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Chapter 38 Li Hongzhang, the master of power

First of all, thanks to the rewards of "Pure Demon Sword" and "Flying Dragon King". Xiao Chong bowed! He celebrated his brothers and I again, but Xiao Chong typing slowly, so it was difficult to explode. However, two chapters a day will not be missing. Thank you brothers again.

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On October 9, the weather was sunny, and the Beiyang Navy fleet finally arrived at Dagukou, Tianjin. Li Hongzhang, Ye Zhikui and other returning personnel will land here. Then they will take a short rest at Dagukou and go straight to the capital, and will not enter Tianjin City during this period.

At noon, Ye Zhikui followed Li Hongzhang, Ye Zhichao and others as soon as they got off the Dingyuan warship, they were shocked by the crowded waves. Sure enough, all Chinese people like to watch.

Before Li Hongzhang returned to China, newspapers and other large and small newspapers such as Beijing News, Shenbao, and the Communist Party of China had already revealed the content of the Sino-Japanese Pyongyang Treaty and the recent return of the Chinese Pyongyang peace talks delegation. The content of the Pyongyang Treaty finally allowed these Qing people to regain the glory of the former Celestial Kingdom. It coincided with the 60th birthday of the Lafayette. The officials of the Qing Dynasty were all energetic and celebrated with glory. It seemed that overnight China became the center of the world again and suddenly became invincible in the world.

Later, it was confirmed by telegram that the specific time for Li Zhongtang to return to China was about the morning of the 9th. At this time, Li Hongzhang was the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, holding military power, commanding the country, taking charge of Beiyang, and taking charge of the government. When he returned to his own base, could he be less cheerful?

When officials and rich gentry from Tianjin City heard the news, they would never be able to make up for it. If there was a primary school at this time, they would definitely organize a large group of primary school students, wearing red scarves and waving various colorful flags to greet Dagukou Port.

Fortunately, there was no elementary school at this time, and the children did not have to suffer these crimes, so the officials had to mobilize the masses to the port, and the streets of Tianjin were empty.

The plain-headed people in Tianjin City have no birds during the day, and birds are fine at night, and they are not hungry without eating or being hungry. They just rushed here under the instigation of the government. They didn't care about the Pyongyang treaty. They just wanted to see the respectful face of the Lord Zhongtang and have a good topic of talk after they went back.

As the admiral of Zhili, Nie Shicheng had to lead a group of militias who had just recruited in Lutai, Tianjin to help the government maintain order on the scene, isolate the crowd on both sides of the road to prevent accidents, and he also came to meet the Shangguan.

Li Zhongtang was knowledgeable and shouted so much that the lively scene was not surprising at all. Instead, he was a light and gentle expression. However, Ye Zhikui still saw his excitement from his slightly trembling hands. Most of the people in the world were fame and fortune. Now, Li Zhongtang not only had fame and fortune, but also had the highest reputation among Han officials in the Qing Dynasty. What else could he not be satisfied with!

Li Hongzhang was full of energy and even walked faster. As soon as he got off the boat, officials from Zhili area came up to support him. The Li Zhongtang, who was so fit, just now turned into an old Zhong Longtai look, enjoying the support of everyone.

The officials were holding umbrellas, fanning the air, and handing the tea. The speed was so fast that Ye Zhikui was stunned. Pictures of ugly appearances of officials in the late Qing Dynasty were constantly being staged by him. No wonder the Qing Dynasty collapsed. Few people were serious and hard at work, and more people were trying to flatter. And these were all put on the table, and the minimum fig leaf was thrown aside.

Ye Zhikui watched coldly, listening to the cheers not far away, watching the group of flies nodding and bowing like a group of flies, and found a piece of carrion like a group of flies. He was very happy to grab it, Ye Zhikui felt that the cheer was so harsh. Those officials could not grab Li Hongzhang and went to slap Li Jingfang, Ye Zhichao and others flattered. It really made people admire their breakthrough ability. If these people were allowed to go to the Sino-Japanese battlefield, the Japanese army would probably be flattered and surrendered.

Just when Ye Zhikui was secretly despising these people, Nie Shicheng saw him and walked over and said, "Nephew, after I left, you made great contributions in Pyongyang, why? My soldiers didn't embarrass me, right?"

Nie Shicheng returned to the country to recruit soldiers. Before he could recruit them, the war was over and he had to stay in Lutai. Ye Zhikui was respectful to Nie Shicheng, the respectable old man, and replied with a smile: "I can make such a great contribution, and I will not be separated from the soldiers of the uncle. If I had time that day, I would definitely come to the house to visit him to express my gratitude."

