Vol 13 Chapter 118: set off

Fang Linyan has already investigated. In the Beiyang Fleet, the rest of the pipes and belts are not rabbits, so such personnel changes should be beneficial and harmless to the Beiyang Navy. As for the others who were accidentally injured , then it would be a lot of offense, just consider yourself unlucky.
After Fang Linyan returned to the inn where the capital lived, Chi Ji greeted him with a smile and said:
"This time, after the husband went out, someone sent a huge gift."
Although Chi Ji is a demon, she also received the Dragon Qi of the Yellow River thanks to Fang Lin Yan, so she basically has no taboos and is no different from people, even if she haunts the capital.
After Fang Linyan left the Li residence before, he went to visit Tan Sitong again, and wanted to inquire about the latest news, but found nothing, and then returned to his residence.
At this time, when he heard Chi Ji say it, he immediately knew that it should have been sent by the Li family. After doing some counting, he found that the rest of the money was fine, but there was a gilded letter from Li Gongzhang, which was very rare. .
Because at this time the invitations are all to be taken back by the master, Li Jingshu put the invitations in the gift and will not take them back, which means that if you encounter any embarrassment in the future, just take my invitations and ask someone for help.
With the reputation and status of Lao Zhongtang at this time, no matter where this post of worship is taken, it is estimated that others will give it three points of thin noodles.

Two days later,
Fang Linyan also enjoyed two days in Chiji's gentle township. During this period, he also planned to do some milestones that he could accomplish, but unfortunately, he failed without exception.
This is much more difficult than he thought, especially when investigating the milestone of "Where is Guangxu going?", Fang Linyan and Li San disguised themselves and went to find an old who retired from the palace to ask about the situation .
He originally thought that he was going to coerce and lure, both soft and hard, but he didn't expect that the old couldn't even stand the temptation of five taels of silver, so he let go and let them come to him at night, and lead them to find insiders, because insiders nightly will go home.
The eunuchs recorded in the book are majestic and powerful, and they can even decide the life and death of the ministers with a single movement. For example, the emperor asked the court to beat people, and the prison shouted:
"Hit with your heart!" At the same time, the toes of both feet are still separated, and the minister is dead.
If the called "Shi Li beat", and the toes of both feet were in the shape of the inward, then when he beat, he heard a crackling sound, but in fact, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and he could get up and walk immediately after the end.
However, these great eunuchs recorded in the history books and legends are all existences on the top of the pyramid, and most of the eunuchs have a very bad ending.
Either he died directly in the palace, or just like the old Fang Linyan and the others found.
Eunuchs are the dedicated servants of the Tian family, officials, eunuchs, wealthy businessmen and others dare not hire them, so they are destitute and have no children and daughters, and they can only die of poverty in the eyes of others.
So it only took five taels of silver to pry open the eunuch's mouth, which even Fang Linyan didn't expect.
However, when the two went to the at night, they found that he had already hanged himself in the room, and there was a suicide note left beside him, saying that he could not bear the poverty, and was plagued by illness, so he committed suicide due to world-weariness.
Not only that, after Fang Linyan and the two turned to another street, they heard that people here also committed suicide! And he was also an old eunuch. Obviously, the old who committed suicide was the insider.
The cause of death of these two people is obviously very problematic, and I am afraid that there may be more suicides.
If Fang Linyan has enough time, he can still follow the vine to investigate, but he is also carrying a heavy responsibility now, and he can't interfere with the business affairs of Lord Song for this matter, so he can only put it on hold.
Fortunately, at this time, the international situation has changed again. Britain and France have begun to publicly declare that they will seriously consider Japan's territorial needs for Sakhalin and the four northern islands!
Its purpose is only one, and that is to accelerate the conflict between Russia and Japan, and then achieve the purpose of using Japan to consume the strength of Russia.
In this process, these two countries only value how much money Tsarist Russia has consumed, how many people have died, and how much national strength has been wasted. As for what price Japan has to pay, how much pressure will the Qing country be under ------- Guan They are birds of prey.
