Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 118 The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was very stingy towards his own people, but he was extremely generous towards barbarians like you.
Huang Dasheng was left out in the cold for several days.
When he was feeling disheartened, he was suddenly summoned.

Also summoned at the same time was Smith.

Li Yu sat behind the table and gestured for the two of them to take their seats with a smile.

but,

Huang Dasheng, who ran past the caravan and experienced the bloodshed in the world, quickly smelled murderous intent.

If I didn't guess wrong,

There were swordsmen and axemen outside, and as soon as the cup was dropped, heads rushed in.

"Xiao Huang, do you want to make money?"

"miss you!"

"I have a business that is profitable but slightly risky. Do you dare to take it?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Li, you can brave mountains of swords and seas of fire."

Huang Dasheng stood up quickly and accepted without hesitation and firmness.

Li Yu nodded with satisfaction,

Turning to look at Smith, oh by the way, I need a translator.

Zhang Xiaomei hurried over and played this role.

Still using the same words and getting the same reply.

……

"Since both of you intend to earn this incredible wealth, I will tell you everything. Listen carefully, the next content is very important. It's done, you can return home in fine clothes, you will have endless benefits in your life. If you lose, the emperor will chop you into pieces. , chopped into pieces."

Smith trembled with fright, feeling that the Orientals were too cruel.

One knife is enough, not a thousand.

Huang Dasheng's eyes were bright, he really wanted to make money.

"The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is over 6 years old. He is an arrogant, headstrong old guy who loves face more than anything else."

"I want to set up a fake mission to pay homage to the Qing Emperor in the name of Ceres, a small city-state in central America, and at the same time present congratulatory gifts and credentials."

"You will receive the warmest welcome and the most generous rewards."

Smith raised his hand to indicate he had questions.

Zhang Xiaomei helped translate:
"Will I lose money if I travel thousands of miles to deliver gifts? What if the emperor's reward is very small?"

"Hahahaha, I can tell you. The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was very stingy towards his own people, but he was extremely generous towards barbarians like you."

Smith was dumbfounded and asked:
"Is he stupid?"

Li Yu nodded and smiled helplessly:
"He's not stupid, he just has too much face. A small distant overseas country comes to visit you for no reason. This will greatly satisfy his self-esteem. As long as the atmosphere is in place, he can reward you with a gold mountain."

Hiss, everyone in the room gasped.

Huang Dasheng said:
"I have a question, what if I'm exposed? Also, apart from Smith, he looks like a foreigner at first glance, and our faces don't look alike."

"Good question." Li Yu slapped the table.

"Except for the Thirteenth Line in Guangzhou, how many people in the Qing Dynasty have seen foreign businessmen? How many people have been to America?"

Obviously, the answer is no.

……

Huang Dasheng was somewhat enlightened, but he still had a lot of questions.

Li Yu signaled, don't ask yet, just listen to me.

"I will ask the tailor to customize all kinds of clothing for you, in line with the status of overseas gentlemen."

"Huang Dasheng, you perm your hair, and the cook will help you do it in a while."

"I will personally prepare the credentials. I will also prepare the congratulatory gifts."

"We strive to do our best to fake the real thing. I will give you special training on language and etiquette during this period."

"You must cooperate well for the common cause."

"Huang Dasheng, do you want to rebuild the largest caravan in the southwest?"

"Smith, do you want to return home in glory?"

After a soul inquiry, both of them were extremely excited.

Smith was trembling with excitement,

In a daze, he stood in the castle of his hometown, looking at the fertile fields around him, the flocks of sheep, and gnawing potatoes dipped in sugar.

Next to him is a well-trained housekeeper, carrying a silver platter.

There are two pieces of yellow and orange food on the plate.

One piece is a potato, and the other piece is also a potato!
He bent down and asked:

"Lord, how about a new flavor? Like potatoes dipped in caviar?"

He speaks with a London East End accent and is very professional.

And Huang Dasheng,

Then I saw a continuous line of horses carrying goods.

The flag of the caravan reads "yellow".

The men in the caravan carried bows and arrows and held scimitars.

Wherever the flag goes, no one dares to stop the bandits along the way, and the flow is unobstructed.

The glory of our ancestors will be returned tenfold.

……

Li Yu looked at the two people who started to laugh crazily and giggled, and knew that the deception was in place.

"Ahem, let's do something big together and change this terrible world, right?"

"By the way, it's about remuneration."

"Both of you, each share one-tenth of Qianlong's reward, and the rest belongs to me. After all, I provided the ideas, funds, and ships."

"Any comments?"

"I listen to you."

