The First Evolution

Laurent said:

"These days I went to BJ's Consulate Area and spent some money to get a news channel. They have a special telegraph line, which is usually used to transmit emergency military information, because Britain has been paying attention to the situation in eastern Asia, and the prime minister's residence attaches great importance to the containment of the polar bear."

"However, with the increasing weakness of Russia, nine times out of ten this line was idle, so it was privately used to spread some news. According to the channel here, at that time, Li Gongzhang's carriage was blown up seven or eight meters high, and the people inside were directly crushed to pieces."

"However, Li Gongzhang had something to do temporarily, so he asked his master to go out in a car to have a secret conversation with others, so he escaped."

Fang Linyan frowned when he heard the news.

Laurent saw Fang Linyan's expression and said:

"My Lord, although Li Gongzhang made many blunders during the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895, in fact, if he was alive, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. Once he was really assassinated, his men and horses would immediately form a plate of loose sand and fight against each other for power and advantage. In this way, the situation would get worse if he didn't do well!"

Fang Linyan nodded:

"According to my in-depth investigation, I found that the survival of Li Gongzhang had a greater impact on the Sino Japanese war than ITO Bowen!"

"Because not only Japan wants to destroy the Beiyang fleet, but even the Qing government represented by Cixi is secretly longing for this in its heart."

"For Cixi, the Han people will never be trusted and can't control the Beiyang military power in her own hands. It's better to destroy it earlier. She invented the saying that she would rather be with friends than domestic slaves."

Laurent said:

"Yes."

Fanglin rock path:

"Among the goals I set before, there was the assassination of ITO Bowen. But now it seems that the other party should have tried his best to assassinate Li Gongzhang, but he still can't succeed, so the difficulty of assassinating ITO Bowen is not much lower!"

Laurent said:

"The value of Ito's death is mainly reflected in the internal friction of the Japanese people. It has a macro impact on the victory or defeat of the war, but the visual impact may not be enough."

"In fact, I think it's best to act according to the circumstances. If not, the effect is also very good to directly target the Japanese ship, or the officials in its key positions."

"I have inquired about the relevant information. At this time, there is no fire control system at all, so the shelling depends on the experience of the Gunners. It needs to be fed one shot at a time. If the Knight Commander can make several ace Gunners of the Japanese ship out of the ship in advance, the odds of winning the big naval battle can be improved by at least one point."

Fang Linyan listened and said:

"You're right! The idea you put forward coincides with what I just considered!"

After chatting for a while, suddenly someone knocked on the door outside and found that it was the waiter who ran the hall. The waiter usually greeted and sent, and he had seen many big people. He nodded and bowed and sent a prayer note:

"Young master Hu, I have guests to worship!"

Fang Linyan took the prayer post, which was actually the business card of later generations. Then Fang Linyan looked carefully and immediately smiled. Knowing that his arrangement at the Sichuan guild hall had worked, he immediately stood up and said:

"I'll meet him."

Laurent took the invitation and found that it read:

Former Guangxi Xuezheng

Bingxu Jinshi

Chinese Minister counsellor to Britain, France, Italy and Belgium

Fushun, Sichuan

Song Yuren worship!

This man is not famous in history, but he was also a hero in the general environment at that time.

Not only that, in fact, he lacked an opportunity in his life, which directly led to the end of depression. If he had this opportunity, it would go down in history.

In the history that Fang Linyan learned, this male unexpectedly put forward a bold idea after the war of 1894-1895: turn defeat into victory!

In short, he is also very clear that Japan is at the end of a powerful crossbow at this time. It is a World War I bet on national luck. Therefore, he proposed to directly attack Japan.

Of course, everyone can shoot a gun. Many people have talked about similar big words, but they just talk!

However, he has such strong executive power that he went directly around this idea, and if Cixi hadn't intervened, he would have almost done it!!

According to the historical records at that time:

At that time, Duke song conspired with the embassy counsellor Yang Yizhi and the interpreter Wang fengho to buy five warships and ten torpedo speedboats sold by Britain to Argentina and Chile, recruit 2000 Australian sailors to form a Navy brigade, named the Australian business group, and went north from the Philippines to attack Nagasaki and Tokyo in the name of protecting merchant ships.

