In the study, Ye Zhao flipped through several telegrams from Beijing, most of them were the movements of European ministers, a few days ago, Ye Zhao ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to temporarily reject Germany's intention to mediate, now is a critical moment, and European countries cannot be allowed to get involved in the name of justification, otherwise, Russia's variables will be too great.

Now Ye Zhao is only worried that European countries will coordinate their positions and interfere in the Russian political situation together, and try to guide this turmoil in Russia into a rhythm in line with China's interests before the European countries' policies toward Russia are clear.

There was a knock on the door gently, and Zheng Aqiao said outside: "Master, Miss Yeka asks to see you." ”

Ye Zhao was stunned at first, and then knew that Zheng Aqiao was talking about Ye Katerina, and then put the message in the drawer and said, "Please come in." ”

The door was gently pushed open, and Catherine, who was holding a red lacquered floral tea tray, walked in slowly, her gait was light, dignified and elegant, and her red court dress was like a European court version of an aristocratic Barbie doll.

Catherine made two cups of tea, Ye Zhao sat on the sofa on the side of the marble coffee table, and invited Catherine to sit too, and asked, "Miss Catherine, are you not used to living?" ”

Ekaterina shook her head and said, "No, thank you Mr. Wen for taking care of me, I have a good stay, I really appreciate you." The look of gratitude in her deep blue eyes did not seem to be a fake.

Ye Zhao took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Miss's tea brewing heat can be comparable to that of Chinese tea masters." ”

"You're so complimentary, it's your tea that's good." Catherine smiled shyly, Russia was defeated one after another, her former arrogance was gone, and now she is lost in the occupied zone, just like fish on the Chinese chopping board, the legendary Chinese who do all kinds of evil, fortunately, there are also gentlemen like Mr. Wen.

After a while, Catherine asked, "Mr. Wen, you should know the reply that Viscount Witte is unwilling to serve the town hall. ”

Ye Zhao only knew her intention at this time, Mrs. Werther came two days ago, she persuaded Viscount Werther to serve the Chinese failed, it seems that Viscount Werther is very decisive this time, and even no longer cares about the safety of Catherine, from the original Mrs. Werther agreed so happily, in fact, you can know that Ekaterina must have a special identity.

It's just that the chaos in Russia has become a reality, and there is really no time to care about the identity of a noble woman.

Mrs. Witte must have also told Catherine about this, and Catherine knew that she would be able to take refuge in the Chinese residence in exchange.

However, Viscount Witt ruined this "deal", but Ye Zhao never saw her out, and Ekaterina couldn't help but wonder in her heart.

Ye Zhao put down the tea cup and said: "I understand what you mean, although I have negotiated the conditions with Mrs. Witte in advance, she has failed to keep her word, but since I have taken you in, I can't drive you out again, we Chinese have a saying, all are guests, and say that you can live with confidence, and after this war, I will send you back to your motherland." ”

Catherine nodded lightly and said, "I understand, Mr. Wen, thank you." I won't bother you anymore. He got up and said goodbye and flew out.

…… When the news of the assassination of Alexander II broke, Moscow also fell into the hands of the revolutionary party, and the Russian coalition of party groups held a congress in Moscow to proclaim the founding of the Popular Coalition Party in Moscow and to call on the parties to recognize the legal surname of the Russian Republic.

At this time, most of the provincial governors and governors in Russia either defected, or the local political axe was overthrown, after all, most of the troops came from the lower classes, the tsar was assassinated, and it was rumored that the crown prince Alexander and his two younger brothers, Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duke Alexei, were hanged by thugs in a small city east of Moscow, and Grand Duke Sergei and Grand Duke Paul were young and missing. In such a situation, the defection of the army was inevitable, and with the outbreak of the Great Revolution was the brutal slaughter of the old aristocracy.

A few days later, the fugitive old nobles proclaimed the establishment of the Duchy of Petersko in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, and Sava's grandfather became the Grand Duke of the Duchy, which was supported by the northern nobles of St. Petersburg and the Finns, while the nobles who fled to the North were in droves.

