Just as the war in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River was in full swing, two visitors from the other side of the world quietly set foot on the eastern land.

If we look at history from a longitudinal perspective, then this event has a very dramatic effect, and even if other factors are put aside, the event itself alone seems to be a black 'color' humor drama staged by real people.

In 1689 A.D. and the fifth year of the Yuanxing Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, two teams of "merchants" from Europe landed at the port of Dengzhou Prefecture in Shandong Province almost at the same time, and after boarding the port, the first thing the two teams did was to immediately go to the Dengzhou Mansion to provide proof of their identity to the local prefect and hand over the documents of 'handing over' to the outside world.

The prefect of Dengzhou was unprepared for this, and when he saw the twisting and turning Western characters, this Confucian genius who entered school at the age of eighteen, passed the township examination at the age of twenty-one, and was at a loss for what to do at the age of twenty-five.

But there is one thing he knows, among these two teams of self-proclaimed "ambassadors" of the red 'hairy', arrogant attitude, looking for 'smoking' on the face, angry Why the "Iberian Peninsula" to seek justice should definitely be controlled, although the prefect has always been not very concerned about overseas affairs, but in the end he also knows that the imperial court and the Western Spanish country fought not long ago, and returned from a great victory, last year, the expeditionary fleet commanded by General Murong Parrot almost shook the government and the opposition, and the day of the fall of Lingang, The imperial government and the opposition were shaken, and now, the whole of China, even the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou under the control of the Great Zhou, are known to the 'women' and children, and the praise of this is very high among the scholars, Gu Yanwu, Wang Chuanshan, and Huang Zongxi are unanimously high-profile. Wu Meicun, who has the best Chinese pen, even wrote a large article to praise it, and his writing is so popular that the prefect can even recite the high 'tide' part of it: "...... He has conquered thousands of miles, sowed grace beyond the ocean, and deterred him at the end of the firmament; Cheng Wei, Huo (note: Wei Qing, Huo to disease) ambition, Yang Chen, Ban (note: Chen Tang, Ban Chao) of the aftermath, cover three hundred years, although the three treasures (note: Zheng He) and can not, the courage of General Si, especially the ancients, call two thousand tigers, rampant in foreign lands, although thousands of Fu can be ears, great, strong!! Woohoo......"

At present, among the broad public opinion of the Chinese people, there is no doubt that the Spaniards have risen to become the second great enemy of the Han Empire in addition to the Manchu court and the Western 'Mongolian' ancient Jungar Khanate.

However, according to the traditional Chinese theory of foreign relations, although it is an envoy of the enemy country, it always has to be polite, in short, the greater the hatred, the more polite it is, you must know that we are the "Heavenly Empire", and we have always been heirlooms of etiquette and law, and the barbarians are envious, so we have to be careful to entertain, so as not to say strange things after these "Fanbang people" go back.

Compared with the Spanish envoy, the second red 'Mao' fan is very on the road, the attitude is very modest, the speech is also quite polite, the words are also very frank, and they say that they admire the Chinese civilization very much, and hope to be received by His Majesty the Emperor, and can reach friendly exchanges and even mutual cooperation between the two countries.

This set of rhetoric is quite familiar to all officials, including the prefect, and basically most of the neighboring countries in the East Asian circle have come to China.

Therefore, if we deduce from these two points, although the first Spanish country is hateful, since it dares to be the enemy of our Celestial Empire, this national strength and territory must be not small, maybe it is like the Rakshasa country, the first power of "Europa"; And this second self-proclaimed "King Louis XIV" came over the red "hair" must be a small horn "color", as for the "France" and the like, ninety-nine percent is a small country similar to Burma, this time after seeing the prestige of our Celestial Empire army, immediately ran to offer courtesy, lest the next time we start a war, we will be accidentally destroyed.

In this kind of matter, the local officials have no power to make any decisions, according to the procedure, as soon as these envoys go ashore, they must be sent to Beijing immediately, but at this time the emperor has already gone down to the south of the Yangtze River to drive the expedition in person, so the reception officials of the Ministry of Rites cannot make up their minds for a while. Under the influence of the law of officialdom, in order to be afraid of taking responsibility, these red 'hairs' pushed around like a ball, so after many requests, reports, instructions, and instructions, and after endless cases of document circulation, they finally stabbed the desk of Li Guangdi, the first assistant university scholar of the cabinet who was responsible for staying in Beijing, so the final word: send it directly to Jiangnan.

The two envoys went ashore in May, and in order to verify their identities, they spent more than half a month being examined in detail by the magistrates, the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the navy yamen, the army yamen, and other people; then, in order to wait for the question of the delivery of documents to decide where they should be sent, they waited again for nearly a month and a half, and it took more than two months, until the seventh month of the fire, when the two ambassadors were finally informed that they could now go to Jiangnan to pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor.

The name of the emissary of Spain was Kefir? Hall? Roldo, a middle-aged chunky man in his early forties, was half-bald, had a very large belly, and spoke in a very nasal voice, which at first glance looked like an upright beer barrel. This lord has the title of count, and his position is quite small, and he can vaguely be regarded as the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the current government of Spain, and in addition, it is said that this person has a very close relationship with King Carlos II, and is quite prestigious, both in government and at court. It can be said that judging from the fact that this important figure sent by the Spanish government and government is concerned, the Spanish government and the opposition should have quite high expectations for this foreign 'exchange' and 'negotiation' with China, or attach great importance to it.

