Vol 13 Chapter 29: to Japan

Chapter 1332 Going to Japan
After listening to Fang Linyan, he suddenly said:
"No wonder that's the case. I think Master Huo is very prestigious here, and a lot of people come here just to say hello."
Marquee said:
"That's right, there are at least two or three thousand people here every day at the Liao's Wharf, carrying bags and begging for a living! The suffering on the wharf, haha, it is inevitable that there will be a bruise. Master Huo's family has been practicing medicine here for two generations. , I have been accumulating virtue and doing good deeds, and I will help those who have no money."
"This is not a day or two of accumulating virtue and doing good deeds. It is a good relationship accumulated by two generations. I heard that even if the deputy leader of the Pai Gang came here, his prestige is not as high as that of Master Huo!"
Fang Linyan pondered for a while and said:
"It seems that Master Huo is gentle and gentle, but he doesn't seem to know martial arts?"
Marquee said:
"Liu Gongzi, you and Ke have misunderstood. Master Huo has been very strong since he was a child. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he was able to carry the burden of seven or eight hundred kilograms of medicinal materials at home."
"Not only that, he also learned from the old Taoist who gave him fortune-telling back then, learned a hand of Hongquan, and also practiced the special Wudang inner family's heart method, fishing for toads, which can't be approached by a dozen people."
While the two were chatting, Master Huo had already walked in with Wang Wu. This time, after seeing Fang Linyan, he immediately bowed deeply to Fang Linyan with a solemn face:
"The sixth son broke his family into a country, please accept Huo Mou's worship."
Fang Linyan did not refuse, stood up straight and bowed to him, and then directly bowed back deeply:
"The Japanese are rampant and the country is unstable. If they are easily succeeded, the consequences will be extremely serious. The rest of England, Russia, and France will even more think that China is extremely weak, and regard it as a big fat meat. At that time, it is bound to be Triggered the frenzy of foreign powers to divide up China, and we are afraid of the scourge of national subjugation and extinction!"
"Although I am trying my best to save all this, I still feel that I am weak and weak. I don't know if Master Huo can accompany me on this perilous road of life and death?"
Master Huo said word by word:
"I wish, I dare not ask!"

For the next two days, Fang Linyan could only wait while he waited. He now had all the cards in his hand. To be honest, he could only wait for the situation on Song Yuren's side.
Just looking at the situation in the past two days, it is still inevitable that the situation in Japan's favor will deteriorate.
The outstanding performance of the Huai Army in North Korea was only short-lived, and the next thing was to collapse at a touch.
The foreign guns and cannons that Li Gongzhang bought at a great price were thrown into the muddy water.
What's more, the waterway is now cut off, and Japan is still increasing its troops. The army in North Korea has approached 10,000 people, while the Huai army is only 6,000 people when it is full.
Under such circumstances, even if the current Japanese army is not the powerful modern army that will occupy the three eastern provinces in the west, resist the Soviets in the north, attack the United States in the east, and invade Southeast Asia in the south in 40 years, it has never even experienced the Russo-Japanese War. But it was still not something that the Huai Army could contend against at this time.
Not only that, under the Japanese crisis public relations, many media on the British side actually began to favor the Japanese side when discussing the sunk British merchant ships.
Just yesterday, The Times, which was founded in 1785, also published an editorial on the incident, and even used a related phrase similar to the "self-defeating" of merchant ships. Of course, this editorial = £8,000.
Brown, the deputy dean of the lower house of parliament, said that we should not be blinded by some superficial things. Those who are always trying to challenge the authority of the sun are our confidants. These words = five thousand GBP.
Russia's attitude continued to be mired in peculiar ambiguity.
In the messy information, Fang Linyan could not see how much of it came from the pushers of space warriors, and how much came from the self-evolution of the international situation.
However, Fang Linyan estimated that it would take at least a month for Song Yuren to have definite news, and waiting quietly was not his style.
Therefore, after confirming that the carrion poison on his body was completely removed, Fang Linyan entrusted all the affairs of the Qiao family shop to Wang Wu:
What Wang Wu did was very simple. He supervised the shopkeeper of the Qiao family to sell foreign goods at the price specified by Fang Linyan, then helped to collect the money, and then remitted most of the money to Mr. Song Yuren Song in the UK.
