Chapter 4: Overcome (Part 1)

"Your Majesty, look at this..."

Weng Tonghe, wearing a lynx-skinned jacket, bowed behind Emperor Guangxu, and followed him along the waterside of the Summer Palace. He looked at his eyes and nose, and looked at his heart, and he didn't even look at the eunuchs and palace maids who were serving him around Guangxu, looking like a virtuous old minister.

Guangxu still looked like that, and he was thin and thin as if the wind could blow away. He lowered his head with his hands behind his back, like a half-dead bean sprout. The bloodline of the Nurhaci family of the Qing Dynasty, which began in Jianzhou, has been fragile and turbid after more than two hundred years of continuation, and has no longer had the style of the past that was once upon a time.

In the Summer Palace, there is a bleak autumn scene. There is only half a pond of remaining lotus, which is still struggling to support it. The water surface is covered with blue and black colors. As the autumn wind passes, circles of water waves slowly spread.

Guangxu had already put on a sheepskin robe, and fur jackets and Yuan-green silk surfaces were added on the outside. So many clothes were added to him, making him look even thinner. His face was not visible, and it was covered with gray and yellow colors. The blood was so light that it was almost invisible. But in his eyes, there was an occasional flash of a pathological burning flame.

He coughed softly, waved his hand, and followed his foreman's eunuch and made a whimper. More than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids bowed and retreated a little further. Guangxu then turned his head and looked at the old man behind him who had always been loyal to him, almost watching him grow up, and sometimes Guangxu was also called the "Shi Prime Minister".

Guangxu's eyes flashed, and there was a hint of warmth: "Teacher, you have given you a lynx-skinned jacket for more than ten years, it's all furry. I'm afraid it's colder this year. I... I'll give you a new one as a student."

Weng Tonghe's eyes turned red slightly, and he still calmed down his voice: "Master, as long as you cheer up, even if the old minister wears a hundred-family clothes, his body will be warm."

Guangxu smiled faintly and turned his head: "Cake it up?......I'm also thinking. The scholar Tan from the Qing Dynasty wrote recently about the biography of the Meiji Emperor of the East, as well as the history of the Japanese honoring kings and expelling the barbarians and enlightenment. I'm watching... We have had great righteousness since the Spring and Autumn Period, but we learned it for the Japanese in Haidong. We still learned so well! The things of our ancestors are all good, but unfortunately we have forgotten them..."

Weng Tonghe saw that it was a snippet, subconsciously looked back and retreated, and could not hear the eunuchs and palace maids they were talking to. He lowered his voice: "The emperor wants to cheer up, there is a chance now! We can't let us miss it anymore!"

He seemed to be biting steel and chewing iron again, and one word seemed to pop out of his heart: "……………The whole court, no one expected that Xu Yifan would press on the Ronglu, the old Buddha personally picked up by the Lord, and North Korea had a time to rebel in the Jianshe Party. He could still train a strong army in a time when he could not stand it, and quell the riots in Korea like thunder! The old ministers had already looked at the old days. In a few days, he traveled hundreds of miles, and there was no one in the whole of Korea, from Japan to the Japanese! These eight thousand elite soldiers had also seen the blood and had been on the formation!"

Guangxu remained silent, but just stood firm and listened quietly.

"………The most wonderful thing is that Xu Yifan is not a person with a foundation or a person who was sent by the Lord Buddha. Instead, he was afraid of the Lord Buddha everywhere! If he had not made great contributions, he would have changed his name to the world and would have long since he had a unique imperial guard. Since it could not be made openly, he would have forced Li Hongzhang to enter the court with more than 20,000 troops. With such a large mobilization, the court would have let it go, and he would have used Li Hongzhang to force Xu Yifan to defeat him.

