Time is as said in ancient poems, blowing the horse's hair in the wind and the ponytail in the evening wind, blowing the days away day by day.

After Zhao Xin sent Zhang Jingxuan away, he returned to Beihai Town. Poor Chen Jishan and his guards, they could not keep up with Zhao Xin's rhythm no matter what, so they could only stay in Irkutsk this winter.

After mid-October, the weather in the northeast became colder and the howling north wind accompanied by heavy snow fell for several days before it stopped.

It was just dark on this day, hundreds of people walked out of the house, standing on the cold street, waiting, as if there was something major event. Among the crowd were new residents from Beihai Town and those who came from Whale Town to watch the fun. The French, envoys of the Li Dynasty, and envoys of the Changzhou vassal who wanted to see Zhao Xin but failed, were also mixed in with the crowd.

"Have you heard that? Today the people of Cyris want to turn on the whole city with lights!"

"What is an electric lamp? I knew the whale oil lamp."

"I can't say it well, I heard Captain Deng explain it two days ago, but it's hard to understand. In fact, many things that the Seris people do here are really dazzling."

Of course the French cannot understand it. The great British physicist Faraday will not be born until three years later. At present, Europeans' understanding of electricity is only lightning and thunder in natural phenomena. People who like science are still stuck in the Leiden bottle.

The businessman from the Li Dynasty pointed to the tall street lamp pole not far away, bowed to Cai Jigong and said, "Sir, I heard that those lamps can be lit without fire!

Cai Jigong said with disdain, "Absurd! Is it because I don't need fire to wait for lightning to be struck by lightning?"

This Confucian scholar from the Li Dynasty has been in Beihai Town for more than a month. He felt that there were things that he couldn't understand in the huge town. Only Wang Zhong, who was the deputy priest, could communicate with Lin Ziping, a native of the island country, could not communicate. The others were really not enough to discuss the argument. What he most unacceptable to Beihai Town was that there was a woman in the school as a teacher!

Do you even care about the defense of men and women? It’s simply rebellious!

Several island warriors with moon-dressed hair and fur on the outside were not conspicuous in the crowd. One of the guys who looked like a leader asked the people around him, "Yujiro, have you counted? How many tall poles have they stood in total?"

The entourage beside the leader quickly replied, "234. Murata and I counted one by one. I heard that I had to order two days ago, but it was changed today because it was snowing."

At 7 o'clock in the evening, when the crossing of the power port led a group of apprentices from the technical school to check the transmission lines one by one and confirmed that everything was correct, as Wu An issued a "start" order on the phone, a power plant member responsible for operating the low-voltage substation immediately pressed the switch.

In an instant, from the Xila River to the westernmost end of the Beihai Sea, all 234 street lights in Beihai Town were lit up, and the whole town was like daytime, dazzling. Foreigners and new refugees were attracted by the light emitted by the street lights above their heads, and they couldn't help but whispering to each other:

"I'm here! It's so bright!"

"O God! It's like the moon, no, brighter than the moon!"

"Wow!すばぉしい!"

In fact, Beihai Town has been using electricity since its establishment. Whether it is a school, a hospital, a military camp or even a workshop on the east bank of the Xila River, electricity has long become an indispensable energy for Beihai Town's development. But until today, electric light lighting has finally entered the residential community.

Cai Jigong and other members of the Li Dynasty delegation looked around in shock, as if they were in the daytime, and couldn't help but feel dizzy and dazzled. After a while, Lord Cai asked his subordinates to support him back to the hotel.

Earl La Peruz looked up at the street lights emitting white light in the night sky, and was both amazed and excited, thinking that this trip to Beihai Town is really worth it!

I believe that as the records of their own adventures were passed back to the European continent, people would be fascinated by China in the future, not only silk, porcelain, decorations and tea, nor would they be novels, dramas and etiquettes mentioned by Jesuit priests. The "Chinese Moon" shining in the night sky is probably the most talked about, right?

