"This is the beginning of summer, and Your Majesty has begun to escape the heat?"

The emperor still knows how to enjoy it, but if he wants to be a little unhappy, he will just throw it away. In early summer, it was already a little hot.

But the tall buildings in the palace gather the wisdom of thousands of years of Chinese civilization, and the palace is still very cool, not hot at all, okay?

With his own soldiers, he followed Zheng Yiqian and headed due west.

The emperor took refuge in Huaqing Pond, which was originally in the east of Chang'an, and later the Shenjing City was established today, including Huaqing Pond in the imperial palace.

Huaqing Palace is as famous as Taiji Palace and Daming Palace.

The main reason is that Huaqing Palace, formerly known as Huaqing Pond, has many historical records. Well, there have also been many literati and writers who have written poems about Huaqing Pool.

There was a poem that said: The spring cold gives a bath in Huaqing Pool, and the hot spring water is slippery and washes the cream...

This is a good place, Wu Fa is puzzled, it is only early summer, the weather in Shenjing City is not very hot, the emperor is in such a hurry to escape the heat, is he too good at enjoyment, is the time a little early?

If it's really summer in June, how do you escape the heat?

Where did Zheng Yiqian know, he just shook his head: "Every year, until around June, my father will go to Huaqing Pond to escape the summer, and if the emperor goes to escape the summer, my father will choose another place." ”

Well, after all, this kind of place has a fragrant legend, and it is not good for the emperor and the emperor to escape the summer here. In case the emperor is interested, he wants to have a mandarin duck play with the queen...

The Emperor Taishang's father-in-law is here, it's always inconvenient, isn't it?

Huaqing Pool doesn't swim and bathe, what are you doing here?

Well, Emperor Tang Minghuang was here, with his daughter-in-law... Well, she later became someone's concubine and avoided the summer here many times.

"Tsk..."

After running for a while, from a palace gate to the palace, two people dismounted. Wu Fa smashed his mouth: "Fourth Highness, why don't you leave?" ”

"I'm not allowed to enter Huaqing Pool."

After all, it was the emperor's summer retreat, and there were many palace maids and concubines with him. After all, Zheng Yiqian has grown up, and it is still very inconvenient to enter Huaqing Pool.

Zheng Yiqian's eyes were full of expectation, but he couldn't go in, so he could only send Wu Fa to the gate of Huaqing Palace: "I have eunuch Xia to take you there, and I want to go back." ”

Touching his chin, Wu Fa sneered and said: "Fourth Highness, you won't pit me, right, as a prince, you can't go in, but I can go in as a foreign minister?" ”

Recently, because of the practice of calligraphy, Wu distributed Zheng Yiqian's pigeons I don't know how many times.

Zheng Yiqian is not allowed to pit him once, what if this guy is bold and dares to fake the emperor's dictation?

After all, this kind of place is not something that anyone can just come into.

"Reckless."

Zheng Yiqian turned around and left, he also wanted to go in, but as a prince, he had grown up. There are many concubines in the palace, and it is not appropriate for him to go in.

Want to go in, unless one day he's the emperor.

Now, this reckless man has a chance to go in, and he still has to suspect that he dug the pit?

"The King of Beiping."

Xia Shouzhong saw Wu Fa, first saluted, and then said: "The king of Beiping County should go in with the slave maid, Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time." ”

With Xia Shouzhong leading the way, Wu Fa knew that it was not Zheng Yiqian who was cheating him.

Entering Huaqing Pool, Wu Fa realized that he was thinking too much.

There are many palace maids here, but they are all well-dressed.

Even in summer, I don't dare to show my skin.

Walking all the way, except for the eunuch who is the palace maid, until he came to a pool, he saw Emperor Qingyuan soaking in the pool.

Wu Fa first saluted: "Minister Wu Fa greets Your Majesty." ”

"Get up."

Emperor Qingyuan sat in the pool: "Wait for other irrelevant people." ”

The palace maids and eunuchs retreated one after another, Xia Shouzhong also bent down and withdrew far away, and Emperor Qingyuan said with a solemn face: "The situation in Jiangnan is not optimistic, I have sent Niu Jizong to go, I hope he can solve this matter, if Niu Jizong can't complete this matter, you will have to go south." ”

Wu Fa blinked, not surprisingly, the emperor wanted him to go south at first.

Now, the emperor actually wants Niu Jizong to go south, so that he doesn't have to bother to take care of these bad things: "Lao Niu is very slippery, if he can't complete the task, the minister can't do it." ”

"Hmph..."

Emperor Qingyuan snorted coldly, if it weren't for the Queen Mother, his niece would not be pregnant, and he needed to verify whether this reckless man was injured or not, and this reckless man still wanted to appear here?

"One more thing."

