Spring is gradually becoming stronger in Yanjing City. The weather, which had been dry and cold, gradually became a little humid and warm. The big shoulder of the skin which the people of the cat winter take off, too. The gentlemen of Yanjing City's good fishing camp and Kuding are even more neatly wearing a small cotton jacket and swaggering through the streets. The teahouse and wine shop also have the gentle cry of birds that have only opened their mouths in spring. The flag soldiers of the Xishan Jianrui Battalion, who most guarded the customs of old Manchuria, must have chosen the day of thawing, danced their shaman dance, except for the wind and sand that will rise in spring, everything has a spring weather.

Even this spring, the vitality of Yanjing City is more substantial than in the past. In the streets and alleys, people are still talking about what Xu Yifan did in Nanyang, the treaty he just signed, Li Hongzhang sent him to North Korea to train troops and guard the country of Ping Domain, all kinds of piles, people from all walks of life are talking endlessly. The Daqing Times, which Tan Sitong co-authored, sold well in Sijiu City. The Qing Dynasty has been dead for more than ten years since the Sino-French War, and the influential figures of the year have gradually withered. Everyone vaguely felt that something must be wrong with this country, but they couldn't say it in an orderly manner. Where do the common people have such an insight! Everyone just vaguely thinks that it is time to come up with a famous minister to continue the Qing Dynasty. Xu Yifan jumped up in such a high-profile manner, and he also smashed the foreigner on his nose and face. No matter what the ruling class thinks, in the minds of the common people, can that prestige position be restored?

"Drink! Lord Xu was drunk and cursive, and the barbarians were shocked. Pointing to the lessons of foreigners: 'Do you dare to bully our people? Dare me to send troops to fight you again! Scared the foreign devils again and again. Then he returned proudly on a large soldier ship, to report the auspicious life to Galeries Lafayette...... This is entering the capital, not riding a horse in the Forbidden City, it should also be a purple rein, right? The top is small and the top is small, and the adult is now the title of the political envoy, and the head is still held in hand. What do you say, gentlemen? ”

"Anything you should get! Do you want to reward Li Devil? At the beginning in Guangxi, if Lord Xu and Li Guizi had changed positions, would we still be able to lose Vietnam? Now it's good that Devil Li is knowledgeable, and he invited Lord Xu to guard the North Korean Ping Domain. This is to defend the country for the Son of Heaven! ”

"What kind of intentions does Devil Li have? He was afraid that Lord Xu would go to his Beiyang to participate in it, and Li Devil was fine! Now I hope that the Bodhisattva will bless me so that Lord Xu can train a divine soldier in North Korea. In the future, the court will destroy the ministers, or foreign devils will come to the door, and they can kill King Qin! ”

"Be quiet, what can the dynasty promote? Didn't you hear Mo talking about state affairs? ”

The people in the market are like this, and the ministers and officials all have their own thoughts. If Xu Yifan was stirring up the smoke and clouds of Jinghua at the beginning, he was still in the unfathomable officialdom of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, just trying the water. So this time when he came back from Nanyang, then he was officially going to wrestle with the ups and downs in this officialdom. That is to involve the interests of too many people, and there is even a question of position. The imperial court's intention to support Xu Yifan to divide the Beiyang power can also be seen by the blind, and the Beiyang forces are also offensive and defensive. sacrificed the magic weapon to let Xu Yifan go to North Korea, and everyone understood that it was impossible for the imperial court not to agree. We'll have to wait and see what the future holds. This is the time to observe silently and prick up your ears to look. Besides, if Xu Yifan starts a new situation, won't there be many more positions? How many candidates are sold properly and have to support the scene, with the intention of going there to make up for the shortcomings.

With a snap, the chess pieces landed lightly on the chessboard. A chess game is at the time of entanglement. The two big dragons in the middle of the belly tumbled and strangled together, but the four fell sparsely. There is a lot of room to grasp the corners.

The situation on the chessboard is strange, Yi Xin, who holds the sunspot, is obviously still holding a first, but he will never consider taking off the first and throwing four shots. Still staring at the chaotic chess game in the middle of the belly. The old man seems to be a bit of a fan of the authorities. Thinking of the depths, a flat face became whiter the more he thought about it, and he covered his handkerchief and coughed violently.

It was Xiu Gege who played against him, and she may have changed her tender yellow head rope in response to this spring scene. It adds a bit of agility to the delicate face. Seeing the old man coughing, she just made a look. The pair of twins who had been standing there obediently were busy giving the old man a light slap on his back.

