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First of all, the update is delayed, and this chapter is only 4,000 words, sincerely apologies to the readers!

Secondly, explain the reason: I was very busy today, and I was dragged by a friend to participate in a knowledge contest in the evening, and I dragged it until midnight before I came back to build words. In order to complete the task, it dragged on until 3:30 in the morning.

I hope that for the sake of Xiao Ke's hard work, forgive the sins and give out the tickets.

What is the public prostration?

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When Pi Xirui and Yan Fu were looking at the red leaves, on the fragrant mountain not far away, there were also two people sitting on the incense burner peak and admiring the red leaves on the mountain. It's just that the pomp and circumstance can be much larger, and the two are different, so you can't do it in the way. Not to mention the seven or eight servants who are waiting around, not to mention the three or four beautiful little men who drink wine, just by looking at the dishes such as Liao ginseng, official swallow, shark fin, and deer tail in front of them, you can know that these two are either rich or expensive.

After the beautiful woman finished singing, she snuggled in the arms of a slightly older young man, and said in a greasy voice: "Master Pei, how is the slave family's "Guifei Drunk" sung? ”

The young man held the wine glass in his left hand, and walked on the lap of the beautiful woman with his right hand recklessly: "Sing well, you will be rewarded when you look back!" However, if you sing the song "Eighteen Touches" to the master again, the master will be even more rewarded! Hahaha. ”

The pretty woman was not angry, but only writhed in his arms: "Master, you are so bad!" Look at the other people's Bei Ziye, it won't be difficult to be a slave! ”

The sword eyebrows and starry eyes of Bei Ziye on the opposite side are very handsome. Wen Yan put down his wine glass and said with a smile: "Ye just came back from abroad, and after listening to the opera of foreigners, I feel that it is not much worse than our Peking Opera." Thinking about it now, I still have some aftertaste. If you can hum a few words of foreigners' gadgets to you, you can't miss your silver! ”

"Bei Ziye ——!" The beautiful woman pursed her lips and feigned anger, "It's hard to be a person!" The slave family, the slave family will not play with you anymore! ”

The two men laughed at each other. The older man twisted her cheek slightly: "You really don't play with us anymore?" ”

The pretty woman gently pushed his hand away, turning her face away.

"Yo, little girl, are you really angry?" The older young man immediately put down his wine glass and coaxed, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll reward you with a piece of Hetian Yu's snuffbox later, okay?" ”

The beauty immediately turned around coquettishly: "People are angry with you!" After speaking, he sang crisply:

The moon is slanting at dusk,

Pretty Enemies,

Don't go home,

Many are obscured by the wind.

Think of Stonga,

It is difficult to be cold,

Turn the balcony dream and have a child vacation.

Ruthless!

I just wanted to throw it away,

I feel like I can't put it down.

clouds and rain,

Look at the lanterns. ”

When the two of them heard this, they both laughed. The handsome young man smiled and said, "Nephew, look, Xiao Lanxiang has taken a liking to you." Why don't you just comb her up! ”

"Well, it's rare for her to be so amorous! After a few days, I will help her redeem herself, so that she will no longer feel cold and cold. "This nephew was in front of his uncle, talking about Fengyue, without the slightest embarrassment.

After laughing again, the handsome young man asked, "Nephew, although I am your uncle in terms of generation, you are two years older than me, and you are a genuine beizi, and you don't want me to be a diorama." If thou hast any command, come to my house and say, why do you spend so much? ”

Since he got to the point, the old man waved his hand and left and right idle people: "Uncle said this, he is out of sight." Both of us are descendants of Qianlong, and they are all in one go. You have traveled thousands of miles this time, traveling all over the east and west, since you have come back safely, how can your nephew not pick up the wind and wash the dust for his uncle? ”

It turned out that this young and handsome Bei Ziye was the eldest son of Prince Qing Yixuan, and according to his generation, he was the fifth grandson of Emperor Qianlong. At the beginning of the year, he was appointed special envoy to the coronation of King Edward VII of England, and visited France, Belgium, the United States, and Japan. As for this slightly older Baylor, he is the great-grandson of Emperor Daoguang, the grandson of Wang Yiwei of Yinzhi County, and the fourth son of Beizi Zaizhi.

"Haha, since that's the case, then I'm disrespectful and deserved!" The young uncle was not much of a concession.

"Just now my uncle talked about Western opera, and my little nephew has never been abroad, so I feel a little itchy when I hear it. This time, you have been appointed as a special envoy to the coronation ceremony of the British king, and you have traveled to the four countries of the East and the West, and there must be many strange things, it is better to listen to them with your little nephew, so as to feast your ears and see for a long time by the way. ”

Zai Zhen picked some fresh and interesting ones, and talked carefully with Pu Lun, causing a burst of laughter from time to time.

