Eighteen years later.

On the border of the Daede Empire and the Beihai Kingdom, there was a bustling city.

The city has a population of more than 200,000 people, and it is Tongyuan Fort.

To the south of Tongyuanbao is Bukui, the second largest city in the northeast of the Great German Empire, with a population of more than 500,000.

From Tongyuan Fort to the northwest, you entered the territory of the Beihai Kingdom, and the first city you encountered was Shanghekou.

Starting from Shanghekou, there are two routes, water and land, which can lead to Pingyuan City, the capital of Beihai Kingdom.

Tongyuanbao is located in the middle of the prosperous trade road of Dade and Beihai, and has become an important transportation hub and business center.

"Dasanjiang" Hotel is the largest and most high-end hotel in Tongyuanbao, with accommodation, catering, car rental, horse rental and other businesses.

The owner of this hotel, who is in his sixties, is the most respected Liu Gengxin in Tongyuan Fort City.

The rise of this city is directly related to Liu Gengxin, and it is under his leadership that in the past 25 years, Tongyuanbao has developed from a deserted small mountain village to today's prosperous city.

However, when talking about these, Liu Gengxin never forgot to say the last sentence every time.

"This is not my credit, in fact, it is the credit of Jia Huaiyuan, the king of the North Sea. Twenty-five years ago, it was the King of the North Sea who defeated the Cossacks here and entered the North Sea, which began to have a prosperous starting point for Tongyuan Fort. ”

Many young people today no longer know what a Cossack is, because there have been no Cossacks here since more than twenty years ago.

In the past, Liu Gengxin would talk to them, but today he doesn't have time to talk about it. Because he is now accompanying some distinguished guests.

He also had to go with these guests to welcome more distinguished guests, and then go to Pingyuan City in Beihai with them to participate in the 100th birthday of Shi Taijun, the royal family of the Beihai Kingdom, and the 100-day banquet of the younger generation of the royal family, Jia Yan, the son of Jia Yan, the heir of the former Ning Guofu.

The 100th anniversary celebration of the ancestors of the Beihai royal family and the 100th anniversary celebration of the youngest generation were held on the same day.

It was a grand celebration of the six royal families, and the North Sea Kingdom began various celebrations a month ago.

Outside the Dasanjiang Hotel, a slight autumn breeze blows slowly, bringing a trace of coolness.

A group of people are standing here.

These people are all famous people in this land.

Ningguta general Zhao Dahai, Bukui governor Xu Mingtao, Fengtian Fu Yin Fengkui, Shak, Wadagas, and Simari in North Wendura, Temir, Romuge, and Kader in South Wendura.

There are also the great Zen master Baoyu and the lord of Tana from the Shuangfeng Temple of Luoyan Lake in North Wendu.

For the Wendura grasslands, three major events have happened this year.

The first is that the new emperor of Dade Zhao Qiancheng ascended the throne and pro-government, the second is that the Dade court set up a prefecture and county in the north and south Wendula grassland, and the third is that the Empress Chang'an of the Taishang Emperor visited the Wendula grassland to inspect.

Now these people are waiting for the Empress Chang'an, the Emperor of Great Virtue.

Empress Chang'an reigned for 18 years, diligent and loving the people, and worked hard, and now the Dade Empire is strong, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Empress Chang'an, who passed the throne to her son half a year ago, retired successfully.

This time I came to Tongyuan Fort to go to Beihai to participate in the royal celebration and reunite with my horse, Jia Huaiyuan, the king of Beihai.

A gong sounded, and a team of honor guards came in a hurry, and Liu Gengxin and others greeted them.

The middle-aged beauty in the middle who is graceful and luxurious, and has a good demeanor, is the Empress Chang'an, the Emperor of Great Virtue.

Next to him are Lichun, the head of the palace, and Yin Xiu, the former Shuntian Mansion who has retired.

The group knelt down and kowtowed, Chang'an dismounted, helped everyone up, and the two teams made one place, passed through Tongyuan Fort, and marched towards the territory of Beihai.

At the Beihai border, there are already people waiting to greet them, and the people who come are Jia Lian, the president of the Beihai Senate, Tamara, the wife of the king of Beihai, and Li Kun, the granddaughter of the royal family.

After greeting each other, the three teams formed a place and marched towards the mouth of the river.

In order to celebrate the 100th birthday of Shi Taijun, the ancestor of the royal family, and the 100th anniversary of the latest generation, the Government Council issued a decree that the national yamen would have a three-day holiday, officials at all levels would be given a month's allowance, and agricultural and industrial employers would give their employees one month of processing money, and merchants would be exempted from taxes for one month, so as to show that the royal family and the people were happy.

