Chapter 430: Giving a National Gift
After the dinner, Bismarck presented a tribute to the Great Son.
Well, at least the "Daming Times" is promoting this internally, to the Wajima Metropolitan Protectorate, to Nanyang and other places.
Of course, this is actually the exchange of state gifts, a very normal diplomatic etiquette.
Bismarck, on behalf of Wilhelm I, presented Zhu Fugui with a sword, a Teutonic knight's saber encrusted with precious stones.
"It's a 16th-century cross sword that's 2 meters long, and even a tall warrior with long arms has to wield it with both hands...... Oh, my God! ”
The accompanying Prussian military attaché, an old-school Junker nobleman, introduced this richly decorated long sword with a few treasures, but I don't know when the old eunuch Li, who was standing behind Zhu Fugui, suddenly reached out and took it, and then moved it with the action of Duncan's flat windmill.
Legend has it that the cross sword that needs to be held in both hands and can only be controlled by mastering the power skills of the waist and horse is in the hands of Lao Li, as if Dong Taishi is playing with the seven-star knife, An Lushan tickles and tickles, and it looks relaxed and freehand.
"Lao Li, put the gift down, don't be greedy!"
Zhu Fugui scolded Lao Li twice, then turned his head and asked apologetically, "Your Excellency, what you just said with your hands strong, I didn't hear clearly. ”
The Prussian military attache swallowed, showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said: "It's nothing, it's nothing, Your Majesty, if you like it......"
Zhu Fugui really likes this sword, and it looks very festive.
Traditionally, Chinese people are not used to displaying murder weapons at home, but I am far away from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and it is normal to put some swords.
It's just that this Western sword is a little bit worse, and Zhu Fugui decided to let Lao Li throw it into the attic to eat ashes.
The star picking platform is more than 90 meters, and it's a pity that the attic doesn't pile things!
This kind of 16th-century old sword is listed on the platform for auction, which must be a large amount of income.
However, Zhu Fugui is not short of money for the time being, so he saves it first, and when the time comes, he will receive enough gifts, open a museum, and display the gifts given to him by heads of state.
At that time, it will be clear who is the old friend of the Chinese people.
got a big sword with bells and whistles, and Zhu Fugui naturally wanted to return the gift.
As the son of Chinese heaven, Zhu Fugui has always been very generous in rewarding barbarians.
First of all, the visitors were shared, and the visiting Junkers were rewarded with a set of exquisite tableware carved tin, lead and aluminum alloys, which were full of anger and made people dream of returning to Rome.
He also gave Bismarck a "Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest Map" bought from Taobao for 50 yuan to promote traditional Chinese culture.
This made everyone's senses of Da Ming suddenly go to a new level.
Whether it is the Junkers who get expensive cutlery, or Bismarck, who gets Mobao, they are very fond of gifts.
Bismarck, in particular, was amazed by the whimsical expressive tension of traditional Chinese art, which was more attractive than the collections of the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts.
In addition, as the host, Zhu Fugui also prepared a good thing for Brother William.
An original Happiness 1 camera.
At present, the Ming cameras that can be bought on the market in Prussia are actually imitations of the Ming Dynasty, and the prototype is the "Happiness 1 type" produced by the state-owned Tianjin Camera Factory established in New China on April 18, 1956.
The "Happiness 1" was copied by Liu Donglin, the then director of the factory, based on the German JUWEL camera.
As a result, the transfer of exports across time and space to domestic sales was staged in Prussia.
However, just like the engines used in the armored forces of the Ming Army, especially for tanks and other combat vehicles, are imported from later generations, and the engines on civilian products such as Rising Sun brand automobiles and Su Shifu brand agricultural machinery are all developed or imitated by the Ming Dynasty.
The cameras used by Daming's own royal media soldiers, army scouts, secret agents, etc., were all imported from later generations.
The cameras sold to the private sector and exported to earn foreign exchange were all produced by Daming itself.
The reliability, imaging, and accuracy of the two are not the same.
The reason why Zhu Fugui wanted to give Brother William a camera this time was because Zhu Fugui knew that Brother William was an extremely sullen person.
A guy who insists on being crowned at the Palace of Versailles in Paris and pretending to be forced by Germany's century-old national fortune can not be sullen?
Such a sullen person must be a selfie maniac.
With a sophisticated camera, he will definitely take selfies day and night, which is equivalent to advertising Daming products and establishing a high-end brand image.
Moreover, if a single sophisticated-level camera is used, it is impossible to use it in the military and pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty.
As for whether it will be copied by the Prussians, it can only be said that the basic principles and basic structure of the original camera and the Ming self-made camera are the same.
It's just that the machining accuracy is insufficient, and compromise changes have been made in some parts.
For example, the lens prototype is a four-piece two-group Peliskop fast-straight structure lens, and several photographic manufacturers in Daming can only use the alternative method of two pieces and two groups of non-glued concave and convex lenses because of insufficient technical level, which cannot be compared with the prototype in terms of anti-refraction performance, distortion correction, chromatic aberration control, etc.
In other words, it is almost impossible to reproduce the prototype camera, but it is more reliable to imitate the Ming Dynasty's self-made camera.
Simply straighten it out, that is, the following situations may occur:
German Jeville → Happiness 1 → Daming self-made camera →Prussian imitation → developed into German Jeville
It's a perfect closed loop.
It's a pity that this is actually an extremely difficult thing.
The Prussians wanted to imitate and needed to solve countless front-end technologies, but Zhu Fugui could buy production equipment from later generations and carry out dimensionality reduction attacks according to ready-made drawings.
The reality is that at present, Daming's self-made cameras have occupied the camera market, which is not large in this era.
In the future, the factory of Carl Zeiss, a German optical instrument giant, is now under the suppression of the four models of Daming's "Golden Eye", "Guangmu", "Sangoyu" and "Kaleidoscope", and it looks like it is going to go out of business at any time.
However, no Prussian has yet realized the importance of the independence of optical instruments, and no one thinks that the collapse of Zeiss and the presence of Carl Zeiss on the rooftop, or "being put on the roof", will be a far-reaching thing.
Ignorance is also a kind of happiness!
Zhu Fugui shook his head, showed the function of this camera on the spot, and used it to take a photo with Bismarck.
In this group photo, Zhu Fugui had to admit that Brother Li Hongzhang was indeed a very good person.
Because Bismarck's photo with the great Son of Heaven is only slightly inferior in temperament.
And Li Hongzhang and Bismarck's photo is only slightly inferior in temperament.
Zhu Fugui had also had dinner with Li Hongzhang's brother before, but he was patronizing the pit fleet at that time, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
In retrospect, this thing is at least 183 tall, and he was born with a dignified appearance, and he has a feeling of not being angry and arrogant.
No wonder Xingzhen trusted him so much in history.
It's a pity that Li Zhongtang is just a silver-like pewter gun head after all, give him a chance, he won't be useful!
And Bismarck, the Western Li Hongzhang, is also very tall, probably around 183.
He and Li Hongzhang are indeed giants in this era.
Fortunately, Zhu Fugui has exercised enough in the past two years and is rich in nutrition.
At the same time as Lao Li's horizontal development, Zhu Fugui's height jumped sharply, and now he is 185.
Coupled with Zhao Aqian's special photography skills, in this group photo that will be published in major newspapers, Zhu Fugui will be half a head taller than Lao Yu.