Daming 1805

Chapter 99
Shen Fu instructed Zhu Jingyuan to familiarize himself with the logic and rules of Daming's foreign affairs, focusing on understanding Daming's demands and bottom lines in all aspects.

Remind Zhu Jingyuan of the details he needs to pay attention to in his external activities, and how to find and deal with various logical and language traps.

Finally, predict what may happen in the negotiation, and make a relatively comprehensive response plan in advance, so that Zhu Jingyuan knows what to do.

These contents are actually very complex, and it is impossible to explain clearly in a very short period of time.

Therefore, after the Zhoushan Island officially set sail, Shen Fu came to teach Zhu Jingyuan every morning, and Zhu Jingyuan also studied patiently as much as possible.

As he learned more, Zhu Jingyuan felt more and more that being an official of Honglu Temple in Daming was much easier than being a modern diplomat.

You don't need to pay too much attention to your external attitude, you don't need to pay special attention to the details of etiquette, and you don't need to pay special attention to your speech.

Don't worry about using the wrong word and angering a certain country or group, because it doesn't matter if you are angered.

There is no country or group that can make Daming cautious, but when other countries do things, they must first consider Daming's attitude.

Two days later, on the morning of January [-], the fleet arrived at the Keelung House of the Haidong Chief Envoy.

Representatives from the Ryukyu Kingdom, Japan's Four Feudal Kingdoms, North Korea's Two Feudal Kingdoms, Xianbei San Francisco Kingdoms, and Northern Yinzhou Sifang Kingdoms also arrived at Keelung House in the past two days.

After the officials of the Ministry of Personnel carefully verified their identities, the first batch of representatives of the vassal states officially joined the mission.

The fleet set sail again in the afternoon.

Five days later, on the afternoon of January 26, the fleet arrived at Huangzhuang, Java Island, and docked at the port of Yecheng (Jakarta).

Next, the fleet will enter the Little Ocean, and then a voyage of nearly [-] kilometers.

Therefore, the fleet must carefully check the mechanical status here, and at the same time replenish enough fuel and living materials.

Eight Huangpu River-type cruisers from the mainland will also leave the escort fleet and return here.

However, there will be eight [-]-ton battleships, as well as twelve [-]-ton-plus armored cruisers.

The fleet was repaired at the port of Yecheng for four days, and after gathering representatives of Nanyang and Tiannan vassal states, it set sail again on February 34, Taiping [-].

The fleet passed through the Sunda Strait between Java and the old port, officially left the inland sea area around Daming mainland, and entered the Xiaoxiyang waters.

Due to the addition of the capital ship with a speed of only 20 knots, the entire fleet could no longer maintain a speed of [-] knots.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the fleet has enough endurance to cross the Atlantic Ocean, the fleet commander kept the fleet sailing at a speed of fifteen knots.

Twelve days later, on the morning of February [-], the fleet successfully arrived at the southern supply port in the state of Maryland (Madagascar).

Fuel and supplies were resupplied, the mechanical status of the fleet was checked, and they set off again two days later.

After sailing again for five days, on the afternoon of February 21, the fleet finally arrived at the Western Cape.

Standing on the spacious balcony, Zhu Jingyuan looked at the increasingly clear coastline in the distance, and all kinds of things during this journey flashed through his mind.

This ocean voyage covered 32 nautical miles, nearly [-] kilometers, and took a total of [-] days.

The passenger ship Zhoushan Island was large enough, and it was much more stable than a small boat during the sailing process, and there was no particularly bad weather on the road.

Zhu Jingyuan, Lin Zexu, Shen Fu, and Wang Lai all took the boat frequently, and like most of the other passengers, they did not experience obvious seasickness.

Niu Jian, who seldom took boats before, fainted for a while after getting on the boat, but it didn't take long for him to get used to it.

There were also a small number of people who reacted violently. After Zhu Jingyuan visited them at the time, he planned to stop at the Lion City before entering Xiaoxiyang.

The Lion City, also known as Singapore, is the southernmost point of the Nanyang land, where there is a railway line leading to the mainland of China.

Zhu Jingyuan prepared those people who were seriously seasick to let go of the boat and buy them train tickets to send them back to the mainland.

However, when the fleet came to the vicinity of the Amber Islands, this group of people could basically eat and eat, and they would not continue to vomit.

These people themselves do not want to give up the opportunity of this ocean journey, and they do not want to quit the design team of the new warship.

Therefore, they all told Zhu Jingyuan that they did not need to get off the boat, and they all thought that they could persevere.

Zhu Jingyuan asked the doctor on the ship to check and determined that they were all right, and finally gave up the plan to go to the Lion City and went straight to the Sunda Strait.

The space on the ship is also completely sufficient. The large ship with a quota of more than 400 people actually only carried less than 2000 people.