The two of them were very self-aware, which made Li Yu breathe a sigh of relief.

From the moment they heard the plan, it was impossible for the two people to refuse cooperation and leave Lijiapu.

know the secret,

In fact, it is a burden!
After all, the biggest shortcoming of human nature is that we can't help but tell others our secrets.

Then, others tell others.

"Master Li, I have a question. After the mission is completed and the money is divided, can we both leave?"

"Of course, you can come and go as you please."

"Don't worry, I, Li, am the most trustworthy person."

Huang Dasheng thought,
I have no other choice but to trust your credibility.

Hey.

The two were sent to Xishan Island.

A house in a valley, guarded by sentries outside.

Li Yu spent a lot of money and hired 10 tailors to make clothes, using the best fabrics.

Wool, gold thread, patterned copper buttons, complex embroidery,

After all, he is an envoy from a small country and cannot be shabby.

……

Woolen dress, white shirt, red trousers, fancy three-cornered hat, cloak, sword, sheepskin boots, handkerchief, pocket watch, pipe, earrings.

All kinds of odds and ends,

Tailors, cobblers, and blacksmiths were all busy.

Sketch one sketch after another and follow it.

The style comes from Li Yu’s impressions, Smith’s narrative, and Zhang Xiaomei’s experiences in Nanyang.

Oh yes, there are two women.

The two women given by Fucheng have been raised like canaries.

This time, Li Yu finally remembered.

Unfortunately, none of them are serious Europeans.

One is Ottoman and the other is a descendant of Spanish colonists in Southeast Asia.

She looks like she is in her 30s, but her actual age is half that.

really,

Li Yu lacked experience in fighting foreign countries and was careless.

……

The more the merrier,
In the end, 4 sets of relatively gorgeous envoy costumes were produced, and the effect was pretty good after wearing them.

Huang Dasheng's chic curly hair also looks a bit exotic.

However, you can't speak.

Li Yu compiled a booklet and asked him to read it.

They are all flat tones and polite expressions.

such as:

"The Plenipotentiary Envoy of the State of Seris pays homage to His Majesty the Qing Emperor. Long live, long live."

“We admire the Qing emperor’s reputation (and ask for money).”

"I love the Qing Dynasty, I love the culture here, I love the silk porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, and the women here."

For best results,
In this valley, everyone must treat them as envoys.

And they,
You must always bring your identity and remember that you are an envoy.

Immersive acting,
Every word of Huang Dasheng must be like a foreigner learning Chinese for the first time, and his identity is translator and deputy envoy.

Smith doesn't have to.
He is an envoy, so he speaks foreign language.

The two of them each spoke their own words and pretended to be translators throughout the whole process.

Du Ren came once and laughed all the way, like a hysterical attack.

Later, Fan Jing came here once,
I laughed out loud when I went back to eat, and was scolded by my wife for being unofficial.

Li Yu sent 17 people as members of the mission.

They all have relatively distinctive looks and some makeup.

However, there are still flaws.

So Li Yu decided to change his rhetoric.

These people were not citizens of Siris, but island natives who were rehired after the mission was shipwrecked midway.

This way, it feels much more reasonable.

……

Natives naturally have darker skin.

Shave it short or perm it into small curls.

Some have beards and some wear earrings.

As a barbarian, you must conform to this identity.

Later facts proved that the character design was very successful.

When the officials of the Qing Dynasty saw it, they felt very pleased and particularly pleasing to the eye.

It fits their imagination very well.

In the valley, demons were dancing wildly.

Li Yu occasionally comes to give guidance on work.

Because the logistics pressure has been too great recently, money has been wasted like water.

The iron factory is a gold-swallowing beast, and the army is a bottomless pit.

Adding another shipyard is like burning money.

There are also fixed wages, food, and clothing for so many people.

And uncertain expenditure items are raining silver bullets at the government.

Fan Jing said in shock,

20 taels of silver cannot last more than a year.

If there is no large amount of money in the account, we will have to run out of food in the early summer of next year.

Therefore,
Li Yu was so attentive and did his best work.

……

"Today, we will have a rehearsal. Just pretend that I am Qianlong and you can start."

In the astonished eyes of everyone, Li Yu pulled up a chair and sat down.

now,

But none of his subordinates cared about whether he was cold or not and gave him some extra clothes.

Smith was dressed neatly and walked up to him.

Wow wow wow wow, I talked a lot.

Deputy envoy Huang Dasheng, holding the box, also took two steps forward, knelt on one knee, and read in a voice without any change in tone:

"Your Majesty the Qing Emperor~"

"stop!"

Li Yu shouted dissatisfied and got off the chair.

