After the conquest of North Korea, Lee Yong-gil, who was bent on going to Los Angeles, was dragged down again because his wife Yin Susu was about to give birth.

Yin Susu was conceived in May 1861, and by the first month of 1862, that is, in February of the Gregorian calendar, her belly was already very large.

Because of this, Li Yongji put aside other things, stayed by his wife's side, and decided to wait for the birth of the child before going to California.

During this period, in order to avoid his wife being disturbed, Li Yongji and Yin Susu stayed in Suyuan in Xuanwu Lake and refused to visit from outsiders, even if there was anything to deal with, such as contacting the general by phone.

The so-called Su Garden is actually a garden built by Li Yongji specifically for Yin Susu, located between Xuanwu Lake and the original Taiping Gate.

This place was originally a temporary place for Li Yongji to settle down after he laid down Nanjing, when the Golden Palace had just begun to plan, and the Tianwang Mansion was damaged, and people came and went, so Li Yongji spent a piece of land on the edge of the Taiping Gate near Xuanwu Lake, and built a large color steel house as a warehouse with the color steel of modern society, and also put his mobile villa there.

Later, because the scenery there is good, the traffic is relatively convenient, and the surrounding blockade is also very quiet, so Li Yongji expanded the construction, with a large number of modern materials, built a villa group here, and made a modern version of the residential area, after that, Li Yongji named this place Suyuan, saying that it was specially built for Yin Susu.

The main building of Suyuan is a single-family villa covering an area of 2,000 square meters, this villa is three stories high, the houses are all light steel structure, large glass window design, in addition to the basement, swimming pool. The large lawn, garden and recreation room are completely in the style of a modern villa.

In particular, we should focus on the recreation room, the so-called recreation room, in fact, is a separate construction of an all-glass villa outside the main body of the villa, covering an area of 1,000 square meters.

However, it is not quite right to say that the villa is not right, because this glass villa has only one floor, boxy, and the skeleton is made of light steel. The walls and ceiling are all insulated glass that can be strengthened, which is simply more like a warehouse built with tempered glass and color steel.

In it, although there are indoor swimming pools, treadmills and other fitness facilities, but compared to the area of 1,000 square meters, the area of the gym is very small, and the main application here is still used as a flower room.

That's right, it's the flower room. Most of the places here, with more than 800 square meters, are used to grow flowers, grass and fish, which can be said to be a veritable glass greenhouse. It's just that the flower room area and the fitness area are separated by large glass.

Strictly speaking, the area of Suyuan can not be compared with Yonghua Palace, nor can it be compared with the State Council rebuilt on the basis of Tianwang Mansion, this is a slightly larger villa. Or a small park, not to mention the royal family, the private courtyards of many wealthy people in the people are also larger than the scale of this plain garden.

But the experience here is absolutely top-notch. You know, there are modern electrical appliances and equipment in the villa, such as the bathroom and indoor swimming pool in the villa, there are surfing equipment, which can make artificial waves, and there is an air-conditioning system, which can maintain a certain humidity and temperature 24 hours a day.

In order to supply power to this villa area, a large solar power system has been set up nearby, coupled with a huge battery pack, to ensure a full supply of electricity.

In addition, in order to ensure the health of the fetus, the villa also provides a complete set of modern delivery rooms, and the hospital has a set of equipment to take care of pregnant women and babies, including electrocardiograms, water delivery equipment, etc., which can be said to be quasi-first-class except for the inability to operate.

For this reason, Li Yongji specially transferred Huang Kuan and some of his students from the secret base, and also set up a special royal nurse team to conduct drills in advance using ready-made equipment.

These drills are not fake, but for real midwifery, that is to say, these specially trained female obstetric doctors will find some pregnant women who are about to give birth after learning the relevant knowledge, and use Suyuan's medical equipment to help pregnant women give birth.

In this era, a woman giving birth to a child is called a pass, which means that giving birth to a child is very risky, and dystocia is a common phenomenon. So, there are royal medical staff to help you have a baby for free, and many people are willing to try it.

Of course, in order to ensure the success rate, most of the selected mothers are women with better physique, so as to increase the success rate of childbirth. At the same time, in order to reduce gossip, the mother's mother or sister is usually asked to help in the delivery room, so that these relatives can see the whole process of childbirth.

