Outside the mouth of Dagu, the eight capital ships of the Beiyang Naval Division are lined up, all the muzzles of the guns are all pointed to the Dagu Battery, Luo Rongguang is lying on a cannon in a cold sweat, I don't know what the road is this morning, the Beiyang Naval Division suddenly came over, and then sealed the mouth of Dagu, no ships are allowed to pass, claiming that military exercises are there! But how can there be such a drill.

In fact, he also knows the purpose of these people.

After the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the imperial court used financial constraints as a reason to reduce the funds of the sailors, including the military salaries were reduced by 30%, and it is said that several too old warships are also ready to be directly dismantled, and now the sailors are dissatisfied and come to demonstrate, as for the inside story behind this scene, needless to say, Li Zhongtang is wrestling with Lafayette, otherwise he would not be so nervous.

In fact, simply cutting that little military salary will definitely not cause this situation, because the sailor has received a large amount of reward money from Li Zhongtang, and they are all very fat, including him himself, who also got five thousand taels, and now he doesn't care about the few taels of silver a month!

"My lord, what the hell is going on?" Han Zhaoqi leaned over and asked, this kind of high-level infighting, a middle- and lower-level officer like him would definitely not know about it.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't, just do our own work." Luo Rongguang shouted in a low voice, now his situation is really embarrassing, you must know that Lu Dao is also a person from Beiyang, if he really makes trouble, how to deal with himself is a big problem.

If Yang Feng blocked the Dagu mouth, it would naturally be reasonable, who called him Dong Zhuo in the world, but now this is not a nature at all, could it be that Li Zhongtang, who has been the pillar of the imperial court for more than ten years, wants to be Cao Cao in the world?

"Cao Cao, we don't do it, but we can't do that Yue Wumu, what does the Queen Mother want to do? Isn't she just testing the old man's bottom line? If we don't make some moves this time, then the court will have to make an inch in the future, they want to starve us to death, and let us disperse by reducing our salaries. At that time, you can do whatever you want. In the yamen of the governor of Tianjin, Li Hongzhang sneered and said to Liu Mingchuan and Sheng Xuanhuai.

"But how do you understand this? To be honest, this Naoli is not a good place, and after this incident, it is absolutely impossible for the imperial court to allow us to continue to stay by the couch. Liu Ming said.

"Then learn from Yang Feng, let's find a place to play by ourselves, as long as there are soldiers in hand, as long as we don't rebel openly, then we will be invincible." Li Hongzhang said that this problem has been under consideration since he was pitted by Yang Feng, and now the situation in the world is getting more and more wrong. You must control the army in your hands, but the problem is that your identity is different, and you will never tolerate an army that is not single-minded here, if you continue to stay, then there will definitely be conflicts in the future, which is equivalent to being a gunman for others.

To be honest, he really has no ambition to rebel, he just wants to maintain his own interests, or the interests of the entire group behind him. In this way, there are only two choices, completely fall to the court, hope for the grace of the queen mother, and then be an honest person with his tail between his legs in this life. As for the people under him, they have their own destiny, which is difficult for him to accept when he is arrogant, not to mention that he may be caught between the court and Yang Feng as cannon fodder.

Then the best way is to leave this land of right and wrong and find a place far away from the court to be a local emperor. Then he watched the world and waited for the opportunity to move, and he had already found this place. Go to his eldest brother Li Hanzhang, Guangdong can almost be said to be the richest province now, originally in history, after the defeat of Li Hongzhang in the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang lost power, and his eldest brother was also casually found by the imperial court to take away the position of governor, but now Cixi did not dare to do it in order not to stimulate him.

With his own ability, how can he not run a world, as for whether Cixi will be so cooperative, to be honest, the two old things have been entangled for so many years, and they can still be smart, and now the imperial court can't wait for this kind of good thing, after all, he is still a traditional Chinese official, and the first thing he thinks of when he encounters things is not to break the kettle, but to find a way out first.

"What about the sailor?" Liu Mingchuan frowned and said, if this is the case, it will be difficult for the Beiyang Naval Division, if you take it south, the imperial court will not continue to allocate funds, and I am afraid that the two Guang will not be able to raise it, and it is impossible for the imperial court to agree, without the defense of the Beiyang Naval Division, the door will be opened.

"When the time comes, let's take a few ships! As for being able to afford it, there is no need to worry about this, just look at what Yang Feng did in Fujian and Zhejiang, he is going to build a factory there, and when the time comes, even if you get a little light with him with the friendship between the two sides, it will be enough for us to eat. Li Hongzhang said.

Cixi did not let him wait too long, and issued an order to let him enter Beijing not long after the Beiyang Navy Division blocked the Dagu Pass, at this time there was no railway between the two places, but he had a car given by Yang Feng, which took more than an hour to arrive at fifty kilometers, and then went directly into the palace.

