Suzhou Humble Administrator's Garden.

Next to the bamboo shadow stone table in the study courtyard, Ye Zhao was looking through the clippings of Taihexing's overseas business, including the railway construction rights issue that Wei Dingyi was negotiating with the Tehran regime.

However, what Ye Zhao was most concerned about was the construction of the Maputo port in Africa.

Nowadays, the Port of Maputo and its nearby land have been declared overseas autonomous territory by the empire. At the end of last year, Governor Maputo was appointed Mingde, the first Governor Maputo was Mingde, who was killed in a bloody battle at that time. The clan mansion has always taken good care of his mother. Mingde is 28 years old this year, graduated from the Jinling Zhengyuan, and has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is quite capable.

Nowadays, European countries have turned their attention to Africa. In northern Africa, Algeria has become a French colony and has also targeted Tunisia. At the same time, France supports Britain's invasion of Cyprus in exchange for Britain's understanding of France's interests in Tunisia. In order to divert France's attention in Europe, Germany has also begun to support France's actions in Tunisia, while Italy has been isolated.

Morocco is traditionally considered its own sphere of influence because it is across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean from Spain in the north. Morocco Sultan Mulle Hassan is now promoting political reforms and building a new type of naval and army to prevent the country from becoming a colony of European countries. However, domestic aristocrats strongly opposed it and the regime was in turmoil.

In sub-Saharan Africa, Britain occupied the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Nigeria's coastal areas and South African colonial territories. France occupied the coastal areas of Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Dahome. Portugal has Angola, Mozambique, and Spain has the Spanish Sahara.

In West Africa, Britain stepped up its invasion of the Gold Coast and Nigeria, but there were already powerful Ashanti countries in the mainland of the Gold Coast. Before the 1970s, Britain launched six wars to conquer Ashanti, and all of them were defeated.

In East Africa, the United Kingdom had already signed a treaty with the Sudan in Zanzibar, enjoying privileges, and regarding the East African coast as the British sphere of influence. Germany is also actively engaged in activities in East Africa and is organizing a German East African company with the goal of a large tract of land from the Ruwuma River to the Vimba River.

In Central and Southern Africa, the great powers were fighting the most fiercely. Germany, Britain, China, Belgium, France and Portugal all fought in this area, among which the British-German contradiction was the most prominent. In order to prevent the Germans from advancing eastward and approaching the Boers, the UK had just announced that Beginner was its protector.

Under such a chaotic situation, King Leopold II of Belgium began to plan an international geographical conference, intending to establish the "International African Association" and establish branches in the participating countries. The purpose is to open up Africa, the "only region on earth where civilization has not yet entered." In fact, this will be a negotiation of interests for countries to colonize Africa and coordinate the sphere of influence of countries in Africa.

China has not received an invitation yet. Ye Zhao watched coldly.

How to deal with the Boers? How to put gold and diamonds from the Transvaal region under the Boers control into the empire is really a difficult test.

With the sound of footsteps, a thin figure of red silk appeared at the gate of the moon cave.

Ye Zhao smiled and stood up and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhu Sisi went to Tongshan County, Xuzhou Prefecture a few days ago to inspect the election of the political envoy. The locations were randomly selected to prevent the people below from doing their storefronts.

Zhu Sisi shook her head. There was an armed fight in Tongshan County because of the vote. Although the clans on both sides did not know that the imperial concubine had come to the county, they knew that the emperor was in Suzhou. In this way, large-scale armed fights occurred among the villagers, which shows how strong the villagers' concept of relatives is.

This is also because these villages have many conflicts in water sources and have many years of disputes over water use. There are almost always armed struggles every year. When it comes to major events such as electing political envoys, the patriarchs of both sides are even more pointed at the wheat, which is a bit of a life-and-death voice, and they are afraid that the other party will not give their village members a good result after they are elected as members of the parliament.

Seeing Zhu Sisi's expression, Ye Zhao knew that the result was not satisfactory, so he nodded slightly and said, "I expected it, right? Don't be unhappy. Don't you like Huangmei Opera? As you invite a troupe to sing a few paragraphs." As he said, he spoke to Nunu, the female guard who was following Zhu Sisi, and said, "Go and tell Bai Laoheng and tell him a troupe."

The female guard is called Baozhu, who is the youngest sister of the former deputy general manager of Ouchi and the female guard Chang Mingzhu of the inner court. Mingzhu is now married and sent to the railway patrol system. Baozhu was transferred to the female guard office of the inner court at the end of last year. She was just seventeen years old, with a starry-eyed and handsome face, and was very heroic. Because of Mingzhu, Ye Zhao and the imperial concubines also trusted her very much.

Baozhu is different from Mingzhu. It does not have much of the national martial arts and cold weapons. It is still good to capture, but its strength cannot be compared with the male guards. However, it reacts quickly and has extremely good marksmanship.

Baozhu is a new generation of banner girls. He has been smart and innocent since childhood. When his parents said that she would definitely be attracted by the emperor when she entered the palace for talent show. However, the current palace talent show system has changed a lot. Baozhu has entered the armed police system and was promoted to the inner guard office by exception.

