The First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle of 1895.

With the annihilation of the Beiyang Naval Division in the Japanese artillery fire, the mighty Westernization Movement has since been declared bankrupt.

When Li Hongzhang, the leader of the Westernization faction, slipped from the top of power, another person rose rapidly, took Li Hongzhang's place, and became the number one loyal minister in the late Qing Dynasty.

This person is Zhang Zhidong.

After Zhang Zhidong came to power, he personally designed and implemented a new policy.

It is trying to build a complete set of modern, political, judicial, military, economic, and even educational systems from top to bottom.

Save the Qing court, which is about to overturn.

But his efforts, far from saving the Qing Dynasty, advanced the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution by many years.

Zhang Zhidong was originally a leader of the clear stream who opposed the Westernists.

However, after he was in power, he found that in the context of the great changes unseen in 3,000 years, he could not save the Qing Dynasty by relying only on Confucianism's "use scriptures as the governing technique".

As a result, he went from a Qingliu leader who did not talk about foreign affairs to a person who openly admitted that "foreign affairs are the most urgent priority", and he was more radical than the Westernists in the imperial court.

Just two years earlier, France had invaded Vietnam and forced it to sign the Treaty of Hue. Vietnam then appealed to the suzerain, the Qing Dynasty, for help.

Li Hongzhang believes that "as soon as the war begins, it will inevitably end up in a series of disasters, and even if it is defeated for a while, it may not be undefeated for a long time."

Resolutely not to send troops and ignore the Vietnamese problem.

Zhang Zhidong, who was the governor of Shanxi at the time, asked for troops one after another, believing that the fundamental purpose of France's invasion of Vietnam was the southwest region of the Qing Dynasty, and that war could not be avoided if Vietnam was abandoned.

Zhang Zhidong also wrote to Cixi, suggesting that ministers such as Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang, who are good at using soldiers, should be sent to supervise military affairs......

After Cixi heard this, she really planned to send Li Hongzhang.

The pastemaker Lao Li was furious when he found out and scolded the three generations of Zhang Zhidong's ancestors.

Shangjuan said that sending a white-headed old man like him to guard the frontier was to play a bird with beads and overkill. and said that the court had this kind of thought, which chilled the heart of him, an old minister.

Zuo Zongtang, who was ten years older than Li Hongzhang, took the initiative to go to Guangdong to train the army and prepare to fight the French.

However, Cixi was afraid of Zuo Zongtang's influence in the army, and was afraid that he would support the army and respect himself, so she did not agree.

In the end, the position of the governor of Liangguang fell to Zhang Zhidong, who had no hands and no experience in leading troops to fight.

It's the one in front of you.

Yu Ke looked at the old man on the bed, and saw that the other party had a thin torso, a gray face, and chapped lips. It looks like it's dying.

Hearing the movement, Zhang Zhidong opened his eyes weakly.

"Cousin." Zhang Sheng sat on the edge of the bed, took the towel from the maid's hand, and wiped Zhang Zhidong's forehead.

Zhang Sheng said softly: "I invited the well-known Xinglin Doctor Yu Shen, he will definitely be able to cure you." ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Zhidong replied weakly.

Yu Quan walked to the side of the bed and checked Zhang Zhidong's pulse, and frowned slightly after a while.

Yu Ke carefully observed on the side, although he could see that Zhang Zhidong was suffering from a malignant disease, but he couldn't see the cause for a while.

Yu Quan turned his head to Yu Ke and said, "Kezhi, can you carry a silver needle?" ”

Yu Ke nodded, took out a cloth scroll from his arms and handed it to Yu Quan, and said to Zhang Sheng at the same time:

"Uncle Zhang, can you ask someone to bring a pot of charcoal fire and a basin of water?"

Zhang Sheng nodded hurriedly and instructed the maid on the side to do the same.

Yu Quan said: "Kezhi, come and help me." ”

Yu Ke stepped forward and took off Zhang Zhidong's shirt according to Yu Quan's instructions.

Then the two servants brought in the charcoal fire and the water.

