Now, the last pair of shorts in the Qing Dynasty was stripped off. In the past, there were so many vassals in the Supreme Kingdom, but now there was only one North Korea left, but it was almost impossible to save it. On the day when the Empress Dowager Lafayette was overjoyed, the slap was loud enough and cruel enough!

No matter how unwilling Cixi was to use her weapons, she couldn't stand this tone. I finally survived until today and wanted to celebrate her 60th birthday. You, a little Japanese, are you going to cause trouble. Without North Korea, will you not even have a vassal kingdom to celebrate your birthday? That scene is the worst in the ages!

A person lives a face, and a Buddha fights for a stick of incense. At the same time, the Queen Mother Cixi, who is the most powerful woman in the world and the Empress Dowager admired by hundreds of millions of people, was finally angry!

When she let go, Emperor Guangxu immediately felt like a wild horse that broke free from reins. Weng Tonghe and Li Hongzao were making noises in the mountains. Various tides of soldiers to punish Japan poured into the capital like a tide, and the desks were filled.

In the Military Affairs Office, Prince Qing Yili, who looked like a bunch of cotton, was ordered to cut the rules. Then everyone pointed the finger at Li Hongzhang in a fierce manner, but from beginning to end, there was no clear explanation. How to solve the military pay required for war?

When fighting, you are fighting money and food. If you don’t have money, it’s useless to shout. Li Hongzhang submitted a memorandum and asked the Ministry of Revenue to allocate 3 million taels for military use. As a result, he made up all the money and got a total of 180,000! With this little money, many people even said sarcastically: "You, Li Zhongtang, aren’t you, don’t have money!"

Li Hongzhang is indeed rich, about 2.5 million taels, scattered in several banks such as HSBC. Don’t forget that he has to support the entire Beiyang Fleet and spend more than 200,000 Huai Army. This money is not enough to be used to fight wars.

For this war, the Japanese army prepared a total of nearly 200 million yen in advance. The preparation cycle was planned from 1893 to 1896, covering 150 million war bonds. At that time, Japan's annual tax revenue was more than 50 million taels, and it was already doing its best and had no potential to dig. The Qing Dynasty's annual tax revenue was more than 80 million, but the estimated national income of various countries was as high as 3 billion!

With such a large national economic scale, there is no money at the critical moment when the war is about to be fought!

Without money, nothing can be done. Li Hongzhang could only smile bitterly in the face of overwhelming scolding. The Guowenbao, which always exposed the latest news from a fair and just stands, began to upset him, using precise numbers and rigorous arguments to show what exactly a war needs.

The Qing Dynasty has not added an advanced warship for so many years, and all the artillery is almost out of date. The 120mm Armstrong rapid-fire cannon that was just successfully copied was not installed on the ship. The size of the 305mm shell produced by the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau is actually unqualified, and its power cannot be guaranteed. If you really want to send the fleet out, should you die, or die?

War is not just about the military. Logistics supply, command and dispatch, strategic defense, and all-round mobilization require everyone from a country to participate. The Qing Dynasty was a good thing. Ninety-five percent of people stood on the shore and shouted and yelled. Apart from spitting lotus flowers and letting go of guns, no one could help. The Ministry of Revenue gave a large amount of military expenditure that could not meet the amount donated by Japanese prostitutes!

Japanese prostitutes donated 1.5 million taels of military expenses throughout the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895!

In the face of crisis in the country, the clear literati who were full of sages and kept the saints’ dogmas all day long were even worse than those of the oriental bitches!

The wording of "Guowenbao" is not so intense, but it has already pointed out the problem very obscurely, and taught a lesson to the scholars across the country who only stayed on paper about war. As for how many people can understand it, it is impossible to estimate.

Li Hongzhang didn't want to accept the favor, but he did hope that Weng Tong and those people could really figure out the difficulties. In addition, at this time, the British sent "good news" again, saying that Britain, France, the United States, Russia and Germany were jointly discussing to suppress Japan's ambitions and mediate, especially Russia was extremely active. He hesitated again, so the last great opportunity was easily let go!

On the night of June 10, in the Seoul Longshan Wharf Base, in the secret room, Yang Hao slapped the secret message sent from the country on the table, and sneered at Ding Weifen and others with disappointment, "Did you see it? This is the face of the ministers of the Qing Dynasty! Qingliu will only cause chaos and restraint, and Li Hongzhang still has unrealistic fantasies. This battle will definitely be lost from the beginning!"

Ding Weifen's young face was full of solemnity, and he gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "The country is destroyed by such a group of bastards! Fortunately, we are prepared. Yuan Shikai refused to be a deserter and wanted to make profits from chaos. Humph, he must not let him succeed. Tieyan, are you ready?"