And the appearance of the French ambassador is much better in relative terms. His Excellency Baron Quasimodo, the foreign 'friend' of the Kingdom of France, was much better. Fair-skinned, long-bodied, blue-eyed, courteous, gentle and soft-spoken, always a 'fine' dress, the collar and cuffs of the shirt are snow-white without a trace of dirt, in short, this man from Paris represents the contemporary European high society for beautiful men or 'flowers' All the perfect reviews of the playboy, although in China he was very sorry that he could not seduce any of the Lady of the Fate, but the exoticism of the brothel of Shandong immediately made up for it greatly.

After stepping directly on Chinese soil, the two ambassadors suddenly discovered that they were actually peers and represented their own countries.

Originally, as ambassadors of a country, both of them each had a warship as a special foreign 'hand' car, and when they set off from their own country, the ceremony was quite grand, but with the voyage day by day, they left the Mediterranean Sea and arrived in North Africa, in view of the current "chaos" and "chaos" situation in the sea world, the two ambassadors immediately sent someone to take it down. Passing the 'flag' disguised as an ordinary armed merchant ship, it is no different from other ocean-going trade ships unless you take a closer look on the ship.

This kind of thing should be placed in China, which envoy dares to do this and come back, even if the emperor does not punish him, the spittle of the court and the wild Shilin alone can drown him, but it doesn't matter if it is placed in Europe. Of course, it is not that the two ambassadors are greedy for life and afraid of death, but that the sea is too 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' at present, and frankly speaking, if the pomp and circumstance are made all the way through, whether they can reach China alive will really be a huge question mark.

You must know that almost none of the various forces active on the sea are good things, and the poor and crazy pirates will not talk about it for the time being, just to say that the official naval fleets of various countries encounter 'fat' sheep, they will also change their faces from time to time to make a vote, and as long as they do not leave a living mouth, they will not keep anything, and even those armed merchant ships, if they really encounter a vote, they will definitely not mind changing their identities temporarily.

Therefore, it is precisely because the two of them understand the national mission they are shouldering and they must arrive in China alive, so they must keep a low profile in order to be complete.

It should be said that this costume should have played a big role, the two ambassadors' ships arrived at the Australian 'Gate' all the way, but at this time, they found an even worse thing, that is, the current China is still in the midst of a continuous civil war, there are three emperors alone, and the forces are even more 'chaotic', but their mission goal is very clear, that is, the "Han Empire" in the north.

Taiwan's Zheng family fleet, which was rampant in the China Sea, and the Han Empire, which they sent to the Han Empire, had an extremely 'fierce' war in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and in the eyes of the two Europeans, this war was extremely astonishing in terms of scale and intensity, and almost two provinces and 10 million people were involved in this large-scale war, and the two sides dispatched hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the combat area exceeded 500,000 square kilometers. Compared with the previous wars, this war is not the most 'fierce', but hundreds of thousands of people are still killed every day during the war.

Under these circumstances, the sea passage from South China to North China was blocked, and the ships of the two ambassadors received a clear warning from the Governor of Australia that Portugal would remain neutral in the war, and that until the outcome of the war was known, all armed ships loaded with cannons were not allowed to enter the combat zone without permission, and if they violated, they would be immediately declared "persona non grata" by the Portuguese government and would not be allowed to enter the port.

In desperation, the two ambassadors had to go around camping activities, but fortunately, the outlaws in the Far East were really not small, and when the news of the smuggling was released, there were immediately snakeheads who stepped forward and started to walk here. According to the previous experience, most of the Europeans who are trying to run to northern China are going straight to the green card of the Han Empire, so the plan of the smuggler is to send the two ambassadors to the barrel in a daze, but this method is naturally extremely ridiculous in the eyes of the two ambassadors, although the two have been concealing their identities, but in the end it has not reached the level of pretending to be a black slave.

After some 'negotiations' and discussions, the two sides and a certain underworld criminal group in Australia finally reluctantly reached an agreement. The Spanish ambassador announced his identity as a rum merchant, and the reason why he went to North China this time was to accept the orders of the Chamber of Commerce to inspect the market of the local port to see if it was suitable for sale—this status was unanimously ridiculed by the little boy sailors, and in these years, idiots know that the market for Western wine in China is equal to zero, whether it is Remy Martin or XO, it is no different from 'urine' water.

As for His Excellency Quasimodo, he was much more elegant, and frankly speaking, a good appearance could indeed play a non-negligible role in 'mingling', and this well-mannered nobleman conjured a harp in the blink of an eye in front of many underworlds, as if by magic, and even performed a song in public, and finally introduced himself with that melancholy, indifferent, and seemingly chic and uninhibited expression: in fact, he was an exiled nobleman, and at the same time a part-time worker. The first is to conduct extensive 'exchanges' with Chinese artists for the sake of the civilization and art of all mankind, and the other is to travel around the world and bring the mysterious oriental customs back to Europe.

This performance completely conquered the rude pirates, and countless murderous men were in awe, you must know that no matter in which era, no matter what class they are in, people with culture and connotation are always much more popular, relatively speaking, that Spanish Humpty Dumpty is simply like a pig 'meat' seller in the vegetable market.

So the French ambassador was given the privilege of being free to roam freely on the deck, playing the harp for the underworld by the way; The Spanish ambassador and his servants were only allowed to stay in the dark bilge and nibble on bread.

The first official foreign 'exchange' between the East and the West in modern times was opened in the form of smuggling, and I believe that countless historians will be dumbfounded and speechless when they turn to this.

Real history is often more bizarre and absurd than fictional epics.