After another tiring day, Chen Moran returned to his residence in the deep palace, compared to any palace in the world, this palace in Nanjing really makes people feel too simple, although the outside world has a lot of praise, but even in Chen Moran's own opinion, his palace is too simple.

"Wait a few years, change to a big palace!"

Looking at this palace that made people feel a little gloomy, Chen Moran thought in his heart, at the beginning, because of financial reasons, he didn't repair the palace, and now, he didn't have the intention of repairing the palace, maybe in a few years, when the time is right, he can rebuild a palace.

In fact, the shadow of "Nanjing has not been established for a hundred years" in the past few years, has been plaguing Chen Moran, for him who dreams of building a thousand-year empire, this will always make people feel extremely uncomfortable, in the eyes of the outside world This "frugal" emperor in his heart, in fact, has long had the idea of overhauling civil engineering.

But not in Nanjing, but in ...... Well! In a suitable place, build a new capital!

For the past few years, Chen has dreamed of creating a "world capital" in a suitable location, symbolizing China's rule over the world, and named it "Imperial Capital". Every emperor can have his own dream, and Chen Moran's dream is to build a "thousand-year empire", and according to that dream, only the architecture of ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon or ancient Rome can be compared with the center of the empire - the "imperial capital", how can London and Paris be compared?

Unfortunately, at least for now, at this time, it is only a dream at best.

When entering the living room, in a corner of the living room, Ji Li, who had changed into a floral dress, sat quietly on the calfskin sofa, the blonde hair fell down like a waterfall, without a single ornament on her body, she held a heavy book in her hand, and a line of gilded regular script protruded from the green and blue cover of the book:

"Ten years of empire".

It is a book written by a domestic historian about the changes in the empire and the changes in its international status in the ten years since the founding of the empire, and although many of its contents are praised, there is also a lot of criticism, at least in China, where the literati still enjoy a high degree of freedom, and they criticize the government in books and newspapers.

even criticized himself, the emperor, but Chen Moran always laughed at those accusations, and Chen Moran was always as tolerant as possible for those people, because no matter what, they are a group of people worthy of respect, and if this country can't accommodate heretical voices, then this country has no future.

"You're back!"

Ji Li raised her head to look at her husband who was returning to "home", with a smile on her face, although she was already an old husband and wife, but the two still maintained their relationship with each other, although the two had disputes in the past, but they did not see the estrangement of the relationship between the two, in fact, sometimes, they even sat like when they were in love, lying on the sofa or on the grass, snuggling in their arms and chatting intimately.

Handing the coat and hat of the marshal's uniform to Ji Li, the maid stopped in this "home", perhaps this was the only chance to keep private space, ripped the collar of the white shirt, Chen Moran sat on the sofa where Ji Li was lying, and after Ji Li hung up her clothes, he pulled her into his arms.

"Ji Li, in a few days, we may have to go to Taiwan."

"To Taiwan?"

Ji Li, who was lying in Chen Moran's arms, turned her head to look at her husband and looked at Chen Moran in some surprise.

"There will be an escort fleet going to the Mediterranean Sea at the Dagou Military Port, and we will go to Taiwan to see them off,"

The escort fleet sent to Europe is actually a joint Sino-Japanese fleet, two Chinese cruisers with two Japanese cruisers and four destroyers, and they will escort the merchant fleet in the Mediterranean, in fact, this is not only the need of the Entente, but also the needs of China, Chinese merchant ships also need fleet escort, only under the escort of the fleet, can the materials be safely transported to France and Britain, and those industrial products will be exchanged for the gold needed for China's development. …,

"When the time comes, you can take your daughter and son to visit Taiwan, the scenery of Taiwan is very beautiful......"

"Oh, got it!"

Ji Li responded lightly, and at the same time involuntarily shrank her body into Chen Moran's arms.

"Well, Lisa sent a letter......"

"Lisa?"

The "servant" who once amazed herself, now the wife of the Grand Duke of Russia, is also Ji Li's "sister", the lady of China.

"There is also a video of her and Nasha in the letter, and Nasha is really beautiful."

When mentioning her, Ji Li's tone was somewhat envious.

"Oh?"

Chen Mo paused for a moment, and then spoke.

"If you want, you can turn Nasha into your daughter-in-law!"

"I want to too, but you know that Yixuan's fiancée can only be Chinese, even if it is a commoner, I hope that the future imperial concubine is Chinese."

Mentioning this matter, Ji Li's face showed a little helplessness, although she has long been accepted by the people as a "foreign queen", but her blonde hair and blue eyes will always disappoint the people a little, although the crown prince has not yet reached the age of marrying a wife, but there is already a voice in the country, that is, the crown prince should marry a Chinese wife, this is for the "royal blood".

