Ren Yu'er was very busy, so she got up at dawn to wash and eat, then changed into the clothes of a foreigner woman, and took the little girl Lian'er to study in a carriage to the women's school run by American missionaries.

The concession was mixed, and the director of the Sichuan Hall was worried that something would happen to them, so he asked two guys to escort them all the way every day.

Although there were two men guarding them, as soon as the carriage drove out of the alley, it was surrounded by a group of wild children who did not know where they came from, chasing and even stopping them to beg for money. Ren Yu'er asked Lian'er to throw a handful of copper plates out of the car as usual, and those wild children couldn't care about chasing them anymore, so they immediately rushed to grab them.

Xi Zizi, who grabbed the money, took it to buy something to eat, and those who didn't grab it scolded and even spat at the carriage that had gone away, and could vaguely hear that they were scolding Ren Yuer for being a shameless woman and a fake foreign woman!

Yu Sangu stood on the terrace on the second floor and looked sad, tears welling up in her eyes.

Yu Qinghuai stood at the entrance of the alley thoughtfully, and was silent for a while before sighing lightly: "Why is she so troubled." ”

Su Jueming was not surprised in the morning, and bowed down and said, "Master Yu, I happen to have nothing to do today, so I will accompany you to visit the Ten Mile Ocean Market first." I've already sent someone to report to Master Zhou, but I don't know if he's in the city or in Fengxian's side. He would be very happy to know that you were coming, and he would definitely send someone to invite you to the county seat to catch up on the old days. ”

Since he came, he naturally wanted to pay a visit to Zhou Xingyuan, who adhered to Wanfu Bridge together.

However, Yu Qinghuai didn't want to visit friends at this time, so he couldn't help asking: "Jueming, although this is a foreigner's concession, the people in the concession are just as respectful as foreigners." Yu'er went to a women's school run by foreigners to study, and even wore foreigners' clothes to socialize with foreigners, and she always swaggered through the market like this, it would be fine, right? ”

"You can rest assured that she and Lian'er will be fine."

"You didn't see it just now, why won't it be okay?"

"You mean those undisciplined wild children, they just want to ask for some money, and they won't and don't dare to go wild. And the two brothers who escorted her and Lian'er to the girls' school were not ordinary guys, including Director Liu of the guild hall and Lao Qian of the porter, who turned out to be the general manager of the green camp and even the general manager of Qian, who served under Xue Futai, Liu Futai and Hu Titai, and even killed Changmao, how could they be afraid of a group of little deflated three. ”

"Since they are military attachés of the Green Battalion, why don't they go to the front of the battle to serve?" Yu Qinghuai asked puzzled.

Su Jueming explained with a smile: "They were injured when they attacked the county town of Shanghai before, and there was a shortage of doctors and medicines in the camp, so if they were allowed to stay in the camp, they would be allowed to wait for death." The fourth master remembered that they were all fellow villagers in Sichuan, so he took them to the hall and asked Langzhong and even foreign doctors to help with treatment. I don't know if they don't want to fight anymore, or if they want to repay the fourth master's life-saving grace, they will stay in the hall after recovering from their injuries, and now they are even more at the mercy of Miss Ren, after all, Miss Ren is the fourth master's righteous sister. ”

"So Yu'er really helped the fourth master run the house in Shanghai?"

"Yes, everyone in the hall now calls her aunt and grandmother." Su Jueming smiled and said, "Lan Weiwen's Dao platform is actually nursing, and he was originally an alternate prefect. The previous Daotai surname, called Zhao Dezhe, was born in Jinshi, and saw that Miss Ren always showed her head like this, and even went in and out of the consulate of foreigners, how unpleasant it was, it was said that she planned to fold the bullet and impeach, but was persuaded by his friends. ”

"It's all alarming the platform!"

"Shanghai is so big, as long as there is something, it will be known to everyone."

Thinking that those local gentry would look at Ren Yu'er unpleasantly like Zhao Dezhe, Yu Qinghuai stared at him and asked, "People are terrible, why don't you persuade her?" ”

"Master Yu, you can rest assured, Miss Ren will really be fine. Think about it, her father was martyred, she was a lonely woman in Shanghai, and she was not an official of the imperial court, if anyone embarrassed her, she would bully her, and she would be laughed at. ”

"Just aren't you worried about people using this to impeach the fourth master?"

