Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 661 Sophia: Am I in heaven?
When the emissary team of Heshuote returned to Nanjing for a mission, the emissary team of the Oirat ministries left the prairie and entered Gansu after finishing their lobbying.

On the prairie, the envoys were all on horseback, and the blond-haired, blue-eyed Russian girl Sophia also rode a horse, Yan Ermei just made a veil to cover her face.

When they arrived in Gansu, Yan Ermei bought a carriage for Sophia to ride in.

Deputy envoy Liu Xingzhi had some criticisms about this.

Although she knew that Yan Ermei didn't mean to accept Sophia as a concubine, she didn't even touch Sophia, but was going to present her to the emperor.But because of this, he felt that Yan Ermei's move was a bit flattering.

Fortunately, His Majesty is a woman, not a man, otherwise he must read Yan Ermei's book.

Thinking that this Russian girl was going to present to the emperor, Liu Xingzhi asked Yan Ermei to teach him Chinese and even Han etiquette on the road.

Yan Ermei refused.

"Why?" Liu Xingzhi asked with a puzzled face.

Yan Ermei was actually a few years younger than Liu Xingzhi, but at this moment he looked more like an elder, he said with a smile: "Since I want to present this girl to Your Majesty, I can't have any contact with her before handing her over to Your Majesty.

If I send someone to teach her Chinese language and etiquette, how can Your Majesty be sure that I didn't teach her other things? "

Hearing this, Liu Xingzhi, who originally wanted to teach Sophia Chinese and etiquette, couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

He understands that since it is a gift to His Majesty, even if it cannot be as pure as white paper, it should be the original product when they accepted it.

Therefore, in the rest of the trip, everyone in the messenger team could keep a distance from Sofia, and even tried not to talk to her.

Sophia is actually not a Russian, but a Ukrainian, and she was born in a small nobleman.Originally called Zhenia, she was later renamed Sophia by a Russian businessman.

It was when she was ten years old that she became a prisoner of the Russians because of the war.

Because it was born in a small nobleman and had shown its beauty, it was sold several times. It was sold by a Russian businessman at a high price to Khan and Duoheqin of the Wara Zhungeer tribe a year ago.

She originally thought desolately that she would become one of the many old He Duo He Qin women.

She also heard that, according to the customs of the Eastern Grassland, after Khan died, as his wife, he would be inherited by his son.

Sophia, who was born in a Ukrainian aristocrat, had a hard time accepting this custom, but she had to accept it.

Just when she was ready to accept her sad fate, He Duo and Qin bestowed an envoy from a mysterious eastern country—it is said that silk and porcelain that are more expensive than gold in Ukraine and Russia come from this mysterious eastern country ,bright.

This made Sophia curious about this Ming country as soon as she heard it.

What surprised her the most was that the envoy of the Ming Dynasty looked much younger than He Duo and Qin, only in his 30s, and when he spoke to He Duo and Qin, his momentum was not at all inferior, with an aristocratic temperament.

After the explanation of the Oirats, she knew that this Ming envoy was already a big official in Daming, equating to a noble existence.

Thinking of dedicating herself to such a man, even becoming one of his many women, Sophia felt much better.

But something unexpected happened to her.

On the night she was dedicated to this envoy, the envoy was so drunk that he couldn't keep his eyes open, let alone let her sacrifice himself.

She originally thought that with her beauty, when the envoy woke up tomorrow, she would still be sacrificed.

But until he left the Zhungeer Ministry, this envoy named Yan Ermei didn't touch her, but treated her very well.

After leaving the Zhungeer Ministry, Yan Ermei told her that she was going to dedicate her to the Ming Emperor, a person who might have greater power than the Tsar.

When Sophia heard the news at first, she felt like she was dreaming, and then she felt a burst of joy in her heart, thinking that a major turning point in her fate was about to come.

Even if she was only from a minor nobleman, she also understood that the meaning of becoming a woman of the emperor of a country is completely different from that of being a woman of a nobleman.

As long as she can get a little favor from the emperor, her status can be greatly improved, and she can even completely get rid of her status as a slave.

