One-step.

Two steps.

Three steps.

Song Xiaofei's tiger head official boots, stepped on the hard jade pavement of the Yangxin Palace, crossed the Lisi Gate, walked to the fourth step, and saw a rockery from afar, there is a pavilion under the rockery, a round stone table and four stone benches are in the pavilion, and the Guangxu Emperor sits in the middle with a serious expression, and the phoenix fairy girl in a cardigan white shirt, like a confidant sister, sits beside the Guangxu Emperor and listens to him.

Emperor Guangxu lived in this palace of nourishing the heart, and this time he summoned Song Xiaofei, but because of the obstruction of the emperor Weng Tongyi, it became an informal meeting.

Song Xiaofei's mind at the moment is not on Emperor Guangxu. Song Xiaofei looked at the phoenix girl from afar, his eyes were a little moist, his heartbeat was fluttering and accelerating, fifteen years, although he also knew that she still had Emperor Tongzhi in her heart, but his feelings for her young and young forever stayed in the previous short years, and he couldn't touch it or forget it.

Song Xiaofei looked up at the sky, a few quiet white clouds were floating in the air, he tried to suppress the tears that were about to burst out of his eyes, he desperately told himself that the phoenix girl was not Ouyang Xiaoxue, but it was useless, that kind of first love lingered in his heart. It's just that now, he can only bury this feeling deep in his heart, buried in a corner that no one knows, but he knows better than anyone that this kind of first love exists with his heartbeat!

Song Xiaofei even felt that He Qiuyi, Yu Xiaowan, Jin Hyunzhu, and Li Minzhen did not have such a strong and fiery affection, although they were their wives and concubines, and some of them had children for him, but their feelings had turned into family affection.

Song Xiaofei didn't know why, only when he saw the phoenix girl, his heartbeat would be so accelerated, is this love? Or is it forever tickling what you can't get?

Close, close.

I haven't seen her for fifteen years, and the phoenix girl has not changed at all, she is still a little goose egg face, with two lightly drawn eyebrows like willow leaves that have just sprouted in spring, a thin and slender figure, and a butterfly hairpin on her head, gentle and delicate.

The years have not left any traces on her face, or rather, she is in Song Xiaofei's heart, forever sixteen years old!

After the death of Emperor Tongzhi, Song Xiaofei inquired that the Fengxian girl was in the palace and was doing well. After she entered the palace, Emperor Guangxu liked to talk to this "aunt" since she was a child. The phoenix girl is good at painting, and the Empress Dowager Cixi sometimes rises up and asks her to teach herself to draw a few peony pictures.

Knowing that everything was fine with her, Song Xiaofei was relieved, he knew that one day he would meet her again in the palace, but he waited for fifteen years in this way.

And, just a quick glance.

When the Fengxian girl saw Song Xiaofei in official uniform, she took the initiative to avoid it.

Song Xiaofei knows that he is not strong enough, he must be strong enough!

Only Emperor Guangxu and Song Xiaofei were left in the pavilion.

The spring water on the rockery bubbled down, and "dong dong" fell into the pool made of pebbles, the water was as clear as a mirror, and the shadows of Emperor Guangxu and Song Xiaofei swayed in the water.

After Song Xiaofei and his party finished saluting, Emperor Guangxu couldn't wait to ask: "What can you do to strengthen the country?" ”

For Emperor Guangxu, this problem has plagued him for ten years.

