The autumn sun shines through the window, reflecting on the delicate and dignified face, glowing with a hazy gold. Luo Xiangju combed her sister's long hair while looking at the beauty in the mirror, the corners of her mouth curled, and she said: "My sister is really the most beautiful woman in the world, if the king sees her sister's current appearance, she will lose her soul ......."

Luo Xiangmei smiled slightly, looked at the delicate face in the mirror and said: "Whoever does things with lust will love it when it is declining, and Aiways will be gracious......

She stroked her cheeks, and there was a faint melancholy between her willow eyebrows: "The king grew up in the West, and the gorgeous women of the West are the ones he likes." That Maria. Clementina is no less colourful than our sisters...... And she is both talented and beautiful, and she can talk to the king together, and want to go together, if the king is not still thinking about restoring the foundation of the Ming ancestors, he will probably marry Maria as his wife, right? ”

In terms of beauty alone, Luo Xiangmei is not afraid of Maria. Clementina is a competitor, but she always feels that there is an unbreakable membrane between her and Zhu Jishi, and even if they meet again after a long absence, there are few words to say. And Zhu Jishi and Maria. Clementina was very good at talking about it. Yesterday at dinner, the two of them chatted in German with great relish, and laughed heartily from time to time. After dinner, Zhu Jishi took Maria to his bedroom! It seems that Maria is the main room, but she is a concubine!

Luo Xiangju snorted: "How can a fox who rides thousands of people and sleeps with ten thousand people compare with his sister?" ”

Luo Xiangmei said seriously: "Maria is a bit famous, but it is not a thing where thousands of people ride and sleep on thousands of people, but the atmosphere of the upper class of European society is like this...... Moreover, when the king was in Europe, his status and wealth were far inferior to hers. She was committed to serving then. Marriage. and subsidized money, how can the king forget this friendship? ”

Luo Xiangju nodded: "The king misses the old love." ”

The long hair was combed into a pendant bun leaning on the back of the head, and a golden hairpin inlaid with pearls was inserted, even if the makeup was finished, Luo Xiangmei patted her sister and said, "Let's go, let's go and say hello to the king." ”

"Please...... Quiet? Sister, there is no such rule in the palace. ”

There really don't seem to be any rules in Zhu Jishi's harem, and it doesn't look like a palace at all. At most, it is the house of a large family, and it is the house of the nouveau riche who has no rules at all.

"The rules are set by people, and the king should not care about the rules of the harem, but it is wrong for me, the queen, to ignore it." Luo Xiangmei said lightly, "In the past, the things of the world were decided, and it was nothing to relax the rules of the Ming harem." But now that the Ming Dynasty is about to recover, the king will soon be the emperor, can you not follow any rules? Now like this, there is no condescension in the palace, and the harem concubines participate in the government openly. Governing the Guards, where has there been such a harem since ancient times? Leave it alone. Will you pay it back in the future? ”

Luo Xiangju said in her heart, no wonder her sister pulled her sisters to kowtow to Zhu Datianzi as soon as she came back, it turned out that she wanted to establish rules in the harem. But this Emperor Zhu made it clear that he didn't like the harem to make it the same as the court, wouldn't my sister be against Emperor Zhu if she wanted to make rules? If you anger the king, will you be sent to the cold palace?

"Sister, we are all sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, and naturally we don't like their set of rules, if you marry an ordinary man, you won't be bound by your husband's family ethics. But now that we have entered the emperor's house, we are still concubines for the queen, in charge of the six palaces, and the mother of the world. Therefore, we have to talk about the rules, the husband is the wife, the wife is the concubine, the young and the old are orderly, and the concubines are different...... These are all things that must be said! ”

Hearing this, Luo Xiangju still didn't understand. The husband is the wife for the wife, and the wife is the concubine, and the wife is for the concubine, and it is for the order of the concubines in the back!

When the sisters were talking, someone outside suddenly asked to see her, it was Chang Shuzhen, the little girl had been living with Zhu Jishi's family for more than a year, very casually, but seeing Luo Xiangmei was a little restrained, she reported in a low voice: "Two mothers, the king, Maria Niangniang, and Madame Duran went to Maria Fort together, let the two maidens go over with the other ladies in the palace." ”

"Fort Maria?" Luo Xiangmei looked at her sister.

