Xu Yifan asked suddenly, but there was a smile on his face. Li Daxiong's face changed, and in a blink of an eye, he acted as if nothing had happened. He just clenched the wine glass in his hand.

Seeing that Xu Yifan was here, Cao Tianen, who was holding the plate, hurriedly followed. This consul was full of thoughts, and even the addiction to smoking was forced. Desperately resisted in the oily German pig hand. I'm afraid that these two hundred and five will make some jokes at the governor's banquet. rushed over and heard Xu Yifan's questioning. Immediately, the expression on his face froze a little.

Several people were silent, and Xu Yifan's eyes just swirled on Li Daxiong's face. Li Daxiong gritted his teeth and did not speak. Xu Yifan said slowly: "I know that your Li family is a prominent family, and you have a lot of worries. You want to use a few dollars to send me away...... You touch your chest and ask your conscience. In the past, I was afraid that no one would take care of it, but you put up with it. Now that someone is in charge, what are you thinking? In the end, do you still want to come to a Red River Stream? ”

Li Daxiong's face changed again, and he still didn't speak. At the time of the stalemate, Chuck and Detann had already hurried over. Chu Ke's eyes swept away, and the foreign woman beside Li Daxiong hurriedly pulled him. Li Daxiong gritted his teeth and smiled: "My lord, we are businessmen, please rest assured about raising salaries." I really don't know anything else. Thank you for your understanding. ”

Cao Tianen secretly pulled Xu Yifan's elbow behind him: "Your Excellency, ......" Chu Ke smiled beside him: "Your Excellency, how do you feel about this Surabaya milk satay?" There is no such flavor in Europe, but I am afraid that Your Excellency will also find it fresh, right? ”

Li Daxiong had already quietly bowed and left, Xu Yifan turned around and smiled at Chu Ke: "Well, the milk is good, it's the veal inside, I don't know if it's not hot." How did you taste the smell of blood coming out? ”

He arched his hand with a smile and said to Cao Tianen: "Brother Cao, if you are troublesome, let's arrange my brother's attaché." Today, I have been tired all the way, and the Governor has been graciously entertained, which is really heartfelt. Brother has to go and rest. One day, I will also hold a banquet for the Governor. ”

Chuck froze there, tugging at his lips and smiling. All the way over, I had already looked at Xu Yifan's unpleasant adjutant Lieutenant Colonel De Tanen, and looking at Xu Yifan's casual appearance, the wine glass in his hand almost fell over.

Xu Yifan clenched his fists and said goodbye in German. and a thoughtful bow. Turn around and go. Chuck smiled back and motioned for his lieutenant to see him off.

Until the group went far away and watched Lieutenant Colonel Detann return, Chuck stood there coldly. The expression was grim.

"Your Excellency Governor, do you want to keep their consulate under surveillance?"

"Two cruisers here, we can't go too far...... Let's hope not much happens this time. Public service in the colonies is really a good place to reduce people's life expectancy......"

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On the way back to the consulate, Xu Yifan didn't put that walking score anymore. and Cao Tianen squeezed on top of a beautiful two-wheeled carriage. Consul Cao's attaché quietly handed over two cigarette bubbles. Cao Tianen took advantage of Xu Yifan's eyes to look left and right, swallowed it with his sleeve covered, and swallowed it straight to his neck. Suddenly let out a long breath.

Dozens of attachés silently followed behind the carriage and went straight to the consulate under the escort of foreign soldiers and policemen. There were many fewer indigenous youths gathered on the street in a blink of an eye, and many Chinese shops also quietly removed half of the door panels to see the surrounding scenery.

Xu Yifan looked around, finally dropped his head, looked at Cao Tianen and smiled: "Lord Cao likes to fiddle with this thing?" ”

Cao Tianen smiled bitterly: "Actually, there is no addiction, it's just playing for fun...... "The eyes of these two poles are really poisonous!"

