Chapter 151 Tengchong bombing

Qing Zheng Axe is willing to let Qu Hongji be the new Fuzhou Shipping Minister, which is a very important signal... They are going to start to summon Jiangnan Trade Minister again.

There is no way. The French are already under the city. Urgent reports from Guangxi and Vietnam are sent more than a dozen times a day. When it comes to war, it costs money. When it comes to spending money, you can only find Hu Chuyuan.

After foreseeing this trend, Hu Chuyuan further sent people to the United States and Europe to buy more arms.

Different from some time ago, I also feel that China and France may go to war on a large scale. The prices of munitions in Europe and the United States have increased. The fluctuation amount of the United States is about 10%, and the fluctuation amount of Germany and the United Kingdom is as high as 30%. But for Hu Chuyuan, this is not a big deal.

As soon as it really starts, the price can definitely rise to 100%, or even 200%.

After Qu Hongji arrived in Fuzhou, at the end of November, just a few days before the outbreak of the Battle of Shanxi in Vietnam, Hu Chuyuan took a boat to Fuzhou. This time, he was also ready to go to Hong Kong.

As usual, when he was in Hangzhou, he met secretly with Mei Qizhao as usual to discuss the following measures.

After the fact that Hu Chuyuan's American citizenship was exposed, the only one among many officials who continued to maintain close cooperation with Hu Chuyuan was Mei Qizhao. The Sino-French war was approaching, and the two made a speculation about all possible situations.

At the beginning of the year, Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, had already felt that something was wrong. He said that he was ill and asked for his illness. Qing Zheng Axe made up for Zeng Guozheng. Zeng Guozheng felt very tricky as soon as he left. Xiang Yong, who was really under his dispatch, was only six or seven battalions, and they were all Wang Debang's troops.

The remaining more than 40 battalions stationed in Guangxi and Vietnam, half of which are the Huai Army, and the other half are the Guangxi regiment training and the Yunnan army.

These troops are not only not under his dispatch, but also poor equipment. Liu Yongfu, who was newly recruited by the Qingzheng axe, is very strong. He has more than 30,000 subordinates, with strong troops and well-equipped, but he does not listen to the command. He also hides in the mountain nest at the border between Yunnan and Guangxi.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he could not make his own decision. Zeng Guozheng reported very directly, saying that he could not adjust the Huai army at all. The Qing government axe could only continue to force Zhang Shusheng to be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Zeng Guozheng was stationed in Nanning in the name of "controlling the land camp".

Zhang Shusheng is useless.

Both Hu Chuyuan and Mei Qizhao are clear about this.

Just waiting for Zhang Shusheng to lose, Mei Qizhao planned to take the initiative to replace Zhang Shusheng according to the original plan and go to Liangguang to gamble on luck. Anyway, he had Hu Chuyuan in the middle, and Xiangjun had to give some affection.

After the negotiation with Mei Qizhao, Hu Chuyuan continued to take a boat to Fuzhou.

In the approaching winter, the sea of Qiantang Bay also became cold. Because the road was very close, he could arrive in Fuzhou in two days. Hu Chuyuan did not prepare anything, and there were not many people accompanying him.

The carriage was driving on the seawall to Pukou, and the figure of the dock could be seen in front of it.

Hu Chuyuan sat in the carriage and was still thinking about the Sino-French war.

It is obviously not a big problem to defeat France. The only difficulty is how to keep the seedling of the Fujian Marine Division. At this moment, he asked Qu Hongji to be the Minister of Ship of Fuzhou. Of course, the goal is to avoid Zhang Peilun's incompetent people from making some negative problems in the Fuzhou Marine Division.

What else?

Hu Chuyuan has been thinking in his heart... If he can use this matter to also cause a blow to the Huai army, at the same time, he will gradually take the strength of the Xiang army to himself, and then cultivate the strength of Mei Qizhao's Gan army and attract the Yunnan system, this is of course the best result and what he wants.

Hu Chuyuan thought about it in his heart.

He knew that Zuo Zongtang could not last long. Once Zuo Zongtang passed away, even if he still had many foreign banks in his hand to make chips, he wanted to compete with Manren... With a wrenching his wrist, his chips were still much worse.

