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"Maria, have you figured out the details of that Chinese?"

In a mansion in Paris, a father and daughter are talking about something in a lavishly decorated study. They were Maria, who accompanied Zhu Jishi to France. Clementina and her father, Lieutenant General Deneuve.

The lieutenant general looked more like a university professor than a warrior who had fought with the Napoleonic Emperor for many years, and wore an old blue tweed uniform, which was the lieutenant general's favorite garment, the uniform of Napoleon's old guard.

In front of her father, Maria also put away her foxy temperament, wore a formal Western-style skirt, and sat there calmly, quite with the temperament of everyone's ladies (she was originally everyone's girlfriends).

Hearing her father's question, Maria took out a piece of white paper with a strange pattern drawn from her pocket and handed it to her father.

"Maria, what is this?"

Lieutenant General Deneuve took the blank paper and looked at it again and again, the pattern on it was very strange, it seemed to be a coiled snake, but it had claws and horns, and there was a square word in the center, which the lieutenant general did not recognize.

"It's a pattern carved into a milky white stone, which Jason carries with him, and it's obviously something very important, and it's not easy to show, and I secretly traced it while he was asleep, and I suspect that it might be the mark of some ancient family in the East."

Here in Europe, noble houses have family coats of arms, and the family coat of arms of the Segur family is a shield surrounded by grapevines, which is why Maria has this guess.

"That's all there is to it?" Lieutenant General Deneuve looked at his daughter, Maria nodded, Lieutenant General's eyebrows furrowed, he knew how good this daughter was at finding out the news.

"He's got a secret, I can tell." Maria frowned and said, on the way from London, she didn't miss a lot of side knocks to inquire about Zhu Jishi's details, although she didn't ask anything, but she could feel that Zhu Jishi had a big secret in his heart. But he couldn't say! This secret must be extraordinary, and if it is made public, it may threaten his life! ”

"It must have something to do with his background!" Lieutenant General Deneuve said with certainty, "I think he may be ......"

As he was talking, he heard a sound of fast and urgent footsteps in the corridor outside the door, and then there was a knock on the door, "Henry, Henry, it's me, Louis. Trigo. ”

"Maria, go open the door for your Uncle Louie." Deneuve said to her daughter with a smile.

"Well," Maria nodded like a good girl, got up and went to open the door.

"Maria, you're there too?" The man outside the door was dressed in black, with a thin face, a large hooked nose, sunken eyes, and a hint of fierceness in his eyes that could not be concealed, even when he saw Maria's bright color, he still did not show the slightest smile.

"Uncle Louie, it's great to see you." Maria kissed the man in black on the cheek. But the man in black drew a cross in front of Maria and said, "May God bless you." ”

This man was a Jesuit monk, and in his early years he was also an officer in Napoleon's army and had a good relationship with Lieutenant General Deneuve, after Napoleon's empire collapsed, he joined the Society of Jesus as a monk who served God, and spent a long time in Macau and Manila, before returning to France after the outbreak of the Opium War, and now serves as a special adviser to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"This pattern ......" took the pattern from Lieutenant General Deneuve's hand, and when he glanced at it, Brother Trigo was a little stunned, "If I'm not mistaken, this pattern represents the Chinese royal family!" ”

"Chinese royalty!" A father and daughter shouted at the same time.

"Jason is a member of the Chinese royal family! How is this possible! Maria's pretty face was full of disbelief.

"I think it's very likely!" Brother Trigo frowned and thought for a while, and said slowly: "According to the archives of the Society of Jesus and the Holy See, 200 years ago, when the Tatar Dynasty invaded China, many members of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty of China left China under the protection of the Jesuits, and Zhu Jishi may be their descendants. ”

"A descendant of a perished Chinese dynasty?" Maria will be skeptical.

"Possibly, quite possibly!" Lieutenant General Deneuve suddenly said: "He once said in an interview with the Rheinische Zeitung that he is a Chinese, not a Qing national, and that his ancestors fled when the Tatars invaded China!" ”

Trigo said to Deneuve, "Henry, there are experts in the Church of Rome who specialize in China, can I bring this piece of paper to them for study?" ”

"Okay, no problem, you can take it." Deneuve glanced at his daughter, and said, "Maria, you accompany him to Italy, leave him at the castle of Viterbo as much as possible, and then wait for Uncle Louis's instructions." ”

"Got it, I'll try to figure it out." Maria. Clementina bit her lip, her eyes flashed, and she said, "Father, Uncle Louis, if Jason is really a descendant of the Chinese royal family, is it possible for us to help him return to China?" ”

Lieutenant General Deneuve shook his head slightly, "It's too early to think about this, the throne of the Bonaparte family has not yet been restored." ”

Brother Trigo said: "Let the Pope consider this question, but as far as I know about China, even if he is really a descendant of the Ming Dynasty of China, he does not have much appeal, after all, the Ming Dynasty has been down for nearly 200 years. ”

"How so? China is not ruled by a foreign Tatar dynasty, don't the Chinese want to bring down this foreign barbaric regime? ”

Trigo snorted coldly, "Some people think, but not much, because most Chinese don't care who they are ruled by at all, and the national consciousness of the Chinese is very weak." ”

……

"Henry, you say he may be a descendant of the Ming Dynasty of China?"

When French Foreign Minister Guizot heard General Deneuve's report, he had a plan in his heart. The current situation in France is that the Gallic chicken has only lost its hair, although it will not become a roast chicken, but it is really not as brave as it used to be. If Zhu Jishi's goal is only to promote China's reform and become a high-ranking official in China in the future, then France can also help him. But if Zhu Jishi wants to create a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, then it has nothing to do with France! The only thing he could turn to was the British Empire......

"He has a good relationship with Prince Albert of England?" Kizo thought for a moment and suddenly asked.

He had served for a time as the British Imperial Physician, transferring his experience of caesarean sections to other British Imperial Physicians. Prince Albert did have a good relationship with him, and the fact that his business was developing so well now was also due to Prince Albert's care. "Through his daughter, General Deneuve has completely mastered Zhu Jishi's every move in Britain.

"British...... Hmph," Marquis Kizo smiled bitterly, "Where there is chaos on Shijie, there is their shadow!" It seems that there will soon be a rebellion in China! ”

"Your Excellency, what should we do?" General Deneuve hesitated and asked.

"What should I do?" The Marquis of Guizot pressed his temple, shook his head and said, "Let's wait and see, France doesn't have the energy to take care of things thousands of miles away, so we should focus on Europe and North Africa, right?" ”

"By the way, Mr. Minister, today the War Department's Ordnance Bureau sent a report that the representative of the British Jason Churchill Explosives Company has brought a powerful grenade, which is filled with a new type of explosive, which is 10 times more powerful than black powder!"

"10 times! Are you sure? "Guizot is actually the de facto controller of the French cabinet, and Prime Minister Marshal Sirte is just a puppet, so he needs to personally decide whether the War Department wants to purchase new bombs." Henry, is there any sample there at the War Department? ”

"A few more."

"Alright," Kizo stood up, "let's go see for ourselves!" If it were true, the endless war in Algeria might have turned a corner. ”