"I also want to figure out what you mean."

Li Hongzhang was almost angry.

Guo Jinzhang was actually in his yamen and his living room, discussing with his subordinates to overthrow the Qing Dynasty he was loyal to! Is there anything in this world that is not inconsistent? He is Li Hongzhang, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty. Guo Jinzhang dares to ignore his existence like this? But the same is true, when it comes to "main affairs", although he was extremely angry, his face became more quiet. Because he knew very well that what he heard inadvertently was far more serious than Guo Jinzhang bribed his nephew to send a telegram to mobilize his army, and even more serious than the war with the Japanese... Those were all foreigners after all. But Guo Jinzhang and Tangzhou were both Chinese.

"Didn't you eavesdrop on all of them? You still need to ask?" Guo Jinzhang seemed very calm and did not feel like he was caught doing bad things. But then again, is it a bad thing to overthrow the Qing court?

"Then who do you think I am?" Li Hongzhang asked in a deep voice again. When he was talking to Guo Jinzhang just now, although he was angry that Guo Jinzhang used means to mobilize his subordinates, he could still curse the other party with a smile, because he knew that although Guo Jinzhang did this very outrageously and very outrageously, he was at least helping him. Moreover, Guo Jinzhang is an "outsider" and he can't deal with it. Since he can't deal with it, he may need the other party's help in the future, then even if he is angry, he must show his demeanor. But now it is different. This guy's purpose is too terrible, so terrible that he can't tolerate it.

"Who are you? You are the papermaker of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang!" Guo Jinzhang said with a smile.

"Papering maker? Haha, this nickname is fresh." Li Hongzhang smiled coldly, "But I have worked hard to paste the cracks in this great painting of the Qing Dynasty, but you suddenly told me that you want to tear it apart... What should I do?"

"Bang!" Guo Jinzhang pointed his index finger at his head, "I shot it and killed me!"

"You think I dare not?" Li Hongzhang asked in a dark voice.

"Of course you don't dare!" Guo Jinzhang smiled slightly. "You are the papermaker of the Qing Dynasty. You have finally framed this picture-filled country with holes. You can barely see people. It's a mess. I'm broken... Do you want this 'paint'?"

"With you, my Qing Dynasty will be as stable as Mount Tai!" Li Hongzhang said.

"Without me, the Aisin Gioro royal family will not survive next year!"

"you……"

Li Hongzhang was suffocated. He believed what Guo Jinzhang said. Just as he believed he had heard, Liu Tongfu once used 50 million US dollars and the threat of extermination of the royal family to make King Qing Yikuang come forward. Rumors of the ministers including him who opposed Tangzhou's immigration to China, who did not have this power and ability. Moreover, what is the royal family? If he hadn't been able to overcome the hurdle in his heart, just relying on those idiots in Beijing, Li Hongzhang could take a few bites? Cixi seemed smart, but that woman's so-called smartness was considered a matter of being in front of absolute strength?

"Old Li, how many years do you think the Qing court can last?" Guo Jinzhang asked again.

"How many years? Even if you die, you will not see the fall of the court." Li Hongzhang snorted coldly.

"Old stubborn!" Guo Duozhang gave him a blank look, "Is it useful to hold on to it? With those idiots in Beijing, if they weren't protected by you, they wouldn't be able to hold on for even two years."

"I will be loyal to the Qing Dynasty all my life." Li Hongzhang said.

"I knew you would say that." Guo Jinzhang curled his lips, "But if you want to stop us, the consequences will be very troublesome. Have you ever thought about it? If we have to wait until you can start it a hundred years ago because of your obstruction, what will we feel?"

"What's the matter with me?" Li Hongzhang snorted coldly, "It's best to be angry to death!"

"Of course I'm so angry, but unfortunately there are too few such cases." Guo Jinzhang chuckled, "In most cases, we will transfer this anger. Transfer! Lao Li, think about it yourself. If you are gone and there is no one who can grasp the overall situation, our group of people will transfer the anger in their hearts to, or, in other words, who are their heads?"

"bass……"

Li Hongzhang stood up suddenly and glared at Guo Jinzhang angrily.

