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Chapter 102: Duke Wu Yi(1/2)

The day before the Lantern Festival, the Southeastern countries returned home and gathered the group and the emperor returned to the country and the various vassal states returned to the city in Beijing and signed 18 treaties, exclusive treaties, promulgation statements, rules and other documents, such as the "Pan-China Return to China Sea Country Return to China on the Retrieval of the Trafficking of Slaves and the Abolition of Slaves and Residents", "Rules on the Ranking of Diplomas", "Protocol to Use Chinese Return to China Silver Dollars to Settlement Debts", "Treaty for Extradition of Suspicious Countries in Various Countries, etc.

European newspapers that have been paying attention to this meeting generally believe that this marks the complete entry of the Asian political and economic order into the era of China-dominant return. For the first time in thousands of years, this huge emperor's return to China has truly radiated his influence back to all aspects of the Asian political and economic system.

Because Europe has the Vienna system dominated by the British, European newspapers generally call the series of treaties signed at this meeting the Beijing System or the establishment of the China System.

The Burmese king returned to Mindong and returned to the city to get a lot of money. He signed a large contract to buy Wuhui weapons and was officially enthroned by the imperial family, which gave his kingship a legitimate status. At the same time, the education exchange agreement signed would lead to 100 Burmese residing students every year, and officials would enter Yunnan Normal School to study Chinese and scientific knowledge.

Of course, Mindong had to agree with the various guarantees of sending official officials to serve as consultants to supervise their reforms and implementing the right of public and civilians, and abolishing the slave system.

China-Myanmar Border Zhang established several self-return trade zones, and China-Myanmar merchants traded self-return trade.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Ye Zhao prayed for a bumper harvest at the Gu Jue Altar.

On the first day of the Lantern Festival, Ye Zhao led all civil and military officials to worship the god of agriculture at the farm altar, and cultivated the fields in one acre of three parts.

Because of the old custom of not being allowed to shave your head in the first month, February is the busiest day for the barber shop in Beijing to return to the city.

The barber shaving industry emerged five years ago. It was first in the south. Nowadays, barber shops in big northern cities also sprouted like mushrooms after a rain. Soon, barber shops were divided into different levels such as high-end stores, intermediate stores, lower-level stores and street stalls to meet the needs of different customers.

The "Yixin" barber shop not far from the Equal Life Building is one of the highest-end barber shops in the new city of Beijing Huicheng. The glass doors and windows are always clean and clear. In front of the door is the barber shop logo, which is rotating red, blue and white twill cylinders. Usually, only luxury barber shops can spend a lot of money to customize such fashionable and eye-catching logos.

The "Yixin" barber shop has both the veteran barber "Qiaodao Liu" sitting in the array, and the new female master Chen Mei, who is good at pinching his hair and mastering the temperature. The corrugated hairstyles of the clamps are revealed. They are called "Red Card Lao Wan". The barber shop has introduced the latest perm machine of Di Huiguo. The hair is curled on the thread of a stick and applied with alkaline paste, and then placed in a hot-air iron pipe with a plier-like handle, and heated with an electric current until the hot air is fumigating the hair.

The "Xinxin" barber shop is now preparing to make it a special girl's shop, and the male masters will be transferred to the newly opened men's shop not far away.

Inadequate consideration, the shopkeeper of the barber shop did not expect that women would make money better. In the early stages of opening, they basically couldn't see women getting their hair. But gradually, especially in recent months, new women have learned to perm the hair of the imperial concubine. Once a perm is enough to match several "man's heads", which opened the eyes of the barber shopkeeper and was determined to regard female customers as the first.

Therefore, although there are screens separated by men and women's hairdressing departments, the shopkeeper still finds it inconvenient. Some noble Hui girls came once and were reluctant to come for the second time, so they suggested to the boss that they would open a branch, and the old shop only does the business of female customers, and the boss also agreed very much.

Chen Mei, a good hair clamping technique, naturally became the money tree for her boss and shopkeeper.

"Quick Knife Liu" Master Liu saw a little girl stealing the limelight, and although he was angry, he was helpless.

I will go to Xindian tomorrow. Master Liu cursed Chen Mei, but his hands were not vague. He quickly packed up the heads. This was his battlefield.

In the evening, a group of uninvited guests suddenly came to the store, two young men in brocade robes, followed by seven or eight young men in black clothes.

When shaving the young man's head, the young men's eyes looked like something, as if they were afraid that he would push the young man's head would be shaved, and he would not allow him to use scissors. He had to use a fader, but only a shaver.