"It is a Western-style castle palace built by the king's order, at the northwest foot of the Purple Mountain, very quiet......"

"For Maria?" Luo Xiangmei's eyebrows frowned even tighter, and she was silent for a long time before she instructed Chang Shuzhen, "Go and tell the king that the journey to this palace is tiring, and I want to rest for a day, and I will go to Fort Maria tomorrow, and Concubine Ju will also stay with this palace." ”

Seeing Chang Shuzhen leaving, Luo Xiangmei asked her sister in a low voice, "Who is the chief master of the study?" ”

"Also...... Not yet, several princes and princesses are still young. ”

Luo Xiangmei was silent for a while: "Then send someone to invite Prime Minister Zuo into the palace to meet you...... It was said that the palace wanted to discuss with him about enlightening several princes. ”

Zhu Jishi now has three sons and two princesses. The eldest is the eldest son Zhu Guojie, but he is a little more than 3 years old, and it is obviously a little earlier to be enlightened now. And because of the prince's enlightenment, it seems a little inappropriate to summon the prime minister, but where did Luo Xiangju dare to disobey her sister's intentions, so she had to ask her henchwoman to invite Zuo Zongtang.

At this moment, Zhu Jishi was on his way to Fort Maria. He was in a carriage with the exception of Maria. In addition to Clementina and Madame Durand, there is also Friedrich. Engels.

"Friedrich, do you know that when I am compromising with the Chinese tradition of feudal autocracy, the defenders of China's feudal autocracy are actually compromising with me. It was this mutual compromise that made this bourgeois revolution in China a success. ”

Probably because there is a woman around him who can be regarded as a confidant, Zhu Jishi is in a surprisingly good mood, and chatted with Engels all the way, and he can't see that the two are mortal enemies representing two hostile classes, but as if they are a pair of bosom friends who have not seen each other for many years.

Maria. Clementina also smiled and said: "China is an ancient country with a strong feudal tradition, in our words, not long ago China was still in the dark Middle Ages, Mr. Engels, if you were sent to the Middle Ages where the Holy See could burn people at will, what could you do?" Proclaim your GCD Manifesto and then shout against God? ”

Engels replied with a smile: "In this way I will quickly become a roast meat...... In China, however, there have been successful revolutions aimed at dividing the land equally and organizing large-scale agricultural and industrial production by the state in a more scientific way. At least judging from the provisions of the "Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" published by them, it is like this. ”

"Do you think they'll succeed?" Zhu Jishi asked with a smile.

"No, I don't think they'll succeed." Engels sighed and said, "I think they made the same mistake as we made in 1848, making demands that were too progressive to be realized." But I still want to meet the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and meet the genius peasant leaders who proposed the "Heavenly Dynasty System of Fields and Mu". ”

"No problem, I can help with this." Zhu Jishi showed a strange smile, "Hong Xiuquan, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, once asked me for Western beauties, this time Liu Peng bought more than a dozen beauties of all kinds from Istanbul, and they will be sent to Tianjing Luoyang soon, you can go with my envoy, and you will definitely be able to meet the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time." Although Hong Xiuquan may not be willing to meet you, Feng Yunshan and Hong Renji have read your books and must want to meet you, a Western sage. But I also have two requirements. ”

"Two requests?" Engels looked at Zhu Jishi and waited for the following.

"One is to serve as an academician of the Hongru Academy; The second is to serve as a professor of Western philosophy and history at Yingtianji University, teaching the philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome, Western medieval philosophy and modern philosophical thought to introduce to Chinese students. ”

"So......" Engels thought for a moment and asked, "What am I for?" Jason, I suppose you can afford to hire a better Western philosopher than I am, right? ”

A philosopher better than Engels? Zhu Jishi sneered and said seriously: "Friedrich, don't you know that you are now a famous Western sage in the whole of East Asia?" In my government, if anyone hasn't even read your "Taixi Military Strategy" and "Taixi Political Strategy", they will definitely be regarded as a dirt bun who just came out of the countryside. So if you talk about Western philosophy, it will definitely attract the attention of many people, and there will be many students. (To be continued......)