All kinds of living, leisure and entertainment facilities are readily available. After getting used to it, it is a very relaxed journey.

More than a month of life at sea ended before I knew it.

Zhoushan Island is getting closer and closer to the coastline, and the scene on the distant coast is gradually emerging.

You can see the tall and majestic dark red city wall, as well as the buildings under and around the city wall.

When Daming got the Western Ocean Cape, explosives were already widely used and could no longer be widely used.

However, at the forefront of the Western Ocean Cape, the Daming Emperor still built a tall and heavy city wall.

He probably regarded this place as his own yard. Without the city wall, he felt that it was not safe enough.

Later, with the development of the city, Xiyang Cape, like Jingshi New City, soon expanded beyond the city walls.

Because the outside of the city wall is more free than the inside of the city, and it is closer to the wharf, the area outside the city wall is now more prosperous than the inside of the city wall.

The distance from the coast continued to increase, and Zhu Jingyuan's attention fell on the pier.

A large number of ships have been docked there densely.

There are a large number of warships of different types and levels, as well as a large number of passenger ships of different sizes and shapes, with flags of various colors flying above the ships.

Most of them are the "Red Bottom Sun Moon Flame Flag" of Daming...

Zhu Jingyuan's ship and the surrounding escort fleet also had similar flags.

Every time he sees this kind of banner, Zhu Jingyuan's mood is quite complicated.

Because I have seen this thing many times in my previous life, it is the so-called "Sun, Moon, Star and Three Stars Flags" circulating on the Internet.

It actually comes from the mural "Zhang Yichao Recovers Hexi" in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and it is the graphic on the flag used by Zhang Yichao's troops in the mural.

Inside the blue circle is a smaller yellow circle, and outside the blue circle is an irregular black decoration in the form of flames.

Putting this flag in the middle of the red flag is a universal flag that any Ming people can use, and its actual function is equivalent to a modern national flag.

Add a black border to the top and bottom of the red background, which is the Daming Army Flag.

Add a few blue and white borders above and below the red background, which is the Daming Navy flag.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that this banner must be the masterpiece of Emperor Shizu, because ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty may have never seen this thing at all.

The Sanchen Banner, known to the original Daming people, was actually the Taichang Banner, the first of the emperor's nine banners.

It is patterned with a red sun in the upper left corner and a white moon in the lower left corner, with a chain of seven stars in between.

The right side of the three patterns of sun, moon and stars is the upper area of ​​the main body of the flag, where there are twelve horizontal dragons.

The combination of the four symbolic images of the sun, the moon, the star and the dragon is the exclusive symbol of the emperor of the Central Plains.

In today's Daming Dynasty and even the whole world, this rather complicated Taichang flag pattern is still the exclusive symbol of the Daming Emperor.

Taixi people think that it is the most noble family symbol in the world, two or three grades higher than those fancy badges of Taixi.

However, the emperor of the Central Plains would not have thought of and would not allow the Taichang Flag to be used by ordinary people, so it is impossible for the Taichang Flag to become a national flag directly.

Before Emperor Shizu came up with the red-bottomed sun-moon-flame flag, the Central Plains Dynasty did not make a special flag.

Because after King Qin swept Liuhe, in the inherent cognition of the Central Plains Dynasty, he was not another country that coexisted with other countries.

He is the ruler of the world who has inherited the destiny, and there is no force that needs to take the initiative to distinguish it from its legal equality.

Even in the period of separatism, most of them considered their own dynasty to be orthodox, and denounced his dynasty as a pseudo dynasty.

Even if you have to accept it on the surface, you still think so in your heart.

In the vast majority of cases, the Central Plains Dynasty only needed its own internal distinction, or even the most special emperor.

The emperor's logo had very strict specifications, from clothing to architecture to flags.

But outside the emperor, the logos of ordinary people and ordinary troops were very personalized before Emperor Shizu made the unified flag.

They either use their surnames as signs, or they use colors to distinguish different formations according to their commanding habits.

The flag on the frescoes in the Mogao Grottoes is actually Zhang Yichao's own flag. There should have been his surname on the circle in the middle, but it fell off due to weathering.

It's just that his design is really good. It coincides with the three stars of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and is used by modern people in various Tang Dynasty TV series.

Later, it was circulated on the Internet, and finally was taken by Emperor Shizu to Daming and used as the national flag of Daming.

If there is no sun and moon flag created by Emperor Shizu, the flags hanging on the ships of the Ming Dynasty should still be completely personalized flags.

When the navies of the Western countries saw the flag of the Daming Fleet, most of them were completely at a loss.

Others probably won't understand it, but that's not a problem at all.

