dhibooks Chapter 402 Missionary
Chapter 402 Missionary
When both of them were awkward, Zhang Shen also changed his clothes and came out.
Wu Youwei and Wantong looked at each other and said nothing.
In the naval army, everyone called Zhang Shen "Master Zhang", he was not the supervisor or father-in-law, and ignored his status as a eunuch, respecting him as if he were a superior.
Therefore, in the army, Zhang Shen wore either combat uniforms, marching uniforms, or training uniforms, and rarely wore eunuch clothes.
Now that the sunflower suit was worn on him, although it was still the costume of an eunuch, it made Zhang Shen look heroic.
Don't look at Zhang Shen's thin body, but his whole body is full of small muscles. How can others not admire an eunuch who can do this!
He's already dressed like this, what else are they talking about?
Nothing can be said.
"Let's go to the living room." Here, Zhang Shen has a special status, Wantong has a high official position, and Wu Youwei is a small county magistrate.
But Wantong is still on the left, Zhang Shen is on the right, and Wu Youwei is in the middle.
Wu Youwei's mouth twitched when he arrived in the living room. Zhang Shen's place was arranged by him, but it was decorated according to Zhang Shen's preferences. It used to be a very elegant place, but now....it is very vulgar!
As soon as you enter the yard, there are four corners, all of which are exquisitely carved fireproof tanks, in which there are swaying bowl lotuses and fish under them.
Then there are two magnolia trees.
There are several beautifully trimmed bonsai placed under the porch, but the pot is also beautifully carved.
After entering the door, there is a large Persian carpet covered three-fifths of the living room with large red peonies.
In fact, it was bought outside the customs, but this thing is not available to ordinary people!
There are plum vases half a person tall on both sides of the door, and now there are delicate and fresh tall flowers in them.
There are eight red sandalwood grand teacher's chairs on both sides of the inside, all of which are covered with purple gold brocade chairs, with four sets of footrests underneath. On both sides of the chairs, there are also a pair of high tables, with tea bowls and vases on the tables.
And they are all milk porcelain from Wu Youwei's porcelain factory. Now milk porcelain is very expensive, and a set costs 80 taels of silver.
Of course, it wasn't that expensive for Zhang Shen, it was a friendly price.
Not far behind the Taishi chair is the Duobao Pavilion on both sides. Wu Youwei felt a little blind from the things placed on it.
The three-legged golden toad inlaid with red gold, the white jade galloping horse with fire diamonds as its eyes, the auspiciousness of jade, the wishfulness of emerald, and the golden sand and coral trees placed on both sides in the treasure basin as high as half a person...
Especially the curtain, it turned out to be a crystal curtain!
Wu Youwei deliberately went over to have a look, with an expression of "fucking" on his face. He thought it was really crystal, but it turned out to be a glass ball made from the waste glass in his glass factory, which can now be processed. The curtain has been formed. Of course, this "crystal curtain" was first used by Emperor Xianzong, followed by guarding eunuchs, relatives of the emperor and honored families.
It is said that this thing is very rare, and it costs a thousand taels of silver for a hundred hangings.
In fact, it was because there was less and less waste glass from refining, so there were not so many raw materials, and the production of this thing was troublesome, so it was delayed.
Who knew it would be so rare!
There are also soft smoked curtains hanging on the windows, and gauze curtains that match the color of the room are hanging around, and even the things placed on the main seat are high-quality goods.
It was a money tree, made of sapphire, filled with pearls the size of longan, and made of red gold, half a person's height, with all kinds of gems and gold ingots hanging on it, but no silver ingots.
Hanging on the wall is also a large "Fu" character sprinkled with gold powder, and the inscriptions on both sides are also special paper with red background sprinkled with gold.
These are the words and couplets given to Zhang Shen by Emperor Xianzong. There is no horizontal comment, but Zhang Shen guards them like a baby, and it is hanging out now... It is really meaningful.
Looking at the supplies, the table flags on this table are all made of leather silk. In the Song Dynasty, leather silk was "one inch of leather silk and one inch of gold". The price is not cheap either.
The dim sum is not the usual mint cake, mung bean cake and other dim sum. After Zhang Shen came, he specially found an apprentice of the imperial chef to cook for him. This apprentice's daughter-in-law is very good at making dim sum.
In the jade-like disc, there are four crisps: lotus flower crisps, walnut crisps, rose crisps, and almond crisps.
Inside the lacquered square plate is a nine-square grid, which contains nine kinds of dried fruits for entertaining guests; on both sides are Sancai gaiwan.
On both sides of the main seat, there are Zhenshanhe Suzhou embroidery screens, with a panoramic view of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, to show the peace of the world and the stability of the country; "Albatron straight up" means.
Ouch hello
The furnishings in the house, let alone how rich and elegant they are.
It's just that the reception standard is too high, right?
"Sit down, sit down!" Zhang Shen had four chief seats, and the three of them sat down, and the six little eunuchs who followed Zhang Shen also stood on both sides.
Wu Youwei looked around: "I said Lao Zhang, what are you doing?"
The clothes of the six little eunuchs were obviously new. Normally, the six of them were in charge of taking care of Zhang Shen. They were all delicate and tender. Now they are dressed like this, what is this for?
"You will know in a while." Zhang Shen ordered: "Go, invite people in."
"Yes, father-in-law." The two little servants saluted seriously, this is the rule in the palace, it is very big and very strict.
The two servants standing at the door heard the words from inside and went to invite people.