Suddenly, Pu Lun asked: "Uncle, a few days ago, I saw in the newspaper of the palace, and I saw the article you played after returning to China, and the three paragraphs you said were very insightful, and ordinary people could not write them without personal experience. It's just to build a railway, and we can't catch it; Building schools and compiling textbooks is not what we are good at. Thinking about it, only imitating the competition and promoting business is our focus. I wonder what my uncle thinks about this? ”

Zai Zhen pondered: "You said that you are picking up the wind and washing the dust, your real intention is to ask me, who has been an envoy to the East and West, about the strategy of holding the competition, right?" ”

It turned out that to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the purchase of Saint-Louis Anna from France, the U.S. government decided to hold the World's Fair in St. Louis in 1904. This is the fourth World's Fair to be held in the United States, after New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Since it is a "World Expo", it is natural that all countries in the world will participate. To this end, on October 10, 1901, Conger, the U.S. minister to China, presented a letter of invitation to Prince Qing, saying that the exposition would "gather together all the things made in the world" and hoped that China would also participate.

In April 1902, the United States sent Barid, who had been minister to Siam, to lobby throughout Asia. In addition to stating the purpose of the competition, the most important purpose was to go to Beijing to deliver an invitation to the Guangxu Emperor, inviting "His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty to meet in the Imperial Palace, and sincerely hope that the Great Emperor will send the ministers of the country to accompany him".

Sheng Xuanhuai, Liu Kunyi, and Zhang Zhidong jointly received Balid, and arranged for Ba Shi to meet the Empress Dowager Cixi. In the year of Gengzi, the Queen Mother, who was scared by the Eight-Nation Alliance, made a 180-degree turn in her attitude towards Western things. Although she politely refused the invitation of the American side to attend the meeting in person with the emperor under the pretext of being old and infirm, she still showed great enthusiasm for the World Expo: on the one hand, she personally came forward to solve the expenses for the participation in the expo, and finally allocated 750,000 taels of silver, which was the largest allocation for the competition in the past years. On the other hand, Cixi also broke with the traditional custom of painting portraits only after death, allowing the painter Catherine Carr to paint her portraits and send them to the United States as exhibits at the World Expo.

The Qing court also considered the selection of the delegation to the meeting: "Yo, take it" The Queen Mother naturally will not go; Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai in the South China Sea, so naturally he couldn't go - even if he wanted to go, "his father" wouldn't let him. After choosing, the fourth son of Zaizhi, the heir of Emperor Daoguang's eldest son Yiwei, was selected - Pu Lunbeizi, who has a "noble bloodline".

Just a few days ago, the Empress Dowager Cixi appointed Pu Lun as the chief supervisor of the Qing government's World Expo delegation, responsible for "all matters related to attendance."

Zai Zhen knew it in his heart, but he didn't say it at the moment, and replied with a smile: "I also said that next year Osaka, Japan will hold a persuasion expo, as early as the beginning of this year, the Japanese consul in Hangzhou, Taira Okawa, sent a letter to the Zhejiang Foreign Affairs Bureau, hoping that I will select exquisite craftsmanship and well-made items to attend the meeting." Zhejiang Governor Fu Taidao couldn't make up his mind, so he handed the fold to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I heard from Amma that the ministry was going to send me! ”

Pu Lun no longer went around in circles: "Our two masters really deserve to be uncles and nephews, and even the errands are the same!" Galeries Lafayette had just appointed a servant to be the overseer of the Qing Dynasty delegation at the American World Expo the year after that, and to be responsible for all matters related to attendance. In this case, the two of them should sum up and do a good job! ”

Say so. Ke Zaizhen has been abroad for several months, in addition to drifting at sea, he is participating in various ceremonies. If you want to talk about eating, drinking, and having fun in the East and West, he is unequivocal, and can say one, two, three, four, five, six; To talk about holding exhibitions and compiling textbooks is really asking for blind questions.

As for Pu Lun himself? Flour on the left head, water on the right head, and when you use your brain, it's a ball of paste!

The two of them spent a lot of time drinking a lot of wine, watching the sunset, the gusts of evening wind blowing chills all over their bodies, and they didn't discuss the ugliness.

Pu Lun drank a little high, and said with a big tongue: "Uncle, this is not good." Why don't we find someone who understands and ask? ”

"It's good!" After all, Zai Zhen lacks confidence, "A wise man thinks a thousand times, and there must be a mistake; A fool thinks a thousand times, and there will be one gain. ”

"Then who ——, ask?"