The reason why I don't choose a husband is because the Chinese in this era are still too conservative, and men usually do not enter the delivery room, thinking that it is unlucky.

Anyway, the main purpose of helping these people have children is to train obstetric personnel, not to change customs, so the selected mothers are all sisters or mothers, the purpose is to let them participate in the whole process and avoid bad rumors.

Moreover, in order to give Yin Susu a preventive shot in advance and let her be psychologically prepared, when those mothers give birth, they usually record the image, and then delete some bloody parts and show them to Yin Susu, so that she can alleviate some worries and worries about giving birth.

In short, Li Yongji has been busy and preparing for Yin Susu's birth recently, and it can be said that he has made the most perfect preparations he can do.

For example, the equipment is a modern medical facility directly imported by Li Yongji and Zhang Xinda; For example, the personnel are all young and strong young women with a certain cultural foundation, especially those girls who were in the Youth Guards Corps, and many of them participated in the medical corps.

The people of these medical groups will read books and watch videos, and go to learn modern midwifery knowledge, and after they have learned it, they will learn and sell it now, give birth to those who agree to participate in the practice, and exercise their medical skills in practice.

This kind of practice has lasted for half a year, and no pregnant woman has a problem during childbirth, or even if there is a problem, it has been solved in time, so the members of the medical team have accumulated a wealth of experience in midwifery.

In fact, Li Yongji and Yin Susu have already planned, and when Yin Susu gives birth, these people will continue to do it. Continue to use modern equipment to give birth to children here and make this a modern maternity hospital.

Of course, due to the limited medical resources, if you help give birth to a child in the future, you can't continue to play for free, but implement a charging model, and you have to charge a super high price, and use the high price to reduce the number of people who send it, at most, regardless of class.

At the same time, this modern maternity hospital can also be considered a royal benefit. It is specially for some military families or widows of martyrs who have made military achievements to help give birth.

In short, due to limited resources, this modern obstetric hospital established by Li Yongji with great efforts is definitely not a bad kind relief person, nor does it play equality, even if it continues to operate in the future, it will only be regarded as a high-end obstetric hospital or an obstetric learning center to train more obstetric medical personnel.

In fact, Yin Susu is about to produce this thing. It not only involves Li Yongji's heart, but also everyone's heart. Since the queen's upcoming birth was not deliberately concealed, many people knew about it, and they were all talking about the queen's upcoming birth.

The reason is simple. In an imperial state, if the emperor does not have children, it means that the whole society is unstable, and the common people will have a sense of worry. On the contrary, if the emperor had children, the common people would have much more peace of mind.

In fact, it's not just the common people. The most concerned are actually those powerful people in the army and the government, almost all of them are dependent on the new dynasty, once they have an heir, it means that their status can be guaranteed, so they are more concerned about the queen's mother giving birth to children than ordinary people.

Not to mention Li Yongji's parents, that is, the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother, they care more about Cheng Dù, but Li Yongji is free and assertive, and everything is arranged by Li Yongji himself, so they can only come over to talk to Yin Susu without incident, but they don't comment on how to arrange to have children.

In short, the news of Yin Susu's upcoming production touched the hearts of everyone up and down the empire, and most people hoped that the queen would be smooth and prosperous, and that the emperor would have a healthy dragon son as soon as possible.

In everyone's ardent anticipation, Yin Susu finally gave birth to a baby boy weighing 7 pounds at about 9 a.m. on February 26 in the Gregorian calendar.

"Child, my child!" Looking at the little baby who had been carefully cleaned and sucked breast milk, and was sleeping all over his body at this time, Li Yongji smiled, gently hugged Yin Susu, and said to Yin Susu, who was tired but full of happiness, "Look, this is our child!" ”

"Congratulations." Yin Susu laughed, "The concubine is fortunate not to be dishonored, and finally gave birth to a boy for His Majesty." ”

"Huh." Li Yongji smiled and touched Yin Susu's head, "Actually, there is nothing fortunate not to be dishonored, as long as the child is healthy, it is better than anything else." As for boys and girls, I don't really value them that much, relatively speaking, I prefer girls more. Hey, it's a pity, I thought the first one was China Merchants Bank, but I didn't expect it to be a construction bank. ”

"Ah, China Merchants Bank? CCB? ”

