Yang Hao's map cannon injured a small half of the officials in the country.

Li Jing rushed back to report his merits, but unexpectedly put the fold up, and when he saw the article published, he couldn't cry or laugh when he boarded it. When he saw Li Hongzhang, he was even more worried, because he knew that his father-in-law was one of the important ministers who were eager for peace talks.

"At this time, you can't be willful and annoy your father-in-law, then there will be no support at all."

Li Jingfang secretly reminded himself, and then hurriedly went to the Beiyang Yamen to visit and ask for guilt.

As soon as I entered, I was asked by Luo Fenglu to sit in the back hall with an expressionless face. waited for two hours before he was able to meet Li Hongzhang in person.

He carefully observed his father-in-law's expression, and found that although the rainstorm and thunder were not angry, they were also cloudy, and he was afraid that the slightest sentence was not the place, and he would immediately attack.

Li Jingfang came to the table and respectfully greeted: "Son greets father!" Dare to ask how my father has been doing lately? ”

Li Hongzhang replied lightly: "It's okay, I didn't give you any anger!" ”

That's a heart-wrenching statement. Li Jingfang hurriedly knelt on the ground and brought out all the words that he had bothered to figure out: "Father, please calm your anger and listen to your son first." Although what Yang Dingshi said in the newspaper was a bit excessive, after all, it was also a heart for the country, and it was not aimed at any one. Moreover, now is a crucial opportunity for our side to switch from defense to offensive and form an excellent situation, and if we can annihilate the enemy in one go, Japan will certainly not dare to open up the conditions in a big defeat. This will be of great benefit to future negotiations! ”

He hurriedly explained the advantages in various aspects, all revolving around Li Hongzhang's appearance as an ambassador for negotiations with Japan. In this way, you can gain a certain amount of profit, and you will not repeat the mistakes of the past, and you will end up with an infamy that will be difficult to clean for eternity, and so on.

That's it. Li Jingyi closed his mouth and bowed his head and waited for the hair to fall.

After a long time, Li Hongzhang sighed and said, "You, do you really think that the old man will be angry for such a painless article?" ”

"Huh? How not? ”

Li Jingfang raised his head in astonishment, and saw Li Hongzhang get up from the Taishi chair, pacing slowly between the halls with his hands behind his back, and stopped and stared in front of the wall chart. Fingers swept over Liaodong and the northern coast. Finally, poke heavily at the location of the Ludong Peninsula.

Li Jingfang's heart fluttered, and he vaguely guessed a trace of his father-in-law's thoughts-this is still for the Yang family's troubles!

Li Hongzhang turned around suddenly. shouted loudly: "Before I set out on the expedition, what did I tell you? ”

Li Jingfang didn't react for a while, and was stunned.

Li Hongzhang pointed his finger at him a little farther away: "The old man asked you to try your best to catch the new army in your hands!" But now, more than a month later, the number of the new army has tripled. But how many people are in there who are at your beckon? ”

"I'm ......!" Li Jingfang slurred. "The time is still short, and the war is urgent, and my son thinks that the big thing is important, so he ......." ”

"So, you just let that Yang Hao calmly insert a cadre of people into it, and turn tens of thousands of troops into his personal soldiers! So much so that the total number of generals loyal to the imperial court accounts for less than half of them! You, the titular commander, want to be transferred. I'm afraid there is no way! ”

Li Hongzhang stabbed mercilessly like a knife. Li Jingfang's heart was shaken, and his face became tighter and tighter. Finally, he couldn't hold it back, and protested: "What my father said is reasonable, but my son still thinks that at the moment of the great enemy, he should focus on military affairs." Individual intentions must not prevail over the overall task! If it is only for the sake of power and profit, it will be a big thing, but the son will not do such things as being poked in the back! ”

"Yo! Yo! I'm still anxious with the old man! ”

Li Hongzhang teased: "Listen to what you said, this is obviously a brainwash for others!" ”

Li Jingfang was shocked, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that his natural thoughts were really different from today's officials!

Don't talk about the Great Qing Dynasty, that is, all the dynasties, but all the civil and military ministers who can hold the power in their hands, which one of them puts politics first and considers it from their own interests before making a decision.

As far as his own opportunities are concerned, according to Li Hongzhang's advice, it is a gregarious approach to grasp power with one mind. As a result, not only did he not do it, but he was guided astray by Yang Hao's "overall situation" thinking that he always implemented. Unconsciously, he also became a member of that high-spirited group, and everything he thought about was working towards the anti-Japanese plan that everyone from top to bottom considered the first priority.

This is obviously not quite right.

But after thinking about it again, Li Jingfang did not regret it. From his personal experience, he clearly felt the incisive happiness and joy of being free from mental burden when all the people were united and finally achieved glorious achievements.

It was a glory that he had never had in the previous half of his life, no matter how much progress he made, that time he was praised and praised by his stepfather and others. It also made him feel for the first time that he was doing an incomparably great thing, and the sense of mission and responsibility that every move may bring great help to the whole country and the nation really stimulated the heroic spirit of "opening peace for all generations" that he had been full of since he read and reasoned.

It was only a moment of doubt, and Li Jingfang's belief was immediately restored. Raising his head and facing Li Hongzhang's sharp gaze, he said with a straight face: "Father, son has no regrets." ”

Li Hongzhang gave him the upright beard on his body trembling, and pointed at him with trembling arms and shouted: "You, you, let the old man say something!" Do you know that if this continues, you don't want to surpass Yang Hao and take charge of the new army? From now on, they will all become his vassals? ”

Li Jingfang was unmoved: "There is no order to learn, and those who reach it are teachers." Yang Dingshi's way of governing the world through the country far surpasses his peers in the world, and he is enough to be the leader of the grandmaster who opens up a new world. It is also an honor for a son to always be able to walk with such figures. ”

Li Hongzhang slapped his forehead, and a sense of powerlessness surged in his heart.

