It was a detailed 100-page schedule of diplomatic visits, and the British side had made detailed arrangements in accordance with the course of the Combined Fleet.

Since the Combined Fleet entered the Mediterranean, London began to learn more about the Combined Fleet's itinerary by using the telegraph network, which was already highly covered in Europe.

All the lighthouses and observation posts on the shores and islands of the Mediterranean Sea were recording the voyage of the Zhiyuan and feeding it back to London at any time, and at its most exaggerated time, six telegrams were sent to London in one day.

It is precisely because of the accurate grasp of the time that the British side has come up with a welcome plan that is accurate to the hour.

The Combined Fleet will definitely not be able to reach London today, and the time when the Zhiyuan arrives at the mouth of the Thames should be dusk, and the British side cannot prepare a welcoming ceremony, so Xiao Lotian and they have to sleep on the sea for one night.

The next day, July 25, the Zhiyuan officially entered the Thames accompanied by the Victory, while the rest of the accompanying fleet, the original anchor, and most of Xiao Letian's envoy team, would land here and enter London by land.

This schedule is too detailed, and the envoys brought by Xiao Letian not only have guards, but also imperial chefs, dramatists, attendants, and a lot of accompanying items and gifts.

The men and supplies were to be transported by thirty-six wagons from the British, and to advance to the Führer's resting place in London, the East Palace, the former residence of the Duke of Marlborough.

At the same time as the entourage entered London, the Zhiyuan on which Xiao Lotian and Zaichun were riding began to enter the River Thames, anchored in front of Tower Bridge in London, and went ashore.

British Prime Minister Benjamin will lead the entire cabinet to wait here, and Xiao Lotian and Jae Soon will take the Prime Minister's carriage to St. Paul's Cathedral here.

Prince Edward, the Crown Prince of the United Kingdom, will hold a small welcome ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral, from which the royal family will receive the welcome ceremony from the British Prime Minister.

It was here that the envoys began to divide into two parts, the first carriage was accompanied by Prince Edward and His Majesty the Tongzhi Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, and they deservedly marched in the first place.

This was followed by Prime Minister Benjamin and the Duke of Newcastle, who accompanied Xiao Lotian in the second royal carriage and headed for Buckingham Palace.

After these two carriages, there were the carriages of Wang Huaiyuan, Sima Yun, Luo Huo and other high-ranking Chinese officials, and they were also accompanied by high-ranking British nobles.

Xiao Lotian frowned and continued to look down!

On both sides of the road, there was a spontaneous procession of Londoners, and it was tentatively estimated that there would be more than 50,000.

Queen Victoria awaits Oriental dignitaries at Buckingham Palace and holds a lavish luncheon, in which the ballroom at Buckingham Palace will be temporarily open to European journalists for 20 minutes.

In these twenty minutes, speeches by the queen and Emperor Tongzhi will be arranged, and this will be the first time that Jae-chun has made a voice to Europe.

Wang Ju clicked the timetable, "See, there is no us, there is no Führer, only the speeches of the Queen and Her Majesty, and then the interview will end and the banquet will begin......"

Xiao Lotian waved his hand and said with a smile, "I'll take a look, I'll take a look, this is not a big deal...... said so, but Xiao Lotian was a little unhappy in his heart.

This state visit was a unilateral contact between our Chinese and the British, and Jae-chun was just an entourage of my apprentice!

You British are not blind, can't you see that more than ninety percent of the envoys are members of the Chinese ethnic group? The Great Qing Kingdom did not approve of this visit from the beginning to the end, but they had no choice but to do it while Zai Chun was overseas.

But on the schedule arranged by the British, it was obvious that Zaichun was dominant, and the British put Zaichun above Xiao Letian, and the entire welcome ceremony revolved around Emperor Tongzhi, and Xiao Lotian didn't even have a chance to speak publicly.

Xiao Lotian took a deep breath and suppressed the irritability in his heart, he knew that the so-called face was empty, and Zaichun was the emperor on diplomatic occasions after all, and he was just a prime minister, or the prime minister of an emerging force, and it was normal for the British to look down on him.

Xiao Lotian is a two-skinned face who only pays attention to the inside and doesn't pay much attention to the face, as long as he gets a real benefit in the pocket in the end, he doesn't mind giving face to Zaichun, and the face can't be eaten.

Besides, after all, Emperor Tongzhi had a fight with his master and apprentice, and it was also an obligation for the master to build momentum for his apprentice, so there was nothing to argue about.

Moving on, the planner states that when the luncheon is over, the queen will walk and drink tea in the garden alone with Jae-soon for an hour.

"Alone? What does this mean? Can't I sit in on it either?" Xiao Lotian asked as he looked at the Duke of Newcastle in confusion.

"Yes, Honorable Führer, after the luncheon, only the Queen and His Majesty the Tongzhi Emperor will meet alone, you don't look at me with such doubts, I don't know what the Queen will say......"

Xiao Letian knew that he couldn't ask anything from the old fox's mouth, so he continued to look.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Jae Soon and the Queen will depart from Buckingham Palace in the Queen's carriage, the highest ranking in the British Empire, to Westminster Abbey, where the Episcopal Church of England welcomes the Oriental monarch.

You can also visit the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, where the legation and the British royal family go to the State Banquet Hall adjacent to the Admiralty at 5:30 p.m., where a grand dinner and cocktail reception will take place.

It was planned that the reception would end at 10 p.m., but it was a time for the nobles to rest, and the atmosphere of the state visit would be more relaxed, and with music, alcohol, and women, the party might drag on until late at night.

At this time, the time will not be arranged, and the Eastern envoys will decide when to return to their residence, that is, the East Palace, the former residence of the Duke of Marlborough, according to their own schedule.

"What? Jae Soon is going to stay at Buckingham Palace after the banquet? Won't he stay with us......"

It was not until this moment that Xiao Letian knew where the atmosphere of the royal bureau was, and it turned out that after the cocktail party, Emperor Tongzhi and his eunuchs and guard team were going to part ways with the Chinese.

Jae-chun was arranged to live in Buckingham Palace, but Xiao Lotian could only live in the old Duke's mansion five or six hundred meters away, this is Chiguoguo's separatist envoys!

It's not that the duke's mansion is not good, in this kind of historically rare diplomatic activity, the British will never provide a broken house to the Chinese.

The Duke of Marlborough is also the top of the British aristocracy, and his old mansion must be magnificent, worthy of Xiao Lotian's identity, but what is the matter with Zaichun and himself?

"Your Excellency, what do you mean by this? Why did you separate the arrangements between Emperor Tongzhi and me? Moreover, I also looked at it, and the visit arrangements between me and Emperor Tongzhi were not the same!"

"Tomorrow, we can do things together, and from the next day, Jae Soon will be acting alone under your arrangement......?"

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