"You've heard?"

"What did you hear?"

"Our Daqing Qincha and foreign devils are fucking fucking in Java!"

"Which one is such a gentleman?"

Yanjing's teahouse and restaurant suddenly stirred up from the usual comfort and tranquility, as well as leisurely and gentle.

The characters of the city, whether it is the flag or the Han. When they met, even Qian'er didn't play very neatly. Bumping his shoulders, he sat down and muttered about these topics.

The runner carried a copper teapot and forgot to add water. With a towel on his shoulder, his mouth wide open to listen to the whispers of the tea guests. The shopkeeper was lying on the counter, and the abacus beads kicked him so much that he didn't make a complete sound. The mind is completely in those voices.

Everyone's mood is tense and slightly excited. The entire teahouse air seemed to be tense.

In the corner of the Zhikeju teahouse, several men sat together, their ears standing high. These men are very strong, wearing dense-breasted jackets, crotch pants, and they are all high-ranking officials in the dart master's business. One of them has a beard on his face, and he looks forward to it, and he is the bearing of a big man in the rivers and lakes, and it is Xu Yifan's sworn brother Wang Wu. There were two young men beside him, one was Xu Yifan's brother-in-law Chen De, he rested his two fists on the table, and looked around at those tea customers with a little anticipation. I can't wait to put all the words of the tea guests into my ears, and the other is a young man with a round head and a round face, and the four tigers who often drive for Xu Yifan in the friends dart game. He clutched a raw-edged newspaper in his hand, and looked at it upside down, trying to memorize every word in his head.

The Qing Times sent the fastest way at that time to Yanjing, Liangjiang, Shanghai, Wuchang, and Hankou. This newspaper has only been published for the second time, and it has already shaken the world.

The chief writer of the newspaper is already a popular figure for a while, and the rising star Tan Sitong is famous for his book on the bus. And the reported news, the so-called comments written are even more shocking!

What happened in Surabaya, what Xu Yifan did, spread in the most exciting way. Originally, fighting foreign devils and raising the prestige of the country in the realm of foreigners are the things that ordinary people love to hear. Since Emperor Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, there are really not a few foreign devils who are angry, as long as they can raise their faces in front of foreign devils a little, they are all known as heroes under the stars. Xu Yifan led the ironclad warship into the South Seas, bombarded Surabaya, and saved his compatriots from the surging 100,000 rioters.

Word of mouth in the teahouse is the legend of these legends, which have been somewhat distorted. Among the readers, they pay more attention to the comments written by Tan Sitong. For the first time, they learned about the concept of dual citizenship and the fact that there are millions of compatriots who are related by blood in the South Seas. Knowing that any country encounters such atrocities, the first choice is to protect its expatriates by showing force. I know that the warship is the floating land of the Qing Dynasty, and I know the history of blood and tears of the Chinese in Java for hundreds of years...... Knowing everything Xu Yifan wanted to tell the subjects of the Great Qing Dynasty!

That Chu Wanli fought desperately, taking advantage of the fact that the Dutch colonial authorities had not fully restored order in Java, secretly occupied the Surabaya telegraph room and sent a telegram. gave Tan Sitong a lot of first-hand materials. Tan Gongzi's clear blood, after receiving this telegram signed by Xu Yifan, it was simply boiling!

As soon as the second issue of the Qing Times came out, Luoyang paper was expensive. In the Qing Dynasty, except for the imperial court and the prime minister's yamen, the Nanyang yamen lost their voices for a while, and they were so shocked that they didn't have time to react. The people immediately became boiling, as lively as something.

The season is clear. During the 189th year of Guangxu, it was the most dreary and gloomy time. After the Hongyang Rebellion, the whole country and the entire ruling institution were excited for a while by taking advantage of the last few famous ministers. Build a navy, recover Xinjiang provinces, quell the rebellion, the Westernization movement, the Sino-French war...... Now, it seems that the last bit of vitality has been exhausted, and it has reached the most lifeless time. Everyone knows that the national situation is slowly declining, and internal and external troubles are connected together, attacking people everywhere. The top and bottom can be perfunctory, but it is perfunctory, just to make up for this situation of leakage. Inside this iron house, they all felt that they were about to be breathless, but no one raised their arms and exhaled, bringing a refreshing feeling to the entire Qing Dynasty.

Today, in the nineteenth year of Guangxu, a member of the small Taoist Taiqin Mission, who is still unknown among the people, actually made such a big thing that shook the world and made the people feel that their waists were a little stiffer!

