It turned out that Bei Zi Zailing, who had now been promoted to the right sect of the Zongren Mansion, picked up his sleeve and wiped his face, and nodded towards Peng Yulin and Li Lianying, this place is not suitable for conversation, so he walked out without speaking, Li Lianying went upstairs, and walked down after a while, "The West Sage has a purpose: Peng Yulin and the generals of the Beiyang Naval Division purchased warships from Germany will meet together." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Peng Yulin walked in front, Ding Ruchang and others behind him entered according to the grade, and when they arrived upstairs, the Empress Dowager Cixi turned her back to everyone, with a pair of gold-wire glasses, leaning on the bed and flipping through a booklet, Peng Yulin shook his horseshoe sleeves, "Minister Peng Yulin and the Beiyang Navy General knocked to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother Wan'an." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi exhaled, shook her head slightly, put down the booklet in her hand, obviously dissatisfied with what was here, she turned around and took off her gold-wire glasses, "No need to be polite, Xue Shuai get up quickly." ”

Li Lianying took the gold wire glasses and the booklet, turned around and left, and the Empress Dowager Cixi sat on the throne, "It's useless, I'm not even fifty now, and the glasses are very expensive, and I have to wear glasses to see the fold." Xue Shuai is over sixty years old this year, right? ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, Weichen is seventy out of sixty this year."

"At this age, I should have let Xue Shuai choose an easy errand for you, but now I still let you jolt on the sea, I really can't bear it."

"Loyal to the country, Weichen has no complaints," Peng Yulin said, "The Beiyang Navy Division has grown from scratch, and it is because of the support of the Queen Mother that it is today, and the Beiyang Navy Division will not forget the kindness of the Queen Mother." ”

"What kind of kindness is not kindness, this is to do things for the country, and it is not to drive a warship for me alone," the Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "Since you can think like this, then I am relieved, I am afraid that you will complain about me in your heart, and you will be busy for a few more years, and when there are a few more German 7,000-ton warships, I will let you go to Beijing on an errand." ”

"Yes."

"How's that lady of yours?" The Empress Dowager Cixi took a sip of tea. said casually, "I knew that she had been staying in Weihaiwei, so why didn't she come to Beijing?" ”

"Little woman, don't dare to move around at will. I am afraid that entering Beijing will disturb the nobles. ”

"What does this have to do with this," the Empress Dowager Cixi said with a smile, "You are a serious uncle, who dares to disrespect you, the female dependents in your family are naturally nobles." What is disturbing or not, I have to send her to Beijing when I am free, and let me take a look, and by the way, I will also go to Cheng Pingbo's place to walk around, so as not to make people laugh at your Peng family, and you don't want any relatives. ”

The meaning of these words made Hong Xuanjiao whitewash from then on, no longer hiding because of the identity of the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Peng Yulin and Hong Xuanjiao had given birth to a son in the old year, just because Hong Xuanjiao could not see the light, so the son was still raised under the knees of the Zou family in the main room, which was a heart disease of Peng Yulin. Hearing the Empress Dowager Cixi say this, a big stone fell and she wanted to thank her, and the Empress Dowager Cixi asked Li Lianying to hold on, "I don't know how tired I am kneeling all day, give me a seat." ”

Peng Yulin sat down on the side, and the Empress Dowager Cixi looked at the people standing with their sleeves in their hands, all of them were young in their early thirties, heroic, and magnificent, only the leader was older. Of course, she didn't know any of them, and the Empress Dowager Cixi turned her head, "These young talents seem to be good." Xue Shuai, do you want to ask them to report their names? ”

There are so many military officials in the world that there are few who may be remembered by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and there are very few who can be summoned by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and even fewer can introduce themselves in front of the Empress Dowager. Today is a temporary summons, so there is no resume to see, Peng Yulin looked at everyone and knew that their opportunity had come, "Before the West Saint drives, everyone signs up." ”

Ding Ruchang, who was the leader, knelt down on one knee, "Weichen Weihai Town, the general soldier of Weihai Town, and Ding Ruchang, the commander of the left wing of the Beiyang Naval Division, knocked to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother Sheng'an." ”

This is a famous cowman, the Empress Dowager Cixi was slightly surprised, "Ding Ruchang? ”

"Yes."

"Have you been with Chen Yucheng before?" Empress Dowager Cixi said faintly.

Ding Ruchang's vest was cold, and the Queen Mother actually knew her origin! I was about to explain something, but I didn't know how to phrase it in a hurry, so I could only stubbornly reply, "Yes." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Ding Ruchang on the ground, and then at Peng Yulin, "It's not a big deal, everyone has a time when they are young and still ignorant, get up." ”

Ding Ruchang's hands and feet were already sore, and he gritted his teeth and stood up when he heard the order, "Where did you get there?" ”

"First served under Zeng Jiushuai's account, went to Master Li's Huai army to experience a while, and then went north to participate in the battle of Bali Bridge, and then exterminated the Twist Army in the Central Plains, and then thanks to Xue Shuai Qingmu, he went to the Beiyang Naval Division on an errand."

"Okay," the Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "The four Chen Yucheng, Zeng Guoquan, Li Hongzhang, and Xue Shuai you have experienced are all masterpieces of the moment, as long as you learn a little from them, you will be inexhaustible, I have always used people without doubt, you are from the Taiping Army, where are you, Chen Yucheng, I also spare, you can rest assured that you are on an errand, follow Xue Shuai, there are your benefits." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Ding Ruchang complicatedly, this person presided over the war against Japan in the Battle of Weihaiwei in the First Sino-Japanese War, and refused to surrender to the Japanese after running out of ammunition and food, and committed suicide by taking opium. Naturally, there can be no doubts.

"But you're from the Army, are you still used to being a sailor?"

At this time, it was Peng Yulin who spoke, and he said to the Empress Dowager Cixi, "Although he was born in the Huai Army, he was not familiar with the water division business at first, but Li Hefei valued him and felt that he could see the cultivation, so he sent him to the United Kingdom to study the navy business, and studied in the United Kingdom for four years, and then returned to China. He met the queen in England and had a lot of dealings with some warship designers, and he was considered half a technician, and this time the German-made 7,000-ton warship returned to China and was detained in the Suez Canal. ”

"Very good," the Empress Dowager Cixi nodded with satisfaction, those who can leave a name in future generations are really not ordinary people. She smiled at Peng Yulin and said, "It's also your Bole Soma, and what you get is people." ”

Ding Ruchang stepped aside, and the next people introduced almost made the Empress Dowager Cixi unable to sit still:

"Liu Buchan!"

"Lin Taizeng!"

"Deng Shichang!"

"Ye Zuqi!"

"Lin Yongsheng!"

"Qiu Baoren!"

"Huang Jianxun!"

"Lin Fuzhong!" (To be continued.) )