In the Jinling Theater, a 'Peking Opera' representing China's advanced and highest level of drama is being staged.

The scene of the four major Hui classes entering Beijing did not appear in Beijing, but appeared in Nanjing.

Chen Ming recruited all of them into the national troupe.

Coupled with his 'drama blindness', 'Peking Opera' has appeared in Chinese mainland for more than ten years, although the taste is a little different from the Peking Opera in the previous life. After all, 'Mandarin' is different.

Looking at the soft dancing on the stage, as well as the singing voice that is very different from Western opera, although Yegor Gaidar can't understand any sentence of the lines, even any word, but he is from an aristocratic background and has a certain cultural literacy, he also feels pleasing to the eye, and he can see that his eyebrows are flying.

It has been more than half a month since Yegor Gaidar came to China, and in this short period of time he has traveled to the two prosperous and wealthy Chinese cities of Shanghai and Nanjing, and has seen what a commercial area is, what an industrial area is, and what is called a residential area. I visited primary schools, middle schools, colleges, universities, and even schools for the deaf and dumb and charitable welfare organizations, visited the military base on Chongming Island, visited the boy boy camp, and saw the hospitals and the sea and land garrisons in Wusongkou, Shanghai.

Whether it is Nanjing or Shanghai, the wide, tidy and lively urban streets, the clean and bright public hospitals, and the vast and beautiful university teaching area like a garden all make Yegor Gaidar and others deeply envious. Stockholm and St. Petersburg at this time are as reminiscent as two sprawling slums.

Compulsory education in Shanghai and Nanjing has been in place for several years, and the number of schools and students here is beyond Yegor Gaidar's imagination. So much so that Yegor Gaidar would think in his boredom that there are more people in any city in Nanjing and Shanghai who can read and write than in the whole of Russia.

You must know that although the top aristocrats of Russia pursued the elegance of France, many of the middle and lower aristocrats of Russia were illiterate and illiterate, let alone the low-level citizens and serfs.

In today's Russia, under the promotion of education by Catherine II for many years, the number of high schools in Russia still does not exceed 300, and the total number of high school students in Russia is only 50,000 or 60,000, and the number of higher education is even smaller.

The literacy rate of the Russians was only really increased during the time of the Red Russian Empire.

And now there are still 120 years before the collapse of the Tsarist Empire. In Russia in this era, there were really not many people who could read and write.

It's just that God favors the Russians, and among those who may have a total number of tens of thousands, a large number of top international talents have emerged, and they will continue to emerge in the following hundred years.

Although the overall cultural level of Russia is far from that of Britain, France, and Austria, there are also Slavs at the top of the scientific community in the 19th/20th centuries.

Yegor Gaidar didn't think of this at the moment, and what he saw stimulated him too much, and unconsciously, he looked at the problem at the overall level.

The more I look at it, the more I feel that the gap between Russia and China is too big.

In the magnificent industrial area, tall chimneys spew black smoke into the sky, like a terrifying devil descending from the sky; There are street lamps and iron garbage cans in the streets and alleys, but no one steals them, which is unthinkable in Russia; The intricate cobweb-like traffic tracks, the public carriages and railcars that rush to and fro seem to stop for a moment. In the eyes of Yegor Gaidar, it was as if Russia was not in the same world.

There are also the huge steam cranes and tower cranes in the neat docks, the super-large spinning mills that work more than the population of a small Russian city, and the red-hot molten iron smelted in a furnace......

Visiting the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing can only make them feel the richness of China; However, after visiting the industrial areas of Chinese cities, both the Swedes and the accompanying Russians were amazed and at the same time could appreciate the huge gap between them.

From beginning to end, Yegor Gaidar was silent about this scene, which symbolized the great industrial power.

But he knew in his heart that after all the first-line steel bases in the Ural Mountains, where Russian industry was most concentrated, were all brought together, the number of workers would not be comparable to any of them here.

Although Shanghai and Nanjing are also very important cities in China, their industrial zones must also occupy a pivotal position in China's industrial sector.

