Chapter 99 Trouble

"...People who are called straw bags or people with simple minds and well-developed limbs, people like this can never be entrusted with national affairs!"

When Yizhi followed the other party's words and refuted the provocation in English, Cao Weiran just looked at him with a smile. Sure enough, as he expected, his rebuttal was glaring at everyone around him! The height of most of the people around them is more than . . . Obviously, according to his standards, they have become "waste"!

However, Cao Weiran did not refute him, but turned his eyes to a general next to him. Originally, he wanted to see how the young man was going to refute the provocative people, but he turned his eyes to the general in anger.

And Hirofumi Ito realized that he had jumped into the trap dug by the other party almost as soon as he responded in English. He didn't wait for him to explain for him. The general in the uniform of the British Royal Navy, who was watched by everyone, came to the face of him and stood in front of him. The general was full of He is nearly two heads taller than him.

"Mr. Zhiyi,"

Gerald Noel, who looked down at the other party, looked at him with anger on his face. Perhaps there were many people around him who were more than 1.5 meters tall, but like him, he was the only one who was more than 1.9 meters tall. From the beginning of the dance, he stood in the crowd like a crane, and said that it was beneficial to everyone. The eyes made Gerard Noel, who was originally ready to remain "neutral", could no longer remain neutral.

Although I know that this is just a joke, and even this is a trap prepared by others for the benefit of the day, just kicking himself by the way, any gentleman must defend his honor, especially when his honor is violated, not to mention that he infringes even his own personality.

"This boy..."

Chen Moran, who had been witnessing this scene, looked at the young man with a bad smile next to him and suddenly became happy in his heart. The boy was full of bad water and let others deal with what he picked up.

"This...this..."

Looking at the commander of the British Asian Fleet in front of him, he stammered and couldn't speak. Looking at the bad smile on the Chinese face, he understood that he had been fooled! From the beginning, the other party prepared a trap for himself. Why did he actually... "Sir, I think you owe me an explanation to every gentleman present today!"

Looking down at the benefits, Gerard Noel said coldly. He understands that if he can't get an explanation and apology today, maybe tomorrow, he will become a joke for the whole Asia, and he will become the "stupidest big man" in the eyes of the social world.

"General... Your Excellency!"

With a "bang", he hurriedly made a 90-degree deep bow.

"Please forgive my blunder! I'm very sorry, please accept my apology!"

After saying that, he bowed deeply again and explained it again.

"Your Excellency, in..." Before he could explain, Chen Moran hurried over, on the one hand, because he was the host, and on the other hand, it was to prevent the treatment of the benefit. White people, yellow people and so on.

"General Gerard Noel, in my opinion, when I am short and tall, when I am full of envy, I will occasionally be confused by jealousy for a moment! Just now, a young lady said that Mr. Zhiyi stood in front of you, just like a baby standing in front of Chengren. I think that in this case, Chengren should not care about the baby. What do you think? "Your Excellency!"

After a sarcastic sentence came out of Chen Moran's mouth, it was a burst of laughter around him. Gerald Noel's face would finally return to normal, and he smiled.

"In that case, Your Majesty, I think if I care about it again, I will lose the demeanor of an adult!"

"Your Majesty!"

A few minutes later, when everyone ended the joke with laughter, Gerard Noel went to Chen Moran and saluted, while looking at Cao Weiran not far away.

"I think your subjects need to give me an explanation!"

"Your Excellency!"

Noticing the smile on his face, Chen Moran motioned Cao Weiran to come over.

"I think, my minister, what needs to be done is... what's more suitable than a glass of wine at this time!"

"Fack!"

Staring at the young diplomat who was talking and laughing with Lieutenant General Gerard Noel, he suppressed his anger and completely became a joke at the dance.

"Isn't it strange!"

When walking towards the "old friends", Hirofumi Ito asked about the benefits.

"Why are you fooled? Just because you can't calm down, but he can calm down and arouse the other party's emotions in the simplest way, which is a taboo for diplomats..."

He clicked the young man with his chin, with a trace of appreciation on Ito's face.

"More than ten years later, maybe he will make other countries pay the price at the negotiating table!"

"Height, height..."

Compared with the sharp-toothed young man's rapid reaction in this occasion, Zhiyi was annoyed by his height. Almost when the black boat hit, the height of the Westerners made the whole Japanese envious. Westerners eat whatever they eat, in order to achieve the body of Westerners. It's high, but the growth of this head is not a success.

"The Chinese people's head..."

Seeing that he stood with General Gerard Noel and did not show a short majesty, he had to admit that at least in terms of height, the Chinese are far ahead of the Japanese and the Far East. Although their height is slightly inferior to that of the Westerners, they are not much worse, at least not like themselves. In the face of Westerners, just the gap in height will make life feel inferior.

"General Gerard Noel, I think there should be no problem with this request!"

With a wine glass in his hand, Chen Moran had a smile on his face.

"This..."

Gerard Noel seemed a little hesitant.

