Episode 111: Conspiracy at Night Shuang Pavilion

Zhu Yourong asked the fourteenth princess about when he wanted to use a boat, whether he was going to Europe to get property in person or send someone to go there.

The Fourteenth Princess hesitated a little. She had thought about how to get property from Europe before. Logically speaking, such a huge amount of property, including bills, gold, jewelry and other works of art, had at least a few large boxes. If you were looking for a boat privately, you might not be able to go with me if you didn’t follow me. However, even the fastest boat to Europe would take more than half a month. The Ming and Qing Wars here and the People’s Guards were not allowed to leave for so long.

Now that Zhu Yourong is willing to help, the reliability is much greater. Just choose a reliable person as your representative.

Therefore, the fourteenth princess smiled:

"Your Majesty, you are fighting now, and the security team's work is very heavy. If Liaoyang wants to go there personally, he may not be able to leave. Just choose a reliable person, and Liaoyang gives the password and key to this person, so that he can represent Liaoyang with full authority."

"Oh," Zhu Yourong didn't want the Fourteenth Princess to leave for a long time. The Fourteenth Princess said this just in her opinion. She asked with a smile, "So sister can have someone who can trust?"

The fourteenth princess has been reading the right candidate in his mind for a long time, and he is confident at this moment. This person has a good relationship with him, a high status, can be suppressed, and will never make any decisions about his own property.

The fourteenth princess said with a smile:

"This... Your Majesty, this person has a very close relationship with you. It depends on whether Your Majesty is willing to let him go to sea for a month."

Zhu Yourong was stunned, her face turned slightly red, and her chest jumped gently: Could it be... she wants Tingzhi to go to Europe?

When the fourteenth princess saw Zhu Yourong's expression, she was also stunned. She immediately understood that she mistakenly thought it was Xiang Xiaoqiang. But she pretended not to see the blush on Zhu Yourong's face, and smiled and half-jokingly said:

"Liaoyang wants to borrow Princess Leping, is Your Majesty willing to give up?"

Zhu Yourong burst into laughter, it turned out that she was talking about greed.

As soon as the fourteenth princess talked about Zheng Yuxiang, Zhu Yourong immediately understood her considerations. As the princess of the Ming Dynasty, Fengxiang had a noble status, smart and clever relationship with Princess Liaoyang, and she could trust her. Moreover, Fengxiang had no public office and could leave. Princess Liaoyang said that there was no more suitable person than Fengxiang.

However... her best cousin has been going to sea for so long... Zhu Yourong is really reluctant to let it go. She lowered her head slightly, pondered for a moment, and said:

"My sister's consideration is very thorough... However, this matter must be agreed by Feng Feng himself. Well... Then... did my sister talk to Feng Feng himself, or did I talk to Feng Feng?"

Seeing her agreement, the fourteenth princess was very happy and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty is not a problem, let me tell you about Princess Leping by yourself."

...

After leaving the fortress, the 14th Princess drove to the Yanping Palace to find Zheng Yuxiang. The 14th Princess was rarely visited, and Zheng Gongyin was also very enthusiastic and kept her in the palace for lunch. Zheng Yuxiang and the 14th Princess have always had a good relationship, especially last time, the 14th Princess and Xiang Xiaoqiang gathered money together to buy back Yuhua to check the stocks for Zheng Yuxiang, which made Zheng Yuxiang deeply grateful to the 14th Princess. Among Xiang Xiaoqiang's other four women, the only one who regarded as his own was Zheng Yuxiang.

Of course, Qiu Qiu is not bad, she has no bad intentions with anyone, and the Fourteenth Princess doesn't hate her either. But she has a very close relationship with Xiuxiu. Basically, as long as Qiu Qiu knows about everything, it means Xiuxiu knows. Xiuxiu and the Fourteenth Princess are both dissatisfied with each other.

At lunch, the Fourteenth Princess talked about this with Zheng Yuchang and wanted to ask her to go to Europe for her. Zheng Yuchang couldn't help but feel excited. Since he came back from the last time to the Beijing-Qing Dynasty negotiations, he had been suffocated for so long and wanted to go out for a long time. Switzerland is so fun, I haven't been there yet. This opportunity will take a few days to have fun, and by the way, I can see what good things are in Princess Liaoyang's treasure. - Besides, the Fourteenth Princess helped me so much last time and has not paid back the love. Zheng Yuchang didn't even look at his father, so he agreed.

