On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival on the land of China is full of lights, and people sing and dance to celebrate this festival.

At the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, Li Weiguo received a visit from hundreds of civil and military officials of the central government, officials, gentry, merchants, peasants, soldiers, students, and other representatives from various places, as well as ministers and military attaches of various countries in China.

Later, Li Weiguo took the queen of the three palaces, the imperial concubines, the concubines of the six courts, and the princes and princesses to board the Zhonghua Gate (now demolished) to celebrate the Lantern Festival with more than 100,000 people in the capital, and set off fireworks, which was unprecedented for a while.

Today, Li Weiguo's harem has added many people, in addition to the original queen and imperial concubines of the three palaces, twelve concubines and nobles have also been added.

These twelve concubines and nobles came from China, including Princess Horqin, Princess Ordos, and Princess Alxa of the Six Leagues of Inner Mongolia, Princess Chechen Khan and Princess Zasak Khan from the Four Leagues of Outer Mongolia, Princess Ili from the Ili Ministry, and Princess Tianshan from the Lizhewei Kabu of Tibet; The overseas dominions have the princess of Myanmar (hey, it seems to have a rename), the princess of the southern province of Savannaji (hey, it seems to have a rename), and the princess of Shuri of the Ryukyu country, Yui Aragaki (cough, I really didn't mean it); The titular vassal state has Lee Chae-rim (uh), the princess of Seoul from Joseon...... This time it's the fault of Sogou Pinyin), and Japan's Kita-Shirakawa Palace royal daughter Yoshiko (wow, don't be so cheap, obviously thinking about Yui Hatano).

For these twelve concubines, Li Weiguo accepted them all, because they were all for political purposes.

For example, Mongolia, Ili, and Tibet in China presented seven princesses, all of whom were from the most influential families of princes and ministers of the former dynasties in the three places, which was when Li Weiguo strengthened his control over the northern grasslands and the northwest desert and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in order to unify China as soon as possible, and to prevent Tsarist Russia and Britain from taking the opportunity to colonize and infiltrate these three places, and finally reached a secret agreement with these princes and ministers to appease them through marriage.

At the beginning, Li Weiguo unified China. Although Li Weiguo and his new government have repeatedly emphasized ethnic equality and not engaged in the sixth-class racial discrimination policy of the Qing Dynasty, can the Han people, who have been enslaved for hundreds of years, really be able to give up the hatred of being enslaved and bullied for generations?

The answer is clearly no!

During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han people were bullied by the Manchus, Mongolians, Tibetans, and Hui, which was not as simple as one person or two people a day or two, but a group of 200 million Han people, when the Han people turned over to be the masters, the imperial court persuaded 99% of the Han people to give up their hatred. The remaining 1% of the Han Chinese also have two million, which is also a huge force for revenge. Even many Han people ostensibly obey the government's call and do not go to the flag people and Mongolians to trouble, and secretly how many people take revenge who can clearly say, in the Chinese love is greater than the law, and the ruling people are Han officials, a little sympathy overflows, it will make the flag people and the Mongols unable to eat and walk, and they will be terrified all day.

This is also why the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell. Millions of bannermen and Mongols disappeared in an instant, and most of them moved, changed their names, and pretended to be the real reason why the Han people fled the disaster.

Princes and ministers of Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and Ili regions. They knew that they couldn't defeat Li Weiguo, so they had no choice but to surrender. When they saw that Li Weiguo directly sent troops to their territory under the pretext of the invasion of Tsarist Russia, they knew in their hearts that it would not be long. Li Weiguo won't be so easy to speak, and he will be up to them everywhere.

Therefore, these princes and ministers took advantage of their own use to Li Weiguo and the imperial court. immediately showed favor to Li Weiguo, gave the most beautiful princess in his family and the tribe to Li Weiguo, and found a way back for himself by marriage.

According to the ideas of these princes and ministers, even if one day Li Weiguo completely controls the grassland, the desert and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and is ready to unload the mill and kill the donkey, at least for the sake of these people to send beautiful daughters, the net is open, even if they are deposed of their rights, at least they will be peaceful and rich for a lifetime.

