The First Evolution

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After hearing this, Fang Linyan suddenly said:

"No wonder that's the case. I think Master Huo has a high prestige here. Many people come just by saying hello."

Ma Kui said:

"That's right, at the Liaojia Pier next to here, at least two to three thousand people carry bags and earn a living here every day! It's hard to live on the pier, and it's inevitable that someone will get injured. Master Huo's family has been practicing medicine here for two generations. , always doing good deeds and helping those who have no money."

"This is not just a day or two of practicing good deeds, it is a matter of good popularity accumulated over two generations. I heard that even the deputy leader of the Pai Gang comes here, and his prestige is not as high as that of Master Huo!"

Fang Linyan pondered for a while and said:

"Master Huo seems to be a gentle man, but he doesn't seem to know any martial arts?"

Ma Kui said:

"Mr. Liu, you and I have misjudged the truth. Master Huo has been very strong since he was a child. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he could carry a load of seven to eight hundred kilograms of medicinal materials at home and run away."

"Not only that, he also became a disciple of the old Taoist who gave him fortune-telling back then, learned the Hong Quan, and also practiced the Wudang inner martial art of fishing toad strength, which even ten or so people can't get close to."

While the two were chatting, Master Huo had already walked in with Wang Wu. This time when he saw Fang Linyan, he immediately bowed deeply to Fang Linyan solemnly:

"Sixth Young Master has ruined his family and established his country. Please accept Huo's worship."

Fang Linyan did not refuse, stood upright and bowed to him, and then bowed back deeply:

"The Japanese are rampant and the country is in turmoil. If they succeed easily, the consequences will be extremely serious. The rest of England, Russia, and France will think that China is extremely weak and will regard it as a big fat meat. At that time, it is inevitable If it triggers the frenzy of the great powers to carve up China, we may risk the destruction of our country and our species!"

"Although I am trying my best to save everything, I still feel that I am weak and weak. I wonder if Master Huo can accompany me on this dangerous road of near death?"

Master Huo said word for word:

"I have my wish, but I don't dare to ask for it!"

***

In the next two days, Fang Linyan could only spend the next two days waiting. All the cards in his hand had been exhausted. To be honest, he could only wait for the situation on Song Yuren's side.

Just looking at the situation in the past two days, it is still inevitable that the situation will deteriorate in Japan's favor...

The outstanding performance of the Huai Army in North Korea was just a flash in the pan, and then collapsed at the first touch. Ye Zhichao's troops even showed an extraordinary "stunt skill", flying two hundred miles day and night, but it was not an attack, but a runaway.

The foreign guns and cannons that Li Gongzhang spent a lot of money to buy were directly abandoned in the muddy water.

What's more, now that the waterway is cut off, Japan continues to increase its troops. The army in Korea is close to 10,000 people, while the Huai army only has 6,000 people at full strength.

Under such circumstances, even if the current Japanese army is not the powerful modern army that forty years later would occupy the three eastern provinces in the west, resist the Soviets in the north, attack the United States in the east, and invade Southeast Asia in the south, it has not even experienced the Russo-Japanese War. But it was still not something that the Huai Army could contend with at this time.

Not only that, under the Japanese crisis public relations, many British media began to favor the Japanese side when discussing the sunken British merchant ship.

Just yesterday, The Times, which was founded in 1785, also published an editorial on this incident, and even used related words similar to that the merchant ship "brings it to itself." Of course, this one editorial = eight thousand pounds.

Brown, the deputy president of the House of Commons, said that we should not be blinded by superficial things. Those who are always trying to challenge the authority of the sun are our serious problems. These words = 5,000 GBP.

Russia's attitude continues to fall into a strange ambiguity.

Among these messy information, Fang Linyan couldn't tell how much of it came from the promotion of the space warriors, and how much came from the spontaneous evolution of the international situation.

However, Fang Linyan estimated that it would take at least a month for Song Yuren to get any definite news, and it was not his style to wait quietly.

Therefore, after making sure that the rotten corpse poison was completely removed from his body, Fang Linyan entrusted all the affairs of Qiao's store to Wang Wu:

What Wang Wu did was very simple. He supervised the shopkeepers of the Qiao family to sell foreign goods at the price specified by Fang Linyan, then helped collect the money, and then remitted most of the money to Mr. Song, a Song Yuren in the UK.