Emperor Qingyuan's face became solemn: "There are more and more caravans going to Nanyang, but... In many places, there is what you call English obstruction. Moreover, some time ago, in the direction of the South China Sea, several huge ships appeared..."

Giant ships?

This era is definitely at the end of the eighteenth century, to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

At this time, the steam engine should have been built, not surprisingly, at this time, some Western countries, in another thirty or forty years, will invent steam warships, if they do not work hard, they will fall behind.

The West has already begun the industrial revolution, and the Great Jin has fallen too far behind.

In addition to the fact that firearms are not backward and slightly ahead, in the Age of Discovery, there were no warships, only artillery and firearms, and they could only be land powers.

A maritime power is a real power.

Da Jin must go out: "Your Majesty, if we can, we should trade with them, warships, firearms and the like, and even all kinds of advanced things, can be purchased, and the Ministry of Industry can use them to study when the time comes." ”

Emperor Qingyuan's face also became solemn: "Are they willing to trade?" They're very strong. ”

Many of the merchants who went south suffered at their hands.

The name of the Great Jin is not enough to deter England.

"They're profit-getters, and as long as there's enough money, they'll trade."

Now the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty is vast, and after the commercial tax reform, the treasury is abundant, so the emperor wants to do something.

Wu Fa likes this kind of character, for individuals, it is their duty to keep to themselves.

For a country, it is foolish to keep to oneself: "Now the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty is vast, not inferior to the Mengyuan period, and even some areas have not been covered by the Mengyuan Dynasty..."

"However, our Great Zhou is only a land power, and it has begun to appear on the ocean now, a powerful warship called a steam warship, which is extremely fast."

Wu Fa's eyes were stunned: "If they don't develop again, they will be able to go deep into our hinterland directly from the mouth of the Yangtze River." ”

Well, the steam battleship should not have appeared yet, scare the emperor in order to make the emperor have a sense of crisis.

Otherwise, it's just about pleasure?

Emperor Qingyuan is a clever man, as an emperor, or an aspiring emperor, and he will never allow this kind of thing to happen.

"What can you do?"

Emperor Qingyuan frowned, he had no choice, the giant ships that appeared in the South China Sea just left after they appeared, and they were on the coast of Nanjiang, or many seaside fortresses, according to Wu Fa's suggestion, they had already set up artillery.

It was because of the deterrence of artillery that the battleship left.

"If I have the opportunity, I will go to Nanyang with me, and I may have a harvest."

If they don't come, they will seek it.

Emperor Qingyuan nodded slightly, knowing that this matter was impatient: "It's hot, you can also take off your clothes and take a dip..."

Wu Fa was slightly stunned, thinking that the emperor called him to talk about military affairs, and the emperor wanted him to take a mandarin bath together...

Father-in-law relative?

"Your Majesty... The minister is not hot. ”

Wu Fa decisively refused.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and Emperor Qingyuan was displeased: "If you don't want to come down, just bask in the sun there." ”

"Your Majesty..."

Wu Fa was a little squirming: "That, the minister is shy." ”

It's not that our old Wu is unwilling to go into the water, the key is that our old Wu is afraid that you will have low self-esteem.

You're not comfortable finding it on your own...

When the time comes, if you suspect that there is a water snake in the water, it will not scare you.

The corners of Emperor Qingyuan's eyes jumped, this reckless man was already shameless to the extreme, and he actually said that he was shy?

Could it be that it is not just that it hurts the root, but that it has lost the root?

So, don't dare to show it in front of people?

This requires a lot of brains, in case there is really no root, and you can't see wow in boxers.

"Well..."

Seeing the corners of the emperor's eyes jumping, Wu Fa could only obey Emperor Qingyuan.

In summer, his clothes were thin, he took off his coat and only wore boxers, and Emperor Qingyuan's eyes were obviously wide.

"Poof..."

Wu Fa jumped into the water.

Emperor Qingyuan retracted his gaze at this time, fortunately, the water quality was clear, and Wu Fa could be seen reacting: "Vocal music, singing and dancing..."

Uh-huh?

Wu Fa was a little surprised, what is the emperor going to do?

In an instant, there was a burst of vocal music, and a group of dancers dressed in cool clothes came barefoot and jumped directly into the water.

So, the water soaked the clothes, and the water danced ...

Xiao Wu raised his head in salute.

This is the most instinctive reaction of a real man, an instinct that should not be lacking in a young man with strong blood.

Emperor Qingyuan kept watching, these dancing girls were naturally not his concubines.

It's some palace maids... However, Emperor Qingyuan's eyes were still a little red, and his gaze moved away from the water: "King of Beiping, let's go..."

Wu Fa was a little confused: "Minister, you just came down." ”

Some people died, but not completely......