"Who taught you to kneel on one knee?"

"Smith, and the two ladies."

"Believe me, if you enter the Qing Dynasty, you have to follow the rules of the Qing Dynasty. Just watch."

Li Yu flicked his non-existent horseshoe sleeves and knelt down in a standard manner.

Three kowtows and nine bows.

The eyes of everyone watching were about to pop out.

for a moment,
Fan Jing, who was watching, wondered whether Li Yu had been recruited.Repeated several times,

The Smith Mission is finally starting to take shape.

Next, there is a duel between the monarch and his ministers.

"Why do you come all the way to worship me in the Qing Dynasty?"

"The country of Seris has long heard that there is a great empire in the far west and a long-lived and wise monarch. The king admired it so much that he sent envoys to pay homage."

The above are all said by Huang Dasheng.

What Smith said was automatically ignored because they didn't understand it anyway.

……

"stop."

"Is there a problem with this too?"

"Of course there is, and it's very big. When you speak, you must be sincere and show your heartfelt admiration. Do you think the old emperor's eyes are just for decoration?"

Li Yu hated the fact that iron was not as strong as steel, so he pointed at their noses and scolded them.

"Are you acting like a slave and feeling embarrassed?"

"is a little."

Huang Dasheng admitted, and Smith on the side also said yes.

Everyone thought that the two of them were going to be beaten violently.

Unexpectedly, Li Yu sighed and said slowly:
"If someone says, if I kowtow, he will give me 10 taels, and I will blow his head off."

"If he kowtows and is given 100 taels, I will call him crazy."

"If I kowtow once and get 1 taels, I might kowtow a few more times. How difficult is it to make money these days? As an adult, you have experienced that, right?"

Huang Dasheng nodded in agreement.

"If you kowtow once and get 5 taels, what about 10 taels?"

Smith listened to the translation and said loudly:

"If it were true, I could crack the floor tiles."

Li Yu smiled and said:

"Kowtow to the Qing Emperor, each head is worth tens of thousands taels."

"Kowtow, explode gold coins, and shout a few words of long live. Believe me, you can't find such a good thing in history books. It's the only one in the world, and there is no other semicolon."

……

Once the ideological work is done well, the training efficiency will be high.

only 2 days,
The words and deeds of the mission have that flavor, they are pure.

sea ​​ship,

Just use the boat Laiji got back from his first trip to Chaozhou Prefecture.

Although it is a bit broken, it fits the identity of a small barbarian country.

Credentials are a bit difficult.

Use ready-made paper and make it aged.

I also found a few masters in this industry from the prison and carved the seal.

It looks quite similar, the badge pattern was hand-painted by Li Yu.

The words on it are like flying dragons and phoenixes, trying to create reading difficulties as much as possible.

He also forged a personal letter from the king, which was very sincere and low-profile.

Bilingual in Chinese and English, easy to read.

The content of the letter is also to his liking.
I highly praise Qianlong's prosperous age and his martial arts that dominated the world. I take the opportunity to introduce my country and secretly provide the key points of assistance.

Li Yu carefully considered Qianlong's psychology.

A small country on the other side of the ocean gave him face like this and came to celebrate his birthday.

The old boy couldn't help but bubbling with pride,

Such a wise and interesting country should not be rewarded more.

……

Congratulatory gifts are the biggest problem.

You definitely can’t go empty-handed, but what should you give as a gift?

Obviously, it cannot be a specialty of the Qing Dynasty.

But Li Yu didn't have many foreign gadgets.

There is no other way but for the Eight Immortals to cross the sea and show their magical powers.

Engraving foreign characters and engraving Western art paintings on pocket watches.

Li Yu bought a white porcelain bottle from a porcelain shop and painted it.

God, angels, saints, knights, sheep, in short, they look very good.

Then sign it, the famous art master of Serris, Picasso.

I made 5 pairs of such porcelain bottles in one go.

Although tired, Li Yu was very happy.

I found a gold and silver craftsman and made some fancy jewelry according to the design sketch.

Among them is a crown, which is the most dazzling.

The goldsmith made it under great pressure because it was made of iron on the inside and gold-plated on the outside.

On the inside of the crown, there is a line of foreign writing engraved.

King of the world.

On the top of the crown is a large luminous pearl.

Probably the most precious gift of all.

Li Yu felt heartbroken.

But then I thought about it, I couldn't bear to part with the beads, and I couldn't trap the old man.

do my best.

……

Under the hot eyes of Yang Yunjiao, Wei Jun, and two foreign horses, Li Yu tried on the crown.

"Master, how do you feel?"

