The East Warm Pavilion of the Yangxin Palace, there is a thick fold on the kang table, and it is said that there are many foreign-related affairs in Africa, West Asia and Europe, all of which require the emperor's imperial ruling.

In Western and Western Asia, the empire has rejected the proposal of Britain and France to send troops to punish the Tehran regime, but as a mediator, urging Tehran to restore normal order as soon as possible.

In Africa, the Boer Autonomous State of Devasland refused to allow Chinese immigrants to enter its territory and refused Chinese immigrants to become citizens of the autonomous state, and Ye Zhao had telegraphed Maputo Governor Mingde to coordinate negotiations with the Boers.

In London, the plan to arrest Lu Yueting failed, and two secret agents of the Internal Affairs Department were detained by the London Police Department, and another diplomatic storm between China and Britain caused a lot of speculation.

When Ye Zhao picked up a copy of Jiangsu Province, his brows furrowed slightly, and he shook his head and said: "If you are wrong, the people will obey; If you make mistakes, the people will not accept them. ”

Because of the establishment of the elected political council in Jiangsu Province, the political situation seems to be a little chaotic, and suddenly there are several controversial cases, some of which also involve new legislators.

"Your Majesty, don't work too hard." The matchmaker is also in the warm pavilion, and on the table, there are candied fruits and iced mango juice from Yunnan, which is quite summer-cooling.

Ye Zhao put down the fold and said lightly: "It's a mess, it's also a good thing." ”

The matchmaker bowed slightly, in the middle of summer, the matchmaker lightly drew her eyebrows, bright and shiny, wearing a gorgeous red long skirt, with black stockings and high heels, noble and elegant, dignified surname.

Ye Zhao got up and said, "Go out for a walk." "Even if you walk around the palace with the matchmaker, there is always a sense of satisfaction.

From the Yangxin Palace to the North Imperial Garden, you have to pass the Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, and the vermilion palace wall, in addition to the guards wearing yellow satin draped along the way, occasionally meet the palace maids in twos and threes, and see the emperor and the imperial concubine Luan, and they have passed over to ask for peace.

After the white jade railing square, into the back garden, just into the garden, you can hear the frolic of the warbler and swallows, next to the purple and red flowers, on the green grass, but Shawa is playing tennis with Misaki.

A few years ago, Sava was renamed Duan Concubine, the word "Duan" means that she keeps her duty, in fact, now Sava is no longer the foolish worm of more than ten years ago, but her fun surname is not easy to change, and she also loves to score in the art field among the concubines. It's just that although she is good friends with Hua Ji, Hua Ji is a quiet surname, but Misaki is often pulled by her to play, although Misaki has become a promise, but in her eyes, the concubines are naturally masters, and they can only be obedient, not to mention that she is not very old, and it is also the time to love to play.

Seeing Sava and Misaki wearing snow-white tennis skirts, youthful and lively on the court, Ye Zhao couldn't help but smile, and signaled from a distance that Shawa and Misaki, who were going to invite An, to continue playing, and he and the matchmaker sat under the golden sunshade umbrella next to the court to rest, and the palace maid next to him sent a chilled rose soup to cool off.

Sava and Misaki took the racket and came to see Ye Zhao and the matchmaker, and Sava smiled and said to the matchmaker: "Imperial concubine Niangniang, am I playing well?" Is it time to compete with you? ”

Although the matchmaker is kind, except for Rong'er, the concubines in the palace are actually a little restrained in front of her, and only Sava dares to ask her to compete with her.

The matchmaker smiled slightly and said, "You guys play yours." ”

Sava and Misaki returned to the court at this time, with Ye Zhao by their side, the two of them couldn't help but be happy, and the style of the ball was inevitably much softer, but the white skirt was fluttering, and the beautiful legs were elegant, which was eye-catching.

Taking a sip of ice water, Ye Zhao pointed to the court and said with a smile: "They have a good time." After a long time, Ye Zhao has long been accustomed to the life of harem concubines, and gradually forgot the monogamous world he came from.

The matchmaker pursed her lips and smiled, as a caring person, she felt that Xianggong may be the emperor who is the least like the emperor in all dynasties, but the harmony of the harem may be beyond the reach of all dynasties, and it is also because every concubine and princess have given relative freedom.

