There is an old Chinese saying that the locals do as they go. The staff of Chen Han's office in Europe are very local customs, and people are mixed in Europe, so it is necessary to abide by and accept the rules of Europeans.

For example, the dress of Europeans - especially for ladies, for example, the food of Europeans - is also knives and forks.

Otherwise, even if they have the behemoth of Chen Han behind them, it will be difficult to mix in Europe.

The people at and above the UTO are doing a good job on this point.

No one would treat a European noblewoman with a large amount of white flesh on her exposed chest as a slut, and no one would treat the knives and forks that Europeans eat and the steaks of three and five ripe as sticky and blood-drinking and savage.

The night is dark, the lights are shining, and the stars and lights are reflected on the calm surface of the Thames, and the night is already more and more intoxicating in the melodious sound of the violin.

Xie Qinggao stood at the foot of the steps, dressed in a black tuxedo dress, his leather shoes were shiny, and he shook hands with the guests who came to the banquet one by one. Today is a great day, the British Chinese Chamber of Commerce was established. Among them, Xie Qinggao is threading the needle, or the reason why this part of the European Chinese businessmen who have gathered under the command of the European Office in the UK has established the British Chamber of Commerce is that Xie Qinggao wants to build a trumpet.

As the honorary president of the Chamber of Commerce, Xie Qinggao had a banquet tonight, and it was not only the members of the Chamber of Commerce who came, but also a large number of British networks, which was a great opportunity to expand the scope of contacts. And right next to Xie Qinggao, standing his flat wife, who is actually also a concubine.

In China, which was in the original time and space, ordinary wives were more likely to refer to the women accepted by merchants doing business abroad, because the wives of merchants had to stay at home. In the original time and space, it was not until the late Qianlong period that 'flat wife' was legally used as the title of another wife suitable for the marriage system, but the relationship between the main wife and the flat wife was equivalent to a cousin. In the last years of Daoguang, the saying of "two big ends" or "opposite room" appeared between the main wife and the flat wife.

Xie Qinggao's wife is in her early Chinese New Year's Eve, just like a businessman, it is impossible for a foreign official like Xie Qinggao to bring his wife there, unless they have no parents to support them, otherwise, even if their brothers take on most of the responsibilities, their wives must stay at home to fulfill their filial piety.

This Mrs. Xie is much more beautiful than the Mrs. Xie in her hometown, although in the eyes of Europeans, this Mrs. Xie is not very beautiful. This is because of the aesthetic problem, and there is a big gap between the definition of 'beautiful' between Westerners and Orientals.

But don't talk about the appearance, the temperament can't deceive people.

Today, Xie Qinggao's flat wife is wearing a gorgeous Western-style long skirt, with a little vermilion powder, and a smile to welcome guests, which is down-to-earth and generous, showing the owner's luxurious temperament and graceful demeanor.

Xie Qinggao is now an official of Zhengsanpin, and his master has just sat on Zhengsanpin in his fifties, so it is conceivable that when he wants to move his position after the completion of his tenure in the European Office, Xie Qinggao will only go up and not down.

He didn't make any mistakes in his work, and the urgent news from Europe was sent to Nanjing in time. It can be said that he did a very good job. At least the turmoil in Ireland has intensified in recent years, and that's proof of that.

Mrs. Xie, who is full of confidence in her husband's future, is of course graceful and wealthy. She has the confidence to do so!

Zhao Xie Qinggao and his wife are surrounded by several senior officials from the European Office, all of whom are well-dressed and generous, and each of them is fluent in English. Some of them were chatting and laughing with the guests in London-accented English, and the foreigners gathered at the European Office today were not simple. Identity, background, there is no one who has no roots.

Regardless of whether China and Europe are fighting now, anyway, there is no tearing face between China and the UK, so let's be happy as usual.

"Mr. and Mrs. Etienne Charles Philippe, Ambassador of the Kingdom of France to Great Britain."

"Mr. and Mrs. Everim Guente, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the United Kingdom."

