Chapter 10: The Wind and Thunder of the World (Three)

"Master, the ship has been moored in Suzhou. Little...Master's personal barracks are also on the surrounding boats. The local magistrate of Suzhou has given several tables to Master, but they are blocked by the request for a visit... I don't know if Master uses the banquet they sent, or wants to have a food list for Master and Mrs. Xian. The concubines of Xian have dinner? Please give me a message."

The person who spoke was Chen De. Pu Yang was not by Xu Yifan's side, so Chen De replaced Pu Yang's identity as a close-fitting dog skin plaster. In addition to the inner house, he was always by Xu Yifan. But he was not very experienced in serving, and almost said the name of the brother-in-law camp, the subordinate. Don't think that he is also a brother-in-law, but he doesn't care about this. In addition to the name of the brother-in-law camp, the first battalion of the Imperial Guards, there is also a domineering name. The three towns of the Imperial Guards have more than 40,000 people convinced the North Korean garrison. It is "The First Battalion in the World"! This is the eldest son Li Xing, the eldest son of the Great Marshal, was seriously injured and was in a coma for nine days. He is still lying in the Shanghai Church Hospital. From below, the entire one-mark and one battalion was almost full of casualties. He was almost killed and killed by a table!

For Xu Yifan, calling his brother-in-law is not a swearing person, but a praise for being able to fight and being loyal. However, the unique military culture within the Imperial Guard has a bit of the style of their Xu Magistrate.

The first battalion of the Imperial Guards has been removed from the first town and reorganized into Xu Yifan's personal barracks. He wanted to do big things in Liangjiang, but it was not enough to follow a hundred Goshhas around him, so he had to expand the scale. This camp escorted Xu Yifan to take the governor's boat from Gaochang Temple Wharf and would enter the Jiangning City Governor's Office with Xu Yifan.

The trip queue at Gaochang Temple Wharf in Shanghai was naturally full of blows, with gongs and drums and full of pomp. Bai Siwen, who followed Zengshoudao to work on the job, had no idea what kind of doors he had learned, but he became lively from being absent-minded and energetic. As a representative of the local officials in Jiangning to take over the job, he welcomed Xu Yifan on board. Bai Siwen was strange, and everyone in the Shanghai officialdom saw it. There was still a way for Xu Dashui.

How about leaving! I was uneasy at the beginning and felt calm and relaxed a lot. Shanghai Road and Shanghai Guandao jointly put down their airs and visited Bai Siwen and Bai County Master to find out the joints. But at this time, it was Bai Da County Master's turn to look mysterious: "Brothers are really busy. The weather is not bad today, so I have to hurry to get the job done for the Grand Marshal! The two Lords Xian are really sorry for the humble rank. Take a step first and are afraid. Please sit down!"

He was proud and shook his head and tail, but he was so angry that the two Taoists were scolding: "What a villain is successful? What a good thing! It depends on what you have to end up!"

Xu Yifan was not interested in paying attention to the thoughts of these various characters. To be so good, he was almost as good as he wanted. To put it nicely, he was called free and easy, but to put it bluntly, he was called powerful and had no taboos. Six hundred muskets surrounded Xia Jiangning. In addition to the founding Qing princes, there were also a few people including Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang during the Zhongxing period. Who could compare to him?

But the Governor General's boat, which was on the system, was really slow and humiliating. He deliberately didn't change fast, just waiting for the Liangjiang officialdom and the newly arrived old lover Ronglu to be worried and try his best to move around. If even these guys can't deal with them, he, Marshal Xu, would have been in vain for a fight against the Sino-Japanese War.

A small steamer dragged his shallow water, and there was no third-level governor's boat suitable for navigation except for setting up a shelves. He could not walk for more than ten miles against the current. At night, he moored near Suzhou. The personal barracks set up police on the surrounding boats. The local officials in Suzhou asked for a visit to stop him. He changed into military uniforms and reached the bow of the boat, facing the setting sun in the distance, stretching his muscles and bones vigorously.

The wind in Jiangnan blew, and in the distance, the bell of the evening class of Hanshan Temple, a thousand-year-old ancient temple, came. The sunset was on the bow water, and a piece of jumping golden fragments. Outside the Xu Yifan official boat police circle, several small fishing boats were waiting for the dark night nets, and smoke rose up. The osprey on the bow was combing their feathers and making a low cry.

