Chapter 1008: The Royals of Europe
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Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is ideally located. The climate is pleasant.
Although the latitude of Brussels is comparable to that of Mohe, an arctic village in China, the climate is as warm as Dalian, with no severe cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer, and the scenery is beautiful.
From the map, it looks like a glittering pearl, embedded in the heart of the Western European continent. This central advantage has also made Brussels a popular one, with the European Economic Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) having their headquarters here, giving it the reputation of the capital of Western Europe.
After Fan Wuxian and Shen Ying left the UK, they came to Belgium, and they were also invited by the Belgian royal family to stay for a few days.
Brussels is also an ancient city with a rich history and many places of interest. As early as the 10th century, the Duke of Charles chose to settle on the island of Saint-Géri on the Senne River, and Brussels developed around it.
In the first half of the 19th century, when Belgium became independent, it was made the capital.
As Fan and Shen Ying strolled through the streets of Brussels, the majestic and heroic buildings stood out, and the Grand Place in Brussels, built in the 12th century, showed the city's former glory in a unique way.
Located in the heart of Brussels, the square is paved with granite and surrounded by Gothic, Renaissance, Louis XIV and other buildings.
The Swan Café on the side of the square is a unique and meaningful building.
The five-storey building was originally a hotel. The gate is decorated with a white swan that spreads its wings, the swan is pure white and elegant, luxurious and generous, with infinite beauty, Marx lived in this café after moving from Paris to Brussels, and Engels also came from Paris in the same year, the café became an important place of activity for the two revolutionary mentors, and the Correspondence Committee and the German Workers' Association were also born here. Great works such as "Theses on Feuerbach", "German Ideology", "The Poverty of Philosophy", and "** Manifesto" also appeared here, and a ** ghost roamed the West of the world from then on, and soon influenced the whole world.
The majestic Brussels Town Hall is adjacent to the Swan Café, a typical ancient Francothic building that was built in the early 15th century and took almost 80 years to complete.
The hall is beautifully decorated and intricately decorated with portraits of famous historical figures from different periods and countries, including famous monarchs of Belgium and the monarchs of Spain, Holland and France who ruled Brussels.
The hall is like a museum, showing the vicissitudes of Belgian national history, and the office of the mayor of the town hall is set against the backdrop of the bronze statue of King Louis XIV of France and the large oil painting of the famous painter Rubens.
The two of them walked all the way to the statue of Yu Lian, who was made the first citizen of Brussels, and saw the bronze statue of this little boy standing tall, his hair curly and fluffy, and his little nose upturned. With a bare round ass, an arc of urine spilled out as if no one was around. Its appearance is touching, ridiculous and cute. The statue is connected to a fountain, so the urine that is less than cheap will never dry up.
Shen Ying had been here before, so she said to Fan Wuxian, "Every time there is a carnival, I change my urine and beer for a day, and tourists compete to drink, which is unique." ”
Fan Wuxian laughed, there are many legends about Yu Lian's life experience, some say that when he was set on fire by robbers, he extinguished Mars with a soak of urine and saved the city, some said that when foreign invaders tried to blow up the city, Xiao Lian stepped forward, urinated and extinguished the fuse, and was killed by an arrow, and some said that he loved to stand on the roof of the building and pee on the funeral people, which angered the goddess who passed by, and punished him for standing here forever to pee.
"Back then. The governor of Bavaria passed by, remembering that he was standing naked in the bitterly cold wind, and gave him a golden silk gown to wear. This attracted guests to follow suit, and they rushed to give away their own national clothes to Xiao Lian, so much so that his clothes had to be collected in a museum. Shen Ying introduced Fan Wuxi, "Among them, there are two sets given by China, one is the military uniform of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the other is a set of Han pair pants and gowns that China sent people to give to them during the millennium celebration in Brussels. Every October 1st, Xiao Lian wears this outfit, looking ridiculous and cute. ”
"I don't know this, I only know that this guy defecates everywhere, and he exposes his genitals on the street, if this is placed in China, it will definitely be harmonized by the city management." Fan Wuxian smiled.
After nearly a millennium, the Grand Place in Brussels has undergone tremendous changes and is now a bustling area of the city and a center of activity for citizens.
