"Dashuai!"

The sound of riding boots sounded, and Xu Yifan, who was lazily leaning on the Western leather chair in the signing room, raised his eyes and saw Chu Wanli and Li Yunzong entering side by side. Li Yun's face sank like water, and he saluted beautifully. Chu Wanli's salute was much more sloppy, and his eyes were looking around.

Both of them were arrested from their busy schedules, and Li Yunzong is now the assistant commander of the Right Association and the deputy director of education of the non-commissioned officer school. The non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level of the whole army have all passed from him. It is clear that Xu Yifan will definitely be assigned to be a stubborn and persistent military officer in the future. The Praetorian Guard is now led by Xu Yifan, and there is no town headquarters, and it is rumored that the town headquarters will be opened soon, and he is the first town commander. He was so ruthless and fierce that the former elite officers of the German General Staff who worked with him were amazed and admired. Behind his back, he called him a yellow-skinned Spartan. After a short period of observation of the Germans' strict military management system and training regulations, Li Yunzong immediately regarded them as the most precious things to carry out, and did not talk about any feelings or accommodations. The only difference from those Prussian officers was that he did not enjoy any privileges except the commanding authority of senior officers, and what treatment he enjoyed for soldiers, he also enjoyed!

Even those foreign instructors who have a lot of tricks in the Praetorian Guard now have a little trembling when they look at Li Yunzong's dead face, especially after hearing about his thunderous killing methods in the Korean counterinsurgency battle!

This is a guy who believes in iron-blooded salvation of the country through and through -- this is Xu Yifan's private comment.

Chu Wanli's status is now much blurred, and his Left Association is basically in charge of Zhang Xuzhou now, and he doesn't care about everything. Koontz personally opened the staff school for teaching (of course, the current non-commissioned officer school, the staff school, the official name is still called the Janissary Non-commissioned Officer, Staff Rotation Training Team), and he does not bear any responsibility, but listens to the lectures every day. The rest of the time is to watch him slip around with his shoulders in the wilderness, and Xu Yifan doesn't care much about him. The officers below discussed privately, no one could say how Xu Yifan would use Chu Wanli in the future, and Xu Yifan seemed to have made it clear that he wanted to give it to Zhang Xuzhou! Even if he still led the Zuo Association and let Chu Wanli succumb to Li Yunzong, there was no reason for this.

Having said that, Chu Wanli is the most popular among his officers and foreign instructors. His surname is easy-going, he can mix anything, and he never separates tobacco and alcohol. He joked about the unsmiling old Koontz, and asked the old man to call his daughter over quickly, and he chased after him...... There was some conflict between the foreign instructor and the Chinese trainee officer and non-commissioned officer, and as soon as he was present, a few jokes were made, and a few emergency measures came out, everyone was in harmony again. Although he is lazy and lazy, everyone agrees that this kid has a fast and clever brain, and can coordinate all aspects of relationships. Of course, the Praetorian Guard is not as hard as Li Yunzhong, but it cannot become an iron army unless it is hard. It is also indispensable for Chu Wanli's softness, the newly formed troops, without Chu Wanli's intermediary coordination and co-optation, the native people of Nanyang and Beiyang are gathered together, and the internal friction will be dissipated!

The double beauty of the Praetorian Guard is indeed well deserved.

Entering the signing room, Chu Wanli's eyes swept away. I saw Xu Yifan sitting in the room with a smile. Tang Shaoyi and Zhan Tianyou sat on the mazar on the left and right, Zhan Tianyou was ignorant, and Tang Shaoyi frowned. There is also a guy at the beginning, short and fat, almost all hidden in the corner, it is the desperate Yuan Shikai who has no choice but to join Xu Yifan's command. The Seoul Incident, as Ronglu's staff, he was also punished. has reformed the future of the prefect, and now it is considered a white service. No one knows how Xu Yifan recruited such a thing in the scene. I didn't see him show up all day long, and I didn't know what Xu Yifan used him.

At the entrance of the detention room, there were always Goshkhas in new military uniforms guarding and waiting for the summons. But this time, only Xu Yifan's housekeeper Zhang Yu was guarding the door, paying attention to the movement. The Goshkhas were far away from the second gate. Pu Yang, who was guarding outside the second gate, looked depressed.

