There was a clang, and first a porcelain plate hit the ground and broke.
Then there was another mirror, and then some table, chair, or bench, which fell to the ground with a clatter.
Inside the small room, there was a lot of smoke and dust, and a helpless Zhuge Military Advisor was watching an angry Grand Duchess Natalie Pavlovna throwing things there.
This morning, Zhuge Weidao came to report to the Grand Duke that he had accepted Fairy Nalan as a maid. The Grand Duke, who had always seemed so obedient and obedient, suddenly exploded and did not argue with Zhuge Weidao. Just smashing things in anger.
This shocked Zhuge Weidao and he was at a loss. Of course he knew that it was very inappropriate to let Fairy Nalan be a maid. He is going to marry the Grand Duchess now! It's not that he wants to be a royal husband to the Grand Duchess. If he is to be a royal husband, he can even marry another wife and have children. But now Natalie is no longer a queen, but only Mrs. Zhuge! Therefore, Zhuge Weidao did not even think about accepting Fairy Nalan directly. He also thought about letting her be Natalie's maid first, and then decide the future development according to the situation...
But unexpectedly, Natalie Pavlovna saw through Zhuge Weidao's little thoughts and became angry at that time. And it’s scary when she loses her temper... It’s no wonder, she is the granddaughter of Emperor Catherine the Great! It's a very fierce "female bear"! Although she has more Germanic ancestry than the bear, the head of state's fellow countrymen are also very fierce and fierce.
Now I wonder if this fierce and fierce female fur bear will hit and bite people when she becomes fierce?
So looking at this furious female Grand Duke, Zhuge Weidao's heart was pounding. What would he do if this female furry bear came over? I, the dignified military advisor of Zhuge, will not be beaten by my wife, right?
Thinking of the possibility of being beaten, Zhuge Weidao became angry for some reason, and suddenly shouted: "That's enough, Natalie Pavlovna, what are you doing? I didn't say I wanted to take Na." Landili is my concubine!”
Zhuge Weidao's voice was very loud, which even startled him, and his angry look was also very fierce... He was handsome and fierce at the same time!
When Grand Duchess Natalie Pavlovna heard him shout like this, she immediately stood up and looked back at Zhuge Weidao's handsome and fierce appearance. She actually put away her "female bear" temper and put on He looked aggrieved, pitiful and endearing, and looked at his fiancé with tears in his eyes (the two of them could only be considered private for life): "My dear... you really won't let me. Will Nalandili be your concubine or mistress? She is really charming!"
Natalie is not blind, of course she can see Nalandili's peerless beauty... If she lets such a thing follow her and Zhuge Weidao, sooner or later he will be killed!
"I know she is beautiful," Zhuge Weidao nodded, "I also know that she is a craftsman sent to me by Emperor Daoguang... But for the benefit of the Ming Empire, I must let her follow us Around you!"
"For the benefit of the Ming Empire?" Natalie Pavlovna asked, "Can I know?"
"Of course!" Zhuge Weidao said, "I am planning a big plan with Emperor Daoguang to harass India and introduce Britain to Afghanistan!"
"What?" Natalie Pavlovna was startled, "You want to provoke the Kingdom of Jin to go to war with Britain? Is it possible?"
"Of course it's possible!" Zhuge Weidao looked confident, "If this plan succeeds, the British will definitely lose this war... As long as they dare to enter Afghanistan, they will definitely lose!"
Afghanistan, that is the graveyard of empires that specializes in tricking the boss. Historically, the British Empire, the Soviet Empire, and the American Empire were all tricked by the "slipper army". This time, as long as Emperor Daoguang can bring the tribal chiefs in Afghanistan to go to India to rob, the British Empire will definitely send troops - you can't really give a "year-old gift", right? The majestic British Empire was an empire that even Emperor Napoleon had to challenge, but it was beaten by a Central Asian "fortune-telling emperor" and ended up having to pay him money. Do you still want the face?
Zhuge Weidao thought for a while and then said to Natalie: "Dear Natalie Pavlovna, if my plan can succeed, it will not only be of great benefit to the Ming Dynasty, but also to the Rakshasa Empire."
Natalie was born into an imperial family, with the blood of Catherine the Great flowing through her veins. Since childhood, she has heard and witnessed national politics and the struggle between great powers for hegemony. Of course we know what the consequences will be if Britain, the seemingly invincible empire on which the sun never sets, is beaten up in Afghanistan by the Golden Empire, a backward country in Central Asia that seems a bit absurd.
"Okay," Natalie Pavlovna still knew that the overall situation was the most important thing. Although she didn't want Nalandili to follow her and Zhuge Weidao, she still smiled at Zhuge Weidao apologetically, "I'm sorry. , I shouldn’t have gotten so angry without asking clearly why... Let Fairy Nalan come to see me, I will get along well with her."
"Natalie, Pavlovna, let Fairy Nalan follow you from now on. I'm not interested in her," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Let's rest early today because we will be on the road again tomorrow. It will take about a month. Then we can arrive at Yining, the capital of Yili Province... When we arrive in Yining, we can board the train bound for Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and then we can enjoy the magnificent rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty while traveling!"
