Under the electric light, Yuan Shikai, who was lying on the bed, mysteriously pushed the silver ticket in front of Li Lianying.

Looking at the silver ticket of 580,000 taels of Zhili Guanyin on the table, Li Lianying immediately understood the deep meaning behind Yuan Shikai's move: in the past, he owed Yuan Xiangcheng a favor in front of him, 8 years ago, Yuan Shikai began to give some gifts during the New Year's holidays, which couldn't be simpler. At first, Li Lianying didn't know, and she didn't know this person very well, how could she give gifts? But he also got used to it, because there were too many people stuttering. The key is that Yuan Shikai insisted on it for several years, constantly sending, and sending it bigger and bigger.

Finally one day, Li Lianying felt uneasy, thinking to herself why this person had given New Year's gifts for several years, and the more they were given, why didn't she mention what she wanted to do? This is a favor for many years, Li Lianying has always wanted to give him a favor owed for so many years, but the problem is that Yuan Shikai never gave him a chance, even when he used him, he would give him hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and naturally he always owed a favor.

And now the 580,000 taels of silver tickets are reminding him that it's time to return the favor. Thinking about that favor, thinking about the words of Galeries Lafayette when he came.

"The head of the slave is tied to the master's belt at night......"

Thinking of this, the corners of Li Lianying's mouth subconsciously crossed a trace of an imperceptible smile, and then there was no expression like a pool of water, but it made people feel that they were so easy to get close to.

Pushing back the silver ticket, Li Lianying still had a smile on her face.

"Lord Yuan, the slave is just a messenger, but the slave can't afford the reward of fifty-eight taels! When he came, Lafayette only had one sentence, if the adult has not finished his foot injury, then ......"

With the kind of humble smile that only a slave has on his face, but this smile made Yuan Shikai's heart chill.

"Then the queen mother will go out with the princess with the imperial doctor!"

As he spoke, Li Lianying stood up, looking at Li Lianying's hurried footsteps, yesterday when he entered the palace, in the Dongnuan Pavilion, he just said "The rebel thief is at the beginning, although the army is strong, it will definitely take time to train the army, and the plan for today should be to borrow money to train the army, and think about it in the long run", but the result was scolded by Lafayette.

"The rebel thief is rising, and his momentum is just right, and it is the time to use troops to suppress it!" When he finally apologized and retreated, one accidentally fell off the steps, his right foot was seriously injured, and he jumped out of the palace on one leg with one jump.

How could Yuan Shikai, who was lying on the bed, not hear the retort in Li Lianying's words, and couldn't help but sigh.

"I don't want to be ordered to die in the country!"

As soon as a sentence was spoken, Yuan Shikai's heart was blocked, and only a thick stream of blood rushed in his chest, rushing through his throat and squirting out of his mouth, his eyes were dark, and he fell to the side of the bed, not knowing anything.

"Dashuai!"

The servant next to him was frightened by the scene in front of him, and shouted in a miserable voice.

Li Lianying, who had just gone out, heard that the voice was wrong, and hurriedly turned her head, and was also shocked when she saw this. The staff of Yuan Shikai who was in the capital also came around, and the servants had already straightened Yuan Shikai from the bedside.

Li Lianying, who was taken aback by this scene, hurriedly ordered.

"You go to the doctor quickly, I'll go back to the palace and ask the doctor from Lafayette Tai Hospital to come over,......。"

While speaking, Li Lianying almost fled in a hurry as if leaving Yuan Shikai's private residence in Beijing, and hurriedly returned to the palace to tell the Queen Mother At this time, the pool of blood next to the bed was an unbelievable person.

Li Lianying just went out, looking at the handsome's face looking ruddy, Xu Shichang understood the reason in an instant, and with a wave of his hand, everyone withdrew, the Tao was to give way to the handsome, the person just exited the house, Yuan Shikai, who was in a coma, opened his eyes, and when he saw Xu Shichang in front of him, he opened his mouth with two words.

"Help me ......"

Looking at the anxious look on the handsome's face, Xu Shichang pondered for a while and replied.

"Dashuai, foot disease and vomiting blood cannot be turned!"

nodded, how could Yuan Shikai not know that with the wisdom of the Queen Mother, his "fall" yesterday, and this time's vomiting coma were all to drag it down, I was afraid that as soon as Li Lianying returned to the palace, the Queen Mother would send the imperial doctor, if she was really "faint", then the Queen Mother would cut the officials and seize the troops with the Queen Mother's means, and let the Beiyang official be willing to drive it with the means of the Queen Mother, it was just a few days of hard work.