Because Nie Shicheng had to dispatch soldiers, he had only said a few simple words to Ye Zhikui, and then he had to leave. Ye Zhikui didn't know anyone else and could only follow Li Hongzhang alone.

Among the cheering crowd, two young people seemed to be worried and said to the older ones a little younger: "Brother Zaizhi, it's not good to do this."

The older man looked sad and replied, "Shaobai, I have no choice. Since I wrote to Master Zhongtang in April this year, I have been looking forward to replying to me day and night, but it has been so sank to the sea. I think it must be because of the busy things in the middle hall. I have never seen my hard work for me. I have to do this for me." The young man stopped persuading me.

The two looked at Li Hongzhang at the same time. The older one saw Ye Zhikui who was very close to Li Hongzhang. He pointed at Ye Zhikui in an envious tone and said, "Who is that young man? He is already wearing a second-grade flower coral at a young age, and the one embroidered on his official uniform is also a lion."

The young man looked at it and said, "From the age point, it should be the blessing general of the country, Ye Zhikui. This man is not comparable to you and me, but he has a good face and looks outstanding after Li Hongzhang."

Ye Zhikui followed a group of men impatiently. The officials walked hard and slowly, as if they were enjoying the attention of thousands of people, and seemed to be showing off their uniqueness, but he just felt naive and hot!

At this moment, a group of reporters finally broke through the Qing army's obstacles and ran to Li Hongzhang, which really scared Nie Shicheng, for fear of causing trouble. Fortunately, Li Hongzhang was very excited and did not order to drive away the reporters. Instead, he accepted an interview with the reporter. Now the Chinese and foreign media were excited, and they all rushed to Li Hongzhang with all kinds of questions. The one who asked the most was of course the Pyongyang Treaty. Everyone stopped for a moment.

Ye Zhikui, who was behind, did not expect that Li Hongzhang was blocking in front and reporters came to interview him. After a closer look, they were all foreign journalists, including Ying and De, while the most were Japanese journalists.

"Mr. Ye, will you feel guilty after ordering the massacre of my great Japanese? "A Japanese reporter asked first. In fact, in order to slander Ye Zhikui, the Japanese government poured many of the missing Japanese people on him. The night of the Pyongyang riot was also portrayed as Ye Zhikui killed the good Japanese people for no reason.

Ye Zhikui looked at many foreign journalists looking at him seriously, no longer asked questions, but just held a pen in his hand and was ready to write it down at any time. He knew that he had to answer, and the answer should neither be too weak nor seem arrogant or unreasonable, otherwise the newspaper would not know how to write tomorrow!

After thinking about it, I replied, "This journalist friend, I don't know where you learned the news. As we all know, the expatriates you mentioned were actually a group of mobs. They tried to seize Pyongyang at that time, and our army was forced to fight back. Besides, don't say that the counterattack was not my order, even if I gave it, I would not regret it. There is an old saying in China that is to repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay kindness with kindness. I just want you to convey this sentence to the whole world-China cannot be humiliated lightly, and the Chinese are not sheep at the slaughter of others."

The reporters around quickly wrote down what Ye Zhikui said. Some reporters wanted to ask, but suddenly a commotion occurred on Li Hongzhang, attracting everyone's attention.

When Ye Zhikui saw two young people approached Li Hongzhang as reporters. When Li Hongzhang was interviewing the reporter, one of the young people suddenly stepped forward and threw a book in his hand to him and said, "Master Zhongtang, a rural minority Sun Wen, heard that Master Zhongtang passed by here, and specially presented the book he wrote. I hope Master Zhongtang will take a look at it in his spare time."

The reporters were shocked, and the Qing officials were shocked. What was going on? Nie Shicheng hurriedly ordered people to mount the two young men and drive them into the crowd.

Ye Zhikui was surprised when he heard the young man claiming that Sun Yat-sen wrote a letter. It was not Sun Yat-sen, so he walked over quickly and picked up the book on the ground and saw it. It was "Aside from Li Fu Xiang's Book". Ye Zhikui shook his head secretly. Sun Yat-sen wanted to be an official and wanted to be a madman.

Li Hongzhang reacted, a little angry, and said, "Young people nowadays are so frivolous, and it's so polite without any rules! Congyun, you can hold this book, no matter what its talent is, you can't reuse it."

Ye Zhikui smiled awkwardly and replied, "Old Zhongtang, I am also a young man." Li Hongzhang was embarrassed.

After this small accident, Li Hongzhang also lost the interest of continuing to accept interviews and led officials from all over the place to rest.
Chapter completed!
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