In the Three Yuanming Palaces, the mountains are surrounded by water, and it is quiet.

The French missionary Tregot, vice president of Hong Kong's Chi Shi University, followed a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom checkpoint through the rocky paths, full of silent female officials and eunuchs. The former were subordinate officials of the East Palace, and the latter were all eunuchs of the Old Summer Palace - I don't know what kind of mentality, Emperor Daoguang did not order the eunuchs of the Old Summer Palace to withdraw into Beijing, let alone order the burning of this beautiful garden of ten thousand gardens, but left it intact to the Taiping army. Of course, the palace maids in the Old Summer Palace had already withdrawn to Shengjing. The palace ladies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all banner people, most of them came from the so-called "clothed people", and they were also part of the banner people, but their status was not as noble as that of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners. However, it is always in the flag, so most of the palace maids retreated to the customs together with the "clothed people" in Beijing. Even those who stayed in Beijing entered the city of Beijing.

Brother Trigo walked and looked around, an atmosphere of opulence that was no match for the French court. Zhu Jishi's palace in Guangzhou is a small shack compared to here.

In addition to the wealth, Brother Trigo also sensed that there was a cheerful atmosphere throughout the royal garden. All the people here believe that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has won the world!

I don't know how long I walked, but when Brother Trigo felt some pain in his legs and feet, he came to a building. When you look up, you will find a group of "Baroque" style Western buildings, but they are also mixed with many Chinese garden construction styles, and are decorated with carvings and artificial fountains everywhere, which is extremely exquisite.

Dongwang Yang Xiuqing lives here now?

"Be careful! When you see the king of the east, you must bow and salute, and you will be nine thousand years old! The official of the East Temple, who had brought Brother Trigo to the audience, reminded him loudly in Hakka, which was difficult for Brother Trigo to understand. As he spoke, he walked briskly into a Western-style building, and Trigo tried to follow. Two guards with swords were already standing in front of him.

He froze. The brow was furrowed. I heard the official of the East Temple shouting: "The nine-thousand-year-old Xuanyang brother of the East King Trigo has come to see ......."

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Shanghai, Far Eastern Plaza Hotel, the Great Tomorrow is here.

"Your Majesty, the British Minister to the Manchu Dynasty, Ali Guo, left Shanghai this morning on the battleship 'Willisley' and headed north."

A secretary of the imperial study appeared quietly, reported the news that Jinyiwei had just arrived, and went down quietly.

Zhu Jishi pinched a chess piece and condensed it in mid-air, but he didn't swing it towards the chessboard. The man sitting across from him stroked his beard. said with a smile: "Beijing City can be lively, the French and the British are going there, and the old man who dares to Ming'er also set off to the north, I don't know if Lu Dao can still join in this excitement?" ”

and Zhu Jishi, the king of the Ming Dynasty, is the world-famous Master Pan Shien. The beard is all white, the top of the head is bald (there are no braids), the face is sallow, it seems to be sick, but the middle breath of speech is still full, between the hands raised. has the demeanor of a famous minister.

Zhu Jishi arrived in Shanghai five days ago, and was ready to make an agreement with Lin Zexu here on the "Ming South, Qing North" covenant. In fact, it is just to give Lin Zexu a step and let him go north with dignity. This emerging first commercial port in the south of the Yangtze River has now been taken over by Zhu Ming, and Lin Zexu temporarily retreated to Nanjing to preside over the northward movement of the training army.

The Zhu family's guards marched into the county seat and concession of Shanghai, ignoring Pa Xiali's protests - there was no clause in the "Shanghai Land Lease Regulations" prohibiting the Ming army from entering! In fact, there was no official British garrison in the Shanghai Concession, just a small number of embassy guards. The French, Russian, and American consulates in Shanghai also have guards. In this case, what is there to make a fuss about when the Ming army enters the Shanghai Concession? Moreover, the Ming army did not seize the Shanghai concession from the British embassy guards, but took over from Lin Zexu's Liangjiang training army.

This matter can be brought out in Shanghai, and it is not a problem at all in London. It's just that the British Consulate leased 830 acres of land from the Manchu Shanghai authorities, which is just a real estate leasing business......

However, this kind of direct dispatch of troops to "recover" the concession made Lin Zexu's reputation among the people in Jiangnan rise sharply. Now he is a double national hero, and he is the number one loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, which is really going down in history.

