: It's right

"Mr. Guo, why did you suddenly come to my Qing Dynasty?"

Guo Jinzhang did not say through any official channels that he was coming, but since he was here, no one dared to care about it. Even if this guy has retired and is alone, it would not work. Li Hongzhang personally rushed to Weihai Guard, which just showed that he attached importance to Guo Jinzhang. In addition, the old man was really worried that he would not be able to deal with the retired general who was only in his early thirties.

"I asked this... Didn't I say it when I was at the dock just now? I came to find a wife. If I say it a little more vulgar, I would be looking for a woman to warm up the bed."

"Ahem... do you think this can keep my old man from there?"

Li Hongzhang was at the temporary headquarters of Weihai Guard, and Guo Jinzhang was temporarily staying here. However, although he had just got off the boat, Li Hongzhang did not mean to let him go to rest first... It was not that Old Li was rude, but the old man was really panicked. Originally, when the Dabai Fleet came from the Philippines and visited Shanghai, he had already traveled hard, so this time when the people came to Weihai Guard again, he handed over the reception and exchange task to Liu Buchan. He also believed that Liu Buchan could handle the matter well. But he never expected that Guo Jinzhang secretly got on the boat in Yokohama... and he didn't receive the news until the others were about to arrive. What exactly did this kid, who has always been called a dangerous person, want to do? If he didn't figure it out, the old man was really uneasy.

"Don't you say this all the time? Old Li, I'm really here to find a wife... By the way, I heard you have a fucking daughter?" Guo Jinzhang asked Li Hongzhang with salivation.

"What are you doing to your daughter? I only have two daughters, my biological son!" Li Hongzhang frowned.

"Oh? Then how is your daughter? How old is it?" Guo Jinzhang's eyes lit up and he asked immediately.

"Don't make a bad idea." Li Hongzhang had seen Guo Jinzhang's ability to mess around a few years ago, but this time he met again, he was still amused and wailed. "I have already gotten married, and the second daughter Ju Ou had already gotten married five years ago. She even had a few children and was no longer in love with you."

"Then you are so old, and your granddaughter should be quite young, right? As long as you look okay, it's okay for me to suffer some losses." Guo Jinzhang still stumbled on him.

"No, you are also a dignified general and the leader of a country's military generals. How could you be so rogue?" Li Hongzhang couldn't help but shout.

"Tell me? Don't you often scold your subordinates? I heard that the scolding is quite thick..." Guo Jinzhang clenched his ears and smiled indifferently.

"How can that be the same?" Li Hongzhang shook his head again with a wry smile. How many things have he experienced after so many years of official career? Of course, it is impossible to get angry because of Guo Jinzhang's rogue-like behavior. Besides, his subordinates and some Huai Army generals can be as troubled as Guo Jinzhang. If he was angry every time, he would have been dead for many years. How could he wait until now? Although Guo Jinzhang was a little too much this time and even his daughter was teasing him, he really didn't care about these...

…It is not uncommon for foreigners to come back. When they are there, the couple comes out together. Regardless of the host and the guest, if they want to show politeness, their wife will also reach out for the male guest to kiss him... Just like when Grant brought his family to China to visit him last time, Mrs. Grant reached out to him, making him think that the foreign woman wanted to steal things. But then again, although her daughter has been married, if Guo Jinzhang really wants to find a woman, he is not afraid of trouble:

"If you really have the will, I can advise the Empress Dowager. Maybe I can find a beloved partner in the royal family!"

"No. I have noble blood and can't afford to be dirty!"

"What does this mean?"

"Nothing interesting." Guo Jinzhang smiled, "If it's an ordinary woman, I don't care. The cute Xin Jueluo family... We can't afford to lose that person, and we are even more afraid of affecting the IQ of the descendants. Besides, do they have any beauties in their family?"

"I don't know much about this, but... it should be." Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly again. He himself was not lustful. Xu Xian's wife looked a bit masculine, not to mention a matchmaker. There are so many national affairs waiting to be resolved all day long. After eating, I went to ask if there were any beauties in the royal family?

