The silver palace is resplendent with gold, and the incense burner is smoking.

Behind the yellow curtain on the east side, Ye Zhao was sipping tea and listening to Harwich.

Beside Harwich, next to half of his buttocks, sat a middle-aged scribe, in a green cloth robe, with an elegant face and a long strand of hair, which was even more strange.

The scribe is a guest who has just defected to the Harwich door, called Yu Quyuan, Daoguang thirty years of Jinshi, Hanlin editing, appointed Jiangxi Xuezheng, not a few, he was dismissed by the bullet chin "test questions to cut the scriptures", and then the Yue army entered Jiangxi, and Yu Quyuan Suo surname was put into the Harwich tent.

However, Harwich's political sense was extremely sensitive, and he gradually sensed that the general king's practice of making a strict distinction between military commanders and local officials was not involved in the military, that is, civil affairs officials were not involved in the military, and military governors were not involved in the localities. And when the general Wang took the masters of the yamen into the officials' room, and set up a staff department in the army, and all the commanders' staff were incorporated into the general staff, he sent his military advisers to the general staff, and the rest of the scribes were all reformed, and Yu Quyuan was very knowledgeable, and Harwich was also very admired, so as to lead him to meet the general king.

Yu Quyuan, of course Ye Zhao has heard his name, one of the most influential Confucians in the late Qing Dynasty, his disciples are all over East Asia, and Zhang Taiyan is his protégé.

However, he didn't know what to expect in the future, now he is just a small official who has just been impeached and dismissed, and in this Yin'an Palace, his hands and feet are obviously a little unable to let go.

"Lord Wang, Yin Fu advocates no faith and no levy, but it coincides with the prince's insight." Harwich said with a smile that he did his best, and he helped Yu Quyuan say all the good things yesterday.

Ye Zhao smiled and nodded, Yu Quyuan, the representative of Puxue, the so-called Puxue, pay attention to evidence, pay attention to reality, criticize the Confucian students who forget the tradition of Confucianism and talk about the country, philosophically speaking, it can be said to be the negation of the negation in the history of Confucianism.

Turning his head to look at Yu Quyuan, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Yin Fu, I have written a few articles, and I want to invite you to Yazheng one or two when I turn around." ”

Yu Quyuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Don't dare, if the grass people can see the prince talk about the world, how fortunate is it." ”

Harwich smiled and said: "Yin Fu, the prince really looks up to you, his old man has fought all over the country, the Rakshasas, the French, and the English, who is not scared when they hear his old man's name?" Everyone begged to buy the code set by his old man, this is not my nonsense, the governor of Hong Kong Island, this trustee has come to me, and I have pouted back. It's good for you, the prince can show you the unfinished article, I'm a little jealous! ”

Yu Quyuan said: "Yes, the grass people have heard of it. "It's not a new thing for this foreigner to come around and buy the laws of the General's Mansion, and it has long been spread all over the world.

Ye Zhao smiled and nodded Harwich.

Harwich bowed and said with a smile, "The minion knows his mistake. He always knows when to say something, and he knows when to say it more than he wants, and it always has to be just right.

Ye Zhao pondered for a while, and said to Yu Quyuan: "There is just a shortage in the rite room, if Yin Fu doesn't think my temple is small, please be wronged." ”

Yu Quyuan hurriedly knelt down: "The grass people thank the prince, the grass mustard body, the grace of the prince, the grass people dare not be ashamed, only the grass is tied to the ring, and the death is repaid!" ”

Harwich smiled slightly, who is not proud of entering the General's Mansion now? Yu Quyuan met our family, which was his luck.

Ye Zhao got up and helped Yu Quyuan up, which made him even more frightened and didn't know what to do.

In fact, Ye Zhao knows his own business, and now he has officials and military generals, which can be said to be a gathering of various schools, no different from a hodgepodge, such as the Li Xiaocun faction who greatly advocates Western learning, and the Confucian Li Jianchen and Zheng Zhen faction, plus the likes of the promotion and fortune of Bai Gui, the Qingliu Zhou Jingshan and others, the Empress Dowager Yi Haqi and others, and the likes of Li Hongzhang who are looking for ideas in the collision of ideas, etc., etc., are really diverse and colorful.

Although these people are now being pinched together by themselves, because of the absolute prestige they have built up in the past few years, the small regime in Guangzhou has never encountered any real difficulties, but once there is a crisis in this regime, I am afraid that it will be lively at that time.

I am really fateful, by chance, for a second person, who can unite these people with different ideas and different demands?

It is also said that the Westernists have reasons to support themselves, the conservatives also have reasons to support themselves, the promotion stream has reasons to support themselves, and the Qingliu officials also have reasons to support themselves. In this era, of course, these officials under his command are royalists, but I am afraid that if there is really a revolutionary faction, if they come into contact with him, they will have the same reasons to support him.

It's like the return of all the people, Ye Zhao tasted the tea, and slapped himself on the back. In fact, he knows better than anyone else the problems of his regime, and he is giggling with himself, so isn't it a realm?

"Lord Wang, the letter you wanted." Seeing that Harwich and the scholar were gone, Zhu Jiutang hurriedly sent the letter and cleaned up the colorful cups and bowls on the coffee table.

Today, Zhu Jiutang is a scribe.

