Chapter 179: The Wife
In the main hall of Yonghe Palace, red candles swaying, and the indoor waves flowing, magnificent.
In the bright yellow veil curtain, the figures were hazy, and the beautiful outlines of the three figures lying in the soft bed were lying together. Suddenly, a jade foot with extremely fair skin poked out from the yellow curtain, and the toes with purple grape juice were laced up desperately, as if they were enduring an unbearable weight, and as if they were enjoying the beauty of flying to the top of the clouds. Then, another moan that made people feel soft, and the pink legs and snow feet slowly lay weakly on the bank of the dragon bed...
Next to the red pillar outside the hall, Qin Wanjun blushed and her teeth bit her red lips, but the bone-eroded moans and panting in the hall still penetrated into her ears. She cursed this debauchery in her heart. Opposite, Caidie, another palace maid on duty in Wan, was always extremely calm, as if her ears were stuffed with cotton.
Nowadays, most palace maids in the palace are employees who receive wages and sign contracts. In the past, according to the rules, the palace maids of Wansui had to serve in the bedroom. Of course, the emperor did not need such service in most cases. Since last year, the palace maids of Wansui's class were changed to take turns to stay outside the hall. This is also related to the increasing proportion of employed workers among palace maids. The beautiful women of all ethnic groups in Mongolia and the Western Regions have also been changed to the employment system.
However, although they are hired workers, if they want to enter the palace, they will be checked layer by layer. The three generations of ancestors have been investigated. If they go further and become close to the emperor and concubines, or involve key places such as imperial kitchens, they will have to go through various tests and tests. Director Baozhu of the Inner Guard Department personally determines the candidates, and then the queen will make the final screening of the selected candidates.
Take Caidie as an example. She was seventeen years old this year and has been in the palace for a year. She was even a distant relative of the matchmaker's favorite general in Pingyuan's army. In this way, it took a year to investigate before she entered Wanshi. It can be seen that the internal guards are strict in checking.
Looking at Caidie, Qin Wanjun said it was a pity. Such a beautiful little girl was originally studying well and she graduated from high school. When she was about to continue studying, why did she enter the palace to serve this heartless and shameless monarch?
"Caidie..." Qin Wanjun couldn't help but want to ask her, but saw the little girl stretching her index finger and squeezing in front of her lips. Qin Wanjun shook her head and swallowed her words back to her stomach.
But he stood outside the door like a wooden man waiting to serve Ye Zhao, who was absurd and shameless inside. The resentment really surged into his mind. So what about the future? She really didn't know.
A few days ago, she met her father. After the election, her father was still appointed as the senior official of the Empire, Shaoqing of the Dali Academy, and the second-in-command figure in the imperial judicial circle.
Qin Shaoqing seemed to have no idea that her daughter had escaped secretly. Despite this, when she heard that she was surrendered to agree, she knew that her daughter had caused trouble in the palace. That dark face, Qin Wanjun had never seen her father as strict as she was so old.
Qin Wanjun sighed softly. The last time she escaped from the palace was a temporary aura. But now when she saw her father with gray hair, can she still be more courageous to keep going? Can she still be more courageous to mention the word divorce in front of Ye Zhao?
Qin Wanjun didn't know that the future seemed to be pitch black.
"It's time, let's take a nap and come to change shifts tomorrow at noon." Caidie saw two slender figures coming from afar, and pointed at Qin Wanjun's watch on her white wrist.
Qin Wanjun nodded slightly.
She had long been demoted from Chengqian Palace. She first lived in a laundry slum, but now she moved to Wanshi Banqing and Xiaozhu, living in the same room with Caidie. She was always in the same room. Qin Wanjun knew that Caidie might have been instructed to monitor her, but she didn't care. No matter how much she hated that man, she never wanted to kill him. Besides, how much she cursed him, Qin Wanjun knew in her heart that if this man died, the empire might be broken up immediately, and then she would become a sinner for the ages.
