There have been many times in Chinese history, but the previous ones are a little different from Chen Han's this time. In addition, Chen Ding also showed a little reluctance to be particularly Hongda.

Chan made the ceremony too grand and too arrogant, and Chen Ding felt that it would make people think that he was too anxious, which was not good. Therefore, this Zen ceremony should be more low-key, regardless of whether the people are really low-key or not, the official at least low-key, only let the vassal states send envoys to watch the ceremony, instead of the original finalized so that the monarchs of various countries can come.

Therefore, the ceremony reported to Chen Ming was quite concise. On the day of the ceremony, the emperor led the crown prince and the Chinese military minister to the Taimiao to pay homage, ascended to the throne of the Heavenly Temple, and personally awarded the jade seal of the country to the prince. The prince knelt down and issued an edict announcing the change of yuan. Then there is a series of ceremonies for the emperor to ascend the throne, the Taimiao and Sheji altars are sacrificed, and the people go to the southern suburbs to worship the heavens and the earth, and then change the auspicious clothes at the Temple of Heaven, and accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials and envoys.

The cabinet was still a little apprehensive when it handed it over, afraid that Chen Ming would show a dissatisfied attitude. As a result, Chen Ming did not say no, but asked about the year name of the coming year.

This is the rule in China, if you change an emperor, you will change the era name, and if you really extend the era name of Chengtian to 100 or 200 years, it will be a bad rule.

There are dozens of envoys of all sizes in Nanjing, from Europe to the Americas, from Africa to Tianfang, and more will arrive in the following month. The foreign envoys Chen Ding congratulated when he ascended the throne this time will be a new world record, which will far exceed the past.

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Villere, aboard a brand-new sailing ship, led a French fleet that had just landed in Ceylon. The fleet is not very powerful, but the moment it appeared at the Colombo marina, it attracted the attention of countless people.

The French envoy Villeer had enjoyed this kind of attention many times along the way, but this time the pride surging in his heart was undoubtedly stronger, because this was Ceylon, the territory of the Chinese.

In fact, the information of the new French sailing ship had already been sent to Nanjing, but for many Chinese people, it was still sensational news that the Europeans had built a sailing ship that could sail long ago.

Villere's attendants quickly found the Chinese customs officers at the port, which is now the largest city and port in Ceylon, surpassing Trincomalee, the port on the west coast of Ceylon, the military and political center of Chan Han's rule over Ceylon, more than a decade ago.

As a special envoy of France, Villeer and his entourage, who nominally carried the banner of observing the ceremony and meeting *****, were naturally welcomed by Chen Han Colombo officials. The French fleet stayed in Colombo for five days, and the supplies needed for the fleet were replenished, and the men and women waited until they had rested enough before resuming their departure.

But in the past five days, Villere's mood has gone through a huge ups and downs from pride to heaviness, as if he had done a super thrilling roller coaster.

Velaire returned to France in 1807, after spending fifteen years on a plantation in Réunion. It's just that these fifteen years of hard work did not make Villere compromise with the revolutionary party, and when he returned to France, Villeer was still incompatible with the ideas of the revolutionary party. In the past fifteen years, the revolutionary party has changed, and the low-level burghers and peasants, who had assumed the task of being the main force of the revolution, have left the revolution, and they have admired the 'fruits of the revolution' Napoleonic government as the French did for the Sun King, only for his power, not for ideas.

So in 1813, when Napoleon's situation was not good, Villeer did not hesitate to join the secret royalist group, the Knights of the Faith. However, the outcome of the war disappointed Villere, who had a great political vengeance. It's just that the east corner is lost, and the dream of the restoration of the royal party is certainly shattered, but Villere also has the support of political forces. This support was especially evident after the convergence of Britain and France, and the easing of relations between Napoleon's conquest and the royalists.

Villere's six or seven years in France were insignificant, but with the support of political power, he became mayor of Toulouse, a large city in the southwest of France, on the banks of the Garonne, between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, in the second half of 1814. It is the capital of the Haute-Garonne department and the South-Pyrenees region of France.

In the second half of this year, Villerell became the royalist representative in the Paris parliament, and was promoted to the position of special envoy, leading the French fleet and the first French sailing ship that could sail across the oceans, and went to China to repair relations between China and France.