Looking at this scene, except for Yuan Shikai, who is not embarrassed or embarrassed, the other characters are the most basic descendants who followed Xu Yifan to start a business, and Chu Wanli knew it in his heart. Isn't it just the rumors that have been rumored recently, so the words are really coming, right?

He looked at Li Yunzong, Li Yunzong had a straight face, it was not silent, it was simply expressionless.

"My lord, pass us here, are you looking at everyone's hard work recently, and are you ready to reward us?" At this time, Chu Wanli didn't know what attitude he should take, so he simply smiled.

They looked at Xu Yifan, and Xu Yifan also looked at them, and they also observed for a long time. Tang Shaoyi was worried, that is, in addition to being in charge of the group's financial expenditures, he was also responsible for external liaison, and he knew the situation best. His career is also the most earnest among his subordinates, and since following him, he has been promoted faster than ever before. He also has a lot of power, which naturally makes him feel like he is encountered. The group was unlucky, and their smooth sailing career prospects were ruined. His subordinates are the most worried, and even a little panicked, and he is the one who can't end up, but he wants to give him a little more confidence......

Zhan Tianyou...... This is indeed a good hand in construction. But if you want to say that he has the least sense of belonging to this group and has the least personal loyalty to him, it is probably his brother, right? His loyalty is directed to the cause of modern industrialization. can help him realize his dreams, regardless of Zhang San, Li Siwang and Ermazi, it doesn't matter. For this guy, I can only tell him that as long as he Xu Yifan falls, in recent decades, he will no longer have this dream of realizing his ambitions, and only he can tolerate and support his dream from now to the future!

Li Yunzong is a good knife, a knife that is unimaginably good. I don't know how he can be in obscurity for so long when he is full of murderous energy and wants to complete the salvation of the country and self-improvement in the sea of corpses and blood? Maybe the twilight in the country is too deep, and the peerless divine soldiers have to cover up the brilliance, right? But the hand holding the knife must be strong enough so that the knife does not scratch itself...... When the hand holding the knife begins to tremble, and when it is faced with a crisis, what will the knife do? In Li Yunzong's eyes, the people who use him are not allowed to be weak and shaken!

As for Chu Wanli, it's very simple, stronger than him, and it's okay to do what he can't and hasn't thought about. He is happy to follow your adventures and seems to be willing to take risks. You are equivalent to completing an impossible dream on his behalf, and the great pressure of hardship and hardship is you, and the fun is that he enjoys it...... Xu Yifan was very suspicious that this kid was in this mind. Once you are a mediocre talent who can't bear the pressure, Chu Wanli will definitely pat his ass and turn around and leave, and Li Yunzong may not be able to replace it and continue the unfinished business......

As for Yuan Shikai...... can become the old brother who really usurped the Qing in Xu Yifan's memory. Now he hasn't shown any peculiarity, and these people are also quite dead, but Xu Yifan subconsciously believed that his elder brother should have two hands on the court, so he summoned him to participate in the deliberations of this lineage. Whether he was watching a joke or something in his heart, it was impossible to guess......

Regardless of his subordinates, he was the first to bear the pressure. It's for him to make a decision to deal with the impending danger. His path to power has not yet reached the inflection point of being entrenched and dead. Only success, and success will continue to be successful. Take a step back and you're in the abyss. He barely stepped into the chess game of the high-level game, but unfortunately he was caught in the middle of the storm. The year before this Jiawu was his most vulnerable, and he wanted to escape the fate of this storm, but God didn't give him this effort! According to common sense, Cixi, who has absolute authority, is already afraid of him, because the emperor is too busy, he will definitely do something to him, and there is a behemoth Beiyang forced palace by his side, no matter how you look at it, it is dangerous. According to the normal path of power struggle, I am afraid that I will not be able to die anymore. Now his only advantage may be that from Tan Sitong's words, he quickly judged the crisis he had fallen into, and immediately made the worst plan, and bought a little pitiful time......

If you have the ability and the resources, can you get through the current hurdle?

