The European aristocratic children who came to the Ming Dynasty respected Alfonso of Spain. He had nothing but money!
Alfonso brought two boxes, one of gold and one of silver.
This guy's Chinese is still very poor, and daily communication is a bit difficult, but he is the most popular in the Imperial College. He goes out with fellow Imperial College students, pays for meals and drinks, and even invites the whole class to visit a brothel.
The entire Imperial College knew that there was a money-spending boy from Taixi, and some senior students came here deliberately to make friends with him.
Gradually, Alfonso felt something was wrong.
In his established thinking, those who can study in the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty must be officials and nobles, and these people are worth spending money to win over. But after he scattered a lot of gold and silver, he realized that he was surrounded by ordinary people. And nobles,
The children of officials and rich people do not go to school even if they become proctors. They all spend money to study under famous teachers.
After all, Alfonso is a noble, and his father is a Spanish Duke. He knows he is falling into a trap, but he still has to hold on and continue to treat guests to dinner in the school, otherwise his great reputation will be ruined.
After many inquiries, Alfonso learned that there was a prince in the school and he was also the cousin of the Ming Emperor.
Of course, he was once a prince, but now he has given up his royal title.
Alfonso was a little confused as to why the prince had to give up his title in order to study, but this did not prevent him from making friends with Zhu Houtan. Unfortunately, Zhu Houtan studied hard. In his spare time, he also studied under Yang Shen and took electives in mathematics, physics and astronomy at the School of Physics.
, how can you have the time to fool around with a European noble?
Finally, while watching a football match, Alfonso unexpectedly met several noble children.
Now Alfonso skipped school all day long and went to play football with the noble children. He even promised to spend a thousand taels of silver to form a joint venture with the noble children to form a third-division football team, vowing to be promoted to a second-division team next year.
Alfonso has lived in Madrid since he was a child, dozens of kilometers away from the capital, where there is the Alpaido Palace. This guy didn't learn anything in the Imperial College, but his football skills have improved rapidly. He plans to bring football back to Spain and form a team of his own.
Madrid team.
Prince Henry and other European students abroad also got to know the noble children of the Ming Dynasty and became their followers one after another. They watched football together, visited brothels together, fought crickets together, watched operas and listened to music together, fought cocks and dogs together, and all kinds of things.
This way of having fun made the children of European aristocrats addicted to it.
The noble children of the Ming Dynasty were shocked by the openness of the European aristocracy, and they all became Princess Mary's subordinates.
Princess Mary is not beautiful, but she is a princess of a country, and her status alone makes the noble disciples excited.
Immediately afterwards, Alfonso's wife also had a secret lover, Zheng Sheng, the second son of Wu'an Hou.
Zheng Sheng originally did not dare to do so. A friend's wife should not be deceived. If he were allowed to sleep with Alfonso's maid, Zheng Sheng would have no psychological burden. In the Ming Dynasty, concubines and maids could be given to each other, but wives and good concubines were absolutely not allowed.
contamination.
Unfortunately, Alfonso's wife was too enthusiastic and admired the handsome and tall Zheng Sheng. She also admired Zheng Sheng's majestic grace while riding on the court. Over and over, the two of them hooked up and became an adulterer. Alfonso didn't care if he noticed it.
It is too common in European aristocratic circles.
As for Alfonso, he fell in love with a brothel girl and contributed hundreds of taels of silver in ten months.
Zheng Sheng rode on his horse and waved and shouted: "Brother Yuhua, you are also here for an outing today, and we happened to meet you here."
"Brother Guangde, long time no see." Li Ying returned the greeting with cupped fists.
Li Ying, also known as Yuhua, was a scholar and was the third son of Li Ying. He was about the same age as Wang Qi and Wang Ji.
Li Ying is no longer a Jin Yiwei, and his official official position is the Zuo Commander-in-Chief of the Rear Army. The current Jin Yiwei head, stewards and admirals are all close associates promoted by the young emperor himself.
This change was intentional by Wang Yuan, and power was gradually transferred to the little emperor.
After all, Zhu Zaiyi was about to turn twenty-one and his mind was maturing day by day. Wang Yuan could not hold on to everything, otherwise secret conflicts would inevitably arise between the monarch and his ministers.
