Mexican republican leader Juarez is an old man who is close to his sixtieth birthday, because Mexico has been under Spanish colonial rule for a long time, his mother tongue has gradually become Spanish, but Juarez is also fluent in English, Ye Zhao communicates with him, there is an interpreter by his side, but Ye Zhao sometimes directly expresses his views in English. Nowadays, the self-confident Chinese emperor is not in a weak state of mind as if I was speaking English to you, but rather a sign of being knowledgeable. After all, the Spanish interpreter who was caught temporarily sometimes couldn't understand the intention of Ye Zhao's words very well.

Juarez was amazed at the erudition of the Chinese emperor, a young and powerful emperor who was far beyond Huarez's imagination.

The two men met in the conference room of the Regent, sipping tea from distant China, and Juárez expounded his idea that Massimiliano would be brought to court martial.

Ye Zhao listened quietly and said, "Grand Duke Massimiliano will announce his abdication on the Regent. This war, which ended peacefully, I believe will stand the test of history better, and it is also a clear message that the free-reading Mexicans are beginning a new life, and that tolerance towards dissidents is a sign of the maturity of a nation and a nation rather than bloody killings, and I believe that the forgiveness of Archduke Massimiliano will also lead to widespread respect among Mexicans in the civilized world. ”

Juarez fell into deep thought.

Ye Zhao said: "Here I first congratulate the Mexican people on their freedom of reading, I am also very happy to see the birth of a Mexico with independent reading, our country is willing to carry out equal and independent friendly trade with Mexico, in the East, the mysterious American pepper, tobacco are very popular, Mexico Eagle Ocean used to be the hard currency of our financial market circulation, and it was also the target of our country's silver coin counterfeiting, and our country is also very happy to buy Mexican silver to allocate silver reserves. I believe that the economic and trade relations between our two countries will become closer and closer, and both countries will benefit from this. ”

"President Juárez, I am glad to see that the friendship between the two countries will last forever." Ye Zhao took such a sentence as the last footnote, and the rest of the affairs should be handed over to Zou Kaizhi to discuss with him, Ye Zhao only needs to explain his own views, and will not discuss or even debate with him.

The next day, the Regent left La Paz, accompanied by the Mukden and several coal carriers, heading northwest to Honolulu.

The Yanjing went south to Corinto to settle disputes between Chinese merchants and Nicaraguans; At the same time as Zou Kaizhi met with Huarez, he also sent an envoy to Corinto with the Yanjing. The Yanjing will carry Zou Kaizhi and other civil officials back to the East at the end.

Nicaragua is located in Central America, at the beginning of this century, the American national reading movement was on the rise, forty years ago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica five Central America separated from Spanish rule to declare reading, and then established the Central American Federation, but soon dissolved.

Ten years ago, the usurpation of the presidency of Nicaragua by the American adventurer Volcker sparked a freedom movement that erupted in five countries, and the five Central American countries united to expel the Americans.

It is because the five countries of Central America today are deeply wary of the Americans and have adopted conservative policies.

Ye Zhao didn't want to go to Central America, so as not to provoke the Americans, who knew that there were Chinese businessmen in San Francisco who heard that Nicaragua was full of gold mountains and no one developed it, so he invited an American guide to go to Corinto, a port on the west coast of Nicaragua, but was detained by the Nicaraguans.

Although Ye Zhao returned to the sea, he also explained in detail how the officials handled the matter, and if it could be handled safely, it would be an opportunity, and the opportunity to carry out trade relations with the five Central American countries, especially the mining of gold and silver, was promising.

Compared with Europeans and Americans, Central Americans are necessarily less wary of Chinese.

Ye Zhao did not go to Nicaragua in person, and he did not need to be condescending to this matter; Second, so as not to provoke a violent reaction from the Americans.

Of course, the British were a colonial policy, armed occupation and support the establishment of the Central American kingdom, and the United States implemented the Monroe route at that time, and because Canada had just fought a war with the British, it was natural to feel that this was a provocation by the British to it.

After more than a month of sailing through Honolulu and Guam and other supply points, the Regent entered the China Sea and anchored in Nagasaki.

