Chuxiu Palace, no matter how the brilliant candlelight on the lamp wall is, it is difficult to hide the helplessness and resentment in Cixi's heart.

Abundant? It makes sense to say that the current Li Hongzhang is like walking at a crossroads, one leads to Liaodong, and the other leads to the imperial court, now, if the imperial court does not handle this matter properly, then Li Hongzhang will go to Liaodong, once that happens, then the imperial court is not facing the Liaodong army, but also facing Li Hongzhang's hundreds of thousands of Huai army.

Although the Huai army has been greatly damaged in the battle two years ago, this does not mean that the Huai army has no influence in the government, and Li Hongzhang's elder brother Li Hanzhang also trained 20,000 troops with the support of Liaodong. These can influence the imperial court, and if you want to go on with the current situation, only one person will not be chaotic, and the rest of the people will not be chaotic, and this person is Li Hongzhang.

Taking a deep breath, Cixi, who was full of anger, finally calmed down: "Could it be that the imperial court still annexes 50 million taels of silver from Liaodong like this?" Cixi was unwilling in her heart, looking at Yi? 's eyes were full of a kind of longing, she longed? can tell himself that there is a way to get Liu Jun to hand over a little.

Looking at Yi? Bowing her head in a dull state, Cixi frowned, she knew that her hopes were dashed.

Abundant? Why don't you want Liu Jun to be able to hand over some, even if it's 10 million taels, but Yi? But I know that this is impossible. If you want Liu Jun to spit out, you can only start a war with him, but now the strength of the imperial court. He really didn't have any confidence that he would be able to win the battle against Liaodong.

For the sake of the country, now, I can only endure this breath.

Helplessly, she let out a long breath, and Cixi waved her hand, signaling to Yi? Going down, she was really tired.

Lushun. The weather is already getting cooler, and the autumn wind occasionally rolls the yellowing leaves into the sky, and then blows into the distant sky.

At the Lushun Headquarters, Liu Jun looked at the map of North Korea alone in a daze.

North Korea and South Korea have been two worlds since they were ruled by Japan, both consciously or unconsciously, since they were ruled separately from Japan.

In North Korea, Yoo Jun has always wanted to plan it as his own territory, so last year, with the help of the North Korean royal family and the First Corps of Ding Ruchang, North Korea carried out land reform and reorganized its troops.

After the end of the war, the Korean army was almost completely crippled by the Japanese, and the remaining soldiers were less than 3,000 men.

After the signing of the Treaty of Tianjin, 69 ordered Ding Ruchang to cooperate with the royal family who had fled to Pyongyang in Korea and reorganize the new army.

North Korea's new army, like the Liaodong Army, has the largest establishment of corps, but because of the small population of North Korea, the whole of North Korea is referred to as two corps of 100,000 troops.

Although these two corps are nominally under the jurisdiction of North Korea, nine out of ten of the main generals in them are from Liaodong, and among them, the commander of the North Korean First Corps and the commander of the First Army is Qin Liang, who Liu Jun brought back from Guangdong.

As for South Korea, Japan has always regarded Korea as a colony, and it has not only vigorously squeezed South Korea's resources, but also imposed heavy taxes on the South Korean people from time to time.

Of course, a large part of this is Liu Jun's attention.

Liu Jun didn't want the Japanese to leave South Korea, but he also didn't allow Japan to have a good life in Korea, so since last year, he ordered Zhang Tao to start leading the wolf pack commandos, start to enter South Korea, and cause riots, so that Japan will be busy and drag Japan down.

All this was done very well, and according to statistics, in one year, as many as 20,000 Japanese soldiers died in South Korea.

Pyongyang? Liu Jun has his eyes fixed on the Han River in Pyongyang.

"Head, you won't tell me that it's about forming a navy for North Korea. Zhong Lin didn't know when he walked in, and when he saw Liu Jun constantly picking up the pen and marking the coastline in that area, he stepped forward and asked.

Liu Jun put down the pen in his hand and did not object, but nodded lightly and asked Zhong Lin: "What do you mean?" ”

In the past two years, although Zhong Lin has been mainly responsible for intelligence work, because he is by Liu Jun's side, he has been promoted militarily.