The Chinese diplomatic service was always negotiating with the Swedes, and Yegor Gaidar was the count of St. Petersburg, but it was useless. China's Foreign Ministry is not at all in contact with him.

Instead, he was arranged to do 'tours' in China again and again. I heard that soon after, the Chinese were going to take him across the Yangtze River to a city called Yangzhou, which has been prosperous for more than a thousand years in Chinese history, and has a very ancient Chinese taste.

And there are also Suzhou and Hangzhou, the 'paradise land' of the Chinese.

The ancients of the Song Dynasty in China must have been unaware of the special meaning of 'heaven', a word that was almost associated with monotheism in later generations.

This can only be described as an ingenious coincidence in translation.

When Chinese are engaged in translation, they always compare the best words and vocabulary with foreign languages.

'Paradise' is an example of this.

When Yegor Gaidar first heard about the fame of Suzhou and Hangzhou, although he had an important responsibility, there was still a flash of longing in his eyes. What kind of beauty can make the rich and proud Chinese so admired for thousands of years?

Especially when you know that these two beautiful cities have a long history that St. Petersburg can't imagine - that's 2,000 years.

Yegor Gaidar was mourning for his colleagues in his 'hometown'.

In Europe, rumors have long circulated that the Chinese are clean and tidy, and the Chinese cities are beautiful and spotless.

Jinghai, Singapore, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Shanghai ......, cleanliness has become a mark of Chinese, just like 'porcelain'.

The names of these coastal port cities are now familiar to millions of Europeans. Even some Europeans who returned to Europe would bring back pictures of these cities, which included the contributions of both European painters and Chinese New School painters.

Most Russian officials, however, are adamant that China's urban environment in coastal ports is a side project. And what Yegor Gaidar sees now, all the cities of the country are like this. Although when they came to Nanjing from Shanghai, they only stopped at Nantong and Zhenjiang on the way, and Yegor Gaidar and the others all stayed on the ship, and did not run off the boat to play.

However, they all have eyes, and they all have telescopes in their hands, and their eyes will tell them that what they see in Shanghai is clean and tidy, not fake, but the most ordinary scenery in this country.

China's strong national power permeates these beautiful towns, the small ports and wharves they pass along the way, the villages and towns along the river, and the cities of Jiangyin and Zhangjiagang. The arrogant pride of the Chinese really does not come from nothing.

Therefore, it is absolutely undesirable to take a tough stance towards Russia's current prayers for peace. Being able to draw boundaries with the Chinese according to each other's areas of control seems to be a great victory.

Yegor Gaidar knew that St. Petersburg was not interested in interfering in the Russian Revolution, and that the price paid by Russia in the Sixth Russo-Turkish War was too high and heavy, and Russia had to cultivate. Like a hibernating bear, stay in a safe cave, quietly waiting for the cold winter wind and snow to blow.

A few days later, Yegor Gaidar and his entourage, who had returned from Yangzhou, finally waited for the contact of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Yegor Gaidar was red, and there were two false bubbles, was this because he stayed awake all night and got angry? Or is it something that's burned?

Dong He had no intention of knowing. All he had to do was complete his mission.

That is, to have a good talk with Yegor Gaidar and exchange terms for both sides.

After all, the Swedes are outsiders, and their identity is like a middleman who threads a needle, and what we really want to talk about is China and Russia, otherwise Yegor Gaidar would not have followed the Swedes to China by sea.

As for how much the Russians paid for the Swedes' to 'thread the needle' this time, it is not something that China needs to consider.

Yegor Gaidar's original intention was to be bounded by the Yenisei River, east of which belonged to China and west to Russia.

In other words, the Russians knew that they could not keep all of the Western Siberian Plain, but they still wanted to give it a try.

But now Yegor Gaidar has changed his mind and retreated directly to the Ob River.

And the Chinese side's demand, of course, is bounded by the Ural River ~ the Ural Mountains.

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At the end of June, the Ottoman envoy arrived, again Selim, Selim bin Muhammad Murad.

At this time, news of the Russian visit became the main focus of domestic media attention.

