In the midst of a group of foreigners dressed in all kinds of nineteenth-century military uniforms, my iron-gray red military coat was not too unusual, in fact, I was more suitable for dressing here than with a bunch of well-dressed beasts with peacock feathers on their heads (the complements of Qing court officials were literary and martial beasts). Although there are large pieces of the chest of the foreigner with a tall chest, my World War II Wehrmacht-style military coat is simple but not simple. The eagle emblem on his chest and left arm has also been retained, but the swastika in it is correct. Without a military rank, I had to decorate the epaulettes and collar badges with a gold embroidered background, on which a red jewel star was pinned, symbolizing that my crown had officially entered the provincial and ministerial civil servants of the Qing Dynasty.

It all started a month ago, when Galeries Lafayette was stationed in Dongchang Mansion. At that time, the army of the four Qinwang gathered in the small county town of Huailai, but it was less than 100 miles away from the Beijing Division, which was really not very safe. So Lafayette made a decision, and the army listened to the order and set off on a parade. However, the historical Cixi West Hunt did not come as promised, but decided to go all the way to the south to inspect, through Baoding Mansion to the east, roundabout, when the dust settled in the city of Beijing, my two detachments plus thousands of Qinwang's Wuwei Right Army, Shanxi Green Battalion, Mongolian Eight Banners escorted Lafayette and his party to Linqing Prefecture on the edge of the canal, in order to avoid being too close to the canal by the coalition forces that got the news along the south of the river, Lafayette decided to go east for another hundred and ten miles, and finally stationed in Dongchang Mansion. Hearing the news sent by Lord Ben who played the front station, I thought that the Dongchang prefect would be pleasantly surprised, but I didn't expect the Dongchang prefect to faint directly. After waking up, this old brother Liu snorted and cried to me, the boss who had not yet taken office (Shandong Bu political envoy) complained bitterly, I was really afraid that the reception of the small mansion and small county would not be good Lafayette and the masters in the palace, and it was hard to say that the official hat would not change when the time came, and the shoes would only be a few sizes smaller. I can't conjure up a palace, although Dongchang Mansion was originally surrounded by lakes on all sides, which can be called the water city of Jiangbei, but unfortunately the land is barren and poor, there is a lack of large households, and there is not even a decent garden, and the local high-end atmosphere and high-grade hotel Kuixing Pavilion was lit by someone when there were boxers at the beginning of the year, and even the owner brought a few spoons to know the whereabouts. The hardware conditions are limited, and it is difficult for me, a clever daughter-in-law who has just taken charge. Thanks to Liu Zhifu before applying to the Jinan Chamber of Commerce to open a branch of the Grand View Garden, now the hotel part has been built, although it is only a three-story wire frame concrete building, 32 rooms are really small and pitiful, the future generations of home 7 days is estimated to not even bother to look at it, but now there is no choice, fortunately the building has been renovated inside and outside. The standard room inside is enough, just to entertain the nobles in the palace. One day is enough time to change the only four business suites, and the eight immortal tables, a few bookcases, brocade embroidery beds, etc. are equipped with a room, anyway, this time only to make up the number is not particular. Coupled with the requisitioned several houses near the lake, the temporary residence was finally right. Sent three classes of officials to arrest the famous chefs from Linqingzhou, Gaotang Mansion, Dong'e County and other places, without my reminder, Liu's parents searched for all the famous doctors nearby, and the nobles in distress inevitably had a headache and brain fever, and when the time came, it was even if they were caught blind, they would be able to explain their future. As for the plaque at the main entrance of the hotel that has not opened, I had an idea and let people hang a blank plaque on it. Leaving one of Lao Wei's detachments on guard, I rushed back to Linqingzhou with Qi Xiaofu and Du Niang and Pegasus, preparing to act with Luan Jia tomorrow and drive to Dongchang Mansion.

After riding a horse for a day, I thought about it for Liu's parents, and one day the water and rice didn't get my teeth, and I was going to sleep after drinking a bowl of beef noodles, and suddenly remembered the distribution of the room, and I couldn't grunt up, and I was bothered by my new brother late at night. Li Lianying, the chief manager of Li asked me to take it out of the bed, and when I heard my question, the chief manager couldn't help but laugh, "I said Brother Chenxuan, you have been wolf for a day, and you still slipped out of the old brother in the middle of the night just to arrange the room?" Don't worry, the people in the palace can still distinguish between high and low, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"That's in the palace, this is Lafayette's head back to my Shandong territory, your brother also knows that I am a businessman, the rules of this government are half-understood, the rules in the palace are even bigger, in case of a nose is not a nose and eyes are not eyes, let my parents who have not yet taken office have more rice on it."

"Shandong is also the Great Qing Dynasty, it is nothing more than a matter of the main house and the east and west rooms, and it can be wrong. Ah, hash, you can spare my brother, I'm about to fall apart along the way, and I still have to serve my master. ”

"Well, one last question, no one dares to live on top of Lafayette's head when he lives in a building on weekdays, right?"

