Yang Hao's map cannon injured half of the officials across the country.

Li Jingfang rushed back to report his merits, but unexpectedly he just put the memorials on it and suddenly saw the article publishing, and he was amused and laughed. When he saw Li Hongzhang, he was even more uneasy because he knew that his adoptive father was one of the important officials who were eager to negotiate.

"At this time, you must not be willful and annoy your adoptive father, so you will have no support."

Li Jingfang secretly reminded himself, and then hurried to visit Beiyang Yamen and apologized for guilt.

As soon as he entered, Luo Fenglu was asked to sit in the back hall with a expressionless face. He waited for two hours before he could meet Li Hongzhang.

He carefully observed his adoptive father's expression and found that although he was not angry, he was also covered with clouds. He was afraid that a little bit of the word would not be the place and would immediately start to attack.

Li Jingfang came to the table and greeted him respectfully: "Son greets my father! Do you dare to ask my father for his well recently?"

Li Hongzhang replied lightly: "It's done yet, I didn't make you angry to death!"

This sentence is heartbroken. Li Jingfang quickly knelt down on the ground and brought out all the words he had been trying to figure out: "Father, please calm down and listen to your son's words first. Although what Yang Dingshi said in the newspaper is a bit too much, he is still full of nationality and has no targeted one. Moreover, now is the key opportunity for our side to turn from defense to offense and the situation is very good. If we can make an end to annihilation of the enemy in one go, Japan will definitely not dare to open up any conditions when it is defeated. This will be of great benefit to future negotiations!"

He hurriedly explained the advantages from all aspects. He revolved around Li Hongzhang as the negotiating ambassador to deal with Japan, so that he could make a profit and would not repeat the mistakes of the past. He would leave a stigma that would be difficult to cleanse for generations, etc.

After saying that, Li Jing shut up his mouth and lowered his head to wait for his hair to fall.

After a long time, Li Hongzhang sighed and said, "You, do you really think I will get angry about such a non-painful article?"

"Hmm? Why isn't it?"

Li Jingfang raised his head in surprise and saw Li Hongzhang getting up from the Grand Master's chair, and paced slowly between the halls with his hands behind his back. He came to the picture on the wall to stare, gently swept the Liaodong and northern coasts with his fingers. Finally, he poked heavily at the location of the Ludong Peninsula.

Li Jingfang's heart blew up, and he vaguely guessed the idea of ​​his adoptive father--this is still for Yang's trouble!

Li Hongzhang suddenly turned around and shouted sternly: "How did I tell you before going to war?"

Li Jingfang didn't react for a moment and was stunned.

Li Hongzhang pointed his finger at him: "I asked you to try your best to capture the new army! But now more than a month has passed, and the new army has expanded three times the number, but how many people are there in it who are obedient to you?"

"I...!" Li Jingfang said vaguely and said in a stuttering voice, "Time is still short, and the war is urgent, so my son thinks that major issues are the most important, so..."

"So, you let Yang Hao calmly insert a group of people into it. Turn tens of thousands of troops into his private soldiers! So the total number of military generals loyal to the court accounts for less than half of them! You, the nominal commander, may not have any way to mobilize!"

Li Hongzhang said word by word, ruthlessly stabbed over like a knife, which made Li Jingfang's mind shake and his face became tighter and tighter. Finally, he couldn't help but say in a voice: "What my father said is reasonable, but my son still feels that the enemy is in front of him. Military affairs should be the priority. Personal intentions should not override the overall task! If you only fight for power and profit, you will ruin a big thing, but your son will not do such a thing as being stabbed by others!"

"Yo! Yo! I'm still anxious with me!"

Li Hongzhang teased: "Listen to what you said. This has clearly cleansed people's brains!"

Li Jingfang was shocked and thought about it carefully. It seemed that his natural thought was indeed different from the officials today!

Not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even all civil and military ministers who could hold great power in their hands, before making a decision, would always put politics first and consider themselves from their own interests.

As for his own opportunities, following Li Hongzhang's advice, he was sociable to seize power. As a result, he not only failed to do it, but was led by Yang Hao's "big situation first" thinking that Yang Hao always implemented. Unconsciously, he also became a part of the group of high-spirited fighting spirit, and his thoughts were all working towards the anti-Japanese plan that everyone thought was the top priority.

This is obviously not right.

But after another change of thought, Li Jingfang did not regret it. From his personal experience, he clearly felt the full pleasure and the joy of not having any spiritual burden when he finally achieved glorious achievements.

That was the glory he never had in his previous half of his life, no matter which progress, that he had received praise or praise from his adoptive father and others. It also made him feel for the first time that he was doing something extremely great, and that sense of mission and responsibility that could bring great help to the entire country and nation, which truly inspired his great spirit of "building peace for all ages" that has been filled with his mind since he read and learned reason.

Just a sudden doubt, Li Jingfang's belief immediately regained his firmness. He raised his head and looked at Li Hongzhang's sharp gaze as sharp as a blade, and said seriously: "Father, son does not regret it."

Li Hongzhang shivered with the straightforward and angry beard on his body, and his arms trembled and shouted: "You, what are you going to say? Do you know that if this continues, you can never surpass Yang Hao and take charge of the new army? From then on, you will become his vassal?"

