Chapter 22 Origin
Xu Yifan asked suddenly, but his face was smiling. Li Daxiong's face changed, and he was as if nothing had happened in a blink of an eye. He just held the wine glass in his hand tightly.
Seeing Xu Yifan here, Cao Tianen, who was holding the plate, quickly followed. The consul was full of thought and even had to be addicted to smoking. The German pig hand was desperately eating oil to resist. He was afraid that the 25th Five would make a joke at the Governor's Banquet. He rushed over and heard Xu Yifan's half-dozen question. The expression on his face suddenly froze.
Several people were silent there, and Xu Yifan's eyes were just rolling on Li Daxiong's face. Li Daxiong gritted his teeth and did not speak. Xu Yifan said slowly: "I know that your Li family is a prominent family and has many concerns. I want to use a few dollars to send me, a villain, to walk... Touch your chest and ask for your conscience. In the past, I was afraid that no one would care about it, so you endure it. Now someone cares, what are you thinking? Tolerance is in the end, do you still want to come to a Honghe River?"
Li Daxiong's face changed again, and he still didn't say anything. At the time of the stalemate, Chu Ke brought Detann quickly to him. Chu Ke's eyes swept, and the foreign woman beside Li Daxiong quickly pulled him. Li Daxiong gritted his teeth and smiled: "Sir, we are businessmen, please rest assured about raising funds. I really don't know anything else. Please forgive me."
Cao Tianen secretly pulled Xu Yifan's elbow from behind: "Sir..." Chu Ke smiled beside him: "Your Excellency, how does this Si Shui buffalo milk satay feel? There is no such flavor in Europe, I'm afraid you also think it's fresh?"
Li Daxiong had already bowed quietly and left. Xu Yifan turned around and smiled at Chu Ke: "Well, the milk is good, it's the veal inside. I don't know if it's not too hot. How did you taste the bleeding smell?"
He smiled and bowed his hand, saying to Cao Tianen: "Brother Cao, please trouble your subordinates, so arrange your brother's escort. Today, the Governor General was very kind to entertain. I really appreciate it. Brothers have to go and take a break. One day, I will hold a banquet to entertain the Governor General General."
Chu Ke froze there, pulling his lips to keep his graceful smile. Along the way, he had already looked at the adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Detten, who had long disliked Xu Yifan. Looking at Xu Yifan's casual appearance, the wine glass in his hand almost fell over.
Xu Yifan bowed his fists and said goodbye in German. He bowed politely and carefully. He turned around and left. Chu Ke smiled and returned the gift, and signaled the adjutant to see him off.
Until the group went far away, watching Lieutenant Colonel Detten return, Chuck stood there coldly with a cold expression.
"Mr. Governor, should you monitor their consulate?"
"We are not going to do too much of it here, but we are not going to do it too much... I hope that much will not happen this time. The colonial public service career is really a good place to reduce people's life span..."
On the way back to the consulate, Xu Yifan no longer made the walk. He squeezed into a beautiful two-wheeled carriage with Cao Tianen. Consul Cao's entourage had already quietly handed over two cigarette bubbles. Cao Tianen took advantage of Xu Yifan's eyes and looked around, covered his sleeves and swallowed it, and swallowed it straight into his neck. He immediately breathed a long breath.
Dozens of entourage followed the carriage silently and headed straight to the consulate under the escort of foreign soldiers and police. In the blink of an eye, there were fewer indigenous young people gathered on the street, and many Chinese shops also quietly removed half of the door panels to see the beauty of the wind.
Xu Yifan looked around and finally dropped his head back. He looked at Cao Tianen and smiled: "Does Lord Cao like to fiddle with this thing?"
Cao Tianen smiled bitterly: "Actually, I'm not addicted, I'm just fiddling with it for fun..." These two knots' eyes were really poisonous!
Xu Yifan nodded and smiled, "What's going on in this Si Shui situation? Whose character is Li Daxiong?"