Xu Yifan nodded and said with a smile: "What's going on with this situation in Surabaya?" What kind of character is this Li Daxiong? ”

Cao Tianen just smiled bitterly: "My lord, you don't care about this." The Li family has already opened his mouth to pay 300,000 taels of silver, and no member of the committee who came to raise salaries has such a face. You can finish the errand in style. ”

As long as you leave the territory of foreigners, you don't have to worry about Xu Yifan getting into trouble. Cao Tianen is not so afraid of this Qincha Daotai. The consul of the iron fight, the yamen of the flowing water...... Once you return home, who cares about him.

Xu Yifan sneered: "Okay, since the old brother is hiding it, I won't ask more." Anyway, I'm a member of the Qincha Propaganda Committee, and I have an official note. So I set up a guard of honor and went around. Can foreign devils stop me? It's all your brother's business to provoke negotiations. ”

This is the threat of a naked scoundrel, Cao Tianen wants to throw his sleeves and turn his face. But it doesn't make sense. After all, the system is here, Xu Yifan is a messenger! What did he really provoke, and the consul yamen in charge of local negotiations didn't want to top the cylinder? Who pushed this guy to himself?

Chu Wanli, who was riding a horse and following the car, lowered his head and smiled. He heard all the conversations, and Xu Yifan, a guy who didn't play cards according to the rules, made the entire rigid bureaucracy suffer a lot of dumb losses. Calculate, I don't know how to deal with it, I don't care, I can't help it. Since his debut, he has been almost invincible. It's just that you can deal with it now, and after you get to the top and power in the future, can you still be so free?

He straightened up on the back of the horse, and looked at his brother Li Yunzong on the left and right shoulders, but he was riding on the horse, his face expressionless. The look of a standard soldier.

Cao Tianen sighed in the car, and finally told the story from the beginning.

The Chinese community has always had too many disputes with the colonial authorities and the indigenous people in the establishment of Chinese schools. The Chinese community did control most of the resources and wealth of Nanyang. The colonial authorities had long wanted to treat this wealth-creating group as a cow that could be milked at any time. I never wanted the Chinese community to be too strong. The same is true of the cohesive educational tradition of the Chinese people. In order to balance the local rule. The colonial authorities never allocated funds for the construction of Chinese schools. The Chinese raised their own funds and persuaded donations for Chinese schools every time, although they were ridiculed by the Chinese themselves as the second type of personal income tax for the Chinese. But there has never been a shortage, only doubled. On the Dutch side, it also has to get stuck in the review of Chinese school qualifications every spring. I don't look at whether you are short of funds, but you are stubbornly grasping a certain proportion, and when you reach the bottom line, you will not be allowed to open any more private Chinese schools regardless of the number of places in private Chinese schools.

Not only that, but also in terms of local administration, public service, police, etc. Except for the white colonists who occupied most of the important positions, the rest were basically left to the local natives. It doesn't matter if they have this level of education or this ability. Do your best to suppress the Chinese community.

Over the years, with the Qing Dynasty, the country has gradually opened. The number of Chinese in Java has increased dramatically. Especially when the Hongyang Rebellion disturbed the south a few decades ago, a large number of Chinese migrated to the South Seas. As the population increases, there must be more Chinese schools. The importance that Chinese people attach to education is unimaginable to most other ethnic groups.

However, the establishment of new Chinese schools was not allowed by the rigid Dutch colonial authorities.

In this case, there is only a secret setting.

In the past few decades, batches of "illegal" Chinese schools have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Cultivate batches of descendants who know their roots there, speak Chinese, practice Chinese etiquette, and are equally hardworking and kind.

The local indigenous people have always been interested in the economic success of the Chinese. They chew betel nut and drink milk smoothies all day long. When lazily lying around basking in the sun. The Chinese worked hard in the rice fields, on the plantations, on the rubber plantations, in small factories. is doing business in harmony, and is desperately saving family property. They believe that it is the Chinese who have squeezed their position and deprived them of their wealth. And the white people, consciously or unconsciously, are agitating this!

For these private Chinese schools, the indigenous people have always regarded them as a thorn in the flesh, and these yellow-skinned children have been cultivated from generation to generation. It will continue to multiply until it covers the entire land of the South Seas!