At this time, it was already early July, and the news of the emperor's visit to the United States on the Regent had already been reported at length in the newspapers of the southeastern countries, and the Nagasaki wharf was crowded with people, and the people of Nagasaki were holding flowers and the Chinese national flag to welcome the emperor's visit, and when Ye Zhao appeared on the deck gangway and waved, it immediately caused a tsunami of cheers.

In recent years, Nagasaki has developed rapidly, and of course, it depends heavily on China's policy tilt to create a model port. Ordinary people don't think too much, the improvement of living standards, freedom of speech and thought, Nagasaki people experience the rights that civilized citizens of the Central Plains can enjoy, almost no one will be obsessed with the past, not only Nagasaki, but the entire island of Kyushu, the color of pro-China has become extremely strong.

As the base camp of Hosokawa Shaobang, which has always had the closest trade with China, Kyushu Island is also the most politically stable region in the country, and it has gradually become the most prosperous region in the country.

On the other hand, the islands of Honshu and Shikoku are full of daimyos, each with its own taxes and laws, and the flow of goods is extremely difficult, so it is even more difficult to talk about the development of industry and commerce.

Not to mention Hokkaido, the Ezo Republic, which is all ethnic elements, is the base camp of the enemy, which is originally a barren land, and after China's trade blockade against it, it is even more dire, and some people have smuggled back to Honshu, and now it seems that the so-called Ezo Republic has become a farce.

Ye Zhao stayed in the China World Hotel in Nagasaki, and after sleeping comfortably, he ordered the guards to send telegrams from all over the place.

There is a telegram sent by Zou Kaizhi from San Francisco to China, and now Zou Kaizhi and the Yanjing are already on their way back, and a month ago, the "Sino-Mexican Trade Treaty" was signed, China and Mexico each set up consulates in each other's capitals, and at the same time opened their ports to each other for trade.

However, like the United States, even Manzanillo, the largest port on the west coast of Mexico, has a rather inadequate port condition, and the two countries signed an agreement to provide loans from Chinese commercial banks to expand the port.

The Nicaraguan matter was also successfully resolved by the telecution, and the Chinese merchant was said to have been stranded in Nicaragua, as if he were working with the Nicaraguans in the search for gold.

Ye Zhao, a member of the United States, only wanted to go around San Francisco, but did not want to establish diplomatic ties with Mexico and Central American countries, which can be said to be an unexpected gain.

However, Ye Zhao did not have the idea of encouraging businessmen to invest in the Americas for the time being, and now the development of the southeastern countries and the South Seas is still insufficient, and the hand is too long, it is not necessary, how big the stomach is, how much food you eat?

When I woke up in Nagasaki yesterday, the Nagasaki consulate received a telegram from Edo, saying that Hosokawa Shaokuni, the reunification of the country, had set out for Nagasaki.

Hosokawa Shaobang naturally came to visit Ye Zhao, but the telegram was vague, because he was worried that the emperor would return to China after only staying in Nagasaki for a while, so he was too boring, but he couldn't make a request to hope that the emperor would wait for him for two days, so it took a lot of thought to draw up the telegram.

Ye Zhao knew that Hosokawa Shaobang must have a lot of requests, and now don't say that he is pro-China, even if he is originally hostile, who doesn't look at the development of Nagasaki and Kyushu Island? Not to mention how bad it would be to see the development of its neighbor North Korea.

The opening of the railway from Seoul to Mukden via Pyongyang can be said to be a real integration of North Korea into China's economic circle, and North Korea has announced that Chinese banknotes will become the official currency of North Korea starting in May this year because of the lack of silver reserves. The newly established Central Bank of Korea worked closely with the Imperial Central Bank to exchange the required paper money from the Imperial Central Bank in the form of barters or low-interest loans every year.

This is the suggestion made to the North Korean political axe by the new generation of North Korean economic talents who graduated from the Royal Guangzhou University, and it has been adopted.

The benefits of this proposal to the stability and sustainable development of the DPRK economy are obvious, and it is not difficult to get it approved at the top level of the DPRK, although the DPRK economy will be completely dependent on China, but in turn, the possibility of the DPRK's industrial and commercial development being greatly reduced due to the lack of monetary policy.

