Chapter 50: Europa is no longer a barbarian!
At eleven o'clock in the evening of the seventh day of the first month of the thirty-fourth year of Taihe, the Hongyunlou Inn in Changsaki County, Fengyuan Kingdom, was in the Tianzi No. 6 room on the fourth floor.
A friendly person in England whose name is Libot is Da Ming Yayan is restlessly waiting for news.
The atmosphere of Nagasaki Port tonight is a little different, and the Fengyuan and merchants who usually like to pull themselves to complain about the Ming Dynasty have all suddenly disappeared today.
They must have gathered to discuss things they couldn't let themselves know.
So Li Bot asked his companion, a young man named Wang Wei in Daming Yayan, to go out to inquire about the news, and he waited patiently in the room.
Suddenly, there was a very violent knock on the door, Li Bote was startled, and hurriedly ran over to open the door, and opened his mouth to be a very standard Daming Yayan:
"Who's out there, please?"
As a result, as soon as the door opened, seven yamen officers of the five big and three thick were standing outside, and two of them were escorting their companion Wang Wei.
In addition, there was a leading errand officer, who raised his hand and pointed at Li Bote, and shouted loudly in a very strange accent:
"We are the officials of the Daming Nagasaki County Public Security Yamen, and today we received a report from the people that there are two white ghosts here with suspicious appearances, and now it seems that they are really right.
"Our county lieutenant has opened his grace, and he can give you two choices, one is to serve in labor after castration, and the other is to get out of our Daming Nagasaki County immediately."
Li Bot was stunned when he heard this request, he had a good chat with King Fengyuan a few days ago, why did he become a suspicious white ghost today:
"Contemptible and Wang Wei are not suspicious people, we all have residence permits signed by Lord Changshi himself, I will go and show you ...... now"
The official didn't move, and watched as Li Bot ran back to the room, took two small papers, and handed them over nervously.
The official immediately took it and took a look, and then directly tore his hands into pieces:
"Okay, now you don't have a residence permit!"
Li Bote was directly dumbfounded, it's just that the officials of the Ming Dynasty are unreasonable, why are you, the official of the Ming Dynasty, so unreasonable?
Then Li Bot immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and the tall official in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person, or the situation had changed greatly.
The long history of the Ming Dynasty's medium-sized vassal states was almost equivalent to that of the prime minister of a small country, or the deputy of the colonial governor of a large country.
The ordinary county officials would never dare to tear up the documents they signed, and they were so open-minded, which may have been directly instructed by Changshi himself.
Libot was also a clever man, and immediately began to try to change his perspective, trying to obtain information while persuading:
"Don't be like this, let's have something to say, the contemptible people only visited His Majesty King Fengyuan a few days ago, and they had dinner with Master Li Hongbin.
"There must be some misunderstanding here, so can you please inform me and let me ask His Majesty the King or Lord Changshi for clarification......
The officer hooked his hand at Libot, and Libot subconsciously took a step forward.
As a result, the errand officer went straight to his hands, grabbed Libot's arm violently, and twisted him hard behind his back:
"Now you don't have a choice! Third, go get me a knife! ”
Li Bot suddenly screamed:
"Ah...... Don't be like this, a few poor masters, please stop, the contemptible people know that they are wrong, the contemptible people go, the contemptible people leave now, and leave Nagasaki immediately......"
The officer was actually just scaring Libot, and didn't really go to the scene to ask for a knife to castrate Libot, so at this time he handed him over to the other two officials:
"Immediately sent to the dock, on the nearest ship to Tianzhu, before the ship is offshore, he must not be allowed to contact and communicate with anyone! Do you understand! ”
"Understood!"
The six officers shouted in unison, escorted Li Bot and Wang Wei out of the inn, got into the carriage prepared in advance, and went straight to the Nagasaki pier.
The officer was holding a special fire sign, and the officials at the dock saw it and fully cooperated.
tied up Li Wang and the others strongly, threw them into a guest room, and arranged for four people to watch them on the spot.
It was not until 2 o'clock in the second half of the night that the ocean-going passenger ship to India officially left Hong Kong, and Li Bot and Wang Wei partially regained their freedom.
