Chapter 023 The backer is gone

Jin Yujun is from a North Korean aristocrat. He has won the imperial examination and served as Yutang's decree and Hu Cao's judgment. In 1884, Jin Yujun returned from Japan and joined the Kaihua Party, trying to carry out reform in North Korea with the experience of Japan's Meiji Restoration. In December 1884, the Kaihua Party instigated the king and announced that North Korea and the Qing Dynasty were separated from the clan relationship, known as the "Jieshen coup". Under the strong intervention of the Qing army in North Korea, the coup failed in three days, and Jin Yujun fled to Japan.

During the coup, the Kaihua party brutally purged the princes and ministers of the court. Within three days, countless old ministers of the court were pulled out of the Jingyou Palace and executed. The North Korean court hated Kim Yujun to the bone. Although the court king and the Min's group were incompatible, they were completely consistent in their attitude towards Kim Yujun. Since Kim Yujun fled to Japan, North Korea has sent a number of killers to hunt down Kim Ok-jun, but due to Japan's strict protection, it has not succeeded.

However, Jin Yujun was assassinated by a North Korean killer in Shanghai, the Qing Dynasty.

Feng Guozhang shook his head and said, "Brother, you only know one, not the other. Jin Yujun's identity is very special. The Jiashen coup he launched was actually secretly supported by the Japanese. It is said that some Japanese non-commissioned officers participated in the coup.

"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Charter said angrily, "North Korea is a vassal state of our Qing Dynasty. Japanese interference in the internal affairs of North Korea is to interfere in the internal affairs of our Qing Dynasty!"

"Brother is right." Feng Guozhang said: "Because of this, Jin Yujun has many sympathizers in Japan, from the Japanese government to civilians, and many Japanese sympathize with Jin Yujun. This time, Jin Yujun was assassinated in Shanghai, and Japanese public opinion believed that the assassin had the help of our Qing Dynasty. Otherwise, he lived in the United States on loan. How could the assassin be so easy to win?

Zhou Charter sneered: "Even if I help the assassins in the Qing Dynasty, it's a matter for the East Chinese people!" Jin Yujun is a North Korean, not a Japanese!"

Aid said coldly, "Whether he is Japanese or North Korean, he is first of all a person and imposes a late punishment on a deceased, which is a serious violation of human moral principles!"

"What Ling Chi? Isn't Jin Yujun dead?" Zhou Charter asked.

Feng Guozhang said, "That's the problem. After Jin Yujun's death, North Korea asked me to extradite his body and assassin Hong Zhongyu to North Korea. North Korea's request is not wrong. They are all North Koreans, so they should naturally return to China for trial. But the problem is that the North Korean authorities have said that they want to impose a late on Kim Yujun's body, which is very different from the mainstream values in today's world. Japan seized this and asked our country not to hand over the body to North Korea. Even the Western powers such as Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States are on the side of Japan at this point.

Ed said hatefully, "Only cowardly humiliates his opponent's body!"

"Then don't give the body to the North Koreans." Zhou Charter said, "These North Koreans are the same. If there is any deep hatred, it's okay to die."

Feng Guozhang said, "However, despite the protests of the Western powers and the Japanese, Li Zhongtang handed over the body of Kim Yujun to North Korea. Just yesterday, the North Korean court had delayed Kim Yujun in public and hung his head in Yang Huajin in the capital to show it. In this way, international public opinion is in an ups, and the great powers have accused the North Korean authorities, and Japan is even more furious. Many Japanese people demand war against North Korea, and even radicals demand war against me in the Qing Dynasty!"

Zhou Charter shook his head: "North Korea's practice is a little too much, but then again, Li Zhongtang handed over Kim Yujun's body to North Korea, which is also true. After all, he is a North Korean. North Koreans want Ling Chi and Jin Yujun, and we don't care about it. Japan started a war with me in the Qing Dynasty because of this, and the reason is too far-fetched.

Ed said, "Of course, it is not enough to take Jin Yujun as a reason for war, but it is enough as the driving force of war! In the civilized world, it is really puzzling that your Qing and North Korea still retain medieval punishments! North Korea's behavior seriously violates human values. Based on this, if Japan dispatch troops to North Korea, the public opinion of the Western world will take Japan's side.

"Because of Kim Yujun's death, Japan stood at a moral commanding height, which made Japan gain moral support. Once Japan sent troops to North Korea, the Qing Dynasty could only fight in order to maintain North Korea's vassal status!" Feng Guozhang said.

Zhou Charter sweated coldly: "Brother, do you really want to fight?"

Feng Guozhang smiled and said, "Brother, don't be nervous. That's not necessarily. There must be a war. Both sides want to fight, and both sides have the ability to fight. One slap can't be heard."

