This time, through the investigation of the Beiyang Naval Division's north-south ammunition depots and a number of military material depots, although it is impossible to thoroughly investigate the backlog of cases in the past 10 years and more than 10 years due to limited time and manpower, it is in this random random sampling that a large number of extremely acute problems have been exposed.

Due to the assistance of Yang Shixiang, the purchase of military funds mentioned in the Lishan case was shoddy, denominated in boxes, and the evidence of crimes such as deducting from them can be said to abound, and Lu Hong, as the official who presided over the case in the Qincha Xingyuan, also had a comprehensive view of the huge military resources of the Beiyang arsenal for the first time.

What surprised him very much was that the jurisdiction of the entire Beiyang military supplies was actually not the assistant of the navy yamen Lishan, but was directly handled by Ding Ruchang, however, the amount of silver taels used for procurement every year was very large, and the accounts of Beiyang were all flowing accounts, and it was definitely a very challenging thing to count, which was also an important reason for these officials to dare to reach out and make money.

Lu Hong spent a lot of effort to sort out part of the accounts of the Southern Bullet Depot, and the results obtained, even Yang Shixiang, who accompanied him, was very surprised, the books show that from 1889 to 1893, more than 27,000 120mm and 150mm high-explosive bombs were purchased in four years, worth more than 108 thousand taels, and more than 4,000 armor-piercing shells made by the Jiangnan Bureau of 260mm calibers were purchased, and the price was even more confusing, but at least more than 800,000 taels......

The purchase quota of all kinds of military materials exceeded 1.8 million taels, but when the inventory was counted, the ammunition required for regular training was removed, and the shortage was as high as more than 6 percent...... As for whether the charge in this high-explosive bomb is up to standard, it is difficult for even Lu Hong to judge, because even if he asks the gunners in these sailors, he doesn't know anything about it.

The clues and ready-made inspection results provided by Yang Shixiang made the Qincha Wang Renkan play a lot of Zhuangyuanlang's writing, and in the court, Weng Tongyi was obviously more interested in the backlog of military materials in the Beiyang Arsenal, and while ordering the arrest of Lishan, this Weng Ge Lao also did not hesitate to give Li Hongzhang eye medicine.

Soon, the impeachment of the Huai Army's abuse of military spending soon appeared in the court, and the biggest evidence of it naturally came from the list of arsenals submitted by Lu Hong to Wang Renkan, just one arsenal, there were nearly 20,000 shells of all kinds, not to mention the small-caliber shells, gunpowder and firearms of machine guns, and as soon as the order was directly passed to Wang Renkan, Weng Tongyi asked him to thoroughly investigate the corruption in the water division, and Guan Wen, who established the military discipline battalion, was finally belatedly issued!

Li Hongzhang, who was dealing with North Korean affairs, was inexplicable, and had to ask his cronies Zhou Fu to write a letter to defend the matter, and Sun Yuwen, the minister of military aircraft who was close to Li Hongzhang in the court, was also upset about this big man, and even went directly into the palace to report the matter to Cixi in the West Palace, but this time, this time, the old woman who was busy tossing her sixtieth birthday had no intention of caring about the infighting of the big guys below, and directly kicked the matter back to the little emperor Guangxu.

In order to obtain this good opportunity, Weng Tonggong almost did not hesitate to stop the two military expenditures allocated to Beiyang under the pretext that the household was short of money and silver and Beiyang was fully armed...... After all, the most important thing in front of him now is not the corruption case found out from Beiyang, but the worsening situation in North Korea.

He immediately telegraphed to secretly contact Yang Shixiang, on the same day, the young thinker of the Huai Department hurriedly came to visit Wang Renkan, and after the two had a secret discussion, he left in a hurry, and then, Lu Hong was recruited, but heard a news that surprised him very much.

"Lu Hong, Yang Pingshi mentioned that the Huai army will soon send troops to North Korea, so Li Zhongtang wants to ask us to suspend the supervision of the military discipline of the sailors, and allow us to start after this diplomatic dispute with the Japanese state!" Wang Renkan is obviously very satisfied with Lu Hong's previous series of investigations, and this Beiyang inspection can be said to have achieved fruitful results.

Wait until I finish fighting with myself this time and then supervise the Beiyang military discipline? Lu Hong frowned, the First Sino-Japanese War is over, and the Beiyang is in ashes, so there is no need to supervise it again, but if this matter is explained, it will inevitably be too complicated, but it seems that it is impossible for Wang Renkan to meddle in the affairs of the Beiyang......

