Her Majesty's decision perfectly solves this problem......

There are actually other additions.

So when the French envoy Kebel was taken to the Wuying Hall by He Tengjiao, not only was he arranged to be five zhang away from the empress, but the latter even turned on the water and air conditioner used in the summer, but he didn't pour water on the straw inside, but the huge fan was still rotating and constantly blowing the wind on Kebel......

The latter turned a blind eye.

I guess he is also self-aware.

Even if he insists on not bathing because of his faith, he or the French know the smell of his body, otherwise he would not have spilled perfume and flocked to this thing.

But the product of the mixture of perfume and body odor is even more outrageous!

Perfume can indeed cover up.

But perfume can't hide the smell brewed for more than ten or even decades! In other words, a bottle of rose essential oil poured into the septic tank may not be of any use! This thing is just a kind of self-hypnosis, I spill perfume, and my smell is not smelled by others! I'm so fragrant! And the fact is that it is a mixture of two smells, for Daming, who has been accustomed to taking a bath every day, and even soap has been popular for many years, it is really better to stand in the toilet. In other words, the palace has long been popular in places like the flush toilet, and the toilet is really cleaner than the Palace of Versailles, at least even if there is not a puddle of urine in the corner of the toilet, and no one will squat behind the door and can't wait to start solving the problem of grain reincarnation.

Kebel ignored the frightened faces of the ladies and the Rite Book who ran to his upper hand.

Even if he knew why.

He knelt down and kowtowed somewhat stiffly.

"Your Majesty the Empress, please allow the contemptible representative of the King of France, King Louis of Navarre. Dieudonnay. Your Majesty Bourbon, I convey to you his credentials and respects, as well as the gifts he has given you! ”

He said.

The entourage behind him held the national letter and gifts.

"There is a messenger of labor, flat!"

Her Majesty said slowly sixteen paces away.

Yang Qing re-defined a lot of weights and measures, including the standard concept of steps, one step is one meter, but at present, it is only a unit of distance, and five hundred steps is stipulated as one mile. The unit of length is still the size of the zhang, after all, this unit is closely related to the lives of ordinary people, and rash changes will cause confusion, but it is only re-clarified with legal standards.

The palace maid took the gift and the national letter, and then stepped aside.

"Your monarch is in a distant place, can still not forget the sincerity of thousands of miles, I am very relieved, France is the head of the Taixi countries, non-British and Dutch small countries can be compared, Louis inherited the ancestral industry to be assisted by the virtuous, so that the country and the people are safe, I should also be Jiazhi, give the king of France a hundred brocade horses, a hundred bottles of perfume, a hundred catties of tea, and a hundred pieces of official kiln porcelain."

Her Majesty said.

For Louis, there is no need to give any gold seal crowns.

These affordable things are the most important.

Ming official kiln porcelain, tribute tea, court silk fabrics, and, of course, perfumes, these will lead French and even European fashion in the hands of Louis, and then make Europeans more coveted these things.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Kebel said with some excitement.

These were the things they most desired, and the transportation of these gifts to Europe alone would almost recoup the cost of the voyage.

Of course, not including the gifts they give.

In fact, Mazarin's gifts to Her Majesty the Empress, or to Her Royal Highness the Princess Regent, were no worse than those of the British, including famous horses, jewelry, and even a large bag of cocoa beans. However, at this time, the French did not enjoy much of the dividends of the great voyage, because their overseas colonization was just beginning, and they only occupied Quebec in the Americas, and the colonization of South America was not successful in the resistance of the Portuguese. Of course, this is not to say that the French have no money, in fact, they have sufficient financial resources, France is currently the only country in Europe with a population of more than 10 million, and it is approaching the level of 20 million, and it has the richest land. In the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, when German blood was almost drained, and after Prince Condé kicked the once-rampant Spanish phalanx into the dustbin of history at the Battle of Rocrois, France has become the dominant player on European soil, at least for now.

The latter is the last exciting battle in the movie Mercenary Saga.

Of course, just a simplified version.

