There will be an update tomorrow morning!
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It turns out that Natalie Pavlovna is not a scumbag, but Zhuge Weidao is an out-and-out scumbag!
Zhuge Weidao was confused. He really couldn't figure out why he...oh, why did he do this? How could he push a beauty like Natalie to the side of a dog emperor? What on earth was he thinking?
Zhuge Weidao thought hard again, no, he can't be such a scumbag!
"Natalie Pavlovna," Zhuge Weidao looked at Natalie with a guilty look on his face, "Dear, you can't marry the Ming Emperor, because if I want to marry you, you must marry me! Natalie, will you marry me?"
"I, I, I do!" When Natalie Pavlovna said this, a few tears were already swaying in her blue eyes... Obviously, she had also been affected by the pain before. What a huge grievance!
Although there is no shame in marrying a foreign monarch, giving birth to an heir, and then living with her beloved husband. For the princesses and grand duchess of various European countries in this era, Natalie still hopes to be with her beloved. man gets married.
At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already finished the unpleasant Chinese medicine in one gulp, then he took Natalie's jade hands and began to express his affection: "My dear, it's getting late. Let's go to bed early. Tomorrow... ... Let’s get married!”
While talking, Zhuge Weidao also carefully admired the woman who was about to become his wife... After admiring it for a while, he discovered a small problem. The clothes Natalie was wearing seemed very complicated. , a lot of ropes and straps, not easy to untie! How can we rest together if we don't untie them?
When he was worried, Natalie had already spoken: "Dear Wei Dao, of course I am willing to marry you, but..."
"But what?"
As soon as Zhuge Weidao heard "but", he knew that things were not that simple, and he quickly looked at Natalie and asked.
"But have you made any plans for the future?" Natalie wanted to ask again sadly.
"In the future?" Zhuge Weidao thought for a while, "I have canal stocks. We can find a place where no one knows and live in seclusion first, and then make plans."
"For the sake of Tao," Natalie shook her head, "I can't leave now... When I wanted to elope with you, I was still a grand duchess waiting to be married, and I could enter and leave the Winter Palace freely. And we There is still time to pack up my property and make arrangements for my future life. As long as Nikolai Pavlovich does not choose between the King of England and the Ming Emperor, I can also go back to my manor to recruit reliable serfs to act as followers and let them Prepare a carriage for escape. But now...I am already a candidate for the Empress of the Ming Dynasty!"
Natalie was still thoughtful. She used to be a Rakshasa Grand Duchess. She didn't want to stay in the city. She wanted to live in her own manor outside the city for a few days, and the tsar had no control over her! Rakshasa serfdom has not yet been abolished, so of course Natalie has serfs if she has a manor. Find a few reliable serfs, prepare a few sleighs and carriages, and find some excuse to sneak away with Zhuge Weidao.
But now that Natalie is a candidate for the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, of course she can't just go wherever she wants... That's the dignity of the Romanov dynasty!
"Natalie Pavlovna, did you just say candidates?" Zhuge Weidao really "forgot" everything, he didn't even know the rules for selecting concubines.
"Of course I am a candidate," Natalie Pavlovna said. "Whether I go to England or Ming Dynasty, I am only a candidate. I still need to undergo physical examination and training before I can become a queen or empress."
"Physical examination?"
Natalie Pavlovna's cheeks turned red, "Check whether I am fertile and whether... I am chaste!"
That's a given!
In order for Natalie Pavlovna to become a queen or empress, she must be able to have children...at least at first glance, and preferably more!
As for chastity, although the British royal family does not have strict requirements, it is still a plus. The Zhu Ming Dynasty will not accept a woman who has lost her virginity as a queen!
Zhuge Weidao finally understood why Zhuge Youde wanted Natalie to keep his body... It turned out that it was not for him, but for that Ming Hunjun!
This is obviously a traitor! No, the paper money won’t be burned!