In fact, the area under the control of the whole principality was extremely small, about the same as a Chinese province if not the territory of the Finns, but the location of this land was extremely important, it was the entrance to and from the Baltic Sea for Russia, and the Russian Baltic Fleet also declared allegiance to the principality.

Needless to say, this period of time Ye Zhao was naturally so busy that he stayed in the headquarters all day.

Sitting in the car back to his residence, Ye Zhao closed his eyes and recuperated, and the Novosibirsk newspapers under the control would soon report the news of the assassination of the tsar and the Russian republic, and this moment was an inflection point for many people.

The Emperor's [***] team, once again advancing westward, launched the early summer offensive, in fact, to maintain pressure on the Russian republicans, so that they had no time to attack the Duchy of Petersk, so that Sava's grandfather and father could gain a foothold as soon as possible.

At the same time, the Reich's Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to inform Britain, Germany, Austria and other European countries of the war situation, revealing to them that they were ready to recognize the republican regime in Moscow and that peace talks would be held with the Russian republicans, and that the Reich would also recognize the legal and pronounced surnames of the Duchy of Petersk.

Now that the ball is on the side of the European powers, if they want to intervene in the Sino-Russian peace talks, they will largely have to agree with China's position first.

It is impossible to completely kick Western countries out of the game, because it will be an event that will change the balance of power on the European continent, and it is impossible for European countries not to participate in it, and take the initiative to invite them to make them abide by the rules of the game first formulated by the Chinese, so as to avoid what happened to Russia after the tenth Russo-Turkish war.

At that time, Russia had a great victory over Turkey, but due to the intervention of European countries, it had to abolish the peace treaty with Turkey, which was extremely beneficial to the Russians, and signed the Treaty of Berlin instead, and the original major advantage was immediately wiped out.

You can't repeat the mistakes of the Russians. Ye Zhao's biggest concern now is the attitude of the Germans, the focus of German interests in the west of Europe, the strong eastern neighbor will certainly be happy to see it succeeded, but the Germans do not want to see Chinese influence infiltrate Russia and even Eastern Europe, and maintaining a second-class power hostile to China and can resist Chinese invasion is in the best interests of the Germans.

Geopolitically, the Chinese have no rivals in the east, and if their empire expands westward, Russia will be a natural barrier.

The war between China and Russia, the fiasco of the Russian [***] team, although it has greatly improved China's status in the Western world, but it will also cause anxiety among many European politicians, if this huge empire implements a policy of military expansion, it will certainly threaten the political and economic order of the entire civilized world, if the day comes, it is almost inevitable that there will be a situation of joint efforts to contain China.

Ye Zhao now hopes to try his best to avoid this situation, weakening Russia is in line with China's core interests, but this does not mean that China, like the Napoleonic Empire, wants to conquer all the lands that can be conquered, and this signal must be unmistakably released to the Western world, so as not to fall into an embattled situation.

"Master, Mrs. Werther has seen Miss Yaka and has returned home." Zheng Aqiao, who was in the front row, suddenly remembered something and turned around to tell him.

Ye Zhao's chaotic thoughts were interrupted and he nodded slightly.

Last night, a certain department under the Armed Police Command ran to Viscount Werther's house for some reason to go to Mrs. Chawit's sister, and it happened that Catherine went to visit Mrs. Werther, and she did not have a resident pass, so she was immediately taken to the Armed Police Headquarters, and Mrs. Werther was so anxious that she couldn't find Ye Zhao at that time, and it was said that she was so anxious that she burst into tears. The guards who stayed behind hurried away, but the signboard of the Immigration Department did not pay attention to it, until the news reached Ye Zhao's ears, and sent Qu Nuan to lead the people, and then they picked up the people in the middle of the night.

In the morning, the sun was shining, but Ye Zhao was sleepy, he didn't close his eyes for a few days and nights, he used his brain too much, and he really wanted to fall asleep.

After taking a shower, he hurriedly entered the bedroom, the bedroom door was open, and at the door, he heard a coquettish panting sound inside, which made Ye Zhao stunned, stepped in, and froze suddenly.

