The team stopped at the city gate. Chang Ning got off the horse and his group of friends followed him out of the carriage.

A group of foreigners with white skin, high nose bridges, big noses, and various hair and eye colors stood opposite them, which had a great impact on Yinreng and his men.

Although their Lifanyuan was responsible for connecting with foreigners, and there had been many foreigners appearing in the Qing Dynasty over the years, they had never seen such a large gathering of foreigners, with such a huge scene.

After a moment of distraction, Yinreng and Yinqi quickly dismounted and bowed to Chang Ning: "Fifth Uncle, welcome back to Beijing."

Although they were drifting on the sea, Chang Ning knew that his second nephew had lost his position as the crown prince. He looked at him with some regrets, then stretched out his hands to support them one by one, and said with a smile: "Good children, I haven't seen you for a long time, you have grown taller again."

"Uh..." These words that were said to the young and ignorant child suddenly happened to themselves, making Yinreng and Yinqi feel helpless.

They were silent for a while, then chose to shift their gazes to the foreign envoys behind them who were standing upright but couldn't help but look at them curiously. They nodded slightly and said, "You envoys have come from afar, please follow me to the capital first."

Yinreng turned the topic to the envoys, and Chang Ning then remembered that he had to act as the middleman and introduce them to each other. He quickly turned sideways and first introduced Yinreng and Yinqi to the envoys.

"This is the second prince of our dynasty, the current Prince Kang, and the other is the fifth prince, Prince Heng."

Chang Ning believed that these friends should have learned about the titles of Prince and Duke when they were learning the official language of the Qing Dynasty, so there was no need for any unnecessary explanation.

Instead, he continued to introduce several of his friends to Yinreng and Yinqi, "Second and fifth brothers, this is Prince Nurka from France, this is Duke Moya from England, and this is Duke Lanebuma from Prussia."

Chang Ning introduced the representatives of three countries. As for those who followed behind, he did not introduce any of them.

Yinreng and Yinqi were not curious about this. They just smiled and greeted the three princes and dukes of prominent families. When facing a few people who obviously did not speak the Qing dialect fluently, the two brothers would considerately switch to the language of their country.

This made the three of them exclaim in disbelief.

It is not surprising that they can speak the language of their own country. After all, there is the example of Chang Ning. They don’t think that the prince of the Qing Dynasty will be inferior to Chang Ning.

Because Chang Ning always said that their princes were powerful, he had already formed a preliminary impression on the three of them.

So what shocked them the most was that when Yinreng and Yinqi were speaking different languages ​​in succession or even at the same time, they could actually understand what they were saying very clearly and then smoothly switch between languages ​​to reply to them.

Occasionally, they would give orders to Qing officials in the Qing language, which was an extremely difficult operation for them. However, the two Qing princes acted as if every language was their mother tongue and they responded to whatever they heard. This made the three envoys wonder if their brains were not enough.

Otherwise, why can't they have other things in their minds when speaking Mandarin? Otherwise, they will forget what they want to say and mix their mother tongue into it, making it impossible to utter a complete sentence in Mandarin?

Prince Noka, Duke Moya, and Duke Ryanbuma all fell into deep thought.

As they were thinking, they found that the carriage had stopped again.

As soon as they lifted the curtain of the carriage, they saw a building with a very oriental charm, which was very similar to what they had seen in Chang Ning's paintings.

"Where is this place?" Prince Noka asked decisively.

It shouldn't be their Qing Imperial Palace, right? In the painting Chang Ning showed him, the Qing Imperial Palace was huge!

Yinqi smiled and replied: "This is the reception hall specially built by the Qing Dynasty for the envoys. It is a place for you to rest."

Reception hall?

The three envoys looked at each other in bewilderment. They actually built a reception hall specially. Isn't this a bit too grand?

Thinking back to when their country received Chang Ning, they only arranged for Chang Ning to live in the palace, they suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

Compared with the guesthouse in front of us, it seems that their country seems a bit stingy. What should we do?

The three of them were embarrassed, having completely forgotten that Chang Ning went to their country to make money, and had not agreed in advance that he would represent the Qing Dynasty on a diplomatic mission.

It was only later when he became friends with them that his identity as a Qing prince was exposed, and only then was he able to enter their palace. This is incomparable to the current situation.

Moreover, the construction of a separate reception hall was not because the Qing Dynasty had too much money and had no place to spend it, but because there was a rule here that no one was allowed to sleep soundly next to the emperor's bed. The palace was inhabited by the emperor, so how could there be room for envoys from other countries to stay there?

In other words, although Nongka and the other two knew some things about the Qing Dynasty, they didn't know a lot, which was why they felt embarrassed about it.

Unlike Chang Ning, who ate and drank for free outside and even explored the royal palace, he didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"Ahem... These are some of the things I collected during my trip to countries like France. You can use them as you wish."

When Nongka and the other two were feeling embarrassed, Chang Ning had already pulled Yinreng and Yinqi to divide the "stolen goods". His trip to the sea was not just to make money.

I have made a lot of money in the previous few times, so I might as well make some money this time. The key is to find out more about the development of foreign countries and get a share of any good things.

Thanks to his shamelessness, his harvest was considerable, which even amazed Yinreng.

"...Uncle Wu, I have a question. How come you even have a map of the English royal palace?"

Looking at the map of the English Royal Palace in his hand, Yinqi fell silent.

He really wanted to know how his fifth uncle was doing out there and how he even got his hands on the map of someone else's palace.

"Hey, that's a long story—"

Chang Ning felt a little proud. He didn't actually do anything. He just took the people of the English royal family for a stroll whenever he had time. As time went by, he finally walked around the entire palace.

Now that we have toured the entire palace, we have even drawn a map.

"Although I don't know what this map is for, but, Uncle Wu, you are really amazing."

Yinqi was greatly impressed. He did not even think about crossing the ocean to attack the English base. He just decided how to arrange the map.

When he returns to the Lifanyuan, he will immediately store this map in the library. Now it will be exhibited. If there is anything in the future...

Well, let’s talk about it later.

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