"Mr. and Mrs. Lars Luck Rasmussen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Prussia to Great Britain."

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There were quite a few official representatives from various countries, not to mention the British.

There is no doubt that tonight's banquet is attended by real "big names", who are either business stars or politicians with big faces in London. Those foreign ambassadors to the UK are just icing on the cake.

For the latter, this is equivalent to selling the face of the European Office. And the Chinese are just as interesting, as long as they do enough courtesy and give them enough face, they can have a lot of benefits. What's more, the current level of this banquet is not at all cheaper for the envoys of various countries. There are a lot of people here who they all want to relate to.

At 8 p.m. local time, the real dignitary arrived on time and it was none other than Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte. When Louis Bonaparte's carriage stopped at the gate of the European Office, Xie Qinggao personally stepped forward to greet this important European figure.

Louis Bonaparte still works for his brother, Napoleon's envoy plenipotentiary to England.

"Your Highness, I'm really glad to see you."

"I'm also very happy that the last time we met was in China, and many years have passed in a flash." Louis was very emotional. That trip to China for him and his wife is a memory they will never forget.

"I heard that you are now a third-rank official, congratulations, back to Nanjing, I think His Majesty the Respected Emperor will definitely reward you heavily. Your work in Europe has been beautifully done. ”

With France's understanding of China, how could it not know the importance of Xie Qinggao in the future. Nine times out of ten, he will be a member of the future Chinese cabinet - foreign minister. That's the real power person.

Xie Qing shook hands with Louis Bonaparte with a smile and greeted each other, and the 'plays' on both sides were 'acted' quite well, and others would never have thought that the important ministers of the diplomatic departments of the two countries who met this time were holding hands with each other and talking and laughing, while the armies of the two countries were still fighting bloodily on the distant North American continent.

The French army was significantly stronger than the American army. Although the current French army is much weaker than the original French army.

Their fighting passion and fighting spirit have been greatly weakened, and the revolutionary passion has disappeared. It is also impossible to easily shoulder the responsibility of protecting Western civilization in the 'yellow-white duel, the East-West War', and the combat effectiveness of the current French army is the French army during the Lighthouse Country War of Independence.

The number of courtesies in front of the door is sufficient, followed by a grand dinner party and the subsequent ball, Western music, Chinese music, these different styles of tunes take turns, the whole banquet process is quite luxurious, quite intoxicating.

After the banquet, Xie Qinggao, several foreign envoys led by Louis Bonaparte, as well as the British business and political elites present today, sat for a while and talked about the current world situation and Sino-foreign friendship, and then a secretary walked up to him and whispered a few words, so Xie Qinggao left his senior management to continue to chat and talk with a large number of people, and left the living room with his secretary.

Today's dinner is actually over.

Xie Qinggao didn't mean it, this is just a small fragment of his career in the European Office. In European society, banquets and balls are essential.

When the office was first established, the staff at that time could speak stiff English, but except for a few elite people who were focused on training, few people were interested in European etiquette and dancing.

But what about now? That guy from the ETO can't dance?

No sensible diplomat would put his business on eating, drinking, and making a fuss. What is now being fought between the East and the West is a war for world hegemony. In such a war, the whole of Europe can be seen as a whole.

Although this 'whole' is still very weak, after all, the European Civil War has been vigorously fought for more than 20 years, not to mention that the North American War that detonated the French Revolution was only paying for the Seven Years' War, and Europe before the Seven Years' War was also peaceful and harmonious, with the recent War of the Austrian Succession, the War of the Polish Succession, and the War of the Spanish Succession. Further back in the seventeenth century, there was the Thirty Years' War, a giant meat grinder......

Europe as a whole is riddled with internal contradictions, and the historical hatred and contradictions between each other should not have united Europe.

A protracted and large-scale war is a devastating blow to a nation's inheritance and culture, to a country's social structure, and to a country's functional structure. The resulting division would have to take countless hours or more significant damage – such as the two world wars. If the previous wars in Europe used knives to cut gullies in the exposed skin of Europe, then the two world wars were a devastating earthquake, after which most of the gullies were filled in, and the rest became ditches for people to pass through.

