The Yellow Dragon Banner representing the Son of Heaven finally appeared on the horizon, and with the strong wind on the Saibei grassland, the hunt rolled up, and then there was a jumping red tassel. After a while, I saw more than 10,000 ironclad cavalry, surrounded by Emperor Kangxi in Western-style half-body plate armor, appearing in sight.

These tens of thousands of cavalrymen are all grown up banner men, everyone is neatly clothed and armored, and the war horses under the crotch are all tall and divine horses, not Mongolian short-legged horses at all, but long-legged horses of the Persian breed from Central Asia. Moreover, these cavalrymen are all one-man and two-horseed, and the auxiliary horses among them are also tall and god-like horses. More than 10,000 horsemen with tall horses gathered in one place, and this galloping and tumbling scene, this hoof like rolling thunder, seemed to crash straight into people's hearts. They also achieved a great victory in Central Asia, conquered thousands of miles to the west, and opened up a victorious army of the heavenly kingdom in the Taiping Valley in the heart of Central Asia. People are strong and fierce, and they have a compelling spirit, and as soon as they appear, they are shocking!

Yang Xiaomi, the queen of the Qing Dynasty, was also stunned by the scene of thousands of horses galloping in front of her, and she couldn't say a word with her mouth open. The men who followed her also held their breath, just staring at the scene in front of them. In the past two or three years, because of the oppression of the Ming Dynasty in the south, the Qing court that stayed behind has not relaxed its armament. But the new army they trained and prepared in the east is still heaven and earth compared to the more than 10,000 elite cavalry that Kangxi brought back from Central Asia!

No wonder this Kangxi Emperor still wants to create a rebellion against the Ming Dynasty, it turns out that he still has some capital!

Just when Empress Yang and the others were thinking about the probability of Kangxi's rebellion succeeding with such an elite, these tens of thousands of elite horsemen had already arrived in front of them, with a long military horn sound. The knights guarding Kangxi in front of them grabbed the reins one after another, and the healthy horses from the west neighed and gouged the clods of soil into a mess, but they could hold their feet, and the armored knights behind them also stopped, and more than 10,000 cavalry stopped like this, and those who know how difficult it is?

When the more than 10,000 cavalry had stopped, I saw Emperor Kangxi, surrounded by more than a dozen imperial guards, swaggering over here.

Empress Yang hurriedly led a group of ministers to kneel down to welcome Kangxi, who had returned to the court.

Kangxi saw Queen Yang from afar - she kept her figure well, she was still fat and thin. At that moment, he neatly turned over and dismounted, and laughed at Yang Xiaomi: "Queen, get up quickly, let me take a good look!" I've been on expeditions for the past few years, but when I have free time, I can't help but miss you! It must be not easy for you to support the situation here in Beijing and Beijing alone, right? Say, what kind of reward do you want? ”

When Yang Xiaomi heard Kangxi say this, she also stood up, and said to Kangxi with a smile: "The emperor can play Kai and return to the court, which is the biggest reward for the concubine, and the concubine only wants to be able to stay by the emperor's side day and night, and she is already satisfied." ”

Kangxi walked up to Yang Xiaomi, looked at her and smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed: "It's still your best!" ”

Yang Xiaomi's cheeks turned slightly red when he said this, but he whispered back: "Where is the concubine?" ”

"It's good anywhere," Kangxi stared at Yang Xiaomi's towering chest and said with a smile, "But the best is there."

Yang Xiaomi's pretty face turned a little red, and she said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you have worked hard from afar, but you have to rest for a few days, and the concubine has already made people prepare a palace in the Silver Buddha Temple in the city." ”

Kangxi laughed and said: "Or the queen knows that it hurts me to go, look at you, the queen of the Qing Dynasty, how comfortable is the palace prepared for me?" ”

"Hmm." Empress Yang lowered her head and answered softly.

As he spoke, he took Queen Yang's little hand, walked to his war horse together, first helped Queen Yang up, and then turned over on the horse himself, and the two rode together and headed towards the city of naturalization.

