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The boy laughed and said, "Your Excellency, you are joking. Our yamen's rule is that sending telegrams and translating telegrams are separate. If you want to send telegrams, you have to find an interpreter. You tell him what you want to send, and he has the text in his hand." The codebook, he used the codebook to translate the content into codes, and then gave the codes to me, and I sent the codes."

Li Jingfang asked immediately: "So that means: you don't know what the content of the telegram to send is."

The boy replied: "That's right, all I got was the code, I don't know the contents of the telegram."

When Li Jingfang heard it, he thought to himself: "This is good, no one will know the content of the telegram I sent." So Li Jingfang asked, "Where is the translator?"

The boy hurriedly said: "It's in the duty room, do you want to find him? I'll go and call him for you."

Li Jingfang nodded, and the servant went out, and quickly called a man, Li Jingfang saw the man and asked, "Are you the one who translated the telegram?"

The man nodded and replied: "Exactly, the telegrams from the Prime Minister's Office of State Affairs are all transcribed by my hand."

Li Jingfang smiled and said, "Very good, can you teach me how to transcribe?"

The man was taken aback when he heard this. The officials of the Qing court always looked down on technicians, and they always yelled and shouted at them, just like treating a dog!So the man was flattered when Li Jingfang said that he wanted to learn telegrams. He hurriedly agreed, took out his password book and said: "Actually, our password is very simple. It is to replace the actual words with other words. You first write out the telegram, and then learn from the password Just find the corresponding word in the book.”

Li Jingfang nodded and said, "I didn't expect it to be so simple." Li Jingfang then wrote a telegram, and then translated it into a code according to the cipher book, and then gave the translated code to the sender, saying: "Take this Send a telegram to Lin Yuan."

The Qing court had also sent a telegram to Lin Yuan before, so it was no surprise that the telegrapher heard that it was for Lin Yuan. He sent the telegram to Lin Yuan according to the code on the telegram. Li Jingfang then asked someone to bring a flint and scythe to burn the telegram. .

At this time, Lin Yuan was planning to attack Nanjing, when suddenly his subordinates came in and said, "The Qing court sent us a telegram."

Lin Yuan looked at the map in front of him and said without raising his head, "Read!"

The telegraph operator looked at the telegram and said: "Brother Lin, I am Li Jingfang. Emperor Guangxu wants to escape. With the help of the Japanese and the British, he fled to England or Japan. Today he departs from Nanjing to Fuzhou. After arriving in Fuzhou, he will take the Titanic." Royal Cruises."

Lin Yuan was taken aback after hearing the content of the telegram. What surprised him most was not that Emperor Guangxu wanted to flee to a foreign country, but that the Titanic appeared at this moment. Lin Yuan took a deep breath and put his thoughts on Guangxu. Regarding the matter of the emperor's escape, I thought to myself: "Could this matter be true? If it is false, why did Li Jingfang do this? Is it beneficial to the Qing court?"

Thinking of these things, Lin Yuan shook his head firmly and told himself: "This matter cannot be false, because they will not benefit them by giving me such a fake news, so this matter must be true! Since it is true, So what are they going to do?"

Lin Yuan thought for a while and then thought: "The Japanese and the British want to help Emperor Guangxu establish a government-in-exile, and the purpose behind it is self-evident, that is, to use Emperor Guangxu and his government-in-exile to contain our development in the future. Americans supported some separatist forces in exile in foreign countries in the same era.”

"No! I must not let Emperor Guangxu escape abroad. If he leads the high-ranking officials of the Qing court to escape abroad, things will be very troublesome in the future! How can I block Emperor Guangxu in the country? There is no hope of marching from land Now, sending helicopters and special forces is not a good way, the only feasible way now is: to intercept the Titanic cruise ship! There should be no troops on this cruise ship, and it is not very difficult to intercept it."

"Since we want to intercept that cruise ship, we should send the navy. The Titanic uses large steam turbines, and its speed can reach 23 knots. Our destroyers can catch up. I want to capture Emperor Guangxu alive, so I am catching up After this ship, I want to get troops on board to fight, so I need to use Chen Fei and his special forces."

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan immediately contacted Fade Chen and said, "Do you have any special forces who have practiced boarding combat?"

Fade Chen said: "The boarding operation is similar to the burglary operation, so our special forces can handle it completely. Why do you ask this?"

Lin Yuan said: "I received a big piece of information that Emperor Guangxu was going to flee China on the Titanic Royal Cruise Line."

Fade Chen laughed when he heard this, and said, "Are you kidding me? The Titanic? Didn't it go into the water until 1908?"

Lin Yuan hurriedly said: "I'm not joking with you. What I said is true. Emperor Guangxu will escape to Fuzhou Port by railway. It is definitely impossible for us to go there by land. Time is too late, so I decided to go by sea. To intercept Emperor Guangxu, if you want to intercept him at sea, you have to board a ship and fight, that's when I thought of you!"

Fade Chen said: "No problem, I will organize people immediately, when will we leave?"

Lin Yuan said: "You first bring people to Shanghai Port to join the Beijing ship. They are expected to arrive in Fuzhou tomorrow morning, and then their Titanic will be dispatched. I will then lead the troops to intercept them at sea."

Fade Chen agreed, and Lin Yuan first sent the mocking ship to the sea near Fuzhou Port to monitor the Titanic. Although Japan and the United Kingdom found the mocking ship, they never dreamed that Lin Yuan already knew the reason why they transported Emperor Guangxu abroad. Plan, so there is no defense.

At [-] o'clock in the morning on December [-], Emperor Guangxu's train arrived in Fuzhou. After getting off the train, Emperor Guangxu changed to a British car, went to the port, and boarded the Titanic. Li Jingfang, Prince Gong, Prince Qing, and others were accompanying him. Rong Lu, Sun Yuwen and other senior officials, Emperor Guangxu did not bring Weng Tonghe with him. He knew that Weng Tonghe had a kind of extreme discrimination against foreigners, and it was absolutely impossible to let him go to a foreign country, so he didn't let his subordinates tell him.

Everyone boarded the ship in batches until twelve o'clock in the morning. The commander-in-chief of the British side was Kyle. He immediately gave the order to sail, and the 6-ton Titanic slowly sailed out of the port. , heading north to Japan, at this time Lin Yuan was on board the Beijing ship, and Chen Fei's special forces were also ready, waiting for the Titanic to come out.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the radar on the Xiaofeng ship first discovered the trace of the Titanic, and immediately transmitted the location information of the Titanic to the Beijing ship through the ship's data transmission system, and the Beijing ship immediately moved towards it. At two o'clock in the afternoon, The huge hull of the Titanic appeared on the radar screen of the Beijing ship.

Lin Yuan immediately ordered the Beijing ship to turn around and chase the Titanic from behind, which would be much more convenient. At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, the Beijing ship chased the Titanic within visual distance, and Lin Yuan immediately ordered the Beijing ship: "Here Power the Titanic, tell it we are the Chinese navy, tell them to drop anchor immediately."