"What's there? How did you become the central hall? You don't know that your Qing royal family has all been slandering?" Guo Jinzhang shouted.

"Wild Gua Chi Juju? This..." Li Hongzhang couldn't help but recall it. It's true that when he went to meet Cixi and Guangxu, he occasionally saw several royal women and concubines, but they all looked very bad. But no matter how bad this is, it's not as good as it is. "Who did you hear this?"

"Liu Tongfu!" Guo Jinzhang spread his hands, not afraid that Liu Tongfu would be there. Because he said he would live in the Qing Dynasty for a while, the guy was already anxious and went back to arrange his residence and did not stay here.

"he?"

"Well, isn't it just for my business? I want to find someone who is similar in status and can match the same status, but in the end I got nothing, and even he felt it was difficult for him to accept it."

"But this is too..."

"Old Li, we have been in a relationship for several years. You can't watch your buddy be a bachelor... This time, no matter what, you have to help your buddy give this matter, otherwise I will have to go back to find someone else." Guo Jinzhang suddenly said with a sad face again.

"Go back to find someone else? Since you can go back to find someone else, why do you have to come to the Qing Dynasty alone?" Li Hongzhang was puzzled.

"No matter how much I say it, I am still a Chinese. Of course I want to marry someone with a common language. But this time I will marry someone who is not a Chinese."

"What's the meaning?"

"The Morgan family, Rockefeller family, and Mellon family all have daughters, and they are all pretty, and there are also Rothschild family. Although they don't intermarry with foreigners, if I try hard, I may not be able to get a woman... It's really not possible, Austro-Hungarian royal family, German royal family, Dutch royal family, Danish royal family, Swedish royal family, even British royal family, Russian royal family, we may not be able to be son-in-law..."

"Just blow." Li Hongzhang could barely listen at first, but the more he felt something was wrong. Finally, he couldn't help but reach out to interrupt the guy's self-proclaiming, "If you are so popular, why are you still alone now? You don't even have a girl who warms the bed?"

"I am morally clean and obsessed with monogamy!" Guo Jinzhang said seriously.

"Don't you go!" Li Hongzhang finally couldn't help but curse and swear. He was the boss of the Huai Army, so he naturally read these swear words.

"Since you know it's farting, how dare you come and smell it?" Guo Jinzhang smiled proudly.

"You..." Li Hongzhang felt powerless. He had seen such a charlatan, but this was the first time he saw such a charlatan, "If you marry, you only need to make a noise, and countless people will send their daughter to the door, so why bother? I just want to ask you now, what do you mean by coming to my Qing Dynasty this time?"

"Then what do you think I can do?" Guo Jinzhang asked back.

"How do I know?" Li Hongzhang said with an old face.

"Guess!"

"Not available!"

"It's just the effort of using your brain, it doesn't take much time."

"Do you say or not? If you don't say it, I will say that even if you think you can almost walk horizontally in the United States, you will be unable to move forward in the territory of the Qing Dynasty." Li Hongzhang shouted.

"No need to be that amazing, right? How can I find a beautiful woman if you do this?" Guo Jinzhang shouted.

"Say or not?"

"Okay, okay, Jiang is so hot. You are so powerful. Will I admit defeat?" Guo Jinzhang raised his hands high, "But I must say that I really came to find my wife this time..."

"Um?"

"Of course this is just one of the purposes..."

"Then what are your other purposes?" Li Hongzhang reluctantly suppressed his ups and downs and asked in a deep voice.

"The second purpose is to find you, Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang." Guo Jinzhang said with a smile.

"Look for me?" This was not unexpected. Li Hongzhang nodded secretly. When he came to the Qing Dynasty as Guo Jinzhang, how could he not come to find him? Even if he didn't look for the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, he could not ignore the existence of himself, the Minister of Beiyang.

"Do you know that Hirobuki Ito has become the Prime Minister of Japan again?" Guo Jinzhang put away his smile and asked in a deep voice.