Just based on what he has heard and seen in this month, if anyone says that science is still in the foundation stage in China, Earl La Peruz will definitely refute it with the large iron ship on the Whale Bay Pier and the chimney-streeting workshop on the east bank of the Sila River.

Perhaps the ancient China, which was still ruled by the Tatars in the south, was indeed in the ignorant era of autocratic dynasties, but this northern regime composed of Han people and other ethnic groups was an extremely prosperous and advanced area.

The food here is unimaginable, and every newcomer can eat and wear well; perhaps this is why the rulers here prohibit the people from abandoning babies. The state machine here is powerful, but no one will be arrested for disrespect for the words of the "king".

However, according to the observation of Count La Peruz, almost few people would disrespect Zhao Xin's words. Those who complained were almost despised and scolded by their neighbors, and would soon be isolated.

What many old residents talk about most is how Zhao Xin brought them across the sea to come here, from nothing to the current tens of thousands of acres of fertile fields and fields.

What surprised Earl La Peruz the most so far is that Beihai Town does not have agricultural taxes and capitol taxes, which is simply incredible to him! How did a regime that never taxes peasants maintain his huge military and police system and an effective bureaucratic system? Earl La Peruz really wanted to ask Zhao Xin for advice.

Two days later, under the leadership of Deng Fei, the French expedition team finally met the ruler who "only listen to his name but not his person". However, the other party's office space of only more than 100 square meters surprised La Peruz and several scientists.

"Dear Your Highness, I am the Brigadier General of the Kingdom of France - Conte de La Peruz. I am honored to meet you! On behalf of the entire expedition team and myself, I would like to congratulate you on your brilliant victory in the war with the Russians."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! The feathered triangular hat turned around like a flower and turned around with Earl LaPeruz's wrist, and finally raised it high to the right rear. At the same time, LaPeruz's right foot took a half step back at the same time, leaning over to bow to Zhao Xin.

"(⊙o⊙)..." Zhao Xinxin said that this posture was too fancy, and he would definitely not be able to play with it if he changed himself. After listening to Deng Fei's translation, he smiled and said, "I'm very happy to see you, Brigadier General. Sir, don't be too polite, please sit down."

In fact, Zhao Xin knows a lot of foreign languages, including English, Japanese, Russian, and German, but he doesn't know French.

You should know that in Europe today, French is the common language of the aristocrats. As an upper class person, if you don’t speak French in social circles, you will definitely be looked down upon. As for speaking German, it is called vulgar, and speaking Russian is simply a rustic. Even when talking to Suvorov, one or two French words often pop up, making Zhao Xin roll his eyes.

The problem is that French is so difficult to learn! Not to mention anything else, numbers alone can make beginners dizzy. There are fixed words for 1~16, but from 17, the French began to let themselves go. 17 is 10 7, 18 is 10 8... If that's the case, it would be fine. When Damn it reaches 70, it becomes 60 10, 80 is 4 by 20! Can you still speak well?!

As for English...the English that travels through the times is different. Whether people in the 18th century can understand it, so Zhao Xin decided to only use Chinese.

During the conversation, when Zhao Xin learned that these French people had been to Hawaii, he said casually "Helloha", which surprised more than a dozen French people. He thought to himself that when we were in Maui, he had never heard of Chinese people coming!

The two sides exchanged gifts for a while and each exchanged gifts. La Peruz and others prepared a gilded clock from the Captain's Office of the Astropan, and they bought some sea otter skins in Okhotsk; Zhao Xin, on behalf of Beihai Town, gave each other a pack of matches, electronic calculator, a pair of binoculars, a pair of sea sextant made of brass, and a Han Dynasty-style sword produced by Beihai Town Arsenal.

It's fine to have a sextant and matches, a calculator, a high-power binocular and an imitation of Han sword that made the French praise.

