Chapter 363: Bet with Li Hongzhang

"You have something wrong? Why are you breaking my glass?"

Li Hongzhang looked at Liu Tongfu in shock. When the boy took out the gun just now, although he firmly believed that the other party could not have wanted to kill him, he was very worried that Liu Tongfu wanted to kill Guo Jinzhang... Even if Guo Jinzhang told him to invite him to the show. However, even though he had been through the storm and rich imagination, he never expected that Liu Tongfu took the gun and shot him twice, and just fired a random shot at the window of his living room. It was his newly replaced glass window! It had just been transported from Fengtian's glass factory for a few days.

"Old Li, if you want to make enough money after the war, you can do me, it can be considered as doing yourself a favor..."

"What are you doing? I won't help!" Li Hongzhang's swaying spirit came up. He mobilized his army and broke his window. Now he still wants him to help? Is Li Hongzhang very cheap? He is still comfortable after being beaten?

"You have to help if you don't help!"

"Tsk...what is this to do?"

Sun Lutang and Wang Wu were nervous since Liu Tongfu took out the gun just now. They didn't know that Liu Tongfu would take out his weapons in such an occasion. If they hadn't been with Liu Tongfu, they might have reached out to take Liu Tongfu off the spot. But the next scene still stunned them... Liu Tongfu pretended to be so big that he just broke a piece of glass. Guo Jinzhang was even more awesome. He offended Li Hongzhang a lot, but he actually asked Li Hongzhang for help. It would be better if he didn't help... What's more, Li Hongzhang was unhappy, and that guy actually rushed to bite someone's ear!

"That's Li Hongzhang!"

Sun Lutang and Wang Wu felt dizzy as if the sky was falling and the earth was sinking. Although they had known for a long time that Guo Jinzhang was a big man, the "big" in the distance was not as real as Li Hongzhang's "big" in the distance. But now, Guo Jinzhang is actually forcing Li Hongzhang, and he directly held Li Hongzhang with his hands to force the other party to listen to his words.

"This seems to be a move in the gossip grappling technique. What's the name..." Looking at Guo Jinzhang's methods, Wang Wu felt uncomfortable for Li Hongzhang, and he couldn't help but look at Sun Lutang on the side. Although he didn't speak, the questions in his eyes had already revealed his meaning.

"I just gave him some advice to me, but I really didn't do my business..." Sun Lutang turned his face and pretended that he hadn't seen anything. But even though he had always been calm, he couldn't help but feel a little happy at this time. The gossip and capture technique he taught actually took Li Hongzhang... I have to remember it, and I must remember it, but... where is the right place to remember it? Boxing or family genealogy?

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"You're serious?"

"Of course it's true."

While the two martial arts masters were thinking about it, Guo Jinzhang had finished talking to Li Hongzhang and let go of his hands. Li Hongzhang did not do anything to him anymore, but his face was a little gloomy. At this moment, there were also rapid footsteps outside the living room. Before Zhou Furen arrived, he had already heard anxious shouts:

"Zhongtang, Lord Zhongtang!"

"There are assassins..."

"I'm fine!" Li Hongzhang roared out, and there was still two traces of energy in his heart.

"Master Zhongtang, you..." Zhou Fu rushed in with a large group of guards, and saw that there was nothing unusual in the living room. He couldn't help but be stunned: "The gunshot just now..."

"Assassin wants to assassinate me and General Guo. I am lucky enough to have nothing to do, but General Guo was seriously injured and his chest and heart was injured..."

"Not that serious, just a little bit of fur."

"I guess I won't live long..."

"At most, I can live for a hundred and eighty years."

"Go and invite the doctor, and then go to the coffin shop to check it out. You can get the cheapest thin-skinned coffin."

"Hi, Old Man Li, what do you mean?"

"Go and see if there are any monks and Taoists, and prepare to build a water and land dojo..."

"Okay, okay, I'll accept you. Old Man Li, Li Zhongtang, Old Li... please spare me. I'm seriously injured and have to recuperate, right?"