Thoughts. Tens of thousands of years of training the Huai Army against the 8,000 newly established troops. Xu Yifan, the third-class viscount, the imperial envoy of the Ministry of War, was co-organized by Li Hongzhang, the first-class Count. The imperial envoy of the Beiyang imperial envoy... No matter how you look at it, it is a huge difference in strength, not to mention that Li Hongzhang has been in the officialdom for many years and has become an important official in the country, and his power is deeply rooted. Xu Yifan has just started to be the first to be helpless... If the emperor does not support him, Xu Yifan will collapse!"

Guangxu lowered his eyes and his head lowered. He subconsciously kicked a Taihu stone by the lake. The blood on his face faded even more.

"...Who will support him if the emperor does not support him at this time? It is natural for the emperor to praise the heroes. No one can find fault. The whole court is full of fresh air, and he even looks up to the emperor's holy virtue. Li Hongzhang's war in Zhongfa is perfunctory, and this time he returns to Korea and is so domineering. The court has long been in sight. The emperor should issue an order to unite the affairs of the North Koreans, so that the power of the Huai Army will not be empty in the capital of the North Koreans, and to transfer the imperial guards into the capital of the capital of the capital..."

Hearing the word "entering the capital of the Guard", Guangxu's muscles suddenly twitched, his eyebrows were frowning tightly, and he subconsciously wanted to shake his head, but Weng Tonghe took it quickly and urgently: "......... The Imperial Guard must be reorganized when entering the Guard! Please send the children of the bannermen and nobles to enrich the Guards. The emperor only agrees, and we will not stuff the guards into the Guards. I guess Mr. Lao Fu must have nodded... How many children of the bannermen can solve the livelihood of such a bannermen? Even Mr. Lao Fu cannot go against the will of everyone!"

Guangxu's muscles loosened, and he changed his thoughtful expression. He said to himself in a very delicate manner: "The bannermen are growing more and more, and they are short of money, and they have been crying for decades... But so many bannermen come in, what about the salary? Where can the court have this money? The court has lived for a long time, and the river has fallen in the sea... It is good to plan for the bannermen, but..."

Weng Tonghe had long heard Guangxu's words without missing a word, and his face suddenly had a confident smile: "Emperor... How much money did Xu Yifan take to the imperial guards to train this imperial guard?"

Guangxu was stunned. Weng Tonghe had already calculated it for him with his fingers: "... The opening fee of 1 million taels of silver was claimed by the Lafayette treasury. In fact, Xu Yifan raised money in Nanyang to serve the Lafayette for the longevity of God. Lao Fu transferred it to the Imperial Guards for free as the opening fee. The 150,000 yuan monthly regular salary assigned by Tianjin Customs was intercepted by Ronglu, and half a penny was not paid to Xu Yifan. In recent years, Xu Yifan has not taken a penny from the court and trained eight thousand elite soldiers! He has no territory, and he relies on plundering North Korea and Nanyang to raise funds. Where can such a genius to raise funds in the world?

If the Imperial Guard wants to become a real flag army, it is necessary to borrow Xu Yifan to raise funds. Once this principle is made, Xu Yifan cannot be kicked away. With Xu Yifan as the guarantee of fundraising, the Imperial Guard can accommodate more flagmen. This is a matter of one and two, two and one. Since Xu Yifan has remained unchanged, he has even reached an important place in the capital. How could he not know that this is the care of the emperor and who is his true backer?

When the Imperial Guard enters the capital, even if Xu Yifan can no longer cover the sky with one hand. The emperor, the old minister, said a whisper, the emperor knew how capable the nobles and bannermen in the capital were. He held the Imperial Guard again. As long as the emperor takes care of him, the Imperial Guard will definitely be Xu Yifan's power, no matter what his name is!"

Weng Tonghe had already spoken so that the corners of his mouth were filled with foam, and he was blown by the wind and fluttered around. But his expression was still serene, and the light was about to emerge from his eyes.

Guangxu also listened carefully, his face getting bluer and bluer.