"The righteous sister is the righteous sister after all, and she is not her own sister, the fourth master thinks that she is a righteous sister is to pity her, and the fourth master is now far away in his hometown in Sichuan, Ding is worried, and he can't control her if he wants to use this article to make the fourth master, he will also be ridiculed. Anyway, Miss Ren is now taboo-free, at least in Shanghai, no one dares to bully her. ”

"What about foreigners?"

"Foreigners don't know how good it is, she doesn't know how good it is with Mrs. Grande, the wife of Citi Missionary Richmond, and she knows a lot of wives and young ladies of foreign businessmen, and the Citi Consulate invites her every time she has a ball, and the English and French consulates sometimes invite her, in the eyes of foreigners, our little aunt and grandmother are the most reasonable official ladies in the Qing Dynasty, and some foreigners are even proud to recognize her or be able to invite her."

"Foreigners value her very much?" Yu Qinghuai felt a little unbelievable.

Su Jueming also didn't expect things to develop like this, and while accompanying Yu Qinghuai to the Bund, he said with a wry smile: "Foreigners like to be lively, and invite friends to have afternoon tea almost every day. And foreigners like to compare, others have our little aunt and grandmother, but you don't, you will feel very shameless. And Shanghai is close to the few officials of the imperial court, and other official ladies do not go out of the door on weekdays, and they can't invite other official ladies, so our little aunt and grandmother don't know how popular they are among foreigners, in the words of foreigners, this is social. ”

"Social...... with foreigners, I think it's **! ”

"Don't talk about that, the pastry shop in front of me makes good pastries, I'll accompany you to try them."

……

Yu Qinghuai racked her brains and couldn't understand why Ren Yuer, who was born in a scholarly family, wanted to give up her most precious name to socialize with foreigners. In fact, Ren Yu'er's hard work was not in vain, not only did Wen Qing, the minister of military aircraft, know that there is such a strange woman, but even the emperor knows about it, because the most secret feelings in the past six months have been found by her deep into the tiger's den!

I only knew that the two Yi fought against the Russians in a place called Crimea, but as for why the fight started and how the war was fought, because there was too little information to collect, I have not been able to say why.

As more and more news grows, the context of this battle is becoming clearer and clearer.

For this reason, Wen Xiang specially asked Wang Naizeng and Qingxian to help draw up an excerpt, and made a special trip to the Old Summer Palace to hand over the sign and ask to see him. However, the emperor didn't seem interested in this, and after listening to it for a while, he became a little impatient.

Wen Xiang hurriedly said: "The slave just received an urgent report from the Shanghai branch at noon yesterday, and it has been verified that the Russians can no longer fight, and they have sued for peace with the British and Foshan, and signed a peace treaty in the capital of Foyi, Paris. In this battle, more than 520,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the Russians, nearly 100,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in the Turks, more than 95,000 were killed and wounded in the Foyi, and 100,000 were killed and wounded in the Yingyi, costing countless money and food! ”

Russia actually made peace, Xianfeng felt very uncomfortable, and was silent for a while before saying coldly: "How can there be immortals in war." ”

"The emperor is right, the minions also know that the Russians have lost this battle unjustly."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Because in this battle, the Yingfo Eryi soldiers bravely used a new type of firebird gun, and the slave ordered Xin'an to get a few rods, which was really different from the previous firebird gun, the barrel was engraved with rifling, and the lead was also specially made, not only far, but also accurate."

Wen Xiang raised his head and peeked at it, and said cautiously: "In addition, most of the Russian gunboats are old-style sailing ships, and they all depend on the direction of the wind regardless of advance or retreat, while the Yingfo Eryi sent a number of steam gunboats, and the attack and defense do not need to rely on the wind, so that the Russian sailors have no power to fight back; In addition, the two Yi used a device called a telegraph to give orders, and no matter how far away the commander was from the front of the battle, he could order the battalions to respond instantly. ”

"What the hell is this telegraph?" Xianfeng asked subconsciously.

Wen Xiang hurriedly said: "The slave hasn't seen it either, the slave is trying to find a way to see if he can find one and present it to the emperor as soon as possible." ”

Prince Zheng Duanhua, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but ask: "No matter how far away it is, it can also deliver the news, and in an instant?" ”

"Lord Wang, exactly."

