Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?"

When Fade Chen saw Lin Yuan, he said, "This is a group of Boxers who want to attack the Russian and Japanese embassies."

Lin Yuan said anxiously: "What do you think! How can you attack the Russian and Japanese embassies in this situation!"

One of the leaders said angrily: "Then what do you want us to do? The old Maozi and the little devil are killing our compatriots in Manchuria. Are we just watching here?"

Lin Yuan said: "What can you do there? They have guns in their hands, and the Qing court will not watch you kill foreigners!"

The leader doubted: "We are helping the imperial court! How can the imperial court not help us?"

Everyone immediately agreed and said, "These two people don't have braids, so they look like fake foreign devils. Let's kill them!"

A big man rushed up with a steel knife in his hand, and slashed at Fade Chen's head. Fade Chen turned sideways so quickly that Lin Yuan didn't even see clearly. Then Fade Chen stretched out his palm and grabbed and twisted the big man's wrist. The big man let out a cry of pain, and the steel knife fell out of his hand immediately. Fade Chen saw the timing and kicked the handle of the knife, and the knife obediently fell behind him.

Fade Chen pushed the big man back into the crowd, and said helplessly, "Are you finished?"

When the leader saw them, he said, "Everyone separate and surround these two people, I don't believe they have three heads and six arms!"

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If you don't convince this person, there will be big troubles today, and maybe your life will be costly."

So Lin Yuan roared angrily: "Enough!"

Everyone was taken aback by his yelling, and then Lin Yuan sneered and said, "I ask you, is the life of foreign devils more precious, or the lives of our compatriots?"

The leader said without even thinking: "Nonsense! Of course the lives of our compatriots are precious!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "In that case, why don't you go out of the customs to rescue the suffering people?"

In these few sentences, Lin Yuan actually used his conversation skills to make them think that the lives of compatriots are more precious, so everyone should go out to save the people. Of course, this causal relationship is not untenable, because everyone's ability is Different, for this group of people, they simply can't do it.

But this group of simple boxers who didn't even know their own names obviously couldn't figure it out, they immediately fell into deep thought, and after a while, the leader said: "That's the imperial court's business, we can do it, All I have to do is kill a few more foreign devils!" After speaking, he pointed at Lin Yuan with a knife, and cursed angrily, "There are fake foreign devils like you."

Lin Yuan sneered for a while, and said, "If someone takes you out of customs to fight foreign devils, will you go or not?"

The leader said: "Of course I went. What's the point of killing foreign devils here?"

Lin Yuan said: "If you can trust me, you can go back first. The imperial court will conscript soldiers in two days. Come and find me. My name is Lin Yuan."

The leader exclaimed: "Your name is Lin Yuan? It's the Lin Yuan who can blow up a mountain with a wave of his hand!"

Lin Yuan nodded with a smile, and the leader said, "Okay, brothers, I'll do it with you! Let's go back first."

Fade Chen watched this group of people leave, and said to Lin Yuan: "Revolutionary history tells us that it is impossible to rely on others without mastering our own armed forces. Can we regard this group of people as our first batch of armed forces? "

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Let's have a look again. I will discuss with Guangxu and see if we can recruit some soldiers."

When I went to Zhang Hua and asked, knowing that the president of the chamber of commerce was willing to pay, and the specific amount was still being discussed, Zhang Hua smiled wryly and said, "Captain, our Beijing ship must hurry up to study the production process of tobacco! I went there yesterday. , I gave away two Chinese pieces!"

Lin Yuan smiled and agreed, and said to Guangxu in the afternoon, and he readily agreed to leave the Forbidden City.Fade Chen was already waiting outside, insisting on going to his new house to have a look.

Walking on the road, Lin Yuan thought: "That little girl is nice to me, but I don't even know her name, why don't I buy her something."

Lin Yuan thought: "Girls should like small jewelry." So he bought a pair of bracelets. The shopkeeper said that the bracelets were made of emerald stone, not expensive but exquisite.

Lin Yuan knew that the jadeite mentioned by the shopkeeper was actually serpentine, a mineral commonly used in the inorganic salt industry. The shopkeeper thought the word "snake" was not pleasant, so they changed it.

Lin Yuan and Chen Fei came to the house given by Cixi. The girl was already waiting for him in the house. As soon as the two of them entered the house, the girl screamed and hid behind the screen. What are you doing with me?"

Lin Yuan said: "Think about what era this is. A woman can't meet outsiders casually, not even her husband's friends."

Fade Chen let out an "oh" and hid out.

The girl just came out, Lin Yuan asked: "I still don't know what to call you?"

The girl shyly said: "You can call your slave whatever you want." In ancient times, masters could name their slaves whatever they wanted, so this girl said so.

Lin Yuan said, "Then what was your original name?"

The girl said, "They all call me Guan'er."

Lin Yuan said: "Well, I'll call you that too. By the way, I bought you some things. I don't know if you like them." He handed the gift to her.

Two red clouds suddenly flew up on the girl's face, and she shyly refused to pick it up. Although Lin Yuan had a certain understanding of ancient society, he forgot: In this era, when a man gives something to a woman, it usually means a token of love. , How dare that girl pick it up.

When they were frozen there, someone announced from outside the door that Wu Dacheng (pronounced "Deng"), the governor of Hunan, and Song Qing, the admiral of Sichuan, held a banquet in Mengxianlou, and Mr. Lin was invited.

Lin Yuan put the things aside and said, "I'm leaving first, you can look at things when you have time."

Lin Yuan came out and saw Fade Chen frowning, and asked him with a smile: "What's wrong with you?"

Fade Chen shook his head gently, and said, "It's nothing." Lin Yuan's heart moved, thinking, "Did he think of that Matsushima Keiko again?"

Lin Yuan knew that Wu Dacheng was in command of the Hunan Army in Shanhaiguan.As Song Qing mentioned earlier, the Qing court ordered him to lead troops to the border between China and North Korea, where he had been stationed in Jiulian City. Before he could withdraw to Lushun, the Japanese attacked Shengjing (roughly Liaoning Province today).

As soon as the Japanese landed from Jinzhou Bay, they quickly reached Fengtian and Changtu. In the north, General Changshun of Jilin surrendered without a fight. Shou, the Russians may send troops from Qiqihar at any time to join forces with the Japanese. In that case, the entire Song Qing's troops will be wrapped in dumplings, so Song Qing retreated overnight, Shanhaiguan had no way to leave, so he had to go around in a big circle. Detour back to Beijing from Inner Mongolia.

Emperor Guangxu had already ordered that Lin Yuan, as an imperial envoy, command all the soldiers and horses in Beijing to regain lost ground. Hongmen Banquet!"

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