"Don't look at me, I am a foreigner now and can't control domestic affairs. And I don't have that much deep hatred with the Qing court..." Guo Jinzhang waved his hand, "Don't forget, I was traveling across the ocean as a teenager. So, most of my hatreds are in the United States, and I have almost all avenged them. I am now comfortable in body and mind, and have a clear idea... But after all, I am a minority of the minority. The vast majority of Chinese people are under the rule of the Qing court, so they won't think so... Old Li, I heard that in order to prevent our Representative Liu from recruiting immigrants in the people's city, you should not hesitate to move Beijing's city to Tongzhou. Then, you must be clear about the situation in Beijing, right? Do you think, how will the people who sell children and daughters only for a meal treat the Qing court that caused all this?"

"Kill all the things!"

"Shut up!" Unexpectedly, Wang Wu, who was sitting on the side, suddenly said something like this. Li Hongzhang, who was already holding his anger, was furious, and his anger suddenly sprinkled at the head of the Shunyuan Escort Agency, "You're just a wandering soul under the imperial sword. How dare you do this? Do you think I can't kill you?"

"Mr. Wang will accompany me back to Tangzhou in two days!" Guo Jinzhang suddenly said.

"I can prove this. Moreover, when Mr. Wang was recovering from his injury, he had already passed the certification of the Tangzhou Foreign Office and officially applied for the naturalization certificate... He is actually from Tangzhou now." Liu Tongfu gently clenched his nose and interrupted.

"you……"

Li Hongzhang's chest was undulating rapidly. He just vented his anger, but just this, the two bastards were unwilling to follow him. But he didn't expect that just when he was panting, Sun Lutang, on the other side, suddenly bowed to him:

"Master Zhongtang."

"Who are you...?" Li Hongzhang sat down slowly and asked.

"Sun Lutang, Wangdu, Hebei!"

"Sun Lutang?" Li Hongzhang narrowed his old eyes, "It seems that he has heard of this name. You are the young security guard."

"The bandits given by friends in the Jianghu don't dare to defame the old Zhongtang. But," Sun Lutang paused, "I don't know if Xiaomin has a few words to say or not."

"If you don't want to talk about it, you don't need to ask." Li Hongzhang snorted coldly.

"Then the little people are brave." Sun Lutang took a deep breath. "Xiaomin is from Wangdu County, Hebei Province, and his family is quite wealthy. He opened a family boxing club. He took a few students and his life is barely acceptable... But Xiaomin is not only one person after all. There are many villagers around him. To be honest, everyone's life is very hard. Not to mention anything else, just talk about annual taxes... Now the taxes established by the government are numerous and as numerous as cows. The little people's family is still wealthy and miserable. They can only barely support it. But more villagers. The harvest of a year is not enough for a few taxes, even their own food

Not enough. But it is not enough. But it is not enough if you don’t grow, because everyone always has to live. Therefore, you only spend your old capital year after year. After eating the old capital, you sell your house and sell your house to sell your land. Then you have to leave your hometown to escape famine and then sell your children to sell your children. Just to give your children a way out... The little people have been to Changde, Jiangsu, which is a land of fish and rice. But in that place, there is such a couplet among the people: 'Since ancient times, there is no tax on manure, but now there is only a fart left and no donation'... Old Zhongtang, as an important official of the Qing Dynasty, I wonder what you think of?"

"Wang went around and saw this situation more than once. He thought that the court could change this situation by just focusing on reforming the law, but he didn't expect... Humph, what else does such an imperial court need?" Wang Wu couldn't help but add another sentence.

"The people are living in poverty and the people are displaced. Of course, I know the tragic situation. But these things are just occasionally..."

"Old Li, please touch your conscience before saying this..." Guo Jinzhang interrupted Li Hongzhang's quibbling, "You are from Hefei, and your Huai Army is also a fellow Hefei fellow... Why don't you go to Hefei and see how the people there scold you? And occasionally... Are you guilty? 'The prime minister Hefei is thin in the world, and the generals are always in Changshu!' These people put you and Weng Tonghe, but that old guy can't match your old head. What if you think you are the one who is the one who is in charge of your life? Everyone in the world knows that there is a Li Hongzhang in China, and even only knows that there is Li Hongzhang. So, no matter who is in charge of China during this period, everyone will only remember you and blame you for all the responsibilities. Because... you are Li Hongzhang!"

