Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 112 The Family of Engineers

In the end, although Tuo Huan and Li Xuanying had a lot of brains, they still failed to come up with a suitable solution.

Guo Kang suggested that you can just find a reason for a private visit - anyway, the princess said at the time that she was visiting friends, so she went out.Since she didn't say which friend she was visiting, it was agreed in advance to come to the Purple Horde Khanate.Moreover, the friends of the Purple Horde Khanate are far away and there are a lot of people. It will be no problem to visit for a while.

The Queen of France and others may have suspected that the Purple Horde had secretly colluded with her in advance and planned to support her to intervene in the conflict between Britain and France.But this kind of thing, if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to deal with it.

After Zhu Yunqi cut down 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 firm in their determination to resist, and some even negotiated with England secretly.In this case, they could not seriously blame Rome.

After all, Zhu Yunqi was introduced by the Purple Horde Khanate, so what the princess really wanted to do, this was indeed one of her main potential foreign aid.Since the relationship can't be let go, it's better to just deal with it like this.

Regarding his answer, Theodora said that at least he passed.Guo Kang breathed a sigh of relief.

And Tuo Huan told him that he didn't jump off the roof blindly - he also had important news.

An Egyptian Mamluk emir came to Dadu Wharf in person today.On behalf of his faction, he delivered important news.Not surprisingly, the Mamluks started to fight among themselves again, and these people may have brought in reinforcements.

Tuo Huan hopes that Guo Kang can participate in diplomatic activities together and the banquet in a few days.

Engaging in diplomacy with these people is much easier.In the past, when these emirs, beys, and chiefs came to visit, they were all received by noble people in the purple tent.Everyone talked and drank grape juice in the palace, drinking until the sky was dark.When I wake up, I'm basically talking about it.The rest are all the details after the general direction is finalized, and it is enough for the officials in all aspects to ponder over it slowly.

In addition to the palace, the Niangniang Temple is also an important place to receive guests and hold ceremonies.Many distinguished guests come here specially to visit.

Due to the large number of people coming, the temple also specially prepared a private lounge for the nobles.If you are tired of the lengthy etiquette, ceremony and speech, you can take turns to hide in the lounge for a while and have a drink or two.Therefore, the guests usually leave with red eyes, obviously satisfied with these diplomatic ceremonies.

This time, the public purpose of the Egyptian guest's itinerary is to hire engineers and engineering teams to maintain local public welfare facilities.Therefore, as a related party, Mrs. 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 carried on later. Basically, every generation has outstanding architects and engineers, and others have also dabbled in it to some extent.The adoptive father, Guo Daxia, is actually a different kind.

In these years, the most famous of his family should be the construction expert who once built "Peterburg" in Novgorod, "Old Peter" Guo Di.

Apart from the fortress in the distance, his greater reputation comes from Dadu—due to his rich experience and remarkable achievements, he was recommended by everyone to be responsible for the renovation of a number of important facilities in the city.

The current imperial palace and Niangniang Temple are the result of his overhaul.Even the special rest room in the temple was specially added at that time.Guo Kang worked his hands on the buildings in the temple and added various movable statues, which can be regarded as inheriting his ancestral business.

What is more controversial is that Guo Di believed at the time that the original decoration style was too extravagant.The golden ornaments and purple curtains in the records are worth a lot even now, and it would be too wasteful to restore them all.It is better to choose a cheaper solution and spend the money saved on more critical infrastructure construction.

Of course, the choice of color must be careful.According to ancient books, blue, red, yellow, white, and black are the five positive colors.Red and black have been used for the military flag.For the remaining three, Guo Di is going to give the yellow to the palace, and the blue and white to the Niangniang Temple.

According to the design, after the renovation of the Niangniang Temple, the entire temple will be repainted.Guo Di also added the star and moon city emblem of Constantinople as a decorative element.

The moon on the city emblem comes from the Byzantine city-state in the classical era, representing Artemis, the moon god believed by the city-state; the stars above were added after Emperor Constantine moved the capital, symbolizing the Virgin Mary.In order to adapt to the new color tone, Guo Di also painted the red and white colors of the Xingyue emblem into green and white.

Later, the Greeks protested that this new emblem was against tradition, so it took a while to replace it.But in some other places, you can still see the remaining traces.

It is said that Guo Di even had an idea of ​​changing the overall tone of the city.He has been in the Rose area for a long time, and he likes the snow fields and forests there, so he once suggested that all the dirty and messy areas in the city caused by the lack of management all year round should be eradicated and leveled, and in suitable locations, Plant trees, shrubs and lawns in an orderly manner, and cooperate with the existing water palaces and fountains to form the greening system of the entire city.Those bare buildings also painted the tops green to match the overall tone.The ultimate goal is to make the city aesthetically pleasing when viewed from any angle on the walls of Theodosius.

Guo Di called this overly advanced urban greening plan "Cyan City", and suggested that the corresponding Mongolian word "Kukuhetun" be used as the official Mongolian name corresponding to the Chinese word "Dadu".

Although the plan was not realized due to cost issues, Guo Di still left his shadow everywhere in the city.

To this day, the guard of honor of the Niangniang Temple still wears the red overcoats and black gauze hats that are customary in the purple tent, and carries the green and white Xingyue flag designed by him.Cooperating with the four Sulu ingots around the temple, it is very impressive.Some customers even thought this design was very beautiful, so they copied it back and asked their guards to use it.

Although the real purpose of this Mamluk emir is definitely not to rent a construction team, it is also a requirement of the process that someone from the Guo family should be present.

As for Guo Kang... Although he did not inherit his ancestral business and became an architect, everyone knew that he studied mechanism techniques and tinkered with firearms in the Empress Temple every day.This kind of thing really cannot do without him.

After informing about this matter, Tuo Huan and Li Xuanying did not stop, and directly took the initiative to leave.

Before leaving, Li Xuanying took advantage of Guo Kang's arrival at the door and quietly told him that the two heroines were very powerful.Although he boasted that he practiced martial arts all the year round and was proficient in bow and horse, he suffered a big loss when he was attacked in a hurry, and he lay down without swinging the horse.

He suspects that Guo Kang is not as good as Guo Daxia at present, and he doesn't know if he can stand up to so many female heroes, so he must be more careful.

After giving instructions, the two turned their heads and gave Guo Kang an encouraging smile, and left in a hurry.

　Well, the lord's debts that have been put on the shelves so far can be considered complete... Thank you everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)