"Of course. Moreover, this matter has been a long time since." Li Hongzhang looked at him, with many questions in his eyes. Yama Prefecture Akito resigned four years ago, in 1891, because of the heavy losses of the Japanese Army on Mindanao. More than a year later, Hirofumi Ito replaced Matsukata Matsukaya and came forward to form a cabinet for the second time. Now, that guy has been in the position of Japanese Prime Minister for more than two years.

"In the past two years, although Ito Hirofumi has taken over Yama Prefecture's Akitoshi's development of Mindanao Island, it's a pity that it started from a desert island after all, so it did not play much role in their domestic economic crisis. Instead, it lowered the domestic grain prices due to a large amount of grain production, causing farmers who account for more than 70% of their total population to complain... Therefore, in order to get rid of the domestic crisis, Ito Hirofumi has decided to launch a war of foreign aggression, and his first target is the Qing Dynasty." Guo Jinzhang said seriously.

"Is this really the case?" Li Hongzhang looked at him suspiciously, "With the power of Japan, if you dare to offend our Qing Dynasty, if you are unaware of it, it will be a disaster for the country to be destroyed... And Hiromoto Ito also had a conversation with me in Tangzhou. Although this person is only the prime minister of a small country, he is quite insightful and expressed considerable friendship with me and the Qing Dynasty. How could he turn against each other?"

"How many good people can become the prime minister of a country?...Don't change your face, I didn't say anything about you, of course, you are not a good person...I'm the same!... Besides, if Japan wants to rise, what methods do you think it can have? Develop industry and commerce like Tangzhou? They have a huge market that can be used as the United States, or can they use various trade channels between the United States and Europe? Moreover, Japan's various industrial technologies are far from the world's leading level, so why is there a street outside Tangzhou?... So, if you can't take the road of peace, you will naturally have to follow the path of war." Guo Jinzhang said: "And what Hirobu Ito in recent years does show that he is planning to issue it.

He knew that he could not swallow the Qing Dynasty in one bite, so he placed his first goal in Manchuria. However, he was afraid that Western powers, especially Russia, would interfere, so he took advantage of the conflict between Russia and Britain to try to form an alliance with Britain and gain support. Foreign Minister Mu Otsukoshi came to negotiate with Britain, and finally signed a new UK-Japan trade treaty in July last year. The new treaty abolished extraterritorial legal power and obtained the most-favored-nation treatment in trade. Only the tax autonomy has not been recovered, but it only stipulates that specific varieties can increase the tax rate. After that, this guy started to contact Germany, Austria, the United States and other countries, intending to re-sign the new treaty in accordance with the new treaty of Britain and Japan... These are actually all he is preparing for the war."

"I still don't believe it. Just because it's just a Japanese, how dare you mess with me in the Qing Dynasty?" Li Hongzhang shook his head and smiled.

"I knew you would be like this." Guo Jinzhang sighed. In history, before the Japanese launched a war, the Qing court had never thought that this small country that had been by China for more than a thousand years dared to do something with him, and had never looked at Japan with a direct look... After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the whole country was afraid of the power displayed by the Japanese, and they all shook forward, making the Japanese run rampant in their own country and looked down on China more and more, thus strengthening their determination to continue to plunder and invade China. Unfortunately, the Qing court was at that time at that time.

I don’t know that as long as they persist in fighting for another three months, even if they keep defeating the war, Japan’s economy will collapse and China will achieve the final victory. They are arrogant before the war and discouraged after the war. This is China at that time. What is most speechless is that after the war, everyone actually put the blame for the failure on an old man like Li Hongzhang. They forgot that if there were no Li Hongzhang, the Qing court would not even have the Beiyang Navy! In addition to the navy, most of the people who resisted the Japanese attack on land were generals from the Huai Army...

"Haha, you can rest assured. Although I don't want to believe what you said, since you, General Guo, personally warned you, I will not be too negligent, and will definitely make strict precautions in various places." Perhaps because I felt that my attitude was a little sorry for Guo Jinzhang, Li Hongzhang thought about it and said.

"Forget it, do you like to listen or not? I have done everything I should do anyway." Guo Jinzhang smiled bitterly, then stood up, "Do you have a car? Take me to Beijing!"

"Why not stay for one night?" Li Hongzhang insisted.

