"Young Master, Mr. Long and Mr. Chen are here."

Outside the door, Zhao Long's voice broke the silence, and after waving his hand to signal the little girl to step back first, Li Mo thought about it, and suddenly pulled out the command knife on the wall and put it on the table, and then said, "Please come in." ”

In fact, since he cleaned up all the foreigners, according to Long Guozhang's idea, he threw these people into the sea and was trying to find a way to drive the boat back, but he didn't expect that Chen Ping stopped him, and insisted on waiting until Li Mo woke up and said.

As a last resort, Long Guozhang had to endure his surname, tied a group of foreign devils to the deck to blow the wind, and finally waited until the morning, and saw Xiaoxiao to get food, so he dragged Chen Ping over in a hurry.

As soon as he entered the house, Long Guozhang first saw the command knife on the table, and the sunlight reflected on the knife body along the porthole, which was particularly bright. I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, could it be that this Young Master Li likes to play with knives early in the morning?

"Brother Long, Brother Chen, please take a seat."

Li Mo's words interrupted Long Guozhang's thoughts, he didn't know what was going on, he originally wanted to pull Chen Ping to sit down and talk, but he didn't expect the latter to grab the long knife first, flick his index finger, "ding", and the blade of the knife actually let out a crisp dragon groan.

"Good knives."

"It's a good knife, but it's a pity that it didn't come in handy." Li Mo smiled and stared at Chen Ping, in fact, he had already seen from Long Guozhang's continuous communication with Chen Ping last night that this was probably the one who really took the idea in this line.

"It seems that Young Master Li Mo has recognized us!" Chen Ping's eyes lit up, and the hand holding the knife suddenly tightened.

"Know! I don't know. Li Mo nibbled on two mouthfuls of bread. Oh my boy, the black bread of these years is really unpalatable. After cursing the baker for a while, he continued: "I know, it's because my father is the commander of the Eight Banners of the Golden State Weihan, so I have seen the sailor costumes on you. I don't know, but judging from a few cuff Yunshou, they are all in important positions, why they fell here. ”

"Commander of the Jinzhou Wei Han Army?" Chen Ping frowned and thought about it, and suddenly asked with a short breath: "Could it be that Master Li Guotai Li is your father?" Chen Ping stared at Li Mo, he had heard of the deeds of this adult, and he also knew that Li Guotai's suicide half a month ago was actually related to him, but he didn't expect that the person in front of him was actually Li Guotai's descendant, and he couldn't help but be anxious.

Ahh Could it be that this guy has a grudge against cheap daddy? Looking at Chen Ping, who was suddenly short of breath, Li Mo nodded, but as soon as he nodded, Chen Ping suddenly shook his head to the end, patted his thigh painfully, and cried: "It's all Chen Ping who mistook Master Li!" ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? Li Mo felt that he was a bit like the ancients, at least the words began to be crepe.

As Chen Ping told the story, Li Mo learned that the arms sold to the Japanese invaders that Li Guotai had investigated were under Chen Ping's jurisdiction, and at that time he also handed Li Hongzhang an excerpt, and quietly notified the Jinzhou guard's outpost to intercept the goods.

But he didn't expect that the person who intercepted it was actually Li Guotai, who happened to check the gang, and this incident also alarmed the imperial court, Prince Alcohol began to arrest the people who opposed him in order to cover up his greed for ink, and Chen Ping was also one of the unlucky ghosts who were caught at that time.

Li Mo didn't expect that there would be such a scene between the two, but since Li Guotai is dead, there is no need to pursue anything, not to mention that Li Guotai's exposure of the shady scenes in Beiyang was originally voluntary, so Chen Ping can't be blamed for this matter.

Since they are all fallen people, after some exchanges, Li Mo gradually learned the origin of Long Guozhang and Chen Ping.

It turned out that Long Guozhang was originally a person from the Fuzhou Naval Division, but he didn't want to be ordered by Li Hongzhang to accompany some of the generals in the Fuzhou Naval Division to Beiyang, but his surname didn't know how to be welcomed, and he was squeezed in the Naval Division. You can scold him, you can beat him, and you can even kick him back to his hometown, and you can humiliate people in this way, which is definitely not acceptable to him Long Guozhang.

So in a fit of rage, he beat up a child of the Eight Banners from the capital who was in charge of arranging the affairs of the boats, but he didn't expect that the kid was really unbeaten, and he broke his legs in a few strokes, and Long Guozhang also ended up in custody pending trial.

As for Chen Ping, it is not simple, his ancestral home is Guangdong, and Long Guozhang is a fellow countryman, when he crossed the ocean with his grandfather to the United Kingdom, he entered the Royal Naval College at a young age, and met Fang Boqian and others who also studied at that time in the UK, and then saw "Yangwei", "Chaoyong" returned to China, Fang Boqian and others also became a pipe belt one by one, and decided to serve the motherland, but who would have thought that not long after joining the Guangzhou Naval Division, he encountered the Sino-French War, the Naval Division was defeated, and he also ended up being dismissed. Although later, with the help of Fang Boqian, he spent money to come to the Beiyang Army, but after several setbacks, not only did he not become a pipe band, but because of his name, he didn't even let the ship go, and only assigned a copywriter to be responsible for land chores.

