On the banks of the Elbe, the river beach where the task force training was still in disarray, and countless training trenches had not had time to fill in, and after a few rains, the trenches were full of rainwater.

Xiao Letian's wife, Hu Niu, has always liked to come here to see the scenery recently, and the exotic banks of the Elbe River, whether it are houses, buildings, statues or even factories, are very different from those of the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the sailing ships and steamships speeding back and forth on the river, and the sailors waving their hats on the deck, the strong Nordic style deeply attracted these oriental guests.

"Madam, you've been shopping for more than an hour in the morning, go back and rest, in the morning I asked the cook to buy some meat dishes, let's make dumplings to eat in a while, I've eaten German food for so many days, I'm drooling when I am hungry for dumplings......"

"Dumplings? Oh, I'm going to drool when you remind me, I really haven't eaten hometown food for a long time...... I'm not afraid of your jokes, I cried last night when I was homesick......"

Ping'er walked with the tiger girl, and the two of them talked and laughed with bursts of laughter like silver bells, and sometimes talked about homesickness, and the two also wiped each other's tears.

Within ten meters of them, more than thirty plainclothes hamburgers formed a cordon, and in the distance there was a company of troops waiting for them, and the security treatment that Prussia had given to Xiao Letian's family had reached the level of dukes.

"Hey, I don't know if the old man fights smoothly or not, I just don't understand, the Germans are fighting in the civil war, why should we get involved?" Ping'er is a woman who is good at the inside and neglects the outside, it is more than enough for her to be a housekeeper in a big mansion, but if she asks her questions on the horizon, she will be blind.

On the contrary, the tiger girl was very willing to learn new knowledge, she smiled and shook her head, "Look at the cheers on the other side of the river...... How many days have it been going on, and the celebrations of the Hamburgers have not ended, which shows that the whole of Prussia is already fanatical, and they really support the army to go to war..."

In our hometown, there has been a saying since ancient times that soldiers are like bandits, and the people are bitter when they prosper, and the people who are bitter are the people, and the people who are bitter are the people......

"As soon as we people in the Qing Dynasty hear that there is a war somewhere, I am afraid that they all have to ask God to bless the Buddha and not to fight at the door of the house, and they have always been as far as they can ...... away, even if they leave their hometowns."

Hu Niu stopped and looked at the cheering crowd on the street on the north bank of the Elbe River, and said faintly, "Why is it that when the Prussian people hear that there is a war, they cheer more than the New Year?

Speaking of this, the tiger girl suddenly naughtily hooked Ping'er's nose and said with a smile: "So, don't worry about the master, since Prussia will win, then the master will also win...... You look at Fang Guan's family, they think more than you, they learn from the opera teacher every day, and they never worry about the master's ......"

Ping'er's face was slightly red, and she secretly said, "She has no conscience...... The old man gave her a free body, and she got carried away...... The night before yesterday she ...... Isn't she ashamed to have a tryst with that big-nosed tryst?"

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"Oh, don't tease me, madam...... That big French nose is quite honest, and it's quite lively to talk to Fang Guan than to gestur, how do I think Fang Guan is a little tempted?" Ping'er was a little indignant.

Hu Niu was not angry at all, but enlightened, "You are an infatuation, I told you a long time ago, since the master gave Fang Guan freedom, it is really given, but it is not acting pretend... Fang Guan, including you, are all free people now, what is freedom? It means that you can choose your own life..."

"You can find your own in-laws, even if you marry a foreigner, as long as he is good to you, it's not impossible... Also, you can do whatever you want, such as Fang Guan, whose singing skills have stunned Europeans, and she is not sure that she will eat this bowl of rice in the future......"

"That's what really makes a living... Do you have any plans of your own? The lord gave you this opportunity, but it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you don't want to think about how you can control your own destiny?"

Hu Niu's words made Ping'er fall into deep thought, make your own decisions, control your own destiny, and this and this...... How is this possible? Aren't women just vassals of men?

Women also need to learn some skills to settle down? Aren't men the place where women can settle down? Men are big trees, and women are vines, isn't this how thousands of years have passed? Ping'er was stunned for a moment, and her brain couldn't keep up with her thinking.

Hu Niu just looked at her quietly, without saying a word, she gave Ping'er enough time to think. It took a long time for Ping'er to talk about life.

"Ma'am...... Me, I think you've changed...... You've changed so much..."

"Oh, how did I change?" said the tiger girl meaningfully.

Ping'er looked up at the clear blue sky and thought carefully, "When I was in Tanggu, in the burned mansion, the impression you gave me at that time...... It's just a very knowledgeable person. At that time, Jiao Si bullied you so much, you and Ah Chou didn't complain, moved to the wing room and fired yourself, we looked pitiful to you at that time......"