I found out that Mr. Li was also a martial arts master, and as soon as he pulled me into the house, he closed the door with his backhand, and opened a crack, and after looking left and right, he stabilized his mind before he spoke, "Dut, what are you talking about, this is a big disrespect." If you want people to hear it, I have to eat melons with my brother. Who dares to be so rebellious? ”

"This, tomorrow, the line of Dongchang Mansion is the Grand View Garden Business Hotel, which is a business that our family has just built and has not opened. This is a three-story Western-style building, Galeries Lafayette's suite is on the second floor, and there are a few rooms on this upstairs. ”

"Western-style buildings are not easy to regulate, so I'll look at the house first tomorrow and then decide. Your brother should also be careful, don't be like this. Lafayette's room naturally can't be arranged, and I have someone to arrange other trivial things, so you and the local place can listen to the people in charge of Liu. That is, the two of us fell in love, but the elder brother only said two sentences to you. ”

"That's that, brother, please rest in peace. By the way, this has a gold watch from my own factory, and there is a timing function, which is much lighter than the horseshoe alarm clock, and the sound is not noisy, and it is not delayed at all when serving the master. ”

"Well, if you want to talk about it, it's fate. Yes, the things in your factory, the last time the steward Liu also paid homage, but it is still this exquisite, with a wrist, raised his hand and looked at the hour, and the provincial buckle and rope were pulled. Okay, you relax and sleep, master, I'll go back, and my brother will sell your old face for you again, and I won't let you sit on wax. Manager Li, who brought the gold watch, was also so happy that he couldn't see his teeth, and he raised his wrist to look at the watch twice in a few words. Seeing that this master was satisfied, I also breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there was Manager Li in front of him, and there would be no big basket in terms of driving.

In the next 20 days, the Dongchang Mansion was almost demolished, making chickens and dogs jumping, and the sky was angry and resentful. Cixi is still good to serve, after all, there are a lot of fresh things and food, and there is the care of General Manager Li, and for a while I will not pick my reason from the degree of food and clothing, but the group of turtle grandsons who came with them are arrogant, and finally got out of Sijiu City, and when they arrived in the locality, they were all "three levels of official and two generations of people". Fortunately, there were no eggs one by one, which allowed the big girl and little daughter-in-law of Dongchang Mansion to be saved, but the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep around here were killed. "According to the promoter of our insurance group, "What comes out of this palace is powerful, the land is cleaner than locusts, and the monks and nuns of Dongchang Mansion should be happy, why, the whole city has changed to vegetarianism." ”

Regardless of these, anyway, under the arrangement of the general manager, Lafayette seems to be in a good mood, and specially inscribed the name of my hotel "Qing Yaju", no way, the world is big, the Qing Dynasty will be the largest Lafayette in the next seven or eight years, my chain hotel had to be renamed "Qing Ya chain hotel" and even the word business travel was forced to delete because it could not be juxtaposed with the inscription of Galeries Lafayette. At this time, Lafayette, who has been stationed in the old German palace on the shore of Daming Lake, did not rush to find Mama Rong on the shore of Daming Lake, but was swimming in the lake to enjoy the scenery, comfortable and leisurely, of course, these are the scenes in the eyes of outsiders, but from the mouth of General Manager Li, Lafayette is not worried about the Eight-Nation Alliance in the capital, anyway, the left and right are just to pay money to cut the land and open the port, there is always a time to negotiate, but the "Southeast Mutual Insurance" is nominally patriotic Baoqing, in essence, Hanchen is digging the life of the Qing Dynasty, everyone knows this "Southeast Mutual Insurance" If the five major governors involved, Liangjiang, Liangguang, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, and the whole of South China become independent, even if the tax burden of the Great Qing Dynasty and more than 70% of the rations are explained, if they do not disperse immediately, they will have to return to their original form, which will cost the lives of three million Manchurians. Now it seems that "it is better to give foreigners than domestic slaves" is still reasonable, 350,000 foreign soldiers occupy a Beijing division, even if it is a top of the sky, even if it is a city of 100 children and 80 children, he can't control it, but the Hanchen in the south each holds a knife handle in one hand and a money bag in the other, and if one does not deal with the Manchus, it will be a disaster of extinction of the race. Cixi is worried, Chief Manager Li is naturally anxious in his eyes, there are not a few people in the Manchurian, Ronglu is still eating donkey meat in Baoding, the devil and the sixth master have followed the first emperor, and the rest are busy, but Prince Qing Yixuan came from the capital the day before yesterday, and brought out a few cars of treasures in the palace, which can be regarded as a capable master. So Chief Manager Li accompanied him and carefully recommended Prince Qing, Cixi was also calm on the surface, but panicked in her heart, and wanted to discuss with her own people, so she summoned Yi Liang at Qiuliu's house.

Cixi and General Manager Li never expected that this Prince Qing, who was looking for Lafayette for thousands of miles, was actually picked up by me, and how could he have the ability to bring out a few carts of treasures, all of which were the harvest of my two detachments in Beijing in one night, but it was just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha. But this performance was an opportunity for Cixi to make up her mind to establish a new army of martial arts, and it was also an important node in history, but the three participants at that time did not realize that from then on, the national glory of the Great Qing Kingdom could be regarded as entering the countdown. As for why the content of Cixi's secret talk can affect the trend of history, let's listen to the next breakdown.