The entire Qing Dynasty, as long as the Qing Times disseminated it, was immersed in the discussion, praise, advocacy, and analysis of this legendary story of the bombardment of Surabaya.

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The sound of discussion in the teahouse was getting louder and louder, like a bathhouse with a pot boiling. The trio of friends were also listening attentively. These words, Wang Wu didn't worry less about his brother! He doesn't understand anything about the major matters of militaristic negotiations. On the one hand, I also felt that I was raising my eyebrows, and on the other hand, I was also subconsciously worried, my brother, don't be a loyal and filial son, but be framed by the court! The whole price was full, and he took a few people to sit in the teahouse and wine shop, listening to all kinds of strange discussions with their ears pricked up. I don't have the heart to take care of the dart game.

Just when people were already talking about slapping the table and slapping the bench, it was as if they had ordered the bombardment of Surabaya. I saw a surprisingly tall girl, carrying the burden of a purple flower skin. Big eyes flickered and blinked, biting his lip and walking towards the Zhikeju teahouse. A group of little children dragging snot slapped in the back and laughed and made trouble: "Yanma! Great Yanma! ”

This little girl is Chen Luoshi, and the little girl has long been accustomed to this kind of ridicule of her supermodel figure in later generations, and she doesn't care at all.

As soon as she stepped into the teahouse, the sound of discussion inside came to her face.

"Tell me, what does the imperial court mean?"

"This ...... It's hard to say. Anyway, as soon as the news came out, many princes and ministers, not to mention their faces, burned high incense when they went home, but they breathed a sigh of relief! Let's bully those foreign devils miserably! But Old Man Liu of the Black Flag Army won the battle, but he was not sent to the island of Taiwan to stay alive or dead? Devil Li is here, I see Lord Xu hanging! Why are you thinking about foreign devils so much now, calling foreign devils daddy? ”

"Didn't Mr. Tan say it in the newspaper? Behind these negotiations still depends on the strength of the country. The Dutch red-haired devil, a small country, is far less powerful than the British and French countries. We have more Beiyang warships than theirs. If we retreat like this, we ordinary people will really not be able to live, and sooner or later, the ancestral grave will be occupied by foreign devils! ”

"That's right, if we back down, what kind of Qing Kingdom will we become!"

"Devil Li is here, I'm looking at it...... Besides, Lord Xu is still in the realm of foreign devils, tell me, if they imprison Lord Xu, then what should happen? ”

Chen Luoshi stood at the door, and heard a few words of worry about Xu Yifan. The girl's face turned white at once, and she bit her lip and didn't go in, nor did she retreat. There was a mist flickering in his eyes. At Wang Wu's table, he immediately saw Chen Luoshi's tall figure. Chen De suddenly had an angry face, stood up and ran to Chen Luoshi. lowered his voice and said fiercely: "When will the girls be able to enter the teahouse and wine shop?" Do you still want to be shameless? Isn't at home to serve your father, what are you doing running out? Itchy skin again? Mayu's hurry up and get me home! ”

Chen Luoshi lowered her head and listened to Chen De's reprimand, but this time she shook her head stubbornly: "I won't go back, Brother Xu is in the realm of foreign devils, and I want to look for him." The head killer is also with him, brother...... I have long been a member of the Xu family. If I don't accompany him at this time, what will it become? ”

Chen De's face was blue, since he set Xu Yifan's family. As soon as the news came out this time, he had never been so proud in his life! The person who knew that his sister-in-law had promised Xu Yifan would invite wine and dinner when she saw him. patted him on the shoulder and praised him that this brother-in-law is a good man and a loyal minister! Walking in the courtyard of the congregation, your head will be tilted up to the sky. I wish everyone knew that he was Xu Yifan's brother-in-law. Although he is illiterate, he is not as good as the four tigers who can read and write. But every day I went out into the streets to listen to what others were saying.

Hearing my sister say this today, Erdezi also feels reasonable. The sister has made a promise, although she hasn't passed the door yet, but it's also the Xu family. If Xu Yifan is really as people talk about, if he doesn't make a good scene, he will be charged with killing his head and stealing his family to fill the army, and they Chen family, don't shrink back at this time. No matter what, I have to accompany Xu Yifan to sing a meat mound! Otherwise, how do you think of their old Chen family?

