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Chapter 1421
Fang Linyan has already investigated, and in the Beiyang Fleet, none of the other officers belonged to rabbits, so such a personnel change should be beneficial and harmless to the Beiyang Navy. , then how offending, just treat yourself as unlucky.

After Fang Linyan returned to the inn where the capital was staying, Chi Ji greeted her with a smile and said:

"After my husband went out this time, someone sent a huge gift."

Although Chi Ji has a demon body, she also received the Yellow River Dragon Qi through Fang Linyan's blessing, so she basically has no taboos and is no different from others, even if she haunts the capital.

After Fang Linyan left Li's residence, he went to visit Tan Sitong again, wanting to find out the latest news, but found nothing, and then returned to his residence.

At this time, when he heard Chi Ji's words, he immediately knew that it should be sent by the Li family. After counting at this time, he found that the rest of the money was easy to talk about, but there was a bronzing letter from Li Gongzhang, which was very rare. .

Because at this time the greeting cards are the ones that the master wants to take back, Li Jingshu put the greeting cards in the gift and did not take them back, which means that if you encounter any embarrassing things in the future, just take my greeting cards and ask someone for help.

With the reputation and status of Lao Zhongtang at this time, no matter where this greeting card is taken, others will give it a three-pointer.

***
two days later,

Fang Linyan also enjoyed two days in Chiji's Gentle Township. During this period, he also planned to make some possible milestones, but unfortunately all of them failed without exception.

This is much more difficult than he imagined, especially when investigating the milestone of "Where is Guangxu?" Fang Linyan and Li San disguised themselves and went to find an old eunuch who had retired from the palace to inquire about the situation. .

He originally thought that he wanted to coerce and lure him, and act both soft and hard, but he didn't expect that the old eunuch couldn't even withstand the temptation of five taels of silver, so he just let go, let them come to him at night, and led them to find the insider, because the insider at night to go home.

The eunuchs recorded in the book are majestic, and even a single gesture can determine the life and death of a minister. For example, the emperor wants to beat someone with a stick, and the prison eunuch shouted:

"Hit with your heart!" At the same time, the toes of both feet are still separated into a horoscope, then the minister will die.

If the eunuch calls "strike hard", the toes of the feet are in the horoscope, then there will be a crackling sound during the beating, but in fact the thunder is heavy and the rain is light, and you can get up and walk immediately after the beating.

However, these great eunuchs recorded in history books and legends all existed on the top of the pyramid, and most of the eunuchs ended up very bad.

Either he died in the palace directly, or he was driven out of the palace just like the old eunuch Fang Linyan and the others had found.

Eunuchs are the special servants of the Tian family. Officials, wealthy businessmen and others dare not hire them, so they are poor and have no children. In the end, they can only die poor under the strange eyes of others.

So it only cost five taels of silver to pry open the eunuch's mouth, which even Fang Linyan didn't expect.

However, when the two went to find the eunuch at night, they found that he had hanged himself in the room, and left a suicide note next to him, saying that he was too poor and sick, so he committed suicide due to poverty.

Not only that, after Fang Linyan and the others turned to another street, they heard that someone committed suicide here too!And also an old eunuch, obviously, this old eunuch who committed suicide is the insider.

The cause of death of these two people is obviously very problematic, and they are more likely to commit suicide.

If Fang Linyan had enough time, he could continue to follow the vine to investigate, but he also has a heavy responsibility now, and he can't interfere with Mr. Song's business because of this matter, so he can only shelve it first.

Fortunately, at this time, the international situation changed again. Britain and France began to publicly declare that they would seriously consider Japan's territorial needs for Sakhalin Island and the four northern islands!
Its purpose is only one, and that is to accelerate the conflict between Tsarist Russia and Japan, and then achieve the purpose of using Japan to consume Tsarist Russia's strength.

During this process, these two countries only valued how much money Tsarist Russia spent, how many people died, and how much national strength was consumed. As for what price Japan would have to pay, and how much pressure the Qing Dynasty would receive—it was none of their business.

With the emergence of the British and French declarations, the pressure on the Tsarist Russian envoy has also increased. He is not willing to kneel in front of the Tsar and bear his anger!

As a result, the envoy couldn't sit still any longer, so he had to summon Song Yuren urgently, hoping to talk to him about the plan to attack the Japanese mainland.

During this meeting, Tsarist Russian Minister Cassini obviously made a lot of concessions. The bribes, privileges, and benefits requested before were all cancelled. The demarcation issue of the Treaty of Chu.

In a word, as long as you are willing to exert more pressure on Japan and let their strength be involved, then we, Russia, can come up with a lot of benefits!

For example, providing mercenaries, providing arms, even selling land, etc. Except for asking us to pay, the rest can be discussed.
In fact, the current Tsarist Russian government still adopts the backward serf system. After China had gotten rid of slavery for almost 2000 years, it took until 1861 to reform the serf system, but it was not changed until 1917. The February Revolution of [-] was considered a successful escape from serfdom.

Therefore, the Tsarist Russian government is also very poor now. Of course, European countries are also very afraid of it, because this guy is not only poor, but also likes to play with people's lives. It is the most intuitive to describe it as poor and poor.

Therefore, he seized this opportunity, plus Song Yuren has money in his hands, and now there is a large group of people behind him to support him, led by a top businessman like the Qiao family!During the negotiations, it actually started to take advantage of a lot, and even signed a secret agreement with Russia.

In the secret agreement, the two parties agreed that this special military operation is called the "Kunri" plan. If this plan succeeds and China inflicts heavy damage on Japan, then Russia will immediately send troops. The two sides will divide up all Japanese interests in the Far East, and Russia will return Vladivostok to China.