Such a scene of fishing boats singing in the south of the Yangtze River can be used in paintings.

Xu Yifan only felt that his whole body was full of energy, and he wanted to jump up and yell. After rushing to the mountains, rivers and coasts of Northeast Korea for a long time, he was really afraid that Jiangnan, a peaceful place with warm wind and shallow water, would not withstand Xu Yifan's loose claws and teeth!

Hearing Chen De speak, he turned around and smiled, "What are the things that the officials sent to you? The food is packed in boxes and it has to be hot. Who knows if those bastards spit in it? I, Xu Yifan, have a reputation in the Liangjiang officialdom... I asked the food boat to open my meal for me! What do you eat, what do I eat!"

Chen De hesitated a little: "The identity of the Grand Marshal..."

"What a great man! Didn't everyone roll out from the dead people in North Korea together? I haven't eaten big pot dishes with you!" Xu Yifan was wearing military casual clothes, without a collar hat, and his military uniform was very well-tailed. He stood at the bow of the boat, and the golden sunlight shone on his shoulders and big brimming hat, with a straight waist. He was twenty-six and seven years old, and he was so heroic that he couldn't hide it. Compared with the officials who saw Chen De along the way, he looked like a god.

The officers and soldiers of the personal barracks on the boat were also sitting in a bad mood and walked out of the bow. If they were not Nanyang children or Beiyang students, the soldiers were basically all northerners. This was the first time that the scenery in Jiangnan was the first to see. The residence was on the shore, and the officers and soldiers who were not on duty were all young people. They wore military shorts and got into the water in the distance. Almost all the officers who grew up in the South were well-behaved, and they were swam in the water, comparing to whom they swam faster. The soldiers kept cheering their superiors. In the lively atmosphere, they saw Xu Yifan standing at the bow of the boat, standing straight in the golden sunset light, waves waving to them with a smile. From the officials to the soldiers, there were bursts of unstoppable cheers on the shore!

Chen De quietly lowered his head and muttered in his heart: "Is the Grand Marshal really as others say... No, it seems that the Grand Marshal just looks like a real dragon! If he is not the Grand Marshal, who else can he be!"

"Where is Pu Yang?" Xu Yifan laughed at the officers and soldiers swimming around him, and turned around and asked Chen De. Chen De was stunned and answered hurriedly: "Pu Yang sent a telegram to this place in Tianjin. The boat to Shanghai could not catch up with the Grand Marshal's itinerary. He also had a sister who came to Liangjiang with him this time. After receiving a call from our schedule, this guy decided to settle in Liangjiang first. He said he would welcome the Grand Marshal there... He asked me and the Grand Marshal to sue me. I forgot my mind in a hurry!"

This boy's sister? Xu Yifan was stunned for a moment, and the ethereal sound of the piano on the piano building when he first met the Devil Six was heard in his ears. In his memory, there seemed to be one or two letters with fragrance. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, it seemed that he had experienced his whole life. These memories were so blurred that they were only these fragments with a faint fragrance that could never be pieced together.

Before he could think about it, Li Xuan's voice came to his back: "What are you doing? Let's go out to drink the wind without eating? We are hungry!" He turned around and saw Li Xuan wearing a plain white dress, her long soft chestnut hair drooping down, blown to both sides by the wind from Jiangnan, revealing an extremely beautiful face. For a moment, he compared the scenery of Jiangnan around him. This mixed-race little beauty was jumping towards him with her skirt, with a charming expression.

In the cabin, her maid was waving to her desperately: "Miss! Miss! There are men swimming outside!" Du Juan and Chen Luoshi were also huddling into the maid with jealous look. They both tried their best, but the curly hair had not yet disappeared. At this time, let alone a man swimming outside, even if there is no, how dare they come out to meet people! The ancestors' faces must be thrown away, and the wife of Xu Dashuai's wife Xian was turned into a foreign woman! If I had known, I would not be moved by Miss Li's rare kindness and diligence... She was just bored and tossed them!