Radical indigenous populations gradually organized over the past few decades. Constantly impacting these private Chinese schools. Assaulting students and teachers, burning school buildings. Scattered and fragmented have never been broken. The Dutch, on the other hand, consider it to be an unregistered and illegal place, absolutely unmanaged!

If it were in the past, the kind Chinese might have swallowed their anger. But with the large number of immigrants who moved after the Hongyang Rebellion. Many of them are the remnants of the Southern Hongmen, the Tiandi Society, and even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which failed to build the Qing Dynasty. These strong-blooded immigrants combined to form a secret party. It also received the covert support of a local Chinese family. There were also some moves to counter violence with violence. The bamboo net dragon hall is gradually taking shape in Nanyang.

The colonial authorities and the natives were concerned about such a combination. The Chinese are already so smart and capable, and if they are organized in a group, then they have to do it?

In recent years, the campaign against the Chinese community has become more and more intense. A few days ago, it was said that the four Chinese schools in Surabaya were privately set up, and they were immediately rushed in by thousands of indigenous thugs with baleng knives, killing people and setting fires, killing and injuring dozens of people!

The Chinese protested, but the Governor of East Java Province actually did not accept it!

The Chinese community held secret consultations, and all Chinese schools spontaneously formed a team of school nurses. The indigenous peoples also gradually converged with the disguised connivance of the colonial authorities. Although it is calm now, it is only the calm before the storm......

Looking at Cao Tianen's bitter face, he couldn't wait to become an ostrich and didn't want to take care of these troublesome things. Xu Yifan's fire didn't hit one place and went out. In the end, he finally calmed down and said coldly: "Lord Cao, don't you negotiate with you?" A helping hand for your own compatriots? ”

Cao Tianen's eyes widened, as if he felt that what he had heard was the most incredible thing: "Negotiation? For this thing? The previous presidents of the British government did not call the prime minister's yamen, hoping to authorize the negotiations. But the meaning of the imperial court, this is someone's internal affairs! These Chinese have long been not the people of the Celestial Empire, so why should we take care of it? Who let them go to the sea, lost the tomb of their ancestors and came here to suffer......"

Xu Yifan's eyes became colder and colder, and it seemed that the fire was about to run out of his head. Cao Tianen swallowed a mouthful of spit and suppressed his voice uneasily.

Xu Yifan just smiled helplessly in the end, if these officials can be counted on, what are they so scheming for? Anyway, there is no one who is threatened by the danger here!

He suppressed the fire, smiled reluctantly, and asked again: "What kind of character is this Li Daxiong?" ”

Cao Tianen shrugged his shoulders, it seems that he has been dealing with foreign devils for a long time, and he has learned a little bit of their habits: "It's not a character." ”

"What?" Xu Yifan was surprised, that Li Daxiong's bearing is extraordinary, and he is carrying a foreign wife, but in the mouth of this official consul, is he not a character?

Speaking of gossip, Cao Tianen came to the spirit and said: "Who doesn't know Surabaya and even Java." Li Huang, Zheng Shen, Chen Sijiaer? Among them, especially the Li family is the leader, and there are countless branches. Every time the Li family's 'Youmutang' clan meeting is really full of thousands of people. These Nanyangs, rich and evil! No matter how big the tide is, it can't blow the Li family's head, and they are in contact in several aspects! Chinese associations, they donated money, opened schools, set up ancestral halls, and sent money to the men of the boxing club who nursed the school. The indigenous people give them how much money they spend every year to distribute food and clothes. In front of the foreigners, they are the president of the General Chamber of Commerce, the great gentleman of Surabaya, and there is a seat in the advisory bureau...... This Li Daxiong is just the second son of the old man, the current patriarch of the Li family. Married a foreign daughter-in-law - I heard that it is still a broken shoe! Tell me, married to foreign broken shoes, what kind of important character is this? It's just a liaison used by the old man of the Li family to deal with foreigners. According to the rules, none of them can go to the genealogy of their own clan, and they can't enter the ancestral tomb, what else can they be great?

