It is said that Germans are a nation that does not pay much attention to food, and German food is generally considered to be bad. But this meal at Goebbels' house made Xiang Xiaoqiang completely change his view.
First of all, the biggest difference between Western food and Chinese food is that Chinese food mainly focuses on the dishes themselves, while Western food spends at least 40% of the attention on the tableware and the visual layout of the table. A few dishes have not been served yet
, the long table is already full of beautiful things. Snow-white tablecloths, tall and short crystal glasses, glasses for drinking aperitifs, glasses for drinking wine, glasses for drinking champagne, glasses for drinking beer, and glasses for drinking mineral water.
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Then there are silver tableware that is shiny and discernible, several kinds of table knives, several kinds of forks, several kinds of spoons, and silver clips for eating oysters and conches... neatly placed
In front of everyone, there is an extremely precise tool, just like a watch repair tool.
The large crystal chandelier above the head was clearly brightly lit, and several silver candlesticks were placed on the long table with candles lit. It was as if these foreigners could not eat without seeing the dancing flames. In addition, there were
A lot of useless things, such as flowers.
Xiang Xiaoqiang counted the items on the very full table, and found that he couldn't even count a few things that could be eaten. They were just a few items of cheese, cream, sliced sausage, fish jelly, egg salad, and vegetable and fruit salad. The only ones that interested him were
What I had to eat was a grilled pork tenderloin with garlic sauce, which was also cold.
But the Germans were all chatting and laughing, and didn't think anything was wrong at all. They were mainly drinking.
At this time, the main force in the discussion was Song Ruhai. Song Ruhai was the former ambassador to Germany, and he joked with them directly in German. But he was the ambassador during the Weimar Republic and retired in 1932. When he retired, these people had not yet come to power.
I have dealt with them before. Otherwise it would be much more convenient. They are all old acquaintances.
Mrs. Goebbels was very considerate. In addition to knives and forks, she specially prepared a pair of chopsticks for each of Ming's guests. Typical German thinking told her: Since she is used to using knives and forks, she definitely doesn't know how to use chopsticks, so now
Chinese guests are accustomed to using chopsticks, so they probably don’t know how to use knives and forks.
Although no one here can't use a knife and fork, Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others also use chopsticks gratefully, and only use the knife and fork when handling meat.
These Chinese people use chopsticks, which is like magic to these Germans. Especially when they use chopsticks to quickly pick up peas and salad pudding, the conversation always stops abruptly. A large group of Germans
Staring at the chopsticks in the hands of Chinese people is like looking at an artifact.
Göring also took a pair of chopsticks, but it didn't work no matter how hard he tried. He couldn't even pick up a piece of meat.
On a whim, Xiang Xiaoqiang challenged them to the limit by performing a show - he slowly picked up a strawberry seed from the salad at the bottom of the plate.
As a result, all Germans were shocked.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was very satisfied with their reaction. For these Nazis who were obsessed with the Aryan race, it was always beneficial and harmless to occasionally perform the unique skills of the Orientals to shock them.
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After a while, the first part of the main course came. Like most Western meals, the first main course of German meals was actually soup.
There are two kinds of soup, one is a thick soup made of poultry or game, and the other is a light soup made of vegetables. Xiaoqiang took a few sips and felt that it was very ordinary, even though it was made by the chef of the Goebbels family.
But that's just it, it's far worse than the egg drop soup made in the headquarters canteen.
But every time a dish was served, Mrs. Goebbels would ask the Ming guests very diligently how it tasted and whether they liked it. Of course, Xiang Xiaoqiang and others were full of praise as usual. Mrs. Goebbels also showed satisfaction as usual. smile.
Then the second part of the main course came. Only then did we really see something decent. Crispy pork knuckles from Bavaria, assorted seafood from Hamburg, vinegar goulash from North Rhine-Westphalia, currywurst from Berlin, fried sausages from Thuringia , roasted whole goose from Mecklenburg, fried lamb ribs from Schleswig-Holstein in North Germany, chicken stew from Bremen, braised pork belly from the Pfalz, onion pork chops from Saarland...