From "Zhongyuan Daily" to "Jinling News", from "Jinling News" to "Global Times", all began to report on this major diplomatic event one after another.

When Selim, the Ottoman envoy and an old friend of China, arrived in Nanjing, the heat exploded.

The whereabouts of the Russians after they arrived in China were also reported, which was called "showing strength and expressing sincerity", and why did the three parties formally hold talks after the arrival of the Ottoman envoys, which is called "maintaining the new strategic partnership between China and the Ottomans", which sets off the relationship between the Russians and Austria very badly.

The reports in these newspapers do not have much substance, but under the pen of the reporters, they are all full of flowers, and even many officials in the officialdom are confused and confused.

But no matter how much they can understand, to a certain extent, the attention of the people has been brought back to the battlefield that has been much quieter.

The fighting on the main battlefield of China and Russia has stopped a lot, the Chinese can't fight, and the Russians have no troops to fight back, so neither side fights. In other words, the Western Sea Battlefield was very lively, and the Russians successively mobilized 20,000 or 30,000 troops to the West Sea, as well as a certain number of artillery, and the Caspian Sea Flotilla also had many small-scale exchanges of fire with the Wehrmacht's surface warships. Everything shows that the Russians will not tolerate China wedge a nail along the western coastline of the Caspian Sea.

Yegor Gaidar also mentioned the issue of the West Sea when he negotiated with Dong Chen, and they could not tolerate the Chinese keeping the West Sea, and could even give guarantees for this that they would not retaliate against Baku Khan.

But when China and Spain were negotiating, the port of Manzanillo was saved by the Chinese, and now the West Sea is no weaker than Manzanillo, so how can China easily let go?

Moreover, the Chinese side has done a very frank enough job in this negotiation. We are a military alliance with the Ottoman Empire, a strategic partner, and we cannot and will not betray our friends and make agreements with our enemies in private.

If China and Russia want to start negotiations, they must inform the Ottomans. If the Russians want to sign an armistice with the Chinese, then you must also sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire at the same time.

When Yegor Gaidar first heard these words, his eyes widened as bull's eyes, and he looked at Dong Huan's gaze as if he had seen a fool.

This Chinese is completely taking the benefits and pushing them outward.

You must know that although Yegor Gaidar has softened his attitude towards China, he also has in his heart the idea that the east will suffer and the south will make up for it.

But the Chinese are so 'righteous' and 'enough friends' that they have smashed Yegor Gaidar's three views.

In the private sphere, speaking is a very good virtue; However, in the field of diplomacy, the biggest fool in life is a sign of the inferiority and immaturity of diplomats.

But the Chinese just did it.

- We are the heavens and the kingdom of heaven, how can we do things that don't count?!

Do you want to save face?

For China, whether in ancient times or in later generations, 'saving face' is a 'virtue' that is difficult for people to talk about.

Well, for the current Ottoman Empire, this is indeed a 'virtue'.

Not to mention how the monarchs and ministers of the Ottoman court felt after Istanbul received a notice from China three months ago, just say Selim himself, then he is grateful to China, and he is grateful.

When Selim arrived in Nanjing, he first presented Chen Mingjin with a gift from the Ottoman Empire - a strange gem that could change color on its own.

It comes from the Anatolian mountains of the Ottomans.

To date, this gemstone has only been found in the Anatolian mountains, which is an emerald by day and a ruby by night.

Even the Sultan's palace is a rarity.

This time, the elderly Abdul Hamid I really gave birth to China.

In the perception of Istanbul monarchs, no country has ever been able to achieve the 'sincerity' of the Chinese.

So he did not hesitate to take out the rarest and most precious gem in his knowledge as a gift of his respect for the Chinese emperor.

Everyone, including the Ottomans, didn't know what this color-changing gemstone was. However, in his previous life, Chen Ming had noticed this kind of color-changing gemstone that belonged to Turkey - diaspore.

This is a very rare gemstone found only in the Anatolian Mountains of Turkey, where production is very small.

And the name of diaspore is still named by the last sultan of the Ottomans, and there is still more than a hundred years of time left.