Wantong looked cold, and glanced at the furnishings in the room, what a luxury!
Then he noticed that every little detail here is extravagant. This is not Zhang Shen's character. Zhang Shen may have paid attention to these things before, but since he fought a few battles, he has completely let himself go. When he was in Beijing, he kept saying "Lao Tzu" all day long, scolded people at every turn, and used Shanghai dialect. It is estimated that if he was asked to return to Beijing to serve him, he would not get used to it.
People from outside were brought in, with two young men in green clothes leading the way in front, followed by seven Fanbang people.
But they were already surprised before they entered the yard, and after entering the yard, they opened their mouths even more, and they didn't close it all the time.
After entering the room, he even rubbed his eyes, almost wanting to get down on the ground and study how this carpet is woven!
Why is it so bright and beautiful?
Looking up at the room, they don't know the word "resplendent", but they feel that it is better and richer than the place where the Pope lives.
And as soon as they came in, Wu Youwei sat up straight automatically and consciously, showing the attitude of the imperial examination back then, and his face became serious.
You can't take it seriously!
Nima, where the hell is this pirate?homeless?O great navigator!
This is a missionary!
With that standard outfit and the sterling silver cross hanging around his neck, it was so obvious that Wu Youwei didn't even know him.
Zhang Shen was satisfied when he saw their stupid appearance after entering the door: "Sure enough, they are barbarians!
Wu Youwei and Wantong looked at each other. Wantong hated them because Wu Youwei told him about the century-old national humiliation in later generations.
Seeing their performance now, I am even more angry. Why are future generations so unsatisfied?What do the Manchus eat?He actually lost to such an enemy?
And Wu Youwei planned to deal with it well, because the Western world at this time is not a peaceful day.
Ottoman Türkiye captured Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire fell.
Charles became the last victor in France's Hundred Years' War.
And now, the War of the Roses is in full swing between the York Theater in England and the Lancastrian dynasty.
Henry VII is planning how to kill Charles III to become King of England.
Because the war in the west is separated by the sea, it can't affect the east
But the nearby countries did not stop, Beiyuan, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other nearby countries were more noisy than one.
More than 300 years ago, they held the Crusades, which lasted for less than 300 years, but they fought nine times.
And now is a good time, because many places have not yet been occupied, colonized, and gold panned.
"Ahem!" Zhang Shen coughed softly, "It is a great honor for you to come from afar.
Then he looked at Wu Youwei eagerly.
Wu Youwei had a black thread: "You say that, they don't understand, and I can't translate it.
"Don't you know their language?" Zhang Shen was a bit blindly worshiping Wu Youwei, because Wu Youwei could speak Fusang dialect, so he thought he should also know other languages.
"They come from a more distant country, didn't you see that even the interpreters at Honglu Temple can't communicate with them?" Wu Youwei sighed: "Someone bring the Four Treasures of the Study.
The other party obviously came prepared, they brought parchment, Mozi box and quill pen.
It can be seen that this situation has not been encountered before.
Among the seven people, four of them were wearing black priest uniforms, holding pens, paper, Bibles, and visiting gifts, which they never gave up even if they were on a desert island.
The two were wearing black assistant deacon uniforms with green trim.
The person standing in front is the most special, because he is wearing a black dress with red sides, black and red intertwined, with a high crown on his head, and a scepter in his hand. The scepter should be made of copper. , embossed with thorns, rings, inlaid with emerald gemstones; head wearing a small round hat with silver trim.
He held a thick parchment book in his hand. Wu Youwei glanced at it and found that it was the "Bible" written in Latin.
This is a bishop!
Only not a cardinal, only a diocesan bishop.
Wu Youwei didn't know much about the Holy See, so he only knew a cardinal. The one in purple seemed to be the Archbishop, and the one in white was the Pope, right?
That's all there was to explain, the other party pointed at them with a scepter and chattered.
Wu Youwei did not speak, just brought a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and he wrote a few words, which were the famous words of Julius Caesar: "VENIVIDIVICI" (I come, I see, I conquer)
The Latin that I had learned in school to pretend to be aggressive with others, could be regarded as useful this time, although the Latin I had learned was only a little bit.
When he had finished writing, he took it up and showed it to the leading bishop.
The leading bishop was dumbfounded!
He was actually announcing to them just now that this place will be the Eastern Diocese of the Holy See.
As long as they don't object, this is established in his eyes. He is bullying the other party for not being able to understand their words, and he wants to strike first.
In addition, he is just a little bishop, and he doesn't even wear a red coat. If he can find a good diocese for the Holy See, he can be the cardinal of this diocese.
It was not in vain that they spent three years wandering like savages on the island.
At that time, if they don't admit it, they will be able to argue back and forth.
Who knew, before he finished reading those procedures, he was terrified by the handwriting in front of him!
Do the people here understand their language?
Especially writing, it is impossible for non-nobles to understand, but there are people here who can write, not even the people from their side, and it suddenly stops.
The key is that Wu Youwei and the others don't know!
Zhang Shen waved his hand boredly: "Sit down."
He didn't understand, Wu Youwei thought for a while, got up, pointed to the chair, and sat down.
Maybe they have encountered this situation along the way, so the bishop picked the first grand master chair and sat down, and the six behind him sat on the six grand master chairs behind him honestly.
"Serve tea!" Zhang Shen felt that he could not understand the language, so what's the use of showing off?
It's really a blind man lighting a lamp...in vain!