Daming 1805

Chapter 51 Europa is no longer a barbarian!
At 34:[-] p.m. on the seventh day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Taihe, in the Tianzi No. [-] guest room on the fourth floor of the Hongyunlou Inn in Nagasaki County, Fengyuan Country.

Daming Yayan, an English folk friendly person named Liebot, was anxiously waiting for the news.

The atmosphere of Nagasaki Port was a little different tonight. Fengyuan and the merchants who usually dragged themselves to complain about the Ming court suddenly disappeared today.

They must have gathered to discuss things they couldn't let themselves know.

So Libot asked his companion, a young man named Wang Weil, who was named Yaming Yayan, to go out to inquire about the news, and he waited patiently in the room.

Suddenly, the door was knocked very violently, and Libot was startled, and hurriedly ran over to open the door, opening his mouth is a very standard Daming Yayan Zhengyan:

"Who is outside?"

As soon as the door opened, seven yamen officers stood outside, two of whom were holding their companion Wang Weil.

Another leading officer raised his finger and pointed at Liebot, shouting loudly in Daming Yayan with a very strange accent:

"We are the police officer of the Daming Nagasaki County Sheriff's Office. Today, we received a report from the public that there are two white ghosts here with suspicious behavior. Now it seems to be true.

"Our county lieutenant gave you two choices, one is to go to labor after castration, and the other is to get out of our Daming Nagasaki County immediately."

Liebot was stunned when he heard this request. A few days ago, he had a good chat with King Fengyuan, why did he become a suspicious white ghost today:

"I and Wang Weir are not suspicious persons. We all have residence permits signed by Mr. Chang Shi. I will show you now..."

The official did not move after hearing this, and watched Libot run back to the room, took two small documents, and handed them over nervously.

The official took a look at it immediately, and then ripped his hands to pieces:
"Okay, now you don't have a residence permit!"

Liebot was dumbfounded. Daming's officials are just unreasonable. How can you, a Daming vassal official, be so unreasonable?
Then Libot also immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. The tall official in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person, or the situation had undergone major changes.

The long history of Ming's medium-sized vassal states is almost equivalent to that of the prime minister of a small country, or the deputy of a colonial governor of a large country.

Ordinary county officials would never dare to tear up the documents they signed, and they did so openly. This may have been directly instigated by Chang Shi himself.

Liebot is also a clever person, and immediately began to try to change the angle, trying to obtain information while persuading:
"Don't be like this, you guys, let's talk about it, I just visited His Majesty King Fengyuan a few days ago, and I had dinner with Mr. Li Hongbin, the long history.

"There must be some misunderstanding here, so could you please let me know so that I can ask His Majesty the King or Lord Changshi to clarify..."

The officer hooked Libot, and Libot took a step forward subconsciously.

As a result, the officer started directly, grabbed Liebot's arm violently, and twisted him behind his back:
"You have no choice now! Third, go and prepare a knife for me!"

Liebot suddenly screamed:
"Ah...don't be like this, a few messengers, please stop, I know I'm wrong, I'm going, I'm leaving now, and leave Nagasaki immediately..."

In fact, the officer was just trying to scare Libot, and he didn't really go to the scene to cast Libot for a knife, so he was handed over to the other two officers at this time:

"Send it to the pier immediately, and board the nearest boat to Tianzhu. Before the boat leaves the shore, he must not be allowed to contact and communicate with anyone! Understand!"

"understand!"

The six officers shouted in unison, escorted Libot and Wang Weil out of the inn, got into the carriage prepared in advance, and went straight to the Nagasaki pier.

The officer held a special fire card, and the officials at the wharf fully cooperated when they saw it.

They tied the two of King Li tightly, threw them into a guest room, and arranged for four people to watch them on the spot.

It was not until [-]:[-] in the second half of the night, after the ocean liner bound for India officially left port, that Liebot and Wang Weil partially recovered their freedom.

Finally, he no longer had to be detained on the spot with his hands and feet tied, and was changed to house arrest in the guest room.

Libot, who was pale, moved his stiff hands and feet slightly, looked at Wang Weil, who was also weak next to him, and exchanged his English communication:

"A major event must have happened in Fengyuan, and it is a major event related to our United Kingdom, and this kind of thing can only be related to the Ming Empire..."

Wang Weil's expression is very ugly:

"To make King Fengyuan, his ministers, and even the business elites directly cut off relations with us, could it be that Daming finally agreed to 'withdraw the vassal'?"

Most of Wang Weil's pronunciation is in English, but the word "removing the vassal" is the correct pronunciation of Daming Yayan.

Because of Daming's dual strengths in culture and national strength, Daming Yayan is a compulsory course for upper-class people in European countries, as well as a compulsory course for intelligence and literary personnel.

Even when they communicate in their own national voice, they will occasionally pop up a few big and elegant words, which can show that they are literate enough.

They take it for granted that some special Daming Yayan vocabulary cannot be translated into European phonetic characters, and no translation is the most correct translation.

And the number of these words is very large, including not only the emperor, the prince, the first assistant, the withdrawal of the vassal, the side of the Qing emperor, the titles of all levels, various honorary titles and other political and cultural words.

Also includes "manager", "shopkeeper", "shares", "stocks", "company" and other unique economic terms.

Even if they have words with similar meanings in their language, they are often seen as not "accurate" enough, and they pride themselves on expressing in Da Ming Yayan proper pronunciation.

Liebot nodded lightly with a bleak expression:

"I think the possibility is high, because I can't imagine anything other than 'removal' that could instantly bring our relationship to a freezing point."

Wang Weil is even more worried:
"Then what should we do? We should report to the United Kingdom immediately, but we are 'in jail' and have no way of contacting the outside world..."

Liebert is not particularly worried about this:
"The United Kingdom also has 'detailed works' in Daming mainland. If it is really a major event such as 'withdrawing the vassal', His Majesty the King and the Chief Minister will know soon..."

Wang Weil breathed a sigh of relief:
"Hope it... God bless the United Kingdom, but if Daming really starts to withdraw from the feudal lord, then the Anti-Ming Alliance must take the initiative to 'peace' with Daming."

Hearing this, Liebot's expression just relaxed a bit, but also became serious again:

"Yes, we must negotiate. After the news of Daming's withdrawal from the vassal spreads, our companions in other Daming vassal states will definitely be thrown out like this.

"Then the relationship between Daming and most of the vassal states will become 'monolithic', and it will be really difficult for us in Europe to have another chance to win."

Wang Weir frowned again and added:
"Not only vassal states, but also small states that want to become vassal states but cannot, and so-called neutral states that reluctantly stand on the side of the anti-Ming alliance.

"Their confidence may be directly shaken. For example, the 'Anxi' Three Kingdoms may 'reverse the water', and the war can no longer continue."

Liebot's expression became even more ugly:
"Da Ming is too powerful, this war is a mistake."

Wang Weil smiled and said a little excitedly:
"No, if we can negotiate now, as long as Daming can sit and negotiate with us, and then sign a peace agreement recognized by both parties, then it will be a victory for us in Europe!

"Even if some land occupied in the war is sold in the peace treaty, it is an unprecedented victory for our entire Europa!

"Because as long as Daming signs a peace treaty with us, it puts us Europa in the status of a civilized country, and we Europa will no longer be 'barbarians'."

Liebot understood what Wang Weil meant, but his expression did not change at all:
"So, all the Europeans abandoned the hatred of hundreds of years and stood together, fought against the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and sacrificed the lives of millions of young people, just to make the Ming Dynasty stop treating us as savages?"

Wang Weir listened to a wry smile and spread his hands:
"if not?"

(End of this chapter)