Chapter 45: Scoundrels
Ye Zhao took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it over, saying, "The imperial sister-in-law can refer to it for details." "The words are polite, but in fact they are a good draft that has been prepared a long time ago.
Lan Guiren took it, glanced at it a few times, and bowed his head slightly.
Ye Zhao smiled and nodded to Macchason, who was looking at him with a blank eye, MacChason's face was immediately full of excitement, and he jumped to the east stage in three or two steps, although there is no microphone now, there is still a slightly higher podium in the dance hall for toasting speeches and other purposes.
McChason waved his hand repeatedly, and the dance gradually stopped, and the dancing crowd turned their heads to look at him.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor to announce that the Queen Mother of Our Lady of China will be giving a speech to our feast, and I invite the Queen Mother of Our Lady of China!"
As for the title of the Southern Dynasties, under the persuasion of Ye Zhao, it is now referred to as China in the Chinese translations of official documents of various countries.
The word China is of great significance to the civilization circles of East Asia and Southeast Asia, and all the tributary states that are deeply influenced by Chinese civilization are proud to learn from China and recognize China as the supreme unification.
After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it was natural to bleached and take off the name of barbarians, and it began to claim to be China's orthodoxy, especially from the Kangxi Dynasty.
In the Chinese translation of the Treaty of Nebuchu signed between the Kangxi Dynasty and Russia, Kangxi is called the "Emperor of Great China", and in terms of border demarcation, "China" is regarded as its own side and "Russia" as the other party, and the Chinese people are called Huamin.
Mo said that even in small Korea, there were Confucian scholars who considered themselves Chinese orthodoxy, and this trend continued more than 100 years later, which shows the far-reaching influence of the word China.
In the documents of the mediation state, the two sides were originally called the southern political axe or the northern political axe, but at the request of Ye Zhao, although the south was called the political axe of southern China, the little brother was called the emperor of China, and the regime of the six kings was called the political axe of northern China, but the six kings became the "political axe king of northern China".
Ye Zhao insisted, and the person in charge of foreign affairs in the northern political axe realized it later, and at first did not think about this kind of title problem at all, and the Yangyi did not understand the orthodox concept of the Chinese, so the envoy group of the mediation country naturally changed the title according to Ye Zhao's statement, and when the translation of the mediation country reached Yanjing, the foreign ministers of Yanjing were dumbfounded, and argued with reason, but the wood has already been completed, where is it so easy to change? Yanjing relied on mediation in many places, so he had to swallow his anger and pretend to be confused.
"Great China", Ye Zhao smiled slightly, and said in his heart that it sounds quite pleasant, sometimes it is not bad to have a little face project in politics, but this face, it is still necessary to use strength as the backing, otherwise this "Great China" will fall from the altar sooner or later and be shattered.
got up, smiled and accompanied Lan Guiren to the podium.
In the audience, there was immediately warm applause, and the envoys and their wives from all over the world, and businessmen from all walks of life automatically gave way and looked curiously at this beautiful and extremely mysterious Chinese queen mother.
Although there was no loess paving and water sprinkling the street, several guards ran in front quickly, and their hands were extremely busy, and a long red carpet was completed in an instant.
The foreigners took a few steps back, and felt that the Chinese imperial family was as mysterious and arrogant as the legend, and it could be seen from this small detail that it was not pomp, because the regent and the Chinese empress dowager had lowered their posture to the greatest extent, which was a habit and reserve that had been cultivated over time, and was much more noble than the royal families of Europe.
Because of the appearance of Ye Zhao, the gorgeous coat of Great China has not been completely pierced to make people see the bottom of it, and now the south is thriving, and various laws, social and professional structures, political axes, and the division of functions of various departments represent the level of social civilization, and even in many places have opened their eyes to Europeans and then learn from them, who dares to despise the perception of the mysterious and ancient kingdom of the Far East?
Lan Guiren stood on the podium, Ye Zhao took the lead, and the foreigners applauded again, and they rested for a long time.
"The people of China are far away, the prestige is far away, the countries of Taixi are all friends of China, and now the Chinese and Western businesses are wide, the water and milk are blended, and they are prosperous together, and they have seen the wonder of the world, the vastness of the sea, and the thinking of the poor world. From Fusang in the east, poor Rome in the west, overseas businessmen, and monarchs of various countries, they expect our country to be as thick and far. In this way, our country and the countries of Taixi will be slightly similar, learn from each other's strengths, and the people of the whole world will enjoy the glory of the prosperous era. ”
Every time Lan Guiren said a word, Ye Zhao translated it in English and translated it to those foreigners who did not understand Chinese or could not understand this semi-vernacular.
If the meaning of Lan Guiren's words is in modern times, in terms of the main theme, it is mainly to summarize the trade between China and the West, China and Western society can really light up each other's map, only to know the vastness and wonder of the global village, and said that as long as the two sides coexist peacefully and amicably, learn from each other, they will inevitably promote the development of global civilization.
Of course, this is not what the words meant, but Ye Zhao naturally understood it this way.
There are those who can understand Chinese, shaking their heads and listening, and those who don't understand listen to Ye Zhao intently, and their hearts are full of surprise.
Ye Zhao's draft is absolutely false and empty in the future generations, but it is a fool from the perspective of global civilization and all mankind, which can not help but surprise these foreigners.
