Through the crimson veil of the box, the stage was even more gorgeous, and Ye Zhao suddenly asked, "Xingzhen, what kind of person do you think I am?" ”

It doesn't matter if they just met on the spot, it's okay, but in fact, what kind of relationship the two have now, Ye Zhao himself doesn't know very well.

Why did you have your first relationship with Lan Guiren? Maybe the surname of the food color is also unbearable for a while; Or maybe deep in my heart, I have long wanted to conquer this demonic woman, the inferior surname of men, and conquer women, often starting from **; Or perhaps, it's because her notoriety is too loud and loud, and it's hateful. Perhaps, it's really just to get closer to the relationship between the two and sacrifice their hue.

What about just now? When the relationship between the two seemed to have ice suddenly, the fastest solution Ye Zhao thought of was to break the ice in the most intimate way.

Even in his previous life, Ye Zhao never felt that he was a good person, but he knew that he was more and more alienated from the values and morals he had when he first came to this world.

Sitting beside the classical lady who was beautiful and brought disaster to the country and the people, thinking about the intimate contact just now, Ye Zhao was extremely calm.

It's just that the relationship between the two is really as harmonious as it seems?

seems to have completely succumbed to her own silver power, and even took the initiative to flatter the beauty, what kind of calculation did she have in her heart?

Therefore, Ye Zhao stared at the beauty's pink face for a moment, observing the subtle changes in her expression, waiting for her answer.

Lan Guiren was stunned, she didn't expect Ye Zhao to suddenly ask her such a question.

Ye Zhao sighed softly, took Lan Guiren's jade hand, and said, "I forced you, do you hate me in your heart?" Let's be honest. ”

Lan Guiren was silent, but he didn't break free of his hands.

Ye Zhao sighed again and said, "Actually, I didn't want to, but you are too smart and capable, I just thought, it would be good for you to become my woman, if you were born ten years earlier, I would definitely snatch you from Xianfeng's hands." ”

Lan Guiren listened to Ye Zhao's words, and was originally thoughtful, but after hearing it, he couldn't help but have a trace of ridicule in his eyes, and said, "Ten years early? Do you know who I am? Obviously, Ye Zhao's rhetoric never really moved her.

Ye Zhao took her hand and said, "I just know." ”

Seeing that Ye Zhao's face was sincere, and it didn't seem to be a fake at all, Lan Guiren was stunned.

Ye Zhao said again: "I know you can do it since you were a child, ability." When my father-in-law was convicted, he had to pay the money to atone, and the family was at a loss, and you were less than ten years old, so you went to the house of relatives and friends to borrow money, and saved your father-in-law from prison. I didn't listen to Rong'er, I already knew it. What kind of mood was a **-year-old little bean sprout at that time? Scared, right? Isn't it? ”

Lan Guiren's memories that had been gradually forgotten in the depths of his heart slowly came up, how much did the panicked and helpless little girl hope to have a solid arm to lean on? In the eyes and ridicule of relatives and friends, ten taels or one hundred taels stretched out their hands to beg for a loan, like beggars. That day, she understood that people can only rely on themselves! When she grows up, she wants to be a woman that no man dares to underestimate.

Ye Zhao gently held her hand and continued, "Are you also afraid now?" I don't have any sense of security, I just want to hold the chips and compete with me, in fact, I don't have to, now you are my woman, I will definitely protect you in the future. Ye Zhao is sincere, no matter what he says, men must be responsible.

"A sense of security?" Lan Guiren muttered, and then understood the meaning of the word.

Ye Zhao stretched out his hand and grabbed Lan Guiren's fragrant shoulder, Lan Guiren hesitated, and finally, he slowly leaned into Ye Zhao's arms.

The box was quiet, and laughter rang out from time to time in the hall.

"Don't blink your eyes, and you're wondering how to mess with me, aren't you?" Ye Zhao suddenly said with a smile.

Lan Guiren knew that this scheming man was sometimes childlike and frivolous, and ignored him.

Ye Zhao smiled: "It seems that you are really not afraid of me." Grabbed Lan Guiren's soft shoulders, pondered and said: "Turn back, I will ask you to send you all the laws and regulations of this dynasty, you are so elegant, when I come back from my expedition to the west, if you are successful in your studies, in the future, the Dali Yuan will be more controversial and need me to review the criminal cases, you will review it for me, give me ideas, and tell me to be relaxed, okay?" ”

Lan Guiren was stunned again, and bowed his head slightly.

