Although it is the middle of summer, the bright sunshine does not give people the feeling of being in a furnace at all. Perhaps because of the close sea, even the dog weather will have a cool breeze, not to mention that this is still the beginning of summer.

Tianjin lives up to its name as a commercial port, and its bustle is far greater than that of Tianjin, and in the midst of the endless flow of people on the street, a young man walks hurriedly north.

This person is tall, wearing a hat and a Beiyang cloud coat, and surprisingly the braid behind him is only more than a foot long. He was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a dark complexion, a thin face, two long sword eyebrows, and a pair of deep eyes. He walked straight forward without squinting, and his expression was neither like that of a gentleman who was affectionate with dogs and horses, nor like a distant merchant who stayed in the streets of Kyoto.

Obviously, there is something important to do now, otherwise, it would not be in such a hurry. Out of the city, he walked straight along the dirt road to the East Bureau, which was named the East Bureau because the machine was located here. He walked here, looked up at the sides, and further on was the machine bureau, which was obviously not where he was going. He turned a corner to the right and walked into an alley.

In the distance, he saw a gate tower in the alley, and a green tweed official sedan chair was parked in front of the door, and some sedan chair drivers wearing uniforms were guarded next to it. On both sides of the courtyard gate, there were two guards with loaded guns and ammunition, wearing red tasseled umbrella hats and uniforms, standing straight on their legs, looking ahead with a blank expression, not even blinking their eyelids, it was the real courtyard gate, a big man with a beard was pacing leisurely, and from time to time he glanced outside with the rest of his eyes. Obviously, it was Wu Ben, the attendant of the imperial court officials, and the Manchurian language was called "Goshha", which means "guard".

The young man walked towards the gate, and when he was still a long way away, he was about to ask a question, when the guard standing by the door with a gun had already issued a warning: "Stop! ”

Immediately, the bearded Goshha walked briskly, looked at him vigilantly, raised his right thumb and pointed behind his head, and asked.

"Hey, do you know what this place is?"

The young man did not answer, he was not used to such a question without a title.

Goshha, when he was a "chick", snorted in his nose and answered his own question:

"Here, it's the new Prime Minister in North Korea!"

The young man said.

"Well, I know."

"Know?"

Goshha was stunned for a moment, and her face sank.

"Why don't you stay away?"

"I have something important to see Lord Tang!"

Said the young man.

"Oh?"

Goshha was delighted to hear this, and looked at him with a smile, as if a well-fed and lazy cat had met a little mouse, and although he had no intention of eating it, he wanted to tease him.

"Excuse me, where are you from? What's the point here? ”

The young man did not answer.

Of course, he knew that if he handed the other party a "door bag" at this time, there was still room for negotiation in the matter, and any rule of the Great Qing Kingdom could be broken. However, he disdained this, the big thing brewing in his chest was not enough to talk to the little person in front of him. He glared at Goshha with a piercing gaze, as if to pierce the head, but a smile broke out on his face.

"I also ask this master to pass on the word on his behalf......"

As he spoke, he took out a prayer note and a silver ingot of two taels from his sleeve, and saw that the knock of two taels on the door of a governor who had gone to the post should be enough.

But as soon as his silver was about to pass over, Nagoshha hurriedly stepped back as if he had been stabbed, and waved his hand to it.

"This brother doesn't want to harm me, the rules of the house, the person who collects the door bag, beheads it! You wait for a while, I'll give you over, the adults can't see you, that's another thing, these days, there are really a lot of people who come to see the adults. ”

In this day, there was still Goshha who did not accept the door bag, and in an instant the young man became curious about the prime minister in the DPRK who was a few years younger than himself, and when Goshha went in to pass the word, the young man only paced back and forth in this short Dongtangzi alley, and from time to time raised his eyes to look at the two guards in front of the door, obviously this was sent by the minister, and a smile appeared on his face when he thought of this.

Sitting in the hall, Tang Haoran's brows were locked, and he had gained a lot from meeting Li Hongzhang yesterday, but later he deliberately befriended himself, and allowed himself to go to the Armed Forces Academy and the Sailor Academy to choose any personnel to prepare for the new policy in North Korea and the training of the new army stationed in North Korea.

Look at things are smooth, but how should this be chosen? Now Tang Haoran is making a difficulty. This man is prepared for the training of the army and navy.

"My lord, if it doesn't work, I'll take a few questions to test the school......"

Not to mention that Tang Haoran is a layman in the military, even Li Guangguang, Song Yuxin, and Han Che are also laymen, if they are barely considered insiders, there is only one Shi Tengge, but he is studying shipbuilding abroad, not the navy.

