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Chapter 1332 Going to Japan
After hearing this, Fang Linyan suddenly said:

"No wonder it's like this. I think Master Huo has a high prestige here. Many people came just to say hello."

Ma Kui said:
"That's right, there are at least two to 3000 people here at the Liao's wharf next to it to make a living! The suffering on the wharf haha, it's inevitable that there will be a bruise. Master Huo's family has been practicing medicine here for two generations. I have always been doing good deeds, and I will help those who have no money."

"This is not a day or two of good deeds. It is a good relationship accumulated by two generations. I heard that even the deputy leader of the platoon gang comes here, and 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?"

Ma Kui said:
"Mr. Liu, you and you can be mistaken. Master Huo has been very strong since he was a child. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he was able to carry seven or eight hundred catties of medicinal materials at home."

"Not only that, he also worshiped the old Taoist who told his fortune back then as his teacher, learned a hand of Hongquan, and also practiced the special Wudang internal method of fishing for toads. If you wait for a dozen people, you can't get close to him."

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 solemnly:
"The sixth son broke the family and established the country, please accept Huo Mou's worship."

Fang Linyan didn't refuse, he stood up straight and accepted his bow, and then directly bowed back deeply:
"The Japanese are rampant, and their family and country are precarious. If they are easily succeeded by them, the consequences will be extremely serious. The rest of England, Russia, and France will think that Yangyang China is extremely weak, and will regard it as a big fat. Triggering the frenzy of the big powers to carve up China, we fear the disaster of subjugation and extinction of the country!"

"Although I'm trying my best to save all of this now, I still feel that I'm weak, and I don't know if Master Huo can accompany me on this dangerous road of near-death?"

Master Huo said word by word:
"Stick what you want, don't dare to ask for it!"

***
For the next two days, Fang Linyan could only wait while he had all the cards in his hand. To be honest, he could only wait for Song Yuren's situation.

Just looking at the situation in the past two days, it is still inevitable that the situation will deteriorate towards the favorable situation of the Japanese side.
The excellent performance of the Huai army in North Korea was only a flash in the pan, and then it would collapse at the touch of a touch. Ye Zhichao's department even showed extraordinary "stunt skills", flying two hundred miles a day and night, but it was not a rush, but a run.

The foreign guns and cannons that Li Gongzhang spent a lot of money on were thrown away in the muddy water.

What's more, now that the waterway is cut off, Japan continues to increase its troops. The army in North Korea is close to 1, while the Huai army is only 6000 at full strength.

Under such circumstances, even if the current Japanese army is not the powerful modern army that occupies the three eastern provinces in the west, resists the Soviets in the north, attacks the United States in the east, and invades Southeast Asia in the south, it has not even experienced the Russo-Japanese War 40 years later. It is still not something the Huai army can contend with at this time.

Not only that, but under the crisis public relations of the Japanese, many media on the British side began to favor the Japanese side when discussing the sunk British merchant ship.

Just yesterday, The Times, which was founded in 1785, also published an editorial on this incident, and even used related words similar to merchant ships' "self-inflicted blame".Of course, this editorial = £[-].

Brown, the vice-president of the House of Commons, said that we should not be blinded by some superficial things. Those who are always trying to challenge the authority of the sun never sets are our confidants. These words = five thousand GBP.

Russia's attitude continued to fall into a strange ambiguity.

Among the messy information, Fang Linyan couldn't tell how much of it came from the push of the space fighters, and how much of it came from the spontaneous 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 rotting corpse poison on his body was completely removed, Fang Linyan entrusted all the affairs of Qiao's 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, and then helped to collect the money, and then remitted most of the money to Mr. Song, the Song Yuren in England.

After confirming that Fang Linyan really easily used hundreds of thousands or millions of silver to fight against the Japanese, Master Huo was also greatly shocked, and immediately let go of all the affairs of the pharmacy, and volunteered to help .

With these two to assist in carrying out his plan, Fang Linyan was about to go to Japan, but unexpectedly saw Hu Xueming before leaving.

At this time, Hu Xueming looked much better, at least he was not as disheveled and beaten as before. When he saw Fang Linyan, he walked over with a big smile on his face. He seemed to have no grudges, but It's Fang Linyan who looks a little guilty
"Nephew, nephew!!"

Hu Xueming took Fang Linyan's hand intimately and said:

"I knew that my nephew was a dragon, and my future was limitless." (Two hundred words are omitted here)
Fang Linyan was really impatient, and said directly:
"Speak up if you have something to say."

Hu Xueming took out a box from his bosom and said with a smile:

"Yesterday was a good day. I asked my family to take out old books to dry, and suddenly found something, which was left by my fourth brother. I thought that this thing should be useful for my nephew, so I brought it to you. take a look"

Fang Linyan kept the thing for a look, and it turned out to be a booklet called "Taoyuan Collection".

He took a rough look at it next, and found that it was a handwritten copy. From the preface, he basically understood that this was when the cheap old man was studying. I started to chant and write poems while helping scholars.

This booklet records the masterpieces of these scholars.

The ancient party of Yuyuan Yaji is very popular among scholars. The most famous one is that a group of people in the Jin Dynasty drank at Lanting, took K poison (take Wushi powder), bragging, big swords, and chanting poems by the way. .

Then they set up a Lanting collection, but it was a big guy surnamed Wang who made their big sword assembly pass down through the ages, and wrote it for this collection while the crooked mouth after drinking it was not over. preface, and then wrote the peerless masterpiece
It's a pity that the booklet left by Fang Linyan's cheap father back then is very mediocre.

No matter it is the characters, or the quality of the verses inside—there is even a famous line like "the peach blossoms are all red, and Tweety is in it" that can stun the teacher.

Therefore, Fang Linyan simply threw the thing back, then shook his head and said indifferently:

"I'm not interested in that."

