According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions.
Next, Shen Shouao and Zhu Yujian will serve as his plenipotentiary representatives and visit various European countries.
The purpose of the visit was to promote the country's prestige, promote Chinese culture, open up markets and cultivate compradors, and attract European intellectuals.
The first European country that Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian will visit is France.
France already knew about the Holy Emperor's fleet coming to Europe.
However, Europe is now at the end of the Thirty Years' War.
Right now, France is in a fierce battle with the Holy Roman Empire.
France naturally did not have the energy to provoke the Ming Empire, nor did it dare to offend the Ming Empire.
What's more, France and Spain have always had conflicts and were hostile parties during the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
Therefore, France is not disgusted with the Ming Empire's conquest of Spain.
The person who holds the real power in France now is Mazarin, who is equivalent to the prime minister.
Because Louis XIV was still very young when he was the king of the Bourbon dynasty of France.
Naturally, Mazaran did not refuse the invitation of Shen Shouao and Zhu Yujian to visit, and even sent officials to Marseille Port to welcome them.
Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian embarked on a trip to France around October of the twenty-seventh year of the Apocalypse.
Like the Portuguese and Spanish, when Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian appeared in the Port of Marseille with the Holy Emperor's fleet, the French were also dumbfounded when they saw the steam battleships of the Ming Empire.
"Oh my god! Their battleship is actually made of iron! It's also very big!"
"Are these people from the legendary golden land of China? Their clothes are indeed gorgeous, elegant and dignified, like angels! And they are all so tall and strong!"
"Their muskets seem to be very advanced and even have blades on the front!"
The French people gathered in the Marseille Port area all started talking after seeing the Chinese.
In this era, influenced by Marco Polo, and at this time in history, Western civilization had not completely surpassed the East. Even before the emergence of the steam industrial revolution, China was still the representative of the world's advanced productive forces.
Therefore, Europeans in this era still respect and yearn for China very much.
At this time, when the envoys from the Ming Empire arrived, the military strength and temperament displayed did not disappoint the French.
These French people couldn't help but sigh.
The visit to France was a civilized visit, not a military operation. Shen Shouao and Zhu Yujian did not bring troops from the vassal country, but only troops from their own country.
Therefore, when the French see Oriental people, they think Oriental people are particularly tall.
If the French saw Japanese soldiers, they would not think that Easterners are particularly tall.
"Distinguished guests from China, welcome to your arrival! I am Turena, the special envoy sent by His Majesty the King to welcome you."
The French aristocrat Turenne smiled and said something when he saw Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian, and then kissed Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian.
Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian were greatly embarrassed by this and couldn't help but take a step back.
Turena couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this. He could only keep smiling and asked: "You can't accept our etiquette?"
"The gift from Xiyi is really strange!"
Zhu Yujian couldn't help but cursed, and then performed a Han salute with his hands folded in front of him.
Shen Shouyao also replied.
Turena naturally followed and learned such an Eastern ritual.
This was related to the fact that he knew that these people from the east had destroyed the huge Spanish Empire in just half a month not long ago.
People worship the strong.
In addition, Turenne could not help but discover from the Han etiquette of Shen Shouguo and Zhu Yujian that these Chinese people from the powerful East seemed to contain a kind of humility and grandeur in their etiquette. With their arms open, they seemed to embrace all rivers and have a broad mind. When I bow down, I feel like I have a tiger in my heart, sniffing the roses.
For a while, Turenne became very interested in these nobles from the East.
"In our country of China, it can be said that there are nobility or no nobility. All the four people are compatriots. Their respect lies in virtue, and their dignity lies in merit. The royal family needs to accept commoner women, and every man should have the ambition of the world. There is a saying, Princes, generals, Xiang Ning, have the guts to do so, and when the world is in trouble, everyone should take responsibility!"
At the banquet hosted by Tirena for Shen Shouao and Zhu Yujian, Intirena took the initiative to ask Shen Shouao and Zhu Yujian about China's nobility, and Zhu Yujian first answered based on the mainstream thinking of the Ming Dynasty.
Turenne was very shocked after hearing this, but because European aristocrats paid attention to bloodline, he did not expect that the Ming Dynasty did not pay attention to bloodline.
Therefore, he lost interest in further understanding of Chinese civilization and quickly changed the topic.
However, in the subsequent military performance, Turena showed great interest in the Ming Dynasty's steel smoothbore cannon and percussion guns.
Because the French artillery and firearms of this era were not as good as those of the Ming Dynasty.
You know, when it comes to artillery alone, the Napoleonic cannons of the Napoleonic period in history were all bronze cannons.
Now, the Ming Dynasty has used rifled cannons.
It was only because Zhu Youxiao did not want to sell the most advanced weapons to the West that the artillery and muskets brought by Shen Shouyao and Zhu Yujian were not the most advanced weapons of the Ming Dynasty.
"We should introduce their more advanced technology, their artillery and muskets, which may better help us defeat the army of the Holy Roman Empire."
Therefore, Turenne suggested this to Mazaran after meeting Zhang Shouyao and Zhu Yujian.
Mazarin asked again: "What about their politics and culture?"
"It's terrible!"
"Their nobles don't seem to pay attention to the purity of blood. Even their queen comes from common people!"
"I even heard them say that any of their civilians can be considered a noble for a few or more generations, but for them, they believe that becoming a prince, general or minister has nothing to do with blood. They also say that the virtue of a gentleman is Killing people after five generations, and also saying that yin and yang alternate, and rise and fall are uncertain, such remarks are contrary to us! It is also not conducive to us controlling our own civilians."
Turenne replied.
"That makes sense, then we can only discuss business matters with them and strictly prohibit them from promoting their own teachings."
Mazaran replied.
"Go to Holland and see. These French people seem to be only interested in our artillery and muskets."
Zhu Yujian also said something to Shen Shouyao after staying in France for a long time, and said: "In addition, I have inquired and learned that among the foreigners Your Majesty named to invite away, the man named Descartes is living in the Netherlands."
"Before we leave, we must also invite Pascal and Fermat to leave! These people are also requested by His Majesty!"
Shen Shouyao replied.
Zhu Yujian nodded: "Tell their king then that they must cooperate with us in taking these people away, otherwise we will not agree to sell guns to them!"
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