Following Ye Zhao's instructions, Baozhu bowed and left. Although she was young, she entered the inner guard office and received extremely cruel training, including killing, which was a stage that must be experienced. Being able to serve the emperor is a great honor for the entire family.

Zhu Sisi said with some concern: "There won't be an assassin, right?" Thinking about the past, the pervert had no danger when he was having sex with him every day, which was really a cold sweat.

Ye Zhao shook his head slightly, picked up a letter of writing on the stone table, and said, "There have been many suspects in the past few days." If the Suzhou City Fair Party can still organize assassination today, then wouldn't the entire internal affairs system and the national security system of the empire be useless?

Ye Zhao smiled again and said, "There is another happy thing. Guo Ziqiang is here. I will be here this morning. You sisters will be together later."

Zhu Sisi smiled sweetly and didn't say anything, but sat beside Ye Zhao. She knew that her husband was polite to her. She probably knew that she missed her old friends for a long time, but after all, in the capital, the rules were strict in the palace, and it was not very convenient to make old friends. She became much more relaxed when she was parading the place.

The Sour Xiang Pavilion is located in the East Garden, facing the water across the mountains, and the interior is spacious and bright. The boxwood carvings on the long window skirt board are exquisitely carved, rich in layers, and lifelike. The floor-to-ceiling long windows and exquisite skirt board wood carvings make the Sour Xiang Pavilion simple and elegant, and unique.

Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi met Guo Ziqiang here.

Guo Ziqiang didn't live well a few years ago. He quickly divorced after getting married. Until a few years ago, he fell in love with an elementary school teacher and quickly got married. His new husband was like-minded and treated her very well.

When Guo Ziqiang saw Ye Zhao and Zhu Sisi this time, the feeling in his heart was hard to express. Although he had met the Regent in his early years, he had known that the pervert Zhu Sisi hated back then was the Regent and the current imperial emperor, but in recent years, seeing the empire changing with each passing day, the emperor's reputation was at its peak. Even in her circle of friends, even if the person who was most radical in thinking and eager to implement a constitutional monarchy, he would not say a bad word from the emperor. It was not that he did not dare, but that he truly supported the emperor.

The pervert is the great emperor, while Zhu Sisi became the concubine. He often saw his former friend, the style of the mother of the country, in the newspaper. While cheering for Zhu Sisi, he felt that his friend was gradually drifting away from him and had gradually lived in two worlds.

However, at this time, Zhu Sisi was holding hands intimately and sat on the imperial concubine's sofa. When talking about the incident at the women's meeting, the two seemed to have returned to the past. Just looking at Zhu Sisi's increasingly delicate and beautiful face, Guo Ziqiang sighed and said, "You have become beautiful, I am old." Indeed, now, Guo Ziqiang is seven or eight years older than Zhu Sisi. One is a beautiful woman in her twenties and the other is a young woman in her thirties.

Ye Zhao kept smiling and listening to the two of them. After chatting with Zhu Sisi for a few words, Guo Ziqiang felt disrespectful and really didn't know how to talk to Ye Zhao. When facing Ye Zhao, her thoughts were even more complicated. One was a pervert who had a very friendly relationship in the past, a very interesting young friend; the other was the master of the empire, and even the most powerful monarch in the world. But these two people were the same person. When they saw Ye Zhao, Guo Ziqiang was friendly and restrained, and he didn't know how to speak.

"Your Majesty, you, you haven't changed much?" Guo Ziqiang finally came up with a sentence, but after saying it, he felt that he might be a little disrespectful?

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Nothing has changed? When Sisi said that I was a slut, is she still?"

Guo Ziqiang was dumbfounded and never expected the emperor to say such a sentence.

Ye Zhao laughed and said, "Look, Sisi rolled her eyes again, she must be muttering in her heart. I have nothing serious about it. But Guo Ziqiang, you are friends, I can only be your friend. I am happy to see you today, don't you?"

Guo Ziqiang nodded silently and said, "I didn't expect to meet Your Majesty back then. Think about it, if the Women's Association was not available to Your Majesty, I would have been copied long ago; but I didn't know the grace of Your Majesty Mu."

When talking about the past, Zhu Sisi was also sweet, right? Think about it now, what kind of women do she and Guo Ziqiang do? At that time, my husband must have thought that she was very childish, maybe, she thought she was cute?

Ye Zhao waved his hand and said, "It's nothing for me. I wished someone would copy the Women's Association and kill the majesty of this monkey." As he said that, he pointed at Zhu Sisi with a smile.

Guo Ziqiang burst out laughing and said, "I mean Your Majesty is the mentor of ideological enlightenment."

Ye Zhao said: "Teacher? This is just a high hat. If you don't talk about this, how about you? Are you having difficulties in life?"

Guo Ziqiang shook his head quickly and said, "Men's life is very stable." How can her little things be taken in front of the emperor and the imperial concubine?

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It’s the first day of tomorrow. Brothers who can vote for monthly votes should vote. Don’t be too terrible and sweat a lot.
Chapter completed!