Lin Yuan stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

When Chen Fei saw Lin Yuan, he said: "This is a group of Boxers who want to go to the embassy of the Russians and Japanese. ”

Lin Yuan said anxiously: "What do you think! Now in this situation, how can you go to the embassies of the Russians and the Japanese! ”

The leader said angrily: "Then what do you want us to do?" ** Son and little devil are killing our compatriots in Manchuria, are we just here to watch? ”

Lin Yuan said, "What can you do there?" They have guns in their hands, and the Qing court will not watch you kill foreigners! ”

The man at the head said suspiciously: "We are helping the court!" How can the imperial court not help us! ”

Everyone immediately echoed and said: "These two people don't have braids, they look like fake foreign devils, let's kill them!" ”

A big man rushed up with a steel knife in his hand, and slashed Chen Fei's head, Chen Fei turned to one side suddenly, so fast that Lin Yuan didn't see it clearly, and then Chen Fei's palm poked out, grabbed and twisted on the big man's wrist, the big man screamed in pain, the steel knife suddenly took off his hand, Chen Fei saw the opportunity, kicked on the handle of the knife, and the knife obediently fell behind him.

Chen Fei pushed the big man back into the crowd and said helplessly, "Are you still finished?" ”

When the leader saw this, he said, "Everyone separate, surround these two people, and I don't believe that they have three heads and six arms!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If you don't convince this person, there will definitely be big trouble today, and maybe your life will have to be taken." ”

So Lin Yuan roared angrily: "Enough! ”

Everyone was stunned by his roar, and then Lin Yuan sneered: "Let me ask you, is the life of a foreign devil precious, or the life of our compatriots?" ”

The leader said without even thinking about it: "Nonsense! Of course, the lives of our compatriots are precious! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "In that case, why don't you go out to save the suffering people?" ”

In these few sentences, Lin Yuan actually used the skill of conversation to make them think that the lives of their compatriots are more precious, so everyone should go out to save the people, and this causal relationship is certainly not untenable, because everyone's abilities are different, and for this group of people, they can't do it at all.

But this group of simple boxers who didn't even know their own names obviously couldn't figure this out, they immediately fell into deep thought, and after a while, the man at the head said: "That's the matter of the imperial court, all we can do is kill a few more foreign devils!" After speaking, he pointed at Lin Yuan with a knife and scolded angrily: "There are fake foreign devils like you." ”

Lin Yuan sneered for a while, and said, "If someone takes you out of the customs to fight foreign devils, will you go!" ”

The leader said: "Of course I went, what's the point of killing foreign devils here?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "If you can trust it, go back first, the imperial court will be conscripted in two days, you come to me, my name is Lin Yuan." ”

The leader exclaimed: "Your name is Lin Yuan? It's the Lin Yuan who can blow up a mountain with a wave of his hand! ”

Lin Yuan nodded with a smile, and said in the lead: "Okay, the brothers will do it with you!" Let's go back first. ”

Chen Fei watched the group of people leave, and said to Lin Yuan: "Revolutionary history tells us that it is not possible to rely on others without mastering our own armed forces. ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Let's take a look again, I'll discuss with Guangxu and see if we can recruit some soldiers." ”

When he went to Zhang Hua and asked, the president of the Chamber of Commerce was willing to pay, and the specific amount was still being discussed, Zhang Hua smiled bitterly: "Captain, our Beijing ship has to study the production process of tobacco as soon as possible!" Yesterday, I went and sent two Chinese people! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and agreed, and when he went to Guangxu in the afternoon, he also readily agreed and left the Forbidden City. Chen Fei was already waiting outside, and he had to go to his new house to take a look.

Walking on the road, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "That little girl is good to me, but I don't even know what people's names are, why don't I buy her something." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Girls should like small jewelry or something." So he bought a pair of bracelets, which the shop said were made of emerald stone, which was not expensive, but exquisite.

Lin Yuanzhi said that the emerald stone is actually serpentine, which is a mineral, which is commonly used in the inorganic salt industry.

Lin Yuan and Chen Fei came to the house sent by Cixi, the girl was already waiting for him in the house, as soon as the two of them entered the house, the girl screamed and hid behind the screen, Chen Fei was confused, and hurriedly asked: "What is she hiding from me for?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Think about what era this is, a woman can't meet outsiders casually, even her husband's friends. ”

Chen Fei let out an "oh" and dodged out.

The girl came out at this time, and Lin Yuan asked, "I don't know what to call you yet?" ”

The girl replied shyly, "You can call the slave whatever you want." "In ancient times, the master could name the slave and maid at will, so this girl said so.

Lin Yuan said, "Then what is your original name?" ”

The girl said, "They all call me Guan'er." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, I'll call you that, by the way, I bought you something, I don't know if you like it or not." He handed her the gift.

Two red clouds suddenly flew on the girl's face, and she was reluctant not to pick it up, although Lin Yuan had a certain understanding of ancient society, but he forgot: In this era, a man giving a woman something, most of it means a token of love, how can that girl be embarrassed to take it.

When he was frozen there, someone outside the door reported that Wu Dayi, the governor of Hunan, and Song Qing, the governor of Sichuan, held a banquet in Mengxian Tower, and invited Lord Lin.

Lin Yuan put the things aside and said, "I'll go first, you can take a look at things when you have time." ”

Lin Yuan came out, saw Chen Fei's sad face, and asked him with a smile, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Chen Fei shook his head lightly and said, "It's nothing. Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought, "Did he think of that Matsushima Keiko again." ”

Lin Yuan knew that this Wu Dashi was in command of the Hunan army of various departments in Shanhaiguan. As Song Qing had already mentioned, the Qing court ordered him to lead his troops to the Sino-Korean border, where he had been stationed at Jiuliancheng, and before he could withdraw to Lushun, the Japanese attacked Shengjing (roughly present-day Liaoning Province).

As soon as the Japanese landed from Jinzhou Bay, they soon arrived at the Fengtian and Changtu lines, and in the north, Jilin General Changshun surrendered without a fight, Jilin Mansion and Changchun Mansion are located on the endless Songnen Plain, there is no danger to defend, the Russians may send troops from Qiqihar at any time, and the Japanese will join the division, in that case, the entire Song Qing's troops will be dumplings, so Song Qing retreated overnight, Shanhaiguan was unable to go, so he had to go around in a big circle, and made a detour from Inner Mongolia back to Beijing.

Emperor Guangxu has ordered that Lin Yuan, as the minister of the Qin Mission, will lead all the soldiers and horses in Beijing to recover the lost territory, at that time, the army does not pay attention to ability and seniority, and everything is based on seniority, these people will inevitably be dissatisfied, so Lin Yuan thought: "I'm afraid this meal is a Hongmen banquet!" ”

Preview of the next issue: Lin Yuan is at this banquet, how can he convince the generals of him?