The reason why he wanted to bite his tongue and act in this play was just because Yuan Shikai wanted to buy himself a few more days and drag it out for a few days.

"Bu Wu, save me!"

This time, Yuan Shikai spit out two more words, and only one word was changed later, but it showed Yuan Shikai's nervousness.

"Dashuai, there is room to do things, we are all involved, in case something happens, there must be an outsider to deal with it. I am this person! ”

After pondering for a while, Xu Shichang looked at the handsome man in front of him, and his voice was pressed to the lowest level.

"Bu Wu has hundreds of ties with that Chen Moran, if it is...... Bu Wu wishes Jiangnan to coordinate in the center! ”

At the same time, he leaned down and whispered a few words in the ears of the handsome, Yuan Shikai, who was originally anxious, after listening to these words, his eyes lit up, he looked at Xu Shichang happily, and pointed to the silver ticket of 580,000 taels of Zhili Guanyin that was pushed back by Li Lianying.

"Bu Wu, you have made up another hundred...... No! Three million taels! Just say...... Let's just say it's ......."

Yuan Shikai's voice was lowered, and when he listened to the footsteps coming from outside the door, he lay down on the bed and closed his eyes, but when the doctor entered the room, Xu Shichang withdrew from the door.

Stepping forward into the Chuxiu Palace, Li Lianying saw the Empress Dowager Cixi gently close her eyes, tilt her head forward slightly, hold the cigarette holder, take a heavy puff, and then spit out the cigarette for a long time. There was a smell of tobacco in the room.

After smoking about seven or eight pots like this, the Empress Dowager Cixi slowly opened her eyes, waved her hand to the palace maids beside her, and motioned them to retreat. When only Li Lianying was left in the house, the Empress Dowager Cixi said to Li Lianying.

"Xiao Lizi, how is Yuan Shikai's foot disease?"

Li Lianying had already been standing next to him for a long time, and she was already impatient, and when she saw Cixi asking him, she hurriedly stepped forward quickly, and said while gently beating Cixi on the back.

"Lafayette, you guessed correctly, Yuan Shikai's fall was just a small injury, but ......"

Li Lianying looked at Cixi, thinking that she owed Yuan Shikai a favor, so she spoke.

"It's still Lafayette who knows those who are slaves, but Yuan Shikai's courage is also a little smaller, you are scared ......"

"What's wrong? Don't scare, how does he know his duty! ”

Li Lianying glanced at Cixi, and when she saw that Lafayette still didn't react, she continued to preach.

"That's the problem. Who knew that Yuan Shikai was a little bolder, but your words scared him out of blood and fainted. ”

"Oh! These damn minions! ”

When Cixi heard this, her face sank, revealing a little anger. Li Lianying saw that Lafayette's face had changed, and quickly knelt in front of Cixi.

"Slaves deserve death! Slaves deserve death! Please forgive Lafayette! ”

Li Lianying knew that Lafayette was not angry with herself, but she quickly knelt in front of Cixi and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Get up, there's nothing wrong with you, look at the way it scares you!"

Cixi spoke, with a thoughtful look on her face.

"You saw that Yuan Shikai vomiting blood!"

"No, what a mouthful of blood! This time, Lord Yuan was frightened to the bone by your words Lafayette."

"Oh!"

responded lightly, but Cixi didn't say anything, just said a word.

"I'm tired today, so I took the two imperial doctors to give Yuan Shikai a diagnosis and treatment, and by the way, I sent two Korean ginseng from the palace to Yuan Shikai, remember, I want two sticks, one big and one small! To consolidate its element! ”

Li Lianying left Chuxiu Palace and quickly recruited a eunuch to convey the decree of the Empress Dowager Cixi:

"Two Korean ginsengs, one large and one small!"

When the eunuch went to carry out the queen mother's decree, Li Lianying sighed, looking at the sky with high clouds and bright sunshine, and sighed often in her heart.

"Yuan Shikai! Yuan Shikai! You are a favor, Lao Li even gave it to you, whether you can go through it or not, it's up to you! ”

Shaking her head, Li Lianying sighed in her heart, and then walked towards the palace with figure-eight steps, as if the previous sigh had nothing to do with him.

