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Chapter 205

Changchun Garden is located outside the capital. It is a palace for summer and government administration. Since the renovation of Changchun Garden, Kangxi has lived here every year to handle government affairs and leisure.

When designing the garden, the place was divided into two parts, one was the governing area and one was the living area. The Wuyizhai where Yinreng lived was specially set up to study for the crown prince. This water pavilion was the coolest in summer. Originally, when Khan Ama was in charge of government, Yinreng moved here. This time Khan Ama locked him up here, but he stayed in the Forbidden City. Wouldn't this give Yinreng the opportunity to "a monkey called the king"?

Even if someone reports to Khan Ama every day and tells Khan Ama what he did again, Yinreng is not panicked at all, and just reports, Khan Ama appears in front of Gu?

Now Wu Yizhai has moved in with the eldest prince and Amu, and happened to be together with Yinreng and Cao Zhen, and started to make trouble from the West Garden, scattered the fish in the pond, and even made a vegetable garden.

Under the guidance of the eunuch, Bai Jin passed through the small bridge and flowing water, walked through pavilions and towers, and was amazed by this beautiful garden that blended with the natural scenery along the way. When he arrived at the place where the prince and the eldest prince were, he saw only the shadows of the two princes competing to fish. He also saw a beautiful boy who was dressed differently from the eunuch and looked so beautiful. When he met such a natural atmosphere, he looked like an elf appearing in the forest, which made Bai Jin's eyes lit up.

The young eunuch who led the way said with a smile: "That is your highness's companion, his surname is Cao, and the other person who handed the bait to the eldest prince is the companion of the eldest prince."

Bai Jin nodded, took a deep breath of the fresh air of nature, and felt refreshed.

The young man, who was as delicate as an elf, was piercing the prince with a slight look and sniffing: "Wow, Your Highness has caught eight fish!"

He replaced the full ones for the prince, and then put the poke in the air. He looked up and saw Bai Jin coming, and hurriedly lowered his head to remind Yinreng: "Your Highness, the messenger is here."

Seeing this, Yinzhi stood up from the spot: "The French messenger is here, so today's competition will come first."

He kept his face and ordered people to put away the fishing rod and invite people to lead Bai Jin to the water pavilion.

Yinreng did not let him go, saying that he was the one who wanted to bet, and he was still betrayed now. How could this be?

"How many fish have you caught?"

Yinzhen snorted softly: "Five fish, seventeen shrimps!"

Judging from the number of fishing, Yinzhi naturally lost. Who made him choose to use a small hook in order to win? Because big fish are difficult to catch, who wants to always hook shrimps?

Yinzhi said dissatisfiedly: "What's wrong with this pond? Why do you always catch shrimps? Isn't the shrimps inside breeding in groups?"

Cao Zhen smiled and said, "The place where the eldest prince sits has many water plants and many small fish, but it is precisely because of the many water plants that there are shrimps hiding under the grass!"

The weather was clear and I was in a good mood. Yinzhi waved his hand: "Okay, okay, this time I lost, I will eat fish dumplings tonight."

"It's really not easy to get my elder brother to take the initiative to admit defeat," Yinreng smiled: "This time, I have to teach my younger brothers patiently. How can I do it if I am alone? I am willing to accept the loss. My elder brother must also participate in coaxing my younger brother!"

Yinzhen snorted coldly and comforted himself: "I just think it's practice in advance how to coax my son!"

According to the principle of orderly elders and young children, the marriage of the eldest son has been decided first. After the decision is made, it will be Yinreng's turn. Yinreng will not be able to get married, so he will be able to get married one by one. One younger brother is arranged. In the future, Khan Ama will have to spend money to build a mansion for his sons. Yinreng almost was worried about Khan Ama's increasingly shrinking wallet.

When the sons built a house, they had to take into account the dowry of their daughters, royal decency and convention. In this way, Khan Ama is still the same as before, a poor Ama. Who gave his children more children?

Yinreng: After a few years, I have grandchildren... I will be reborn again. Oh my God, it will be exciting to think about it. It will cover the pond like fish and shrimps.

Yinzhi said to the people around him: "Give me a bowl of fresh meat dumplings, I'm hungry."

When Yinreng saw him leaving with his people, he smiled so hard that his eyebrows were curved. He also took Cao Zhen back to Wuyizhai with him.

Bai Jin and Qing rituals were imitated very much. When they came to meet Yinreng, there was no problem with etiquette. Seeing that the crown prince was still young and had a gentle temper, he relaxed and no longer felt as nervous as when he met Kangxi.

"The French envoy Bai Jin met His Royal Highness."

