Zhu Jishi straightened the dragon robe on his body and stood up, and he asked in a low voice to Hong Xuanjiao and Luo Zenan, who were standing beside him, "Has Hong Renji arrived?" Luo Zenan smiled, but asked Zhu Jishi's concubine Hong Xuanjiao to answer: "I have arrived, I am waiting in the living room, Li Shangshu and Wu Shilang are accompanied." ”

Zhu Jishi nodded, and walked out: "Let's go, go and meet my brother-in-law...... Xuanjiao, you should be Her Royal Highness the princess of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, right? When my side concubine was really aggrieved. ”

"Don't be aggrieved, don't be aggrieved at all, as long as the master spoils the slave family, even if you are a slave, you won't be aggrieved." Hong Xuanjiao followed behind Zhu Jishi with a smile and groaned, and said everything from her heart.

She was the concubine that Zhu Jishi bought for a thousand silver dollars, and she was originally the least status-China practiced polyandry in this era. However, they are also concubines, and the difference in status is also huge, and the most humble status is naturally the concubine that the rich and noble families buy home with silver, which is equivalent to the property of the husband's family. Hong Xuanjiao is such a "property", although she is favored, she is low-brow and pleasing in front of several other concubines, and she is a dwarf, not to mention coveting the position of Luo Xiangmei's eldest woman. And she didn't have much ambition herself, she just thought she was a special bed plaything for Zhu Jishi - in this era, a girl from a poor family became the favorite concubine of the super-rich, and she was supported by brocade clothes and jade food all day long, and there was no in-laws and daughters-in-law to make her angry, what else was there to be dissatisfied with? Who knows that Lu Dao, her nervous third brother, I don't know what kind of shit luck Lu Dao has taken, and now he is actually the king of a country, and there are signs of sharing the world equally with Zhu Ming!

Hong Xiuquan became the king of heaven, Hong Xuanjiao is probably the "heavenly sister", the sister is more expensive than the brother. The dignified "Heavenly Sister" was a plaything pet concubine for Zhu Jishi. It's really not like words...... But you have to straighten it out. Who of Zhu Jishi's other wives and concubines does not have a little background strength?

The three of them were speechless all the way, and walked along the corridor to the meeting room. The door was full of heavily guarded guards, and when they saw Zhu Jishi and the other three coming, they immediately opened the door respectfully, and as soon as they walked in, they saw a spacious Chinese-style living room, and there were only three people sitting empty. One of them is the famous Li Hongzhang Li Zhongtang in history, and now he is the secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Zhu Ming and the prince of Lujiang County. The other is Wu Chunqiu, who has just been crowned Hou. This time to regain the two rivers and three provinces, he and Rodriguez, Skopel. William has done a great job. Rodriguez was also made the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. William got an earl. There is another short and fat man is Hong Renji, who has a very good complexion, a little fatter than when they met last time. He wore an official uniform of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, wrapped his head in red cloth, and wore long hair on his shoulders.

Seeing Zhu Jishi striding in, the three of them hurriedly stood up and saluted, among which Li Hongzhang and Wu Chunqiu bowed, while Hong Renji knelt on the ground. Kowtowed and said: "The local official and the prime minister Hong Renji see the king." ”

"It's all your own people, why do you make such a big gift?" Zhu Jishi waved his hand. motioned for the three of them to sit down, he sat down on the chair at the top, Luo Zenan sat on a chair next to him, but Hong Xuanjiao stood beside Zhu Jishi, looking at Hong Renji with a smile.

Hong Renji's head is to be knocked, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not as casual as Zhu Ming's here...... The etiquette of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very strict, and the subordinates had to bow when they saw their superiors, and they had to bow and kowtow when they saw several kings. And Zhu Jishi's status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is also very high, he is an archangel and a son-in-law of heavenly father! Well, it's the big man with wings on his back and standing next to God, who has a slightly lower status than God's sons. However, ordinary ordinary people can't compare with him, so Hong Renji must kowtow when he sees Zhu Jishi.

"Get up, get up, sit down and talk." Zhu Jishi looked at Hong Renji with a smile, "Renji, your Taiping Army is fighting well, and you are about to leave Beijing, when are your Heavenly Kings going to move into the Forbidden City?" ”

"The King of Heaven is ready to build the capital in Luoyang and change Luoyang to Tianjing."