"Oh, that's what I heard." Li Yongji smiled, "It means that if you give birth to a boy, you have to save money to build a house for your son and marry a daughter-in-law, so it is called China Construction Bank; If it is a girl who is born, then there is no need to save too much, because when the daughter gets married, she can receive a bride price, and she does not have to build a house and buy a house by herself, she is recruiting a son-in-law, so it is called China Merchants Bank, understand? ”

"What His Majesty said is really interesting, how can there be such a reason." Yin Susu chuckled, "I only heard that there are boys who are happy and girls who are sad, and I have never heard of anyone who doesn't like boys, but likes girls." ”

"yes, yes." Li Yongji smiled and nodded, but didn't say anything more.

This is the inherent difference, even if they have lived together for so long, Yin Susu is still an ancient person in his bones, while Li Yongji is a modern person, so some concepts cannot be exactly the same.

"Majesty, give the child a name." Yin Susu said suddenly.

"Name, I want to think about it." Li Yongji smiled, "Yes, when this child was born, the sky was blue and cloudy, so it might as well be called Li Qing." ”

"Li Qing?" Yin Susu muttered for a moment and frowned slightly, "This name is too cheesy, isn't it, and it is so casual to name it, don't you think it's a bit child's play?" Born in the royal family, born noble, how can you let people look at the eight characters of the birth or something. ”

"What's cheesy and not cheesy, I think it's good." Li Yongji said with a smile. "As for the eight characters of birth, I am not so superstitious, and the key to the name is catchy, Li Qing I think it is very good."

"Well, since it's the meaning of majesty, let's call it that." Yin Susu smiled lightly, no longer insisted, but looked at his sleeping son, and gently stroked his nose, "Son." Did you hear that, if you have a name in the future, you will be called Li Qing, are you happy? ”

It's a pity that the child slept very deeply, didn't pay attention to Yin Susu's call, and didn't respond at all.

Seeing that there was no response, Yin Susu was a little unhappy, and was about to shake the other party a little harder to wake up the other party. Li Yongji hurriedly stopped: "Something else, the child just fell asleep, and you are tired, let's play with the child in the future." ”

"Look at you. Sure enough, I forgot my wife when I had a child. Yin Susu smiled lightly, "Okay, Majesty, I'll tease you, how could I really wake him up." I gave birth to the child. I'm also distressed. ”

"You." Seeing her like this, Li Yongji shook his head, but didn't say anything more.

Li Qing's birth. It can be said that the whole country celebrates together, and when he was in the evening, the people of Nanjing spontaneously held a lantern parade with a scale of 200,000 people.

Of course, to say spontaneous is to paste gold, how can 200,000 people be spontaneous, in fact, this is an action organized by the Nanjing Municipal Government, and the purpose is naturally to slap the emperor's ass.

However, although it was organized by the city government, most of the people were really happy and happy for the emperor's future, so there was no resistance to this lantern celebration at all, but they enjoyed it from the bottom of their hearts.

Not only that, but at night, the city of Nanjing will set off fireworks as a regular celebration as a sign of celebration, and at the same time, the garrisons in various places will organize troops to fire three shots into the sky to congratulate them.

The ceremony of congratulatory firing guns by the army was organized by Yu Hongrui, and then Zhou Shengjun himself, of course, all the soldiers were also happy from the bottom of their hearts that the emperor had an heir, so even if it was not organized, it is estimated that various celebrations would be held spontaneously, and it might even violate military discipline.

It is precisely with this in mind, and everyone is very happy, that Zhou Shengjun put forward this plan, and stipulated that after Li Qing was born, the whole army would take turns to rest for three days, that is, everyone would be given three days off, but they should take turns off.

In addition to giving holidays to the garrisons in various places, in order to celebrate the birth of the crown prince, each army will also increase the food standard, so that everyone can eat and drink well, and it can be regarded as a celebration for the whole world.

Not only the people in the country were elated, but also the envoys of other countries heard about this and congratulated the crown prince on his birth.

In a sense, the birth of Li Yongji's son is not just a private matter, but a national affair that affects the hearts of countless people.

The so-called selfless affairs of the Son of Heaven are talking about this truth, which is the same as the big stars of later generations, a little housework, such as giving birth to a child and getting divorced, can make headlines.

