In the Beiyang minister's line, Li Hongzhang unhurriedly took a sip of tea with a teacup, and the hall was so quiet that even the grunt of the tea could be heard clearly. After Tang Haoran visited him that day, he has been watching for the past few days, watching how Tang Haoran sent people to choose people, the reason why he had no intention of letting him be sent was not because Tang Haoran was sending people to do what he was ordered, but because he wanted to see Tang Ziran's way of employing people.

For the head of the official to employ people, he inquired about the staff around Tang Ziran, a supplementary official, a scholar who has repeatedly failed, six students in the Tongwen Pavilion, a translator in the navy yamen, well, and a son. There doesn't seem to be any talent in this scene.

But he has opened the door of Beiyang, how will he choose people?

"How many people he missed!"

Putting down the teacup, Li Hongzhang didn't even raise his eyes, still slightly closed.

"Back to Quan Shuai, over there in the Martial Arts Academy, he didn't send anyone else, as long as Shang Dequan, Wu Dingyuan, Kong Qingtang, and Teng Yuzao were ......"

As soon as Zhang Peilun's words fell, Li Hongzhang's eyes were raised, and his brows were even more frowned.

"But the four of you!"

"It's those four!"

As soon as he heard that it was the four people, Li Hongzhang, who originally seemed to be calm and virtuous, his face suddenly changed, and he stood up, his face seemed to show reluctance and annoyance.

"You can know that the four of them are ......"

When the words came to his mouth, Li Hongzhang's brows twisted violently.

"These four people are all people who don't repay their kindness, and they won't be able to use it in the future!"

In one sentence, the future of the four people was cut off, but after a little thought, Li Hongzhang knew that if the four of them did not sell themselves, Tang Haoran would not know the names of the four of them, after all, they had just returned to China, and the reason why they defected to Tang Haoran was obviously because of one reason - they were snubbed and distracted.

But did they ever understand the old man's suffering? The relationship in the Huai army is disordered, that is, they appoint all the members, and they need to think about it repeatedly, the feelings of the veterans, the feelings of the villagers, and so on, how can people decide, but they don't know the suffering of the old man!

Thinking of the various things he had planned for them recently, how could Li Hongzhang not be annoyed.

"Quan Shuai, otherwise, we will invite Tang Haoran back!"

"No, whoever he wants, give it to him!"

Li Hongzhang didn't hesitate for a moment, if he was annoyed before, this would have calmed him down. Now there are many pairs of eyes staring at him, since he wants someone, then give it to him, not to mention that he has been promised that day, and now, he must put on a "public and selfless" appearance, just like when he ran a telegram. Today's public is just for tomorrow's private interests. Now he had to endure it.

"It's just a few students! Youqiao, you send someone to send a ceremony to the four of them, and tell them that after they arrive in North Korea, they will do their best for the imperial court! Live up to the cultivation of the imperial court! ”

"Quan Shuai!"

was stunned for a moment, and then Zhang Peilun understood his father-in-law's intentions, this was not to accept the hearts of the four, but to bury the knife! The knife will fall on the four of them one day.

In any case, the promotion of these four people in the officialdom is over!

Then he selected the people Tang Haoran wanted one by one, four students from the Martial Arts Academy, three students from the Sailor Academy and Ma Jifen, a total of eight people. Although it was a pity, Li Hongzhang decided to hand over these people to him after thinking for a while.

"Then Tang Ziran, what are you busy with now? Just these few people? ”

This will, Li Hongzhang was a little curious, originally he could have made a plan and let Tang Haoran dig out two or three hundred people, this training of the new army is not something that can be done by a few people, but he never thought that he only needed such a few people.

"Quan Shuai, it's nothing for him to want a few people, since Quan Shuai set up the shogunate to open the mansion, there are more than 100,000 heroes in the house, and since the opening of the two schools of Wubei and Sailor, there are only thousands of talents who have been cultivated,"

When complimenting, Zhang Peilun raised his concerns again.

"But what I think is that this Tang Ziran has made far more than others expected, he has only ten people on the order, I heard that now, he has begun to talk about the ordnance at the Ordnance Bureau, in other words, he doesn't seem to be ready to take people from us anymore, so, Quan Shuai, what kind of mind does he Tang Haoran have? What's he's going to do next! ”

Next......

On the side of the Haihe River, slowly crossing the steps along the embankment, Tang Haoran and Tan Sitong walked like this, neither of them took the initiative to speak, and Liu Si and Ding Li, the two guards from the dart bureau, followed more than ten miles away.

"Ziran, has the schedule for departure been set?"

Finally, Tan Sitong took the initiative to speak.

"Twenty days later!"

Tang Haoran nodded, and glanced at a freighter in the distance in the middle of the river that was spewing smoke and heading towards the sea, the reason for such a delay was very simple-Shang Dequan and the other four were recruiting Suiyong guards for themselves.

"Then board the warship directly in Dagu Port!"

Twenty days later, his party would arrive in Korea, and after handing over to Yuan Shikai, he would officially become the feudal official of a province, so as to implement the new policy according to his own wishes, or in other words, accumulate strength for the future revolution.

