Chapter 83: Yan Fu's troubles
That night, Lu Hong also stayed in Xue Fucheng's mansion with all his heart, and Huang Zuluo came overnight after hearing the news, and after confirming the news from Xue Yiyun, he left in a hurry, and later in time, sent a small official to send old ginseng, cordyceps and other supplements, and after dawn, Lu Hong and Chen Lianfang went in together to check for Xue Fucheng, who had slept soundly for a night, and once again confirmed that Lao Xue's condition had been greatly improved.
Chen Lianfang found an opportunity to play at this time, prescribed a decoction to warm and ward off the cold, and carefully conditioned Xue Fucheng, and Lu Hong began to be the shopkeeper at this time, and he was really powerless in the follow-up things, so he pretended to be profound and left first!
When he returned to the official residence, Qin Tianmin's eyes looked at Lu Hong a little wrong, last night, a few of them were in Xue Fucheng's mansion, they had heard too many bizarre stories, and this Lu Dushi was obviously the protagonist of the story, but this was obviously too unexpected.
Lu Hong didn't bother to care about a few of them, this effect was originally the reason for taking a few of them to Xue Fucheng's mansion, and sure enough, after coming back, these things were obviously very attentive, and he had to think carefully about another important matter for the time being...... In the evening, Lu Hong came to Xue's Mansion again, and Xue Yiyun ran out to greet him with a grateful face.
"Master Lu, my father's condition has improved greatly, he has already drunk some porridge before, and Chen Lianfang has prescribed a few doses of decoction, and he may need to recuperate...... Thanks to your wonderful rejuvenation this time! ”
Lu Hong laughed and said a few polite words, which explained the intention of today, "Master Xue, my lord's body conditioning, there is no problem for Doctor Chen to take care of it...... I have a fold here, if you can see the matter, please pass it on...... Ming said that I am going to rush to Lushun, I am afraid that I will not be able to come back in the short term, and I also ask Gongzi to tell Lord Xue that the state affairs are probably far from satisfactory, and I still need to plan for the country!"
Xue Yiyun originally hoped that Lu Hong was treating Xue Fucheng, and the amazing means he showed had already convinced him, but when he heard him say that Chen Lianfang would take care of it, he naturally had no other ideas, and he was busy responding to Lu Hong's request, and the two chatted for a while, and then broke up.
Early the next morning, Lu Hong had already boarded the cruiser "Jingqing" specially allocated by Wu Ankang, as the main destroyer of the Nanyang Naval Division, this iron-wedged wood-hulled battleship also belongs to the Kaiji class, built by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, using a relatively primitive fire-tube boiler, and the steam engine is the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau's self-made Kangbang double-cylinder double-expansion steam engine, however, seven or eight years after launching, this destroyer, which originally had a speed of 14.5, is now able to run 13 knots is already thankful.
However, the armament of the Jingqing ship still left a very deep impression on Lu Hong, 3 190mm main guns, which can be regarded as quite combative, and there are a total of 7 120mm secondary guns in the side chord and ear batteries, which are also quite combat-effective.
And along the way, Lu Hong was interested in talking to Zhang Qiguang with the Jingqing ship tube, and it turned out that the origin of this white-haired old man really surprised Lu Hong, who was born in the old department of the Hunan Army and the commander of the Battle of Zhenhai in the Sino-French War.
Although Lu Hong was quite surprised by this great military exploits, the stubbornness of this white-haired old man also made Lu Hong deeply understand, and when he talked about some naval tactics with him, the old man ignored it at all, and the mental state of the sailors on the ship was also quite embarrassing.
Drifting all the way, when the old Tieshan lighthouse outside Arthur Port appeared in sight, it was already the beginning of May 3 of the first year of the First Wu Dynasty, and the dragon flag fluttering high allowed the Jingqing ship to enter the port unimpeded, but to Lu Hong's disappointment, there were only a dozen torpedo boats in the port, and none of the expected Beiyang Naval Division battleships were included.
When he went ashore, he soon saw Yan Fu with a tired face, and when he saw Lu Hong's arrival, he showed unexpected enthusiasm, "Lu Dushi, you are here, Lord Wang has been asking every day these days!" ”
"Brother Ling again, what is going on here," Yan Fu's strange behavior made Lu Hong even more curious, and he immediately asked, this question was a big set of things.
After Wang Renkan went to Tianjin Wei to see Li Hongzhang before, he rushed to Lushun with Li's warrant to supervise military discipline, and the Beiyang Naval Division was not only in Port Arthur, but also a group of troops stationed in the navy, and their task was naturally to ensure the safety and defense of Port Arthur, but soon, Wang Renkan found a big problem here.
Earlier, Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, was indeed in Port Arthur, and 5 days ago, all the fleets of the Beiyang Naval Division left the port for cruising training, so the port here seemed empty, and when Wang Renkan came, Ding Ruchang looked for Wang Renkan, the commander of the Naval Division, the martial arts officer of Yipin, and the problem mentioned was indeed very pediatric.
Then, according to the problem mentioned by Ding Ruchang, Wang Renkan began to supervise the dock supply warehouse of the Beiyang Fleet, this matter was specifically handed over to Yan Fu to investigate, this Yan Youling is not able to find a chance to play, and he is actually a lot of contacts here, most of the students of the Ship Master School and a large number of students of the Tianjin Sailor School are serving in the Sailor, a little inquiry, immediately found the crux of the problem.
Two weeks ago, when Lu Hong was busy working for his own industry in Shanghai, Yan Fu led a wave of his subordinates to raid the northern bomb depot in the mountain col at the eastern foot of the old man's mountain, which was naturally one of the two armament depots in the military port, storing a large amount of ordnance, artillery shells and military materials in the entire Lushun military port.
As a result, after a little inspection, Yan Fu's shrewdness immediately discovered a big problem, and the bullet magazine was filled with several batches of shells that had recently been put into storage, and these fat-headed and big-eared officials couldn't figure it out, not to mention the other military supplies that were piled up......
Yan Fu's method is not simple, he immediately arrested several suspected officials, and after a little pressure, he immediately confessed an important clue, and the crux of the greasy problem pointed directly to Hou Delun, the operator of Port Arthur.
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