"What? Luoyang has become Tianjing? Zhu Jishi was stunned, and said in his heart: "Luoyang is the ancient capital of more than a dozen dynasties, but that is all in the past, after the death of the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang City collapsed, and now it is just the capital of Henan Mansion, how can it be the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?"

"That's right, this is the decision of the King of Heaven," Hong Renji said with a straight face: "The King of Heaven thinks that Luoyang lives in the world, and has been the home of the emperor since ancient times. ”

This explanation...... A bit reluctantly. However, Hong Xiuquan didn't have much to do with Zhu Jishi where he wanted to go, and Zhu Jishi didn't bother to ask.

"King, at present, my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is fighting a bloody battle with the Qing Demon in Beijing, this is to avenge the Ming Dynasty and the hundreds of millions of Han people who died at the hands of the Qing Demon. Da Ming should help me, even if it is inconvenient to send troops, he should also provide some foreign guns and artillery. ”

I also want foreign guns and foreign cannons!

Zhu Jishi looked at Luo Zenan and Li Hongzhang.

"Your Majesty, you should give it." Luo Zenan said in a low voice, "Destroying the Manchurian and Xinghan Dynasty and defending the famous religion is the same as righteousness. ”

Li Hongzhang also nodded, but did not speak.

"Give 3,000 foreign guns and 18 foreign cannons."

Hong Renji nodded with a smile, and said: "In addition, the Heavenly King of my family also allocated 1 million taels (yuan) of silver from the Holy Treasury, and wanted to purchase another batch of foreign guns, foreign cannons, gunpowder, and lead bullets from the Great King. ”

"Yes." This time, Zhu Jishi nodded very happily, the arms business will always be profitable, and now the steel and military industries in Foshan, Guangdong Province are increasing rapidly, and they urgently need to be digested by the market. As long as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not tear his face with the Ming Dynasty. Weapons should be sold or sold!

"Prime Minister Hong Cheng, where is the 1 million yuan of arms going to be transported?" Li Hongzhang interjected at this time.

"Of course, it was transported to the East King Army. Dongwang's Northern Expeditionary Army captured Tianjin last month, and the arms will be shipped there. ”

"All the 1 million yuan of arms will be given to the king of the east?" Luo Zenan also asked.

"That's right, it's all for the East King." Hong Renji affirmed.

Of course, the news of Xiao Chaogui's death has reached Zhu Jishi, and Luo Zenan and Li Hongzhang both know about it. Moreover, both of them believed that Xiao Chaogui's death was likely to upset the balance of power within the Taiping army, causing the power of Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, to further swell. After conquering Beijing, it is highly likely that the Eastern King will challenge the supreme power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is also likely to split! And a divided kingdom of heaven is certainly not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty. It's just that now Hong Xiuquan actually paid money to help Yang Xiuqing buy arms......

Could it be that there are no signs of division within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

That's weird! There must be something wrong! Zhu Jishi said in his heart, how could he not know about the famous "Tianjing Incident" of Lu Dao? How Yang Xiuqing died, how the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom weakened, and how it perished, can be described and analyzed in detail in later history textbooks.

"The king of my family also wants to agree with the king that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the northern brother and the southern brother of the Ming Dynasty will not invade each other." Hong Renji suddenly paused as he spoke, glanced at Hong Xuanjiao, who was standing beside Zhu Jishi with a happy face, took a breath and said, "Besides...... The sister of the king of my family is virtuous and virtuous, good in character and appearance, and noble in birth, so she should be the queen of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"What!?" Hearing the last words, everyone, including Zhu Jishi and Hong Xuanjiao, looked at Hong Renji with incredible eyes.

Who is the queen of the Ming Dynasty is related to the balance of power in the Ming court, and the Luo sisters have the basic plate of the Lanfang Hakka group behind them, and the factions of the Tongtiandihui are also in the same spirit. And Luo Xiangmei has been Zhu Jishi's wife for more than three years, and she gave birth to a son to Zhu Jishi, and was also made the crown prince, how can such a status be lightly moved? And even if Luo Xiangmei is gone, she can't help Hong Xuanjiao, her brother Hong Xiuquan is the mortal enemy of the famous religion and the bourgeoisie and the landlord class! Isn't Fuzheng Hong Xuanjiao equal to letting Hong Xiuquan's nephew be the future tomorrow? What will Zhu Ming's domestic intellectuals and propertied class think of this issue?

What does this Hong Xiuquan mean? Want to meddle in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty? Want to provoke a palace fight in Zhu Jishi's harem? Is this good for Hong Xiuquan? (To be continued......)