"The four sides of the dimension are fierce, the world is heroic, both judge the righteousness, it is advisable to lead the children, take advantage of the time to jump, gather to respond. No small or big, do your best, get ugly in the interrogation, and play the skin. Uncle and brothers, aunts and sisters, both judge the righteousness, should be determined by the determination, with the large group, perseverance and virtue, the strength of the restraint, advance and retreat, and the warriors. Wei lost the temperament, forced soldiers, you have a life, you are also a Han person, both judge the righteousness, it is advisable to have repentance, it is advisable to move quickly to the good, it is advisable to always cherish the roots, think of its distant ancestors, it is advisable to pour Ergo spear, do not rebel against the righteous teacher, do not be annihilated......"

After reading the "anti-Qing Qing article" on the Guangfu newspaper, Ye Zuqi was silent for a long time, sitting alone in the captain's room of the "Haiqi", as if he was stunned. I don't know how long it took, Li Shunze, who entered the captain's room, said in his ear.

"My lord, it's getting dark!"

"What? It's dark, how long have I been sitting! ”

As if waking up from a sleep, Ye Zuqi asked rhetorically.

"It's been almost two hours."

Li Shunze said softly.

"You tell the ship's management that I won't eat in the restaurant tonight, just ask them to cook a bowl of fresh vegetable soup, beat two eggs, and bring it to me."

After Li Shunze went out, Ye Zuqi's brain began to turn.

This morning, when the gunboat in Jiujiang was bombarded and forced into the Jiujiang Liberation Army, the gunboat "Jiangping" of the Yangtze River Naval Division encountered a suspended mine and sank in the river in an instant, and in order to protect the ship itself, it had to order the fleet to withdraw to Hankou, and as soon as it arrived in Hankou, it encountered rumors in Hankou that Hubei was not in chaos, all because Zhang Zhidong and Chen Moran reached an agreement, and they were only restored anyway when the time was right.

Although he knew that it was a rumor, he thought that Zhang Zhidong had invited Chen Moran at the beginning, and then looked at the news about the newspaper in the concession in the "Wuchang Newspaper" on the table.

“…… There was a huge crowd of people every night, and there was a big impact. The newspaper halls facing each other on the left and right of the street, outside the large glass windows of every house, post news from all over the world. In the streets, the crowd was crowded to listen every night, and when a traitor arrived with the good news of another county, he applauded and reveled, and the report failed, believing that the newspaper was under the command of the imperial court, and the masses smashed the large glass window to smash it with great resentment. Since then, the newspaper has not only dared not disclose the news of the failure at the front of the door, but especially dared not disclose it in the newspaper......"

Thinking of the people who had fallen to the light, Ye Zuqi slowly turned from fear to despair, and Mu Ran sat on the chair, as if his body was being pushed into the dark abyss.

"If you are a slave of the captivity, when the nation is restored, everyone will have no slave status!"

"The Qing court wants to treat Han officials with full officials!"

Thinking about all the rumors he had heard since he came down from the south, Ye Zuqi frowned, now not only the people believe in the rumors, but also among the sailors, there are also officers and soldiers who believe in the rumors.

"After the Liberation Army recovers Jiujiang, it will deploy a series of mines in the middle of the river, and only wait for the fleet to go down the river, that is, destroy ......it with dense mines."

As soon as he returned to Hankou this afternoon, rumors spread on the ships of the naval division, and when the liberation of the army began to salvage the sunken ship of Zhenjiang today, there were also people who spread the news that the battleships built by the Guangfu army in Britain had arrived in Shanghai, and they did not say that they would go upriver to fight a decisive battle with the naval division.

When he ordered the fleet to bombard the Guangfu Army that had entered Fan Jiujiang, most of the officers and men hit the river embankment and rice fields, and Ye Zuqi did not know about the passivity and war-weariness of the officers and men within the naval division.

The people's will is trending, and the army's heart is becoming more and more unstable!

"The opportunity for the survival of the Han people is in the help of the shipowners. Who has no heart and liver, who has no blood sincerity, who is not the descendants of Yan and Huang, how can they be willing to be slaves of foreign races and kill their compatriots? Yi Zhi Xinghan! Don't hesitate! ”

Although this leaflet recovered from the naval sergeant had already been ordered to be burned by Ye Zuqi, it burned the paper, how could it destroy the words that went into his heart?

When he sighed in his heart, Ye Zuqi, who had nothing to do left and right, shook his head helplessly and sighed, but the door was pushed in.

"Your meal is here, my lord!"

"Oh......?"

Answered, but Ye Zuqi, who felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, looked up, but saw that the person in the sailor's military uniform who came in with the meal turned out to be ...... The person who came turned out to be Liu Guanxiong!

"You still have the courage to come here, you are not afraid of Admiral, and he will order someone to bring you to justice, and the criminal code will be corrected!"

Staring at his confidant in front of him, Ye Zuqi asked, but his voice was not very loud.

