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There was a snap, but it was an invitation with a gilded cross on his face and thrown it on Zhu Jishi's desk. Zhu Jishi looked up and saw that it was Maria. Clementina didn't know when she entered his room.

"What's wrong? Jason, why are you so miserable? The duchess smiled and said, "Isn't it regret that I didn't invite Louie. Bonaparte Bixia Protector? I have a lot of money to inherit. ”

Zhu Jishi smiled bitterly and put down a manuscript in his hand, "Maria, you know that I am going to the East in the future. He leaned back in his chair against the door of his head. Maria walked behind Zhu Jishi, stretched out her hand, and gently massaged him.

"If I marry you, will you leave France and go with me to Hong Kong? And then you will be a French duchess, and Hong Kong will be the territory of the British! ”

Maria. Clementina snorted, and if Zhu Jishi looked at her pretty face, he would find an indescribable expression of disappointment.

"Didn't you turn to the French government for help? Aren't you worried that the British will retract their promise to support you? ”

She thought for a moment, and then said, "And isn't your university in Hong Kong going to offer military science?" I think you should know that the most haode army officers in the whole shijie are all French, right? Would you like to ask the Bonapartes for help? Many of the Bonapartians were officers of Emperor Bixia. ”

Zhu Jishi waved his hand, "Military science still has to be taught by British officers, those officers of Emperor Bixia are all old men now, right?" Some of them have probably been out of the military for more than 20 years, and do they still understand the latest army tactics? ”

Maria chuckled, "Jason, you're going to need a French general, you don't know the difference between an ordinary officer and a general and a commander...... The British will help you train company commanders and platoon commanders, but these people alone will not be able to deal with a real strong enemy. And our Bonapartist generals, in fact, are not so outdated, in the past 20 years, they have trained a real new army for Ali Pasha in Egypt, and also helped Ali Pasha defeat the Ottoman Sultan! I think you'll need a new army like this, too. ”

Zhu Jishi was stunned for a moment and looked back at Maria, "Maria, what do you mean by these words?" ”

Maria. Clementina didn't answer, but frowned and thought, "Jason, when I was in Rome, the Pope showed me a document...... Probably about your ancestors. ”

"My ancestors?" Zhu Jishi was stunned and stunned.

"Yes, it is recorded in the archives of the Holy See." Maria. Clementina said, "Your ancestor is a man named Zhu Hekun, whose name is Peter. According to the secret archives of the Holy See, he was brought to Manila in 1662 by the Jesuit Roudman, when he had just turned 2 years old, and according to Roujman, he was the eldest son of Zhu Cixuan, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty of China! Also in possession is a white carved stone that proves his identity. ”

As soon as Maria stretched out her hand, she opened the invitation on the table, and on a piece of white paper inside, there was a pattern on the front and back of a dragon-patterned jade pendant, and the jade pendant on the pattern was clearly the one that Ye Yiren handed over to Zhu Jishi that day!

"This, this, this...... That's impossible! Zhu Jishi hurriedly stood up, walked to the hanger, took out the mutton fat jade pendant engraved with the word "Xuan" from the hanging suit pocket, and compared it with the pattern on the table, it was really exactly the same!

Now, Maria. The smile on Clementina's face became a little more delicate, and she suddenly kissed Zhu Jishi on the cheek, "Jason, it turns out that you are really a descendant of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, it's really good, this is great, with this status, whether in Europe or in the East, you will definitely become a very respected person, do you know, royals are still very popular in Europe...... By the way, the Pope wants to invite you to visit Rome and confirm your identity by the way, I think this jade pendant is enough to prove that you are a descendant of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Listened to Maria. Clementina's words, Zhu Jishi could only sigh.

Thief God! What exactly do you want? Do you want to regain your sight? How can a doctor do such a thing? How good are the days now, if you want money and money, you want fame and honor, you want a knighthood and a knighthood, you want a woman to have a woman, what kind of family do you want to create? And even if you really want to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore sight, you can't rely on a stone, you can also give an army!

But no matter how much you complain about God, you have to go to the Pope of Rome, who let that old guy have something to do with God? There are still quite a few people here in Europe who believe in God, so it is better for the Pope and the Holy See not to offend.

Moreover, the Holy See in this era also had the function of a secular government, unlike the Vatican in later generations. At present, the central part of the Apennine Peninsula, including the entire city of Rome, is the territory of the Papal States, and the Papal States are also one of the eight states of Italy! For the past few hundred years, the Pope has been the hope of Italian unity.

But the Holy See, burdened with the unrealistic task of leading the whole of Christianity, was destined to be unable to devote all its energies to Italy. However, by 1843, the Pope had long since ceased to be the leader of the Christian Shijie, and even the Papal States themselves had become vassals of the Austrian Empire.

October 11, 1843.

Two lavishly decorated carriages, escorted by a group of mercenaries from the Papal States, headed straight for the Vatican Heights in the northwest corner of the city of Rome. Zhu Jishi sat in the carriage of one of the carriages, and was rolling up the curtains of the carriage to enjoy the street scene of Rome.

This was his first time in Rome, and when he studied in Germany more than a hundred years later, he had never been to Rome, so there was no way to compare the differences. Compared to its European contemporaries, London and Paris, the city of Rome was much cleaner, neater and spacious. The city should have sewers, no stinky gutters full of sewage on either side of the streets, not too much garbage and feces, and the sky is clear and blue, without any traces of industrial pollution.

There are many majestic and exquisite buildings in the city, some of which look old and ancient, as if they were left over from ancient Rome. Some are too elaborate, and the facades of the buildings are littered with beautiful sculptures, most of which belong to the Holy See.

But there were too few pedestrians on the streets of Rome, and the city of Notda was really cold, except for a group of Austrian soldiers walking around, either on horseback or in columns, and the air seemed to be filled with the smell of gunpowder.

"Maria, are the charcoal burners making trouble again?" Zhu Jishi put down the curtain of the car and asked Maria beside him. Clementina.

"Well, yes." Maria. Clementina looked at Zhu Jishi with some strange eyes and flattened her mouth, "Someone dropped a bomb on the Pope's patrol team last week!" It's the kind of ammonium bomb you invented, which killed and injured more than a dozen people on the spot! Jason, this invention of yours is really not good......"

Zhu Jishi smiled very embarrassedly when he heard this, "This, this is not that the bomb is bad, it's that the person who dropped the bomb is not good, this thing can't be littered, right?" ”

He didn't know that after all kinds of explosives were invented in history, they were quickly used by anarchists and socialists in Europe at that time in revolutionary actions, killing many big people. Later, when Sun Yat-sen's alliance made an anti-Qing revolution, they used homemade bombs to blow up the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty.

And now, of course, the ammonium oil explosives that appeared in advance were bought and thrown everywhere by the Italian charcoal party terrorists at high prices! In Europe, where working people are in dire straits, the invention of an easy-to-make explosive like an ammonium bomb really doesn't seem to be a particularly harmonious thing.

I don't know how much effort the carriage had gone away, when I heard the horses neighing a few times, and then the carriage came to a screeching halt.

An officer of the mercenary army of the Papal States ran up and pulled the car door, and Zhu Jishi got out of the carriage first, and then very gentlemanly put Maria . Clementina pulled it out. Then he looked around, and found that in front of him was a huge gate-like building made of a large pile of Romanesque columns, topped by statues of gods and angels, and dozens of tall and burly soldiers of the Papal Guard, dressed in red, yellow and blue striped clothing, armed with ancient spears and swords at their waists. There were also several old men in red clothes standing inside the door, looking at Zhu Jishi and Maria with serious and solemn expressions. Clementina.