Palace of Versailles.
At this time it should be called Ming Palace of Versailles.
After more than ten days of torture, Qin Yuan arrived at the Palace of Versailles from Dunkirk.
The Ming envoys surrounded Qin Yuan and cried, making York beside him very uncomfortable.
In the end, Qin Yuan found Napoleon and made a secret deal.
Versailles was in ruins, and Napoleon decided to transform Paris.
When something like this happens, Ming Dynasty, as the brotherly country of France, naturally wants to help.
As a result, the Palace of Versailles and the entire town of Versailles were separated from Paris and used as a concession area for the Ming Dynasty.
Napoleon originally disagreed, until Qin Yuan whispered something in Napoleon's ear.
If the four sisters of the Dingyuan are retired, they will be sold to France first!
Just this promise made Napoleon jump for joy.
At this time, the Brest was still undergoing major repairs in the Port of Brest. France's welding technology was basically zero, and the Brest had never been repaired.
Now that he has received the promise from the Ming Dynasty's envoy, Napoleon's naval dream has come true again.
Not only that, Qin Yuan said that he would provide design support for the transformation of Paris city.
Steel bars and cement will be sold in Daming.
The Ming Dynasty has a statue of the Supreme Lord Liberty, and Paris must also have a statue of Joan of Arc.
When the sketch appeared in front of Napoleon, Napoleon readily agreed to Qin Yuan's request.
The entire town of Versailles was assigned to the Ming Dynasty as a concession.
With the arrival of Qin Yuan, the life of the Ming Dynasty envoy has become better.
From the second batch of gifts given to Napoleon, Qin Yuan selected a batch of decorations to decorate the Palace of Versailles to make it look like it was lived in.
Toilets need to be dug, kitchens need to be built, and even bedrooms need to be re-partitioned and renovated.
The Palace of Versailles continued the custom of medieval castles, with very few bedrooms for living, which were built separately to take care of the noble women.
In fact, medieval castles not only did not have professional toilets, they did not even have normal bedrooms.
No matter how powerful the nobles were, they lived in "small rooms" separated by cloth in the castle hall.
You can imagine how poor the protection of personal privacy is.
If it weren't for the fact that servants could only sleep in the corridor outside the hall, the "family ethics action movies" of old European aristocrats would be more widely circulated.
Therefore, a normal bedroom must be constructed.
In other words, the entire Palace of Versailles, except for the outer walls, needs extensive renovation.
Unfortunately, the mission fleet did not bring much building materials, so they could only live there for now.
After the building materials were shipped from the Ming Dynasty to the city of Paris, we would start rectifying them.
On this day, after Qin Yuan finished working on the accommodation conditions for everyone in the envoy, he put on high heels, a waistcoat, a tall hat, and headed to Paris with a black umbrella in hand.
Qin Yuan has a lot of things to deal with these days.
Twelve Fortress-class cruisers are to be delivered to France, and the Brest's artillery shells are also to be delivered.
More importantly, cultural exchanges between Ming Dynasty and France are about to begin.
The Ming Dynasty mission brought many works of art and books, which have been shipped to the Louvre and are being compiled by French historians.
After Qin Yuan walked through the narrow and dirty streets and entered the north bank of the Seine in the center of Paris, the Louvre came into view.
A red carpet was rolled out, and the French band, which had been prepared for a long time, played "Victory Belongs to Us" and "The Onion Song."
Qin Yuan entered the Louvre amid military music and flowers.
Napoleon learned the lessons of the previous days and cleaned up the important places early.
The messy residential buildings are being demolished, the streets are being leveled and paved with gravel, and many green plants and flowers are being transplanted on both sides.
It also looks impressive.
After entering the Louvre, Qin Yuan and others were warmly received by Napoleon.
The long buffet table on one side of the hall has been prepared. The red wine from the winery and the delicious food from all over the world surprised Qin Yuan.
Unlike the poor food culture of the British Empire, France's food was pretty good, and several of its regional specialties whetted Qin Yuan's appetite.
It is difficult for a good woman to make a meal without rice, and the quality of diet is related to the geographical environment and species diversity.
The British Empire was an island nation, surrounded by seas, with a monotonous climate and very low species richness.
Even if I search the entire British Isles, I can't find a few plants and animals that can be used for cooking. It's a shame that the food culture is so good.
France is different, with mountains and lakes, vast plains, and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.
The climate is very different between the north and the south, and the species richness is very high.
The diversity of flora and fauna makes France's cuisine second to none in the world.
And this also allowed Qin Yuan, who was accustomed to Chinese cuisine, to enjoy delicious food in Europe for the first time.
Napoleon was relieved when he saw this.
If the Ming envoy couldn't bear the food, he didn't know how to leave a good impression in front of Ming.
Napoleon personally poured a glass of red wine for Qin Yuan and chatted about home affairs.
The final topic came to the racial divisions of the world.
"126 years ago, Chinese naturalist Bernier proposed the theory of race, which for the first time elevated human regional cognition to rational cognition. However, I think this division is biased..."
Napoleon talked about his views, and Qin Yuan also recalled in his mind the many Western books he read when he was in Xinxiang.
There are indeed world geography books that mention this theory.
The French discovered for the first time the division of human races 3,000 years ago in the murals of the tomb of Siti I in the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
The murals use different colors to distinguish the races. Egyptians are painted red, Asians are painted yellow, southern Nirogs are painted black, and Westerners and northerners are painted white.
This in itself is a normal skin color division.
But the French naturalist Bernier consciously raised race to the level of discussing racial superiority and inferiority.
Subsequently, the Swedish scientist Linnaeus further divided the human race in 1758 into: savage species - Philas, monster species - Monstrous, and sane species - Sebiens.
Then he ranked the ethnic groups in each continent based on the continents recognized at that time, from white Europeans, to yellow people in Asia, to black people in Africa, and finally to red people in America.
Yes, during this time period, the red people in America were not even as good as black people.
Especially during the colonial war between Europe and the United States of America, while the Europeans were furious, they tried every means to classify everyone in the United States of America as red people.
The chain of racial contempt has been formally formed, and as countries have developed markets in the process of industrialization, they have gradually changed.
Whoever is strong will be the best.
I don’t know when the so-called yellow race was ranked second from the second to the black race.
At this time, Napoleon raised this issue, obviously to bring Ming Dynasty to the negotiation table for cognitive war.
Prevent the Ming Dynasty from overturning the table in the future.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger. Once the Ming Dynasty completes the recovery of its territory, it will no longer be the Ming Dynasty.
But Ju Ming.
A superpower spanning Asia and Australia.
Its territory is comparable to Tsarist Russia, its army far exceeds that of France, its navy is the father of the European continent, and its culture is unmatched.
Ming Dynasty has become the rule maker.
