Chapter 492:-for-tat

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Cen Chunxuan was very angry, he hadn't been so angry for a long time, because he met a stunned young man. When Sa Zhenbing concurrently served as the Admiral of the Guangdong Naval Division, he had little control over the Guangdong Naval Division because his focus was on rebuilding Beiyang. Cen Chunxuan, as the governor of Liangguang, was firmly controlled by the sailors, so he had opinions on the reappointment of the Guangdong sailors by the imperial court, so he wanted to give Chen Hao a dismissal.

The authority of the governor of Liangguang was very great, and Cen Chunxuan thought that after giving Ma Wei, the new alien admiral would retreat in the face of difficulties, and he would just nominally hang the title of admiral but just do nothing. What made him angry was that this alien admiral was obviously an anomaly, not only using tricks to subdue the Guangdong Navy, but also wanting to get involved in the Whampoa Shipyard.

Cen Chunxuan actually doesn't value the Whampoa Shipyard, what he cares about is the Guangdong Navy, but the Guangdong Navyman is the territory of the Admiral, and it is not easy for people to subdue him. The Whampoa Shipyard was under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Liangguang, and the Alien Admiral sent troops to control the shipyard without principle, allowing Lord Cen to find a breakthrough in counterattack.

In addition to the guards, Cen Chunxuan also brought two thousand officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion, and he wanted to give the hairy boy who didn't know the height of the sky a little powerful. Chen Baxian angered the governor and made Yingyu secretly happy, he volunteered to follow the governor, and after a while, the troops arrived at the gate of the Whampoa shipyard.

There were four guards standing neatly at the door, and the master of the Governor's Mansion quickly stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency the Governor has come to inspect the shipyard, and quickly notify the shipyard and others to come to greet you." ”

The four guards were people from Chen Hao's guard battalion, and they had already received Feng Yong's explanation, and the person leading the team said expressionlessly: "Lord Admiral has an order, and you can't enter without his hand." ”

"Presumptuous! The Whampoa Shipyard is under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Liangguang, when is it the turn of the Admiral of the Navy to intervene. Don't let me know yet. Cen Chunxuan stepped forward angrily.

The guards didn't seem to take the governor of Liangguang in their eyes at all, and he said lightly: "The little one doesn't know the governor, he only obeys the orders of the admiral, and no one can enter without the commander's order." “

Cen Chunxuan laughed angrily: "Okay! Okay, what a commander beats people, this official will see who dares to stop me from entering the shipyard today. “

Cen Chunxuan gave an order. The guards at the Governor's Palace all raised their rifles, and the patrol battalion followed suit with their guns aimed at the four guards. At this moment, the doors of the shipyard opened, revealing four machine-gun bunkers, from which the barrels of the Maxim heavy machine guns emerged. At the same time, countless black holes of guns were also exposed on the wall, aiming at the Governor's Palace guards not far away.

Feng Yong walked out of the gate and shouted: "Your Excellency Admiral has an order, recently a spy has infiltrated the shipyard, and your Excellency is arranging personnel to investigate." No one is allowed to enter. If anyone dares to break in, there will be no forgiveness. ”

Cen Chunxuan's face was pale, and he stepped forward and said, "Hurry up and tell Chen Baxian, just say that Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, has come to inspect the shipyard." ”

Feng Yong said with a smile: "Our Admiral, as the Admiral said, there is a shortage of ships in the Guangdong Navy Division, and from today onwards, the Navy Division will begin to produce warships in the shipyard, and the shipyard will be under the jurisdiction of our Navy Division." Your Excellency the Governor, please come back! The brothers are in order, and if the brothers go off with their guns and injure the governor, it will be troublesome. ”

Cen Chunxuan trembled. He wanted to give the order to attack, but he didn't have the guts. This time I came with troops just for-for-tat. There was no intention of fighting at all, so his guards and patrol battalions did not carry heavy weapons. Damn Chen Ba made preparations in advance, built a machine gun bunker at the gate of the shipyard, and arranged a perfect defense, whether he could fight it if he attacked was still a question!

The governor of Liangguang has great authority, if Cen Chunxuan is determined to fight to the end. There will be a lot of troops he can control. But Cen Chunxuan didn't dare, Chen Baxian could do anything wrong, and he could forcefully order the troops to open fire, because he could not even be subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court. At the beginning, when he didn't have Cam Ranh Bay as a back road, he dared to snatch the foreigners' warships. Now that there is the back road of Cam Ranh Bay, even if he has a big trouble with Cen Chunxuan, it is a big deal to go back to Cam Ranh Bay.

Cen Chunxuan, as a member of the imperial court, if he sent troops to attack the water division, if he was defeated, he would become a laughing stock. Luckily won the battle, Chen Ba first picked the son and left with the sailor, how did Cen Chunxuan explain to the imperial court? After touching a nail at the gate of the shipyard, he found that he had fallen into inertial thinking, thinking that the official university level could crush people to death, ignoring Chen Baxian's second stunned.

