Chapter 197: Beautiful Messenger
This is all an external appearance, adapt to these, you are not a perfect modern white-collar worker, let alone progress to an international talent. You still have to get used to eating Western food, and if you can't afford it, you have to eat European and American fast food, and you can't eat any fried noodles anyway, as if IQ is influenced by restaurant signs. The most important thing is that you have to add a few English words to your usual language talk, no matter whether you have passed the second level of English, anyway, you have to bring it out, it depends on who brings more and brings it naturally, then who will look particularly fashionable, particularly classy, and especially like an international talent.
This is not enough, you also have to live Western traditional festivals and religious festivals, what Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day all have to remember and understand their ins and outs, than remember your parents' birthdays more attentively. As for whether you believe in Western religion or not, that's not a question, you have to sincerely agree and actively participate, and this is the trend of the times.
In later generations, there are often forums arguing about cents and five cents, but in fact, the person who jumps and scolds others for cents turns his head and goes to Christmas, and he agrees with European and American culture from the heart more than the real cent. Christmas or not Christmas has something to do with you? He didn't even look at you when he beat the baby Jesus, he won't look at you until he dies, and he didn't invite you to celebrate his birthday.
What is it? This is called cultural aggression, and it is a successful invasion, very successful, and the complete invasion has been completed, and it cannot be changed if you want to. It is said that China has not been completely colonized, but why it has suffered such serious cultural aggression cannot be said. Let's figure it out for ourselves. It's not too difficult. It's a person with a normal brain who can figure it out.
Get to the root of it. It is other people's things and culture that show their advanced nature and show their beautiful side. People are in pursuit of beauty, and advanced and beautiful things are easy to be accepted by people, including lifestyle. This is just like the Great Song Dynasty, it represented the advanced and beautiful at that time, so the surrounding countries all used the things of the Song Dynasty and learned the culture of the Song Dynasty as beautiful.
When someone deliberately applies this method to other countries to achieve a certain goal, it is an active cultural invasion. At present, Hong Tao is doing this intentionally or unintentionally, and this matter may be effective in five years. It is also possible that the effect will be produced in fifty years, although the time span may be very long, and there will be some price to be paid in the middle, but the effect is very, very good, much better than the effect of using strong ships and cannons to attack the city, and the cost is much lower. Once this aggression is effective, the invaded country will be very passive, and it will be irreversible if it does not hurt its muscles and bones. Even if you understand it by then, it will not help, and you can only watch this aggression go deeper and deeper. Until the foundation of the nation and the country is dug up cleanly.
"Next year, next year, there will be a Spring Festival fireworks show here. Let the people of Kabalan feel the atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty! And said to those merchants of the Great Song Dynasty that all goods during the Spring Festival were all 10% off, and the people of Kabalan were so yearning for the Great Song Dynasty that they should also express their gratitude. The Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and Jinhe Company has inherited the mantle of the Great Song Dynasty, and the exchange of etiquette is due! How he felt in his heart did not affect Hong Tao's bad water, and before the dinner was over, he began to make a trick. Optical Chinese is far from enough, and it is necessary to introduce the festivals and living habits of the Han nationality to accelerate the cultural invasion of the city. When they consciously and voluntarily live like the Great Song people, their sense of identity and cohesion will increase exponentially, and with this as the center of the circle, it will radiate to the Indian peninsula, which is a matter of course.
"That's great, the expenses are all paid by the royal family, and they have to be paid every year!" Even if Prince Taba grows three heads, he can't think of how bad Hong Tao is. In the past few years, he has money in his hands, and he has an army with good combat effectiveness, and his sphere of influence has spread all over the western part of the island of Ceylon, and he will be the king of Ceylon for a few more years, and it is not an exaggeration to call him the emperor of Ceylon. Of course, whether it is the king of Ceylon or the emperor of Ceylon, it depends on the meaning of Chairman Hong, compared with an emperor, spending some money to spend a Spring Festival is a fart.
"Come on! Cheers! Cheers to the Great Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of Ceylon, to the future of the Golden River Company and the Kingdom of Ceylon! Cheers to the friendship between our two countries for generations! "When it comes to how to shout slogans, how to shout righteousness, and how to shout highly, Hong Tao is still a leader. It is only necessary to take the diplomatic rhetoric of later generations and use it, and a hundred Hanlin cannot be made up. People here are not as shameless as the politicians of later generations, and they dare to shout anything.
Hong Salamander and Jiang Zhuyi love Kabalan Port because of its mild climate and the abundance of gemstones. Women of all ages, large and small, have a forgetful love for these colorful stones. However, Hong Tao still didn't stay here long, because his activities were very unfree, and he couldn't accompany his daughter and Jiang Zhuyi to wander around the streets, for fear of being assassinated!
