Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2117 Grandma Liu enters the Grand View Garden 2
In a room of the Daming Royal Hotel, Ferdinand from the Austrian Habsburg family was standing by the window looking at the traffic on the spacious road outside.

As a member of the Habsburg family and one of the grandsons of Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire, Ferdinand can be said to have the noble blood of Eagle Castle, and has been the heir of many territories since birth .

This time the Habsburg family was also invited by the Ming Empire, which is also an extremely important matter for the Habsburg family, because it is enough to show the identity and status of the Habsburg family.

To be invited by the Ming Empire is enough to explain everything.

Therefore, the Habsburg family also attached great importance to this. After careful selection, Ferdinand was also selected to represent the Habsburg family to the Ming Empire.

While congratulating the Emperor of the Ming Empire, I hope to marry back a noble Princess of the Ming Empire to the Emperor of the Ming Empire, so as to continue to strengthen the prestige of the Habsburg family.

The Habsburg family has always wanted to marry the imperial family of the Ming Empire, and has expressed this wish to the emperor of the Ming Empire many times.

But they were all ruthlessly rejected by the emperor of the Ming Empire. The main reason was that Emperor Hongzhi had only one son and one daughter. Needless to say, Zhu Houzhao had a lot of women himself, so how could he be so ugly with the big chin of the Habsburg family.

As for Emperor Hongzhi's daughter, she was the jewel in the palm of her hand, so precious that it was impossible to marry a foreigner, let alone the ugly Habsburg family.

But the situation is a little different now. The current emperor of the Ming Empire, Emperor Zhengde, and the Habsburg family know that Emperor Zhengde has more than 200 sons and more than 200 daughters. If you mention this to the emperor of the Ming Empire If this matter is the case, it is still possible to marry a Daming Princess.

For this reason, Ferdinand, who looks better, was selected, and this time he brought a lot of treasures. Once the son of Ming Dynasty agrees, he can propose marriage according to the etiquette and customs of the Ming Empire, and marry the princess of the Ming Empire. To marry back.

Although the Habsburg family also knew that the situation in Daming and Europe was different, don't expect to marry a Daming princess and think about inheriting the throne of the Ming Empire after giving birth.

That's impossible. Daming is passing on males but not females, and it's even more impossible to say that it's passed on to foreigners.

However, the Habsburg family still hopes to marry with the royal family of the Ming Empire and marry a princess of the Ming Empire with noble blood, so as to strengthen the prestige of the Habsburg family.

The influence of the Habsburg family is only limited to Europe, and it has no influence outside of Europe, but the Ming Empire is different.

The influence of the Ming Empire spread all over the world, and it conquered the world. If the Habsburg family can have a blood connection with the Ming royal family, it will be of great significance to the Habsburg family.

For this reason, the Habsburg family has also gone through many efforts, and even thought about marrying some of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. The king of Chu is still very powerful.

It's just that neither the Ming royal family nor the Ming vassals have the slightest interest in marrying European barbarians, especially the Habsburg family. They are notoriously ugly, and they would be disgusted to marry home to warm their beds. As for It is even more impossible to marry her precious princess.

"As expected of the capital of the Ming Empire!"

"It's really very prosperous, with spacious concrete roads, cars passing by, and countless high-rise buildings around here!"

"Compared to the Ming Empire, our Europe is really too backward!"

Looking at the bustling scene in front of him, Ferdinand couldn't help sighing.

At the beginning, he still felt that no matter how prosperous and prosperous Daming was, it might be more prosperous than the largest city in Europe.

But when he actually set foot on the land of Daming and saw the prosperity of the city, he completely changed his thinking.

There is no comparison between European cities and Ming cities.

Among other things, the cleanliness of this city alone is not comparable.

European cities are often dirty and smelly, with all kinds of filth everywhere, and the unpleasant smell is enough to make people sick.

However, looking at the cities of the Ming Empire, the size of each city is many times that of European cities, and the roads are neatly planned, very spacious, and extend in all directions.

The city is clean and tidy, there are no dirty places to see at all, and it is impossible for all kinds of filth to appear. There are many trees planted everywhere, which looks very comfortable.