Zhou Charter's eyes widened: "You mean, when Japan came to the door, our Qing Dynasty swallowed its anger?" Zhou Charter was afraid that the Qing Kingdom would go to war with the Japanese. As soon as the war began, his head would have to move. However, the Qing Dynasty really had to swallow his anger in front of little Japan, and Zhou Charter felt that he could not swallow this breath.

"It's not to swallow your anger," Feng Guozhang said, "Sometimes, as long as one side of the war is fully prepared and the other side sees no opportunity to take advantage of it, it will retreat. Or, one side finds that there is a huge disparity in strength, and there is no possibility of victory at all, so they have to give up the war. Therefore, until now, the court is still hesitating whether to fight or not.

Zhou Charter's heart moved: "Is it because of this that Lord Li Hongzhang and Lord Weng Tongqi will come to our school tomorrow?"

"I don't know the specific purpose of their visit, but it is probably related to the Jin Yujun incident." Feng Guozhang said, "I can't take the school entrance examination tomorrow. The school specially allowed me to get up early tomorrow morning to go to the Yalu River to meet with Taiyuan General Soldier Nie Shicheng."

"What? General Nie has arrived at the Yalu River!" Zhou Charter was shocked. Nie Shicheng was the leading general of the Qing Dynasty. His subordinates were the most elite troops in the Qing Dynasty at present. Nie Shicheng led his troops to the Yalu River, which meant that the Qing army was likely to fight in the DPRK.

"Brother, don't be afraid. My task is to help General Nie investigate the terrain of the Yalu River. This doesn't mean going to war." Feng Guozhang comforted, "And, brother, let me tell you the truth. Even if our Qing Dynasty really fights with the Easterners, Jin will not cut off your head."

"Why?"

"You are his proud disciple. You are the only disciple in his life. How can he be willing to do it! Moreover, even if he is willing to do it, no one dares to cut off your head. He is an adult. Who dares to cut off the head of an adult student!"

"Brother, are you serious about this?"

"Absolutely take it seriously!"

Zhou Charter took a long breath. Since he entered the martial arts school, this bet was like three mountains, which made him breathless. According to Feng Guozhang, it turned out to be a false alarm.

Zhou Charter has no crisis of beheading, and increasingly agrees that Feng Guozhang, the eldest brother, is a good elder brother. Feng Guozhang is about to travel, and Zhou Charter's separation surged into his mind: "Brother, I heard that the Yalu River is particularly cold. You should bring more clothes."

Feng Guozhang has been in the barracks for so many years, and no one has ever cared about his clothes. Hearing Zhou Charter's words, he suddenly felt a sore nose: "Brother, I know that you are angry with me Feng Guozhang. I pulled you into the school, made you a soldier, and bet with your head on Jin. These are all for my brother. No, I apologized to you for my brother."

Feng Guozhang has been very proud of himself in his life and has never disdained to apologize to others. Today, he was sad by Zhou Charter's words and unconsciously humbled Zhou Charter.

Feng Guozhang changed his previous cattle. Forced and coaxed, he neither put on the airs of the eldest brother nor the airs of teaching Lord Xi. He looked like he was about to die and said well. Zhou Changhe was greatly frightened: "Brother, there is nothing wrong with our hometown in western Hunan, the eldest brother does everything he does!"

"Brother, don't you blame the big brother?" Feng Guozhang asked.

"It's not strange, of course it's not."

Feng Guozhang nodded and hugged Zhou Charter: "Brother, take care and say goodbye." With that, he turned around and left.

Ed also shook hands with Zhou Charter: "Mr. Zhou, see you at the examination room tomorrow."

The two left one after another. Zhou Charter looked at Feng Guozhang's back and disappeared behind the barracks. His nose was sore and he actually shed two drops of tears.

Zhou Charter was washed away by a flood in the Qing Dynasty. His eyes were black and his eyes were no relatives. If Feng Guozhang hadn't taken him in, he, a drowning ghost who did not understand the conditions of the Qing Dynasty, would have been beheaded by the officials of the Qing Dynasty countless times.

In the Qing Dynasty, Feng Guozhang was his own brother!

When my brother left, Zhou Charter's heart was empty and his back was cold - his backer was gone! He seemed to have returned to the canal beach, alone, looking at the crows flying in the sky.

The Yalu River is thousands of miles away. I don't know when we will see each other. Moreover, looking at this situation, there is really going to be a war. If Feng Guozhang follows Nie Shicheng across the Yalu River, it will be a rain of bullets, and life and death are unpredictable.

Zhou Charter first tasted the pain of parting in life and couldn't help sighing.

Suddenly, I saw a figure rushing on the path.

Zhou Charter was overjoyed and took a few steps to greet him: "Brother, aren't you leaving?"

Feng Guozhang went back and gasped and said, "Brother, I want to say something important to you."