When Qin Chuan was secretly complaining in his heart, Xu Tong, who was in the lead, led a tall foreigner in a suit straight to Qin Chuan, this foreigner was none other than Aldington. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing Qin Chuan, Aldington rushed forward in a few steps, opened his arms from a distance, and rushed to Qin Chuan with a crackle as he stepped on the water, hugging Qin Chuan fiercely.

"My dear Qin, I finally looked forward to you. I knew you wouldn't leave me alone, and if the Japanese caught me, they would have to kill me. ”

Qin Chuan smiled bitterly and gently pushed Aldington away: "You are my friend, how could I, Qin Chuan, leave my friend alone." ”

Seeing that Aldington was still entangled with Qin Chuan, Xu Tong rushed forward and whispered, "Commander, there are too many things." ”

Xu Tong pointed at Aldington angrily: "He brought a lot of people, you see。。。。。。 ”

When Xu Tong said this, Aldington was suddenly a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment and then lowered his voice and said: "Qin, these boxes are full of gold and silver, and it's a pity not to bring them back." As for those people。。。。。。 ”

Aldington hurriedly turned around and said in a somewhat stiff Chinese: "Everyone come over and meet Mr. Qin." ”

The two dozen or so people who followed behind Aldington all quietly gathered around and gave Qin Chuan a silent salute.

Only then did Qin Chuan see clearly that among the more than 20 people brought by Aldington, except for eight people he selected from the Tianjin Yantuan to Seoul to cooperate with Aldington, among the others, there was a young North Korean man in his twenties wearing North Korean clothes and a gauze hat, and the rest were all Chinese wearing horse coats and dragging braids.

Aldington pointed to the young North Korean and introduced, "Qin, this is a friend I made while hunting, his name is Jin Jiu. ”

He pointed to the other dozen or so Chinese people in horse coats: "They are all from the Office of the Prime Minister of Trade and Trade of the Qing Dynasty in Korea, as soon as the Japanese army entered Seoul, they were arrested, they escaped, I met them on the road and were being chased by the Japanese army, I saved them, so I took them to the hiding place together." ”

Aldington spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders again, which means that this is the situation, you can do it.

Jin Jiu, the name of this North Korean Qin Chuan had a faint impression in his heart, but he couldn't remember it. Moreover, he doesn't have much to think about these now, he is more concerned about Yuan Shikai, to be precise, more about the safety of Yuan Shikai's subordinates in North Korea.

Through Tang Guoan's friendship with the first-class children, Qin Chuan knew that several of the people who followed Yuan Shikai in North Korea were left-behind children. One is Tang Shaoyi, who was the first prime minister of the Republic of China twenty years later, and the other seems to be Cai Shaoji.

Seeing that Qin Chuan was silent in thought, Xu Tong was a little anxious, and said in a low voice: "Commander, I didn't expect there to be so many things, these boxes are all heavy guys, plus these people brought back, there are sixty or seventy people in one place with our people, if they all get on the ship, not to mention that the cabin can't fit in, the speed of the ship can't get up, if we encounter a Japanese warship, then we will be a dead end." ”

Without waiting for Qin Chuan to speak, a middle-aged man in a horse coat arched his hand at Qin Chuan.

"Lord Qin, in Xia Ding Xiang, I am in the Yamen of the International Trade Office, I don't know that the big man is small, we are indeed a little abrupt. In this way, the adults can only go with you, and I will take these people to Pyongyang by land, and then return to China via the Yalu River. ”

After Ding Xiang finished speaking, he was about to take people away.

"Slow."

Qin Chuan drank Ding Xiang: "Ding Shuban, what is the situation in Seoul?" ”

Ding Xiang sighed and said, "What else?" After the landing in Korea, our troops went directly to Asan and did not enter Seoul at all. As soon as they passed the front foot, the Japanese minister Keisuke Otori led the Japanese soldiers into Seoul, and on the night of the 23rd, he led troops with Daewonjun to forcibly rush into the palace, kidnap the Korean king Li Xi, and forced Li Xi to issue a statement, saying that the Korean government officially invited the Japanese to expel the Qing troops in Korea. Originally, we were invited to help them put down the rebellion, but now we are the targets of expulsion. Let's Qing Dynasty, this time it was a bad move, and we fell behind. ”

Ding Xiang glanced at the Korean Jin Jiu: "Now, the Japanese have occupied Seoul, which can be said to be blocking the back road of our army in Asan. This Kim Yishi, who went out to listen to the news, said that the Japanese had gathered troops in Seoul and Inchon yesterday and went south to attack our troops in Asan. ”

Qin Chuan had been prepared for these things, and he didn't care very much, seeing that Ding Xiang stopped talking, Qin Chuan was anxious to ask again.

"Ding Shuban, what happened to your people in the DPRK Prime Minister's Office for Trade and Trade Affairs?"

Ding Xiang knew that he would be wrong, and hurriedly said: "Premier Yuan has been ordered to return to Tianjin on the British merchant ship beforehand. Early in the morning of the 24th, we learned that the Japanese had entered the Korean palace, so we all sneaked out of Seoul separately. Unexpectedly, after our group left the city, we encountered a group of Japanese soldiers, and when they saw that we were from the Qing Dynasty, they shot from a distance, but fortunately Mr. Aldington rescued us, and we ran across the Han River. ”

In the original history, Yuan Shikai, Tang Shaoyi, and Cai Shaoji all ran back to China before or after the First Sino-Japanese War, which Qin Chuan knew. It's just that Qin Chuan has always been a little worried, afraid that because of his "butterfly", history will deviate greatly when he doesn't need it, so that he can no longer effectively control the trajectory of history, which will have a lot of difficulties for his future development. Hearing that Yuan Shikai, Tang Shaoyi, and Cai Shaoji had all returned to China safely, Qin Chuan's heart was put down.