The Germans are the nation that eats the most meat in the world, especially pork. It is indeed a well-deserved reputation. At the dinner table, although these German high-ranking officials and ladies eat very elegantly, the amount of meat they eat, regardless of men or women, is... It was beyond Xiang Xiaoqiang's imagination. Xiang Xiaoqiang just watched Golin kill off an entire pig's front leg so quietly. Moreover, he also ate a lot of other things.
Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiuqiu looked at each other and suddenly understood where Golin got all the fat on his body.
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Xiang Xiaoqiang thought that these people, the number two, invited him here so that they could talk about cooperation tonight. Who knew that this was just like a pure family dinner, with these empire bosses at the table, having a romantic time with each other, but no one was there. Mention the matter of Mingde's cooperation. Since they didn't mention it, Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't intend to take the initiative. Anyway, he has a lot of patience. If they never come to him, then as soon as his 20-day visa expires, he will leave immediately.
Hess and Goebbels were both ethnomaniacs, crazy believers in the Nazi theory of race. Hess first asked Xiang Xiaoqiang about his experience in Germany, and Xiang Xiaoqiang naturally talked about the train compartment. He smiled and glanced at Himmler, who was busy eating. Himmler was a little embarrassed and didn't answer, but Hess asked numbly: Why is it such a coincidence? Why are there really not three boxes connected together? Our second The traffic in the Three Empires will not be like this, absolutely not.
Not only Himmler, but also Goering was a little embarrassed. He interrupted with a smile:
"I heard it was a few damn Jews who occupied the middle compartment. Haha, it was easier for them to drive them into the hard-seat compartment!"
When Hess heard that he was a Jew, he sneered and said:
"It gives them an advantage. They should be penned up like pigs."
As a result, the topic naturally turned to the issue of race. Goebbels was very smart, but when it came to race theory, he couldn't stand it anymore. He and Hess sang together and talked about the Aryan race. Up to heaven. Goebbels's wife was even worse than her husband. She listened to her husband's extreme remarks devoutly, and occasionally added an even more extreme statement. Xiang Xiaoqiang felt that if the most fanatical female Nazi was selected, Mrs. Goebbels definitely takes first place.
Xiang Xiaoqiang originally had no intention of getting involved. This kind of thing was just like a cult, and there was no reason to explain it. But he couldn't help it anymore, so he tried to interject as friendly as possible:
"Actually, I think that the human races in the world can be divided into several categories, and each category has the best. And these best races can be compared horizontally to determine who is responsible for who. This Just like coffee and tea, everyone knows that you can only compare coffee and coffee together, or tea and tea together. But you cannot compare coffee and tea together, there is no comparability."
The restaurant immediately fell silent. Only now did these racial maniacs wake up and remember that there were several non-Aryans sitting here. Not only were they not Aryans, they were also people of color.
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while. If other people said such things, they would directly refute it. But these people from the Ming Dynasty are all distinguished guests, and they cannot be unhappy because of "academic issues." But the Goebbels and Hess are all human beings.
Racial madness, for them, this has gone beyond an "academic issue" and has risen to a "belief issue." Goebbels smiled and explained the Nazi's racial outlook to Xiang Xiaoqiang as politely as possible, trying to make him understand.
What Xiang Xiaoqiang wants is for them to admit that human races are divided into broad categories, at least East and West. You say that Aryans are only the best among Westerners, but we don’t care; as for Easterners, who is good and who is not?
Don't worry about it. In other words, if you must talk about race, admit to Xiaoqiang that the Aryans are the best Western race, but you must also admit to the Germans that the Chinese Mongol-Malay mixed race is the best.
Excellent oriental race.
This is not a momentary rivalry, it will play a big role in the subsequent cooperation between Germany and Germany. Originally, when the two countries cooperated, they only talked about interests. But who said that Germany is controlled by a group of racial maniacs.
Today's Chinese people were formed through thousands of years of ethnic integration. They are a buffer between the Mongol race in Northeast Asia and the Malay race in Southeast Asia. There are slight differences in appearance between northern Chinese and southern Chinese. This is because the northerners
This is because the people in the south have more Mongoloid elements, while the people in the south have more Malay elements. Of course, the so-called "Mongoloid" and "Malay" are just ethnographic terms, not necessarily
Mongolians and Malays.
However, the Nazis’ racial ideology believed that the purer the race, the better, while the Chinese race was too “mixed”. Xiang Xiaoqiang talked to them from the perspective of genetic science about how important the mixing of genes is. A biological group must often
Only by accepting foreign genes can we maintain health and prosperity, otherwise we will definitely become more and more declining.
