My Daming New Empire

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This banquet has no other purpose, but to recognize Da Vinci as his godson.

This news shocked Ying Tianfu, no one could believe that a princess of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of her prestige, recognized a half-child of a foreign race as her godson.

And Da Vinci's age is not too young, he will be 14 years old soon, and he doesn't know how to avoid suspicion.

But Zhu Zhanji didn't say anything about this matter, Yang Zhihe didn't say anything, and it wasn't anyone else's turn to make irresponsible remarks.

On the contrary, after Zhu Zhanji knew about this incident, he specially rewarded Yongheng with a pair of "The Picture of the West Garden Collection" by Li Gonglin of the former Song Dynasty, and also rewarded Da Vinci with a latest car.

Although Zhu Zhanji didn't express his opinion, everything was rewarded, and everyone naturally knew what he meant.

When Yongheng held a banquet, most of the nobles in the capital were present, and the presents were piled up like a mountain.

What surprised everyone even more was that Concubine Lan, who seldom attended banquets on weekdays, also appeared and gave Da Vinci a painting by Shen Zhou as a gift.

Shen Zhou is 40 years old now, and his paintings are highly respected in Ming Dynasty. Although he is still alive, although this painting is not expensive, it is not thin either.

From the attitudes of Zhu Zhanji and Lan Guifei, many dignitaries understood the importance they attached to this Da Vinci who had many wonderful ideas.

And Yongheng was even more happy from ear to ear, knowing that his move was right again.

And those representatives from various countries in Europe, seeing that the royal family of Ming Dynasty did not dislike Da Vinci as a foreigner from Florence, and was adopted as a adopted son by the royal family, felt the enlightened side of Daming.

This also gave them a lot of misunderstandings, forgetting the brutality of Daming at sea.

They thought that the reason why Ming Dynasty did not let them go to sea in the past was not because they were afraid that they would discover some new world, but because they were not subject to discipline.

If they can accept the rule of Ming Dynasty and abide by the system of Ming Dynasty, then they can also be accepted and even supported by Ming Dynasty.

Among them, King Louis XI of France was the most excited.

France is different from Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. This country has always attached importance to the continent rather than the ocean.

Moreover, before that, France had been at war with Britain in order to recover all its territories.

Whether it is Charles VII or Louis XI, they have never paid attention to ocean expansion.

In the original history, Louis XI and his father regarded each other as enemies.

In 1440 Western calendar, he participated in and led the rebellion against the king launched by the great feudal lord.

After the rebellion was suppressed, he was tolerated by Charles VII. The king not only continued to let him lead the army to participate in the anti-British campaign, but also appointed him to manage the prince's territory.

This did not change his hostile attitude towards his father in the slightest.He hated and plotted against those who had great influence on Charles VII.And in 1446, he tried to instigate the Argennes uprising to force the king to surrender the royal power, but failed.

The prince's territory under his rule has almost become an independent kingdom.He reorganized the local administration, established the judiciary, approved the city's privileges, developed local mines and forests, and even pursued a foreign policy that contradicted his father's.

In 1456, Louis XI betrayed his father again, and the father and son broke up completely. The king deprived him of his salary and wanted to arrest him.

He sought refuge in Philip III the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

In 1461, Charles VII died. Legend has it that he was murdered by someone sent by Louis.

Louis, who had been in exile for five years, couldn't wait to return to France. There was no one in France who could rival him, and he successfully succeeded to the throne.

In the investigation report of the Ming Dynasty General Secretary, Louis XI was a king who was so confident that he never respected authority.He claimed to be the embodiment of French national consciousness, and once said to the rebellious feudal lord: "I am France."

After ascending the throne, he vigorously suppressed the feudal lords, and the princes of the French royal family, such as Anjou, Brittany, Bourbon and other families, hated him deeply.

But he has fought against his father all his life, and he has very rich fighting experience, and the strength under his hands is very strong.

This time, the representatives of European countries traveled eastward to pay homage to the Ming Emperor. He was the most concerned object of the Secretary of General Administration.In order for him to come to Daming, the two admirals promised him that his power would not be damaged, and that if anyone rebelled while he was away, Daming would help him eliminate the rebellion.

The reason why Daming is so enthusiastic is not because of his struggle with the feudal lords, but because he also hates the church.

He is like a mad dog who has always been calm, going up to the sky, down to the ground, and even the air in between.

Three years ago, he took aim at the church when he was not yet firmly enthroned.He compelled the church to disclose all property or confiscate it.

The church became ashamed and angry at this, and called on the lords to rebel.The two sides fought for two years, and in the end, no one could do anything to the other, so the flag died down.

So he took in Zhang Han who could hardly stay in Europe. From Zhang Han, he felt the power to overthrow the influence of the church.

For such a king, Da Ming must make good use of it.So this time, other people don't need to come, but he, Daming must coax him to come.

And after he came to Daming, he realized the backwardness of France. Regardless of other places, Yingtian Mansion alone, in his opinion, has surpassed the power of the whole of France.

Before coming to Daming, although he read in the book that there are 200 million people in Yingtian Mansion, he didn't know what the concept was.

Only after I came here did I realize that the population of a city is almost as large as that of France, yet a city can be built so huge.

In France, even he, the king, has to take a carriage, but in Yingtianfu, even ordinary citizens can take a car or even a train.

He wanted to move all these back to France, but he didn't know what he had that Da Ming would like.

From the matter of Da Vinci, he saw that he could get attention by listening to the people of Ming Dynasty.

The distant Ming Dynasty is of course more worthy of wooing than the great lords and churches that directly threaten his throne. The truth of long-distance friendship and short-term attack is not only understood by people in the East.

Chapter 39 Remembering History

After going to Europe for a year, Zhang Han deeply realized that he was still lacking in theoretical knowledge.

He can give new ideas and concepts, but cannot establish the unshakable nature of this theory from the foundation.

In other words, he knew that his theory was superior, but he couldn't beat the opponent theoretically.

He returned to Daming this time just to enrich himself.

Moreover, a Mongolian who is good at dancing with long sleeves in Europe has attracted countless young people and treated him like a saint, which also makes him very disdainful.

In his opinion, he is the son of the duke's mansion, and he has a much better foundation than that cousin.Why is he popular in Europe, but he himself is deported everywhere.

He didn't think that his actions were wrong, only that his method was wrong.

So this time he not only wants to come back to enrich himself, but also wants to enter the Daolu Division and learn from those talkers.

From the first year of orthodoxy, His Majesty decided to take Shinrikyo as the state religion and implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education.

Because the Truth Sect is a branch of Taoism, Taoism has started to grow up since then.

But Confucianism and Buddhism did not dare to back down. Over the years, from imitating the truth-seeking spirit of Shinrikyo at the beginning, they have now moved their own scriptures closer to Shinrikyo.

At the spiritual level of philosophy, the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have been integrated into one after nearly a hundred years, and the boundaries between them are actually very blurred.

Although Shinrikyo originated from Taoism, its ideology has borrowed from many other schools.

Taoism says that the religion of truth is Taoism, and Confucianism and Buddhism do not follow it.