The port of Kabalan is quite safe, but from a strategic point of view. Two warships equipped with artillery were anchored here, and it was for nothing that as many Arab ships came, and now Prince Taba had changed his guns, and with the Mamluks to help him train his army, even if the Arabs attacked the shore, they might not be able to stand. But it's full of Arabs, Southeast Asians, and Indians, and no one can guarantee that there will be no hatred in it.
The ancients said: When the husband is angry, the blood is shallow, and the blood is shallow. Within ten steps, everyone is the enemy country!
Is Hong Tao afraid? Must be afraid! He is not a martial arts master, and he does not have ancient cheats to cultivate and protect his body, once he is approached by the enemy, he will also be stabbed to death with one knife, and he will not be able to take two more knives because he knows more than others. Whether it's a cannon or a battleship, when the distance is far away, he is the king of the world, and when the distance is close, those things are useless, and everyone is his enemy. Not only is he carrying his own life, but he also has the future of a lot of people behind him, in other words, if he is not so important, who will care about him? This is called people in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves!
It was not only Hong Tao who couldn't help himself, but Bo Jiao also felt this way. After listening to Hong Tao's secret order for him, this guy's first reaction was not to worry about Hong Tao's safety, but to ask if he could follow Hong Tao to the Great Qin Kingdom, and he also wanted to go and see. Of course, Hong Tao will not agree to Bo Jiao to go on an adventure with him, he is a backhand left by himself, and he has a great responsibility, and Kabalan Port can't do without him for the time being, so let's stay here honestly.
At the end of August, the Jinhe, Malacca, and Zhenzhou left the port of Kabalan together and walked nearly 100 kilometers to the south. Soon, the Jinhe and the Malacca were drilled into the equatorial windless zone together, and most of the crew had experienced this kind of voyage, except for Luo Youde, Jiang Zhuyi, Hong Salamander and some midshipmen who came for the first time. So the aft deck of the Jinhe became Hong Tao's classroom, and every day after breakfast, these newcomers would listen to him in the vernacular for an hour about the geography of the world. In fact, he wanted to tell the salamander, but children like to be lively, and she can't listen to her alone, and those unlucky eggs become companions.
I can't finish so much free time just by lecturing, so what can I do? It doesn't matter, being with Hong Tao will never be without it. It's not that I'm going to Europe, I have to meet those European nobles and church people, and the intuitive feeling of meeting for the first time is very important, people are dressed and saddled, and you have to get a few sets of clothes for yourself and the two ladies to support the façade. Since it is necessary to make it, it can be made into a system and an organized system, not to say cultural aggression, this culture is not only books, languages, but also living habits, and every detail may become a weapon of the invaders.
What to wear in Europe in the thirteenth century? Hong Tao had never seen or studied it, and his impression of Europeans in the Middle Ages seemed to be wearing leggings, low-cut long skirts with skirts, wigs, and thick white powder on their faces......
"Mrs. Jiang is very beautiful, but it's a pity that there are no such clothes in my hometown, I have never seen them." When Hong Tao spent more than half a month, using silk, tulle, whale baleen, and Jiang Zhuyi as a model to make a dress, he specially found Carl to show off, but the answer was that he had never seen it. This made Hong Tao very depressed, and he and Jiang Zhuyi and his daughter blew cowhide for half a month, saying that he was so good at making clothes, and he knew more about the nobles of the Great Qin Kingdom, but Carl, a standard Great Qin person, said that he had never seen it, and his face was beaten and crackled.
"And what do the women in your cousin's court wear? Draw me and I'll see! Hong Tao was a little annoyed, he had to find some basis to endorse his cowhide.
"Old Ka, I really feel sorry for you...... O Emperor! O Queen! O nobles! Dressed not as well as the courtesans in the city of Guangzhou! Do you care that I bring beauty to your kingdom? I want all the women in Europe to become as bright and radiant as Jiang Niangzi! "Carl's ability to draw is actually not bad, the aristocracy is more advantageous in this regard, they can receive all kinds of education from a young age, and they can do everything.
But no matter how good the painting skills are, the clothes of European aristocratic women in Karl's pen are too simple, just a cotton robe, a bit like a dress but no waist, like a cylinder, at most pinch some pleats under the neckline, and then decorate it with ribbons, gold and silver ornaments. If you are attending a formal occasion, wear a robe without sleeves and collar, two pieces of cloth at the front and back, sewn at the waist or tied with a belt, and embroidered with the family crest.
Hats, no, with a piece sewn into a small pocket over the head is a hat, the difference between nobles and commoners is the quality of the fabric and the number of ornaments on it. This thing is a little familiar, it seems to be still used in later generations, and the nuns have always kept this simple headdress.
Shoes, leather shoes, but the toe is a little long, like the kind of shoes of clowns, the toe is curved upwards and warped, this is the most popular, fashionable, and high-end European aristocratic woman that Karl knows. (To be continued.) )