"Wu Xizeng is dead?"

Chen Ming was surprised. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Wu Xizeng is two years younger than Chen Hui, and his body bones have indeed been bad, because he has the same stinky problem as Chen Hui - lustful.

But it's not going to die right now, is it?

At the beginning, Chen Hui restrained his lust in order to survive, and he adjusted his body and bones well for a while, and he is still alive and well. Then Wu Xizeng also followed Chen Hui and dragged on until now. Not long ago, at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Chen Ming also saw him. Thinking back to that time, Wu Xizeng didn't look like a person who was going to die.

This Wu Xizeng is one of Chen Hui's old team, and Ren Meng, Zhang Chi, Zheng Hongyu, and Wei Xiuzhi are all the way. Later, Chen Ming was in charge of the country, and the person who sat in the key position of Yin in Shuntian Mansion was Wu Xizeng, and this person also handed in his resignation on his own with a very good eye.

Although the earl on his head is almost of a 'reward' nature, Wu Xizeng's death also has a certain significance. Not in terms of the influence of the court, but in his death - the withering of meritorious ministers.

This was the first lord to die in his bed.

In addition, Wu Xizeng's death should also be a blow to Chen Hui. "Queen, you have been running to Yanshou Palace more these days." In addition to Chen Hui in Yanshou Palace, there is also an old lady Huang. When you are old, it is easy to 'be sad and sad', but don't think of yourself by Wu Xizeng.

The current general environment is that Chen Han's rule is stable, the people's will is solid, and the old lady is like a mascot that the people of the whole country can see, that is, the longer she lives, the better, and she is blessed and auspicious.

"Chen Ding's marriage can't be delayed any longer. In this matter, you should ask your father and mother what they think. ”

Chen Ming's eyes were shining, he gave up the right to choose, it depends on how the Li family and the Yanshou Palace choose.

Is it Wen, or is it Wu?

The choice is theirs.

Although Chen Ming has a bunch of sons, he can see that whether it is the old lady or Chen Huigao's family, Chen Ding's favorite is still the favorite.

The eldest grandson, not to mention, the first period of 'alone' is also very important in the hearts of the three of them. At that time, Li Xiaomei often held Chen Ding, who was still a baby, and walked around in front of the old lady, Gao's and Chen Hui.

Later, Chen Ming had a son and a daughter, and they kept popping out one by one, but they also made people 'treat everyone equally'. Only Chen Ding took the lead and became a 'special' one in the eyes of his elders.

Among the old people under Chen Hui at the beginning, Zhang Chi had the best development, and now he is still in power, and Chen Ming still recognizes him. Then there is Ren Meng, who is now retiring, but before he was one of several bigwigs in the logistics department, and then Zheng Hongyu and Wei Xiuzhi. The former served as the governor of Guangdong, and if it weren't for his defective ability, he would have been a cabinet veteran a long time ago; The latter is one of the few generals in Chen Hui's line, and is now the second-in-command of the Northwest Military Region!

But these two can only be regarded as local powerhouses, and their weight in the central government is just a little bit worse.

And where is the Yanshou Palace, there are also the Huang family and the Gao family. Seriously, even Chen Ming couldn't predict who his eldest daughter-in-law would be. Girls of the right age and qualification, not one or two......

Li Xiaomei's face was not ignorant, she didn't expect that because of Wu Xizeng's death, the 'thing' she had always hoped for would suddenly come true. But Chen Ming spat on Chen Ding's marriage, but what did that mean?

Xiao Li quickly entered the palace, and then returned to the Li Mansion in a daze.

Li Lao Xiucai and Li didn't understand this way, but Li Kun pondered it but felt a trace of deep meaning.

"Your Majesty has allowed us to have a relationship with the Taishang family, the Huang family and the Gao family have shouted at His Highness, but this is not enough for them to fully support His Highness. It is true that the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager of Yanshou Palace are the Dinghai Divine Needles of the Huang family and the Gao family, but they cannot represent the entire Huang Gao. ”

Nowadays, there are many emperors' heirs, and almost every family behind the prince has help. Except for a few relatives such as the Yao family, the Feng family, and the Shi family, who showed their intention not to be on the throne early, no one else squeaked.