From the age of ten sensible, the Guangxu Emperor kept in mind the ancestral teachings of the Qing Dynasty that "those who lose an inch of land are not allowed to enter the ancestral spiritual position", China's large areas of great mountains and rivers were divided by the great powers but it was difficult to recover, only Tsarist Russia, accounting for China's territory, nearly 1.5 million square kilometers, equivalent to one-sixth of China: in May 1858, the "Aihui Treaty", ceded more than 600,000 square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains; The Treaty of Yanjing in 1860 ceded about 400,000 square kilometers of territory east of the Ussuri River in China; In 1864, 440,000 square kilometers of land east and south of Lake Balkhash were ceded...... Britain occupied Burma and tried to conquer Tibetan provinces, and although France was defeated in Vietnam, they did not die...... The "begonia leaves" of China's large territory were greedily gnawed to the point by the great powers. In China, Xinjiang Province, Yunnan, Hubei, Liangguang and other feudal officials went their own way, and now there is no one like the 20-year-old Guangxu Emperor, who is eager to know the policy of strengthening the country.

But this question is too abstract to answer.

Song Xiaofei stood in front of Emperor Guangxu and glanced at him. Emperor Guangxu was thin and small, with a wide yellow dragon robe, and under his tall eyebrows, he had a pair of large brown eyes, drooping eyelids, large and thin lips, a short upper lip, and a high nose bridge - a noble face known as "Long Zhun". But his name is the emperor, and he is actually the most noble prisoner, and the real power of internal affairs is all in the hands of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Emperor Guangxu's troubles are not only fighting for power with the Empress Dowager Cixi. His unattractive queen is enough to make him upset, not only is their surname uncoordinated, but their surnames are also restrained, and they have their own tempers, but the most painful thing is to pretend to be like a loving husband and wife in front of the Queen Mother of the West or in front of others. Although there was still a concubine Zhen who could talk to him, the Empress Dowager Cixi did not allow him to touch too many concubines. So many times, Guangxu Emperor Yanjing can only talk to Fengxian girl.

Song Xiaofei took a deep breath, he knew that in the face of such an emperor, if he wanted to answer such a highly abstract question as how to strengthen the country, he must not go straight to the point and explain to him a republic or a constitutional monarchy, but pay attention to strategy: Emperor Guangxu has just turned twenty years old and is at the age of dreaming, so he must give him a real dream to impress him, that is, to give him a dream of a strong country and a dream of dominating the world!

Song Xiaofei then looked directly into Emperor Guangxu's eyes, and did not answer Emperor Guangxu's question, but said: The minister had a dream last night.

Emperor Guangxu asked strangely: What dream?

Song Xiaofei saw that Emperor Guangxu had taken the bait, so he talked about his dream endlessly: the minister dreamed that the emperor would climb to the top of Mount Tai, whip the world, all countries would come to the dynasty, Taixi would be convinced, and become the king of kings!

The minister dreamed that the emperor commanded thousands of troops and horses, as well as strong ships and artillery, and expanded the land of his ancestors to Moscow in the north, to Tokyo in the east, and to Europe and the United States in the west!

The minister dreamed that the emperor made the best use of his talents and things, and 40,000 people from all over the world were beautiful, willing to eat, and happy to live, and the peace of eternity was opened by the emperor.

The minister dreamed that the emperor read all the beauties in the world, and carnivaled with the beauties with big breasts and heavy buttocks every night!

In the end, Song Xiaofei's eyes lit up, but Emperor Guangxu was gloomy, because in the palace, the eunuchs in the West Palace didn't take him very seriously. Emperor Guangxu hurriedly asked, how can these dreams be realized?

When the time came, Song Xiaofei told the enthusiastic Guangxu Emperor about the specific new policy measures, and he handed over to the Guangxu Emperor a book that collected the wisdom of himself and Rong Hong, Timothy Li, Yan Fu and others, saying that as long as China "trained 100,000 strong soldiers, opened 10,000 factories, and built 10,000 schools", it would be able to realize the dream of becoming a strong country in less than 30 years.

Emperor Guangxu flipped through the "New Examination of the Restoration", very interested, asked Song Xiaofei in detail about some of these questions, the monarch and the ministers asked and answered, and unconsciously talked about two hours, involving eight shares, running schools, railways, mining, purchasing ships, training, education, etc., Emperor Guangxu was even more impressed by Song Xiaofei, and he felt more and more that Weng Tonggong obstructed him from meeting Song Xiaofei out of personal grudges with Li Hongzhang, and he was very unhappy with Weng Tongfei's lack of distinction between public and private.

