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In the winter of Marseille, the trees were covered by the countless crowds of people, and with the arrival of distant Chinese guests and hundreds of high-ranking officials of the imperial government, it was now not only free of the slightest chill, but also became extremely hot, and this heat wave would soon begin to sweep the whole land of France.

Even Lin Haifeng himself did not expect that Napoleon III would spend so much money to welcome his arrival. Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte's henchmen in the French Empire, such as the Minister of the Interior Morny, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Fulder, and the Minister of Military Affairs Saint-Arnault, were almost all out of the nest, and Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; The nineteen imperial marshals that Bonaparte had personally awarded were even more like a gathering of hula and fifteen. Not only that, but there are countless wealthy people in the business world who can't help but be excited and spontaneously rush to greet them. In the history of France, it is absolutely unprecedented to have a guest from afar receive such a grand welcome scene. So much so that later, when Lin Haifeng and his entourage stepped on the train from Marseille to Paris, the train became a veritable special train, and the escorts who came to greet him filled every carriage.

Of course, Lin Haifeng would not know at this time that someone would turn the moment he set foot in Marseille into a permanent memory for future generations. On this morning, among the welcoming crowd at the port of Marseille, there was a special figure, the French painter Ingres, the standard-bearer of French neoclassicism, who admired "quiet greatness and sublime simplicity". With his keen eyes, Ingres captured the true essence of this epoch-making moment, and after two years of repeated pondering, a classic oil painting called "Charm" was finally born.

The blue sea, there are a few white clouds floating in the blue sky, and in the depths of the distant sea, there is a red sun that is about to erupt. Against the backdrop of this very romantic atmosphere, Lin Haifeng, who has a yellow scarf and a yellow robe with wide sleeves and a black cloak, walks side by side with green silk and beaded flowers, a rose-red small sleeved short undergarment, and a tight long skirt of the same color tied high under the armpits, and a white shawl on his shoulders and then coiled between his arms. The blowing sea breeze blew the corner of Lin Haifeng's cloak, revealing the bright red background inside, blowing Liu Xianghe's shawl like the wings of two angels.

for having participated in the December 1851 campaign against Louis 8226 organized by the Republicans; Bonaparte's anti-coup uprising to overthrow the coup d'état of the French Second Republic, at this time the French romantic writer Hugo, who was forced to go into exile at this time, once said to Ingres with emotion after seeing this painting of his good friend, he seemed to see the hero of the thief he had tried his best to create in "Onani" more than 20 years ago, and seemed to see the gypsy girl Esmeralda in "Notre Dame de Paris" yearning for a better future, and the noble moral sentiments of Quasimodo, the bell-ringer who has an ugly face but an extremely kind heart. In this painting, he sees Ingres's subtle, longing for freedom.

"I don't believe that people with good hearts would be willing to be accomplices of the **-ists......" Hugo said in a letter to a close friend, "I am not a politician, nor do I have a pair of so-called discerning eyes for politicians." But I dare to predict that the government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the far east will never be stupid enough to go so far. I see this clearly in the classic works of my friend Ingres. From the moment they set foot in France, this great couple brought people more of a desire for freedom and an extreme hatred of **. For it was they, together with their companions, who had turned a country which we firmly regarded as the lowest and lowest nation in the world, weak enough to be slaughtered at the mercy of the great powers, into a noble nation and a powerful nation on which our noble French Empire had to rely in less than six years. My friend Ingres is so great that with the gaze of these two distant guests, it seems that he is attracted by the charm of France, but in fact he is attracting countless admirers to carefully and meticulously ponder the charm of oriental freedom contained in them......"

It was inspired by Ingres's grand pen that in 1862, Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables" was born, in which he showed the cruel reality of the dark capitalist society's ruthless enslavement of the working people and forced them into prostitution with outstanding artistic charm, and called on the people to rise up and fight for their own liberation, just like the French Revolution in 1848.

In fact, Ingres's painting is not a complete reproduction of the real scene at that time, but has been processed by him later. For example, although the style reflected in the picture has not changed, the cotton wool worn by Lin Haifeng and his wife has been replaced with a cloak and shawl. A few days later, at a court ball held to welcome Chinese guests, he saw with his own eyes that Mrs. Lin and the female minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were dressed like this, and he found that this dress showed the extraordinary charm of oriental women.

However, for Lin Haifeng, more unexpected things are still to come.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the special train taken by Lin Haifeng and his entourage drove into the Paris railway station on time. Under the guidance of the Home Secretary Morny, he and his wife walked out of the carriage, and just stood firmly on the scarlet carpet at the door of the carriage, Louis 8226, dressed in a military uniform and draped in a large red ribbon, waiting on the platform with the queen Eugeny; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte immediately greeted him with joy. Holding fists, shaking hands, hugging, and even kissing, Napoleon III used all Chinese and Western etiquette, "Commissar Lin, my dearest brother!" He even used the polite words that should have been said to the emperors who were also on the European continent to Lin Haifeng.

After he gently held the hand of Mrs. Lin and kissed her on the back of her soft hand, he actually looked at Liu Xianghe blankly for a moment, and then he praised it humorously, "Oh, dear madam, you can't be the angel next to God in the legend!" ”

And the queen Ou Jini, who came over later, couldn't help but pounce on Lin Haifeng after making a typical Chinese bowing salute to Lin Haifeng.

