Wuhan Bridge can be said to be Ye Zhao's first real sense of failure, after the beginning of spring, specially designed for the pneumatic caisson method of special large machinery and equipment was carried to Wuchang, but unfortunately, the quality of alloy steel is still not enough to erect a cantilever arch bridge across the Yangtze River, half a year later, the project had to be terminated again, back to the demonstration stage, for this reason, the Ministry of Transport and Communications encountered several questions from the Council.

After a year of silence, until the summer of the following year, the expert group re-proposed the plan to change the bridge form of the Yangtze River Bridge to three holes and one continuous span.

Although he suffered setbacks one after another, Ye Zhao was extremely patient and only put forward one goal, hoping that the Yangtze River Bridge could resume work during the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In the autumn, on the occasion of the first birthday of the dragon and phoenix twins born by the matchmaker last year, Sava was pregnant with her third child, and the royal family was full of happy events.

At this time, it was already 1869, the seventh year of Shengde, and the empire was already in its eighth year, and the seventh anniversary was celebrated.

Ye Zhao has been in this world for thirty-five years.

Outside the city of Jinling, a smooth dark gray road winds to the southeast, the Ninghu Highway from Shanghai to Jinling, which was completed last year, is the first asphalt highway in the empire, adding gravel to the stone powder, sand and lake asphalt mixture, that is, the lower layer is a double-layer asphalt concrete pavement formed by paving a layer of coarse graded asphalt concrete and the upper layer of asphalt sand.

Compared with the asphalt pavement in Europe, this asphalt concrete pavement does not have any advantages for the time being, but it is said to be more pressure-resistant.

According to the documents of the Imperial Ministry of Communications, with the acceptance standards of provincial highway construction, it is obvious that the use of asphalt concrete to build roads has been the general trend.

The sun is blazing in the sky, and Jinling at the end of August is still very hot.

Under the poplar tree next to the highway, a canvas atop car was parked, Ye Zhao was wearing a snow-white Tang suit, wearing sunglasses, and lazily sitting in the passenger seat shaking a fan.

Seeing that there were beads of sweat on Ye Zhao's forehead, Jin Feng hurriedly took out a handkerchief to help Ye Zhao wipe his sweat, and said coquettishly: "Master, otherwise, let's go back, it's all bad for cheap concubines, and it's bad for the lord." ”

That's right, the car broke down, it was Ye Zhao who proposed to ask Jin Feng to drive out of Jinling City, but now it is naturally all Jin Feng's fault.

In the past four years, the Oriental Automobile Company has sold more than 200 cars, the model driven by Jin Feng is the latest, although it is still handmade, but it is the first mass-produced car of the Oriental Automobile Company, the chassis adopts a metal structure, the body is semi-metal, and the tarpaulin compartment has the shadow of a modern model in Ye Zhao's view.

"Then let's go back." Ye Zhao was also a little helpless, he still overestimated the stable surname of today's car, fortunately, he had just left Jinling.

Ye Zhao came to Jinling, naturally to inspect the situation of the elected political envoys, as a pilot city, this autumn, is the first Jinling political envoy general election, but also the first real sense of the election, of course, it should be said that it is the elite election, after all, the annual income of more than 100 silver dollars of citizens are eligible to vote, than the British 10 pounds income is the standard of voters, but also a lot higher.

In fact, all along, not only in the past life, but even now, Ye Zhao has been blowing wind in his ears from time to time, which is not in line with reality, and it is not suitable for the national conditions, in fact, what is not adaptable, the old-fashioned vested interests like to use this sentence to fool the people, in fact, it just depends on whether there are strong leaders to do it.

In terms of the general quality of the citizens, is the quality of the British 10 pound earners higher than the domestic 100 silver dollars?

If you don't rely on your current incomparable prestige to promote the process of electing the parliamentarians, and don't sow the seeds of ideas for them, after a hundred years, you can imagine that this change will be completely stagnant, because in a strong and rich country, the voice of the people calling for change will often be very weak, but if the system is completely rigid from now on, no matter how solid the foundation it has laid, slowly, what is the difference between it and the previous dynasty? As long as the people are unable to effectively restrain the political axe, even if they have created an incomparably large middle class today, it will slowly evolve into a model in which corrupt officials and corrupt officials run rampant and the ruling class does whatever it wants.