After confirming that Fang Linyan really easily spent hundreds of thousands or millions of money to fight against the Japanese, Master Huo was also greatly shocked. He immediately dropped all matters at the drug store and volunteered to help. .

With these two people to assist him in executing his plan, Fang Linyan was preparing to go to Japan. Unexpectedly, he saw Hu Xueming again before leaving.

At this time, Hu Xueming looked much better, at least he was not the same as before with a disheveled face and a dirty face. When he saw Fang Linyan, he strode over with a smile on his face. He really seemed to have no grudges. On the contrary, But Fang Linyan looked a little guilty...

"Good nephew, good nephew!!"

Hu Xueming took Fang Linyan's hand intimately and said:

"I would have known that my wise nephew would be the best among men, and his future would be limitless..." (Omit two hundred words here)

Fang Linyan was really impatient and said directly:

"If you have something to say, just say it."

Hu Xueming took out a box from his arms and said with a smile:

"Yesterday, when the sun was nice, I asked my family to take out the old books to dry them. Suddenly I found something, which was left by my fourth brother. I thought this thing might be useful to my nephew, so I gave it to my nephew. Take a look..."

Fang Linyan kept the thing and took a look. It turned out to be a booklet called "Taoyuan Collection".

He took a quick look at it and realized that it was a handwritten manuscript. After reading the preface, he basically understood that this was when the cheap old man was studying. In the spring, he and a group of classmates went to a peach garden somewhere to enjoy the flowers, and then... Help the scholar and start chanting and writing poems.

This booklet records the masterpieces of these scholars.

Ancient parties such as garden gatherings are very popular among scholars. The most famous one is a group of people in the Jin Dynasty who drank at Lanting, drank poison (taking Five Stone Powder), bragged, used big swords, and recited poems. .

Then they organized a Lanting Collection. However, what made their big sword gathering spread through the ages was a big boss named Wang who took advantage of the crooked mouth after drinking to write a note for this collection. Preface, and then write the masterpiece...

Unfortunately, the booklet left by Fang Linyan’s cheap dad was very mediocre.

Whether it is the words or the quality of the poems in it - there are even famous lines such as "The peach blossoms are all red, and Tweety is among them", which is enough to stun the audience.

Therefore, Fang Linyan simply threw the thing back, then shook his head and said indifferently:

"I'm not interested in this."

Hu Xueming did not expect Fang Linyan's reaction to be so indifferent, because according to the current customs, the "late father's" article must be kept carefully, and it must be done at any cost. If you get it back, you must shed tears of gratitude. How could table wine be thrown away like trash like Fang Linyan?

"You are unworthy of your descendants! You are unworthy of your descendants!"

Hu Xueming cursed ten thousand times in his heart, but he still could only catch the book with quick eyes and hands. However, he also caught it in a hurry. The pages of the book were scattered, and suddenly something like a bookmark fell from it. Floating and floating in the air.

At this time, in Fang Linyan's eyes, the "bookmark" actually shimmered. He was moved in his heart and hurriedly reached out to grab it. He realized that the material of the bookmark was not quite right.

At this time, there are wooden bookmarks, leaf bookmarks, silk bookmarks, etc., but the material of this bookmark is very strange, it looks like it is made of leather.

Suddenly, a prompt appeared in front of Fang Linyan:

"You have obtained a mysterious item: unknown leather."

"This prop will trigger a unique mission. This mission is unique to this world. It may involve supernatural aspects. The dangers involved are at least fatal to you at the moment."

"If you're interested in this, find someone who's interested in this leather."

After receiving this series of prompts, Fang Linyan was stunned:

"Oh, this cheap man's relics actually lead to a hidden mission? And it looks more dangerous?"

Before he came to this world, he also conducted various investigations and immediately caught a series of key words in the mission description:

"Supernatural, unique to this world, and relatively dangerous... This world is in the Qing Dynasty at this time, and the famous writer was also in the Qing Dynasty. Could it be... in Liaozhai? Related tasks?"

