On May 21, 1883, in the dormitory building of the Tianjin Sailor School, the head teacher of English in the school, the home of the famous thinker Yan Fu, the atmosphere was warm and witty.

Seeing a group of students arguing, Yan Fu was silent. He advocates a liberal and democratic approach to education, and does not want to customize the answers for his students, but encourages them to think independently and find out for themselves what is right and what is wrong.

What is arguing is his two most proud students, one is named Li Yuanhong and the other is Xie Baozhang.

At this moment, the maid brought in a piece of paper, and Yan Fu's face changed immediately after reading it. He took the students away, took some silver tickets, and then went out and walked around the street a few times, sure that no one was following, and Zuihou came to Xinglong Street.

Xinglong Street is located in the eastern district of Tianjin, opposite Tongjiji, which is also known as Tianjin Dongji, where people come and go, traffic is busy, and commerce is extremely prosperous.

Yan Fu looked left and right, flicked the sleeves of his robe, and entered a restaurant called "South Beauty". Finally in a small room on the second floor of the restaurant. Met the people he wanted to meet.

"Resurrection, how did you become like this? Yan Fu was very surprised, as if it was the first time he had seen the person opposite.

This person is none other than Tan Sitong, who was arrested and escaped, the former red-faced, heroic scholar is completely gone, and standing in front of him is a skinny, haggard man, and blind in one eye.

"Mr. Yan, Tan died this time, and it was not easy to come to Tianjin. Now I am helpless to disturb Mr. I, as a fugitive wanted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I look around, except for Mr. Yan, I really don't know who else can help me. ＂

"Fusheng, your classmate has already told me about it, although you and I are only a few faces, but we know each other irreversibly, I know that you are a loyal patriot, and you are by no means a person who is wanted for a crime, and there must be great grievances in this. I am willing to write a letter to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for you, and guarantee with my life that you are innocent and not rebellious! ＂

"Nope! Mr. Yan, I am a rebel, and I am willing to be a rebel! Tan has sworn that he will overthrow this brutal empire and swear not to stand with this inhuman tyrant! Don't write any letters for me, the reason why I haven't been caught until now is because there are too many people to arrest in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they have forgotten me for the time being. ＂

"Resurrection. ＂

"Mr. Yan, I know that you still have illusions about this tyrant, just like me did two months ago, but now, the students have woken up. Today's emperor is actually a tyrannical monarch that China has never had in the past thousand years. If this tyrant is not removed, the people of my country will be poisoned by one day. I, Tan Sitong, have made this grand wish, no matter how dangerous and difficult, I will definitely get rid of this fang! ＂

"Resurrection, why do you have to do this? ＂

"The so-called great road is wasted, and there is benevolence and righteousness; Wisdom comes out, and there is great hypocrisy. What I saw and heard along the way was shocking, and people worshipped madly, not knowing right from wrong; or starving, cold, and starving, and dying in the way. The people of the people, mad or dead, have no other way out. This tyrant is not a faint king, but he really fools all people like pigs and dogs, tramples like dung, and kills like ants. Tan Sitong is not talented, he is willing to give up this body to save the people, the sky is the proof, although he will die nine times and never regret it! ＂

"Fusheng, since you have such ambitions, I won't persuade you much, you take this money, I hope you take care. ＂

"That's what I need. Tan Sitong unceremoniously took the silver ticket and put it away, "Mr. Yan, don't think that you are honest, you can steal peace." With all due respect, you must have been blacklisted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the time has not yet come, but surveillance is indispensable, and this is why I want you to meet here. One day, these hawks will come and ask for your head. ＂

Yan Fu lowered his head and thought about it, in fact, he had long been aware of the strangeness of life, the letters exchanged would occasionally disappear, and there were traces of being opened from time to time, and people often followed him when he went out, etc.

After a while, Yan Fu said, "Is there anything Yan can help you?" ＂

"For the time being, you don't need to do anything, try to contact people as little as possible, and when the time comes, the students will come and contact you. ＂

Afterwards, Tan Sitong bowed down to leave, and parted with Shiyun:

The desert is full of majestic winds, and it is vast in all directions.

Under the sunset, Xiao Xiao's figure is long.

Fu Jian picked up the wine, and sang a sad song with generosity.

Bundle your hair and travel far away, turning to fight in all directions.

Heaven and earth will not be destroyed, and clutch will be constant.

The dust of the car is far away, and the road is far away to forget.

Tan Si patted all over the railing and walked away. Only Yan Fu was left standing still, stunned, thinking about the future of himself and the country, uncertain, and couldn't help sighing: "I don't know who will be in the world today?" ＂

"Let's see who is in the world today! Yuan Shikai was full of ambition and stood in front of the gate of the "Muhua Pavilion" with high spirits, looking at Seoul in the distance, and couldn't help but be full of pride.

It is no wonder that since he came to North Korea in April last year, China has completely controlled North Korea for a full year, far more tightly than a subject country in the ordinary sense. In particular, the Yijing railway has been fully started, and the railroad tracks have been paved to Xuancheon, and it is estimated that in a few months, it will be able to reach Pyongyang, an important city in the north, and as for Seoul, it will not be until the end of next year.

And Yuan Shikai influences the internal and foreign affairs of North Korea through the big party, and is already the de facto "shadow king", you must know that he is only twenty-five years old now, so young, he can dominate the wind and clouds, majestic in all directions, and command hundreds of officials, don't dare to disobey, if life is like this, what more can the husband ask for.

