This period corresponds to the eighteenth century in Europe.

At this time, the maritime supremacy of Europe, Portugal and Spain, had all declined and was replaced by Britain.

The Industrial Revolution in Britain had begun, and Watt had improved the steam engine.

But on the European continent, France was still the hegemon of Europe and was just beginning the Industrial Revolution.

Culturally, the Enlightenment began in France, and masters such as Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu have emerged.

Literally, the French comedy at this time was relatively successful, and the salon culture was popular. There doesn't seem to be a very outstanding achievement in poetry.

However, with the spread of missionaries, classical Chinese poetry, such as the Book of Songs, was translated by missionaries and began to spread in Europe.

In terms of court dance, the court dance of France is also dominated by minuet.

At this time, the waltz was only a peasant dance in the Austrian countryside.

It was still thirty or forty years before Strauss Sr. and Strauss Jr. composed the changed waltzes.

In other words, waltzes such as "The Blue Danube" and "Song of Spring", which later swept the European courts, did not appear until thirty or forty years later.

Jia Min's goal is to take Baochai and others to break into the European court society.

Since France was the hegemon of Europe at this time, French, with its beautiful intonation and rigorous grammar, became the lingua franca of the European upper class.

Jia Min asked Baochai to learn French with Mr. and Mrs. Cervante in order to obtain a pass into European high society.

However, language is still just a tool, it can only solve the problem of communication and communication.

To establish itself there, and to be eye-catching, you need to have something unique.

Jia Min prepared two moves.

One move is classical Chinese poetry.

Although Jia Min knew French and English, he was not good at translating classical poetry into French.

can barely translate, but Chinese poetry is the most particular about artistic conception, and it is difficult for him to translate that artistic conception.

Fortunately, when he was learning French before, he had memorized some French poems, including some classical Chinese poems, and asked Mr. Cervante to polish them, and he could barely cope with them.

As for Baochai and Miaoyu, their poetic attainments are okay, but if they are asked to translate poetry, it will really make it difficult for them.

That's okay, though.

It really can't be copied, and copying a few later French poems, such as the poems of Hugo and Muse fifty or sixty years later, is enough to shock the world.

Another big move was the waltz dance that swept the European courts and high society fifty or sixty years later.

Decades in advance, bringing this waltz to Europe became a killer feature to break into European high society.

This trick can't even help the Cervantes, so they can only rely on Jia Min himself.

Dancing kung fu, Jia Min is still good. Dance music can also be memorized.

Now what he needs to do is to compose the melody in his heart into a tune.

This will be done after getting to Europe.

The composer Jia Min didn't understand either, and Shen Bingyi's silk and bamboo team could only hum a melody.

However, it is enough to have this melody. Tell Baochai that they learn to dance, and that's it.

It's easy to get Baochai and Miaoyu to go to France, but it's even harder to get them to dance.

They are all beautiful women, and in this era, dancing is only the preserve of geisha.

Geisha are regarded as the ninth class, and in fact, they are despised by everyone's ladies.

That's why Miaoyu has the idea of calling them geisha.

"That's one of the reasons I'm going to take you to France."

Jia Min had to provide them with psychological counseling, persuasion and education.

"In the eyes of our Han people, geisha is the lower ninth rate, and it seems that dance is also the lower ninth rate. However, in France, this is not the case. The emperors, empresses, princes and ministers, civil and military officials, men and women, must be able to dance. Only those who can't dance are considered to be ninth-rate. ”

"You can ask Mr. and Mrs. Sevante about this, and they can tell you."

"Fourth Master Min, don't ask, Mrs. Sevante once told us that this is indeed the case."

Alas, at the critical moment, it's better to be peaceful. In the end, Ping'er is the closest to me.

Since Mrs. Cervante had told them all, they didn't squeak at this time, and blindly pretended to be stupid.

Hmph, little one, at this time, you are still playing tricks with me, and see how I will train you in the future.

"Besides, my biological mother is also a geisha, and Bingyi is also a geisha, so where is she cheap?"

These so-called ladies are full of rotten feudal ideas and prejudices, and they have to reform their minds.

"Fourth Brother Min, we don't look down on them, you should understand what we mean, it's really ...... to ask us to dance."

"Why can't you dance? It's not an act, it's not a showmanship, I can dance, why can't you? ”

"What, Fourth Master Min, you also dance?"

Ping'er was so surprised that she almost dropped the child in her arms to the ground.

"Fourth master, it's so hard that you have sold yourself before? Ah, no, have you ever sold art? ”

The heartless and angry Qingwen was even more surprised.

This damn Qingwen, if you don't speak, you can be sold as a dumb person?

Jia Min still wanted to say, but he saw the surprised and contemptuous eyes of the women.

