Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden.

At the bamboo shadow stone table in the small courtyard of the study, Ye Zhao was reading the newspaper clippings of Taihe Bank's overseas business, including the issue of railway construction rights that Wei Dingyi was negotiating with the Tehran regime in Iran.

However, what interests Ye Zhao the most is the construction of the Maputo port in Africa.

Now the port of Maputo and the surrounding land has been declared an overseas autonomous territory by the empire, at the end of last year appointed the governor of Maputo, the first governor of Maputo for Mingde, that is, the son of the guard Alhatu who guarded Ye Zhao in a bloody battle, the Zongren Mansion has always taken good care of his mother and son, Mingde is 28 years old this year, graduated from the Jinling Political Yuan, has been serving in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, quite capable.

In North Africa, Algeria was a French colony, and Tunisia was targeted, while France supported the British invasion of Cyprus in exchange for British understanding of French interests in Tunisia. Germany, in order to divert France's attention from Europe, also began to support French actions in Tunisia, while Italy was isolated.

Morocco is traditionally considered by Spain to be its sphere of influence because it faces Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. Hassan is now pushing for political reforms and building a new navy and army to prevent the country from becoming a colony of European countries, but the domestic aristocracy is fiercely opposed, and the regime is in turmoil.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the British occupied the coasts of The Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, and the South African colonial territories. France occupies the coastal areas of Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Dahomey. Portugal owns Angola and Mozambique, and Spain owns the Spanish Sahara.

In West Africa, the British intensified their aggression on the Gold Coast and Nigeria, but the powerful Ashanti state already existed in the interior of the Gold Coast. Before the 70s, Britain launched six wars to conquer Ashanti, all of which were defeated.

In East Africa, Britain had already signed a treaty with the Sultan in Zanzibar, enjoyed privileges, and regarded the East African coast as a British sphere of influence. Germany is also active in East Africa and is in the process of organizing a German East Africa company, targeting a large area of land between the Rovuma River and the Wemba River.

In Central and Southern Africa, the great powers were most fiercely contested, with Germany, Great Britain, China, Belgium, France, and Portugal all fighting over this area, with the Anglo-German contradictions being the most prominent, and in order to prevent the Germans from advancing eastward and the Boers approaching, Britain had just declared Bechuaner its protectorate.

In this chaotic situation, King Leopold II of Belgium began to plan and convene an international geographical conference, to establish the "International African Association", to set up chapters in the participating countries, the purpose of which was to open up Africa, "the only region on earth that civilization has not yet entered". In fact, this will be a negotiation of the interests of various countries to colonize Africa and coordinate the spheres of influence of various countries in Africa.

Now that China has not been invited, Ye Zhao is watching from the sidelines.

How to deal with the Boers? How to get the gold and diamonds of the Transvaal under Boer control into the empire was a formidable test.

The sound of footsteps sounded, and a slender figure appeared at the door of the moon cave.

Ye Zhao got up with a smile and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

A few days ago, Zhu Sisi went to Tongshan County, Xuzhou Prefecture to inspect the voting situation of the election of the political envoys, and the location was randomly selected, so as not to make window work for the people below.

Zhu Sisi shook her head, in Tongshan County, because of the vote, there was a fight, although the two clans did not know that the imperial concubine Niangniang came to this county, but they knew that the emperor was in Suzhou, so there was a large-scale fight among the villagers, which shows the strong concept of the villagers.

This is also because these villages are full of contradictions because of the upper and lower water sources, and there are disputes over water all the year round, and there will be armed fights almost every year.

Seeing Zhu Sisi's expression, Ye Zhao knew that the result was unsatisfactory, and said with a slight bow: "It's expected, right?" Don't be unhappy, don't you like Huangmei Opera, recruit an opera troupe to sing a few paragraphs. As he spoke, he said to the female guard Nunu who was following Zhu Sisi, and said, "Go and talk to Bai Laoheng and pass on a troupe." ”

The female guard is called Baozhu, is the younger sister of the former deputy head of the inner inner palace and the chief of the inner court female guard, Mingzhu, now Mingzhu is married, sent to the railway patrol system, Baozhu was transferred to the inner court female guard at the end of last year, she is just seventeen years old, with starry eyebrows, born extremely heroic, because of the relationship between Mingzhu, Ye Zhao and the imperial concubines are also extremely close to her.

Baozhu is different from Mingzhu, and there is not much foundation in the cold weapon of the national arts, and the grappling skills are acceptable, but the strength cannot be compared with the male guard, but the reaction is fast, and the marksmanship is extremely clever.

Baozhu is a new generation of flag girl, since she was a child, she has been smart and innocent, innocent and cute, her parents can say that she drafted into the palace, and she will definitely be favored by the emperor, but now the draft system in the palace has long been a thing, and Baozhu has entered the armed police system, and was exceptionally promoted to the inner guard.

Listening to Ye Zhao's orders, Baozhu bowed down and left in response to the order, although she was young, she entered the inner guard and underwent extremely cruel training, including killing, which is a stage that must be experienced. Being able to serve the emperor is a great honor for the entire family.