How clear! More than 32,000 layers of hand-folded forging, steel-clamped composite, and a 8-sided sword shape with a covered and burned blade in the Han Dynasty said it was good. This thing can be made in this time and space at present.

"Brother General, I wonder what you think of your third level in your country?"

"Huh? Your Highness, you even know the third level?"

"Oh, I learned a little while chatting with General Suvorov."

In front of several civilians or bourgeois scientists on the expedition, La Peruz, who was born in the aristocratic family, was not easy to use mean words. He thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, I think appropriate changes are the right one. You know, I also agree that the royal power must be limited and not be unscrupulous. But in my personal opinion, privileges can never be eliminated. Whether it is aristocrat or a third level, everyone pursues eternal wealth."

Zhao Xin nodded and thought to himself that you are both unfortunate and lucky. If you hadn't been this expedition, you might have been beaten by the Gironde faction.

After all, the two sides met politely this time, and many topics were not easy to go deeper. At the end, Count La Peruz sincerely invited the big iron ship in Beihai Town to visit Paris. He was willing to serve as a guide on the boat. Zhao Xin said he would consider it and invited the other party to attend his wedding next month.

By the way, whether it is the French, the Li Dynasty, or the Changzhou vassal, Zhao Xin has to meet these people one by one. It is impossible not to meet them, especially the Li Dynasty and the Changzhou vassal, who are completely stubborn and waiting for the New Year to eat dumplings.

Zhao Xin really had nothing to talk about about Li Chao and the group of people. He didn't know Cai Jigong at all, but just wanted to express his attitude to the end. With this idea, when he saw Li Chao and his group of five, Zhao Xin was amused and cryed.

"I am the official envoy of the Korean Kingdom, Cai Bogui of the Pingkang family, please see His Highness Zhao." Cai Jigong and his subordinates actually gave Zhao Xin a grand ceremony of kneeling three times and nine times.

"Mr. Cai, please get up. I am not the emperor, so you don't need to do this."

"Your Highness, since you are the descendant of the Emperor Zhao King of the Ming Dynasty, you should receive this great gift." Cai Jigong raised his sleeves and stood up and bowed, "Emperor Ming is the highest country in China! The superior country is in the country, and its tiny (pronunciation is the same as the reward) is as small as a slightest thing, as if it has fallen from heaven, it will flourish in a territory and celebrate the world for generations. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Yi Zonglie died for the country and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. This is now 144 years. Although our country is not strong enough to eliminate Rongdi, purge the Central Plains, and restore the old days of the previous kings, they can all respect the Ming Dynasty and preserve China."

Zhao Xin smiled faintly and said, "But as far as I know, the Qing emperor is good to you."

"No!" Cai Jigong said seriously: "The grace of the Ming Dynasty must not be forgotten. In the past, the Japanese people overthrew my territory, and the Emperor of Shenzong promoted the troops from all over the world to support him. He spent all his money to support him, and returned the three capitals to me, and returned them to the eighth Route Army. My ancestors had no country but had a country. My people would be spared the custom of carvings and clothes. The grace was in the flesh and the grace of the country forever.

Now the Qing Dynasty's old ministers of Ming Dynasty, who are the bestowed on the world to favor our country by the world, will also be burdened. I sent my ministers to visit the capital, and even though I sent ministers to welcome him, I was among the ministers. I was happy to receive a banquet for the court ministers, and I also paid tribute to the court officials forever, and I sent some special gifts. Although I had grace, I had not obtained the emperor's life. However, I was worried but not grateful, and I was worried but not glorious. There was nothing else, not China! My country's strength and submission to him was a great country, and a great country could surrender it with strength, not the emperor I had first received.

The Tartars gave favors and exemptions to the decree. In a great country, they only gave their policies to care for Xiao Rou and far. They were favorable, not what I called kindness!”