Because she couldn't understand Chinese, and could only understand a little of the language of the Wala people, Sophia still didn't know that Emperor Ming was a woman until she followed Yan Ermei into Gansu.

Even when Yan Ermei got a carriage and arranged for her to sit in it, she was even more convinced that she might become the Emperor Ming's wife.

Otherwise, how could the treatment be so good?
Then, Sophia didn't have time to think about these things, because all the way through the Gansu county, state, and prefecture, the cities she saw became more and more prosperous.

When she arrived in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, she couldn't help but rushed out of the car and asked, "Is this the capital of Ming Dynasty?"

Ming country is officially called Daming, not Ming country, and this is the only thing Yan Ermei and others taught her.

It's a pity that she asked questions in Russian and Ukrainian, but no one in the messenger team could understand them.Some people understand the Oala language, but she can only speak simple words and cannot express such complicated issues.

Seeing no one answered, Sophia thought it was.

Because the cities she saw along the way were almost more prosperous than the last, and the prosperity of the city in front of her was even more comparable to the largest Russian city she had ever been to.

But the emissary team only rested overnight, and the next day they boarded a weird long steel car that was completely beyond her comprehension, or even imagination!
This car has more than ten knots and is hundreds of meters long, but it can run without a horse or a cow. The black smoke and flames it spits out while running reminded her of the dragon legends she had heard when she was a child.

At first, she refused to board the long car in her heart, but under Yan Ermei's arrangement, she got in anyway.

Then she found that after this long car was fully run, it was even faster than some horses, and it was completely tireless!

When the train passed by Xi'an, Sophia was shocked to see the tall city wall of Xi'an.

However, this is still not the capital of Ming Dynasty.

At Tongguan, she got off the train and started to take a boat—a kind of steel-armored boat that spewed black smoke and flames and didn't need a boatman or sails.

At this time, Sophia was already numb from shock, even if she saw the legendary angel descending, she might accept it calmly.

After traveling for more than a month by boat and car, and crossing a rushing river (Yangtze River), Sophia finally arrived in Nanjing with the messenger team.

Sophia was still stunned when she saw the densely packed sails at the ferry, the countless people on the shore, and the beautiful houses stretching from east to west that could not be seen from the camera.

"Did I come to heaven?"

She couldn't help muttering.

He even suspected that he was actually dead.Because Ukrainians don't have the saying that the soul has no pain, she can't verify her thoughts for the time being.

Sophia really wanted to get into the huge crowd, go to the shops facing the street, and find out whether she was in heaven or on earth.

But Yan Ermei didn't give her a chance. After getting off the ship, she was arranged in the carriage again, and this time the windows of the carriage were sealed.

Sophia didn't feel sorry, but even more excited.

Even if Daming is in heaven, she is about to become the wife of the Emperor of Ming...
"My humble minister Yan Ermei/Liu Xingzhi sees Your Majesty!"

In Wuying Hall, Yan Ermei and Liu Xingzhi saluted Aimi Zhu.

"Pingshen." Auntie Zhu raised her hand with a smile, "It's been hard work for the two of you to go to Oala and other tribes this time."

Yan Ermei said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, relying on the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, it is not hard work for me to wait for this trip. However, although there are quite a few of the Oirat tribes who agreed not to join forces with the Heshuo Te tribe, it is unknown how many of them kept their promises in the end."

In fact, Yan Ermei and Liu Xingzhi had already written the process and results of lobbying various ministries in Wala as memorials and sent them back, and Aunt Zhu had read them all.

At this time, she said: "Since the Zhungeer Department intends to buy guns from our Ming Dynasty, the possibility of a joint attack with the Heshuo Special Department is unlikely.

As long as the Zhungeer Ministry does not participate in the joint invasion of our Ming Dynasty this autumn, your trip will be considered a success. "

Yan Ermei and Liu Xingzhi couldn't help being moved when they heard that Auntie Zhu didn't demand all the work.

Yan Ermei and Liu Xingzhi looked at each other, and took the opportunity to raise another matter.

"Your Majesty, the Russian girl Sophia sent by Taiji and Duoheqin of the Zhungeer Department is now in the building of Honglu Temple. I dare not accept bribes from captive chieftains, so please present this girl to His Majesty for disposal."

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)