What's more, what he is promoting is only the election of the political envoy, but only the election of a popular body, and there is still a gap of 108,000 miles between the election of the political axe leader, and he is conservative enough.

Surrounded by guards, he and Jin Feng walked back to Jinling.

Although cars are already very common in the capital and Guangzhou, every time Ye Zhao drives, there are dozens of black-clothed guards on both sides of the car, which is too eye-catching, and the speed is often extremely slow, so if you want to experience the thrill of driving, you can only practice driving in the suburbs.

Ye Zhao lived in the residence of Huang Runtian, director of the Jinling Internal Affairs Bureau, this time he came to Jinling, the officials of Jinling City, only Yin Shen Baozhen of Yingtianfu knew that if he went back to the Qianwang Mansion in the past and lived in the royal palace today, within an hour, then all Jinling people would know about it.

Huang Mansion two into the courtyard, but only Huang Runtian and a servant lived, because Huang Runtian has no wife and concubines, he is a eunuch, served in Prince Zheng's Mansion for many years, and Rui Si is good, as early as the capital began to send news to Rui Si, Rui Si saw that he was capable, so he tried his best to promote.

Huang Runtian said that he was the director of the Jinling Internal Affairs Bureau, but in fact the internal affairs bureau was very different from other departments, and there were only a dozen internal affairs bureaus in the entire empire, such as the Jinling Internal Affairs Bureau, and the special intelligence organs of Suzhou, Anhui, Zhejiang, and other places, all under his control. And the directors of the internal affairs bureaus are the big spy chiefs sent by the local authorities in the internal affairs system.

When I returned to the back house of the Huang Mansion, a guard sent a letter from the capital, written by Christina from the United States, in Chinese, and the handwriting was very beautiful.

It's been a year since Christina graduated, but she is favored by the dean of the women's medical school, that is, the world's first female doctor, Elizabeth? Dr. Blackwell's attention, Christina was escorted to New York Medical College, the best medical school in the United States, after all, Elizabeth? Blackwell's women's medical school still has a limited number of teachers, but it only opens the door to medicine for women, and if you want to go to school, you still need to enter a men's medical school, and after graduating from New York medical school, if you have excellent grades, you can get an MD degree.

In fact, the level of imperial medical school is not worse than that of the United States, but learning has its systematic surname, Christina's Chinese may be no problem, but when it comes to more remote words such as medical terms, it is obviously not as good as being in a native country, Ye Zhao ordered him to finish the course of New York Medical School, although Christina was disappointed, but naturally obediently listened to Ye Zhao's words.

Now looking at Christina's passionate love letter, Ye Zhao couldn't help but laugh, read it a few times, and then handed the letter to Jin Feng and said, "I'll take a shower, you can help me reply to the letter." "It's not once or twice that I've done this kind of thing, and I don't feel guilty at all.

If you want to say that Jin Feng ghostwrites, you can also say a few words like "sweetheart loves you" to make Christina happy, Ye Zhao replied by himself, but there will definitely be no such fleshy words.

After Jin Feng freshened up and changed into a light and dry cheongsam, Ye Zhao and her accompanied by Dong Haichuan to the neighbor's house for afternoon tea.

Huang's neighbor, surnamed Zhao, was a down-to-earth businessman and one of the candidates for the election of the regent Wang Lu's envoy, while Ye Zhao and Jin Feng, as relatives of "Master Huang", soon became members of Mr. Zhao's "campaign team" after having a deep conversation with Mr. Zhao.

Drinking afternoon tea in the living room of Zhao's house was actually discussing how to help Mr. Zhao win the election, and the members of the "campaign team" were all relatives of Mr. Zhao, and they sat in a room.

And Ye Zhaohe, who is handsome and chic, has an extraordinary temperament, and his surname is charming, modern, and stunner Jin Feng, who undoubtedly has the highest status in the "campaign team".

Mr. Zhao is called Zhao Haidi, the word is easy, he is in his 40s this year, he has a foreign trade house in Shanghai, and he mostly deals with Westerners.