Because of this, in the next few days, Li Yongji had to find time to meet with important ministers from all sides, non-governmental representatives, and foreign envoys, accept each other's congratulations, and then express his gratitude to them.

After being so busy for three days, when Li Yongji finally finished meeting the person he had to see and planned to accompany the child well, he suddenly heard that King Yi had returned.

King Yi is Li Yongchang, that is, Li Yongji's own brother, he used to be the prime minister, but later resigned from the post of prime minister, and had to follow the envoy to go abroad to see, so as the prince of the empire, he joined Rong Hong's diplomatic visit to the wèn delegation and set off for the United States.

On the way to the United States, Li Yongchang once led a fleet to stay in Hawaii for a short time, and used force to force the Hawaiian king to carve out Pearl Harbor as a concession for the Chinese Empire.

After arriving in San Francisco in the United States, the United States had already started a civil war, and for security reasons, and Li Yongchang found that the situation of many Chinese in San Francisco was very miserable.

After that, Li Yongchang used his identity as a Chinese American to buy a large piece of land in Los Angeles, and communicated with Li Yongji, asking Li Yongji to immigrate to Los Angeles as much as possible.

When Li Yongji heard about it, he immediately organized the ship. Then the first batch of "decommissioned" national defense troops were transported, and as soon as they arrived, they were immediately under the command of Li Yongchang, in other words, Li Yongchang was the top local person in charge of Los Angeles, and his main purpose was to be in charge of the local resettlement construction work.

Yung Hong, on the other hand, continued his journey, sailing around Cape Horn to New York, and then to Washington, D.C. Formally exercising his diplomatic mission, he has now left the United States and has come to the southern federal state to continue his visits and investigations.

In short, Li Yongchang should still be in the United States, and it is said that he is doing a good job, and he likes the days of a pioneer very much, how could he return to China so quickly?

"Of course I miss my nephew." After the meeting. Li Yongchang laughed, "Your Majesty, you have a child, how can I, who is an uncle, not come to see me?" ”

"Then you see it now." Li Yongji smiled. "How do you feel?"

"Thoughts? Well, it looks a lot like you. Li Yongchang carefully looked at Li Qing in the cradle, "If you can sleep like this, you will definitely be a calm person in the future." ”

"Don't compliment. Many people have already praised it, and there will be no more praise. Li Yongji shook his head, "Let's go." Let's go over there, we haven't seen each other for so long, we have to have a good talk. ”

"Good!" Li Yongchang nodded and quickly left the nursery.

After everyone came to Li Yongji's study together, Li Yongji sighed: "Big brother, you have lost weight and darkened, it seems that you have suffered a lot." ”

Indeed, Li Yongchang's complexion was very white before he ran away, but now it has become a red and black color, which is due to the long-term exposure to the sun.

Moreover, Li Yongchang used to be of moderate stature, neither fat nor thin, but now it is obvious that he is emaciated, which shows that his life in the United States should be very hard.

"Suffering? It's okay. Li Yongchang grinned, "San Francisco and Los Angeles, the sun is big, and we had limited conditions at the beginning, so I couldn't bear to watch others do my work, so I did it together, and it became like this." ”

"Well, I know that about that, too." Li Yongji nodded, "It is said that when building the settlement, the eldest brother almost did it himself, and he was not squeamish at all, which is indeed very admirable. ”

"It must be someone from the North American Pioneer Army Staff who is chewing on the root of their tongues." Li Yongchang said with a smile, "Actually, I just think it's not easy for everyone to be outside, and as a prince, if I don't lead by example and continue to covet enjoyment, how can I make these people obedient?" That's not at home, it's abroad, not only to beware of white people, but also to beware of wild wolves, the slightest carelessness will cause problems, so, I don't lead by example, who can take this responsibility? ”

The so-called North American Pioneer Army refers to the general name of the troops immigrating to San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the nearly 200,000 people who are now in Los Angeles all belong to the sequence of the Pioneer Army, and although Li Yongchang is not the commander of the Pioneer Army, he is the governor of Los Angeles and can control the Pioneer Army.

"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's talk about the current situation." Li Yongji said, "Although we usually have phone contact, many things are not as good as face-to-face, don't you say?" ”

"That's right." Li Yongchang nodded, "Although the wireless phone is good, it doesn't always feel like a thing, and there are indeed many things that can't be explained." ”

Immediately afterwards, Li Yongchang began to talk about his affairs in Los Angeles in detail.