Although Li Guangguang proposed to take the school examination, how to take the school examination is a difficult problem.

"Not yet!"

Tang Haoran shook his head, in this era, Tianjin Wubei Academy and Sailor Academy may be the most recently modernized schools in China, how can a group of laymen test them? If you make a mistake in the exam questions, you will be embarrassed, and you may even ruin the name of your own soldiers.

Just in the midst of embarrassment, he listened to Liu Si outside the hall, the man who came out of the dart game, and entered the door and said respectfully.

"My lord, someone handed a sticker at the door,"

After taking the sticker and looking at it, Tang Haoran was stunned.

"Beiyang Sailor School, Su Yueyang."

Who is this man?

Seeing that after the adult took the post, he looked thoughtful, and Li Guangguang couldn't help but be a little curious.

"This person is a man who knows the soldiers!"

was shouted like this, Tang Haoran smiled when he came back to his senses, and no matter who he was, he would see it first.

"Liu Si invited him in!"

When walking through the hall, Su Yueyang took a deep breath, and then he glanced at the young man sitting in the hall wearing a second-grade official robe.

"The student has seen Master Tang!"

When Su Yueyang saluted, Tang Haoran also looked at this young man, thinking about his intentions.

"Excuse me! Have a seat! ”

After sitting down, the attendant just poured the tea, exited the hall, and met the gaze of Lord Tang, Su Yueyang, who had an upright personality, naturally had no intention of being hypocritical and polite, but said bluntly.

"I heard that in addition to preparing for a new deal in North Korea, my lord will also set up a new army and navy, and I want to select personnel from the two schools of military equipment and naval division, I don't know if this is true!"

Okay!

The directness of the comer made Tang Haoran smile secretly in his heart, since he came to this time and space, he had never seen such a direct person as him.

"Indeed!"

Nodding, Tang Haoran noticed the surprise on the faces of Li Guangguang and the others, shook his head slightly, and motioned for them not to speak, but Han Che didn't smile, he just looked at the young man in front of him carefully, his appearance was not like a scholar at all, although he looked handsome, his complexion was very dark, and there was also a thick layer of silkworms in his palm.

"Then you don't have to go to the Water Master Academy!"

Su Yueyang's words made everyone stunned, what does this person mean? Could it be that he wants to "open his eyes" for Li Zhongtang? Everyone was surprised, only to hear him continue.

"If the Great Water Master Academy is available, there are only three students and one teacher! The students have brought the list, and the adults don't need to go to the Sailor Academy anymore. ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

Looking at the young man in front of him repeatedly, Tang Haoran became more and more curious about the person in front of him.

"Students dare to ask adults, do they want to run a navy, or do they want to run a navy?"

Su Yueyang's rhetorical question made Tang Haoran put away the doubts in his heart, and carefully looked at this young man with a dark complexion, a strong body, and a tiger's mouth knuckles full of old silkworms, and when he looked at Han Che, he noticed that he also nodded approvingly, there are not many people who can see the difference between the navy and the navy division in these years, and this is not just the difference in name.

"My lord, in the seventh year of Guangxu, Li Zhongtang set up the Beiyang Naval Academy, but at the beginning of the school year, the number of students was not full, and the regulations were revised after the year, one is to relax the age, and the scholarship will be raised from one or two to eight taels per month, so that the source of students has increased greatly, but the people reprimanded in the school are all frustrated in the imperial examination room, they are not only a "way out" for the Sailor Academy, as long as the field is reopened, they will not hesitate to skip class to take the exam, and even the first few gentlemen of the Navy can not avoid vulgarity, after serving as the chief teacher of the Tianjin Sailor Academy, He also gave up school several times to go to the entrance examination, and I wondered, how can such people who are not in the navy be used? ”

After saying that, Su Yueyang's chest straightened slightly, looked directly at Lord Tang, and said in unceremonious words.

"If the sailor run by the adult is just for the sake of the name, in order to consolidate the grace, it will naturally ......"

"Bold!"

As Tang Haoran's staff, Li Guangguang was able to allow Su Yueyang's madness to be so presumptuous in front of adults, but when he scolded him sharply, Tang Haoran laughed violently.

"Good, good!"

After nodding, when looking at Su Yueyang, Tang Haoran's eyes did not hide his appreciation, there are too many people who tell lies, scene words, and sycophants in these years, even after a hundred years, Chinese people like to listen to others and do not allow others to criticize, it is indeed not easy to meet a person who can tell the truth in this late Qing Dynasty officialdom!

In the sigh, Tang Haoran suddenly put away the smile on his face.

"Okay, then you can tell me well, how those people are useless, how can you use three people and one teacher in your mouth?"