Chapter 10 This public foot strengthens the naval might
Things were indeed as Xu Yifan expected. Whether it was the Qing court or Li Hongzhang, the matter that caused the anger of Lao Fu over a month ago was always in a hurry, and he was waiting for him to die.
He is very familiar with this huge and rigid bureaucratic system who is justified by troublesome affairs and sometimes pretends to be an ostrich attitude.
So... his special order and the title of Assistant Committee of the Imperial Guard Trial Training Office, there was another title of Nanyang Propaganda and Fundraising Committee. Anyway, as long as he doesn't leave the circle, he can just mess with him. Anyway, no one expects him to raise funds.
Even Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, who was named Minister of Trade in Nanyang, had no mentality of paying more attention to the news in the mansion.
The entire empire was as dead as he expected, and he just passed by.
It should be said that Li Hongzhang still remembers the benefits of others. Although he did not give him any salary, he deliberately excluded him from the Huai Group's fundamental circle. He did not give him any resources to actually get power. However, he had to make an appointment with the escort, and the Beiyang Donation Administration also created a lot of blank official photos, including the official documents, and gave him documents.
In the late Qing Dynasty, selling these official licenses and certificates in Nanyang was a business. Although overseas Chinese in Nanyang had left their hometown for dozens or hundreds of years, their relatives and friends worshiped each other and buried the old man, they were still willing to have a brilliant feather and a robe and a hood. The old man was buried and didn't call a few doctors or a polite man, so everyone was embarrassed to go out.
There are members who persuaded donations everywhere in Nanyang, some have names, and some have no names. However, no one is as disturbing as Xu Yifan this time. He transferred a total of 60 members, who were members of the Propaganda and Advocate for donations issued by the emperor!
Of course, the officialdom has even higher voices about him. Advising donations is a business that is not very profitable, and he has brought so many people along the way, and the steamships and people chewed with horses. Compared with making money, he lost money. His Taoist platform is even more obsessed with passers-by in the Tianjin officialdom.
I've seen a fool, but I've never seen such a fool!
Xu Yifan ignored these things. When he was waiting for his departure these days, he would bring all his thirty-nine students with him, and together with the horse thief guards who stayed in Tianjin, all formed a team of escorts. Even the concubine Du Juan was brought with him, serving the master along the way to eat, drink, defecate, and slap his luggage, teach the escorts foreign affairs discipline, and rack his brains to recall the Nanyang information he had read at the beginning, and was so busy that he was busy.
When Mr. Han saw this, he had already said goodbye and went to raise money for him and the others. With a little time, he went to sue Yang Shixiang. Some of his subordinates who he wanted to report to the tune were not here yet!
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Yang Shixiang's carriage was hurriedly parked at the gate of Xudaotai Mansion. The coachman stopped two foreign horses sent by the British. The first road of Zhili slowly swayed from the Western-style carriage with glass windows.
At the gate of Xu Daotai Mansion, there was no longer the casual atmosphere when he had just arrived in Tianjin. Two Goshha, wearing the top of the seventh-rank military officer at the door, stood straight, with his eyes facing each other blankly, and he would never look at him. Naturally, he had a solemn and murderous demeanor.
These are all students who were abducted by Xu Yifan in the Beiyang Military Preparation School, which was educated by regular officers. The pair of door gods standing here at his door also have names. It is said that this second-gang Taoist platform is called the military posture.
Alas, it’s really a bad luck to follow this Xu Dao.
Yang Shixiang sighed while calling the people in the same car to get out. There were two or three people jumping out. One was a southerner with dark skin. He was in his early thirties and had a gentle and elegant temperament. But now he was mourning, with seven reluctant and eight unwilling faces. The other was a honest scholar, carrying a large foreign suitcase and wearing glasses. He also had an oil paper umbrella under his arm. No matter how you look, he looked like a scholar who was blunt in autumn wind. However, his body was strong and full of energy.
