Chapter 229: It's the happy time of blackmail again
By the time Mia and Daryl arrived at the ruins of the clinic, the firefighters were long gone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In order to prevent the recurrence of the dark fire, the firefighters poured a large amount of water into the ruins of the clinic, and at this time, the ruins in front of Mia and their eyes did not even have a trace of heat.
Daryl, an experienced firefighter, found that one part of the rubble of the clinic had been turned over, not like it would have collapsed naturally after the fire. It is said that there is nothing of value to be preserved in the ruins of such a big fire, and this ruin is guarded by British soldiers, who ventured into it to rummage through those burned things? Is Huo Yuanjia's disappearance related to these people who are rummaging through the rubble?
With doubts, Daryl carefully inspected the part of the ruins that had been turned over, the person who turned this place was also an expert, and he came directly to this corner, and there were no traces of human turning in other parts of the ruins. There are no remains of burned windows, and the part that was turned over was previously an enclosed space without windows. For an intelligence station under the guise of a clinic, this turned over section is most likely a secret room.
Before escaping, Tian Buzi had packed all the modern items except for the radio station in his backpack, and those who went straight to the secret room part of the collapsed ruins may have found the burned radio station. Inside the secret room is a high-power military radio station and a matching battery. Daryl roughly analyzed the temperature of the secret room at that time from the properties of the collapsed building materials after the incineration, in such a high temperature state, the battery basically will not have any slag to pick up, but the other electronic components in the military radio station are not easy to say.
The military radio station was designed with waterproof and fireproof in mind, and the high temperature of the secret room at that time must have made this military radio useless, but Daryl did not dare to guarantee that there were still intact electronic parts in the radio. If the circuit board in the radio station and the electronic parts on it dissolved into a lump under the action of high temperature, it would mean nothing to the natives. But every one or two intact electronic components could leak the secrets of the future.
The firefighters were evacuated, but there were still white British soldiers guarding the ruins of the clinic, and it was difficult for outsiders to approach the ruins. Could it be that Huo Yuanjia took away the wreckage of the military radio station in the ruins of the secret room? Darryl is not very comfortable with this historical figure who has only one side.
At this time, Lord Zhongtang looked at the three doorways that were blown out of his house, and his heart rushed straight up. Just three small doorways, even if there were always people drilling into these doorways before the Beiyang defenders surrounded them, how many people could get into them in this small half an hour, how could they turn the clouds and rain in the Governor's Palace? The Beiyang soldiers in the Governor's Mansion of Zhili were already the best equipped and trained team under his command, and as a result, a small army infiltrated in the Governor's Mansion did whatever they wanted, and they also kidnapped Rong Lu, who was ordered by Yi to assist in military affairs, which made the gray beard of Lord Zhongtang about to curl up.
"Father, British Consul Ogener asks to see you." Li Jingfang said softly to Li Hongzhang, afraid of angering him at this stall.
"Didn't this Consul Yingyi just come last night? Why did you come to the door today? Li Hongzhang wondered.
"I'm afraid I have found some reason to blackmail the court." Li Jingfang said.
Even if he knew that the other party was going to blackmail, the old fox couldn't avoid it. These days, he has been looking for Britain and Russia to mediate the war between Japan and Qing, and now he can't afford to offend these foreigners.
"Lord Li, we have confirmed that the people who carried out the arson in the British Concession last night and shot at the soldiers of the British Empire are Qing citizens. There is evidence that they are all trained military personnel, and I guess you should give a reasonable explanation for this. Your country has sent disguised soldiers to attack diplomats in the British Concession, which has constituted a serious provocation to the British Empire! "Ogna came up and buttoned his hat directly.
Lord Zhongtang knew that if he insisted that it was not done by the Qing people, he would not believe it himself. Adult men in the Manchu Dynasty all over the world have long braids behind their heads, and there is no other branch in this one, and they can't get rid of it. But to say that this is a disguised soldier is absolutely unrecognizable, although Rong Lu can't be found now, and I don't know who he sent to do this vote. But the old fox knew in his heart that if Ogener really had any ironclad evidence that the Manchu officials had committed last night's arson, he would not have used the word "serious provocation" now.
"Mr. Consul, last night there was also a small disturbance in the city of Tianjin, and the people who robbed houses and houses made trouble for half the night, I am afraid that these people were the ones who set fire to the British Concession and made trouble. The imperial court will definitely investigate this group of people strictly and give you a satisfactory explanation. The old fox took advantage of the situation and splashed the dirty water on the gang members who carried out the transfer of the tiger from the mountain last night.
"Lord Lee, the key to the matter is not to satisfy us, but to satisfy the victims of last night's arson. Otherwise, Dagukou may attract a fleet more powerful than it was in 1860, and how many royal gardens do you have to burn? Ogna didn't care about any etiquette, and went straight to the slap in the face.
In 1860, the tenth year of Xianfeng, the British and French troops landed in Dagu, then penetrated into Beijing, and burned down the Old Summer Palace, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, as revenge for the Manchu Qing Dynasty for killing 21 diplomatic envoys.
Of course, the old fox knew whose fleet was the more powerful fleet in Ogner's mouth, and the pseudo-Song Dynasty could blow up and sink the ironclad ships according to the list he wrote out without a fleet, and Consul Yingyi's intimidation was not a bluff.
Lord Zhongtang also knew what Ogener was worried about, as long as the fleet of the Pseudo-Song arrived, and Yingyi did not send more fleets, then the biggest fist in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea would be the Pseudo-Song. Regardless of whether the imperial court and the Japanese are at war or peace in the future, the person with the biggest fist will definitely make the most profits, and the Yingyi certainly do not want a strong fleet to appear in this sea area.
If this pseudo-Song fleet really comes, I am afraid that this Japanese fleet will retreat, and this Beiyang naval division can also take the opportunity to slow down. But as the saying goes, it is easy to invite the gods and it is difficult to send the gods, and if the plague god of the pseudo-Song fleet comes, it will be difficult to ask him to leave. The emperor and Lafayette have a very tough attitude towards the pseudo-Song Dynasty, I am afraid that as soon as this fleet arrives, they will have to go out on patrol again in the Xianfeng period. This pseudo-Song Dynasty claims to be orthodox of the Han family, if it really enters the capital, then it will be restored, they are the masters of the kind of robbery that will leave as soon as they are plundered.
The old fox shook his head helplessly, and sighed in his heart that this Cixi was really a pig teammate. Less than ten hours before and after this fire burned, the Governor's Mansion of Zhili was broken in and abducted, not to mention the officials, this pseudo-Song didn't have to move his mouth, and this Yingyi came to help ask for compensation. How can this pseudo-Song be easily provoked, hey! The old fox doesn't know how much to pay for this arson case, and that Ronglu, if the pseudo-Song insists that the Governor's Mansion is not their fault, where can he change Cixi into a foot army commander?