In the past, she had seen and heard a lot of images of Chinese in newspaper cartoons and from the depictions of ministers, and in her memory, Chinese should all be yellow-faced and thin-skinned, with a pigtail-like pigtail behind their heads, yawning in their mouths, and an inferior people who boasted of being powerful, but in fact were terminally ill. Although she had established formal diplomatic relations between France and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government since the previous year, she had also met the beautiful and capable female minister Fu Shanxiang, several senior male officials of the legation, and even heard Fu Shanxiang introduce the earth-shaking changes that had taken place in China. But she always wondered who wouldn't rub the powder on her face, and the donkey dung eggs were still shiny. But today she realized that she was wrong, looking at the men and women from that distant ancient country in front of her, which one of them was not the high-spirited and mighty Wuhan Q and the fairy angel who wanted to fly.

Especially the member of Prince Lin, who has long been famous, seems to be a little thin, but it is difficult to hide his heroic posture, chic and solemn, and there is no lack of inviolable majesty between his and his face, and from those black eyes, no matter how you look at it, it will make people rise up with a strange charm of restlessness.

"Oh...... China is so beautiful, I love China so much, at our Château de Fontainebleau (one of the largest royal palaces in France, 8226 Seine in the Île-de-France region in northern France; In the town of Fontainebleau, in the department of Marne, I also built a Chinese pavilion to store things from your ancient China. You are so great, and every item from your China is so precious in my heart. If you don't believe me, I'll ask you to see it tomorrow. ”

I am afraid that the words of the Empress of the French Empire may not be true, because she built the Chinese Pavilion in the Château de Fontainebleau for the purpose of collecting the treasures looted from China that the French army officers had given many years ago, and she liked them. However, what she said today actually meant something else, and the profound connotation was only experienced by Lin Haifeng and her two parties at that time.

Listening to the muttering of the Queen of France and smelling the rich violet fragrance emanating from the Queen of France, Lin Haifeng was a little intoxicated. However, this kind of intoxication is not for himself, but for the tens of thousands of Chinese Q grandsons behind him. "Thank you, the French nation is also a great nation, and His Majesty Emperor Napoleon III is a rare hero of France." Lin Haifeng humbly complimented.

"What kind of hero is he," Eugeni looked at the "stupid and stupid Emperor Majesty" who was sticking to Prince Lin's wife, and finally let go of Lin Haifeng's body, and smiled, "I heard Minister Bourblon say several times that your physiognomy is very, very skillful, and you must help me if you have the chance." ”

As she spoke, she turned around and came to Liu Xianghe's side, and "snatched" the oriental immortal from her emperor Majesty, hugging and kissing passionately, while lying on Liu Xianghe's ear, and whisperingly, with a little faint sourness, "God, dear sister, I really envy you!" ”

The lively scene of mutual recognition finally came to an end, and Louis 8226, which always regarded itself as the hegemon of Europe; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte grabbed one of Lin Haifeng's arms and pouted at the soldiers of the Guards who were holding the new rifles made in the Celestial Empire, which were densely packed with the guards on the platform, "I sincerely thank you and your government for helping us build up the most powerful guards in all of Europe. ”

"Your Majesty, Honorable Emperor, you are too polite, this is what we should do for our friends," Lin Haifeng said sincerely.

"Yes, we are friends, and as long as you and your government need us, we will be the same, and there will be no more unpleasant situations on the Crimean side," Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte also seemed to be sincere, and when he said this, he raised his clenched fist high. Then, he looked at Lin Haifeng with a smile, "My good brother, let's go and see how the subjects here welcome good friends from distant China." ”

In the end, the French Empire, in the end, the emperor of the empire, in Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte took the guest's arm and was just about to take the first step, a large band of hundreds of people, which had been silent in the corner of the platform, seemed to have received an order, and suddenly the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the music played turned out to be the march of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire.

Looking at Lin Haifeng, who immediately became extremely excited after a glimmer of surprise flashed on his face, Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte laughed, "Surprise, my brother, this military song is actually very good, similar to our Marseillaise, and I like it very much." ”

"Huh...... Hehe...... "Lin Haifeng's excitement just now seemed to suddenly fall silent again, and he rushed to Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte shook his head, "It's peaceful, it's not good to listen to this kind of song too much, and it's easy to get into trouble." ”

"Something? What's going on? "Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Bonaparte waved the hand holding the scepter indifferently, "If you don't listen, you're going to get into trouble." I've gotten the news of your major disarmament, and that's not good, and it's bad. You know, my brother, that only a strong and unrelenting armed force is the most powerful guarantee of your peace. ”

Lin Haifeng nodded, and then shook his head, looking a little helpless, "His Majesty the Emperor is talking about the wise words, but it's just ...... It's just that we have our problems......"

Accompanied by the March of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, which roared over the stations of Paris, Louis 8226; Napoleon 8226; Mr. and Mrs. Bonaparte boarded a decorated and splendid carriage together with Mr. and Mrs. Lin Haifeng. As soon as he got out of the station, as Bourblon had proudly said during his journey, Paris would not only really leave an indelible memory on Lin Haifeng, but also make him absolutely unexpected.

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