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In the Yuxi Palace in the West Garden of the Imperial Palace, several cups of tea are wafting with a refreshing and fragrant aroma. Empress Dowager Zheng has changed into court clothes, and the Prime Minister is sitting solemnly on the throne, accepting the appointment of Prime Minister Zuo of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zheng Guozhong and Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Zexu paid homage.

Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian were wearing the flying fish uniforms of Jinyiwei, standing upright in the main hall of Yuxi Palace. To Zhuge Weidao's expectation, his close friend Yu Hui also appeared with Lin Zexu today.

In the Yuxi Hall.

However, Zhuge Weidao didn't pay much attention to Yu Hui. All his attention was attracted by Lin Zexu who appeared with Zheng Guozhong! There are not many historical celebrities in China who survived the "Zhuge Wuzhong King's Incident".

!As Zhuge Weidao knows, one is Wei Yuan, the ambassador to Petersburg, one is He Zhongtang from the Jin Empire, and the other is Lin Zexu. Oh, and there is also Fat Daoguang, who doesn’t look like the original, so

Forget it.

So now Zhuge Weidao looked at Lin Zexu carefully. He was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was not tall, had a broad forehead, was a little fat, had a goatee, and had bright eyes.

, he looks like a high official.

I heard from Zheng Yuhuan that this Lin Zexu was also a noble queen. His ancestor joined the army when Zheng Chenggong regained Fuzhou. He followed Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing, Zheng Kezang and became kings in the east and west for three generations. Finally, he was granted the title of viscount, returned to his hometown in glory, and settled in Zuoying, Fuzhou, Fujian.

Secretary, it has been passed down to Lin Zexu's generation for the fourth generation. However, he was able to become the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the age of forty, not entirely because of his ancestor's title, but because of his own outstanding ability and the reputation of his college classmate Zheng Guozhong.

promoted.

"King Cheng, Minister Lin, and Ambassador Yu, please take a seat."

Seeing that Zheng Guozhong and Lin Zexu had finished their bowing ceremony, Empress Dowager Zheng politely asked Zheng Guozhong, Lin Zexu, Yu Hui and others to take a seat.

"I invite you three to enter the palace today. I have two things to say." Seeing that the three of them were already seated, Empress Dowager Zheng began to speak. As she spoke, she glanced at the guard standing beside her.

Zhuge Weidao said, "The first thing is that Grand Duchess Natalie failed the examination by the female doctor in the palace. Her body was broken!"

It turns out that Empress Dowager Zheng summoned Zheng Guozhong, Lin Zexu, and Yu Hui into the Yuxi Palace through Natalie's affairs. According to the current "Da Ming Convention", the emperor is a constitutional rubber stamp, not to mention Empress Dowager Zheng? She wants

Zheng Guozhong, Lin Zexu, and Yu Hui would definitely not come if they invited people to come in the name of discussing and promoting the enmity between Jin and Britain. But Natalie's matter was both a state matter and a private matter of the emperor's family. Empress Dowager Zheng definitely had something to say.

If you have the right, you can also summon relevant people into the palace for discussion.

"What?"

"Is this happening?"

"The Queen Mother, can you find out who did it?"

Although Zheng Guozhong, Lin Zexu, and Yu Hui had already known that Natalie had let someone sleep with her, they all looked surprised at this moment, and Lin Zexu wanted to investigate with a serious look on his face.

However, Zhuge Weidao, the culprit of this matter, was not panicked at all and still stood there with his chest out and his belly protruding.

When Queen Mother Zheng heard Lin Zexu's question, she said seriously: "I want someone to check it out. But Natalie is a princess of a great country after all, and our Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette. Can we still use torture on others? This Natasha

If Li only protects her husband, what can we do?"

Zheng Guozhong sighed: "What else can I do? Just give me the gold and let it be paid back! There is a precedent for this. When the princess of Siam got married, she was also found to have lost her virginity. In the end, I didn't give the gold and give it back.

Already?"

Lin Zexu said: "The Queen Mother, even if the traitor is found, it is impossible for us to punish the Grand Duchess Natalie. It's just a pity that so many years of planning and so many people's work have been done. If we can catch the traitor, we can do it.

Take the punishment seriously!"

After listening to Lin Zexu's words, Empress Dowager Zheng nodded slightly, then turned to look at Zhuge Weidao: "Taozi, it was you who protected Grand Duchess Natalie from the Rakshasa Kingdom. Do you know which man she was with along the way?

Is it too close?"

Zhuge Weidao quickly bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I was negligent. After escorting Grand Duchess Natalie to the Yingxian Pavilion, I was summoned by He Shen to see Emperor Daoguang in the Wuji Palace and came out of the Wuji Palace.