Don't look at the place where he has a foothold on the governor's seat, but he is just a person who communicates between foreigners and the Li family. He said that the Chamber of Commerce would raise 300,000 yuan for adults, and that was what the old man of the Li family meant! Don't care too much about such people...... But speaking of which, the girl born to a foreign woman and our Chinese man is surprisingly beautiful. It's hard to describe, although I always feel awkward when I look at it, but the skin is ...... white."

Xu Yifan hurriedly coughed, and Cao Tianen reacted and stopped. Awkward smile. Obediently shut up and didn't speak. This water is much deeper than you think...... These Chinese families are the main force in raising salaries in the future. But it's all ingrained. All aspects are in contact, thinking that it is as stable as Mount Tai. No matter what, it won't fall. They don't know that the higher their status, the more wealth they have, and behind them is a weak and conservative country, then they have always lived above the crater! One husband advocates chaos, and a thousand husband responds. Yin Jian is not far away, in the world after summer!

He patted the car with hatred, which startled Cao Tianen. The curtain of the car window seat was lifted. But it was Li Yunzong who was vigilantly bowing his head and asking, "My lord, what is the matter?" ”

Xu Yifan closed his eyes and thought about it, and said categorically: "Yunzong, prepare a sticker for me, and send it to the Li family here that night." Said that I will visit tomorrow, mother's, I have to find out what these guys who can't be blown by the eight winds think! ”

Li Yunzong whispered yes and lowered the curtain of the car window. With Che Cao Tianen, he had already closed his eyes and closed his eyes like the Bodhisattva, ignoring them. He thought about it completely, and he couldn't control it. There is no way to take these two hundred and five, I can only hope that there will be less trouble at that time, and that is Amitabha Buddha......

The car was quiet for a moment, and the front of the convoy suddenly stirred again. There was also the shouting of foreign soldiers and policemen outside the escort procession. Cao Tianen was so frightened that his body trembled: "The natives are making trouble? In front of foreigners? ”

Xu Yifan ignored him, pushed open the side door of the Western-style carriage and looked ahead. I saw two Chinese young men suddenly squeezing desperately into the middle of the road, shouting in a very non-standard official language: "Lord Qincha, we want to make a statement!" ”

The foreign police desperately pushed them out with the butts of their guns, and the surrounding indigenous policemen also beat them with batons over their heads. They just hugged their heads. is still desperately shouting: "Lord Qincha, we want to plead!" ”

Before Xu Yifan could make a color, Li Yunzong had already jumped off his horse and rushed over, followed by seven or eight apprentices. Forcefully push away the most ferocious indigenous policeman. The small body of the locals was almost thrown out by Li Yunzong! The foreign soldiers were furious and blocked them with the butts of their guns. The students are not vegetarians, and they are used to following Xu Yifan. His mind was full of the honorary spirit of an officer instilled by Xu Yifan. Immediately, they were on the same page, and some people were going to pull their belts. Li Yun rushed to the front and held the two young men with one hand. He suddenly moved, raised his hand, and several students suddenly stopped. With his gesture slowly backing away. The mouth is full of low-voiced national curses.

The team of students who were stirring up also quieted down with Li Yunzong's movements, and they all looked at them, the most indifferent and silent captain Goshha who was actually the most fierce in his heart. This is also Xu Yifan's rule, subordinates must have a spirit of obedience to their superiors. Li Yunzong didn't let them move, and they could only endure it!

The foreign soldiers had the upper hand and proudly pushed back the two Chinese youths who had been beaten with blue noses and swollen faces. The indigenous policemen wore rattan shell hats and fake tigers and stood beside them and made a noise. Li Yun straightened his face and retreated. Xu Yifan leaned against the car door and glanced at his subordinate, and asked in a low and relaxed voice, "What's the change?" ”

Li Yunzong silently closed the car door for him, and handed a roll of paper to Xu Yifan's palm.

Hmph, if it weren't for this sudden change just now, Li Yunzong would have had to fight with foreign soldiers. If you don't have this blood surname, then don't mix under him.