This day has become a day for the whole Beihai country to celebrate.

The Beihai Royal Palace is newly decorated, with lights and flowers everywhere.

The celebration was fully organized by the First Lady Xue Baochai, with the assistance of the ladies.

In terms of food and banquets, Wang Xifeng, the wife of the president of the Senate, was in charge.

Wang Xifeng has taken care of the housework of Jiafu for a lifetime, and although he has a lot of things to do, he is still lightweight.

For the rest of the things, there are several girls from Jiafu plus Shi Xiangyun and others to Zhang Luo.

said it was a girl, but in fact, these people were all nearly forty years old, but the palace kept calling like this.

The old lady's maids had already married. The old lady was always dissatisfied with the maid she was looking for, so the mandarin duck and amber came back and accompanied the old lady every day.

Jia Yu died four years ago because of excessive drinking. Jia Zheng is now in his seventies, and he no longer goes to the yamen to make voluntary contributions, and he only wants to be an idle prince every day.

The original Qing guests Cheng Rixing and Zhan Guang came to settle in Beihai from Dade five years ago, so several people drank tea, played chess, talked about poetry together every day, and when they had nothing to do, they went to the lake to go around.

Jia Zhen misses the imperial capital, and returned to Ningguo Mansion in the imperial capital three years ago to live, and has not come back yet. I wrote last month, saying that I would live in the imperial capital and would not return to Beihai.

Jia Qiang, Jia Qin, Jia Yun, Jia Ping and other children of Jiafu are now in important positions, busy with official business, and rarely come to the palace, only during the New Year's Festival, they do not forget to come to the ancestors and Jia Zheng to say goodbye.

Jia Lan is now in his early thirties, and he became a high-ranking official in Oulin at a young age, and he is the youngest high-ranking official in Beihai, with good political achievements and growing prestige.

Qiu Liang and Li Kun started an orange business in Beihai, and the two respected each other like guests and had a prosperous business.

Jia Min and his wife have all raised children, and currently have a total of 18 children, including 10 sons and 8 women.

Among the children of the ladies, Mrs. Daiyu's first child was the youngest, because it was not until twelve years ago that Daiyu married Jia Min.

The children studied when they were young, participated in military training at the age of fourteen, and began to serve in the army at the age of eighteen. This has become an unwritten rule in the royal family.

Looking at the room full of children and grandchildren, the old lady's heart was full of joy.

Around him, in addition to Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, Aunt Xue, the Feng family, the Chen family, the Wei family, and the ladies of the major families in Beihai, there were also several special guests.

These female dependents are the female dependents of the Song Kuan family that Jia Min sent back from Dade at the beginning.

The leader is the former princess of Dongping County, who is also in her eighties.

When the Song family first came to Beihai, they didn't interact with people very much, but later the old lady took the initiative to go to the Song family a few times. People saw that the old ladies of the royal family were in contact with the Song family, so they came into contact with the Song family.

Gradually, the Song family integrated into the life of Beihai, and now they have frequent contacts with the royal family.

"Look at it, you just listened to me at the beginning, a group of women in your family, they should be asked to remarry, and they should remarry, and now there are more men in the family? Gradually, it is thriving? ”

When the Song family came, basically only the female dependents were left, or under the old lady's Zhang Luo, the young female dependents, the ones who should be married, the ones who should be remarried, and now the family is prosperous.

"I have to thank the old lady for helping, so that no one says some gossip."

Princess Dongping complimented.

"Sometimes, we think too much about ourselves, and we are always afraid of other people's gossip. In fact, who has so much kung fu and stares at you all day long. If you talk about something, you don't hear it, and it's over. ”

"When my eldest granddaughter-in-law remarried, there were also people who talked about it, so I didn't care about that, but now I see that I did the right thing at the beginning. The people who talked about it at the beginning said I did the right thing. In this Beihai, unlike Dade, we have to follow here to do things. ”

"His Majesty the King is tolerant."

"That's right, when Brother Min is the king, he never has any arrogance, and he doesn't scare people, but everyone just respects him. I told you that it was you, that year, he had an awkward relationship with his daughters-in-law, saying that he didn't want to be the king anymore, and he wanted to go to Dade to find Chang'an. In the end, Feng Ziying poked this matter out, and the civil and military officials and ordinary people stopped doing it, and petitioned outside my house all day long, not letting him go, so it didn't work. ”

"I know about it, and I'm here to petition. Such a good king, who does not raid his house or cut off his head, where can he be told to go? ”

"Brother Min is also a little petty for a while, even if he really leaves, he will come back soon."

