"Huang Gong, four years ago, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet of the Yama Prefecture Aritomo made it clear in the first policy report of the National Assembly that the way of self-defense was proposed, that is, to protect the 'line of interests' of the Yama Prefecture, and at that time the Yama Prefecture Youpeng also shyly replied that the line of interests is closely related to national sovereignty, referring to the northeast of our country and the vassal state of Korea, however, the Yama Prefecture has been preparing for war for many years, and last year, I heard that the Yama Prefecture Youpeng had secretly submitted the "Armament Opinion" to the emperor. Using North Korea as a springboard to seize the land in the northeast of China, if this news is true, I am afraid that the sword and soldier will meet right in front of us! ”

Lu Hong said the above astonishing news and big prophecy with an angry face, his demeanor was not deliberate, in the current situation, the high-level of this decadent empire has no intention of preparing for war, even if Li Hongzhang and other important ministers of coastal defense, knowing his wolf ambitions, but only to avoid trouble, instead of taking precautions, under the prosperity of the prosperous era, they are deliberately covering up the crisis in front of them.

And these words were obviously unheard of by Huang Tifang, as for Wu Daxuan and Wu Shengxi, they were even more dumbfounded, and Xiao Nizi, who was sitting on Huang Tifang's side, seemed to be a little surprised by Lu Hong's crisis argument, blinked her eyes wide, and opened her cherry mouth as if she wanted to say, but when she saw the little old man Huang Tifang, she was about to correct her eyebrows, and closed her mouth again.

Huang Tifang is obviously also thinking about the news brought by this young man, he returned from overseas, and was accidentally involved in the Mengyin bandit case, but he showed extraordinary ability, this Wu Daxuan and himself can be regarded as friends of the year, and he is very high-minded, even in Beijing, there are few people who can make him pay special attention, but now he strongly recommends this young man......

And just now a conversation, it can indeed be seen that this young man has extraordinary insight, although the wording is quite different from ordinary students, but this conversation is refreshing, I think it is because of the long-term study in Taixi, but this news is too amazing, now all countries are traded, domestic news is also considered to be circulating quite fast, but there has never been such information, and, listening to what Lu Hong said, what "The First National Assembly Policy Address", what "Armament Opinion", such a term is obviously not nonsense......

In that case, that's even worse! If these news are indeed true, then my wolf ambition has reached the level of blatantness, thinking of this, Huang Tifang frowned and looked at Wu Daxuan, and looked at Lu Hong, "Lu Hong, why have you never heard of these news in China...... Where did you hear that? ”

"Huang Gong, these news are actually disclosed in newspapers in various countries, I think the Chinese people are not ignorant, but they don't want to know...... With an annual military expenditure of 20 million yuan, which costs one-third of the country's revenue, to build a navy and an army, is it just for garrison? Lu Hong talked eloquently, constantly listing some supporting evidence, while Huang Tifang's face became more and more heavy.

After a while, the little old man looked at Wu Daxuan and said, "Shengqing, there is no clear evidence of what Lu Hong said, but you must be careful...... Originally, I planned to stay in Mengyin for a few more days, but it seems that I am going to Beijing to meet Lord Weng, and the court must prepare early! ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Lu Hong again, "Lu Hong, can you go to Beijing with me, when the time comes, you may be able to help the old man!" ”

Lu Hong didn't have the heart to go to Yanjing City to meet this Weng Tonggong Emperor Weng, this is a master of power and strategy, and he has been thinking about how to defeat his political enemies all day long...... The problem is that this brilliant old man will not understand the crisis that China is facing today, and this era ...... Until the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the high-level officials of the Qing Dynasty did not regard Yue Ben as a real opponent.

After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty and even the entire domestic and foreign media continued to repeat a point of view, with a population of 40,000, an army of 1 million, and the first fleet in Asia, and the Far East, with a population of only 40 million, and the country was not a heavyweight opponent at all, and even the country was full of metaphors such as China being a giant and being a dwarf.

This is also the first Sino-Japanese War before the Qingliu general main battle, but the Huai Li Hongzhang is worried about avoiding the war part of the reason, this era, it is estimated that no one better than Li Hongzhang to understand the Huai army combat power he single-handedly supported, as for the navy, from 1887 to Yuan, after entering the service, the whole 7 years have not been invested in armaments, even the core of the Beiyang Dingyuan, Zhenyuan because of the 11 years of ship age and lack of sufficient maintenance funds have been old.

"Huang Gong, I am soft-spoken, I am afraid that I will not have a chance to speak at the foot of the imperial city...... However, what I said can be corroborated by my enthusiasm, once a military disaster occurs, I am afraid that our great event in Greater China will come to an end! ”

Lu Hong arched his hand and put on a high posture, but the implication of this is that we don't go to Beijing, there are places where big people talk, I will go there and tell the old man that you have misjudged the situation, we can't do that little book at all, and we must not be stuffed into the prison by this old man and wait for the noon gate to ask for beheading.

Wu Daxuan next to him was actually shocked into a cold sweat, Lu Hong's news, to be honest, is actually a big trouble, obviously, now Huang Tifang has fallen into a dilemma, if it is those officials who eat and drink together, this kind of talk will be regarded as gossip after tea and dinner, and this little old man Huang Tifang will obviously not do this, he, Shanxi Xuezheng, is also because of the previous impeachment of Li Hongzhang and was sent to the place, but this time he just caught the opportunity to kill back to Beijing, and this will pass by himself, I didn't expect to encounter such a big thing!

"Nephew Lu Xian, this news is not trivial, if you don't go to Jingshi, Huang Gong's fold will go up, then it will cause a lot of trouble...... But if you go, will you be able to produce solid evidence? That's the key! ”

Wu Daxuan had already heard what Huang Tifang meant, that was to hope that Lu Hong would enter Beijing together, as if his mentor would know about this matter, but he was very clear that Mr. Weng's bearing, it was estimated that Huang Tifang's fold went up and said that he should beware of himself and strengthen his armament, which would definitely be sprayed in the face.

The entire Huai military officers, all over the Qing political axe up and down the army system, control more than 70% of the entire imperial army, the number of more than 700,000 troops of various formations, the annual military salary expenditure alone reaches 14 million taels of silver, not to mention the need to raise the delicate navy, so they also need money to expand the army all day long, so to speak, the original hundreds of thousands of troops are all rice buckets?

Therefore, although he is in favor of Lu Hong's entry into Beijing, he hopes that Lu Hong can come up with weighty evidence, otherwise, it is not a good idea to go to Beijing to spray his teacher in the face!

Now it's Lu Hong's turn to have a headache, of course he can say righteously that he will not enter Beijing, but doing so, it is obvious that he has the taste of ignoring the little old man, but what evidence can he come up with after entering Beijing!

[With the support of tickets, thank you for the snow drift~]