Drinking tea at this time, Mr. Zhao asked Ye Zhao with a smile: "Mr. Wen, I have discussed with a few close friends to establish a political party like the West, so that there is a unified program, which is said to benefit the people, and to gain the approval of the people by virtue of what they do, so that they don't have to wait for the headache of the election. ”

Forming a political party? Ye Zhao smiled, and said in his heart that it would be good to have this idea, and said, "I'm afraid it's not easy to get permission from the official family now." ”

Mr. Zhao also nodded and said: "Yes, it is not good to form a party after all, although it has good intentions, I am afraid of misleading the country and the people." ”

Ye Zhao said: "Maybe one day a political party can be legally established, but if the post of prime minister cannot achieve a parliamentary election system, even if there is a party, it is useless after all, right?" ”

Zhao Haidi was stunned for a moment, and said with a dry smile: "Mr. Wen thinks far-reaching. He hurriedly changed the subject: "Let's talk about how this leaflet can impress the voters." ”

A middle-aged fat man sitting on the couch said: "According to what I said, each leaflet carries a gift certificate, third brother, I will ask you to be elected as a political envoy." ”

Zhao Haidi waved his hand, and his voice became stern: "Short-sighted!" There is no need to say anything about such ideas. "According to the Jinling Election Regulations, if a candidate conveys benefits to voters, including promising to do so, he will be immediately disqualified from running for election, and depending on the severity of the case, he will be banned from participating in politics for at least 10 years, and in serious cases, he will be investigated for criminal responsibility.

They talked a lot, Ye Zhao just smiled and listened, and occasionally expressed his opinions, which was often the finishing touch, although he only came to inspect the pilot election, but he was a member of Zhao Haidi's team, and it was also an incidental goal to help him succeed in the election.

However, sometimes the planning committee can't catch up with the changes, and the second day, Ye Zhao received a secret telegram and left Jinling.

The telegram was sent by Zhang Youcun, the governor of Nanyang, a telegram of 100,000 urgency, several gunboats of the British Indian fleet suddenly appeared in the port of Greater Aceh and forced the Sultan Mahmad of the Emirate of Aceh? Sand surrendered.

The origin of this matter has to start with the empire's policy in Nanyang in recent years.

The Emirate of Aceh is located at the northernmost tip of Sumatra Island in the South Ocean, with Greater Aceh as its capital, on the south bank of the Aceh River estuary, and on the west bank of the north mouth of the Strait of Malacca.

The kingdoms of Sumatra were destroyed by the Dutch one by one, but due to the Anglo-Dutch conflict, the Emirate of Aceh was the only surviving country, in fact, this country to later generations, its inhabitants still do not consider themselves Indonesian, after several years of war with the Indonesian political axe, the two sides reached a peace agreement, Aceh province became a special region, semi-autonomous state, and then the soldiers of the "Free Aceh Movement" surrendered their weapons.

Today, the Emirate of Aceh is the only country on the island of Sumatra that has not been annexed by the Dutch.

The empire also saw the Great Aceh seaport as the most important potential supply point for breaking out of the Strait of Malacca.

After several years of hard work, the trade ties between the Chinese and the Emirate of Aceh have become closer and closer, and not long ago, representatives of the two sides began negotiations in Pontianak, the Chinese are expected to obtain the port construction and lease rights in the port of Greater Aceh (Banda Aceh), if the treaty is reached, then in the South Seas, China will obtain the right to use the northernmost port in the Strait of Malacca, and the sphere of influence will immediately radiate the Indian Ocean.

Obviously, the secret negotiations between the two sides were known to the British, and the British were full of vigilance against this eastern power, which was increasingly dominating the Far East, and did not want to see Chinese warships freely moving through the Strait of Malacca, so they sent the warships of their Indian fleet to deter the Emirate of Aceh by force and obstruct the Chinese's efforts to break out of the Strait of Malacca.

The crisis of the first war with the British came so unexpectedly.

On the night that Ye Zhao returned to the capital, he convened a meeting of the Privy Council, which was attended by all the political and military bigwigs in the capital, and Zhang Jia, the only religious leader in the capital, was also a participant in the meeting.

In fact, Ye Zhao was going to take advantage of the Franco-Prussian War when the British set their sights on Europe to solve the dilemma of Malacca, thinking that because of his butterfly wings, the Franco-Prussian War would come early, who knew that the French suffered heavy setbacks in the East one after another, and their policies became cautious, and they also maintained a certain degree of restraint in Prussia's efforts to unify the German Confederation, and Napoleon III, who was no longer as arrogant as before, and Napoleon III, who was ambitious and talented, seemed to have also come to his senses, and the confrontation with Prussia was no longer aggressive, and the war between the two sides, It doesn't seem to be so easy to erupt, and what the final result will be is even more than Ye Zhao can predict.