Zhu Sisi said with some concern: "There won't be assassins, right?" "Thinking about back then, the pervert messed around with himself every day and didn't encounter danger, which is really a cold sweat.

Ye Zhao shook his head slightly, picked up a letter on the stone table, and said, "In the past few days, many suspects have been arrested. "If the Suzhou City Fairness Party can still organize assassinations, then the entire internal affairs system and homeland security system of the empire are not equivalent to non-existent?

Ye Zhao smiled again and said: "There is another happy thing, Guo Ziqiang is here, I will arrive this morning, and you two sisters will get together in a while." ”

Zhu Sisi smiled and didn't speak, but sat next to Ye Zhao, she knew that this was the Xianggong sympathetic to her, she should have known that she missed her old friends, but after all, in the capital, the rules are strict in the palace, and it is not very convenient to meet old friends, so it is much more relaxed to travel around the place.

The Qinxiang Pavilion is in the East Garden, facing the water across the mountain, the interior is spacious and bright, the boxwood carving on the long window skirt is finely carved, the layers are rich, and it is lifelike. The floor-to-ceiling long windows and the exquisite skirt wood carvings decorate the Xiangxiang Pavilion with simple and elegant taste.

Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi met Guo Ziqiang here.

Guo Ziqiang's life was not good in the early years, and he divorced soon after getting married, and it was not until a few years ago that he fell in love with a primary school teacher, and soon got married, and the new husband was like-minded with her and was quite good to her.

Although he had seen the regent in his early years, he had long known that the pervert that Zhu Sisi hated back then was the regent, and he was the emperor today, but over the years, seeing the empire changing with each passing day, the emperor's reputation was like Zhongtian, and her circle of friends, even if the most radical and eager to implement a constitutional monarchy, would not say half a bad word about the emperor, not that he didn't dare, but really supported the emperor.

The pervert is the emperor, and Zhu Sisi has become a concubine, often seeing in the newspaper the demeanor of her former friend and current mother of the country, cheering for Zhu Sisi, but also feeling that her friend is drifting away from herself, and she has gradually lived in two worlds.

However, at this time, Zhu Sisi took hands and sat on the sofa of the concubine, talking about the things in the women's meeting back then, the two seemed to be back in the past, just looking at Zhu Sisi's more and more delicate and beautiful face, Guo Ziqiang sighed and said: "You have become beautiful, I am old." "Indeed, looking at Guo Ziqiang now, he is seven or eight years older than Zhu Sisi, one is a beauty in her twenties, and the other is a young woman in her thirties.

Ye Zhao kept smiling and listening to the two of them. After chatting with Zhu Sisi for a few words, Guo Ziqiang couldn't help but feel disrespectful, and really didn't know how to talk to Ye Zhao, facing Ye Zhao, her thoughts were more complicated, one was a pervert who had some friendship in the past, a very interesting young friend; One is the master of the empire, even the most powerful monarch in the world, but these two people are the same person, seeing Ye Zhao, Guo Ziqiang was kind and restrained, and he didn't know how to speak.

"Your Majesty, you, you haven't changed much?" Guo Ziqiang finally came up with a sentence, but after speaking, he felt that he might be a little disrespectful?

Ye Zhao already smiled and said, "Nothing has changed?" Back then, Sisi said that I was a little white face, but is it still now? ”

Guo Ziqiang was dumbfounded, he never expected the emperor to come up with such a sentence.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Look, Sisi rolled her eyes again, and she must be muttering in her heart, I don't have anything serious to say." But Guo Ziqiang, you are friends, and I can barely be considered your friend, I am also happy to see you today, don't you say? ”

Guo Ziqiang nodded silently and said: "Back then, I really didn't expect to meet Your Majesty, think about it, if the women's meeting back then, if there was no Your Majesty, I am afraid that it would have been copied a long time ago; I waited for His Majesty's holy grace, but I didn't know it. ”

When it comes to the past, Zhu Sisi is also sweet, isn't it, now that I think about it, what kind of women would I hold with Guo Ziqiang, at that time, I must have felt that I was very naïve, perhaps, I thought I was cute?

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said: "This is nothing to do with me, I wish someone had copied the women's union and killed the majesty of this monkey." As he spoke, he smiled and pointed at Zhu Sisi.

Guo Ziqiang smiled and said, "I mean Your Majesty is the teacher of ideological enlightenment. ”

Ye Zhao said: "Mentor? That's what it means to wear a top hat. Let's not talk about this, what, do you have difficulties in life? ”

Guo Ziqiang hurriedly shook his head and said, "The life of the folk girl is very stable. "How can her little be in front of the emperor and the imperial concubine?

………………………………………………………………………………………………………… It's the first tomorrow, and the brothers who can vote for the monthly ticket will vote, don't be too stubborn, sweat to death.

I will definitely write more next month.,It's not done in the past few days.,It's estimated that the first three or four days will still be a chapter a day (3,000 words).,But after the fourth or fifth day, you should be able to start writing more.,Next month can't be less than 150,000 words.,This is not an outbreak promise.,It should be able to keep promises.。

(To be continued)