Holding Lan Guiren's soft waist, Ye Zhao suddenly smiled lightly, stuck to Lan Guiren's white ear beads, and said softly: "Xingzhen, your waist is thin and soft, it's really comfortable to hold." ”

Lan Gui's popularity was a little uneven, and he grabbed Ye Zhao's hand that slowly climbed up to his towering chest, and said, "Don't, don't make trouble." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and whispered in her ear: "Sit on my lap and watch, I'll hold you, okay?" ”

Lan Guiren's face was slightly red, and he said, "Then, what does that look like?" ”

Ye Zhao laughed dryly, there were people in the boxes on both sides, and he couldn't be too unreasonable.

Lan Guiren glanced at Ye Zhao with disgust, lowered his voice and said hatefully: "You are not afraid of thunder and thunder in the sky. ”

Ye Zhao hugged her with a smile and said, "Watch the drama, this script has my credit." ”

Leaning on Ye Zhao's strong and warm arms, Lan Guiren didn't know what it was like, but he felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter, and he gradually became confused, and he fell asleep unconsciously, as if he had never slept so sweetly since he could remember.

When I woke up, on the curtains, my head had risen high.

Lan Guiren was stunned, looking sideways, Ye Zhaojunyi's face was in front of him, but the two of them slept in their clothes, lying on a soft concubine bed, with oil paintings and lace curtains on the four walls, it was a Western-style bedroom.

"Slept?" Ye Zhao sat up with a smile, and said, "I'm afraid of waking you up, so I took off my shoes for you, are you still comfortable sleeping?" ”

Lan Guiren nodded blankly.

Ye Zhao said: "Okay, let's go back to the palace, this is the hotel outside, and the big theater is next door." You're so good enough to sleep, I carried you upstairs and almost fell on your head, and you didn't even lift your eyelids. ”

Lan Guiren's face was slightly hot, he was tossed by him for an afternoon yesterday, but he didn't know how tired he was, but it was hard to say this.

"You just lay there all night?" Lan Guiren asked in surprise.

Ye Zhao sighed and said, "Otherwise? Holding you as a great beauty who has brought disaster to the country and the people, I can't sleep again, staring at the sky. ”

Lan Guiren looked at Ye Zhao in surprise, as if he had just met him.

Ye Zhao immediately patted his head and said, "It's a loss, alas, I can't touch you before the Western Expedition, I should really wake you up." Then he turned his head, and with fiery eyes, he said: "Imperial sister-in-law, otherwise, or ......"

Lan Guiren was already panicking, Zhang Ji pulled the pale green embroidered shoes, and Ye Zhao laughed out loud.

Only then did Lan Guiren know that he was teasing himself, and glared at him, but with this man, it was really indescribably easy.

It turned out that he was not as terrible as he imagined, gentle and careful.

…… Ye Zhao sent the Lan nobles back to Cining Palace, and then went to Wenhua Palace.

The yamen of the new Zongren Mansion of the imperial family is not large, and it is changed to work in a former Chaobeile Mansion in the east of the imperial city, and the Yamen of the Prime Minister of the Government Council has moved to the official residence rebuilt from the Yamen of the former Zongren Mansion outside the imperial city, but in the Wenhua Palace, there will be a deputy prime minister on duty every day.

Today, it is said that the minister on duty is Bai Gui.

Bai Gui is over 60 years old, but his spirit is still good, and it is obvious that his career is proud and has the merit of prolonging life.

Ye Zhao sat on the throne of the main seat of the coffee table, and Bai Gui sat on the brocade soft pier on the side of the coffee table.

"Ye Mingchen is good?" Ye Zhao asked while sipping tea.

Bai Gui said respectfully: "Yes, Lao Zhongtang's body is quite strong. ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, Ye Mingchen was in the capital to recuperate, and he visited a few times, but Xiao Yuzi was also leisurely.

Bai Gui looked at Ye Zhao's face, and said, "Grandpa Guo still refuses to come out." "The grandfather of the country he said in his mouth is Su Shun.

Ye Zhao waved his hand: "I said it, there is no need to persuade him again." "Give the sixth uncle a title, and spend his old age in peace from now on, but there is no need to be outstanding, not to mention the level of ability, as the uncle of the emperor, if he enters the central yamen, there will be a lot of trouble, and when he encounters disputes, hundreds of officials will let him give him a few points, which will inevitably lose the meaning of political innovation.

Bai Gui is good at everything, but he can't change it at all, he likes to think about his little Jiujiu, but as one of the most loyal ministers of the imperial family, there are occasional small shortcomings, and there is no need to dig into it.