It was noon when I slept until dawn in Qinghe Garden. I washed up and used food. When I came to Yonghe Palace with Caidie again.
Ye Zhao was drinking porridge in the east. In the beautiful screen of the main hall, the blond and blue-eyed Concubine Ming and the sweet and delicate Concubine Jie had just finished bathing under the palace maids. They were laughing and changing clothes. They were like sisters. After this, their pretty faces seemed to have the charm of yesterday, and they were so delicate that they became more and more bright and charming. As a woman, Qin Wanjun couldn't help feeling strange when she saw the beautiful two beauties.
Sharapova changed into a white gauze skirt and crystal high heels, which made her look bright and white, and her teeth look long. Hua Ji wore a light red rose-in-rose court dress and a bright yellow ivory carved classical high heels. The little girl has long transformed into a concubine with a wide range of manners, but her charming and obedient style has not changed at all. The two women sat next to Ye Zhao and talked with Ye Zhao. In addition to the intimacy between the two of them, Ye Zhao's mood became brighter.
"Dear, is William going to return to China?" If you can call Ye Zhao "Dear", it is naturally Sharapova.
Ye Zhao put down the spoon, shook his head slightly, and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to leave for a while." After the three countries issued a joint statement asking Russia to ban multiple party groups, Russian national radicals must have been stabbed in a hornet's nest. It was very unsafe for William to return to Germany by land, because the railway from Central Asia to the Ottoman Turkish capital Istanbul is still halfway through the completion of the railway, and only the Northern Line Railway through Russia is available.
It will take at least three months to walk on the sea, so William would rather stay in Beijing and wait for the situation to be clear than drifting on the sea for half a year.
After thinking about it, Ye Zhao said, "Don't worry about their affairs."
"Oh." Sharaba has been so obedient for more than ten years.
"I will go to see the Turkish emperor's special envoy in a while, and I won't accompany you to the suburbs to drive in the afternoon."
Sharava and Hua Ji both nodded, and then heard Ye Zhao say, "Don't play too crazy. Why is Hua Ji so good? You must be teaching me!" Sharava and Hua Ji looked at each other and secretly stuck out their tongues.
Ye Zhao and Sharapova and Hua Ji have a meal. Next to him are Qin Wanjun, Caidie and Sharapova's personal palace maids. Ye Zhao and Hua Ji, Sharapova chatted about family matters. When Sharapova talked about the seventh princess, the fourth daughter of Sharapova, Princess Jiaping, who was born to the school, couldn't help but smile and said, "This old scholar is really confused. The vast world, who said there must be no life on other planets?" He said, "But you still have to respect your teacher and turn around. Punish Jiaping for me."
"Is there anyone living on the stars in the sky?" Qin Wanjun was relished and was so obsessed that she interrupted and asked. Then she suddenly woke up. Seeing Ye Zhao and Sharaba, Hua Ji looked over with her pretty face, her pretty face turned red, and she didn't know what to do.
Then Ye Zhao talked about family affairs with Sharaba and Hua Ji. It seemed that she was not the same person. Only Hua Ji said, "Have you ever read the story written by the emperor to us?" It was obvious that Ye Zhao did not answer this, and Hua Ji did not dare to talk to Qin Wanjun again.
Qin Wanjun was extremely embarrassed and secretly hated herself what was wrong? She gave him the chance to humiliate herself for no reason.
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In the Yangxin Palace, Ye Zhao did not expect that the translation sent by the Imperial Study room was replaced by Rong'er to Qin Wanjun. It seems that although Rong'er insisted on punishing Qin Wanjun, she actually hoped that she could get her own favor and the painstaking efforts to control rewards and punishments. It was really not easy to be the leader of the six palaces. But she said she didn't know that Qin Wanjun also practiced the Turkic language department when she was studying.