Yu Quan opened the window to ventilate, and then took out all the silver needles from the cloth bag, cleaned the silver needles one by one, and roasted them on a charcoal fire.

Yu Ke helped Zhang Zhidong to sit up, so that Yu Quan could easily administer the needle.

Yu Quan's technique of applying needles was ingenious and precise, and after a while, he used various silver needles of different thicknesses to pierce the various acupuncture points of Zhang Zhidong.

"Virtuous nephew, you ask people to boil a bowl of ginseng soup, be quick." Yu Quan said to Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng nodded in response, and hurriedly went out to order his subordinates to make soup.

After a while, I saw that Zhang Zhidong's complexion had become much more ruddy, and he suddenly spit out a mouthful of thick blood, and then gasped heavily.

Yu Quan pulled out a few silver needles on Zhang Zhidong's back, and re-inserted silver needles into several acupuncture points on his chest.

Zhang Zhidong's breath gradually stabilized.

Yu Quan took the ginseng soup from the maid and fed Zhang Zhidong to drink it himself.

After feeding the ginseng soup, Yu Quan stood up and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel.

Out of the room, Yu Quan said to Zhang Sheng: "Your cousin has closed his lungs due to cold wind, stagnation of liver and qi, and deficiency of heart and spleen. ”

"It looks very serious, and it's not easy to heal. But I happen to have a cure for this disease. ”

"At most, in a month, Master Zhang will be cured."

Zhang Sheng bowed down and bowed: "Thank you Uncle Yu for coming to the rescue." ”

Yu Quan helped Zhang Sheng up: "If the family doesn't talk to the two families, why be polite." ”

"What's more, I also respect your cousin very much, when Shaanxi Ding Wu was in the wilderness, your cousin went to the disaster relief in person, and countless people lived. I should have come to my rescue. ”

Yu Quan pointed at Yu Ke: "This evil faint disease, Ke Zhi has also been treated." In the next month, he will replace me with the injections. ”

"This ......" Zhang Sheng hesitated.

Yu Mo patted Zhang Sheng's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Kezhi already has eighty percent of my eldest brother's medical skills, and his martial arts cultivation has reached the realm of nourishing the internal organs, and his depth of the body's internal organs and acupuncture points is no less than that of my eldest brother." ”

Zhang Sheng was relieved when he heard this, but he was a little incredulous.

Counting the time, his prospective son-in-law is not yet eighteen years old, right?

At the age of eighteen, he inherited Uncle Yu's eighty-percent medical skills?

Or a martial artist who raises the dirty realm?

Zhang Sheng couldn't believe it, but he didn't question it in person.

And when this son-in-law comes to give his cousin an injection tomorrow, he will naturally know.

When Yu Ke returned to the Yu Mansion Mansion, it was already dark.

After washing up, Yu Ke, as before, sat on the bed and practiced the method of nourishing qi.

Seven years have passed, and Yu Ke has already cultivated this exercise to the fullest, and he is still some distance away from consummation.

Compared with eight years ago, the cool breath that was derived from the method of nourishing qi and stored in my mind was a hundred times more.

If seven years ago the total amount of cooling was a glass of water, now it's almost as much as an entire bathtub.

This refreshing breath is different from the power of qi and blood obtained by practicing the Breathing Method and Pile Gong, and although the two have some connections and similarities, they do not affect each other.

Yu Ke guessed that this cool breath should be the "god" in the three treasures of the human body's spirit.

After practicing the Qi Nourishing Method for two hours, it was almost late at night, Yu Ke felt a little tired mentally, so he did not continue to practice the Qi Nourishing Method.

At dawn the next day, Yu Ke got up, ate some pastries casually with herbal tea, and practiced the Huo family's secret trace boxing in the courtyard.

This boxing method was created by an ancestor of the Huo family a hundred years ago, and it was compiled and adapted from Shaolin Lost Trace Boxing, Yanqing Boxing, Eagle Claw Gong, and other boxing techniques, which is very broad and profound.