North Korea is becoming more and more inclined to integrate with China, and looking at the changes in North Korea's domestic development, how can I not be envious?

Early in the morning, Ye Zhao also received a secret telegram from China, the Royal Military Commission, reporting on the secret military exercise of "Tianyin" in the Nenjiang area outside the Guan.

The exercise, which was conducted by the Xiangshan Group Army and the First Group Army, with a total of more than 100,000 participants and logistics support personnel, was the largest live-fire military exercise since the founding of the Empire.

The exercise is mainly a regiment-level campaign coordination with the participation of the telephone system.

At present, several elite corps of the empire, the signal corps system has added telephone troops, and the laying of telephone lines to the battalion level in wartime is the minimum requirement, and the rest of the corps are also in the process of supplementing telephone troops.

The intervention of the telephone system has brought about major changes in the theory of the imperial affairs, and the coordination of tactical units such as divisions, regiments, and battalions, as well as artillery units, has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

Today's hot air balloon reconnaissance is a giant cable attached to the bottom of the hot air balloon, fixed on a large winch, and rotated and lifted by the soldier's axe. Hanging basket under balloons. After being carried into the sky by a balloon in a hanging basket, people can look out and observe the distance, and through the telephone line, they can quickly communicate enemy intelligence to various units.

At a time when a major breakthrough has been made in military theory, it is inevitable to conduct actual combat drills to truly experience the arrival of the communications era.

At this time, the secret military exercise was named "Tianyin", and its meaning can be imagined.

At present, the establishment of the emperor's [***] regiment has been completely regularized, taking the division level as an example, the logistics personnel have also officially entered the establishment and become one of the soldiers of the division, and the weapons are distributed, which is no longer the previous "people's husband" system.

In this way, the personnel of an integrated infantry division of the empire reached about 15,000 people.

Taking the 1st Infantry Division of the Xiangshan Group Army as an example, the division headquarters (198 people) and the division headquarters are equipped with a reconnaissance and garrison battalion (698 people), a sanitary battalion (160 people), an engineer battalion (501 people), a transport brigade (1,002 people) (709 horses and vehicles), and a communication post (101 people).

The infantry division has three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment.

The regimental headquarters of the infantry regiment has about 100 reconnaissance posts, engineer posts, service posts, and communication posts, and has three infantry battalions and one artillery battalion, with six or seven hundred infantry battalions and four or five hundred artillery battalions, and a total of about 4,000 infantry regiments.

The artillery regiment of the 1st Infantry Division numbered about 2,000 people and had more than 100 artillery pieces.

The difference between the artillery regiment and the artillery battalions under the infantry regiment is that the artillery of the artillery regiment is mostly heavy artillery, while the artillery of the artillery battalion under the jurisdiction of the infantry regiment is lighter, the caliber is relatively small, and it is also convenient for rapid transfer.

The infantry battalion under the jurisdiction of the infantry regiment has a health team, a service platoon, a communications platoon, and a reconnaissance platoon at the battalion headquarters, and the main combat unit is three infantry posts, an artillery post, and a fire post.

The so-called fire sentry is explained in later generations as a heavy machine gun company, with a standard establishment of 80 people per battalion and 8 cannons.

The infantry sentry is actually equivalent to an infantry company, with a standard establishment of 170 people, and the company headquarters is equipped with a cooking squad, a reconnaissance squad, and two hygienists.

The main combat units of the infantry post are 3 infantry platoons, 1 fire platoon and 1 artillery platoon.

The artillery platoon of the infantry sentry has a strength of 20-30 people and is equipped with 3 mortars.

The firepower platoon has a strength of 20-30 people and is equipped with 2 cannons.

The infantry platoon has a strength of 30 people and consists of 2 infantry squads and 1 fire squad.

The infantry squad consists of 11 people, with a squad leader, a deputy squad leader and 9 soldiers, each squad is equipped with a light cannon (light machine gun), and the deputy squad leader also serves as a light artillery (light machine gun) operator. The firepower squad consists of 7 people and is equipped with 2 light cannons.