"…………… The emperor only has an elite soldier in his hand, and the time is to wait for the rush. The world is looking up to the emperor's sage virtues. The country has suffered from the national power for a long time. Once a Japanese emperor is looking forward to cheering up, he will tell the world to respect the king and expel the barbarians and reform the past. There are available soldiers in the capital and ministers to serve the king in the world. The emperor has his lifelong career, so why worry about not being able to cheer up!"

Weng Tonghe's collection was straightforward and straightforward, but he just looked at Guangxu with bright eyes.

Guangxu suddenly shouted: "Enough!"

He turned around suddenly: "Laofu is about to live a long life. You have made such amazing words and have to transfer the Imperial Guard into the capital. You are not happy to see Li Hongzhang crawling out now and showing off again. You just don't like it! Your brother was not used by Li Hongzhang for a lifetime. Your old man's family remembers this grudge! When the Imperial Guard returned, he divided Li Hongzhang's status in Beiyang and slowly cut off his power. Beiyang needs to be restricted, and you have been looking at Li Hongzhang's lack of the co-organizer of the Grand Secretary for Li Hongzhang for a long time. Your thoughts cannot escape my insight!"

Guangxu was thin and unlucky, and I don’t know where he got such a strong aura. Seeing his harsh expression, the eunuchs and palace maids who were looking at each other from afar looked at each other, but they didn’t dare to come over. Weng Tonghe looked motionless, but just quietly lowered his head and listened to the training.

"My heart for filial piety to the Lady Buddha is to be appreciated by the world! If it weren't for the Lady Buddha, how could I have the great throne, how could I have the glorious and prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty now? What kind of heart do you do when you say that you have no father or king? If it weren't for your past merits and affection, you were always cautious when you were in charge, and today I don't know why I bumped into Huang Tang and was fascinated by my heart, so I would have to go to Yili for a walk! You go! I don't want to look at you these days, so don't hand over the sign in!"

Weng Tonghe respectfully bowed, holding his horse's hooves and brows, and wanted to retreat.

Guangxu waved his hand, but called him again, as if he hadn't scolded him yet: "You are really getting back and forth, even your students are not as good as yours! Look at your student Tan Sitong, you are still a little proud, not as fatherless as you! Where is he now?"

Weng Tonghe was still calm, as if Guangxu was not scolding him. Looking at his expression carefully, you could still see three-point tension and seven-point satisfaction in his eyes. His emperor student has also been trained...

"Reply to the emperor, Tan Sitong, the old minister's incompetent student, is now being summoned by Xu Yifan, in the Korean Imperial Guard... Xu Yifan and that student are friends who are slaughtering each other for eight times. They are all day long with the knowledge of saints, and are preparing to serve the court, serve the Qing Dynasty, and serve our emperor."

Guangxu looked up at the sky, frowned tightly, and waved his hand again: "I heard that Xu Yifan and Tan Sitong, there is another Wang Wu, who is the Taoyuan Sanjie?" Before Weng Tonghe replied, he ordered himself: "The Taoyuan Sanjie is a good thing that the world admires. I heard that although Wang Wu is not literary, he is also a figure like Meng in ancient times. I have been reading the biography of Taishigong's heroes these days, and I want to see this character. Think about a way to see how I can quietly meet Wang Wu. It is a joke after all."

At the end, the sound of Guangxu's tablet finally brought a little expectation.

If the autumn scenery in the Summer Palace in the capital is too bleak, then the autumn on both sides of the Datong River in North Korea is full of a strange vitality.

This kind of vitality cannot be found in the eldest capital.

Li Daxiong's arrival seemed to be a signal. More ships and more people rushed to the two sides of the Datong River through various channels. Xu Yifan spent money like flowing water, plundering talents and preparing materials within the reach of money. Arms were also continuously purchased and transported. If the workers in charge of loading and unloading knew the language of various countries, they could find that those rifles, ammunition, Green cannons, Maxim machine guns, tube-retreated field guns, military uniforms, T-shaped straps, kettles, bayonets, and military boots were marked by major world-famous military factories, and even markings of active weapons in the army of various countries.

