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    "Watch out for shit!"

    Although Pan Wei cannot communicate in French, these two words have long been firmly memorized.

    In 1270 AD, the French government issued a decree: "No one is allowed to pour sewage and excrement from the windows of the building, otherwise a fine will be imposed."

    More than a hundred years later, the French government once again promulgated a decree: "If you shout 'watch out for shit' three times, you can dump urine and feces from the windows of the building."

    Over the past few hundred years, this decree has become a habit and has been integrated into the lives of French urbanites.

    Pan Wei jumped up and down to distance himself, then looked up upstairs, and the woman upstairs also looked at him.  The woman felt that the Chinese were rare, so she smiled and winked at Pan Wei, and then a bucket of excrement and urine poured down the window.

    Pan Wei hurriedly covered his nose and walked away, muttering: "Fanbang barbarians don't know a little bit of etiquette."

    Of course, there are excrement workers in Paris, but the number is seriously insufficient, and the priority is to dig out the excrement pits of noble and rich merchants.

    The 17th century has progressed, and stone pipes will be built on the outer wall of the castle, which will be directly discharged into the large cesspit on the ground, and then the excrement and urine will be transported outside the city by the excrement workers.

    Like the Louvre where the king lives, it will be even more powerful, and an underground tunnel will be dug to lead to the Seine.  It's just that the underground passage is often blocked, and it may last for ten and a half months. During this period, it can be called the end of the disaster.  Because there are too many people in the Louvre, they can pull several large carts in a day, and if they can't get out, they just dump them, and even pour their feces and urine in the Louvre.

    In 1670 A.D., a scholar summoned by the king recorded: "Thousands of excrement can be seen near the Louvre, even inside and outside the palace, behind the four aisles and door openings, and almost everywhere.  People smell the foul smell, which is caused by the natural needs of those who live in the Louvre, and the officials who come to work in the Louvre every day"

    There are 29 toilets in the entire Palace of Versailles.

    It was definitely enough at the beginning, but it was not enough in the time of Louis XIV.

    The Sun King has completely centralized power, and a large number of officials enter the palace every day to handle affairs.  He also liked extravagant enjoyment, and kept increasing the number of servants in the Louvre. At the peak, there were tens of thousands of people living in the palace.

    Tens of thousands of people use 29 toilets, and there are basically only one or two squatting seats, and some of them are dedicated to the king. What is the difference between this and no toilets?

    If the officials are in a hurry, they will find a doorway in the palace, take off their pants and pull them straight away.

    In some places, the king is not allowed to defecate anywhere, so people will draw a sign of the cross, and whoever dares to defecate will be disrespectful to Jesus.

    But the Louvre was still too smelly, and Louis XIV couldn't stand it, so there was the Palace of Versailles in the suburbs.

    At this time, Louis XIV was not yet in power. Although the Queen Mother increased the number of servants, there were only a few thousand people in the palace.  how to say?  Although it is very common to urinate and defecate anywhere, at least it will not be a pile of shit in three steps. It is barely acceptable for Chinese envoys to live in it.

    But no one dares to wander around, especially in remote places, if you don't pay attention, you will step on "landmines".

    Pan Wei returned to the Louvre, wrote all the information he found into the work report, and shared the secrets of sex with his brothers by the way.  For example, the youngest son of Marquis XX was the cub of a young servant.

    A boy from a minor aristocrat was sent to the family of a great aristocrat when he was 14 or 15 years old.

    Their life enlightenment teacher is likely to be their mistress.  It is normal for the mistress with a dissolute personality to live like this all her life and sleep with dozens or hundreds of young men.

    Cai Yuncheng listened to these stories, and at the same time, he felt hot and despised the European nobles, and wrote:

    "European countries don't know how to retting excrement, even in the palace, excrement and urine are also flowing. The excrement workers are scarce, and they are extremely low, and they are diligent in cleaning every day, but they still can't finish it. And the European ladies are all dissolute by nature, and the people who live in secret are not ordinary.  A few. Maybe there are chaste and martyrs who are different and don¡¯t fit in well European countries are all barbarians. Civilization is undeveloped and uncivilized, so it¡¯s not worth mentioning.¡±

    "Today, it is heard that selling officials in France is the essence of the reform. The French system is like the Warring States Period. The princes entrusted various places and often refused to obey the king's orders. However, the king sells officials, just like the reforms of other countries. Officials, scholars, and merchants were appointed to  Yin seized the power of the princes. This kind of behavior has never been seen in the history of the country, and it is difficult to predict the consequences"

    "There are also small countries in Europe, which were usurped by the merchants. Those as big as the Netherlands, the original duke was in power, but now he was deposed because he was young. There are seven provinces in the Netherlands, a total of 28 mayors, most of whom are shareholders of the East India Company. Shareholders control the place  , and then elect a parliament, and the parliament will govern the country through consultation.¡±

    "Ahead of the Great War between England and the Netherlands. The defeat of the Netherlands lies in the fact that the hearts of the people are not in harmony. The merchants in the seven provinces have different interests and hinder each other. There are also the Duke's cronies, who lead the battle but do not obey orders, and sit back and watch the navy.??, there is no need to treat Portugal as an enemy country.

    In front of the Chinese envoy, France and Portugal are about to sign a treaty.

    The Portuguese envoy went ahead and said: "Your Majesty, there is no engagement yet. Our Majesty has two princesses, and they also have no engagement. How about"

    "Don't talk about this again!" Mazarin interrupted immediately.

    A treaty between France and Portugal was reached, and China and France soon signed it.  Nothing special, the two countries just open their ports to each other.

    The farthest port in China is in Malacca, and the farthest port in France is in West Africa and Canada. What's the point of opening ports to each other?  Even if it is not signed, Malacca is still open to the outside world, as long as the Hong Kong tax is paid honestly.

    In addition, the French royal family was also generous. After the Chinese envoy proposed to buy the horse breed, it directly said that there was no need to pay.

    The Queen Mother has dispatched officials to carefully select twenty Percherons.  Ten males and ten females were all good horses, and they were presented to the Chinese emperor for free.

    This special horse for heavy cavalry can still be used for transportation and agriculture even if heavy cavalry withdraws from the stage of history, because it is originally a heavy draft horse.

    After signing the contract with France, the Portuguese envoy quietly found Lu Tianxiang and Zhang Ruifeng.

    "Honorable Chinese envoy, His Majesty has another proposal," said the Portuguese envoy, "as long as the two royal families marry, China can choose one of the Portuguese colonial ports in India except Nagapatam Port as a dowry.  "

    Port for dowry?

    Neither Lu Tianxiang nor Zhang Ruifeng dared to make a decision to refuse, and immediately said: "After we return to the country, we will report to His Majesty."

    Mumbai, India, is the Portuguese princess who married the British king's dowry!

    The Portuguese princess could not get married, and the restoration of the British king was also in an embarrassing situation. In addition, the British wanted to expand in India, and the two hit it off and the marriage was successful.  Mumbai, India, became a British colony in a daze.

    King Joao IV was crazy about royal marriage, and the colony would give it as it said.

    It is estimated that Zhao Han will agree, it's just a marriage, and he didn't say that he must be a queen, just marry a Portuguese princess as a concubine for the prince.

    As a show of sincerity, the Portuguese envoy also brought a list of colonies.  China can choose any port in India, except for the one closest to Malacca.
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