Li Weiguo also did not want to force these princes and ministers to jump over the wall in a hurry, and in history, Outer Mongolia was instigated by Tsarist Russia and finally separated, largely due to the rejection of them by the Han people.

At the same time, Li Weiguo's parents also said that if they want to sit firmly in the country, they must spread out more, and suggested that they accept these princesses as concubines, and the ministers also have this idea, after all, there are no royal members in the current Senate, and Li Weiguo needs to work hard and have more children. Therefore, Li Weiguo conformed to public opinion and accepted seven princesses in China as concubines.

The treatment of overseas dominions and vassal states is also an equal political goal. After all, the citizens of the overseas Dominions were in an awkward position, neither Chinese citizens nor independent foreigners, so Li Weiguo married the princess of their country as a concubine as a means of appeasement.

Among them, the Korean state was the only special case, and the Korean king Yi Xi was neither willing to lose his military and diplomatic autonomy, nor did he want to offend China, and in the event of a foreign invasion, North Korea would have to count on China for help.

Therefore, Li Xi gave his most beautiful daughter, Li Cailin, the princess of Seoul, to Li Weiguo as a concubine, in order to curry favor with Li Weiguo and give the Chinese people a false impression that the Chinese people would think that Korea had been completely subordinated, but in fact the Korean state was still independent.

It's a clever political tactic.

However, Li Weiguo is not a good person, and Li Weiguo is very clear about Li Xi's thoughts. But in the end, Li Weiguo still accepted the Korean princess, and the beautiful woman given for white should not be a fool.

Besides, who in this world will be more shrewd than Li Weiguo, he has already calculated home.

Accept the Korean princess as a concubine, and when there is something in North Korea one day, you can use the Korean princess as an excuse to send troops to North Korea. You Li Xi think that he is very smart, as long as the Chinese Shence army enters North Korea one day, he will not leave easily.

When the time comes, the Chinese Shence Army will not leave, resulting in a fait accompli, and it will be strange to see that you Li Xi does not cry to death.

This is Li Weiguo's calculation, and Li Xi obviously won't understand.

The last concubine was a Japanese princess, and Li Weiguo did not agree to this matter at first, because for some reason, Li Weiguo was very unfriendly to Japan.

However, in the end, the civil and military officials persuaded Li Weiguo, because the identity of this Japanese princess is not simple.

Yoshiko, the daughter of Prince Kita-Shirakawa Palace, the daughter of Saiko Yamauchi, the ex-wife of Prince Nohisa of Kita-Shirakawa Palace. Why is it an ex-wife, because Prince Nohisa was the "animal" emperor for a few days and had a fight with his brother Emperor Meiji, but he didn't fight and was placed under house arrest. In order to keep his wife and daughter, he divorced.

The initiator of this incident was Wu Yong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, who gave Li Weiguo a poisonous plan to let Li Weiguo support Prince Nengjiu. In the future, we will work against Emperor Meiji and separate Japan's national interests with China's national interests, just as we will separate the United States. The Japanese will not easily accept Li Weiguo's interference in Japan's internal affairs, but if he marries Yoshiko, the daughter of Prince Noku, then it makes sense for Li Weiguo to support Prince Nohisa when necessary.

Li Weiguo felt that Wu Yong's poisonous plan was too good, so he agreed. In this way, the Edo Intelligence Station of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. secretly took Prince Nengjiu's ex-wife Yamauchi Saiko and daughter Yoshiko to Beijing, and Yamauchi Saiko immediately agreed to give her daughter Yoshiko to Li Weiguo as a concubine under the persuasion of Wu Yong, and asked Li Weiguo to fulfill his promise to rescue Prince Nohku first.

It didn't take long. The Edo Intelligence Station of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. operated secretly, bribed a large number of Japanese politicians, and soon released Prince Nohisa from the temple, and Prince Nohisa studied in Germany side by side.

However, Prince Neng Jiu secretly came to the Forbidden City halfway, met his wife and daughter, and then had a secret meeting with Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo promised that in the future, Prince Nohisa would return to Japan after completing his studies, and would support Prince Nohisa in seizing the throne of Japanese emperor.

