In the Yabian Hall of Ji'an Prefecture, Ye Zhao was reading several telegrams, one of which was encrypted by Rui Si and translated by Bakshi word for word according to the code book.

In the name of military needs, the telegraph lines of the major state capitals in Guangdong have been laid, and the telegraph lines in Jiangxi, Ganzhou, Ji'an, and Fuzhou have gradually taken shape.

Nowadays, some businessmen have begun to use telegraphs to spread information, and one word and one dime of silver can buy five or six catties of polished rice eaten by officials, and ordinary people naturally cannot afford to enjoy it for the time being.

The telegrams received by Ye Zhao were usually concise and to the point, because Ye Zhao had long advocated "diligence and thrift" in official expenses, and Li Xiaocun and others did not dare to be extravagant when they sent telegrams, and it was the earliest "telegrams" that became popular, and it was also worth thinking carefully about how to express the most accurate meaning with the fewest words.

It can be seen from the telegrams that factories have sprung up in Guangzhou and its satellite towns like mushrooms after a rain, such as silk reeling, cotton textiles, flour, matches, paper making and printing, food and candy, machine mining, ship repair, small machine manufacturing, and so on.

The latest telegram reported two good news: first, a telegram from Hong Kong was received that the machinery and equipment of the shipyard in preparation had arrived in Calcutta, and it was feared that it had already reached the Strait of Malacca by the time of the report; Second, when the railway from Foshan to Guangzhou will be opened, please decide, mainly because the shareholders of the railway industry hope to ask the prince to cut the ribbon for the opening of the railway.

Ruisi's telegram mainly reported the war on the Western Front, Monk Greenqin had already raised troops into Guangxi, and the Yunnan-Guizhou-Green Battalion raised troops at the same time, and now the war in Guangxi is raging.

Seeing this telegram, Ye Zhao frowned slightly, the matchmaker's situation was a little bad.

"Lord Wang, Li Hongzhang has arrived." The guard at the door bowed and said.

"Biography." As Ye Zhao spoke, he handed the telegram to Bakshi, who put it in a small tea bowl, lit it on fire, and carefully poured the ashes and water into the soil of the verdant potted plants in the corner of the house.

When Li Hongzhang came in, he was catching up with a tail, knowing that it was the prince who handled the confidential message, so he wouldn't look at it much, and knelt down to salute: "Li Hongzhang, the lowly governor of Jiangxi, greets the prince." ”

With the current identity of Ye Zhao, under the supervision, they all have to bow down, and the first and second rank members depend on what the situation is and the mentality of each person.

Ye Zhao bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Gradually, there is no need to be polite." ”

Li Hongzhang got up, and when he saw Ye Zhao's signal, he sat respectfully on the side. Ye Zhao nunu mouthed again, and the guards and pro-army presented those messages to Li Hongzhang.

Ye Zhao pondered and said: "Gradually, these Jiangxi legal laws and regulations are all based on Guangdong as a template, the latest 'commercial law', can you read it?" "The Commercial Law is similar to the Companies Act and the Uniform Act of the same period in England, except that it adds interpretations that conform to the Eastern tradition, and it is more mature than the company laws that have just taken shape in England. For example, if the legal person status of a commercial bank is determined, the rights and interests of the large and small shareholders of the commercial bank will be clearly distinguished, which will be conducive to fund-raising and the development of the commercial bank operated by the management of the commercial bank.

Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "I only know now that this business house and the yamen really can't be confused with it, the knowledge of the business house is as vast as the sea, and the people in the official family, if they don't work hard, it is really difficult to see their way." ”

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "Three hundred and sixty-five lines, each is different, although the commercial house also manages people, the yamen also manages people, this difference is too big, you know now, it's not too late." "The heart said that if you can recognize this early in your life, you can be regarded as growing.

Li Hongzhang nodded again and again.

Ye Zhao pointed to the telegram asking for the opening of the train, and said, "Go back, you can help me draw up a reply and tell them that you don't have to wait for me to cut the ribbon, and the train will be opened early."

"Yes!" Li Hongzhang hurriedly bowed down to receive the order.

"Dashuai, God Bao asks to see you." There are guards who quickly enter the hall and make a thousand promises.

"Oh? Transmit. Ye Zhao was slightly surprised, Li Xiucheng gathered the remnants of the British King to retreat to Nanchang, how could Shenbao suddenly come to Fuzhou to accept the Linjiang Mansion and Ruizhou Mansion abandoned by the thieves?

After a while, Shenbao strode in, and Li Hongzhang naturally got up to say goodbye and went to do what Ye Zhao explained.