Turning his head to Xu Tong, he said, "Load all the boxes on the ship immediately, and everyone should hurry up and get on the ship." The reconnaissance ruled out a few who would sail the ship, and the rest stayed with me, so we won't leave. ”

"I'm not leaving!"

Without waiting for Xu Tong to speak, Aldington, who consciously made trouble for Qin Chuan, first blushed and shouted: "NO, NO!" ”

"Qin, you can't stay."

Ding Xiang also bowed his hand to Qin Chuan with great guilt: "Lord Qin, we are all causing you trouble." You personally rescued your subordinates in danger, which made me admire me very much. This is not a place to stay for a long time, so let's go. We walked overland and returned home. ”

Xu Tong also hurriedly persuaded: "Commander, how can you stay?" No matter what, you will not be left alone, you go with the boat first, and I will take someone to stay here, and we will leave when the next boat comes. ”

Qin Chuan did not answer Xu Tong's words, but said to Ding Xiang with a smile: "Ding Shuban, although the Japanese have no intention of going north now, they will definitely send a large number of scouts to Pyongyang to guard and search, a few of you walk on the road, the Japanese can recognize you at a glance, you literati trek hundreds of miles and more than half of thousands of difficulties and dangers, let you leave alone is undoubtedly a sheep's mouth, how can I rest assured, you better take a boat and go first." ”

Seeing that Ding Xiang was about to refuse, Qin Chuan turned his head to Xu Tong and said, "I will stay with you, and it's not all because of the small size of the boat. ”

Qin Chuan's eyes swept a glance at the forty or so sturdy soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon that had already gathered on the sandbank, then turned his head to look at Xu Tong, and raised his voice and said.

"Didn't you just say that the Japanese troops in Seoul and Incheon have gathered to go south to Asan, they will definitely not leave many people in Seoul and Asan, we just happened to make a big fuss about him, on the one hand, we can contain the Japanese troops going south to send troops back to Seoul, and relieve the pressure on Asan's Nie Shicheng Nie Army; On the other hand, it is also time for our salt group to be famous overseas, so that the Japanese can see that we are in China and have never been blood-ischemic men. ”

"How about it, do you have the courage to beat up little Japan with Lao Tzu?"

Qin Chuan's words made Xu Tong and the young men of the reconnaissance platoon couldn't help but feel blood surging in their hearts, Xu Tong gritted his teeth and said: "Commander, it's okay to beat up little Japan, we will do what you say, our salt group has no seeds." ”

"Good! Then hurry up and unload our weapons and ammunition on the ship first, and then load these boxes on the ship. ”

This time, Xu Tong no longer dissuaded, but turned around and went to Zhang Luo, the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon untied the boxes on horseback and moved them into the cabin one by one.

Although Qin Chuan said proudly, Ding Xiang and the dozen or so people who negotiated with the Prime Minister in North Korea could hear that Qin Chuan wanted them to get out of danger as soon as possible, and they couldn't help but admire Qin Chuan in their hearts.

Ding Xiang was about to speak, but Jin Jiu on the side stepped forward and arched his hand and said, "What my lord did, Jin Jiu admires it a lot. In the past few days, I have gone out to inquire about the situation, and I know the situation of the Japanese in Seoul and Incheon, and the villain is willing to stay and follow the adults to kill these uninvited Japanese who harbor evil intentions. ”

With the help of this North Korean who was familiar with the situation, Qin Chuan couldn't ask for it, and after appreciating Jin Jiu's few words, he hurriedly returned to the cabin, lit a candle, and wrote three letters by candlelight.

The first letter was written to Zhou Fu, Qin Chuan described the battle of Fengdao in detail to Zhou Fu in the letter, including his own request to secretly escort the Gao Sheng, and he was also said to be secretly covering the Gao Sheng on the order of Zhou Fu, as for how to transfer the contract halfway, how to sink the Japanese ship Qiujinzhou, and how to hang the white flag and the Japanese military flag to escape from the Jiyuan pipe belt Fang Boqian, they are also clearly described one by one.

In addition, Qin Chuan also told Zhou Fu in the letter that since the Japanese ship intercepted the British cargo ship Gaosheng, it could be concluded that Ishikawa Wuyi was a Japanese spy, and Liu Fen, the secretary of the Machinery Bureau, was Ishikawa's accomplice and could be arrested and questioned.

In the end, Qin Chuan impassionedly told Zhou Fu in the letter that in order to detect that a large number of Japanese troops stationed in Seoul and Inchon were gathering south to attack our army at Asan and Chenghuan, in order to contain the Japanese attack, he would personally lead an army of less than half a sentinel to attack Seoul and Incheon, which had achieved the effect of inspiring the morale of the army and the people. In the future, the camera will be withdrawn to Pyongyang.

Another letter was addressed to Li Mingfang and Jin Lisan, in which Qin Chuan explained their placement of this batch of gold and silver. At the same time, he told Li Mingfang that China and Japan had de facto started a war, and asked him to hurry up and transfer the corresponding supplies to Jinzhou.

The last letter was addressed to Zhou Dajing, in which he told Zhou Dajing that he must arrange for ships to make contact with Qinchuan along the coast of Hwajin-ri, northwest of Pyongyang, by 13 September, and that he would return to Tianjin by sea and land with a reconnaissance platoon.

After writing the letter, Qin Chuan walked out of the cabin, and seeing that the boxes had been shipped, Qin Chuan handed over the three letters to Gao Ying, told Gao Ying, and urged Aldington and Ding Xiang to get on the ship, and then commanded the reconnaissance platoon to push the strange number of reeds that had become very deep. (To be continued.) )