The last person who jumped off was the officer's uniform. He was in his early thirties and had a stubborn and cold look on his face. He glanced at the Taiwan Mansion and his expression was still cold. He was wearing a five-cloud jacket, and his top was red. At least he was an officer with the title of general. The five-cloud jacket had an official title on the sleeves, which was the unique costume of the Beiyang Navy military officer at that time!
Yang Shixiang looked back at the three of them and smiled faintly. The driver who was obedient and had already raised four famous posts to submit them.
He was a dignified first-hand man, but he came to visit the door again and again in order to perfunctory Xu Yifan. Feng Liu and Yang Hanlin sometimes feel helpless when he thinks about it.
As soon as the coachman entered the door, he saw a young and handsome officer greeting him. Compared to the officer of the Beiyang Navy brought by Yang Shixiang, his coldness and strength were no less than that of him.
This young officer was naturally the captain of Xu Yifan's current Goshha. He sternly stepped on the spurs and creaked it with a chic military salute. The Beiyang Navy officer's eyes moved.
Yang Shixiang smiled and said, "Yun Zong, how proud is Xu Dao's place now? I heard that Xu Daojun's rule of law office is indeed very strict!"
Li Yunzong said lightly: "Mr. Xu asked that the officers should be trained as if they were trained. You must always forget that you are a soldier who wants to lead the army and kill. The subordinates think it is very..."
Yang Shixiang smiled and said, "Is it a flower born when I joined the army? Xu Dao really... I won't say it or not! Yun Zong, we have come from all the way, and we won't spread it all the time?"
Li Yunzong's expression remained unmoved: "When I replied to the words of the master, someone has already spread it. If you are here, Lord Xu will naturally welcome him out of the gate. It is the way to stay here to accompany him."
Yang Shixiang shook his head slightly, it was a pity for the heroic young man in front of him. He was in the martial arts school, and he liked him and Chu Wanli. He wanted to have literary talent, martial arts, and follow that half-infatuated guy, it was really...
Just as I was talking, I heard the sound of boots. There were still a stack of greetings inside: "Brother Lianfang, is Brother Lianfang?"
Then he saw Xu Yifan greeting him enthusiastically and smiled with Yang Shixiang without hesitation.
The three people following Yang Shixiang looked at him listlessly, one with a curious face, and the other with a legendary Taoist look picky and cold face.
Yang Shixiang smiled and said, "As soon as your brother arrives in Tianjin, I, Old Yang, are just a man! I am simply the first person for you! The guys you want to play the tune have already brought you here. Master Zhongtang knows that you have to travel far and have made some arrangements. I will make you happy today. Why don't you invite a drink?"
When Xu Yifan heard his words, he was also happy. The talent he had been playing tune for for a long time, and now he has finally come! These days, he has made a good decision on money. He is very concerned about talents. I don’t know which great man said that cadres decide everything. As long as he has the right person in his hands and uses the right momentum, he will definitely be able to make a career!
In ecstasy, he didn't even bother to greet Yang Shixiang. He turned to look at the three people behind him. He looked at him and looked at him. The two except the officers all set up Qian Lai to attend the ceremony. Whether they were willing or not, they followed the rules of their subordinates. Only the officer looked at Xu Yifan proudly. His eyes were just coldly touching him.
Yang Shixiang saw Xu Yifan looking happy and smiled and introduced: "These are both of them that you asked for a name. I don't know where you found the news. The mercy of the central hall is accurate! This is Tang Shaoyi and Tang Tongzhi, a business committee member of Longshan (Seoul) in Korea. Your brother has a memorial to the training office!
Tang Shaoyi is naturally the guy with a reluctance. He is one of the famous American students, good at dancing. His diplomacy and Western affairs are both first-class players in the Qing Dynasty. He was a foreigner and was wasted his career, but he finally cursed the position of the Longshan Commercial Committee. However, in order to repay Xu Yifan's love, Li Hongzhang also perfunctorily practiced the special order of the military training yamen, and opened the yamen to support this tank that replaced real money and silver pay!