, it’s already two days later.”

He actually picked himself clean.

Lin Zexu frowned and asked, "What did Emperor Daoguang call you to do?"

"Reporting to Lin Zhongtang, Emperor Daoguang summoned his officials to Wuji Palace to tell his fortune."

Yu Hui, who came with Lin Zexu, added for Zhuge: "In the middle hall, the Jin Kingdom has always been superstitious about fortune telling, and they also claimed to have inherited the Nalan Pearl, a disciple of King Wuzhong, so they believed in Zhuge very much. That light, He Shen

He is especially superstitious about fortune telling, so Zhuge Daozi just settled down in Yingxian Pavilion, and He Shen came to invite him on Daoguang's order."

They are indeed good brothers!

Zhuge Weidao heard Yu Hui's words and cast a grateful look at him.

Lin Zexu no longer bothered about Grand Duchess Natalie sleeping with someone, but continued to ask about Daoguang's fortune telling, "Major Zhuge, what did Daoguang ask you to do?"

"In the middle hall," Zhuge Weidao said, "where is Daoguang asking his subordinates to calculate his military and financial fortunes?"

"Have you calculated it?" Zheng Guozhong asked with a smile.

"It's figured out."

"Where is Emperor Daoguang's military and financial fortune?"

"In the south, in Tianzhu."

Lin Zexu's eyes twitched: "Major Zhuge, are you inciting Emperor Daoguang to go south to India to rob?"

"Zhongtang," Zhuge Weidao said, "the lower official just stated what Emperor Daoguang was thinking, not to mention inciting him."

Lin Zexu asked: "You mean that Emperor Daoguang only wanted to go to India to steal money?"

Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "Zhongtang, among the kings who dominated Central Asia in history, who wouldn't want to go to India to grab a share? Now the Jin Kingdom has strong soldiers but a poor country. Apart from grabbing money, they will only suffer poverty."

"But India is a colony of the British Empire!" Lin Zexu frowned, "Emperor Daoguang really dared to touch the British Empire's tiger butt?"

"So what if you touch it?" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "If you win the Lord Tianzhu, you will no longer be short of money. If you lose, can the British Empire still enter the Wuji Valley? The foundation of the Jin Empire cannot be damaged, and it is still

If you can beg money and food from the British Empire through diplomatic channels, you won't suffer any loss."

"Oh?" Lin Zexu seemed to be interested, "According to your statement, as long as Emperor Daoguang sends troops to India, the British will suffer anyway?"

Zhuge Weidao glanced at him and thought: "As expected of Lin Zexu, he was happy to hear that Daying was going to be in trouble."

"Zhongtang," Zhuge Weidao said, "Daying is like a rich bully, and he has taken over the wealth of this rich woman in India, and his life is so carefree. Jin Guo is like a barefoot beggar, and he will die.

He said, Daying can’t take it away yet. If the evil beggar from the Jin Kingdom breaks into the rich Indian woman’s house occupied by Daying and causes trouble, what can Daying do? What can the so-called world ocean hegemon do? Drive an armored ship to Wuji Valley?”

"I'm afraid things are not as easy as you said, right?" Lin Zexu stroked his goatee, looked at this little Zhuge who had an extraordinary relationship with the Queen Mother, and murmured in his heart.

Didn’t you say that this little fox is stupid? Looking at it now, it’s okay, he’s not stupid! And what he said about the evil beggars from the Jin Kingdom harassing the bullies in Daying is quite reasonable. The bully Daying is annoying to look at! He relies on himself to sail

Thanks to the advantages accumulated over the years and its position as Europe's leader, it has grown from a small country to the status of an empire on which the sun never sets.

What's even more hateful is that since the fall of Napoleon's France, the British have been talking about the Yellow Peril every day, saying that the Ming Dynasty is the biggest threat to their European Christian civilization, and they want to unite the European Christian civilizations to contain the Ming Dynasty. Although so far, it has only been

It’s empty shouting, but it sounds harsh!

And no one knows when they will actually take action to cut off the East-West trade in the Indian Ocean! If there is a chance to repair the British Empire without having to mobilize troops in the Ming Dynasty, that would be great.

"Lin Zhongtang," Zhuge Weidao had already seen something from Lin Zexu's expression, and immediately said with a smile, "I feel that Emperor Daoguang needs someone to push him before he will really rush to India to find the British.

Trouble."

"Who will push?" Lin Zexu asked.

Zhuge smiled and said nothing for Dao. Zheng Guozhong took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Brother Shao Mu, besides you, who else is more suitable to push Dao Guang to the battlefield?"
Chapter completed!