In Li Ningyu's fiefdom in Honolulu, Hawaii, he did not build any large-scale residence. He just renovated a larger villa here. However, it is still very large with more than 500 square meters. Even if there are dozens of people, it can still be casual.
After settling down, a few people started to eat first. During this period, Li Ningyu, Prince Gong, and Li Hongzhang just chatted lightly, and did not talk about some major things. Most of them just talked about the current situation in Hawaii and some ordinary words.
In the next half day, Li Ningyu just accompanied the two of them around Hawaii. However, when riding a Baichuan-class light cruiser, Li Hongzhang specifically asked Li Ningyu to let him visit, and then Li Ningyu directly came to the ship.
The director was responsible for taking Li Hongzhang to visit, and then Li Ningyu also started chatting with Prince He Shuogong.
"My lord, I haven't seen you for many years. How are you?"
At this time, Prince Gong Yi was also 61 years old. Although his health was relatively good due to his love of martial arts training since he was a child, he still looked a little tired after wandering at sea for many days. But after hearing Li Ningyu's words,
He still glared at Li Ningyu with raised eyebrows, but then he seemed to remember something and sighed: "That's it, that's it! You brat, I knew from the first time I saw you that you would never
It’s not a good thing! Now that I’m such an old age, I’m not far away from being buried. As long as you take good care of Duan Tong in the future, I’ll be happy!”.
"Father-in-law, please rest assured that I will definitely not let Duan Tong down. In fact, I invite you here this time because I have some things to discuss with you!"
Prince Gong Yi seemed to have thought of something, and then asked hurriedly: "What's the matter?".
Seeing the expression of Prince Gong and Wang Yi, Li Ningyu gritted his teeth and said, "I just plan to arrange a marriage with Duan Tong this year!".
"What? At this moment! Where are you going to do it!"
"Beijing!"
"What? No! Humph! Do you still want to slap me in the face?"
Hearing that Prince Gong and Wang Yi refused without thinking, Li Ningyu still put on a smile and said: "No, no, no, this is a good thing. After all, it is not right for me to be together with Duan Tong now. Plus Duan Tong
I also want to go back and see her mother-in-law! So...".
For a period of time afterwards, Li Ningyu had been persuading Prince Gong and Prince Yi, but he seemed to be completely monolithic and refused to agree to Li Ningyu's request. However, Li Ningyu had long been prepared for a protracted war.
But why did Prince Gong and Prince Yi reject Li Ningyu’s proposal?
In fact, it is because Cixi is the noble concubine of Emperor Xianfeng, Prince Gong is Xianfeng's sixth brother, Emperor Guangxu's father is Prince Chun, the seventh child, and Emperor Guangxu's father, Prince Chun, is a very timid person. When Cixi made Guangxu the emperor
, he was scared to death and had no courage. Later, when Puyi (the son of Guangxu's younger brother) became emperor, Prince Chun was also scared to death. It is precisely because of this cowardly character that Cixi needs such a person.
, because of being obedient, Cixi can better listen to politics behind the curtain.
Prince Gong was Cixi's lifelong political enemy. Originally, Prince Gong competed with Xianfeng for the throne, but lost to Xianfeng in the end.
A spiritual person should actually be the emperor. Later, Cixi launched the Xinyou Coup, which killed Gu Shun and other eight ministers appointed by Emperor Xianfeng, and started his own way of listening to politics behind the curtain.
Since then, the political struggle between Prince Gong and Cixi has never stopped. Of course, Cixi is a powerful person with far-reaching vision and means. Of course, Prince Gong failed. Later, in order to fundamentally suppress Prince Gong, Li Hongzhang was used
, Prince Chun, etc. Cixi later rewarded Prince Chun to join the Military Aircraft Department in order to attack Prince Gong, including Prince Chun who later built the Summer Palace in Cixi.
Therefore, in the later period, Prince Gong did not have much power. For several years, he was drunk and dreaming every day. He could only be unwilling to do so. Therefore, it does not exist that Guangxu was afraid of Prince Gong. It was just that Guangxu valued his knowledge. Indeed, he had a very good vision.
He was powerful and could spot people. Guangxu valued his opinions very much. They had a good relationship, but they couldn't help him because Prince Gong's whole life was unsuccessful.
In addition, with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki this time, Prince Gong's old face has been completely disgraced. Therefore, if Li Ningyu and Duan Tong are allowed to return to Beijing to get married at this time, the city of Beijing will not be in a state of chaos by then.
However, Li Ningyu's patience is by no means comparable to that of ordinary people, so in the next few days, Li Ningyu and Duan Tong were tough on Prince Gong, but Li Hongzhang changed from the decadence of the destruction of the Beiyang Fleet and the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and spent every day in Hawaii
We visited various places and from time to time were asked to take a warship to learn about the surrounding waters.
Li Ningyu did not hold back and allowed Li Hongzhang to inspect everywhere. However, every day Li Ningyu would take some time to go to the gray small building to talk to Sun Zhongshan and others, and wait for them to share his views on national rejuvenation and what should be grasped.
The key point is that it was also like someone offered me an olive branch, but was politely rejected.
However, Li Ningyu was not discouraged at all, because he thought to himself that these people were all outstanding people of the times. If just a few words of his could change their positions and years of determination, then they would not be them anymore. However, in the Xingzhong Association
When everyone was preparing to leave Hawaii, Li Ningyu still had a good chat with Mr. Sun Zhongshan all night, and Li Ningyu threw out a huge temptation, that is, to appoint him as the first supreme governor of Taiwan, and all his people would return to Taiwan.
He appoints and dispatches, and Li Ningyu cannot be transferred at will.
He also used half of the 1 billion taels of silver obtained from the Treaty of Shimonoseki to be used in the construction of Taiwan and the Penghu Islands, and did not interfere with his governance.
To be honest, after Li Ningyu threw out the bait, everyone in the Xingzhong Association, including Sun Zhongshan himself, was stunned, because at this time Sun Zhongshan was just a small founder of the Xingzhong Association, and the entire Xingzhong Association
However, after only raising less than 300,000 silver and a team of dozens of people, Sun Zhongshan finally agreed to one of Li Ningyu's requests, that is, he would only consider Li Ningyu's request if their plan really failed.
He proposed, but Li Ningyu also had to agree to one condition, that is, the Chinese nation should never be divided.
Regarding this, Li Ningyu naturally agreed without hesitation, and then Li Ningyu personally sent everyone on the freighter to leave, and then Li Ningyu, Li Hongzhang and others took a warship to leave Hawaii and go to the Qing Dynasty...
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