Chapter 1128 Craveyo's Journey to the East - Kneeling
"How many have you met already?" Yunxi stretched and said.
"Your Majesty, we have received six foreign envoys, and there are five more." Fu An replied.
"There are five more?" Yunxi looked at the moon that had risen high outside, and he was determined to push the remaining five envoys to tomorrow, but after thinking about it, he felt that there would be things tomorrow, so he still said: "
Announce the visit of envoys from the next country."
"Let the envoy from Castile come to see you." Fu An ordered the interpreter guarding the door. After he retreated, he turned to Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty, the envoy from Castile will come to see you next."
His Majesty."
"Castile?" Upon hearing this, Yunxi felt that the name of this country was different from the previous ones, and asked: "Where does this country come from? How much do you know?"
"Your Majesty, this country is the farthest country from Samarkand among the eleven countries, and it is also the farthest country from the Ming Dynasty."
"This country is located in Europe, and it is also a very western country in Europe; but this country is now very powerful, and its territory is close to the Ottoman country. Because it is hostile to the Ottoman country, it sent two envoys to Samarkand
country, and later followed Timur to Yiwu. After Timur was defeated, he was captured by the Ming Dynasty." Fu An introduced.
"Located in Europe? What color are the hair and eyes of these two envoys?" After hearing Fu An's introduction, Yunxi suddenly became curious and asked.
‘Who is the envoy from a European country?’ He thought at the same time. He had never seen anyone from Europe since he came to Ming Dynasty, and he wanted to know which country this person came from.
The hair of people in European countries is very varied. The hair of people in other countries is basically black, or slightly lighter at most, but the hair of Europeans may be red, yellow, brown, or light.
Gold is almost white.
Similarly, European eyes also have a variety of colors, ranging from light blue, dark blue, green, brown to black.
Of course, in modern times, people of other ethnic groups can have colorful hair and pupils due to hair dyeing and contact lenses. But in this era, it is still easy to distinguish Europeans through the color of their hair and pupils, and even determine where they are from.
country.
After listening to Yunxi's question, Fu An was stunned for a moment. Because Yunxi had always been more concerned about Fan Guo, he had prepared in advance the basic situation of the eleven countries and the envoy's mission. But he really
Unexpectedly, Yunxi would ask such a question. "Your Majesty, the hair of the chief envoy is brown, and the hair of the deputy envoy is brown-black. As for the color of the eyes, I apologize that I have not noticed it."
Fu An said after a while.
Yunxi also realized that the question he raised was abrupt: hair aside, who would pay attention to the color of other people's eyes if they seemed fine? He said, "I'm just asking casually, don't worry about it."
However, he thought in his mind: "The brown hair and the brown-black hair are probably mixed blood, right? Nobles from various European countries often marry each other, which is not surprising. But it is impossible to determine where they come from."
Just as he was thinking, two envoys had already walked in under the leadership of the waiter. The waiter walked up to Fu An and whispered something. Fu An frowned and walked to Yunxi, who was still thinking, and said softly:
"His Majesty,"
"What's the matter?" Yunxi came back to his senses and asked.
"Your Majesty, just now these two envoys from Castile told the waiter that they only kneel to the Lord and not to the secular monarch. They hope that Your Majesty will allow them not to kneel. When they meet the monarch in their country, they all
This is a three-bow ceremony, and I would like to bow five times to His Majesty to show that His Majesty’s status is above that of the king of his country.”
According to China's traditional practice of summoning foreign envoys, officials from the Ministry of Rites and other Yamen will train the envoys who will meet the emperor three days before the summons, so that they can learn the etiquette of meeting the emperor. But this time they accepted the invitation suddenly.
It was decided that there was no time for training at all, and the person in charge of this job could only tell them generally what to do before summoning them. The first five envoys all agreed, but the two envoys from Castile refused to kneel
.
The waiter was at a loss and could only let them wait outside the door for the time being while he went in to report.
"Your Majesty, we must not allow them to salute like this!" Chen Ji immediately said: "Your Majesty is the lord of the world, how can you allow the envoys from outside to just bow?" Xu Huizu also said the same, and he was full of righteous indignation.
"Aren't you going to kneel down?" Yunxi smiled and said, "Fu An."
"I'm here."