In other words... Hu Chuyuan knew that before Zuo Zongtang died, he must re-cultivate a reliable new pillar and a new flag for the Xiang army. Liu Kunyi and Zeng Guoquan's weight was still a little poor. Even if they were pulled over, it was impossible to make the Qing conservative forces led by Cixi deeply afraid.

This new pillar may not have the influence and meritorious deeds of Zeng Guozun, and Liu Kunyi's position in the hearts of the conservative forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but he must be able to control the main force of the Xiang army and keep the door of China for Manchu people at a critical moment.

Only in this way can this new pillar be valuable.

So, who is it?

Hu Chuyuan thought about this question in his heart. Although he had several answers, after all, it was related to all his overall plans, as well as his life, his wealth, his power... He must be cautious.

I'm thinking...

Wow...!

With a long roar, Li Cunyi pulled the reins in his hand fiercely, got up and stepped on the brake board. With his waist, leg strength and driving skills, he abruptly pulled and stopped the galloping carriage.

Two Iberian horses flew on the ground with their hoofs, hissing, but they could not move half an inch forward at all. It can be seen that Li Cunyi's kung fu is by no means false.

Hu Chuyuan opened the curtain and took a look, but saw Chen Shanyuan running over in a hurry. He rushed over with a big step and grabbed Ma Yuan and turned over.

When he arrived at the window, Chen Shanyuan couldn't wait to tell Hu Chuyuan, "My employer, it's not good... Several bombs were found in Tengchong...!"

He didn't finish.

Hu Chuyuan asked in surprise and eagerly, "What's going on?"

With this, he opened the car door and asked Chen Shanyuan to come in and talk.

When he got into the car, Chen Shanyuan was also out of breath and reported more eagerly and hurriedly: "The brothers of Fuqingshe found out were all hidden in the kitchen. Across the warehouse is the ammunition depot. If it really explodes, I'm afraid that the whole ship can be blown up."

Hu Chuyuan's eyes drooped, and his whole body was much colder.

Afraid.

Of course he is afraid.

He is also a human being.

A deep cold cold pierced his heart, making him almost unable to say a word.

In a short moment, he gritted his teeth even more hatefully.

Immediately, he raised his eyes and continued to ask Chen Shanyuan, "Who else knows... Has someone been sent to deal with it?"

Chen Shanyuan wiped his sweat and whispered, "Because I don't know who placed it, my subordinates temporarily blocked the message and let only a few cronies quietly transfer the bomb. It looks like a private bomb, but it is made very fine, and the power will never be small. The bomb has a fuse and is hidden at the bottom of the cabbage basket. It will not explode unless someone ignites it himself. In this way, I'm afraid the opponent is also determined to die!"

"Well...???"

Hu Chuyuan thought about it in his mind.

There is no doubt that there will be no second possibility except for me. Li Hongzhang hates him, and Man people hates him even more, but these people are more anxious than anyone else to ask him to help and help the Qing Dynasty get through the difficulties in front of them.

The French are not so slang, and the opponents in other shopping malls are not so bold.

Anyway, he is a third-grade official of the court after all.

To be honest, with Hu Chuyuan's current buried strength in Japan, it is not very difficult to assassinate Hirofumi Ito. He can't do anything about the whole Japanese official system, let alone necessary. These officials still have a great influence on the right-wing forces of Japan. Even Hirofumi Ito wants to invade China. I just feel that the current time is not ripe, and it is necessary to better accumulate strength, rather than hasty action.

What Hu Chuyuan really wants to do now is to find out the real murderer behind the scenes.

He is not the kind of person who only has the courage of a man and only cares about the pleasure of the moment. He wants to find out the murderer behind the scenes, rather than kill him in an all-round way. More ideas are to temporarily curb the wave of crazy assassinations of himself.

Only in this way can he have more energy and time to do the big things he wants to do.

When he does what he wants to do, he can deal with the Japanese at any time, and it is even very possible to completely kill the future of the Japanese.

He is not a person who is in a hurry.

This is the surname that Hu Chuyuan will never change. He is a typical [***] Chinese. His vision for things and the future is not calculated in one day, one month, or one year, but ten years, thirty years, and one hundred years.