The eyes of his subordinates were all concentrated, especially Tang Shaoyi's gaze was the heaviest. Xu Yifan was in a state of confusion, but he still forced himself to maintain that lazy posture, as if inadvertently opened his mouth: "It's nothing to call everyone here, recently, everyone may have heard the rumors, and now it's almost the same, it's just such a thing......"

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"Congratulations to the handsome!"

"He Dashuai!"

"North Korea should have been under the pacification of the marshal, and the middle hall asked for my Beiyang life, Lafayette Shengming, only this brilliant decree is here, and it is also due to the merits of the marshal!"

In the lobby of the original mansion of the former Dayuan Jun in Seoul, North Korea, Ye Zhichao was hugging his fists with a smile on his face. Greeted by a room full of officers' gazes. He is just the rank of commander, and he does not have the title of Qincha, so he should be called the military gate, and he can't afford the title of marshal. But as soon as the telegram from Tianjin came, his old man circulated the telegram, and everyone started to coax him, calling him a handsome.

This house has changed owners three times in just a few months, and now the officers gathered in it are the essence of the two Beiyang Marine and Land Divisions, two or three admirals, seven or eight general soldiers, and more adjutant generals will be crowded inside. The martial artist's voice was so loud that the beams of the roof trembled. Everyone was elated.

Ye Zhichao sat in the room, touching his beard and squinting his eyes and laughing. He only smoked a tael at noon, and now he is full of energy. The brain also came quickly, just looking at the expressions of these officers.

The telegram that arrived today was very simple: "The imperial court has issued an edict, and Xu Yifan should go and apologize." Lianfang will go to Pyongyang with his will to urge Lord Xu to set off, hoping that the armies of Seoul will select the elite and prepare to go to Pyongyang to take over the defense. North Korea's defense is heavy, and our Beiyang should bear the heavy responsibility of shielding vassals. The Praetorian Guards went to stay, and they should be on standby. North Korean military, Shuqing brother let it, don't bear the trust, Li Mouton Shoujin Gate. ”

After 20 years of hard work, Beiyang finally turned over! Li Laozhongtang has been beaten and guarded by the imperial court for so many years, and he still has to borrow him? Xu Yifan drove them away, and the Praetorian Guards gave them a place in Beiyang!

It's been more than a month since we arrived in North Korea, and everyone has rushed over with great difficulty, but they are not ready for war, and they are all waiting for the germination. The country is really suffering enough, and they support these sticks. No matter what kind of civilized party you are, it is serious to take out the reward. As a result, the North Koreans were still crying poor, saying that the treasury of Seoul had been emptied to Xu Yifan! Everyone came here in vain?

Speaking of going to Pyongyang to make Xu Yifan uncomfortable, everyone is a little shirked, you look at me, I look at you. Those two hundred and five are a little difficult to provoke, and they dare to shoot in front of foreigners. The battalion leaders led by everyone are hard-hitting and hard-working, and they all know each other. Besides, there is an officialdom system, they are Wu Ben, and Xu Yifan is a minister. But this breath is really hard to swallow. Why did the benefits of North Korea swallow it up for your kid alone? North Korea has always been the territory of the North Seas, why did you occupy half of it?

Everyone is counting on Zhongtang to earn face for them, we may be vague in the war, the court political dispute, you kid is not a child! The rumors of forcing Xu Yifan to leave the dynasty have been rumored for so long. Now it's finally time to clear the clouds and see the blue sky, and the middle hall is the middle hall after all!

There's still a lot of commotion down there.

"Lafayette is sage, and the middle hall is also sage! It's not easy to know that we are in Beiyang! ”

Yang Dao passed on the will, set off immediately, how could he get to Seoul in five days. Let's count it for another ten days in Pyongyang, Xu Yifan will have to move the place immediately! All these years, it has been telegraphed to convey the will, this time Yang Dao was specially sent to pass the will, what the imperial court means still does not understand? It's just to let you go! Let's quickly select the battalion leader and prepare to go to Pyongyang to pick up the defense, but don't let that kid transfer things! ”

"Which battalion leaders to pick this time? Needless to say, the marshal's Sheng army is the main force, but the location of Pyongyang is so important, and it connects the northeast Longxing land, I'm afraid there will be more than a dozen battalion heads, right? The messenger's reward ......"