Bai Jin said in a gentle voice: "Before before, I would like to thank His Highness the Crown Prince for his words to help me relieve the situation."

Yinreng raised his eyes and said in surprise: "Hmm? Can the White Messenger hear that Gu is helping you?"

Bai Jin sat down at the lower head under his guidance, with a relaxed expression: "At that time, I was urgent, and I offended the emperor with a rude expression. The emperor had obvious anger. His Highness asked him, and the emperor's anger disappeared in an instant."

Chinese is profound and profound, and it is difficult to understand the crooked and implicit in it. However, Bai Jin was the messenger selected by Louis XIV. He is a sleek veteran in dealing with people and things. He observes the details carefully and when flattering, he also pats it very accurately.

The prince was a famous practical school in the Qing Dynasty. He did not like the empty ones. This is the news that Bai Jin had found in the Qing Dynasty.

Since you don’t like the vain, it is obviously useless to praise Your Highness for being handsome and smart. If you want to praise him, just praise him from the actual situation. Obviously, the young Highness is in a good mood and ordered someone to prepare desserts for Bai Jin.

The round white dumplings, called sesame dumplings, float in a bowl made of Jingdezhen porcelain, and even the spoons that eat dumplings are made of porcelain.

Bai Jin was obviously aware of the goods. It was understandable that the prince in front of him was the prince of the Qing Dynasty. He could have the best porcelain. He curiously poked the white "glutinous rice balls". After poking it, there was a black sesame core in it!

Oh my God! How did this be done? It can actually wrap the flowing sesame seeds in white skin!

The prince invited Bai Jin to eat each dumpling, each of which was one bite, was five in total, including sesame stuffing and peanut stuffing.

"The envoy has not tasted the food of the Qing Dynasty until now, right?"

Yinreng smiled and said, "The folk dumplings are no different from those in the palace. People can make them at home, and they also have them in various restaurants."

"Of course, if the messenger likes it, you can buy it in a private shop."

Yinreng also recommended various delicacies that Bai Jin could eat in the capital.

They had two meals a day, and they heard that the French had to eat three meals a day and the Spanish had to eat five meals a day. Yinreng could hardly imagine how they ate five meals a day, and what would they have to eat?

Yinreng mentioned: "The lonely foreign school is about to be completed, and I want to hire several foreigners who know the Qing language to teach them the language."

When Bai Jin heard this, he immediately felt like he was injected with chicken blood: "I am not talented, because I often go abroad to foreign countries and understand the language of many Western countries. Not only that, I also know Russian. I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing to hire me?"

Yinreng would never tell Bai Jinhan that Ama had planned to let him stay in the capital. It was an embarrassing time for Bai Jin to be nameless and unresolved.

"One person is probably not enough. I want more foreign teachers," Yinreng pondered: "You need to understand the situation between countries outside the world, and it is best to have experience working in foreign schools."

That's not easy? Most of them are missionaries who have worked in foreign universities and have rich language experience.

It was obvious that Bai Jin could send people to the Qing Dynasty, so how could Bai Jin missed it? He even mentioned that the Jesuits envied Lord Nan Huairen for having the nationality of the Qing Dynasty.

Yinreng's smile remained unchanged: "Master Nan once taught me physics and mathematics. He is old and has not been in good health recently. He may be resigning from office and going home to recuperate in the near future. I don't know who will be the next minister of the Imperial Heaven Superintendent."

Bai Jinke was ready to move for a long time, and he also recommended his companion Zhang Cheng to Yinreng.

Yinreng talked with the French envoy for a long time and temporarily agreed to go to study abroad to teach.

Then he talked about France's famous perfumes, spices and gems. Unfortunately, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not seem to be particularly interested in these.

Yinreng thought about it. He was breathing the fresh air of nature and staying in the comfortable water pavilion, Bai Jin was so nervous that his forehead was sweating.

The prince of the Qing Dynasty was handsome, had a good temper, and his smile was as warm as the spring sunshine. Both him and his companions were particularly pleasing to the eye. Strangely, in front of this prince who always liked to smile, Bai Jin could not raise any strange intentions. When he mentioned that he wanted to trade with the Qing Dynasty, the prince's smile did not change, but Bai Jin became nervous inexplicably.

He was obviously a half-grown boy, but he felt a sense of awe of meeting the emperor. The inherent dignity was admired. Bai Jin did not dare to be as casual as before.

The emperor allowed Bai Jin to come to find the prince, which was his last chance. Whether he wanted to stay in the Qing Dynasty or to open up trade routes, Bai Jin's time was getting more and more urgent, because the English envoys and Dutch envoys had already arrived in the Qing Dynasty and were about to enter the capital.