Cao Tianen just smiled bitterly: "Sir, don't worry about this. The Li family has already offered 300,000 taels of silver. No member of the fundraising committee has such a face. You can finish the job in a grand manner."
As long as you leave the territory of foreigners, you don’t have to worry about Xu Yifan causing trouble. Cao Tianen is not afraid of this imperial envoy. The imperial envoy who is in a titanic consular office... Once you return to your country, who cares about him?
Xu Yifan sneered: "Okay, since I'm hiding it, I won't ask much. Anyway, I'm the imperial envoy, Propaganda and Governor, and there is a formal note. I'll set up a guard of ceremonies and visit everywhere. Can the foreign devils stop me? It's all your brother's relationship with you."
This is a naked threat of rogue. Cao Tianen wants to turn against him. But there is no reason. After all, the system is here, Xu Yifan is an imperial envoy! What happened to him? The consular yamen responsible for local negotiations still have to push the jar? Who pushed this guy to him?
Chu Wanli, who was following the car on the horse, lowered his head and laughed. He heard all the conversation. Xu Yifan, a guy who did not follow the rules of the cards, caused the entire rigid bureaucratic system to suffer a lot of losses. He was calculating, but he didn't know how to deal with it. He didn't care, and he couldn't do it. Since his debut, he has almost no disadvantage. But now he can deal with it with a gangster-like manner. In the future, he can still be so relaxed after he gets to the top and has a high position and is in power?
He straightened his waist on the horse's back and looked at his brother Li Yunzong, who was riding on the horse with his expressionless face. He looked like a standard soldier.
Cao Tianen sighed in the car and finally told the matter in a row.
The Chinese community has always had too many disputes with the colonial authorities and the indigenous peoples in running Chinese schools. The Chinese community has indeed mastered most of the resources and wealth in Nanyang. The colonial authorities have always hoped to regard this group that is good at creating wealth as a cow that can be squeezed at any time. They have never wanted the Chinese community to be too strong. The same is true for the educational tradition of strong Chinese people. In order to balance local rule, the colonial authorities have never been willing to allocate funds.
Give Chinese schools construction. Chinese people raise funds themselves and each time they persuade Chinese schools to donate, although they are ridiculed as the second type of personal income tax for Chinese schools, they have never been short of it, only doubled. In the Netherlands, they still have to choke when reviewing the qualifications of Chinese schools every spring. It does not depend on whether you have a shortage of funds, but you have to grasp a certain proportion. When it reaches the bottom line, you will not pay attention to the quota of private Chinese schools and will not be opened again.
Not only that, in terms of local administration, official duties, police, etc., except for the white colonists occupying most important positions, the rest are basically left to the local indigenous people. Regardless of whether they have this level of education or not, they have the ability to suppress the Chinese community as much as possible.
Over the years, as the Qing Dynasty's borders gradually opened, the number of Chinese people in Java increased sharply. Especially when the Hongyang Rebellion disrupted the south decades ago, a large number of Chinese migrated to the South. The increase in the population requires more Chinese schools. The importance of education among Chinese people is unimaginable to most other ethnic groups.
However, the newly established Chinese schools were not allowed by the rigid Dutch colonial authorities.
Since that's the case, you can only set it up secretly.
Over the past few decades, batches of "illegal" Chinese schools have emerged quietly like mushrooms after a rain. A group of descendants who know where they are, speak Chinese, practice Chinese etiquette, and are equally hardworking and kind.
The local natives have always been jealous of the Chinese's economic achievements. They chew betel nuts all day long, drink milk and smoothies, and lie lazily in the sun everywhere. The Chinese are working hard in rice fields, plantations, rubber forests, and small factories. They are doing business in a harmonious manner and trying to save their property. However, they think that the Chinese have squeezed out their status and deprived their wealth. However, the whites are inciting this intentionally or unintentionally!
