Ye Zhao said: "Whether your confession can be adopted or not is not up to Mrs. herself, in short, we will expel Mr. Brin from the country, and the cause of the incident will also note your country's political axe, how your country's political axe reacts is not within our consideration." ”

Mrs. Bryn was terrified. Because of the repeated setbacks of Russian interests in the Far East, Viscount Bryn was already questioned at home, he was originally a young man who was highly valued by Tsar Alexander II, and his family was also a very prominent aristocratic family in Moscow, with an extremely bright future, and he was even more ambitious to come to the East.

But now, her husband is suffering every day, and he is depressed by the overwhelming criticism of his political opponents at home, and negotiations with the Chinese are his last chance to save himself, and if there is another scandal and he is deported back to Moscow, his political future will be ruined.

"You, you can't do that." Mrs. Brynn's eyes were filled with tears, and she begged: "Please, please, you can't do this......" In a panic, she forgot for a moment that the person in front of her might not be able to call the shots, and might not be able to help her.

Ye Zhao was about to get up and leave, but when he saw her situation, he couldn't help but feel a move in his heart, sat down slowly, and thought for a while: "Do you want to avoid the fate of expulsion?" ”

Mrs. Bryn wiped her tears and said, "Yes, yes......"

Ye Zhao said to Rui Si beside him: "Take a pen and paper, pen and impression, and store a pen." ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is not yet fully equipped with these things? Rui Si gave an order, and soon an intelligence officer sent paper, pen, ink and impressions.

Ye Zhao pushed the pen and paper in front of Mrs. Brynn and said, "Then you will write down the situation of your friendship with the rebel party in our country, the tasks given to them, the money funded, etc., all in detail. ”

Mrs. Bryn nodded with tears in her eyes, suddenly alerted, and pushed away the pen and paper as if she had been burned, and said, "I can't write, I can't ......write," and sure that this was another Chinese to lie to her, and to leave evidence of her own handwriting.

Ye Zhao smiled, and glanced at the female guard who knew Russian, and Rui Si, and walked out surrounded by a group of guards, and the following things were not very glorious, and he would not participate.

Rui Si comprehended, sat opposite Mrs. Brin with a smile, and said: "Mrs. Bryn, we promise you that we will not leak today's matter, of course, we also have conditions, after you return to the embassy, every once in a while, we will send someone to contact you, what about you, provide us with some information we want to know." ”

Mrs. Brynn's face turned pale immediately, and she muttered, "I'm not a spy, I'm not a spy......"

Rui Si said: "Madam, please don't worry, we don't want you to be a spy, you can properly speak for us Chinese and reveal some information that you think you can reveal." It's a fair deal, and you'll have plenty of time to think about it, but if it drags on too long, Mr. Brin won't see you back at the embassy, and the day won't be a good one. If you do not agree, we will have to detain you for a further twelve hours in order to ascertain what damage your conduct has caused to our territory and whether diplomatic immunity applies. ”

Hear that you want to detain yourself? Mrs. Brin stood up suddenly, stepped back again and again, and said, "I, I'm not going to ......, I'm not going to ......" looked a little nervous.

The female guard hurriedly supported her and whispered relief.

More than an hour later, Rui Si ran to the flower hall where Ye Zhao was resting, with a flattering smile on his face: "Master, it's done!" ”

Ye Zhao held the teacup, smiled slightly, and said, "It seems that I have to ask Brin to return to China in a beautiful way." ”

Rui Si was stunned, he thought that the master just wanted to set the words of the foreign woman and use it to confirm Brin's crime. Who knows, it's not like this, he suddenly slapped his head, suddenly realized, and immediately shouted with a slight exaggeration: "Master, master, you are really a Buddha, no one can escape from the palm of your hand, if you want me to say, what are people in this world still jumping on, is it not good to listen to the master's words obediently?" ”

Ye Zhao glared at him, got up and left.

Rui Si knelt down and sent a thousand sends, seeing that his face was calm when the master left, his heart was a little calm, and he stood up, his face turned hideous, and he wanted to find the disobedient miscellaneous account.

When the entourage on the side saw it, their hearts trembled, and now, I don't know who is going to be unlucky.

…… The civil war broke out so quickly that in late April, shortly after the signing of treaties between China and the Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, the civil war in China suddenly broke out.

