Subtitle of this chapter: Lao Tzu doesn't use the honorifics of Shenma

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Monday afternoon, July 18, 1921.

Yuan Yanqi, who finally received the invitation, finally took a car to the place where Di was stationed under the palace - the Imperial Japanese Legation in London.

The legation is located on :P iccadilly Str. in Westminster, a bustling area of London.

To the west of Piccadilly Street is the famous Genuine Hyde Park (New York's Hyde Park takes its name from Genuine Hyde Park) and to the east is the Piccadilly Circle underground station, which was completed in 1906. The metro line is just below this street.

In addition to the Japanese Legation, there are many famous buildings and attractions on this street.

For example, the high-end department store that began in 1707 under the Queen of Anjou, Fortnum and Mason

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For example, George III founded the Royal College of Art in 1768.

For example, the first bookstore in London began in 1797 with the Hatchards Book Store.

Seeing these historic sites with a long history and cultural significance, Yuan Yanqian couldn't help but praise in his heart, it is worthy of the empire on which the sun never sets, and it still has a bit of historical heritage.

Then he said to the people around him, "Here, here, here...... You have to plant a time bomb in advance! Fill a little more in the dosage, did you write it down? ”

"Write it down, Second Master."

The Japanese Legation is made up of three Victorian-style buildings, all four stories high. It looks quite magnificent. At least it's much more imposing than the Chinese Legation in Britain on Portland Street.

Our Master Yuan had eaten there and knew that it was a small three-story house.

However, the Japanese legation was a street-facing house, and there was no garden or anything, which made it less difficult to raid.

"Second master, it's here."

"Well, you help me out of the car."

So Yuan Yanqian's "manmaid" and "maid" helped him get out of the car with difficulty, and at a glance he saw Inoue Chengmei waiting at the door.

As soon as people saw Master Yuan, who was on crutches and even had to be supported, they couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Yuan Jun, what are you ......?"

"Inoue-kun, I fell off my horse two days ago, and now I can't even walk." Yuan Yanqian smiled bitterly and asked in an authentic Osaka-accented Japanese, "Can the two of them help me in?" ”

Inoue Narumi glanced at the baby-faced manservant who had shaved off his beard, and then at the petite and delicate cute maid, and nodded after a little groaning: "Of course you can." ”

So he led the three of them to a reception room, where there were many people, white and yellow, and of course not black.

It seems that this Di Palace, who was born in 1901 and is twenty years old, has a busy schedule.

People came to Britain on behalf of the Japanese government to maintain good relations, so naturally they can't run around as they please.

Now Yuan Yanqian can't "run" everywhere, but his baby-faced manservant and cute maid can. He brought these two to step on the spot.

In fact, there is no need to go into details, because they have the architectural drawings of the Japanese legation on hand. But there are some details that you still have to see with your own eyes to be considered insurance.

So Xiao Pohai and Gu Mengmeng took the opportunity to go to the bathroom and sneaked out for a walk.

"Second master, that drawing is very accurate, and the general orientation is exactly the same."

"Mr. Hongji, there are indeed some guards, but not too many."

Well, that's right.

Sure enough, as he expected, he could see that the guards were not very strict when these two people were wandering around the embassy.

However, it is estimated that after the "Tai Sui operation", the security level of politicians around the world will be greatly improved. From this point of view, he has also done a great thing.

Our Master Yuan waited for more than half an hour, after all, he was not an important person yet.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, it was finally his turn.

The manservant and the maid carried him to the door of the meeting room, and he limped in, with a cane in one hand and a leather bag in the other......

I saw a big boy sitting in the middle of the seat.

The twenty-one-year-old Japanese crown prince is too tender. So it looks majestic, not even old Chengdu.

In these years, Japan is bent on breaking away from Asia and joining Europe. The people in the room, including Hirohito, were also dressed in Western style, wearing the same morning gowns as their juniors.

Moreover, Yuan Yanqian is a foreigner, not a subject of Japan, and he only needs to practice Western-style etiquette.

So he tried his best to stand up straight, bowed, and said in an authentic Osaka dialect: "I see His Royal Highness Prince Di Gong." ”

The three languages of East Asia, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are probably the most "honorific" languages in the world.

For example, Emperor Syris's self-proclaimed loneliness was varied, but there was only one "E" in English. This is also the way of calling oneself in academic English, where you don't use an "I" when writing an English paper, but use an "E".

Moreover, the three languages of Chinese, Japanese and Korean have very complicated "honorific" grammar, including honorific verbs, honorific auxiliary verbs, honorific sentences, self-humble verbs, solemn words, and so on.

Yes, there are similar grammars in Chinese. For example, "come to me" has "come", "come", "come", "come......", "come", "come", There are also a lot of "X Pro".

In fact, one of the aims of the Vernacular Literary Movement was to sweep away such feudal remnants.

Later, it was a very revolutionary political party that came to power, and the top leader of this party was obviously quite accomplished in classical Chinese, but the articles published to the outside world were all white and could no longer be white.

The composition of Seris's students after the liberation was exemplified by this vernacular language. Therefore, some honorifics have become written language, which is rarely used in daily life. The other part only exists in ancient books, and except for a very small number of patients with secondary and secondary diseases, basically no one uses them.

In addition, this party stresses equality in different ways, and everyone calls each other "comrade", which is nothing more than a little trickery on the surname + name + comrade or official position. Even the literati-only "name, character, and number" have gradually been abandoned.

To put it seriously, it's useless to call this thing, and there will be no combat power bonus, but there is a "certain duke", "a certain brother" and "X seat" within the artillery party, and in the end it is not beaten by "comrades".

When it comes to going on a blind date in modern times, no one will ask like this: "Dare to ask the lady's name?" ”

People will not answer like this: "The little girl's surname is Wang, her maiden name is Erya, and the word Mary." Please ask Lang Jun up and down? (Author's note: The character 笄 is not a boudoir name, but a word similar to a man, and a word taken after a woman's adult ceremony.) Therefore, the little lady who is not married is called "waiting for the word boudoir". ）

"Under the surname Zhang, the name Tiedan, the cursive word Tom ......"

Of course, some people call it yes, the essence of the ages, and it is completely destroyed.

This question is a matter of opinion.

However, it has to be said that compared with Japan and South Korea, Seris, who has been purged by the Great Revolution, is much more equal, and it is equal in every sense.

Our Master Yuan learned Japanese using the spell of "fluent language", and it stands to reason that his language level is the same as that of a native speaker. But his old man just pretended to be confused, that is, he didn't use honorifics but used the words of his peers with a big grin.

Who called him a Serisian, and the Japanese present, including Hirohito, only thought that he was not good at Japanese.

"It turns out that you are the ...... of the two countries," the Japanese crown prince nodded in return, and then said his name in a stiff Chinese, "Mr. Yuan Yanqi." ”