For these private Chinese schools, the natives have always regarded them as thorns in their eyes. These yellow-skinned children will continue to reproduce until they fill the entire land of Nanyang!
Radical indigenous people have gradually organized themselves, and over the past few decades, they have continuously impacted these private Chinese schools, beat student teachers, and burned school buildings. Spots have never been cut off. The Dutch believe that this is an illegal place without registration and is absolutely not managed!
If it were put in the past, the kind Chinese might have swallowed their anger. However, with the Hongyang Rebellion, a large number of immigrants moved to the south, some of which failed to create the Qing Dynasty, the Hongmen, the Brotherhood, and even the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. These bloody immigrants combined to form a secret society party. They also received secret support from local Chinese families. At first, some actions were taken to fight violence with violence. The bamboo net dragon hall gradually took shape in the South China Sea.
For such a combination, the colonial authorities and the indigenous people were worried. The Chinese were already so smart and capable, and then they organized themselves together, what could they be worth it?
In recent years, the actions against Chinese communities have become increasingly fierce. A few days ago, four Chinese schools in Sishui have been set up privately, and thousands of indigenous thugs rushed in with Balan knife, killing and setting fires, and dozens of casualties!
The Chinese protested, but the Governor of East Java did not accept it!
The Chinese community held a secret consultation, and each Chinese school spontaneously formed a team of school protection. The indigenous people also gradually gathered together under the disguised condolence of the colonial authorities. Although it is calm now, it is just the tranquility before the storm...
Looking at Cao Tianen's face, he wished he would become an ostrich and didn't want to deal with these troublesome things. Xu Yifan's fire came out without fighting. In the end, he finally calmed down and said coldly: "Mr. Cao, don't you do negotiations? Help your compatriots?"
Cao Tianen widened his eyes, as if he felt that what he heard was the most incredible thing: "Negotiation? For this matter? The previous few entourages of the Beifu did not call the Zongli Yamen, hoping to authorize the negotiation. But the court meant that this was someone's internal affairs! These Chinese people were no longer people of the Celestial Empire. Why should we take care of them? Who told them to go abroad and threw their ancestors' tombs to endure hardships here..."
Xu Yifan's eyes became colder and colder, and it seemed that the fire was about to rush into his forehead. Cao Tianen swallowed and stopped the sound uneasy.
Xu Yifan only smiled helplessly in the end. If these officials could count on them, why did he be so determined? Anyway, there was no bannerman here who was threatened by the dynasty here!
He suppressed Huo'er, smiled reluctantly, and asked again: "Who is this Li Daxiong?"
Cao Tianen shrugged. It seemed that he had learned some of their habits when dealing with foreign devils for a long time: "I'm not a person."
"What?" Xu Yifan was surprised. Li Daxiong had an extraordinary demeanor and was carrying a foreign wife. He was actually not a person in the mouth of this official and consul.
Speaking of gossip, Cao Tianen became energetic and said in a slight way: "Who doesn't know Sishui or even Java. Li Huang, Zheng Chen and Chen's four families? Among them, the Li family is headed by the Li family, with countless branches. Every time the Li family's "Youmutang" clan meeting is full of thousands of people. These Yankees are so rich that they are evil! No matter how big the trend is, they can't get over the Li family. They are in contact with each other! Chinese communities, they donate money and land, open schools, set up ancestral halls, and give money to the men of the boxing clubs who protect the school. The indigenous people take out more every year
The few white silver foreign money gave them food and clothes. In front of the foreigners, they were the president of the General Chamber of Commerce, the Dashen Dong of Sishui, and there was a seat in the Advisory Bureau... Li Daxiong was just the second son of the current clan elder of the Li family. He married a foreign wife - I heard that it was still a broken shoe! Tell me, if you marry a broken shoe, what is the important person? It is just a contact person used by the old man of the Li family to deal with foreign people. According to the rules, they cannot enter this clan genealogy or enter the ancestral grave, what else can it be?
