Nanjing, a small western-style building hundreds of meters away from the Zhonghua Palace, although this small building is not tall, only three floors, but the lawn and garden outside are very large, and the total area of the whole is no less than those princely palaces.

There is such a manor house in the inner city so close to the palace, and you don't have to think about it to know that the people who live in it are either rich or noble.

In the sentry box outside the gate outside the manor, there are many soldiers wearing Guards uniforms standing guard, and there are soldiers patrolling outside the iron fence, which can be seen that the identity of this owner is not ordinary.

This manor is not an ordinary manor's estate, and its property rights are directly owned by the Royal Family Assets Management Office, called 'Anwar Palace', which means that this is an annex belonging to the Royal Family.

The person who lived in it was Concubine Qi, that is, Qi Lin.

The reason why Qi Lin did not live in the inner palace like Lin Zhe's other concubines was because she had always resolutely rejected her, and she was unwilling to enter the palace alive or dead, and she didn't even want the title of concubine for this reason.

Lin Zhe is not a person who is too stubborn, since Qi Lin doesn't like it, then he won't force Qi Lin to enter the palace, but the matter of the name is dragged down.

This Qi Lin originally lived in another courtyard arranged elsewhere, but the place was small and inconvenient, and later the palace affairs department built a courtyard community hundreds of meters away from the right side of the Zhonghua Palace, which was used for royal leisure, and later Qi Lin became pregnant, Lin Zhe gave her the Anhua Courtyard in this courtyard community in order to avoid many other troubles.

Originally, Qi Lin was still unwilling to accept it, although this courtyard was not in the palace, it was actually separated from the palace by a wall. It is still considered to be within the palace complex, but Lin Zhe promised her. She is in charge of everything in this Anwar Palace, and she does not have to be restricted by many rules of the royal family when entering and exiting.

In this way, Qi Lin agreed to the Lord to come in. After moving in, Lin Zhe also took the opportunity to officially give her the title of Concubine Qi, after all, Qi Lin has also followed him for several years, and she has always been nameless and shareless, which is unfair to a woman.

With the official title of concubine, she and Lin Zhe can be regarded as a legitimate husband and wife, not that they can only be lovers as before.

Now Qi Lin is ten months pregnant, and the due date has arrived. Lin Zhe also came to see it.

Although Lin Zhe has had a lot of children over the years, most of them were born in the previous years, most of Lin Zhe's life time in the past two years was on Zhuang and Concubine Qi, and there was little contact with other concubines, only one son and one daughter were born in the past three or four years, respectively, Yehenala gave birth to a daughter to him, and the concubine gave birth to a fourth son, that is, Lin Xuan.

The concubine was also named a concubine because of this, but the Yehenara clan still lived in the harem without a name. Together with him, Tara.

Now Qi Lin is about to give birth, although I don't know if it's a son or a daughter, but this does not affect Lin Zhe's attention.

Not only the importance of the upcoming children, but also the importance of Qi Lin.

In this world. As the emperor, Lin Zhe has many women, and he can even be described as many. But even those concubines with titles, in fact, most of Lin Zhe didn't pay attention to them a few times. Many times they forget their existence, and there are not many people who can make Lin Zhe pay attention. Queen Chen Jing must be one, for no other reason, just because she is the queen, the mother of the world, even if it is out of political needs, he has to maintain respect for Chen Jing.

and the others are the two daughters of Concubine Zhuang and Concubine Qi who have feelings.

However, although Lin Zhe was waiting outside the delivery room, as the emperor of the empire, he was busy regardless of time and place.

No, he had just talked a few words with the doctor who came out of the delivery room, and after asking about Qi Lin's condition, an accompanying secretary at the back quietly walked up, and then leaned over and whispered a few words in Lin Zhe's ear.

After Lin Zhe heard this, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and then he took two steps, leaving Qi Lin's parents and a few family members there and went out directly.

After going down to the first floor, Lin Zhe soon saw Song Guanqian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the flower hall!

"What is Lin Chengting's idea, if this is not an important period, he should not send his wife and brother over! Lin Zhe didn't say anything polite to Song Guanqian, but asked directly.

Song Guanqian said: "We didn't get the news before, we originally thought it was just an ordinary business investigation, but I thought that there was Li Haotong from the Ning Kingdom in it!" ”

"Although this Li Haotong is young, but this person should not be underestimated, since he joined the political arena of the Ning Kingdom, he has led many affairs in a row, and he has achieved remarkable results, a few years ago, the Ning Kingdom was able to resist the attack of the British, largely thanks to the deployment of this person in the drama in the rear!"