This plan seems whimsical, but it also has a considerable degree of feasibility.

Because Australia is a British territory, the Western Chamber of Commerce had the right to raise its own navy to protect business travel. Together with the Sino Japanese War, Australia is close to the Nanyang ocean, which is quite shocking. The chamber of Commerce paid to recruit a Navy brigade to protect routes. From a political point of view, it is feasible.

Not only that, when the cannon rang, there was ten thousand liang of gold. Duke song knew that it was impossible for this stupid court to take money out. Don't even mention it!

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the decadent Qing court had let the Xiang army raise their own salaries and silver. The imperial court issued a decree to confirm the legitimacy afterwards.

So at the beginning of the plan, he didn't let the court pay a penny.

Therefore, Song Yuren agreed with retired rear admiral jiafushi of the United States and greenmill, manager of British Connecticut Bank:

China and kangdikete Bank signed a contract to borrow £ 2 million and another £ 1 million to pay for the purchase of warships.

After a series of efforts, the ships it purchased have been equipped with bullets and weapons, and combatants at all levels have been properly recruited to form a powerful navy, which is ready to be led by Lang Weili, former commander of the Beiyang Navy.

Look, Song Yuren and song Gong started from scratch and managed things to this extent. They just need to clear out a policy. Is this equivalent to feeding rice directly to your mouth and opening your mouth?

Song Gong's strong executive power, the essence of operational research ability and the benefit of vision can be seen!!

However, at this juncture, the Treaty of Shimonoseki was officially signed at this time, and everything was directly stopped by Cixi!

If Song Yuren's plan is half a year ahead of schedule, or if Song Yuren can obtain an additional initial fund, then this plan is highly likely to be completed.

From the perspective of hindsight, such a strange soldier attacking Japan directly is bound to cause great trouble and harm to it, because Japan during the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895 was Soha and gambled on the first World War of the National Games!

According to post analysis, even if the war is delayed for a year, Japan's economy will collapse automatically.

At this time, it is still six or seven months before Song Yuren officially started planning in history. Fang Linyan is now trying to raise money for him, so that he will not start from scratch.

Fang Linyan pointed out his idea straight to the point in the worship post he left at the Sichuan guild hall before going to Sichuan, saying that "Japan's wolf ambition is obvious, and a strange soldier will attack its native land". If he can make a trip, he is willing to contribute millions of cash!

Obviously, this idea must coincide with Song Yuren's idea, and Fang Linyan's family background also added a lot of points to him.

At that time, Hu Xueyan was a famous businessman in Hongding, which was famous in the whole of China. His deeds of supporting Zuo Zongtang to pacify XJ are even more familiar and talked about with relish.

Businessmen certainly want to be Hu Xueyan, but officials with a little ambition don't want to be national hero Zuo Zongtang?

For a nobody who wants to invest millions of cash, who believes it!

Soon, Fang Linyan met this unknown figure in history. He was not tall, with thick eyebrows, wide mouth, bright eyes, not handsome, but gave people the feeling of being reliable.

After meeting and chatting for a few words, you can feel that this person has a very strong personality charm, can treat anyone sincerely and confidently.

Youdao said nothing but speculation, but Fang Linyan came prepared this time. Therefore, the two sides can be said to have talked very deeply and eagerly soon. When it comes to the Japanese's wolf ambition and the behavior of flies and dogs, they all gnash their teeth and sigh with indignation.

This time, Song Yuren had something else to do. He just stopped by and came to see Fang Linyan, a younger generation who "spoke loudly". Unexpectedly, this conversation will be over in the afternoon. If he didn't have to go to the Yamen of his immediate boss for a dinner in the evening, he would have to stay and have a candlelight conversation with Fang Linyan.

Soon, Fang Linyan directly sent Song Yuren out of the door. They were kind enough to say goodbye and set a date for the next meeting.

