Burning

Chapter 064 A Ship in the Ocean

The brothers threw Xu Xilin out of the alley. Yao Xi shouted in a low voice, "Xu Xilin, you stupid pig, Minxiu Gege saved you!"

"Guge? Help me?" Xu Xilin's mind was dizzy. Thinking of Minxiu's handsome face, he couldn't help but be in a daze.

"Why are you in a daze? Don't run!" Yao Xi kicked Xu Xilin fiercely.

Xu Xilin then woke up and bowed his hand to Zhongyongbo Mansion: "Thank you for saving my life." With that, he ran out of Beijing.

After Xu Xilin returned to Shaoxing, he began to contact the heroes of all parties, secretly planned the anti-Qing uprising, and prepared to overthrow the Manchu regime by violent means. At the same time, the revolutionaries gathered forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and were ready to launch a riot at any time. Overseas Chinese and international students began to launch anti-Qing propaganda and import revolutions into China. The bases of the revolutionaries are in the United States, and the forefront is in Japan!

In order to achieve the new law, the Qing Dynasty sent a large number of international students to Japan. Those in power never thought that these international students would become their gravediggers!

In the Qing Dynasty, a piece of iron plate, began to disintegral cracks.

Xu Xilin was bombarded, and everyone went to Zhou Charter's funeral.

The atmosphere returned to tragedy and solemnity. The Zhang Jun brothers carried Zhou Charter's coffin and left the Zhongyongbo Mansion, followed by the big and small officials. The coffin came out of the alley and came to the street, which was full of people from all walks of life on both sides of the street. From the alley to the gate, where they passed, the people burned incense and prayed and sent them off along the street. Everyone sighed.

After the funeral, the brothers of Zhang Jun went their separate ways.

Luo Mingfang took office in Tianjin Martial Arts School. Feng Guozhang went to Tianjin Station and became Yuan Shikai's subordinate. Nahawu led the cavalry camp in Tianjin. Zhang Zuolin returned to his hometown as a magistrate. Wu Peifu led his troops to Fuzhou, while Zhang Xun was stationed in Linfen. Shannian went to Wuhan and followed his cousin Sheng Xuanhuai. If the money is expensive, it will stay in the household department.

Yao Xi should have gone to Yingkou to be a magistrate, but after two days as a magistrate, he became impatient. This boy was used to being a subordinate and suddenly became a parent official of a mansion. He was hugged by servants all day long and was extremely uncomfortable. Moreover, he missed Zhou Charter all day long. He was heartbroken and had no intention to take care of the affairs of the government. As a result, his men took advantage of the loopholes. The treasury was short of 10,000 taels of silver and was impeached by his boss. Fortunately, he was saved by money and down the household department, which saved his head. He couldn't be an official. The old brothers, Ha Wu and Feng Guozhang, collected a large sum of two pieces of silver for him and sent him to Shanghai as an apartment.

Park Young-yeol and Han Lingjun returned to North Korea, but they made a career.

He first joined hands with Ye Zhichao to capture Pyongyang and expel the Restoration Army supported by the Russians. Min Ziying, the queen, was driven off the stage within a few days. The Restoration Army collapsed and Min Ziying went into exile in Russia.

Then, Ye Zhichao and Park Yonglie clashed in Pyongyang. Park Yonglie, as the consul of Pyongyang, asked Ye Zhichao's troops to withdraw from Pyongyang. Ye Zhichao, as the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea, asked Park Yong-yeol to hand over Pyongyang to Anju. The two sides did not give in to each other, and the frictions continued, which eventually developed into a large-scale conflict.

In North Korea, Ye Zhichao's Qing army was unpopular, while Park Yonglie's men were basically North Koreans. As a result, Ye Zhi was defeated in a fierce battle and was driven out of Pyongyang. Then, Park Yong-lie recognized himself as the consul of Pyongyang and surrendered to the Qing court, asking the Qing court to agree that North Korea would continue to maintain its vassal status and the Qing army to withdraw from North Korea.

North Korea's status as a vassal state is originally an established policy of the Qing court. Since the North Koreans are willing to continue this relationship, the Qing Dynasty is too lazy to stir up the public. Therefore, Emperor Guangxu issued an order to recruit Ye Zhichao to return to China, and Park Yonglie became a consul in northern Korea.

After the Qing army withdrew from North Korea, Park Yonglie restored Zhang's banner and recruited troops in northern Korea. Many Zhang's officers and soldiers returned to North Korea and joined Park Yonglie's troops. At the same time, Park Yonglie appointed Zhao Zhenglun to jointly develop coal mines and set up industrial businesses with the French. The economy in northern North Korea developed rapidly and prospered.

The Qing court was also happy to see Park Yong-yeol sit up, because Park Yong-yeol in North Korea can resist Japanese forces in the south of North Korea and prevent Russian infiltration into North Korea. Park Yong-yeol's regime actually played a buffer between the Qing Dynasty, Japan and Russia. Moreover, what reassured the Qing court was that no matter how much Park Yong-yeol tossed in North Korea, he was a North Korean after all, and there was no substantial threat to the Qing Dynasty on the territory of North Korea.

Although Zhao Qiaoer is a rural girl, she is very knowledgeable. She knew that Empress Dowager Cixi framed Zhou Charter and Zhang Jun again and again. This time, Zhou Charter's death was unknown. The court held a funeral for him with great fanfare, and it was like being a thief. Now that Zhou Charter is dead, according to the character of the Empress Dowager Cixi, she will never easily let go of Zhou Charter's survivors. Zhao Qiaoer's stay in Beijing may be a disaster.

