Chapter 225: Interview Preparations
A week later, the Tengu sent a message. The letter paper is very particular and uses gold leaf. It shows that the papermaking technology of the Aztec Empire has developed to a considerable extent.
What made Wang Xika even more surprised was that the content of the letter was also written in both Chinese and Aztec.
The Chinese part of it reads: "Hello, Your Majesty King Xijia, Emperor of the People's Kingdom, on behalf of the Aztec Empire, I welcome you. Your friend: Tagila Coover.
This Tagila Couver is supposed to be the name of the king of the Aztec Empire. In the Aztec language, Tajira Kufo means king of the jungle.
Wang Xijia felt very strange that he could write Aztec because he had a radish to help him translate, so what was the situation of this Tajira Kufo who could write Chinese? Could it be that Yuan Qingniu helped Ta translate?
Yuan Qingniu had been to Tajira Coofer's palace, and maybe it was still there, otherwise no one would have been able to write about it. After all, this line of Chinese characters is written in upright block letters, and the pen is strong. People who have not practiced calligraphy can easily write such characters.
Wang Xijia only hated that the Aztec Empire didn't have a phone, otherwise he should have called Tajira Kufo to ask him if Yuan Qingniu was there.
Of course, after receiving the letter, Wang Xika can be sure of one thing, that is, the Saiyan flower radish did not contain private goods and curse people in the letter. Otherwise, the Aztec king would not have come to drink with his letter.
Wang Xijia found someone to pick up the radish from the hotel, paid him a large sum, and said, "You can go, do you need to send you back?"
Hua Radish said, "Emperor, please allow me to stay in New York, I want to learn more." ”
Wang Xika agreed, of course, this is the freedom of the radish, and he can stay as long as he likes. In addition to the radish, I have other things to do.
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Now that the two heads of state have exchanged letters, they should be able to pay an official visit. This is a big deal and requires serious preparation.
From clothes to gifts to bring with you, you have to prepare yourself - you can't go empty-handed when you go to an ordinary friend's house, let alone a visit between countries?
The first is clothing, although Wang Xijia has a set of serious "dragon robes", which is estimated to be the most precious clothing in the world. But this set of "dragon robes" looks like a fish skin when worn, which is not very elegant.
He is a great emperor, should he sew a real dragon robe out of silk and cloth according to the tradition of the emperor of Huaguo, or should he wear a suit according to the tradition of the modern country.
After thinking about it, I decided that it was better to wear a suit. After all, the suit I used to wear, and it was more decent. Although the silk dragon robe is more domineering, I have never worn such clothes in ordinary times, and I feel weird and awkward.
Wang Xijia went to New York to find a tailor shop and made a tailor-made suit. This New York tailor shop is also owned by local Indians. Since Wang Xijia passed on modern clothing from the estuary generation in Eurasia, everyone likes it very much. In New York, suits, T-shirts, and denim are already available.
At the same time, animal skins and leaves that primitive people like to wear are also sold here. In short, there is something to wear all over the city, and you can wear whatever you like. Wang Xijia also likes this feeling of diversity, and the robe and jacket and T-shirt and denim coexist on the street, and if you feel hot, wearing a swimsuit is not a big deal.
The tailor Wang Xika found was called Nightingale. The nightingale was a Komochi man, who had not read much since he was a child, but he learned what to look like by his mind and hands, and at a very young age mastered the sounds of more than a hundred kinds of animals.
When I grew up, I migrated to New York with my parents to fish for a living. He even learned the sound of a fish. Many people think that fish don't have a very keen sense of hearing, so they don't make any calls – many people have heard whale calls. But whales are not fish, they are mammals.
Later fish eaters found that fish did not have the vocal cords, so they thought that fish could not call at all. But this is actually wrong, the speed of sound in water is 5 times faster than on land, and fish also make sounds.
However, unlike terrestrial organisms, fish vocal organs are not vocal cords, and they are not fixed. Usually fish rely on their swim bladders to make sounds, but sometimes they also rely on their tails and fins to make sounds.
Of course, the role of vocalization is quite the same - for courtship. The flatfin American toad can make motorcycle-like sounds, the African cichlid fish can make sounds by shaking its body and tail, and the painted goby chirps when it spots a female.
This characteristic is unknown even to the gills who have lived in the sea for a long time. You ask him what the fish is called, and he doesn't know.
But the nightingale discovered that fish can call, and he also summed up the different characteristics of fish calling. Every time he fished, he put his head into the water and learned the sound of the female fish's courtship, and the male fish of ten miles and eight towns surrounded the fishing boat.
So the nightingale's fish business is always the best. Later, after Wang Xika led people to build New York, Nightingale was recruited as a migrant worker. In the course of the city's development, Nightingale gradually discovered that the clothing industry had great prospects. So he used the money he earned from fishing and moving bricks on construction sites to open a tailor shop in Manhattan. The ingenious Nightingale soon made the tailor shop the best clothing store in all of New York.
