Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 720 Tens of thousands of lights, none of them are lit for me
Unable to say fourth master, Li Jingui raised his foot and kicked fourth master's foot, motioning for his claws to move away from her instep.

"It's the little red shoes again~"

Yinzhen frowned slightly, watching Jingui light up the soles of the shoes, while the scarlet satin uppers were embroidered with crow-blue dragon patterns, obviously they were new shoes made for him.

"Master, a few days ago, my concubine went to the Ruyi Pavilion to meet the foreigner painter that Lord Kangxi likes the most, that foreigner named Castiglione."

Li Jingui's tone paused, and he subconsciously looked at Fourth Master's face.

Ever since Si Ye came to the throne, all foreign missionaries in the Qing Dynasty had bad luck.

Except for the thirteen lines, the fourth master strictly forbids all foreigners to enter the territory of the Qing Dynasty in any form without authorization.

As for the children of the royal family, they were even forbidden to have private contact with foreigners.

Fourth master, a stingy man, is always talking about those foreign devils who brought Li Jingui into trouble.

Now in the Forbidden City, only the foreign painters in the Ruyi Pavilion in the Forbidden City have not been expelled by Fourth Master.

In order to ease the tense relationship between Siye and foreigners, Li Jingui decided to let Siye learn more about Western culture.

The fourth master is actually not a stubborn old man. Others don't know it. In fact, Yongzheng, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, is also very open-minded in his bones.

Si Ye is actually very playful and full of interest in Western objects. He often puts on a headgear and asks Western painters to paint his own portrait in his spare time when dealing with government affairs, and takes pleasure in this.

When the fourth master was still in the palace, in order to paralyze Lord Kangxi and his political opponents, the high-ranking Prince Yong even transformed himself into a scholar-bureaucrat, scholar, fisherman, farmer, etc. in the writing of foreigners to show his calm and friendly side.

In addition, Si Ye is also actively learning Western mathematics, astronomy and other knowledge, and is very proficient.

It's a pity that the fourth master did not promote Western technology throughout the Qing Dynasty, but only limited it to the court as a personal hobby, which would make the Qing Dynasty lose an opportunity for self-improvement.

Only by taking its essence and discarding its dross can the Qing Dynasty be stronger.

Li Jingui could only use his own efforts to make fourth master understand her painstaking efforts.

At this time, she ordered someone to fetch an oil portrait of Concubine Xi painted by the foreign painter Castiglione a few days ago, and pointed to herself triumphantly.

"Master, is my concubine beautiful?"

Ink and wash paintings of the Qing Dynasty emphasized verve, while Western oil paintings emphasized realism.

Li Jingui looked at his portrait with satisfaction, and suddenly felt a chill down his back.

"Su Peisheng, pass on my will and bestow Lang Shining to death!"

"Master, well, why do you want to kill the western painter? How did he offend you!!"

Fourth Master seemed to have never even seen Castiglione's face, but seeing his oil paintings, it was completely unreasonable to ask him to kill Castiglione.

Li Jingui's brows stood erect, and he looked at Fourth Master angrily with his hips crossed. This man started killing innocent people indiscriminately again.

"Su Peisheng! Deaf?"

"Su Peisheng, how dare you go!"

Li Jingui rushed to the door in three steps at a time, blocked the door with a bang, and prevented Su Peisheng from going out.

"Emperor~"

Neither could be offended, the melancholy Su Peisheng simply put on a bitter face, and knelt down between the emperor and sister Jingui with a plop.

Hmm... It seemed that he was kneeling closer to sister Jingui, so Su Peisheng quietly moved towards the emperor, trying to be impartial.

"You've never smiled at me like this before!"

"That foreigner is not a eunuch!"

(End of this chapter)