Chapter 129 Minister

Zhang Ziying's opinions were finally unified. Luo Mingfang was anxious for a long time and really didn't want to give up this good situation. Luo Mingfang shouted: "Feng Guozhang, you fucking have something to say. Go to General Manager Nie and tell him yourself. This is Yizhou City. It's not your turn to talk! That's it! Now, I respectfully ask Zhang Xun and Deputy Division Zhang to preside over the overall situation of Zhang Ziying!"

Feng Guozhang was choked and speechless. Luo Mingfang's words were clearly bullying him without soldiers or guns.

Feng Guozhang was also stubborn and shouted, "I will never be with Zhang Xun! Say goodbye!" With that, he strode out of the grain depot.

Zhang Xun looked at Feng Guozhang's back and sneered secretly. This deputy teacher was determined! A Feng Guozhang is just an arm as a car.

What we have to do now is to put more than 8,000 people in the whole Zhangzi camp into their pockets!

Zhang Xun has inquired that the reason why Zhou Charter was sleepy was that his little beauty died. This week's Charter is a kind of love, but then again, as a general leading thousands of troops, he is so affectionate that even if he wakes up, he can't become a climate. As long as Zhang Xun sits firmly in the position of deputy division commander and slowly removes Zhou Charter's people one by one, this army is his. Zhou Charter is awake, but he can't help it!

Zhang Xun was in good spirits. He walked to the earth platform, coughed and said, "I have become the deputy teacher! Now the division commander Zhou Charter is ill and unwell, and the master is temporarily acting on the command of the division. The master's ugly words are in front. The master has always been famous for governing the army with an iron fist. I respect the generals him. If anyone does not obey my general's order, don't blame me for turning against anyone!"

Zhang Xun was still "below" one by one just now. When he became a deputy teacher, he immediately became a "master" one by one.

Everyone looked at each other and found that Zhang Xun was not a good master. But when Zhang Xun became the deputy division commander, everyone raised their hands, and everyone had no choice but to bow down and listen.

Zhang Xun became more and more proud and said, "Now, I announced that Zhangzi Camp has been reorganized into a division, with four regiments and one division directly under the battalion..."

Suddenly, a shout came from outside the grain warehouse: "The imperial edict is coming!"

Everyone was stunned. Yizhou City is on the east bank of the Yalu River and is on the territory of North Korea. Where did this imperial edict come from?

Zhang Xun reacted fast enough and shouted harshly, "Dog, this must be an imperial edict from the puppet emperor in the capital of North Korea to greet us! Damn, Li Xi is such a coward that he can't even handle all women. With the support of the Japanese, his mother's fox pretended to be a tiger to pass on the imperial edict! Come on, cut off all the fake edicts outside and hang all the heads on the gate to strengthen the military prestige!"

He answered left and right, and was about to do it, but he saw Feng Guozhang strode in from the door, pointing to Zhang Xun on the platform and shouted, "Zhang Xun, it's easy for you to kill anyone! Outside the door is my imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty! Let's all go out to welcome the imperial edict!"

"Nonsense!" Zhang Xun is still immersed in the joy of being a deputy division commander: "Yizhou City is the territory of North Korea. Where did the imperial envoy come from? It must be you, Feng Guozhang, who secretly communicate with the Japanese. Yizhou City is my Zhang Xun..."

Before Zhang Xun finished speaking, the people in the grain warehouse had already run away, leaving Zhang Xun alone standing on the platform. Zhang Xun found that the situation was not good and hurriedly jumped off the platform and ran out with the crowd.

On the field outside, there was a team of people and horses, banners, and bright armor. It was the dress of the Qing Dynasty. In the center of the venue, there was a red flag. Under the banner stood two Qing officials in three-grade imperial uniforms, a burly figure with a thick eight-character beard. He was 30 years old. Many years old, quite capable; the other is a thin little old man with white hair, shaking his head, and a sour smell of literati all over his body.

Zhang Xun realized that the person who came was the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty, and the grade was extremely high. Zhang Xun hurriedly ran to the front of everyone and knelt down and kowtowed: "I minister Zhang Xun led the Zhang Zi camp..."

"Where is Zhou Charter?" The thin old man interrupted Zhang Xun impatiently.

"Zhou Charter is in poor health and is now recuperating in the county government, and Zhang Xun is temporarily acting..."

"Go to the county government!" The old man ignored Zhang Xun and turned around and left. The burly middle-aged official followed the old man.

Feng Guozhang hurriedly ran to the front of the two imperial ministers: "Lord Yuan, Lord, the last general will lead the way."

