Mrs. Feng served Xie Daoyong to change clothes in the bedroom, and passed hot soup to bathe, Xie Daoyong looked a little absent-minded, but Mrs. Feng noticed it, and asked him softly: "What's wrong with the master?"

Xie Daoyong sighed softly: "It's over at home, but there are still a lot of troubles in the capital." In the past few days, I have to find a gentleman to teach English to Huaichang, preferably British, who can learn more authentically. ”

Mrs. Feng nodded: "Didn't you invite the eldest son of the family?" The eldest brother really watched it closely, he just sent it to Liuyang, and he wouldn't do anything to his precious son. ”

"It's not good, why are you still holding Wanxin?" Xie Daoyong said regretfully: "Ah Lan is bent on going abroad, but her father doesn't allow anything, what a pity, if this is my daughter, I will definitely find her to be a foreign language teacher for the lords and nobles of England, and send her to the best school on the other side of the ocean." ”

Mrs. Feng was unhappy because of this, and snorted: "You want this daughter so much, go and tell the eldest brother to see if he is willing to pass this eldest daughter to you." ”

"Look at you, you're on fire again," Xie Daoyong laughed deeply, and patted his wife's hand: "I'm just sorry for her, what an ambitious girl, she was delayed by her father." I already have a lively and lovely little daughter, how can I go to the girl of my stepfamily. ”

However, Mrs. Feng was not appeased by his words at all, and angrily threw the water scoop into the bathtub, turned around and walked to the window and sat down, "You are just angry that I didn't add a son to you." ”

Xie Daoyong was stunned: "Why did you bring up this matter again? If I really care so much about whether I have a son or not, wouldn't I have an outer room quietly? Mo Ling, why are you always obsessed with this matter? I have told you ......?"

Before he finished speaking, a small girl's voice came from outside the window: "Master, the Zhenguo Mansion has sent someone over, please come over to the mansion." ”

The two people in the room were stunned, Xie Daoyong smiled bitterly: "Look, a wave has not settled, and a wave has risen, Zai Ze has the most eyes, I'm afraid I've heard something." ”

Mrs. Feng's brows furrowed tightly, her voice was low, and she said, "It's only been an hour since you returned home, how could he get the news so quickly?"

Xie Daoyong snorted: "If he is concerned, he will naturally have his own method, since the death of Prince Gongzhong and Duke Li Wenzhong, aren't there only a few of us left who have been in charge of foreign affairs, Zai Ze wants to establish a constitution, those old people are stubborn and unreliable, and they can only rely on foreign ministers." ”

As he spoke, he stepped out of the bathtub, went to wipe the water droplets on his body with a cloth towel, and changed into clothes under Mrs. Feng's clothes: "I'm just afraid that I won't be able to come back for dinner, so you can greet your nephews and nieces yourself." ”

When Xie Daoyong arrived at the Zhenguo Mansion, Zai Ze was flipping through a sparse performance in the study, and when he saw him come in, he just raised his eyelids lazily and glanced at it: "I invited you here at this time, and I didn't delay your serious business." ”

Xie Daoyong smiled: "What did Guogong say, you called me is serious." ”

Zai Ze held a dark brown cigarette between the fingertips of his right hand, raised a chair on the side, and motioned for him to sit down: "I heard that you have returned to your hometown? Haven't you and your eldest brother not talked for decades, why, this is figured out?"

Xie Daoyong still smiled: "Brother and blood relative, broken bones are still connected to tendons, how can the relationship really be broken?"

Zai Ze sneered: "Brother naturally can't break off the relationship, I'm afraid that you pick this time to pick up this relationship, it's going to be another nest, no son is trouble, and you have to accompany your face to borrow someone else's son to start a new stove." ”

Xie Daoyong was taken aback, slapped it on the table, and stood up: "The emperor is above! You want my head when you say this! I Xie Daoyong was raised as a young man, and I have received the emperor's favor for more than 20 years to get to today, if I have the idea of voting for a new master, I will not die well immediately! I will put down my words today, if the prince does not believe it, this will take my head!"

Zai Ze was stunned, as if he was frightened by his fierce reaction, and paused for a moment before sitting up straight and putting on a smile: "Zhiheng, how can I doubt your loyalty to the Qing Dynasty, don't get excited, sit first." ”

"I'm just too worried, Zhiheng, you know the current situation in the DPRK and China, Lao Qing has been in power, and he has a lot of money every day, and he doesn't plan for the country at all, and if it goes on like this, the Qing Dynasty will be finished in his hands sooner or later!" He got up and bypassed the bookcase, took an iron box from the cabinet, carefully opened it and took out one, and cut it with scissors: "When I was in England, a duke gave it, what was it called...... Cigar, unlike my Qing pipe, it has a different flavor, come, you can try it. ”

Xie Daoyong seemed to be angry, and still had a cold face: "The prince of the country has time to doubt me, so it is better to go to the queen mother and ask him to remove this vampire leech." ”

"If I can move him, why should I complain to you here," Zai Ze stuffed the cigarette roll into Xie Daoyong's hand, took out a box of foreign matches to light the fire, and waited for the cigarette butt to come out of the smoke before he whispered: "I don't doubt you, I'm too scared, Lao Qing is now majestic, with the support of the Queen Mother inside, and the support of foreign friends outside, my constitution has just started, if he doesn't agree, then so much investigation, so much effort, it will be all in vain." ”

Xie Daoyong pinched the cigarette roll with his thumb and forefinger, took a puff carefully, and immediately frowned: "What kind of smell is this, it's very strange." ”

"Habits and habits make sense," Zai Ze sat down on a chair next to him, smiled slightly, and said, "I just felt weird when I smoked." ”