The Han ministers who followed Empress Yang were all relieved to see this scene.

Empress Yang has been the regent in the past few years, but she has not done much to abuse power and disorder the government, and transferred the four Manchu ministers who were auxiliary ministers out of Beijing and went to Beijing to be governors. Prince Gong Chang Ning also colluded with this sister-in-law, and the relationship between the two looked a little ambiguous. Although Kangxi is in Central Asia, he still has a lot of ears and eyes in Beijing and Shangjing.

In addition, Empress Yang's brother Yang Qilong is also an ambitious master, who attacked Japan without authorization a while ago, and recently prepared to usurp the throne - not against the Qing Dynasty, but against Korea. Prepare to usurp the throne and become the king of Joseon!

Kangxi knows all these things! This time, he came back with more than 10,000 iron horses, shouldn't he want to abolish Queen Yang?

But now looking at Kangxi's attitude towards Queen Yang, I have to admit that this queen mother really has a set of things to coax men!

In the city of naturalization, martial law was already under martial law at this time, and the streets on both sides were full of people kneeling to welcome the Son of Heaven. Soldiers dressed in blue jackets, warm hats, and carrying flintlock pistols on their backs, five steps and one post, and ten steps and one sentry were there to maintain order.

When Kangxi and Empress Yang rode together and appeared in the Naturalization City, the cheers of the Shanxi accent rose: "Long live the emperor!" Long live the Emperor"

Kangxi held the reins in one hand and hugged Queen Yang's waist with the other, which was not thick or too thin, and felt very good, not at all like having given birth to four children. He heard the cheers of a group of Shanxi old pits, so he leaned into Queen Yang's ear and whispered: "Queen, it seems that you have governed the country well in the past two or three years, and you are better than me!" ”

Empress Yang responded with a smile: "Your Majesty, these people are all Jin merchants, and the concubines treat them as their own, and they also treat the concubines as their own people, all of them are their own people, so what else can't be said?" Ouch, Your Majesty, don't pinch your concubine! ”

It turned out that Kangxi was unhappy when he heard Queen Yang's words, and pinched her waist: "Yang Xiaomi, do you mean that I didn't treat them as my own?" ”

"Your Majesty." Yang Xiaomi's voice was sweet and greasy, but there was no intention of admitting mistakes, "They and you are not one, and they can't pretend!" And they and the concubines, the concubines who are originally one are from the imperial merchants of the Qing Dynasty, and most of them are also from official merchants and imperial merchants. The concubine's brother's Credit Suixin Hall has close contacts with the Jin Shang's money bank, and the concubine also has shares in the Credit Suixin Hall, can she take care of them? Your Majesty, most of the muskets, artillery, armor, and gunpowder you received in front of the Northwest Army were built by them! The military expenses you spent in the northwest, except for those contributed by Aurangzeb of Hindustani, were all borrowed from these Jin merchants by concubines! ”

When Kangxi heard Yang Xiaomi say this, a smile also appeared on his numb face: "Queen, you are really my virtuous helper. It doesn't matter if they're not my own people, as long as you're my own people! ”

Yang Xiaomi smiled: "So. Can the emperor talk to the concubine about your rebellion plan? ”

"Rebellion?" Kangxi frowned, "I am the emperor!" ”

"You're still a second minister!" Yang Xiaomi smiled, "The first minister Wu Sangui, the second minister Zhu Sanzi. Now I want to turn against the third prince of Zhu again, right? ”

"This is not the place to talk, let's go to the palace and talk about it in detail." Yang Xiaomi's words were not good, but Kangxi didn't mean to be angry at all, he just pinched Yang Xiaomi's body again. Then the two of them rode slowly towards the palace of the Silver Buddha Temple.

In the night, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, who had just fought a battle, was squinting on a recliner in the palace of the Silver Buddha Temple, smiling and looking at Empress Yang who was getting dressed, looking unfinished.