Prince Neng Jiu can only trust Li Weiguo now, and he can be regarded as his son-in-law, as long as he can seize the throne of the Japanese emperor. Even if you are pitted, you will admit it.

The twelve concubines of Xinna really kept Li Weiguo busy for a long time, and Meimei became a stallion once and lived a good life of three palaces and six courtyards.

For Li Weiguo. Ancient men were really the most sexually blessed, and there was no one.

However, Li Weiguo's real affection is still the Empress Fu Shanxiang of the Main Palace, the Empress Shen Ziyan of the East Palace, and the Empress Su Sanniang of the West Palace, as for the imperial concubine Yilan. Although she cut the queue halfway, after so many years, she is still quite honest. also has a certain relationship with Li Weiguo, and has a prince and a daughter for Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo didn't want to snub the four of the three palace queens and imperial concubines, so he used modern scientific knowledge to carefully arrange the time of pampering, he calculated the menstrual period and ovulation period of all the harem concubines, and only needed three days a month to get a concubine pregnant, so that in the next ten months, the pregnant concubine naturally did not need Li Weiguo to be pampered at night, and left more time to accompany the four women who were more important to him.

Li Weiguo "made a careful calculation", but in just a few years, there were eight more little princes and nine little princesses, which greatly increased the number of members of the royal family, and the future royal senate should not be vacant, and it would be more lively.

Of course, this is just a later story, Li Weiguo can't think about the future, although he accompanies his wife and concubines and children to watch fireworks, but he is thinking about other things in his heart.

Undoubtedly, the anti-Chinese incident in Nanyang is what Li Weiguo is most concerned about at the moment.

Historically, the Chinese living abroad were very difficult, because the country was poor and weak, and the Chinese became the target of bullying and oppression by the locals, and were even taken away by life.

Now that New China has been founded, Li Weiguo does not want this kind of thing to happen again, so Li Weiguo authorized the navy to resort to force when necessary, and to protect overseas Chinese at any cost, even if they are enemies of the whole world.

"Your Majesty, Lord Li Jing, Director of the China Divine E.RH.I.E.L.D., asked to see him, saying that he had something important to report!"

"Didn't you say anything?"

"Lord Li's mouth is very tight, and he didn't ask anything, but it seems to be related to protecting overseas Chinese!"

"Tell him to go to the imperial study, and notify the relevant departments to come to the meeting."

As soon as he heard that it was related to protecting overseas Chinese, Li Weiguo suddenly became a little nervous, this was the first time that the Chinese Navy had gone abroad, and he said that he was not worried that it was fake, but that he was afraid that there would be a moth.

apologized to Fu Shanxiang and the daughters, and the fireworks party was handed over to the queen, and Li Weiguo hurriedly returned.

In the imperial study, Li Weiguo met with Li Jing and was also very surprised to learn that the British Asian fleet was dispatched.

"As expected, the British are the masterminds behind this time, intending to provoke a conflict at sea and kidnap the British Congress to prepare for war against China!"

"The British are so hateful, in order to find an excuse to start a war against China, they actually started the idea of overseas Chinese in Nanyang!"

"It is not easy for overseas Chinese to survive, and I don't know how many people were killed or injured this time, I remember that there have been several anti-Chinese riots in the Philippines, at most tens of thousands of people were killed and injured at one time, which is simply a genocide."

"The hateful British, and even more hateful Filipino natives, this time the Imperial Navy must teach them a hard lesson, so that they can know the power of the Empire."

There was a lot of discussion, but it seemed to be off topic. Forgot the most important piece of news, which was the dispatch of the British Asian fleet.

"Wu Yong thinks that the British Asian Fleet is going to be dispatched, what does it mean?" Li Weiguo saw that everyone was off topic, and he was also drunk, so he immediately looked at Wu Yong and asked.

Everyone suddenly stopped, looked at Wu Yong, and waited for him to answer.