Xu Yanzhuo (named Tieyan) had a flush on his angry face and nodded vigorously: "The manpower has been deployed! Just wait for the Japanese army to arrive tomorrow morning and then start to clamor!"

Yang Hao slapped his face: "Okay! At the latest tomorrow afternoon, our last batch of personnel and equipment will be all here. At that time, it will be just enough to attack inside and outside, which will turn him upside down!"

Outside the secret room is a large warehouse and factory area isolated from three buildings. In the fully enclosed courtyard, all the high points on all sides are guarded by black-clothed guards with guns and live ammunition secretly to ensure that the wind and rain are not clear.

In the wide warehouse and empty factory buildings, more than 100 soldiers in casual clothes each took the last time before going to bed on the bed, sorted out their own equipment, and checked for possible problems.

They were all trainees who passed the final assessment after two months of hard training and selection. According to the plan, their third-month recruit company training subjects were originally going to the beach and the sea. But the war was about to come, so they were pulled to North Korea to train instead of war, and use real war to test the results of training and their quality.

Two months of ideological baptism have greatly changed these simple young people who were originally just rough words. Now, each of them can easily tell the relationship between the country, nation, and individuals, understand the purpose of fighting a war, the meaning and value of sacrifice. It is a decisive difference from the old-style soldiers who are now "eating food for the soldiers" and "salary for whoever they take the salary."

An old man from the Agrarian Revolution took charge, and Yang Haiwei, a modern orthodox soldier, joined forces to train and clean up these pure young people.

This is not a simple fool. Every soldier can personally experience the differences. When they work hard to train, their families receive comfortable work, free education for younger brothers and sisters, and unified cultivation of family land and common farms, which is enough to be worry-free. We can even think about how great benefits such a model will bring to other people.

The difference between modern soldiers and old-style soldiers is that they have lofty ideals and dedication. One is proactive and the other is passive. Such a transformation is enough to allow them to stand at a new level, automatically and spontaneously fight for it, and even bleed and sacrifice!

This time, Yang Hao pulled them across the ocean to North Korea. Everyone found it very novel. Tomorrow, they would be involved in the first unique battle. The young people were not excited. However, the strict training allowed them to develop a very good spirit of discipline. No one had a crazy idea and thoughts. They were ready to go according to the training subjects!

Yang Hao has undoubtedly been the hardest and most busy these days. While working on several ends of the two planes, he has to take a lot of time to complete the training subjects with the recruits and learn how to be a qualified commander. Thanks to the foundation he has been trained by the old man and his unsuccessful father since childhood, he can always use his superior military skills to conquer everyone.

Now, like a qualified commander in a war era, he came to relieve the pressure and cheer the soldiers before the war. He smiled relaxedly, called out everyone's name, patted his shoulders, and cared about the abrasions caused by training, meticulous and thoughtful.

After the inspection, Yang Hao came to the yard and looked up at the dark sky with raindrops. He felt a heavy heart. Tomorrow, he would take many people on the road of life and death. He could not guarantee to bring everyone back, and this was just the beginning of sacrifice. Can he persevere until the end?

No matter how free he is by nature or how bold he is, Yang Hao is a kind person after all. A decision may lead to countless lives and deaths that he lives together every day. This burden cannot be erased by a "decisive killing".

Ding Weifen and Xu Yanzhuo walked from the side and said softly and forcefully: "Don't worry, we can definitely succeed!"

The three of them stood side by side, listening quietly to the rustling raindrops, and the turbulent waves outside the wall, with a lot of passion in their chests and abdomen!

In the early morning of June 11, clusters of people appeared one after another when the streets of Seoul were flooded in light rain. At first, they did not have any suspicious actions, but just distributed leaflets from door to door along the street.

But after only an hour, they all changed into white clothes and white umbrellas, white cloth wrapped around their foreheads, white banners in their hands, and large blood-red words on them: "Get out! North Korea is an independent country! Repay my civil rights! Reject Japanese pirates' oppression!"

In a blink of an eye, the crowd gathered into more than a dozen trenches. They waved their arms and shouted slogans, gathering from all directions to the front of the Japanese consulate!

Zhao Bingji, who was just about to come here to protest the Japanese foreign affairs supervisor, happened to see this scene, and his head "buzzed" at that time, almost bursting blood vessels! This is a civil rebellion! Some people are inciting the people in Seoul for causing trouble!

He trembled and ordered people to persuade the people who were marching away. Unexpectedly, the leader of the Confucian scholar saw his official sedan chair at a glance, and rushed over with a stalking sound: "Is Lord Zhao also here to support our protest? That's great!"

Zhao Bingji hurriedly shook his hand to deny it, but his personal voice was completely overwhelmed by the cheers of the crowd like tsunami! The guards of the Japanese Embassy immediately raised their guns to guard!
Chapter completed!