"Is this..." Zhou Fu was already stunned. Guo Jinzhang was not authentic in his work, but Li Hongzhang didn't want too many people to see him being frustrated, so when he came to the living room, everyone was far away. Even though he was dozens of feet away, he didn't expect that when he saw Li Hongzhang enter the living room for a while, a gunshot came from inside... He was frightened at that time. Because he knew that there was no place to hide around the living room of the Zhili Governor's Office, and it had been cleaned up long ago, so it was impossible for others to hide. So, the gunshots could only be made by people in the living room. Who could it be? Li Hongzhang was so angry that Guo Jinzhang used despicable means.

After mobilizing his own army, Guo Jinzhang was extremely arrogant and unwilling to be scolded by Li Hongzhang? But no matter what the result was, this was not something they could bear. If something happened to Li Hongzhang, the Huai Army system would be over and the Qing Dynasty would lose its pillar; if something happened to Guo Jinzhang, Tangzhou and the United States would inevitably be in a rage, and the Qing Dynasty would be even worse. However, when he rushed into the living room, he found that the matter was completely different from what he imagined. Li Guo and Liu Tongfu and the two bodyguards were all there safely. No one had any trouble and was extremely safe, but that was it. Li Hongzhang said that he and Guo Jinzhang were assassinated, and repeatedly stated that Guo Jinzhang was severely injured by the assassin...

"Why don't you go quickly? Mobilize soldiers and capture the assassin!"

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What agreement did the two reach? Zhou Fu quickly reacted, nodded to Li Hongzhang, turned around and rushed out of the living room: "Come on, come and catch the assassin... I will pass on the decree of the grandmaster of the central hall, and search the whole city, and no suspicious person is allowed!"

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"There are so many people and eyes, so you won't leak the secrets, right?" Seeing everyone retreating like a tide, Guo Jinzhang asked Li Hongzhang again.

"Hmph, what if there are too many people and eyes, so what if you are confused? Let your people send people to me, even if they are not doing it, they will do it... Besides, they already have this idea." Li Hongzhang snorted coldly.

"It's not that they have this intention, but that they have already taken action." Guo Jinzhang smiled, "So, you are not framing them at all, but exposing them."

"I dare not behave. I am dizzy. I can't even see my family well. I don't know who I have been transferred from time to time. Who else can I expose?" Li Hongzhang said coldly.

"Don't be so humble. But then again, you officials are really good at frame-ups. Seeing that you and your subordinates just now, they just understood what you mean... This is not the first time you did this, right?" Guo Jinzhang asked with a smile.

"...I will send the coffin to your residence in Beijing tomorrow!" Li Hongzhang said with a heavy breath and gritted his teeth.

"It just so happens that the family is still short of firewood." Guo Jinzhang didn't care.

"Send the water and land dojo together." Li Hongzhang said again.

"Okay, I'll just take it as a show."

"Then let's watch it for a few more days. There are seven days for ordinary water and land temples. I will definitely let them finish the rituals one by one for you."

"You are a big shot, so you have to call a few more monks and Taoists, so that I can hold a temple fair."

"I asked me to go to Guangdong to find you. Maybe I can find any relatives and ask them to dress you in mourning!"

"Hehe, thank you, thank you. I was worried that I couldn't find my family, so I was troubled by the Lord of the Central Hall." Guo Jinzhang smiled in a slut, not taking it seriously.

"You..." Li Hongzhang stared at him and sneered, "What a Guo Jinzhang! He is really invincible."

"Overall, the third in the world." Guo Jinzhang still smiled with a humble face. He was quite proud to make Li Hongzhang defeated.

"But don't forget that you are still in my Zhili Governor's Office. Moreover, you have just been injured by a Japanese assassin... and it is still seriously injured! If there is a big deal, it will be hard to say what the consequences will be." Li Hongzhang said with a silence.

"It's just that you suddenly want to kill me, right?" Guo Jinzhang stared at him and asked with a smile.