And although these people have many factions, they can be regarded as today's subordinates, and these people and the people of the Taishang family are faintly two big camps.

If you want to say that the difficulty value of the fusion of the Liu family [Liu Dezhao] and the Zhang family [Zhang Qiu] is 1, then the difficulty value of the fusion of the Taishang family and the Zhang family is 2.

Of course, the Li family is definitely in the camp today, but doesn't the Li family have no official pillars.

It depends on the decision.

"This idea doesn't mean that we will take it all, but also to see His Highness's own plans."

Li Kun thought about it, but he also had a headache. Chen Ding's marriage is a big deal!

……

Mexico City.

In the prisoner of war camp, Major Villere of France, with the assistance of an interpreter, was talking to a prisoner of war of the Spanish colonial army who had taken the initiative to 'resign'. There were a dozen or so people waiting in the corridor outside the door, either from the expeditionary force or French.

The war in North America is really over. The Spaniards had signed a cease-fire agreement with the expeditionary force in Querétaro, and then the French jumped into the field in a hurry. They are actively reconciling bilateral contradictions and mediating tense relations between China and the West.

Not long ago, a rumor circulated in Spain, rumors that a large number of Spanish prisoners were being brutally abused and persecuted by the Chinese, and then in the ongoing negotiations in Querétaro, the Spaniards proposed that the Chinese side first release the prisoners to show their sincerity, and then China directly refused; Subsequently, the Spaniards offered to allow their personnel to intervene in the management of Spanish prisoners of war, becoming a 'supervisor', but China refused.

The French urgently stood up, saying that as a non-party and neutral, they could send an observation team to Mexico City.

The expeditionary force did not refuse again.

So, Villeret was in a prisoner-of-war camp, but he was not a prisoner, unlike the French soldiers who were captured in battle. And those French captured soldiers, the French government did not recognize them at all, and only said that they were volunteers, just like those French who actively supported the war of independence of the thirteen states from the beginning.

It's really a hell of a volunteer soldier who has become a formed cuirassier.

Not long ago, the envoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent from Nanjing finally arrived in North America, and Chen Ming's latest instructions were quickly sent to Querétaro, but the envoy himself had not yet arrived in Querétaro. This has brought new difficulties to bilateral negotiations, and some conditions that had been agreed upon with great difficulty were overturned in an instant.

The French had to work hard again.

Although much of what the French observer mission saw was very superficial. For example, they saw the looted church, which was really like locusts crossing the border without leaving an inch, and even the big bell was unloaded by the Chinese and loaded and transported away. Because the big bell of that church is bronze.

The expeditionary force did not set fires, and in many places there are intact traces of their violent treatment. This made some in the French Observation Mission angry for a long time, but it didn't help.

The French who entered Mexico City had a clear purpose: to examine the combat effectiveness of the expeditionary force up close and to see how strong the Indians were. It was only in addition to this main goal that other details also caught the attention of the French. Just like this one in front of me - a prisoner of war of the Spanish colonial army who took the initiative to 'anyway'.

This is a pure-blood Caucasians!

Velair wondered why a white officer would join an Oriental-dominated team. As for the translators, there were people in the French delegation who could speak Spanish.

"Leopoldo Calvo-Sotello...... you are a captain in the Spanish army, and I heard that you also participated in the final defense of Mexico City?" From the original hero to the current traitor, is this a bit too big?

"Of course, I'm proud to have been part of that fight. We fought to the last moment, and only a quarter survived. My life is great, God is bless me, and this shot in the chest did not take my life. Calvo Sotello ripped off his shirt, and he had a scar the size of a gold coin on his chest.

Calvo Sotelo doesn't hide his scars, he seems to be very proud of his scars, and there is no shame on his face.

Villere's curiosity died. "Then it can be said that you are a hero in the Spanish army, a hero in the whole of Spain. Why are you ...... now?"