Yang Xiaomi threw a wink, and then asked softly: "Your Majesty, how is the concubine compared to those orchids in the Western Regions and the beauties of Mongolia?" ”

Kangxi laughed: "Queen, it turns out that you also have times when you are jealous!" But then again, those orchids are still quite beautiful, especially the orchids that are mixed with Mongolia, as long as they are not old, they are rare bright colors. As for those golden retrievers, it's a little worse, the smell is too big, the hair is too much, and it's rough when you're a little older, and you can't compare. ”

Yang Xiaomi smiled: "It seems that the emperor still thinks the Central Plains is good!" ”

Kangxi nodded: "Of course the Central Plains is good, the south of the Yangtze River is better, the sunrise river flowers are red, and the river water is as green as blue in spring." Can you not remember Jiangnan? ”

"There are Chinese people in Jiangnan, there are many of them, and they are brave in national wars. Jiangnan is also rich in flintlock guns and smoothbore cannons, all of which are military weapons, which are lacking in the north! Your Majesty, the concubine has recently been reading two history books translated by Jiangnan Books, namely the Western historian Appian's "Roman Envoy" and Zosimus's book "The New History of Rome", only to know that the West also has ancient civilizations, and also know that Western Rome has a capital comparable to the north and south of the two capitals, called Constantinople! The concubine also heard that Constantinople was occupied by the Western Turks more than 300 years ago and is now the capital of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire! Historically, Constantinople was almost occupied by our Mongols! Your Majesty, your year name is Kangxi, is it related to this Constantinople? ”

Kangxi listened to Yang Xiaomi's words, nodded lightly and said, "Now that I and the Ottoman-Turkish Empire are only across the Caspian Sea, it is not impossible to go west. What the Western Turks were able to do back then, can do today! However, after losing the foundation of the East, the Western Turks continued to move westward, and finally built this foundation on the edge of the Western Mediterranean. And I still have the ancestral inheritance that I can't give away, and now I have joined forces with the ten countries of the East and the West to form the Eleven Nations Anti-Ming Alliance, it is not uncertain! ”

"Your Majesty." Yang Xiaomi already understood Kangxi's thoughts.

His mind is to make a final fight in the east, and if he wins, the Kangxi Emperor will lose. Then consider moving west to become a Kangxi Tanding!

"Your Majesty," Yang Xiaomi asked, "Wu Zhou also has the same idea, right?" The concubine heard that Wu Shicong was planning to attack Persia, but what happened? ”

Kangxi nodded: "Wu Shicong conspires with Persia, and Wu Yingqi looks down on the Central Plains, who can be willing to abandon the great mountains and rivers in vain?" ”

Yang Xiaomi completely understood, "Your Majesty, the East India Company's mission has been in Beijing for a month. Do you want to call them to naturalization? ”

Kangxi waved his hand: "No need. I'll get up tomorrow and let's go to Beijing together! I've walked tens of thousands of miles in the past two years, and this little road is nothing at all! ”

Beijing, Dutch East India Company Commercial Pavilion.

This commercial hall is located outside Zhengyangmen in Beijing, on the famous pimp alley, and it is rented in the prime industrial area of Yang Qilong!

Renting such a good house, the Dutch East India Company's business in Beijing is not big - the Dutch have nothing to sell to the Qing Dynasty, the Celestial Empire is a big country, everything! Even if it is short, isn't there still the Credit Suishin Hall Trading House of Yang Qilong, the Korean superintendent, and the Mongolian East India Company that can help import from the Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, in recent years, under the stimulus of Yang Xiaomi's policy of reusing Jin merchants and encouraging industry, the military industry in Beijing and Shangjing has made considerable progress, and the East India Company no longer has any advanced foreign guns and cannons that can be resold to the Qing Dynasty.

And the Qing Dynasty didn't have any good things to pour to the Dutch East India Company, the porcelain and silk of the Qing Dynasty were not enough for their own use, and they had to use wood, leather goods, traditional Chinese medicine, Dongzhu, and big livestock to exchange with the Ming Dynasty, where was the spare energy to export to Europe?