The light serial cannon is developed by the Guangzhou Ordnance Factory, just purchased by the empire in large quantities, weighing 45 pounds, originally developed a semi-automatic rifle with top feeding, but because of the cumbersome parts, it is difficult to be the lightest, and finally evolved into a magazine feed machine rifle, using the 8mm caliber of the imperial rifle standard, that is, you can use the standard rifle bullet of the empire.

The automatic principle of this light bead machine gun adopts a short-barreled retreat, and the automaton has a long round-trip time, so the rate of fire is slow. When firing, the barrel recoil to rotate the receiver, move the bullet to the left to the inlet, and then push the chamber by the pusher. The shell removal mechanism is a shell type, and the barrel retreats so that the lower end of the shell collides with the receiver shell surface to produce a rotation, and the upper end pulls out the cartridge case from the chamber and slides out of the gun from below.

The "light machine gun" weighed 45 pounds, which also made Ye Zhao helpless, but there is no doubt that this is another milestone invention.

Although the cost of the light cannon was high, Ye Zhao still ordered the military to purchase it in large quantities.

The Xiangshan Group Army and the First Group Army have already equipped the light cannons to the squad, and it can be said that the firepower of the two most elite legions of the empire is extremely terrifying.

The mule and horse of the two armies also made it impossible to equip them with light and heavy weapons, and each infantry squad had two mules and horses, which ensured the speed and combat effectiveness of its rapid march.

However, this exercise is obviously not a test of the power of new weapons.

Two battles, the first battle, the red and blue armies, one with telephones and the other without telephones; In the second battle, both sides were equipped with telephones.

The speed and concealment of telephone troops, the communication and coordination between divisions, regiments, battalions, and artillery, and the use of reconnaissance balloons were the protagonists of this campaign exercise.

The coordinated attack of the two major armies against a powerful imaginary enemy is the highlight of the exercise, and the specially established logistics headquarters and the front-line communications and material deployment are also the focus of this campaign exercise.

The commanders of the group army were like mirrors in their hearts, and the tragic battle that required the participation of nearly 100,000 imperial soldiers was now the only imaginary opponent, the only powerful northern neighbor, and for this exercise, the generals were extremely concerned. After the exercise, the commanders of the two group armies quarreled, called each other and scolded their mothers, and the lawsuit went straight to the Royal Military Commission, and the chief of the "Tianyin" exercise, Hongniang, came forward to reprimand them and did not dare to blow up the thorns.

In the telegram, Ye Zhao naturally didn't know many details, and he couldn't help but be relieved to see that the results of the exercise had basically reached the goal.

As for the recording device of the record player mentioned in another telegram, it became a record with better capacity and better sound quality, but it was insignificant.

After dinner, Ye Zhao led the guards around Nagasaki City, red and green, Nagasaki City has a feeling of being on the beach, even if the shop is small, it has been replaced with Chinese signs, and even the newspaper boys who sell newspapers are shouting in Chinese, if you don't often see a kimono woman holding an umbrella walking by the side, you will really think that this is a Chinese city.

Ye Zhao did not stay in Nagasaki to wait for Hosokawa Shaobang, and left Nagasaki the next day, but wrote a handwritten letter to Hosokawa, and left an official of the Zongren Mansion as his special envoy to interview him on his behalf.

In fact, you don't have to think about it to know that Hosokawa Shaobang is asking to join the Southeast Group and so on, and Ye Zhao also asked the envoy to promise him, and now that he is in his country, he is almost tossed.

In mid-July, Ye Zhao returned to Yanjing, and the concubines did not need to be reunited, to Ye Zhao's surprise, Shawa, Zhu Sisi and Rong'er had bulging bellies, it turned out that Ye Zhao left Beijing soon after the three of them found out that they were pregnant, but in order not to let Ye Zhao worry, they didn't tell him in the message.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one, Ye Zhao hugged Sava very affectionately, and it could be seen that Sava was very embarrassed, but no, it seemed that she could give birth, one after another.

But Rong'er is very happy, the more bloodlines she can give birth to for her husband, the better.

Princess Yongning and Princess Yong'an, it's been two and a half weeks, the two little girls are getting more and more beautiful, squeaking and calling Dad, talking to Ye Zhao in a childish voice, making Ye Zhao hurt, but I really feel that being a fairy is not so happy.