But seeing the red curtain of the concubine's bed, her delicate body was undulating, panting and bewildering, and after looking carefully, she saw clearly that it was Natasha, who was rolling around with Catherine and didn't know what to do, and half a minute later, Ye Zhao saw the clue that the two were fighting.

At first, Ye Zhao only felt funny, but after a while, he became embarrassed.

At this time, Natasha was riding on Catherina, holding Catherine's hand with both hands, trying to subdue the struggling Catherine, Natasha was wearing an ancient Chinese embroidered lotus nectar silk jacket and pants, blonde hair and blue eyes were already attractive, at this moment, a pair of small feet painted with red rose toenails were trapped in the hem of Catherine's gorgeous red dress, Catherine's pair of snow-white slender long legs loomed, and her slender feet were wearing a pair of lace socks, and her soft ankles were knotted with beautiful lace flowers, and she hung weakly.

Natasha's blonde hair hung down next to Catherine's delicate face, whispering something in Catherina's ear, both of them gasped, thinking that they had been scuffling for a while, and the two stunners' violently undulating breasts were squeezed together, and the picture was as tempting as it was.

If you have seen the picture of the beautiful Sven scuffling and comparing her strength, you will know how tempting it is, not to mention the beautiful two European aristocratic girls.

Ye Zhao had never seen the scuffle of his wife's pink fists, and even if he was super determined, he couldn't help panting slightly and having a dry mouth at the moment.

After a while, he finally came back to his senses and coughed.

Turning her head to see Ye Zhao, Natasha and Catherine were startled, Natasha hurriedly jumped down, and Ekaterina also got up, pulled on the palace golden shoes, and hurriedly ran out.

"I'm sorry, sir." Natasha hung her head, not daring to look at Ye Zhao, a pair of snow-white little feet stepped on the peony carpet, which was very attractive.

Ye Zhaoqi said: "What's the matter? "Don't say it, suddenly I feel energetic, and my sleepiness is gone.

Natasha lowered her head and said: "I'm going to Yanjing, come back to pack up my things, but I saw her sleeping in your room, and I asked Aunt Li to know that she was a tenant and didn't have a special relationship with you, so I reminded her to go back to her own room to sleep, don't sleep in your dirty bed, who knows that she opened her mouth and reprimanded me, with a bad attitude, and later, we ......, and we ......."

Ye Zhao smiled dumbly, Ye Katerina must also be a pampered master, now she is gradually bolder, she must be interested in the wide chaise bed in her bedroom, and she is often absent, so she secretly comes to sleep in the middle of the day, with her surname, in fact, she may not secretly sleep in her own bed, maybe it is just a novelty, come and lie down for a while to experience the experience, but before you know it, she fell asleep, and happened to meet Natasha, this young lady or lady is only afraid that she is also a high role in Russia, and naturally she can't see a Russian girl to teach herself, Three or two sentences of discord, the result is a scuffle, and it can't be said to be a scuffle, after all, there is no shrew behavior such as grabbing hair and biting arms, it can be regarded as a contest of strength.

Hey, it's hilarious. Ye Zhao was suddenly stunned again and asked, "Go to Yanjing?" ”

Natasha said: "Yes, the headquarters sent 30 people to Yanjing, China to learn Chinese and professional knowledge, and I was also selected. ”

Ye Zhao didn't know that there was such a thing, but he also did, and now the empire is big and small, so he doesn't have to worry about everything.

Natasha added, "We will gather at the headquarters at three o'clock in the afternoon. ”

Ye Zhao sighed and said, "Originally, it was good to have you accompany me here, but this is not a coincidence." But this is from the heart.

Natasha said, "Well, I won't go." ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "It's a good thing, I'm going." Looking at Natasha, who was as attractive as a peach in a silk jacket and pants with blonde hair and blue eyes, Ye Zhao took two steps and gently hugged Natasha's waist, the fragrance was fragrant, and the hot ** hugged her in his arms, Ye Zhao kissed her lightly on the forehead, and let go of her.