With the appearance of the Anglo-French Declaration, the pressure on the Tsarist Russian Minister's side has also increased. He is not willing to kneel in front of the Tsar and bear his anger!
As a result, the envoy could no longer sit still, so he could only urgently summon Song Yuren, hoping to talk to him about the plan to attack the Japanese mainland.
During this meeting, the Russian Minister Cassini obviously made a lot of concessions. The previously requested bribes, privileges, and benefits were all cancelled. He even said that if the war goes well, the Sino-Russian Nibu can be reconsidered. Demarcation of the Treaty of Chu.
In a word, as long as you are willing to exert more pressure on Japan and let their power be involved, then our Russia can provide a lot of benefits!
For example, providing mercenaries, providing arms, or even selling land, etc., except for us to pay, the rest can be discussed...
In fact, the current Tsarist Russian government still adopts the backward serf system. After China had been freed from slavery for almost two thousand years, it was not until 1861 that the serf system was reformed. The February Revolution of 2010 was considered a successful break from serfdom.
Therefore, the Tsarist Russian government is also very poor now, and of course European countries are also very afraid of it, because this guy is not only poor, but also likes to play with people.
Therefore, I seized this opportunity, plus Song Yuren has money in his hands, and now there is a large group of people behind them, led by top businessmen like the Qiao family! In the negotiation, he actually started to take a lot of advantages, and even signed a secret treaty with Russia.
In the secret agreement, the two sides agreed that this special military operation is called the "Hunting Day" plan. If this plan is successful and China inflicts heavy damage on Japan, then Russia will immediately send troops, and the two sides will divide up all Japan's interests in the Far East, and Russia will return Vladivostok to China.
To be honest, even Fang Linyan never thought that Song Yuren could come up with such a secret contract!
Once fulfilled, his prestige will reach an astonishing peak, juxtaposed with Zuo Zongtang, Liu Yongfu and others, and he will basically have the right to speak in foreign affairs in the future.
At this time, China and Russia can be said to hit it off. Song Yuren pays the employment fee and solves the transportation problem, while Russia provides the corresponding manpower and weapons! The Russian ambassador is still very confident in the destructive power of the guys in Vladivostok.
However, the key to this matter is actually the problem of transportation. You must know that the Japanese navy now occupies the corresponding sea control power. If you are not sure that you can send people to the main island of Japan, they will be directly sunk halfway, then everything can be done. It's all empty talk.
Song Yuren made a guarantee, saying that the source of the ship he hired was complicated and originally belonged to the Spanish owner, and the second largest shareholder of the company was French, so he could directly use the French flag.
Now the relationship between Japan and Britain and France is just as good as mixing oil. Let alone the direction of the Japanese navy's patrols and alerts, they are aimed at the Beiyang Fleet, which may be from the west and the south. They set off from Vladivostok to raid Japan. , that is from north to south, there is a high probability that the Japanese combined fleet will not be encountered.
Even if they encountered it, the Japanese combined fleet would not dare to attack the French ships lightly, unless it could be sure that the ships were carrying soldiers.
Therefore, the key task of this operation is to keep secrets, and people from the Huai Army cannot be involved, because the intelligence personnel on the Japanese side have already infiltrated this side like a sieve, and it is even said that even the telegrams of the Beiyang Navy The codebooks were all stolen by the Japanese...
Fortunately, Song Yuren was also very tight-lipped when he was running around in the Shanghai Concession. He only mentioned the matter of looking for a ship, and even the news of looking for the landing soldiers was indirectly inquired through the rest of the people.
More importantly, at this time Song Yuren was just an anonymous bureaucrat. Logically speaking, the Japanese would not pay more attention to him.
After all, Japan was still a weak country at this time, with extremely limited resources, and it could only reluctantly fight against the Qing Kingdom at the risk of national fortune. As long as the war dragged on for a year, Japan's economy would automatically collapse.
