The place where the king summoned Wall and Forrest naturally could not be in the military aircraft in the palace, and it was not suitable to be placed in the palace.

Wall is the commander of the rank and wears the title of the first rank, Forrest is the rank of general soldier, and the top of the second rank, and both of them are the ones who have been rewarded with the title of "Baturu". In order to show his grandeur, King Gong put a lot of pomp on this day, and the eunuchs and guards of the palace lined up from under the plaque of "Chinese and Foreign Blessings" in the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen to the courtyard where he was doing business.

Among them, there is also a faint meaning to the two newly naturalized foreign devils, laying out the prestige of my Chinese state.

Guan Zhuofan personally accompanied Wall and Forrestal, walked outside Prince Gong's room of the chief minister, and explained in a very small voice.

"Your surname is Hua, and your surname is Fu," he admonished, "this is the Haode written in the edict, don't forget it." ”

After giving an explanation, he took a few steps back, watched them enter the house, and listened to them sign up for the salute, and then withdrew from the courtyard with confidence.

On the way home, I was silently thinking in the sedan chair, wondering if Wall and Forrest should deal with it properly when they were summoned, and whether they could say everything they had taught them. The desire to gain and lose was even stronger than when I met him, and it was not until I got off the sedan chair at the door of my house and walked into the inner courtyard that I put this thought aside for the time being.

"Shuangshuang," he saw Bai Shi coming out, and simply took her hand, hugged her into the main room, and gently touched her waist, "Didn't you sleep last night?" ”

"I don't know how good I sleep!" Bai Shi hurriedly opened his restless hand. She is still the old rule, Guan Zhuofan is not allowed to have crooked thoughts during the day, for fear that it will not be good for him.

"Hmm." Guan Zhuofan smiled and let go: "Shuangshuang." The newly bought house. Please take out the deed for me. ”

A newly bought house is also in this alley, diagonally opposite the Guan family's mansion, about two houses in the middle, and it is a new courtyard with three entrances. Guan Zhuofan took a fancy to it, and specially confessed to Tubo and ordered it at a high price.

Bai opened the safe and took out two pieces of paper. smiled and handed it to Guan Zhuofan. Guan Zhuofan glanced at it and nodded.

"You come with me."

The two of them went out of the inner courtyard and came to the main hall to sit, Guan Zhuofan raised his voice and called Tuber in.

"Tuber," he asked, placing the deed in his hand on the table, "the house, all done?" ”

"Yes, as the master commanded. It's all done. ”

After Tuber finished speaking, he was like Bai. Also with a smile on his face. This lord took a concubine in Shanghai, and the family treated it as a happy event. Now it seems that when I return to Beijing in the future, I will not live together, and the newly bought house is naturally prepared for my aunt and grandmother. However, he didn't say anything, and the two naturally didn't reveal it.

"What's in there? All ready? Guan Zhuofan stared very carefully.

"Don't worry, you won't miss a thing, you can live in it." "Even the butler has been found." The wife said that the other maids and mothers, when they want to live, can dial over from here first. ”

Guan Zhuofan glanced at Bai Shi with a smile, turned his head to Tubo and said, "Okay, ask Tulin to come here." ”

When Thurin hurriedly followed his father in, Guan Zhuofan looked him up and down and spoke.

"Túrin, when did we get to Rehe?"

"If you go back to your grandfather, it will be October of the tenth year of Xianfeng."

"Well, it's been three years since then." Guan Zhuofan said slowly, "In the past three years, you have been by my side in the wind and rain, even in the blood and fire." As for me, I've never given you anything good, and this time, my wife can't see it. ”

After speaking, he gently pushed the deed on the table forward, and said with a smile: "This house, your father has already purchased it for you." Today is the wife's decision, rewarding you. ”

At this moment, the three of them were taken aback - Bai did not expect that he had purchased this new house as a reward for Turin, and Tuber was even more trembling with his hands, his lips moving, and he couldn't say a word.

Only Túrin, blushing, hesitated for a long time, and knelt forward.

"Mrs. Thurinchet's reward!"

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The next day, when Guan Zhuofan entered the palace on duty, he held a large roll of paper in his left hand, but he held a strange-shaped ball in his right hand.

"Master Guan," the military academy guarding the door asked with a smiling face, "You are ...... What is it? ”

"This is something to be shown to the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces."

"This ......"

The military academy made a mistake - this strange thing, I haven't seen it, I can't tell if it is forbidden or not, and I put it in rashly, for fear of eating and hanging. But if it is said that he is stopped and not allowed to enter, this Guan Hou Ye is a big celebrity, and if he offends him, it will not be counted.

While he was hesitating, the eunuch sent by Anderhead to pick up something came out.