Xiang Xiaoqiang also used the Japanese as an example: Japan is an island country. It has long been difficult to accept foreign genes in history. Is the race pure? Is it pure enough? But their height and physical fitness have long been not as good as those of the Chinese...and they are also
Generally bow-legged.
"Fortunately, they are not far from China," Xiang Xiaoqiang continued to talk casually. "At least they can exchange some genes frequently. Otherwise, they would have perished long ago. Even if they survived, they would still be a country with low IQ."
Across the long table, several people squinted their eyes and frowned, thinking about Xiang Xiaoqiang's fresh theory. They felt that this was not the case, and wanted to refute but couldn't find the right words.
The concept of "genes" is still unheard of for them.
"There are also countries with purer races," Xiang Xiaoqiang said. "It is unimaginable to have pure races, such as some island countries in the Pacific. Their genes have been sealed for tens of thousands of years. By your standards, their races should be
Much better than us Chinese. But what are the facts?... They are still eating hair and drinking blood, and they are still drilling wood to make fire. Until they were discovered at the end of the last century, many tribes were still eating human flesh. We civilized people call them '
Life-eating fan'."
Of course, Xiang Xiaoqiang changed the concept here. The reason for the backwardness of those island countries is not due to genetic isolation. It is mainly due to long-term isolation from the outside world and the lack of development of culture and technology.
Xiang Xiaoqiang then talked about many new concepts:
For example, the further apart the two genes are, the greater the difference, and the better the effect of mixing them together. For example, a mixed-race child born from Chinese and Germans will be much better than a mixed-race child born from Germans and Frenchmen.
He also cited examples that everyone can see: for example, mixed-race children are naturally stronger, smarter, more beautiful, and more resistant than ordinary people:
"Pure animal breeds are valued, while human 'breeds' are valued miscellaneous. Many purebred animals, such as ornamental dogs, are precisely the most failed deformed products in the history of evolution. If human beings did not in order to satisfy their desire for novelty, they would
If their genes were interfered with, nature would not have evolved such a failure. These purebred things would not survive three days in nature. But human beings have different requirements. We humans judge outstanding people.
There are only three standards for breeding: whether they are smart, whether they are strong, and whether they are beautiful. Therefore, while you are glad that you are the best race in the West, please don’t forget to see the East, where the best race is none other than us in China.
people."
After Xiang Xiaoqiang finished his long speech, there was silence in the restaurant. Everyone was looking at him blankly. Not only the Germans, but also the members of the delegation who came with him, and Qiu Qiu, also looked at him blankly.
I was fooled by his "new ethnography".
Xiang Xiaoqiang doesn't know if this theory about genes and hybrids exists at this time, but one thing is certain: even if it does, only a few scholars know about it, and ordinary people and politicians don't know about it. Although the Nazis also paid attention to racial theory,
But their racial theory still remains at the level of "Aryans are descendants of the Nordic gods".
Obviously, these words have been refreshing to these Nazi ethnocrackers. For them, this is tantamount to a brainstorming session.
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After the party, Goebbels sent a car to take them back to the hotel.
Qiu Qiu and the three old advisers were very curious about his racial knowledge and kept asking him where he learned it. This was really new. Although it was unheard of, it sounded very reasonable. And with this "gene
"With a set of theories, many problems can be explained clearly.
"If this is true, it will soon catch up with the theory of evolution."
Wang Hexiang said half-jokingly.
He waved his hand to Xiaoqiang and said with a smile:
"Oh, it's not that mysterious. These are just a few miscellaneous books that I read randomly in the past few years. I saw that the writing in them was quite interesting, so I remembered it. I was also making up and deceiving you just now. To be honest, if they hadn't kept on
There are endless differences between people of different races, and I won’t tell them these things.”
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At around ten o'clock in the evening, just as Xiang Xiaoqiang was about to go to bed, Heydrich suddenly came to visit.
"My lord," he said with an envious look and a smile, "I want to congratulate you."
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at him, guessing from the blond beast's face. Slowly, he felt an ominous feeling.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Heydrich smiled, then stood upright on his feet and said solemnly:
"My lord, at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, you will be received by the head of state."