Yi Xin easily stopped coughing, and said with a wry smile: "Old, it's all a handful of bones." Every year in the spring, it's like a fucking pass. God would have taken my devil six earlier, so I didn't have to keep the waste of food. ”

Xiuning smiled lightly, and there was a rare coquettish voice in her tone: "Sixth grandfather, you are the magic weapon of Zhenshan in our clan, maybe when, Lafayette will sacrifice you." Keep you to ward off evil spirits! ”

Yi Xin smiled: "Am I a god?" His expression was faint, and he seemed to put his spirit on the chess game again: "Did you enter the palace to see Lafayette today?" How's the mouth? ”

Xiuning smiled: "Sixth grandfather, I won't probe the wind." What Lafayette wants is Rongyang, and everything is now far away......"

Yi Xin slapped his thigh: "That's when Lafayette promised to let Xu Yifan go to North Korea?" How far could it go? The fourth of the world, they have got their wish now, and we all know how difficult it is to ask for some military power for a newly debuted Han person. But in order to form a strong momentum in the land of Kisuke. I, an old man who was dying, couldn't say that I had to contribute a little effort. Lafayette agreed, show girl, did you ask for it? ”

What made Yixin helpless was that Xiuning never recognized her influence in front of Cixi. Everyone in front of Cixi knew that she believed in the two young girls the most and could listen to them the most. One is the sister-in-law of the great eunuch Li Lianying, and the other is the smart granddaughter of Prince Melxian, who has always served Cixi loyally and finally did her best in the Three Seas Project.

Originally, Li Hongzhang played Xu Yifan to go to North Korea, but Guangxu was surrounded by those people in the imperial party, and he was also the most disgusted with Li Hongzhang. This kind of thing that can divide Li Hongzhang's forces is something he proposed, and there is no reason not to agree to it. All of a sudden, six battalions of men and horses were pulled out from the Huai army! The last bit of force of the Manchu Eight Banners was defeated by Zeng Greenqin. Now these six battalions, as long as they are managed properly, who says that they will not be the main force of the Manchu Janissaries in the future?

But when this matter arrived at Cixi, it was delayed. This old lady is definitely uneducated and politically sensitive. Naturally disgusted with Hanchen's military power. There is no way for Han warlords such as Zeng Hu Zuo and Li to come out, but they are still beaten from time to time. There is one more Hanchen, who controls the most important troops in the name of the Praetorian Guard. The old lady was a little unhappy. Li Hongzhang can control it anyway, Guangxu and they will share his power, and it will be okay to distribute it to the banner people, but he is still a Han person. How can this be comfortable? It's just taking off your pants and farting!

Originally, the military aircraft department and a clan were so anxious that they jumped up and down, but they didn't know what Xiuning had turned around. actually turned the tone of the old lady Cixi and made her loosen her steel teeth. But this girl just doesn't admit it!

Yi Xin turned her head away, and began to be a little angry with her granddaughter, who was fifty years younger than herself. Xiuning just smiled lightly and leaned over: "Okay, Sixth Grandpa." Anyway, Galeries Lafayette opened Chrysostom. You don't care what it is...... Tell Mr. Weng that my little girl wants a good face. Tell him to bring it. No one runs errands for nothing, does he? ”

Yi Xin smiled: "I'll knock the old man, you can do it...... Is Galeries Lafayette all red? In the name of Xu Yifan, the Minister of Military Training with the rank of Political Envoy of the Praetorian Guard? ”

Xiuning shook his head slowly: "There is no reason for the Han people to hang the title of Minister of Praetorian Guard Training, and it must be the prince who is far away." Sixth grandfather, you really have to pick and choose. Find a prince who can do things to come out, and then train the Beiyang Navy Division into Li Hongzhang's private army like the Navy Yamen. We are not for Xu Yifan, but for our bannermen! ”

Yi Xin waved his hand: "I can't talk to me about this, I can't even see Lafayette in person." You and the fourth in the world, they said, he is the chief military aircraft. ”

Xiu Ning just chuckled: "Sixth grandfather, there is something you can't push, you are the first prince of the clan." Junior, who doesn't look at your face? Who wouldn't listen to you? You have to call on Xu Yifan to train Han soldiers in North Korea. In the clan, except for a prince who picks the head. You still have to find some juniors, don't keep wandering around the cages and birds in Sijiu City. What kind of god machine battalion tiger gun battalion is a blind fool a day or two. Pick some promising ones and stuff them to Xu Yifan! Our banner people know about the soldiers! Gotta catch the soldiers! Otherwise, if we come to the big disaster, we will have to show our eyes! ”

Her complexion was cold, but her tone was steady: "I didn't have this opportunity before, whether it was the Huai Army or the new training army." It's all been inherited for decades, and when it was fought in the war, the needle couldn't be pricked and splashed with water. Xu Yifan, this is a new army! It's rare for us to have such an opportunity, and we can let it go lightly? ”

Yi Xin nodded slowly and did not speak.

