Chen Congyun explained calmly, Sheng Xuanhuai said repeatedly: "Childish!" Then he asked again: "Then Zuo Manzi keeps you, and he won't be embarrassed for you again, right?"

Chen Congyun was waiting for this question. Who is Li Hongzhang? Zuo Zongtang left Chen Congyun alone to ask. Can Li Hongzhang not care? Chen Congyun, who had been prepared, smiled calmly and said, "This is because Hu Xueyan is interested in my little brother's work on water, so he asked Zuo Zongtang to keep me. Don't look at Hu Xueyan's name as the God of Wealth, and this is the experience of my brother's study in the West for many years. He is a local bun and can't master the key points."

Who is Hu Xueyan? Zuo Zongtang led his troops to the northwest and supported the logistics of the army. Without Hu Xueyan, there would be no feat of Zuo Zongtang's northwest. He borrowed more than 10 million yuan from foreigners and dared to challenge the foreigners on raw silk. This is Hu Xueyan.

If Chen Congyun said this, it was a bit too big. I couldn't learn anything there? But this time, even the foreigners in the Shanghai Bureau were suppressed. Even so, Sheng Xuanhuai, who had been in charge of the Westernization Affairs Office for many years and suffered from the foreigners' control, had no reason not to believe it.

Li Hongzhang once won over Hu Xueyan several times but failed. Sheng Xuanhuai was also worried about this. Now, hearing Chen Congyun said this, he couldn't help but raise his head and laughed: "Your brother is so angry that he is not for anything else, just for this. Today, you and my brother will never return without getting drunk."

Sheng Xuanhuai left his doubts and let go of his mind. The two of them talked freely. Chen Congyun took the opportunity to make another statement, asking Li Hongzhang to quickly decide to stop loading guns before delivery. Sheng Xuanhuai agreed immediately.

Soon, the two girls prepared the wine and food, and they drank happily without mentioning the wine and talk.

Sheng Xuanhuai stayed in the air for two days and then returned to Tianjin with satisfaction. This time, Chen Congyun did not live in the Shanghai bureau anymore. He went out early and returned late every day. The two girls had hope, and the spring feeling between their eyebrows came up again.

Chen Congyun has introduced a three-shift system to produce more guns and bullets these days. The production of guns and bullets has doubled in 24 hours, but the daily production of guns and more than 5,000 bullets have been produced. This matter may not be said that Shao Youlian wrote a letter to ask for me again, so I won’t mention it for now.

On this day and night, Chen Congyun, who had been tired for a day, was lying on the recliner in the yard of the inner house, feeling the coolness brought by the sea breeze, but his heart was not calm. The situation became clearer and clearer. The French fleet had forcibly entered the Mawei Army Port in Fuzhou and the sea surface of Keelung, and the war was about to break out. Thinking of the fact that the French had already suffered from Liu Mingchuan's losses in Keelung in history, the two fleets of the two armies could still be together in peace in Mawei Port in Fuzhou, and the Qing army did not prepare for combat at all.

The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, He Jing (the character Jing is short of Wang, and he cannot be called) knows to recite scriptures at home every day, hoping that Zeng Guoquan's peace talks will be successful, and the French army will leave without fighting. Governor Zhang Chaodong "has no strategy to defend the enemy", and the imperial envoy Zhang Peilun waited for the peace and had no intention of fighting. The Minister of Shipbuilding He Ruzhang played even more, and he actually expressed his "honest welcome" to the enemy ships, and "strictly treat the navy, and does not allow artillery to be fired first, and those who violate the enemy will be killed."

Thinking of all this, people have to ask: "Is there still hope for such an imperial court, such an official, such a country?" The answer is naturally no.

The Fuzhou Navy was in danger, and the court was still immersed in the dream of peace. Zuo Zongtang shouted loudly and was ignored. Zhang Zhidong's memorial was suppressed, so he had to support Feng Zicai in organizing a group training. There may be only these two people in the entire court at this moment, and his mind was still clear, but unfortunately what he said was not adopted.

What made Chen Congyun feel the most painful was that everything was only four words for him, "powerless". Without money, guns, and army, Chen Congyun really had the will to kill the enemy, but had no capital.

The evening breeze was still blew heartlessly, and Chen Congyun had a sudden impatience that he had never felt in his heart and stood up suddenly.

"Damn it!" Chen Congyun could only sigh to the sky.

The green strings in the distance were playing lanterns, the jade bottle held the plate, and the watermelon that had been soaked in the well for a day was cut. These days, the two girls were wearing more and more unrestrained clothes. When there were only three people in the inner courtyard, the two of them removed their coats and a simple gauze scarf on the short shirt, revealing their white arms like tender lotus roots. Their figures were specially trained, and they were strictly trained when walking, striving to make men unable to turn their eyes when they saw them.