Although on the surface his mission was to observe the ceremony, it was only on the surface. In fact, Napoleon was in dire need of resuming relations with China, even as his army fought bloody battles in North America with China's Wehrmacht and vassal armies.

From the Mediterranean to Egypt, from Egypt to Persia, the sailing yacht Nouvelle-de-France has garnered Villere's envied gaze. Don't look at the fact that the Ottomans have been able to produce sailboats for a long time, but there is still a big difference between a sailboat that wanders in the Mediterranean and a sailboat that wanders the sea. And the standard of the Persian sailing ships was not much different from that of the Ottomans.

Although there is still a big gap between France's steamship manufacturing level and China's, and it cannot be said that it can be surpassed by Britain, France is still one of the few 'powers' in the world, isn't it? This is still breaking China's monopoly on large ocean-going aircraft and sailing ships, isn't it?

Even after crossing the North Indian Ocean and landing directly at Colombo, Villeer still enjoyed the astonishment of the people here. How to say, there are many, many Chinese here, much more than the Chinese in Suez.

Then, the day after arriving in Ceylon, Villere, accompanied by his attendants and guides, stepped off the ship.

As an idealistic and aspiring politician, Villeer is very, very concerned about the situation in China, and he is not willing to let go of even the slightest bit. Ceylon is a colony of the Chinese, and further east from here is Chinese territory.

As a Frenchman who was well aware of the history of Chinese expansion, Villeer certainly did not miss the opportunity to observe Ceylon. If we compare Ceylon, Malacca, Singapore, Annam, and other places equally, and observe their economic, agricultural, and social conditions, we can have a clear understanding of China's 'dominance'. And if you compare the social development of these places with the social development of China's own country, hehe, then you can see more things.

Perhaps other diplomats don't need to bother as much as Villere, because the French government's diplomatic department has a lot of information, and they have collected many, many details over the years. It's a pity that Villeret belongs to the royalists. If Villeret had been able to conceal his 'political leanings', Napoleon's rule in France would have been overthrown countless times.

To a large extent, Villeer needs to be self-reliant, and even if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives him some Chinese intelligence, Villeer needs to put effort into analyzing it in many ways. Because what he gets is more of a big number, and a lot of the details are fragmented. This made Villeer very dissatisfied, even if China and France have severed official ties for so many years, it is impossible for France to have only some such information. But the current French government is in the shadow of Talleyrand, a revolutionary priest who has just returned to Napoleon's camp, and the rejection of the royalists is very strong. Because Talleyrand wanted to use the royalists to show his innocence to Napoleon—I, Talleyrand, had no connection with the royalists.

Accompanied by his attendants and guides, Villeer first walked around Colombo and learned a lot.

In Colombo, the Chinese and the local indigenous people get along quite well. As a Chinese-dominated city, Colombo's urban layout today is completely different from the scale it was back then.

Ceylon became a colony of the Western world in the 16th century, but the southern part of the country is fertile and humid and populous. The Sinhalese, the main ethnic group, now exceeds 2 million. In these years, Chen Han's ruling methods over Ceylon were not as sharp as those from the Nanyang region, because this place was regarded as a window to the outside world, and if the means were too sharp, it would have a negative impact. Just by not increasing the number of Sinhalese, the initial goal has been achieved.

Time was a great magician, and under Chen Han's rule, the traces that Europeans had placed on the island were quickly erased and replaced by Chinese-style architecture. Immersed in it, in addition to the natives everywhere, you feel like you've arrived in the Central Plains.

"Mr. Chen, this place is completely different from Europe, even Suez is only a little similar." Villeret sensed the powerful influence of Chen Han here, and he said to his guide.

The tour guide surnamed Chen was from the Colombo Customs, and smiled when he heard this, "Haha, Suez is the territory of the Ottomans after all." And here, it's our territory. "It's not subtle at all, but it's absolutely true.

Although the Suez Canal is in the hands of the Chinese, no Chinese will think that the canal belongs to China. The importance of the Suez Canal is undeniable, and most of the money for the construction of the canal was paid for by China, but the ownership went to the Ottomans. This young man can't figure it out.