For European countries, especially when the Suez Canal has been opened, I am afraid that few countries are happy to see the Chinese rush out of the Strait of Malacca, then the mighty Chinese merchant fleet is likely to enter the Mediterranean Sea like a tide and become another main force in the trade between East and West.

But the reaction of the British was obviously much more violent than expected.

Sipping fragrant tea, looking at the political and military officials and ministers on both sides of the long table, over the years, no matter how active the imperial ideology is, whether it is an official or a citizen, if it is on Ye Zhao's side, it is no different from the ministers of the previous dynasty in front of the emperor, sometimes Ye Zhao's few words can make them grateful and wipe their tears.

Although Ye Zhao was awkward, he couldn't help it, no wonder he thought about it, in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, the constitutionalist ministers who accepted the new ideas and advocated constitutionalism, such as Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others who scolded Cixi all day long, what about in front of the emperor? After suffering humiliation in foreign wars again and again, the prestige of imperial authority at that time had fallen to the freezing point, and the worship of the West by the Chinese people was even more incomparable, which is not the same as the weight of imperial power today. Even after the Xinhai Revolution, the royalists had a big market, let alone now.

If these ministers can communicate with themselves on an equal footing now, unless there is a mental problem, these things are really not urgent.

Zheng Zhen was slow to explain the danger of conflict with the British, this great Confucian can be said to be a representative of the rational school, he has always disapproved of the expansion of foreign countries by force, but advocated benevolent government, believing that the Celestial Empire is a state with abundant objects, and only needs to maintain trade in the East and the South Seas, and does not need to go west to compete with the West Yi.

For the time being, there is no shortage of strategic materials, the land is vast, the economy can be completely self-contained, and the people's living standards are gradually improving.

Of course, today's theory of closing the country to the outside world is more akin to the isolationism in Western diplomacy, which is completely different from the isolation of the country in the past. Countries with isolationist ideas, often geographically located and resource-rich, but far from the center of the political struggle between powerful countries, such as the United States and China, are eligible for appeal. And because of China's large population and its ancient self-sufficient economic system, it is not surprising that when it regained its hegemony in the Far East, isolationist ideas emerged.

The chief of the military staff, Shen Bao, apparently agrees with Zheng Zhen, who is probably the only one of the military generals who is not interested in expanding his territory.

Li Hongzhang cautiously expressed his concern about the conflict with the British navy, and if a full-scale war broke out with the British, there would be no suspense that the British would destroy the Chinese navy with their huge fleet, and that the confrontation with it would be tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and that the trade circle in the Pan-China Sea would be completely destroyed by the British.

At this time, Jung Chaek-moo, a member of the Royal Military Commission, an army general, and the commander of the Gyeonggi Military Region, raised his hand.

Ye Zhao glanced at him and nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Tibetan Provincial Army can be used to attack the remnants of the Fairness Party and force the British to submit." Zheng Zewu's voice was loud, and his proposal was even more earth-shattering.

Zheng Zhen was stunned and said, "General Zheng, do you know that the rest of the Fairness Party is in India?" India is the land of the British? Could it be that the general is preparing to declare war on England? ”

Zheng Zewu said angrily: "What about declaring war? If he destroys our navy, we occupy India, the British will have no supply lines, and if they continue to fight, he will lose! ”

Zheng Zhen was dumbfounded, quite like a talent meeting a soldier.

Ye Zhao smiled, clapped his hands, and asked the guards to send the information of the Tibetan Provincial Legion, of course, it was not very detailed, just to give these privy councillors a general understanding.

The Tibetan garrison was under the command of Zhao Sanbao, a general in the northwest, and consisted of three elite infantry divisions, one infantry division stationed in Lhasa, and the remaining two infantry divisions stationed in Pulan and Jilong respectively.

The one that can confront the rebels of the Fairness Party is the 2nd Frontier Division stationed in Jilong Zhizang Province. The border divisions in Tibetan Province are generally equipped with cavalry regiments, and there is also an infantry division of pure Tibetans, of course, all of them are Tibetans who are bitter and bitter and do not like the rule of the lama aristocracy, and most of them are liberated slaves who fight bravely.