However, what worries him is that although there are also some members of the big party in Concubine Min's group, it is obvious that Gaozong and Concubine Min's control of China is becoming more and more unbearable, especially the construction of the Yijing Railway, which is against their wishes, but Yuan Shikai has already released his words, "Dayuanjun has a favorable attitude towards the Yijing Railway", which made Gaozong and Concubine Min both angry and helpless. As a result, its position has shifted to the Kaihua Party and the Japan behind it.

On 11 May, Gojong personally decreed the formal establishment of the "training team," a new-style unit trained by Japan, with a total number of nearly 1,000 people, the core of which was the more than 100 military cadets who had returned from studying in Japan, and the instructors were Japanese Lieutenants Yukihiko Kusunase and Captain Shinzo Isobayashi. This unit also became the most important liliang in the hands of the Kaihua Party, and it was in a vague confrontation with the 2,000 new troops trained by China. However, Gaozong and Concubine Min obviously paid more attention to the "training team", and Gaozong himself even went to inspect the troops on the day of its establishment, and it is self-evident that they are close and close.

On the other hand, members of the Kaihua Party have also taken up important positions, and Shili has grown significantly and is gradually able to compete with the big party. These people have already begun to plot how to get rid of the Chinese shili and achieve the independence of Korea. Among them, Park Yong-hyo also made a national flag "Taiji Flag", which was praised by Gojong.

It was in this atmosphere that Yuan Shikai finally had a head-on conflict with Gaozong, Concubine Min, and the Kaihua Party.

On May 28, Choi Zhai Young, the owner of the Gwangtongqiao Pharmacy in Jongro, Seoul, was shot dead in the store. The next day, the founded by the Kaihua Party organization and supported by the Japanese, immediately framed China in a big way and reported on it under the title of "Chinese soldiers' crimes" in an attempt to spread anti-Chinese sentiment among the Korean people.

When Yuan Shikai learned of this, he immediately put pressure on Gaozong and Concubine Min, saying that the report was "chasing after the wind and shadows, without any real evidence, and completely ill-intentioned", and demanded that the relevant personnel be punished. However, Gaozong hesitated, saying that the newspaper was "an unintentional mistake, a self-aware fallacy, a deep remorse, and no reason to be traced", in an attempt to perfunctory.

Yuan Shikai refused to give up, and while continuing to exert pressure, he sent Chen Shutang to urge North Korea to inspect and solve the case, and soon on May 31, the real murderer Choi Sung-kyun was arrested.

In the face of conclusive evidence, in order to calm the situation, Gojong had to remove Yu Jijun, the head of the Bowen Bureau in charge of the newspaper and a member of the Kaihua Party, and at the same time expelled the editor Kakugoro Inoue, and published a notice on the front page of the on June 2, reflecting on and daoqian about the erroneous reports made by the previous core. In addition, it stipulates that any future news report can only be published and distributed after being reviewed and approved by Chinese personnel.

This matter quickly spread back to Japan, and immediately caused a commotion, accusing the Japanese minister to Korea of Hanafang Yoshiko, and sitting back and watching Inoue Kakugoro be expelled, but doing nothing, which was really a shame for the empire.

Subsequently, the Japanese government removed Hanafu's Yoshito, and appointed Shinichiro Takezoe, a hardliner on China, as minister to the DPRK.

Seeing that China's political control over North Korea was so tight that even the newspapers were censored made the Japanese jealous and resentful, especially the militarists, who could no longer bear it.

Army Lieutenant General Miura Oro, who had been expelled from the army because of the dispute over the route, has been assembling various radical groups, such as the Hyunyangsha, the Purple Society, and the Kokuquan Party, and is preparing to organize an advance team to invade Korea. At this time, he took the opportunity to come forward directly, and began to lead a large number of Japanese ronins to land in Busan one after another in the name of businessmen, journalists, and doctors on June 11.

Among them, the main members are Hiraoka Kotaro, Mitsuru Toyama, Suzuki Riki, Uchida Ryohei, Taiyuan Yoshitsuna, Suzuki Amano, Osaki Masayoshi, Tokizawa Yuichi, Kushita Inyoshi, Takeda Noyuki, Okubo Zhao, Tanaka Shiro, Shirasui Kenkichi, Yoshikura Wangsheng, Chiba Kunosuke, Inoue Tosaburo, Nishiri Eisuke, etc., all of whom are well-known "chivalrous" in Japan.

At the same time, the Osaki Masaki Office was established in Seoul's "Shan Zi Sumyeonggaku", which became a secret paramilitary agency under the cover of legal work, just like .

Miura Wulou was also in constant contact with Takezoe Shinichiro and the Kaihua Party, plotting how to seize power.

For a time, the Korean Peninsula was already about to rain and clouds.

At this time, there was another person, who also had a gloomy face, it was the king of Siam, Rama V Chulalongkorn.

Tang Jingxiang, China's new minister to Siam, has officially sent a diplomatic note demanding that Siam "return" the remaining three states of Shanglao, as well as the state of Sichuan Khouang and the capital of Vientiane.

I was really afraid of what would come, but I didn't expect China's demands to come so quickly and resolutely, and there was almost no room for negotiation, which made Chulalongkorn fill his chest with hatred, and he gritted his teeth and threw the water glass on the ground, with a "bang", and fragments splashed everywhere.

"The Chinese have to inch in, deceive people too much, and fight with them! ＂