Ye Zhichao just looked at the expression on the face of an officer, needless to say, he was descended from the Sheng Army, and he was overjoyed. The expressions of the other Fengjun Yijun Ganjun are much more complicated, with expectation, envy, flattery, and faint jealousy. Admiral Ding Ruchang also came to the palace to discuss matters and sat next to him. The sailors now travel between Korea and Lushun, Tianjin, and Weihai. Ding Ruchang also knew that there was no room for their sailors to interfere in these good things, but he sat there with an indifferent face.

Ye Zhichao smiled in his stomach, and put it in the past, Pyongyang took over the defense, it was all their army's business, and no one could grab it. Now I have something else in mind. Xu Yifan sits in half of North Korea and has the title of Qincha. He took back the power to pacify the entire North Korea, and the most important thing in the Qing Dynasty officialdom was the precedent, plus there were still Janissaries to deal with the aftermath, so if he didn't add a title, how could he be an envoy? In the years of Chengping, Wu Ben arrived at the Admiral, and if he went further, it would be extremely difficult. Now this is a great opportunity, he Ye Zhichao also wants to hang the title of Qincha, wait until the North Korean affairs are over, put a governor or something, is it not better than a bitter haha with a big head soldier?

He tacitly understood the meaning of Zhongtang, and Xu Yifan had already been driven away. He wants to cooperate with Yang Shixiang, who announced the decree, to deter the Praetorian Guards of the Northern Dynasty as soon as possible, control the entire North Korea, and solve the freak that everyone doesn't like! This is a big festival, it's done, it's done, and it's an ordinary thing, maybe Zhongtang can still consider letting him take over Beiyang...... At this time, it is not necessary to eat too ugly. Instead, it is necessary to show the bearing that can be controlled......

Waiting for the people below to be noisy, he slowly got up. Watching him get up, the officers under his command all stood up with a bang, and the spurs creaked. Ye Zhichao smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to sit down, and met everyone's colorful eyes before he spoke lightly.

"What about this matter, Zhongtang's hard work, we can't waste it in vain, we have to do it beautifully! Here in Seoul, we can't move lightly, we have to guard it at all...... As soon as Lord Lianfang arrived, the Fengjun Yijun Ganjun drew twenty battalions out, and our Sheng army guarded your home for you! The naval division will also move, dispatch troops and ships to patrol the coast, and the mine battalion of the naval division will also go to Pyongyang, so as to become a flank attack on land and water, and the momentum of deterrence! ”

Before he could finish his sentence, there was an uproar below. The other battalion leaders couldn't believe that Ye Zhichao was so generous, and his Sheng Jun's descendants were like they had heard the wrong words, so they stayed there and couldn't make a sound with their mouths wide open. Ye Zhichao is giving away all the benefits! Even Ding Ruchang, who didn't care the most, widened his eyes.

Ye Zhichao let them bother for a while, and then continued to speak with a light smile, but there was a little more coldness in his tone: "Everyone understands the benefits of going to Pyongyang." How many years of old friends, I, Ye Shuqing, have never wronged everyone, this time this arrangement, that is, to do a good job of the mission! Praetorian Guard, it must be finished! Ye gave all the benefits to others, just to make sure that if it was messed up, he would be able to cut off people's heads! That's it, everyone! ”

These cruel words were squeezed out of his teeth, and the officers of the army involuntarily stood up straight, bowed their heads and clenched their fists: "Obey the orders of the commander!" ”

Seeing everyone's respectful appearance, Ye Zhichao smiled: "This is the case with the deployment of the camp head, the specific strategy, we still wait for Lord Lianfang to arrive, and then make arrangements!" Don't leave any of you today, hold a banquet, congratulate me in the middle hall, congratulate me Beiyang, and congratulate me in the Qing Dynasty! ”

A room full of officers suddenly agreed. Ding Ruchang sat in his seat and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect Ye Shuqing to have such a pattern......

An officer with a gloomy face behind him was Deng Shichang, Ding Ruchang was afraid that he would talk nonsense, so he would take him with him at all times. Today, Ye Zhichao's style, Deng Shichang has been gritting his teeth and looking in his eyes, and when he heard Ding Ruchang's whispering, he just twisted his eyebrows and made a conclusion.