China and the Ottoman Empire signed the Sino-Austrian Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, in which the two sides agreed that, in the spirit of friendship and mutual assistance, the ports of the two countries had the obligation to provide each other's merchant ships and military ships with necessary assistance such as supplies, and the two countries sent permanent ambassadors to each other, the Ottoman Empire set up an embassy in Yanjing, China, and China set up consulates general and consulates in Istanbul and Bosalo respectively, and China and the Ottoman Empire each sent army officer corps into each other's armies for exchange and study, and so on and so forth.

Istanbul is the capital of the Ottoman Empire, across the Eurasian continent, the Black Sea into the throat of the Mediterranean, with today's traffic conditions, naturally belongs to Europe, belongs to the Mediterranean.

Basaro, the port city of Basra in the Persian Gulf of Iraq, can enter the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean from Basra, and belongs to Asia.

Ye Zhao set up consulates in these two cities, naturally because of his important surname.

According to the treaty, it seems that the Chinese fleet has supply points in the Persian Gulf and even in the Mediterranean, but in fact, Malacca is firmly controlled by the British, and it is impossible for the Chinese navy to enter the Indian Ocean.

This is not to say that the British are hindering you, but only a matter of supply, as long as the colonial ports under the control of the British do not allow you to supply your fleet, not to mention food and fresh water, only to talk about power, and only rely on auxiliary coal carriers to supply coal, it will be very difficult for the navy to enter the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and then dock at Basra.

Therefore, the treaty is more symbolic about port replenishment, and may be more applicable to merchant ships.

As for the exchange of officers with each other, Ye Zhao hoped that the generals of the Pingyuan Army would come out and take a look, mainly to increase their knowledge and see the different military styles and ways of governing the army in various countries in the world.

This will also be the first time that the Chinese [***] people have entered Europe, after all, the exchange with Prussia is more one-sided, and Prussia will send generals to give lectures in the martial arts hall and participate in the compilation and review of the textbooks of the imperial [***] school.

The treaty between China and the Ottoman Empire, whether it was more practical or symbolic, must have pierced the sensitive nerves of the Russians, who saw China's intention to form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire against it obviously.

However, not long after the signing of this treaty, the Chinese negotiating team, which had been at loggerheads with the Russians, suddenly took the initiative to send goodwill and was willing to unconditionally release all Russian prisoners of war.

As a result, the draft peace treaty between the two countries was soon signed, in which the two sides ceased hostilities in Central Asia and West Asia, and China unconditionally released all Russian prisoners of war (even those captured during the Chinese Civil War), and both countries agreed that the border between Central Asia and West Asia would be surveyed by the Russian Governor of Orenburg and the Minister of the Chinese Northern Turkic Office.

On the day of the signing of the peace treaty, Viscount Brin left Yanjing to return to China to report on his work, thinking about it, he was greatly relieved, the most difficult day had finally passed, and he, China, this hot potato, this sad place, I was afraid that he would never want to remember again, just want to return to China soon, and regain the trust and support of the Tsar.

And just when the peace treaty between China and Russia and Central Asia and West Asia was signed, a civil war broke out in China.

The war was not provoked by the Chinese. Nowadays, various contradictions such as "Ranghaku", "Chinese Studies", "Innovation", "Samurai", "Bourgeois Merchant", "Nationalist", and so on have accumulated for a long time, and have long replaced the original struggle between the founding of the country and the rebellion, and under the oppression of the Chinese, the powerlessness of the emperor and the shogunate has made some daimyo think about it.

Under the bloody suppression of the political axe, the new head of the group, Hijikata Suizo, was pessimistic and disappointed by the weakness of the shogunate and the emperor, and heard that the emperor was ready to accept the Chinese's proposal and demote himself to the title of king of the country. (Actually, the news was spread by the Chinese).

Hijikata Suizo was deeply attacked, and immediately contacted Zhishi, went north to Ezo Box Hall, conquered the Western-style armed castle "Wulengkuo", called on the people of the world to establish a free country, "drive the Chinese out of the four islands of Yuben", and immediately Zhishi Jingcong, gathered four or five thousand armed men, mostly members of armed organizations that resisted China, and then established the "Ezo Republic", Hijikata Suizo was elected as the president, and at the same time, Hijikata Suizo sent a note to Britain, France, and Russia, requesting the recognition and support of the three countries.

Ezo is Hokkaido.

