In Yu Garden, Li Weiguo rarely rested at home for a day, but he had no time to spare, because he had to prepare a birthday banquet for his three sons.

Coincidentally, Li Weiguo has been guarding three beautiful wives who have captivated the country and the city all these years, working hard, but only got three daughters.

Although Li Weiguo is not picky about men and women, and his son or daughter is treated the same, but the civil and military officials of the ten provinces in the south of the Yangtze River do not recognize, only sons can take over Li Weiguo's great cause, and everyone is looking forward to the birth of a crown prince in Wu Wangfu, otherwise Li Weiguo's family business, once something goes wrong, there will be no successor, and the impact is huge.

Can't stand the ministers blowing the wind in their ears all day long, Li Weiguo has also worked hard in recent years to make people with three beautiful wives, and the hard work pays off, throughout 1865, three good news came one after another, and the three beautiful wives gave birth to three sons to Li Weiguo respectively. Among them, the eldest wife Fu Shanxiang gave birth to the eldest son, the third wife Su Sanniang gave birth to the second son, and the second wife Shen Ziyan gave birth to the third son, all of which have been examined by doctors and are very healthy.

Either you don't come to your son, or you will come to three, and now the whole Yuyuan Garden is lively.

After Li Weiguo came back from the expedition to Huguang Province, he finally had a good time, and he missed celebrating the 100th birthday of his eldest son before, and he didn't have time to name it, so he celebrated his three sons at the same time in the palace and named them together.

This was originally a family matter, but for some reason, it attracted hundreds of officials of the Wu Wangfu, who came to watch it together, and said that they came to the palace to eat.

In fact, Li Weiguo knew what they were thinking, and he was afraid that from now on, he would be ready to look for the little masters they would assist in the future.

For the unspoken rules of officialdom of standing in line, Li Weiguo can't stop it, but he can't let it go, he has a plan in his heart.

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, let their three brothers draw lots!"

Li Weiguo ordered that a large table be placed in the palace, on which 360 kinds of gadgets were placed, representing 360 industries.

Fu Shanxiang, Shen Ziyan and Su Sanniang stood at the table with their sons in their arms. Talk to your sons separately and ask them to get some things on the table.

Fu Shanxiang hugged his chubby son and admonished: "Son, this is a matter related to your life, you must not go to get food, otherwise your father will have to name you a foodie!" ”

When Shen Ziyan heard this, she also hurriedly told the son in her arms, "Good son, listen to my mother's words, go and get that abacus, and in the future, this big palace will be yours." ”

Su Sanniang said directly: "My son." Listen, old lady hero, go get that pistol! ”

Listening to the words of the three wives, Li Weiguo couldn't help but smile bitterly, where is this.

"I mean, are you three finished?"

Seeing that Li Weiguo was displeased, the three daughters suddenly stopped talking.

Li Weiguo suddenly said: "Let's start, boss first!" ”

As he spoke, a maid stepped forward to take away the eldest son from Fu Shanxiang's arms. Place on the table.

Soon, under the gaze of everyone, the eldest son crawled around on the table, first picking up a piece of candy. Soon hesitated, glanced at Fu Shanxiang behind him, and saw that his mother was angry, so he put it down again. I took a book next to it.

Just as Fu Shanxiang breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that his son quickly put down the book again and picked up the candy again.

Fu Shanxiang was suddenly so angry that he rolled his eyes. The surrounding civil and military officials also shook their heads and sighed.

Li Weiguo then said: "My son is very honest, what he does is what he thinks, even if his mother does not allow it, he insists on his heart, which is worthy of praise, so it is called Jiacheng!" ”

Li!

Good name, everyone immediately congratulated Fu Shanxiang, although Fu Shanxiang was dissatisfied with his son, but felt that the name was not bad, so he also smiled.

Li Weiguo was even more proud in his heart, he didn't know how to name it, it was just a name that suddenly popped up in his mind, and he used it.

Then came the second son, under the guidance of Shen Ziyan, he went straight to the abacus, but soon put down the abacus again, picked up the headdress next to him and played, and couldn't put it down.

No matter how Shen Ziyan shouted, the little guy just didn't listen, so angry that Shen Ziyan stomped her feet.

"Buying cakes, this is the rhythm of being a star! In this case, let's call it Li Yifeng! I love the name! ”

Li Weiguo laughed, so the second child was called Li Yifeng.

Finally, the third child may be the mother who often dances knives and guns in front of the child on weekdays, so that the child happily goes directly to the musket, quickly picks up the musket, and then beckons to his mother, as if he is inviting credit.

"Good son!" Su Sanniang was immediately overjoyed, and directly stepped forward to pick up her son and kissed her fiercely.

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Boys are born to dance with knives and guns, and this king also loved knives and guns when he was a child, which may be the nature of boys." ”

"In that case, let's call Jet Li!"

"Haha!"

Before everyone could react, Li Weiguo himself laughed first.

The civil and military officials exchanged their heads and ears, not understanding why Li Weiguo was laughing, and he was still laughing so happily, just because the name was good.