"Hu——" Li Hongzhang's breathing became heavier and heavier. He knew what Guo Jinzhang meant. He was Li Hongzhang, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty, but similarly, if something happened to this Qing Dynasty, the responsibility would be pushed to him. What's more, even the court he was supporting would treat him as a scapegoat without hesitation.

"Why do I say these words in your place? Why do I reveal so many secrets to you? Lao Li, I admire you! I don't want to see an old man who has worked hard all day for this country but will not end up in the end!" Guo Jinzhang sighed, "Do you know? You are sad... How much have you paid? How much have you paid for this country? How much have you paid for this so-called court that is not good? But how many people miss you? Kang Youwei and his group still have some insights, but they regard you as a thorn in their eyes. Are you sorry to them? No. Even before the reform and after the beginning, you have always been their supporters!... But they still aimed at you in the end. Why? Have you ever thought about the reason?"

"Because you are the greatest powerful minister of the Qing Dynasty and the last reliance of this country. Over the past twenty years, you and Zuo Zongtang have basically supported this decaying country. Now Zuo Zongtang has left, and you are the only one left... If they don't look for you, they won't blame you, who will bear the blame for all the problems that arise in this country? Emperor? That is their loyal object. But what did this emperor do for the country? He even thought that an egg costs one or two silver... What does he know?" Liu Tongfu asked immediately.

"This... I heard that today is a wise king. How could he think eggs would be so expensive?" Sun Lutang asked suddenly frowned.

"Hmph, then we have to talk about their Interior Office. Of course, the eggs bought outside cannot be one tael of silver per one, but after passing through various yamen in the palace, the price is very cheap. You know, if they dare to buy tens of thousands of taels of silver in the Forbidden City. If they make a stone lion, they dare to make the price of silver lion... There are such people around the emperor. Even if he is wise, how much can he know the real situation of the country?" Liu Tongfu sneered.

"So many ministers, can anyone tell him?" Sun Lutang felt unbelievable. Although he had been in Beijing for a while, he was mainly practicing martial arts, and he had never inquired about this.

"No one will tell the emperor. What's more, even if you tell the emperor, what if you tell the emperor? Can the emperor still replace all the people around you? You must know that you can get an egg to a high price of one or two silver. This is not something that just one or two people can do. This involves almost the entire inner court and a large number of vested interests... These people can unite and bring the emperor up." Liu Tongfu said disdainfully.

"In other words, even if you do reforms or something, because you are surrounded by corrupt officials who only know how to benefit, it will only make it worse and worse. Because even the best scriptures are written by the monk Crooked Mouth, it will not be correct." Guo Jinzhang also said.

"I understand." Sun Lutang bowed gently to the two of them and sat down again.

"Old Li, have you thought about it?" Guo Jinzhang looked at Li Hongzhang again.

"No matter what, I will not betray the court." Li Hongzhang said in a sequel.

"Yes. I can let you go all the way. In your lifetime, you will not launch any anti-Qing coup or military change, but you must also promise me that Liu Tongfu will officially stand in the officialdom of your Qing Dynasty and do your best to help him. Let him become one of the real power factions." Guo Jinzhang said.

"Me?" Although I had heard Guo Jinzhang say something just now, when Liu Tongfu actually heard this, he couldn't help but point to his nose in surprise.

"That's right, it's you." Guo Jinzhang nodded, "We must have a Tangzhou interest spokesperson in the new government. Because, I hope this country can develop as I expected. And I also believe that so far, and from this until twenty years later, no one in this country will know the general trend of the world better than me..."

"After all, Tangzhou's territory is too small and not enough for you to perform." Li Hongzhang suddenly snorted coldly.

