There will be a change in the early hours of tomorrow morning!

......

It turns out that Natalie. Pavrovna is not a scumbag, Zhuge Weidao is an out-and-out scumbag!

Zhuge was stunned for the Tao, he really couldn't figure out himself...... Oh, why did you do that? How could he push a stunner like Natalie to a dog emperor? What the hell did he think?

Zhuge thought hard about the Tao again, no, he can't be such a scumbag!

"Natalie. Pavrovna," Zhuge Weidao looked at Natalie with a guilty expression, "My dear, you can't marry Emperor Daming, because I want to marry you, you must marry me!" Natalie, will you marry me? ”

"I, I, I do!" Natalie. When Pavrovna said this, there were already a few tears in her blue eyes...... Obviously, she has also suffered a great grievance before!

Although marrying a foreign monarch and giving birth to an heir, and then living with her beloved husband J, there is no shame for the princesses and princesses of European countries in this era, Natalie still hopes to marry the man she loves.

At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already finished a mouthful of unpleasant and deadly Chinese medicine, and then he took Natalie's pair of jade hands and began to confess affectionately: "My dear, it's not too early, let's rest early, and ...... tomorrow Let's get married! ”

While speaking, Zhuge Weidao also carefully admired the woman who was about to become his wife...... After admiring it for a while, he found a small problem, the clothes Natalie was wearing seemed to be very complicated, a lot of ropes and straps, not easy to unravel! If you don't untie it, how can you rest together?

When he was worried, Natalie had already spoken: "Dear for the way, of course I am willing to marry you, but ......"

"But what?"

As soon as Zhuge Weidao heard "but", he knew that things were not so simple, and hurriedly looked at Natalie and asked.

"But have you ever planned for the future?" Natalie asked sadly again.

"In the future?" Zhuge thought for a while, "I have canal stocks, we can find a place where no one knows to live in seclusion first, and then make plans." ”

"For the way," Natalie shook her head, "I can't go now...... When I wanted to elope with you before, I was a princess to be married, and I was free to enter and leave the Winter Palace. And we still have time to pack up our possessions and make arrangements for the future. As long as Nikolai. Pavrovich did not have to choose between the King of England and the Ming Emperor, and I could go back to my estate and gather reliable serfs to serve as retinues and prepare them for the escape wagons. Can ...... now I'm already a candidate for Empress Daming! ”

Or Natalie's thoughtfulness. Before, she was the Grand Duke of Rakshasa and didn't want to stay in the city, so she had to go to her own manor outside the city to live for a few days, and the tsar couldn't take care of it! Now that the serfdom of Rakshasa has not been abolished, Natalie has a manor, and of course there are serfs. Find a few reliable serfs, prepare a few sleigh wagons, and find an excuse to slip away with Zhuge Weidao.

But now that Natalie is already a candidate for Empress Daming, of course she can't go wherever she wants...... That's the decency of the Romanov dynasty!

"Natalie. Pavrovna, you just said about the candidates? Zhuge Weidao really "forgot" everything, and he didn't even know the rules for choosing a concubine.

"Candidates, of course," Natalie. Pavrovna said, "Whether I go to England or Daming, I am only a candidate, and I still need to go through medical examinations and training before I can become a queen or queen." ”

"Medical exam?"

Natalie. Pavrovna's cheeks flushed, "Check if I'm able to have children, if I'm ...... Chastity or not! ”

That's rightfully so!

Natalie. For Pavrovna to become a queen or queen, she had to be able to have children...... At least at first glance it seems to be able to give birth, and preferably to have more children!

As for chastity, although there is no hard requirement for the British royal family, it is also a plus. And the Zhu Ming Dynasty will not accept a woman who has lost her virginity as a queen!

Zhuge Weidao finally understood why Zhuge Youde wanted Natalie to stay...... It turned out that it was not reserved for himself, but for the Great Bright and Dusk King!