At this time, Natalie suddenly said in a very soft voice: "If... I lose my virginity, will the Ming Dynasty royal family not want me?"
yes! Zhuge Weidao reached out and patted his forehead. He was so stupid. He didn't think of such a simple solution. What else could he do? Zhuge's reincarnation... He was just a big idiot!
"Yes," Zhuge Weidao became excited, looking at Natalie with stern eyes, like a big bad wolf, "Natalie Pavlovna, as long as you are not a virgin, the Ming Dynasty royal family will I won’t want you, and you will be mine when the time comes...How about we settle the matter tonight?"
"Not tonight..." Natalie saw Zhuge Weidao looking like he was about to pounce, so she quickly stopped, "Before I leave, the embassy will arrange for the wives of the embassy staff to come and check. If I am If I find out, then I won’t be able to go to Beijing, and I may be sent to the UK.”
"It's true!" Zhuge Weidao thought to himself: "She is going to England, then I will have to be the British Royal Concubine..."
"Then where should we be?" Zhuge Weidao asked.
Natalie thought for a while and said: "It's not convenient within the Rakshasa Kingdom. It can be done within the Golden Empire."
"Golden Empire?"
Zhuge Weidao was stunned again, he found something strange again.
"Yes," Natalie looked at the injury on Zhuge Weidao's head distressedly, "Have you forgotten all about the Golden Empire?"
Zhuge Weidao thought for a while and asked, "Are they the remnants of the Qing captives?"
Natalie finally breathed a sigh of relief, and a relieved smile appeared on her face: "That's great, dear, your memory has finally begun to recover!"
"Yes, he is starting to recover." Zhuge Weidao nodded. He didn't recover at all, and he still couldn't remember what the original Zhuge Weidao had experienced, but it was not difficult to associate it with the Qing Dynasty from the Jin Empire. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, when it was outside the customs, the country name "Jin" was used. It was only changed to "Qing" after Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne.
After they were kicked out by King Zhuge Wuzhong and other "Zhong" kings of the Ming Dynasty, it is possible that they picked up the country name "Jin" and used it again.
"Natalie Pavlovna," Zhuge Weidao asked again, "I still can't remember completely why I am in the Golden Empire..."
"For the sake of Tao," Natalie blushed and whispered, "Because the Jin Empire is located in Central Asia, bordering the Rakshasa Empire to the northwest and the Ming Dynasty's Ili Province to the east... This country is the Rakshasa Empire. The neutral country between the Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty is also a buffer country. According to the agreement between the three countries more than a hundred years ago, neither the Rakshasa soldiers nor the Ming Dynasty armies can enter the Jin Empire. Therefore, the Rakshasa soldiers and officials sent by the tsar to escort us, We will stay at the border of the Jin Empire, and the Ming army and officials who come to greet us will wait in Ili Province. And our security in the Jin Empire will be fully responsible for the officers and soldiers of the Jin Empire.
In addition, there are no railways in the Jin Empire. It may take us two or three months to cross the country. During this period, we can also stop and rest in the cities of the Jin Empire. During this period, it was very convenient for us to do anything...so I could use seasickness as an excuse and ask to go to Daming by land. "
"Okay, let's do it like this!" Zhuge Weidao nodded, "I just want to explore the Golden Empire and see what kind of virtue the Qing Dynasty is now in decline."
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"Ambassador Wei, we received a call from the Winter Palace. Attaché Zhuge has woken up and the Tsar's imperial doctor has examined him. He is not seriously injured."
In the Ming Dynasty Embassy on Zhuge Youde Street, Wei Yuanda, Huang Shuren and Guo Xiaobao, who had just returned and were preparing a contract for the construction and technology transfer of the Hongwu Emperor-class armored battleship, finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news that Zhuge Weidao was fine. ——Zhuge Weidao cannot have any shortcomings, because he still has to bear the blame for promoting the marriage alliance between Britain and Rakshasa.