Xu Yifan was an imperial envoy, and had the power to import weapons and issue passports. With a huge amount of money, these murderous weapons were transported ship by ship. In fact, if he really counted, deducted the kickbacks used by the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, the price of his purchasing weapons was even cheaper than that of the governors and governors from all over the country.

All kinds of talents were recruited to come. What's more strange is that they did not directly invest in the construction site, but stuffed them into various school institutions. Speaking of which, Xu Yifan's current so-called industrial construction is just a little scale, which is a repair shop, a mini-small steelmaking shop, a gunpowder bureau, and a little coal and gold construction site. The scale can all be called a small amount. According to normal industrial production, this scale cannot reduce costs at all, that is, it is all operating at a loss. Such a scale cannot accommodate a large number of talents he collected, and even one-third cannot accommodate.

Coal mine engineers from England, experienced coal miners, German chemical industry technicians, American survey engineers, steelmaking technicians and workers, mathematicians of the Russian Empire, textile engineers and textile technicians in the south of the United States, textile engineers and textile technicians in Lancaster, England... were all doubled their salary and generous overseas allowances. The Li family guaranteed to pay their 15-year salary and a considerable resignation fee no matter what. They were hired in this way. But they found that they were stuffed into schools, and underneath were students with braids with a little ignorant braid. There were apprentices from Da Shengkui, children from Nanyang, and figures from Shanghai and Tianjin. Their common characteristics

It is not just that the children of a gentry family, born in poverty, they are a little cognizant. They are collected by Dashengkui in a confused manner, and come through Dashengkui's trade route or steamship, and then they arrive in a strange country and sit in the classroom. There are actually subsidies to get in class! In addition to class, strict military training is also required! Modern industrialization, the discipline requirements for organizers and implementers and workers are unprecedented, and military training is a good way to educate such discipline. Western countries cultivated this discipline through the cruel conscript system of the national war in the 19th century and prepared for the industrial revolution. Xu Yifan started from North Korea and started with a difficult time.

Various courses were started step by step, and these technicians and workers who had completed industrialization taught their knowledge and experience. Although they were full of jokes at the beginning, they were in great condition. Fortunately, the backbone personnel of the Nanyang school who were rescued by Xu Yifan were all rescued by Xu. Although they did not know how to teach technical courses, they had extremely rich experience in running schools, and there were no officials who were members of the Western Education Commissioner and the officials who had been successively opened by the Qing court. Many people also knew more than one foreign language and communicated well with these foreign teachers who were on the shelves. They were also supported in a hurry.

It is only now clear that Xu Yifan didn't want to build an industrial base in North Korea at all, but was just an internship for these students! China has never lacked intellectuals, and Western basic science has not reached an unattainable level. A team of technicians, no matter how immature or absurd start, let Xu Yifan, a half-outsider, organize training, is the most lacking in this boss country.

He is cultivating seeds and cultivating the seeds of the future industrialization of the entire country. As for the appropriate soil to provide these seeds in the future, Xu Yifan himself is not sure. In any case, he did what he should do.

In addition to these technical schools that are a bit taken for granted, all parties are exploring. The various military rotation training teams that were quickly established are orderly and have strict orders. A large number of officers were drawn from the Imperial Guards, and soldiers who performed well in the last military operation were also selected. The officers had a rotation training team of staff, a rotation training team of lower-level officers, and a rapid team of artillery and cavalry officers. The soldiers had a training team of non-commissioned officers. All were handled by the old man Kontz. Xu Yifan personally issued the Jun order. Any commander who obeyed Kontz's orders would be like obeying him!

