"Humiliation does not reduce the thief." Officer Wu lowered his head, "Their chief of staff said to me, my lordship is on a hunger strike. They asked me to persuade my lords, and to put it mildly, we are going to destroy their national defense strength and let foreigners pick up a bargain in vain. The Mengshan army was not a rebellion, and if the imperial court gave them a way out, they were willing to serve the country. ”

Wang Shizhen was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "How many brothers were captured this time?" ”

"Not a lot, most of our three battalions were captured. The wreckage of the battle has disgraced the adults. ”

It is not the officers and men below who are disgraced, but the planners and main executors. Lu Yongxiang has already died in battle, and it is really out of strength to blame a dead person again. Wang Shizhen pondered for a moment, "Blame me for my mistake, not for you." What are the brothers doing today? Can you eat enough? ”

"You can eat enough. But they said that you can't eat idle. Spring ploughing is coming, and the captives have to go down to the field to help the common people work__Get rid of the wounded and sick, whether they are officers or soldiers, they will all participate__" Officer Wu raised his head, "My lord, I think that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. Listening to their chief of staff surnamed Ning, their commander is very important, and it is estimated that they will not embarrass the adults. You might as well talk to them and return to Jinan as soon as possible, so as to save your brothers from the cage. This time I met the officers and soldiers who were captured by them the first two times, and they were all alive and well__"

Why doesn't Wang Shizhen want to break free from the cage? But after repeated calculations, even if the thief army releases himself, his future in this life will be ruined. Although Li Chun was defeated, he was not captured after all. He went on hunger strike, in half because of the extreme disappointment caused by the destruction of his future.

"Will they release me?"

"I heard that Cai Chengxun once brought a letter to Lord Yuan, but Cai Chengxun did not handle the matter well. If the adults can recruit this thief, it may be a great achievement__Anyway, they have become the subordinates of the adults, divided and disintegrated, and there are many ways, but they are better than now__"

Wu Yingguan chattered for a long time and was taken away. Leaving Wang Shizhen in a daze at the lone lamp.

Maybe he was stimulated by Long Qian, or maybe he listened to the persuasion of Wu Yingguan, and stayed up until dawn the next day, Wang Shizhen ate, he drank a bowl of chicken soup, called into the guards, and said that he wanted to see the big boss of the Mengshan army.

It wasn't until evening that Long Qian came to Wang Shizhen's house.

"I heard that Mr. Guanru has figured it out?"

"You're Long Qian?" Wang Shizhen, who was sitting on the bed, opened his squinted eyes.

"It's down there. I heard that Mr. Beiyang Sanjie's name was given by the Germans? Long Qian's tone was sarcastic.

"You're well-informed." In order to have a good relationship with the German garrison, Yuan Shikai invited the German governor in Jiaoao to observe the exercise, as the main generals under Yuan Shikai, Wang, Duan, and Feng personally led the troops to the playground, and the Germans gave a positive evaluation, calling Wang, Duan, and Feng the three heroes of the new army.

This evaluation made Wang Shizhen very proud.

"As a Chinese soldier, he slaughtered his own compatriots internally, but was appreciated by the head of the invading army that invaded and occupied the country, and the name of these three heroes is not honorable."

Wang Shizhen's disease. Massacre of compatriots at home? Presumably, Long Qian was referring to the fact that he violated the order to trap and kill the Boxer brother who was holding the arrow of the Duanjun Wang.

"Phew! A group of ignorant boxers, Wang never regrets what he did! The affairs of the country are ruined by you bandits. What's cruel about dealing with the people who plague the empire? If you want me to see, a bandit leader like you has killed too few in the imperial court. ”

"Oh, that's how Mr. Wang sees things. Mr. Wang believes that the Three Principles and Five Constants are the hard-won road of heaven, and regards the emperor as the father of the monarch, and the people as the shepherd people. Let's just talk about your theory, the ancients said, if you don't teach, it's your father's fault. Whether it is the Boxers or the bandits, they are all children of the imperial court, and the imperial court does not know how to open up the wisdom of the people, and even foolish people like the Boxers appear, and the fault lies with the imperial court. The court can't let the people eat their stomachs, and even bandits are rampant, and the fault is the same in the court! Mr. Wang won't deny this truth, right? When the imperial court raises all the people, it has to take responsibility and pay reparations for foreign defeats, but it goes to issue some Showa bonds, wantonly collect and scrape the people's wealth, and reduce the suffering on the innocent people, what is the reason? The year before last, the Yellow River broke in the Dong'e area, and at least 100,000 people died in Shandong. Further back, Ding Chou was in a famine, my hometown of Shanxi starved to death at least five million people, almost one out of three people died, what did the imperial court do? ”

"There's always disaster relief." Wang Shizhen has indeed heard of the tragic events that happened in the Ding Chou famine, "The country is unfortunate, internal and external troubles are not stopped, and the people's livelihood is difficult, how can the court not know?" But don't you make things worse when you gather people to become bandits and harass the localities? How can the imperial court have the spare strength to deal with the disaster year? ”

