The senior concubine glanced at Li Yansheng deeply, "Does the kingdom want to hold the king of Vietnam hostage?" ”

"Concubine Xueniang looks down on China again," Li Yansheng shook his head and smiled, "Lord Shoufu never asks about this, and he doesn't even ask how Emperor Heide died." ”

The concubine's cold hair exploded, she sat down on the chair, and stammered, "What do you mean, the first emperor, is it China's hand?" ”

Li Yansheng avoided answering, "The two ends of Emperor De's head are really ridiculous, his behavior harmed Lord Ege to sacrifice his life for Vietnam, so he naturally has to pay the price, otherwise, the concubine didn't do it, would the queen dare to act like this?" ”

"What a powerful means," Concubine Xue said in horror, her face turned pale, and Li Yansheng's gentle voice was extraordinarily penetrated at this time, "Anyone who confronts China will not get a good end, Concubine Xue, you better understand this, in Vietnam, on the side of China, outside the Chinese, it will never be the turn of others to decide the fate of Vietnam." ”

"The concubine understands that the matter in Vietnam is over, and the concubine will let the king personally come to China to thank him to show his loyalty."

"That's very good," Li Yansheng nodded with satisfaction, at least on the surface he subdued this seemingly ambitious woman, "Concubine Niangniang, please go back to the palace, someone in the palace will help the mother, and when Lord Shoufu returns, presumably the current king can be replaced, and I will congratulate the queen mother in advance." ”

On the eighth day of the first month of September, the Double Ninth Festival is approaching, the Empress Dowager Cixi invited the envoys of various countries to drink and feast in the high mountains and rivers, here is the largest flat land in the Old Summer Palace, under the foot of the continuous green mountains in the distance, until the introduction building, the site of more than 1,000 square meters is flat and tidy, which is a large playground for the royal children and the garrison troops to practice martial arts. The introduction building is a west-facing two-storey building, with 9 rooms at the top and bottom; The front ring creek is embraced by Liangang, the middle terrain is flat, and the eaves hang the Qianlong imperial book "the mountain is high and the water is long". It's not as splendid as other places, it's just a simple house, and for the convenience of viewing, all the sides facing the west are opened, and even the pillars are very few, and the view is extremely open.

Originally, this place was a place to entertain Mongolian princes and foreign vassal personnel, but now that the world has changed, foreign envoys have also become people who must be entertained, so the envoys of Western countries have also been invited here, the second layer is naturally the throne of the Empress Dowager Cixi standing high in the middle, one side is the military cabinet ministers, etc., the other side is the envoys of Western countries, the bottom layer is the envoys of the vassal and the heads of various departments, the Mongolian princes in Beijing, etc., so full, but also full of people.

As soon as Prince Alcohol sat down, he heard the Empress Dowager Cixi smile at Prince Gong, "The emperor has not finished his homework today, and he is not free, so let's start." ”

"Huh." Gui Xianggong claimed that it was, clapped his hands, and saw the guards downstairs waving a red flag, and a few cannon sounds suddenly sounded in the sky, which scared Bao Jun a lot, the sun in September was still a little hot, Bao Jun was a big fat man, he sighed, wiped the sweat beads on his face with a handkerchief, "Why did you bring all the artillery into the garden?" Fortunately, the emperor is not here, otherwise he would have been scared. ”

Jing Lian shook his fan, no matter what the real power of the Minister of Military Aircraft is, the imperial front shift is still after the prince, the cabinet and the imperial minister, so there are still a few corridors away from the Empress Dowager Cixi in the middle, after a few cannons, many targets were erected at the foot of the mountain in the west, which is not for bombardment, the musketeers wearing gray systems lined up one by one, crackling towards those targets and shooting, leading to a burst of smoke and fire in front of the building, the smell of sulfur wafted far away, and there was some choking, Princess Rongshou, who was standing beside Cixi and waiting, couldn't help but cover her nose with a handkerchief, Jing Lian saw that the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't look this way, covered her mouth with a fan, and whispered, "This is left in the old year, there are no cannons, I'm afraid that the Queen Mother can't sleep at night, and I still know the severity of this time, so I didn't move the cannon out, but just fired a few cannons." ”

After a while, the musketeers finished shooting the target at fifty paces, and thirty targets were presented to the downstairs, without the soldiers reporting the target, the Queen Mother saw the dense muzzle on the target, nodded with satisfaction, and smiled at Prince Gong who was sitting on the side, "Fifty steps away, it is rare to shoot so accurately." ”

"What the Empress Dowager said was," Prince Gong said this and did not speak, just stared at the field, as if he was very interested in those tattered targets, the Empress Dowager Cixi smiled slightly, and the people who offered the targets retreated, followed by equestrianism, and saw that a very long and flat place in front of the building was used for horse racing.

French Ambassador Albert was in second place, sandwiched between British Ambassador Wade and German Ambassador Jonas, he looked at the cavalry wearing armor with disdain, and said disdainfully to Wade in French - he knew that Empress Dowager Cixi could speak English, and if she spoke English, she would probably be heard by this oriental woman, "These ridiculous Chinese, dressed in drama-like clothes, don't look like soldiers." ”

Wade touched his beard and smiled without saying a word, but Albert kept chattering, from the clothes of the cavalry, to their horses, to the ridiculous western sun, and finally it was the German ambassador Jonas who couldn't help it, "My God, Mr. Ambassador, can you stop talking first?" My ears are filled with your voice, and I can't even hear such a loud shout! He stopped picking.

The runway in front of the introduction building has long been drawn range, just around an oval runway for horse racing, except for the introduction of the middle section of the building is a straight runway, the rest of the place is arranged with puddles, rejection of horses, railings, and stakes, each place has requirements, to complete the corresponding actions can leave the obstacle, if you leave early will be judged a violation, leave directly, the cavalry wore yellow vests to salute, took off the horse coats, revealing the fit inside the gray army uniform vest with a number written on the identity of the identity, With their shiny riding boots on their feet and their horses on their horses, the knights galloped out like arrows, and in a moment they crossed the straight track in front of the leading building, and ran to the bend, ready to begin the other subjects.

Li Lianying quietly appeared beside the Empress Dowager Cixi, leaned on the Empress Dowager Cixi's ear and said something, a smile appeared on her face, nodded, and it didn't take long for the three laps of the race to be completed, and the soldier with a "seventeen" number written on the vest rode first to cross the key line and won the first place. (To be continued.) )