The Ganqing Palace of Forbidden City, Beijing

Weng Tonghe, the military minister, took an edict and said to Emperor Guangxu: "Your Majesty, your edict to Zhang Yunfei was rejected by the Empress Dowager again. The Zongli Yamen asked the emperor to take the edict to Zhang Yunfei carefully to return to the country."

"What?" Emperor Guangxu was about to get angry, but saw that there were still several eunuchs and palace maids around him, so he endured it and ordered: "You guys retreat first!"

"Yeah!"

After the palace maids and eunuchs all introduced the Ganqing Palace, Emperor Guangxu stood up and came to Weng Tonghe to capture the imperial edict from him, and then tore it off hard.

"This is the third time. I just don't understand why Zhang Yunfei is not allowed to come back. I will go and ask the Queen Mother."

Seeing that Emperor Guangxu was angry, Weng Tonghe did not dare to let him go like this! So he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't calm down. The emperor must not be serious with the empress dowager at this moment. Otherwise, if the empress dowager is unhappy and comes back from the Summer Palace, many things about the emperor will be difficult to deal with."

Emperor Guangxu knew that Weng Tonghe's words made sense, but as the king of a country, the order issued by the emperor now does not use anything without the seal of the queen mother. No one listens to him, so how can he not be angry?

"I really don't understand what the Empress Dowager thought. Why didn't Zhang Yunfei come back?"

Seeing that Emperor Guangxu was no longer in a position to look for Cixi, Weng Tonghe breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The old minister thought that the Empress Dowager's move was to prevent Zhang Yunfei from being attracted by the emperor, and the other was to be afraid that the court would not be able to arrange for Zhang Yunfei."

Guangxu said, "Zalari has always been close to Yehenara, how can I pull Zhang Yunfei over in an instant? As for how to arrange him and let him continue to come back and lead the ministers of the South China Sea to continue to take charge of the navy. If the Queen Mother is afraid that he will be promoted to his title, then I will only be promoted to his title. Now Zhang Yunfei is winning the war against Spain, and the country's people are so angry that I am happy for him. I will not blame the crimes he committed in the past. As long as he can come back, I will treat him with his loyalty."

Weng Tonghe said: "The Zongli Yamen reacted that foreigners nowadays have significantly different attitudes towards Zhang Yunfei. Although the British were his ally, they obviously used him as a gun envoy. They asked Zhang Yunfei to be arranged in the northeast. From the perspective of the old minister, the purpose was to let Zhang Yunfei compete with the Russian power. On the contrary, Russia did not agree to let Zhang Yunfei return to China, and even if he returned to China, he could not arrange it to the north."

Guangxu cursed angrily: "These damn foreigners, they must interfere in the affairs of the court. What I, the emperor, did really fail. It would be fine if the empress dowager controlled the government, and the foreigners came to bully me. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I rushed to call Zhang Yunfei back to the country to compete with these powerful Thai countries. Li Hongzhang is old and if he doesn't compensate Beiyang, he will die. Now the huge navy of Russia and Japan has suppressed me and I am almost breathless."

Seeing Guangxu getting angry while saying ruthless words, Weng Tonghe was also sweating in his heart.

Thinking of: "This emperor has been in frequent contact with Kang Youwei and the reformists, and Empress Dowager Cixi is already very dissatisfied. Now, seeing the emperor's attitude, he will probably be entrusted with Cixi soon. It seems that he should find a way to leave this place of right and wrong!'

In fact, Weng Tonghe has always been favored and relaxed in front of Emperor Guangxu, and has a purpose. This cunning old fox has long smelled the fire between Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi, and has done this because he is afraid of being affected by the fish in the pond. He almost succeeded several times and asked Emperor Guangxu to drive him away. Unfortunately, because there is no one around Emperor Guangxu, he has never been able to get rid of the imperial party and return home.

"By the way, has the Russian fleet in Jiaozhou Bay left?" Emperor Guangxu asked suddenly.

"Your Majesty, after the secret contract is signed, it will take effect immediately. The Russian fleet has left Jiaozhou Bay and returned to Vladivostok." Weng Tonghe returned.

Thinking that the Russian fleet was clearly staying at his home and not leaving, he had to sign a secret contract with him before leaving. Considering that he had to use Li Hongzhang to do business, he tolerated Li Hongzhang's treason. When Emperor Guangxu thought of this, he was furious and asked: "When will Li Hongzhang come back?"