"I'm afraid of being infected by your old aura. Besides, you're not a beauty!" Guo Jinzhang replied angrily.

"I don't know how to respect the elderly. But if you insist on leaving, you can ask someone to prepare a carriage for you..." Li Hongzhang said.

"Carriage? I remember I gave you a car!" Guo Jinzhang frowned, "What's wrong with sending me off? You are so stingy, aren't you?"

"Who said I'm stingy? But although the car is good, it has been broken for two years." Li Hongzhang replied embarrassedly.

"What?" Guo Jinzhang was stunned: "It's been two years? Why don't you find someone to repair it?"

"Who can do this in the Qing Dynasty?" Li Hongzhang clapped his hands and said helplessly.

"Then you can send a telegram to Tangzhou and ask Tangzhou to send someone here." Guo Jinzhang was very puzzled.

"Not to mention that it costs a lot of travel expenses to and from the back and forth. I, the Qing Dynasty, have countless skilled craftsmen, and I have to go thousands of miles away to hire someone when I repair a car. How can I bear the face at that time?" Li Hongzhang said seriously.

"I..." Guo Jinzhang was amused and crying: "You are so shameless, why don't you build your own warship and buy it?"

"This is different!" Li Hongzhang's face turned slightly red, but he still answered firmly.

"What's the difference?" Guo Jinzhang asked.

"Different means different... Come and prepare the car!"

"You old guy!"

...

Li Hongzhang was not really so rude, and Guo Jinzhang did not leave the headquarters that day. Instead, he rested for two days before saying goodbye to Thomas, Cheng Degui and others, and Liu Buchan sent a gunboat to send him to Tianjin. Guo Jinzhang did not trouble the Beiyang Navy in vain. After disembarking in Tianjin, he gave the gunboat named Lu Wenjing a message, a very important news: the two years ago, from January 28, 1893, the Japanese Navy officially began to replace shells filled with Xiase gunpowder. This move was extremely rare in the world at that time. Because this shell had a series of amazing characteristics, first of all, the sensitivity of the shell was extremely high, and even if the small rope hit, it could cause an explosion, and after the explosion, it would not only

The shock waves and shell fragments formed when ordinary black powder shells exploded will also be accompanied by a fire with a central temperature of up to thousands of degrees. It is said that it can ignite steel. The flames formed by this gunpowder explosion will flow in all directions like gasoline ignition, and can continue to burn in water for a period of time. In addition, when the Xiase gunpowder shells are composed of picric acid, they will also appear toxic yellow smoke when they explode, which is completely different from the white smoke when the black powder shells explode... Although Lu Wenjing did not understand how a big man like Guo Jinzhang would tell himself such a thing that seemed to be unrelated to the Beiyang Navy, after returning to Weihaiwei, he quickly handed the information to Liu Buchan, and Liu Buchan also received the order from Li Hongzhang to strictly prevent Japan...

After doing all this, Guo Jinzhang got on the carriage prepared by Liu Tongfu and headed straight to Beijing. Soon, he arrived at the residence prepared by Liu Tongfu for him in the suburbs of Beijing... a side courtyard in Baiyun Temple. Liu Tongfu was taking people to wait outside the courtyard gate. As soon as he saw him, he immediately came up.

"Jin Zhang, the residence is not very good, so I feel wronged first!"

"Not talking about these," he didn't seem to see Liu Tongfu's smile on his face, nor did he seem to see Yulei, Lu Haodong and others behind Liu Tongfu. Guo Jinzhang pointed at him with a gloomy face: "Come with me!"

"What are you doing? Are you still angry with me? That's wrong with you..."

Liu Tongfu was forced to enter the yard and into the wing room. He was a little dissatisfied, but he also felt something was wrong with Guo Jinzhang.

"Don't say it for now, I'll ask you... Is the young man you sent to pick me up just now called Sun Wen?" Guo Jinzhang asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, my subordinates introduced them to foreign students who graduated from Hong Kong Western Medical School." Liu Tongfu replied.

"Sure enough...it seems that I'm really here this time!" Guo Jinzhang murmured to himself.

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