Reaching out and picking up a stack of paperwork on the table, it was the statistics of the empire's industry and agriculture last year.

By the end of last year, the empire had more than 1,000 cotton mills, nearly 200,000 spinning machines, 6,316 steam engines used in industry, 501 coking coal furnaces in the iron smelting industry, and last year produced 490,000 tons of pig iron, 280,000 tons of steel, and 170,000 tons of rails.

These figures have basically reached the level of France in the early fifties, and the cotton spinning industry has surpassed that of France ten years ago.

However, France is in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, and since the fifties, there has been a big explosion of industrial development, and the gap between China and France is still huge.

However, since the 16th century, the French have developed a tradition of the predominance of financial capital, with a prosperous lending business and little corporate investment, a phenomenon that was gradually reversed after the Second World War.

After the empire created good investment conditions, the enthusiasm of the merchants to set up industries and factories was extremely high, believing that this was the right way to settle down and buy a home. Therefore, surpassing France, the second industrial power in Europe, is not an unattainable goal, and Ye Zhao hopes to achieve it in 10-20 years.

The Empire's coal mining industry has exploded, and coal production is expected to exceed 7 million tons this year, which is naturally the best booster for the Imperial industry.

In agriculture, chemical fertilizers gradually entered the countryside, and machinery and equipment such as threshers, harvesters, and grass mowers began to appear in the imperial state-owned farms outside the Guan.

There are already as many as seven thermal power plants in the empire, and spinning machines, printing presses, lathes, etc., which rely on electric energy, are gradually appearing, but this is the world's leading position.

Looking at Wen Mu, Ye Zhao's face gradually brightened.

"Slave congratulations to the emperor on this expedition to the west to determine the Tianshan Mountains with one arrow and achieve immortal hegemony!" Bai Gui suddenly got up, knelt down and kowtowed.

Ye Zhao was helpless in his heart, and said with a smile: "Borrow your auspicious words, get up." ”

Before the Western Expedition, Ye Zhao taught his last class at Imperial Jingshi University.

After class, he left the campus, only to see the matchmaker come to pick him up in the carriage, the matchmaker said, Jin Feng, Sisi, Shawa, Hua Ji, and Yi Zhi all went to the Old Summer Palace to feast for him.

The night was naturally a scene of reunion.

During this period, Ye Zhao naturally counted a few words of Jin Feng half-truthfully, lest the matchmaker muttered in her heart, if she troubles Jin Feng again, will there be a fire in the backyard?

The next day, on March 20, 1864, Ye Zhao led the cavalry group to leave Beijing, and did not hold a grand departure ceremony.

All the way to eat and sleep in the open gallop, from the capital to Dihua, but it took more than a month, because of the army to the west, it was inevitable to build bridges and build roads, and the road conditions were much better.

Soon after Ye Zhao left Beijing, the first batch of 50,000 people of the Xinjiang Provincial Construction Corps gathered in Taiyuan and began to march to the Western Regions.

In fact, although it was called the Corps, it was all recruited peasants from all over the country, most of them were singles, a few dragged their families, and the landless peasants and displaced people were the main force, and the first batch of 50,000 people was only equipped with 3,000 firearms, which was only used as the most basic defensive function.

The XPCC will settle down in Yili, Dihua and other places, and will be under the jurisdiction of the Northwest General, build water conservancy, reclaim farmland, and promote the silk industry.

The construction corps will enter the north of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Province in four batches, with a total of more than 200,000 people, which is the largest organized migration in the history of the Central Plains.

And the Suzaku Society, the tradition of the queen or the queen mother serving as the order has been continued.

In fact, this is only part of the huge immigration plan in the future, in Ye Zhao's conception, the immigrants of the Imperial Political Axe Organization are about one million, and the spontaneous ones who go to the Western Regions to beg for a living are other statistics.

When Ye Zhao arrived at Dihua, the cavalry division was already ready to go. After Ye Zhao and the Xiao cavalry regiment rested in Dihua for a few days, the whole army immediately set out and rushed to Daban.

Daban City is not far from Dihua, it is the throat of entering Tiannan, there is a town here in the Tang Dynasty, during the Qianlong period of the previous dynasty, a new city was built again, the garrison Tuntian, named Jiade City.

The Reading Force Regiment of the Lanzhou Group Army had already been stationed in Dabancheng.

Following the emperor's personal conscription troops, Harwich naturally wanted to take out the treasure at the bottom of the box, and the reading force regiment of the Lanzhou Group Army was outside the establishment of the third division, and was directly commanded by the admiral of the group army or Harwich.