He turned back to the chair and sat down, his old waist, which had been erected all his life, was a little rickety, and he caressed the thick stack of papers on the table for a long time, and sighed: "My father shouldn't have let you go out that day." ”

A man with big ambitions. has always been a scholar who would rather be a chicken head than a cow queen, and he has been brainwashed into such a appearance in just one month, which shows how much Yang Hao is at stake. Or rather. The group of people he represents, with a certain belief that has such a great magic power, has fooled Li Jingfang and other talents in the world.

Li Hongzhang's heart was more shocked than ever before. He even felt that the incitement ability of Yang Hao's group was even more terrifying than that of the original Hong Yang Taiping Army!

The Taiping army could only fool a group of ignorant people to make trouble, and then the situation was uncontrollable, and some scholars, landlords and gentry who were swept into it were forced to follow suit. But also always keep a clear head at both ends.

Since Yang Hao's debut, what he has done is to fool the backbone of the world's domination of the overall situation - a scholar!

How hard should this be? Just relying on some newspaper articles, and spending money on military affairs? None seem to be enough to complete. But the truth is. Wherever Yang's influence reaches, there are thousands of young talented students who have been bewitched, instigated, and willingly follow him.

The stack of papers in Li Hongzhang's hand. It contains information and information collected from all over the country and from various sources. Many of them depict the arguments of young scholars who have heard in the market. In fact, a considerable number of people are very much in favor of Yang's various remarks, and there are even good deeds who collect the classic sentences in them into a book, and after printing and distributing them, they are widely disseminated for scholars to use as a material basis for guiding the country after tea and dinner, and when they gather and have fun.

Replacing the traditional scholars, with this kind of influence alone, the future of a young leader in the world is proper. Zhang Peilun was not so bullish when he was young, and even in the two hundred and fifty years of the Qing Dynasty. There is no one more beneficial than Yang Hao.

At a young age, classic sentences began to be handed down. This is a sign that you are going to become a grandmaster!

However, this future great master never thought about the Great Qing Dynasty in his head, and looking at what he did from the inside out, he was all aiming to overthrow the rule of the Great Qing Dynasty, and even destroy the pattern of rule of the Shi clan bureaucracy for thousands of years!

Before, Li Hongzhang was just an idea that he didn't dare to assert, but now that he saw the most capable righteous son express himself like this, he could finally determine that this was not an illusion, but an imminent catastrophe!

"What a powerful young man, what a great calculation! It was ...... that the old man had nothing to do. ”

Li Hongzhang let out a rare sigh many times in his life, and raised his hand lightly: "Get up." ”

Li Jingfang lifted up his shirt and stood up slowly, Luo Fenglu, who was hiding outside, breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly realized that he was sweating and heavy in his clothes for a moment!

He, like the rest of his staff, was really worried that the Li family's father and son would fall apart and go their separate ways. Once Li Jingfang committed the scholar's phlegm and refused to give an inch, it would be a terrible result whether it made the Zhongtang Lord angry or he left in a bad mood.

Even if the father and son reconcile afterwards and there is a rift, with Zhongtang's temperament, he will seize the opportunity to take Li Jingfang down and hide it. And such rumors will inevitably cause a new round of impeachment, and a world's No. 1 ruler can't manage his son well, and this reason is enough to make him resign. 、

Anyway, at this time, the great crisis of Japanese aggression is about to pass, and it is time to unload the mill and kill the donkey.

Li Hongzhang's sudden initiative to ease up surprised Luo Fenglu. However, the result is ideal.

Li Jingfang was also calm, he said everything, even if his father took his position in anger, it was a big deal not to be an official and study at home. But it just allows him to sort out the harvest of more than a month and plan the path for the second half of his life.

However, Li Hongzhang obviously thought more deeply than him, and did not criticize the storm, but just pointed out his young son like an old father: "You have your own beliefs now, and you don't want to say more as a father." It's just that do you know that from now on, it will be difficult for any faction in the world to tolerate you? You can't get through this court official road. ”

Li Jingfang said disapprerovitically: "In this great change that has not been seen in 3,000 years, even if you are as high as the emperor, you can only become a chess piece that you can't help yourself." The mediocre days of the imperial court, but that's fine. ”

Li Hongzhang nodded: "Well, you have already made a plan if you think about it." Before I changed it, I said this to you, and the old man would never let you go away. But now, maybe the reputation behind the old man will have to be maintained by you. This is really a drink and a peck, and it has its own destiny! ”

Hearing this, Li Jingfang suddenly found that the confident and powerful father in his previous consciousness unconsciously had the meaning of serving the elderly.

He couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart, but he also experienced a closeness that he hadn't felt for decades. At least the current old father is more like an elder who completely opens up his heart to his family, rather than the prime minister who always holds the wind and thunder in his hands and looks at the world.

Official, acting all his life. When they show their sincerity, it is the beginning of their downfall.

Li Jingfang felt that the weight of the thousand catties on his body seemed to be taken away all at once, and it was indescribably brisk. At this moment, it is really as high as the sky, he can let go and spread his wings and soar.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked tentatively, "So ......what is my father's plan in the future?" ”

Li Hongzhang glared suddenly: "What, do you think that the old man will give up to your group of juniors?" Hmph, it's a beautiful idea! Jing Fang, today for the father to put the words here, if you want to achieve great things, you must first pass the old man's level! ”

Li Jingfang was no longer afraid, and said proudly: "Please rest assured father, my son will do his best!" (To be continued......)

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