"Baiyue Yuan" is the most popular repertoire of Huangmei Opera today, and Xiao Dan is squeaking and singing on the green brick floor, and his voice is extremely clear and comfortable.

The guards hurriedly sent in a few telegrams, because they had been ordered by the emperor earlier, Xiao Dan and Xiao Sheng did not stop this time and waited for the emperor to read the telegrams.

Although the emperor did not urge the imperial approval, the local government was really resolute, Yuan Shijie was sentenced to two years in prison, and the evil slaves who had pushed and insulted the deceased old lady were also arrested and tried, and at the same time, three judges in Suzhou were suspended and investigated.

These telegrams are all from Beijing, including a letter from King Leopold II of Belgium inviting China to participate in the "International Geographical Conference" to be held in Brussels, as well as a secret telegram from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, saying that Xue Mingjiu, an important cadre of the Fairness Party, had been arrested in Xinjiapo and had been secretly escorted back to Guangzhou.

Xue Mingjiu? Ye Zhao couldn't help but rub his nose, this guy who has written a letter of repentance is also quite capable, and he can still be mixed up in the fair party, right?

Within the empire, the Fairness Party was strictly in a state of atrophy, and its propaganda targeting bankrupt peasants and the destitute strata was itself a failure, after all, the original program of the Fairness Party, thanks to Ye Zhao, was supposed to unite the merchant capitalist class.

However, under the influence of the First International and the ideology of apolitical axeism, the party's program has been repeatedly adjusted, and its way into the countryside is more similar to the triads and the Tiandihui in the early years.

However, Lu Yueting seems to have gradually gained some fame in Europe, and is considered to be the most famous revolutionary in the East, and has also received financial support from some European nobles, and according to accurate information, Lu Yueting has now gone to London, as if he was invited by a certain lord in London.

Ye Zhao had already instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs that if he could be arrested in London, then Lu Yueting would be arrested in London, but he wanted to see what tricks some British politicians would play.

Putting down the secret telegram from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ye Zhao picked up the letter from Belgium again, in any case, the current African affairs or West Asian affairs, without China's participation, can not be satisfactorily resolved, nevertheless, China is the last country invited by the Belgian king, after all, the Eastern and Western cultures are different, if it is said to deal with Eastern affairs, European countries have to deal with China, but in Africa, obviously many Europeans are reluctant to the intervention of the Chinese.

Thinking about it, Ye Zhao turned his head and whispered to Zhu Sisi: "After a while, I want to go to Africa to have a look." ”

Juss was stunned and said, "That's too risky, isn't it?" ”

Ye Zhao sighed in his heart, Africa is not as good as the United States, a desolate and chaotic place, although he really wants to see it, but after all, it is not very realistic, perhaps, only after he has unloaded his burden and relaxed in the future, can he really walk around and see the world.

…… When the Chinese ambassador to Germany attended the "International Geographical Conference" in Brussels as Imperial Minister Plenipotentiary, relations between the Chinese and the Boers became worse in Maputo and Dewasland because of the entry of Chinese expeditions and immigrants.

The officials of the Zongren Palace, who were in charge of the royal estate, bought 2,700 square kilometers of land from an indigenous chief on the banks of the Dwach River on the border of the Dwasland region for 100 old guns and 2,000 silver dollars.

Because it is royal land, according to the law, the land is automatically protected by the Imperial Axe without the need for the official to apply to the Imperial Immigration Agency.

In addition, a number of Chinese merchants bought land in the area and applied for imperial protection, and the increasing number of immigrants entering the area led to a boycott of Chinese immigrants, and tensions between Dewasland and the Imperial Maputo colonial axe increased.

The Boers are the mixed descendants of Europeans and Africans, that is, they have absorbed the elements of advanced European civilization, and have the strong physique and fierce genes of Africans, this is a difficult race to deal with, Ye Zhao knows how strong it is, the British in order to conquer the Boers, but mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, of which more than 200,000 are stationed in Africa.

If the Chinese go to war with the Boers, they should be more wary of European intervention, but if they do not defeat the Boers, how can they gain control of the Dewasland region?

The gold mines of Dewasland would be one of the key factors in maintaining the stability of the empire's currency after the depreciation of silver, and gold reserves were a hundred times more important than in this era when precious metals were used as monetary measures.

On the way to Novosibirsk, Ye Zhao was still thinking about this problem.