"Mr. Wang, have you put the cart before the horse? According to what you said, it was because of the rampant thieves that they spent all the silver taels of the imperial court, so that the imperial court was unable to provide disaster relief? Let me ask you, disaster years are always unavoidable, floods and droughts and locusts are nature's faults, and the only way to deal with floods and droughts is to build water conservancy to resist disasters. The great powers of the West also have years of floods and droughts, and they have not heard of their countries starving to death in a single province. The Yellow River is a hanging river, and disasters are always endless in all dynasties. What the imperial court should do is to study its laws, find out the laws of sand control and river control, and guide the people to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages. Transform this mother river, which has nurtured Chinese civilization, into a river of prosperity that benefits the provinces of the Central Plains, instead of reversing black and white and putting the blame on the bandits. I have only been here for a year, but I know how to bring water into the village to solve the irrigation problem. Thinking about the villages around Zhengjiazhuang, this year's grain output will definitely exceed the past. The government of Fei County and even Yizhou, is the strength in their hands not as good as that of a bandit? Mr. Wang's words made my teeth cold. ”

They also bring water into the farm? It's a strange story. However, Wang Shizhen was not ready to discuss this with Long Qian, "I heard that Wu Yingguan said, you intend to return to the imperial court?" ”

"Mr. Wang, you have seen the world. I believe that you are willing to see China become a rich and strong civilization. The Chinese people are the most docile and kind group in the world, and as long as they can barely fill their stomachs, they will never pull the flag and rebel. But why did the dynasties always appear to swarm thieves? What was the reason for them to risk their heads against the government during this period? Has Mr. Wang thought about it? Submit to the imperial court? I'll tell you the truth, right? I really don't want to fight with the official army anymore. Because of the killing and killing, the cheaper ones are the foreigners who are eyeing the splendid mountains and rivers of China! At present, the power of Britain, France, Germany, and Japan is getting deeper and deeper into China's hinterland, and China is facing an unprecedented crisis. In such a big country, there is no army that can resist the enemy, the Eight Banners have long been corrupted and cannot fight, the green camp is finished, and the Hunan army and the Huai army, which defeated the Taiping army, have also come to an end. Just count your Wuwei army, Nie Shicheng's front army, Song Qing's left army, and Dong Fuxiang's rear army are not as strong as Yuan Shikai's right army. And Rong Lu's Chinese army, I'm afraid it's even more unhelpful. The Wuwei Right Army and the Mengshan Army fought in Shandong, and the damage was not small, right? Once there is a lose-lose situation, Gyeonggi is in trouble, which army will defend the Gyeonggi Division? Would you like to see the Old Summer Palace burned again? ”

Wang Shizhen was taken aback, but Long Qian continued, "Although I grew up in the United States, like Situ Jun, I have always considered myself Chinese. I trained and reformed this bandit into an army, not to overthrow the imperial court, but to defend the land from foreign invasion. The last time I wrote to Yuan Shikai, I have already explained my attitude, but Yuan Shikai misunderstood what I meant, and regarded the patriotic heart of my Mengshan army soldiers as weak, which is really ridiculous and contemptible. Now, it has been proved that if Yuan Shikai wants to completely eliminate our Mengshan army, he must at least wipe out more than half of the new army of the small station he has trained! Perhaps, it is not my Mengshan Army that will be wiped out, but your new army! ”

Long Qian stared at Wang Shizhen coldly, "If Mr. Wang believes me, write a letter to Yuan Shikai to explain the situation and my attitude towards Mengshan Army." First, the Mengshan army was willing to accept the leadership of Yuan Shikai and become an army within the imperial court establishment in Shandong Province. Second, it is necessary to respect the wishes of the Mengshan Army, defend the country and fight against foreign enemies, and the Mengshan Army will never talk about conditions. But the Mengshan Army never acted as Yuan Shikai's thugs to kill the Chinese. As for I, Long Qian, I will never ask for a reward from the imperial court. If you want to be rich, I am in the United States, and wealth is at your fingertips, so why go back to your homeland thousands of miles away? ”

Wang Shizhen stayed for a long time, "Don't be alarmist. Where did the fire come from to burn the Old Summer Palace? Big talk can't fool me__"

"The wind rises at the end of Qingping. There is no mystery in Long's view of the country's major policies. There are rumors about the abolition of the Beijing Division, and the foreigners support the current emperor and resolutely oppose the establishment of a new monarch, I am afraid that it is not groundless. Duanwang Zaiyi was angry that foreigners interfered with the abolition of the establishment, and regarded the Boxers who killed foreigners and burned churches as a strong aid, which led to the Boxers in Shandong to go north, and the Boxers in Zhili were booming, which was by no means a blessing for the country. There is one thing that you and I agree on, that is, the Boxers did not succeed, they were indeed a bunch of ignorant fools, and relying on them to deal with foreigners would only do bad things, not succeed. In the land of Zhili, the power of the foreigners is intertwined, once the Boxers and the foreigners have a head-on conflict, how can the imperial court deal with itself? Help foreigners slaughter the Boxers? Or support the Boxer Rebellion to exterminate the ocean? Have you ever thought about it? ”

The more Wang Shizhen thought about it, the more shocked he became, "If you let me go, I will go back and report everything to Lord Yuan." ”

"Lord Wang, do you regard Long as a three-year-old child? If you are sincere, you can repair a letter and send a subordinate to return to Jinan. These days, you can recuperate, and you can also walk around. Hearing is false, seeing is believing, see if my Mengshan army is a gang of ringing horses robbing rich families, or is it an army with the strength to defend the country? ”

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