Regarding Liu Jun's shameless behavior, Li Hongzhang has seen it not once or twice.

Since Liu Jun is reluctant to bring it up, then mention it to him himself.

"Look at me, I think it's looking at Japan's reparations, right?"

Liu Jun, who was suddenly denied the purpose of coming to Tianjin, smiled, and then picked up the tea on the coffee table and handed it to Li Hongzhang before giving a thumbs up: "The old man is wise." ”

Yang Shixiang next to him now admires Li Hongzhang completely, and at the same time, he is even more impressed by Liu Jun's courage, he really dares to ask for so much money.

Yang Shixiang's love for Liu Jun is not less than Li Hongzhang, seeing that Liu Jun really came for the matter of reparations for Japan, he also wanted to hand over all the indemnities to Liu Jun, but the 50 million taels of silver is not a small amount, if all of them are taken away by Liu Jun, will this cause the contradiction between the court and Liu Jun to increase.

After all, in the past two years, on the surface, the imperial court and Liu Jun have been fine, but in fact, the two sides are basically incompatible, just a month ago, the second town of the new army of the imperial court has been transferred from Baoding to Liumeng, Inner Mongolia. The meaning of this is clear to everyone, that is, for the Liaodong Army in Outer Mongolia.

After thinking about it slightly, Yang Shixiang expressed his concerns in front of Liu Jun, hoping that Liu Jun could leave some for the imperial court. Buy the face of the court.

However, Liu Jun's answer made Yang Shixiang almost faint on the spot.

Liu Jun's answer was, for the sake of the old man and you, leave one million taels.

One million taels, and it is still for the sake of Li Hongzhang and his own face.

This **** attitude, if this word spreads, the court will have to charge Li Hongzhang and himself with anti-injury and chaos.

Okay, when he didn't say it, Yang Shixiang shook his head helplessly, he really didn't want to bother talking to this cheeky person.

"You know, old man. When Japan came in, but I resisted desperately to let the imperial court win, and now the imperial court has 50 million taels, and the remaining 50 million. It's up to me to say anything. ”

After getting rid of Yang Shixiang, Liu Jun saw that Li Hongzhang just didn't nod, and immediately began to attack Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang didn't want to give Liu Jun the indemnity, but he knew that the relationship between Liu Jun and the imperial court was now a thread, and if he gave all the 50 million taels of silver to Liu Jun now, then it would be possible to break this line, and at that time, it could be a full-scale outbreak of the war between the imperial court and Liaodong.

Looking at Liu Jun looking at himself with blank eyes, Li Hongzhang lowered his head and pondered, and after a while, he let out a long breath and said slowly: "Rabbit cub, you have thought clearly, once you swallow all the 50 million taels of silver, it is possible that a war will break out with the imperial court." ”

This point, Liu Jun also analyzed it when he came, and there is indeed such a possibility, but Liu Jun does know that the court is not a fool, Yi? From time to time fools, there are no less Cixi.

Although the imperial court has trained 50,000 new army troops in the past two years, it still cannot compete with itself in terms of strength, you must know that after two years of development, it is no longer the six corps of two years ago, but nearly 300,000 people in seven corps.

The 50,000 new army of the imperial court wants to fight with itself, which is obviously looking for the rhythm of death, unless Cixi is hot-headed and doesn't want Beijing, then he can go to war with himself, but he knows that Cixi will definitely not.

Taking a deep breath, Liu Jun lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and said lightly: "Old man, from the time when I fought with the imperial court in Shengjing two years ago, I knew that sooner or later, one day, I would completely tear my face with the imperial court. This indemnity, put in the imperial court, just made the moths of the imperial court greedy, but if I put it here, I can form a Beiyang naval division and reorganize two corps, so, no matter what, I have to get this money. ”

Li Hongzhang listened to Liu Jun's story, he knew that all that Liu Jun said was true, and the money given to the court was nothing more than a little more for the court officials, but if it was given to Liu Jun, the effect would be infinitely expanded.