Villere didn't continue. Calvo Sotlo's face was so unconcerned that he thought he was talking to a ruffian with no honor or shame.

"Mr. Major, you only inquired about my situation, I wonder if you also inquired about my family's situation?"

Calvo Sotello looked at the Frenchman in front of him calmly, "I'm a Cleolo!" ”

It means Criollo, a native-born European.

Chen Han called them Mexicans, themselves, and the Spaniards called them Cleolo.

At the beginning of the 18th century, after the death of Carlos II of Spain, the Spanish Habsburgs had no successor, and after a war of succession, the Spanish Bourbon dynasty was established. The Spanish Bourbon dynasty was heavily influenced by Louis XIV, and at the beginning of its reign it was based on centralization and all mercantilist ideas. Philip V wanted to undermine the entrenched American aristocratic society "Cleologo" and eventually weaken the Jesuits' control over the territory, so much so that in 1767 the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America.

Cleolo and the Church were originally the two humerus bones of the Spanish colonizers who ruled the Americas, and now Madrid wants to break one of the humerus and then split the other, which may reduce the strength of Spanish rule in the Americas, but decades ago, in the Americas, there was no Chinese intervention.

There is a huge contradiction between Cleolo and Madrid.

Calvo Sotlo's estate was not in Mexico City, and he had no intention of returning alive when he decided to stay in the final battle of Greater Mexico City, and Calvo Sotlo asked his personal servant to return to his home to deliver a letter.

But the ending is so emotional, Calvo Sotello, who was bent on fighting and dying, survived, but his family was all dead.

A group of 'defeated soldiers' who had fled from Mexico City ransacked the Sotlo family's estate, killing all of them.

The Sotello family's estate was more than 200 miles away from Mexico City, and the defeated soldiers fled so quickly that Calvo Sotlo's servants rode back as fast as the 'defeated soldiers' walked on two legs. It was a glaring loophole, but the local colonial government, police and garrison turned a blind eye.

He should be glad that his servant was a true servant, otherwise Calvo Soltelo would not have known that his family had all died, and if he had been lucky enough to survive the war, some of the truths might have been drowned out by time.

His servants knew that Mexico City had fallen, and that their masters had either been killed or captured, and that there was a high probability of death. But the man resolutely returned to Mexico City, and then luckily found Calvo Sotlo, who had just woken up from a coma.

The sudden bad news nearly destroyed Calvo Sotello's mind, leaving him dead in his hospital bed. But the desire for revenge kept Calvo Sotello going.

"My estate, more than two months ago, was sacked by a wave of defeated soldiers who could move faster than my servants on horseback. My entire family was killed. Presumably, even the manor has been assigned to someone else's name. ”

The flames in Calvo Sotlo's eyes scared even Villere.

Patting the scar on his chest, he said to Villere, "I have pledged my life to my bloodline, to this kingdom. In the future, I will also use my life to recover the blood debt of the Sotello family from Spain. ”

Villere's mood was terrible. But he did not try to make a quibble for the Spaniards, which was not uncommon.

In the midst of war, disguise yourself as a rebel defeated soldier, or even a bandit or robber, and kill into your enemy's family, while taking revenge, you can also seize most of the wealth of the enemy's family in one fell swoop, and even move your wrists, only need a small amount of money, and you can also transfer the enemy's real estate to your own name.

This kind of shady thing is very dark when it is spoken, but many, many people can't say it at all.

If Calvo Sotelo had been lucky enough to survive the war, his life might have returned to heaven on his way back to his estate.

There is darkness everywhere.

In this world, where there is light, there is shadow, and the brighter the place, the more dense the darkness behind him. This is not a bad thing, because it is proof of being alive.

The ugliness in the darkness is like pustules covered by outward clothing, as long as you don't deliberately pick on your clothes, who can find the darkness underneath them?

Just look at the surface, it's all glamorous.

In the East as in the West, the opium traders who were active in London in the 18th and 19th centuries were all as polite as gentlemen on the surface, like the scholars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, who were not different in some way. The only difference is whether the clothes they wear outside the body are more beautiful and gorgeous.