Shen Bao knelt down on his knees, his face full of shame: "Lord Wang, my subordinates plead guilty, and the second infantry battalion under the humble standard clashed with the Hunan army in Linjiang, killing dozens of Hunan soldiers and capturing a Hunan army pipeline. The subordinates have no way to govern the army, please punish the prince! ”

Ye Zhaoqi said: "How could you go wrong with the Hunan army, and mistakenly think that it was a bandit?" "I didn't get angry, but even though I asked so, I actually couldn't figure out why I clashed with the Hunan army.

Sure enough, Shenbao said with an angry face: "Lord, it's not a lowly subordinate to protect his subordinates, it's really that those Hunan Yankees are not things, and the bandits were not driven away by the prince, but they are good, they didn't know where to hide before, but now they are all rising, not to mention burning and killing the silver in the villages near Linjiang, but also rushing to enter the Linjiang Mansion, so there was a dispute with the standard rifle battalion, and finally they did it with real knives and guns." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, picked up the teacup and tasted the tea, and asked, "Who made the first move?" ”

Shen Bao said: "I don't know who did it first, but the brothers of the rifle battalion were slightly wounded, killed many Hunan troops, and tied their pipe belts, which is ......."

Ye Zhao smiled: "You, how can you not know who will do it first?" ”

Shenbao was slightly stunned, and then suddenly, he thought that the general king would be angry, and he wanted to fight for this head who was brave and brave under the standard, but who knew that he couldn't see the slightest flame, but asked himself like this, that is, he was deliberately partial.

God Bao naturally blessed his soul, and said: "Yes, I am humble and confused, but I listened to the pipe under the standard, but it was the Hunan Yankees who opened fire and injured people." ”

Ye Zhao nodded and said: "The Hunan army is brave, there is no military discipline, haven't you seen the official document issued by the general's mansion to each regiment and its own bravery?" Burning, killing, looting? It's not a pity to die! ”

"Wow!" God has a mental calculation.

As he was talking, the guards hurriedly came in and reported: "Lord Wang, Shen Baozhen asks to see you." ”

Jimbo frowned slightly, and his heart came quickly.

Ye Zhao remained silent: "Biography." ”

After a while, Shen Baozhen hurriedly entered, and at that time, Shenbao had already retired.

"Jiangxi Governor Shen Baozhen greets the prince." Although Shen Baozhen claims to be the prince, he only goes to the ground for a long time, not to mention that he keeps claiming to be the governor of Jiangxi, and his meaning is obvious.

Ye Zhao bowed slightly: "Lord Futai doesn't have to be polite. Without waiting for Shen Baozhen to sit down, he said: "This king has given the queen mother of the two palaces and the emperor a fold, now most of the Jiangxi realm is pacified, and the chaotic situation of the government department during the war of thieves must be cleared. ”

Shen Baozhen was slightly stunned, this was clearly his army.

It took a long time for Shen Baozhen to smile and say, "The lower officials obey the emperor's dispatch. "I suddenly felt a little bitter in my heart, and I was in charge of the military affairs of the General's Mansion, but I was afraid that the emperor would really be approved, and the situation of Jiangxi and Jiangxi would always have a situation; Another person who followed the Cantonese army to listen to the truth and reality was unbelievable. It's just that isn't this really with tigers and wolves? Who knows what kind of calculation this great general king has in his belly?

After being stunned for a while, Shen Baozhen remembered what was going on, bowed down and said, "Lord, have you heard anything about Linjiang Mansion?" ”

Ye Zhao said indifferently: "Well, the Hunan Legion's brave army was sloppy, killed and plundered, and took the lead in provoking, and was defeated by the infantry battalion of the first town, did Futai say this?" ”

Shen Baozhen froze again, stayed for a while and frowned: "Whoever is who has to not talk about it first, but in the same room, kill dozens of Tuan Yong, this, this is ......"

Ye Zhao waved his hand to interrupt his words: "I have issued a strict order, if there are any people who disturb the people, the chief military officers of all towns can cut them first and then play, from now on, I think this vicious soldier will be reined in." Looking at Shen Baozhen, Zhengrong said in a deep voice: "Young Dan!" Do you think that this villager who burned, killed, and plundered is not messing with my Qing Dynasty? Is it possible to protect them back? Did you think about the women and children who died tragically at their hands? ”

Looking at Ye Zhaojiong's eyes, Shen Baozhen suddenly felt a little ashamed, and hurried over when he heard the news, he had already thought of a rhetoric on the road, and he was determined to cure the crime of the leader of the Guangdong army, and his mind was full of thoughts about the power struggle between the capital and Guangzhou, and how to kill the arrogance of the Guangdong army, otherwise if it continued like this, I was afraid that the Guangdong army would really become the source of chaos in the Qing Dynasty.