Liu Guanxiong, who ruined the navy in front of him, was once Ye Zujue's confidant, even if he sank the sea and sky, Ye Zujue also pleaded for him to save his life...... But Ye Zuqi couldn't have imagined that it was just a few years of hard work, and he went from being a sailor who was dismissed from his post to becoming the captain of the Guangfu Warship and 348 officers and men of the Haitian, and he rebelled together.

In Ye Zuqi's view, Liu Guanxiong in front of him is no longer his confidant, but a rebel of the imperial court, and of course his enemy.

"Your Excellency!"

Liu Guanxiong respectfully saluted the old commander, and then looked up at the angry adult with an awe-inspiring face.

"This time Guanxiong came, he only had one thing to ask the adults!"

This sentence made Ye Zuqi stunned, taking such a big risk, just to ask a word? I was afraid that I wanted to say that I would surrender myself, but when I was about to raise my hand to drink it and leave, Liu Guanxiong spoke.

I don't know if the adult's teaspoon of "Jingyuan" is okay! ”

asked, but let the raised left hand hang in the air, Ye Zuqi looked at Liu Guanxiong in front of him in a daze, and his right hand couldn't help but touch the silver object hanging under the military uniform on his waist. For many years, Ye Zuqi has always been deeply nostalgic for the "Jingyuan" ship that he has been in charge of for many years and has made military exploits, and no matter what position he occupies or where he is, he always carries a teaspoon specially designed for the "Jingyuan" ship and has the English "Qing Imperial Navy - Jingyuan", and he never leaves an inch.

took out the teaspoon and looked at the English words "Qing Imperial Navy - Jingyuan" on the handle, Ye Zuqi's expression darkened, revealing a wry smile.

"Seeing this teaspoon, it seems that Jingyuan is still by my side."

"My lord, every time Guanxiong sees the Yang pipe belt hanging in the cabin of the ship, leaving behind the "Snow Armor Shame", the debt owed by the people is also unforgettable! ”

Answering two sentences correctly, only the two people who were out of the same sailor and the same ship fell into silence, and the two who were reminiscing about the past became more complicated, thinking about it, the two of them were full of grievances and pain. Suddenly, Liu Guanxiong actually cried loudly, the more he cried, the more fierce he became, the more miserable he became, and Ye Zuqi's own eyes became blurred.

Finally finished crying, and Liu Guanxiong gave a military salute.

"Today, the adults want to be in front of the army, and the crowns will never complain, and the crowns only ask the adults to remember when he said that he had the hatred of the snow armor......"

Saying that, Liu Guanxiong looked like he couldn't cry again.

His words made the teary-eyed Ye Zuqi smile bitterly, in the year of Gengzi, in the Dagu operation, the "Hairong" cruiser and the "Sea Dragon" and other four destroyers moored in Haikou were plundered by the Eight-Nation Alliance. Later, the "Hairong" ship was redeemed, but the destroyer was divided between Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Yi Xuan, Li Hongzhang, and others, who signed the "Xinchou Treaty" with the Eight-Nation Alliance, suggested that China's five largest warships be "withdrawn from sale," indicating that China had no attitude of preparing for war with the outside world and would not cause trouble.

If it weren't for the strong opposition of the officers and soldiers of the Naval Division, he and Sa Zhenbing fought with the imperial court to prevent the rebuilt Beiyang Naval Division from dying young...... Thinking of this time, Ye Zujue's heart was covered with a light veil like the moonlight tonight, and he only felt that the future of the sailor was bleak.

After a long time, Ye Zuqi said sadly.

"I'm just afraid...... In this life, neither of you nor I can see the hatred of snow. ”

Ye Zuqi, who closed his eyes, had been in tears, even if he had worked hard, he had to reorganize the water division, so that he could wash away the hatred of Jiawu, but at this time, the dream of self-deception was shattered. Thinking that the imperial court treated the water master like this, I only felt a desolation in my heart.

"Let's go back!"

With a wave of his hand, Ye Zuqi opened his mouth and said, he had no intention of asking this rebel general to the imperial court, after all, I don't know if this matter spreads out, I don't know what trouble will happen to him, not to mention that they are all people from Beiyang.

When Liu Guanxiong gave a military salute, Ye Zuqi hesitated to ask the doubts in his heart.

"Ziying, why are you rebellious!"

Looking back at the old chief, Liu Guanxiong hesitated for a moment before replying.

"Guanxiong doesn't want to die, and after death, he won't see the hatred of Jiawu and get snow!"

(To be continued)