"The prince Wen Tao is strategic, and the ministers admire it!"

Li Weiguo restrained his smile and immediately ordered a banquet to entertain hundreds of civil and military officials.

During the banquet, everyone drank freely, and it was indispensable to talk about the performance of the three princes today. Although it is only a small lot, these people are very superstitious and indispensable to taste it.

Of course, they just whispered, but they didn't dare to let Li Weiguo hear it.

Li Weiguo was accompanying his family to dinner, but unexpectedly, Zhuang Jiuxia, the chief of the guard, came to report that Li Jing, director of the intelligence department of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Cheng Kun, deputy director of the department, had urgent matters to see.

These two people asked to see each other at the same time, something big must happen, Li Weiguo thought about it for a while, and then he had the answer, and immediately withdrew and left.

In the study, Li Weiguo summoned Li Jing and Cheng Kun.

After a salute, Li Jing and Cheng Kun stood on one side in turn.

"Tell me, what's going on!"

Li Jing immediately replied: "Lord Qiqi, I have just received reliable internal information that Yi Xin and Li Hongzhang signed an agreement with the British and French ministers in Beijing to borrow teachers to help suppress the army, and are ready to borrow 30 million pounds from Britain and France, purchase warships, guns and ammunition from Britain and France, and hire 100,000 troops from Britain and France to help exterminate the rebels of Zeng Guofan. ”

Li Weiguo suddenly sneered and said, "Why do you need to borrow a division to help suppress the rebels of Zeng Guofan? Even if Zeng Guoquan and Peng Yupho still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in their hands, without the military support of Huguang and Guangxi provinces, it would only be a few more days. Li Hongzhang only needs a few months to trap him to death. ”

Cheng Kun agreed: "The king guessed right, the extermination of the rebels of Zeng Guofan is fake, but the suppression with the help of teachers is true, but it is not the rebels of Zeng Guofan who are exterminated, but against the king." ”

Li Jing asked, "Lord Wang, what should we do?" The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Army in the hands of the imperial court plus Li Hongzhang's Yan Army also numbered millions, and the British and French had always been afraid of the prince and did not dare to lend to them, so that their army had no money to buy guns and ammunition. Now Britain and France have lent them 30 million pounds at once, and in less than half a year. Their strength will multiply several times. Coupled with the 100,000 mercenaries of Britain and France, the threat to us is enormous. ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "The threat is very great, but since they are looking for death, then the king will fulfill them." Originally, it was planned to drag on the Northern Expedition for another year and a half, but now it seems that not only Yixin and Li Hongzhang can't sit still, but even Britain and France want to join in, and this king has to fight if he doesn't want to. ”

"Does the prince (the king) really want to fight?" Li Jing and Cheng Kun suddenly asked excitedly.

"Naturally, you have to fight, but you need to study it." Li Weiguo smiled slightly. Then Zhuang Jiuxia was ordered to call Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan to come over to discuss the matter.

Li Jing and Cheng Kun knew that Li Weiguo would not discuss the war with them, so they took advantage of this time to report to Li Weiguo.

"Qi Qi Lord, Britain and France have borrowed a lot from the imperial court this time regardless of the prince's feelings. It's related to the war in the Americas. Li Jing paused and continued: "The news has just been transmitted that Lincoln was assassinated and collapsed in the United States of America in New York. Having been captured by the Confederate States of America a month earlier, the Confederate Army has now won, and the remnants of the Northern Army have retreated to the Chicago area. Basically, the tide is gone. ”

In addition, the commanders and soldiers of the Yugoslav Army were all elites who had experienced the US-Mexico War and had rich experience in warfare, and it was easy to deal with a group of US Northern troops under the blind command of politicians and using muskets and artillery in the 17th century.

This is an absolute gap in weapons and the quality of troops, just like the US military in later generations fought Iraq, although the opponent has a huge army, in the face of cutting-edge weapons, the first battle will be 100% defeated.

The victory of the South over the North by the United States is the result that Li Weiguo wants to see, and he does not want a strong America to appear on his doorstep.

Now that the South has defeated the North, the slave plantation economy will become the dominant American power, which will greatly weaken the industrial power of the United States, just as the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs two hundred years ago and destroyed the budding capitalism of the late Ming Dynasty with slave feudalism.

Let the United States also experience a civilization process that is interrupted and then destroyed, which makes Li Weiguo very happy.

Similarly, in addition to Li Weiguo's happiness, Britain and France are also happy, and they have the same mind as Li Weiguo, they are jealous of the rising United States and must be nipped in the bud.

Because of this, Britain and France, like Li Weiguo, gave full support to the US Southern Army.

Historically, Britain and France did not intervene directly militarily at the beginning, but Li Weiguo was born out of thin air, providing a large number of advanced weapons to the American Southern Army, which made the strength of the American Southern Army skyrocket, destroying the ancient and sweeping the American Northern Army, which made Britain and France quickly determine that the American Southern Army must win, so when the American Northern Army quickly built a powerful navy with a strong industry and was ready to destroy the American Southern Navy, the British and French fleets took action and completely annihilated the American Northern Fleet in Norfolk Bay, completely burying the American Northern Army. As a result, the U.S. Confederate Army finally easily captured New York and destroyed the United States of America.