When he hugged Natasha just now, he could feel Natasha's delicate body stiffen, and her blue eyes were frightened, but she didn't dare to dodge, or rather, she couldn't dodge.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Go ahead, but Catherine sleeps in your room, don't fight again." ”

Natasha hurriedly said, "No, I won't quarrel with her again." He hesitated for a moment and said, "Then, then I'll go." ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly.

When Natasha walked to the door, she turned around and said, "There's still time, why don't I sleep with you and leave?" When he said this, his face was slightly red.

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "Go ahead." ”

Natasha breathed a sigh of relief and walked away quickly.

Ye Zhao was lying on the bed, thinking of the "contest" between Natasha and Ekaterina just now, he couldn't help but feel slightly funny, and even Gujing Bubo's heart was a little restless, and there was always a beautiful picture of hip waves, breast waves, slender legs and snow feet entangled in front of him.

In the haze, I fell asleep unconsciously.

…… When Ye Zhao woke up, it was evening, he pulled on his slippers and was about to find something to eat, and in the corridor, the wall lamps flickered faintly.

A trace of a woman's cry suddenly came into his ears, Ye Zhao's scalp was numb, hesitated, and then walked away, the cry came from Natasha's room, the door was tightly closed, if it weren't for Ye Zhao's sensitive ears and eyes, it would not be easy to detect.

Ye Zhao knocked on the door gently, the crying stopped abruptly, and after a while, Ye Katerina's coquettish voice said: "Please come in." ”

Ye Zhao pushed the door in and asked, "Natasha is gone." But I saw Catherine standing by the round mirror dresser in front of the window with her hands behind her back, she changed into a royal blue court dress, graceful and elegant, noble and dignified, with a perfect face like a Barbie doll, and a charming figure with a different kind of temptation.

Ye Katerina didn't expect it to be Ye Zhao who came in, she thought it was Aunt Li, Ye Zhao had never been to this room, she couldn't help but be a little cramped when she saw Ye Zhao, and the little sapphire palace shoes took two steps back.

Ye Zhao saw that Natasha's luggage was gone, nodded and said, "Let's go." Then he asked, "Why are you crying, is Natasha arguing with you again?" ”

Catherine shook her head, her long eyelashes drooping, and her blue eyes began to tear again.

Ye Zhaoqi said: "She really didn't quarrel with you? Just tell me that she's not a girl with a surname. Seeing that Ye Katerina shook her head vigorously, but crystal tears slipped from her delicate face, Ye Zhao couldn't help but think of something, his face sank slightly, and said, "Have you been wronged at the gendarmerie headquarters?" In Russian, the Chinese Armed Police Brigade Headquarters is translated as the Chinese Military Police Headquarters, as if the Chinese word for Russian means Khitan.

Ekaterina suddenly cried, Ye Zhaoxin said yes, his brows gradually frowned, it was inevitable that there would be some bad deeds when attacking the city and plundering the land, but in the ruling land, in the gendarmerie headquarters, this thing could not be tolerated.

"Don't cry, do you know that man? This will take Zheng Aqiao, and the big man will recognize people. ”

Ye Zhao's words made Ekaterina's tears fall even more urgently, but she shook her head vigorously and said, "No, no, the Chinese military police just scared me, no, nothing ......"

Ye Zhao said: "Then why are you crying?" ”

Ye Katerina slowly stretched out the hand behind her back, spread out her palm, there were several blood marks, and her hand was red and swollen.

Ye Zhao asked, "Aunt Li beat it?" ”

Catherine hung her head and was silent, in fact, she fell into the hands of the Chinese, she had thought about any terrible consequences, and she also thought about suicide, and she was beaten a few times, even more, she just hurt herself, and because the news was closed, she did not know the situation in her country, her heart was numb, and she couldn't help but sobbed lowly, in front of people, she would never cry, this is a self-deprecating move.

But in the face of this Chinese man who couldn't be said to know at all, she didn't know why, and suddenly cried, maybe because this man had a lot in common with the world she was familiar with, and had the same kind of atmosphere, although she didn't realize it herself.

Her hand was indeed beaten by Mama Li.