As soon as he thought of this, Er Dezi couldn't scold a little, and looked at his tall girl with frowns: "If you want to say it, what you say is also reasonable." You are from the Xu family...... But where is Java...... I didn't get to the place where I could learn the scriptures in the west that day! It is said that there are tens of thousands of miles away from our Qing Dynasty, how do you get there? ”

Chen Luoshi sniffled and told his brother that he wanted to cry.

"Brother, didn't I secretly want to come to the fifth master? Let's see if the fifth master can think of any way...... I can't just let Cuckoo accompany me! Brother, can you help me beg the fifth master......"

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At Prince Gong's mansion, at this time. But it was a peaceful atmosphere.

In the glass pavilion in the back garden that Xu Yifan once visited, the devil Liuyi, and the old man Weng Changshu Weng were sitting straight across from each other, waiting to drink tea according to the etiquette above the tea ceremony.

Inside the glass pavilion, the fragrance of tea floats, and on the red clay stove, the blue flames flicker silently. The pair of lovely twins who made Xu Yifan's twin Luo Likong famous all over the world are wearing lamb jackets. One has a tea set, and the other has a stove. The two little girls have bright eyes, although they are not very old, they can already see that they are first-class characters who have captivated the country and the city.

But the protagonists who are concentrating on the fire and preparing to serve tea are not them. It's a flag-dressed girl, about twenty-three or fourteen years old, although she doesn't have the charm and brightness of the two little girls and maids around her. But it has a beautiful and elegant bearing. She hasn't opened her face yet, and there is no one in ten thousand who is a flag woman, like someone of this age.

This woman's complexion is as white as jade, and her eyebrows are beautiful, which makes people forget about vulgarity at first sight.

The sound of gurgling flowers and bubbling sounded, and the flag girl looked at the brown. Personally lifted the Jun porcelain teapot that had rained through the sky, and calmly teaed a little in front of the two old men. The turquoise tea slowly descended, stirring up white chips on the edge of the lamp, and it rippled in circles.

Yi Yi clapped his hands and smiled: "Old man? Convincing? I bit the cup at once, my granddaughter's tea art is the first in the country! ”

Old Man Weng just smiled and arched his hand: "Sigege is the first talented woman in the clan, and Lafayette praises it." Xia Guan has never said anything unconvinced, so don't want to wronged me. ”

The two little Lori maids picked up the tea cup and handed it to them, and the two old men smelled the tea first, and then identified the color of the tea. And then it's all about it.

Putting down the teacup, Weng Tonghe said softly: "Lord Wang, what do you think?" ”

Yi Li didn't look at him, but smiled lightly: "Last time, in order to train the Praetorian Guard, the old man made a shameless mess in the hands of Xu Yifan and Tan Sitong and these two kids, and now I dare to get involved?" Weng Shuping, you can spare my old bones. ”

Weng Tonghe smiled bitterly: "In this matter of foreign negotiations, who in the capital can still go to the prince?" Even the emperor and Galeries Lafayette will ask your opinion from time to time...... This time, that kid made a lot of noise. Now the whole dynasty is up and down, especially the fourth in the world, all of them are as big as a bucket, and they don't know how to cook. The Dutch minister has already come to negotiate with great momentum, and the other foreign devil countries in the legation are also expressing concern...... Li Hongzhang didn't say a word, waiting to see our jokes. Tell me, are we going to lock up Xu Yifan and pay compensation to the Dutch, or what should we do? ”

Yi Yi just gently played with the teacup: "I really want to lock up that guy who pretends to be stupid, I think it's difficult...... The Qing Times has already shaken the world, and the people's morale is boiling like a tide. are all saying that we have been practicing sailors and training camps for more than ten years, and we have made such concessions to a small country in the Netherlands, so how can we explain to the world? I also understand that there are many people in the legation who want to take advantage of the fire to rob, and there are really few people who are in the same breath as the Netherlands. If we really want to make concessions to the Netherlands, how many countries will we have to make concessions to the Netherlands? The Sino-French war has collapsed a group of clear streams, old man, do you want to follow in their footsteps? ”

Listening to the devil's words, Weng Tonghe's face suddenly became unspeakably ugly. He just groaned and didn't speak. The flag girl beside her suddenly sneered softly.

