Chapter 8 People in Beiyang

"Young master, Mr. Long and Mr. Chen are here."

Outside the door, Zhao Long's voice broke the silence and waved his hand to the little girl to retreat first. Li thought for a moment, and suddenly pulled out the command knife on the wall and put it on the table. Then he said, "Please come in."

In fact, since he cleaned up all the foreigners, according to Long Guozhang's idea, he threw these people into the sea and tried to drive the boat back, but he didn't expect that Chen Ping stopped him and insisted on waiting for Li Mo to wake up.

As a last resort, Long Guozhang had to bear his surname and tied a group of foreign devils to the deck to blow the wind. Finally, he waited until the morning and saw Xiaoxiao going to get something to eat, so he dragged Chen Ping and hurried over.

As soon as he entered the room, Long Guozhang first saw the command knife on the table, and the sun shone on the knife along the porthole, which was particularly bright. I can't help but wonder, does this Master Li like to play with knives early in the morning?

"Brother Long, Brother Chen, please sit down."

Li Mo's words interrupted Long Guozhang's thoughts. He originally wanted to pull Chen Ping to sit down and talk, but he didn't expect that the latter grabbed the long knife first, flicked his index finger, "Ding", and the knife body actually let out a crisp dragon chant.

"Good knife."

"It's a good knife, but it's useless." Li Mo smiled and stared at Chen Ping. In fact, last night, he had seen from Long Guozhang's continuous communication with Chen Ping that this was probably the one who really made the decision.

"It seems that Master Li Mo has recognized us!" Chen Pinghu's eyes lit up, and his hand holding the knife suddenly tightened.

"I know! I don't know." Li Mo gnawed two mouthfuls of bread. Shit, the black bread tastes terrible these days. After cursing the baker, he continued to say, "I know, because my father is the leader of the Eight Banners of Weihan, Jinzhou, so I have seen the sailor's clothes on you. I don't know, but from the perspective of several cuffs Yunshou, they are all in important positions, why did they fall here?

"Commander of Jinzhou Weihan Army?" Chen Ping frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly asked with a shortness of breath, "Is that Lord Li Guotai Li your father?" Chen Ping stared at Li Mo. He had heard of the deeds of this adult and knew that Li Guotai's suicide half a month ago actually had something to do with him, but he didn't expect that the one in front of him was actually Li Guotai's descendants, so he couldn't help but be anxious.

What? Does this guy have a grudge against the cheap dad? Looking at Chen Ping, who was suddenly short of breath, Li Mo nodded. Unexpectedly, as soon as he nodded, Chen Ping suddenly bowed to the end, patted his thigh painfully, and cried, "It's all Chen Ping who missed Lord Li!"

"Huh? What do you say?" Li Mo felt that he was a little like the ancients, and at least he began to use words.

As Chen Ping said, Li Mo knew that the munitions sold to the Japanese invaders investigated by Li Guotai were under Chen Ping's jurisdiction. At that time, he also handed the folds to Li Hongzhang and quietly notified Jinzhouwei's checkpoint to intercept the goods.

But he didn't expect that the person who intercepted it was Li Guotai, who happened to investigate, and this matter also shocked the court. In order to hide his greed, Prince Chun began to arrest the people who were against him, and Chen Ping was also one of the unlucky people who were arrested at that time.

Li Mo didn't expect that there would be such a thing between the two. However, since Li Guotai is dead, there is no need to investigate anything. What's more, Li Guotai's disclosure of the shady story in Beiyang was originally voluntary, so Chen Ping is not to blame for this matter.

Since they are all fallen people, after some communication, Li Mo gradually learned the origin of Long Guozhang and Chen Ping.

It turned out that Long Guozhang was originally a member of the Fuzhou Marine Division, but he didn't want to be dragged to Beiyang by Li Hongzhang's order to accompany some generals in the Fuzhou Marine Division. But he didn't know how to welcome him, and he was squeezed in the sailor. Although he finally became a pipe belt in the end, he didn't fight when he thought of the small broken sampan that couldn't even come out of the sea. Come in one place. You can scold him, beat him, or even kick him back to his hometown. It is by no means acceptable for him to humiliate people in this way.

So when he was angry, he beat the children of the Eight Banners from the capital who were responsible for arranging the affairs of the ships. Unexpectedly, the boy broke his legs in a few times without beating, and Long Guozhang also came to be in charge of the trial.

As for Chen Ping, it is not simple. His ancestral home is Guangdong, and he and Long Guozhang are fellow villagers. At that time, he went to England with his grandfather. He entered the Royal Naval Academy at a young age. When he was in England, he met Fang Boqian and others who were also studying abroad at that time. Then he saw "Yangwei" and "Super Yong" and returned to China. Fang Boqian and so on. People also became the belt one by one, so they decided to serve the motherland. But not long after they joined the Guangzhou Marine Division, they encountered the Sino-French War. The Marine Division was defeated, and they were dismissed. Although with the help of Fang Boqian, they later spent money to come to the Beiyang Army, but after several twists and turns, they not only did not become the belt. And because of the name, I didn't even give up the ship. I was only assigned a copy to be responsible for Lu Qin's chores.