There are more than 4,000 combatants in the Reading Regiment, 4 infantry battalions, 2 artillery battalions, although there is no cavalry battalion, but the regiment headquarters has a cavalry reconnaissance and communication post, and each infantry battalion is equipped with two cannons and two mine guns. Obviously, this is a sharp knife force with extremely strong combat effectiveness and is specially used to attack cities, and it is rarely used separately.

At the same time, the Reading Regiment basically achieved the goal of equipping each team with mules and horses, not counting the livestock of the artillery battalion, and the whole regiment transported 512 mules and horses and 127 camels.

When Ye Zhao saw the swaggering hump in the city, he couldn't help but smile.

The commander of the Reading Regiment was Deling, he Tara clan, and the Manchurian White Banner people.

His father, Shuangfu, was a generation of famous generals, who was recruited from Kashgar by the Protector Army, promoted to participate in the leadership, and became the deputy general of Hubei. Suppressed the Chongyang bandit Zhong Renjie, the most meritorious, gave the name Ulma Baturu, accumulated the general soldiers of Hebei and Guzhou towns, Jiangnan Governor, Hubei Governor. Hundreds of thousands of bandits besieged the city, the city fell, and they died. He was given the position of Captain of the Cavalry and the Captain of the Cloud Cavalry, and he was a martial artist.

When his father was martyred ten years ago, Deling was in the city of Wuchang, and when he saw his father's tragic death, he tearfully fought his way out of the siege and defected to the new army that the little grandfather in Guangzhou had just raised.

Now ten years have passed, when he only relied on martial arts to fight ruthlessly, he has become a tiger general who has experienced a hundred battles, in the rain of bullets, he is always the first to charge to death, with no less than 100 scars on his body, when he slaughtered the enemy with his own hands to avenge his father, he must kowtow to the regent, find the regent in the city, and his face is full of blood on the stone slab, and he faints on the ground crying.

And goodbye to this tower-like black man, the floor of the flower hall was ringing, and Ye Zhao felt a sense of closeness in his heart.

"The slave Deling asks the master for peace, the master has worked all the way, and the slave should die!"

Ye Zhao walked up, helped him up with a smile, touched his forehead with his hand, and said, "You didn't have a scar, did you?" ”

De Ling smiled honestly and said, "The master still remembers the slave." ”

Ye Zhao patted him on the shoulder and said, "How can you not remember, when you fell there like a mountain of gold and a jade pillar, I really had a lot of heart." ”

De Ling's face showed excitement, and he was a little embarrassed, scratching his head in disdain.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "Sit, sit." ”

At the bottom right, standing are Bai Laoheng, the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Regiment, Ye Tuwa, the chief officer of the cavalry division, Bai Hu, the deputy chief officer, Shi Qingyun, the chief of staff, and Kou Hai, the chief of staff of the Reading Regiment.

After Lei Chong was promoted to the chief of the Military Affairs Department of the General Staff of the Royal Military Commission, Bai Laoheng took over the post of commander of the Xiao Cavalry Regiment.

Ye Tuwa, in fact, is the Dahur warrior Tuva who played for Ye Zhao when Ye Zhao was outside the gate, Ye Zhao has a great kindness to him to save the clan, and since then, the entire Dahul clan has followed Ye Zhao.

Six years ago, Tuva was ready to change his name in the Central Plains, and Ye Zhao gave him the surname Ye, the name is still Tuva, the word Yongzhi, the empire is established, and Ye Tuva became the first warrior to be given the surname of the country.

Among the more than 5,000 soldiers of the cavalry division, more than 3,000 warriors were recruited from Mongolia, and the rest were elite knights selected by the Pingyuan Army.

The deputy chief military officer Baihu is a Mongolian warrior, the Mongolian name is called Chaganbala, after contacting the Central Plains, the heart yearns for it, please ask the master to name the Central Plains, Chaganbala translated into the Central Plains is the meaning of the white tiger, the master said, he likes this name very much, so he takes the name of the white tiger.

Shi Qingyun and Kou Hai, the two chiefs of staff of the cavalry division and the reading regiment, were both generals of the Pingyuan Army.

In addition to these six people, there is also Urden, the deputy head of the guards of the Forbidden Palace, in the flower hall, who led thirty Ouchi guards to be Ye Zhao's personal guards.

In addition, it is the leader of the Heshute Department, Tumen Ure, and the leader of the Karasharwei tribe, Kamuranjiang.

Moving south from the city of Guardian, the first to be recovered was Karasar.

At present, the city of Karasar is still in the hands of the Qing army, and it is said that the minister of Karasar has several guns under his command.