If there is a suspicion in the harem, maybe it is the matter of establishing the prince, the matchmaker knows that she has some pimples in her heart, but thinking about her background and the situation of meeting and knowing him all the way, she is honest, and there is nothing unsatisfied, but some cronies and generals in the army may feel more unfair, so she gradually faded out of the military circles, so as not to cause any turmoil about the crown prince.

Moreover, Xiang Gong always has his own considerations, and this man who led the ancient and weak empire to the broad road is always more intelligent than his own knowledge.

Now that the empire has become one of the most important players on the world stage, every move will inevitably lead hundreds of millions of living beings in the world, and the expansion of the dynasty overseas has entered a bottleneck, and the pressure of some Western countries is more and more.

Glancing sideways at the thoughtful Ye Zhao, the matchmaker said softly: "Looking at the recent situation, maybe we will inevitably fight with Xiyi?" Your Majesty, what should we do with the land of black barbarians? "Over the years, it has been decided that the land of Africa is even more distant than the mountains and rivers, and if it clashes with the Xiyi or even the indigenous Boers thousands of miles away, it will be a great test for the empire, and the odds of victory are not high.

Ye Zhao didn't say anything for a long time, just drank ice water silently.

The matchmaker gently held Ye Zhao's hand and said: "The emperor is already an emperor of the ages, and his martial arts are unmatched, so he doesn't necessarily have to compete with Xiyi overseas." ”

Ye Zhao smiled slightly and said, "I'm not so happy......

The matchmaker was stunned, got up and wanted to bow down, and said, "That's not what the concubine meant." Ye Zhao had already pulled her up and said with a smile: "Old husband and wife, don't be more and more angry." I also sighed in my heart, the longer the emperor was in power, the longer he felt that there was more estrangement between him and his wives, that is, he was as resolute as a matchmaker, and he began to wonder if he was afraid of saying the wrong thing?

Pulling the matchmaker to sit beside him, Ye Zhao said: "Matchmaker, what do you say the purpose of expanding the territory?" The ancients said that every inch of mountains and rivers must be fought for, but in my opinion, it is a big mistake, even if you conquer the whole world and the people are insufficient, but you are just using the lives of tens of thousands of people to fight for your own name, that is bullshit The emperor of the ages, in fact, he should be punished! ”

The matchmaker was stunned and nodded silently.

Ye Zhao said again: "In the country of a thousand times, the people are rich, and the officials are clear, even if they are cowardly in expanding their territory, if you want me to say, they can also be regarded as a Ming monarch, but in the era of the weak and the strong, it is not easy for such countries to survive." ”

"According to my Western friends, Maputo's neighborhood, full of gold mines, is really an undiscovered treasure in the world today, if it can be obtained by my Central Plains, the future can calm the disaster of silver prices, the fortune will continue to future generations, I don't want to use the sword, I am afraid that there will be a time when I have no choice but to do it."

"The rule of officials is clear, the people are rich, the country is not a country of officials, it does not plunder the people's wealth, and it is my dream to defend against strong enemies abroad."

The matchmaker listened to Ye Zhao's sighing tirade, clenched his hand, and said softly: "Xianggong will definitely make his wish come true." ”

After being silent for a while, Ye Zhao said lightly: "I hope, it's best if I can just not use swords, and I sent an envoy to visit European countries with this intention." ”

The delegation headed by Vice Minister Shen Bingying has embarked on a trip to Europe, and will pay state visits to Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countries, and at the same time represent the group of southeastern countries to participate in the "International Measurement Conference" held in London.

As he spoke, Ye Zhao got up and said, "Okay, I'll go see Yao Xun and them." The three princes of school age were all sent to the "Diligent School Garden" to study, but there were more times to meet Ye Zhao.

The matchmaker smiled: "Don't miss the draft time." ”

Ye Zhao nodded: "I can't forget it." ”

Nowadays, the royal draft is mostly for the selection of palace maids from various regions, which has long been at odds with the draft of the previous dynasty, but the draft of the Ming Dynasty is to select concubines for the emperor.

Although in front of the matchmaker, Ye Zhao did not feel uncomfortable, this time the selection of concubines is more of a political meaning, the Privy Council has repeatedly written to the empress dowager of the emperor's biological mother, the empress dowager and the empress dowager, and the empress dowager and the empress often chatter in front of Ye Zhao, and the matter has been decided.