This is clearly a traitor! No, the paper money is no longer burned!

At this time, Natalie suddenly said in a very soft voice, "What if...... I have lost my virginity, does the Ming royal family not want me? ”

That's right! Zhuge Weidao stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, he was really stupid, he didn't think of such a simple way, what else could he pinch and count, Zhuge was reincarnated...... It's just a big straw bale!

"Yes," Zhuge Weidao's whole person became excited, and he looked at Natalie with burning eyes, like a big bad wolf, "Natalie. Pavrovna, as long as you are not a virgin, the Ming royal family will not want you, and you will be mine at that time...... Why don't we get things done tonight? ”

"Not tonight......" Natalie saw Zhuge Weidao looking like she was about to pounce, and hurriedly shouted to stop, "Before I leave, the embassy will arrange for the wives of the embassy staff to come and check it." If I am discovered, then I will not be able to go to Beijing, and I may even be sent to the United Kingdom. ”

"Really!" Zhuge thought to himself: "She is going to the United Kingdom, then I have to be the husband ......of the British royal J."

"So where are we...... More suitable? Zhuge asked.

Natalie thought for a moment and said, "It's not convenient to be in the territory of the Rakshasa Kingdom, you can do it in the territory of the Jin Empire." ”

"The Golden Empire?"

Zhuge was stunned again, and he found something strange again.

"Yes," Natalie looked at the wound on Zhuge Weidao's head distressedly, "You forgot all about the Jin Empire?" ”

Zhuge thought for the Tao and asked, "Are they the remnants of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Natalie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and a relieved smile appeared on her face: "Great, dear, your memory is finally starting to recover!" ”

"Yes, it's starting to recover." Zhuge nodded for Dao. He didn't recover at all, and he still couldn't remember what Zhuge Weidao had experienced, but it was not difficult for the Jin Empire to associate with the Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, when he was outside the Guan, he also used the country name "Jin", which was changed to "Qing" after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne.

After they were kicked out by King Zhuge Wuzhong and other Ming "loyalty" kings, it is possible that they picked up the country name "gold" and used it again.

"Natalie. Pavrovna," Zhuge asked again, "I still can't remember everything, why did I ...... in the territory of the Jin Empire?"

"For the Tao," Natalie blushed and whispered, "because the Jin Empire is located in Central Asia, bordering the Rakshasa Empire to the northwest and the Ili Province of the Ming Dynasty to the east...... This country is a neutral state between the Rakshasa and the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a buffer state. According to the agreement between the three kingdoms more than a hundred years ago, neither the armies of Rakshasa nor the Ming Dynasty could enter the Jin Empire. Therefore, the Rakshasa soldiers and the officials sent by the Tsar to escort us will stay on the border of the Jin Empire, while the Ming troops and officials who come to greet us will wait in the territory of Ili Province. And our security within the territory of the Jin Empire will be the sole responsibility of the officers and soldiers of the Jin Empire.

In addition, there is no railway in the territory of the Jin Empire, and it may take us two or three months to cross the country, and we can also stop and rest in the cities of the Jin Empire. During this time, it was very convenient for us to do anything...... So I can ask to go to Daming by land on the grounds of seasickness. ”

"Okay, that's it!" Zhuge nodded for Dao, "I just happened to explore this Jin Empire to see what kind of virtue the down-and-out Qing Dynasty is now?" ”

......

"Ambassador Wei, the Winter Palace called, the military attache Zhuge has woken up, and the tsar's imperial doctor has checked for him, and there is no major problem."

In the Ming Embassy on Zhuge Youde Street, not long after returning, Wei Yuanda, Huang Shuren and Guo Xiaobao, who were preparing the contract for the construction and technology transfer of the Hongwu Emperor-class ironclad battleship, finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news that Zhuge Weidao was fine.

