3197 The old man in the Queen's Villa
After all, Isabella II was the queen of the Spanish Empire. Although he was once, his identity was also very noble. Of course, he was rude to not go to the gate to welcome Xiao Letian, but it is reasonable not to welcome Xiang Ying.
But it would be too rude to leave Xiang Ying alone for three or four hours!
Susan knew that the queen was angry and wanted to persuade her but couldn't persuade her, so she could only try her best to comfort the guests. When she stood at the door of the Queen's villa, Xiang Ying's agile posture on the horse's back had already come into view.
"Oh! God! What a handsome man... I need a strong body..." Susan's eyes immediately brought out peach blossoms.
"People... increase the specifications of the dinner... triple..."
The maid around him asked in confusion, "The hospitality specifications were formulated by Your Majesty himself. Will the change now make Your Majesty unhappy..."
"Shut up! I'll take responsibility for anything and go to work immediately!" Susan is an extremely harsh butler on weekdays. Her subordinates are afraid of her. When she heard this, she quickly took her skirt and left quickly.
Xiang Ying gradually walked to the villa by the sea in the Bay of Biscay. Looking at the lonely welcome people at the door, he looked unhappy.
"Does this look down on me? Or is it really no one else? Is the queen of Spain not even a minister to follow? Let the woman stand in the middle to welcome me!"
Xiang Ying was not here at first, and this time she was going to negotiate with the former Queen of Spain, so there was no need to be so polite.
But Susan, who was greeting, welcomed the past with a pleated smile, "Dear sir, welcome your arrival, I have prepared the best red wine for you... His Majesty is a little uncomfortable. The imperial doctor is treating him now. Please take a break in the living room..."
"By the way, if you like the scenery here, you can visit it freely... This is the most famous sacred place in France, the queen's favorite back garden..."
Xiang Ying stood at the door with her hands behind her back, "Sorry, I'm not here to travel, I'm here to negotiate! When will you prepare for negotiations? I'll go in again!"
Good guy, more than one hundred Chinese officers and soldiers set up a standard military rank in the garden. Xiang Ying and other civil servants were walking on the beach, and more than one hundred soldiers were demonstrating against the Spanish.
This scene is too embarrassing. The queen pays attention to the medieval court etiquette. The soldiers in the villa are dressed in the same medieval knights, all of whom are full of armor and holding cold weapons.
It’s not that there are no modern soldiers to protect her, but that these soldiers are placed on the periphery and are not used as a scene.
Xiang Ying brought all the veterans who struggled from the battlefield and fought out from the pile of dead people, and the murderous aura at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were so fierce!
Everyone was brand new military uniforms, with cowhide armed straps tied tightly, and the big brimmed hat was pitch black and shiny. The entire military formation was horizontal and vertical as if it were cut by a knife, axe and chopped.
Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but fear of comparing goods! The Spanish court knights are quite mighty on weekdays, but compared with pure modern special forces, their aura was immediately suppressed, and they were like country bumpkins.
Susan saw that this was overwhelming, but he really didn't have the civil servants and generals with equal identities around him who could speak, so he had to call a guard to whisper in a low voice.
"Go and invite the gentleman out. It's the VIP who came a week ago... Please come and accompany our guests and let him relieve it!"
"I'll go and persuade Your Majesty, you can't be so stiff!"
When Isabella II stepped down, the French Emperor was still in power. For the sake of friendship and diplomacy between the two countries, Napoleon III provided the queen with political asylum.
Biarritz, the queen's favorite back garden, is only more than 20 kilometers away from the Spanish border. After passing the Pyrenees, it is Bilbao. The garrison here has always been the queen's direct line.
In other words, Biarritz has become a headquarters for the restoration of the Queen, or a government in exile placed in France.
When the Queen fled Spain, of course, she brought some civil and military officials loyal to him, but restoration was never an easy task. Some of his direct descendants carried out diplomatic activities in European countries, and some sneaked back to Spain to conduct subversion activities.
Including General Prim's assassination was done by the Queen's direct descendants and the royalist army in the country!
There were not many talents and they were sent out to perform various tasks. As a result, Xiang Ying came, but there were not many officials with equal identities to negotiate.
When Susan saw that this was not good, she had to invite a distinguished guest to help her accompany her to ease the atmosphere.
Xiang Ying and the accompanying officials were walking on the beach, but they didn't go far but were blowing the sea breeze, listening to the sound of the waves, and breathing deeply at the view of the vast sky.
"Not to mention, Queen Eugenie really has the eyesight. The scenery I chose is really good..."
"That's of course! Because this is where the queen lived in her childhood..." An old voice suddenly sounded behind everyone.
Xiang Ying turned her head and saw that she was an old man with gray hair and beard, wearing a fitted suit and a shiny pocket strap hanging on her vest.
The old man with a big belly looked at these Chinese people calmly, with a very melancholy expression in his eyes!
Xiang Ying’s first intuition was that this person was very bookish and exuded a unique aura of high-level intellectuals who were worried about the country and the people!
"Sir? You are not an official, are you?"
"Yes, let me introduce myself... Victor Hugo, just an ordinary guest who lives here for the time being to recuperate!"
Xiang Ying was a little familiar, but the other French entourages who accompanied him were shocked, "God! Victor Hugo? Have you returned to China? Have you ended your twenty-year exile and returned to China?"
"Yes, when Napoleon III was emperor, I exiled me because I scolded him a few times... I wandered in Europe for twenty years until the emperor stepped down!"
Xiang Ying slapped his head, "God! I remember it! The author of Les Miserables, you are Mr. Victor Hugo! A great writer and a great writer!"
"There are also Notre Dame Cathedral! The mastermind is very proud of your works... The mastermind even contributes to translate your works himself!"
Hugo was stunned for a moment, "Will the Head of State like my works? God, it's really amazing. The books I wrote have only been spread to the East for a few years?"
Hugo's reputation in this era is already very high, but it is definitely not as great as that of later generations, so he is a little unconfident in his influence.
But don’t forget that Xiao Letian has read the works of great writers in his previous life, and even if he has never read the original work, he has watched the movie!
Influenced by Xiao Letian, these Chinese students studying in Europe also chose to read the works of literary masters, but Xiang Ying was too fond of academic discipline and focused almost all his energy on the military, so he did not systematically read Hugo's works.
But when someone reminded her, Xiang Ying immediately remembered the influence of this old man!
He stretched out his hands and held Victor Hugo's hand tightly. "Sir, I want to hold one hand myself, and the other hand I hold on behalf of the Head of State!"
Chapter completed!