"How dare I? But there will always be a doctor coming later... They all have to listen to me." Li Hongzhang tapped the table gently, "These are all famous doctors in Zhili. Some of them have been in the Imperial Hospital. Their skills are extraordinary... Not to mention treating diseases with illness, even if they are not sick, hum, they can make people seriously ill. Several of the most powerful methods are even unpredictable... Do you believe that they can make you live comfortably now, but suddenly die of a sudden illness ten years later?"

"Damn... you scared me?" Guo Jinzhang shouted.

"It's just scaring you, how about it?" Li Hongzhang raised his chin, looking fearless.

"Okay, okay, I've been convinced... I'll admit defeat, can you succeed? Don't you just want to know how I know the Japanese's plan? In fact, this is nothing. When Liu Buchan and the others come back, you will know soon." Guo Jinzhang said with a wry smile.

"But I want to know now." Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice.

"submarine!"

"Submarine?" Li Hongzhang was stunned. After years of operation of the navy, he naturally knew what kind of object the submarine was. Although it is not impossible to use a submarine to measure the enemy's route, it is a submarine from Tangzhou. Could it be that the submarines in Tangzhou can already conduct ocean-going navigation like warships?

"That's right." Guo Jinzhang also understood Li Hongzhang's doubts. "Our submarine actually arrived in Hawaii early in the morning, and then was secretly towed to the Philippines by one of our merchant ships. This time, with the Dabai fleet, he went around the vicinity of Kyushu... You know, if the Japanese want to fight the Beiyang Navy, they must set off from Kyushu. Our submarines cruised in that area. After receiving the information on the shore, they could immediately track the enemy ships, and then send the enemy's whereabouts to the places they needed with telegram."

"Telecom? The submarine is submersible at the sea and is on the sea. How to send the news?" Li Hongzhang frowned.

"Radio Telegram." Guo Jinzhang shrugged.

"Wireless?" Li Hongzhang was stunned again. Can telegrams be left without wires? How can they be sent and received without wires?

"This involves very profound physics. You don't understand." Guo Jinzhang waved his hand, "Anyway, you only need to know that we have spent a lot of energy and investment to find out the whereabouts of the Japanese. You are not the only one who suffers."

"But my Beiyang Navy is the main force in this battle!" Li Hongzhang emphasized.

"I actually admire Liu Buchan very much. He is a really capable person. Over the years, your investment in the navy has been limited to the maintenance of warships and daily training, but he can still keep this fleet quite powerful. Especially since he still has to deal with provocations from foreigners from time to time, it is not easy." Guo Jinzhang said.

"So what if you admire me? This time you bewitched my unrealized nephew, who was not improving, ordered the Beiyang Navy to fight in the name of me. This account, with Liu Buchan's arrogance, will sooner or later settle it with you." Li Hongzhang snorted coldly.

"I welcome him to come to Tangzhou to settle the score with me." Guo Jinzhang smiled, "But no one else blames others. If I were Liu Buchan, I would definitely be the first to blame you, Old Li Zhongtang... Look at who you are around you. Even your nephew can charge you money and sell you. This time, we are at least, what if they are Japanese? The little wealth you have accumulated over the years will be completely ruined."

"I don't need you to teach me." The smell of gunpowder in the living room had already disappeared a little, but it became stronger when it came to this point. Li Hongzhang stared at Guo Jinzhang with his old eyes, and he seemed to be trying to eat people no matter how he looked. Thinking about it, the Beiyang Navy and Ding Ruchang's New Huai Army were the foundation for him to maintain his status and influence on state affairs, but Guo Jinzhang mobilized them all with a few telegrams through his nephew... How could he bear it? If this matter was spread, wouldn't it be clear that he was telling the whole world that Li Hongzhang was actually a paper-stuffed window, and it would be broken with one stab?