After confirming that Fang Linyan was really easy to use hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to fight against the Japanese, Master Huo was also greatly shocked, and immediately let go of all the affairs on the side of the pharmacy, and volunteered to help .
With these two to assist in the implementation of his plan, Fang Linyan was about to go to Japan, but he didn't expect to see Hu Xueming again before he left.
At this time, Hu Xueming looked much better, at least not the way he had been beaten with a disheveled face before. When he saw Fang Linyan, he strode over with a smile on his face. He seemed to have no grudges. It's Fang Linyan who looks very guilty
"Nephew, nephew!"
Hu Xueming pulled Fang Linyan's hand intimately and said:
"I knew that my nephew is a dragon among people, and the future is limitless." (200 words are omitted here)
Fang Linyan was really a little impatient, and said directly:
"Speak up if you have something to say."
Hu Xueming took out a box from his arms and said with a smile:
"It was a good day yesterday. I asked my family to take out the old book to dry it, and suddenly found something, but it was left by the fourth brother back then. I thought that this nephew should be useful, so I brought it to me. look at you"
Fang Linyan took a look at the thing, and it turned out to be a booklet called: "Peach Garden Collection".
He then took a general look and found that this thing was a manuscript. After reading the preface, he basically understood that this was when the cheap old man was studying, he went to a Taoyuan somewhere in the spring with a group of classmates to enjoy flowers, and then a Help the scholar to start chanting and writing poems.
This booklet records the masterpieces of these scholars.
The ancient party such as Yuyuan Yaji is very popular among scholars. The most famous one is that a group of people in Jin Dynasty drank in Lanting, K poison (five stone powder), bragging, big sword, and chanting poetry by the way. .
Then they made a Lanting Collection. However, the one who let their big sword gathering be passed down through the ages was still a big man named Wang who took advantage of his crooked mouth to drink it and gave it to this collection. preface, and then wrote the peerless masterpiece
It's a pity that the booklet left by Fang Linyan's cheap father was very mediocre.
Whether it's the words or the quality of the verses in it - there are even famous phrases like "the peach blossoms are all red, and Cui'er is in it", which can shock the teacher.
Therefore, Fang Linyan simply threw the thing back, then shook his head and said indifferently:
"I'm not interested in this."
Hu Xueming didn't expect Fang Linyan's reaction to be so indifferent, because in terms of the current customs, the articles of "Lady Father" must be kept well, and at any cost, they must be grateful to take them back. How can table wine like Fang Linyan be like throwing garbage?
"Unworthy descendants, unworthy descendants!"
Hu Xueming cursed 10,000 times in his heart, but he could only catch the booklet quickly, but he was in a hurry, the pages were scattered, and suddenly a bookmark-like thing fell from it. Floating in the air.
At this time, in Fang Linyan's eyes, the "bookmark" actually glowed faintly. He moved in his heart and hurriedly reached out and grabbed it, realizing that the material of the bookmark was not right.
At this time, there are wooden bookmarks, leaf bookmarks, silk bookmarks, etc., but the material of this bookmark is very strange, and it looks like leather.
Suddenly, a prompt appeared in front of Fang Linyan's eyes:
"You have acquired a mysterious item: an unknown leather."
"This item will trigger a unique mission. This mission is unique to this world. It may involve spiritual aspects, and the dangers are at least fatal to you at present."
"If you're interested in that, find someone who is interested in this leather."
After getting this series of prompts, Fang Linyan was stunned:
"Ouch, in this cheap old man's relic, there is actually a hidden mission? And it looks more dangerous?"
Before he came to this world, he also conducted multiple investigations, and immediately caught a series of keywords in the mission description:
"Spirituality, unique to this world, and relatively dangerous. This world is in the Qing Dynasty at this time, and the famous writer was also in the Qing Dynasty. Could it be a related task in Liaozhai?"
