It was early April when Jun arrived in Haidu and had just landed. Due to the war, the wedding had not been held as scheduled. The cabinet anxiously urged the Ministry of Rites to come up with a plan as soon as possible. It was better to choose a day than a day, but it could not be delayed any longer.

This time, the Ministry of Rites did not have the same caution as the previous two times. After they quickly calculated the date of Zhu Jun’s arrival, they immediately calculated the date of April 15th, and it happened that Zhu Jun would hold his wedding half a month after he arrived in Haidu.

At this time, the envoys of various vassal states had arrived in Haidu one after another. What interested Zhu Jun was that in the distant West, England, France, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark and other countries also arrived at the port of Haidu with the Spanish merchants. Since the Dutch were driven away by the Ming Dynasty's naval masters from the South China Sea, the legend of Haidu gradually spread to the Western European continent with the Spanish merchants, and various maritime powers paid attention to and examined this distant eastern neighbor.

At that time, the Netherlands was the first maritime power in Europe and was also known as the maritime coachman. It almost monopolized the trade between the entire world and Europe, opened up its own colonies in various oceans, defeated Spain, and replaced Spain's maritime hegemony.

Although Britain defeated Spain's most powerful invincible fleet fifty years ago and competed with the Dutch for half a century thereafter, it did not have much advantage due to the limitations of maritime power. Of course, the British were not willing to give the hegemony at sea to the Dutch. Since William III ascended the throne in 1650, they have been secretly accumulating maritime power and preparing to give the Dutch a head-on attack at the right time. At this time, the British discovered that an ally was rising in the East. This behemoth easily killed the Dutch expedition fleet and occupied an absolute advantage in the oceans of the East. William III was very interested in any plan to weaken the Dutch, so they immediately sent envoys, and after several months of wind and waves, they finally arrived here, the capital of the East.

The ruler of France was Louis XIV, a great leader who was later called the "Sun King" and also had a strong interest in dominating the ocean. Of course, his ambition was not great, but he just wanted to control European trade. He was building a fleet on the northern coast of France, ready to challenge the Dutch at any time. The Ming Dynasty's victory in the South China Sea also attracted him. After learning about the Ming Dynasty, he immediately sent an envoy.

Portugal, Sweden, and Denmark do not have too many purposes. Their greater reason is to come with the boat to visit. It would be better if they could connect with this eastern maritime power.

When the Western envoys arrived at Haidu Port, they immediately became dim. There were hundreds of giant ships shuttled through here, each of which was comparable to the ocean-going merchant ships they were on, and even more exquisite and huge than the Spanish merchant ships. Four or five commercial docks were filled with ships. Spanish merchant ships finally stopped at Pier Ding under the command of the water diggers on the shore.

After negotiations, the envoys were arranged in the Wanyi Pavilion. After hearing along the way, this group of Westerners finally saw that Haidu was rich. At that time, the largest city in Western Europe would never exceed 50,000 people. In Haidu, the completely newly built imperial capital, it already had a population of nearly 500,000. Even the most ordinary streets in the city were the envoys thinking for a long time. The streets here were very vast, not only flat, but also divided into lanes and sidewalks. In the center of the road, there were dazzling carriages shuttled back and forth, and on both sides of the road were quiet people walking quietly along the sidewalk.

The shops here are very large, and some of them even cover more than one acre of land. The shops are filled with various shipping or manufactured products from the development zone, and there are more than dozens of waiters who welcome guests alone.

The envoys stayed in Wanyi Pavilion for three days in amazement after another, and felt more ashamed. Here, special reception officials came to teach them the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, because in three days, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty would meet them, and they were very happy to do so, and even showed no objection to the ceremony of kneeling three times and knocking nine times.

For them, everything in the sea is civilized. The prosperity here is more than ten times more than a European royal city. They even feel that they are more like a country bumpkin. The ceremony of three kneeling and nine kowtows can even be regarded as a symbol of spiritualization. Their bowing ceremony is too barbaric. The British messenger Earl John even planned to recommend this kind of etiquette to William III after going back.

Three days later, the messengers were invited into the exquisite carriage. The wheels were shuttled through the city streets. The messengers saw more interesting things through the car windows.