The number of concubines in the harem is not much, but there are three foreign concubines of Shawa, Iori of the reed moon, and Hua Ji, plus the promise of Misaki, the interracial women account for half of the country, and the conservative ministers can't help but feel inappropriate, not to mention how much this dynasty inherited the previous dynasty and made friends with Mongolia, and the emperor should also have a Mongolian concubine to show closeness, in addition to the Central Plains heroes, should be appeased and rewarded, and the women of his family are qualified to choose concubines It is a great reward.

Ye Zhao has nothing to do with this, now the Chinese atomic people have inherited a lot of old habits from the previous dynasty, and it is far impossible to make it into their ideal country in a short period of time, and the matter of choosing a concubine is not a festive event for the citizens of the empire, and for the politics of the empire, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, so it is enough.

In front of the matchmaker and Rong'er, when it comes to choosing a concubine, Ye Zhao no longer feels guilty, and sometimes when he thinks about it, he can't help but sigh.

Qinxue Garden is a garden of the Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, which is quite close to the newly completed Huize School in the suburbs of Beijing.

Huize School is an aristocratic school, the capital celebrities and eunuchs, send more children to study here, but high-ranking officials and dignitaries do everything possible to send to study the gilded holy land, for the three princes, it is to condescend to the noble in the folk experience.

Outside the Zhu wall of the school, there is a row of weeping willows, swaying with the wind, in the evening, the carriages on the bluestone road in front of the school are endless, although it is a boarding school, but the home of the wealthy family, since the children are taken back to the house.

Ye Zhao's carriage is quite inconspicuous, and it is also a secret that the three princes are studying abroad under pseudonyms, even in the Zongren Mansion.

However, there are many people who tend to be inflammatory, and there are many natural places, Ye Zhao's carriage was shabby, so he was robbed by a purple canopy luxury car, and the carriage that suddenly rushed out of the oblique stab startled Zheng Aqiao, who was sitting on the wheel, but fortunately, the royal carriage and horses were not frightened.

A few minutes after school, the carriage traveled to a wide blue brick square in front of the school to wait, but it happened to stop next to the purple canopy carriage.

The coachman of the purple canopy carriage is a man with five big and three thick, with a high-spirited appearance, Zheng Aqiao frowned, but he couldn't make trouble outside.

At this time, the door curtain of the purple carriage was raised, and a beautiful woman wearing a black skirt walked down, her body was soft and light, her eyebrows were apricot eyes, and she was beautiful, but there was pride between her eyebrows.

When the coachman saw Zheng Aqiao frowning, he said loudly: "Boy, what are you staring at?" Do you know who my young lady is? If you make a mistake, you will ...... ten heads."

"Shut up!" The beauty in the black dress frowned and reprimanded the coachman, but in an instant, she caught a glimpse of Ye Zhao looking at her, her snow-white melon seed face was immediately covered with frost, she looked at Ye Zhao contemptuously, and said coldly: "Be careful with your eyes." ”

Zheng Aqiao's face changed, Ye Zhao smiled, waved his hand and walked aside. Dare to speak, and wear a skirt, it can be seen that she is a new female surname who has a job outside, but it is too domineering, but a woman from a large family goes out to work, so naturally she has to go through a lot of struggles, and from this point of view, it is also worthy of admiration.

Not long after, the bell rang for the end of class, and Ye Zhao waited for the three princes to get out of school from the car, and heard the clatter of the carriage, and it was the purple canopy carriage that left first.

Ye Zhao shook his head, he didn't have to be curious to get out of the car and take a few looks, he was reprimanded, maybe he had been out of the people for too long, and he didn't pay attention to his behavior and behavior, which caused a storm in vain.

And when a few handsome little guys got into the car one by one to greet their father, each one was more well-behaved than the other, and Ye Zhao had already thrown the unhappiness just now to Java.

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In the evening, a telegram was received from Brussels, and at the International Geographical Conference, the British geographer advocated: "The charts of all countries should uniformly adopt the Greenwich meridian as the zero meridian and put it into practice within 15 years." ”

The Greenwich meridian comes from its observatory, which was built in 1675, when the British Empire's seafaring industry was developing rapidly, and in order to solve the need to measure longitude at sea, the British decided to build an observatory in the Royal Greenwich Gardens on the banks of the River Thames in the southeastern suburbs of London. Forty years ago, the Greenwich Observatory was expanded and updated under the leadership of Eri. He pioneered the use of the "meridian ring" to determine Greenwich Mean Solar Time.

With the development of the world's navigation industry, many countries have established observatories to measure places, and it is obvious that it is extremely urgent for all countries in the world to coordinate the measurement of time and determine the geographical longitude.