As the days passed, the ambitions of Long Guozhang and Chen Ping also faded, and they married their brothers with a similar temper, and they wanted to go back to Fuzhou in a few years, but who expected that the queen mother repaired the garden last year and transferred 30 million taels of silver, which caused the funds in Beiyang to be tense all of a sudden.

Prince Alcohol: Who is that? The number one vampire in the official Beiyang Navy Division is three points more poisonous than the Lafayette in the Forbidden City, and the most important thing is that he is still Guangxu's father, leading the Yamen, the prime minister of the Navy, and directly choked Li Hongzhang's neck, so after a confrontation, like Li Guotai, he became a victim of politics and ended up in exile.

Fortunately, Long Guozhang and Chen Ping are very popular in the sailors, and there are many people like them, so the two teamed up with more than 20 people and escaped from a small boat, but as soon as they went to sea, they met Rudolph and his gang to arrest people everywhere, lack weapons, and they were all strong and coolie candidates in Shanghai, so Rudolph naturally would not let them go.

"Grandma's, it's Prince Alcohol again!"

After listening to this, Li Mo couldn't help but sigh that fate was such a coincidence, the descendant who loved Xinjueluo always seemed to have trouble with him Li Mo, so that he couldn't enjoy the life of the eldest young master, and he almost became a miner who was inferior to a pig and a dog. But he probably didn't expect that there was such a big guy hidden in Beiyang, not only a top student of the British Navy, but also participated in the Sino-French naval battle, but unfortunately, now the Beiyang New Army of Nuoda is about to become a colosseum of power, even if he has talent? In the eyes of that person, how can you put it in your eyes?!

And Chen Ping is also unlucky, the ancients have always been superstitious, because "Chen" and "Shen" are homophonic, so the rule that generals surnamed Chen are not allowed to go to sea has a long history, even if it is a modern navy, this unconscious unspoken rule is not without it.

However, after sighing, Li Mo also knew that he had met a baby, not to mention Long Guozhang and others, just this graduate of the British Naval Academy who participated in the Sino-French naval battle was enough to make him salivate!

It seems that the Prince of Alcohol really gave him a treasure, but the question is how to get them into his hands?

Li Mo was thinking, should he exert his royal spirit, and then catch them all?

Fortunately, before his Wang Ba Qi was released, Chen Ping spoke: "I don't know what Young Master Li Mo is going to do next?" ”

"What should I do?" His gaze swept over Long Guozhang and Chen Ping. Li Mo clearly saw the helplessness and confusion about the future in the eyes of the other party, once upon a time the two people who dreamed of driving a boat across the world, at this moment they are like a hero who has come to an end, and he came to ask a twelve-year-old child what to do in the future, which is enough to explain the state of mind of the two at the moment.

In fact, Chen Ping and Long Guozhang have no choice, in the end, both of them are criminals, even if they return to Fuzhou, I am afraid that they will still sin their families, unless they abscond to Nanyang, but thinking about what happened to the Chinese in Nanyang at this moment, it is enough to make the two hesitate.

Of course, Chen Ping still has a way, but thinking that his grandfather scattered all his family wealth, he let himself enter the British Imperial Naval Academy in the name of a dispatch student, but he is not a real foreign student after all, and he can't speak the same language as Fang Boqian and others, and he can't go to the British Navy for internship, so for him, it is better to go to Nanyang to break through.

"It's simple, two paths." Now that the words have been spoken, Li Mo no longer goes around in circles, and says straightforwardly: "The first way, after escorting us to the destination, the boat will return to the two, the world is so big, presumably with the ability of the two eldest brothers, there is no place where we can't go." ”

"What about the second way?" Chen Ping frowned and asked.

"Follow me, like Zhao Long and them, although they dare not guarantee that the two of them will be rich and noble in the future, they can guarantee that within five years, both of them can command real ironclad ships and crisscross the four seas!"

Li Mo suddenly got up, these words were loud, he knew that there was no king in this world at all, only the combination of interests was the king, and if the two of them wanted to follow him with all their hearts, they had to draw a big pie for everyone, as for whether it could be done. "Let's talk about that......." Li Mo, who had no bottom in his heart, knew that he must not weaken his morale at this moment, and stared at Chen Ping and Long Guozhang with sharp eyes, waiting to see their reactions.

"Five years? Ironclad? Hehe, Young Master Li Mo is not joking. ”

Not to mention the ironclad ship, even if there can be a gunboat, I am afraid that Long Guozhang and Chen Ping will immediately agree, I wonder if they came to the Beiyang New Army just to show their ambitions! can be thought of the current situation of everyone, but these words sound ridiculous.

"Five years, not long or short, why don't you try it?" Li Mo was unwilling to let the two of them go like this, but he also knew that he didn't have any attractive chips at the moment, so he stubbornly said: "If I can't do it in five years, the two of you can take someone away!" ”

"Five years ......." Long Guozhang muttered, turned his head to look at Chen Ping, and after the two glanced at each other, Chen Ping resolutely decided: "Okay, five years is the limit!" After saying that, he immediately stretched out his big hand.

"Believe me, Li Mo will never let the two of you down!"

The three of them, one big and one small, clasped their hands tightly together, and the three of them looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"So where do we go now?" As the atmosphere suddenly brightened, Long Guozhang immediately asked.

The corners of Li Mo's mouth curved upward, and he smiled slyly: "Then you should ask Captain Rudolph!" ”