After all, the Spaniards have limited funds.

And the advantage of strength means that the French can get the plunder income, and others have worked hard to go to the colonies to overcome the difficulties, and the French only need to defeat these guys on European land and force them to pay for it. Historically, they would soon have forced Spain to sign the Treaty of the Pyrenees, in which the latter would not only have to marry the princess to Louis, but also have to pay reparations......

Uh, it's a dowry.

This is definitely not a land reparation.

This treaty put an end to Spain's position as the dominant city on European land.

Spain retreated to the second rate.

This is the end of the short audience, and then Kebel was taken out of the Wuying Hall by the Protector, and the latter will be responsible for talking to him about dry goods next, but after the Protector walked out of the Wuying Palace, he still heard the laughter of Her Majesty the Empress behind him with his unusual hearing.

"Your Excellency?"

Kebel looked back at the protector with a smile on his face.

"Ah, Your Excellency the Special Envoy!"

Yang Qing turned around and said with a warm smile.

Then he glanced at the pile of flowers on Kirbel, and the lace-covered hakames, and the white lace that bloomed like lilies on the cuffs, and of course the smooth and tight white silk on the calves, the wig on his head, and the flamboyant feathers on his hat......

Well, there's a bow on the shoe!

Anyway, it's rare that Her Majesty the Empress can endure to laugh until now.

"Is this the most popular in Europe at the moment?"

Yang Qing said curiously.

"Yes, Your Excellency Duke, if it weren't for the presence of Her Majesty the Empress, I would be more accustomed to wearing a sword!"

Kerber said.

"This must be explained, if it is not for the guards, the saber to the palace is the highest honor, and at present, except for me and King Qin, no one has obtained the qualification to go to the temple with the sword. Also, if you are invited to be a guest, don't wear a sword, otherwise it will be considered offensive, but it doesn't matter if I invite you, I have always respected the traditions of others. ”

Yang Qing said very simply in French.

"His Excellency the Duke's French is as contemptible as if he had returned to Paris!"

Kerber said.

"I'm a very talented person, I can learn any language I want to learn very quickly, we had a punitive operation against the Dutch East India Company, and captured the governor they had set up in Taiwan that they had stolen before, this man is from France, and he is teaching French."

Yang Qing said.

Francois. Governor Cuarón was indeed teaching French in the Broika.

But as a white slave.

The poor governor had no money to ransom him back for so many years, and in the end he could only choose to join the Ming slave and become a glorious white slave of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Excellency the Duke, I'm very sorry, this is our negligence, after we go back, we will sternly warn those East India Company employees in the country, if they dare to participate in the piracy of the Ming Dynasty, even if they return to France, we will hang them."

Kirbel said without hesitation.

The Lord Protector still had to put up with the smell on his body, but it was not a big deal, because the Lord Protector brought out something more resistant. What's the big deal about body odor? What's the big deal with the horrible smell of perfume and stinky mixing? As soon as I came out, all of them were defeated and retreated, and the Lord Protector kept smearing the panacea on his nose in the cold winter wind, and at the same time led the French envoy to his office, and there was a panic everywhere he passed. Those palace maids who instinctively pounced forward when they saw him fled in front of the big killer of Kebel, and I have to say that he is still very useful.

The two quickly walked into Yang Qing's office together and sat down, and then as the door closed, the smell of Kebel's body was crazily simmering in the warm air, and Yang Qing kept applying panacea to resist the last line of defense......

"Your Excellency the Special Envoy, I don't like nonsense, first of all, there is no need to talk about the commercial issues between our two countries, the treatment enjoyed by the British and the Dutch, the same as the French merchant ships, there will be no difference in this, how to come is your business, but as long as you come to Daming, it will be the same as the merchants of other countries."

Yang Qing said.

"Thank you very much for your friendship."

Kerber said.

He already knew that.

"Of course, you must obey what the British and Dutch must obey."

Yang Qing said.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, we will not do anything that violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and likewise we will not do anything other than trade."

Kerber said.

He knew that too.