Although he had a place to stand on the governor's seat, he was just a person who communicated with the Li family. He said that the Chamber of Commerce would raise 300,000 yuan for the adults, which was what the old man of the Li family meant! Don't care too much about such people... But speaking of this, the girl born to the foreign woman and the Chinese man were surprisingly beautiful. She was not easy to describe. Although she always felt awkward to look at, her skin was so white..."
Xu Yifan quickly coughed, and Cao Tianen finally reacted. He smiled awkwardly and kept silent. This water was much deeper than he thought... These Chinese families were the main force in raising funds in the future. However, they were already deeply rooted. They were in contact with each other, thinking that they were as stable as Mount Tai and would never fall down. But they didn't know that the higher their status, the more wealth they had, and behind them was a weak and conservative country, so they had always lived on the crater! A man advocated chaos, and thousands of men responded to it. The lesson was not far away, just in the after-Xia period!
He slapped the shaft of the car angrily, which scared Cao Tianen. The curtain of the car window was lifted. However, Li Yunzong was looking down and asking: "Sir, what's the matter?"
Xu Yifan closed his eyes and said decisively: "Yun Zong, prepare a post for me and send it to the Li family here that night. He said I will visit you tomorrow, mom, I have to find out what these guys who cannot blow the eight winds think!"
Li Yunzong whispered, putting down the window and curtains. Cao Tianen, the same as the car, had already closed his eyes and closed his eyes like the Bodhisattva, and ignored him. He had completely thought about it, but he couldn't control this matter. There was nothing he could do with these 25% updates. He could only hope that he would cause less trouble at that time, that is, Amitabha Buddha...
The car was quiet for a moment, and the convoy suddenly became turbulent again in front of the convoy. There were also shouts of foreign soldiers and policemen outside the guard team. Cao Tianen was so scared that he trembled: "Are the natives causing trouble? In front of the foreigners?"
Xu Yifan ignored him, pushed open the side door of the Western-style carriage and looked forward. He saw two Chinese young men suddenly squeezed into the road desperately, speaking in very unstandard Mandarin language: "Sir, we want to express our feelings!"
The foreign soldiers pushed them out with the butt stock desperately, and the indigenous policemen around them also used batons to cover their heads. Their heads were just hugging their heads. They were still shouting desperately: "Sir, we want to confess!"
Before Xu Yifan could use his colors, Li Yunzong had already jumped off his horse and rushed over, followed by seven or eight student soldiers, pushing away the most fierce indigenous policemen. The locals' small body was almost thrown away by Li Yunzong! The foreign soldiers were 70 years old and blocked them with a butt. The students were not vegetarian, and they were used to following Xu Yifan. They were full of the honor of the officers instilled by Xu Yifan. They immediately met, and some people were about to pull their armed belts. Li Yunzong rushed to the front and held two young men in one hand. He suddenly stopped and raised his hand. Several student soldiers stopped. As his gesture slowly retreated, his mouth was filled with low national curses.
The turbulent student soldiers also calmed down with Li Yunzong's movements, looking at them, the coldest and taciturn captain Goshha, who was actually the most intense and fierce inside. This is also Xu Yifan's rule. The subordinates must have a spirit of obedience to their superiors. If Li Yunzong does not let them move, they can only endure it!
The foreign soldiers stood up and proudly pushed the two Chinese young men who were beaten to the bruised face back. The native policeman wearing a rattan hat, foxes and tigers stood beside them with a powerful force. Li Yunzong retreated with a stern face. Xu Yifan leaned against the car door and glanced at his subordinate, and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter?"
Li Yunzong silently closed the car door for him, and then handed a roll of paper into Xu Yifan's palm.
Humph, if it weren't for the sudden change just now, Li Yunzong would have to fight with foreign soldiers. If a soldier does not have such bloodiness, then don't mess with him.