The fourteenth princess looked at Zheng Gongyin, afraid that he would not be willing to leave his beloved daughter and was a little disgusted, so she smiled vaguely and said, after taking back the property, she planned to invest part of the Zheng family consortium.

Zheng Gongyin was actually holding his face and was waiting for the fourteenth princess to say this. When he heard this, he immediately smiled happily and raised his glass to greet each other.

Just then, Zhu Yourong called and asked his uncle to arrange a boat for Princess Liaoyang for use in Europe.

His Majesty said hello, and the one who took the boat was his own daughter, Zheng Gongyin immediately called his yacht manager to choose the yacht.

When the yacht manager came with the yacht list, the fourteenth princess opened his eyes. Zheng Gongyin was worthy of being the richest person in the Ming Empire. There were twenty private yachts alone, of which eight were large and medium-sized yachts that could travel far and wide. The ship numbers were named after the "Eight Beauty of Qinhuai":

Rushi, Yuanyuan, Xiangjun, Xiaowan, Baimen, Yujing, Hengbo, and Xianglan.

These eight yachts vary in size, with the smallest tonnage being 3,000 tons and the largest being 8,000 tons. They are all heavy oil high-speed boilers, with maximum speeds of more than 27 knots.

In the view of the Fourteenth Princess, this fully reflects the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty as a maritime country. The wealth of rich people is largely reflected in seaplanes and private marine yachts. In the Peking and Qing dynasties, no matter how rich people are, they only buy land, minerals, and luxury houses, and the ocean is closed. I have never heard of any high-ranking official and rich man from the Peking and Qing dynasties who have marine yachts.

The yacht management officer recommended a ship with the best condition, the Shinowa. It has a displacement of 4,305 tons, a maximum speed of 28 knots, and can carry up to 35 guests and 125 sailors and service personnel. Remove 50 unnecessary service personnel and add a company of guards.

The only dangerous route along the way is the area of ​​Malacca. However, the pirates have been curbed for almost a year after the Ming Dynasty. Not only has the pirate villages along the coast of Sumatra been wiped out, but each large ship passed by, a patrol boat escorted it until it completely passed through the entire Malacca area.

Zhu Yourong gave the Fourteenth Princess a handwritten edict, allowing her to choose guards from the People's Guards to accompany her. This is the personal matter of the Fourteenth Princess after all, and the People's Guards are an army and belong to the state's official property. If Zhu Yourong's authorization was not authorized, she wouldn't be able to be transferred casually.

During the chat and laughter, we selected the date and route. Three days later, on the 7th, Zheng Yuchang took the Hengbo to set off, from the South Pacific to the Indian Ocean, crossed the Suez Canal to enter the Mediterranean, and then directly approached the port in Marseille and took the train to Zurich. Along the way, he only passed France and Switzerland.

This matter is completely unofficial. Zheng Yucong is a princess, so he can only keep it low-key throughout the whole process. In China, the emperor's daughter is called princess, and the king's daughter can only be called princess. However, there is no distinction between princess and princesses in the West. The emperor, king, and prince's daughter are called princesses, and they are all princesses. The "princess" of the Ming Dynasty went to Europe, and although it was only a private identity to handle banking affairs in Switzerland, it was also eye-catching. Fortunately, this trip did not have to pass through countries like Germany and Italy, so that there was no chance to give Hitler or Mussolini any more to do anything. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was destroying the Qing Dynasty, and its international image was very important.

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At six o'clock in the evening, the fourteenth princess sent someone to send a letter to Sako Asakura and asked her to go to Jingyuezhai Restaurant in Qinhuai District at 7 o'clock to go to the "Night Frost Pavilion" ordered by Miss Lin.

Miss Lin, it is Xiaolin May. After Xiaowu came to the Ming Dynasty with the Fourteenth Princess, he kept learning Chinese hard. It turned out that there was a good year in the Peking University and Qing Dynasty, and Xiaowu never learned Chinese well. That was also the Fourteenth Princess who did it intentionally.

In the Northern Qing Dynasty, the Fourteenth Princess was powerful and had a lot of confidants around her. Therefore, she was determined not to let Xiaowu learn Chinese, so she could only communicate with herself and become a "confidant". But now that she came to the Ming Dynasty, the Fourteenth Princess suddenly became a lonely person. Only Xiaowu could truly be called "confidant". She could only let her study Chinese hard so that she could do things for herself. Now, Xiaowu's Chinese is already very good after a year.