After Song Xiaofei met Emperor Guangxu in person, according to Li Hongzhang's instructions, he prepared a generous gift to thank the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Summer Palace. He first presented Li Lianying with a luxury foreign carriage worth a thousand gold and ten excellent cigarettes made in India, and as soon as Li Lianying was happy, she told him what kind of things the Empress Dowager Cixi liked. Song Xiaofei presented a delicate Swiss-made glass music box to the Empress Dowager Cixi through Li Lianying, in which there would be dancing girls dancing as soon as the music sounded, as well as a jade-faced Buddha statue inlaid with jade gems from India.

The Empress Dowager Cixi accepted two tributes from Song Xiaofei, and liked it very much, plus Li Lianying said on the side that Song Xiaofei was a martial artist and had quite a lot of military achievements, and the Empress Dowager Cixi asked him a few strategies for self-improvement, and he was quite satisfied, and said: "No wonder Li Zhongtang said in front of the mourning family that there is a successor to his position, you really have the talent to set the world, and the mourning family will tell the emperor that you are acting governor of Shandong, and you will be the commander of the military department, and go to Shandong to let it go." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi also rewarded Song Xiaofei with some blessing purses and silver coins, and gave him the gift of riding a horse in the Xiyuan Gate of the Summer Palace, and Song Xiaofei hurriedly thanked him.

Song Xiaofei returned to his mansion in Tianjin from Yanjing, and Tan Sitong took Liu Kunyi's greeting post and came to visit.

Song Xiaofei met in the living room, Tan Si was also from Liuyang, Hunan, not tall, and his body was straight after sitting down. Song Xiaofei glanced at him, the bridge of his nose was high, his eyes were focused, and a braid on the back of his head was black and thick. On the surface, it looks polite, but when he opens his mouth, he is arrogant. The two were quite speculative, and after talking about the reform and reform, Tan Sitong said without scruples: "The ancient reform of the law has been renewed, and there are many sacrifices, and now in this world, I am afraid that it will have to shed blood in the end." ”

Song Xiaofei said: "This official is a military general, and when he kills the enemy on the battlefield, whether it is a soldier or a French soldier, his eyes will not blink." However, in the domestic reform of the law, I still hope that there will be less bloodshed and sacrifice. Those who like to point their guns on their siblings, no matter how much they put their ignorance and cruelty under the banner of acting for heaven or the truth of justice, will inevitably impose tyranny after coming to power, which will be a nightmare for the people and a disaster for the nation! ”

Tan Si listened to it and admired it very much, "I only saw what I saw in front of me, and I didn't think that adults could see far-reaching", so he agreed to go to Jinan Mansion in Shandong Province ten days later.

Meanwhile, at Xi Zhengfu's home in Shanghai, after the prayers, they had dinner, followed by a family meeting. The protagonist of this meeting is Xi Muyan, who went home from Song Xiaofei's leave because of pregnancy, she said that after two years of careful observation by Song Xiaofei's side, she believes that Song Xiaofei has ambitions, ambitions, and ability and means, and once the world changes in the future, he will be a leader in China, and he is a person worthy of the Xi family's marriage, and his sister Xi Muqing can marry him.

Her third brother Xi Jiadong usually loves his little sister the most, so he said, eldest sister, you just said it yourself, Song Xiaofei already has a wife and three concubines, with his surname, will he agree to divorce and marry his little sister? Our family is all Christians, and we can only be monogamous, so we can't let my sister go to his house as a concubine, right?

Xi Muyan said: "This is also the reason why I arranged my sister to him first, once they have a relationship, you and I are willing, I am sure to persuade them to go to church to get married." ”

Xi Zhengfu nodded, agreeing that Xi Muyan would persuade Song Xiaofei when the time came.