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Chapter 432 Letter from Nassau (1)

Living in the inn, looking at the completely unfamiliar furniture and decorations, Nassau still feels a little unreal. He really came to the country where Marco Polo came, and came to China.

I walked around the inn with great interest. This is a very lively inn with a brick and wood structure. The first floor is a place to eat. A group of people in various clothes drink and eat here. Look at the appearance of these people. Nassau knows that these are not gentlemen. Sure enough, there are lower-class people everywhere in the world, including China.

On the side of the lobby on the first floor, there are wooden stairs leading to the second floor. The second floor is full of houses with wooden support structures, which are quite different from Western buildings, but there is no difference between them. In fact, Western buildings Buildings, except churches and palaces, are mostly brick and wood structures, and even the forts built by Westerners in the colonies also use a large number of wooden structures.

Nassau walked around the hall for a long time, attracting a group of curious eyes. Nassau didn't feel that the loyal earl of Daming had neglected him. On the contrary, he liked to get close to a real China. After all, the information sent back by Marco Polo and those missionaries, The praise for the Chinese is simply too untrue.

Seeing this group of lower-class people gave Nassau a new understanding of this country, which is more direct and real.

After rejecting Jones and others' request to drink, Nassau returned to his room, which was the best room in this inn. From this point of view, the Earl of Daming still took good care of Nassau.

After thinking carefully about what he saw and heard along the way, Nassau spread out a pen and paper and began to write a letter.

"Dear Christina!"

He first wrote to his mistress.

"You probably won't believe where I wrote to you, yes, you guessed it right, you must feel amazing when I arrive in China, because I am writing to you in an inn in China at this time, It is full of magic in itself.

Christina, I miss you very much. You don’t know how terrible hardships I have endured along the way. I thought it was no different from going to Brazil. In fact, coming to China is a hundred times more difficult than going to Brazil.Our ship spent ten months on the road, passing the Gold Coast, the Cape of Good Hope, India and the East Indies.Very sad, my entourage died on the ship, I was lucky, I got sick three times during the period, I thought I would not survive, but the captain left me a special medicine, that kind of Chinese specialty tea, it saved my life I three times.

Well, speaking of this, you must be very anxious, you want to hear about the situation in China, right?Well, I'm not going around in circles.In fact, I would also like to tell you about my experience in China, but I have just arrived in China, and what I have seen and heard is still very barren, and I cannot describe a complete China for you.

I will simply share with you what I saw.Our boat traveled up a wide river for ten days before we arrived at a prosperous capital, the capital of China, ruled by an earl.The earl is very enthusiastic and very aristocratic.He personally greeted us at the port and treated us to a delicious Chinese meal.

Dear Christina, if you have never been to China, you will never imagine how particular about the Chinese people’s food. Not to mention the ritual of eating, it is comparable to the king’s, and their food is more exquisite than any European country. The monarch of the country must be a hundred times more beautiful.

I am not admiring China, and I am not exaggerating. I am telling the truth, so you must not doubt it.

In addition, the Earl invited us to visit his castle, and I will definitely share with you the scenery of the Chinese castle as soon as possible.

That's it, I'll write to you again, love you Joao! "

After writing the letter to his mistress, Nassau did not stop, but continued to write on paper, this time he wrote to the East India Company.

"Dear Directors of the East India Company:
I have arrived in China safely, please don't worry.I am writing to you now from an inn on the port of a city called Nanking.

I heard from the staff of the East India Company that this capital is one of the most prosperous cities in China. For more than 200 years, it has been the second capital of the Chinese people. Now it is ruled by a Ming earl. He married Perhaps he was able to rule the bustling capital by taking the emperor's daughter as his wife.

However, the Chinese have suffered internal rebellion for more than ten years, as well as the invasion of the Tatars. I heard that the Earl repelled many invasions of the Tatars, but I am still very worried.

I am very responsible to report to the directors that there are risks in doing business in China. The biggest risk comes from the current war, because the Tatars are not the only ones who invade China. I heard that the Tatars have formed an alliance with the terrible Mongols. , so although the Earl has defeated the Tatars many times, I am still not sure whether the Chinese will win this war, because you all know that the Mongols are as many as weeds on the grassland, and it is very easy to fight against the Mongols. It's hard to be optimistic. "

A very strange thing now, when China is at war with the grassland nation, it always fights with more and less, and when the Mongols invaded the West, one of the biggest impressions left on Westerners was the endless number, not the Mongols The number of people is really much more than that of Westerners, but before the industrial revolution in the West, their organizational skills were really poor. To organize an action of 1 people is a grand event, but in the East, this may be just a one-time event. market.

Nassau continues:

"Today I visited the port of this city. The facilities in the port are quite large, and the pier is also very prosperous. What attracted me the most was that there was a huge waterwheel on the bank where our boat passed. This waterwheel It is as tall as the windmills in our hometown. It seems that the Chinese are not inferior to us in terms of machinery.

In addition, I have seen some Chinese. Judging from the clothes they wear, they are not much richer than the sailors in our country. They also wear linen clothes, a few of them wear common clothes, and few of them wear silk. I did not expect this.From what I have seen so far, it is also difficult for me to maintain an optimistic attitude towards the Chinese market.

Maybe I was worrying too much, maybe it was only because of the war that the temporary barrenness was caused.

Please rest assured, all directors, I will still do my best to get Earl to allow us to operate in China. "

Nassau put away the letter, and then opened the window. Through the window on the second floor, he could see the local situation of the port, and he could also see the towering city wall on the other side. He didn't know what was going on in the city, because he hadn't been Allowed to enter the city.

The Chinese earl very warmly invited himself to visit his new castle. Nassau thought, it seems that before visiting the castle, he would have no chance to enter the city. Nassau also decided that no matter how rough the earl's castle is, he must Dedicate the most beautiful eulogy.

(End of this chapter)