He immediately opened his mouth and suggested: "My lord, this matter of supervising military discipline can not be divided into war and peacetime, but if there is a conflict with the Japanese state, we will not be able to supervise the navy in Lushun, and then this naval division will run all over the sea......

Wang Renkan frowned, he naturally heard what Lu Hong meant, and did not agree with the matter of letting go of the Beiyang Sailor now, however, he and Li Hongzhang did not have a dislike between Weng and Li, and now the state affairs are important, Li Hongzhang's words are naturally very appropriate, however, Lu Hong's words are indeed reasonable, after all, he is the one who supervises all the sailors, if something really happens to the Beiyang Sailor at that time, but he is not here, it will inevitably make people gossip!

"Lu Hong, tell me what you think?" He glanced at Lu Hong and immediately asked.

At this moment, Lu Hong is naturally not hiding his long-planned plan, although he is now promoted quite quickly, but it is absolutely impossible to have any opportunity to intervene and influence the actions of the Beiyang Naval Division, and in fact, the war is already imminent, and now Xiao Yueben must have been exploring Li Hongzhang's plan to send troops, and at this point, he can't say this at all!

However, there is another thing that he can do, and that is to bring more naval power into his control...... Of course, in the name of the minister!

"My lord, since we are supervising the military discipline of the sailors, it doesn't matter whether they are the Beiyang, Nanyang, or Guangdong sailors...... Although it is inconvenient for you to directly command the Beiyang Naval Division, you can first transfer the warships of the Nanyang Naval Division and the Guangdong Naval Division to concentrate on rectifying military discipline...... And after having a ship, you can also follow the Beiyang action at any time, advance and retreat freely! Lu Hong cautiously threw out his little abacus, in fact, the purpose of this is very clear......

"Lu Hong, aren't you worried that once the war starts, Beiyang will not be enough to fight against Yuben?" He immediately asked with a serious expression.

On this issue, Lu Hong naturally showed no mercy, "My lord, when we meet on a narrow road, only the brave can win...... Although the Beiyang Naval Division is not weak, in fact, I listened to Yang Shixiang's intentions, Li Zhongtang had no intention of fighting with Yue at all, and although the exercise in Dagu was intended to show prestige, it verified my inference that in terms of the art of war, this is by no means a good law...... Is there any reason to expose one's family background to the enemy? ”

Lu Hong analyzed it like this, Wang Renkan pondered for a while, thinking about Yang Shixiang's secret discussion with himself, which really revealed Li Zhongtang's true thoughts...... This mid-hall lord really doesn't want to fight! Instead, they are preparing to invite Britain and Russia to mediate the affairs of Korea!

"If the British Minister Eugena and the Russian Minister Cassini intervene in the Korean negotiations, with the strong national power of the two countries, how do you think Ben will respond?" He also immediately thought of another possible surname, and immediately refuted Lu Honglai.

Lu Hong smiled secretly, theoretically speaking, the book of this era is indeed not comparable with Britain and Russia, Wang Renkan and Li Hongzhang have such a plan, it is definitely not a fool's opinion, but they do have limitations in their vision, Xiao Yueben is an absolute gambler and outlaw, and declaring war on China is obviously an important step, and it is this gambling surname that makes Xiao Yueben fall into the whirlpool of militarism.

He immediately responded in a very decisive tone: "My lord, the war in China, in my opinion, seems to be unavoidable, I am worried about the near and near worries, how can I not prepare early, if the war does not start, then the matter of supervising military discipline is also the icing on the cake, if the war breaks out, then it is your foresight, my lord......"

Wang Renkan obviously didn't make up his mind, he would wave his hand to signal Lu Hong to go down first, and a little later, he called Yan Fu again, listened to the big mouth's opinion, and waited until the next morning, he finally made up his mind...... Obviously, Lu Hong's proposal is a very good compromise, if he responds to Li Hongzhang's request not to supervise the affairs of Beiyang for the time being, I am afraid that Weng Tonggong in the court will also have some opinions, and if he goes to Guangdong Navy, it will inevitably put the cart before the horse.

Three days later, Wang Renkan received a telegram from the Military Aircraft Department almost at a very fast speed, Weng Tonggong had no objection to his proposal to temporarily transfer the Beiyang, Nanyang, Guangdong, and Fujian naval divisions to conduct military discipline supervision.

On the same day, on May 27, 1894, a large number of warships of the Beiyang Naval Division entered the port one after another, and Wang Renkan soon received invitations from Ding Ruchang and Yang Shixiang, which made Lu Hong, who accompanied him, a little excited.

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