But now the Europeans are really united. Because they have a lot of pressure from China outside.

And when the whole of Europe chooses to 'unite' in the face of pressure, it means that Europeans already think that one of their own countries is far from being an opponent of China.

But Xie Qinggao didn't care about it at all. Because he feels that the whole of Europe is tied together, and it is no match for China.

To put it simply, the war that Napoleon started was too violent. War has tilted the wealth and resources of each country in the direction of war, and other aspects can still take care of it if they have energy, and if they don't have energy, they will let it go.

And what about China? The number of wars China has launched against foreign countries over the years is not small, but how much energy has China spent on these wars? Is there 30%? Is there 20%? That's about that.

The vast majority of China's energy is spent on development, and in the past few decades China has laid a solid foundation, but what about Europe? Even Britain and France, which have the most steam engines, are far inferior to China.

While Chen Ming is turning China's territory upside down and growing upwards, the domestic economy and finance, and the domestic social wealth are also rising in a straight line like taking a plane.

The battle between the two empires and the battle of the million-strong army, in the end, the competition depends on the thickness of the national strength. National strength includes military strength, as well as financial resources and endless material resources, how can Europe, which has been fighting for more than 20 years, have such a solid foundation as China?

In this big war, China has won and is undefeated. This is the self-confidence of Xie Qinggao, a senior member of Chen Han.

It's just that how long this war will last, and how long there will be a second and third East-West war in the future, Xie Qinggao can't guess.

He can be sure that there will be a second and third war between these things, and even the heavenly world will be pulled into the battlefield in the future, and there is no guarantee that everyone will be on the same page as China. But how long it will take for the second and third wars to break out, Xie Qinggao is not sure.

The war between the East and the West was caused by a combination of various factors. When this war is over, Europeans will know that they are weak. Then when the next war begins, that is, when the weak feel that they can challenge the authority of the strong with the power they have accumulated, or when the strong want to completely destroy the weak.

There is nothing between nations that cannot be resolved by war.

If Chen Han is a super empire, then a united Europe, if it really works together, it can be regarded as a super empire. But it is a pity that compared with the unity of Chen and Han, there are obviously too many reluctance in Europe.

Napoleon and Archduke Karl, two of the most recognized land generals, both missed the current battle because of this. No one knows when the estrangement within Europeans will be bridged.

Of course, Chen Han also has scruples. Many people are afraid that the emperor has abdicated and the new emperor has ascended the throne, which will have an impact on the soldiers in the war. For thousands of Chen Han officers and soldiers, they have been Chen Ming's people for as long as they can remember, and now that the emperor is suddenly gone, the shock that can be caused by this is very unpredictable.

It's just that Xie Qinggao thought of his emperor too simply.

Chen Ming has already had a proper solution to this matter.

A perfect solution, he can ensure that his abdication and Chen Ding's succession will not have a negative impact on the officers and soldiers participating in the war. Because what Chen Ming wants to do is to drive in person in the coming year.

He is no longer the emperor, but the position of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is still his.

As long as he finds things clear, Chen Ming can still play a circle on the battlefield.

There is no way, the situation in Europe is evolving too fast and too bad. Who would have thought that in the blink of an eye, Britain and France would merge?

Although for Britain, it is impossible to win a fight with Napoleon, and it is impossible to distinguish the winner in a short time, and if it continues to fight for a long time, the loss is huge, and if Napoleon loses his original ambitions, it is indeed the best choice to shake hands with each other. But Chen Ming couldn't have imagined such a result.

The result of the merger of Britain and France was that the Western world immediately made a big move, and Chen Han's side did not want to expand the scale of the war.

This created a very embarrassing situation, Chen Ming had just said that he was going to abdicate, and the war between the east and the west came.

And no matter how Chen Ming thinks about it, he must first ensure the victory of the East-West War. He thought about it with all his might, what could be better than going into battle himself to calm the morale of the army and public opinion?