In return, Li Ying was given the title of Taibao, the title of Marquis of Zhongyi, and took charge of the rear military governor's office. Gyeonggi and border towns were all under his military jurisdiction, and he was the most powerful of all the governors (actually he was left idle, except for Ke Lao).
In addition to money, they can only participate in the discussion of border town military plans). At the same time, when it comes to increasing officials, every time he goes to court, Li Ying ranks first among military officers, while Wang Yuan ranks first among civilian officials.
Two people from Guizhou, one ranked first in the civil service class, and the other ranked first in the military general class.
Some people joked that this was the court of Guizhou people, and their wording was extremely sinister!
As the third son of Li Ying, Li Ying is also called Li Sanlang by the children in Beijing. He has been taught by famous teachers since he was a child, and he is considered to be both civil and military when he is among the nobles. Unfortunately, he can only barely pass the examination for scholar in Guizhou. It is estimated that in this life
There is no hope of passing the martial arts examination, so I am planning to change my career to take the martial arts examination.
We went on an outing today, and Li Ying and Wang Ji went together.
The two of them were traveling on horseback, each escorting a carriage in which sat their favorite shepherd.
Zheng Shengce immediately stepped forward and asked with a smile: "Brother Yuhua, why are there only brothers Liangcai (Wang Ji) and Brother Yizhang (Wang Qi)? You three are usually inseparable."
Wang Ji explained casually: "My brother has other important matters today."
Wang Qi is the son of Xia Chan, and Wang Ji is the son of Xiang Xiang. The two brothers were born in the same year and have the best relationship, but their mothers are not on good terms with each other.
Today Jin Lei's wife is planning a marriage with the Wang family, but she only has her eye on Wang Qi.
As a mixed-race child, Wang Ji has obvious alien characteristics. Although he is very handsome in appearance, he is inevitably discriminated against. This kind of discrimination is not obvious at ordinary times, but it shows up when talking about marriage. The Jin family is not willing to marry their daughter to Wang Ji.
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Wang Ji also understood the reason, so he simply refused to go to the family outing and invited Li Ying to bring the brothel's brothel servants out to play with him.
Zheng Sheng said: "Let me introduce you two, these are all aristocratic children from the West. There are princes, princesses, and heir apparents of dukes. This is Alfonso, whose Chinese name is Fang Su, and he is the heir apparent of a duke...
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Li Ying and Wang Ji clasped their fists: "I've met Young Master Fang."
Hearing that Wang Ji was the son of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty and Li Ying was the son of the first general of the Ming Dynasty, Alfonso immediately paid attention to it, cupped his fists and greeted: "I have met Mr. Wang, I have met Mr. Li!"
The two parties met each other with polite greetings, and the female relatives also came to greet them.
Wang Ji is wearing silk uniforms today, with a jade belt around his waist, a gold crown to tie his hair, leather boots on his feet, and a long sword hanging from his waist. He has a handsome face, sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes. He is so handsome that he can throw his father Wang Yuan out of the eight streets and kill him.
A handsome young man.
When these European ladies talked to Wang Ji, they all looked affectionate. Princess Mary wished she could drag Wang Ji directly to the wilderness to exchange life.
There's nothing I can do about it, he's too handsome.
Moreover, Wang Ji has both Eastern and Western appearance characteristics, which is more in line with the aesthetics of European ladies than ordinary Han men. This guy is white, tall and handsome, and has the temperament of a noble man with both civil and military skills. If this is an idol
drama, Wang Ji was able to step into the role of the leading actor.
Even Catherine, who grew up in a monastery, had a hard time talking to Wang Ji at close range. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the light was too dark to see clearly, so seeing each other again today made Catherine quite emotional.
Everyone continued to move forward together. Wang Ji didn't like playing with these people, so he didn't talk much along the way.
That demeanor of being independent from the world made Catherine even more uncomfortable. Her eyes always stayed on Wang Ji. In comparison, her husband, Prince Henry, was like a toad in the countryside.
As if he felt that the weeds were growing wildly above his head, Henry subconsciously looked towards his wife, and then followed her gaze towards Wang Ji.
For a moment, Prince Henry was silent as well, constantly calculating the gains and losses in his mind.