As the days passed, the ambitions of Long Guozhang and Chen Ping faded. They had a similar temper and became brothers. They wanted to go back to Fuzhou for a few years, but who would have expected that last year, the empress dowager repaired the garden and transferred 30 million taels of silver, which made the funds of Beiyang suddenly tense. Then Chen Ping found that the total Prince Chun of the Naval Affairs Office not only deducted military expenses privately, but also made a lot of money on the shells. This angered Chen Ping and immediately informed Li Hongzhang, and also quietly notified the Jinzhou Health Center, hoping to stop this batch of arms.

Who is Prince Kemel? The number one vampire on the official Beiyang sailor is more poisonous than the old Buddha in the Forbidden City. The most important thing is that he is still Guangxu's biological father. He led the prime minister's office and directly grabbed Li Hongzhang's neck. So after a confrontation, like Li Guotai, he became a political victim and fell into a "flow" Let it end.

Fortunately, Long Guozhang and Chen Ping were very popular in the sailors, and there were many people like them, so they teamed up with more than 20 people and took a small boat to escape. But as soon as they went out to sea, they met Rudolph's group of people everywhere. They lacked weapons, and they were strong and strong. Shanghai's cool candidates. So Rudolph will naturally not let them go.

"Grandma's, it's a mellow prince again!"

After listening to this, Li Mo couldn't help sighing that his fate was such a coincidence. The descendants of Aixinjueluo always seemed to be unable to live with his Li Mo, so that he could not enjoy the life of the young master and almost became a miner who was inferior to pigs and dogs. However, he probably didn't expect that there was such a big guy hidden in Beiyang. He was not only a top student of the British navy, but also participated in the Sino-French naval battle. Unfortunately, now the big Beiyang new army is almost a Colosseum of power, even if he is talented? With that person's eyes, how can you put it in your eyes?!

And Chen Ping is also unlucky. The ancients have always been superstitious. Because "Chen" and "Chen" are homophonic, the rule that generals surnamed Chen are not allowed to go to sea for a long time. Even in the modern navy, this kind of unconscious unspoken rule is not without.

But after sighing, Li Mo also knew that he had met the baby. Let alone Long Guozhang and others, the British Naval Academy graduate who had participated in the Sino-French naval battle alone was enough to make him salivate!

It seems that the mellow prince really gave himself a treasure, but the question is how to get them?

Li Mo is thinking, do you want to give full play to your anger and then hit it all at once?

Fortunately, before his anger was released, Chen Ping said, "I don't know what Master Li Mo is going to do next?"

"What should I do?" His eyes swept over Long Guozhang and Chen Ping. Li Mo clearly saw the helplessness and confusion about the future in the other party's eyes. The two people who once dreamed of sailing across the world. At this moment, they were like Xiaoxiong who had come to the end of the road and asked a 12-year-old child what to do in the future, which was enough to show their state of mind at this moment.

In fact, Chen Ping and Long Guozhang have no choice. In the final analysis, both of them are criminals. Even if they return to Fuzhou, they will probably offend their families. Unless they abscond to Nanyang, it is enough to think about the experience of the Chinese in Nanyang at this moment, which is enough to make them hesitate.

Of course, Chen Ping still has a way, but he thought that his grandfather had lost all his wealth, so he let himself enter the British Imperial Naval Academy in the name of dispatched students. After all, he was not a real foreigner. He could not talk with Fang Boqian and others, and he could not go to the British Navy for an internship, so for him, it was better to go to Nanyang. It's more comfortable to break through.

"It's very simple, two ways." Now that the words have been said, Li Mo no longer walked around the bush and said bluntly, "The first way, after escorting us to the destination, the ship will return to the two. The world is so big. Presumably, with the ability of the two big brothers, there is no place to go."

"What about the second way?" Chen Ping frowned and asked.

"Follow me, like Zhao Long and others, although I can't guarantee that you will be rich in the future, I can guarantee that within five years, both of you can command the real ironclad ship and cross the world!"

Li Mo suddenly stood up, and these words were loud. He knew that there was no king spirit in the world at all. Only the combination of interests is the king's way. In order for the two people to follow him with all his heart, he must draw a huge pie for everyone. As for whether he can do it or not. Let's talk about that again..." Li Mo, who was uncertain, knew that he could not weaken morale at this moment. He stared sharply at Chen Ping and Long Guozhang, waiting to see their reaction.

"Five years? Ironclad ship? Ha ha, Master Li Mo is joking, isn't he?

Not to mention the ironclad ship, even if there is a gun ship, I'm afraid that Long Guozhang and Chen Ping will agree immediately. I think they came to the Beiyang New Army just to show their ambitions! But thinking of the current situation of everyone, these words sound indescribably ridiculous.

"Five years, not long or short, why don't you two big brothers try it?" Li Mo was unwilling to let them go like this, but he also knew that he didn't have any attractive chips at this moment, so he braced himself and said, "If I can't do it in five years, you two can take people away!"

"Five years..." Long Guozhang muttered and turned his head to look at Chen Ping. After the two looked at each other, Chen Ping resolutely decided, "Okay, five years is the limit!" After saying that, he immediately stretched out his big hand.

"Believe me, Li Mo will never let you two down!"

The two big and the small three hands were clenched together. The three of them looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"So where should we go now?" As the atmosphere suddenly opened up, Long Guozhang immediately asked.

Li Mo bent up the corners of his mouth and smiled cunningly: "Then you should ask Captain Rudolph!"