No matter what kind of clothes the customer wants to make, Nightingale can always be satisfied. The T-shirts he designs will always fit the best, and the bark jackets he designs will always be the coolest.
Generally speaking, ordinary people looking for nightingales to customize clothes need to make an appointment two weeks in advance.
But Wang Xika doesn't.
Because Wang Xijia is not an ordinary person.
Not only was he not an ordinary person, he was also the designer of the city of New York, and most importantly, he was the Great Emperor.
is as strong as a nightingale, and you also need to give Wang Xika three points of thin noodles.
Wang Xijia knocked directly on the door and entered the tailor's shop, and said to the nightingale: "Young man, make me a suit." ”
This was the first time he had seen a nightingale, with bronzed skin, black hair and black eyes, and starry eyes and sword eyebrows. Wang Xijia glanced at this young man and felt that he was a smart person. This person has a feeling that is both wild and sweet, a bit like the Internet celebrity Ding Zhen in later generations, but he is more mature than Ding Zhen.
The little tailor Nightingale asked, "Do you need to slim down?"
Wang Xika thought for a while and said, "Let's cultivate a little, but don't be too self-cultivation." ”
If the suit is not slim at all, it will look baggy, like a farmer entrepreneur. But if it's too slim, it looks a bit feminine. This degree is very important, and it tests the level of tailoring.
The nightingale stared at Wang Xika for a few minutes, measured Wang Xijia with a ruler, and then chose a good piece of fabric and went to work
He quickly made a suit for Wang Xika that fitted abnormally, and this suit was just like Wang Xijia imagined, and it looked high-end and atmospheric.
Wang Xijia thought about it, and asked Nightingale to order a set of silk dragon robes - he remembered that the heads of state on TV in later generations had several sets of clothes when they met, a suit for formal occasions, and a set of traditional clothes for private occasions.
Why don't you prepare two sets of clothes to wear on this foreign visit?
Wang Xika told the nightingale what he thought.
Nightingale said, "Yes, it seems to be, but I haven't seen what the dragon robe looks like, can you draw it for me?"
It turns out that although many people ask Nightingale to make custom-made clothes, no one has ever asked Nightingale to make dragon robes. I haven't seen it or done it, and no matter how smart the nightingale is, I can't do it.
So Wang Xijia took a pen and drew a dragon robe for the nightingale, and took out a photo of the dragon from the camera to show the nightingale.
The nightingale looked at it for a long time and asked, "How many toes are the dragon claws on your dragon robe?"
It turned out that the nightingale looked at the picture drawn by Wang Xika, and the dragon had five claws. And in the photo of the dragon, the dragon actually has four claws, and a finger that grows above the heel, a bit like a bird.
Wang Xijia replied, "Five." ”
In the traditional culture of China, the dragon on the dragon robe worn by the emperor is five toes, and the dragon on the costume of the ministers is four fingers, called "python robe".
As the Great Emperor, Wang Xijia naturally prepared a dragon robe for himself. If an emperor wears a four-clawed python robe, won't he be laughed at?
It took a little time to make the dragon robe, and Wang Xika took the opportunity to prepare a gift for the Aztec king.
Originally, he wanted to send some muskets, cars, and other things to the lord of a country, and who didn't like weapons and vehicles? But after thinking about it, he still didn't send these things, not because he was afraid that the Aztec Empire would learn these weapons, but because he was afraid that the Aztec king would not like them.
There is a precedent for this: during the Qianlong period, the British Empire sent three gifts to the Qing Empire: a celestial orbiter, a cannon, and a four-wheeled carriage.
These things are very advanced, but Qianlong thinks that they are all "strange tricks and tricks", and they are put in the warehouse if they are not of great use.
Wang Xika has never seen this Aztec king Tagila Coover, who knows if he will not be as incomprehensible as Qianlong as high-tech?
After thinking about it, Wang Xijia felt that it was better to send something that people all over the world could understand: gold, silver and jewelry.
Wang Xijia made a one-kilogram gold chain, and made a pair of gold armor with reference to the battle suit of the Golden Saint Seiya, a pure gold double-edged sword. Then he found a large pearl from the East China Sea, which was the largest pearl that Snake had found during his dive. A natural diamond, which was given by someone when she went to Africa last time to help the Egyptian Empress fight zombies. A jadeite sculpture he found in Myanmar in Eurasia.
These jewels basically cover the treasures of the east, west, north and south, and I believe everyone will enjoy it. Of course, Wang Xijia also brought some things that reflect modern technology, that is, cameras.
It's amazing, and while the Aztecs were good at drawing, the camera definitely made it better than the best painters, and it was fast.
Among the many "gadgets" given to Galeries Lafayette by foreigners, cameras were still very popular. Galeries Lafayette has also taken many photos of her old man.
The gifts were ready, and in the meantime Nightingale's dragon robe was ready. Nightingale also designed a hat for the dragon robe, which looked very domineering.
Wang Xika tried it on and felt that it fit perfectly. Although the defensive ability of this dragon robe is not the same as the dragon robe made of dragon scales before, it has a strong symbolic meaning.