Seeing that the sky is about to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, counting, Hongqing's return to the court is only more than two months, but when it comes to handling government affairs, it is very easy, not only the daily government affairs are cleared every day, but even the many government affairs accumulated in the past year have been handled cleanly, and what is even more rare is that all the government affairs handled by Hongqing have been done without leakage, so that people can't find any flaws, of course, there is no controversy, but in the case of the mainstream of the court, Those individuals with ulterior motives are also difficult to set off a lot of waves, and the court atmosphere is new, and the prosperous scene is like that.

The messenger did it well, Hongqing's mood was very good, although he had to be busy until dark every day before returning home, but this feeling of power was really not an ordinary comfort, even if he was bitter and tired, Hongqing was also willing, but the heavens seemed to be a little unable to see Hongqing's smoothness, and he wanted to find some trouble for Hongqing, no, just two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a small fleet suddenly appeared outside the port of Tianjin.

This small fleet that suddenly appeared did not have many warships, only five in total, two battleships and three cruisers, in terms of scale, it was not very powerful, not to mention that it was far worse than the two main fleets of the Qing Dynasty, which often had nearly 100 warships, even if the garrison squadron in Tianjin Port had more than 20 warships of all sizes and enough to eat such a small fleet, but the banner of this small fleet was surprising -- there were only five warships in total, but it had the flags of six countries -- Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands!

In the face of the strict battle of the Tianjin detachment of the Qing Beihai Fleet, the strange small fleet did not break in, but sent a transport boat and sent two envoys to the flagship of the Tianjin detachment, indicating its intention, and it was actually the six countries that jointly came to pay homage to the Qing emperor, saying that there was a trade matter to negotiate with the Qing court.

Knowing that there was actually an envoy group of the six Western countries on this small fleet, He Lin, commander of the Tianjin Fleet, was taken aback, but he also did not dare to make a claim.

The visit of the envoys of the six countries was too sudden, and you must know that the large fleet of the "Eight Banners Firm" had only returned to Jiaoao Port (now Qingdao) in mid-June, and at that time, there was no news that the envoys of the six countries were coming, and it was only less than two months before that they actually came to the door by themselvesIn particular, the children of the Eight Banners are even more interested in matters related to overseas trade, and even if they have no reason on weekdays, they have to talk a few words about overseas trade.

"Your Majesty's message, Prince Xuanren Hongqing Qianqing Palace to meet you."

It has been two days since He Lin's recital arrived in Beijing, and it has already been rumored that there has been a commotion outside, but Hongqing has never had any measures introduced, Bu received the recital, and he did not sign the opinion, so he immediately forwarded it to the imperial front, and he was completely planning to stay out of the matter, but as a prisoner, how could he have the opportunity to get away with it, no, the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, early in the morning, Hongqing had not started to work, Li Dequan had already rushed over, and announced the dictation of Emperor Chengde.

"Erchen obey the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Emperor Chengde has a call, and it is obviously not okay not to go, although Hongqing really doesn't want to go on such a trip, just because he knows very well what the intention of Emperor Chengde is to call, it is nothing more than to press the visit of the envoys of the six countries to his Hongqing's shoulders, in this regard, although Hongqing has long known that it is difficult to avoid it, but there is still a trace of luck in his heart, but as soon as Emperor Chengde's dictation comes, such a trace of luck is also disillusioned.

The reason why Hongqing is not very willing to take over this matter is because he knows very well what the purpose of the envoys of the six countries is that they have not yet handed over the national credentials, but Hongqing has already calculated the connotation of it, it is nothing more than that the six countries have formed a group, intending to forcefully oppress the Qing Dynasty to open the country, the reason is very simple, after nearly 20 years of predatory trade, the blood of the European countries has been almost sucked by the Qing Dynasty - in the early years, the Qing Dynasty also imported some luxury goods such as clocks and watches from Western countries, After the "research and development" of many groups of the Qing Academy of Sciences, the clocks and other Western gadgets made in the Qing Dynasty are much stronger than the authentic ones, and as a result, not only did they not import such things from Western countries, but they sold these copycat things back to the West, so that the already huge deficit was further exacerbated. If we do not try to curb the trade offensive of the Qing Dynasty, the whole of Europe will inevitably fall, and this time the envoys of the six countries are definitely here for this matter, and it is obvious that it is definitely not an easy task to send back the menacing envoys of the six countries in the future.