When Li Xuan ran over, Xu Yifan didn't know where the thoughts in his mind flew. Not to mention Sister Pu Yang, he couldn't care about Pu Yang's second aunt. I don't know who shouted in the distance: "Mrs. Xian is out of the cabin!" Then he saw those Nanyang officers who were more water-like rolling and crawling onto the shore, grabbing their clothes and running around. Li Xuan looked at Fun, stood there and laughed: "What are you running... Huang Acheng, I haven't seen you swimming! Have you written a letter to your dad?"

The more she screamed, the faster the Nanyang officers ran. Xu Yifan shook his head and smiled bitterly, and walked over and wrapped around Li Xuan's thin waist. Li Xuan looked up at him, wrinkled his nose, and leaned gently on his shoulder, grabbing Xu Yifan's arm: "Will we live here in the future? What a beautiful place! Our country is so big!"

Looking at Li Xuan and Xu Yifan's handsome appearance, the long-legged little girl Luo Shi was about to cry. I don't know if she was jealous or jealous, but her eyes turned red. Du Juan was much more stubborn, and she snorted and turned away. Xu Yifan looked at it and had no choice but to settle the relationship among the three women so that they would not be jealous of each other, and there was no way for the gods to serve these two little girls in bed at night. Li Xuan did not think of her bold style as a transcendent to the times, and she had never given him a chance since that nightmare night!

He touched Li Xuan's hair: "We're almost here now. What's going on in the future? I don't know. You wait, we will always settle down one day!"

Li Xuan grabbed Xu Yifan's arm and tightened her hand quietly, looking up at him: "You still want to take your brother and the others out for war?"

Xu Yifan just touched her soft long hair, looked up at the distance, and said lightly: "You don't understand the career of a man... When I come back, no one can hurt me. In this era, no one can..."

Li Xuan let go of his arms and quietly wrapped around his waist. Her body became softer and softer. She just leaned tightly into his arms, as if she was looking for the most comfortable position. The girls and old mothers had long dared to make a sound at the door of the cabin. Chen De, who was standing at the bow of the boat, coughed awkwardly, turned around with the pistol at his waist.

In this Jiangnan landscape painting, it seems that only the two of them are left.

Daqing Xin served as the governor of Liangjiang and his mixed-race fiancée at the bow of the ship for unknown long. It was not until the sunset was about to go down the mountain. The quiet scene was broken by a small steamer whistling and driving upstream. The bow of this small steamer was flying with the Canglong Army flag and sailing in the middle of the river. Since Xu Yifan entered Liangjiang, the ship with the flag of the guards has traveled between Shanghai and Jiangning, preparing for the large-scale entry of the guards. On the Yangtze River, the British even gave the middle channel to this army that defeated a country with one army!

Xu Yifan raised his head, pointed to the people standing on the bow of the boat, and smiled and said, "Xiaoxuan, your father is here..."

"Dad?" Li Xuan, who was leaning comfortably in Xu Yifan's arms, raised her head lazily like a kitten, and then widened her eyes. Xu Yifan's surprise was quite a bit. On the bow of the boat, several people stood in the wind, and one in a military uniform, Li Xuan recognized that it was Chu Wanli, the most hipster and smiling under Xu Yifan. The other few people were wearing white long gowns or dresses that were used to in the Southeast Asian customs. Who else could it be?

In the whole picture, only the girl's surprise voice was left: "Dad, I'm here!"

"Zhongcheng, Xuzhou's telegram has arrived!"

A servant brought by Ronglu from the capital, stood at the door of the signing room with a down-eyed look on his face, whispering a low return.

They have been following Lord Rong for a long time. When they came back from North Korea, they have been fascinated and become increasingly difficult to serve. Looking at his unlucky appearance, everyone thought Ronglu could not get up this time. He was a worker in the house. Many people secretly asked for his recommendation, and found another place to continue serving people. They rolled up the bedding and then left. They were from their hometowns, so they naturally could not leave. The bannermen were strict in this regard. The family was born and slaves, and they didn't want to find someone to serve him outside. Everyone couldn't help but sigh. Until there was a thunder on the ground, Ronglu gave the Jiangsu Governor's real shortcomings, which was real shortcomings, not a matter of office!

Ronglu is the only one who defeated North Korea and won the position of Jiangnan's wealthy province. Lord Rong's holy family is still so great! Everyone is ready to fight back their hungry purse this time, and maybe they will have more surplus. Who knows that over the past few days, Ronglu not only has no joy, but also lives even more upside down!