"After returning to the emperor, after Li Hongzhang left St. Petersburg, he had to visit European and American countries to inspect the army armies of various countries so that he could train new types of troops after returning to China." Weng Tonghe replied.

"Oh, it was the Empress Dowager who directly approved it?" Emperor Guangxu frowned.

"Yes, the emperor." Weng Tonghe replied.

"Didn't a new army be established two years ago? It seems that Yuan Shikai, the current Zhili Censor, is hosting the training of the army!" Emperor Guangxu asked.

"I heard it is the latest army. Currently, only the German Army and Zhang Yunfei's troops in the world practice this method." Weng Tonghe replied.

"It's Zhang Yunfei again. Zhang Yunfei now has a new navy and army, no wonder he can defeat Spain, a powerful country in Thailand. I heard that Zhang Yunfei is a good player in making money and robbed Spain's treasure ship. Haha, with him as my loyal minister, in my lifetime, it is just around the corner to achieve the great achievements of Emperor Taizu!" Emperor Guangxu was happy when he heard Zhang Yunfei's name, and felt that all this was like a sign of revival arranged by God for him.

Seeing that Emperor Guangxu was trapped in narcissism again, Weng Tonghe had to smile bitterly and said, "The emperor should know that the greater the power of Zhang Yunfei, the less control the court is. If he returns to the country, how can he appease him?"

Guangxu smiled and said, "It's okay. As long as he can revive the Qing Dynasty, what's the harm of giving him a king of a different surname? Now the Qing Dynasty's real power is the final say of the empress dowager in the court, and the Han people are in the local jurisdiction. I am not as happy as the governor of a local area. It's really not enough for a person like Zhang Yunfei to be born among the Manchus. Even if he wants my world, I will give it to him. As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of the Han people, I won't blame me too much compared to the ancestors of the previous emperors. At that time, even if I become an emperor under the constitutional monarchy, I would be much better than now."

Weng Tonghe saw Emperor Guangxu start to go crazy again, and he couldn't answer. He couldn't say that the emperor was wise! That was not the one who had to behead him if he retired and returned home!

But it’s strange that some powerful ministers such as Dorgon, Oboi, Heshen were among the 2 million pure Manchus, but they did not appear to kill the king and seize the throne. The Han people have been robbed by foreigners in history and their vitality has been greatly damaged, which is largely due to civil strife. This should be worthy of our vigilance, and we should not experience similar civil strife. But they would never have thought that Zhang Yunfei is not as simple as being a powerful minister. Are you supposed to send beggars? Zhang Yunfei is the wolf in sheep's clothing in the middle.

Weng Tonghe thought to himself: "You and the Queen Mother are fighting to the death now, how could they give up their power? It seems that they are extremely bored by being forbidden. They were fooled by Kang Youwei's revolutionary party and were stunned. Do you dare to say such words? But the last sentence is understandable, and the constitutional emperor is also better than now."

From ancient times to the present, it seems that the situation is complex and has been an unchanging topic in the Far East.

Although the butterfly effect brought by Zhang Yunfei's time travel has not changed the pattern of Europe and the United States, the ambassador has significantly accelerated the historical process of Europe and the United States. The Spanish-American War was one year ahead of schedule and the Second British-British War was one year and a half ahead of schedule. These are directly related to Zhang Yunfei's continuous provocation in the middle, but it is said that it was caused by Zhang Yunfei.

However, the changes in the Far East are huge.

Since occupying the Philippines and Guam, Zhang Yunfei has always thought that the situation is under his control, so he has not paid much attention to the slow changes in the attitudes of various countries.

But what he didn't know was that after the Spanish War and the ongoing British-British War, the Western powers in Europe had become dissatisfied and vigilant with Zhang Yunfei.

Zhang Yunfei, a great warlord, has been crowned by continental European countries with pagans and alien forces like the United States, because he conspired with the United States to invade an aggressive war against Spain.

At the same time, the Spanish War had not cooled down yet, and Zhang Yunfei participated in another Boer War against the descendants of the Dutch in the European country.

The European powers obviously changed their attitude after Zhang Yunfei participated in the South African War. At this time, they had already identified Zhang Yunfei as an accomplice of the robber Britain. Since Britain pursued an isolationist policy, European countries have kicked this unsociable island country out of the political circle.