"Heavy."

At this moment, Li Yu deeply understood that sentence,

To wear a crown, first bear its weight!
"Find a few skilled carpenters to make a few boxes out of nanmu."

"The box needs to be carved and painted with gold powder."

Lijiabao has been carrying out a lot of construction work recently, and these tasks have been well hidden.

Even Huang Wenyun,
It also dispelled the last trace of doubt.

Building such a luxurious house must be to enjoy life.

In the Qing Dynasty, officials, gentry, and famous people all lived like this.

2 days later,

Carrying a large amount of money, he embarked on the road to Beijing.

All the way north along the Grand Canal, staying in a posthouse.

3 days later,

Lijiabao's "mission" set off.

We found a stormy morning and quietly left Xishan Island.

From the Grand Canal, enter the Yangtze River and sail out of Chongming.

Always sailing offshore,

Everyone on the boat was wearing ordinary clothes.

Huang Dasheng vomited again.
Lying on the stern of the boat, his face turned green.

Looking at the group of sharks following the boat, he suddenly became interested.

He struggled to find a spear.

He gestured and threw it at the largest shark.

Looking at the bitten and injured shark, with blood mixed in the rolling waves, he felt a little better in his stomach.

Sure enough, human happiness can be based on the suffering of other species.

……

The ship went all the way north, no more than 20 miles away from the coastline.

Good luck,

The journey was calm and there were no big wolves.

Huang Dasheng gradually adapted to it, and Smith and he began to review their lines again.

Expressions, movements, language, and accents are all by heart.

"Huang, do you think the emperor is really that stupid?"

"Probably so."

"What if, I mean what if we are found out?"

Huang Dasheng pointed to the sashimi on the table and laughed.

Smith's expression changed drastically after he reacted.

He rushed out of the cabin and ran to the stern of the ship to vomit.

After half an hour,

He wiped his mouth and said weakly:
"I think the devil is in the east."

"Bah, that's from your hometown. There were no devils in the Qing Dynasty, only monsters."

Smith's Chinese is a little better than before.

This is the importance of locale.

He even learned a few weird Chinese sentences, such as "Long live the Qing Emperor, long live the Qing Emperor."

At the critical moment, let me say this:
It's a nuclear weapon!
……

Finally, the ship passed the Shandong Peninsula.

Entering the Bohai Bay,

The sailors immediately cheered, one step closer to the goal.

some of,
There are two adopted sons of Li Yu.

Li Yu had high hopes for this boat trip and must not fail.

Half a day later, a black spot appeared ahead.

It is a naval sentry ship at Dagukou.

"Quick, change clothes."

Smith, Huang Dasheng, and all the sailors quickly changed their clothes.

Prepare for the first contact with the Qing Dynasty officials.

On the sentry ship, the soldiers also looked at this strange ship in confusion.

I’ve never seen the flag on the mast.

It's a lion image!

Navy Chief Qian, who had the highest official position, also stood on the bow.

He could tell that the other party had no ill intentions, and the sails were lowered.

……

"Dear officer, we are the envoy of the Seris State from distant America, across the Blackwater Ocean, here to congratulate the Qing Emperor on his 60th birthday."

Huang Dasheng, dressed like a proud rooster, stood on the bow of the ship and bowed slightly.

Smith also showed his red-haired face.

"Oh, it's terrible. Go back to Hong Kong quickly and tell the Commander-in-Chief."

The news that overseas barbarian missions came to congratulate the emperor on his birthday spread like the wind throughout Tianjin.

When the prefect heard this, he thought it was a good thing and auspicious.

Immediately report to the Governor of Zhili,

As a result, everyone who had been anxiously at the port berth for a day received a warm welcome.

Green soldiers armed with red tassel guns lined up on both sides of the dock.

Officials of all kinds and colors filled the port.

Like a preschooler visiting the zoo, excited and curious.

The Governor is well aware of the Emperor's preferences,

Decided to seize this opportunity and make a fuss about it.

It left a deep impression on the emperor's heart.

Jinmen Post House was completely vacated.

All the slightly damaged tables and chairs and tents were replaced with new ones.

A general who supervises Biao leads 50 soldiers under his command and is responsible for security work.

Smith and Huang Dasheng, leading a small delegation of 20 people, officially entered the city.

along the way,

People in Jinmen who love to watch the excitement have already crowded the streets.

The commander-in-chief of Dagukou and the prefect of Jinmen sent thousands of soldiers to maintain order.

Huang Dasheng, who was deeply influenced by Li Yu, made a temporary flag.

It says,

Across 3 miles, I paid homage to the Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)