Hu Chuyuan thought in his heart that after a long time, he raised his eyes again and coldly told Chen Shanyuan, "Don't disturb the people on the ship, try to catch me... Of course, these are all little people. Even if they are caught, it has no practical significance. Maybe, that is, a cook was offered 1,000 taels of silver. I bought it."

With this, he couldn't help thinking about it and sighed, "In this year, I'm afraid that kind of life is the most worthless. A thousand taels of silver is a high price."

Yes!

Listening to this sentence, Chen Shanyuan also sighed in his heart. He and Hu Chuyuan asked, "Your Excellency, what should I do later?"

Hu Chuyuan said, "Search, continue to search clearly... But don't disturb others. Get ready for the escape ship and go to the shore after going to sea. In addition, you can arrange for me to let the people of Fuqingshe secretly pick us up in the area of Fuding County. Let's, if we really catch the person who was bribed, let's make a plan and blow up the Tengchong number... Let's wait and see who is behind the scenes.

"This...?"

Chen Shanyuan can't help but be a little reluctant. Tengchong also has a lot of combat power, and the value is even more expensive.

He didn't say anything, because he knew... For Hu Chuyuan, this waist fort ironclad ship with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons was nothing at all. If he really wanted to buy it, he could buy 100 of them.

After a few more words, Hu Chuyuan asked Chen Shanyuan to go back to do things.

This time, he decided to take a long line to catch a big fish. He asked Li Cunyi to drive the car slowly and slowly, giving Chen Shanyuan and Fuqingshe enough time.

In the secret fight with himself, he cultivated Fuqingshe, which is a spy gang that is really worth using, although it also has the obvious surname of the underworld community.

Li Cunyi has been listening. When the carriage is back on the road, he can't help asking Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, what kind of madness do you say I am? You are a third-class member of the imperial court!"

"Oh!"

Yes, I said that what kind of person is crazy?

Hu Chuyuan can understand, but others can't.

After a while, he sighed with Li Cunyi, "I'm good at assassination... There is no other skill that is easy to use. This trick is always tried again and again!"

This trick has really been tried and tested.

It can be said that the Meiji Restoration is a coup from the assassination. If there were not for the assassination of the Tokugawa shogunate by a large number of dead men, there would be no new election group and the legend of Tokata Suisan.

In the era of Hirofumi Ito, the official system of this article could barely control the country. After Hirofumi Ito died of the assassination, the situation began to change dramatically.

Among those who have served as the Prime Minister of Japan, almost all those who are non-right-wing have been assassinated. Okuma Shigenobu lost his legs in the assassination. The 19th, 20th, 27th and 29th Prime Minister Hara, Takahashi Shiqing, Hamaguchi Yuxing and Inu Yangyi are all right-wingers with military background in office. The group was assassinated, even Keisuke Okada, who was an admiral, and other prime ministers from the military but not far-right forces, had been assassinated, but fortunately they did not die.

The process of their assassination seems very simple, but... There is no doubt that the protection institutions inside the political axe are basically useless, and even the people inside assisted in the assassination.

Behind the scenes of those seemingly simple shots, there are no sophisticated arrangements and countless difficult puzzles to solve.

The far right... After all, there are still chaebols supporting it.

Money is the key and root of all problems.

It is more deadly than all political struggles. When you completely kill other people's ways to make money and let them fall into poverty, they will definitely get rid of you at all costs.

Perhaps this is the reason why the assassination against Hu Chuyuan is getting more and more crazy, and the funding and scale are getting bigger and bigger.

If you can't find an inner response around Hu Chuyuan and can't make a more secret plan, then use the tactics of the sea of people, just like dealing with the Tokugawa shogunate, constantly assassinating, constantly sending dead soldiers, hundreds of people, thousands of people, constantly calling on the dead men to move forward bravely, going forward... until the Tokugawa shogunate had to compromise.

The information collected by Hu Chuyuan shows all this. The so-called people of insight and the downtrodden... The samurai class who have paid everything but did not reap benefits from the Meiji Restoration have regarded Hu Chuyuan and the forces represented by Hu Chuyuan as blocking the development of the Japanese capital, resulting in the inability to develop the Japanese economy. The only factor that leads to their poverty and depression.