Therefore, the day after the funeral, Zhao Qiaoer, Liu Yingshu and the old lady of the Qin family sealed the loyal and brave uncle's mansion, and sealed the gold, silver silk and satin given by the imperial court, including Zhao Qiaoer's imperial seal, together in the house. The family of three left Beijing and returned to their hometown Zhao's temple. Liu Yingshu saw that the glory and wealth in her hand were gone, and she was very reluctant to leave. However, she also knew that the man was gone, and several women stayed in Beijing. I was afraid that there was no good fruit to eat, so she had to follow Zhao Qiaoer back to the northeast countryside.

Zhaojia Temple is under the jurisdiction of Xin'an Prefecture. This place is far away from the emperor, and Zhang Zuolin is also the governor of Xin'an Prefecture. The Empress Dowager Buddha in Beijing is out of reach. After Zhao Qiaoer's family of three returned to the Zhao family temple, Zhang Zuolin naturally helped them with the food and clothing of the family. The neighbors in the village all know that Zhao Qiaoer is a first-class wife, and she is covered by a magistrate, and no one dares to come to cause trouble. Zhao Qiaoer's family of three is also at ease.

Zhang Zuolin returned to his hometown and became a senior official, and he was a little restless. Zhang Zuolin has a lot of insight and has seen a big battle in Lushun. His political skills and military capabilities have advanced by leaps and bounds.

After taking office, Zhang Zuolin first expanded the patrol camp in the name of maintaining local public security and pulled up a team of hundreds of people. Then, he picked up the bandit regiment on the ground of the new people's mansion one by one, killed the disobedient heads, and the obedient officials made a wish and pulled them into his patrol camp. In less than half a year, he pulled out 3,000 people. The team.

The new people's government is under the jurisdiction of Fengtian Prefecture. Zhang Zuolin sits up day by day, and the governors and generals in Fengtian City can't help Zhang Zuolin. Bandits have always been rampant in Northeast China. Later, the governors and generals had to turn to Zhang Zuolin to suppress bandits and maintain local public security. Gradually, Zhang Zuolin became a local military force in Northeast China, and the locals called him General Zhang.

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On the sea, the wind roared, lightning and thundered, and the waves were rough, and an unknown cargo ship without flying the national flag went up and down in the wind and waves.

On the deck, a group of sailors in civilian costumes of the Qing Dynasty were struggling to put down the mast. Some people were knocked over on the deck by the huge waves rushing to the deck and tried their best to tighten the cables in their hands.

The displacement of this cargo ship is 800 tons. Such a ship is a huge thing on the dock. However, in the waves more than ten meters high, it is just a small ant drifting with the waves.

This is a cargo ship that did not have time to avoid the typhoon.

The boat people along the coast of the East China Sea know how to look forward and sail far. If they don't know how to identify the wind and clouds and predict typhoons, they don't know whether they will live or die.

Therefore, before the arrival of the typhoon, most ships can choose a safe haven in advance, or sail to the nearest island, wait until the typhoon has passed, or deviate from the course to avoid the only way of the typhoon. After the typhoon, they can return to the original route.

However, the ship met the typhoon head-on.

In a narrow cabin, Zhou Charter and Guo Er were tied to two steel pipes respectively. They swayed up and down with the hull, as if they were on a roller coaster.

Guo Erba's face is yellow, and he has vomited all his yellow gallbladder. This boy has never been on a sea ship. How can he imagine that the boat on the sea is completely different from the boat in the river. The boat in the river is at most swaying. As long as he stands firmly under his feet, everything will be fine. And the wave of the sea ship was almost 40 degrees, which was the magnitude of the ship's captling!

After Zhenbei was blown to pieces by a torpedo, Zhou Charter and Guo Erpole held a wooden board and fell into the sea.

This is also a fateful. The torpedo hit the middle of the port side of Zhenbei. Zhenbei is a small gangbone wooden gunboat that could not withstand a torpedo at all. The hull quickly disintegrated and was blown into pieces. When the torpedo exploded, Zhou Charter and Guo Erpole were in the stern. The explosion did not hurt them, but lifted them into the sea. The two held a wooden board tightly and drifted with the cold sea.

In early spring, the sea is still cold. If it is soaked like this, it will not take long. Even if it does not sink, it will be frozen to death by the sea. What's worse, not long after the Dingyuan ship left, there was wind on the sea, and a typhoon was about to come. Both of them were dry ducks. Even if there was no wind, they would not survive tomorrow morning.

The two were waiting to die when they suddenly saw a black spot on the sea in the distance, and a ship slowly came towards them.

The two couldn't take care of much anymore and shouted for help.

Before the typhoon arrived, the ship leaned over and rescued Zhou Charter and Guo Er Pole from the ship.

The people on the boat wore the clothes of ordinary fishermen in the Qing Dynasty. After rescue Zhou Charter and Guo Erpole on board, they did not talk to them. After changing their dry clothes, they tied them in the cabin and locked the hatch. That posture is to treat both of them as prisoners.

The two shouted at the closed hatch, but there was no response outside.

Soon, the typhoon came, and the hull began to shake violently. Both of them were dry ducks. I had never seen such a big wind and waves. They were dizzy and dizzy, so I didn't care about the people outside.