Business in this small inn in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere, has become more and more bleak in recent days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Usually Ma San comes here to eat and drink tea, and invites three or five Qing soldiers, and there is still a little bit of popularity here. But these days, there are more people dressed as ordinary people on the street corners, but their faces are fierce, but anyone who wants to get close to this inn will be driven away.

But the innkeeper didn't have a worried look on his face about the dismal business. For no other reason, this boss is a peripheral member of the Military Intelligence Department, and he is not living on the real business income of the inn now.

In a guest room upstairs of the inn, Xiao Fei, the former debt collector, was engaged in a fierce verbal battle with a man with long braids. There was a red-hot charcoal stove in the house, and the two men were sweating profusely in a sharp contrast to the depressed and cold scene on the street.

Wang Ergou, who was standing outside the house and was on guard, could faintly hear the conversation between the two people in the house, and his jaw was about to fall to the ground at this time.

I went to it, and the director of the road said that he planned to make a big deal and ask for 500,000 taels of silver, and I thought she was casually talking about it to boost the morale of the military intelligence department. It's not a joke, the person in the house who calls himself Li Fang has raised the price to one million taels, which is twice as high as Director Lu originally planned.

But what made Wang Ergou's jaw drop to the ground was not the price that was much higher than Lu Xiaobei's psychological price, but the chief named Xiao Fei in the room still held on and refused to agree. I'll rub it, this Chief Xiao is really dark, how much silver is he going to pay before he stops, Wang Ergou was shocked when he heard it.

One million taels of silver, it is estimated that in the territory where he originally stayed in Shandong, all the horse bandits were added together, and the money that could only be earned by working for a lifetime had to be the result of working until he was old without being trained by the official legion, and all Wang Ergou couldn't help but have feelings of admiration for Xiao Fei.

I heard that Chief Xiao was just a thug who put money in the Great Song Kingdom, and he became such a remarkable figure when he came to the realm of the Qing Dynasty. Not to mention the scenery of Jackie Chan and Phoenix, but it is also remarkable that the adults in Zhongtang can willingly take out one million taels. Although the two people in the room avoided using specific names to describe Li Hongzhang, Wang Ergou had been trained in the military intelligence department for so many days, and he was a horse bandit, so he could finally guess what the people inside were talking about.

"The price we paid for sinking the Japanese ship was not only the cost of ammunition and soldiers' labor, but we also had to bear the risk of the Japanese counterattack. As soon as the Japanese find out that it was we who sank their warship, they will definitely retaliate. For this we will spend another amount of military expenses to deal with it, which will also be credited to your quotation. Xiao Fei finally successfully memorized the endorsement of the crepe crepe written by Zhao Zeshi for him.

This paragraph, in Xiao Fei's original words, is described like this: We are going to help you buy and cut people, in addition to paying for the medical expenses for the brothers who are fighting, we must also beware of your enemies coming to seek revenge. In case they really come to the door and fight with us, this brother who was killed and wounded, should they burn and bury the family? This has to be counted on your heads, and it can't be carried by us.

The plenipotentiary of the Lord Zhongtang, who claimed to be Li Fang, directly knelt down for Xiao Fei's statement. I'll wipe your uncle, do you settle accounts like this, which thug does things for others, and you have to transfer the risks that may arise after the event to the employer, you are crazy about money. Although he scolded like this in his heart, Li Fang didn't dare to say this. This matter can only be done by this group of people who claim to be the Great Song Dynasty. Don't look at the fact that the Japanese can beat out the Beiyang naval and land armies, but when they meet them, they can only eat Xiang. The Japanese captives who surrounded them outside the camp of the Thirty Mile Fort are proof of this. It is said that many of the Japanese captives died due to the cold weather and heavy labor, and the Great Song army felt that there was a shortage of coolies, and planned to go out to catch some more Japanese to replenish their labor.

This powerful combat power is really a world of difference from the Qing army, and now the Qing Dynasty has gathered several times the strength of the Japanese near Haicheng, but it can't help the thousands of Japanese who occupy Haicheng. On the contrary, the other troops who were destroyed attacked the city everywhere in the Liaohe Plain, and were killed to the point that it was called a fart. However, the Great Song Army treated the Japanese like a captive lamb, like shearing and milking cows, saying that they would go out to arrest some when they were short of labor. Hey, this day will be a disaster for the henchmen of the Qing Dynasty.

But knowing this, Lord Zhongtang also had to send himself across the sea to ask for help, this is a cup of poisonous wine, if you don't drink it, you will die of thirst immediately, and it is estimated that you will die of poison soon after drinking.

A few days ago, the war against the Japanese was unfavorable, and the imperial party secretly cheered, hoping for a big defeat in Beiyang, so as to take advantage of the situation to pull the Zhongtang Lord off the horse, so that the emperor could really take power.

As everyone knows, this Beiyang is really defeated, even if the Qing Dynasty is over, you are a little emperor with real power, and you can still turn over the plate, which is really ridiculous.

Although he knew that the other party was maliciously raising the price, Li Fang had to be patient with him. Anyway, since the start of the Japanese Qing War, this family is not the only one who wants to cut more flesh from the Qing Dynasty. Some time ago, before the Japanese were at war, the Chilean Navy speculated a second-hand warship to a sky-high price, although in the end it was not bought due to the obstruction of the Japanese, but the whole world regarded the Qing Dynasty as a Kaizi to slaughter, which has become a consensus.

In comparison, this group of people is still of good character, at least the appearance is not so ugly, after all, they are all in the same Chinese vein.

"Brother Xiao, he has always taken people's money and prevented disasters for others. Why do you use the revenge of the Japanese in the future as the reason for raising the price? I'm afraid that this would-be one knows that you did it, and I'm afraid that I dare to disadvantage you, right? There is also such a large group of Japanese captives outside your camp, and if they wanted to take revenge on you, they should have done it a long time ago. Li Fang said.

Hey, he still claims to be a nobody, this mouth is sharp-toothed, and his brain understands it very well, it's not easy to fool, Xiao Fei sighed in his heart.

"This is different, the Japanese have always called their army red deer, this is a thousand deaths, they don't take it seriously. However, as an island nation, the navy is the lifeblood of the Japanese, and sinking their warships is to touch their bottom line. So there's a lot of potential risk in this deal. "Zhao Zeshi is indeed a good pen, and his endorsement to Xiao Fei basically has the ability to respond to the situation in the negotiation.

Li Fang was defeated by the opponent again, and what the other party said was indeed true, the Great Song Dynasty originally came to fish in troubled waters, and your Lord Zhongtang asked the Great Song Dynasty to come up directly and stab the heart of this widow, which is obviously not in line with the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, why should people do this job for you without paying a lot of money.

"Mr. Li, you and the one in Tianjin think about it, even if you are willing to pay two million taels of silver, you can't buy two large warships. If you take 10,000 steps back, even if you buy it, it is impossible to immediately form combat power, and it is still at a disadvantage compared to the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy. It would be better to give us two million hardship fees, and it would be simpler for us to directly narrow the gap between the Japanese and the Japanese navy. Xiao Fei directly poked Li Hongzhang and his Beiyang Navy in the sore spot. (To be continued.) )