Taking a deep breath, Li Hongzhang nodded: "Let the Beiyang Navy Fleet come to fetch it in ten days." ”

Night in Tianjin. It is a city that never sleeps, and Liu Jun, who has not been to Tianjin for almost two years, took Zheng Yiqian and Zhong Lin to change their clothes as soon as they had dinner, and went out to play accompanied by the guards, and in the governor's mansion, Li Hongzhang and Yang Shixiang were left.

Li Hongzhang saw Liu Jun go out, and this time he called Yang Shixiang and came to the study.

Lighting the candle, Li Hongzhang looked at Yang Shixiang who was standing in front of him, and after a while, he said slowly: "Shixiang, I'm afraid that from the decision made by **** today, the court will not trust us anymore." ”

Li Hongzhang's meaning was very vague, but Yang Shixiang could still hear the meaning, nodded slightly, Yang Shixiang looked at Li Hongzhang lightly: "Don't worry, my lord, I know that I should do this." ”

Li Hongzhang didn't speak, but from his smile, Yang Shixiang knew that Li Hongzhang had completely abandoned Beijing and turned to Lushun.

Beijing, Chuxiu Palace, is still so brilliant. is still so bright, two years later, Cixi's skin is still so tender, but today, wrinkles appeared on her originally tender face, and she gasped for breath. He was angry in his heart, and the reason for this anger was the piece in his hand now.

Concerto, yes? It was sent not long ago, and the person who wrote him was Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang wrote on it that the 50 million taels of Japan's reparations had been hijacked by Liu Jun's Beiyang sailors at the port of Tianjin. Now, 50 million taels of silver have been brought to Lushun by the Beiyang Naval Division.

"Bastard." The angry Cixi suddenly threw the music in her hand far away.

She is not a pig, there is such a big flaw in this, why can't she see it, the Beiyang Navy Division is robbing in the port, is this possible, it is clearly instructed by Li Hongzhang. ”

For Li Hongzhang, Cixi had been gradually alienating him as early as two years ago, the reason was that he and Liu Jun were too close, which is why when the new army was being trained, Li Hongzhang was not issued any holy decree at all, and now, this old man is becoming more and more presumptuous, and he actually gave Liaodong the 50 million taels of silver that Japan compensated him, which is unbearable. He decided to teach Li Hongzhang a good lesson.

"You, immediately take someone and arrest Li Hongzhang back to Beijing for me. Imprisoned. Cixi's tender white finger touched the Yi who was kneeling on the ground.

Abundant? As soon as she heard that Cixi was going to arrest Li Hongzhang, the cold sweat on her face suddenly fell, and she hurriedly took two steps. Crying said: "Lafayette is angry, Li Hongzhang can't catch it." ”

Can't catch it? Cixi's face full of anger suddenly became even more angry, she didn't know why Li Hongzhang couldn't catch it, but although he was angry, he knew Yi? In this way, there must be a reason for him, take two deep breaths slightly, Cixi let Yi? Why.

Abundant? The reason is simple, there are only two main ones.

In the past two years, although Li Hongzhang's relationship with the imperial court is very delicate, but after all, he is still a courtier of the imperial court, if Li Hongzhang is arrested this time because of this money, then the dog is in a hurry and has to jump over the wall. Once Li Hongzhang is arrested, if Liu Jun takes the opportunity to make a fuss about this matter, the consequences will be unimaginable.

You must know that now Liu Jun has more than 100,000 troops, and they are staring at Beijing, once this matter is not handled well, then Liu Jun's Liaodong Army will attack Beijing at the fastest speed.

Although the imperial court has trained nearly 50,000 new troops in the past two years, Cixi does not know how great the combat effectiveness of this new army is, and she knows very well.

Cixi is not stupid, Yi? The analysis is very accurate, take a deep breath, Cixi signaled Yi? Retreating, she really felt so tired.