Hu Xueming also didn't expect Fang Linyan's reaction to be so indifferent, because in terms of the current customs, "father"'s articles must be kept carefully, and at any cost, you have to be grateful when you get them back. Table wine, how could it be like throwing garbage like Fang Linyan?
"Unworthy descendants, unworthy descendants!"

Hu Xueming scolded ten thousand times in his heart, but still he could only catch the booklet with quick eyesight and quick hands, but he was in a hurry, the pages of the book were a little scattered, and suddenly something similar to a bookmark fell from it. Floating in the air.

At this time, in Fang Linyan's eyes, this "bookmark" actually gave off a faint gleam. His heart moved, and he hurriedly reached out to grab it, and found that the material of this bookmark was not quite right.

At this time, there are wooden bookmarks, leaf bookmarks, silk bookmarks, etc., but the material of this bookmark is very strange, it looks like leather.

Suddenly, a reminder appeared in front of Fang Linyan:

"You have obtained a mysterious item: unknown leather."

"This prop will trigger a unique mission, which is unique to this world, and may involve supernatural aspects. The danger in it is at least fatal to you at the moment."

"If you're interested in this, please find someone interested in this piece of leather."

After receiving this series of reminders, Fang Linyan was stunned:

"Ouch, among the relics of this cheap old man, there is actually a hidden mission? And it looks more dangerous?"

Before he came to this world, he also conducted multiple investigations, and immediately grasped a series of key words in the mission statement:
"Spirituality is unique to this world, and it is more dangerous. This world is in the Qing Dynasty at this time, and that famous writer is also in the Qing Dynasty. Could it be a related task in Liaozhai?"

After so many thoughts flashed through his mind, Fang Linyan suddenly found that Hu Xueming in front of him was much more pleasing to the eye, and then he took a natural step forward, took back the "Taoyuan Collection", and stuffed the "bookmark" back.

"I thought about it. Since it belonged to my late father, I'd better keep it."

Then Fang Linyan gave Hu Xueming another bank note:
"Uncle Seven has preserved this thing until now, and there is no credit but hard work. Let's have a cup of tea."

Hu Xueming didn't care about any dignity, so he opened the silver ticket on the spot. After seeing it, he was overjoyed, because Fang Linyan actually gave 200 taels of silver directly.

For him, what he originally expected was 100 taels and he was satisfied, so he bowed immediately and poured out basket after basket of good words that don't require money.
***
After this episode, Fang Linyan started to travel along the canal from Tianjin to Shanghai, and then he could take a boat from Shanghai to Naha Port in Ryukyu, and then from Ryukyu to Kobe Port in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

Under normal circumstances, it would only take one day and one night to go directly from Tianjin Port to Nagasaki, Japan, but Fang Linyan made such a big 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 everywhere to check the situation of the bookmark, but of course he found nothing.

Fortunately, he is not short of money now, and he encountered a Western hospital in the concession, so he replenished his medicine there, and then bought a boat ticket to leave the port.

His luck was really bad this time, and he spent eight full days on the road. Even though he made a big circle, he avoided the range of the Japanese United Fleet's parade at this time, and his safety could be absolutely guaranteed.

However, Fang Linyan can go this way, but it is very difficult for imported large quantities of foreign goods. Tianjin Port is now completely blocked, and foreign goods can only be shipped to Shanghai, and then to Tianjin by land, BJ.

During this period, almost [-] miles of land travel was troublesome enough. Not to mention the freight cost, the key was a drop in the bucket. At that time, the cargo throughput of a merchant ship could reach more than [-] tons, and the freight of this ship went to Tianjin. /The capital needs [-] horse-drawn carriages to load, which is really incomparable with sea transportation.

As for the well-known water transportation, it has long since declined. As early as almost 50 years ago, in 1848, because the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was in disrepair for a long time, the Qing government had already started to transport grain by sea, relying on foreign goods to be sent to Beijing by water boats. , that is even more impossible, so the prices of foreign goods are still firm.

Needless to say, the ups and downs along the way, when Fang Linyan set foot on the land of Japan, he received several news that shocked him.

The first news is that the owner of the sunk British merchant ship: the Indochina Shipping Company, actually filed a lawsuit against the Qing government! !

After seeing this news, Fang Linyan really felt that this was really nonsense!It was the Japanese who sank the Gaosheng, what the hell are you suing China for, China is also a victim.

Fang Linyan took a closer look, and found that the other party had made a lot of nonsense, and he even said it logically:

It is believed that the Huai Army failed to expressly express the risk of transporting cargo to the Gaosheng at that time, which caused the Gaosheng to engage in the transportation of hostile ground combat troops (for Japan).

Therefore, China should clearly know that this will be completely intercepted by the Japanese army and seized as spoils of war.

Therefore, the Qing government should take responsibility for this and compensate for the corresponding losses. The total price is 33 pounds.

What's even more outrageous is that the secret telegram from the Qing Dynasty was leaked out, saying that Lafayette's decree was that as long as foreigners can make her worry a little bit, then she will pay for it, and it doesn't cost much, so she can avoid disaster.

Such remarks really caused an uproar across the country.

The second news is that all the troops of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea were finished. Only less than 800 people escaped from the 800 Huai Army, and these [-] people suddenly mutinied at the beginning of the war and fled directly after betraying the flanks of the friendly army.

The one who led these 800 people away was Ye Zhichao, the most powerful person in North Korea in the Qing Dynasty.
The third news is that in Oxford, many scholars on the bridge have published newspapers to defend the Japanese attack on the Gaosheng.

In the first maritime hearing held just two days ago, more than [-]% of the members believed that the Gaosheng was serving Japan's enemy country, and the Japanese army had the right to sink or detain it.

(End of this chapter)