"Infighting expert!"

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Xu Yifan's signing room was quiet, and everyone looked at each other. Xu Yifan saw it in his eyes, at this time, no matter how chaotic his mind was, he calmed down. Embarking on this path, he will not regret it for a long time.

Against the foreign enemies of the Qing Dynasty, this team has shown enough centripetal force by his side. What about when the blow comes from within? Can these people still defend him without complaint? Maybe this is a test, through this most vulnerable time, you may be like a fish jumping into the dragon gate, and you can't copy it!

Although how to deal with it, I haven't figured out a way to come out......

Zhan Tianyou's muttered voice suddenly sounded below: "Imperial court...... This is not necessarily the case in the imperial court...... How much credit have we made in North Korea, and let Seoul come to Pyongyang, the imperial court will not let the adults leave Pyongyang, right? It's groundless, let's not believe it, it's not that the imperial decree hasn't arrived yet, just based on Tan Sitong's words, the adults have made this judgment, isn't Meng Lang a little bit? ”

Tang Shaoyi, Chu Wanli, and Li Yunzong all shook their heads slightly, feeling that Zhan Tianyou was too nerdy. Xu Yifan smiled slightly, and was about to explain. I heard a cold voice in the corner, with a slight Henan accent: "This political dispute can only be planned for the worst!" Why did Li Zhongtang mention in the contract that he wanted Lord Xu to apologize? Blatantly dealing with another pro-army Qincha, isn't it tacit to the meaning of the above, how can he do something that has not been done in this country for 200 years? We didn't send an envoy to Britain to apologize during the Daoguang period, we didn't send an envoy to England and France to apologize during the Xianfeng period, and we also didn't send an envoy to apologize for the Vietnam War! It is already obvious that the imperial court is afraid of Lord Xu, and the corrupt Confucians of the imperial party are mixed in, and the only way to make an early decision is to urge the upper authorities to make a decision early, this edict may have been issued, and we can see it in three or two days, within more than ten days, there will be envoys urging the adults to leave Pyongyang, and then it will be followed by the Huai Army Brigade, are we better to violate the will, or not to violate the will? ”

Zhan Tianyou stayed on the spot, slowly turning his gaze to Xu Yifan, Xu Yifan smiled bitterly in his heart, and only nodded slowly at him. It was Yuan Shikai who spoke just now. I saw him raise his eyebrows, sit up straight, and look at Zhan Tianyou with a provocative expression.

After a long time, I heard Zhan Tianyou say with difficulty: "...... It's a pity for those students...... It's not a pity to lose that bit of construction. But those students ...... It's all so studious, so I laid a little foundation. Can the imperial court take over? These are all talents for industrialization in the future! I had a long-term plan, to learn technology first, then management, and to give them time to practice...... If the adults are not there, who will take care of these students? ”

Tang Shaoyi shrugged his shoulders on the side: "No one cares." ”

Li Yun said in a deep voice: "What about the Praetorian Guard? Do you want to solve it too? The officers and soldiers who have just begun to train in rotation, these are the soldiers who have a majestic and murderous spirit? This army, which has already issued an order and does not dare to look back? Preparation, tactics, morale, and equipment began to cultivate and learn step by step. The future will be the seed of the armed forces of the state! Is that the end of it? ”

His tone was not as painful as Zhan Tianyou, and in the gloomy place, there was an inexplicable tension, as if gold and iron intersected, shaking people's hairs to stand on end. Later, every word seemed to be squeezed out of between the teeth, as if something was about to burst out at any moment.

Tang Shaoyi got up violently: "I'll go to Beijing again!" Send them money, go to Li Lianying's door, and let this matter slow down! ”

Yuan Shikai's face sank as if he was about to drip water, and snorted disdainfully: "It's destined to be over, even Li Lianying doesn't dare to touch this money!" The imperial party has come in, who would dare to get involved? ”

Tang Shaoyi sat down dejectedly, and Chu Wanli said with a smile: "Then let's just lose our sincerity, simply merge into the Beiyang system, and become a person from Beiyang, Lao Li should also take care of one or two, right?" ”

Yuan Shikai still sneered: "Li Hongzhang is so tolerant? They already regard the Praetorian Guard as something in their pocket, and can they allow you to form your own system in the Beiyang? They will not risk the world's condemnation to expand their power at this time, in a word, they want the Praetorian Guard to die as soon as possible! ”

was confronted by Yuan Shikai, who descended to the people, Chu Wanli just shrugged his shoulders and didn't care.

