A steamed bun can cause a bloodbath, and a potato can also cause a frenzy.

The potato feast at the Palace of Westminster soon spread throughout London, then throughout England and to surrounding countries.

At this time, the Spanish missionary Mensado's "History of the Great Chinese Empire," which introduced China's social politics, economy, culture, and customs, was published in Europe, which immediately set off a large-scale "China fever" in Europe.

Confucius, Mencius, Taoism, Legalism, Hanfu, porcelain, began to be widely popular in Western Europe.

However, in a few days, the aristocrats of Europe all took it as a fashion to speak a few words of Chinese, and those who had money would wear a jade pendant around their waists, and those who had no money bought a Chinese-style handkerchief to carry with them, and this fashion spread more and more.

A few British aristocrats greeted me in Chinese, and when Jack Bravo saw me, he asked in a pure Beijing movie, "Dude, have you eaten?"

I was so shocked that I vomited a mouthful of black blood, and my glasses shattered to the ground!

But after vomiting blood, I suddenly realized that there was a huge business opportunity!

As soon as possible, I asked the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao to send a fast ship to Nanyang to find Uncle Ye and his uncle, and hurry up to ship the relevant Chinese equipment to Europe in large quantities!

And I've decided that I'm going to add another fire to them before they arrive!

Rumors began to spread in the area centered on London - the mysterious aristocrat from the East, the Marquis of Mexico, Sun Qilan, will hold three consecutive Oriental Culture and Art Fairs in London, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Copenhagen, Denmark from June 15th.

Of course, there are also advertising slogans I picked up in the middle, which makes the coming of this event full of exciting ingredients.

In the past two months, in order to ensure the better results of the fair, I have given many lectures at well-known universities such as Oxford and Cambridge alone.

For example, the keynote speech I gave at the University of Oxford, entitled "The Differences and Commonalities between the Hundred Schools of Thought in China and the European Renaissance," attracted nearly 5,500 people to attend the lecture.

There are experts and scholars, royal nobles, students, and peddlers. Some of them are sincere to learn, some are vassals and elegant, and some are simply with the purpose of being picky.

But in the end, almost everyone got what they wanted – I was talking about a lot of things that were unknown to the people of Europe, so my talk was more like a perfect lecture.

Of course, there are also some people who want to take this opportunity to become famous, for example, the dean of the seminary of a well-known university in the east of England raised the more acute question of "China's disbelief in the Lord is disrespect and blasphemy against the Holy Lord".

In an age when everyone is arguing about whom to believe and who to worship, such a seditious question can easily resonate, and there are immediately echoes in the room, and the theological professor who put forward his own opinion is even more complacent.

And I didn't mean to be angry at all—the self-proclaimed clever seminarian had no idea that his remarks gave me a better way to carry out my intentions.

I smiled and walked out of the lecture room, walked close to the audience and asked, "Who of us in the audience are Protestants, please raise your right hand!" ”

Immediately, half of them raised their hands, and the rest of them were looking around, not knowing what I was going to do.

I continued, "Then the rest of the group is all traditional Catholics, right?" If yes, raise your left hand! ”

Suddenly, the rest of the people proudly raised their left hands.

I raised my head and said aloud: "Everyone is created equal, you have the right to believe in Catholicism, and naturally you also have the right to believe in Protestantism." Just as you can make a cross during Mass, you can also leave it untten. ”

"To put it more broadly, everyone has the right to believe or not to believe, to believe in this or to believe in that!"

"In our oriental culture, the emphasis is on eclecticism and peaceful coexistence, and the world is the world of the people of the world, and the world should not be viewed from an either/or perspective! This is childish, selfish and narrow-minded thinking, and it is also what we Orientals have been trying to correct, overcome and get rid of! ”

Finally, I raised my voice and said, "This is the wisdom from the East of the world!" Today, I would like to share it with you! ”

When I raised my hands and said the last sentence, the whole lecture hall fell into a brief sedimentation, and then burst into thunderous applause!

I bowed humbly to the audience when a voice came from the back of the hall: "As the Marquis of Mexico said, our great England is meant to be like this, equal!" Friendly! Fraternity! ”

People turned back, only to see Elizabeth I, accompanied by Isabella and several royal guards, walking towards the rostrum with the pride characteristic of the queen!

Everyone, whoever they were, whatever they were doing or thinking, all stood up and applauded the arrival of the queen even more enthusiastically!

When Elizabeth I came to the podium, I immediately saluted her, and after she nodded slightly, she began to give an impromptu speech.

The speech was passionate and incendiary, and the main thrust was that the great Britain had defeated the Vikings, the Black Death, and the Spaniards over the centuries by virtue of equality, friendliness, and compatibility. And in the future, we will still rely on this concept to bring Britain to the top of the world!