He didn't accept the bad rules, let alone the listing and withdrawal of the commission, the jail was missing, and the jail was not cleared, and the database was not included. These things were all great opportunities for the family to pimp and collect the benefits, but they were just let go! Ronglu just kept seeing people and visiting guests, and sent telegrams to various places, and couldn't sleep for two or three hours a night. The Lord of the Zhongcheng was polite to the magistrate, and when he met, he called the people to pull the kang and talk to each other. In the past few days, he had been watching the telegrams in Xuzhou all day long. He was sent by his confidants. If he hadn't been busy contacting the officialdom of Liangjiang, he might have to run over! He heard that Xu Yifan had left Shanghai, and even moved his bed to the signing room, and waited here for dinner and sleep...

I really don’t know what this Rong Zhongcheng came to Liangjiang to be the governor of Jiangsu!

Now the person is whining in his heart, and his attitude is very respectful. This is also a good news. I really hope that my master can get this good news and it is a little normal...

Unexpectedly, Ronglu's reaction was so exaggerated! He was half-lying on the bed, but when he heard this, he got up and jumped to the ground with barefoot, his eyes widened as if the copper bell was glaring, his hands were stretched out, and he shook violently, and he kept saying: "Come? Come... Give me... Let me see! Emperor Hutu... finally came, no matter what, he was waiting..."

The servant handed over a newspaper to Ronglu and bent down there to wait. This family was originally in charge of the confidentiality of Wenmo around Ronglu. There were few people who were familiar with the bannermen, but most of them were not. When they went out to be officials, the clans and Wenmo, the family members were almost half of their backbone. The officialdom mocked many people in this regard. Although Ronglu was an outstanding and capable person among the bannermen, he was still unavoidable. His predecessor, who inherited his predecessor, did ordinary business affairs. The real confidential Wenmo business dealings depended on his own family!

Ronglu stepped on the blue bricks at the bottom of the basket barefoot, as if he couldn't feel the coldness on the ground. He bent over and looked anxiously at the copying newspaper like a shrimp. He read it very slowly, and it was not enough to do it once, and he carefully read it again with all his energy and thoughts.

Then his hand shook, and the newspaper copy fell to the ground. He looked up at his head and looked blankly, and he didn't know where to look: "Chen Xiuwu agreed like this? It doesn't make sense... Wu Yi Mingjun changed to my Ronglu's model soldiers and entered Suzhou... He should understand that this is going to go against Xu Yifan... Who is not afraid of that fierce god 25... Even if there is an imperial edict and it is beneficial, why did he agree with such courage?"

The family members of Bimo Secret could imagine Ronglu being ecstatic when he received this telegram. Ronglu came here and was not trying to get a force around him! Without strength, no matter what he did, no matter how diligent he was in contact with officials from all over the place, it would be a waste. Wu Yiming's army, under Chen Fenglou, was originally the most capable armed force in Liangjiang before Xu Yifan came, with all 7,000 troops in the 13th Battalion, half of which were horse teams. The old foundation brought out by Liu Mingchuan, the first general of the Huai Army, brought this team to be adapted into a model soldiers. As long as Xu Yifan did not dare to raise the flag of the anti-flag, Ronglu would have enough confidence to compete with Xu Yifan. The officialdom of Liangjiang he had worked hard to contact, local gentry could also be used. The local unit of the Xu Yifan group was storming the trend of Xu Yifan's group, which really might make Xu Yifan unable to bear it!

But after receiving the imperial edict and remained silent for a while, Chen Fenglou finally agreed to Ronglu. Why can Lord Rong not believe it?

Could it be that my master was really scared by Xu Yifan?

The family whispered secretly in their hearts, but did not dare to show it. They handed over another telegram without saying a word: "Master, this is a joint telegram sent by the master to persuade Lord Chen's confidant... They said that not only did the 200,000 liang, four liang, and four liang, Mr. Chen received the 200,000 liang, but also wrote a loan to Lord Chen on the spot. The governor of Suzhou owed the 7,000 liang of military pay for the model soldiers in one year. After calculating, it was also more than one million yuan in silver... They guaranteed that Lord Chen really surrendered to Lord Chen, the court was always reliable than Xu Yifan. Beiyang fell, Lord Chen also wanted to find a backer, right? Why not find you, Master..."