When Chen Congyun saw it, his eyes could not turn. When the two women came to the front and showed a smug smile, Chen Congyun came back to his senses and sighed ashamed.

"Master, why sigh?" Yu Ping asked very well. Chen Congyun looked at her and pondered for a while: "Yu Ping, Qing Xian, Master knows your thoughts, and I like you very much." When the two women heard this, they all said that these days were not in vain, and they all showed joy.

Unexpectedly, Chen Congyun changed the subject and said, "But do you know that now the chaos is about to begin. The master is determined to go to the battlefield to serve and fight for a reputation in front of others, and it is not in vain to come here. Therefore, the master has been reluctant to take you away, because he is considering this. If the master is a short-lived ghost and asks a stray bullet to come to him on the battlefield, the King of Hell wants us to die in the third update, and we will not wait for the fifth update."

Chen Congyun's words were half sincere. Yu Ping and Qing Xian heard it, looked at each other, and knelt down handily and said, "Master, I know that the master is a person who does big things. If you want to do big things, you will do it yourself. We will enter the Shen family's door. We are a master's person and a master's ghost. The master is going to fight. If you are unlucky, we will never live alone. We will go to the nine springs to find the master and continue to serve the master."

Chen Congyun heard this and couldn't help but roll in his heart, and smiled bitterly and said, "Why are you doing this?"

Qingxian said with courage: "Master, since we entered the Shen family's door, we sisters have understood that this is our blessing. Although the master is cold on weekdays, he has never beaten him once and has never even said a serious word. We know in our hearts that the master does not regard us as outsiders. If the master says this today, we sisters will not live in vain in our lives."

The two girls said one after another, and Chen Congyun felt excited in his heart. He couldn't help but step forward, grabbed their hands and said, "Since that's the case, I'll say something here. If the war is together, the battlefield will be preserved. The day of triumph is the time to marry you."

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On August 4, 1884, the deputy commander of the French fleet submitted a letter of persuasion to the Keelung defenders. After being refused, the Taiwanese governor Liu Mingchuan led his army to resist, killed and wounded more than 100 French troops, and repelled the French attack.

On August 23, the French fleet anchored in Mawei Port suddenly opened fire on the Fuzhou Navy, and the Fuzhou Navy suffered a catastrophe. Three days later, the news reached the capital and the Qing government declared war on France.

"Brother Zigui, why are you here? Let me find it easy to find." Shao Youlian found the workshop in the government, his face was so anxious that it was about to catch fire, and he took Chen Congyun's hand and walked out.

"Sir, why are you panic?" Chen Congyun declared war with a clear smile in his heart.

"Tianjin urgently, China and France have started a war. Zuo Zongtang came to Ling Yu and ordered the bureau to prepare a large number of bullets quickly and wait for the deployment at any time. Li Zhongtang's intention was to not give a single bullet to Zuo Zongtang. I am here to discuss with you to see how to deal with it." Shao Youlian spoke in a hurry, and Chen Congyun felt extremely disgusted. When was it time, and he was still thinking about internal friction? He was angry, but he finally endured it.

"It's not impossible to take out all the bullets in the warehouse immediately and transport them away." Chen Congyun pondered for a while and put a condom on Shao Youlian.

"Transportation? Where to go?"

"Guangxi, I personally escorted it, on the excuse that Li Zhongtang urgently sent the arms south, and now I have started to prepare to load the car overnight and be able to leave tomorrow morning. Anyway, Zuo Zongtang doesn't like it, so he will stop doing it if he doesn't do it. At that time, Zuo Zongtang asks, sir, just push the matter to me." Chen Congyun looked like a naughty and a silly sensation. Shao Youlian felt ecstatic and finally found the first bird.

"In this way, it's not appropriate to go to make arrangements now." Shao Youlian had no idea at this time, and Chen Congyun was a big help to him.

"etc."

"What else does Zigui have to do?"

"The journey is long and the number of arms is not small. Can you send a battalion of soldiers to listen to my order?" Chen Congyun quickly added this sentence. If something happened to the arms halfway, Shao Youlian couldn't afford to take it, so he naturally would not refuse. He agreed: "I will arrange for the elite battalion immediately and go south with you. Leave it to the dispatch without any mistakes."

Shao Youlian left in a hurry, Chen Congyun was angry. Thinking of going to the mountains and mountains, he felt like he was flying in his heart.

The Chinese are really doing internal friction. When the Shanghai Bureau warehouse was opened, Nie Hui Office made a general mobilization. All Chinese workers paid overtime pay, and the hundreds of porters were busy until midnight. Two thousand five hundred Lin Mingden's quick guns, six hundred thousand rifle bullets, and five hundred landmines. After loading the vehicle, the warehouse was emptied directly.
Chapter completed!