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks that this thing is ominous, and the slave estimates that the foreign devil must have used some kind of spell to make the ghost of the Yin soldier pass the news, otherwise how could it be so fast!"

Xianfeng felt that Duanhua's words had some truth, and raised his head and said: "If something is abnormal, it must be a demon, since this thing is ominous, there is no need to sacrifice." ”

Wen Xiang couldn't regret it, and secretly thought that he knew that Prince Zheng was here, and he shouldn't have handed over the sign to ask to see him today, but when he saw that the emperor had spoken, he could only stubbornly say: "Huh! ”

Xianfeng was not interested in the telegraph, but only wanted to know whether the Yingfo Eryi would start a war with the Qing Dynasty, and asked with a gloomy face: "How many soldiers are there in Hong Kong, Xiamen, and Shanghai?" ”

"Your Majesty, as of the eighth day of this month, Hong Kong has 700 soldiers, three warships, and more than 1,300 brave people; There is a warship in Xiamen, and there are 72 soldiers; Fuzhou and Ningbo had neither soldiers nor warships; There were four warships in Shanghai, 428 soldiers, and more than 820 foreign spear teams organized by foreign merchants and expatriates gathered by Xiyi. However, as far as the minions know, the Yi chief Bao Ling has asked his court to increase troops in our Qing Dynasty. ”

"Kneel down, after you go back, you will inquire carefully, and report any movement in time."

"Huh!"

As soon as Wen Xiang bowed down and exited the main hall, Prince Zheng Duanhua smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Yingyi is 108,000 miles away from my Qing Dynasty, how can it be so easy to increase troops, the slave thinks that there is no need to worry about this." ”

Thinking that Yingfo and the others didn't have many soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng got up and sighed: "Wenxiang did a good job, and Han Si really played the right person when he returned home." It's just that this Han Si is too unconscionable, knowing that I am at the time of employing people, he actually said, 'In the midst of decay, I dare not obey the edict', I get angry when I think about it! ”

Prince Zheng Duanhua always thought that Han Si was the person of his younger brother Su Shun, and hurriedly said: "The emperor is angry, and it is understandable that the slave thinks that Han Si does not obey the edict." If you want to talk about the holy family, the holy family of Li Guangdi in the Kangxi Dynasty Enlong, Kangxi served as a military squire in the 33rd year and supervised Shuntian Xuezheng, and was 'taken away' by Kangxi Ye when his mother was mourned, and later changed to leave for nine months to return to his hometown for funeral, and Kangxi Ye was not gracious.

As a result, he was attacked by Han Zhan Kedao, impeaching him for his self-professed practice of science on weekdays, but in the matter of filial piety, he was unethical, impeaching him for being 'greedy and cunning' and 'treacherous'. Kangxi Ye saw that he was widely implicated, so he could only dismiss him. Even Li Guangdi ended up like this, not to mention that he was born as a donor? ”

Xianfeng said hatefully: "It's really not enough to succeed and more than to lose!" ”

How could Prince Zheng Duanhua not know that the emperor was talking about those imperial historians, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it and bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, although Han Si is worried in the township, his righteous sister is still working for the imperial court. As far as the slave knows, his righteous sister was born in a family of eunuchs and has read sages since she was a child, so how could she not care about her own name? But she still went deep into the tiger's den without hesitation to find out the situation, as the so-called women do not let the eyebrows be shaved. ”

"Well, I also heard Wen Xiang say," Xianfeng weighed it for a while, and then turned around and said: "Didn't her father martyr, posthumously presented her father as a Fengzhi doctor, and gave her mother five pleasant products, and her younger brother was imprisoned to study when he became an adult, and the term of office expired as a candidate!" ”

"The emperor is benevolent, and the emperor is sage."

"She is also a poor person, she has no father or mother, and she meets such a ruthless brother as Han Si, she is really unladylike."

"Your Majesty, as far as the minions know, this matter really doesn't have much to do with Han Si......"

"It doesn't matter, since he took in others and recognized them as righteous sisters, he should be a good brother. But he was so good that he pushed people into the fire pit! Although Xianfeng said this, he was thinking about this kind of thing in his heart, that strange woman was much more reliable than those civil and military officials sent by the "Houyi Hall", and the court was in an eventful season, so he could only let that strange woman continue to investigate.