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Guan Xuqing knew very well that the plan he directed himself took great risks, and even if he tried to control the death news to a very small extent, for the Germans, British, and French spy organizations, the spread of information was only a matter of time, and once they decided that the news of China's civil strife and the emperor's assassination would not be carried out, no one dared to guarantee that they would not take advantage of it. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Over the course of two days, Luo Ming captured more than 100 suspicious people in Hangzhou, and in order to prevent them from attracting the attention of others, he immediately executed them in secret.

When it was almost noon, Feng Xianghua came, "Zhang Yu's army has arrived in Tongzhou, waiting for the emperor's order at any time. ”

"Is there any reaction from Beijing?" Guan Xuqing cares very much about the capital, because there is his biggest enemy since he was in power.

"Without the consent of the emperor, the Ministry of War issued an order in the name of a minion. Transferred Wu Guang's troops to the east and south, saying that they wanted to ...... Counterinsurgency. "The military department is under the command of Feng Xianghua, but the strange thing is that orders have been issued frequently for several days, and they have not been known through the emperor and himself, which was unimaginable in the past.

"This shows that the people behind the scenes are going to make a move, and they are about to surface, which is good news for us. What is the situation in the Northwest? ”

"As soon as Wu Guang sent troops, Nie Shicheng and Jiang Chaozong followed your secret order, led their four divisions, assembled Shaanxi Bingbei Road, Xining Road, and wrapped up with the 9 counties under his jurisdiction to ambush the rebel 36th Division in the area of Huang Lao Ye Mountain, and fought a beautiful ambush, and when Wu Guang led the troops to chase back, the Fifth Division of the Third Division took advantage of the situation to advance westward from Taiyuan and Zhengzhou, and formed an encirclement with the Second Division of the First Division in the south, Wu Guang was like a fish trapped in a net, and when this net was tightened, his dream would come to an end." Feng Xianghua has been practicing with the emperor for many years, and now his judgment of the battle situation is also very accurate.

Guan Xuqing nodded with satisfaction, and inadvertently took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "Xianghua, how long have I been out of Beijing?" ”

"If the minister remembers correctly, it should be thirty-five days."

"Time is not short, it's time to return to Luan." Guan Xuqing looked at Feng Xianghua with an inquiring gaze.

"Now that the chaotic party has not been eliminated, there may be a lot of assassins sent to Hangzhou by Wu Guang, leaving Hangzhou at this time, in case ......," Feng Xianghua said worriedly.

"Wu Guang and the others all thought that I was in the dark, fighting in the northwest, how could they have time to listen to the affairs of Hangzhou, the other northeast, southeast, and southwest military regions were still firmly in my hands, and the rebels were just grasshoppers after the autumn. I'm just worried about Beijing, the person behind Wu Guang is secretly plotting a rebellion, and after a long time, I'm afraid that it will disrupt the situation in the court, and it will be difficult to clean it up at that time, so without further ado, let's get up immediately. Although Guan Xuqing is in Hangzhou, he still knows the political situation of the whole country.

"Do you want to inform Sun Shixiong and Xu Bangdao that they will send more people." Feng Xianghua knew that the emperor had always said the same, and no one could change what he decided.

"No need, this will attract the attention of others, it is enough to have Luo Ming's guard regiment and my royal forest army. When I'm tired, you can go back and rest for a while, and then set off in the evening. Guan Xuqing yawned, turned around and went back to the inner room.

The late autumn in Beijing has been a little chilly, Peng Yulin's mood is as solemn as the autumn color, and the air is still filled with the smell of burnt paper, and a secret telegram sent by Wu Guang just swept away his excitement in the past few days. Wu Guang is a trump card in his hand, whether the plan can succeed or not depends on whether the Northwest Army can smoothly advance eastward to control the heart of China in one fell swoop, and go south to control China's shipyards and arsenals, but the news just received is that Wu Guang's army is surrounded by the emperor's descendants like a tietong, according to this situation, this net will be tightened in a few days, and whether Wu Guang can break through at that time depends on his luck.

What is also a headache is that the two cavalry divisions in Mongolia and the 20 rifle battalions in Dagu and Weihai have not moved at all so far. The most infuriating thing is that the artillery division that the Russians promised at the beginning is still in Vladivok, and not a single soldier has been sent, and it is clear that they are watching their own jokes.

Now, he has to reconsider the assassination of Guangxu, who has been by this master's side for so many years, and knows his temperament too well. Emperor Guangxu's age-incompatible mind and terrifying city often made him feel at a loss, and he also reminded himself countless times that he must be cautious when doing things around this master. But who can resist the temptation of power throughout the ages, especially when Guangxu suddenly wanted to tour the south, he handed over the power of the prison country to himself, if he didn't do it at this time, I am afraid that there would be no chance in the future.

"Your Majesty, where are we going, we should go north when we go back to Beijing." As soon as Luan drove out of Hangzhou Mansion, Luo Ming inadvertently said a tiger word.

"There is no guarantee that there will be no remnants of the rebel party on the road to the north, and there are too many branches along the way." Feng Xianghua tried to figure out what the emperor meant.

"Xianghua is right, so I want to go all the way south and sit on our warship of the Qing Dynasty."

"Is the emperor going to abandon the land route and return to Beijing from the waterway without realizing it? Or the emperor thought it through. Luo Ming praised from the bottom of his heart.