Yi Yi turned his face and smiled: "Xiuning, what are you thinking?" ”

The banner girl named Xiuning just smiled lightly and accepted it: "I can also understand the thoughts of Weng Zhongtang and the military aircraft, the prime minister's yamen princes, and the princes of Nanbeiyang." Xu Yifan also made trouble, so he wanted to find a scapegoat to bear this responsibility. Xu Yifan is a Taoist who is ordered to train soldiers, and Beiyang wants to push this relationship to Yanjing. And in the capital, I thought that it was the cannon fired by the Beiyang Naval Division's warships, and this big staker should be borne by Beiyang...... Weng Zhongtang, you are also in the intention of the military aircraft everyone, come to explore the tone of the sixth grandfather, and see if you can push this responsibility to Beiyang? As for what happened to Xu Yifan, you don't care. ”

Xiuning's voice was light and faint, and Weng Tonghe's face changed greatly, and in the end, he only smiled faintly and lowered his head to drink tea.

Na Xiuning's eyes just watched her pair of maids continue to put tea, signaling how they should move from time to time. He said softly: "The key now is two points, one is how Lafayette thinks about this matter." Galeries Lafayette is now leisurely and prosperous, if you give in to foreign devils, you will lose money again. The household library can run mice, can Lafayette be happy with this? bowed his head to the red-haired ghost of the Netherlands, and Lafayette's long-lived dignity could not be hung up. We didn't apologize for losing money to the French! ”

Weng Tonghe had already listened attentively, and even forgot to cover his face with a tea cup. Today, he came to Prince Gong's mansion, first, as Xiuning said, to probe his old man's tone. After all, Yi Li is an old man in the clan, and he is also an old man in negotiations, so there is no harm in listening to his opinions. This is also the meaning of the military aircraft princes who have become ants on the hot pot. The second is to explore the tone of Xiuning Gege, the sixth granddaughter of the late Prince Melxian. Who doesn't know that this Xiuning Gege is one of the juniors of the clan who can speak the most in front of Lafayette?

Xiuning Gege is known as a talented woman in the clan, and she has a special emphasis on piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and even Western learning. has always been loved by several old princes of the clan as a baby, but he has not married at the age of twenty-three.

He listened intently, as if to a guest. And Xiuning also talked indifferently: "The second is the public opinion of the government and the opposition, I don't know how the news of Tan Daring in the Qing Times is so well-informed, and the pen is very powerful." Our dynasty is now supported by the local governor and the ministers, our banner clan, and the clear stream of the imperial court. The foundation of our existence is to maintain a balance in the midst of this. But now the governors and ministers are powerful and powerful, and there are behemoths like Beiyang. We have lost this clear stream of public opinion again, do the old man think we can still restrain Beiyang? Don't forget the big picture at any time! ”

Yi Yi just touched his beard, Weng Tonghe peeked at the famous palace Sigege, and Xiuning's slender eyebrows didn't move. It's just that the faint began to divide the tea again. The twin little sisters are also scattered with heavy cloth tea sets. It seems that the words of the Yuedan Dynasty just now did not come from the mouth of this beautiful and elegant woman.

The woman is in politics, and the hen is in the morning, which is not the blessing of the country......

But the emperor still has a Queen Mother Lafayette on his head, and this matter is just a slander.

Weng Tonghe looked upright and said with a wry smile: "Don't you care about Xu Yifan?" Your Majesty, they are all in suspense. ”

Xiuning smiled: "Old man Weng, this time the matter involves the imperial court and Beiyang, and the sailor is also involved." Don't you think this is the best time to divide the North Ocean? I admire Xu Yifan very much, he is just a karate platform, and he can actually summon the two warships of the Beiyang Naval Division. This man can be of great use! As long as it is supported, in the land of Gyeonggi, it is completely possible to train a Praetorian Guard to come out, divide the excessive military power of Beiyang, and truly become the momentum of Mount Tai. And the Beiyang Naval Division, which is now controlled by Li Hongzhang, may not be able to nail the nails......"

The two old men listened attentively, and just touched their beards. Even the tea forgot to drink. Just let the fragrance of tea waft there.

At this time in the Qing Dynasty, the prevention of the inside is more important than the prevention of the outside. These words, among these people in power, are extremely understandable. even forgot about the big trouble Xu Yifan caused for a while.