At present, Tibetan Province is promoting land reform to liberate slaves, and a large number of "slave" cadres trained from Qinghai and other Tibetan areas have entered Tibet, and in Tibetan Province, they have also begun to liquidate the slave nobles who are full of evil, and the number of people who have been hanged is unknown, and at the same time, Ye Zhao ordered the relatives of the Tibetan nobles who were liquidated to migrate to the interior of the Central Plains and disperse the arrangements.

The stubborn disease of Tibetan society is obviously difficult to solve without relying on power to promote land reform, but Ye Zhao has done it more thoroughly, there is no international condemnation, no external pressure, Tibetans are really like tofu in Ye Zhao's hands, except for the suppressed nobles, the poor slave families who occupy the majority of the population, who does not call the emperor Shengming?

But it is precisely because Tibet is promoting land reform that if a conflict breaks out with India, the Tibetan nobles who are only afraid of being suppressed will find the backbone, and if they are contacted by the British, they are afraid that the disaster will be great.

It was Li Hongzhang who looked through the information of the Tibetan Provincial Frontier Division and said: "I am afraid that the three infantry divisions can only maintain law and order in Tibetan Province, and if they clash with the British and provoke a civil uprising in Tibetan Province, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses." ”

The matchmaker finally spoke and said, "You can make Zhao Sanbao mobilize people into Tibet." Li Xiucheng's remaining troops, which must be solved in the end, are now sending troops to kill three birds with one stone, but they are afraid that they will clash with a small British force, as long as they are defeated as quickly as possible, so that they know the combat power of the imperial infantry, this battle is to seek peace rather than war. The Heavy Infantry Janissary Brigade is training on the Tibetan side, which can just come in handy. ”

Su Niangniang represented the emperor many times, and Zheng Zhen, Li Hongzhang and others stopped talking.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "What the matchmaker said is good, this battle is a peace and not a war." After a pause, he said: "The British navy is powerful, and it is really not something that our fleet can compete with, but India, the jewel in the crown of the British Queen, what does it mean to the entire British Empire?" Without India, it would be difficult for the British to maintain their hegemony in Europe. ”

Ye Zhao did agree with Zheng Zewu's suggestion, but unlike what Zheng Zewu thought, it was not that you smashed my navy and I smashed your India's control of your supply lines, but a deterrent, a deterrent that made the British compromise.

As long as the Imperial Army showed great combat power in Tibet, it could force the British to submit.

In fact, the British in India were extremely reluctant to quell the Indian uprising, and the Indian uprising that had just been bloodily suppressed made it difficult for the Indians to heal in a short period of time.

Of course, the British can send their navy to completely destroy the trade circle in the China Sea, but it is just a lose-lose situation, although the Chinese lose more, but if they lose India, the British economy will suffer a blow can be imagined, and the impact will be far-reaching.

The British could also send land reinforcements to India, but it is conceivable that tens of thousands of nautical miles from home and fighting on land with China would be a war that would take years and months to bring the Chinese to their knees, and it was more likely that they would lose the land battle under the pressure of China's huge infantry sea.

Now that the Chinese are only seeking to sail out of the Strait of Malacca, and have not fought with the British for any colony, Ye Zhao does not believe that they are so stubborn as to risk a lose-lose war that they must block the sea routes for the Chinese in and out of the Strait of Malacca.

However, after this conflict, it is only feared that the British will help Russia to contain China's policy will be more obvious, but the chess game is already like this, and it is impossible to watch the Emirate of Aceh being coerced by the British cannon, which is a huge blow to China's prestige in the Pan-China Sea.

Tasting the tea, Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "After all, it is inevitable." ”

The ministers nodded solemnly, yes, the confrontation with the British, what should come is always coming.

…… The prawns squeak under the red charcoal fire, and the fragrance is strong.

The two little girls with pink carvings sat on both sides of Ye Zhao, even if they were barbecued, they were also gentle, with eyes and eyes, noble and elegant, Ye Zhao looked at them and was proud, and said in his heart Look at my daughter, it is really a little princess, who educated it? In fact, I also know in my heart that the education of the two baby girls has nothing to do with herself, Rong'er and Hongniang's in the education of the prince and the princess, they have simply given themselves a ban, and they are really worried that they will spoil them too much and teach some barbarian princesses and barbarian princes.

Today, Ye Zhao still coaxed Hua Ji with clever words, and accompanied him to bring his eldest daughter and second daughter out to eat barbecue. The eldest princess and the second princess are already four and a half years old, and they have begun to learn to read and write, and Hanahime is now their enlightenment teacher, but she is very good, and she also likes to play with the little ones.