Although the election of legislators in Jiangsu Province did not turn into a farce, it was also chaotic, and in the end 211 legislators were barely elected, but in many villages, there were cases of joint petitions, and several legislators were suspected of cheating and bribing voters in the election process, and the supervision department has launched an investigation. A newspaper in Hong Kong believes that the election of the imperial Jiangsu Province is an outright failure.

Ye Zhao felt that it would be good if there was a beginning.

went to Novosibirsk, Ye Zhao was extremely low-key, and the Imperial Library's reporting office did not release information on the emperor's tour, and similarly, the news of the secret visit of Grand Duke Catherine of the Ural Principality to Novosibirsk was also extremely tightly blocked.

In the Ufa region, there were skirmishes between the garrison of the Principality of the Ural and the Russian border guards, while the economy of the Principality was sluggish, the nobility was high, the people gradually became dissatisfied, and the activities of the underground organization of the Narodya Volyam became more and more frequent, and Catherine desperately hoped that this visit would gain the support and commitment of the Chinese.

The railway between the empire and the Ural principality has long been connected, and the Chinese gradually became the majority of the population in the southeastern plains of Novosibirsk, of course, the Oros of the southeastern plains today can also be called Chinese.

went to Novosibirsk, and the imperial doctor accompanying Ye Zhao was originally designated by the imperial infirmary as the beautiful and famous doctor Christina of the Tianjin Women's Hospital, but was vetoed by Ye Zhao and replaced by a male doctor.

For more than three years, Novosibirsk has changed greatly, there are more and more Chinese-style houses, and the kind of high-rise buildings with eaves have gradually appeared, the "Oriental Hotel" that Ye Zhao stayed in this time is a four-story cornice building, which has now been completely covered by the chamberlain of the Zongren Mansion, Ye Zhao lives on the top floor, and the more than 100 Lan Lingwei who accompanied him live in the guard room and each room on the first to third floors.

Although Catherine arrived in Novosibirsk a day earlier, Ye Zhao was not in a hurry to see her, accompanied by Zhang Zhidong, vice governor of Shuanghe Province and mayor of Novosibirsk, Ye Zhao took a carriage around Novosibirsk, and Zhang Zhidong introduced the changes in Novosibirsk to the emperor.

When the carriage arrived at the original military police headquarters, Zhang Zhidong said: "The old property has been returned to Mrs. Witt, and the police headquarters has been moved to Dongcheng District. ”

Ye Zhao had lived here for several months, and when he revisited his hometown at this time, he couldn't help but feel emotional, remembered something, and asked, "What about Viscount Werther?" ”

Zhang Zhidong was a little helpless, and could only tell the truth, saying: "I am serving a prison sentence, and Mrs. Werther's life is quite stable." ”

Ye Zhao bowed slightly, thought for a while, and motioned for the carriage to move forward.

The front and back three carriages walk on the bluestone avenue, not eye-catching, the streets on both sides, the Chinese and Russian customs are different, the pedestrians are three or three, the same is the Oriental and Caucasians, the city with a very strong immigrant color.

Novosibirsk, the empire is ready to build a benchmark city in Siberia, the success of the Novosibirsk national policy, it can stabilize the Siberian people in the shortest possible time, the empire is extremely sufficient in Novosibirsk, and uses various incentives to attract businessmen to invest, in fact, as the largest transit point of the trade route between China and Russia, the geographical location of Novosibirsk itself is extremely superior, in just two years, the population has doubled, and a new light industry trade city has taken shape, at the beginning of this year, in the imperial geographic magazine, Novosibirsk is praised as the "Pearl of the North".

The Novosibirsk Municipal Axe also paid great attention to the environment, and the first thing it did after the war was to improve the sewer pipes and various infrastructures, and today there is almost no debris on the main long streets that extend in all directions. Hearing the emperor's praise, Zhang Zhidong was also slightly complacent.

However, to Zhang Zhidong's frustration, when the carriage turned into a street, the road was blocked, but in front of a spired Orthodox church, dozens of Oros people were noisy and shouting, and if you looked closely, it was several police officers in police uniforms who were abused and besieged by the people.