Xu Yifan looked at his subordinates with satisfaction and sat back. The paper roll in his hand was wet, and I don’t know if it was the blood or sweat of the two Chinese young men.
What exactly is it for them to risk their lives to give such a thing?
"The common people risked their lives to cry and asked for help from the Celestial Emperors! Foreigners and natives regarded me as bullies in Java. They humiliated them, insulted them, beat them, massacred them, and burned them. There were countless Chinese workers in Java who were bloody and sweat. Even if they were to raise descendants and never forget the Chinese schools in the Celestial Kingdom's home country, there were thugs who destroyed them! What's wrong with my Chinese people, and what's wrong with my Chinese children? I Chinese youth, combined with one place, resolutely resisted violence and protected their families. However, they were remote and unarmed, and even with passion, what could they do if the indigenous thugs supported by foreigners?
The adults came with two large iron armored warships, and the staff was rectified. Wu Senran, the department was also in the name of the imperial envoy to negotiate with the Propaganda and Pacification. The civil and others were willing to raise funds and purchase the weapons carried by the warships. They were in their hearts and should deal with such thugs, foreigners with ulterior motives. Wan Wang, the adults would be kind to the attention!
At ten o'clock tonight, my servants will lead the adults to pay homage to the consulate. The displaced innocent children are full of blood and sincerity. They should be worshipped in front of the adults. I hope that the adults will remember our lonely young men in the heavenly realm. We will give us kindness and save water and fire!"
A note was spread on the table in the Sishui Consulate where Xu Yifan was staying. The words on the note were dense and quite sloppy. It seemed that it was written in a simplified manner. The hasty and gloomy and anger were all in these short sentences.
Xu Yifan smiled and looked at the people sitting indoors looking at each other: "What do you think? Others have come to ask us for help. Our two soldiers stayed in Sishui and did not leave. They acted like this again when they entered the city. Others are counting on us. I asked for it for a while this night, would we go?"
It was said that it was everyone, but Li Yunzong and Chu Wanli. Zhang Yu and Xu Yifan were a little wary of him. He would not say anything more than the butler's duty in such an occasion. He simply sent him to guard this secret discussion outside. The little girl Du Juan didn't understand these things, so she was busy helping Xu Yifan pack her luggage. The hot weather in Sishui made the little girl get thin and she didn't have to pretend to be a man when she got to the place. She changed into women's clothes and untied the straps that wrapped her breasts. She was so busy that her face was covered with fine sweat beads. With a little movement, the girl's chest that developed too well would tremble. It seemed that she was taking revenge on the grievances she suffered in those days in the past.
Unfortunately, Xu Yifan is in a vain feeling at all now. After reading this, he pretended not to watch it, and was full of the current situation in Sishui and was wandering around in his mind.
Li Yun looked straight, but just looked at Xu Yifan.
Chu Wanli looked around, his eyes even slipped over Du Juan. He whistled a long whistle and made a gesture of kneading into a ball and throwing it away.
Xu Yifan smiled: "What? Don't you want to pay attention to this?"
Chu Wanli smiled and said, "It depends on what the adults think. Raising funds is not just about those aristocratic families. If we follow their Mao, we will help them temporarily calm the trend of the following trend. Then we will use the military ship to take the foreigners and show off their might. It is estimated that 300,000 will be more than 300,000. A million may not be enough to do something. One million is enough. Now we can't control this, and we can't control it... If the adults look further, I will listen to it."
Li Yunzong also shook his head slowly: "I listen to you, but this night's secret meeting is a bit of a play, it's too dangerous... But if it were me, I'll help them."
Du Juan listened to their discussion, but just widened her eyes and did things silently.
This Chu Wanli is a Chinese Machiavelliist who pays attention to absolute interests and does not care about the means of criticism. His true thoughts are hidden deep. This fox...
Xu Yifan looked at him and Li Yunzong, he was loyal enough! He praised him in his heart. And he was passionate enough! He looked cold, but he was just used to deal with the society he didn't like.