The samurai rebelled, and the shogunate naturally ordered the feudal domains to crusade, but who knows, the daimyo of the three feudal domains of Dewa Province, Rokugo, Iwaki, and Tsuruoka, which were close to Hokkaido, announced the abolition of the samurai system, and the daimyo of the Tsurugang domain, the most powerful of the three feudatories, Sakai Keiyoshi, was appointed as the general, and a coalition army was formed to crusade against the shogunate.

The strength of the Hegang Clan was not strong, but in recent years, Sakai Keiyoshi encouraged trade, liberated the status of merchants, and was keen to invite Chinese to invest, but Sakai Keiyoshi was not pro-China, but purely from the interests of Chinese businessmen, under his years of operation, Hegang Clan gradually became a strong clan in the southeast of Honshu Island, seeing the domestic chaos, the ambitious Sakai Keiyoshi began the road to Beijing.

Makino Tadano, the lord of the Nagaoka Domain, who was close to Dewa, was the most loyal daimyo of the shogunate, and he and his old Kawai Jinosuke established the Echigo Shikoku Alliance, which broke out into a fierce war with the Shogunate Sanfeud.

The news came one by one, and Ye Zhaoxin said, sure enough, it came.

Ye Zhao's attitude towards all subject countries is very clear, "coexistence and common prosperity", this is not the coexistence and common prosperity that he said, but the real use of China as the leader to drive their development, not only the economy, but even the emancipation of the mind. North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and even Benjamin have all benefited from China's development, while Myanmar and Thailand are far away but have been affected to a limited extent.

Among the subject countries, due to historical ties, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos are the most loyal to China, and the rest of the subject countries Ye Zhao also hopes that with the import of values, they will gradually identify with the Central Plains culture and become a part of the regional alliance of East Asia and South Asia.

More than 50 countries in the Commonwealth have different cultural colors, except for Australia and other countries that were completely established by British colonists, most of the ethnic groups in the British Federation are colonized, separated by oceans, and the cultural sense of identity is extremely weak, despite this, the Commonwealth with the Queen of England as the supreme head of state still exists, and even the Queen of England is also the head of more than a dozen countries of its federal sovereign state.

With the influence of Chinese civilization in eastern and southern Asia, as long as the empire's policies remained coherent, Ye Zhao did not think that he would become enemies with other allies. In the future, the formation of an economic community with China as the leader and closer ties than the EU is almost entirely predictable.

It's just that the only thing that is not at ease is the book, because the book is different from North Korea, Vietnam and other countries, since the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, he no longer fears the Central Plains civilization, but also because of the invasion of North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, which is almost unimaginable if it is placed in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Although China is now oppressing it with powerful force, if it arms its new army to drive its economic development, as it has done with North Korea, Vietnam, and other countries, I am afraid that it will rise again to fight for hegemony in Yadong.

Therefore, before integrating it into the Yadong order, it is necessary to tame it into a non-threatening existence in the backyard.

In order to maintain its state of division, China has set up proxies and supported pro-China daimyo in recent years, and all kinds of contradictions and conflicts in the country have been extremely chaotic, and now, with China's coercion, all kinds of contradictions have a tendency to erupt together.

Why do you want to start solving this stubborn problem now, the establishment of the Asean Alliance against Russia is one thing, and the other is that Prince Muhito is about to ascend to the throne of the emperor, that is, Emperor Meiji.

Emperor Takamei's health was getting worse and worse, and Mujin, the future Meiji, was a very powerful monarch, and it should have been easier for him to begin to solve the matter before he actually entered the political arena.

The hatred faction led by Hijikata Suizo went to Hokkaido to establish a republic, which was beyond Ye Zhao's expectations, and he said in his heart that he had taken a fancy to Hokkaido. Because Ye Zhao knew that after the defeat of the shogunate faction in the Meiji Restoration War, some people loyal to the shogunate went to Hokkaido to establish a republic and elect their own president. However, by that time, the shogunate had already turned, and several thousand rebels only held out for less than half a year before they were extinguished by the shogunate.

What Ye Zhao did not know was that the important cadre who established the Ezo Republic in history was the head of the new writing group, Hijikata Toyozo, and the president was the vice president of the shogunate navy at the time, Enomoto Takehiro, but now Enomoto Takehiro has died in the battle of the Chinese attack on the Nagasaki Naval Training Center.

"The Republic of Hokkaido?" Ye Zhao looked at the original message, frowning slightly.

Li Xiaocun said with a smile: "This is a good opportunity to catch them all." ”

Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "Let me think about it." ”

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(To be continued)