"So you ran to me and hang out?" Lin Youde looked at Fu Xu, who was sitting on the chair, crossing his legs and drinking tea leisurely, with his expression on his face as helpless as the one behind him.
"Isn't welcome?" Foch asked back.
"How is that possible? I welcome you as long as it is a beautiful girl." Lin Youde said the truth, "But you see, you are not suspected of having... that... unfair relationship with me..."
Foxu laughed: "Improper relationship between men and women? Although I understand what you mean... but what is going on with this strange phrase?"
"I just translated Chinese into English." Lin Youde shrugged. In fact, there is no such statement in Chinese in this era. "Anyway, you just lost your official position for this reason, shouldn't you avoid any more?"
"If you choose to avoid suspicion, others will definitely say 'There will definitely be a problem to avoid suspicion so deliberately', and it will become more and more serious."
Lin Youde raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at the French generals and staff in the war room. Although the commander-in-chief was replaced, the French did not seem to want to move out of Lin Youde's headquarters, even the most stubborn French generals.
It has to be admitted that the connection ability of the Chinese team is indeed much better than that of the French team, and forming a joint headquarters with the Chinese Expeditionary Force has greatly helped the French army's command.
But now, Foch, who still appears in front of Lin Youde after leaving office, has obviously become the focus of French attention.
"I think," said Lin Youde, "If you don't avoid suspicion, the rumors about you will become more and more intense."
"Yes, it will become more and more intense no matter what. Nothing I do is useless, especially newspapers like Le Figaro, who can always find reasons to create the news they need." Foch looked calm, "
So just ignore them and do what you want to do."
"What you want to do is come to my headquarters for tea?"
"Of course, I like Chinese tea quite a bit."
At this time, Ba spoke: "This is matcha, which rose in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was popular for quite some time, but later mainland China turned to making tea, so the skills of matcha were inherited by the Yamato nation. Of course, Yamato is also a member of the Federation now.
Matcha has also returned to the Chinese tradition.”
"Hey, there is such a story." Foxu shook the tea cup in his hand. Looking at the tea stem standing inside, "To put it, Riben and North Korea were both Chinese vassal states before they were incorporated into the Federation?"
"That's true." Lin Youde nodded.
Baze further explained: "In the ri version, educated people may not necessarily speak Chinese, but they must be able to use Chinese characters. People who read are proud to be able to read and write Chinese characters. They use Chinese characters to create imitation of Tang poetry in the cultural circle of ri version.
It has always been very popular, and even those haiku poets have imitated Tang poetry and passed down from generation to generation."
"This is strange," Foch shrugged, "In Europe, the intellectuals of the vassal states want to destroy the culture of the sect leader in their hometowns forever, and the young people who are passionate about throwing bombs to kill the senior officials of the sect leader in their hometowns.
Be proud. Are you orientals willing to be ruled and surrender to others?”
Lin Youde frowned slightly.
Ba smiled and clearly expressed with an expression, "This is beyond the scope of my explanation."
After thinking a little, Lin Youde replied to Foch: "In the East, the concept of great unification is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Eastern culture emphasizes the collective power more than individuals, and when it comes to the national and national levels, it is the same. For thousands of years,
Orientals are well aware of the power of a unified empire, and only a unified empire can maintain peace and tranquility for a longer period of time.
"Recalling, in the last thousand years of Europe, which century has not had large-scale wars? But in the East. As long as a new unified empire is formed, even if military forces are used against the border, the mainland of the empire can remain relatively stable. The people will be able to maintain a relatively stable state.
The most stable life is to have more taxes and corvee services, but not displaced. In addition, a powerful empire can effectively wipe out bandits in the mainland. The public security situation that Europe has only reached in recent hundreds of years was a thousand years ago.
It's reached.
"So the Chinese yearn for a unified empire. As a group, the people know that only a unified empire can provide what they want and eliminate the chaos of chaos. Of course, this is also related to national dynasty. You Europe was a group of barbarians who started their own business.
The Roman Empire had long been broken. Most of the Europeans are descendants of the Franks. The blood flowing in your blood vessels comes from pirates, nomads and bandits. You started by plundering. Even if the Pope crowns you
, it cannot change this fact."
Foxu's face was quite bad at this time, but she still listened to Lin Youde's words silently.