Zai Zhen thought for a while: "Go and ask Sheng Xingsun?" ”

Pu Lun frowned: "Sheng Xingsun? Let's go to a businessman comprador for advice? If you want to go, I can't afford to lose it. ”

"How about a few strictnesses? I've heard that I studied abroad in England. ”

"That Qiu Hachi!" Pu Lun was dismissive

Zai Zhen scratched his head in annoyance: "Then who else can you ask?" You can't ask Zhang Jian and Rong Hong who can't support a family, right? ”

"Don't mention these traitors who have no king and no father, listen to the tightness in your chest!" Pu Lun muttered, "Even if you don't go to the exhibition, you can't see them!" ”

For a moment, the top of the mountain fell silent, and both of them were meditating.

Suddenly, Zai Zhen patted his head, "If you want to say that you are familiar with all kinds of things in the West, I think of a person, he must have a charter!" ”

"Who?" Pu Lun stared at Zai Zhen drunkenly.

"What's the name of Sun? …… Alas, the wine was so confused that I couldn't remember it for a while. Zai Zhen thought about it for a long time, but he didn't think about it, so he had to give up, "Anyway, he is Sun Shouzhou's nephew, and he has studied in the United States for many years." When I traveled to France, Belgium, and the United States, many people asked me about him and praised him for his intellectual excellence. Look, why don't you talk to him? ”

"Sun Shouzhou, Zhongtang's nephew?" Pu Lun's thinking was obviously a little sluggish, "Oh, the relatives of the champion and the scholar? It's okay, barely qualified. Then ask him! ”

"That's good! When he turned around, he asked his subordinates to inquire where he lived, and then wrote an invitation to invite him out for a drink and dinner, and chatted by the way. Zai Zhen thought of it again, "I heard that a new Huaiyang restaurant called 'Xinluchun' has opened in the city, and the squirrel osmanthus fish and Xiangyou eel paste in it are known as 'unparalleled in the capital'." I'll invite him there, and when the time comes, I'll call a few more people, and we'll have a good time." Hey, how's that? ”

Sun Yuanqi was teaching students in the classroom when he saw Lao Zheng outside the door, looking into the room from time to time.

Knowing that he had something to find him, Sun Yuanqi said "sorry" to the student and walked quickly outside the house. As soon as the front leg stepped out of the threshold, Lao Zheng hurriedly reported: "Master, at noon today, Zhenbeizi will set up a banquet for you to eat in the spring of Xinlu, and they have already sent someone to urge." The little one put the carriage in place. Let's go, it'll be too late! ”

"At noon, please eat? And what's going on? Sun Yuanqi was not impressed at all.

Lao Zheng nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there is such a thing." The invitation was delivered a few days early. It's still a small one that I brought to you personally. At the time, you said, 'I'll see later'! ”

Hearing him say this, it seems that there is really such a thing vaguely: "Oh, maybe I watched it and felt that there was no need to go, so I asked Lao Zhao to put it away." ”

On weekdays, Sun Yuan got up and sent letters, and asked Lao Zhao to pack them up and keep them safe. Although Lao Zhao is illiterate, he has a kind of pious reverence for the paper with words, and "cherishes the words and paper" every day, and it is most appropriate to keep this kind of information. Sometimes, Sun Yuanqi thought: In these letters, there are famous people such as Sun Lao, Yu Yue, Cai Yuanpei, and Zhang Baixi in China, and Rutherford, Einstein, Michael Sun and other cattle abroad.

It is said that these letters really passed smoothly to Sun Yuanqi's great-grandson. When he read it carefully, he was in a mood of great joy and sorrow: happily, these celebrity handwritings are worth a lot of money, enough to make two or three generations worry-free; Sadly, great-grandfather! Why don't you leave a few of your manuscripts on atomic theory, relativity, and quantum mechanics in it, that's a thousand, ten thousand times the value of this pile of letters!

——The reason for the lack of manuscripts is very simple, Sun Yuanqi's handwriting is very ordinary, and he can't see it, so he thinks that it has no preservation value, so he discarded and destroyed it, and even Lao Zhao couldn't keep it.

"That's nothing, the car is set, get in the car and go!" Lao Zheng urged.

"What kind of food, don't go! Don't you see that I'm in class? Sun Yuan waved his hand and signaled to Lao Zheng to take care of it. After that, I will go into the house to take class.

Lao Zheng was anxious: "Master, it's Zai Zhenbeizi who treats you!" Gotta go! ”

"So what? I still have a class to go, and the students are waiting! Sun Yuanqi did not hesitate at all.

"Master, Zai Zhen is the eldest son of King Qingjun, the Minister of Military Aircraft!" Lao Zheng was afraid that Sun Yuanqi would not understand, so he hurriedly explained.

Sun Yuan raised his eyebrows and shrugged: "So what?" Don't say anything about Zai Zhen, it's Zai Chun, Zai Yan, I won't go today! If you go and tell him, you will say that I am busy and have no time to eat with them! ”

Then I went into the house and went to class.

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