"Li Qingjia, what's going on with this water master?" Although he couldn't wait for people to drag this old thing out of the city and beat him to death, Cixi still had to ask him with a pleasant face, otherwise it would not be fun for Liu Mingchuan to fight over more than 10,000 people in Tianjin, and the two divisions of the New Army that have not yet been completed are estimated to be the result of chasing ducks in front of those veterans who have been killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and she still has a number of this.

"The Queen Mother is aware of it, it's just that some sailors are dissatisfied with the reduction of salaries, and there is nothing surprising about this kind of thing in the army, and the old minister is preparing to go over to suppress it, which is a matter of a few words." Li Hongzhang said hurriedly.

"I see, alas, this court is indeed nervous, although we won the war, but this cost a lot of silver, the mourning family is still thinking about finding foreigners to borrow something! Now in coastal defense, the new army asks for money everywhere, and it is the time when the monarchs and ministers are dedicated to overcoming the difficulties together.

You have also seen the rebellious behavior of the traitor in the south, the matter of this new army is urgent, and there are few courtiers who can share the worries of the mourning family and the emperor, that is, a few of you old ministers, the mourning family pondered that this Yang rebel must have someone to watch him in the south, otherwise let him continue to do evil after all, disturb the place.

Your brother is a man of letters, it is not appropriate to do this kind of thing, the mourning family wants to transfer you to press him, do you think of it?" Cixi ignored his ostentatious threat, but sighed and pointed it out

Li Hongzhang hurriedly said: "The old minister naturally listens to the will of the Queen Mother, but the old minister is afraid that it will not be helpful for him alone, it is best to bring the new army trained by Liu Mingchuan and Ye Zhichao over, and the ships in Yang Feng's hands are very good, and the three ships of the Guangdong Navy Division have been lost, so the Navy Division also needs to add some ships that can be warned."

"And how much do you think is appropriate? This coastal defense of Jinmen cannot be ignored. Cixi said, she naturally knew that this was negotiating the price, to be honest, it was inevitable to divide him a few warships, but it would be bad if there were too many.

"Yang Feng's department now has nine main warships, although the tonnage is small, but the strength is not weak, even if the whole team of the Beiyang Naval Division is on the same team, it is difficult to ensure the chance of victory, otherwise the old minister will not be able to allow it to run rampant, if you want to go south with Zhou Xun, at least four of the eight far south. And its ships are fast, so they need four fastest fast boats, the old minister's intention can be adjusted to the four ships of the Jing economy, and the four ships of Liuding Town to level the town of Tianjin Gate, supplemented by torpedo boats, gunboats are also enough to protect the coastal defense. Li Hongzhang said, he is not stupid to leave the four fastest ships.

"Yes, Ding Ruchang has been with you for a long time, and you can rest assured if you want to come, just let him go to Guangdong together!" Cixi said that the three armored cruisers she built in Britain were at most more than a year old, and there was no coastal defense pressure during this time, and she also purchased a cruiser from Chile through the British contact, which is said to be no worse than Yang Feng's, and the noble regiment sent to Britain to study the navy has also arrived in London.

Li Hongzhang transferred the governor of Guangxi to the south, and Liu Ming passed on the news of the governor of Guangxi to the south, but Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, he has been busy opening a bank in Fuzhou with Ye Zi these days, and he has no time to pay attention to the outside affairs.

The project is easy to say, what bicycles, sewing machines, trains, clothing, leather shoes, toys, including buttons are all OK, the newly established People's Bank of China business hall has a special technical guidance office, want to take out a loan first to report their own projects. Then summarize Yang Feng here, by a special office responsible for reviewing to see if there is any development potential, if there is any, it will be handed over to Yang Feng, by Yang Da Boss personally provide technical guidance, and some other things that he is interested in can also be listed in the bank, who is interested can contact the bank.

Of course, what he is open to the people is now mainly light industry, and as for heavy industry, he should play with it himself! This thing has to be done gradually, at this time the vast majority of Chinese are still black-eyed, and engaging in heavy industry is purely to deliver food to foreign devils

"This Li Zhongtang is still too honest, traditional education kills people!" This thing looked at the telegram sent to him by Li Hongzhang and said with emotion.

Xue Fucheng just smiled and didn't answer, in fact, in his opinion, this was Li Hongzhang's wisest choice.

"But that's not bad, come on, just take him to play with him if you have any rich work in the future." Yang Feng went on to say, when he was going to attack the Philippines, he happened to take Li Hongzhang with him, and those people under him were still a little useful, using this old thing as an example, so that other powerful forces could see the benefits of foreign wars, and it was also good to change the stinky problems in these old antique nests. (To be continued......)