After Yu Ke stepped into the realm of forging bones, Horndy taught him this boxing technique, and he has been practicing it for more than four years.

Yu Ke concentrated on practicing martial arts and finished a set of punches without distraction. Suddenly, a voice sounded from the side:

"Good kung fu!"

Looking sideways, I saw a young man of medium stature, dressed in a white robe, full of righteousness.

The young man, who was about twenty years old, held a folding fan in his hand, and looked at him with a smile.

"Your Excellency?" Yu Ke slowly accepted the recruitment, calmed down his qi and blood, and asked lightly.

"Under Huang Feihong, I have seen Your Excellency, Huang did not intend to peek at Your Excellency's martial arts."

Huang Feihong explained: "It's just that I saw Your Excellency's martial arts, and I was happy to see the hunt for a while, and I forgot my God, so don't blame it." ”

"It doesn't matter." Yu Ke waved his hand, and looked at it, and the boxing method was not something that could be learned by looking at it twice.

"How did you get in, though?" Yu Ke asked, "This is the Yu family's backyard." ”

"Walked in, of course." Huang Feihong said as a matter of course.

"Feihong, why are you here so early?" Yu Mo suddenly pushed open the door of the bedroom, sleepy-eyed, and immediately greeted Huang Feihong when she saw her.

"Grandpa." Huang Feihong beckoned, "There's no way, Bao Zhilin is in dire need of a few medicinal herbs." ”

"Just send someone to say no to Fuwang? There's no need to run it yourself. Yu Yu said.

Yu Mo pointed and introduced with a smile: "Kezhi, Feihong is the son of your cousin, seven or eight years older than you, and he is considered to be your aunt's cousin." And he's also a doctor. In the past two years, I have just opened a medical center in Foshan, called Bao Zhilin. ”

Saying that, Yu Mo introduced Yu Ke's identity to Huang Feihong again, so that the two of them could get closer and closer.

Yu Ke's face was strange when he heard this, Huo Yuanjia is my neighbor's hair, forget it.

Yesterday, I learned that Zhang Zhidong, one of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, turned out to be my future cousin-in-law.

Now even the famous Huang Feihong is actually my aunt's cousin?

Is my Yu family so well-connected?

"I have heard of Huang Feihong's name since I came to Foshan, but I didn't expect it to be my cousin." Yu Ke arched his hand and smiled.

Huang Feihong returned the salute and said with a smile:

"It's just a thin name, and I don't dare to be it. However, my cousin's martial arts are very good, and he is already a martial artist in the realm of raising dirt at a young age. There are probably no more than five people in the world who practice martial arts who can compete with their cousins! ”

"Cousin Feihong's body is like a furnace, isn't it also the realm of raising dirt?"

The two looked at each other and smiled after a polite exchange.

Huang Feihong suddenly stabbed Yu Ke in the chest.

"Good time!"

Yu Ke laughed, dodged with a twist of his waist, and at the same time stretched his leg against the opponent's thigh knee, and smashed with an elbow.

Huang Feihong also saw the move, and neither of them made much effort at first.

But gradually, the battle became more and more intense, and they no longer kept their hands, and the fists and palms in the courtyard were handed over, and the roar exploded.

"Happy!" Yu Ke exhaled and punched out again.

Huang Feihong's face was solemn, and the tiger and crane dual-shaped fist in one hand was both rigid and soft, turning into strength with softness, and skillfully vented Yu Ke's extremely hard fist, but the palm of his hand was still shocked and swollen and painful.

This cousin of his, who has strange powers, is afraid that he has thousands of pounds!

Huang Feihong kicked Yu Ke's chest, quickly retreated with his strength, and shouted at the same time: "Don't fight, don't fight." ”

Yu Ke was a little puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

Huang Feihong shook his numb palm and said with a wry smile: "Kezhi, how did you get this strength?" ”

"Innate, sorry, confiscated strength." Yu Ke scratched his head.

Huang Feihong pinched Yu Ke's thick and sturdy arm and exclaimed:

"With your tremendous strength, I'm afraid that ordinary Refining Grandmasters are not your opponents."