It turned out that at the beginning, when Li Yongchang used someone else's identity to buy a large area of land in Los Angeles, the politicians in San Francisco did not react, but after Li Yongji kept transporting immigrants here and began to build Chinese settlements, these white people became more and more unfriendly to the Chinese neighborhood of Los Angeles.

When the number of Chinese in the Los Angeles settlement reached 50,000, San Francisco and the white people of Los Angeles caused a panic and began to intensify the harassment of the Chinese, but fortunately, the Chinese had guns, so there was no major problem.

However, later, seeing that the Chinese were still immigrating on a large scale, the state government of California began to negotiate a new bill, deciding to prohibit Chinese from settling in California, intending to curb the flow of Chinese immigrants in the form of a law.

Although there are still more whites than Chinese in California as a whole, California is too far away from the mainland of the United States on the west side of the Great West, and there is nothing attractive except for the gold rush, so there are not many white immigrants.

On the other hand, although China seems to be a longer road away from California, it is a vast sea, and if there is organized large-scale transportation, the volume of transportation is still considerable.

At least 30,000 people could be transported from China to California on a two-month trip, and the rate of Chinese immigration continued to accelerate, reaching 50,000 at a time by the end of 1861.

Moreover, what is even more troubling is that almost every month, almost 20,000 or 30,000 Chinese arrive in Los Angeles, California, these people are still armed and have a certain military literacy, and they look like soldiers.

In other words, the 50,000 or 60,000 people who arrived in advance were almost all armed and organized officers and soldiers, and there were no women, children, or the elderly, and they were obviously the army.

The state government of California did not think of expulsion by force, but they have joined the United States of America, and the United States of America is now at war with the Yankees, do not want to cause trouble, plus the California army will be transferred to fight the Yankees, so they will not move, but plan to use the form of state laws to curb the flow of Chinese immigration.

Just when Li Yongchang arrived, California's law on curbing the entry of Chinese had been discussed and was about to be promulgated and implemented, and according to the new state law amendment, Chinese will no longer be allowed to immigrate to California at will.

Specifically, in this new law, every Chinese who comes to China must register with the California government and pay a bond to obtain a residence permit, with a residence permit, you can settle and work in the United States, without paying a deposit, if you get a residence permit, you cannot settle in the United States.

In addition, Chinese who come to settle in the United States must also pay a poll tax to the state government regularly according to your residence permit, and those who do not pay taxes on time will be evicted.

In addition, Chinese are not allowed to own or possess weapons in California, and those who possess weapons will be arrested or deported.

Finally, once the Chinese in California leave and return to China, they are not allowed to come back, and if they come back, they will have to pay twice the price higher than the price of coming to California for the first time, and they will not be able to settle in California if they cannot afford to pay the money.

The new law applies only to Chinese, and it is a law specifically aimed at Chinese, and once this law is implemented, Chinese immigrants cannot come to California to settle and work as slaves or laborers, but must register with the local government, pay regular taxes, and accept the supervision of the local government.

What is especially important is that Chinese in California are not allowed to own weapons, which means that once this bill is passed, the Chinese will have to hand over their weapons to the California government, as long as the Chinese are disarmed in the open, things will be easier to handle in the future.

This is a naked Chinese exclusion bill, although it sounds good in name, it is for unified management, in order to liberate slaves, and to give more humane treatment to Chinese who come to California, but in fact it is to use various methods to curb or even expel Chinese.

Of course, on the surface, this is to standardize immigration policies and curb illegal immigration, but the United States is originally an immigration country, and it does not care about others, but it is so strict with Chinese, and it is clearly different.

"Chinese Exclusion Act? They actually came up with this thing. Li Yongji nodded, "Their courage is not small, I don't know if this will cause your disgust?" ”

"I've protested to them." Li Yongchang said, "There is also a lot of opposition from the people in California to this bill, but I heard that the California government is very resolute and is likely to force the bill." ”

"Understood." Li Yongji smiled, "Originally, I was worried about finding an excuse to turn against the United States, but now I don't have to worry, you see, this is an excuse to send it to the door." (To be continued......)