"Father, I think the shogunate can now ask the emperor to pardon Iwakura and the others."

As soon as Tokugawa Akira and Nakahama Manjiro returned to the main hall and sat down, Tokugawa Akiko said lightly her decision.

"What? Excuse them...... "Tokugawa Saiaki thought to himself, where are these people guilty, the real crime is Akiko and her henchmen. He secretly looked at Iwakura, but Iwakura's face was calm. Qi Zhao said: "This matter needs to be discussed with other elders and elders, and there should be no problem." ”

"That's good!"

"Akiko, this is Manjiro Nakahama, who came back from Hawaii, and he brought the Hawaiian Five-Power Treaty." Tokugawa Saiaki pointed to the hillbilly-like Nakahama beside him again. The Treaty of the Five Kingdoms of Hawaii had been ratified by the shogunate, and Tokugawa Akiko had certainly read it, but she did not agree to meet with Manjiro Nakahama. Qi Zhao continued, "Nakahama feels that now is the best time to colonize Hawaii. ”

This matter, Tokugawa Qizhao also told Akiko a few days ago, and the elders and middlemen of the shogunate think it is good, and they can get some people to go to Hawaii. However, they couldn't understand Daming's attitude, so they kicked the ball to Mingzi.

"I'll think about it." Akiko said.

"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wrote to me and asked me to go back to Beijing. Now that Japan's major affairs have been decided, and the army participating in the war has been formed, it will soon be able to exert its prestige overseas. On this occasion, I should take my family to Beijing once to discuss many matters with the Emperor in person. Colonizing Hawaii is also counted. ”

After Tokugawa Akiko finished talking about his plan, Tokugawa Qizhao's brows furrowed: "I'm afraid that the Great Tomorrow Son is also bound to Hawaii, right?" ”

"What's so hard about that. Neither the Ming nor Japan annexed Hawaii...... It's a big deal to choose a mixed-race prince of tomorrow to be the king of the Hawaiian Kingdom. ”

"Ha Lu, all right. A few of us big men have been thinking about the problem for so many days and can't help it, but it can't be difficult for Akiko. ”

Tokugawa Saiaki patted his forehead. Da Lu smiled and said, "This child should have the blood of the Tokugawa family......" He looked at his daughter. Bright and moving, the beauty is not under the little Chiba beauty next to her, this time I will go to Beijing and be very favored, and it is also possible to conceive the future king of Hawaii.

Mingzi smiled again: "In this way, this matter is settled, and the matter of immigration is ...... Father, you can discuss it with the elders and middle-aged people. The situation in Hawaii is different from that in Patagonia, and you can't send too many samurai there. What is needed there are merchants and farmers. We should establish a Japan-Hawaii-Patagonia route. In addition, we should focus on the development of the whaling industry, and there are many valuable whales in the waters around Hawaii. Let's let Nakahama be a fisherman. ”

"Yes, let him be a fisherman." Qi Zhao didn't want to ask for a higher official position for Nakahama Manjiro.

"In addition, the emperor also suggested that we promote Nanjing Mandarin and Latin alphabet pinyin in the Confucian Academy and the Orchid Academy, so as to facilitate our students to study in the Ming Dynasty."

"yes, that's great!" Tokugawa Saiaki didn't think much about it, so he agreed. He himself was fluent in the official dialect of Nanjing, which was also taught in the Mito Domain. Going to Daming University was obviously a good choice, as the cost of opening a university was difficult for the current Tokugawa shogunate to afford.

"So. Is the day to travel to China set? Tokugawa Saiaki thought for a moment and asked again. The princess also ......"

"Set off on the first day of the first month of next month, go to Xiaguan by land, then cross the sea to North Korea, and then go to Daming by land, and set off with the participating army." Akiko said, "I'm going to China with me. ”

She wasn't going to hand over the basis of her power. And the reason why I didn't take a boat directly to Tianjin was because I was afraid that my family would get seasick. The last time I came to Japan, this kid was dizzy. Now that he was a shogun, he could no longer take any more risks.