Li Jingfang was unmoved: "There is no success in learning, and those who are good at it are teachers. Yang Ding's way of governing the country and governing the world is much higher than his peers in the world, and he is enough to be a master leader who can open a new world. His son should be honored to be able to always work with such people."

Li Hongzhang slapped his forehead and felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

He turned back to the chair and sat down. His old waist, who had been standing for a lifetime, was hunched over. He stroked the thick stack of paper on the table and thought for a long time. He sighed, "I shouldn't have let you go out that day as a father."

A scholar who has great ambitions and has always been brainwashed into this shape in just one month. It can be seen how powerful Yang Hao is. In other words, the group of people he represents holds has the magic of some belief that it has, which has fooled Li Jingfang and other worldly talents.

Li Hongzhang felt terrifying and shocked at this moment than ever before. He even felt that Yang Hao's incitement ability was even more terrifying than the Hong Yang Taiping Army in the past!

The Taiping Army could only fool a group of ignorant people to make trouble, and then the situation was uncontrollable. The landlords and gentry were forced to follow the trend, but they always kept their minds clear.

Since Yang Hao debuted, he has been doing something to deceive the backbone of the world's rule - a scholar!

How difficult should this be? It seems that relying on some newspaper articles and spending money on military affairs is not enough to complete. But the fact is that thousands of young talented students are bewitched, incited, and willingly following him.

The stack of papers placed at Li Hongzhang's hand recorded information and intelligence collected from various channels across the country. There are quite a few of the arguments depicting young scholars who heard in the market, who are extremely supportive of Yang's various remarks. Some even have fungic people who collect the classic sentences into a book, and then publish them and spread them widely, so that scholars can use them as materials to guide the country after dinner and partying.

If it were a traditional scholar, just by relying on this influence, the future of a young leader in the world was definitely good. Zhang Peilun was not that awesome when he was young, and even in the 250 years of the Qing Dynasty, no one was more influential than Yang Hao.

At a young age, classic sentences began to be passed down from generation to generation. This is a sign of becoming a master!

But this future master never thought about the Qing Dynasty. From the inside out, he looked at his actions to overturn the Qing Dynasty's rule and even destroy the ruling pattern of aristocratic bureaucracy that had been for thousands of years!

Before, Li Hongzhang was just an idea that he dared not assert. Now that he saw his most capable adopted son performing in this way, he could finally determine that this was not an illusion, but an imminent crisis!

"What a powerful young man, such a powerful plan! I can't even do anything to do, it's simply..."

Li Hongzhang sighed many times in his life and raised his hand gently: "Get up."

Li Jingfang lifted up his clothes and stood slowly. Luo Fenglu, who was hiding outside, breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, he realized that his heavy clothes were wet with sweat in the moment!

Like other staff members, he was really worried that the Li family father and son would break up and part ways. Once Li Jingfang was disgusted by the scholar's phlegm and anger, it would be a very bad result, either by making the Zhongtang angry or by leaving in anger.

Even if the father and son reconcile afterwards and there are cracks, with the nature of the central government, he would seize the opportunity to take Li Jingfang down and hide it. If such rumors are out, it will inevitably lead to a new round of Qingliu impeachment. A prime minister in the world cannot even manage his own son well. This reason is enough to dismiss him from office.

Anyway, at this time, the great crisis of Japanese aggression is about to pass, and it is time to kill the donkey.

Li Hongzhang's sudden and proactive ease surprised Luo Fenglu. However, the result was relatively ideal.

Li Jingfang was calm. He said everything. Even if his father took his post in anger, he would not be an official and study at home and think about his mistakes. However, it would allow him to sort out the gains he had over a month and plan the path for the rest of his life.

However, Li Hongzhang obviously thought more deeply than he did. He did not criticize the storm, but just guided his young son like an old father: "You have your own beliefs now, so you don't want to say much as your father. But do you know that from now on, it will be difficult for any faction in the world to accommodate you? You will not be able to walk through the imperial court."

Li Jingfang said disrespectfully: "After this great change that has not been seen in three thousand years, even if he is as tall as an emperor, he can only become a chess piece in his own hands. The mediocre days of the court are nothing more than."

Li Hongzhang nodded: "Well, I think you have a good idea. If I had said this to you before, I would never let you leave you. But now, maybe you will have to maintain my reputation behind me. This is really a drink and a peck, and there will be a destiny!"

Hearing this, Li Jingfang suddenly realized that the confident and powerful father in his past consciousness had an unknowingly intention of convinced old age.

He couldn't help but feel a little sad, but he also felt a kind of closeness that he had never had in decades before. At least now, the old father is more like an elder who completely let go of the air and opens his heart to his family, rather than the prime minister who always holds the wind and thunder in his hands to see the world.

Officials have been acting all their lives. When they reveal their sincerity, the beginning of their fall.

Li Jingfang felt that the heavy weight of his body seemed to be removed at once, and he was indescribably light. At this moment, he could let go and soar.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked tentatively: "Then what my father's plan is...?"

Li Hongzhang suddenly glared: "Why, I thought I would give in to you group of juniors? Humph, I think it's so beautiful! Jingfang, I put my words here for my father today. If you want to accomplish great things, you must pass this level first!"

Li Jingfang was no longer afraid and said proudly: "Please rest assured, your son will do his best!" (To be continued)

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