Those powerful Central Plains dynasties have an unimaginable and taken for granted mentality of loneliness:
Why do I need you to understand what I do?
You don't understand what I have to do with me?
Emperor Shizu's sun and moon flag helped the Taixi people to solve a big problem.

In the current southwest cape port, only one-third of the sun and moon flags are hung with the Ming Dynasty, and more are those fancy Taixi flags.

That is to say, a large number of representatives from the countries of Thailand and the West have already arrived at the Western Cape before Zhu Jingyuan.

After all, among the Western countries, even Lucia, who is the farthest from the Western Cape, is a little closer than the capital of Ming Dynasty.

Representatives of the Western countries and princes and nobles can't wait to participate in the event.

Zhu Jingyuan dragged on for ten days before setting off.

Zhu Jingyuan was not quite sure yet, the Daming delegation he led would be the last to arrive from time to time.

But isn't the protagonist the last to appear?

The speed of the Zhoushan Island is getting slower and slower, and it slowly moves into the port where there are ships everywhere.

Huangzhuang Wharf received news a few days ago that it has been under full martial law since the day before yesterday.

Now there are no ordinary people on the shore of the pier, only a group of Jinyiwei and soldiers patrolling back and forth.

The Xiyi representatives who have arrived at the Western Cape, although they really wanted to come out to watch the Daming fleet dock, were forced to stay in their guest rooms today.

No one dares to violate it easily, because no matter what status they are in their own country, Jin Yiwei here is a white ghost in the eyes.

They dare not try, they deliberately violate the requirements and run out, will they be beaten directly.

Anyway, this situation only takes a day or two, and it will be fine.

After the Zhoushan Island officially entered the port, it finally completely turned off its propellers, completely relied on the assistance of the tugboat, and slowly approached the pier reserved for it.

Sailors on the ship threw off the ropes and "tethered" the passenger ship, and the sailors lowered the gangway.

Guan Tianpei first arranged for [-] soldiers to disembark to check the environment and personnel around the pier.

After directly taking over the security of the terminal where the passenger ship was located, Zhu Jingyuan, under the escort of Guan Tianpei, got off the ship with his two staff.

Then, without spending too much time on the pier, he was sent directly into Cape Huangzhuang City, and lived in a mansion specially prepared for princes and grandsons.

The overall pattern of the city wall of Cape Huangzhuang is very similar to the old capital city in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the direction is completely opposite to that of the capital. The old city of the capital faces south from the north, and the West Ocean Cape city does sit on the south and faces north.

And there are obvious differences in the specific divisions. The manor in Xiyang Cape is not so much a city as it is a fortress that can be used for both land and sea.

The city wall is still a three-story nesting doll structure, and the innermost core city is the emperor's palace, where only the emperor and his concubines can live.

The middle city is a parting garden of the Ligong, where emperors, children of the royal family, and favored ministers can live with permission.

The outer city is an ordinary fortress city with the largest area, including a large area of ​​land and a dedicated wharf.

The outer city was originally for the garrison, guests from all walks of life, as well as local residents and workers, as well as space reserved for various urban facilities.

Now there is actually a ring city, that is, the outer urban area that surrounds the city wall, and a larger area of ​​civil docks.

Zhu Jingyuan was arranged to live in the palace in Zhongcheng, followed by Zhu Jianfeng, who lived in the courtyard opposite Zhu Jingyuan.

Then the ordinary officials, craftsmen, and representatives of the Taixi countries who had arrived before all lived in the manor in the outer city.

Zhu Jingyuan entered the palace that he had arranged for him, and after finding the bedroom, he fell asleep.

Living on a passenger ship is not tiring, but after floating at sea for more than a month, when you suddenly land on land, it is inevitable that the world will spin.

Moreover, the time zone in the second half of the voyage has been changing, but Zhu Jingyuan has always maintained the rhythm of life in the Ming Dynasty.

It was the evening of the Western Cape, but it was already early morning in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Jingyuan was like a boat that got up and got off in the middle of the night. In fact, it was the time when his body was the most sleepy.

Now that we have arrived at our destination, it is finally time to adjust the jet lag.

Zhu Jingyuan slept in one breath until six o'clock the next morning, and when he woke up again, his spirits improved a lot, and the feeling of the world spinning was significantly reduced.

I stretched out and got up, went to take a bath and ate something, and started planning the next trip.

The first is to meet the shopkeeper of Cape Huangzhuang, and then there is theoretically his own courtier, the delegation from the Great Food Kingdom.

Next are representatives of the vassal states of Tianzhu, Dashi, Dongmo, Mazhou, Nanmo and other places, as well as representatives of Huangzhuang from all over the world.

In fact, these matters of Daming's own people are easy to talk about. The more important thing is to say hello to Xiyi after this.

After studying with Shen Fu on the road for a month, his diplomatic mission has finally begun.

(End of this chapter)