"Oh,"

Nodding his head, Tan Sitong looked back at Tang Haoran and said in a serious tone.

"I'm not going to North Korea!"

"Hmm!"

His eyes glared, and Tang Haoran stared at Tan Sitong in confusion and said.

"Brother Fusheng, what do you mean by this?"

Tan Sitong, is this going to give up?

"Ziran, listen to me first,"

Tan Sitong, who was afraid that Tang Haoran would misunderstand, hurriedly explained.

"Ziran, you went to North Korea to assist in the new Korean policy, to organize and train the new army stationed in North Korea, to accumulate strength for the revolution, but even if you have accumulated enough strength in North Korea, but after all, North Korea is alone overseas, if you want to carry out the revolution, you must have the support of the mainland, if the internal Taiwan cooperates with each other, the revolution in other days will definitely be half the work, I want to stay in the mainland, contact people with lofty ideals everywhere, and attract comrades to join the revolutionary party, in this way, when his brother is in North Korea, we can also cooperate in the interior, so that we can overthrow the Manchu Dynasty!"

Tan Sitong had been thinking about this matter for a long time, and it was only recently that he made up his mind not to go to North Korea with Tang Haoran, but to stay in the interior and contact like-minded comrades to conspire with the revolution.

"Resurrection ......"

Looking at Tan Sitong, Tang Haoran, who originally wanted to open his mouth to persuade him, finally sighed in his heart, vaguely he could guess what prompted Tan Sitong to make this decision, if he went to North Korea, it was just for himself, and with his background, how could he be willing to be a curtain for himself? What's more, what can he do behind the scenes?

Could it be that this is the moment when the two brothers parted ways?

Perhaps the environment has changed people, and now Tang Haoran thinks more about many things from the shadows.

However, despite this, Tang Haoran felt that Tan Sitong's idea was really good, and he contacted like-minded people in various places to promote the revolution, which was also inevitable for the revolution, at least when he attacked the mainland, he could get some help in the mainland, and ...... The revolution in the interior may be able to play a certain role in the future and reduce the pressure on its own side.

"Resurrection, since this is the case, then the little brother will not force you, if you need any help, you can directly send someone or send a power to the little brother,"

Thinking like this in his heart, Tang Haoran nodded.

"However, Brother Fusheng, if there is any danger, when the time comes, Brother can directly avoid North Korea in order to conspire with great things in the future, and in the future, North Korea will be the base camp of the revolution!"

"I know!"

Tan Sitong looked at Tang Haoran with a smile and said seriously.

"Ziran, maybe, I got up in the mainland earlier than you, if this big China, as you said, has already been in the realm of fuelwood, only a flame is missing, if you light this fire for my brother, maybe the revolutionary environment will be very different, and when the time comes, my brother will naturally respond in North Korea!"

Maybe!

There are some things that Tang Haoran will not say, nor can he say, how slim is the hope of carrying out the revolution in the interior when the people's wisdom is not yet opened? The reason why he went to the DPRK and the DPRK to save the situation of the First Sino-Japanese War was precisely because he hoped to use the DPRK to train troops in one place, accumulate strength for several years, and return to the mainland when the time is ripe?

Although he has repeatedly emphasized the significance and role of "enlightening the people's wisdom", he actually ...... He still put his chips on the military, and only a military victory can bring about the success of the revolution, and as for choosing other paths, it will be empty talk for at least ten or twenty years.

"Resurrection, don't worry, if you start an incident in the mainland, no matter what you need, the little brother will do his best to help!"

This is the only promise Tang Haoran can make, as for the rest, let it be up to the destiny of heaven!

Like a normal chat between the two, in the next hour or so, Tang Haoran and Tan Sitong walked along the bank of the Haihe River like this, and the two talked a lot, from some revolutionary theories to history, and also talked about the future that made the two full of expectations - a new China, the future of China is always full of expectations, just chatting and chatting, the sun slowly went down, but the two of them didn't know it, and continued to talk while walking.

"Ziran, when are you going to train the new army after you go to North Korea?"

Tan Sitong turned his head and asked, although he didn't go to North Korea, it didn't mean that he no longer cared about what Tang Haoran wanted to do in North Korea, not to mention that this new army was still the key to overthrowing the Manchu rule.

"Well, now Shang Dequan and they have gone to Shandong to recruit a battalion of guards for me, with the support of this battalion, we will have the strength to speak when we arrive in North Korea, I want to come step by step, after arriving in North Korea, first set up a martial arts hall! Train officers first, and with officers as the foundation, then you only need to recruit and train troops. ”

Running a martial arts hall is a method that Tang Haoran learned from the one decades later.

"If you want to build a revolutionary army, you must first have a group of revolutionary officers, otherwise, what kind of revolution to talk about, this is also the reason why I gave up from the military academy, since the Manchu Qing is incorrigible, then, we simply start anew, this lecture on martial arts, is also for the future revolutionary cause. In this case, it is estimated that it will take about a year, and in a year it will almost be able to put up the shelves of the new army! ”

When the words fell, Tang Haoran glanced at the sunset in the west,

"One year ......"

Tan Sitong whispered on his lips, and couldn't help but glance in the direction of North Korea, a year, it should be about the same......