Rong Lu snatched the second copy of the newspaper: "Why do you take it out in two times? The master can't stand this hurry! A bunch of bastards!... One million, as long as Chen Xiuwu arrives in Suzhou, I won't feel sorry for him for the money from all the Jiangsu vassal treasury!"

After reading the second telegram, it was as if the family said. One of the joint telegrams from several trusted subordinates was the Tongzhi of Suzhou Prefecture who volunteered to serve him. It is said that he was an old acquaintance with Chen Fenglou, and the code agreed upon above was also in line with them. It was exactly the same as the telegram they sent. Rong Luxin let go half of it, and finally calmed down a little, but he was still copying the newspaper and was wondering.

The family took out the last telegram slowly: "Master... This is a telegram from the seven official seal officials below Xuzhou Prefecture. They were also entrusted by the master to persuade Chen Junmen. The work was quite hard... Chen Junmen really spoke up this time! Wu Yi Mingjun changed the Jiangsu governor and model soldiers, and all of them had to pay double wages, and they also had to pass the provincial thirty donation bureaus. Chen Junmen had relatives and friends and old friends to install... After changing the model soldiers, Chen Junmen did not want to set up a camp office, but just listened to the master's orders, and no one else could listen. This condition was... Xuzhou Prefecture had boldly agreed to the master. If Meng Lang had sinned, please take more responsibility for the master..."

Ronglu snatched the last telegram, read it at a glance, sighed: "Old Buddha and the Emperor Hong Fu are together, our Qing Dynasty is still saved! Chen Xiuwu, I am afraid that he doesn't want anything, give him whatever he wants! Xuzhou Prefecture is so bad, what is his fault? I also have to recommend him heavily! The Emperor's blessing, and finally, Ronglu has such a pious person, which has brought such a result!"

All the energy seemed to be back on him at this moment. Ronglu waved his hand vigorously, "Call up all the master! He lay on the couch all day long, thinking that my master is easy to fool? He asked them to write a manuscript, and the famous gentry, General Jiangning, and the governor of Jingkou, and everyone got a share of it. Tell them that the big thing is settled! Chen Xiuwu is about to enter Suzhou, so everyone dares to make trouble with Xu Yifan! Everything is up to me, and the court is up to me!"

After saying this, he found that the bottom of his feet was cold and jumped up: "What a fucking thing!" He scolded and jumped back to the bed. The family smiled and went to help him put on official boots: "Master, the matter is finally over. The Master has been suffering enough these days. Is it a two-play to have fun?"

Ronglu smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "It's not the time... Even so, my confidence is only five points. I'll just leave my fate to the destiny... I hope I'm still a little bit more... Tell the boys, I'll do it all these days, I'll support you. If Xu Yifan can be really brought down and spread to Jiangsu Province, I'll let you make trouble! Even if you make trouble because you have joined my official position, the master is willing!"

"God... I hope Chen Xiuwu will arrive in Suzhou the first day!"

North Korea, November 15, 20th year of Guangxu.

After the war, there was always only one point of withering. Tens of thousands of troops fought in the north and south of Korea, and the destruction of the people's strength was unprecedented. Both the Chinese and Japanese armies recruited more than 100,000 Korean civilians to follow the army to transport military supplies and pay. The summer and autumn farming period was missed, and the fields were empty. The heavy snow had fallen at this time. Although the war had blocked the destruction of the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains for half a year, the severe winter made the Korean people who were short of food even more difficult. But what could it be? The East Asian powers often had the unlucky first, and the people of small countries had endured this way in the past two thousand years. This time, they had to endure it.

The original lively Imperial Guards are on the side of Pyongyang, on both sides of the Datong River. Now it is a sign of desertedness, and only as few people as possible are left to maintain production in various places. A large number of technicians trained in more than a year have all moved away and rushed to the wider world of the Liangjiang River. The camp of the Imperial Guards, which used to live in a large area, has now been empty. The pasture where countless strong young people struggled, is now a vast piece of snow, and there are only a few small claw marks left by birds and beasts foraging for food here.