Xu Yifan glanced at his subordinates with satisfaction and sat back. The paper roll in his hand was wet, and he didn't know if it was the blood or sweat of the two Chinese youths.

What the hell is it that they risk their lives to give away such a thing?

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"The little people risked death and wept blood, calling for the help of the Celestial Empire! Foreigners and natives, in the land of Java. Regard me Chinese as a deceitful person. Humiliation, humiliation, beating, slaughter, burning. The blood and sweat of Chinese workers in Java are innumerable. Even if the offspring never forget the Chinese school of the Celestial Empire, there are thugs who destroy it! What is the innocent of my Huamin, how innocent is my Huatong? I, a Chinese youth, combined with one place, resolutely resisted violence and protected our family. However, in a remote place, unarmed, and full of blood, what are the indigenous thugs supported by foreigners?

The adults came with two ironclad ships, and the entourage was reorganized, and the department was full of people. There is also the name of the Qin messenger to negotiate and proclaim the appeasement. The small people were willing to raise funds to purchase the ordnance carried by the big soldiers. There is a breath in the chest, when such thugs, foreigners with ill intentions are circling to the end. Lord Wanwang is gracious and observant!

At 10 o'clock tonight, the servants will be on the side of the consulate and lead the adults to meet them. A group of exiles, full of blood and sincerity. Serve it before adults. Lord Wanwang thought of us and the lonely chicks of the Celestial Empire. Grace saves water and fire! ”

A note was spread out on the table in the apartment of the Surabaya consulate where Xu Yifan stayed. The handwriting on the note was dense and sloppy. It seems to be written in cursive. The air of gloom and grief is in this short sentence.

Xu Yifan smiled and looked at the few people sitting in the room looking at each other: "What do you think?" Others can ask us for help. Our two military ships are staying in Surabaya and not leaving, and we are doing this when we enter the city, others can count on us. Ask for a while this night, shall we go? ”

said that it was everyone, but it was Li Yunzong and Chu Wanli. Zhang Yu and Xu Yifan were a little wary of him, and on this occasion, he would not say a word more than his duty as a housekeeper. Just send him outside to guard this secret discussion. The little girl Du Juan didn't understand this, and she was still busy helping Xu Yifan sort out her luggage on the side. It's such a hot day in Surabaya, so the little girl dresses thinly all of a sudden, and she doesn't have to pretend to be a man when she arrives at the place. Changed into women's clothes and untied the straps that bound her breasts. The face was covered with fine beads of sweat, and with a slight movement, the chest of the overdeveloped girl trembled. It seems to be revenge for the grievances suffered in the chest of those people in the past.

It's a pity that this bit of fragrant and glamorous feelings, Xu Yifan is not in the mood at all now. After reading it, I didn't see it, and my mind was full of the current situation in Surabaya turning around in my mind.

Li Yun didn't squint, just looked at Xu Yifan.

Chu Wanli looked east and west, and his gaze even slipped over the cuckoo. He whistled a long whistle and made a gesture of crumpling up and throwing it away.

Xu Yifan smiled: "What? Don't want to bother with this? ”

Chu Wanli smiled: "It depends on what the adults think." Raising salaries and raising salaries is not counting on those big families. If we follow their hair, these people are in Surabaya, and help them temporarily calm down the tide below. and then take the foreigners with the help of warships. The two heads are majestic, and it is estimated that there are more than 300,000. Millions may not be impossible to fall into the hands. A million is enough to do a little thing, and now we can't manage this, and we can't manage it...... If the adults see farther, I will listen to the adults. ”

Li Yunzong also shook his head slowly: "I listen to adults, but this night is a secret meeting." It's a bit of a child's play, it's too dangerous...... But if it were me, I would help them. ”

The cuckoo listened to their discussion, but his eyes widened and he did things silently.

This Chu Wanli is a Chinese Machiavellian, who pays attention to absolute interests, and does not care about the means of discrediting. The real mind can be hidden deeply. This fox ......

Xu Yifan looked at him and Li Yunzong, loyal enough! He said another word of approval in his heart. And it's hot enough! Outwardly indifferent, he just used it to deal with a society he didn't like.