Mrs. Wang said with confidence.

"Old ancestor, the fourth master doesn't know where to go, and he can't find him after looking for a long time, do you think he still looks like a king?"

Qingwen has come to sue.

"What did you say?"

"I said that the fourth master is gone."

"Who's gone? Aren't all the people here? ”

"Alas, forget it, the old ancestor's ears are a little back."

Qingwen snorted and left.

"She said the king was gone."

Princess Dongping kindly told the old lady.

"I know, just pretending not to hear, not wanting to care about the young people. Qingwen, this girl, has come out of my room since she was a child, everything is fine, but she is a little cautious, don't worry about her, it will be fine for a while. ”

Jia Min was on the boat on Lake Feigar at this time, and with him were Wei Ruolan, Jiao Li, Liu Cheng, and Dai Zhi.

At this point, they were doing an experiment. Put the steam engine on the ironclad and use it as power.

If this experiment is successful, there will be no need for manual paddles, and the wooden boat can be changed to an ironclad boat.

Eighteen experiments have been conducted, and today is the nineteenth.

"Sir Min, get ready."

Dai Zhi's hair has turned gray, his body is still strong, and his spirit is also very good.

"Let's get started."

"Ignition!"

Liu Cheng shouted.

There was a pop and a puff, but the boat still didn't move.

"Alas, it failed again."

Jiaoli was a little frustrated.

"It's okay, continue experimenting later. Someday it will be successful. Let's go, it's almost time for a feast over there, so let's go to the shore and wait." ”

Jia Min said, about to get off the boat.

At this moment, the ship moved, and the sound of a steam engine sounded rhythmically.

Gradually, the speed of the ship became faster and faster.

Everyone looked at each other.

The experiment was a success!

Immediately cheered.

After a circle in the lake, the boat slowly approached the shore.

"Sir Min, what's the name of this ship?"

Wei Ruolan asked.

"Ships, in the future, with firepower, will be called warships."

A few people went ashore, and Feng Ziying and others also came over. They came here to wait to meet Chang'an.

After a while, Chang'an's fleet arrived, and Jia Min and others greeted them.

After the greetings, everyone went to the side, leaving Jia Min and Chang'an alone.

"Chang'an, this is back, won't you leave?"

Jia Min took one of Chang'an's hands.

"Don't go, our son can be the emperor himself, I will be with you in the future, saving three or two years to see each other, besides, the ancestor and mother are old, I should also do some of my granddaughter-in-law and daughter-in-law's duties to show filial piety." Let's go, don't ask others to wait for us. ”

Chang'an took Jia Min's hand, and the two got into the car together.

When they arrived at the palace, Chang'an and the ancestors saw each other one by one, and all the guests were beaming, congratulating and kowtowing to the ancestors.

The wedding banquet was presided over by Xue Zhen.

"The auspicious time has come, and the feast begins."

The silk and bamboo team brought by Gu Panpan from Pingyuan Building played music, and the banquet began.

Seeing that everyone was not paying attention, the old lady handed an envelope to the mandarin duck.

"Mandarin duck, after I am a hundred years old, you will open this letter and hand it to your second master. Second Lady, Brother Min, and ladies. ”

"Ancestor, on a happy day, don't say such unlucky words."

"I'm a hundred years old, what am I afraid of? It's not like you're leaving now, you go and put it away. ”

The mandarin duck left the table and came to the old lady's room, where he was about to put the letter in the box.

Seeing that the letter was not sealed, I couldn't help but be curious, so I pulled out the letter.

The above is the pen of the ancestor.

"After I return to the west, I will make Brother Min and Keqing marry."

The mandarin duck couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

It turned out that the ancestor had known about this for a long time, and he really couldn't hide anything from her.

The ancestor can be regarded as well-intentioned, and the fourth master Min and Grandma Rong have lovers and can finally become dependents.

Jia Min was drinking with Feng Ziying, Xi Mairui, Zhao Dahai and others, and Baoyu came over and sat down next to Jia Min.

Fill Jia Min's cup with wine, hand it to Jia Min, pour another glass for himself, and then raise it.

"Fourth Brother Min, you were right at the beginning, over the years, you have done very well, the second brother is happy for you, come, the second brother toasts you."

With that, Baoyu stood up, and Jia Min also stood up.

"Thank you, second brother, you are also very good, and I also toast second brother."

The brothers touched a glass and drank it all.

"And us."

Feng Ziying and others also toasted.

The brothers Baoyu and Jia Min hugged each other, and thunderous applause was remembered all around.

(End of book)