On the opposite side, it is Debin Sanzi and Da Chun.

Debin's wife Guo Luoluo and concubine Narcissus are all old acquaintances of Ye Zhao, as for Da Chun, he has always disliked to bring his wife out, and today is no exception.

Ye Zhao hasn't eaten barbecue by himself for a long time, and now he said that he took the eldest girl and the second girl, and he just asked the two little guys to experience the taste of doing their own food and clothing, in fact, the two little guys, since they turned four years old, have to wash their own socks before going to bed, and the palace maid secretly helped wash them, and was punished by Rong'er, and gradually, it became a habit.

"The two princesses are really smart." Guo Luo Luo said flatteringly.

Narcissus, on the other hand, sits beside Hanahime and takes care of Hanahime's meticulousness.

Now Debin is already the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, a member of the third grade, he is serious, although he stutters slightly, but no one dares to underestimate him. Da Chun was not very angry, he fought many times, and was finally removed from the patrol team, Ye Zhao had no choice but to find an errand for him in the Zongren Mansion, and Ye Zhao paid out of his own pocket, of course, Da Chun did not know the details.

"Chun'er, can't you be more down-to-earth?" Ye Zhao looked at Da Chun and said helplessly.

Da Chun smiled, scratched his head, and said, "I'm just two sips, and if I drink too much, I'll make a mistake." ”

Debin said: "You, you always get into trouble......

Da Chun glared at the triangular eyes and said, "Go, go, you kid will teach me a lesson, right?" ”

Debin smiled innocently, and he didn't squeak, in front of Da Chun, he has always been angry.

Narcissus's eyes flashed, and she was a little dissatisfied in her heart, but the emperor was here, and she didn't dare to say anything.

Guo Luo Luo knew about the friendship between his brothers and the emperor's bare ass, not to mention that he was always a little unable to raise his head in front of Da Chun. And if you want to talk about official titles, will the emperor sit here? What kind of officials are these two brothers, it's not a matter of the emperor's words? Now that he is sharpening and sharpening Dachun, maybe he will be promoted to Debin's boss in Ming'er, if he really cares about the identity of Dachun here, then he is the villain's knowledge.

"Father, give it to you, it's very fragrant." The eldest girl, Yao Yuan, said childishly, sent the peeled grilled shrimp to Ye Zhao's plate, and took out a small handkerchief to wipe her little hands.

The second girl, Yao Yuan, sent the roasted meat to the flower Ji plate, obviously, the two ladies had a clear division of labor, maybe they had discussed it.

And although Debin, Da Chun and others seem to be elders, since they are not the objects of New Year's kowtows, the education they have received since childhood, the two little princesses naturally have their pride, and they will not casually peel shrimp meat for people to eat.

"Father, is it delicious?" Seeing Ye Zhao smiling and putting the shrimp meat in his mouth, Yao Yuan blinked his big eyes and asked happily.

Ye Zhao nodded again and again, sweet in his mouth, even sweeter in his heart, and said: "Don't do it, you two, I'll give you a barbecue to eat, what if you touch your little arms and legs?" "In less than three minutes, the spoiling energy came up again.

After eating barbecue, Da Chun mysteriously and secretly proposed to Ye Zhao to go to see the most popular female singer in Paramount together, Ye Zhao refused with a smile, and returned to the palace with Hua Ji and the two little princesses.

When leading the two little princesses to watch the drama "Nature" in the small performance hall of Changyin Pavilion, Ye Zhao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This is one of the dramas for the little princes and princesses, several dramas are scripts written by Rong'er herself, nature series, are all small stories of various animal shapes, and popular science education is carried out through the situation of dialogue stories, such as a black bear will tell why it hibernates by clashing with other small animals; Another example is the dialogue between the sparrow sister and the pest, telling everyone that it is actually a beneficial bird, and how great its role is for humans.

Ye Zhao looked at the actors on the stage, looked at the two little sisters who watched with relish, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, even if compared with later generations, this kind of intuitive live-action performance picture is ten thousand times stronger than the effect of TV cartoons, how can people really be equal in one life? The starting line could not be different.

A drama ended, but Ye Zhao suddenly became interested, Hua Ji led the two little princesses back to the palace to rest, and he called Changyin Pavilion Music, passed a few scenes of music, and sent the matchmaker to accompany him to listen to the music.