When he turned around to touch the young man's head, the young men's faces turned pale, as if they had the hatred of killing their father and taking their wife, which really scared Master Liu.

It was not until the young man frowned that the young men dared not look at him so fiercely.

Needless to say, it was Ye Zhao who shaved his head straight. He shaved his head in the Forbidden Palace. The careful barber master suffered. Looking at the barber master, who looked cautious, Ye Zhao, was even more suffering. He did not feel the pleasure of shave his head in later generations. Therefore, he didn't know when, but Ye Zhao got used to shave his head outside.

At this time, enjoying the comfort of "Qiaodao Liu" turning back his head unscrupulously. Looking at the handsome man whose hair gradually fell in the bright glass mirror, Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Master Liu, I invented the hair of this kind of headshaving you used." He also said, "There are also the perm machine and perming needle next door, which was also inspired by me."

Master Liu laughed and said, "It turns out that I am still our old master." He disagreed and thought that Ye Zhao bragged. And if it was really what this young man said was his contribution to the perm machine, wouldn't he lose his job?

Who knew that the young man could see his thoughts and smiled and said, "I didn't ruin your job. There are too many female customers and life is sophisticated, so there will naturally be more male customers. His family's servants have to ask him to repair his hair and shave his hair well. Do you understand this?"

Master Liu didn't understand what the young man said, but he was shocked. This guy is a human or a ghost. How could he know what I was thinking?

Ye Zhao stretched out his hand, and the guards next to him handed over a newspaper. On the fourth international page, there was news that Hosokawa Shaobang had returned to China.

Ye Zhao rolled his eyes a few times and suddenly said, "Mu Ren, Hosokawa Shaobang originally wanted to see you." He didn't look back, but Master Liu knew that he must have said to the young man on the sofa against the wall.

From the mirror, Ye Zhao could clearly see Muren's subtle expression, but Muren had no expression and suddenly coughed, and the more he coughed, he became more and more severe. A guard hurriedly went up to knock on his back.

Master Liu sighed and said, "Master, it's not a good thing that your brother is good."

Ye Zhao was stunned when he heard this. You must know that the Japanese Meiji Emperor was just in his early twenties and was nearly twenty years apart from him, but there was crow's feet in the corner of Mutsuhito's eyes, and he really looked a little older than him.

Before returning to the country, Hosokawa Shaobang proposed to see Prince Mushihito, but was rejected by the clan's family for Mushihito's rest and did not want to meet guests, and he did not want to get involved again.

Perhaps the battle between the major names of the Guihui clan has exhausted Hosokawa Shaobang, which made him regretted the short-sightedness and lost the status of the Great Huiyi.

Ye Zhao did not say anything, and opened the newspaper again. At this time, a guard hurried in and whispered a few words in Ye Zhao's ear. Ye Zhao nodded slightly and said to Master Liu: "Hurry up, I need to do something here." He also said to Muren: "I'll have a good rest after I go back."

The guards sent Muren back to the house, and Ye Zhao also left the barber shop a few minutes later.

In Wenhua Hall, Zhou Jingshan was waiting. Ye Zhao entered the hall and received a letter of writing from the Ministry of Internal Affairs hurriedly. He entered the magnificent hall and sat on the throne. Ye Zhao opened it and looked at it a few times. Two pieces of information were a survey of Zou Kaizhi. Ye Zhao did not like to use the special survey of the ministers to investigate, but it was inevitable in the early days of his return to China.

The second piece of information was that a sailor from an American merchant ship had a clash with the locals in Cebu and was surrounded by local natives. When he saw the American merchant ship, Ye Zhao was slightly stunned. Seeing the name of the merchant ship, he frowned.

Seeing that Ye Zhao finally turned his inquiring eyes to him, Zhou Jingshan smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, the Councillor submitted a petition to question Zou Kaizhi."

The matter between Zou Kaizhi and Xue Dai was added to the newspapers in the concession. Although he adopted the title of "a certain ministry", the description between the lines was that as long as he was a person in the bureau, he could not help but understand that it was the minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emperor.

Ye Zhao said: "What do you think?"

Zhou Jingshan sighed and said, "If the newspapers in the concession are making such a fuss, there must be an explanation. It's better if Zou Kaizhi goes there. It's just that the newspapers run by foreigners often cause trouble, but they're too bold."

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "As long as it is not illegal, there is nothing bold or not. If I ask me to tell you, our newspapers should be learned from others."

Zhou Jingshan nodded silently.