"If this court has the ability, even if I don't have enough performance, I will not dare to go back to the country and act wildly. Unfortunately, you can't do it." Guo Jinzhang sneered at the tit-for-tat, "And, the conditions that promised me will be beneficial to the Qing Dynasty. Because, since the central government of this country will have our interest spokespersons in the future, we will have the reason to support you with all our strength in the future. Today, we will help you deal with Japan, and tomorrow, we can help you deal with Russia... These are all great enemies. Do you think you can handle it completely by yourself?"

"What if I don't agree?" Li Hongzhang asked with his eyes narrowed again.

"We will still help you defeat Japan." Guo Jinzhang rubbed his fingers gently, "But in the future we will do our best to promote the revolution in China... Lao Li, you can imagine what kind of situation will be like at that time. You must know that although many people in China like to talk about loyalty, in the chaotic times, more people like to say, "The emperor takes turns to do it, and come to my house next year." This country will be in chaos, especially when the Zhou Dynasty is eyeing it. Would you like to see such a scene?"

"The Hong Yang's rebel bandits swept across Jiangnan and occupied half of the country, but were still destroyed by the court. Even if you make this country turmoil, I will not be afraid." Li Hongzhang was still gritting his teeth and holding on.

"Why are you so stupid?" Guo Jinzhang was also a little annoyed, "You can't tell the difference, right? Or do you really hate the Aisin Gioro family and have to take them to hell together to be willing to do so?"

"What did you say?"

"You don't understand what I said?" Seeing Li Hongzhang's old eyes that were already a little red, Guo Jinzhang sighed helplessly: "You and I are joining forces now. Although we are digging the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, we can at least arrange various measures as much as possible and ensure the smooth transition of the country. This is also good for the Aisin Jueluo family, because they can step down smoothly and then live their little lives honestly. But if you want to fight with me... With your Beiyang strength, even if you can hold on for a while, can you hold on to the resentment that is growing deeper and deeper in the world? At that time, your old guy will not care about anything when he stretches his legs, but your emperor's master will really destroy his family, die his son and grandson, and become a family!"

"You, you... you are a traitor!" Li Hongzhang cursed.

"I'm not from the Qing Dynasty, you can figure it out." Guo Jinzhang shrugged, not caring at all.

"You, you..."

"Don't let me and mine," Guo Jinzhang suddenly dusted the dust on the hem of his clothes and stood up, "Where will we arrange for us to live? You said, I am seriously injured now, and I have to wait for the doctor to help with treatment..."

"Living in my yamen? Are you not afraid that I will find an opportunity to be you?" Li Hongzhang said dumbfoundedly.

"It's up to you." Guo Jinzhang waved his hand indifferently, "Besides, what if I die? I'll make a profit if I have a family of Aixin Jueluo family. I can't say that in the future, there are people who praise me for national heroes and national heroes. But then you, Lao Li, will be in trouble. The reactionaries who hinder the trend of history... I'm afraid they will be made into bronze statues and kneel in front of my tomb, and are spitting around every day. Tsk tsk, are you saying you're losing money?"

"Guo Jinzhang——" He actually compared me to Qin Hui? Li Hongzhang was almost angry.

"What are your instructions?"

"You, get out of here..."

"The injury has not healed yet. Let's stay in a guest room and wait until the doctor finishes reading."

"I've killed you now."

"Then you try..."

"You, you... come. Take him to the woodshed and lock him up!"

"Li Hongzhang, you dare?"

"Why don't you dare? You are a sinner who wants to harm me, the Qing Dynasty. If you don't kill you, you are already a blessing from outside the law. Could it be that you still want to live in the wing room?"

"I want to live in your bedroom."

"dream!"

...

"Zhongtang!"

Like a bull, Li Hongzhang started arguing with Guo Jinzhang again. Just as they were almost quarreling, the guards also ran in. When Li Hongzhang used his eyes to suppress Sun Lutang and Wang Wu, he arrested Guo Jinzhang in a gap that he did not dare to move, Zhou Fu suddenly rushed in from outside. This important aide of Li Hongzhang seemed to have not seen Guo Jinzhang, an important guest, be trapped in his personal freedom and was about to be tied up. As soon as he came in, he rushed straight towards Li Hongzhang in the main position:

"Zhongtang, Ye Zhichao fled without fighting, he ran away!"
Chapter completed!