The Confederate States of America had won and the interests of Britain and France were assured, so that their operations in the United States were over, and they would have the energy to turn to Asia and prepare to take revenge on Li Weiguo, who had caused Britain and France to lose face.

Li Weiguo sighed lightly: "No wonder Britain and France dare to lend a lot to the imperial court, it is obvious that Yixin and Li Hongzhang have completely colluded with Britain and France, this is the rhythm of preparing to destroy the king in one go!" ”

Li Jing said: "The prince originally sold the patriotic rifle technology to Britain and France, and now a few years have passed, and Britain and France must have been equipped on a large scale. This time it is making a comeback again, I don't know how the prince will deal with it? ”

Li Weiguo smiled, and said without fear: "Don't worry, since this king dares to resell the patriotic rifle technology to Britain and France, if Britain and France think that they can compete with this king again if they get the patriotic rifle, then they are very wrong, if they dare to come, this king will let them have a heavy hemorrhage." ”

Li Jing and Cheng Kun glanced at each other, and they both felt very uplifted.

At this time, Cheng Kun suddenly said: "Your Majesty, your subordinates have intercepted a piece of news, and you are not sure, report it to the king, please make a clear decision!" ”

"Tell me, what's wrong with you?" Li Weiguo asked with a smile, Li Weiguo has always been very generous to his subordinates' knowledge and advice, and he will patiently give answers.

Cheng Kun said: "His Majesty intercepted a message in the intelligence department, saying that Li Hongzhang had put Wang Kaitai in prison, but he claimed that Wang Kaitai was going on a business trip. ”

Li Weiguo asked with some puzzlement: "Isn't Wang Kaitai an important staff member around Li Hongzhang?" What did he do to be imprisoned by Li Hongzhang? ”

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and reminded: "Lord Wang, Wang Kaitai is the number nine, and you personally trained it, have you forgotten?" ”

Li Weiguo asked rhetorically: "Wang Kaitai is the ninth?" This king remembers that the ninth is called Wang Tai? ”

Li Jing hurriedly explained: "The prince didn't know, when our people went to connect with the nineth, it was confirmed that it was Wang Kaitai, he said that in order to lurk, he needed to be incognito, and he wanted to complete the prince's task and return triumphantly, so he changed his name to Wang Kaitai, and returned in peace." ”

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, he really didn't guess that Wang Kaitai was Wang Tai, this Nima is too coincidental. Among the 100 people he trained at the beginning, he already felt very lucky when he found a Li Yuandu, but he didn't expect Wang Tai to be Wang Kaitai.

However, Li Weiguo quickly frowned, because Wang Kaitai was exposed.

Li Weiguo suddenly said angrily: "How did this king explain to you, the hidden personnel must be protected, how can you let Wang Tai and Wang Kaitai be exposed?" ”

Li Jing immediately pleaded guilty and said: "It's the negligence of the minister, please punish the prince!" ”

Li Weiguo ignored him, just turned to Cheng Kun and asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”

Cheng Kun said: "Your Majesty thinks that No. 9 has been lurking by Li Hongzhang's side for so many years and has not been discovered, why was it suddenly exposed?" There are two possibilities, one is that our agents were accidentally exposed when contacting Nine, and the other is that there are internal ghosts within our S.H.I.E.L.D. ”

Li Jing immediately retorted: "How is this possible? There can be no internal ghosts within S.H.I.E.L.D., every S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is carefully selected and trained, they have all been rigorously and brutally tested, and there will never be a traitor. ”

Li Weiguo waved his hand to stop Li Jing and motioned for Cheng Kun to continue.

Cheng Kun said: "Your Majesty thinks that our agents are well-trained, and the possibility of accidentally being exposed by mistake is very low, and Your Majesty thinks that the inner ghost betrayed No. 9." ”

Li Weiguo's face was expressionless, just looking at Li Jing and Cheng Kun, until the two of them didn't dare to look at each other anymore, Li Weiguo suddenly raised the corners of his mouth mysteriously, and said: "Since this is the case, you will find out the inner ghost for this king immediately." ”

At this time, Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan had already come and were waiting outside.

Li Weiguo sent Li Jing and Cheng Kun away, looking at the backs of the two of them, Li Weiguo suddenly couldn't help laughing.

This smile was quickly seen by Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan, who walked in, and the former said, "Lord Wang, why are you laughing?" ”

Without waiting for Li Weiguo to answer, Chen Jingnan on the side couldn't help but say: "Obviously, it must be the king's plan that has succeeded!" ”

Li Weiguo smiled and didn't answer, and said directly: "You came just in time, this king's plan is one step away, you need a Huang Gai to be beaten, who will come between the two of you?" ”

Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan immediately smiled bitterly. (To be continued.) )