……

Ru Guhan of the Old Summer Palace is the closest courtyard to Kyushu Qingyan, where Zhu Jishi lived, which was originally a large study, and is now the residence of Empress Luo Xiangmei. The empress only arrived at the Old Summer Palace from Yingtian this autumn, and Emperor Zhu did not arrange her in a luxurious and spacious palace, but arranged her in the closest place to him.

The queen mother married Zhu Jishi at the end of 1845, and it has been eight years in the blink of an eye, and the queen's age is over thirty years old. However, Jiaoyan is not inferior to that day, probably because she has lived in people for many years and gradually developed a noble temperament. Zhu Jishi arranged her near his residence, naturally for the convenience of pampering. The unpleasantness that occurred a few years ago in order to rectify the harem has long since disappeared. In fact, with the increasing size of the emperor's harem, there is no capable palace lady to take care of it, and it is indeed not possible. The one who can do this errand well is obviously only Queen Luo Xiangmeiluo.

Today, Emperor Zhu waited for a long time to see Luo Xiangmei come in, and she is afraid that she is not only on the road for such a long time, there is really not much distance from Rugu Hanjin to Qingyan in Kyushu. Sure enough, I saw that her face was painted with makeup, although it was relatively light, but it was exquisitely carved.

Women are the ones who please themselves, and this old saying is naturally good. Women's makeup is an ancient science, and Luo Xiangmei Qiaqia is a woman who knows how to dress up. Above Clementina, the European ladies of this era liked to pretend to be chaste and saw makeup as a sign of sensuality (a very strange theory). Luo Xiangmei's makeup is very light, because although she is over 30, her skin is still very good, so it is not about covering up, but about retouching to make her face look cleaner and more detailed.

The Western court dress she changed into also inadvertently fit Zhu Jishi's taste, with a simple tone, a narrow waist, and a focus on highlighting the curves of the body, which is different from the Chinese-style wide and heavily colored court dress, with bare shoulders and half of her chest, showing her maturity and charm.

After receiving the emperor's summons, she dressed up specially, obviously valuing this short night. Zhu Jishi also understands her feelings, after eight years of marriage, the queen mother only had one son. But Zhu Jishi still said lightly: "Roman made some sweet soup and sent it, it's almost cold after you have been here for so long." ”

"Anyway, the earth dragon in the palace is burning vigorously, as if it is summer, and it is just right to be cold." Luo Xiangmei said as she sat down across the table, picked up a spoon and drank it. Madame Durand's French food and pastries are very good, but lately she has become obsessed with Chinese cooking, but the things she makes always taste weird. But Luo Xiangmei didn't come to eat, and she didn't care about the taste.

"Shugong is still not pregnant." Luo Xiangmei said. Now the emperor will not personally take the temperature of the concubines (Emperor Ximai can't take it), count the ovulation period, these things are in charge of the female medical officer in the palace, and then report to the empress.

"It seems that there is no hope." Zhu Jishi shook his head, he knew that the Dao Heavenly Emperor had many genetic diseases because of his long-term inbreeding, and he also had difficulties in breeding offspring.

"Then, the Ryukyu throne will be inherited by an adopted son." Luo Xiangmei ate the sweet soup and said softly, "Is there a candidate in the emperor's heart?" ”

Although the Ryukyus Kingdom is small, it is also the king of a country. Zhu Jishi has many heirs, and only one can inherit the throne, so there are many concubines who are eyeing the Ryukyu throne. Moreover, with the agreement between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands on the lease of Dutch Borneo, the Grand Duchy of Lanfang has occupied more than 90% of the land in Borneo, and its taxes are of great significance to the finances of the Ming court, so Zhu Jishi's eldest son, Zhu Guoxiong, has the throne of the Grand Duke of Borneo. Luo Xiangmei naturally wanted to use the Ryukyu throne to comfort her sister......

"The Ryukyu throne cannot be given to Kunio, he has a marriage contract with an English princess, and the Ryukyu king must marry a woman from the Japanese imperial family or the Tokugawa family." Zhu Jishi thought for a moment and said, "And the Ryukyu Kingdom is too small, Queen Victoria will definitely not be satisfied...... Kunio needs to have a larger kingdom, such as the Kingdom of Korea, such as the Kingdom of Hawaii! (To be continued......)