"General, I don't think you will refuse this small request. As far as I know, isn't there also a Japanese naval trainee on Etian Island in the Chinese fleet?"

While pointing out the facts, Chen Moran said again.

"I don't think even London will refuse. Your Excellency General accepts naval officers from friendly countries for expeditions on the fleet, isn't it? Just like we never refuse your country's request to send field observers!"

After looking for an excuse for Gerard Noel, Chen Moran smiled. The navy is different from the army. Although most of the teachers in the naval school are British, its own fleet is inferior to Britain and the United States in terms of technology, tactics and management. The best way is to send officers to his [***] ship. Study.

What I have to do now is to get those officers who need to be on the ship for internship outside [***] for internship on the ship. Although the officers sent to study in the UK will definitely go to the British [***] ship for internship, that is only a few, but the British have a small "Chinese fleet" in the Far East, which can fully serve. The internship place for the students of the Marine Academy said that I can do this. Why can't I do it myself?

"Your Majesty, I think this needs to be approved by London, but I personally welcome your naval cadets to enter the British fleet for internship!"

After a while of hesitation, Gerard Noel did not return to the absolute party. Of course, he knew that maybe when His Majesty made a request to him, he had already lobbied London politicians through his friend Admiral Fisher to accept the [***] official internship, and the British Navy did not mind teaching him some learning. Born.

Just as Chen Moran and General Gerard Noel were discussing to send students to the ship for internship, the short and fat Yuan Shikai, after receiving the report from the attendants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs when talking to Zhu Erdian, his face changed and he quietly left the dance.

"Water permeable, permeable!"

On the way to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuan Shikai finally muttered this word. There was a water penetration accident on the sunken construction site on the other side of the construction site of Wuhan Road and Bridge!

186 dead or missing! And there is another person among them - Pu Wei, is he dead or alive?

Close your eyes, Yuan Shikai can imagine that if your majesty receives a report, Pu Wei, a royal family of the Qing Dynasty, does not know whether he will live or die in the water penetration accident on the construction site. He is afraid that your majesty... If it is someone else, whether he is dead or alive, even if he is alive, he will escape, but Pu Wei is different. He is the royal family of the Qing Dynasty. If he does not Death, on the contrary, he survived. If he was used by outsiders, he was afraid... While thinking about various possibilities repeatedly in his heart, Yuan Shikai realized that the current situation was like a bucket of gunpowder. If Pu Wei really escaped to the hands of outsiders and was used by outsiders, his future would be smashed up.

According to the judgment of the special court, those "colonizers" have been deprived of all their national rights. They are just colonists. According to the decision of "labor for freedom", they have been concentrated in various places, reclaiming wasteland, coal mines, railways, bridges and tunnels. They use labor in those places. In exchange for freedom.

And the care of these people is the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If anything is said, Yuan Shikai is naturally responsible for it. Mine accidents and accidents are inevitable, but the problem is to "escape". If it is normal, some shrimps will escape. There is no need to hunt down the people and lose money. They just issued a wanted notice at most, but now it's different. What is missing is a royal family, a rare royal family that has not been executed.

"This is a pain for me!"

His mind was turning his mind like lightning, and Yuan Shikai's face was full of sadness.

"How can you not die?"

With this in his mouth, Yuan Shikai frowned and thought about how to deal with it.

Compared with not knowing life and death, he hopes that Pu Wei will die, and it will be a hundred years old. As for other people, they'd better live. These labors can save nearly tens of millions of expenses for the political axe in a month and create tens of millions of wealth at the same time. Without these people, it would be impossible to open millions of mu of Rongmintian. Come on, the output of coal mines in various places will not increase significantly, but the problem is that there are always some people who bring some trouble, just like Pu Wei, who doesn't know life and death now.

"Is it dead or alive?"

While Yuan Shikai was thinking about it, the car drove into the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After Yuan Shikai got off the car with a cold face, he walked directly along the stairs to his office. When he was about to go upstairs, he said to the secretary next to him.

"Please invite Director Qian Dingqian to come here!"

Some time ago, Qian Ding had been in charge of the compulsory work camp in Wuhan, but as soon as he left here, there was news of Pu Wei's life and death from there. Now Qian Ding has just been promoted to the director of the "Special Purpose Management Office" and is responsible for the management of the compulsory work camp across the country. Naturally, now If something happens, the first one should ask him.

More than half an hour later, looking at Qian Ding who entered the office, Yuan Shikai first asked him to sit down, and then asked.

"What do you think of the weather in Nanjing now?"

At this time, there is such an empty greeting, which is more than Qian Ding expected. However, when I think about it, although he is young, he also knows how much of Qian Ding, who has left a clear habit in the imperial officialdom, how can he not understand it. This reveals the minister's dissatisfaction, and it can even be said that he is on the verge of anger.

The only thing that can be done now is to ignore this voice, Qian Ding answered honestly.

