Wanli 1592

Chapter 397 Disappointed Chen Longzheng and Eager Europe
Chen Longzheng has reason to be qualified to maintain his pride. Not only he himself thinks so, but also those Genoese people. After Chen Longzheng displayed "mysterious and elegant Chinese art", that word was collected by the Governor of Genoa. I don't know when it will be made public.

However, the Governor of Genoa took his enthusiasm for Chen Longzheng to a higher level and invited Chen Longzheng to take a car tour with him to explore the customs of Genoa.

This is what Chen Longzheng likes, so Chen Longzheng didn't refuse, and readily agreed. He thought he would see many novel things, but what he saw disappointed him greatly.

Few people, small cities, dilapidated and dirty, this is his first intuitive impression of Europe.

There were few people, he thought he saw a lot of people at the port, he thought that there were as many Europeans as the Chinese population, and that there were crowds of people everywhere, but when he really started to visit this so-called most prosperous and richest city in Europe At that time, I was disappointed to find that except for the Governor's Mansion and some distinctive buildings around it, most of the buildings were low, dilapidated and disorderly, and more importantly, there were very few people.

It seems that the entire population is gathered in the port. There seem to be few people in the city now. There were many people on both sides of the road before, but after walking a certain distance, it was like entering no man’s land, and the smell was very unpleasant. It smells bad, it has a weird stinky smell. He has smelled this smell in some villages of Daming. It is something that farmers have to do to fertilize. Human waste is fertilizer and used for farming. .

But this is in the city. The cities of Ming Dynasty have very strict hygiene requirements. If you dare to defecate anywhere on the street, you will be caught by the government and take off your pants to see if you dare to defecate anywhere. , Maybe this kind of situation still happens in some dark alleys, but at least there is no feces and urine in the places where pedestrians can see on both sides of the road.

However, in this city, feces and urine can be seen on the side of the road. Chen Longzheng even witnessed several children squatting together to defecate, and then ran away laughing.

He felt nauseous and had an urge to vomit.

In Myanmar, when Xiao Ruxun planned the city, he planned and designed facilities called "public toilets" in many corners of the city, and forcibly stipulated that citizens and outsiders must go to these places to relieve themselves, otherwise they would be They were caught and fined by the government, and there were quite a lot of fines. After coming and going, people strictly followed the government's regulations and went to public toilets to relieve themselves.

Because of the smell, Xiao Ruxun will arrange for people to burn some herbs that can repel odors and insects twice a day, and then every day before sunset, someone will pull the human excrement and urine from the public toilets out of the city and send them to the farmland to the farmers. After drying, it is mixed with grass and used as fertilizer. Because of the large floating population and the small amount of farmland, the excrement produced by several big cities every day is enough for farmers to use.

Therefore, in Myanmar's cities, you can't smell that kind of foul smell. Therefore, when Chen Longzheng left the aristocratic area and entered the civilian living area, he was very uncomfortable. He asked the Governor of Genoa very incomprehensibly—— Why don't you deal with the shit?Putting it on the side of the road not only smells bad but also looks bad, and it is easy to cause infectious diseases!

The governor of Genoa looked at Chen Longzheng incomprehensibly, and explained——isn't this a normal thing?You go to any city to see it, it’s like this, it’s good, because it’s the capital, there are some regulations, you have to go to some small cities to see, the smell even we can’t stand it!

Chen Longzheng turned pale with shock—then why didn't you deal with it?

The Governor of Genoa looked confused - how to deal with it?Is this a normal thing?

Matteo Ricci couldn't stand it any longer, so he quickly pulled Chen Longzheng's sleeves—not to mention, it's all like this here. European cities don't have as many people as your Ming Dynasty, so there is less excrement and urine, so no one wants to To deal with it, it has always been like this, if you can't get enough to eat, then you still have the mind to take care of it?Do you think every city is Yangon?

In fact, Matteo Ricci couldn't stand it. After living in Daming and Burma for many years, he was not used to the foul smell that he used to be used to.

Chen Longzheng was able to breathe normally after returning to the noble area. He was dizzy and almost fainted by the foul smell just now. After that, he didn’t want to travel to other places after being beaten to death. After that, Matteo Ricci went out to recruit talents. Contacted before and after the run, and then brought it to Chen Longzheng to see. After the interview, Chen Longzheng felt that Xiao Ruxun met Xiao Ruxun's requirements, so he asked him if he would like to live and work in China.

Most of them agreed directly, and a few seemed to have doubts, so they dared not agree. After all, it was too far away. Although the legend is very beautiful, but those who have the courage to travel to China are basically alone and have no worries. The kind that can feed the whole family without hunger, and the salary offered by China sounds very good, so some people decided to take a gamble and have a look.

Chen Longzheng received ten or twenty invitation letters every day, asking him to go to the nobles' homes for dinner, and as time passed, the news that the Chinese had arrived in Genoa spread from Genoa to the surrounding area, and the Duchy of Milan knew about it. I got it, even the French who were farther away knew it. They took action one after another and sent people to Genoa to see the Chinese people and ask if there was a possibility of doing business together.

They did not know the purpose of the Chinese arriving in Genoa, but they also had some gossip sources, saying that the Chinese seemed to intend to establish a trade partnership with Genoa, to do business with Genoa, to sell Chinese silk, porcelain, tea and so on.

Such news is enough to make these people jealous and crazy. Everyone knows the profit of the porcelain tea and silk business. How could it be possible for the Genoese to monopolize such benefits?Everyone wants to share a piece of the pie!Representatives of the central government, businessmen, feudal lords and nobles rushed to Genoa one after another, wanting to meet those Chinese.

As for the Pope, there are more ideas - it is said that this time the missionary Matteo Ricci sent by the Holy See also came back with the Chinese, and Matteo Ricci seems to have climbed up to a senior official in China , so he was sent back as an interpreter. The Pope was very interested in this matter and wanted to know the real situation of missionary work in China and its future development prospects, so he directly sent high-level officials in the church to meet Chen Long in Genoa. Zheng and Matteo Ricci.

(End of this chapter)