"On the contrary," Lin Youde pointed to himself, "We Chinese are farming peoples. When your ancestors were still picking fruits on trees and eating them, we were already farming. Instead of looting others, we prefer to rely on our own.
Diligence and wisdom are full of food and clothing. So compared to unstable divisions, we prefer a stable unified empire. So there is the 'Zhongyang Kingdom' and the current Federation of China."
"Have you... said all these words to Xiafei-to-Josephine?"
Faced with Foch's problem, Lin Youde looked calm: "Of course, I have no reservations about my wife. If you don't believe me, please ask her."
Lin Youde was rushing towards the door and nodded.
Foch turned his head and happened to see Josephine standing by the door.
Seeing everyone's eyes falling on her, Josephine moved and said to Ba, "It's time to change, Luo Tianyi is still staying in bed, you can only go."
"Well, no problem." Ba said as he walked towards the door, and on the way he took Serra, who had slipped into the headquarters from behind Josephine. The little guy present would make the whole room uneasy, so Lin Youde
She had to issue a confinement order on the little guy and prevented her from entering the headquarters. For this reason, Lin Youde had to take time out to accompany the little guy before going to bed every day.
Josephine came to Lin Youde and stood still, turned around and said to Foch: "I was not very satisfied with his words at first, and I felt that he insulted my origin."
As he said that, Josephine glanced at the French in the headquarters.
"But after I stayed in China for so long, I found that what he said actually makes sense. If you don't go to China in person, you can't imagine what kind of country it is. Guangdong and Fujian are two provinces next to China, but
People in the two provinces speak completely differently. Cantonese and Minnan languages will definitely develop into different languages under the same language family, but in China, these are just 'dialects'. Such situations are widely present in China.
People from different places in the country may not understand each other's words if they only talk in dialects.
"Not only are there huge differences in languages, but also in cultural customs. Even those customs that are common across the country still have these huge differences. For example, eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a national custom in China, but mooncakes have
It is very obvious that the north-south division is completely different from the north-south mooncakes. For example, tofu flowers, most places in China have the habit of eating tofu flowers for breakfast, but in some places this thing is sweet, while in others it is
Salty...
"Can you imagine that Miss Foch, people with such huge differences, actually regard themselves as the same nation: the Han people. And in Europe, such a situation will never happen. This is the most magical place in China, without personally taking it.
If you experience it, you will not understand their persistence in the great unification. It is this persistence that prevents China from falling into a situation like Europe, where more and more countries are attacked, and this persistence maintains the Federation of China."
As he said this, a slight sense of pride appeared on Josephine's face, as if she was praising her country.
"Well," Foch looked at Josephine and nodded, "It seems that I should indeed go and experience the magic of this Eastern country on the spot."
When Josephine heard the pride on her face disappeared without a trace, she replaced it with jing and alertness: "Are you planning to come to China?"
"No?"
Lin Youde looked back and forth at the two people staring at each other, and rushed in before the electric sparks burst out between them: "At the end, isn't it good to discuss this kind of topic at such a time?"
Lin Youde said, pointing at the window behind him with thumbs up.
"The German guns outside the window were like thunder, but we are discussing such irrelevant things here so leisurely. Don't you feel rude to the soldiers fighting on the front line?"
"But if you don't talk about this, what can you do?" Foch turned his gaze away from Josephine and looked at Lin Youde, "I am already a completely idle person. If the German army does not launch a large-scale attack on the God of God, I will
Will be idle all the time. And your only teacher is now nailed to the front line and can't move at all, right?"
The French general was very successful in robbing the merits, but he did not arrange troops to replace Lin Youde's troops. Therefore, the First Aztec Division and the remaining French troops were guarding that line of defense together, and now they were facing a fierce attack from the German army.
The French commanders did not even think about reorganizing the troops that had lost so many troops and then forming a living soldier. Fortunately, a young French staff officer was on the front line and did all these things.
When he learned the name of the French staff officer, Lin Youde sighed in his heart: "Charles de Gaulle, de Gaulle, you are worthy of being an old friend of the Chinese people, this is fate."
But in general, Foch is right. Lin Youde is now a commander without soldiers. Apart from a small number of Jingrui teams, only his wives can fight. There is really nothing they can do on the battlefield.
Since there are so many things that can be done, then do it. Lin Youde thought so and invited Foch: "Why don't we go to the hospital to comfort the wounded soldiers together?"
"Well, this idea is good." Foch glanced at Josephine and happily responded...)