The next series of dazzling operations directly reflects the four characters of "Binggui"! During this process, only two Qing officials, Song Yu and Tan Sitong, participated in the plan, which was an important factor in the efficiency.
Needless to say, in addition to the tens of thousands of taels of silver left by Fang Linyan for the main body (Hu Zhiyun), the profits he earned from speculating and selling foreign goods, the profits from selling heavy ships and the goods on it, and even the rewards Li Gongzhang gave him were all. fell into this plan.
Not to mention Li Ju, Li San, and even Tan Sitong and the uncle of the Qiao family were shocked. They all said that Mr. Hu had the heart to break the family for the country, and he was even above Duke Zhiyong. It's too rare.
Fang Linyan's behavior also directly affected a large number of people around him.
Wang Wu and Master Huo heard that they were going to take the initiative to kill the Japanese devils, and they called over a dozen like-minded brothers, saying that they would also participate in this hunting day plan.
For the sake of his dream (big housekeeper), Li San nodded his head to participate after much deliberation.
As for Li Ju, he took the initiative to find Fang Linyan and asked him for 10,000 taels of silver. He said that a brother he had met said that Fang Linyan was currently suffocating, and the Lord had a catastrophe recently, so he could keep him safe.

After six days,
From the turning point of Jiawu, there are only five days left on September 17 of the Yellow Sea naval battle.
At this time, Fang Linyan and his group had been bumping on the sea for a day and a night.
The weather can be said to be very bad. The light gray clouds are pouring rain down continuously. The steamship called Oss is moving forward with difficulty in the surging waves. It will be shot back half a meter by the spray, and the black smoke from the chimney will quickly fade away.
In the cabin at this time, a man with an aquiline nose was staring at Fang Linyan. He was sturdy, almost two meters tall. He was an uncompromising big man. Furious, he suddenly slammed his fist on the table, and then roared:
"China brat, get the vodka out now, or I'll make you feel the wrath from hell!"
Fang Linyan shook his head and said to Li Sand behind him:
"I think Mr. Shoigu must be drunk. You help him sober up."
Li San shrugged, then sat in front of the Tsarist Russian, and placed his right hand on the table in a wrench-wrench stance.
But Shoigu shouted:
"No, I refuse this game, listen, what me and my lads need is vodka, vodka!"
Then he simply stretched out his big furry hand, aimed it at Li San's neck and grabbed it.
However, Li San, who had been on guard for a long time, punched out, slammed his armpit, and then squeezed the guy's little finger and twisted it hard, Shoigu immediately screamed in pain, twisted his body and beat hard The table shouted:
"Stop, stop!"
The current situation was caused by Fang Linyan.
When the two parties signed the secret agreement, Fang Linyan played a trick.
It was clearly written in the secret contract that after boarding the ship, each mercenary who participated in the "Hunting Day" plan would be provided with spirits at "appropriate time". The spirits should be Danda brand or Beluga brand. Or at least the quality and price should not be lower than these two brands.
Then the Russian counselor who was in charge of supervising the execution of the contract did see that the porter was loading a large amount of vodka onto the ship.
It's just, UU reading www. uukanshu.com All these vodkas were transported to the room of Fang Linyan and others. The Russian mercenaries on the ship thought they would drink alcohol after boarding the ship, but their thoughts were beautiful but cruel - The only thing you can drink is water.
Hehe, these people are so naive. It's not that Fang Linyan doesn't know what kind of urination these Russians are when they get into alcohol.
Therefore, Fang Linyan took out the secret contract between the two parties and told them that it was not "the right time".
And what is the right time? Of course, the final interpretation right belongs to Fang Linyan, because the wine is in his hands.
After the gang of Russians were in a hurry, Fang Linyan told them that if they wanted to drink the vodka they carried on the ship, they had to arrive at a Japanese port.
Or someone who thinks that he is very powerful and can beat his subordinates "in a man's way", then he can drink vodka with the glory of victory.
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