Hu Chuyuan had never thought before that he had become the second Tokugawa shogunate, which became the crux of his inability to develop and become a great power... Although, to some extent, it was true.

The continuous assassinations, level and scale he has encountered now are more and more like the treatment of the Tokugawa shogunate in the later period, even more than that... Anyway, I have more experience in this regard, and the chaebols are also richer and depressed. There are more warriors who can be used, and a large number of new young officers are willing to participate in this jihad of liberation.

Really, sitting in the carriage, Hu Chuyuan thought about these things. He only felt that it was very dark and humorous, vicious, weird, and difficult to understand.

It can only be said that he happened to appear in the legend of this new selection group just at the end... In the alternation of the old and new period of the Japanese warrior movement, the soldiers, politics, chaebols and society are also in the transformation of the new and the old.

If he appears 20 years later, the right-wing forces may use more ingenious wrists to deal with him, at least just like dealing with Canine Yangyi. Only one bullet and a lame surgeon can solve the problem. Even if it can't be assassinated, it will not make a terrible tide of people tactics, revealing So many horses.

Of course, this time the method is obviously smarter. After all, the last disturbance was too big.

It seems that it has become an unsolved problem to not only keep your own life safe, but also continue to suppress the development of the Japanese economy.

Even Hu Chuyuan can't come up with a better answer at this moment.

So, he decided to take a risk and take a look. He thought that maybe there would be a better result.

After Fuqingshe carefully and quietly checked the Tengchong, Hu Chuyuan got on the boat late and headed for Fuzhou.

It was very calm all the way. It was not until less than a few dozen kilometers away from Fuding County that Fuqingshe caught a annihalber who was ready to ignite the bomb... As a result, Hu Chuyuan was shocked. It was the orphan girl he took in Fuzhou.

When he heard that the orphan girl could speak fluently and look at him with a complex look of guilt and anger, he could understand and understand the reason for all this.

He felt sorry for the fourteen- or fifteen-year-old girl, but he didn't say anything to let the people of Fuqingshe quietly lock her in the ammunition depot.

Late at night, after most of Xiang Yong had rested, Hu Chuyuan asked Chen Shanyuan and Hu Rong to find a reason that was not too lame, and summon Cheng Tinghua and others to the bow of the ship.

Until this moment, the decision about Hu Chuyuan was still not revealed. Only Chen Shanyuan and Li Cunyi were really clear, and they also arranged several Fuqing brothers who were willing to sacrifice their lives.

Cheng Tinghua came slowly and laughed. Others generally didn't understand what was going to happen. They just thought that Hu Chuyuan was on a whim.

When he saw Hu Chuyuan, Cheng Tinghua smiled and wanted to say something. However, before he really opened his mouth, Tengchong suddenly seemed to be hit by a shell. The huge hull exploded, and the roaring explosion resounded through the sky. For a moment, the black smoke rolled up and rushed to the sky and turned into a black mushroom.

The red flame swallowed the cabin in an instant, and thick black smoke rolled out of it.

At this moment, Hu Chuyuan, who followed Cheng Tinghua for half a year, grabbed the railing first, and Li Cunyi, who accompanied him, also grabbed him. Several Xiang Yong, who were joking funny stories in Hunan dialect, were blown up by the cracked deck.

A huge stormy wave gushed out from the periphery of the ship and instantly covered the deck.

Pang.

The continuous explosion of the bombardment seems to be a continuous explosion in the ammunition depot.

Everyone desperately pushed Hu Chuyuan into the lifeboat. Seven or eight people hurriedly put a small boat on the sea. Cheng Tinghua, who barely pulled the ship's railing, could not withstand the impact. His whole body was like a straw in a typhoon. He was swept away by the huge waves, but after all, he was Cheng Tinghua and was swallowed up by the huge waves. In the previous moment, he had rushed several times in a row and jumped on the lifeboat first.

On the deck, more people rushed out. Chen Shanyuan, with several cronies of Fuqingshe, quickly untied the diesel locomotive on the Tengchong and drove around the hull... Obviously, they were the most knowledgeable group of people, and they were prepared early. The real victims were only Xiang Yong, some servants of the Hu family, and the boat. The sailor crew.