Everyone did not dare to neglect and hurriedly followed the two envoys.

Zhang Xun's heart thumped and couldn't help looking at the middle-aged imperial envoy and taking a cold breath in his heart. Could that be Yuan Shikai?

Yuan Shikai, courtesy name Weiting, nicknamed Rong An, is a native of Xiangcheng, Henan Province, and he is a powerful general of Li Hongzhang. In 1882, the Renwu army chaos occurred in North Korea. Yuan Shikai crossed North Korea east with Wu Changqing's army and led a Qing army to cooperate with the operation. In the battle, Yuan Shikai took the lead in rushing to the front. His perseverance bravely infected his subordinates, and the mutiny was quickly calmed down. In his report to the Qing court, Wu Changqing said that he was "serious in governing the army, well-manageable, striving to attack and suppress, especially bravely" and reported his first achievements. Subsequently, 23-year-old Yuan Shikai stationed in North Korea as a vassal state as a helper in North Korea's military affairs, assisting North Korea in training the new army and controlling taxes. During Yuan Shikai's stay in North Korea, he received unanimous praise from all of North Korea.

1884 Jin Yujun's "Kaihua Party" personnel launched the Jiashen coup, and the troops stationed in Japan took the opportunity to seize the royal family. Yuan Shikai commanded the Qing army to repel the Japanese army and maintain the sovereignty and other privileges of the Qing court in North Korea. Yuan Shikai pacifying the Korean Jiashen coup was of great significance, repelled Japan's infiltration forces, smashed Japan's attempt to seek North Korea at the time of the Sino-French War, and postponed the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. Yuan Shikai was also valued by Li Hongzhang and others because of this incident. At the age of 26, he was awarded the title of "Minister of Commerce and Trade Affairs of the Prime Minister stationed in North Korea". He was the same three-grade Taoist who influenced the political situation in North Korea and was like the emperor of North Korea.

During his stay in North Korea, Yuan Shikai asked Emperor Gaozong of North Korea to welcome the imperial envoys in accordance with the etiquette of the vassal state and clarify the patriarchal relationship between the Qing Dynasty and North Korea. He also prevented North Korea from borrowing from foreign countries and prevented North Korea from sending envoys to Western countries.

Yuan Shikai's interference in North Korean internal affairs has aroused the dissatisfaction of the North Korean king and some ministers, and he has been impeached in the Qing court. In January 1888, King Li Xi of North Korea sent a letter requesting the Qing court to withdraw Yuan Shikai, and then Kim Myung-kyu, a North Korean official in China, was ordered by Lee Hee to request the replacement of Lee Hongzhang. Zhang Jian, Zhang Peilun and others in the Qing court also attacked Yuan Shikai, "extravagant, arrogant and arrogant, staying in North Korea for a long time, which is not beneficial to the overall situation." Li Hongzhang tried his best to exclude public criticism and not only let Yuan Shikai continue to stay in the dynasty, but also wrote a comment to Yuan Shikai in February 1890, "blooded loyalty, talented and sensitive, strong in holding the overall situation, and it is difficult to make it alone".

Yuan Shikai effectively curbed the infiltration of Japan and Russia in North Korea for 12 years. The Japanese regarded it as the biggest obstacle to Japan's expansion of North Korea. They have sent people to assassinate Yuan Shikai many times, but failed.

Yuan Shikai is one of the few officials in the Qing Dynasty to keep a clear mind. He not only has a clear and clear judgment on the situation in North Korea, but also is also very clear about the gap between the Qing army and the Japanese army. On the eve of the outbreak of the war, like Li Hongzhang, he was pessimistic about the outcome of the war, but unlike Li Hongzhang, Li Hong Zhang tried his best to avoid war through diplomatic means, and Yuan Shikai believed that war was inevitable and defeat was inevitable!

Yuan Shikai's view is that the Qing Dynasty needs a failure!

Through war, even through a tragic defeat, the corrupt military system of the Qing Dynasty was completely liquidated, the existing Eight Banners Green Camp Xianghuai Army was removed, a new army was established, and a strong country was embarked on the road to a strong army.

For this reason, after returning from North Korea, Yuan Shikai did not participate in the affairs of the Korean War, because he believed that the Qing Dynasty lost the war! He made a memorial to the court and put forward a set of suggestions for training the new army.

Of course, his suggestion was not recognized by Guangxu, who was still immersed in the dream of defeating Japan in Asia.

Yuan Shikai's memorial is like a stone sinking into the sea. Just as he was bored, the Empress Dowager Buddha in the garden thought of him.