"Qingwen, don't talk nonsense, even if the fourth master has sold it, it is forced, do you say yes, fourth master."

Ping'er spoke for Jia Min again.

Jia Min wanted to hit his head against the wall.

My stupid Ping'er, you don't have to do any help, okay.

"Don't speculate, I've never sold myself, ah, no, I've never sold my art."

"And how do you know how to dance?"

Miaoyu was in hot pursuit.

"Naturally, I learned it in a dance class."

"What is a dance troupe? Is it a dancing troupe? You still say that you haven't sold art, you have gone to the rivers and lakes, and you still say that you haven't sold it? ”

Oh my God, tell these women to open their minds.

No, you can't talk about it like this, let them bring the rhythm, and my traverser will have to ask them to uncover it.

"Fourth Master, what kind of dance do you want us to dance?"

Or Ping'er came out in time to relieve Jia Min.

"It's called a waltz."

"What kind of dance is this waltz? Never heard of it. Sister Bao, you are well-informed, have you heard of it? ”

Miaoyu is in trouble again.

"I've only heard of "The Dance of the Neon Clothes and Feathers", "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", "The Drunken Concubine" and the like, but I have never heard of this waltz."

"Bingyi, you know how to dance, have you heard of it?"

It's still Miaoyu's thorn head.

"Tell me the truth, I haven't heard of it."

"Even if we wanted to jump, no one would teach us?"

Miaoyu finally found a reason.

"Well, I can teach you."

"You teach us? Fourth master, you teach us to dance by a man? Fourth master, aren't you ashamed? ”

Damn Qingwen, what's the shame of teaching people to dance?

"There's no way to be ashamed, except for me, no one in this world can dance like this."

"Fourth Brother Min, it's not right for you to say that, just now you said that you learned it in the dance team, why is it that after such a while, no one else knows it?"

Miaoyu, who owes the beating, can't you use your little cleverness elsewhere, how do you know how to drill the horns here.

"I'll tell you the truth, I realized this dance myself. By the time you jump on it, within two days, you'll definitely be addicted. ”

"If you are addicted or not, let's not talk about it for now. Tell me, how do you dance this waltz, and how is it different from other dances? ”

"Well, the biggest difference is that there is a man and a woman, two people are jumping in their arms."

As soon as Jia Min said this, the room immediately became silent.

Jia Min knew that this touched their sensitive nerves again.

However, at this time, he could not care about so much. The long pain is not as good as the short pain, and it is better to hand over the old bottom to them at once, so as to save the discomfort of scraping one by one.

"Come, Bingyi, let's show everyone, it's very simple, just teach it."

Jia Min didn't care whether Shen Bingyi was willing or not, so he went to pull her over.

grabbed her hand, hugged her little waist, and put Shen Bingyi's hand on his shoulder, and tried to walk a few steps.

Although Shen Bingyi was born as a geisha, he was also stunned by this posture, and before he took two steps, his face was flushed with shame, and he just broke free.

"That's how it works. When the time comes, it will be a man and a woman, and they will partner casually. ”

"Fourth Master Min, do you mean that anyone can jump with anyone?"

"Yes, even if you don't know each other, you can dance together. Sometimes there are more people, sometimes there are fewer people. When there are a dozen people, sometimes hundreds of people, they just dance together. ”

The women stayed for a while before they reacted.

Miaoyu was the first to start.

"Fourth Brother Min, isn't this a kiss between men and women?"

Next up is Baochai.

"Fourth Brother Min, isn't this a prostitution and theft?"

This time it's Daiyu.

"Fourth Master Min, isn't this immoral?"

"Fourth Master Min, isn't this impolite and shameless?"

Naturally, Qingwen is indispensable.

"Fourth Master Min, if you are your own lady and ask others to hug you like this, can your husband be happy?"

Ping'er finally asked a more substantive question.

"Most of the time, it's happy. The customs of Westerners are different from ours. The more men like his own lady, the happier he is. ”

"Fourth Brother Min, you're telling a lie, what man would like someone to wear that ...... for himself, well, a hat of that color?"

Miaoyu finally didn't say the word "green hat".

"This is ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs, Lamei Blossoms, aren't they different from our Han people? It's all the same thing. ”

"Isn't there a man who is jealous?"

If she didn't speak, she wouldn't seem to be able to live.

"Of course there are."

"What then?"

"Duel."

"How to duel?"

"One person takes a sword, or one person takes a firebolt and shoots at each other, and whoever dies is unlucky."

"Fourth Brother Min, let me ask one last question, aren't you afraid that we will cuckold you if you ask us to dance like this with a strange man?"

Miaoyu finally said the "green hat".

"Miaoyu, I'll ask you one last thing."

"What words? You said. ”

"Can you die if you don't speak?"

"I can die!"

Miaoyu answered categorically.