To be honest, even Fang Linyan didn't expect Song Yuren to negotiate such a secret agreement!
Once fulfilled, his reputation will reach an astonishing peak, tied with Zuo Zongtang, Liu Yongfu and others, and basically he will control the right to speak in diplomacy in the future.

At this time, China and Russia can be said to hit it off. Song Yuren paid the employment fee and solved the transportation problem, while Russia provided 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 power. It's all empty talk.

Song Yuren made a guarantee, saying that the source of the ship he hired was complicated. It originally belonged to the Spanish shipowner, and the second largest shareholder of the company was French, so he could directly fly the French flag.

Now the relationship between Japan and Britain and France is just as good as honey. Not to mention that the Japanese navy's patrol and alert directions are all aimed at the Beiyang Fleet from the west and south. They set off from Vladivostok to attack 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 definitely not dare to attack French ships lightly, unless they could be sure that there were soldiers on board.

Therefore, the key task of this operation is to keep secrets, and no one from the Huai army can participate, because the Japanese intelligence personnel have already infiltrated this side like a sieve, and it is even said that even the telegram from the Beiyang Navy The code books were all stolen by the Japanese.
Fortunately, Song Yuren was also very tight-lipped when he was traveling in the Shanghai Concession, he only mentioned the matter of finding the ship, and he even inquired about the search for the landing soldiers indirectly through other people.

More importantly, Song Yuren at this time was just an unknown bureaucrat, and logically speaking, the Japanese would not pay much attention to him at all.

After all, Japan is still a weak country at this time, with extremely limited resources, and betting on the country's fortunes, it can barely fight against the Qing Dynasty. As long as the war drags on for a year, Japan's economy will automatically collapse.

The next series of dazzling operations directly reflected the four words that soldiers are precious and fast!In this process, only two Qing officials, Song Yuren and Tan Sitong, participated in this plan, which is an important factor for such high efficiency.

Needless to say, in addition to leaving tens of thousands of taels of silver for the body (Hu Zhiyun), Fang Linyan's previous profits from speculating foreign goods, the profits from selling heavy ships and the goods on them, and even the reward money Li Gongzhang gave himself were all lost. fell into this plan.

Not to mention Li Ju, Li San, even Tan Sitong and the elders of the Qiao family were shocked by this kind of behavior, saying that Mr. Hu's heart to destroy the family and build the country is even higher than that of the most yonggong. Too rare.

Fang Linyan's behavior also directly affected a large number of people around him.

When Wang Wu and Master Huo heard that they were going to take the initiative to kill the Japanese devils, they called more than a dozen like-minded brothers and said that they would also participate in this Japanese hunting plan.

For his own dream (big steward), Li San also nodded to participate after careful consideration.

As for Li Ju, he took the initiative to find Fang Linyan and asked him for 1 taels of silver. He said that his brother who met Fang Linyan said that Fang Linyan was currently in a bad mood, and the Lord had a catastrophe recently, so he could keep him safe.

***
six days later,

From the turning point of the Sino-Japanese War, there are only five days left on September [-]th, the battle of the Yellow Sea.

At this time, Fang Linyan and his team had been bumping on the sea for a day and a night.

The weather can be said to be very bad, with light gray clouds pouring down rainwater constantly, the steamship named Oss was struggling to move forward amidst the surging waves, as if every meter advanced, It will be pushed back half a meter by the waves, and the black smoke from the chimney will also quickly fade.

At this moment in the cabin, a man with a hooked nose was staring at Fang Linyan. Furious, he slammed his fist on the table suddenly, and roared:
"You brat in China, hurry up and get out the vodka, otherwise, I will let 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 down in front of the Tsarist, put his right hand on the table, and made a gesture of wrestling his arms.

But Shoigu roared:
"No, I refuse this bullshit game, you listen, what me and my boys need is vodka, vodka!!"

Then he simply stretched out his big furry hand, aimed at Li San's neck and grabbed it.

However, Li San, who had been on guard for a long time, punched him out with one punch, hit his armpit, and then squeezed the guy's little finger and twisted it vigorously. Shoigu immediately screamed in pain, twisted his body and slapped him desperately The table shouted:
"Stop, stop!"

The reason for the current situation was caused by Fang Linyan.

When the two parties signed the secret agreement, Fang Linyan played a trick.

The secret agreement clearly states that after boarding the ship, spirits will be provided to each mercenary participating in the "Sunday Hunting" plan at an "appropriate time". The spirits should be Danda brand or Beluga brand, Or at least the quality and selling price should not be lower than these two brands.

Then the Russian counselor who was in charge of supervising the execution of the contract also saw that the porters brought a large amount of vodka onto the ship.

However, all these vodkas were transported to the room of Fang Linyan and others. The Russian mercenaries on board thought that they would drink alcohol after boarding the ship. As a result, their idea was that the reality was beautiful but cruel—something that could be drunk Only water.

Hehe, this group of people is really naive. It's not that Fang Linyan doesn't know what kind of piss these Russians are after being exposed to strong alcohol. He doesn't want to wait until he is on the ground and charge with a group of drunken and violent men.

Therefore, Fang Linyan took out the secret agreement between the two parties and told them that now is not the "appropriate time".

As for what is the right time, Fang Linyan has the final right to interpret it, because the wine is in his hands.

After the Russians were in a hurry, Fang Linyan told them that if they wanted to drink the vodka carried on board, they had to go to the Japanese port.

Or someone who thinks he is very powerful and can defeat his subordinates "in a man's way", then he can also drink vodka with the glory of victory.

(End of this chapter)