Xiuning turned his head and slapped the white characters on the northeast corner with a snap, and a son came out. The scattered white seeds in the northeast are connected together. Not only is it a situation of its own, but it also faintly echoes the offensive momentum of the mid-belly melee.

"The game is like chess...... Sixth grandfather, I hate myself so much for not being a man......"

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The river is gentle and flows slowly. Perhaps because of the spring rains, the water level of the Han River, which runs through central Korea, began to rise, rolling and churning and flowing towards the sea.

On the north bank of the river, a short and fat man wearing a Tongzhi supplement uniform was walking by the river with a group of young men who looked like Qing military attachés. Behind is a large group of guards. On both sides of the Han River are green rice fields, and North Korean farmers wear hats to plant rice in the fields to catch up with the solar terms before and after the spring rains. watched the officials of the Qing Dynasty pass by. These short, tanned peasants did not dare to take a breath of the atmosphere. Wherever they passed, both men and women, lay on their stomachs in the muddy waters of the rice paddies. The soldiers followed behind the officials, and they didn't know what kind of leisure and elegance this adult lived comfortably in Seoul, and he went to the riverside to make a leisurely and elegant wandering around. The eyes just wandered on those North Korean peasant women who didn't wear tops and showed their **.

That Humpty Dumpty was the Qing Dynasty's Qincha Trade Commissioner in Korea, another political rising star in the late Qing Dynasty who was controlled by Beiyang. Yuan Shikai and Yuan Weiting, the sons of the Henan family who inherited the Sixth Battalion Qingjun from his uncle.

He walked slowly by the river, bowing his head and putting his hands behind his back thoughtfully. The river splashed his robe, and he didn't even notice it. Occasionally, he would pick up a stone and throw it into the distance, staring blankly at the splash of the stone.

A middle-aged military attache who looked like a battalion officer came to his side and said in a low voice, "Lord Yuan, it's not too early, it's time to go back." The king of the courtyard has to entertain the adults tonight, and what to discuss with the adults. ”

Yuan Shikai sneered: "What else is there to discuss?" is nothing more than the Xu Yifan who fell from the sky. I, Yuan, am alone and hard to maintain in this vassal country. I, the Qing Dynasty, North Korea, said that it was so easy to be safe here. As soon as he came over, weren't those people in North Korea still worried? I Yuan someone respects them, Xu someone may not! I Yuan someone has Beiyang's salary, I don't need to take out the purse of these sticks, Xu someone came over with two fists, can I still be polite to them? I was even more worried, and the person surnamed Xu was said to be very unkind to Toushanman in Yueben and his party, and he also bombarded the Dutch in Java. It is said that Ben has interests in North Korea, can they rest assured that the two hundred and five come to make trouble? I couldn't think of our good when someone Yuan was there, and then I was going to be gone, and they were in a hurry to go to the house to put out the fire at this time, and there was a fart! ”

The battalion officer just smiled embarrassedly, and only said after a while: "My lord, do you want to see if you have launched the Korean vassal state, and the envoy of the torii gate has jointly submitted a public report to the imperial court?" Once it becomes a negotiation, will the imperial court still dare to move the position of the adult? We are all people who are willing to die for adults, and we really don't want to change bosses. These two hundred and five really want to come over, and the subordinates are planning to go home and farm, let him play. The imperial court didn't know that the status of the lord in North Korea was related to the safety of the northeast of the imperial court, but North Korea and the book knew! Look at ......"