Xu Yifan's telegram arrived at the Prime Minister's Yamen first, and it already made people feel stunned, thinking that this two hundred and five were talking crazy. The military aircraft on duty did not even dare to submit the draft of this telegram. It wasn't until the Dutch minister came back to negotiate that everyone felt that the sky was falling. The cannonballs of the Qing Dynasty devils were not less, and the Old Summer Palace was burned. But I've never fired like this in the realm of foreign devils! How do you handle this? Tan Sitong's Qing Times is also coming in a blink of an eye. Every military plane secretly bought a copy and watched. Tough treatment of Tan Sitong's proposition, gunboat negotiations. Although I felt happy in my heart, no one dared to say it. It was there for a while. Weng Tonghe came over this time because the military plane really had no way to do anything, and he wanted to ask for some ideas from the mouth of Prince Gong, an old foreigner of the clan. Unexpectedly, this matter, in Xiu Gege's mouth, turned out another layer of meaning!

Yi Yi nodded and smiled at Weng Tonghe, but the old man just smiled bitterly.

Xiu Gege said very reasonably, and he was thinking about the long-term stability of our country. It's really deafening. The right to divide Beiyang, that's still a matter later, this mess in front of us, how do we deal with it? I'm not afraid of Xiugege's jokes, we really have no way, no one can afford this responsibility......"

The current bureaucratic system of the Qing Dynasty is already a complete ostrich mentality. These bureaucrats, trained according to the procedures of traditional scholars and doctors, are completely unable to cope with the changes unseen in the past 3,000 years. All the thoughts are to hope that the trouble will not come to your head. Now Weng Tonghe pulled down his old face and said that there was no way to deal with it, which was really not a lie.

Xiuning smiled lightly, and there was a hint of wisdom in the gentleness.

"If you can't deal with it, why don't you just deal with it. Entrust Xu Yifan with the title of Minister of Negotiation and let him be stationed in Surabaya, so let him handle the negotiation matters with all his might? ”

Weng Tonghe's mouth opened widely, and he just muttered, "How can this be?" How can this be? ”

Xiuning picked up the teacup and just smiled, only a shallow dimple at the corner of her mouth on her white jade-like skin.

"Why not? It is completely possible to compare the example of the Ili negotiations in Xinjiang Province in those years, which failed and the countries were pressured. Just kill his head, and then change a minister to clean up the whole situation. When he died, the resentment of the nations was gone. We also have a room for maneuver. In case he actually did it, and the matter started because of him, and because of him, what responsibility did the princes have? Whether it's Lafayette or the emperor, you can't blame the princes, right? ”

Weng Tonghe slapped him violently, and almost said a good word!

This responsibility is indeed pushed cleanly at once. At least at least, these central princes can postpone facing this major matter for a while, and Qingliu can also explain it. It is indeed the best way to deal with it at the moment!

He couldn't sit still at the moment, stood up and wanted to say goodbye: "Xiu Gege, the old man is on the ground!" The subordinate immediately went back to discuss this matter with the central princes. As for Galeries Lafayette, it's better to tell Galeries Lafayette what you mean......"

Xiuning restrained her smile, and the small dimple was closed in a flash.

"A woman with a small bow in my shoes, she only eats white rice and is not idle. Lord Weng, this is over......"

Weng Tonghe smiled to himself: "The old man lost his words, lost his words!" Sixth Prince, Xiu Gege, farewell! ”

Naturally, there were palace guards to send this old man away. Yi Yi just owes himself and should be sent off. When he sat back, he looked at his granddaughter.

"Ah Xiu, didn't you help Xu Yifan? If he can struggle to come back, he will really pay you a door and send a protégé post...... Accept such a two-hundred-and-five-year-old student, aren't you afraid that he will abduct your beloved maids? ”

Xiuning looked at her pair of handmaidens who had been selected by thousands of people, and the two little girls had pretty faces, so they secretly didn't look over. The demeanor is exactly the same. This kind of natural coquettishness made an old man like Yi Li, who was already a dry well, cough quickly to cover it up.

Xiuning stood up with a smile, walked behind Yi Li, and gently pinched the old man's shoulder, his eyes shining: "Sixth grandfather, I really expect this Xu Daotai to handle this negotiation...... What happened in Surabaya this time really surprised me. This character has responsibility, courage, and madness. Maybe it's such a character who can help the crisis......"

"Helping the Needy?" Yi Yi just smiled bitterly in his heart. People are old, and after all these years of ups and downs, the old man has already seen everything.

"I'm afraid that he is a capable minister who rules the world, and a hero who destroys the troubled times......"

No one heard the old man's heart.

(To be continued)