Cen Chunxuan quickly calmed down, and he said lightly: "Since your Admiral's ability is so great and you are so unscrupulous, then he will find a way to solve the military expenses or something!" ”

Originally, there were more than 3,000 officers and men in the naval battalion, but after the fleet in Cam Ranh Bay was merged, the number was more than 6,000. With so many soldiers, Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, did not give military funds, and also restricted them in other aspects, it was indeed stuck in the throat of the water division. After saying a cruel word, he waved his hand and said, "Go back to the Governor's Palace." ”

Just as Cen Chunxuan was about to leave, Chen Hao walked out of the shipyard and said with a smile on his face: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, Lord Governor!" The subordinate was busy investigating the spies, and he didn't know that the governor was coming, so he was so lazy. ”

Cen Chunxuan looked at Chen Hao coldly and said: "Lord Chen doesn't need to act, the official will do what he says, from now on, the military salary of the Navy Battalion will be solved by himself, and the Governor Yamen will not spend a penny of silver for the Sailor again." ”

Cen Chunxuan thought that he had grasped the key, so Chen Hao softened him, so the shelf was very large. As everyone knows, Chen Hao had long expected that Cen Chunxuan would have this trick, and he did have the intention of mixing military salaries by merging seven warships into the Guangdong Navy Division, but it didn't matter if the military salaries were temporarily cut off for the shipyard, because according to history, the governors of Liangguang would be replaced in two months.

Although Chen Hao was against Cen Chunxuan, he had to admit that history's evaluation of the governor was still quite good, and his downfall was largely due to jealousy and hatred. When acting as governor of Sichuan, he was preparing to impeach more than 300 local officials at a time, and hundreds of officials in Sichuan would be dismissed. It is estimated that many town mayors, township mayors and other small people are also on the list.

After Cen Chunxuan became the governor of Guangdong, the officials were even more unlucky, and 1,400 officials obediently went home to farm. In this way, officials of all sizes talked about the color change of "Cen". For the sake of their own future, many people want to squeeze Cen Chunxuan away, so that this old boy can also taste the taste of being impeached.

In 1907, someone offered a reward of 1 million in Hong Kong to buy Cen Chunxuan to step down, and the charm of the Hong Kong dollar finally touched a person, this person Cai Naihuang. At that time, the Empress Dowager Cixi hated the royalists the most, especially Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, Kang Youwei once wrote an article in the "Qingyi Daily", scolding Cixi for being just a concubine abandoned by the first emperor, which was very hurtful. Although Cen Chunxuan has nothing to do with the royalists, Cai Naihuang, who is known as the originator of PS, is a genius and creates evidence of their "dealings".

Cai Naihuang found the photos of Cen Chunxuan, Liang Qichao, and Mai Menghua, and remade them into a joint group photo, with Cen Zhong sitting, Liang on the left, and Mai on the right, and then sold the photo to the media in Shanghai. At that time, photographic technology had just been introduced to China, and people didn't know anything about this kind of PS trick, so the major newspapers reprinted it one after another, regardless of whether it was true or false, causing a sensational news.

This incident spread from Shanghai to Tianjin, to Beijing, and even to the South Seas and the Americas. Chen Shaobai, the founder of Huaxia Daily, reprinted overseas reports in domestic media, and as a result, the royalists themselves thought that Cen Chunxuan was their backbone.

Although this fake photo can make Cen Chunxuan lose his head, no matter how fierce the trouble is outside, if Cixi doesn't see it, there is no possibility of success. And Li Lianying and Cen Chunxuan are good friends, as long as he is there, even if someone can hand this PS photo into the palace, it may not be able to let Cixi see it.

Cai Naihuang obviously knows this better than anyone else, but he knows better that all the eunuchs in the palace are masters who love money like life, and there are 1 million anyway, so it doesn't matter if they take out some and "hook" it. So Cai Naihuang bribed the eunuch to put the photo on Cixi's table.

Lafayette, who usually pretends to be and kind-hearted, was furious after seeing this photo, and at this time, the excerpt of the impeachment of Cen Chunxuan by the Guangdong Imperial History has also arrived, Cen Chunxuan was originally going to be completely finished, but he still has a good relationship with Li Lianying. At the critical moment, Li Lianying was really a little righteous, seeing that his friend was framed, he did a bold thing, and he photoshopped Cixi's photo!

In the photo, Cixi maintains her Guanyin appearance, and Li Lianying has changed from a good wealth boy to a protective Wei Tuo. After the photo PS came out. Li Lianying took it to see Cixi and said, "When did the slave take such a picture with Lafayette?" It's just a folk trick! Just like the photo of Cen Chunxuan Yu Liang and Mai, it was all designed by treacherous people to frame Cen Chunxuan! ”

Li Lianying brought the supreme Lafayette photo to PS, and the technology obviously far surpassed Cai Naihuang. The Empress Dowager Cixi did not blame Li Lianying, but pardoned Cen Chunxuan and immediately entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. Although Li Lianying helped wash away the grievances, Cen Chunxuan's position as governor of Liangguang was also gone, and he was succeeded by Zhang Renjun, who had made significant contributions to the sovereignty of the islands in the Chinese Sea.

I haven't heard that anyone has changed the key plot of Cen Chunxuan, so Chen Hao, who is familiar with history, knows that he can't jump for a few days, and he is not afraid that he will cut off his military salary. After Zhang Renjun served as the governor of Liangguang, according to history, when he relied on the water division a lot, it was impossible for him to deduct the military salary of the water division, so it was no problem to offend Cen Chunxuan now. (To be continued......)