured in grammatical vocabulary in the early 18th century, and in the 17th century, English was indeed very vulgar. Without the influence of the Ming Dynasty, English would have been continuously improved in the next hundred years and eventually formed modern English. However, under the influence of the Ming Dynasty, the English nobles first abandoned Chinese, as well as Scottish nobles and Irish people.

"Maybe, we can leave here, but what can we change if we leave?"

The banker suddenly felt a little sad.

"But, we have long regarded this place as home, aren't we?"

"Home?"

Zhu Guoqiang looked at the banker in surprise.

"Why is it not a home? Our family came to London a hundred and sixty years ago. What is the difference between me and English? Alas..."

The sentimental banker smiled at Zhu Guoqiang and said.

"Okay, I really shouldn't talk about these unhappy topics. This is my business card. My name is Tang Renjie. You can also call me Tom. Look, just like I said, I am no different from the English. Welcome to my house as a guest."

Why is Tang Renjie so enthusiastic?

Zhu Guoqiang didn't know, and then Tom said again.

"Look at your entry form."

Entry form?

When he opened the entry slip, he unexpectedly found a phone number and name on it.

Is this the legendary affair?

"Look, in England, a true wise man like you, every woman is willing to be friends with you."

Tom laughed loudly.

"When you come to visit me, I will introduce you to a few friends. Goodbye, my friend!"

What?

Looking at Tom leaving with his suitcase, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but be stunned.

What does he mean?

What is here… people like me are so popular?

After leaving the airport, Zhu Guoqiang got into a taxi. The taxi was the Tianma brand of the Ming Dynasty, which is the most common car brand. As far as he knew these days, Tianma Automobile's status is almost the same as Ford in another world. Thanks to the prosperity of the Ming Empire, while its production assembly lines and cheap cars were popularized to thousands of households, it also opened a large number of factories in all parts of the world or in the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states, and England must have its factories.

When he first arrived in London, Zhu Guoqiang could still feel the pastoral atmosphere of England on the way from the airport to the city. The rising sun dispelled the morning fog, and the grass outside the city showed an intoxicating green. This was the first time Zhu Guoqiang came to London - London in the Ming Dynasty.

"Sir, look there, where the place where Duke Zhang Zhongxiang defeated Cromwell, there was also a monument there. On the base of the monument, there was a memorial engraved with the achievements of Duke Zhang Zhongxiang leading the army of the Celestial Empire to defeat Cromwell..."

The taxi driver said proactively.

"Sir, when I was in elementary school, the teacher led us there. From now on, the fleet of the Celestial Empire broke into the Thames from the sea, which was a miracle. I really should thank Duke Zhang Zhongxiang. If it weren't for him, England would not have become the most civilized country in Europe and the richest country..."

Duke Zhang Zhongxiang was Zhang Mingzhen, the official envoy of the mission that year. When the taxi driver praised him, Zhu Guoqiang looked at his appearance. His skin was slightly dark and his hair was slightly curly. He did look a bit black, but it didn't seem too obvious.

"It seems you don't agree with England's separation from the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Guoqiang asked.

"Why should we withdraw from the Ming Dynasty? Those people are really crazy. How much help has the Ming Dynasty helped England in the past two hundred years? Without the Ming Dynasty, would we be as rich as we are now? To be honest, we should really throw them on the European continent and let them experience the chaos and poverty there, and then they will know what it means to cherish the present."

The taxi driver said again.

"Anyway, those people are crazy, but sir, you don't need to be careful of them, like you..."

The driver looked at Zhu Guoqiang from the rearview mirror and said.

"Anyone can tell at a glance that you are a native of the Celestial Empire, and they will never be arrogant to you. After all, you are a native of the Celestial Empire, and they just dare to beat their own people. Oh, by the way, they call those people "melon people".

"Melon Man?"

"Yes, it's melon people, like melons, white on the outside and yellow on the inside, but in fact... their skin is not white, and they wish they could become people from the Celestial Empire..."

London?

What kind of London is it?

In the words of the taxi driver, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but be curious about London. To be precise, he was curious about this London, which was influenced by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Guoqiang didn't know how to answer him. He could even understand the reason that Li Hongzhang said was the Ming Dynasty. He was unwilling to shed blood for the so-called vassal states. Isn't this exactly what he was worried about back then? He chose to be conservative for the so-called peaceful and prosperous times.

"So, all this can be sacrificed, right?"

Zhu Guoqiang said to himself.

In order to enjoy peace, they can choose appeasement, watch the chaos and turmoil of the vassal states without expressing any opinions, or give support to the vassal states, but what consequences will such appeasement bring?

These Englishmen...

Looking at the onlookers who were well-known, they did not look like English, and even England now looked more like Brazil in another world than England. Yes, it was Brazil. Their skin color was not as white as traditional white people, with curly hair, and looked like Europeans, but they always had some traces of Ni.

In fact, this is extremely common throughout Europe. Faced with the large loss of adult women, in order to ensure the increase in their own population, European countries have opened up African colonies and encouraged intermarriage between whites and natives. In addition to encouraging intermarriage with natives, countries such as France have also issued relevant immigration laws to restrict "women's outflow" to prevent population decline. However, there are still hundreds of thousands or even millions of European women traveling to the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states every year, so for more than a hundred years, almost in England

Every family has a mixed blood, which is also determined by family relations - here many families buy female slaves, just like they did in the new world in another world. However, here, those female slaves not only have to work, but also act as fertility machines, although their family status is always at the bottom. This is true in England and even more so in African colonies. In addition to encouraging intermarriage, they also issued relevant laws to plunder native tribes, men become slaves, working in plantations, and women become their fertility machines.

In a word, these Europeans have re-staged the things they did in the New World in Europe and Africa. After all, all of them are just their nature in their bones.

And now, these Englishmen who had already changed their appearances, perhaps one day, they will become enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and if they continue to sit still and wait.

"Are you still a native of the Ming Dynasty? If you ignore it so much, the Ming Dynasty will lose all its vassal states!"

The young man shouted excitedly, looking at his curly hair and slightly dark skin, and looking at his angry expression, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly felt a little moved.

Perhaps, this is the power of education. For this Englishman, he was filled with strong emotions for the Ming Dynasty.

"I won't be there with you!"

Zhu Guoqiang's tone seemed extremely serious.

"The reason why the Celestial Empire can survive for thousands of years and stand on the top of the world is not just because of what the Celestial Empire has done, but what everyone is willing to do for the Celestial Empire. Throughout history, countless people of kindness and righteousness have successively emerged, and the Celestial Empire may not have done anything now, but because of your existence, it will never be their world!"

I looked at the people coldly, and listened to them bragging about the same language and ethnicity as the Franks, and bragging about what made the Celestial people get out of Europe.

"Europa is the Europa of the Europa, the Celestial being...get out of here!"

Listening to the excited shouts over there, Zhu Guoqiang said silently in his heart.

"Europe is not necessarily the European or European, but England is definitely the England of the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!