But at this moment, under Ye Zhao's clear eyes like water, he couldn't help but feel slightly embarrassed, no matter what the general Wang originally thought, but he, who has read the sage books for many years, is now full of scheming, but does he still have a conscience to help the world?

Shen Baozhen slowly lowered his head and said, "Yes, the lower officials are taught." ”

Ye Zhao stared at him for a while, and then said: "The captured Xiang Yong is in charge, I have asked people to come to Fuzhou, this matter, you Dan, you can do it, whether you kill it or release it, it's up to you." ”

Shen Baozhen was stunned again, this, isn't this difficult for himself? Hurriedly said: "This, please also ask the prince to make it clear." ”

Ye Zhao had already picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "I think you will know which is more important." ”

Shen Baozhen was helpless, so she had to get up and say goodbye.

…… A few days later, Ye Zhao was wearing a loose black casual suit, half lying on a comfortable sofa, looking at an advertisement in the newspaper and was stunned, yesterday, he had just returned from Fuzhou.

Li Xiucheng's troops retreated to Nanchang, and Shi Dakai's troops confronted the Hunan army in Jiujiang and turned each other into horns. Nanchang City is high and deep, the bandits have been operating for several years, and there are several batteries to rely on, and the proportion of musketeers in the Taiping army is gradually increasing, and it is urgent to be unbreakable, if it is attacked, it will inevitably hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800.

What's more, although the soldiers and horses of the four towns have increased their artillery battalions, in fact, there are soldiers but no artillery, and the artillery of the Guangdong army is only one battalion, and the rest of the artillery will be slowly replenished into the towns.

It was the infantry regiments of the first, third, and fourth towns stationed in Jiangxi, coupled with the courage of all regiments, that they set up a large camp dozens of miles north of Nanchang, which was a large camp in Jiangxi, so that the bandits did not dare to move lightly. The Second Town Infantry Regiment temporarily withdrew to Guangdong for recuperation.

Ye Zhao returned to Guangzhou, in addition to supervising the manufacture of artillery, he was naturally thinking about how to help the matchmaker who was fighting in Guangxi.

But what Ye Zhao didn't expect was that this person's thinking was really strange, just two or three years ago, he was still racking his brains to think about how to make the people of Guangzhou accept new things, how to make women take to the streets and expand their social circles.

But in the blink of an eye, Guangzhou's ideological "progress" is inevitably surprising, this newspaper, there is a soap advertisement, a photo of a female model out of the water hibiscus, although only showing the shoulders **, but this is a wide advertisement, the Chinese boss of the soap factory is bold, and the female model's thinking is "avant-garde" enough, but this advertisement is really eye-catching, and the effect is excellent.

I heard that there have been waitresses in Chinese merchant restaurants in the city, and as for Xiguan, waitresses are even more commonplace.

Now it seems that he wants to correctly lead the direction of public opinion, and not go to the other extreme, just like the average woman in later generations who takes exposure as beauty. However, if you think about it, in fact, there is no need to worry about the sky, and the problem of the moral outlook of the Chinese people in later generations is because the Western civilization is too strong, and the domestic civilization has been divided for various reasons, which makes the concept of "surname liberation" that appeared in the 20th century taken out of context by some Chinese people to study, and it is a very common phenomenon to worship foreign countries.

Although it is an emasculated Confucian culture, its ethical, moral, cultural values and other traditions are still being passed down from generation to generation, not to mention that the essence of Chinese civilization values is in the "home", which is the three outlines and five constants. For example, parents and children and brothers and sisters exposed each other and drew a clear line, and many traditional morality became feudal dross without dialectic, only talking about revolutionary relations, destroying the bottom line of traditional morality, and after the reform and opening up, the people who were confused and lost their faith began to believe in the interests first, which gradually destroyed the tradition of Chinese civilization and made the people fall into a crisis of true moral values.

In this life, it won't be, right?

Just pondering, listening to Yuxuan's huge golden wooden door was pushed open, Rong'er rushed in with surprise on her face, she wore a mille-feuille colored flower wings, wearing a blue silk embroidered peony slim cheongsam, the front and corner of the robe were inlaid with gold wire with wide edges, the peony bloomed, the cheongsam was elegant and lovely, just like her person.

Seeing her wearing small embroidered flag shoes with high wooden soles and stepping on broken steps, Ye Zhao, who was dignified and graceful, wanted to laugh, and knew that in Guanyin Mountain, she had to dress up properly.

"The concubine asks for peace to the prince." Rong'er walked to Ye Zhao's side, and her little body went down. I thought about being nurtured by my sister in the palace again.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Okay, in the future, it will be the same as before, we don't have so many rules." "Before returning to Guangzhou, the six kings issued an edict to crown Ye Zhao as the king of Doluo Suzhi County and the general of Pingyuan Jingkou, but the edict did not ask Ye Zhao, the general and prime minister, to do more provincial civil affairs, but in any case, it was regarded as making up the vote for Ye Zhao, and naturally canonized Rong'er as Fujin, Rong'er is now an out-and-out county king and Fujin.