He knocked on the note, smiling: "First, any decision, you must collect enough information to deal with it." If you don't look here, don't listen there, how can you gather enough information to judge? We have to go to the family, foreigners have to deal with, these hot-blooded Chinese wanderers, we also have to listen to their thoughts. There will be a global judgment, so that when things are decided, there can be fewer mistakes...... Secondly, we are going to be an army in the future, and if you think about it, this army will inevitably have to fight for a certain belief. This is also the principle and bottom line of this army, otherwise, it is better to train a new army like the Huai Army. There is no money to fight in the war, and the charge will be hung with a red reward, and if it is defeated, it will rush and collapse...... Tell me, we have trained the new army, what are we going to fight for? ”

Chu Wanli and Li Yunzong didn't speak, and their faces were very serious.

Xu Yifan said coldly: "Without him, it is just to fight for the interests of our nation!" Whatever is to defend the interests of our nation, you must die for it. And willingly! The wanderers who are drifting outside are not from our nation, and if something happens to them, can we ignore it? I want to take advantage of this incident to train you, the future backbone, before I become an army, in this place far from the country, when thousands of my fellow citizens are threatened and suffering. Qualified, I'll take it, unqualified, go home! I don't keep it! ”

Li Yunzong suddenly stood up solemnly, and said loudly! Even Chu Wanli stood up, with a look of admiration on his face, and nodded silently.

Xu Yifan smiled, Panasonic's tense expression. Waving his hand, he said, "Don't be so nervous, it's time at night." Yun Zong, you took the student soldiers to cover the ears and eyes of the consulate people, and by the way, I sneaked out, and made trouble with the foreign soldiers who were watching around, or fought. Lao Tzu doesn't care about you, but if you get angry, I will come back and play the board if I suffer. Wanli and I, with my noble tube, let's go to explore together. That's it! ”

The two of them immediately saluted with flat chests, and retreated quickly, and Chu Wanli also closed the door intimately. Xu Yifan took a breath and wanted to relax. He saw the cuckoo come up to him: "Master, you want to go out at night?" Listening to the meaning of Brother Chu and Brother Li, is it dangerous? No, I have to accompany you! ”

Xu Yifan's mind moved too much, and now his brain is dizzy. looked at Qingli little Lori pouting and standing in front of him. Seven worried and eight reluctantly looked. Suddenly I was much more relaxed.

Reaching out to pull her little hand, he said with a smile: "Xiao Shuang'er is worried about Xianggong?" Ready to follow along? ”

When Du Juan heard this, he immediately broke away from Xu Yifan's hand: "Who is Shuang'er?" Which girl is it? ”

How can this wild girl who has never read a book know the allusions of Jin Yong's great god Shuang'er and Lord Wei? It's a similar situation now. He is also a Great Qing Daotai, and he still has a Qincha. The waste firewood that doesn't know the slightest martial arts has been sent abroad. Next to her is a beautiful and simple little girl whose hands and feet are much stronger than herself......

Thinking of this, Xu Yifan couldn't help but puff up. Full of thoughts, he was thrown out of the clouds at this moment. Men and women match, work without getting tired, it's really king......

He took the cuckoo's hand again, pulled it hard, and immediately pulled the girl into his arms. The little girl looked at Xu Yifan's rare affectionate behavior and sat down shyly. Tropical weather is inherently inherently inspiring**. Master Xu suddenly became unruly. The little girl was also half-pushed, covering her little face and being ashamed.

Xu Yifan, who had trained his subordinates in a dignified manner, turned into a big-tailed wolf, which is indeed a way to relieve pressure. With so many things piled up on his head, Xu Yifan can still survive with ease, which is really a miracle.

"It's big...... It's so big...... What to eat? ”

"Itchy...... Didn't eat anything......"

"Well, little sister open her mouth......"

"Biting...... Biting your tongue! ”

A miserable scream suddenly resounded inside and outside the consulate. Zhang Yu outside had a puzzled side ear, so he didn't hear it.

(To be continued)