According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions.

Next, Chen Shousheng and Zhu Youjian will also visit European countries as his plenipotentiary representatives.

The purpose of the visit is to promote national prestige, promote Chinese culture, open up markets and cultivate compradors, and attract European intellectuals.

The first European country that Chen Shoushang and Zhu Youjian want to visit is France.

France already knew about the Holy Emperor Fleet coming to Europe.

However, Europe is now at the end of the Thirty Years' War.

At present, France is in full swing 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.

Moreover, France and Spain have always had conflicts and were hostile during the 30th Years' War in Europe.

Therefore, France was not disgusted with the Ming Empire's behavior of conquering Spain.

What France now has real power is Mazaran, who is equivalent to the prime minister.

Because he was the king of the Bourbon dynasty in France at that time, Louis XIV was still very young.

Ma Zaran naturally did not refuse the invitation to visit Chen Shoushang and Zhu Youjian, and sent officials to Marseille Port to greet him.

Chen Shoushang and Zhu Youjian set out on their trip to France around October of the 27th year of the Apocalypse.

Like the Portuguese and the Spaniards, when Chen Shoushi and Zhu Youjian appeared in Marseille Port with the Holy Emperor fleet, the French were also dumbfounded when they saw the steam warships of the Ming Empire.

"Oh my God! Their warships are actually made of iron! They are very large!"

"Is this the Chinese people who are all over the world of gold in the legend? Their clothes are indeed gorgeous and elegant and dignified, like angels! They are all so tall and strong!"

"Their muskets seem to be very advanced, and they actually have blades in front!"

The French gathered in the Port of Marseille, after seeing the Chinese, all started to discuss.

In this era, influenced by Marco Polo, and at this time in history, Western civilization had not completely surpassed the East. Even before the Steam Industrial Revolution, China was still a representative of the advanced productivity in this world.

Therefore, Europeans in this era still admire and yearn for China very much.

At this time, when the envoys of the Ming Empire arrived, the military strength and temperament they showed did not disappoint these French people.

These French people kept sighing.

Visiting France was a civilized visit, not a military operation. Chen Shouye and Zhu Youjian did not bring the troops of the vassal states, but only brought their own troops to visit.

Therefore, the Orientals seen by the French will think that Orientals are particularly tall.

If the French saw Japanese soldiers, they would not think that the Orientals would be particularly tall.

"Dignified guests from China, welcome your arrival! I am the envoy sent by His Majesty the King to welcome your special envoy Tirena."

French nobleman Tirena smiled and said when he saw Chen Shouyao and Zhu Youjian, and then he was about to kiss Chen Shouyao and Zhu Youjian.

Chen Shoushang and Zhu Yujian were greatly embarrassed and couldn't help but take a step back.

Seeing this, Tirena was stunned and had to keep a smile and asked, "You can't accept our etiquette?"

"The rituals of Western Barbarians are really strange!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help but complain, and then performed a ritual of Han with his hands stacked in front of him.

Chen Shoushou also returned one.

Tirena naturally learned such an oriental ceremony.

This is related to his knowledge that these people from the East destroyed the huge Spanish Empire in just half a month not long ago.

People worship the strong.

In addition, Tirena couldn't help but discover the Chinese etiquette of Chen Shou and Zhu Youjian that these Chinese people from the powerful East seemed to contain a kind of humility and grandeur in the etiquette. Between the arms, they were like the sea and the rivers, and the hearts were all directions. When they bowed, they seemed to have a tiger in their hearts and smelled roses.

For a moment, Tirena developed great interest in these nobles from the East.

"In our country of China, it can be said that there are nobles or there are no nobles. All the four people are compatriots. Their respect lies in virtue and the importance lies in merit. The royal family needs to accept common people's daughters. Every man should have the ambition of the world. There is a saying that if kings, princes, generals and ministers have a seed, they should be responsible when the world is in trouble!"

At the banquet where Tirena hosted Chen Shoushi and Zhu Youjian, Intirena took the initiative to ask Chen Shoushi and Zhu Youjian. Regarding the Chinese aristocrats, Zhu Youjian first answered based on the mainstream thoughts of the Ming Dynasty nowadays.

Tirena was very shocked after hearing this, but because the European nobles paid attention to bloodline, he did not expect that the Ming Dynasty did not attach importance to bloodline.

Therefore, he lost interest in further understanding of Chinese civilization and became busy changing the topic.

However, in the following military performance, Tirena showed great interest in the Ming Dynasty's steel smoothbore gun and firing gun.

Because the French artillery and guns of this era are not as good as those of the Ming Dynasty.

You should know that in terms of artillery, Napoleon cannons in history were all bronze cannons.

And now, the Ming Dynasty has used rifled cannons.

It was just because Zhu Youxiao did not want to sell the most advanced weapons to the West, so the cannons and muskets brought by Chen Shousu and Zhu Youjian were not the most advanced weapons in the Ming Dynasty today.

"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, after meeting Zhang Shoushang and Zhu Youjian, Tirena suggested to Mazaran.

Mazaran asked again: "Where is their politics and culture?"

“It’s awful!”

"Their nobles do not seem to pay attention to the purity of their bloodline, and even their queens are from civilians!"

"I even heard from them that any of them, if they counted several generations or ten generations, they were considered nobles, but for them, they believed that becoming kings, princes, generals and ministers had nothing to do with their bloodline. They also said that the beauty of a gentleman was killed for five generations, and that yin and yang alternated, and that the prosperity and decline were uncertain. Such remarks were contrary to us! They were not conducive to our own civilians."

Tirena replied.

"If you make sense, then just talk to them about business matters, and they are strictly forbidden to publicize their own teachings."

Mazaran replied.

"We have to go to the Netherlands to see, these Frenchmen seem to be interested only in our artillery and muskets."

Zhu Youjian also stayed in France for a long time and said to Chen Shoushang, and said, "In addition, I have found out that on the list of the external series that His Majesty is calling for leave, the one named Descartes is living in the Netherlands."

"Before leaving, you have to ask Pascal and Ferma to leave! These people were also what His Majesty asked for!"

Chen Shousheng replied.
Chapter completed!