"You have been in Samarkand for more than eight years. The Tianfang believers generally do not kneel down to secular monarchs."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"But they will kneel down when worshiping the so-called Lord, and they will kneel down for a long time."
"I know that the same is true for the Crusaders. And they will not only kneel before the so-called Lord, they will also kneel before the so-called spokesperson of the Lord, that is, the Pope of the Cross."
"How big is the difference between kneeling before the leader of the theocratic power and kneeling before the leader of the secular government?" Yunxi finally said.
Fu An lowered his head and didn't answer. He couldn't figure out what Yun Hei meant, for fear of saying the wrong thing. Chen Ji and Xu Huizu were also a little confused and didn't speak.
"Preach my will and tell these two messengers from Castile. I know that they will not only kneel when facing the so-called Lord, but also kneel when facing the Lord's spokesperson. In some special cases, they will kneel down."
Under certain circumstances, the monarch who is loyal to him will also kneel down. I do not insist on completely following the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, but you must kneel down when you meet me!" Yunxi said.
Is kneeling a backward custom? Maybe, but since they kneel when facing divine power, they must also kneel when facing the emperor of Ming Dynasty!
The waiter agreed and hurried out to deliver the order.
Yunxi held up a book and smiled at the people beside him: "I guess these two people will argue for a long time. Let me take a book and take a look first. If you have a book you want to read, I have it here.
I can lend it to you to see."
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"You must kneel down? Is this what your Ming emperor said?" Claviyo asked.
"His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty said so himself." The waiter replied.
"This, no, absolutely not, we must not kneel down to a secular monarch!" Quijano immediately shouted in Castilian.
Claviyo turned his head to look at him and noticed that the Ming country's waiter had left their side. He also said in Castilian: "Alonso, but if you don't kneel down, I'm afraid you won't be able to see him.
It’s time to become the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.”
"That's not okay! You must not kneel to him!" Jijano shouted loudly: "Brother Zelaizi, do you want to kneel to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! If you kneel to him, I will definitely do it after returning to China.
Tell His Majesty the King."
"But." Claviyo was very confused. Of course he didn't want to kneel down, but looking at the current situation, he wouldn't be able to see the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom if he didn't kneel down, and he really wanted to see the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom.
He thought about it and came up with a compromise: "Dear officials of the Ming Dynasty, can you tell the emperor that we should kneel on one knee when we meet him?" Under normal circumstances, when the lower nobles swear allegiance to the upper nobles,
They always kneeled down on one knee. Although they had no intention of being loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they could barely do this to the secular monarch, so they proposed it.
The waiter hurriedly ran in to report to Yunxi. After a while, he returned with a look of regret on his face and said to him: "No, His Majesty the Emperor requires that you must kneel on your knees, as if you are meeting the Pope." He then explained.
Said: "The pope here refers to the person with the highest status in the Christian religion, papa."
"Papa?" Samarkand repeated, with a look of shock on his face. Not only him, but also the expression on Quijano's face was very wonderful.
It’s not surprising that a king from an Eastern country knew about the Cross. After all, they had spent a long time with Fu An before and had talked about the Cross with him. But pronouncing papa with a Latin pronunciation was too surprising to them. They
He never mentioned the Latin pronunciation of the Supreme Leader of the Cross to Fu An, but told Fu An using the non-derogatory name commonly used by cannibals.
'How could the emperor of the Ming Dynasty know this word? Did Marco Polo leave any records when he came to the East?'
But although they were surprised that the Ming emperor knew the word papa, Quijano still refused to give in. "In any case, since the Ming emperor insists on kneeling down, we can't go to the meeting, let's go back!"
” said Quijano.
But Claviyo grabbed his arm. "What do you mean?" Quijano asked.
"Alonso, it would be better for us to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in person." Clavio said: "If we cannot meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Castile will not be recognized as a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.
It is very likely that we will be expelled from the country and will not be able to visit the prosperous places in the Ming Dynasty."
"That's all. Samarkand is already a very prosperous city. Even if the capital of the Ming Dynasty is more prosperous than Samarkand, it won't be much more prosperous."
"But I suddenly felt that meeting the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would yield some unexpected results."
"Because he knows the word papa?"
"Yes, because he knows the word papa."
Quijano stood where he was, fighting between heaven and man, and finally said: "Forget it, I will go with you to meet the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and violate the teachings of the Lord." As he spoke, he couldn't help but row in front of him.
