Chen Longzheng had reason to be entitled to maintain his pride, not only himself, but also the Genoese, who had been put into the collection of the Doge of Genoa after Chen Longzheng had demonstrated "the mysterious and elegant art of China", and it was not known when it would be made public.

However, the governor of Genoa took his passion for Chen Longzheng to a higher level and invited Chen Longzheng to take a car tour of Genoa with him.

This is what Chen Longzheng likes, so Chen Longzheng did not refuse, and readily agreed, he thought that he would see a lot of novel things, but what he saw made him very disappointed.

The city was small, dilapidated, and dirty, which was his first intuitive impression of Europe.

There were very few people, he thought he saw a lot of people in the port, thought that there were as many Europeans as there were Chinese, thought that there were crowds of people everywhere, but when he really began to visit this city, which is known as the most prosperous and wealthy city in Europe, he was disappointed to find that except for the Governor's Palace and some very characteristic buildings around it, most of the buildings were low and dilapidated, and more importantly, there were few people.

It seems that the people gathered in the port are all the population, there don't seem to be a few people in the city now, and many people can be seen on both sides of the road before, but after walking a distance, it is like entering a no-man's land, and the smell is very bad, there is a strange smell, this smell he has smelled in some countryside of Daming, that is what farmers have to do in order to fertilize, human manure and urine are fertilizer, used for farming.

But this is in the city, the city of Daming has very strict hygiene requirements, if you dare to defecate on the street, you will be caught by the government to take off your pants and hit the board, see if you dare to defecate anywhere, maybe this situation still happens in some dark alleys, but at least pedestrians on both sides of the road can see the place where they can't see feces and urine.

However, in this city, you can see feces and urine on the side of the road, and even Chen Longzheng witnessed several children squatting together to defecate, and then laughing and running away.

He was a little sick to his stomach and a little urge to throw up.

In Myanmar, when Xiao Ruxun planned the city, he planned and designed a facility called "public toilet" in many corners of the city, and forcibly stipulated that citizens and outsiders must go to these places to solve the problem of defecation and defecation, otherwise they will be caught by the government and fined by the board, and the number of fines is quite a lot.

Because of the smell problem, Xiao Ruxun will arrange for people to burn some herbs that have the effect of repelling odor and insects twice a day, and then before sunset every day, someone will pull the human feces and urine in the public toilet out of the city and send it to the farmers to hand it over to the farmers, so that the farmers can dry it and mix it with the grass and use it as fertilizer.

Therefore, in the cities of Burma, you can't smell that kind of stench, so when you leave the aristocratic area and enter the civilian quarters, Chen Longzheng is very uncomfortable, and he asks the governor of Genoa very incomprehensibly, why don't you go and dispose of this excrement? Not only does it smell bad and it doesn't look good when placed on the side of the road, but it's also easy to get infectious diseases!

The Governor of Genoa looked at Chen Longzheng in confusion and explained—isn't this a normal thing? If you go to any city to see, it's like this, which is good, because it's the capital, there are some regulations, you have to go to some small cities to see, and we can't stand the smell!

Chen Longzheng was shocked - then why don't you deal with it?

The Governor of Genoa looked confused - how to deal with it? Is this a normal thing?

Matteo Ricci couldn't stand it anymore, and quickly pulled Chen Longzheng's sleeve - don't say it, there are such European cities here, there are not as many people as you Daming, so there is less feces and urine, and no one wants to deal with it, it has always been like this, I can't eat enough, so do you still have the heart to care about this? Do you think every city is Yangon?

Matteo Ricci was actually a little unbearable, and after living in Daming and Burma for many years, he was no longer very used to the smell of the smell that he had been very used to.

Chen Longzheng can only breathe normally after returning to the aristocratic area, he was dizzy and dizzy from the smell just now, almost fainted, and then he didn't want to travel to other places after he was killed, and then the recruitment of talents was Matteo Ricci went out to run before and after contact, and then brought it to Chen Longzheng to see, Chen Longzheng felt that he met Xiao Ruxun's requirements after the interview, so he asked him if he was willing to go to China to live and work.

Most of them agreed directly, and a few seemed to have some doubts, so they didn't dare to agree, after all, it was too far, although the legend was very wonderful, but the people who had the courage to go to China by sea were basically the kind that were alone and had no worries, and the whole family was not hungry, and the salary given by China sounded very good, so someone decided to take a gamble to see.

Chen Longzheng received one or twenty invitations every day, inviting him to go to the nobles' homes for banquets, and as time went by, the news of the arrival of the Chinese in Genoa spread from Genoa to the surrounding areas, the Duchy of Milan knew, the Pope knew, and even the French farther afield, and they took action and sent people to Genoa to see the Chinese and ask if there was any possibility of cooperation in business.

They did not know what the purpose of the Chinese arrived in Genoa, but they also had some sources of gossip that the Chinese seemed to intend to establish a trade partnership with Genoa, to do business with Genoa, to sell Chinese silk, porcelain, tea, and so on.

Such news was enough to make these people blush and go crazy, everyone knew how profitable the porcelain, tea and silk business was, how could the Genoese have such benefits to themselves? Everyone wants to get a piece of the pie! Representatives of the central government, merchants, feudal lords and nobles rushed to Genoa to meet the Chinese.

As for the Pope's side, there are more ideas - it is said that this time the missionary Matteo Ricci sent by the Holy See also returned with the Chinese, Matteo Ricci seems to have climbed a high-ranking official on the Chinese side, so he was sent back as a translator, and the Pope was extremely interested in this matter, and wanted to know the real situation of the mission in China and the future development prospects, so he directly sent the senior officials of the church to Genoa to meet Chen Longzheng and Matteo Ricci.