Therefore, as the two most unpopular countries in the European continent, they all have something to do with Zhang Yunfei. As an accomplice of the American robber and the younger brother of the British gangster boss, Zhang Yunfei and his Honolulu government have been put on the blacklist of the European continent's powers.

In order to prevent and be wary of Zhang Yunfei's continued expansion, Russian Tsar Nicholas II issued the Tsar Order, drawn the battleships Poltawa, Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol from the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Baltic Fleet, the battleships Poltawa, Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol, the armored cruiser Nicholas I, the Azov Memorial, Vladimir-

Admiral Vladimir, Liurik and Dmitrii Donskoi, protective cruiser Knight, Pamiat Azova, Ukrainian Cossack, lightning striker Sviaborg, Levi, Borgo, gunboat Thunder, and brave, form the Second Fleet of the Far East Fleet.

The Poltava-class battleship is a first-class battleship built by Russia in 1892 to compete with Britain for hegemony in the Far East. The design of this class of ships inherited the French idea of ​​building ships. High freeboard flat decks and thin armor extending from the bow to the stern of the ship are its main features. There are 3 ships of the same class, namely the Poltawa, Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol.

In order to compete with Japan, the original Far East Fleet already had the first-class armored cruiser Admiral Nasimov, Russia (Rossiia), Admiral Kornilov, Imperial Guard, Cruiser Robber, Martyr, Lightning striker Songhuajiang, Ussuri, Yanqihe, Suchener, Gunboat Manchuria, Beaver, Seaguard, Koryo, torpedo boats seventy-seven, seventy-nine, and eighty.

The original Far East fleet formed a huge fleet with overwhelming advantages in the Far East, with a total tonnage far exceeding any Far East force. It established Russia's position as military overlord in the Far East in one fell swoop. It was the first in Asia and the second largest naval power in the world. Even Britain dared not easily test Russia's edge.

Similarly, since the French colony Vietnam is opposite the Philippine Islands, in order to compete with the huge strategic pressure brought by Zhang Yunfei's military presence in the Philippine Islands, France has also strengthened the strength of the Far East Fleet. The armored cruisers Depuy-de-Lome, Admiral Charles, Brücks, Latoustwell, General Sansi, Poseo, Iron-clad ships TURENNE, BayarD, plus 6 lightning destroyers, 4 gunboats, and 4 torpedo boats.

Germany, due to the two madmen with short-circuited brains, William II and Naval Secretary Tirpitz, jointly launched a large naval plan, which made Germany constantly build warships. Because Germany has no colonies in the Far East, on the contrary, in terms of trade with China, Germany has replaced Britain as its largest trading partner in the late Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Germany urgently needs to obtain a good port in the Far East as a trading base and a naval base that protects smooth trade.

So Germany also sent a powerful fleet, a German Far East squadron composed of armored cruisers Deutsches, Queen Catherine Augusta, cruisers Gerchion, Caesar, Prince Henry, Arkana and Cameroon. They searched for available ports along the Qing Dynasty coast and have now arrived in Shanghai.

In order to allow Japan to restrain Hawaii behind the scenes, France shifted Zhang Yunfei's attention north to Japan, relaxed its policy of supporting Russia's suppression of Japan, and passed the decision to allow the construction of warships for Japan.

Although Germany does not have a direct conflict with Zhang Yunfei, as long as it is the British younger brother, it is the target of Germany's suppression. In modern terms, "You can't move your boss, you still want to deal with you." So Germany, which likes to join in the fun, still thinks that the more chaotic the Far East, the better, so that they can take advantage of the troubled waters, and also approved the domestic order to accept Japanese shipbuilding.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire originally accepted Japan's shipbuilding orders for economic recession. When he learned that Zhang Yunfei was fighting with the British in South Africa, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had always been unfavorable to Britain, decided to sell the warships that were originally reserved for him to use to Japan to strengthen Japan's strength to compete with Honolulu.

Even the secretly paramilitary allies of the United States, the thief, was stumbling against Zhang Yunfei to build warships for Japan.

Fortunately, the UK still attaches great importance to Zhang Yunfei and the strength of the thugs, which has enabled the UK to receive a little consolation prize while being isolated, that is, there is an ally who is about to be isolated like him.

The calf is not afraid of tigers because the calf does not know that tigers will hurt people, so treating tigers as sick cats is just in line with Zhang Yunfei's current attitude.

Originally, Zhang Yunfei didn't want to provoke these hooligans, so he didn't care about the actions of these countries and focused all his energy on how to deal with the Japanese Navy. At this moment, he was constantly inquiring about the progress of the 'A' plan!