Ten days later, the holy driver secretly came to the foot of Mawei Mountain on the bank of the Min River, where the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau, which was in charge of the Qing Dynasty's shipbuilding industry.

Liu Mingchuan, Liu Buyun, Shen Baozhen, Yan Fu, Lu Han, Xu Shoushan and other important officials received Feng Xianghua's secret telegram, and they did not dare to stay for a moment, and waited here early to greet the holy driver.

"The ministers respectfully invite the emperor to the Holy Ann!"

"I'm here. I'm just stopping by to take a look, Xianghua has to inform you in advance, so I can make a lot of noise. "Guan Xuqing's mood is very good, because the war in the northwest is going very smoothly, Wu Guang's team has been divided into several groups by the rebel army, under the heavy encirclement and pressure of hundreds of thousands of troops, many rebels have taken the initiative to lay down their arms, and now only Wu Guang is left to lead the 39th Division to resist stubbornly in the Tongguan area, and it is only a matter of time before they are annihilated. The Northwest soldiers can now be excluded from Guan Xuqing's sight.

"Let's go in and have a look." Accompanied by everyone, Guan Xuqing came to the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau with great interest. On the pillars on both sides of the front, engraved with a couplet of Shen Baozhen singing praises to Guangxu: based on a basket, there is no difficulty in the world since ancient times; To the new law of Jiuze, there are saints in present-day China.

"I only know that you are a rare general who commands the war, and I don't want to be inferior to Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao when I don't want to dance and write, after Rong Zhen returns to Beijing, I will simply transfer you to the Ministry of Education as an errand." Guan Xuqing's words amused Shen Baozhen and everyone present Since the establishment of the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau, Guan Xuqing has attached great importance to it, and I don't know how much silver has been allocated here in the past few years. After several years of development, the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau has been expanded many times, in addition to the original hammer iron factory (forging workshop), iron drawing plant (rolling workshop), water cylinder copper casting plant (power workshop), turbine factory (manufacturing boiler workshop), closing plant (installation workshop), iron casting plant (sand turning workshop), clock and watch factory (manufacturing instrument workshop), iron-striking factory (small forging workshop), sawing factory (sawing workshop), refractory brick factory ten branches, but also built iron cutting factory, mold factory, model factory, sail cable factory, timber factory, cannon factory, sampan factory, etc. The entire factory area is communicated with narrow grooves and rails, forming an interlocking production line. After the expansion, the original 4 slipways have been developed to 8, of which slipways 1 to 4 can be used to build small gunboats, fish and pedo ships with keel length of 100 meters and displacement of less than 4,000 tons; The newly built slipways No. 5 and No. 6 can build ships with keels up to 120 meters and a displacement of less than 8,000 tons; Slipways 7 and 8 can build super-large warships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons. The number of workers has also grown from two to three hundred at the beginning to more than 3,000 now.

To put it mildly, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau has become the largest, most well-equipped, and most professional machine shipbuilding unit in Asia, and at this time, the Yokohama shipyard in Japan employed less than 100 workers.

Many advanced equipment was imported by Guan Xuqing from Munich and Bremen in batches at great expense, and many technicians were also experts hired from Germany with high salaries. Guan Xuqing almost moved a world-class Munich shipyard here, a kind of boldness that no second head of state can do.

Guan Xuqing came to slipway 7 and 8, and the shadow cast by the two supergiants covered almost a third of the shipyard, which was the Zhonghua No. 1 and No. 2 battleships under construction.

The displacement of the two warships easily exceeded 10,000 tons, and the Zhonghua 1 reached a terrifying 15,000 tons, which was exactly twice that of the Dingyuan, and the Zhonghua 2 also reached 13,000 tons, with the thickness of the main armor exceeding 1,000 mm, and the caliber of the four main guns reaching 295 mm.

With such two sea giants, Guan Xuqing's confidence suddenly doubled, he boarded the deck of Zhonghua No. 1, looked at the blue sky, pointed to the distance, and said to the ministers behind him: "At this height, the world is trampled under our feet. ”

After leaving the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau, Guan Xuqing took the main cruiser Nanchen, escorted by the Nanyang Fleet, through the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and entered the Bohai Bay, and finally chose to land at Wei Naval Port. As soon as they landed, Deng Shichang, Wu Jingrong, Fang Boqian, Qiu Baoren, and other major generals of the Beiyang Fleet were all waiting on the shore for the holy pilot.

As soon as Guan Xuqing got off the boat, he was warmly welcomed by the students of Shandong Women's Normal University, who sent flowers one after another to express their sincere admiration for the prosperous emperor. Many female students were vying to see the emperor's demeanor, but Luo Ming's guard group was very busy.

Guan Xuqing was immersed in a field of flowers and applause, looked up at the bright sunshine, and felt extremely proud in his heart.

During his one-day stay in Shandong, Guan Xuqing inspected the Weihai Fleet and the Weihai Ship Terminal, which has the second largest annual throughput in Asia (the first in terms of throughput is the Shanghai Huangpu Ship Terminal). In the afternoon of the same day, he personally cut the ribbon for the unveiling ceremony of Daqing Investment Bank. Guan Xuqing wanted to raise construction funds from abroad through the Daqing Investment Bank, and at the same time purchased a large number of foreign bonds, and his ultimate goal was to control the capital chain of European and American countries. This ambition was not small, but it was believed that Guan Xuqing could do it, just as China could defeat the mighty Gauls.