Do big things regardless of trifles.

That's what they say, and things often have to be done.

There were not many people brought by the Tengchong this time. More and more people swam over, about dozens of them, but the Tengchong was sinking rapidly. Although many people caught the lifeboat, they were also pulled under the sea by the whirlpool when the Tengchong sank.

Hu Chuyuan has got on the diesel engine boat and left the whirlpool area at a very fast speed. Li Cunyi took some Xiang Yong who escaped the disaster and drove several life-saving small wooden boats in the dangerous sea, trying to save more people.

Hu Chuyuan looked at this scene, looked at the bodies of the crew and family members who were not strange in the sea, and looked at those who were still struggling in the sea. He was very painful.

Only then did he find that he overestimated himself. He dared to make such a cruel decision, but he did not seem to be able to accept this cruel result.

Suddenly, there was a tingling pain in my heart.

He screamed, and suddenly there was darkness in front of him. He lost consciousness and fainted on the deck of the diesel boat.

"Your excellency...!"

Everyone shouted in panic.

After a long time, Hu Chuyuan woke up.

It was already very dark. He was in a small cave, surrounded by a bonfire. More than a dozen people gathered around the bonfire and baked their clothes. Everyone was shivering and looked very cold.

Hu Chuyuan coughed and wanted to sit up.

Hearing the sound, everyone looked very happy. Chen Shanyuan immediately squatted over, held a bowl of hot water, and smiled, "Your Excellency, you can wake up!"

With this, he helped Hu Chuyuan up.

After drinking this bowl of hot soup with the smell of grass, Hu Chuyuan felt obviously a little better, and there seemed to be a warm current in his body, which was hot.

He looked around and found that there were only thirteen or fourteen people.

Cheng Tinghua, Chen Shanyuan, Li Cunyi... Several Xiang Yong, several guards from Huizhou, several Fuqing sailors drawn from the Fujian Marine Division in the early years, several members of the Fuqing Society, Niu Yugeng and Hu Rong were also frozen by the cold sea. They shivered in front of the bonfire and baked their clothes for themselves.

Looking around, Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and asked Chen Shanyuan, "Where are we now?"

Chen Shanyuan said, "It's on a small island, four or five miles away from the land. It's too late. At night, it will be colder, so we didn't move forward. I guess it's the closest to Fuding. When it's dawn tomorrow, there will be fishermen in this area. I'll ask them later.

In front of everyone, Chen Shanyuan did not speak directly.

The people who responded to them were sure that the members of Fuqingshe were just fishermen disguised as cost. Only Hu Chuyuan and Chen Shanyuan knew all the details of the whole matter.

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly.

At this time, he asked Chen Shanyuan, who was inevitably a little reproachful, "What's the matter with that girl?"

Chen Shanyuan looked annoyed and said, "It's all because of the careless. At that time, I took her to the countryside to bury her parents. I asked several villagers, saying that the parents were indeed locals. They went out in the early years, so I didn't have much doubt and hid her parents there. Later, I brought her back and gave it to the second housekeeper.

Hu Chuyuan couldn't laugh or cry and sighed, "It's not your fault. No one expected that I would make such a sinister trick. You should be more careful in the future."

Chen Shanyuan sighed silently again.

Cheng Tinghua hated it and said, "I'm afraid that the family was deliberately killed by me... Then let a girl who was proficient in Min's local words pretend to be their children, and then she sneaked in."

Hu Chuyuan sighed silently and sneered again.

He completely understood a truth. He said that he was in the dark. No matter how he prevented it, he would still be calculated after all.

Unless he compromises with himself, he will be assassinated one day.

But how can he compromise?

The matter of Tengchong only shows one thing, that is, Mr. Zhidao behind the scenes, is smarter. He no longer uses the old-fashioned tactics to deal with the shogunate, but instead uses more insidious ambush and assassinations.

If the Tengchong was really blown up by me, even if a few people escaped, the most suspected was that a Japanese assassin ignited the bomb, triggering a chain explosion in the ammunition depot.

The arrangement is very simple and effective.

That's all.

(to be continued)