What a good guy! After Cai Jigong's big trick, Zhao Xin rolled his eyes straight, but he still understood. What he meant was that the Ming Dynasty had a rebirth of the Li Dynasty back then, so he had to rely on the country forever. Although the Qing Dynasty was kind to the Li Dynasty, it was just a favor, and it was not the same as the "grace" of the Ming Dynasty, so he was "worry but not honored".

As the leader of the Southern People's Party, it is no surprise that Cai Jigong has this argument. Not to mention him, even the ministers of Li Dynasty who supported cooperation with the Qing Dynasty were in their hearts.

In their opinion, the Qing Dynasty's virtue and kindness to the Li Dynasty was just for the "needle of dogs, horses, pearls and jade" in the future. The barbarians and tatars would sooner or later be overthrown by the Han people. The reason why the Qing Dynasty was kind to the Li Dynasty was just to prepare in advance for retreating to the Northeast in the future. Therefore, the literati and officials of the Li Dynasty were always wary of the Qing Dynasty. The so-called "respecting Zhou Siming" was to remind the court and the people not to be fascinated by the "gratitude" of the Qing Dynasty.

Until now, the scholars and officials of the Northern Expedition faction of Korea still believed in the creed of "resulting 100,000 people, rushing into the pass, clearing the Hanxia, ​​and then magnificently judging". Some people in the scholars still suggested selecting children from the country, shaving their hair and wearing clothes, making friends with scholars and literati from Jiangnan, and traveling to Jiangnan with civilians, exploring the Qing Dynasty, the emptiness and reality of the Qing Dynasty, and making friends with heroes from all over the world, so as to seek the world and avenge the national humiliation.

This can also be seen from the name of the record documents of the Li Dynasty's mission to China nowadays. Those who went to the Ming Dynasty were called "Chaotianlu", and those who went to the Qing Dynasty were called "Yan Xingji", which shows the different mentality.

From Shunzhi to Qianlong, they never expected that the Qing court's actions towards North Korea were completely charming for blind people! Perhaps the happiest ones were the Korean businessmen and officials who were involved in the "Eight Packages of Trade".

However, Cai Jigong also said something. What a great country is defeated by force? The meaning of holding a gun and a stick is that Beihai Town is now powerful in its military power. If you, King Zhao, really, use force to make us surrender, we will give in as we can't beat us like back then, but we will not treat you, "King Zhao" as the truth.

If you want to scare other time travelers, it might be possible, but Zhao Xin thought that everything in the "Bangzi Kingdom" in the future was their invented momentum, so he couldn't be enthusiastic about Cai Jigong!

Although the Li Dynasty was cursing with the Ming Dynasty when he was in charge of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was not enthusiastic about the envoys of the Li Dynasty. When the Korean envoys came to pay tribute, they initially placed them under monks and Taoists, which shows how much they looked down upon! After the Korean envoys protested, the Ming court placed them in the seventh rank of the east head of the court, which was the last seat of all officials.

During the Jiajing period, the Ministry of Rites discovered that the Korean envoys purchased books such as "The Unification of the Ming Dynasty", and believed that foreigners could not buy these books, so they closed the Korean Pavilion and allowed all North Koreans to enter and exit.

After the King of Zhongzong sent someone to ask the Ministry of Rites to open the access control, the Ming Dynasty agreed to open the door every five days. Only the official and the official can go out and wander around, but others still cannot go out. Even if there is no major change in the future, no matter how long it is, no one can go out without the Ministry of Rites.

At this time, Cai Jigong was proud of his feelings and felt that his words were in great sincerity. I was crying all the time. Why are you not moved?

"Mr. Cai, let me tell you what I think."

Zhao Xin finally spoke, and Cai Jigong hurriedly said, "Please tell me clearly with your highness."

"Since you think you are a little Chinese, and you have been very sincere in your life for three hundred years and have received great gratitude, I would like to express your gratitude on behalf of all the Han people. However, you should return the land you have seized first, and everything else is easy to say."
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