Lan Guiren's voice was crisp, with a slight coercion of power, and when she finished speaking, the audience immediately burst into more enthusiastic applause.
Ye Zhao stretched out his hand, Lan Guiren was slightly stunned, but naturally put the enchanting hand with a long set of colorful bronzing fingers on Ye Zhao's wrist, as if Ye Zhao was helping him to walk off the podium, and wondered in his heart: "This monkey, why did he suddenly start doing the tricks of subordinates?" Aren't you afraid that others will say that he, the regent, is afraid of himself? ”
At this time, the music started again, and a pair of men and women began to dance together, and McChason and others came over and said a few words to Ye Zhao, and then followed behind.
Walking to the middle of the red carpet, Ye Zhao turned to face Lan Guiren and said, "Sister-in-law, let's start." ”
Lan Guidao: "What? ”
Ye Zhao smiled and pointed to her orchid hand, and said, "Didn't the imperial sister-in-law accept my invitation to dance with you?" ”
Lan Guiren frowned slightly and said, "Don't laugh, I'll be angry if I keep talking." ”
Ye Zhao Zhengse said: "Imperial sister-in-law, I have no disrespect, Rong'er must have told you, I often dance two steps with her, in fact, this ballroom dance is a kind of exercise, which can strengthen the body and stretch the meridians, you live in the harem, walk less, year after year, this body bone can rot, why there are many concubines in the palace who die early, because there is no exercise, I really hope that the imperial sister-in-law will live a long life, Rong'er has you to take care of, I am also very relieved." The imperial sister-in-law can learn to learn ballroom dancing, and when she is bored in the palace, she can dance a few steps with Rong'er with the palace maid to relax her muscles and invigorate her blood, and grow her youth. ”
Seeing the sincerity of what Ye Zhao said, Lan Guiren pondered for a moment and said, "Another day, you will teach me another day." ”
Ye Zhao knew that Little Buddha was mostly perfunctory, so as not to embarrass her if he didn't leave on this dance floor, didn't he already have a lot of eyes on him?
However, Ye Zhao also knows that in front of these many people, especially foreigners, Lan Guiren will not dance this ballroom dance, after all, when it comes to dance, in her eyes, it is to dance to please others, even if Guangzhou has changed greatly, and Rong'er has already said things like this ballroom dance, her concept has changed slightly, but not to mention her, just say that Rong'er and the two wives of the matchmaker themselves categorically can't accept dancing with themselves in the public, let alone Lan Guiren, who has nothing to do with herself.
In fact, even if Lan Guiren really agrees, Ye Zhao will not dance with her, Ye Zhao didn't take this set of things seriously, and he was enlightened when he danced? Joke. It doesn't matter if the women on the same side dance, but their own Fujin, Lan Guiren, who is now crowned as the "Queen Mother of China", etc., it doesn't matter if they really want to go off the dance floor with themselves, everything is free, but they don't want to dance, how can they encourage them to dance?
"That brother wrote it down." Ye Zhao walked forward with a smile, seeing that Lan Guiren seemed to be relieved, she was secretly amused in her heart, she had become a ruffian prince in her eyes, right? But it's okay, the ruffian prince is always closer than the deep and terrible prince.
When the guards shouted "Queen Mother", McChason and others hurriedly came to send them, and this trip back and forth really tossed them enough.
…… Delan nobles called each other, Ye Zhao and her sat in a carriage, the carriage was extremely luxurious and spacious, Lan nobles sat on the yellow cushion brocade seat, Ye Zhao sat on a soft pier, but there were seven or eight more people standing in the car, and it was not crowded.
The carriage and horses are also very stable, of course, also thanks to the road in Guangzhou has been repaired very smooth, there are a lot of public toilets, speaking of which, now the toilet in the capital is a big problem, habitual reasons, even officials are drowning on the ground, in the Ming Dynasty, some people compared the capital to a huge thatched toilet, although exaggerated, but also can see its sanitary situation. Of course, when the wealthy and aristocratic go to the toilet, it is a different scene, and it is absolutely luxurious and complicated to the imagination of ordinary people.
There was silence in the carriage.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see Lan Guiren speak, thinking that he felt that his "brother-in-law" was abnormal today, so he wanted to see what he had to say.
"Imperial sister-in-law, life is a lifetime, a hundred years in a hurry, what is actually what you are looking for? It's just happy and happy, ordinary people just need not to violate morality, how to live comfortably and how to live, and you and I, carrying the expectations of our ancestors and the country, but in the final analysis, God has given us supreme power, and we have to let the people in the world live a good life, don't you say the imperial sister-in-law? ”
Lan Guiren bowed slightly.
Ye Zhao said again: "Sister-in-law, now I am not the regent, and you are not the queen mother, just as I am your brother-in-law, I will tell you the truth, no matter how the situation changes, I will definitely keep you safe and prosperous; I Jingxiang but if I can have a nest head to eat, I will definitely share half of you, you and Rong'er are close relatives, and I am also your closest relatives, don't you say? ”
Lan Guiren glanced at Ye Zhao and slowly turned his head to look at the lights outside the window.
Ye Zhao said that it was not the first time that he said that he wanted to protect the peace of Lan nobles, but it was the first time that he did not use an honorific title, but called "you", an intimate and equal title, "I will definitely keep your peace", listening to the ears of Lan nobles, I want to have a different taste.
(To be continued)