Summer palace.

The Empress Dowager West put her hand on Li Lianying's elbow and walked slowly along the flower path, as if nothing had happened on the surface, but only those who served her all day long, or those who knew her temperament, knew how angry she was in her heart.

Rong Lu leaned and followed behind, not daring to fall half a step behind, let alone walking an inch, as humble as he was.

The days in April have begun to get hot, but here is still as cool as spring, and the breeze is coming slowly, full of splendor. If you come to another person, you must be drunk, but the people around you don't dare to come out.

After all, it was the Empress Dowager Xi who spoke to break the dull atmosphere: "I heard that it's quite fun outside? Rong Luwow, you are on a big errand for the Prime Minister's Yamen, and you have to take care of the affairs in and out of Beijing, don't let them make trouble. ”

Rong Lu's waist immediately sank two inches, sweated and heavily clothed, and replied carefully: "What Lafayette said is that the minions have recently felt that they have said something too much. No matter what, the foundation of the Great Qing Kingdom is still in our Manchurians, and those young people are ignorant and tossing around, which is not the right way. ”

The Empress Dowager Xi hummed nonchalantly: "You understand." The emperor is still young, and he can't stand the bewitchment of three or two sentences, so you old ministers have to help Zhang Luo a little. ”

"Huh! Minion Command! ”

Rong Lu was overjoyed in his heart, this was giving him power! As long as you have the power in your hands, you can wrestle with those guys who have been more arrogant recently, and when the time comes, let's toss and see whose means are hard enough.

After walking a few steps, the Queen Mother suddenly turned around. His eyes stared at Rong Lu like two awls: "Those things about military training in various provinces. You've got to have a snack too. Don't make another Yang Dingshi. ”

Rong Lu shuddered, this right was given more, but the pressure was heavier. Yang Dingshi, it is clear that he is going to create a rebel guy in the Qing Dynasty, it is enough of a headache, now all provinces are training new troops, if there is a half of dissenting people in the middle, it will be a bad province all of a sudden!

A moment of power. The Empress Dowager Xi regained her lazy appearance, and said lightly: "Li Hongzhang's old man, probably he is really old, and his body bones are not so neat?" When it comes to negotiating with foreigners, if you really can't do it, let's change people. It's not a problem to drag it all the time. ”

"Huh!"

Rong Lu couldn't figure out whether he should be happy or embarrassed, so many things pressed on his shoulders at once, and it was really a bit unbearable. But it seems that there is no harm in thinking about it, now that the Great Qing Kingdom has been victorious, there is no need to bother so much about negotiations, and he can always get a good reputation, right?

A few days later. The imperial court issued an order to exempt Li Hongzhang from the mission of Minister Beiyang. He was succeeded by Rong Lu. He also seized the post of governor of Zhili, and was succeeded by Wang Wenshao, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. Li Hongzhang made outstanding contributions, but in the Sino-Japanese joint war, he misused people, commanded chaotically, and discredited the imperial court. Let the Japanese enter the country, they must take responsibility, remember their old age, and recall them to Beijing to be honored.

After receiving the holy decree, Li Hongzhang not only did not lose the slightest, but said with his hands: "It's finally stopped." In such a toss, the old man has to bury all his bones here. ”

He didn't take a lot of ceremonial battles, and returned to the capital in a light car and settled in Xianliang Temple.

However, no one in the world has been able to take the opportunity to fall into the ground, Li Hongzhang received a summons from Cixi as soon as he went back, and the news from Li Lianying was that Lafayette told Li Zhongtang to be sure to give birth to a good life. The affairs of the Great Qing Kingdom are so complicated, and they are always inseparable from the escort of his old courtiers. It is said that the old guy was moved to tears.

People who know the way in Beijing and outside Beijing are sighing: "Don't look at Li Hefei taking the post, his holy family is not less wow." Maybe one day it will be able to get back up, but let's continue to wait and see what's going on! ”

In the entire post-party, the most capable is Li Hongzhang. As long as he is there, it will be difficult for the imperial party to gain the upper hand.

In the past few months, don't look at Li Hongzhang quietly, but secretly he has already arranged everything that should be handled. On the side of the army, there is the first town of the New Army headed by Li Jingfang, which has now made a reputation as the first strong army in the Far East. The Huai system, which was originally panicked, now has a new backbone. It's hard for others to bring their hearts together.

In terms of the navy, the fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division was sent to Yang Hao's lair to be renovated and upgraded, and by the way, the personnel were also rotated. The imperial party took the opportunity to send people to investigate, but it could only look at an empty shell, and wanted to find the back account, but few people up and down cooperated, and this big foundation was not so easy to seize.

However, he was able to temporarily take away Li Hongzhang's two major errands, at least for a period of time, he couldn't do it. When the imperial court changes the law and bear fruit, the imperial party will leap up.

The key to the success or failure of Qiē depends on how the war in Shandong progresses.

The situation in the capital is changing, and Yuan Shikai has not been hidden from him at all. He sat in Jining Prefecture and kept urging the troops, but unexpectedly, the division was unfavorable, and more than 3,000 troops in a row were killed, but no matter Cao County or Shan County, none of them were taken down!

On Wang Shizhen's side, the first night's disturbance was just an appetizer. From the next day, the cold guns did not stop, and when he finally moved the main force to the front, he was stunned to find that the route of the army was full of trenches, linking the dense villages one by one. If you want to kill them, you have to occupy them one by one.