He understood what Liu Jun meant. The real purpose of Liu Jun's help in building a navy in North Korea was actually to help the Beiyang Naval Division to contain the combined fleet in the future.

In the past two years, the Lushun War Room and the General Staff have conducted exercises, once the war with Japan starts, then the first force to start the war is the navy, and then, after the war, it will appear in Seoul, and the combined fleet has begun to develop vigorously in the past two years, which will cause the pressure on the Beiyang naval division to increase on the way to war, but once the DPRK has a naval division, it will not only be able to protect itself, but also be able to contain the combined fleet.

"Head, I don't have any opinion." Chung's answer was clear: he supported helping North Korea build a navy.

Smiling slightly, Liu Jun nodded and returned to his position, picked up the document and looked at it, and then said lightly: "Send a telegram to Ding Ruchang, let him deal with this matter." ”

Understood, Zhong Lin answered, turned around and walked out.

Zheng Yiqian picked up the teacup, walked to Liu Jun, handed Liu Jun tea, and then opened the plan that Liu Jun put on the table without incident.

This plan is Liu Jun's arrangement and whereabouts for the 50 million taels of silver that he has just arrived in Liaodong. Zheng Yiqian took a look, and Liu Jun divided the 50 million taels into four parts.

20 million was used for the Beiyang Naval Division, 10 million for the Army, 10 million for Wu Datong, and the remaining 10 million for storage.

"What, do you have any good advice?" Liu Jun, who was holding the tea, looked at Zheng Yiqian, raised his head and asked softly.

Zheng Yiqian smiled slightly, and put down the plan in her hand: "Where do I have any good suggestions, I was thinking, if you force Japan to return all the reparations at once, what about the two battleships anchored in Japan?" ”

What to do? Liu Jun frowned, not understanding what Zheng Yiqian meant.

Zheng Yiqian saw Liu Jun, did she understand, and said her thoughts.

Japan has spent so much effort and wasted so much money, and now it looks like it is about to get warships, but because of its own trick, it has scraped off three layers of skin from Japan. 50,000,000 taels of silver. It has already collapsed Japan's finances, and now it will certainly become a huge difficulty if it wants to pay for the warships, and the warships that Japan has painstakingly acquired will certainly not be given up just like this, and will certainly take loans from other countries to buy warships. In this way, Liu Jun's goal of forcing Japan to pay war money to counter Japan's purchase of warships will still be frustrated.

Regarding Zheng Yiqian's worries, Liu Jun just smiled slightly, saying that he was not too worried.

In Liu Jun's view, even if Japan does whatever it takes to lend loans to other countries, countries will not necessarily give, in the past few years, in order to compensate for the war, Japan has added the domestic economy Beikui, and it is no longer necessary to think that Britain, France, Germany, and Russia have each borrowed nearly 100 million, such a huge amount of money. Not counting the interest, even if it is the principal alone, it is enough for Japan to suffer.

At present, Japan has no tariff income, and at Liu Jundi's suggestion, Germany urged Japan to repay the loan a year ago, and Japan did not dare to offend the powerful Germany, so it could only reluctantly hand over the tariffs to Germany to repay Germany's loans.

So, the income in Japan right now is very small, unless the country goes crazy. Otherwise, no country would be stupid enough to lend money to Japan.

Even if that country is caught in the door, it lends money to Japan, and Japan buys warships, then there is still a threshold to be stuck, and this threshold is the Sino-Japanese "Tianjin Treaty"

The "Treaty of Tianjin" stipulated that if Japan wanted to increase the number of warships with a tonnage of more than 3,000, it had to ask for the consent of the Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, this warship would not have thought of sailing back to Japan.

The tonnage of the battleship is more than 3,000 tons. Liu Jun understood that the tonnage of these two battleships was tens of thousands, so he didn't believe that the imperial court would agree that Japan would drive these two battleships back to Japan, if this was really the case?

Is that really the case? Liu Jun raised his head violently and looked at Zheng Yiqian at once. Then don't blame yourself.