The scenery in Prince Gong's Mansion is of course very unique. Although it cannot compare with the grandeur of the Forbidden City, it is better than the small scenery. Moreover, He Shen really spent a lot of effort to build this house. The entire garden is filled with scenery every step of the way. Blessed.
Li Lianying paced around the study room casually, and a young eunuch from the royal palace kept talking with him. Occasionally, there were a few angry Russian roars coming from behind the rockery. They all knew that this negotiation must be extremely difficult.
According to foreign clocks, half an hour had passed before the sound of the door opening was heard from the direction of the study, and the footsteps became chaotic. The eunuchs and maids in charge rushed forward to prepare for the attack.
Naturally, he knew Li Lianying, the Minister of Tsarist Russia, Ulan Geli, but to his surprise, this blond old man, whom he had not seen for several months, had an old look on his face, and his whole body seemed to have been drained of energy.
Prince He Gong bowed in greeting, then turned around and left with his entourage. Normally, Yi Du had to go to the second door to see him off, but today Guiziliu stood on the steps and waved his hand carelessly, treating it as a send-off.
Looking at Wu Langeli's lonely back, Li Lianying was both relieved and worried, "Hey... I wish we, the Qing Dynasty, had defeated these Rakshasa ghosts!"
Just when Li Lianying wanted to come forward to say hello, she didn't expect that Yi suddenly burst out emotionally. She turned around and gave an official next to her a loud slap in the face.
"Bastard! How do you do things? Why didn't you report such a big thing earlier! Get out, get out of the Prime Minister's Office... Someone, get him out of here!"
Li Lianying trembled with fright and watched as the frightened official was dragged out. When she turned around and saw the prince looking at him, she hurriedly ran all the way and knelt down and kowtowed, "Greetings to the prince, good luck to the prince! The Queen Mother calls me a slave." Come to invite the prince into the palace..."
"Hey...Old Li, why are you kowtowing? We won't talk about this between us, so hurry up and help us..."
As soon as she entered the study, Li Lianying was almost overcome by the smoke inside. She thought to herself that she had smoked so many foreign cigars that she could hardly see her fingers in the room.
The little eunuchs hurriedly opened the windows to let out the air, and the maid holding a fan stood in the corner and shook the fan to help ventilate the study. The wealth of the ancients was basically built by manpower. In fact, in terms of enjoyment, it is really not as good as the various things brought by technology. kind of welfare.
Ignoring drinking tea, Li Lianying quickly smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has been in a really bad mood these past two days. As soon as the news of Xiang Shaolong's founding of the country in Vladivostok came, Lafayette strangled his favorite starling to death and smashed the house to pieces. ...I beg the prince to feel sorry for this servant, and go into the palace to persuade the queen mother. Now it’s easier for you to speak!”
Yi did not answer directly. He just held the tea bowl with one hand, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and asked, "Where is the Queen Mother Dong? Why didn't you discuss it with the Queen Mother Dong?"
"Hey... what can be discussed here? Dongfang has returned to Jingshan Mountain. I said it was because of the cold weather that I have been ill these past few days. In fact..."
There is nothing to say about the rest. Li Lianying couldn't say that Fu Qing had just come back from Tianjin, and openly told Yi that your sister-in-law stole a man. This was just asking for a beating.
Yi smiled and stopped talking. Li Lianying was so worried. "Your Majesty, what time has it been? Are you still closing your eyes and concentrating? Listen to the discussions in the streets of Forty-Nine City. The entire Eight Banners were shocked. The ancestors All the land has been taken over by the Han people, and now people are so scared that they are going crazy..."
"I'm talking about Lao Li... do you know why I slapped that subordinate just now?" Yi suddenly asked a question. Li Lianying was stunned by the question, thinking to herself, how could I know why you hit someone?
"Because that kid didn't know the importance, he actually put an important piece of information at the end for me to see... Wulan Geli just yelled at me, and I don't even know why..."
"I didn't expect that Xiao Letian was really cruel. He actually buried Molière alive... and turned the Frenchman into a kneeling statue!"
Hiss... Li Lianying took a breath of air-conditioning, "Is this Molière the big-nosed guy who came with the French fleet as mentioned before? Oh my God, this kind of person was buried alive by Xiao Letian? The French must be crazy... "
"That's about it. I guess the French Minister will have to come to see me today to discuss matters, so I won't enter the palace today..."
"No! Your Majesty, you have to enter the palace. What will happen to the Queen Mother? She is very angry..."
"You're stupid, the key to breaking the situation is here. Once Molière dies, some things will be easier to handle!"
The Qing Dynasty was very resistant to telegraph technology at the very beginning. In fact, not only telegraph technology, but all new Western technologies, except foreign guns and cannons, were rejected by the Manchus.
However, the emergence of Xiao Letian forcibly suppressed the Manchus to carry out reforms. Fu Qing, who was honored by later generations as the man who popularized telegraph technology, actually relied on Xiao Letian's power to successfully build the telegraph network throughout the Qing Dynasty. .
At this time, the Qing Dynasty's telegraph line had connected from north to south, from Shengjing to Shanghai and Guangzhou. The westward telegraph line had reached Xi'an and was advancing bit by bit towards Lanzhou.
There is even a telegraph line approaching the Land of Abundance, and these are all handled by Master Qing's department. Precisely because the team led by Fu Qing was a rare pragmatist among the Manchus, the construction speed of the telegraph network was still very fast.
Nowadays, all state capitals and counties that have access to telegraph have given up the backward express delivery business in the past, and have chosen to use telegraph to report government affairs to the court.
Coupled with the fact that Chinese telegraph companies are constantly laying submarine cables in the sea, the imperial court can now communicate directly with North Korea, Japan, Ryukyu and even Southeast Asia, and can even send messages to Europe.
The telegraph network is getting bigger and bigger, and the Prime Minister's Yamen receives more and more telegrams every day. It is impossible for Yi to do everything by himself and process hundreds or even thousands of telegrams every day.
In the end, we had to learn from the Military Aircraft Department's method of handling government affairs. Subordinate officials classified the telegrams, prioritized them and sent them to the superiors for reading. Generally speaking, they dealt with the most urgent classification, and the rest were selected depending on whether they had time. Sexual review.
This is where a problem arises. Ryukyu's dedication, the surrender of Tsarist Russia, and the founding of the Far East are all the most urgent information, but killing a French prisoner, even if he is a knight, is not considered urgent military information.
The unlucky subordinate officer actually put the news that Molière was buried alive in the general category, and that's when the joke just happened.
Prince Gong actually overheard the news from Ulan Geli.
"Old Li, this is what you will tell the Queen Mother later! The key to breaking the game lies with the French. Xiao Letian made an absolutely stupid move. He is committing suicide!"
"Don't look at how he is having fun now, he will always make a list in the future! If Molière is killed, France will have no way out. Let's just sit back and watch the fight!"
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