Chapter 1669
"Good morning, sir."
Sir Maxi has already changed into his dress, holding his cherished sapphire cane, and smiling on his face.
Sir Edward looked at his pocket watch: "It's exactly seven o'clock. Their clocks are still so punctual."
"Let's go." Sir Williams said blankly." Yesterday, the official’s contemptuous expression made me sleep well all night. I just wanted to see what I don’t understand, what is it."
"Dear Sir Williams, you shouldn’t be so angry. Maybe their country is not big? Are all Tang Ruowang's diaries fictitious?"
"I hope so."
The guards came in: "Xia Country's carriage has arrived."
"Then let's go out." Sir Maxi said: "Are you all ready?"
The others didn’t speak, they walked through the corridor and left the post. , Ten carriages have been waiting outside the door. The face of the young official who made Sir Max and the others very uncomfortable appeared before his eyes again.
"This official is ordered to send all the messengers to the Northern Part of City station." The official of the Ministry of Etiquette smiled slightly, reaching out and saying: "Please."
This time the number of delegations from the five countries is all Not much, and the most Spanish delegation is only nine people. The least English is only five people. With some gifts, salutes and the like, ten carriages are more than enough.
The young officials of the Ministry of Etiquette and the Five Kingdoms are riding in the first spacious carriage. The carriage of two horses has a spacious interior, with glass windows on both sides, which are clear and transparent, and you can clearly see everything outside the window.
"It's very bustling here." Sir Edward the Bearded looked out the window, and said: "It's very distinctive. It's two styles with London."
Of course, there are two styles. Europe at this time can be described by a dirty word. The streets of the city are narrow, with rubbish and dung everywhere, no sewers, and no staff specializing in cleaning up rubbish. The five ambassadors in the car have long been accustomed to the European city environment, but they were not used to it when they arrived in Guangzhou. They found it strange.
I have been in the latrine for a long time, and I don’t know its smell.
The streets of Guangzhou are extremely spacious, from Young Master Street to Young Master Street. This has undergone a certain degree of transformation. The main road inside the state capital Level 1 city must meet the standard of five feet wide. Carriage travels on such a street, and the feeling of openness and spaciousness is unobstructed.
The bustling crowds are going to and fro on both sides of the street, and there are busy traffic in the street. There is an endless stream of various carriages. There are manned and cargo ships.
"After returning to China, I might suggest to the Cromwell party leader to reform London." Edward said to several others.
There are not many talks all the way out of the city, and the translation is easy. carriage From the north gate, three miles away, you saw an open and spacious building in front of your eyes. A Grand Dao with a width of nine feet passed by smoothly.
"That is the station." The official of the Ministry of Etiquette said with a smile: "You will board the bus here, and you will arrive at the capital tomorrow afternoon at most."
This is still considering the way Pause and rest. If you don’t stop for a while, you can arrive before dark that day.
Carriage to the entrance of the station, the smooth Grand Dao was blocked by the station. After Sir Maxi and the others got off the train, they couldn't help but look over there.
Sir Tangi also specifically asked, the official of the Ministry of Etiquette smiled without saying a word, which made him very angry, and wanted to punch him in that smiling face.
"The official will be here." The official of the Ministry of Etiquette handed over the reception staff who had been waiting outside the station for a while, and then said to the mission: "Please follow him in the station and board the train early. "
Finally, a little bow: "Farewell."
After the correspondents said goodbye to the officials of the Ministry of etiquette, they smiled and said to the Taixi delegation: "Emissaries, please follow along. ."
Enter through the wide station gate that looks like a city gate, follow the clerks behind them, and pass through the bustling crowd in the station, and they come to a closed door.
Many members of the mission looked back frequently because the bustling station was all women.
The clerk said with a smile when he saw it: "Those are slaves, there is nothing to look at. Please follow along here for a while."
"slave?"
Sir Edward couldn't help asking: "Are these all slaves here?"
The officials stopped: "Yes, they are all slaves."
The translator translates in time .
When Edward heard this, he suddenly became angry: "I am an English jazz, a nobleman. You actually let me come to this place where all the slaves are?!"
The other envoys are all The aftertaste came over, and all the faces were innocent. A pair of eyes stared at the clerk, hoping to get an explanation.
The staff has lived up to the expectations, said with a smile: "Please don’t be angry, all messengers."
He said: "The station is not exclusive to slaves. It’s just that a lot of slaves have been shipped from Yingzhou in recent days. If you want to sell to the inland states, you need to transport it as soon as possible. Usually there are not many people at the station. And if the officials and honors of Great Xia want to travel far, they will also board here."
This The explanation made the embassy's anger fade away.
Maxi asked: "This place called the station is quite novel. It seems to be used for centralized transportation?"
When the clerk heard the translation, said with a smile:" This messenger is right. The purpose of the station is to concentrate transportation."
Sir Williams said: "Then the Grand Dao that I saw before, the very spacious Grand Dao?"
"Yes." The clerk said with a smile: "What you see is the Grand Dao of the empire. It starts from Guangwu Mansion in the extreme north of Monan in the north and ends at the Guangzhou freight terminal. It is thousands of miles away. The envoys did not land from the freight terminal the day before, so they have never seen it."
Several jazzes heard the translation and were surprised. Maxi said: "It's really as long as 10,000 miles? The road is very wide and it seems to be built of stones. How many people should work together to build it?"
The official said with a smile: "Of course it is thousands of miles long. The road is indeed stone, and it is three feet thick. There are six such main roads in the empire, three running north and south, and three crossing east and west, all of which are thousands of miles away. Shengming, the emperor. Slave has built thousands of roads, and it has been completed in the past two years."
Maxi and the others were dumbfounded after listening to the translation, and their minds went blank.
Of course, there are still doubts in my heart, and I don't fully believe it.
Slightly came back to his senses, and several sirs glanced at their respective talisman tablets, and Edward opened his mouth and asked: "Does your country have many slaves? I don't know where they got them from? Our country also Capture slaves and do work."
The officials said: "Great Xia now has more than 20 million slaves. There are barbarians in the northern grasslands, Persians in the Western Regions, and poisonous people in southern Tibet. The Yingzhou people who were destroyed by the empire."
The elements of the Great Xia Empire slave, apart from what the officials said, are also some stubborn people from other races on the land of the Great Xia Divine Province. Not only does it add up to more than 20 million, it's even close to 30 million.
There are 1 thousand 5 million slaves in Yingzhou alone!
Aside from the grassland barbarian, several messengers knew about the elements mentioned by the officials. The Persian Safavid Empire was not far from Europe, and it also fought with the Holy Roman Empire. As for the body poison, let alone, in the body poison subcontinent, these five countries all have interests. Although the empire's behavior on the border of body poison has not directly affected their interests, they have heard about it.