Ye Zhao looked out from the window, although it was far away, but it could be seen that several police officers were both male and female, with yellow faces and white faces, and when he looked carefully, Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, one of the blonde policewomen was Natasha, and suddenly saw his old friend, Ye Zhao couldn't help but feel a trace of warmth in his heart, and said to Zhang Zhidong with a smile: "That's Natasha, right?" ”

Zhang Zhidong naturally understood the emperor's meaning and said, "The minister went to call her over." ”

At this time, a team of armed police on bicycles drove quickly and began to disperse the crowd, while the leader of the armed police squad began to reprimand Natasha and several other patrol officers.

Natasha has not been promoted but demoted in the police rank in the past two years, without him, after studying in Yanjing, he returned to Novosibirsk, and he has long been wrong, Ye Zhao has left, although Zhang Zhidong knows Natasha, but since the emperor has no other intentions for her, Zhang Zhidong and her status are very different, and they have no time to take care of her.

A deputy director of the Novosibirsk City Bureau surnamed Jin, seeing that Natasha was beautiful and quiet, he wanted to arrange her marriage with his nephew, who knew that Natasha would not obey, Director Jin didn't say anything at the time, but half a month later, Natasha was fined and demoted because of a mistake in her work, and she didn't get the opportunity to be promoted in the past two years, but she had to come out to patrol, and the police officer who came to Yanjing for training at the same time as her is now the lowest level is also the deputy of the patrol police station.

Now the person who is teaching Natasha a lesson is none other than Director Kim's nephew, the squad leader of a squad of the Novosibirsk Armed Police Brigade.

Captain Jin is in his twenties this year, his face is full of pimples, it is when the firepower is strong, although he is married, but he is still not very dead to Natasha, sometimes he can't sleep, his mind is full of Natasha's surname, and now although he reprimands Natasha loudly, his eyes can't help but dangle on Natasha's delicate police uniform's crisp chest and hips, and his heart is very hot.

Natasha pursed her lips tightly and didn't squeak.

At this moment, Zhang Zhidong walked over and said, "Let's talk about your business later, Natasha, you come with me." ”

Captain Jin didn't pay attention to Zhang Zhidong coming over, and subconsciously turned around and said angrily: "Who are you, what are you making noise?" When he turned his head, he was startled.

Most of the police officers naturally didn't know Zhang Zhidong, but Captain Kim had to be taken care of by his uncle, and he used to work as a guard at the city office.

Zhang Zhidong bowed slightly, and said to Natasha: "Come on, someone wants to see you." ”

Natasha's heart skipped a beat, she hadn't seen Mayor Zhang Zhidong for a long time, and she knew that this shrewd and capable mayor was "his" subordinate.

Natasha looked at the carriage very quickly, but the curtains of the windows were lowered so that she could not see what was going on inside, and Natasha walked slowly.

Captain Kim looked at the backs of Natasha and Zhang Zhidong, and he didn't know what was going on for a while, but intuitively, he felt that he and even his uncle were afraid that there would be big trouble.

In the carriage, Zhang Zhidong did not follow the car, but went to sit in the front one, more than two years later, Natasha saw Ye Zhao again, her heart was a little sour, but she just sat silently on the soft couch next to her, looking down at the shiny black leather shoes.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Why have you been demoted for more than two years, and I saw you being scolded when I came, this is rare, what's going on outside?" ”

Natasha said: "Mr. Wen, Mr. Wen ......" immediately felt that it was wrong, what kind of identity Zhang Zhidong was, he was still a subordinate of Mr. Wen, and after the news of the emperor's residence in Yekaterinburg came out, Natasha had already vaguely guessed Ye Zhao's identity.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "Just call Mr. Wen, those people outside, why are they making trouble?" ”

Natasha looked at her toes and whispered, "Yesterday I checked a group of smuggled women, these people were instigated by snakeheads. ”

China and the Ural Principality have signed a number of agreements, and the railway customs of the two sides are not strict, and some Russian smugglers often organize illegal immigrants to cross the Ural Mountains into the Ural Principality, and then transfer to trains or smuggle across the frozen Ob River in winter to the southeastern plains to make money.

Ye Zhao asked again, "What happened to that squad leader just now?" It feels like he's targeting you. ”

Natasha's face flushed slightly, hesitated, and said, "Someone wants to match me and him, but I didn't agree." I don't know why, when I said this in front of "Mr. Wen", my heart immediately felt relaxed.

Ye Zhao sighed, think about it, I have encountered this kind of thing back then, and the female staff of the empire now have to face this kind of problem more or less, the deep-rooted patriarchal social ideology, just accepted the female surname to work, and I am afraid that messy things are indispensable.

(To be continued)