There is a categorical possibility of peaceful coexistence between the Qing Dynasty and the old Western powers, the trade in the past few years is just a short honeymoon period, and sooner or later there will be a war, this point, as early as the time when the overseas trade was decided, Hongqing has a clear understanding, and has already made relevant plans, in this sense, it is not very difficult to deal with the pressure of the envoys of the six countries, but the timing is a little wrong - although Emperor Chengde's body and bones have been good these days, God knows how long he can hold on, at such a sensitive time, Hongqing really didn't want to divide his mind to deal with the envoys of the six countries, and besides, the Qing Dynasty was not ready for war at the moment, and according to Hongqing's plan, the real war with the Western powers should be after it stabilized the domestic political situation.

There is no doubt that the arrival of the envoys of the six countries at this time, for Hongqing, it is definitely not a good thing, and what is more troublesome is that once this matter is not handled properly, the originally peaceful situation will immediately set off shocking waves, because of this, Hongqing is unwilling to take over such a hot potato, in his opinion, the so-called agreement between the left and right is written out to be torn up, regardless of what kind of treaty others have reached with the envoys of the six countries, it is the same as a piece of waste paper, and it is up to others to toss it, it is from this idea, Hongqing will not comment on the visit of the envoys of the six countries, this idea is undoubtedly beautiful, but unfortunately the reality is extremely skinny, with the arrival of Emperor Chengde's message, Hongqing's desire to avoid war is afraid to fall into the void.

"Qing'er, it's been three days since the envoys of the six countries of Europa arrived at Tianjin Port?"

Sure enough, as Hongqing expected, as soon as the ceremony was over, Emperor Chengde, who was leaning on the brocade mat, opened his mouth and asked about the envoys of the six countries.

"If you return to Huang Ama, according to the date of He Lin's performance, it should be so."

Since Emperor Chengde had a question, Hongqing couldn't help but answer, even if he was reluctant in his heart, he couldn't express it, so he could only respond respectfully.

"Well, it's a guest after all, and it's not a matter of letting people stay in the open sea, so I'll let them enter Beijing first."

Emperor Chengde's serious illness is the first to recover, but the spirit is a little bad, three days ago was indeed received from Hongqing to submit He Lin's fold, but no, but I didn't take it to heart at all, I thought that Hongqing would deal with this and other things, and I forgot about it after reading the book, but I never thought that the fourth master would mention it when he entered the palace to say hello, and Emperor Chengde was shocked to realize that this matter was still hanging high, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart, especially when he heard that the government and the opposition were constantly discussing, and the unhappiness was even stronger. That's why Li Dequan went to call Hongqing.

"Emperor Ama Shengming, Erchen will send someone to inform He Lin to arrange relevant matters."

Emperor Chengde's words sounded peaceful, but in fact, they already had a sense of disgust, and Hongqing knew it very well, but he didn't say anything to defend it, just respectfully agreed.

"So the best, well, this time the envoys of the six countries came together, presumably there must be something to ask me for the Qing Dynasty, I have been looking at the princes of the court and the gods, there are very few people who are good at this way, but Qing'er, you are quite familiar with Xiyi, your fourth uncle recommended Yu Er to me, I think it is also good, this matter will be handed over to Er to deal with, and it is good to report the results to me."

Seeing Hongqing's humble attitude, the unhappiness in Emperor Chengde's heart was alleviated, and after a little groaning, he immediately handed over the matter of dealing with the envoys of the Six Nations to Hongqing.

Hey, it's the fourth master again, this old boy, and he's really an unconscious master!

As soon as he heard that this matter was from the fourth master's Jian yì, although Hongqing's face was calm, but his eyes unconsciously narrowed - the fourth master was not in front of the emperor at the moment, but he had been running to the Qianqing Palace every day for the past two months, but Hongqing was very clear, and he also knew that he must have ulterior motives to curry favor with Emperor Chengde so hard, but he was too lazy to pay attention to it, but he never thought that this guy was actually digging a pit to bury people, and the roots of Hongqing's teeth were a little itchy.

"Emperor Ama Shengming, the sons and ministers should do their best, and they will never dare to live up to the trust of the Emperor Amma."

It was not easy to ease the relationship with Emperor Chengde, Hongqing did not want to lose the big because of the small, this will of Emperor Chengde was so simple, even if he was reluctant in his heart, he was not good at raising any objections at this time, he could only express his attitude respectfully, but in his heart, he had written down an account of the fourth master, and he was waiting for the near future to make a clear account with the fourth master......