However, the Dutch East India Company does not have any business to do in Beijing, and they can also export technology!

It's better to buy than to build!

Yang Xiaomi is not a "comprador", she knows very well that most of the foreign guns and cannons bought from the Dutch are "made in Amsterhouse, the Netherlands", and this thing can't fool her!

Since Ah Guang over there in Foshan can imitate real foreign guns and foreign cannons, why can't Shanxi people and Zhili people? Zhili is rich in coal and iron, and if it is developed, the output may exceed that of the whole of Europe!

Therefore, in the past two years, the Dutch East India Company in Beijing has received orders for factories and ironworks, and is now helping the Qing Dynasty repair the shipyard in Tianjin, and helping the Qing Dynasty repair the blast furnace in the Longyan Iron Mine outside Zhangjiakou.

In addition, Yang Xiaomi also found that the Europa people had good wool, and they looked particularly tall when worn on the body. Therefore, I am also preparing to import a wool textile workshop - there is nothing else in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a grassland for raising sheep!

However, exporting technology to the Qing Dynasty was not the purpose of the Dutch to open a commercial hall in Beijing. The output technology is profitable, but at the same time it is cultivating competitors! Moreover, the three kingdoms of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, and the Great Zhou Dynasty belonged to "one world", similar to the European Christian civilization circle, exported to one country, and other countries would soon be able to learn it.

So the Dutch were reluctant to do this, just to win over the Qing Dynasty to attack the Ming Dynasty, so they had to export a little real ability, otherwise how could the Qing Dynasty beat the Ming Dynasty?

And this time, Spearman, the Batavian governor of the Dutch East India Company, came to Beijing thousands of miles away, in order to finalize a plan to besiege the Ming Dynasty!

However, when he arrived in Beijing, Empress Yang had already gone to Guihua City to greet Emperor Kangxi, so he could only wait here. While waiting, he also made an old friend in Beijing - a friend with some connections to the Dutch East India Company, named Zheng Xi!

This Zheng Xi is terrible, he is Zheng Chenggong's younger brother, Zheng Zhilong's youngest son, and Zheng Jing's uncle. When Zheng Chenggong died, he once left an order to make him the heir to the throne as the king of Yanping. It's a pity that he is not as "fine" as Zheng Jing, and was defeated by Zheng Jing, so he had to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and it sounds like a first-class Ronglu doctor and a cabinet minister, but in fact, he has no real power, and he has no oil and water, so he is a starving and immortal duke in Beijing.

After 40 years of chaos, suddenly one day. Because of a good friend Yang Qilong he met when he was a duke in Beijing, he became the henchman of Empress Yang of the Qing Dynasty, the regent of the curtain!

It's amazing!

And the errand sent by Empress Yang to Zheng Xi was, of course, "Western", and gave him the title of a serious squire of the Li Fan Yuan - this errand was originally only available to Manchurians and Mongols, but Yang Xiaomi was stunned and said, "The queen was originally only Manchurian and Mongol can be a servant", and forcibly blocked the objections.

But then again, this "foreign affairs waiter" is really only Zheng Xi can be a good one. Because Zheng Xi was originally born as a merchant in the sea, and Zheng Zhilong was still ambitious when he was a child, and once wanted to expand the Zheng family's industry to the world, so he invited a foreign language teacher to Zheng Xi and taught him Dutch He understands foreign languages and Tonglan learns!

With this ability, there was no problem with the communication between him and Governor Spearman, so he became a regular visitor to the East India Company's trading house.

So after he got Yang Xiaomi's edict, he happily came to the East India Company Merchant House in Pimp Camp Hutong, and the gatekeeper was familiar with him, so he let him in directly as soon as he greeted him. As soon as he walked outside the door of the parlor, he heard the sound of smashing things, accompanied by Spearman's roar: "Bastard! The French are all big bastards, they are all devils, they have all sold their souls to the devil, and only the devil can do such a thing."

(End of chapter)