And the next day, in addition to dealing with political affairs, Ye Zhao naturally wants to start a "great plan", especially the matchmaker, Ye Zhao has been intimate with her for half a month, and he said in his heart that he doesn't believe that you can't conceive my dragon species, and he also loses the matchmaker's delicate body, and if he changes to another concubine, no one can stand his toss, Rao is so, on the seventeenth day, the matchmaker said that she wanted Ye Zhao to go to another room, and she didn't care about Ye Zhao's ninety-five respect, and directly locked him outside, which shows how much the matchmaker has always been knowledgeable has been bullied by Ye Zhao.

There was no way, Ye Zhao took Misaki, who was also locked outside, and went to Changchun Palace.

Ye Zhaoting likes Misaki, so when he returned to the Forbidden City, he left Misaki by his side, and named Misaki as the sixth-grade imperial front lamp, that is, the palace maid who specializes in serving the emperor and holding the fire candle for the emperor.

Changchun Palace is one of the six palaces in the west, the yellow glazed tile rest mountain top, the front porch, the open door in the bright room, the door of the partition door, the bamboo skirt plate, the second and the tip are all sill windows, step by step brocade branch windows.

Zhu Sisi has already laid down, the red silk floor cover in the dormitory, there is a noble temptation, unfortunately, Zhu Sisi is seven months pregnant, wearing a loose red nightdress, with a bulging belly, although the lazy style of the pregnant woman and the pair of white socks are extremely attractive, but Ye Zhao is not shameless to the next job, after all, the little babies in this period may be conscious, right?

However, Zhu Sisi, a strong girl, became a pregnant woman, and with the crystallization of her love with her in her belly, Ye Zhao was extremely satisfied, smiled and pressed Zhu Sisi to lie down, and said, "Don't move, now you are the biggest." He laughed quietly and said, "Sisi, every day I scolded me for being a pervert, and I was punished, right?" The voice was so low that only he and Juss could hear it.

Zhu Sisi glared at him helplessly, but she was really happy when she was pregnant with a perverted baby.

Ye Zhao smiled and kissed her, and was ready to change clothes, wanting to chat with her tonight.

Seeing that Ye Zhao beckoned Misaki to come and untie the brocade belt around his waist, Zhu Sisi was startled and wanted to speak, but after glancing at Misaki, she swallowed what she was about to say back into her stomach.

Ye Zhao knew that she was going to catch up with herself when she saw it, and thought about it, but also, pregnant women should have a good rest, can't they patronize themselves and chat happily, besides, what if she sleeps and presses her? Sleeping on the soft couch, I am afraid that Sisi will feel wronged and will not be able to sleep steadily.

Helplessly, he patted his forehead and said, "Okay, I'll go." ”

Zhu Sisi pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "I didn't speak. ”

Ye Zhao waved his hand, kissed her on the forehead, and immediately drove it, Rong'er would go there every day, Rong'er also liked to chat with herself, but naturally she couldn't bother at night.

After thinking about it, he set up the Chuxiu Palace, who knew that Hua Ji had a good relationship with Shawa, slept with Shawa at night, and took care of Shawa.

Ye Zhao is helpless, Jin Feng is not here, he left the day before yesterday and went to Guangzhou.

If you want to say that Jin Feng is in the house, it is really a surname Fu, Jin Feng is also the most open, even if this half moon night has been with the matchmaker, but in the afternoon Jin Feng is often called to the Qianqing Palace Hu Tianhudi, in the afternoon Jin Feng, the evening red lady, taste the different customs of the two national colors and fragrance, the taste is really wonderful, but I don't dare to say this to the matchmaker, lest she think that she is a faint king of the silver and no way.

Out of Chuxiu Palace, Ye Zhao was stunned to find that he had nowhere to go, Yi Zhi returned to the main hall a few days ago, and she also began to study in college, and the course was very tight.

Moreover, you can't run to Dongjiaomin Lane now.

Ye Zhao sighed dejectedly and said to Misaki: "Let's go, let's go back to the Qianqing Palace." ”

Misaki blinked her eyes wide, leading the way with her head, Ye Zhao shook her head helplessly, feeling that her master and servant were really pitiful.

(To be continued)