Ye Zhao knew that he did not agree with him very much, but this debate on the Scriptures would probably touch him a lot. This central government, known for its rigor, should know that even if you give you hundreds of legendary "Baolong Map", it is just a temporary speed. The root cause is to restore the system, supervise the supervision, and the transparency of information.

"Zou Kaizhi, look at him. The officials of the ministry have the right to return the interests of not accepting questions. Isn't it clear in the bill of the Council just passed?"

Zhou Jingshan nodded slightly, but everyone knew the situation at the moment. The senior officials who were thrown into the forefront and did not accept questioning would be covered with a shadow in their careers.

Before Zhou Jingshan said goodbye, Ye Zhao called him and said, "Send a message to Manila to ask, and there is a friend of mine who was detained in Cebu." After thinking about it, he said, "Forget it, I'll ask the Zongren Mansion to send a reward, it's not a big deal."

Zhou Jingshan bowed and thought, but a thought flashed through his mind quickly. The emperor's tone was plain, but the identity of the emperor who could be called a friend must be extraordinary.

Cebu is the earliest city developed in Luzon, the second largest port after Manila. It is known as the "Queen of the South". It was first discovered by the Portuguese navigator Magellan more than 300 years ago.

Youwu, Manila and other Luzon are called "Philippines" by the Spanish, and obtained the name of King Philip II of Spain.

Cebu St. Petersburg was built by the first Spanish governor to the Philippines in the east, and was repeatedly repaired and expanded. It is the most eye-catching and magnificent symbol of Cebu Port.

However, St. Petersburg has been accepted by Chinese people today, and the Spaniards withdrew their military power in Luzon. However, according to the agreement, the Spaniards who traded in Luzon obtained the same status and rights of Chinese businessmen, including tax exemptions, criminal governor-general referees and other special returns. Moreover, according to the agreement, Spanish merchants were protected by Chinese military return troops, which was safer than before.

But Americans have no such luck. The "Stephenson" came from San Francisco. At this time, the United States was experiencing the largest economic crisis in history. Last year, the United States' steel production fell by 1m, oil production decreased by 1m, and shipbuilding volume decreased by 1m, and the stock price of the entire industry fell by 1m. Among them, the price of railway stocks fell. More than 40,000 companies went bankrupt, with a total debt of USD 1. Moreover, this economic crisis is spreading to Europe. This is also the first global economic crisis that has emerged from the United States.

This economic crisis is the disillusionment of self-return capitalism, the beginning of monopoly capitalism, and the large capital families in the usual sense have all begun to emerge from this crisis.

In the United States, Shenghexing has begun its journey to repurchase stocks of steel and railway companies at ultra-low rebates.

As for this world economy, China's return to China is transcendent. The internal market supply and demand created by its huge population, territory and resources has enabled China to return to China to be independent of the European economic and trade system. Compared with the economic panic in the Western world, China's return to China is in a period of steady growth.

However, Ronglu obviously didn't know about this kind of major event in the country's return home.

Ronglu was a member of the Zhengbai Banner of Manhuizhou. He was good at engaging in the camp, but unfortunately he was not lucky. When the previous dynasty was destroyed, he was just a small official. Then he quickly threw himself into the arms of the new dynasty. He listened carefully to every sound made by the royal family. He even wrote a legal training class at the Beijing Huicheng University.

These efforts also paid off. Last year, the Governor of Nanyang was abolished and he was appointed as the Governor of Luzon. He heard that his views on the trade in Nanyang were praised by the emperor.

At this time, he was hurried into the iron gate of St. Petersburg. He ignored the thick lawn like green shades and the scenery outlined by the unique tropical trees in the South China Sea, and his face was gloomy.

On the steps, he hurriedly ran down to welcome the emperor's return to the country to Cebu and trade service, Chen Guiqing, who was in his thirties, with a gloomy eyes and a confidant of Ronglu.

The Cebu Trade Department is actually a local military and political management agency. The uncivilized indigenous chiefs of the Cebu islands need to pay tribute, and the educated Luzons need to pay taxes normally.

In Cebu, there was a 500-man Korean infantry corps stationed in the North Korean War, led by Shen Guiqing. The military discipline was not very good. It was incomparable to the Chinese troops in Manila. The locals in Luzon called them "Koryo's chalk sticks" behind their backs.

When Ronglu saw Chen Guiqing, he asked with a sinister face: "Here is someone?"

Seeing Ronglu's face was not good, Chen Guiqing's mind was exposed to a cool breeze. He knew the counselor's methods and said carefully: "Yes, a total of four people were imprisoned and imprisoned here, the owner, the captain, and an American female doctor and her servant."