Speaking of the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, Zhuge Weidao's words were also full of expectations. Ever since he traveled through time, he has been collecting knowledge related to the New Ming Dynasty, and he has a fairly good understanding of this almost completely unfamiliar motherland.
But that kind of understanding is only heard, not seen!
In another month at most, Zhuge Weidao will be able to see with his own eyes the new industrialized Ming Dynasty of 1826! In another month and a half, he will arrive in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Empire, where he will meet the cowardly and capable military advisers of the Zhuge family. Although they are a little cowardly when facing the British, they are developing industrialization. In the process, he was quite capable.
The inheritance of science and technology left by King Zhuge Wuzhong is, at most, a bunch of formulas and some general directions - although it can save the time and cost of trial and error and hard exploration, but really we have to turn those things into To achieve real productivity, it still requires generations of Zhuge to work hard and contribute their genius and wisdom.
And what Zhuge Weidao wants to know most now is how many "black technologies" do those cowardly Zhuges have in their hands?
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Ming Dynasty, Beijing, Prince Wu's Mansion.
Several old men from the Zhuge family were gathering in a study room at this time. They each had two copies of the telegram and read it over and over again. There was silence in the study room, and only the sound of turning papers could be heard.
I don’t know how long the silence lasted, but Zhuge Weijiu, the current head of the Zhuge family, breathed out softly: "What on earth do these hundred and eighth brothers want to do? Why did they collude with Emperor Daoguang of the Jin Empire? And instigated him Emperor Daoguang went to touch the tiger’s butt of the British Empire... Is he trying to trick Daoguang to death?”
"Second brother, I think that boy is obsessed with sex... The Daoguang Emperor gave him Fairy Nalan, and that boy's soul was taken away. The night he arrived at Bagua City, he made love with that fairy On!"
"Second brother, I think this 108th brother is completely confused. First he pushed the Rakshasa Kingdom towards the British... and now he encouraged the Golden Empire to go south via Afghanistan to harass India. This What he did was too ridiculous. Did he think that the British Empire would not be able to deal with small Afghanistan? In fact, there is nothing wrong with the British army entering Afghanistan. He is just afraid that they will push deeper into Central Asia!"
"That's right, Central Asia is the center of the Eurasian continent. Once it falls into the hands of the British Empire and the railway is built, we will be in big trouble!"
The eighth, tenth, and thirteenth masters of the Zhuge family obviously didn't know that Afghanistan was the graveyard of the empire.
But Zhuge Weijiu, the head of the Zhuge family, frowned and pondered for a long time: "Old Eight, Old Ten, Old Thirteen... Do you think it is possible for the Afghans to defeat the British East India Company's expeditionary force? "
"Second brother, what you are talking about is..."
"Second brother, is this really happening?"
"Second brother, are you kidding me? Did the sunset of the British Empire begin in Afghanistan?"
Zhuge Weijiu stroked his beard and looked at his three cousins, and just smiled: "I can't say that...you should know the rules left by our ancestors. Everyone has his or her own secrets, and everyone has their own secrets." Don't leak it! You can't pry, either!" He paused and then said, "But I just don't understand, how come the one hundred and eighth brother..."
"Second brother, it can't be Uncle Thirty-Six..."
Zhuge Weijiu waved his hand: "It's absolutely impossible. Uncle Thirty-Six is a military advisor of the navy. It's impossible for him to know about Afghanistan, and I didn't tell him about it."
It turns out that the Zhuge family's military advisors are all responsible for their own affairs... After all, there are too many secrets, and it is not good for one person to know too much!
"Second brother, if it's not Uncle Thirty-Six, then it's just a blind cat that has killed a rat!"
"Old Thirteen," Zhuge Weijiu shook his head, "We as military advisers cannot believe that a blind cat will kill a mouse... There must be a reason why this one hundred and eighth brother can make such a suggestion. of."
"What's the reason? I think it's just a blind cat that kills a mouse... Second brother, you don't think that boy has any special talents, do you? For those things he did, expelling him from the house was polite. It’s over!”
"That's right, second brother, everyone knows that you and Uncle Thirty-Six have been playing together since childhood...but family rules are family rules, and they were passed down by King Wu Zhong!"
Zhuge Weijiu nodded and said unhappily: "I know the rules! But this matter cannot be dealt with rashly. The hundred and eighth brother has a wide circle of friends, and he was raised as a military advisor since he was a child. He doesn't know much about it. Master... what if we expel him and he goes to seek refuge with the Zheng family or the Li family?"
The tenth son of the Zhuge family, who served as the shipbuilding minister in the Navy Department, said righteously: "Then arrange a distant job for him and let him go to New Manchuria to take charge of the Arctic Ocean coastal defense and hang out with the Eskimos."
Zhuge Weijiu smiled and said: "My 108th brother loves liveliness so much, so he will be suffocated to death if he is sent to the Binghai Sea... Well, let me first let 88th go to Ili to feel his bottom. Then make your decision.”
