By now, the last pair of pants of the Qing court has been stripped off. In the past, there were so many clans in the Heavenly Empire, but now there is only one North Korea left, but it is about to be saved, and it is on the day of the Queen Mother Lafayette's great joy, this slap is loud and ruthless enough!

No matter how reluctant Rao is Cixi is to use the sword, she can't bear this breath. The old lady finally survived to this day, and wanted to have a 60th birthday, but you were born with an oriental little nose to add to the chaos, without North Korea, wouldn't it be a clan kingdom that came to celebrate her birthday? That scene was simply the worst in history!

People live with a face, and the Buddha fights for a stick of incense. At the same time, the Queen Mother of the West, who has both the most powerful woman in the world and Lafayette, who is admired by hundreds of millions of people, is finally angry!

When she relented, Emperor Guangxu was like a wild horse on the loose. The clear streams led by Weng Tongyi and Li Hongzao sounded like cannons from their mouths, and all kinds of Xing soldiers poured into Gyeonggi like a tide of excerpts to punish Little Japan, piling up on the desks.

In the military aircraft department, Prince Qing Yixuan, who was like a ball of cotton, was ordered to cut the rules, and then all the people pointed the finger at Li Hongzhang with passion, but from beginning to end, there was no explanation, how to solve the military salary used in the war?

When you fight, you only fight with money and food, and without money, it's useless for you to shout and break your voice. Li Hongzhang asked the Ministry of Household to allocate 3 million taels to fund the military, but the results were pieced together, and a total of 180,000 yuan was obtained! Just this amount of money, many people still said in a weird way: "You Li Zhongtang is not without money!" ”

Li Hongzhang does have money, about 2.5 million taels, which is scattered in several banks such as ZÀI HSBC. But don't forget, he has to support an entire Beiyang fleet, and more than 200,000 Huai troops, which are used to fight the war, and not even a fraction of it is enough.

For this war, the Japanese army prepared a total of nearly 200 million yen in advance, and the preparation period was planned from 1893 to 1896, covering 150 million war bonds. At that time, Japan's annual tax revenue was more than 50 million taels, and it was already doing its best, and there was no potential to be tapped. The annual tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty is more than 80 million, but the estimated national income of various countries is as high as 3 billion!

It's such a large national economy, and when it comes to the point of war, there is no silver!

Without money, you can't do anything. Li Hongzhang could only smile bitterly in the face of the overwhelming scolding. The "Guowen Daily", which has always been standing on a fair and just standpoint to expose the latest news, began to fight against him, using accurate figures and rigorous arguments to explain what exactly is needed for a war.

The Qing Dynasty has not added an advanced warship for so many years, all the artillery is almost outdated, the 120mm Armstrong rapid-fire gun that has just been imitated has not been installed on the ship, and the 305mm shell produced by the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau is unqualified in size, and the power cannot be guaranteed.

Fighting a war is not only a matter for the army, but also for logistical supply, command and dispatch, strategic defense, and all-round mobilization, which requires the participation of everyone from top to bottom of a country. The Qing Dynasty was good, ninety percent of the people stood on the shore shouting and shouting, except for spitting lotus flowers and mouth cannons, no one took their sleeves to help. The little military expenses given by the Nuoda household department can't catch up with the amount donated by Japanese prostitutes!

Japanese prostitutes donated 1.5 million taels of military expenses throughout the First Sino-Japanese War!

When the country is in crisis, the Qingliu literati who are full of sage books and talk about the dogma of saints all day long are not as good as Oriental-sons!

The wording of the "Guowen Bao" was not so fierce, but it had already pointed out the problem very vaguely, and taught a hard lesson to the soldiers of the whole country whose understanding of the war was only on paper. As for how many can be understood, it is impossible to estimate.

Li Hongzhang didn't want to admit it, but he did hope that Weng Tongyi's gang could really think through the difficulties. In addition, at this time, the British once again sent "good news", saying that Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and Germany were jointly discussing to suppress Japan's ambitions and mediate, especially Russia's unusually positive expression. He hesitated again, and so, the last perfect opportunity, was let go lightly!

On the night of June 10, in the secret room at the Yongsan Wharf base in Seoul, Yang Hao slapped the secret message sent from China on the table, and sneered at Ding Weifen and others who were full of disappointment: "See? This is the face of the ministers of the Great Qing Kingdom! Qingliu will only add chaos and hinder, Li Hongzhang still has unrealistic illusions, this battle was lost from the beginning! ”

Ding Weifen's young face was full of slaughter, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "The country is ruined in the hands of such a group of bastards!" Fortunately, we are prepared. Yuan Shikai refused to be a deserter, and still wanted to make profits in the chaos, hmph, he must not let him succeed. Tie Yan, are you ready over there? ”

Xu Yanzhuo's angry face flushed, and he nodded vigorously: "The manpower has been deployed!" Just wait for tomorrow morning, when the Japanese army arrives, you can make a noise! ”

Yang Hao slapped his face: "Okay!" By tomorrow afternoon at the latest, the last batch of our personnel and equipment will be all ready, and when the time comes, it will be just the time to attack inside and outside, turning him upside down! ”

Outside the secret room, there is a huge warehouse and factory area isolated by a triple building, and in the fully enclosed courtyard, all the high points on all four sides are secretly guarded by black-clothed guards with loaded guns to ensure that the wind and rain are impervious.