"It's good that Daozi is fine." Wei Yuanda patted the contract text he was drafting on the table and said with a wry smile, "Speaking of which, he has completed both of the two tasks assigned by Shangfeng...except for the blow on the head. The gun didn't take much effort, he is really a genius! We still have to put in a lot of good words for him in the telegram to the boss."
"Yes, yes." Huang Shuren nodded repeatedly, "The great contribution this time belongs to him alone. We are just running errands and doing tricks. It's nothing."
Guo Xiaobao said helplessly: "We still have to make his injury more serious, so that Prime Minister Zhuge and Queen Mother Zheng may..."
I have to say that the official atmosphere of the new Ming Dynasty is still very good. Although everyone was a little jealous of Zhuge Weidao's "talent, handsomeness and power", no one took advantage of him at the critical moment. Trying to make Zhuge take the blame for Dao is not just adding insult to injury, because the blame belongs to him in the first place. Now that they don't take credit for Zhuge Weidao's work, and even help him pretend to be pitiful to gain sympathy, they may be able to receive less punishment.
"Baozhi, plant life," Wei Yuanda said to Guo Xiaobao and Huang Shuren again, "Let's quickly prepare the message... This time we have to tell the higher ups about the offshore checks and balances theory that Daozi and Nicholas I talked about. That makes sense."
"Ambassador, there are many subordinates."
"Ambassador, I understand."
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Because Wei Yuanda, Huang Shuren, and Guo Xiaobao all prepared "long telegrams," it was not until the early morning of the next day that the telegraph office in Petersburg took pictures of the telegrams. By the time this message was delivered to Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it was already noon the next day.
The first person to receive the secret message with the word "urgent" from Guo Xiaobao was, of course, Zhuge Weixue, the old man of the Zhuge family. When the old man opened the message sent by Zhuge Weixue, he almost lost his temper.
"This, this, eighty-eight, what happened to your brother? What, how did he take the initiative to promote the marriage between Britain and the Rakshasa Kingdom? Is his brain broken? Doesn't he know how to prevent the alliance between Britain and Rakshasa? Is this the national policy of our Ming Dynasty? He is good. In order to bring Natalie to the Ming Dynasty, he actually wanted to facilitate the marriage between Grand Duke Alexander and Princess Victoria...He, he wants to be the sinner of the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhuge Weixue also had an anxious look on his face, but he still held on to some illusions and said to Old Prime Minister Zhuge: "Second brother, this matter may not be successful...and the offshore plan proposed by the 108th brother Checks and balances are quite reasonable. Maybe even if Great Britain and Rakshasa form an alliance, they will have their own agendas and not pose much of a threat to our Ming Dynasty."
"Humph!" Zhuge Weijiu let out a cold sweat and glared at Zhuge Weixue, "Eighty-eight, you still speak for him... Now Great Britain has joined forces with the Netherlands, Spain, and Japan to form some sort of Nanyang and Oriental mutual protection. The Alliance is pressing hard on our Ming Dynasty, and they are constantly sending warships to cruise around Borneo, trying to cause trouble. If it weren’t for the good relationship your father forged with Rakshasa, which allowed Alexander I to mediate between them, the trouble in Borneo would have happened long ago. Just picked it up!"
"Second brother, actually we don't need to be afraid of them," Zhuge Weixue said, "Our Hongwu Emperor level is more powerful than the British Sovereign level!"
Zhuge Weijiu gave another cold look: "What's the use of having a powerful ship? Our navy hasn't fought in many years? Also, do you know who the current commander of the British Indian Fleet is?"
"Yes, it's Earl Nelson."
The Earl Nelson whom Zhuge taught was the same Horatio Nelson who died heroically in the Battle of Trafalgar. But this time, because the flagship he was riding was a steam armored ship, he survived the fierce naval battle and is still alive today.
Zhuge Weijiu sighed: "Even if the thirty-eighth uncle (Zhuge Youde) was alive, he would not dare to say that he could defeat Earl Nelson! What's more, among the naval generals, who can fight with Nelson? The hundred and eighth brother This is harming the country and the people!”
