In 1785, less than ten years after the death of the French Enlightenment thinker, writer, and philosopher Voltaire.

He famously said, "Morally, Europeans should be China's apprentices." ”

is completely different from what Ye Kai imagined, the attitude of Europeans in this era towards China is not only level-eyed, but even a little upward.

During the period of the Enlightenment, most scholars were China fans, and they all regarded China as a model for learning, and they drew nourishment from ancient Chinese books for their own use, and even directly applied their own Enlightenment ideas

At this time, European scholars described China as follows: "They are one of the smartest and most polite people in the world, they use the theories of the great thinker and educator Confucius thousands of years ago to guide the country, and the whole country is as dear and harmonious as a big family, even a farmer who only knows a few words, can talk freely with the officials, His Majesty the Emperor must consult with the officials if he wants to raise the tax rate, their rulers are full of benevolence, and the ordinary people obey and respect the elders, respect the elderly, Caring for the young and the weak. ”

Leibniz even exaggerated: "In China, both the peasant and the servant are very polite and polite in their daily conversations, and their courtesy is better than that of all the nobles in Europe, and their every action is full of ceremonial beauty, and the people are peaceful and kind-hearted." ”

This is no longer a description, but a boast, a bit like when the republic first opened up in later generations, and the public officials also described Ah Mei in this way.

The so-called Ah Mei, you see that there is no corruption, everyone is warm-hearted, everyone is a gentleman, judicial equality, all kinds of equality anyway, anyway, it is the existence of the human hall and the country on the top of the mountain.

Now Europe's touting of China is also at this stage, under the touting of these seventeenth and eighteenth century European intellectuals, distant China has become a model of European morality, although Ye Kai also thinks that the Ming Dynasty at that time is a well-deserved model of the world, but such touting is still exaggerated.

This myth about China did not end until 1793, when the Englishman Margani led a mission to China.

This Englishman is the most fanatical China fan, he used to be to people, his biggest wish in his life is to go to China once, but the real situation made Margani's jaw drop, and even a feeling of disillusionment.

In the account of this mission, although the whole mission is full of ridicule and disrespect for China, we can also see some of the situation in China at that time.

Margani writes that he has found more than once that the cooks assigned to him by the government have brazenly taken out the supplies rationed to the mission and sold them for money, and then bought some inferior top-ups, and he is not ashamed to be caught red-handed.

Chinese civilians with ridiculous braids, yellow muscles and numb eyes, would loot the stinking pigs and chickens thrown away by the mission when they were in Tianjin and Hong Kong.

In the end, Margani also lamented that the China in the book either does not exist or is long gone.

And now, the era that Ye Kai came to was the era when the Chinese style of Europeans was most prevalent, so he originally thought that he would be discriminated against because of Huang Chongrao's face, but he ended up encountering an overwhelming fanatical following.

Le Havre, the excited crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers when Peter led Ruan Phuc Kyung to appear!

However, Ruan Phuc Kyung and the others were wearing a Ming Vietnamese-style robe, an ugly bright green official uniform, and the Vietnamese were born short, so they didn't look very powerful, but a bit of a monkey.

Ye Kai coughed dryly, the eighty-six Ye family disciples behind him had already lined up, in order to give the French an extremely deep impression today, Ye Kai had been preparing for a long time.

Including him, everyone was dressed in a bright red flying fish suit, a troll, a slender embroidered spring knife around their waists, and a wingless black gauze hat.

"Let's go! Etiquette carefully! The excited Young Master Ye waved his hand, Ye Sheng took the lead in walking out with a red background and a golden sun and moon flag, and Ye Jiaerlang appeared in a neat long line with his head held high.

"Ahh What kind of clothes are they wearing, such brilliant colors, such gorgeous colors, colors and ornaments match so well! ”

The first to exclaim was the Count of Provence, a young man who always lacks resistance to beautiful clothes.

"It's so good-looking, look, such gorgeous clothes, I think they must all be nobles!"

"Is that the one who bears the flag the mysterious and erudite scholar of Seris? I'm going over, I'm going to invite them to my prom! ”

The crowd was like hot oil on fire, cheers and screams resounded throughout the port of Le Havre, and countless people involuntarily rushed forward, all wanting to catch a glimpse of Seris.

As the highest official to receive Nguyen Phuc King to France today, the financial director Necker was also squeezed involuntarily rushed forward, even if the members of the Royal Guard around him desperately protected him, but there were too many people rushing forward, you must know that there were thousands of people in the port of Le Havre.

"it!" Ye Kai, who was swinging energetically, also found that something was wrong, thousands of people poured in from everywhere, and he even saw that many people had been squeezed down, and the scene was very chaotic.

"There could be a stampede!" Ye Kai raised his head and looked around, by the dock, there was a big clock hanging on a high wooden pole, which seemed to be probably used by the port to direct ships to dock, or to convey some kind of news.

Ye Kai quickly threw away the embroidered spring knife in his hand, climbed the wooden pole with ape-like agility, and he pulled the rope and kept ringing the bell.

"Dangdang, dang!" The sound of a clear bell pierced the entire harbor, the crowd paused slightly, and the frenzied atmosphere lessened a little.

"Don't crowd to avoid a stampede, please stand still and check if there are any injuries!"

Dozens of Ye Jiaerlang in flying fish suits shouted neatly, although their accents were probably a little weird, but the French people around them understood.

"Quick! Shout, quick! "Minister Necker's bare head is covered with sweat, and if there were a mass stampede today, the whole of France would probably be ridiculed by the rest of Europe, especially the Britons across the Channel, for decades!

And if he continues to squeeze like this, Necker estimates that he will be squeezed into the sea!

Dozens of officers and soldiers of the King's Guard immediately shouted, followed by those next to the Guard.

Finally, with all the effort, the crowd stopped pushing and shoving, and the surging heads fell silent.

Ye Kaichang on the wooden pole breathed a long sigh of relief, if there was a stampede accident today, it would not be a long-faced thing for him, a guest.

But as soon as he was in a relaxed mood, a panicked howl came, "Sophie! My Sophie! What happened to you? Don't scare me, please wake up quickly! ”

Ye Kai didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly squeezed over, and not far from him, a girl in a pink dress, about fourteen or fifteen years old, was lying on the ground with her eyes closed and her face pale.

A chubby woman beside him was crying and shaking her, hoping he would wake up!

Ye Kai quickly ran over and put his hand on the girl's nostrils, there was no longer breath, and then put it on his neck, fortunately, he could still feel the beating, and everyone next to him came around, talking nonsense, the air was hot and turbid.

"Ahh She doesn't seem to be breathing! ”

"Isn't this Mr. Julian's daughter? What can I do? Mr. Julian is such a daughter, he is such a wonderful man! ”

"Everyone, please give way! Please let me think of a way" Ye Kai made a preliminary judgment, the girl was probably because of the crowd and crowding, and she was frightened, which caused cardiac arrest.

At this time, the level of European medicine was still in a primitive state of bloodletting and amputation, of course, no one knew what to do, but it was difficult to Ye Kai, in the army, first aid was a must-learn.

Commanding the children of the Ye family and the soldiers of the Royal Guard who came over to disperse the crowd, Ye Kai took the girl from the fat woman's hand, and then put the girl flat on the ground.

What is he going to do?

Artificial respiration, of course!