"Of course I don't need to preach. Who are you? You are Li Hongzhang, the number one figure in the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years." Guo Jinzhang snorted coldly, "But so what? You are old. You have no ambitions. You are a tiger, but now a little wolf cub dares to grin at you... When I got off the boat, I told you that the Japanese had abnormal movements, but what have you done in a few months? I just told the Beiyang Navy to be careful, and I have never even used the word "preparation for war". Ding Ruchang even hid in the mansion in Xuzhou and listened to Xiaoqu'er, took a concubine, and lived a very comfortable life... I don't take action, wait for the Japanese to come and beat you down from the altar, and force you to sign those treaties that are powerless and humiliating. I see what you do!"

"Nothing nonsense. Do you think I can bully me if he is just a Japanese?" Li Hongzhang said angrily.

"Look, look... I'm still dreaming of your Emperor." Guo Jinzhang sighed, "It's not that your nephew can mobilize almost all of your troops by sending a few telegrams in your name... You think people dare not mess with you, but they are not alert, and the internal mechanism is even more chaotic. You don't think about it or not, see what the Japanese are doing in the past years. They sent people to Europe to study naval and army and politics earlier than you, and have carried out reforms more deeply than you. They are the entire country, from the emperor to the civilians, they are holding up a lot of energy, and they are going to become stronger. Moreover, since they want to come and beat you, how can they let you know?"

"Just because of its little Japanese?"

"British is not big. But he still beat you up so hard that the Qing Dynasty could not find the North! It still made the whole world honest! Why don't you go to the British Prime Minister to say this?"

"You...hum!"

"Why are you humming? You can just throw a tantrum if you can't tell me. If you have the ability, just wait to see if your Beiyang Navy can beat Japan, and then you must come back with all your strength." Guo Jinzhang snorted coldly again.

"What if they can come back with all their strength?" Li Hongzhang asked coldly.

"All must be back? As long as your navy does not seriously injure more than two ships, I will call your grandfather and kowtow to you." Guo Jinzhang snorted coldly.

"I can't stand it. However, if the Beiyang Navy can come back without seriously injuring more than two cruisers, you have to add three new battleships to me!" Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice.

"Cough, cough cough cough..." Liu Tongfu, who had been watching the two quarrel, suddenly coughed violently.

"Okay, I know what you are worried about." Guo Jinzhang curled his lips, "I can hear this old man's change of concepts."

"What's the secret to change the concept?" Li Hongzhang's face turned slightly red. Guo Jinzhang meant that he would not seriously injure more than two warships, and he was talking about cruisers... The two were completely different. But he could never admit it at this time. Three battleships. The Dabai Fleet made him feel itchy when the three giant ships with red flags were in Shanghai, and he couldn't let it go until now.

"Hehe, don't hold on. I don't know you officials?" Guo Jinzhang looked at Li Hongzhang with contempt, "Just cruiser! I bet with you... But, what if you lose, what should I do?"

"If I lose, I will let Yuan Shikai return to the Northeast, what?" Li Hongzhang said seriously.

"No." Guo Jinzhang shook his head.

"What do you want?" Li Hongzhang said strangely. Yuan Shikai's actions in the Northeast are all shadows of Tangzhou, and Tangzhou obviously intends to train Yuan Shikai to become his spokesperson for the Qing Dynasty. Over the past few years, Li Hongzhang has not said that it is obvious, but he can see clearly. However, although Yuan Shikai is using external forces, Tangzhou is not the great powers of Britain, the United States and France after all, he turned a blind eye. He did not obstruct or help. It was precisely because of his bystanders that Yuan Shikai was transferred to Shandong by the Qing court in resistance. Guo Jinzhang had three big names like battleships, so he naturally could not seem too stingy. But he really couldn't take out the other ones, so he thought of this. But he didn't expect Guo Jinzhang to not.

"Yuan Shikai stayed in Shandong for a short time. Because the Japanese could not only take action at sea. Therefore, this bargaining chip cannot be used." Guo Jinzhang said.

"It's not just at sea, you mean..."

"Why don't you send a telegram to ask North Korea?"

"Um?"

"Don't 'yes', if you delay any further, the Japanese may even occupy Seoul. Your troops left in North Korea will be driven back to their hometown."

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Chapter completed!