After so many thoughts flashed in his heart, Fang Linyan suddenly realized that Hu Xueming in front of him was much pleasing to the eye, and then he naturally took a step forward, took back the "Taoyuan Ji", and tucked the "bookmark" back.
"I thought about it, since it's my late father's thing, then I should stay when I see things and think about people."
Then Fang Linyan stuffed Hu Xueming with a silver note:
"Seventh Uncle has kept this thing until now. There is no credit or hard work. Let's take it and have a cup of tea."
Hu Xueming didn't care about his decency, and opened the bank note on the spot. After seeing it, he was instantly happy, because Fang Linyan actually gave two hundred taels of silver directly.
For him, what he originally expected was just one hundred taels, and he was satisfied. He immediately bowed to him, and poured out a bunch of good words that didn't want money.

After this episode, Fang Linyan began to rush from Tianjin to Shanghai along the canal, and then from Shanghai, he could take a boat to Naha Port in Ryukyu, and then from Ryukyu to Kobe Port in Hyogo County, Japan.
Under normal circumstances, it would only take one day and one night to travel directly from Tianjin Port to Nagasaki, Japan, but Fang Linyan made such a large circle, even if he did not spare the cost and traveled overnight, it would take at least about a week!
After arriving in Shanghai, Fang Linyan stayed here for almost a day, asking people to check the bookmark, but of course he found nothing.
Fortunately, he is not short of money now. He also met a Western hospital in the concession, so he replenished the medicine in it, and then bought a ferry ticket and left the port.
His luck this time was really bad, and he spent eight days on the road, so although he made a big circle, he avoided the scope of the Japanese combined fleet cruise at this time, and he could absolutely ensure safety.
However, Fang Linyan can walk this road, but it is very difficult for imported bulk foreign goods. Tianjin Port has now been completely blocked, and foreign goods can only be transported to Shanghai, and then to Tianjin, BJ.
During this period, it was quite troublesome to walk about 2,000 miles by land. Not to mention the cost of freight, the key is to drop in the bucket. At that time, the cargo throughput of a merchant ship could reach more than 1,000 tons, and the freight of this ship went to Tianjin. In the capital, 2,000 carriages are needed for loading, which is really incomparable with shipping.
As for the famous waterway transportation, it has long since declined. As early as 50 years ago, in 1848, because the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal had been in disrepair, the Qing government had already begun to ship grain by waterway, hoping that foreign goods would be transported to Beijing by watercraft. Go, it is even more impossible, so the price of foreign goods is still strong.
Needless to say, the rushing and rushing along the way, when Fang Linyan's feet landed on Japanese soil, he received several news that shocked him.
The first news is that the subordinate of the sunk British merchant ship: the Indochina Shipping Company actually filed a lawsuit against the Qing government!
After seeing the news, Fang Linyan really felt that this was really nonsense! It was the Japanese who sank the Gaosheng. What are you suing China for? China is also a victim.
Fang Linyan took a closer look, and found that the other party actually made a crooked argument, and he also made a point:
It is believed that the Huai Army failed to make the Kaosheng clear about the risks of transporting goods, which led to the Kaosheng's (for Japan) transport of hostile ground combat troops.
So China should clearly know that this will be completely intercepted by the Japanese army and captured as a trophy. UU reading www.uukanshu.com
Therefore, the Qing government should take responsibility for this and compensate for the corresponding losses, the total price of which is 33,411 pounds.
What's even more outrageous is that the secret electricity from the Qing Dynasty has also leaked out, saying that it was the decree of Lafayette, as long as the foreigners can make her worry a little bit, then she will pay for it.
Such remarks really caused an uproar across the country.
The second piece of news is that the Qing army in Korea was all over, and only less than 800 people escaped from the 6,000 Huai Army, and these 800 people suddenly mutinied when the war started, betrayed the flank of the friendly army and fled directly of.
It was Ye Zhichao, who had the highest power in Korea in the Qing Dynasty.
The third news is that Oxford, a number of scholars on the bridge have published in the newspapers to defend the Japanese attack on the Takasho.
In the first maritime hearing held just two days ago, more than 40% of the members believed that the Gaosheng was serving Japan's enemy, and the Japanese army had the right to sink or detain it.