Seeing that Wu Yong didn't think for a second, he immediately blurted out: "Naturally, I went to the imperial fleet of overseas Chinese!" ”

Li Hongzhang immediately asked: "We don't know the exact movements of the British Asian fleet, why does Lord Wu say that they are going for the Imperial Fleet of Overseas Chinese, is there any basis?" Know if this speculation is true. The consequences are unimaginable, and war may break out in an instant, which is not child's play. ”

Well, Li Hongzhang was in trouble, and seemed to "look at the book of the military department differently".

It's no wonder that Lao Li lost to Li Weiguo, although he surrendered, he didn't dare to have hatred for Li Weiguo, but it was difficult to say how to treat Li Weiguo's subordinates. Although it will not be openly suppressed and retaliated. But it's okay to deliberately make things difficult during a meeting. Especially with Wu Yong, Li Hongzhang transferred all the cause and effect to the other party.

Wu Yong lay down the gun, but he was not afraid, but he was very happy. Every time you beat a small pot friend, at least you won't be too lonely.

"If Master Li doesn't believe it, why don't we make a bet?"

"Bet on it, I don't believe you can still win this time? What happens if you lose? Li Hongzhang asked rhetorically without believing in evil.

"All the previous nine wins will be returned!" The old god Wu Yong is here. Grasp it all.

The expressions of all the officials were very strange.

Well, Li Hongzhang has lost nine times, and he is still defeated repeatedly. Courage is commendable!

"Get down to business, don't make any nonsense!" Li Weiguo coughed lightly and immediately reprimanded.

Wu Yong and Li Hongzhang also felt out of shape and immediately confessed.

Li Weiguo didn't bother to care about the of the two of them, he put all his heart on Nanyang.

"If the British Asian Fleet is really coming at us, then Deng Zhilong and them will be in danger!"

"Your Majesty is very worried, but don't worry, a few days ago, by Your Majesty's order, the main forces of the Northern Ocean Fleet and the Eastern Ocean Fleet will go south to fill the blank defense area left by the departure of the Southern Ocean Fleet and the Seven Continents Ocean Fleet, and now it is only necessary to immediately transfer the main forces of the two fleets to reinforcements, as long as Deng Zhilong and them work around for three days, they can attack back and forth, and encircle and annihilate the main force of the British Asian Fleet!"

Hearing Wu Yong's words, Li Weiguo's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized a problem, and immediately stared at Wu Yong.

"You expected that?"

"The minister was just guessing before, and he was not sure, but he just asked the Northern Ocean Fleet and the Eastern Ocean Fleet to prepare in advance, otherwise he would really be caught off guard by the British." Wu Yong smiled slightly and bowed to Li Weiguo.

However, his divine expression, everyone saw it, and they gave him white eyes, as if to say: Pretend! You keep pretending!

Li Weiguo knew that Wu Yong was powerful, and he knew that the Northern Ocean Fleet and the Eastern Ocean Fleet had prepared in advance, and he was also relieved.

"In this case, immediately order the Military Department, the General Staff Department, and the Admiralty Department to command the four major fleets in a unified manner and go south to fight!"

"This battle is related to the future national fortune of the empire, and no defeat is allowed to be won!"

Wu Yong and others did not dare to waste time, and quickly organized the four fleets together to form the Pacific Fleet in accordance with the war laws of the Imperial Constitution.

The telegram was quickly sent from the Military Command Department to the naval bases in the major theaters of the Empire, and the entire Imperial Navy was quickly mobilized.

As a matter of fact, when the Southern Ocean Fleet and the Seven Continents Ocean Fleet were ordered to organize and escort overseas Chinese fleets to the South Seas, the Admiralty had already ordered warships from the North Ocean Fleet and the East Ocean Fleet to temporarily go south to fill the defense area after the departure of the South Ocean Fleet and the East Ocean Fleet.

Now that the situation in the South China Sea is tense, the main forces of the North Ocean Fleet and the East Ocean Fleet can just come in handy.

It's just that whether he can defeat the British Asian Fleet, Li Weiguo himself has no bottom in his heart.

Even if the British Asian Fleet wins, what if the British Navy's home fleet returns?

It's still too late!

If you give me another ten years, you will be more sure! (To be continued.) )