For the non-commissioned officer idea proposed by Conz, Xu Yifan also changed the Qing army system. The Qing soldiers class originally had only the difference between horse soldiers and combat soldiers and guards. The senior one was the chief officer. These were not called modern non-commissioned officers at all, and the treatment of officers was very different from the lowest treatment of guards and even the chief servants. The monthly salary of the chief servants of the Huai Army was only 4,500 cents, and the chief servants of the Huai Army (handsman) could get more than them. Now Xu Yifan cooperated with Conz, and excellent soldiers could be trained as deputy directors of the chief servants.

, or the heads of each post and team. The heads of the heads are treated equal to those of the team officers, and the heads of the heads and deputy heads have doubled their salary. The modern non-commissioned officer regulations are just as well as the above. But to be honest, this non-commissioned officer system is a good preparatory course for large-scale compulsory military service. Xu Yifan is just as long as he is not dead or injured, and he will not be able to retire and demobilize within ten years. He is basically built as a professional army. However, Koonts likes to move the non-commissioned officer training system in Prussia and Germany, and Xu Yifan is also optimistic about it.

In fact, when it comes to Xu Yifan's real thoughts now, he was half focused on Japan, nervously sniffing their every move, and half looking at the country, for fear that there would be any more trouble at this time, the Imperial Guards and him would be a big fuss. This kind of freak that broke away from the Qing official system is a sin for most Qing court bureaucrats. If anything happens or has a tendency to merge with any forces, then he will die faster! Because of this, he is so unyielding to the Huai Group and has detained the general officer of the Huai Army. He hopes that this year, everyone will think that Xu Yifan, who was bullied by Li Hongzhang, is like his grandson! No one sympathizes with me, no one should pity me, let me safely pass the time of this year!

He walked this steel wire carefully, but he had to do what he should do. In addition to building his own various teams, expanding the recruitment of the Imperial Guards, and worrying about the training of the cavalry artillery. The Huama teams of his back roads had to be cleaned up in advance. Du Juan was already crying and was waiting to see her thief father. His own strategic intelligence system was also needed to be built, and he would soon play mahjong on a larger table... The establishment of such an overseas strategic intelligence system, besides the miserable Li family in Nanyang? Li Daxiong rushed to Seoul for this reason. Xu Yifan had taken the time to talk to him several times, and his father-in-law and son-in-law were both talking solemnly...

However, Xu Yifan subconsciously avoided his second brother Tan Sitong. It was of course useful to summon Tan Sitong to come. However, when he saw the dock that day, Tan Sitong's eyes were bright, and the meaning revealed inside made him feel cold for no reason. These days, he always found reasons for himself to avoid Tan Sitong and not talk to him. Tan Sitong was also calm and spent all day in the official residence, drinking and dancing with his sword, as if he had made up his mind. Xu Yifan asked him.

In the end, Xu Yifan also knew that Tan Sitong himself still had to see him. When he woke up early this morning, he cleaned up himself, and did not take anyone else and went straight to the small cross-yard where Tan Sitong lived alone.

As soon as he stepped into the yard, he saw Tan Sitong's Tai Chi swords reaching the sequel. After slowly closing the sword, he seemed to know that Xu Yifan had come in and said loudly without looking back: "Chuanqing, do you know that you are in trouble?"

Xu Yifan was about to say hello to him, but when he heard his words, he was stunned and smiled. One day he was not living in the Feng Dao and Frost Sword? It was just that the Huai Group invaded and the court was afraid of it. However, Tan Sitong always had to socialize one or two sentences: "Resurrection, brothers are stupid, I don't know where this disaster comes from?"

Tan Sitong turned around suddenly, raised his sword eyebrows, folded his two fingers and sneered: "If you don't talk to me today, I will clap my hands and leave. But it's not too late to come so early today. Brothers give you a way, not only to protect your reputation, but also to cover the country! Chuanqing, are you willing to listen to me? Do you believe me if you don't believe me!"

The weather in North Korea is very cold, and Xu Yifan feels even colder. He really wants to turn around and leave. This stupid scholar will not really help me with any trouble!
Chapter completed!