"The Queen Mother has ordered, let the things be brought in."

That's not enough. The little eunuch took the two things in Guan Zhuofan's hand and went in by himself. Guan Zhuofan smiled and nodded at the military academy, and followed in.

On duty as usual in the morning, a little after ten o'clock, there were eunuchs to deliver the decree as usual, and Fang Zhai Hall gave a banquet!

This is a thing that I know, and when I arrived at Fang Zhai Hall, I saw two things I had brought and placed them on a small table next to the imperial dining table. As soon as the queen mother of the two palaces arrived, King Alcohol and Guan Zhuofan saluted, and then sat down to eat.

Today's meal was eaten very quickly, because what I want to say cannot be said during the meal.

After the two queen dowagers wiped their mouths with handkerchiefs and passed mouthwash, two eunuchs carried the small table to the imperial case.

"Guan Zhuofan, this is what you said, the foreigner's ...... Earth...... ...... Land"

"Empress Dowager Qi, it's a globe."

"That's right, Globe." Ci'an and Cixi both looked at the ball in front of them with suspicious eyes.

It is very difficult to tell the truth about this shijie for these two young widows. Although Guan Zhuofan has made enough mental preparations, when he sees their eyes, he can't help but beat a drum in his heart - has he gone too far?

He bowed slightly, stood beside the small table, and gently turned the globe.

"Foreigners say this is China." He kept a careful eye, pointed to the area on the globe, and crowned his words with the words "foreigners say".

The two queen mothers nodded hesitantly, but were silent.

"Foreigners say this is the United States." He turned the American continent up, pointing.

"Isn't China going down?" Cixi frowned slightly.

Guan Zhuofan was shocked, and hurriedly turned China up again: "If you go back to the Queen Mother, China was originally on top, and the minister is to make it convenient for the Queen Mother to see ......"

"That's not right," Cixi shook her head, "The Kyushu Continent, as far as the eye can see, how can it be on a ball?" ”

"Yes," the Empress Dowager Ci'an also spoke, "We live on top, that's okay, the foreign devils live below, isn't it big head down, all down?" ”

"Maybe the foreign devil has practiced a kung fu of walking with his head down, but I don't know," Guan Zhuofan said in despair......

"No." The empress dowager of the two palaces shook her head together, and Cixi even remembered something, and said: "When Qianlong Ye was a foreign priest, it seems that he had entered this thing, and later asked Qianlong Ye to lock it in the treasury of the Internal Affairs Office, and he was not allowed to see it. It can be seen that this globe of foreigners is very ridiculous. ”

I had no choice but to decisively take a black foreign devil and try to get out first.

"The Queen Mother is really a saint, everything is in the insight!" Seeing the sweat on his forehead, he bowed down and said, "This thing is really not credible, please lock it in the treasury as well, so that the poison will not spread." The minister also has a map made by ourselves for the queen mother to see. ”

The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces was very pleased with her wisdom, and when she heard that there was "a map of her own, she asked the eunuch to remove the globe and look at the large map unfolded on the small table."

Guan Zhuofan even called luck, and said in his heart that he was fortunate to have a back hand, and brought this map into the palace.

This map, which he specially commissioned Libin to produce at the Mohai Printing House, is really "his own map", putting China in the middle.

"This is China," said now, with a sense of confidence, "here is the United States, here is England, this is France." ”

"That's right," Empress Dowager Ci'an said with satisfaction when she saw that the countries of the foreign devils were all shrunk in the corners.

Cixi, on the other hand, was looking at the map carefully, especially comparing Britain and France with China.

"Britain and France are so small, but the United States is quite big." She looked up and asked Guan Zhuofan, "But they are far away from us." ”

"Yes. It takes two months to get to the UK by boat and more than a month to the US. ”

"The British hate it the most," Cixi nodded, "last time you said that the British burned down the capital of the United States?" ”

"Yes, the capital of the United States, called Washington. The British went in by boat, lit a fire, and burned it for three days and three nights. ”

Cixi was silent. The burning of the Old Summer Palace by the British and French forces was the most painful memory in her life, and now she heard that the capital of the United States was also burned by the British, and for a while she had the same hatred for the enemy.

"And it's not just the United States." Guan Zhuofan pointed around the map with his hand, "These places have been occupied by the British." ”

"British...... How can it be so powerful? ”

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, Britain is very strong now. But if these places that have been bullied by him can't get along with him together, then he can't stand it. ”

"What this means is that a good man needs three gangs." Cixi thought so, "No matter how strong Britain is, it is only one country, how can it provoke all countries on its own." ”

Guan Zhuofan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that forty years later, he resolutely declared war on all nations, I don't know which one?

*(To be continued......)