Before she looked at the book "Ten Years of Empire", she saw one of the sentences: "Ten years of empire is a decade of nationalist revival, and in ten years, everything can be attributed to the revival of nationalism in China", in the eyes of many conservative people, the royal blood must maintain the "Han" blood, so they care so much about the bloodline of the crown princess.

"In fact, our family's affairs are our family's own decisions, as long as we want, we don't care what they think......"

Chen Moran swallowed his saliva, when he said this, he only felt as if there was a fire burning in his heart, in fact, for him, for his son's marriage, he had already made up his mind, as the heir of the royal family, his son's marriage could never be decided by him or others, and his marriage must be in line with the interests of the entire country.

What is a marriage that is in the interests of this country? In this regard, Chen Moran already had an answer in his heart.

"Perhaps, but in the end, you have to take into account their feelings, after all, they are the citizens of this country, and they are the ones who really decide the future of this country."

Without hesitation, Ji Li once again repeated her long-standing opinion, in her eyes, the Chinese imperial family is just a part of the national symbol elected by the people, and it is the duty of the Chinese imperial family to not betray the will of the people.

"Well, if they object, I'll convince them...... They will surely understand what is most beneficial to the country, and it is not just the Han Chinese blood! ”

"Well, I hope so."

Ji Li raised her beautiful eyes like the sea, and glanced at Chen Moran with emotion, at the beginning, if it wasn't for his insistence, perhaps, he would have married another wife.

That's right, at that time, someone asked him to marry another Chinese wife, but he stubbornly refused, because he didn't want others to control his fate, he had a strong desire to control, he would not succumb to the pressure of others, and was more willing to control the fate of others.

"Sometimes, people have to make a choice!"

Chen Moran flicked his sideburns weakly, and after a long sigh, at this time Ji Li took out a photo, took the photo, Chen Moran saw that next to Lisa, who was wearing a Western-style dress, stood next to Lisa, who was wearing a Western-style dress, and there was an eight- or nine-year-old "little Lori", the little girl was as beautiful as an angel, if it was in the future, if this photo was released on the Internet, the little girl in the photo did not know how much "Lolicon" was fascinated.

"It's beautiful!"

Chen Moran praised truthfully. …,

"Nasha is so beautiful, like a doll."

Ji Li snuggled in her husband's arms a little lazily, and tapped the little girl in the photo with her finger, since she met Nasha for the first time in St. Petersburg three years ago, she has been in love with this little girl, among the girls she has seen, only she is the most satisfying, and the highest thing she is satisfied with is that the education of the Russian royal family is very strict, and her appearance, life experience, and education are all very suitable.

It's just that......

"Well, that's right!"

Looking at the girl in the photo, Chen Moran adjusted his breathing slightly, compared to the girl Ji Li saw, but what he saw was something else, but it was ......

"If you want, you can invite Lisa and them to China, so that you can get closer to Lisa, and our son can also have more contact with Nasha."

"Really?"

Ji Li looked at her husband with surprise on her face, waiting for his answer.

"Won't there be any problems?"

"Of course no problem, she's the sister you recognize, as long as you want...... Well...... You can ask them to come over at any time."

Although Chen Moran agreed, his tone was still a little hesitant, but what he hesitated was......

Looking at the woman in the photo, Chen Moran remembered the little "ambiguity" between himself and the housekeeper back then, and later after learning that the Grand Duke Mikhail of Russia was in love with her, he did not hesitate to cut off the little "ambiguity" and facilitated their marriage through Ji Li.

Think about how justified she was when she made this decision back then, and what is a woman compared to the great dream of creating a Chinese empire that dominates the world? However, after seeing Lisa again, why do you always have some emotion and even some guilt in your heart? Is it just because she's just a figure in her own plans?

But to be honest, her daughter is really beautiful, far more beautiful than her mother......

All kinds of emotions were churning in Chen Moran's mind, and he unconsciously lay on the sofa Chen Moran fell asleep, and Ji Li looked at her sleeping husband, but stroked his brows with some pity, in the past ten years, he has paid too much for this country, I am the country, turning the country into a home seems to be desirable, but after turning the country into a home, the responsibility that needs to be borne is not something that everyone can bear.

Especially for a founding monarch like him, he needs to endure too many things, unlike any founding monarch of all dynasties, he needs to endure more, a little slack, it may lead to the destruction of the entire empire, not only can he not have the slightest slackness, but even needs to put in more effort, because the empire in his dream is a huge "thousand-year empire"!

Correspondingly, the empire he inherited was the "oldest", "most backward", and "most conservative" old empire in the world, and it was an unprecedented challenge to build such an old empire with internal and external troubles far behind the world into a powerful "thousand-year empire", and he clearly knew that if China wanted to stand tall in the world and become a powerful country that dominated the world, it must fundamentally change the entire social and cultural structure.