He slammed the note and smiled: "First, we have to collect enough information to deal with any decision. If we don't go here, we don't go there, how can we collect enough information to judge? We want to go to aristocratic families, foreigners have to deal with them, and we also have to listen to their thoughts. Only then will we have a global judgment. This will make decisions in this way, so that we can make fewer mistakes... Secondly, we will form an army in the future. Think about it, this army must fight for a certain belief. This is also the principle and bottom line of this army. Otherwise, we should train a new army like the Huai army. We will not move in wars, and we will have to hang red rewards for the charge, and if we lose, we will collapse... Tell me, why should we fight after we practice the new army?"
Chu Wanli and Li Yunzong were not talking, and their faces were very serious.
Xu Yifan said coldly: "Nothing else is to fight for the interests of our nation! What is to protect the interests of our nation? You must die for this matter. And you are willing to! The wanderers who are drifting outside are not our nation. If something happens to them, we can ignore it? I just want to take advantage of this incident, before the army, in this place far away from the country, and in this place where thousands of compatriots of the same race are threatened and tortured, and I will train you, the future backbone. Those who are qualified, will be brought home, and those who are unqualified, will not be raised!"
Li Yunzong stood up suddenly and replied loudly! Even Chu Wanli stood up, with a look of admiration on his face, and he silently nodded.
Xu Yifan smiled, with Panasonic's tense expression. He waved his hand and said, "Don't be so nervous. At that time, Yun Zong, you will cover the eyes and ears of the consulate and cover me to sneak out, and make trouble with the foreign soldiers surveillance around him. I don't care about you, but if you vent your anger, I will still have to hit the board when I come back. Wanli and I will take my expensive manager, let's go and have a chance to hang out together. That's it!"
The two of them immediately bowed flat and quickly retreated. Chu Wanli also thoughtfully closed the door. Xu Yifan just let out a breath and wanted to relax. Then he saw Du Juan approaching him: "Master, are you going out tonight? Is there any danger when I hear Brother Chu and Brother Li? If not, I have to accompany you!"
Xu Yifan was too moved, and now his mind was dizzy. Seeing Qingli little loli standing in front of him with pouting, seven worried and eight reluctant, she suddenly felt much more relaxed.
He reached out and pulled her little hand, and smiled and said, "Xiao Shuang'er is worried about her husband? Are you going to take the risk with her?"
Du Juan suddenly fell away Xu Yifan's hand when she heard this: "Who is Shuang'er? Which girl is it?"
How could this wild girl who has never read a book know the allusion of Jin Yong's great god Shuang'er and Wei Jue Ye? Thinking about it, the situation is similar now. She is also a Taoist platform of the Qing Dynasty, and she is still an imperial envoy. She has no martial arts skills and has been dealing with abroad. She is surrounded by a beautiful and simple girl with much stronger hands and feet than her...
Thinking of this, Xu Yifan couldn't help but laugh. He was full of thoughts and threw it out of the sky at this moment. It's really the best way to match men and women, not tired of working...
He held Du Juan's hand again, pulled it hard, and immediately pulled the girl into his arms. The little girl looked at Xu Yifan's rare intimate behavior and sat down shyly. The tropical weather was already irritating. Master Xu suddenly became irregular. The little girl also pushed her half-heartedly, covering her little face and was embarrassed.
Xu Yifan, who had only been hypocritical in his words, turned into a big-tailed wolf. This is indeed a way to relieve stress. With so many things piled up on him, Xu Yifan can survive ease until now, which is really a miracle.
"So big...so big...what to eat?"
"Itchy...I didn't eat anything..."
"Be good, little sister opens her mouth..."
"Bit...it's the tongue!"
A scream immediately echoed inside and outside the consulate. Zhang Yu's ear outside was puzzled and pretended not to hear it.
Chapter completed!