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Lin Yuan didn't really want to see the Tsar, so he said, "It's okay, if we don't see it, we won't see it. If that's the case, can we go directly to England?"

Ilya said: "You can go to England directly, or stay here for a few days, it depends on what you want."

At this moment, a follower suddenly came in and said, "Report to Lin Shuai, there is a person who claims to be the special envoy of His Majesty the Tsar, and has sent you an invitation letter."

Lin Yuan looked at Ilya hesitantly, and said to him, "Didn't it mean that His Majesty the Tsar has not seen us? Why did you send someone to deliver the invitation again?"

Ilya was also very embarrassed, and said: "Your Majesty told me this when I came out of the palace, why did you change your mind in such a short time?"

Lin Yuan said to the entourage: "Let the messenger come in." The entourage went out, and soon led a tall Russian man in. He saw that the Russian man was dressed extremely gorgeously, and he looked like a court servant. , Ilya also knew this person, as soon as he saw him, he stepped forward and said, "Why did your majesty change his mind again?"

The servant shrugged helplessly, and then handed an invitation letter to Ilya. Ilya frowned when she opened the invitation letter. Seeing Ilya's strange look, Lin Yuan couldn't help asking: "What's wrong with this invitation? Is there something wrong with the letter?"

Ilya handed the invitation letter to Lin Yuan, and saw that it read: "The Chinese delegation Lin Yuan, Shen Wanqing, and Wang Genbao are welcome to attend the welcome dinner in the Georgiev Hall, signed: Russian Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna."

Lin Yuan was also confused after reading the invitation letter, thinking: "What's going on? Why only three people are invited? And it's these three people. There is no problem in inviting me. I am the highest negotiating official. Next The two people invited made no sense. First of all, Wan Qing was a reporter accompanying the mission. The Russians invited a reporter instead of other officials. What happened? As for Wang Genbao, it was even more unreasonable. His identity is the chef of the group, so there is no way to invite him!"

Lin Yuan was thinking about it, but Ilya came over and said, "You guys rest first, I will come to you in the evening." After Ilya finished speaking, she sighed and went out.

Shen Wanqing came up and asked, "What's wrong with Ilya? Are you frowning and sighing?"

Lin Yuan handed the invitation letter to Shen Wanqing, and said, "It's because of this invitation letter."

Shen Wanqing took the invitation letter in her hand and read it twice, and said, "What are you doing? Why did you invite the three of us? I have also traveled to other countries with others, so there is no one who invites people like this. It is too inconsistent with diplomatic etiquette to do so! That is to say, in this era, if in our era, such an invitation letter would become an international joke!"

Lin Yuan said: "That's why Ilya sighed. Ilya is a true diplomat. Although he was miserably tricked by me every time, he can't be blamed. Who let his opponent be me? But he is very familiar with diplomatic etiquette, and he will inevitably sigh when he sees such an unreasonable invitation letter."

Shen Wanqing said: "Why is this Russian tsar acting like a child? Just now he said he didn't see us anymore, but he changed his mind in such a short time! How is he like a national leader!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "You don't know that, these European emperors are the same as our ancient feudal emperors, even more stupid and absurd than our emperors. There is a man in our history who said, 'The common people have no food to eat, why? Emperor Hui of Jin who didn’t eat meat porridge, there was a Queen Mary in European history who said, “People don’t have bread to eat, so why don’t they eat cakes.”

"As for the Tsar we have to face, Nicholas II, it was not much better. There was a stampede at his coronation ceremony, and thousands of people were killed and injured, but he and the queen held a nobleman's meeting on the night of the tragedy. Ball; in the later period of Nicholas II's reign, he and the queen believed in a magic stick called Rasputin, which was no different from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's worship of Jiang Chong, and this magic stick called Rasputin was almost buried Russian Empire."

Shen Wanqing smiled and said: "It seems that the history of the West is much more interesting, but we have to think about it carefully. What is the purpose of inviting the three of us?"

The two of them thought about it and couldn't come up with a reason, so Lin Yuan said, "Let's prepare first, I'll call Wang Genbao over." After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he went to find Wang Genbao.

When Wang Genbao heard Lin Yuan tell him to go to the Kremlin to meet the tsar, his expression changed with fright, and he shook his head and said, "You can't do it, Lin Shuai, when you came to me, you agreed, I'll go all the way. Just cook and don't worry about anything else, and now you want me to go to the Russian tsar, no way, absolutely no way!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It's okay, the Russian Tsar is not scary, what are you afraid of?"

Wang Genbao said: "I'm not afraid of anything else. To be honest, I haven't even met the prefect of Fengtian. The biggest official I've ever met is the policeman. When I saw the policeman, my calf cramped. Now you let me Going into the palace to meet the Tsar, how can this work! If I don’t pay attention and make some jokes, wouldn’t it be embarrassing for us Chinese? Or embarrassing in front of foreigners, how can this be possible!”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, you can just go with me. After you go in, you just follow me. You don't have to worry about anything. You don't have to answer someone who talks to you. Also, there are a lot of Russian delicacies at the dinner party. You After you go, you can study it carefully.”

Only then did Wang Genbao agree, and the three of them changed into their uniforms. In the evening, the servant came again and took the three of them into a splendid carriage. It was already dark when they left the post house. Wang Genbao came to a foreign country for the first time. Looking out of the car window curiously, suddenly said "Oh my god", sat back in the seat, and pulled the curtain tightly.

Shen Wanqing asked, "What's wrong with you? Is there a ghost outside the window?"

Wang Genbao trembled all over, and said: "I don't know what it is in the street outside, but suddenly there is a bright light, it scared me to death."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "That's a street lamp."

Only then did Wang Genbao carefully open the curtains and look outside. The carriage soon arrived outside the Kremlin, and saw fireworks blooming on the walls of the palace from time to time. Wang Genbao pointed to the sky filled with fireworks and asked, "Do foreigners also know how to set off firecrackers?"

Lin Yuan chuckled, and at this moment, Ilya came out from the door, bowed slightly to Lin Yuan, and said, "I am deeply sorry for what happened today."

Lin Yuan thought he was still thinking about releasing the pigeons, so he smiled and said, "It's okay, it's all over."

Unexpectedly, Ilya bowed again and said, "It's not that thing, it's something that will happen in a while."

Lin Yuan asked: "What happened in a while? What will happen in a while?"

Ilya said: "You defeated us on the battlefield, so our emperor wants to use this dinner..." At this point, Ilya paused, as if what he was about to say was difficult to say, and he said after a long time : "He wants to use this dinner to humiliate you."