"It's okay for Daozi." Wei Yuanda patted the contract text that was being drafted on the table, and said with a wry smile, "Speaking of which, he has completed the two errands that Shangfeng handed over...... Except for a shot in the head, it didn't take much effort, it's really a genius! We'll have to say a lot of good things for him in the telegram to the top. ”

"Yes, yes." Huang Shuren nodded again and again, "This time the great work is all his own, let's just run errands and fight, it's nothing." ”

Guo Xiaobao said helplessly: "Let's still talk about his injury a little more seriously, so that Prime Minister Zhuge and Empress Dowager Zheng may be ......."

I have to say that the officialdom atmosphere of the new Daming is still very good. Although everyone is a little jealous of Zhuge Weidao's "handsome and rich power", no one fell into the hole at the critical moment. If you want Zhuge to carry the black cauldron for the Tao, it is not a stone, because this pot is originally his. Now a few of them don't take the credit for Zhuge Weidao, and help him pretend to be pitiful and sympathetic, maybe they can be punished a little less.

"Baozhi, Zhisheng," Wei Yuanda said to Guo Xiaobao and Huang Shu, "Let's hurry up and prepare a message...... This time, I have to talk about the offshore checks and balances theory that Daozi and Nicholas I said, which is quite reasonable. ”

"Ambassador, there are a number of officials."

"Ambassador, the lower official knows."

......

Because Wei Yuanda, Huang Shuren, and Guo Xiaobao were all preparing "long telegrams," it was not until the early morning of the next day that the telegrams were photographed by the Petersburg telegraph office. By the time this telegram was delivered to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Emperor, it was already noon the next day.

And the first person who received the secret telegram with the word "urgent" sent by Guo Xiaobao was of course the old man Zhuge of the Zhuge family for a long time, and the old man opened the message sent by Zhuge Weixue and looked at it, and he almost didn't get angry.

"This, this, eighty-eight, what's the matter with your brother? How did he, how did he take the initiative to facilitate the marriage between Britain and the Rakshasa Kingdom? Is his brain broken? Didn't he know that it was the national policy of the Ming Dynasty to avoid an alliance between Britain and Rakshasas? It's good that in order to bring Natalie to Daming, he actually wants to facilitate the relationship between Archduke Alexander and Princess Victoria...... He, he's going to be a sinner of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Zhuge Weixue was also anxious, but he still had some illusions, and said to Prime Minister Zhuge Lao: "Second brother, this matter may not be successful...... And the offshore checks and balances proposed by the one hundred and eighth brother are quite reasonable, maybe even if the British and Rakshasa form an alliance, they will each have their own ghosts, and they will not pose any threat to our Daming. ”

"Humph!" Zhuge Weijiu let out a cold sweat and glared at Zhuge Weixue, "Eighty-eight, you still speak for him...... Now Great Britain has joined forces with the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan to form a South China Sea and East Ocean Mutual Insurance Alliance, which is pressing on our Ming Dynasty step by step, and constantly sending warships to cruise around Borneo in an attempt to create trouble. If it weren't for the good karma that your father forged in the Rakshasa and let Alexander I mediate all the time, the incident in Borneo would have been provoked a long time ago! ”

"Second brother, in fact, we don't have to be afraid of them," Zhuge learned the Tao, "Our Hongwu Emperor level is more powerful than the British monarch level!" ”

Zhuge Weijiu gave a cold look again: "What's the use of just a powerful boat?" How many years has our navy not been at war? Also, do you know who the current commander of the British Indian Grand Fleet is? ”

"Yes, Earl Nelson."

The Earl of Nelson was the one who died heroically in the Battle of Trafalgar. Nelson. However, this time, because the flagship he was riding in was a steam armored ship, he survived the fierce naval battle and survived to the present.

Zhuge sighed for a long time: "Even if the thirty-eighth uncle (Zhuge Youde) is alive, he doesn't dare to say that he can win against Earl Nelson!" Not to mention the admirals now, who can fight Nelson? One hundred and eight brothers, this is a misunderstanding of the country and the people! ”