Yuan Shikai squinted at the battalion officer and said lightly: "Qingen, how am I to you?" What about the brethren? ”

The battalion official's surname is Wu, and he is the son of Wu Changqing, the old commander of the Qing army, and he has long been recovered by Yuan Shikai and Enwei by means. This adult is a little mean, but he is by no means unkind, and his hands are huge. These battalion officers have long been fat and lost in North Korea, and they are military attachés of the country, so they are extremely comfortable with their authority and blessings. Yuan Shikai was not very restrained either. Hearing that the imperial court was going to change horses, these warriors did have the same hatred as Yuan Shikai. At the moment, it was an impassioned expression: "The subordinates should be willing to come and go in the water for the adults, and go in the fire and in the fire!" The three thousand brothers in the Qingjun all have this thought! ”

This is actually a bit of a weak heart, and the Qing army is up and down, and there are 1,500 people who don't know if there is.

Yuan Shikai smiled heavily and nodded lightly: "Being a soldier and eating food is a matter of course." Xu Yifan hasn't come yet, so when you come, you will ask him for a salary to see if he can take it. The Qing army was stationed in the vassal state. It is the practice of double food and double salary, and the family also has settlement expenses. Over the years, the soldiers and the publicly-funded silver that have been exchanged were originally paid by me. This time, I brought out the account book, and it was taken out by your battalion officer, and I wanted to pay it back. That's not too much to ask, isn't it? ”

"Your Excellency wants us to make trouble?" Wu Qingen's expression was a little hesitant, this little thing is indeed a trivial matter for these bastards, and it is not a crime to kill the head. It's great to stick arrows in the camp, and these battalion officers are not even likely to have a bad reputation. However, since the Qing Dynasty, there has been no such example of a salary that can force an official to leave his position. Yuan Shikai really thought that this would force Xu Yifan away? Hearing rumors in the rivers and lakes, this 205 minister is really tough.

Seeing his hesitant expression, Yuan Shikai's eyes were cold. Wu Qingen woke up suddenly, and he was in the Qing army, and he didn't know how many henchmen Yuan Shikai had planted! When the time comes, even if he doesn't want to make trouble, he has to make trouble. immediately patted his chest: "Adult, it's a trivial matter!" Wrap it up on the brethren! ”

Yuan Shikai snorted, and seemed to vomit a little depression in his chest. It's just that the coolness in his eyes can't go away. Wu Qingen lowered his head and thought about it, but still interjected half a sentence: "My lord, this is a trouble...... Does it really work? ”

If Yuan Shikai really can't squeeze Xu Yifan away, they still want to mess around!

Yuan Shikai beckoned Goshha to lead the horses, and smiled faintly: "Counting on you alone, of course it won't work, it's just a reason!" ”

Even as soon as this sentence came out, Yuan Shikai felt that he had said too much, turned over on the horse with a straight face, and added a whip. The horse suddenly rushed out with his hooves. The Goshha behind were all cavalry, and they followed in clusters like dragons. A lot of smoke and dust rolled up, and the North Korean peasants avoided one after another, and no one dared to stand in front of the [***] team. Many people still knelt on the ground and didn't dare to lift their heads.

In such a situation of controlling a country and 10,000 people bowing down, who is willing to give up a good man?

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"My lord, in Korea, there are two schools: the Eastern School and the Western School. The Eastern School is a school of internal attachment and a heart to the country. When the change of Renwu was also bent on calming the chaos. Concubine Min's father is the boss of the Eastern School. Western learning is to see that foreigners are prosperous, and they also have a rising posture, and they want to report another thick leg. Concubine Min is a family, and most of them are this idea. There is even a capable general, Kim Ok-jun, who was sentenced to the North Korean soldiers. Single-mindedly trying to break away from our country is the most stubborn. The foreign devils are too far away, and North Korea is poor. They leaned on the book, the strange military camp newly trained in North Korea is all trained by Yu himself, and there are a bunch of ronin, I don't think I have any good intentions......

Tang Shaoyi was pale in the cabin, and explained the situation in North Korea to Xu Yifan very dutifully. He has been in North Korea for more than ten years, and he can really be called a North Korean expert. But Xu Yifan still listened a little boring, about North Korea, the First Sino-Japanese War research books, I don't know how many in his time. Tang Shaoyi, a North Korean expert, is estimated to be really not as comprehensive as him. But watching Tang Shaoyi endure seasickness, he is still dutifully acting as a staff member. He could only listen with a serious face.

In fact, his mind has already flown back to China, and this trip to Nanyang, all aspects of the harvest can be called perfect. More than he could have expected. The salary figures are staggering, and there are nearly 1,000 young elites in Nanyang to follow. It has risen in China again, and its reputation has been shocked. Thousands of miles away, he caught 3,000 horses from the sixth battalion of the Qing army.