Liu Shirui's appeal is not bad, as soon as the imperial army came, around the area centered on Liujiatun, the people in the village hid as much as they could. In half a month, I don't know how many layers of trenches were dug on the road I had to pass.

As soon as Wang Shizhen's troops approached, they were beaten by the soldiers lying in the trench with rifles, and if they dared to rush forward, the embedded medicine bag exploded. In just a few days, he lost hundreds of people, and the morale of the army plummeted!

The other two battalions of men and horses that came up with reinforcements did not play much of a role. They outflanked them in three ways, but they were attacked by the backbone of the Broadsword Society hidden in the depression of the village's woods and river banks, and they were eating into it little by little, and the speed was so slow that it made people grit their teeth.

It's been five days, and not a single rebel leader has taken it. Yuan Shikai's face darkened in a hurry.

Xu Shichang turned in a straight circle for him. Rubbing his hands and sighing: "It's really impossible to go on like this!" My lord. Let's not go down the road of eating a fat man, let's concentrate our forces and take a few first! Otherwise, it's not easy to blame the top! ”

Yuan Shikai also regretted it a little, especially when he learned from the prisoner's mouth that an outsider had intervened, he immediately thought that this must be Yang Hao's means. When a group of people came in, they turned a plate of scattered people into cunning soldiers, and the difficulty of the attack skyrocketed several times.

Knowing this, he would not be so light on the enemy, and the impatient two ways planned to end it together. Now, however, both sides have to face the difficulty of being overstretched.

But he wasn't convinced. Although Yang Hao was calculated. But he also took on great responsibilities in his twenties. The deliberate drill camp has finally become the de facto ruler of this Dingwu army, and he will be sure to become a generation of powerful ministers at the age of forty, and his reputation will definitely not be much less than that of Li Hongzhang.

But now he is giving Yang Hao a younger one, and he has to get this face back.

Isn't Yang Hao rich? When Lao Tzu grasps the general trend, the money of the entire Qing Dynasty will have to be at our disposal, which is not a thousand times stronger than you as a businessman?

After thinking about it again and again, Yuan Shikai gritted his teeth and ordered: "Press the artillery team up!" In any case, we must take down the bandits in Cao County first! As long as that head is broken, the bandits in Shanxian County will collapse without a fight! ”

The artillery corps had difficulty in moving. It was a full five days slower than the infantry before dragging the 60mm small guns of the front army to the front. But thanks to the help of Li Bingheng, the governor of Shandong. Send thousands of strong helpers to double the speed of their transport.

On April 23, the twelve guns of the Dingwu Army Artillery Team were pulled to the front of the formation, and with a burst of ignition, the broadsword would collapse immediately!

Recruits are afraid of artillery, and elite troops are like this, not to mention a group of rabble. The flowering bombs that smashed down with a bang blew their courage into pieces, and they immediately scattered and fled.

Xu Yanzhuo could only sigh when he saw it, and then decisively built a new life, and Liu Shirui immediately evacuated with his brothers and sisters.

Liu Shirui had already cleaned up his family and everything during this time, and when he saw this posture, he knew that he couldn't do anything to the imperial court. Immediately from Jianruliu, he led more than 1,000 backbones to withdraw in the direction of Shanxian County.

Xu Yanzhuo said in his heart that it was a pity, if he could be given a few more months to train a group of guerrillas, it would be enough to drag Yuan Shikai's troops to death here. But now the other party is too fierce, so he can only retreat strategically.

Wang Shizhen led his troops into Liujiatun, but all he saw was a mess where there were not many people left, none of the bandit leaders were caught, and the expected gold and silver were not worth anything. Angry, he ordered the members of the Big Knife Society to be arrested everywhere, and all those who had knives and guns hidden at home were arrested and beheaded, and then asked Yuan Shikai for advice.

Yuan Shikai was not happy at all. If he can't catch the backbone of the bandit, it's useless for him to kill many people. Immediately ordered to continue the pursuit, outflanking and merging with the troops on the left.

But he didn't expect that Xu Yanzhuo's working group was extremely well prepared. Hundreds of backbone members of the Shanxian Dadaohui also fled first, and the two armies rushed all the way to the east, rushing to Zhaoyang Lake two days later. There, there were dozens or hundreds of boats and sent them all away. Now, no one knows exactly where they have gone.

After Emperor Guangxu got the report, he angrily dropped the paperweight and shouted again and again: "Waste! It's all rubbish! Then the bandits can't take it at all, what's the use of the court spending a lot of money to feed you? ”

He was discouraged and disappointed, and he was originally expecting a big victory, but now it has become a big joke. The laborers traveled more than 1,000 miles, and none of the leaders were caught. Could it be that the conscience of the people of the world is broken? Or is the Qing court really unpopular?

Before the news of the grievances passed, the next big event that shocked Guangxu and angered followed!

Just when the Qing court re-selected people to prepare for peace talks with Japan, Yang Hao commanded the first division of the New Army to brazenly cross the Yalu River, driving the remnants of the Japanese army all the way, and with the assistance of another batch of naval transport, suddenly took Pyongyang and surrounded it!

Subsequently, the Goryeo government-in-exile headed by Daewonjun, who had been tossing in the capital for a long time, returned by boat after taking the oath, and enshrined Yang Hao as the "liberator of Goryeo", inviting the First Army to help them fight the Japanese invaders and restore the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains!

Yang Hao has become the savior and mentor of the new dynasty of Goryeo! (To be continued......)