The Ottoman Turkish envoy Aziz Pasha is the wife of Turkish Emperor Abdul Hamid II, and he is the governor of the Danube Province. His status is extremely respectable. This time he came on behalf of the Turkish emperor, and he was received by Ye Zhao.
The current Turkish Emperor Abdul Hamid II ascended the throne six years ago. He was regarded as a tyrant by European society. He cruelly suppressed the demands of all ethnic groups and relied on secret police to maintain his dictatorship. Of course, the huge Ottoman Empire ruled too many aliens. In addition, the Pasha system, which has always maintained the weak rule of the central government, will inevitably fall apart. This is the general trend of history. Abdul Hamid II only happened to this storm. Although Turkey entered the darkest period in order to maintain his rule, if it were other kings, they would not simply think that he was a mediocre tyrant.
Under the treasure troop, Aziz Pasha, wearing an Arab robe, knelt down on one knee, stroked his chest with his hands, and said with a restrained voice: "His Majesty the Emperor, the master of Chinese land, Luzon, Pontianak, Yachi, Guinea, Maputo, Moroni and the East India Islands, the rulers of the Pacific Islands, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Kingdom of Vientiane, Myanmar, the Emperor of Gurkha, the Bukhara Khan, the asylum of the Shiva Khanate, Tian Khan, and the servants from the Holy City to say hello to you."
Standing beside Ye Zhaolong's case, Qin Wanjun's translation was actually a sentence of translation. In fact, he saw the envoy of another great empire coming from thousands of miles below the steps and knelt down on the ground to meet him. He couldn't help but make Qin Wanjun's heart ripples. The series of long titles on the heads of the men beside him, each title was part of the legendary story of this man. He led the cavalry of the empire to cast in blood and fire, and fought in the east and west with the power of three thousand armored soldiers. To this day, he is famous thousands of miles away. All the countries of Europe are worried. The so-called driving over the Xiongnu and looking at the left to the Xianbei. Isn't the envoy of the Turkic Empire spanning the Eurasian continent today? No matter how Qin Wanjun thinks that Ye Zhao is too much, he can't help but feel awesome in his heart at this moment.
"Aziz Pasha asked for help. Thank you for your hard work from afar, and I will give you a seat." After Ye Zhao said that, Qin Wanjun raised his voice. The walls inside the hall were specially designed, so the sounds in the hall could be sent from afar without much effort.
Hearing the woman's crisp voice, Azizpasha looked at the beautiful woman in red dress beside the Chinese emperor in surprise, and then hurriedly thanked her for sitting down.
"I have read the letter written by Sultan Hamid to me. Although the civilizations of you and me are different, they were both invaded by Western civilization in the past. I feel sorry for Sultan Hamid's situation."
Ye Zhao was kind, but he did not agree with the letters from the Turkish emperor. In the letters from the Turkish emperor, Sultan Hamid said that the Ottoman Empire would send troops to the Balkans to punish the Balkan alliances gradually formed by the various ethnic groups in Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro.
The Balkans have always been the target of European powers, and Russia has been competing for spheres of influence in the Balkans under the banner of "liberation of the Slavs". In fact, in recent years, the Ottoman Empire's nominal rule over the Balkans has long been at the end of its strength. Even during the Sino-Russian War, the Turks' military operations that intended to restore actual control over the Balkans did not work. During the period, Romania and Bulgaria were even established one after another.
Since Sultan Hamid ascended the throne, the eldest empire has been worried about domestic and foreign troubles. He has always hoped to find a breakthrough to revitalize the empire's prestige and consolidate his authority. Obviously, he believes that this goal can be achieved while Russia is too busy to take care of itself.
However, before sending troops, we naturally need to gain the understanding and support of the Chinese, so that the Russians or the Austro-Hungarian Empire can be curbed from participating in this war.