"Your Excellency, the weather in Nanjing has been good recently. Now the weather is so pleasant. I think summer should be better than Wuhan!"

"Oh, has the accommodation been arranged? Where do you live now?

After a glance at Qian Ding, Yuan Shikai didn't say anything.

"I live in Fenghe Hotel and I'm still looking for a house."

From then on, Yuan Shikai kept talking about some irrelevant gossip. This unfathomable attitude made Qian Ding mutter in his heart. As the director of the special purpose management office, how could he not know that something had happened in Wuhan? If the minister continued to be perfunctory like this, it would only explain a problem. At the end of his position, it was time to change people. In other words, it was up to him. I am responsible for this matter.

Thinking of this, Qian Ding immediately looked left and right, took two steps forward, and reported in a Shaanxi dialect.

"Your Excellency, there was a water penetration accident in the sinking tank of the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan. The local management personnel reported that Pu Wei was also among them. At present, his life and death are unknown and his whereabouts are unknown."

Yuan Shikai didn't move and only said coldly with a side face.

"The whereabouts are unknown, or is there someone who is favoritism? This always needs to be investigated!"

Yuan Shikai's last two words only shocked Qian Ding.

"In my words, the lower official thought that the whereabouts should be unknown. In the punishment camp, no one will dare to know the law and violate the law for personal gain!"

When saying this, Qian Ding was 100% confident. After all, in the past, the punishment camps in Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi were all responsible by themselves, and those people did not have the courage to be selfish at all when they were under their hands.

Listening to Qian Ding's promise, Yuan Shikai was silent, and Qian Ding felt that this moment was very important. He rectified his mind and looked up at Yuan Shikai's face.

Yuan Shikai, who was originally silent, patted hard on the desk and said with a straight face.

"The minister, the rain and thunder, nothing but grace. Director Qian, we are responsible for such important things with your majesty's grace. Can we pat our chests as a guarantee with a few words? If anyone can pat their chest as a guarantee for the law of the natural state of the country, what's the use of the law and rules?

Before the end of this answer, Qian Ding knew that he was stunned when he first entered the sea of eunuchs. He was the opponent of the old bureaucrat in front of him. Seeing his crazy work, if he did not fall off the canopy quickly, he would be in danger of overturning the ship! Fortunately, I still have a little support.

"Your Excellency!"

Qian Ding said in a hurry.

"Your Excellency, in the opinion of the following officials, if there is a matter of favoritism, it should be severely punished, but the most urgent thing is to see people alive and dead to see corpses, not to be held accountable. Please distinguish between the priorities!"

Speaking of which, Qian Ding looked at Yuan Shikai. At this time, he was grateful to His Majesty from the bottom of his heart. After all, it was the "rules" formulated by His Majesty, which made him have the right to refute standing in front of the minister.

Since he speaks to himself, he will talk about "things" with him. According to the current domestic civil service law, both central civil servants and local civil servants can be divided into government officials and business officials. Government officials are appointed and elected by His Majesty, as well as politically appointed officials, and the Civil Service Law does not apply. No matter what the appointment method is, they are civil servants who advance and retreat with the change of the cabinet, just like Lord Yuan in front of them.

And people like myself are business officials. Although there are special appointments, most of them are recruited by the public examination, serving as the regular work of the organ, responsible for the daily business, and the identity is protected by the law of civil servants. The term of office is not affected by the change of the political axe. Those who have no major fault can serve until retirement.

Since the minister wants to talk about the law with himself, let's talk about business with him! As a business official, he has full power to refute the business. The government official is the government official, the supervisor, not the chief officer. Even if he wants to dismiss himself, he has to wait until he has made a major mistake.

"Okay, okay!" Seeing that Qian Ding didn't buy his own money, Yuan Shikai interrupted him impatiently.

"Good, even if the top priority at present is to live to see people and die to see corpses! Then Director Qian..."

With a smile on his face, there was no anger on Yuan Shikai's face. The government official, the secretary, the authority and the power are not what your majesty uses to balance power in the final analysis. One of them is not like a Shangshu in the past. He has full powers on the personnel rights and responsibilities of the headquarters, and discusses the way of balance. I'm afraid that Your Majesty is also the first person today.

"You are in charge of this matter!"

After saying that, Yuan Shikai was almost used to putting the tea bowl at the end. At the sight of the minister, he picked up the teacup. Of course, Qian Ding knew that this was the way of delivering tea to the guests in the old officialdom!

"Please rest assured that if there is a problem in the special office, then the subordinate will deal with this matter properly!"

After saying that, Qian Ding took a few steps back, and then turned around and left Yuan Shikai's office. Although the influence of the new imperial system in the old era is always reflected in all aspects, these broken rules are also passed down from the old officialdom.

After Qian Ding withdrew from the office, Yuan Shikai finally took a breath, as if muttering to himself.

"As long as someone is willing to bear this matter, my lord... or..."

Before he finished his words, Yuan Shikai touched his smooth forehead and finally put down his heart.

(to be continued)