Xu Yifan ignored his unlucky look and helped him up, who was still beating thousands of times: "Brother Shaochuan, I have to take care of it. Brother Shaochuan still lacks a general copy here, how about Brother Shaochuan?"
Tang Shaoyi glanced at him and swallowed. The only one who was not angry was to agree: "The central government ordered his subordinates to come to the military training office to handle the work, and his subordinates could only do their best to serve."
Yang Shixiang had been comforting the carriage for a long time, saying that the military training yamen that had fallen in a few days would definitely be rewarded in the future. Otherwise, Tang Shaoyi would have looked at the young Taoist platform and wanted to leave.
Yang Shixiang looked at Tang Shaoyi's expression and knew that his role as a substitute for Li Hongzhang was not easy to be, so he quickly introduced the next person: "Zhan Tianyou Zhan Da Chao Zhan Tongzhi! An operator of Tianjin China Railway Company has built the Luanhe Bridge that foreigners cannot build. God knows where you came from. If it weren't for the emperor's training the imperial guards, such a foreign official would never let go! Brother, we can say that Zhan Tongzhi can't use it as your military training yamen!"
Looking at the honest and honest young man in front of me who was only thirty years old, Xu Yifan was so happy that he was dizzy. Talents, real talents! He knew machines, design, construction, and management. He even had done the Navy. During the Ponytail naval battle, he was in real guns and ammunition! Such talents were never shown to be pulled up in the end. How many specialized talents in this kind of technology could China have at that time and how many could they use?
Holding Zhan Tianyou's arm, he was so excited that he could not speak. Zhan Tianyou just stared at him blankly: "I don't know what I can do with you? I don't understand anything about training military..."
Xu Yifan's answer was to pat him hard, and the more he looked, the more he became happy.
Yang Shixiang was also puzzled. These two people who are both students studying in the United States. Speaking of which, he looked down on Tang Shaoyi more. They understand human feelings, the officialdom, and have the ability to do things. Although they also value people like Zhan Tianyou, they just take it as craftsmen. How could they imagine that Xu Yifan was a hundred times happier than seeing Tang Shaoyi?
Seeing Xu Yifan being so happy that he couldn't speak, Yang Shixiang coughed. He solemnly pulled Xu Yifan's hand and pulled him away from Zhan Tianyou. He walked to the Beiyang Navy officer who had been standing straight: "Brother, there is good news! This time, you have such a group of people going to Nanyang to Xuanfu, and the Beiyang Navy was about to put two military ships, first go to Nagasaki, Japan for inspection, and then patrol Nanyang. The grace of the Zhongtang happened to bring me the brother, the Xuanfu member who issued an edict... Brother, Zhongtang has already been full of kindness!"
Xu Yifan turned around and looked directly at Zhan Tianyou, which made people furrow all over. He heard Yang Shixiang's words and laughed secretly. Li Hongzhang had already told him through Yang Shixiang's mouth. He had already paid back all the feelings that Li Hongzhang owed Xu Yifan now! Don't be so ignorant in the future!
In fact, what he has now earned is ten times more than he expected. Even if he is as experienced as Li Hongzhang, how can he understand?
He calmed down and bowed to the very arrogant officer: "I don't know what to call the military gate?"
Before the officer could answer, Yang Shixiang had already introduced with a smile: "The deputy general of the Central Battalion of our Beiyang Navy is given the title of admiral. The general is named Jian Fang. Gersabatulu, Zhiyuan Dome Armored Clipper, Deng Shichang and Deng Zhengqing's Army!"
Xu Yifan's eyes lit up, and his head was filled with blood, and he blurted out: "This day, I can waving tears from all over the world, and I can strengthen the navy's power... Lord Deng?"
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Chapter completed!