Ye Zhao was quite ridiculous when he saw the letter from the Turkish Sultan. Not long ago, the Turkish Youth Revolutionary Party had just launched a coup. Although the Joint Progressive Committee, which subsequently controlled the situation, was still a royalist, Mihad should consider domestic political reforms to alleviate oppression on foreign nations, rather than relying on external wars to divert domestic conflicts.
I heard that the young Turkish Revolutionary Party was equally radical, believing that the instability of the empire was the treason of foreign races within the country, especially the Armenians, which was the root of the national crisis. Some young Turkish Revolutionaries clamored that "to resolve the Armenian issue once and for all, we must eliminate the Armenian race from the top." The turmoil caused by domestic racial conflicts is no longer a small problem.
At this time, Mihad wanted to send troops to the Balkans, which made Ye Zhao feel that it was too much to put the cart before the horse.
Of course, Ye Zhao knew better than anyone else about the world. The collapse of the Turkish Empire was almost an inevitable result. This has no necessary connection with which side he stood on in the world war. Even if he stood in the right team, he would have survived for a few years. This empire was already difficult to maintain its huge multi-ethnic territory. However, from the perspective of Mihad Sultan, the war with the Balkans was a war between Islam and Orthodox countries such as Bulgaria and Serbia, and a religious war to maintain the state religion. The sacredness and justice are unquestionable.
“I believe that the faith and territory of the people of the Balkans should be given the right to choose freely.”
Ye Zhao's words made Aziz Pasha look like a mortal face. He knew that if the words of the Chinese emperor were spread to the Balkans and to the ears of Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians and Montenegros, they would be excited and excited, almost certainly encouraging these nations to declare one by one.
Qin Wanjun also noticed that after she translated Ye Zhao's words, Aziz Pasha suddenly looked desperate and felt even more moved. Although she was just passing the message, she was experiencing the weight of every sentence of this man, and experiencing the extremely magical taste.
"Of course, I understand the position of Mihad Sultan, so I think there is still a timetable to peacefully resolve disputes in the Balkan region, and at the same time, I hope to maintain the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire on the basis of reconciliation between the parties."
In international affairs, Ye Zhao had hoped that the empire would clearly express various positions in foreign affairs, rather than diplomatic rhetoric of Eastern wisdom. Only in this way can the empire's will and interests be clearly demonstrated, and at the same time, the possibility of military conflicts caused by misunderstandings is exempted. Of course, this clear statement is based on the absolute power that the empire has.
Hearing Ye Zhao's words, Aziz Pasha felt a little calm, but the Chinese emperor's attitude of not supporting the Sultan's troops to send troops to the Balkans was very clear, which made Aziz Pasha deeply frustrated.
"His Majesty the Emperor, China is indeed a brilliant man. I didn't expect a beautiful lady to become a translator, and her accent is purer than my accent." Aziz was speechless. He was sorting out his chaotic thoughts and thinking about how to complete this task.
Qin Wanjun was embarrassed to translate this sentence, so as not to Ye Zhao thought she had put a gold on her face again. At Ye Zhao's instructions, the second translation was quickly translated, and even added fuel to the fire and used some exaggerated words. He only knew that Qin Wanjun was the imperial concubine, but he didn't know the various inside stories, so he was naturally a flattery.
After hearing the translation, Ye Zhao smiled and said to Aziz: "Maybe you don't know that she is my wife."
Aziz was stunned. He heard that it was like a Chinese, and it was impolite to praise others' wives in person. But who would have thought that the concubine of the Chinese emperor not only showed up in public, but also spoke fluent foreign languages?
He hurriedly stood up and stroked his chest and bowed, saying, "This, Your Majesty the Emperor, please forgive my servants for their unreasonableness." He bowed to Qin Wanjun again: "Please forgive my abruptness."
Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Those who do not know will not be guilty. Come and taste the fruits of my Middle Earth."
Qin Wanjun heard Ye Zhao tell the Turkic envoy that he was his wife, and he was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know whether it was bitter or sweet in his heart.
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