Ronglu suddenly stopped, looked at Chen Guiqing gloomyly, and asked word by word: "Have you ever been to the female doctor without a temple?" The worst result was that day. The female doctor Ronglu didn't know who he was, but he heard that it was a telegram from the clan mansion, and a trace of arsenic leak was only a matter of fear that he would lose his head ten times.

Chen Guiqing said anxiously: "Sir, the young man has never touched her half finger, and the villain takes the head on his neck to guarantee it."

Ronglu sneered: "Your head?"

Chen Guiqing hurriedly said, "Sir, this little horse is really delicious..." Seeing Ronglu's gloomy gaze, he was so scared that he hurriedly shrank back in the second half of the sentence, "Okay, but her maid is amazing. The waist tag she took out was a big inner guard. Although it was mostly a fool, the young man dared not act rashly. Isn't he just thinking about finding out her origin..."

Ronglu stared at him for a while, and Chen Guiqing felt so angry that Ronglu led the leader and quickly walked into the castle.

Chen Guiqing was up and down, and led the way forward. He came to the second floor where the Western beauty and maid were softly banned. He knocked on the door lightly because he didn't knock on the door, but he was scolded by the maid. He had learned to be sophisticated this morning, let alone Ronglu's expression, he knew that this female doctor was indeed quite good.

Seeing Chen Guiqing's careful movements, Ronglu finally let go of his heart, just as long as he didn't rudely.

"Come in." A crisp sound.

Chen Guiqing hurriedly pushed open the door and made a gesture of invitation. The crisp voice in the room was still saying: "We are just passengers on the boat and there is no illegal trade. Do you know whether you can check it out? If you keep it closed, I'm afraid you will be in trouble."

Ronglu entered the room and saw clearly. The person who spoke was a pretty girl standing in front of the window dressed in a green satin dress and pants.

On the Western sofa, who was reading the newspaper was a beautiful and sexy blonde woman with a beautiful and sexy blonde hair. Her deep blue eyes had seductive magic. Her snow-white shirt exposed her charming neck and silver necklace. Her blue jeans were tightly wrapped and she folded her long and beautiful legs. Her black short-heeled leather boots looked extremely refreshing. She was extremely simple in dressing, but she exuded an unspeakable charm.

Ronglu walked a few steps quickly, smiled back on his face, and asked respectfully: "Is it Dr. Christina from St. Joe Joehan Hospital in New York?"

The beautiful blonde woman stood up and asked, "Is Mr. Wen asking you to pick me up?" Chinese was extremely fluent. It was Christina who refused to stay in the hospital after obtaining her doctorate degree and came to China to find her lover.

Ronglu didn't know who Mr. Wen was, so he smiled and said with apologies: "I am Ronglu, the Counselor of the Governor's Office of Luzon. In short, I would like to express my sincerest apology to you for this misunderstanding. I will personally escort you back to Beijing tomorrow."

Christina Oh, one reed.

The female guard Xiaotao asked, "What about Mr. Michelle?" Michelle is the owner of the Stephenson, an American businessman. She met Christina in New York and is considered a friend of Christina.

Although Christina cares about the safety of her friends, she has just returned to China and she doesn't want to cause trouble for Ye Zhao, and will not make any requests to these officials. She will wait until she returns to the city to see Ye Zhao.

Xiao Tao, who is familiar with her nature, wants to speak up for justice. However, she knows the behavior of these overseas palace officials, and the overseas supervision is weaker than that of domestic supervision. When they meet those palace officials who are not good, Michelle doesn't know what to suffer in a few days.

Rong Lu said with some difficulty: "The Stephenson is loaded with eagle films, and Cebu does not allow American merchants to go through business..."

Xiao Tao said with a tactful look: "Are those crows wrapped by the captain privately? If the ship mainly smuggled opium, it wouldn't be that small, right? It's not enough to get stuck in the gaps."

In fact, when Rong Lu saw the number of opium found, he knew that this was not a raven ship. Nowadays, there were fewer and fewer raven ships. Emperor Hui was planning to negotiate with the British and banned the raven transactions around the world. He was a serious businessman, who would smuggle the opium at the forefront of this storm?

Ronglu was about to speak, but Christina had already interrupted Xiaotao's machine and asked a question with some restraint, saying to Ronglu: "Mr. Counselor, we will abide by the laws of your country. Just ask Mr. Counselor to find out this matter."
To be continued...
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