In order to promote the country's education, as emperor, he also personally traveled all over the country, teaching people literacy in village squares, school classrooms, and town restaurants, and under his encouragement, intellectuals and government officials followed suit, turning the entire country into a large classroom, and in just ten years, China's literacy rate increased from 15% to 65%.

In this process, the change is more rapid is the change of national strength, China from a backward and ignorant agricultural country, into an industrial country, now China can produce all industrial products, including the main warship, but after all this, what is the price to pay? …,

Until now, while hundreds of millions of people in the empire have benefited from the changes in the empire, but not everyone understands him, traditional intellectuals still think that the emperor has abandoned too many traditions, although eight years ago, as a kind of compromise with tradition or in order to inherit the traditions of the four kingdoms, Confucianism has been established as the state religion of China, but the imperial family is still the "heavily Westernized" imperial family.

In the eyes of the constitutionalist, China's constitution is conservative, traditional, Confucian, and a traditional oriental constitution, while in the eyes of the radicals, the imperial system is undoubtedly ignorant and backward, even barbaric, and in the end, all the dissatisfaction of these people is concentrated on Chen Moran, who is the emperor, and when he bears all this, he can bear all this, but he has to stubbornly implement his own decisions, all for the sake of the "thousand-year empire".

No one understands him, no one supports him, in the end, he regards the army as his supporter, and the army as a Yin stock, but in the infinite scenery in front of people, the king of the world, behind it is endless exhaustion, he is very tired, very tired.

"One day, when you want to open, maybe you will really relax!"

But when will he be relaxed? After a long sigh and took a blanket to cover Chen Moran's body, Ji Li stood up and looked at her husband who was asleep on the sofa, with a hint of pity between her eyebrows.

When he was woken up by the attendant officer, Chen Moran appeared wearing a floral blanket.

"Did you put it on me?"

Chen Moran asked the attendant officer.

"I've been in the duty room, and I just came over."

Chen Moran turned over the blanket on his body in confusion, obviously this was covered by Ji Li for herself.

"This woman ......"

Thinking that his daughter-in-law actually "throw" herself on the sofa, Chen Moran shook his head, muttering in his heart that he would wait for the day when he was free, and then clean up this woman.

"Your Excellency?"

The attendant was holding a dark green folder in his hand, obviously with something to report.

Chen Moran came back to his senses with an "oh" and hurriedly looked at the attendant officer:

"What's the matter?"

The attendant officer of the inner palace is a young female officer, who looks very beautiful, but over the years, Chen Moran has long been accustomed to these female officers in beautiful military uniforms, and she has long been able to turn a blind eye to any "uniform temptation", at most, she occasionally shows a hint of appreciation.

"The expeditionary force is in a hurry."

"Read."

"Yes. The headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force made an urgent report to the base camp: Starting this morning, the 11th and 236th Divisions of our Expeditionary Force will launch an attack on the Baghdad defense line on the Turkish side,......"

Although it was an urgent telegram, it was just a very ordinary battlefield telegram, the content of the telegram was empty and boring, there was nothing worth paying attention to at all, the war in the Near East was like this, there was no risk at all, and the nearly 200,000 expeditionary forces in the Near East had to face only less than 100,000 Turkish and Turkish vassal Arab tribal soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of those troops was not worth mentioning at all. If it weren't for not wanting to get too deep in the Arab region, perhaps China would have occupied the province of Baghdad long ago.

In the end, the intelligence officers of Britain, France, and other countries truthfully sent the information that "the Chinese army has suffered heavy casualties in the Near East", and this is exactly what the General Staff needs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs "China to get stuck in the quagmire of the Near East" in order to reject the current request to send an expeditionary force to Western Europe in negotiations with Britain and France.

“…… In view of the division tactics carried out by Britain and Russia against Persia, an infantry division has been ordered to enter the Persian oil-producing area to prevent the destruction of the oil fields, and the Expeditionary Force Command hopes to provide economic and military support to the pro-Chinese groups in Persia so as to maintain our interests in Persia to the greatest extent. At the same time, in order to maintain the interests of the empire in Persia, the expeditionary force has completed preparations for an attack and can go to Persia at any time to participate in the division and occupation of Britain and Russia. ……”

When the attendant reported on the change in the direction of Persia, Chen Moran only stared and pondered, it was a decision made by the Supreme Military Council not to take large-scale action in Persia, but sometimes these decisions should be changed at the right time.

"Call the Foreign Office and let them tell the British that we are very unhappy with their actions in Persia!"

As he said this, Chen Moran pondered for a moment, and then added.

"Tell them that if our interests are harmed, it is not excluded that we will use all necessary means to protect the interests of our country!"

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