The stage was soon replaced by a colorful background picture of green mountains and clear water curtains, and musicians such as pipa girls, guzheng girls, silk pipes, clear flutes, horns, war drums, and rows of pretty dancing girls in armor quickly appeared on the stage, but they were silent, like wood carving clay sculptures.

After about a quarter of an hour, the mahogany door of the small performance hall creaked open, and the matchmaker danced in accompanied by several palace maids, Ye Zhao smiled and beckoned to her, and the matchmaker came over and sat beside Ye Zhao.

There are not many seats in the small performance hall, all of them are chaise sofas, and there is a coffee table in front of it, and candy and tea are placed.

Waiting for the matchmaker to sit down, Ye Zhao made a gesture to the Sile palace maid, and soon, the sound of pipa and guzheng sounded on the stage.

It is a song "Ambush on All Sides", the opening music is high-spirited and powerful, accompanied by the sound of drums and horns, the drums gradually speed up from slow, and a tense atmosphere of saber pulling and tension pervades unconsciously.

Ye Zhao held the matchmaker's hand, leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes slightly, and on the stage, the armored dancers lined up in a circle of spears and halberds and rotated, and the picture was beautiful.

"Tomorrow, the border guards are going to enter India, right?" Ye Zhao suddenly sat up again, obviously, he was not really so leisurely, how could the matter of Tibetan Province and Nanyang not hover in his heart?

The matchmaker nodded slightly.

"I don't know if I can bluff the British." Ye Zhao sighed softly, in fact, no matter what, the Imperial Army would not go deep into the hinterland of India to clash head-on with the British, what if it occupied India, the consequences of the entire Chinese sea trade being destroyed by the British fleet, China could not afford it.

The matchmaker pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "If you want to say that in the eyes of foreign devils, you are very strong, and your courage is greater than the sky, and you will definitely be able to scare the British." ”

Ye Zhao knew that she was relieved, and said with a smile: "I hope the British think I have a good face, if I can't scare him, I really don't know what to do." ”

"If you can't bluff, you have to endure it, in the past, Gou Jian could lie down and taste the guts, what are we worth? Aceh will come back a few years later. The matchmaker patted Ye Zhao's hand gently.

Ye Zhao nodded slightly and slowly leaned back on the sofa.

Looking at the graceful dancing of the armored dancer on the stage, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Wife, were you so pitiful when you first rebelled?" ”

"What kitchen knife, haven't you seen me use a spear?" The matchmaker glared at Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "It's still pitiful to think about it, you want to fight for the world with an iron weapon?" Now our Guangzhou steel mill can take out a piece of pig iron casually, which is better than your spear quality, right? ”

"Nonsense!" The matchmaker glanced at Ye Zhao, but think about it, she is really bold enough, what if you don't know this little Tartar back then? Thinking about the light and heavy weapons of the current empire, the matchmaker also wiped a cold sweat.

"Are you scared?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile.

The matchmaker also sighed softly and said, "I'm not afraid, when the incident happened, I didn't think that I could end up with a good death, but I just didn't know what day I would die." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Did you meet me, only then did you have a sense of security, and only then did you have a thought, maybe I also have a happy life with the little Tartar as my own child." ”

"Meat and numbness, who wants to give you a baby!" The matchmaker glared at Ye Zhao again, then shook her head, and said, "What you said is also right, when I met you later, I seemed to feel a little more relieved when I slept, but I didn't expect to have this day." ”

Ye Zhao sat up with a smile, picked up the fragrant tea on the coffee table, and immediately saw the little red silk pants and red embroidered shoes under the matchmaker's flower skirt, thinking of the matchmaker's wonderful ** light as a feather and the pair of slender legs that make people want to die, he couldn't help but move, and whispered in the matchmaker's ear: "Come, sit on my lap and come up, Xianggong will hold you and listen to the music, giving you more security." ”

The matchmaker blushed and just pretended not to hear.

Ye Zhao suddenly snorted again, startled the matchmaker, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Zhao said: "My eldest brother is about to give birth to a little mixed race, right?" "Boss Su has already married the Western girl, as if the foreign sister-in-law is about to give birth.

The matchmaker looked at him helplessly, and had a thought for a while, why did she think of her brother again at this moment? If his words and deeds are recorded, then I am afraid that no one in the world will believe it.

(To be continued)