And another highly respected Qing loyal minister Pan Shien did not go on the road with Lin Zexu, but personally went to Shanghai to visit Zhu Jishi, and after a good meal of praise for virtue, he formed a New Year's friendship with Zhu Dawang - this old man is 80 years old, so he put his name in Lin Zexu's Qinwang army, and did not go north in person, otherwise he would not be able to stand the carriage and horses and hang on the road. What he said to Zhu Jishi just now was just a joke.

Zhu Jishi smiled and pinched the chess pieces and knocked on the chessboard: "Trigo did not go to Beijing on behalf of the French government, he is the representative of the Roman Church...... Not entirely true, he should have gone north in a private capacity to explore the limelight of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. ”

Pan Shien smiled: "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believes in foreign religions, so it should be with that ...... The Church of Rome is in the same boat, right? ”

Zhu Jishi smiled: "How can it be a group?" There was no one in the Church in Rome who dared to claim to be the Son of God...... Otherwise, they would have to be burned as heretics. ”

Old man Pan picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip lightly, and said thoughtfully: "...... The doctrine of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be changed, and it is not the son of God, right? This Roman church must be very powerful among foreigners, right? ”

Zhu Jishi smiled: "The Roman Church doesn't have much power, but it's ...... If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could change their doctrine and cater to the foreigners and the northern gentry a little, wouldn't it really be a climate? ”

Old Pan Fox laughed, as if he had heard some big joke: "It's a pity that the most difficult thing in the world is probably to change...... The Qing Dynasty began to reform from the Yongzheng year, but no matter how it was changed, it did not touch the fundamentals, it was the privilege of the banner people, and it was not until the defeat of the Huaxian army that Daoguang Ye issued an edict. But in the blink of an eye, millions of Cantonese bandits are besieging the city, what else to change? ”

The old man's expression suddenly became serious: "Your Majesty, the old man has a word to give, and now that the Ming Dynasty is revived, everything has begun, it is the time to set up rules and lay a good foundation." The old man heard that the king was setting up something...... The Constitution, which has to be pondered carefully, cannot learn from the Qing Dynasty, and leave a bad law to future generations. To be honest, although this light is the king of the fallen country of the Qing Dynasty, it is not mediocre, and the foundation of the Qing Dynasty has not been laid. If you say who is the faint monarch of the Qing Dynasty, it probably has to be Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and many ancestral systems are determined by them. The disaster of the destruction of the country began to be planted by them! Daoguang was just unlucky, and he took the last stick! ”

"Daoguang can be regarded as the king of the dead country? Didn't Yixin go to Shengjing? "These days, some news from the north has finally come, Zhu Jishi knows that Daoguang's guilty edict has been made, and he also knows that Prince Yixin of Daogong has arrived in Shengjing.

"It's just a pile of dry bones!" Pan Shien smiled bitterly and shook his head, "As soon as Daoguang died, the Qing Dynasty will be like the Northern Yuan Dynasty back then, and it will no longer be Huaxia Zhengshuo." As for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...... Mourning the family, destroying the heavens, what is the heavenly father and brother, even if you get Beijing, it is difficult to last long, this Beijing city is just a tomb for burying the heroes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the world will be Ming sooner or later. ”

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"Representative of Pope Pius IX of the Universal Church, Jesuit Friar Trigot, see His Royal Highness the East King 9,000 years old......"

In the Western Building of the Old Summer Palace, Trigo, the representative of the Roman Church, bent down deeply and bowed to Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, who was sitting on a throne.

"Rude!"

"Bold!"

The two East Temple officials immediately shouted.

Yang Xiuqing gently touched the armrest of the throne, and her voice couldn't hear joy and anger: "Flat, give the seat." ”

Brother Trigo immediately straightened up and sat down on the brocade pier beside him.

Yang Xiuqing glanced at him: "Well, Mr. Te, you and Zhu Jishi know each other in Europe?" ”

Before the audience, there were already officials in the East Hall who had taken care of Trigo, and he couldn't talk casually, and he could only answer whatever the East King asked, and he couldn't look at the East King, in short, the rules were much better than Zhu Jishi's!

Trigo didn't care so much, stared at Yang Xiuqing for a long time before he said, "I knew King Daming when I was in Europe, and his Jishi University will now be managed by me." ”

Yang Xiuqing nodded, Trigo spoke Cantonese, and Yang Xiuqing could still understand it. He thought for a while, and then said: "Then please help me bring a message to Zhu Jishi, Beijing, I am advanced!" But I don't want him to be a minister, just divide the world equally between the south and the north! (To be continued......)