Mama Li gradually figured out that Catherine had nothing to do with the emperor, she was just a boarding tenant, although she was beautiful, but the emperor didn't say a word to her, and she didn't fancy her when she thought about it. This is the sin of cutting off all heads.

She naturally wants to teach this Fanbang fox a lesson, so that she knows what it means to be inferior and inferior, and when she beat Catherine with a rattan, she saw that this fox was very tolerant, and she did not beg for mercy, and there was a faint sense of arrogance.

When Ye Zhao called into Ye Katerina's bedroom and asked her to get the medicinal wine, Aunt Li was startled, and when she came back and saw the emperor personally helping this fox to apply the medicinal wine, Mama Li was almost scared to death, and hurriedly slipped out, not daring to show up again, just hoping that the long live Ye Long Dragon was busy and forgot what had just happened.

Ye Zhao sat on a wooden chair and asked Catherine to spread her hands on the table, while he dipped a cotton swab in medicinal wine and gently helped Catherine smear the wound on her palm.

Ekaterina frowned from time to time, but she didn't say anything, her blue eyes looked at Ye Zhao quietly, and suddenly asked, "Why are you so good to me?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled, "Is it good for you?" I don't think so. After thinking about it, he said: "It's not right for Aunt Li to beat you, but it's all the old rules of our Central Plains in the past, and you don't blame her." I went back and got a Russian man to marry her and told her to learn your Russian rules. ”

Catherine chuckled and said, "You, you're so funny. ”

Ye Zhao smiled, put down the medicine bottle, and said, "Okay, tomorrow I will ask Aunt Li to help you apply the medicine, don't worry, she won't be as barbaric as today." ”

Ye Zhao got up and walked out, and Ye Katerina suddenly said: "Wen, thank you, if I can return to my motherland in the future, I will definitely thank you with the richest gift." ”

Ye Zhao smiled and waved his hand and walked out.

…… However, Catherine is obviously a scalper, and the second day, she disappeared, and Ye Zhao also sent someone to look for her, after all, she couldn't throw a big living person in her hands, but no one found it, and the guard who went to Mrs. Werther's house to report the news came back and said that Mrs. Werther's anxious appearance seemed to be pretending.

Ye Zhaosuo's surname will no longer be ignored, a few little women, what else can they toss.

At this time, the newspapers of the Southeastern Plain also began to report the assassination of the Tsar, the news that the revolutionary party had begun to take power, and also reported the news of the establishment of the Duchy of Petersk.

In Kazan, the army loyal to the royal family was routed by the republicans.

More than half a month later, when the Imperial [***] army advanced to the Ural Mountains and occupied Yekaterinburg and other large cities, the Russian republicans finally agreed to negotiate an armistice.

In fact, because Russia was in chaos, its army and people could not talk about an orderly retreat, the railway was not blown up, in Yekaterinburg and several cities in the eastern Urals, the Chinese [***] team also captured several locomotives and wagons, if it were not for the Omsk bridge was blown up, under the rush of the Chinese railway soldiers, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk could almost be opened to traffic.

But now the bridge over the Irtysh River has been blown up, and trains can only travel from Yekaterinburg to the west bank of Omsk.

Germany, Great Britain, and Austria-Hungary all sent plenipotentiaries to St. Petersburg to negotiate an armistice between the three belligerents, the Ottoman Turkish Empire, China, and Russia.

In newsprint, this meeting is known as the Petersko Peace Conference.

In fact, there was a long bargaining over where the peace conference would be held, as was customary, and most of the European affairs were to be held in the Paris Entente, but now the French, who had just been defeated, had no say, and the Germans wanted the peace conference to be held in Berlin, but the British raised objections, and at the suggestion of China, the final meeting was set in St. Petersburg.

Ye Zhao knew that it could be said that the battle had just begun. How can battlefield superiority be turned into real benefits? The question of borders, the question of reparations, etc., etc., at the peace conference of the club of the great powers, in which the Orientals participated for the first time, it was not easy for the nascent empire to obtain the benefits it deserved, and it would be a real war without gunpowder but even more intense.

China's plenipotentiary is Li Hongzhang, Vice Premier of the State Council.

(To be continued)