Proselytizing is strictly forbidden here.

"Very well, then let's talk about something bigger in the long term."

Yang Qing nodded with satisfaction.

Then he took the globe next to it, of course, it was not a complete version, and what the Europeans had not discovered at this time would not be on this globe, it was only in the secret room of the staff headquarters and the palace, and it would not be taken out unless it was needed. He turned the globe a little, then pointed to Nanking above and began to draw the route of Corbel with his finger, whose gaze followed his finger while providing some corrections, and so on all the way to Paris.

"It's been a long journey!"

Yang Qing said with emotion.

"Your Excellency, for the sake of our friendship!"

Kerber said.

"But why not make it simpler, say just go like this?"

Yang Qing said as he drew a picture of the future location of the Suez Canal.

"Your Excellency, the ship can't sail on land."

Kirbel said cautiously.

"What if there was a river?"

Yang Qing said.

"But there's no river there."

Kerber said.

"Then dig one! Why do we have to travel 30,000 miles to avoid this only 300 miles of land? Isn't it worth digging a canal for this? There are no high mountains, no forests, and even the land there is soft sand that is easy to dig. Maybe you don't know that our longest canal is 3,000 miles long, and this canal needs to go through all kinds of dangers along the way, but we still complete it and make good use of it, so is it difficult to have a 300-mile canal? ”

Yang Qing said.

"Your achievements are amazing, and there is absolutely no doubt that your country is capable of digging a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but, Lord Duke, you should know that it was the Ottomans."

Kirbel said quickly.

He came along the canal in Ningbo on a naval communication ship, knowing of course that China had a canal that ran north and south, and that the length he had traveled alone exceeded the length needed to be dug to connect the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. He really didn't have any doubts about the manpower and technology of the Ming Dynasty digging this canal, but that place was not the Ming Dynasty, which was not only thousands of miles away, but also in the hands of the most terrible enemy in Europe at this time. This was not even the time when the Ottomans defeated Vienna, and the Ottoman Empire was still in a period of expansion, and it was not until thirty years later that the defeat of Vienna ended its aggressive expansion on the European continent.

"Then that's our next question."

Yang Qing said with a smile.

"I don't like the Ottomans, and I think everyone in the Ottoman Empire should be burned at the stake in the same way you did with witches in order to purify the world. So are you, or the knights of Europe, interested in organizing another crusade? ”

He said.

His purpose......

Uh, he has no purpose.

He was just bragging, Louis couldn't be so stupid, the enemy of the Bourbons was the Habsburgs and not the Ottoman Sultan, and the result of France's attack on Egypt was to let the Ottoman Sultan, who was backstabbing the Habsburgs, vent his anger at him. The advantage of the port of Marseille did not make up for Louis's regret that he could not see the bad luck of the Habsburgs, and France had no advantage in the Mediterranean. Again, the British would not do such a stupid thing, because they and the Dutch, the maritime powers, had control of the maritime trade in the East, but if they really dug a Suez Canal, the control of maritime trade would be transferred back to the Mediterranean countries.

Spring is back for the Venetians.

They were not dead, they were still at war with the Ottomans, they still had to fight in Crete for more than ten years, and in fact the Venetians were in full decline until the eighteenth century.

The Spaniards are dead in the spring.

They will easily regain control of maritime trade by virtue of their geographical advantage.

The British and the Dutch?

They passed through Gibraltar first.

But......

There will always be someone who will be tempted.

As long as the publicity was sufficient, Venice, Genoa, Genoa's father Spain, and of course Austria, Trieste and Rijeka, which the Habsburgs still rule, were of course eager to bring the war to the rear of the Ottomans. If this canal can be used to mobilize the greed of these guys who have been pushed to the edge of the times and have no chance of maritime trade and colonial dividends, will there be another crusade?

That would be very pleasant.

As for Yang Qing, he didn't lose anything, he was just bragging about it, bragging and not paying taxes, if a new crusader set foot in Egypt, he would be very happy to cooperate with these warriors to purify the world. ()

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