Now the stage of Xu Dashui is no longer in North Korea... But Yuan Shikai is still in North Korea... This stage is indeed too small.

Yuan Shikai had moved into Pyongyang Mansion, stood in front of the window, and looked at the large groups of Koreans outside, squeezing in front of the steaming porridge shed.

The Qing imperialism led by Xu Yifan poisoned North Korea for so long, and finally left a little moral policy. Those who once served as civilians with the Imperial Guards, with the certificate given to them by the Imperial Guards, the whole family could put porridge around Pyongyang, and twice a day to ensure that your whole family could barely starve to death and survive this winter. The 100,000 Korean people have now built various shacks inside and outside Pyongyang Prefecture, enduring this post-war winter.

The so-called third town under Yuan Shikai's command is actually only four or five battalions, and the others are all drawn away by Xu Yifan and temporarily under Nie Shicheng's jurisdiction. Near Pyongyang, there are cavalry troops left behind in the first town of the Imperial Guards, and Chen Bin and Dai Jun are led by them. These are old horse thieves who are loyal to Xu Yifan, familiar with people and strong combat power, and they are in the post-war North Korea.

Yuan Shikai also knew that as long as he was still in North Korea one day, and as long as Xu Yifan's power was not as strong as that of Liangjiang, he was the president of the third town of the Imperial Guard, and he would be unworthy of his name for the day.

If it were in the past, North Korea, which had such chaos and the royal family withered, and China and Japan had no intention of taking care of both, how much could he do? It would be impossible for him to build a Korean royal family and become the emperor behind the scenes.

But now, he feels boring about this place where he has fought for nearly ten years.

When you find that a person has a larger pattern and stage than you and it is difficult for you to surpass it, and you still stick to such a small situation, what's the point?

The footsteps were ringing behind him, but a confidant came over gently and whispered: "Sir, can you still reply to the letter from the capital? How do you reply?"

The remaining troops left by the Imperial Guards in North Korea were at least trained, and the source was the remnants of the Sheng army, mixed with a small number of officers and soldiers from the second phase of the Nanyang Academy. The first town was personally led by Xu Yifan, and the second town also underwent quite a rectification in southern Liaoning. After the third town was drawn away many people to Nie Shicheng, Xu Yifan had no energy to rectify these two or three thousand people. Anyway, it was not a big problem. Taking advantage of this loophole, the Qing army followed Yuan Shikai's aides, and now several of them have joined him.

Yuan Shikai turned around silently and quietly looked at this confidant aide.

The aide was a little cold when Yuan Shikai looked at it with a meaningful gaze, and he stuttered: "Sir, that's a situation... The sir has made such a great contribution in Anzhou, but now he's just thrown here... In some places, it's not impossible to contact us for backup... The big idea is to take it, but my subordinates just talk casually."

Yuan Shikai smiled, raised his right hand and looked at it. The broken little finger he cut in Anzhou with his own hands is as new as ever.

"A bunch of stupid things!"

"Sir...what?"

"You should go back and forth from the letter from Beijing. I scolded Tan Fusheng and Kang Nanhai for me. Tan Fusheng was ungrateful and begged for glory. Kang Nanhai was barking wildly! What is he? I was afraid of dirtying myself if I touched his side!"

Listening to Yuan Shikai's words squeezed out from his teeth, the staff was a little stunned. Tan Kang and the other two are new stars in the political arena, especially Tan Sitong, who was simply disappointed the world's expectations and should not offend them if they did not accept the favor. Yuan Shikai scolded him so hard!

Yuan Shikai stretched comfortably: "You don't even feel about strength... I should leave North Korea. I go to Liangjiang, will you go? If you don't go, I will always guarantee that you will have money and how many years of wealth can you live back to your hometown... Half of North Korea is at least in my hands now!"

"Big... Sir...who will North Korea throw it to?" The aide was stunned.

"Chen Bin, Dai Jun... Who the hell wants to go... This wind and thunder will no longer roar in North Korea, but will explode in Liangjiang! Can I not participate in this big scene, this stage center? Yuan Laozi's wealth has not yet been obtained! Who can block it!"

...This is really an ambitious era...

The kind of light flashing in Yuan Shikai's eyes, if defined by nouns, is the word ambition.
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