Ye Zhao looked at her and smiled: "Are you going to quit?" ”

Zhu Jiutang didn't know how to speak, his father was safe and sound, although he lost the silver, but the person was fine, the silver, he could only find a way to raise it and slowly compensate others.

Ye Zhao sighed and said: "It's difficult to find a good scribe, and it's even more difficult to find a good female scribe, don't say it, I'm really a little reluctant to you." Indeed, Zhu Jiutang is careful and cautious, and he is even more discerning, and he is simply a natural secretary.

"The people's daughter, the people's daughter doesn't dare to be." Zhu Jiutang was taken aback, the "reluctant to you" of the general Wang was even more abrupt, if he didn't know the surname of the general Wang, he would still think that he was molesting people. Still, the pretty face couldn't help but heat up.

"Okay, let's have a host, if you have something in the future, you might as well come to me."

"Yes, the folk girl wrote it down!" Zhu Jiutang didn't dare to say more, thought about it, knelt down, kowtowed three times in a row, and his strength was very strong, if it weren't for the thick French carpet in this small world, he was afraid that his forehead would be broken. "The great kindness of the prince, the daughter of the people will never forget it for the rest of her life."

The red uniform is charming and beautiful, kowtowing to thank you, but it also makes the man feel comfortable, Ye Zhao smiled: "Okay, get up, this lost silver, I have to find it for you, it is a great luck that no one died, this is going to be a human life, I really don't know what to do, there is no way to govern the army, I can't escape the blame." ”

Although Zhu Jiutang felt that this matter had nothing to do with the general king, she didn't dare to say it, and she was not qualified to say it, even if she wanted to comfort people, it had to be a relationship of equal status, right?

Ye Zhao stopped talking and opened the letter.

It is the statistics of rural households in Shunde County, the number of tenant farmers, the number of migrant workers in the city, land ownership, and so on. From the small to the big, a preliminary understanding of the current rural situation.

Rolling his eyes a few times, Ye Zhao shook his head, looking at these data is equivalent to looking at the flowers, if you don't go down to investigate and just look at the data, it will be a blind man touching the elephant, and the person who goes down to investigate is to choose a shrewd and capable official.

Seeing that the general Wang was accustomed to his surname and fell into contemplation, Zhu Jiutang quietly withdrew from the yellow mantle.

…… The county king's mansion is an animal park, with strange flowers and plants, and strange trees.

In the iron fence dozens of zhang square, a gray elephant is strolling with its head held high.

In front of the fence, wearing a blue cheongsam, the small Rong'er is getting smaller and smaller than the giant elephant, she opened her big eyes, looked at it curiously, stretched out her hand, Jixiang hurriedly handed over the small water scoop, Rong'er splashed the water over, and shouted: "Dirty you!" The elephant curled its nose in pleasure.

Sitting on the rattan chair, Ye Zhao looked at this scene with amusement.

This is a gift from the lord of Siam to the general king, and it has just arrived yesterday.

"Xianggong, the Southern Barbarian said it could be ridden, didn't he?" Rong'er turned her little head and asked curiously.

Ye Zhao smiled: "Wait a few days, let's ride it to the street." ”

As soon as she heard it, she knew that Xianggong was fooling herself again, Rong'er sighed carefully, when will Xianggong grow up?

Ye Zhao fiddled with a string of pearls in his hand, the size of each thumb, crystal clear, full of brilliance, a total of forty-nine, one pearl is already a treasure, forty-nine of the average size of the string, it is absolutely rare, priceless.

It is estimated that tens of thousands of pounds will not be a problem to get the European auction.

The lord of Siam really worked hard.

Now the lord of Siam, Rama IV, Ye Zhao doesn't know how he is, if you want to say that you understand, it is from the movie "Anna and the King", the king of Thailand played by a Chinese movie star, if there is no movie, Ye Zhao or Rama IV has never heard of it.

In the movie, Rama IV is naturally wise and martial, and he can't be taken seriously, but since it can be written into the novel as a positive character by Western writers, it is still a best-selling novel, at least it shows that Rama IV is open-minded and pragmatic, and has contact and trade with the West.

And now, he clearly saw himself as the legitimate representative of the tributary state, and the envoy did not go north to Beijing, but sent tribute and gifts directly to the yamen of the prime minister of Guangzhou.

In fact, the so-called tributary country is more of a trade relationship, and the tribute is to be paid in the Qing Dynasty, and it is said that this gift is similar to the tribute understood by later generations, and it is a treasure given for free.

Rama IV wrote a letter to the general king of Guangzhou, informing Ye Zhao of the current situation in Siam, and also signed a treaty of commerce with the British, and the autonomy of justice and tariffs was as undermined as the Qing dynasty, and Rama IV implored the general Wang to lead a sailor to Siam.

Come to think of it, this is the intention of him to send a generous gift.

After reading the letter Ye Zhao, I realized that the current Rama IV is completely different from the image in the novel, just encountered the giant ship artillery of the West, Rama IV is still thinking about how to maintain the original rule, instead of hiring a British female teacher to teach his son Western culture and carry out various changes.

And in the East, there was no doubt that only the Qing Dynasty could weaken British influence and control over it.

Ye Zhao shook his head slightly, his domestic affairs were still full of holes, how could he have time to pay attention to him?

However, we can't chill his heart, and when I reply to the letter, I have to give him confidence and hope, and it seems that he has to write this letter himself.

(To be continued)