Zhan Tianyou muttered again: "It is easy for us to make so many achievements, whether it is Beiyang or the imperial court, we have been engaged in foreign affairs for so many years, and there is no place like ours here, with an open pattern." Even if it's an adult...... The adults are gone, and Li Zhongtang is also a knowledgeable person, so he should be able to ......"

choked, and it turned out to be Li Yunzong who pulled out the Western-style military saber at his waist with a cold face!

"Adults exist in the group, and adults go to the group. How can we show our ambitions, Lord Zhan should not understand! ”

Chu Wanli grabbed Li Yunzong, and Xu Yifan also slammed the table and yelled: "Yunzong, are you crazy?" Go back and sit down! ”

Tang Shaoyi was protecting Zhan Tianyou, and at the same time, he was also persuading: "Daren, we have long been with the adults with the glory and loss!" We also have a few years of experience in officialdom, can't we see through it? You and I have both come back from studying in the United States, and the world regards us as outliers. The ambition to change this lifeless situation has to be stuffed in his chest. Over the past year, it is the most enjoyable time to show what you have learned, and adults will know it, appoint it, and value it. Treat us as a national soldier, why can't we repay us as a national soldier at this time? ”

Zhan Tianyou sighed and just hugged his head.

Xu Yifan just looked at all this coldly. Subordinates here, you can rest assured. He gave each of his subordinates enough space to carry out their ambitions, and he also gave them enough trust. At this time, nature can be rewarded. The reuse of the future and the pursuit of each person's career are integrated together, and it has long been unbreakable. The more pressure there is, the closer it becomes.

But how exactly should we deal with this pressure? I am afraid to do anything, and I feel that I can't toss and turn no matter how I think of it......

Yuan Shikai kept looking at Xu Yifan's expression coldly. After a long time, seeing Xu Yifan's gaze unintentionally turned, he got up lightly and asked, "My lord, what do you want?" ”

Without waiting for Xu Yifan to answer, he said to himself: "I only believe that a husband can't be said to be without power!" That's why I'm struggling. First Beiyang and then Ronglu, and then put into your command, and became a repeated villain with everyone's eyes...... If you fall again, I really have nowhere to go.

If the position of power is not firmly in the hands, everything is in vain! At the beginning, Zeng Wenzhenggong's achievements were world-famous, and half of his power was tilted. After he cut off the Hunan army, the imperial court wanted Wenzheng to be the east and the west. Encirclement and suppression of the twisted army is unfavorable, and they dare to issue an order! If the Hunan army is in hand, will the court dare? Li Zhongtang Huaijun has always been in his hands, so his position has not fallen for decades. The adults have worked hard to manage the Praetorian Guard, so do you just let it go?

When it comes to the end, you have to be bold! No matter how drastic the means, as long as the Praetorian Guards are still in their hands, the court will only come to appease the lords, balance the situation, and contain each other...... But that's it! ”

Do you have to be bold when it comes to the end? The mess in Xu Yifan's mind seemed to have been unraveled by a bolt of lightning.

Did he really think he was a loyal servant? From the beginning, he held back the desire to seize it! Only Yuan Shikai, the future Jianxiong, can really understand his thoughts!

All kinds of methods came one after another, and they could not be cut off. He slammed the table and stood up. Everyone in the room also stood up and bowed to him respectfully, even Chu Wanli was meticulous: "The subordinates all listen to the orders of the adults!" ”

Xu Yifan kept his face straight for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "What's the matter, do you know the benefits of power?" Are you reluctant to let go? I can't bear it...... Okay, let's spend it with Li Hongzhang, this ...... Wanli, Weiting, go to the Northeast with me. Yunzong, Shaochuan, Daren, you guard your home. I will fight for these ten days, so that Beiyang will not be able to enter Pyongyang by half a step! ”

(To be continued)