From a certain point of view, this international geographical conference is not a distribution of interests for colonial powers to carve up the world.

However, the Eastern countries paid more attention to the center of the world, and the proposition that the prime meridian was far from the center of the Central Plains made the Chinese officials attending the meeting dare not make a statement.

Ye Zhao naturally called back for instructions.

The second morning, Ye Zhao came to the Xiu Yuan Palace, the selection of the concubine in the Xiu Yuan Hall of his own inscription, by the Queen Mother and his selection, although the selection of the concubine is extremely low-key, but after all, it is the first time to choose a concubine in this dynasty, according to the emperor's will, it is likely to be the last time to choose a concubine, but can not act hastily, more than 50 after a lot of selection and finally selected by the Zongren Mansion The show girl has entered the palace in the afternoon of the first day, the second morning after nine o'clock, there are five or six show girls in a group to the emperor and the queen mother to say goodbye.

In this selection of concubines, the queen mother has already set one person, who is the seventh sister born by Zhu Sisi's mother, and the one with the name of the seventh girl is fifteen years old this year, and Ye Zhao was still holding her to feed the tart when she was a child. The queen mother only saw it once and liked it very much, and she had to make Ye Zhaona a concubine, although Sisi was a little reluctant, but there was no way.

And now the beauties, big and small, Yingying Yanyan walked up and down in groups, Ye Zhao only felt tasteless, and only tasted tea.

When four more beautiful women wearing cheongsams came up to say goodbye, the Queen Mother tilted her head slightly and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this is the last group of Mengqi." ”

Ye Zhao had no choice but to fight his spirits and pick up the roster on the table, which contained the life experiences and experiences of several show girls, all of which had been strictly researched and were not false.

After turning two pages, Ye Zhao was slightly stunned, but saw that on the third page, Xiu Nu's resume was extraordinary, she actually worked as a hygienist in the Pingyuan Army and participated in the ambulance work of the rear field hospital in the Sino-Russian War.

Ye Zhao didn't look at people either, so he pointed at this page with his finger, and the Queen Mother saw it, her brows twisted slightly, and she said, "I'm a little old." "I'm twenty years old.

Ye Zhao nodded and said, "It's her." The queen mother stopped talking, and there were palace people singing on the side, wanting to show off the girl like a baby and thank you.

The next group of Central Plains show girls to meet, Ye Zhao was even more interested, pinched his nose and casually ordered a Manchurian woman Fucha clan, choosing a full concubine is also the meaning of several queen mothers, the three queen mothers all feel that the queen is a full concubine, it is inevitable that she will be alone, and she should choose another full woman to enter the palace, although Ye Zhao and Rong'er don't care, but they also obey the meaning of several queen mothers.

And when the last group of show girls came to the front of Xiu Yuan Palace, the Queen Mother tilted her head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, order another one." ”

In fact, Ye Zhao has a lot of heirs, although Jin Feng and Iori both gave birth to royal daughters, but Ye Zhao already has three sons, but in the eyes of the queen mother, the royal family of this dynasty has just risen, and the more heirs the better, so that the bloodline can continue.

Although these new concubines will definitely not be favored, and they will be widows after entering the palace, Ye Zhao didn't expect this at all at this time, and just wanted to obey his mother's wishes, lest she nag in front of him again.

Ye Zhao looked at His Royal Highness for the first time, and then was slightly stunned, but saw that among the six show girls, the third beautiful woman in the left row was quite eye-catching in a red skirt, with snow-white stockings and calves, and lace-up black high heels were even more charming, but she lowered her head and couldn't see her face clearly.

Ye Zhao looked at the roster that the palace person had just presented in his hand, his name was "Qin Guizhi", the youngest daughter of Qin Muhuai, the young daughter of Qin Muhuai, the young secretary of the Dali Academy, was seventeen years old and had half a year's experience as a bank clerk.

Seeing that Ye Zhao was interested in this woman in the red dress, the queen mother frowned slightly, although the show girls have undergone physical examinations and must be innocent, but they have experienced errands outside, and contact with men is indispensable.

What's more, although it is stipulated in the royal ceremony that the professional suit is also a formal dress for meeting the royal family, it is inevitably immodest to wear it during the draft, which makes the Queen Mother even more displeased.

"That's it." Ye Zhao patted the roster in his hand.

The Queen Mother's lips moved, and finally she didn't speak.

(To be continued)