The meeting place for the meeting with the Fo Langji delegation was set up at Honglu Temple.
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, Honglu Temple is in charge of court gatherings, guests, good and bad ceremonial matters. All national ceremonies, suburban temples, sacrifices, court gatherings, banquets, sutra banquets, canonization, entering the calendar, entering the spring, passing on the system, and memorializing victory
, each doing his own thing.
According to Jiang Wan's understanding, this was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty. It was the first time he went to such a large government office to handle matters, and he still represented the Ten Princes' Palace and King Xin. Jiang Wan did not dare to slack off at all.
He got up early in the morning, washed and ate, and then took Xiaojiu, who was also freshly dressed, and four young guards, and boarded the palace's carriage - he was considered an official official of the palace, so naturally he was treated as an official official.
He rushed to Honglu Temple in a hurry, thinking that he might be late. After all, the officials of the Ming Dynasty had to leave in the middle of the night during the last dynasty. However, he did not expect that he was the earliest one to arrive.
Even the officials from the Ministry of Rites looked at him with strange eyes after checking his identity, as if they thought it was a bit incredible that this person had arrived here so early.
"Okay, I just want to know when your Lord Minister from the Ministry of Etiquette, as well as those from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs will arrive!" Jiang Wan drank tea for more than an hour and saw that the tea in her tea cup had become very weak.
Just like Bai Shui, he really couldn't help but say: "Didn't I say that the meeting would start in the morning? How come there is no one there yet!"
"The Fo Langji people haven't come either. Aren't we, the Ming Dynasty adults, more noble than them? Why don't we still wait for them here?"
The official of Honglu Temple chuckled: "Actually, even if you go out for lunch and relax for a while, it's not too late to come back!"
Jiang Wan: "...!"
"This Folangji man is not in a hurry at all!" He really didn't know what to say, "At least we should send a few people to deal with it, so that everyone can look good!"
"These people don't know how to save face!" The man from Honglu Temple shook his head slightly: "They are sure that our Ming Dynasty needs help from them, so they don't know etiquette. You are not the one anyway, sir.
If you are the one who is in charge of the negotiation, just take a look. If you are the one who is in charge of the negotiation, you will be pissed to death by these people!"
Jiang Wan wanted to ask again, but the man from Honglu Temple refused to say anything. Jiang Wan was really curious. He really wanted to see how this Fo Lang Ji man could make people angry.
"Isn't he a fan? Why did he become a folangji again!?"
The official of Honglu Temple left. Seeing that there was no one else around, Xiao Jiu, who had been quietly beside him, said in a low voice: "This name is so strange!"
"All people who are not our Ming Dynasty people can be called Fan people!" Jiang Wan thought for a while and said: "However, although most Fan people look strange, they are not scary, but Fo Langji is seven meters tall.
They have tall noses and deep eyes, cat-like eyes and beaks, fair faces, curly hair and red beards, especially since they come from the far west where Ming people rarely set foot, so naturally they are even more curious about them!"
He paused and looked at Xiao Jiu's wide-eyed look, intending to scare her: "However, according to legend, the Fo Langji people cook children..."
"Ah!" Xiao Jiu was so frightened that he trembled: "Then, aren't they monsters?"
"Nonsense!" A crisp voice came in from outside: "Officials of the Ming Empire, do you have any misunderstandings about us? We are not as ugly as you said, let alone uncivilized savages.
eat human!"
Xiao Jiu turned around to look, and then hid behind Jiang Wan very quickly, tightly tugging on Jiang Wan's sleeves, but refused to stick her head out no matter what.
"Um?"
Jiang Wan hummed in surprise, and looked at the person who came. She was a heroic white girl, with red hair that seemed to be flowing flames bound to her head, and the look in her green eyes.
, looking at him extremely unfriendly.
"What you said is quite right!" Jiang Wan laughed.
"I also work as a translator. Isn't it normal to be able to speak Ming Dynasty?" The white girl walked into the room, put the things in her hands on the huge table, and sat down with her arms crossed.
"I've never seen you before. Are you a newly sent trade official from the Ming Empire?"
"Jiang Wan, from the Tenth Prince's Mansion!" Jiang Wan shook his head: "I will not participate in the negotiation with you, I am just here to observe and learn!"
"He's just an idler!" The white girl shook her head: "It seems that like me, she also has nothing to do. My name is Catherine. By the way, I would like to remind you that Franji is your name. In formal occasions,
,I hope you can call us the Kingdom of Spain!”
"The Kingdom of Spain?" Jiang Wan thought about it for a moment. He knew that the Ming Dynasty's name for the Francois included Spanish and Portuguese people, but the Ming Dynasty people didn't bother to distinguish the difference between Spain and Portugal. Anyway, to the Ming Dynasty, they were both
It's a small country that's so far away that there's no point in knowing it so clearly.
However, one thing is clear to Jiang Wan. At this time, the Portuguese should have already established a foothold in Macau. So, theoretically, if Ming Dynasty wants to purchase Folan machine artillery, the best and most direct channel is to find Macau.
The Portuguese, after all, Macau is still under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County, so the Portuguese live there on loan.
Why did it become the Kingdom of Spain again?
He raised his question, and Catherine, the white girl opposite, was obviously a little surprised.
"You actually know the difference. You know much better than you trade officials!" A curious look passed through her eyes: "If you really know this, you should know that in the War of Succession to the Throne
After that, the one who rules Lisbon now is His Majesty the King!"
"I know a little bit about it!" Jiang Wan said without any embarrassment, "Just like Miss Catherine, even if she knows some things about my Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to know everything!"
"Your father must be a relatively powerful noble official!"
Catherine ignored his words, but looked at the young men and women behind him, the maids, the guards, and the knowledge that Jiang Wan had just shown far beyond the average Ming Dynasty person she had seen, which all showed Jiang Wan's origins.
Definitely extraordinary.
And Jiang Wan is young and looks very polite, especially because she is not ugly. Even if this is a meeting place, if she can form a friendship with such a young powerful person, Catherine doesn't think it is right.
A bad thing.
The business belonged to the mission, but the connections she made were Catherine's own. Catherine was not stupid at all.