Lin Zhe said: "He should really be the assistant minister in their Ning Kingdom, I'm afraid this time things are not simple, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs is good to deal with, well, since they came secretly, then we will also cooperate well, don't let the British know about the incident!" ”

Speaking of which, he thought for a while and said, "And tell him first, I don't have time to see him today, let him wait for tomorrow!" ”

Although he was only a foreign minister, Lin Zhe also knew that this Li Haotong secretly came to China to ask for a meeting with him, there must be something important, and since the situation was secret, there could only be two things, one was that there was a conflict between the Ning Kingdom and the British, and there was even a danger of war, and the other was that there was some turmoil within the Ning Kingdom.

However, although the empire's intelligence gathering ability is not as good as those specialized intelligence agencies in later generations, it is not too bad, through full-time intelligence departments and diplomatic personnel, those things that are too secret may not be able to be collected, but some major events can collect some rumors, but there is no intelligence before that there is any accident in the Ning Kingdom.

Now that Li Haotong has suddenly come to Nanjing, people can't help but wonder, what happened to the Ning Kingdom?

According to information collected by the imperial intelligence department, Li Haotong was born into the wealthy merchant class of Nanyang Chinese, and his father was a businessman in Lower Burma in his early years and had strong financial resources.

Later, after Lin Chengting entered Burma, he also won the support of many Chinese in Myanmar and even Nanyang, and the Li family was a strong supporter of Lin Chengting, not counting the help in purchasing ordnance and ammunition, and even directly paid a lot of money for Lin Chengting's war expenses.

Lin Chengting is not a stubborn person, naturally he knows how to repay the Li family, so he directly took the second daughter of the Li family as his wife, and later Lin Chengting called the king established, and the second daughter of the Li family became one of the princesses, and gave birth to a son two years ago.

Li Haotong is the third brother of Princess Li of the Ning Dynasty, this person has been involved in Lin Chengting very early, at first he helped Lin Chengting raise food and salary, and later he was in charge of several provinces to provide logistics support for the front-line army.

It can be said that in the past few years when Lin Chengting and the British army were fighting, Lin Chengting personally led the troops to fight on the front line, while Li Haotong raised grain and grass to supply the army in the rear.

After the end of the war, Li Haotong was the assistant minister of the Gao Sheng Ning Dynasty and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which was basically the same as the official system of the empire, but the scale was much smaller.

But it can still be seen that Li Haotong is quite powerful in the Ning Dynasty.

How can such an important minister of the Ning Dynasty come to Nanjing, and he did it secretly, how can this not make people doubt his motives and purposes.

However, although Li Haotong's matter is a little strange, Lin Zhe has no heart to lock him up for the time being, after all, even if a big thing collapses, it is not a matter of one day or two, even if the Ning Dynasty and the British have already fought, but there is basically no difference in dealing with this matter one day earlier or one day later.

Now Lin Zhe's mind is on Qi Lin and the unborn child!

Returning to the outside of the delivery room, Lin Zhe waited with peace of mind again.

At this time, Song Guanqian also came out of the Anhua Courtyard, and then met Li Haotong in a small building next to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This Li Haotong looks like he is twenty-three or fourteen years old, and his figure is not very tall, and his skin and appearance are well maintained, in the words of later generations, this person looks like a little white face, with fine skin and tender meat, so that those fagws can see it, it is estimated that they will immediately rush up and break his buttocks, and then have a chrysanthemum feast.

But although this person looks like a little white face on the outside, the whole person sits there, and his every move exudes the aura of a superior person.

Even Song Guanqian, an important minister of the empire, when he saw him for the first time, he felt that this Li Haotong was not simple, he was simply sitting here, but others knew at a glance that this person was the powerful and powerful superior.

However, Song Guanqian is not surprised, this Li Haotong can be said to be very strong in the Ning Dynasty, it is said that he is fighting with those cabinet ministers from the military, and even the prime minister and the other two assistant ministers.

After the two of them exchanged diplomatic etiquette, Song Guanqian slowly aroused the core topic, that is, why did you Li Haotong come to Nanjing?

Li Haotong took a sip of tea, his delicate face with a standard diplomatic smile, and then said: "Li has lived in Nanyang since he was a child, and he has been in Ningdi for the past few years, but he has always admired the land of China in his father's mouth for a long time, so he has always wanted to find an opportunity to come to Kyushu to have a look!" ”

Song Guanqian listened without interrupting, because he knew that Li Haotong's words had not yet been finished.

Sure enough, after Li Haotong spoke, he continued: "But this time, in addition to admiring the style of Kyushu, Li also shouldered another important responsibility!" ”

Although Song Guanqian didn't want to answer, he still followed his words and said, "Oh? ”

"I can't hide it, Li Mou came this time for me to propose marriage to the second prince of the Ning Dynasty!" After Li Haotong hesitated for a long time, he said the purpose of this visit to China.

However, after Song Guanqian heard this, he was shocked in his heart, what the hell is this Li Haotong going to do? (To be continued.) )