The six kings also approved Ye Zhao's excerpt, and Shen Baozhen added the squire of the military department to help the general to discuss the military affairs of the thief.

The six kings had no choice but to do it, but they were clever moves, and they could not hinder it, so they showed their grace, so that the people of the world would know how much I valued you, and see what you could do in the end. And in private, I think I have to prepare and calculate, and when I see the dagger, I don't know what it is.

"Go, change into light clothes, and don't be afraid of getting tired." Ye Zhao twisted her little face.

Speaking of which, Rong'er is about to take the exam, if she gets the little red flower at the end of the term, can't she really pinch her little face?

Rong'er didn't know that Xianggong had already begun to think about how to regret it, in her mind, although Xianggong was not like a little thing and liked to mess around, he was naturally a big hero and a hero, how could he be a little woman like her?

"Oh" Rong'er obediently agreed, and walked out with small steps and extremely elegant steps.

"Master, the chief soldier Harwich and his wife have come to ask for peace for Fujin." As soon as Rong'er left, the pretty girl came in to say goodbye.

Ye Zhao's heart was sunburning, how could this old man catch up with the fashion? Visiting with your wife?

Ye Zhao knew that during his absence in Guangzhou, Baigui, Li Xiaocun and others brought their wives to kowtow to Rong'er, and they had the intention of congratulating Fujin.

"Well, I'll go now."

Ye Zhao changed into a silk robe and a splendid horse coat and went straight to the flower hall.

In the flower hall, Harich and his family were already waiting, and when they saw Ye Zhao entering the hall, they hurriedly bowed together, "Slave Harwich (Guoxi Chuka) please be safe." ”

Harwich's wife, Guerjia, is a beautiful woman in her early thirties, her wife is expensive by her husband, her husband was promoted to the second rank of the general military officer, she also became the second rank of the imperial court classics, and was brought by her husband to meet the prince, not to mention the excitement and excitement, a few years ago, she was often sad because of her brother-in-law's rapid promotion, she should have married Xi'an, and it would not be her sister who often showed off at home, who knew that after her husband followed the grandfather of the country, it could really be said that she was soaring, and it was only a few years, and it was the second grade, directly compared my sister to the bottom of the overpass.

came to meet the prince Fujin, the Guerjia clan was very carefully dressed, and for the first time wore the beaded hairpin flower headboard that symbolized the identity of the noblewoman, not to mention the sense of satisfaction.

At this time, he knelt down cautiously, and he didn't dare to look up, but the moment the prince entered the flower hall, he glanced at it, but he was so surprised, he had heard that the prince was young and handsome, and he didn't expect it to be so beautiful.

"Get up, sit, it's hard for you to have a heart!" Ye Zhao made a gesture, looked at Harwich again and said with a smile: "Just after receiving the message, Shen Baozhen cut off that guy's head." ”

Harwich was stunned for a moment, and then laughed as well: "The master is clever." He added: "This Shen Baozhen, it seems that he can't be underestimated." ”

Ye Zhao smiled, Shen Baozhen's move was naturally not a nominee, it was Harwich who said that he couldn't look down on it.

Shen Baozhen was winning his trust, saying that he would not bend the law for personal gain, but he also showed that with the stark contrast of the Guangdong army, he also disagreed with the burning, killing, and plundering of the Hunan army. It was by no means an easy task to be able to make up his mind to execute the officers of the Hunan army, and even if there were a thousand reasons, he would not be unaware that the governor of Liangjiang who had promoted him was not a broad-minded person.

Harwich smiled again: "Master, do you really want to keep him to listen?" This man is not simple. But the master can rest assured, he will naturally tell him what he should listen to in the future, and he will not hear a word if he should not listen. ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, and then motioned to Harwich, "Come, try this snack." "I picked up a piece first.

There are delicate snacks on the table, Western cream bread, cheese mille-feuille, etc., which are sweet and fragrant, and they are even more appetizing.

When he was talking, Ji Xiang hurriedly came in and whispered a few words in Ye Zhao's ear, but it was Rong'er who accidentally twisted her foot when she went downstairs, Ye Zhao was so angry and funny, her little arms and legs could also be twisted, and she wanted to go upstairs to see her, but she couldn't go now.

said to the two of them: "Fu Jin is sick, but this is not a coincidence. ”

Harwich and his wife glanced at each other, both of them were clever thieves, and immediately got up to say goodbye after a few words of concern and condolences. Ye Zhao then called someone to send off the guests.

(To be continued)