Then the carriage suddenly stopped. The young etiquette officials came over and told them regretfully. They encountered a traffic jam in Haidu City.

What is a traffic jam? The messengers were very surprised by anything new. They got off the carriage one after another. The wide streets extended to the point where they could see them were shocked. Here, like a long dragon, the carriages were blocking the streets and unable to move. At least thousands of carriages were crowded here. Several soldiers holding muskets were maintaining the order. But very

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"God, let Paris be in traffic jam too. His Highness Louis XIV will be proud of it." The French messenger Duke Wells exclaimed indecently. It was obvious that in the eyes of this French duke, this is also a symbol of civilization and prosperity.

A quarter of an hour later, the road ahead finally became clear. The ministers boarded the carriage and continued to drive. They arrived at the square in front of the palace, where the coachman parked his vehicles in a dedicated parking space, where thousands of carriages were already parked.

There were many pedestrians in the square, and the Confucius Temple and Martyrs' Temple in the center quickly attracted several ministers, but the officials who received them seemed to be a little impatient with the country bumpkins, and he kept urging the ministers to enter the palace.

Zhu Jun was wearing a crown robe and received the group of envoys in a side hall. After the envoys obediently knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, they stood up one after another and looked at the young Eastern emperor very rudely.

Zhu Jun finally spoke: "You are here from thousands of miles away. If there is a place where the Wanyi Pavilion is not properly handled, I hope you can understand it."

This was a polite oriental verbal speech, and the messengers couldn't help but be amazed, because the emperor could speak English. Although some of the accents and vocabulary were not very accurate, it did not affect communication.

The British Minister Earl John smiled gloriously, which was obvious, which indicates that the emperor seemed to have a special liking for Britain. This was a good start. He briskly expressed his satisfaction to His Majesty in pure English that they were very satisfied with everything here, and expressed his gratitude for His Majesty's entertainment.

The French ambassador Duke Wells glanced at the British with dissatisfaction. In Europe, French is compared to the most elegant language and is a culture that all palace royal families must master. People are proud to be able to speak the smooth and fluent Paris accent French. Obviously, the Eastern emperor did not realize this, and Wells felt a strong jealousy in his heart. But he could not control everything. After the British ambassador expressed his admiration for the Eastern emperor, Wells was unwilling to fall behind and expressed his gratitude in English with a Paris accent.

The Spanish minister, Swedish minister, Danish minister, Portugal minister and a Roman bishop dressed in red responded.

Zhu Jun was in a good mood. He asked the little eunuch to bring a seat to the messengers, and then exchanged greetings with them. The messengers competed to talk about some of their experiences floating across the ocean. Then, the Roman bishop in red posed a question that made Zhu Jun embarrassed.

"His Majesty, in Europe, any king will be baptized by the bishop at the coronation ceremony to show the Holy See's support for the world. You are a great Eastern monarch. If you want, the Holy See is very happy to serve you." With the development of the Protestant movement in the UK, the Catholic Church in Rome was under great pressure. The Bishop quickly realized that if this monarch was baptized by the Holy See, the Holy See's reputation would be improved, and its status would be accompanied by the powerful ships of the Eastern Empire.

In fact, the Holy See has always done this. They kept looking for their own secular agents in Europe and coronation ceremony for them. On this condition, they would encourage secular forces to participate in religious disputes. For example, the rise of Protestant Britain, due to the rejection of the Holy See, the Catholic diocese on the European continent had irreparable rifts against Britain. At that time, King Philip of Spain claimed to be the Catholic apology army and sent an invincible fleet to launch a war against Britain.

Zhu Jun pondered without saying a word. In fact, if he had not traveled here, the Yongli in history was indeed baptized. The Chinese scholar-official class at that time was not rejected by Catholicism, and of course his beliefs were not fanatical. The reason why many people became Catholics was just to use the priests to bring them relevant books and translate them.

But the problem is that the Yongli in history was out of a difficult period and hoped to use the power of Portugal and Spain to help him restore his hometown. But Zhu Jun does not need this at all. Moreover, the dignified Emperor of Ming Dynasty was really a dwarf.
Chapter completed!