Beijing, the center of political power in the Qing Dynasty, was also the center of the East. It is located in the North China Plain, about 150 kilometers away from the Bohai Sea in the southeast, with an area of more than 16,800 square kilometers. Beijing has a history of more than 3,000 years of city building and more than 850 years of history of building the capital, and the name was originally recorded as "thistle".

Although the British and French forces burned and looted Beijing in 1860, the self-healing ability of the Oriental Center was still very strong, and the desolation had turned into prosperity in just a few decades.

Li Yi did not rest on the day he came to Beijing, but came to the Old Summer Palace, the garden of ten thousand gardens, looking at the dilapidated and gray Old Summer Palace, Li Yi's heart was surging, and his determination to strengthen the country had reached its peak.

Li Yi stood quietly in Wanchun Garden to feel the pain of the scar, listening to the wind and the water crying.

This is the privilege of the aggressor, the person who killed you, burned your house, and you have to apologize with a shy face and compensate for the losses of others.

Fair? There is no justice in this world! Truth? The truth is always in the hands of the victors! Humiliation? It is a complaint that the weak have no right! Enslavement? A rising China will enslave the whole world!

Li Yi stood here quietly and didn't know how long it had been, the sky was already dark, and a high howl suddenly came from the silent Wanchun Garden! After venting, Li Yi didn't speak, and his guards didn't speak, Li Yi turned around, and the guards followed quietly behind him, disappearing into the inky night.

The next day, Li Yi got up early in the morning and waited for the princes and adults to receive him, but what Li Yi didn't expect was that a whole day had passed, and no one wanted to meet him. In the past, he was calling for wind and rain in Guangzhou, but when he arrived in Beijing, he was just a person who could train soldiers, a little person, and no one really looked at him in his eyes.

At the same time, he was secretly glad that the old general Feng Zicai's wise decision to let himself develop in Guangzhou. If he hadn't been in the limelight without the love of the old general, it is estimated that he would have been able to stay in a corner now.

Li Yi has been in Beijing for a few days, and he has gone to the places he should go, and he can't get into the places he wants to go, and it's useless to think about it, it's fun in the Forbidden City, but he is not qualified to step into that threshold.

Five days after arriving in Beijing, Li Yi took the initiative to post a visit to Wang Renkan, although Wang Renkan was also very polite to Li Yi, but it was very different from the enthusiasm in Guangzhou, Li Yi took out 20,000 taels of silver tickets to help him simplify Chinese characters, only then did he see his joy, and promised to find a suitable opportunity to introduce himself to Weng Tongxi.

Early in the morning of the sixth day, Zhang Peilun came to the inn where Li Yi lived and took him to Li Mansion to visit Li Hongzhang.

Although there are only three people in the living room of the Li Mansion, the atmosphere is very weird, Li Yi stands calmly, showing neither humility nor arrogance, Zhang Peilun is sweating nervously, standing on the spot, Li Hongzhang's face is evil, and his eyes are sharp.

Li Yi looked at the difference between this thin old man who was called the "Four Famous Ministers of Zhongxing" with Zeng Guofan, Zhang Zhidong, and Zuo Zongtang, and "the three great men of the world in the nineteenth century" with Bismarck and Grant. On the surface, he didn't see anything, but his eyes were resolute and uncompromising.

Although Li Hongzhang's face was obviously angry, he still couldn't hide his tired demeanor, and his sharp eyes quickly dimmed, it seems that he is not good as the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, he is more than sixty years old, he is already full of gorgeous hair, snow-white beard, and his face looks particularly resolute because of his emaciation.

Zhang Peilun didn't expect that Li Yi was really a stone in a thatched pit, smelly and hard, before entering the house, he repeatedly instructed Li Yi to kneel and bow when he saw an adult, to speak cautiously, and to cater to the preferences of adults, but he didn't expect this bastard to have his knees upside down, and he didn't know etiquette in the Qing Dynasty officialdom, but he couldn't do anything. Now Zhang Peilun really regrets how much he regrets it.

"Master, Ding Ruchang is here." A middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper came in and broke the strange atmosphere in the living room.

"Call him in!" Li Hongzhang said.

It's really as deep as the sea when you enter the Hou Gate, the seven-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, a housekeeper just calls the name of a third-grade military attache so confidently, and then think about yourself, you are really a nobody, no wonder no one really pays attention to yourself when you come to Beijing for many days.

Ding Ruchang fell to the ground and knelt down when he entered the door, with a flattering face, and if he flattered him, he didn't want money, and shouted a lot, Li Hongzhang was in a much better mood after seeing it, and asked him to sit down with a smile.

Li Yi looked at Ding Ruchang, this controversial figure finally saw the real person, he was about fifty years old, with a small round face, small eyes, a small nose, and a long beard on his thin lips, which made people look very happy, when Li Yi looked at him, he was also looking at Li Yi who was standing, and when he saw Li Yi's gaze, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he was unusually proud, he didn't need to ask to know that this person didn't like Li Hongzhang very much, otherwise why did he come in and stand for so long.

After Li Hongzhang took a sip of tea, he didn't let Li Yi sit down again, but asked directly: "I heard Youqiao say that you have a good set of military training, what do you think of the Huai Army?" ”

"Huai Jun can't do it!" Li Yi replied directly.

Zhang Peilun was completely convinced when he heard Li Yi's answer, and he didn't even have the idea of shaking his head and sighing, this person is not suitable for officialdom at all, he is purely a flute head.

"Bastard!" Ding Ruchang on the side got up, pointed at Li Yi and scolded angrily: "Where did a bastard dare to slander our Huai Army." ”

Li Yi regretted the plan he had made a little, he should have promised the Phantom to remove the obstacles to his progress straightforwardly, he dreamed of not taking them down through blood, it seems that he really doesn't understand the rules of officialdom at all.

Li Hongzhang saw Ding Ruchang pointing at Li Yi's nose and scolding angrily, he was very happy in his heart, and he just looked at it without saying anything.

Ding Ruchang saw that Li Hongzhang acquiesced to his actions, and became even more proud, with an angry expression as if Li Yi was his father's killer. The fingers were eager to point at Li Yi's nose, and his mouth was even more like a machine gun.

Zhang Peilun on the side couldn't stand it, got up to appease a few words, but unexpectedly pulled the hatred on his head.

"Lord Zhang, I have always admired your integrity very much, I really didn't expect that this time you would praise such an unreasonable person, and in the past few days, he has been talking about him like a god of war, before we met, I thought this was a good man with three heads and six arms, picking Lu Bu and fighting Guan Gong, but I didn't expect it to be a bastard who is not as good as a bastard."

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