After a few days of detailed plans, the Navy Commander Lieutenant General Lin Jianzhang and other senior naval officers reported the detailed plan of the 'A' plan to Zhang Yunfei. After reading it, Zhang Yunfei also benefited a lot and thought that he had not intervened in the blind command. However, when Lin Jianzhang and others left Hawaii to carry out the mission, Zhang Yunfei deliberately sent the secret newly established air force to assist the navy in completing the ambush mission.

The so-called Air Force is a seaplane that has just been tested, each carried by the communication cruisers Suzhou and Yangzhou, which passed through radio jammers. It is named Sparrow 1 and 2, responsible for air reconnaissance missions.

Produced by Adel, it can be hanged with high-quality products. The two water reconnaissance aircraft have a reconnaissance radius of only 50 kilometers when they are fully loaded with fuel. The air stays for less than one and a half hours, and the maximum ceiling is 550 meters. It adopts a dual floating tube design and a 75-kilogram four-cylinder engine. Today, Adel has stood at the position of the leader in the future aviation industry, and his invention has been ahead of the world for five years.

The first Air Force Commander Lieutenant Xue Muhua (guest role in book friend Gonglang), the 60015th service soldier of the Chinese Army, Adel's right-hand assistant, also serves as the captain of the Air Force Reconnaissance Squad, and also serves as the pilot of Sparrow 1.

Although he is very famous and has been commander of the Air Force, he is just a little lieutenant and has only one subordinate. However, these cannot stop Xue Muhua's love for the plane.

Vladivostok Russian Far East Fleet Command

After receiving a telegram from Honolulu Ambassador Kuman, the Russian Far East Fleet, Alexeyev held an emergency meeting.

At the meeting, the fleet commander Alexeyev asked all the officers for their opinions, and all the officers believed that Japan might have taken action against North Korea.

Because after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Joseon Dynasty completely lost confidence in the Qing Dynasty. They became increasingly pro-Russia, which made Russia's influence in North Korea increasingly greater and aroused dissatisfaction among Japan.

During the Yiwei Incident in August of the lunar calendar in 1895, in order to eliminate pro-Russian forces, under the planning of the Japanese ambassador to North Korea, the Japanese ronin attacked the Gyeongboku Palace and brutally killed the Queen Min of Emperor Mingcheng of Emperor Gaozong. Later, Japan forced Emperor Gaozong to issue a "cut order", forcing the Koreans to change their customs and change their clothes and cut off their hair, which led to public resentment.

Like a frightened bird, Gaozong felt that he could not stay in the palace anymore. Under the leadership of pro-Russian forces, he escaped from the palace in February 1896 and hid in the Russian Embassy in North Korea for a year. Gaozong, who returned to the palace in 1897, announced that the country would be changed to the "Dahan Empire".

In March, a "Protection Treaty" was signed with Russia, and its diplomatic rights were also handed over to Russia, and it was demoted to Russia's "protective country". Later, it established a magistrate to directly rule South Korea. This made Japan's last political advantage in North Korea was taken away by Russia after the three countries intervened and returned to North Korea.

Therefore, Russian officers all speculated that Japan might take the risk of interfering in North Korea by force and negotiate with Russia as a fait accompli.

Commander Alexeyev obviously did not believe that Japan would take the risk of sending troops to North Korea, but he could not figure out the true intentions of the Japanese Navy. Russia's port under construction in Incheon was only a few warships parked there, which was not enough to deter the Japanese Navy. In addition, the Second Squadron, which had just arrived in Vladivostok, is now undergoing maintenance in the dock. Due to the dock capacity, it will take at least 3 months to complete all maintenance. This period is enough for some major events to happen.

In the end, Commander Alexeyev decided that no matter whether Zhang Yunfei's intelligence was true or not, the Russian fleet should increase its deterrence in North Korea. Otherwise, if Japan really took the risk and occupied North Korea, it would be really difficult to deal with, after all, no one likes to fight.

So, on August 10, the first squadron of the Russian Far East Fleet was dispatched to leave Vladivostok port and head for Incheon, North Korea. The Russian officers and soldiers who had just returned from Jiaozhou Bay to Vladivostok less than a month ago complained, and they also strengthened Russia's determination to find a good harbor in the Pacific Ocean, which made the already complicated Far East situation even more confused.
Chapter completed!