When leaving, Song Yuren also looked at Fang Linyan repeatedly and sighed:

"The ancients said that three people make a tiger. They don't deceive me! Brother Hu is really different from the rumors. It seems that Xueyan's business trip was a little extreme, so he offended many people. That's why he spread brother Hu so unbearably."

Fang Linyan's expression was really embarrassed at this time.

He is not embarrassed that his reputation is "unbearable". To be honest, he doesn't care about it, and reputation can't be eaten! What's more, is this still your fake identity?

The most embarrassing thing is that Fang Linyan doesn't know how to answer He thought about it very much! Shit, people all over the world know that I have a bad reputation. I don't know. Is there any reason? Is there any royal law?

And this legend is also true. What nonsense! Man, now with + 3 legend degree, it's really famous, but it's a bad name / Sao name! This is really infuriating.

Fang Linyan couldn't catch anyone, so he asked, "I'm the sixth of the Hu family. Have you heard my name?"? Tell me what I did before!

If he does this, others may directly treat him as a psychopath.

After parting from Song Yuren, Fang Linyan blew a gust of wind outside, and his mood calmed down quickly,

After some in-depth discussion, Fang Linyan knew that the original situation was different from his own. At this time, Song Yuren's position at this time was already China's minister to Britain, France, Italy and Belgium. He took office only ten days ago and is about to go to Europe now.

However, he had served as a counsellor in London for a year before and was quite familiar with the situation there. This time, the Qing court still wanted to ask him about the possibility of "mediating" China Japan relations by Britain, France and other powers in the spirit of compromise.

Just as Fang Linyan stood at the door of the hotel, thinking carefully about what else was wrong with his plan, three people came out of the nearby crowd. The leader was king Dadao five. He took a deep look at Fang Linyan and said:

"Just now, is that Mr. Song Yuren, Mr. Song?"

Fang Linyan was a little stunned and immediately reacted. In history, King Dadao five made friends with Tan Sitong. He can be called a brother of life and death. He can even rob prison for Tan Sitong! (of course, in the end, Tan didn't leave, thinking that all countries in the world would bleed for reform, and he was willing to die for it). Then Song Yuren, who is also a reformer, must know him.

So he nodded:

"Exactly."

Wang Wu was surprised and said:

"Lord song is upright and has high vision. How can he be so close to you?"

Fang Linyan immediately thought of one thing and said to Wang Wu:

"There are so many people here that it's inconvenient to elaborate. Lord song and I had a secret conversation for a long time this afternoon. We were quite speculative. As a result, we forgot to eat dinner. I've heard that instant boiled meat in the capital is unique. I don't know if I can invite you to enjoy it?"

After hesitating, Wang Wuwei said:

"OK, Lao Fu's family in front has excellent pickled vegetables, white meat and instant boiled pot. Let's go there and talk. Young master Hu, you're new to BJ. You can't let people say that we people in Beijing don't understand etiquette. This meal is mine."

Fang Linyan didn't argue with him, so he said with a smile:

"Well, this meal bothered the fifth master."

The place that Wang Wu, the local leader of BJ, took to must be no worse. It is said that the old Fu family has been open for more than 60 years. After three generations, the place looks dilapidated in an alley. It's really good inside. Although the environment is simple, it's clean.

After sitting down, you can see that several pots of xialan are open outside the window. Although the pots for planting xialan are broken face pots and broken pots, they are neat and clean, so they give people the feeling of the smell of Lanxin in the humble room.

During the conversation, the boss served the dishes. BJ's instant boiled pot was nothing more than a few things, copper pot, charcoal fire, fat and thin, red and white thin mutton, fresh green vegetables, and a dish mixed with leek flowers and sesame paste.

As long as the meat is fresh, the knife is good and the materials are exquisite, the taste must be no worse.

After three rounds of wine, Fang Linyan opened his conversation without waiting for others to ask:

"In fact, I talked with Lord song about a very confidential matter. I didn't boast. There are few people in the capital who can let me talk, but it's a coincidence today. Although you came to trouble me, you are really qualified to listen to me!"

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