Finally, he didn't have to be tied up and detained on the spot, and was placed under house arrest in the guest room.
The pale-faced Li Bote, with a slight stiff hand and foot, looked at Wang Wei, who was also weak next to him, and changed back to English communication:
"There must have been a big incident in Fengyuan Kingdom, and it is a major event related to our United Kingdom, and this kind of thing can only be related to the Ming Empire......"
Wang Wei's expression was very ugly:
"If the king of Fengyuan, his ministers, and even the business elite can directly cut off relations with us, is it possible that the Ming Dynasty finally agreed to 'withdraw the feudal domain'?"
Most of the pronunciation spoken by Wang Wei is in English, but the two words "withdraw the domain" are the pronunciation of Daming Yayan.
Due to the dual strength of the Ming Dynasty in terms of culture and national strength, the Ming Dynasty is a compulsory course for the upper class of people in European countries, as well as a compulsory course for intelligence and literary personnel.
Even when they communicate in their own country's dialect, they will occasionally pop up a few words in the Ming Ya dialect, which can show that they are literate enough.
They take it for granted that some special words of the Ming Yayan cannot be translated into European pinyin characters, and the most correct translation is not to translate.
Moreover, the number of these words is very large, including not only the emperor, the crown prince, the first assistant, the withdrawal of the feudal domain, the side of the Qing monarch, all levels of titles, various honorific titles and other political and cultural terms.
It also includes terms specific to the economy, such as "manager", "manager", "share", "stock", "company", etc.
Even if there are words with similar meanings in their language, they are often seen as "inaccurate" and take pride in using the correct pronunciation of the Ming dialect.
Li Bot nodded lightly with a gloomy expression:
"I think it's highly likely, because I can't imagine anything other than 'withdrawing the feudals' that could instantly bring our relationship to a freezing point."
Wang Wei was even more worried:
"So what should we do? We should report it to the United Kingdom right away, but we're 'behind bars' right now and have no way to contact the outside world......"
Libot was not particularly worried about this:
"The United Kingdom also has a 'fine work' in the Ming Dynasty, and if it is really such a major event as 'withdrawing the feudal domain', His Majesty the King and the Chief Minister will soon know about it......"
Wang Wei breathed a sigh of relief:
"Let's hope...... God bless the United Kingdom, but if the Ming Dynasty really begins to withdraw from the domain, then the anti-Ming alliance must take the initiative to 'negotiate peace' with the Ming Dynasty. ”
When Li Bot heard this, his expression, which had just relaxed a little, became serious again:
"Yes, peace must be negotiated, after the news of the Ming Dynasty's withdrawal spreads, our companions in other Ming vassal countries will definitely be thrown out like this.
"Then the Ming Dynasty and most of the vassal states will become 'monolithic', and it will be really difficult for us in Europe to have a chance to win."
Wang Wei added with a sad face again:
"Not only vassal states, but also small states that wanted to become vassal states but couldn't, and so-called neutral states that reluctantly sided with the anti-Ming alliance.
"Their confidence may be directly shaken, for example, the four countries of 'Anxi' may 'turn against the water', and the war can no longer continue."
Leebot's expression became even more ugly:
"Da Ming is too powerful, and this war is a mistake."
Wang Wei smiled and said a little excitedly:
"No, if peace can be negotiated now, as long as Daming can sit down with us to negotiate, and then sign a peace treaty agreed by both sides, it will be a victory for our Europe!
"Even if we cede some of the land we occupied in the war in the peace treaty, it will be an unprecedented victory for our whole of Europa!
"Because as long as the Ming Dynasty signs a peace treaty with us, it will put us in the status of a civilized country, and our Europa will no longer be a 'barbarian'."
Li Bot understood what Wang Wei meant, but his expression did not change a little better at all:
"So, all the Europeans put aside hundreds of years of hatred and stood together, fought against the Great Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and paid the lives of millions of young people, just so that the Ming Dynasty would no longer treat us as barbarians?"
Wang Wei smiled bitterly when he heard this:
"Or else?"