But the faster he rises, the more flaws in his shaky foundation become. The situation is supported by strength. In addition to soldiers, it is also necessary to have its own industry to support the new army. Qing Ji foreign affairs and military training were originally inseparable, and they were each other's inside. Since Tang Shaoyi followed him to Nanyang, he has been very interested in these behind-the-scenes conspiracy games, but he has forgotten the business he originally entrusted him to run foreign affairs. When I return home, I will beat him again.

The machine bureau must be set up after returning to China. Overseas troops must also have their own maritime transportation force to support, otherwise they will have to be subject to the Beiyang everywhere. It is equivalent to resetting a steamship China Merchants Bureau by himself. The arming of troops, the training of officers, and the recruitment of soldiers are all in order...... It's all about things. Three thousand horse steps, even if there is no vacancy, it will not come in handy! These rights must be fought for after they return to China. Think that you are covered in iron, so you can twist a few nails? Thinking about the fact that Jiawu is not far away, there are so many things to do, and sometimes I want to be lazy and give up the great cause of usurpation.

Fortunately, these thoughts are just thoughts.

The steamer has been floating at sea for more than ten days, and it has no communication with the South Sea mainland. After the contract was reached, Zhiyuan and Laiyuan returned to China in advance just by saying hello to him. I want to be the same as when I came, and I don't have a chance to have a relationship with Lala, an officer of the Beiyang Naval Division, all the way. It's a heart-wrenching waste of time.

In addition to official affairs, private affairs are also the same. Du Juan and Chen Luoshi, two northland girls, got seasick again when they went to sea. In addition, for him to return to China with Li Xuan, the vinegar was really delicious. I don't even have a chance to touch the door. Li Xuan followed him on the boat with a large number of servants and maids, and he was also very reserved. His subordinates are not allowed to call her Mrs. Xian, only Miss. Say that the relationship has not been cultivated yet. Although they chartered a few large first-class cabins at the end of a Dutch liner, the scenery of the South China Sea is also extremely charming, and the moon is clear at night. But in the half year that Master Xu returned to this era, he was still a virgin. (Not counted before crossing)

Calculate the journey, and it's almost in China. In these days, the sea water has changed from the blue of the South China Sea to the black of the Bohai Sea.

When he was drowsy, Li Xuan's cheers suddenly sounded on the cloister deck of the stern first-class cabin. There must have been a lot of people around her, and she heard a voice of exclamation and admiration.

Xu Yifan stood up, pushed the door and walked out of the cabin, Tang Shaoyi saw his move, and only followed helplessly.

Li Xuan was standing on the top of the corridor at the end of the deck, wearing a long dress, her chestnut hair dancing everywhere in the sea breeze. The delicate little face just looked at the west in the distance.

Looking to the west, the pale black waters of the Bohai Sea are surging wave after wave. In the sky is the distant chirping of seabirds. In the distance where the waves crashed, there was a faint white line, and at the end of the sky, only the shadow of the continental coastline could be seen. From south to north, there is no end. As far as the eye can see, I don't know how many mountains and rivers there are, magnificent scenes.

The subordinates who followed Li Xuan were all overseas Chinese born and raised in Nanyang. Just stretched his neck and stared blankly at this land, this is just the abode of the ancestral gods that has been passed down by word of mouth in the mouths of the elders. Compared with the beautiful island scenery of the South Seas, this place is vast, this place is desolate, and it is unimaginably far-reaching and long-lasting.

Li Xuan didn't care about the fact that he was blown cold by the sea breeze, but just looked at this completely incomprehensible scene, looking at the distant continent where the white waves were lapping. Is this land the place that gave birth to countless Chinese in Nanyang? What is the difference between living on this land?

"Welcome home ......"

As soon as Li Xuan turned around, she saw Xu Yifan holding the railing and standing beside her. Her eyebrows tightened, and she seemed to be looking at the continent in the distance more intently than her.

The whistle whistled, and Li Xuan secretly gave way to the side half a step. There's no way, this Xu Yifan still makes the girl feel very strange! Looking at Xu Yifan's heavy face, Li Xuan was a little puzzled. I should be happy to go home!

She asked softly, "You...... What do you think? ”

Xu Yifan smiled faintly: "What I think, you don't understand." He paused, looked at her and nodded, there was a hint of eagerness in his eyes, but it was not because of the girl in front of him.

"I promise you, you're going to see something wonderful, something spectacular. That's how I impress you...... Playing chess on this land is every man's dream......"

(To be continued)