Jingyuezhai is the most low-key high-end restaurant in Qinhuai District, and "Wanshuang Pavilion" is the most secret private room in the restaurant. Xiaowu was sent in the afternoon and booked the private room in advance. He checked it first and confirmed that there was no eavesdropping or recording equipment, and then waited in the afternoon.

At 6:40, Sako Asakura came first. Sako Asakura met Mayo Kobayashi in Japan and knew that this little girl was the "hard-core horseman" of the 14th princess, so she followed her in Japan. The two of them were acquaintances, sitting together drinking tea, holding hands and chatting intimately. However, although Koba was nearly ten years younger than Asakura, she was not stupid. She talked about some Japanese past. Asakura tried several times to talk about the conversation, but Koba avoided it.

At seven o'clock, the fourteenth princess also arrived.

Tonight, the Fourteenth Princess is nominally asking for old classmates, but in fact, it is to invite people from Japan to an environment under her control, so that she can speak freely with the other party and truly speak out of my words and hear your ears.

In the view of the Fourteenth Princess, Sako Asakura has also been trained over the years and is no longer the good girl in the high school class. Kenji Doihara did not come tonight, but Sako Asakura was like Doihara's microphone, completely passing on the meaning of the Japanese to the Fourteenth Princess.

According to Asakura, this is just an intention and there is no specific plan yet. The Soviet side does not know it yet. Moreover, the Japanese side is very worried that Nan Ming might reject this plan. Because for a long time, Nan Ming has always claimed that all the territory occupied by the Qing Dynasty were the legal territory of the Ming Dynasty. Now, it is suddenly necessary to divide these "Ming Dynasty territories" with the other two countries. I am afraid that the people in the top leaders of Nanjing will not be able to accept it for the time being. Now the fourteen princesses need to persuade Xiang Xiaoqiang's group, and then Xiang Xiaoqiang's group will exert influence in the commander-in-chief, forming a unified opinion among the top leaders of the Nan Ming military, and then affect the queen and the cabinet. In this way, the success will be much greater.

As long as the fourteenth princess actively plays a role and causes this matter, Japan will support her as the queen of the Northeast Qing Dynasty.

The fourteenth princess pondered for a while, looked at Asakura and smiled:

"Did this bold 'plan' come from the cabinet's imperial meeting or from the staff of the military command?"

浅仓一愣,张口结舌了半天,支吾道:

"This... this is just a preliminary intention, and the emperor has not reported it yet..."

The fourteenth princess smiled and said:

“恐怕连内阁政府也不知道吧?”

浅仓无奈地一笑,点点头:

"This matter is extremely secretive and is really not suitable for too many insiders."

The fourteenth princess smiled slightly and thought it was true. After talking for a long time, the so-called "Japanese side" was actually the "Japanese military command". After all, it was the group of staff. The emperor didn't know, the cabinet didn't know, and even the Minister of the Army and Navy did not know. In the past two years, the power of the Japanese army has become increasingly greater. After 2-26, it was completely a country in the middle of the country. It was not like this when he left.

The fourteenth princess leaned against the back of the chair, squinted her eyes, closed her eyes to rest. Asakura Sako was carefully aside, and did not dare to disturb her.

过了一会儿,十四格格睁开眼,说道:

"Okay. I'll go and talk to Xiang Xiaoqiang and the others. Then let Xiang Xiaoqiang talk to Zhu Yourong. However... Japan must let the cabinet know too. This matter must be cooperation between the Ming Empire and the Japanese Empire, not cooperation between the Ming Empire and the Japanese Military Command. I don't want to have a group of staff planning from beginning to end. Do you understand?"

浅仓佐子犹豫一下,点点头.

十四格格看她一眼,又说道:

"And... I also hope to get the promise of the highest level of Japan when it comes to making me the Queen of the Northeast Qing Dynasty. It is best to be the direct promise of His Majesty the Emperor."

浅仓佐子吓了一跳:

"His Majesty the Emperor? I'm afraid... Your Highness, can the Minister of Military Order do it?"

十四格格脸一拉:

"No! You have to figure it out. This is asking a princess to succeed the queen of a country. It is the most important thing between countries. What is the military command minister? Can he speak on behalf of the entire country?"

“那……首相行不行?”

"No!" The Fourteenth Princess lowered her face again, "I don't know how many days he can live and whether he will be killed again."

Asakura Sako looked at her with a bitter face, almost crying.

Seeing her like this, the fourteenth princess changed her smile, patted her head, and said lovingly:

"Okay, my Miss Sako...Okay, OK, that's it..."
Chapter completed!