Yu Ke said, "I haven't seen the Grandmaster of the Essence Refining so far? Have you seen Cousin Feihong? ”

Huang Feihong recalled: "Last year, I had the honor to meet Grandmaster Zhang Jingxing Zhang of the Baji Gate (the fourth generation grandmaster of the Baji Gate, the master of the spear Li Shuwen), and the Liuhe big gun in one hand made it superb, and he could use the big gun to stab flies and insects three meters away, without damaging the window paper!" ”

Yu Ke was shocked: "Three meters away, stabbing flies and insects, without damaging the window paper?" ”

Huang Feihong nodded: "I saw with my own eyes, last year Grandmaster Zhang came to visit the old master of Tieqiao Santie (one of the ten tigers in Guangdong), I was on the sidelines, I saw the demeanor of the Liuhe big gun, and the old master of Tie also praised 'The world's marksmanship grandmaster, unsurpassed'." ”

"It's a pity that I haven't had the privilege of knowing this Grandmaster Zhang." Yu Ke sighed.

Huang Feihong said with a smile: "Kezhi, you are only eighteen years old, you are already a master of cultivating dirt, and in the future, the Sect Master of Refining the Marrow will have a place for you, so why worry about not seeing the Sect Master of Refining the Myelin." ”

"Lend you good words." Yu Ke casually hugged his fists.

Huang Feihong said: "I still have something to do, so I'll go back to Baozhilin first, and you must come to me to sit down when you have time." ”

Yu Ke stopped Huang Feihong, took out an invitation card from the house and handed it to Huang Feihong.

"The sixth day of the first month of next month is my big day, Cousin Feihong must come!"

Huang Feihong took the invitation into his arms: "Congratulations, I will not be absent next month." ”

After Huang Feihong left, Yu Ke freshened up and changed into clean clothes.

With the medicine box on his back, Yu Ke walked out of the Yu Mansion and walked a few streets to the Zhang family's mansion.

Yu Ke first met his father-in-law Zhang Sheng, and after chatting casually about a few family things, he went to inject Zhang Zhidong.

After Yu Quan's injection yesterday and some ginseng soup, Zhang Zhidong's vitality recovered a little, and his complexion looked a lot better.

Yu Ke gently woke up Zhang Zhidong and gave it another injection to guide out the lesions accumulated in Zhang Zhidong's body.

took out the medicine bag that had been prepared from the medicine box, handed it to the maid waiting on the side, and told the other party to boil it according to the requirements.

After Zhang Zhidong woke up, he didn't say anything to Yu Ke, he looked ahead intently, and sighed from time to time.

Seeing this, Yu Ke thought for a while and said, "Lord Zhang is worried about the French army?" ”

Zhang Zhidong looked at Yu Ke: "You are a langzhong, but you also care about state affairs?" ”

"The humble did not dare to forget the country." Yu Ke replied.

Zhang Zhidong showed a bitter smile when he heard this:

"The imperial court sent me to serve as the governor of Liangguang, but I have no money and food, and I have no staff of the civil and military team. And I have never led troops in battle, so why did this errand fall on my head? ”

"Because of trade-offs, because of cowardice." Yu Ke replied.

Zhang Zhidong looked at Yu Ke in surprise, and Yu Ke continued: "You are the leader of the Qingliu cultivated by Cixi in order to balance the government and the opposition, and your role is to balance Li Hongzhang and Lord Li, and the Westernists behind him. ”

"Cixi doesn't care at all about whether Liangguang has fallen or not, all she cares about is the power in her own hands."

That's why Cixi didn't appoint Lord Zuo Zongtang as the governor of Liangguang. Lord Zuo recovered Xinjiang in the past, and his reputation in the army was too high, and if he let Lord Zuo hold power again, Cixi was afraid that he would not be able to sleep. ”

Zhang Zhidong didn't expect Yu Ke to say such a thing, and looked at Yu Ke in a daze.

Yu Ke took the decoction from the maid's hand: "Uncle Zhang, drink the medicine first." ”