The audience erupted in a tsunami of applause, and they only had this queen who brought them confidence and fighting spirit in their hearts at this time, and even unceremoniously said that under the premise of theological propositions, the image of the queen seemed to be covered with a layer of sacredness!

I stood aside and applauded gracefully, not minding the Queen's use of the power - after all, it was the duty of a king, and I had a better speech because of her affirmation.

In other words, it's a win-win deal!

After the Queen's graceful and provocative speech, she gracefully prepared to leave. She waved her sleeves slightly, so dashing that she didn't bring up a cloud at all.

But from her eyes, I clearly saw three points of pity, three points of expectation, three points of helplessness and a resentment.

The look was too complicated for me to face it for a while, so I could only pretend to respond to the enthusiasm of the fan next to me and turn my head away from looking at the thrilling look.

Putting aside this for the time being, after my speech was endorsed by Queen Elizabeth I and closely integrated with the current situation in England, my propaganda of the culture of the great Eastern countries entered a new and higher stage.

Many people have begun to recognize, learn and study this oriental culture, but more people are more inclined to resemblance or imitation in form, so all kinds of objects I brought from the Orient have been sold for high prices that make you wake up with a smile in your dreams!

For example, the porcelain that was originally purchased and sold according to the cabin of the ship, the profit of one cabin was originally 800 to 1,000 gold coins, and even the pandemic only increased by about 50%.

And under my previous crazy momentum, the profit of each set of fine Jingdezhen porcelain reached one hundred and fifty gold coins, and this cabin must be more than three hundred sets!

My dumping caused a lot of people to be blushing, and there were quite a lot of inferior counterfeits pouring into the market, causing a brief period of confusion, and the quality management of the high and low level made consumers choose to vote with their feet.

There are also many people who think of going to the East to buy high-quality goods and pull them back for sale. But this one and then it will take half a year at the earliest, and when their fleet returns, what the popular trend will become, only God knows.

However, the news I received indicated that my uncle-in-law and Uncle Ye had left Hong Kong a month ago after receiving my news, and were now on their way to London, and were expected to arrive within a month.

My tours in Amsterdam and Copenhagen also had very good results. The human community is originally a rabble that follows the trend, not to mention that I am such a high-end pretending letter mode, very few people can avoid vulgarity.

Therefore, by the time the fleet arrived, the whole of Europe had fallen into a frenzy of Chinese culture!

The Oriental Exposition, which I co-organized with the British royal family, will be held as scheduled, which has attracted great interest and attention from the princes and nobles of neighboring countries.

Of course, I promised that 20% of the income would be paid to the British royal family as a special tax, as a concrete action to support the construction of the British Royal Navy, which is naturally a win-win thing.

In the villa, which should have been renamed Wenhai Pavilion by me and re-hung with a plaque, I held a glass of red wine and tasted it silently.

He was pleasantly surprised by the recent business situation when he knocked on the door, but I knew that he must have had doubts in his heart.

Sure enough, this guy sat down across from me, smiled and poured himself a glass of red wine, took a sip, and smiled at me: "I still like to drink the white wine of my hometown, this red wine is sweet and silky, I have never been used to drinking it." ”

I shook the glass gently and said with a smile: "It's normal to not be used to drinking, just like you can't figure out a lot of things, it's all the same." ”

Unrepentant, he immediately threw down the cup with a smile and said, "I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Qilan, there is something I haven't understood!" ”

I glanced at him and smiled, "Are you trying to ask me, why are you suddenly so interested in this business?" It takes so much effort to set the mood, right? ”

I didn't regret it and immediately slapped my thigh and said excitedly: "Yes! Right! That's the problem. Then he frowned again, shook his head slightly, and said, "But what is the reason?" ”

"Our investment was successful and we recently had another extra income, so you shouldn't be in it for the money, right?" No regrets continued to ask.

I smiled silently again, picked up the wine glass and put it in front of me, stared at the ordinary glass, and said lightly: "There is a lion in the east of the woods, but it is very sleepy. It always felt invincible in the woods, but it never thought that its bad habits would make it de facto dominant. ”

"To the west of the woods is a pack of wolves, who bite each other in their own realm, but do not understand what is going on to the east."

One day, the little lion finally discovered that the big lion had made himself weak and barren because of his long-term unhealthy life, but he didn't know it. So the lion cub decided to let the wolves know what was going on in the woods to the east, lure them over, and attack the lion. ”

He frowned and said, "But, doesn't that put the big lion in danger?" I don't quite understand the logic. ”

I shook my head with a wry smile and said lightly: "Born in sorrow, die in peace." Boiling a frog in warm water can only make the frog die peacefully, but it can't make it stronger! History...... It's history! ”

No regret seemed to understand a little, but still asked, "But how does the little lion know how history will develop?" ”

I glanced at him, pointed to the sky, and said nothing. But he secretly sighed in his heart: "Because, what I am talking about is history......