"Later, the lord came back, we thought that you would take revenge with the lord's tiger might, but I didn't expect you to say anything, let alone bully us women, since that day I admire you even more, I know that you are a kind-hearted person......"

"But...... But after a while, I realized that we were wrong, you are a good man, you are a female general... When so many thugs besieged the gate of the mansion, your calm commanders, guards fought back, and even the bandits who came out of the tunnel, you went up and ......"

Ping'er recalled that scene, and subconsciously covered her eyes, she didn't forget the terrifying scene at all, "You are too bold, why do you dare to kill someone with a gun?" Two shots killed that bandit...... From that day on, we girls were afraid of you to the bone......"

"That is, from that day, I really admire you, you didn't fight before, it's not that you don't have that ability, you just don't want to make trouble for the master, you don't want to cause trouble for that family... That's what you call the general knowledge......"

"Sycophants... I'll tell you the truth, I'm just forced to do that, people are afraid of being forced, don't you often say that you have pressure, you have motivation......" Hu Niu smiled and shook her head.

"No..."Ping'er stiffened her neck and retorted, "That's not the case, just on this trip to Europe, I found out again, Mrs., you are the heroine, you are the master's good match..."

"Along the way, we have seen so many strange scenery and characters, Fang Guan and I are sometimes scared and almost crying, but you have never changed color once. And in the battle on the sea, Fang Guan and Ah Chou and I hugged and cried in fright, but you didn't even blink your eyes......"

"You are not afraid to fight such a brutal battle in France...... And just now, you can say such a reasonable thing, you must know that the scholars in the Qing Dynasty may not be able to understand that truth..."

"What's more, along the way, you have been reading books and learning foreign languages, I have seen all of this...... You can't fool me, you've really changed, the light in your eyes is different..."

Hu Niu made Ping'er stunned, she thought about it carefully and found that what Ping'er said was really right, she had really changed a lot unconsciously, and recalled the scene when she begged her uncle for her mother's treatment in Shanxi, as if it had been a century away.

Oh, what do I think, how can I involuntarily use foreign words? It's still a century, who knows what a century is in the Qing Dynasty.

It's changed, it's really changed, the mentality has been completely different, the concubine who came out of a Jin merchant family has a daughter, and now she can actually study the situation of the European powers, how have I changed so much in recent years?

But how can this change be so reassuring? Tiger Girl gushes out a strong sense of happiness from the bottom of her heart.

But just when the two of them looked back on the past and looked forward to the future, a figure suddenly ran from the direction of the villa, and began to shout desperately from a long distance, and before they could rush to the side of the tiger girl, they let the lurking soldiers pounce.

"What kind of person, dare to trespass, grab it, hurry up......" A group of Prussian soldiers and policemen dragged the intruder backwards.

"Wait... Isn't this Pierre, let him go......" Tiger Girl recognized the person at a glance, this is the intelligence officer who was left in Hamburg by Xiao Lotian, Pierre.

Originally, according to Pierre's meaning, he wanted to participate in the battle of Puao with Xiao Letian, and with Pierre's intelligence analysis ability, he could help. However, Pierre suffered a lot in French prisons and was very weak, so in order to take care of him, Xiao Lotian did not take him with him.

But Pierre could not be idle, the Prussian side collected a lot of overseas intelligence during this period and handed it to Pierre for analysis, especially the intelligence in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean had to be sent.

Idle is idle anyway, and Pierre's brain can't let him be lazy. But no one expected that in the intricate pile of information, Pierre would really find a clue.

"Madame, I have made an important discovery...... I must inform the Prime Minister in time, please give me some time......" After receiving the nod from the tiger girl, Pierre strode up to the tiger girl, and then the interpreter of the side change followed.

"Madam, this is the commercial report from the Dutch East India Company last month, which contains a table of price changes in various ports in India...... If you look closely, the prices of rifles and gunpowder in the market of French India have risen by 40 percent during this period, and the prices of grain and cloth have also risen by 10 percent......"

"What does this mean? This shows that French India is training a large number of indigenous armies, otherwise how can the price of these materials rise without war? and the only explanation for the training of indigenous armies is the bizarre weakening of other military forces......"

"Look at it again, the cargo throughput of the ports of French India has increased significantly during this period, and why is that? This can only show that these ports have suddenly vacated a lot of trestles and warehouses, and the owners of these trestle warehouses in the past can only be the French Navy..."

"Madame... There are all kinds of indications that the French Asian fleet has already been assembled, and if the time is extrapolated according to the intelligence, the French fleet should have crossed the Taiwan Strait by now...... No, no, no, it should be faster, and now it is very likely that we are already approaching the main island of the Ryukyus..."

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