When Fan Wuxian and Shen Ying came over, it was just in time for the biennial Grand Place Flower and Carpet Festival, which is also a major event for the citizens of Brussels. Every year on the occasion of the carpet festival, the square is full of people like mountains and seas, a fairyland in the painting, the center of the square is paved with colorful flowers into a huge rectangular carpet, three circular fountains are set up in the middle of the carpet, and the falling beads splash jade reflect the brilliant light waves, constituting the wonderful pattern of the flower carpet.
The carpet of flowers is made up of more than a million begonias from the countryside, which are carefully collected by flower farmers and transported overnight to Brussels, where they are carefully woven by florists.
King Albert II of Belgium was the younger brother of the former King Baudouin I. Since the couple Baudouin I had no children under their knees, Prince Albert became the sixth king of Belgium since independence according to the Belgian constitution.
Belgium is the only royal family to have two queens, as Fabiola is still alive after the previous king, and she retains her title of queen because she is so loved by the people.
When the royal family hosted Fan Wuxian and Shen Ying, they basically met all the members of the Belgian royal family, especially Prince Philip, or the crown prince's princess.
When Crown Prince Philippe met Princess Mathilde, it was at a time when the Belgian dynasty, which had always been known for its conformity, was humiliated, and some journalists found out of nowhere that King Albert II had an illegitimate daughter, which was clear evidence of the king's disloyalty to the queen.
The scandal of the royal family was exposed, and the sensational story was hyped up for a while. As a result, the image of the first family in the eyes of the people was gone, and the royalists were greatly shaken. The king remained reserved and silent, and the queen came forward to defend her husband, but she did not expect the press to catch the wind and say that the queen had also betrayed her husband.
Just when the royal family is at a loss for the king's scandal, Crown Prince Philip meets Mathilde, a speech therapist who is correcting her child's language defects at a school. Mathilde was young, beautiful, innocent and lovely, and her appearance was like a spring that nourished the crown prince's irritable heart. Mathilde didn't expect that a chance encounter would change her life. Philip began to approach Mathilde, trying to make her feel good about him.
Over time. The hearts of the two young people collided with a spark of love, and the crown prince officially proposed to Mathilde. Soon, the royal family announced their engagement. The good news eased the royal family's predicament and diverted the attention of the media. Reporters begin to track the traces of the couple, and Mathilde's smile and every move become important news for the television station.
On the day of the wedding of Crown Prince Philip and Mathilde, it was like a big festival for the whole country.
The new princess is not only generous, but also very educated, she is very good at being a person in public, and she has a good performance in various diplomatic occasions, in order to conform to the status of a member of the royal family, Princess Mathilde specially changed her image. She no longer wore skinny jeans and exaggerated hairstyles, but began to choose modest and elegant high-end fashion.
Of course, to the delight of the Belgians, Mathilde was a Belgian girl, and the Belgian princess or queen had always been an outsider.
"It seems that there will be several queens in Europe in the future-" After taking stock of some of the royal family members he had seen recently, Fan Wuxian found that most of the heirs were women, so he said to Shen Ying, "In addition to Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg are all queens, the only unstable is Spain, but the Spanish princess has not shown signs of getting pregnant again, so it is likely that Spain will also have a queen in the future, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, and the Netherlands, it is also possible." ”
After Shen Ying attended the Belgian royal banquet, she was still in a very good mood, although she had been to Belgium before, but at that time it was just a tour, how could she have the opportunity to get an invitation from the royal family to attend the dinner? And he can also have close contact and conversation with the royal family, in the final analysis, he is still stained with the light of Fan Wuxi, and he can be respected enough wherever he goes.
Fan Wuxian said to Shen Ying that in the eyes of Westerners, a rich man is an uncle, especially a wealthy super consortium like Fan's Investment Group, which is a coveted target of royal families from all over the world, if it weren't for his marriage, it is estimated that many royal family members would see him as a popular candidate for son-in-law.
"You dream, people are different, you think you really have that hot?" Shen Ying immediately expressed disdain for Fan Wuxi's idea.
Fan Wuxi shrugged his shoulders and said, "What's the matter?" Race has never been a problem, the problem is only the difference between rich and no money, the current European royal family, in fact, is also financially stretched, to be able to make a large amount of money, of course, is the best choice, you must know that many princesses of European royal families live in the United States. It's just that I want to find a rich man to marry, how much is the title of nobility worth? ”
"Really?" Shen Ying was naturally a little unconvinced.
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