"Are you so worried about Prince Qing, isn't it over if you go and pull him into the constitutional faction?" Xie Daoyong said: "They are all descendants of Aixin Jueluo, talk to him well, and you may not listen to you." ”

Zai Ze slapped his thigh fiercely: "Lao Qing, can he listen to people's words, he can only listen to the sound of silver! Not to mention the descendants of Aixin Jueluo, even the Jade Emperor of the sky came down, and if he didn't give silver, he still couldn't understand a word." This is also strange, you say that he is a person, the Queen Mother dares to use it. ”

"If someone sits in the right position, of course the Queen Mother wants to use him," Xie Daoyong said: "I advise the Duke of the Kingdom to weigh it, in your request for constitutionalism, have you explained to the Queen Mother and her old man that this constitution will never hinder her old man in the slightest." ”

Zai Zehu looked at him suspiciously: "You can be clear." ”

Xie Daoyong sighed: "I mean, you have to convince the Queen Mother that the purpose of this constitution is to perpetuate the throne." ”

Zai Ze said: "This is natural, if it weren't for the love of Xinjueluo's country, why toss such a big circle, this truth, I don't say that the Queen Mother can understand." ”

Xie Daoyong said: "How can you not say it? You have to say it, and you have to tell the Empress Dowager clearly, let her give up her administrative power, for the sake of the eternal throne, for the Qing Dynasty to remain unchanged for ten thousand years." He leaned in towards Zai Ze and lowered his voice: "The Queen Mother is only afraid that the Qing Dynasty is in her hands, and you are doing something to make up for the dead at this time, and you have to let her know that it is all for her good." ”

Zai Ze thought about it, got up and went to the bookcase to take a good fold and handed it to Xie Daoyong: "I plan to hand over this fold tomorrow, you see, there is anything wrong, I will revise it together." ”

Xie Daoyong was not polite, reached out and took the fold, and lowered his head to flip through it. Zai Ze was silent for a while, and then said: "The southern Sun thieves are getting more and more excessive, do you know about this?"

Xie Daoyong replied absentmindedly: "When is he not excessive? It's just that no one pays attention to it when it's not excessive." ”

Zai Ze said gloomily: "I heard that I once bought guns from Japan. ”

Xie Daoyong heard this, raised his head and stared at Zai Ze's eyes and said, "What, do you suspect that I have a heart for the country?"

Zai Ze hurriedly said: "No, Zhiheng, I know your difficulties, if you want to do something under Lao Qing's hands, it is really more difficult than ascending to the sky." ”

"It's good that Guogong can be considerate," Xie Daoyong finished reading the excerpt, and put it together on the desk: "Now that the head of the Qingna company is pressing, I can't help you in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs." Your excerpt can be summed up as nothing more than the gradual lightening of external troubles and the remedy of internal strife, plus the permanent establishment of the throne that I just mentioned, all of them are ready, not to mention that the Queen Mother ordered you to go abroad to investigate, then this constitutional matter, she should accept it in her heart. There's only a little left, Li Lianying, have you done it?"

"I only gave Xiao Dezhang silver," Zai Ze said hatefully: "With Li Lianying's appetite, I will take the entire Guogong Mansion as well, and I will not be satisfied." ”

Xie Daoyong nodded slightly: "I can't take Li Lianying, it's good to have a good relationship with Xiaode Zhang." He paused and said meaningfully: "Yin Ping, you are still very young. ”

Zai Ze understood what he meant, his eyes narrowed, and his heart jumped suddenly, of course he understood the meaning of this sentence, he was still young, but Li Lianying was already half a hundred......

Zai Ze froze, took the fold and pressed it to his chest, and said with a smile: "What you said is good." ”

Xie Daoyong nodded, took a puff of cigarette, spit out curling smoke, and said, "I brought my nephews and nieces here, and I plan to send them out to stay abroad and learn something new, do you have anything to do?"

Zai Ze came to the spirit and said with a smile: "I can't hide it, I went abroad this time, although it is called to investigate the constitution, but the actual scope of the investigation is very wide, and basically all walks of life are involved. ”

Xie Daoyong frowned: "Military school?"

"The Queen Mother now relies on Yuan Shikai, and the new army is trained by him. But to tell you the truth, I don't feel at ease with this person," Zai Ze said: "If you can send the son of the family out to study in a military academy, after returning to China, I will personally play a military and allocate an army to him, so that he can train our own soldiers for us." ”

Xie Daoyong said slowly: "The people of the world are nothing more than virtuous and talented, Yuan Xiangcheng is a talented person, and what the Qing Dynasty lacks now is talent, and the Queen Mother naturally wants to reuse him." ”

Zai Ze nodded: "Cultivate Gongzi into a talented person, and the Qing Dynasty will also reuse him." Zhiheng, I know a person in Beijing, a British woman living in China, if you don't dislike it, I will recommend her to go to the house tomorrow to teach the son and the eldest lady to learn foreign languages. ”

Xie Daoyong looked at him and smiled slightly: "Then I will thank Grandpa Guo first." ”

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Lao Qing: Prince Qing Aixin Jueluo Yixuan, in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) Jiashen Yishu took over as the prime minister of national affairs and ministers, presided over foreign affairs, and then was reused, and was a very popular minister.

Qingna Company: Aixin Jueluo Yixuan and Yehenala Natong teamed up to cover the sky and sell official beards, which was called "Qingna Company".

Aisin Jueluo Zaize: The head of the five ministers who went abroad in the late Qing Dynasty, an enlightened royal family inclined to reform, there is a "Petition for the Announcement of the Constitution".

Li Wenzhonggong: Li Hongzhang, the head of the Westernization faction in the late Qing Dynasty, everyone made this.

Prince Gongzhong: Prince Gong Aixin Jueluo Yixun supported Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and others in the Westernization Movement, and was the actual initiator and escort of the Westernization Movement.