Is this canal, which has great economic interests and military value, just flying away from China? They don't care if Istanbul will agree to develop the Suez Canal if the Ottomans don't get ownership of it. They don't care about that.

Having trained in the Navy in his early years, served in the East Indies and fought with the British in the Indian Ocean, Villeer was not without his experience of exoticism. But his footsteps are still more limited to the Western world, the Caribbean and the Americas, that is the Western world, isn't it? Then he stayed in Réunion for fifteen years, and Villeret had seen a lot of Oriental people, but he really had never seen the rich oriental buildings and oriental cities.

It was not the first time he had left Europe, but it was the first time he had stepped out of the Western world in the true sense of the word, and had come to a place outside the world of monotheism. The style of the heavenly world does not make him nostalgic, but the Chinese style contained in it makes his heart beat wildly. Those ports are not Chinese, they belong to China's ports of Port Sudan and Aden, and Villeer did not stop, he sailed directly through the entire Red Sea after setting sail from the port of Suez.

When passing by Port Sudan and Port Aden, he only glanced at it from a distance, but found that although there were some high-rise buildings with simple lines and geometric sense on the periphery of these cities, what attracted his eyes more were the dome with a pointed building, as well as many European-style buildings, which were almost no different from the Tianfang Port he had experienced before.

He then docked at the port of Persia, which was no different from the style he had seen in Alexandria, with traditional celestial architecture and a mixture of European and Chinese styles, and it was only when he arrived in Colombo that he saw Oriental architecture as the dominant style for the first time.

This is because the culture of the locals of Ceylon is too weak.

Although there was a long, long time ago in this place, there were several faults in the middle, especially the two hundred years since the arrival of Europeans, which is simply a retrograde two hundred years. Therefore, in Colombo, where Chinese architecture is overwhelmingly predominant, the Chinese officials do not need to worry about the protests of the local indigenous people. Unlike places like Port Sudan and Port Aden, the local natives are not as peaceful as the Sinhalese. In that kind of place where the strength of faith is strong, Chen Han must also give three points of face.

Moreover, as an open port city, there are many properties purchased by European businessmen, no matter which country those Europeans belong to, as long as they do not violate Chen Han's laws, they can take root wherever they buy real estate. This makes Port Sudan and Port Aden even more complex.

Colombo, on the other hand, has weak religious and cultural elements, especially after the complete shaving of monotheism and Western culture. The arrival of Chen Han has poured a lot of Chinese culture and elements into this place, not to mention anything else, only faith here. Later Sri Lanka was the world of Theravada Buddhism, just like Burma, Annam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. But now there are a large number of people here who believe in Mahayana Buddhism, or Han Buddhism. Therefore, the locals did not have the intention to protest against Chen Han at all, and as a result, Colombo is not only full of Chinese-style buildings, but also managed according to Chinese rules 100%. The whole city is not only clean, but also quite harmonious.

In a fast-growing port city, the inhabitants are either predominantly Chinese or merchants from different places, and these people don't bother to change the architectural style of their shop fronts.

Needless to say, the Chinese occupy more than eighty percent of the commercial share in Colombo, and can be said to be the dominant force in commerce. The rest of the businessmen naturally have abundant wealth, but these people are very acquainted, and they know that Chen Han's laws are relatively equal, and the specifications for foreigners seem to be a little heavier, and there is a little 'discrimination', but they can bear that 'one point'.

It's a much fairer society.

The character of the Chinese also makes them not look at the sky as soon as they gain power, and treat foreigners gently and politely, at least they will not be as discriminatory and oppressive as the white race. But at the same time, you have to be aware of yourself.

Is there any use in transforming one's nest into a very national one? That will only remind the surrounding Chinese all the time, and remind the owner of the city that you are just an outsider. The end result may not be gradual isolation, but it will always make people feel that you are an outsider and that it will be difficult to integrate into Colombo society......

Why bother?

Thinking about the Chinese who ran to Nanyang and went to Europe and the United States to seek a life after the original time and space two crows, they probably thought the same way. In a society dominated by outsiders, it is not good to be too 'other'.

Even those few people in China are not making great strides in sinicization?