Yinreng smiled and said, "Both Gu and Khan Ama both advocate thrift and thrift, and extravagance and waste are not a virtue."

In other words, they were not interested in the French nobles comparing with decent jewelry, leather treasures, etc.

Yes, they are very frugal. They just live in gardens full of natural scenery and enjoy the leisure and fun brought by artificial ponds. They use advanced flushing toilets, and there are only dozens of palace maids and dozens of eunuchs around them.

Bai Jin was almost crying.

The nobles of the Qing Dynasty were elegant and pursued the truth, and gems and gold coins could not impress them.

Bai Jin also proposed the enjoyment of noble ladies, what do French noble ladies like on weekdays, and also said that if they were introduced to the Qing Dynasty, the empresses in the harem would definitely like it.

The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was different from their kings. The emperor had many empresses and dozens of wives and concubines in his harem!

Women are best earned money, and at this point, French ladies who are good at enjoying have already been at the forefront of fashion.

Yinreng smiled and said, "Of course, your country's perfumes and cosmetics are very popular among the ladies, but that is not a rare thing, because these things were sold to the Qing Dynasty a few years ago."

It is precisely because all countries are competing and want to engage in close trade with the Qing Dynasty that Bai Jin fell into a passive state when talking.

Fortunately, the prince of the Qing Dynasty stopped and did not force people too much. He could always give people the most comfortable experience like gentle breeze and drizzle. However, Bai Jin was not good at it and was nervous and straightened his back, as if he was facing a terrible person who would threaten his life.

Bai Jin wiped his sweat and secretly despised himself for being incredible. The prince treated him like this, but he still couldn't let go. It was really embarrassing.

"The king told us that as long as there are good things in France, we will not be stingy. I heard that a batch of Jingdezhen porcelain was sold to the English. I don't know if the French caravans could have the opportunity to take away a batch of exquisite porcelain from the Qing Dynasty and bring it back to our country to use it for us?"

Jingdezhen's porcelain is famous for its exquisiteness in the Qing Dynasty. It has a very good sales among the nobles, and it is hard to find a fortune.

The French nobles had a preference for Oriental porcelain. They believed that only noble and wealthy people could afford porcelain to drink tea from the East, which was a kind of decent.

In the Qing Dynasty, did French wine be used as a gift? To put it bluntly, it is a rare item.

Bai Jin regretted: "It is our honor to be willing to introduce cocoa trees to plant them in the south of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, in addition to cocoa trees, our East India Company in France also has other popular things in the West. However, the demand for the Qing Dynasty was too small. Apart from the guns and cannons I bought, we only asked for cocoa trees and failed to bring goods that the Qing Dynasty could admire. This made us feel very ashamed."

"If you want to negotiate about caravan trade, let those responsible for doing business. The messenger is a scholar. Why not talk about academic knowledge with the other person?" Yinreng smiled and led the topic to academic.

Astronomy, geography, physics and chemistry, this young imperial crown prince has all been involved, and his knowledge is beyond people's imagination. Bai Jin is an academician of the French Academy of Sciences. This time he came to the Qing Dynasty to use astronomy, mathematics, etc. as a guide to knock on the gates of the Qing Dynasty. But now, he can't answer the mathematics and physics question asked by the Qing Dynasty!

“There is a university professor in England named Newton, and the books he wrote are very interesting.”

Bai Jin blurted out: "We have Professor Descartes! He is a famous mathematician and physicist."

"He formulated the geometric coordinate system and proposed the coordinate system! Geometry and algebra are perfectly integrated, becoming analytical geometry with far-reaching influence in Western countries."

The Qing Dynasty prince finally showed a look other than a smile. He asked in surprise and interest: "Is that Professor Descartes also an academician of your Academy of Sciences? He is so respectable."

Bai Jin: "..."

Yinreng asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"I am very sorry that Descartes has passed away. His...his works have also been listed in the Pope's banned books catalog," Bai Jin lowered his head, like a dejected puppy: "I am very sorry, yes, very regretful. Only in the Qing Dynasty did I dare to mention Descartes' name. The Vatican Pope curbed the spread of his thoughts and works, but he was so great that even the Pope could not prevent his thoughts from spreading to Western countries. As a scholar, I respect him as a scientific master."

"That's how it's," Yinreng sighed, "It's a pity that you have a pope, it's so magical. With a pope, wouldn't the king's power be curbed and threatened? There wouldn't be such a thing in the Qing Dynasty. Gu was very interested in Descartes' works. If the messenger could send it to Gu, Gu could give priority to your country when trading with other countries in the future. I don't know if the messenger is willing to work hard for this."

This is a proposition for giving away.
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