In the end, although Tuo Huan and Li Xuanying had a lot of ideas, they still failed to come up with a suitable solution.
Guo Kang suggested that you can find any reason for a private visit - anyway, the princess said she was visiting friends before going out. Since she didn't say which friend she was visiting, coming to the Purple Horde Khanate was considered an agreement in advance. Moreover, the friends of the Purple Horde Khanate are far away and there are many of them, so it won’t be a problem to visit them for a while.
The Queen of France and others may suspect that the Purple Horde Khanate secretly colluded with her in advance and prepared to support her in the conflict between Britain and France. But if you think about it carefully, this kind of thing is not difficult to deal with.
After Zhu Yunwen cut off the vassal, the current situation of the French royal family is worse than the history in Guo Kang's memory. The queen and others were not so determined to resist, and some even secretly negotiated with England. In this case, they could not seriously blame Rome.
After all, Zhu Yunwen was introduced by the Purple Horde Khanate, so whatever the princess really hopes to do, this is indeed her main potential foreign aid. Since we can't let go of the relationship, it's better to just deal with it like this.
Regarding his answer, Theodora said that it was at least passing. Guo Kang was relieved.
And Tuo Huan told him that he was not jumping off the roof blindly - he also had important news.
An Egyptian Mamluk emir came to Dadu Pier in person today. On behalf of his faction, he delivered important news. As expected, the Mamluks began to fight among themselves again, and these people may have brought in reinforcements.
Tuo Huan hopes that Guo Kang can attend diplomatic activities together and the banquet in a few days.
It is much easier to engage in diplomacy with these people. In the past, when these emirs, beys, and chiefs came to visit, they were received by nobles in the purple tent. Everyone was talking and drinking grape juice in the palace, until the sky was dark and the earth was dark. When I woke up and regained my composure, we were basically done talking. The rest are all details after the general direction has been finalized, and officials in all aspects can take their time to figure it out.
In addition to the palace, the Niangniang Temple is also an important place for receiving guests and holding ceremonies. Many distinguished guests come here specifically to visit.
Because so many people came, the temple also prepared a private lounge for the nobles. If you get tired of the lengthy etiquette, rituals and speeches, take turns retreating to the lounge for a few drinks. Therefore, the guests usually leave with red eyes, obviously satisfied with these diplomatic ceremonies.
This time, the public purpose of the Egyptian guests' trip was to hire engineers and engineering teams to repair local public welfare facilities. Therefore, as a relevant party, Guo will definitely attend.
The ancestor of the Guo family is said to be the leader of the engineers in the army and an expert in engineering. This family tradition has been continued since then. Basically every generation has outstanding architects and engineers, and others have also dabbled in it to some extent. The foster father Guo Daxia is actually an alien.
Over the years, the most famous person in his family should be the construction expert who once built "Petersburg" in Novgorod, "Old Peter" Guo Di.
In addition to the distant fortress, his greater fame comes from Dadu - due to his rich experience and remarkable achievements, he was elected by everyone to be responsible for the renovation of a number of important facilities in the city.
The current imperial palace and Empress Temple are the result of his overhaul. Even the special rest rooms in the temple were specially added at that time. Guo Kang worked hard on the temple's buildings and added various movable statues, which can be regarded as passing on the ancestral heritage.
The more controversial part is that Guo Di believed at the time that the original decoration style was too extravagant. The gold ornaments and purple curtains in the records are worth a lot of money even now, so it would be a waste to restore them all. It is better to choose a cheaper option and use the money saved on more critical infrastructure construction.
The choice of color must of course be done carefully. Ancient books say that green, red, yellow, white, and black are the five correct colors. Red and black have been used for the military flag. With these three remaining, Guo Di plans to give the yellow to the palace, and the cyan and white to the Empress Temple.
According to the design, after the renovation of the Empress Temple, the entire temple will be repainted. Guo Di also added the Star and Moon emblem of Constantinople as a decorative element.
The moon on the city emblem comes from the Byzantine city-state in the classical era and represents Artemis, the moon god worshiped by the city-state; the stars above were added after Emperor Constantine moved the capital and symbolize the Virgin Mary. In order to adapt to the new colors, Guo Di also painted the red and white colors of the star and moon emblem into green and white.
Later, the Greeks protested that this new emblem was against tradition, so they used it for a while and then replaced it. However, in some other places, traces can still be seen.
It is said that Guo Di even had an idea to change the overall tone of the city. He had stayed in the Ross area for a long time and liked the snow and forests there, so he once made suggestions to eradicate and level the dirty and messy areas in the city that had been caused by years of lack of management, and place them in appropriate locations. Trees, shrubs and lawns are planted in an orderly manner, and combined with existing water palaces and fountains, they form a greening system for the entire city. The tops of those bare buildings are also painted green to match the overall tone. The ultimate goal was to make the city aesthetically pleasing from any angle on the Theodosian walls.
Guo Di called this too advanced urban greening plan the "Green City" and suggested that the corresponding Mongolian "Kukuhetun" should be used as the official Mongolian name corresponding to the Chinese "Dadu".
Although the plan was not realized in the end due to cost issues, Guo Di still left his shadow everywhere in the city.
To this day, the honor guard of the Empress Temple still wears the customary red coats and black gauze hats used by Zi Zhang, and carries the green and white star-and-moon flag designed by him. Together with the four Sulu ingots surrounding the temple, it is very impressive. Some customers even thought the design was very nice, so they copied it and let their guards use it.
Although the real purpose of this Mamluk emir was definitely not to rent a construction team, the presence of someone from the Guo family was also a requirement of the process.
And Guo Kang... Although he did not inherit his ancestral business and became an architect, he studied mechanism techniques at the Empress Temple every day and also tinkered with firearms, which everyone knew. This kind of thing is indeed indispensable to him.
After informing them of this matter, Tuo Huan and Li Xuanying did not stop and took the initiative to leave.
Before leaving, Li Xuanying took advantage of Guo Kang to arrive at the door and quietly told him that these two heroines were very powerful. Although he boasted that he had been practicing martial arts for many years and was proficient in bow and horse, he was attacked in a hurry and suffered a big loss. The horse fell down before he could swing it.
He suspected that Guo Kang was currently not as strong as Guo Daxia. He didn't know if he could withstand so many female heroes, so he had to be more careful.
After giving instructions, the two of them turned around and gave Guo Kang an encouraging smile and left in a hurry.
Okay, the list of alliance leaders that have been released so far can be considered completed...Thank you everyone!
(End of chapter)