However, the Uighur tribes in the Karasar region have declared their allegiance to the empire, and Kamuranjiang is an old man in his fifties with a gray beard and a charitable eyebrow.

Heshute Department is a branch of Mongolia, once entered the Volga River valley to live in the herdsmen, and Tsarist Russia for more than 140 years of enslavement and anti-slavery war, and finally for the survival of the nation, had to move westward in the Qianlong period, after a lot of hardships, sacrificed half of the tribesmen, returned to the Central Plains, was allowed by the former dynasty to be nomadic in Xinjiang Province, Qinghai-Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Gansu.

The empire was established, and all the Mongolian tribes were grateful for the grace of the new dynasty, and most of them submitted, especially the imperial family, which had been specially allowed to enter the palace in the Mongolian tribes since this autumn, and followed the principle of autonomy and voluntariness, and never forced. The ministries were excited, and the royal family canceled the draft in the Central Plains, but they favored the Mongol tribes alone, and they valued them very much, and they were more favored than the previous dynasties.

The Heshute tribe, which was allowed to be nomadic in the Karasar area, had a total of three banners, known as the Three Banners of the Heshuot Middle Road, and had already sent envoys to Dihua to declare their allegiance.

At this moment, the three banners of the middle road of the Heshuo Special Department are also secretly looking at Ye Zhao, the hero who is said to be the number one hero in the world in Chinese and martial arts.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down, and said to the Uyghur elder Kamu Ranjiang with a pleasant face: "Please ask the old man to guide us and explain the situation of the eight cities and eight regions in the south of the Tianshan Mountains?" ”

Elder Kamuran was startled, hurriedly got up, knelt down and said, "The emperor has killed the grass people, and the grass people don't dare to be, don't dare to be." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's just a salutation, get up and get down to business." ”

"Yes, yes." The old gentleman got up and gave a general account of what he knew.

The eight regions in the south of the Tianshan Mountains are Kashgar, Yingjishar, Yarkand, Khotan, Ushi, Aksu, Kucha and Karasar, also known as the eight cities of southern Xinjiang.

Now the various tribes rebelled against the previous dynasty, but the Qing army relied on the advantage of the stronghold, Karasar, Khotan, and Ushi were still under its control, and the rest of the cities were occupied by the rebel tribes.

The Kokand Khanate took the opportunity to invade and conquered Kashgar and Yarkand, which were the most populous and extensive of the eight cities.

The Andijan people of the Kokand Khanate were brutal, slaughtering villages and killing people at the slightest resistance, and the Uyghurs who returned to obedience were heavily taxed, and their cattle and sheep were almost robbed.

Speaking of which, Elder Kamuran thumped his chest and was filled with grief and indignation.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, it seems that unlike the northern region of the Tianshan Mountains, with the invasion of the Kokand Khanate, the southern regions of the Tianshan Mountains, the domestic contradictions have become secondary contradictions, and the contradictions between countries have become the main contradictions.

Ye Zhao knew that the so-called Andijan people were Uzbeks. The Kokand Khanate was predominantly inhabited by Uzbeks, followed by Tajiks, Kyrgyz, and Kazakhs. Its territory includes parts of southern Kazakhstan, eastern Uzbekistan, and parts of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

"Your Majesty! Please descend to Heaven and save your suffering people! Elder Kamuran fell to his knees and kowtowed.

Uerden hurried up to pick him up.

Ye Zhao said: "Elder Kamu Ranjiang, don't worry, I didn't come to pick up grass and hunt rabbits this time. ”

Tumen Ure fell to one knee and said, "Your Majesty, my clan is willing to follow you in the battle against the devil from the west. ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, he had heard that the Heshuo Special Department had recruited five hundred cavalry and archery services, and in terms of the human resources of the three banners in the middle lane, it was difficult for them.

The commander of the Reading Force Regiment made De Ling kneel down and offer advice: "Master, the slave sent someone to send a letter to Karasar and order him to surrender?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled, De Ling, it was not that he only knew how to rely on courage and brute force at the beginning, but well, he smiled slightly, and said: "That's not necessary, it takes time to say, so that the whole army is ready to move, and the troops are under the city of Karasar, and the city is ordered to surrender, if he doesn't surrender, then there is no need to be polite." ”

"Wow!" All the military attaches knelt down in unison and agreed.

This time following the emperor's personal expedition, everyone is gearing up, and their hearts are higher than the sky, and they want to raise the power of the empire in this Western Regions! Raise the power of the Great Emperor!

(To be continued)