In the vast warehouse and empty factory building, more than a hundred soldiers in civilian clothes seized the last bit of time before going to bed on their bunks, sorted out their equipment, and checked for possible problems.

They are all trainees who have passed the final assessment after two months of arduous training and selection. According to the plan, the training subjects of their recruit company in the third month were supposed to go to the sea and the sea. But the war was coming, so they were dragged to North Korea to train with war, and to test the results of training and their quality with real war.

The baptism of thought for two months has brought great changes to these simple young people who were originally just rough words. Nowadays, each of them can easily describe the relationship between the country, the nation, and the individual, and understand the purpose of being a soldier and fighting a war, and the meaning and value of sacrifice. It is completely different from the old-style soldiers who "serve as soldiers and eat food" and "take whom's salary and work for whomever they want".

With an old man from the agrarian revolution in charge, and Yang Haiwei, a modern orthodox soldier, joining hands to train and teach, it is only natural to wash away this group of pure young people.

This is not a simple fool, every fighter can personally appreciate the difference. When they train hard, their families get comfortable jobs, free education for their younger siblings, and the family land and the co-owned farm are harvested. I can even think of how much benefit this model will bring to other groups of people when it is promoted.

The difference between modern soldiers and old-style soldiers is that they have lofty ideals and dedication. One active and one passive, such a change is enough for them to stand on a new height, automatically and spontaneously fight for it, and even shed blood and sacrifice!

This time, Yang Hao pulled them across the ocean to North Korea, everyone felt very novel, and tomorrow they were going to enter the first unique battle, and the young people were not excited. But the strict training has allowed them to develop an excellent spirit of discipline, no one has a hot brain, and they are ready to go according to the training subject!

Yang Hao is undoubtedly the hardest and busiest these days. While working on both planes, he had to spend a lot of time working with the recruits to complete training subjects and learn how to be a good commander. Thanks to the foundation that he was trained by the old man and his unwilling father since he was a child, he has always been able to subdue everyone with superior military skills.

Now, like a qualified commander in the war years, he came to relieve the pressure and cheer up the soldiers before the battle. Smiled easily, called out everyone's name, patted the shoulder, cared about the training director's abrasions, meticulous, careful and thoughtful.

After the inspection, Yang Hao came to the courtyard, looked up at the dark canopy that began to shed raindrops, and only felt that his heart was heavy. Tomorrow, he will take many people on the road of life and death, and he cannot guarantee that he will bring everyone back, and this is only the beginning of sacrifice. Will he be able to make it to the end?

No matter how bold and bold he is, Yang Hao is a kind person after all, and a decision may lead to the eternal life and death of countless people who get along with each other day and night, and this burden can never be erased by a "decisive killing".

Ding Weifen and Xu Yanzhuo walked from the side and said in a low and powerful voice: "Don't worry, we will definitely succeed!" ”

The three of them stood side by side, quietly listening to the raindrops beating and the increasingly agitating waves outside the wall.

In the early morning of June 11, the streets of Seoul, which were drowning in a drizzling rain, began with clusters of people one after another. At first, they didn't do anything suspicious, just went door-to-door along the streets to deliver leaflets.

But only an hour later, when they reappeared, they all changed into white clothes, a white umbrella, a white cloth wrapped around their foreheads, and a white banner in their hands, on which was written in blood-red letters: "Get out, Japanese!" North Korea is an independent country! Give me back the civil rights! Refuse the oppression of the Japanese Invaders! ”

In the blink of an eye, the crowd gathered into a dozen large groups, waving their arms and shouting slogans, and gathered in front of the Japanese consulate like a tide from all directions!

Zhao Bingji, the foreign affairs supervisor who was just about to come here to protest against the Japanese army, happened to see this scene, and his head was "buzzing" at that time, and he almost burst his blood vessels! This is a popular uprising! Someone is inciting the citizens of Seoul to make trouble!

He trembled and ordered people to persuade the people to retreat from the march, but unexpectedly, the first Confucian saw his official sedan chair at a glance, strode over with a meteor, and shouted in a heart-splitting voice: "Is Lord Zhao also here to support our protest action?" Great!"

Zhao Bingji hurriedly waved his hand to deny it, but his personal voice was completely drowned out by the tsunami-like cheers of the crowd! The guards of the Japanese legation immediately raised their guns on alert!