The Rise of the European Emperor

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In the far east, after a voyage of more than a month, the ships of Columbus and his party, led by the tributary ship of the Kingdom of Malacca, arrived in Guangzhou and went to the Guangzhou Shipping Department to report.

The messenger *** sent by the Kingdom of Malacca, led Columbus and his party, came to the management office of the Municipal Shipping Division, holding the Kanhe (tributary license) issued by Daming, and asked to see the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Division. Tribute is a major national event, and the Guangzhou Shipping Division will naturally greet it immediately. Of course, this requires a process...

For example, when you see the Guangzhou Ship Division holding a scepter representing the court to greet you, it means that you need to go through a formal tribute process...

***This is not the first time to pay tribute, so naturally I know the process. Seeing the scepter, he immediately knelt down, kowtowed three times in the direction of the capital to the north, and said respectfully in his unskilled Chinese:

"Mancijia (Ming Dynasty's name for the Kingdom of Malacca), the messenger ***, on behalf of my king Mahmoud, respectfully invites His Majesty the Emperor to be holy, I am the Great Ming to serve the world, and all countries to come to court!" Well, *** will flatter, He is obviously a Malay, but he says "I am Ming"...

The Guangzhou Ship Division raised Ding Haishan to face the ***'s greetings, stood up straight, and said solemnly:

"Saint Christine!"

*** Knocked the first three times and said:

"Sir, thank you Tianen!"

And the Guangzhou Shipping Division mentioned Ding Haishan and replied:

"Heavenly grace!"

*** Knocked three times again and said:

"Full of thorns, always obey the word training!"

Ding Haishan replied:

"Yicheng is the ring!"

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Then, the process of this set of three tributes and nine kowtows finally came to an end. And the Guangzhou Ship Division raised Ding Haishan, and people respectfully invited the court scepter back.

In fact, there is no need to go through this process in Guangzhou. He can also go directly north, go to the capital, live in the Siyi Pavilion, and wait for the great court meeting. After going up, go through this process.

However, it is not necessary for these vassal states to participate in the great court meeting every year.

For example, when Emperor Hongzhi passed away last year and the new emperor Zhengde ascended the throne, the Kingdom of Malacca has already sent people to the capital to congratulate him. Therefore, in the next few years, Malacca does not have to send people to the capital to congratulate. Generally speaking, these vassal states, within three to five years, will send people north to the capital to participate in a great court meeting, instead of sending people to the capital every year. The ordinary tributary trade can only be carried out in the Guangzhou Ship Division. And the ceremony of three worship and nine knocks can also be completed in Guangzhou Ship Division.

Columbus watched this complicated process, and he had to kneel, and he was a little dumbfounded... He neither spoke Chinese nor was willing to kneel, so he didn't know what to do at the moment...

Ding Haishan was also very interested in Columbus, the blond and blue-eyed "fan ghost". So he asked ***:

"Master ***, what is the origin of these ghosts? It seems that they don't understand etiquette?"

*** bowed and made a Han salute, and replied:

"Master Ding, this ghost came from the far west, and it is said that he came from a place called the Grand Duchy of Beihai. And this person, named Columbus, seems to have been sent by the Grand Duke of Beihai to pay tribute to Daming. This just shows that I am proud of Daming. Four seas, all nations come to the DPRK!"

Ding Haishan was stunned for a moment, and then said happily:

"Exactly! However, they don't seem to be worthy of tribute yet, do they?"

"Of course not, it's not a good time to apply for it..." *** said.

"This matter can't be decided by the official, and it has to be decided by the princes of the court. By the way, ***, does this country really exist?" Ding Haishan asked suspiciously.

"This...I don't know either. After all, this is the first time this Western fan has come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. According to this Mr. Columbus, they traveled by boat for a year and traveled 30,000 to 40,000 miles by sea before they arrived here. of……"

"It's so far..." Ding Haishan was struck by his tongue when he heard it.

But who cares about him, he is not qualified to decide anything. So he stretched out his hand to Columbus and said:

"Since you are here to apply for tribute, what about the tribute book?"

Columbus didn't know why, looking at Ding Haishan's outstretched hand, he thought that the other party was asking for bribes. Fortunately, Columbus had two young translators trained by Marin.

The two translators, one named Conté and the other named Sconda, were extremely gifted in language selected by Marin from the gifted teenagers in East Frisian. Although they are only 19 years old, both of them have been learning Chinese with Marin for more than three years. Of course, it is the Mandarin of later generations.

Seeing that Columbus was cold, Kong Tai immediately jumped out, bowed to Ding Haishan, and said respectfully:

"Reporting to your lord, because our Baron Columbus does not speak Chinese, the two of us will negotiate with your lord. Please forgive me!"

The two used the Mandarin of later generations, which is still different from the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty. However, although there are differences between the two mandarin languages, there is no problem in communicating with each other.

Ding Haishan looked at the two hairy boys Kong Tai and Sconda with interest, and said:

"The two of you speak well, but you have some northern accents..."

The Daming Mandarin of this era was based on Nanjing Mandarin, with few reflexes. After all, Daming unified the whole country from the south to the north, the southerners were dominant, and the Mandarin was biased towards the south. In the later Mandarin, there were more reflexes, and it was also mixed with foreign words brought by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, such as "Hutong". In addition, during the Qing Dynasty, the northerners had an absolute advantage. In the early Qing Dynasty, the "Southern Party" in the DPRK and China was also bloodbathed. Therefore, the mandarin of the Qing Dynasty has a strong northern flavor. And Putonghua developed from the Manchu mandarin, and naturally has many reflexes. To the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is full of northern flavors...

Kong Tai remembered Marin's confession and replied:

"Probably, the person who taught us the Grand Duke to speak Chinese came from the north of Ming Dynasty..."

"Oh, your grand duke still understands Chinese? Also, why did his duke add the word 'big'?" Ding Haishan asked curiously.

"Of course, our Chinese language was taught by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke himself. As for why it is called the Grand Duke... Because our Grand Duke is stronger than ordinary dukes!" For this, Kong Tai was still full of pride.

"By the way, your grand duke will pay tribute to Daming, will your king allow it?" Ding Haishan suddenly remembered that since the other party claimed to be the grand duke, there should be a king on it. And the grand duke bypassed the king to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, which seems to be illegal...

"It's okay, our German king, like Zhou Tianzi in your country's Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has no real power. And our Beihai Grand Duchy is also equivalent to one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period. Therefore, our grand duke can decide whether to pay tribute to Daming!" Kong Tai said proudly.

Ding Haishan was curious:

"Oh, do you still know about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period? You still know about Zhou Tianzi?"

"Xiaguan is not very clear. It was said by His Royal Highness the Grand Duke. The lower official does not know the story..."

"Oh, so that's the case... Then, what about the tribute book?" Ding Haishan stretched out his hand again.

"Please take a look!" Kong Tai respectfully handed over the Chinese credential written by Marin...\u003c/content\u003e

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