Then look at the Ming people in the city, all of them are dressed in clean and fashionable clothes. Compared with them, they all seem like bumpkins from the countryside, who have never seen the world and are rustic.

Everything here is so novel, it dazzles Ferdinand, especially at night, the whole city is even more beautiful.

The lights on the buildings, the lights of various colors are colorful and beautiful, even at night, the city still has no meaning of stopping, and you can also see people everywhere, very lively, even compared to the daytime Even more lively.

What about Europe?
In the entire European region, it seems that only Hong Kong, an overseas colony of the Ming people, has electricity. Other places, it is pitch black at night, and there is no light to be seen, even in the emperor's palace.

The huge contrast made Ferdinand, who seemed to be full of confidence, feel a little inferior.

Will Emperor Ming be willing to marry his daughter to him?

Even though he has more than 200 daughters, it is estimated that he would not send his daughters to places like Europe.

Compared with the Ming Empire, Europe is a dark world.

"The Ming Empire is so rich. It's unbelievable that there are so many cars on the road."

Looking at the speeding cars on the road, Ferdinand was surprised by the number of cars in the Ming Empire.

In Europe, only real nobles and wealthy people can afford cars, but they are very common and common in the Ming Empire.

There is even a special taxi in the capital of Daming, which will stop as long as you wave and take you to the place you want to go. It can be seen that in Daming, the car is already a very common taxi. transportation.

Fayuan Temple in Beijing.

Archbishop Paul in red from the Holy See is carefully visiting the temple in front of him. At the same time, he is accompanied by Master Kongxiang, the host of Fayuan Temple.

The Holy See was also invited by the Ming Empire, so it also sent people to attend the grand ceremony. As religious figures, the Ming Empire also arranged for Paul and his party to live in Fayuan Temple, and directly designated them as foreign monks .

Paul carefully looked at the temple in front of him. As a famous temple in the capital, Fayuan Temple has always been full of incense, and this temple is also very grand.

There are many palaces, temples, attics, etc., and all the buildings are red walls and blue tiles. Various Buddhist paintings, sculptures, arts, etc. can be seen everywhere, showing the majesty of the capital's great temples everywhere.

That is to say, it was strictly ordered by the imperial court to restrict the wanton expansion and development of various religions, otherwise Fayuan Temple could double its size and number of people.

In addition to the huge scale, there is also a steady stream of pilgrims here in Fayuan Temple. Every day, a large number of pilgrims come to burn incense and worship Buddha, asking God for divination.

In the merit box outside, you can see that these Daming people stuffed a lot of silver dollars and bank notes into it.

Seeing all this in front of him, Paul also frowned slightly.

This time he came to the Daming Empire, in addition to congratulating the Daming Son, he also shouldered an important mission, that is to persuade the Daming Son to allow them to preach in Daming.

Shining the light of Christ to the east has always been one of the goals of the Holy See, but the Ming Empire has been strictly prohibiting the spread of foreign religions, and even its own local religions have been strictly enforced. restrictions and suppression.

It's really hard to get permission.

"Master Kongxiang, if we want to spread Christianity in Daming, how can we make Daming people more willing to accept it?"

After thinking about it, Paul chatted with the master of emptiness around him, talking about this matter.

"There is a saying in our Daming that when you enter the country, do as the Romans do. If you want to enter Daming, first of all, you must respect the traditions and customs of the Daming people, and follow the customs when you come to the country. You can't ask us Daming people with everything you have, because in our Daming people In my eyes, your Europe is a backward, barbaric, and ignorant place."

"It's impossible for us Daming people to say to do things according to everything you have."

Master Kongxiang thought for a while and replied.

"Do as the Romans do?"

When Paul heard this, he immediately thought about it.

It is very, very difficult for the Holy See to change something. The long Middle Ages have already made everything extremely stubborn.

Is it worth making some changes in order to spread the light to Ming Dynasty?

If it needs to be changed, how can it be changed so that the people of Daming are willing to accept it?

Thinking of this, Paul felt a headache. The harsh policies of the Ming Empire over the years made them unclear about many things about Ming, and even if they were allowed to preach on the side of the Ming Empire, there would be people in Daming who would believe ?
What's more, it is probably very, very difficult for the Ming Empire to agree.

PS: Ask for tickets~~
(End of this chapter)