After so many thoughts flashed through his mind, Fang Linyan suddenly found that Hu Xueming in front of him was much more pleasing to the eye, and then he naturally stepped forward, took back the "Taoyuan Collection", and stuffed the "bookmark" back.

"I thought about it. Since it belongs to my late father, I think I'd better keep it."

Then Fang Linyan gave Hu Xueming another banknote:

"Uncle Qi has preserved this thing until now. There is no credit but hard work. Let's take it and have a cup of tea."

Hu Xueming didn't care about his dignity and opened the banknote on the spot. After seeing it, he was immediately happy because Fang Linyan actually gave him two hundred taels of silver.

For him, what he originally expected was just a hundred taels and he would be satisfied. He immediately bowed and bowed, pouring out basketfuls of free words...

***

After this episode, Fang Linyan started rushing along the canal from Tianjin to Shanghai. From Shanghai, he could take a boat to Naha Port in Ryukyu, and then from Ryukyu to Kobe Port in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

Under normal circumstances, it only takes a day and a night to go directly from Tianjin Port to Nagasaki, Japan. However, if Fang Linyan makes such a big circle, it will take at least almost a week, even if he travels overnight at all costs!

After arriving in Shanghai, Fang Linyan stayed here for almost a day, asking people everywhere about the bookmark, but of course he found nothing.

Fortunately, he was not short of money now. He also met a Western hospital in the concession, so he replenished his medicine there, then bought a ferry ticket and left the port.

His luck was really not that good this time. He spent eight full days on the road. Although he made a big circle, he avoided the range of Japan's combined fleet patrolling at this time and could absolutely ensure safety.

However, Fang Linyan can travel this road, but it is difficult for imported bulk foreign goods to travel. Tianjin Port has been completely blocked. Foreign goods can only be transported to Shanghai, and then taken overland to Tianjin, BJ.

During this period, it was troublesome to travel almost two thousand miles by land. Not to mention the freight costs, the key point was that it was a drop in the bucket. At that time, the cargo throughput of a merchant ship could reach more than a thousand tons. The cargo of this ship reached Tianjin /The capital requires two thousand carriages to load it, which is really incomparable with shipping.

As for the famous water transport, it has long since declined. As early as 1848, almost fifty years ago, because the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was in disrepair, the Qing government had already begun to transport grain by sea, hoping that foreign goods would be delivered to Beijing by water ship. Go, that is even more impossible, so the price of foreign goods remains strong.

Needless to say, the ups and downs along the way were so long that when Fang Linyan set foot on Japanese soil, he received several pieces of news that shocked him to the core.

The first news is that the Indochina Steamship Company, the owner of the sunken British merchant ship, actually filed a lawsuit against the Qing government! !

After seeing this news, Fang Linyan really felt that this was really nonsense! It was the Japanese who sank the Gaosheng. Why the hell are you suing China? China is also a victim.

Fang Linyan looked carefully and found that the other party was actually making a lot of nonsense, and he was also making sense:

It is believed that the Huai Army failed to clearly state the risks of transporting cargo to the Gaosheng, which resulted in the Gaosheng being engaged in transporting ground combat troops that was hostile (to Japan).

Therefore, China should clearly know that this will be completely intercepted by the Japanese army and captured as a trophy.

Therefore, the Qing government should bear responsibility for this and compensate for the corresponding losses. The total price was 33,411 pounds.

What's even more outrageous is that a secret message from the Qing Dynasty was leaked, saying that it was Lafayette's edict that as long as the foreigners can make her worry a little bit, then she can just compensate her, and it won't cost much, so she can avoid losing money and avoid disaster.

Such remarks really made the whole country uproar.

The second news is that all the Qing Dynasty's troops in Korea were destroyed. Only less than 800 of the 6,000 Huai army escaped. And these 800 people suddenly mutinied at the beginning of the war, betrayed the flanks of the friendly forces and fled directly. of.

The person who led these eight hundred people away was Ye Zhichao, the most powerful person in North Korea in the Qing Dynasty...

The third news is that in Oxford, many scholars on the bridge published newspapers to defend Japan's attack on the Gao Sheng.

In the first maritime hearing held two days ago, more than 40% of the members believed that the Gaosheng was serving Japan's enemies and that the Japanese military had the right to sink or detain it.

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