As night fell, in a remote building in the inner city of Shanghai, Li Weiguo stood with his hands behind his back, looking out the window quietly, with distant thoughts. △,

Dangdang!

The knock on the door sounded, and the guard Chang Zhuang Jiuxia went over to open the door, and soon two people were brought in.

If there were outsiders here, they would definitely recognize these two people. It was Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan, who had just been shot by Li Weiguo, who were known as Li Weiguo's right-hand man and the chief of the General Staff of the Nanyang Army.

"See the Prince (Prince of the King)!"

When Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan saw Li Weiguo, they immediately stepped forward to salute.

"Thank you two, please do not give me any gifts! But are you hurt?"

Li Weiguo immediately stepped forward to help each other and asked with concern.

"Thank you for your concern. The old minister is not in trouble. The guard's gun is very accurate. It hits me directly on the iron plate on my chest, no difference." Wu Yong said with a smile.

Chen Jingnan also smiled and said, "I am fine, thank you for your concern. Maybe my subordinates are too thin recently and have been knocked out by the prince's bullets. They act more like this."

Li Weiguo was ashamed and apologized: "Old Chen doesn't know anything. I went to Jiangnan to create a new Desert Eagle pistol. I couldn't put it down and changed the gun on the spot. But I forgot that the Desert Eagle pistol is extremely powerful. When the shot hits you, Lao Chen, I immediately felt scared and regretful. Fortunately, the iron plates were thick enough, otherwise I would have killed you by mistake, but it would have been faked to become real."

Chen Jingnan then realized completely, but he didn't care, but instead said optimistically: "Although something went wrong, this error was good, because the king's expression of regret at that moment would definitely fall into the eyes of those who are interested. The play that the three of us, the king and the minister, was more realistic and could definitely be hidden from them."

Wu Yong also said: "Yes, especially the moment the bullet hits the chest, it can splash bright red blood, which is simply too realistic."

The blood was potassium permanganate. All details of the entire process were calculated, and I thought I could hide it from others.

The king and his minister looked at each other and laughed. It turned out that all this was just a play carefully planned by the three of them. It was just that they had hidden something from everyone, and there was something hidden in it.

"Next, you two will act according to your plan. This is my king's tiger talisman, so I will leave it to you two."

The tiger talisman represents military power and can mobilize millions of Nanyang troops. Li Weiguo solemnly handed the tiger talisman to Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan, which shows his trust in them.

Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan looked at each other. They knelt down on one knee, took the tiger talisman with both hands, and said in unison: "I will never let down the prince (the prince) trust!"

Li Weiguo nodded and said nothing more, so he ordered Zhuang Jiuxia to prepare the carriage and send them away from Shanghai overnight.

Afterwards, Li Weiguo returned to the Wu Palace and immediately called the head and deputy directors of the SHIELD Intelligence Department, Li Jing and Cheng Kun.

"How is it outside?"

Li Jing and Cheng Kun are the implementation of this action plan. They naturally know the inside story.

Li Jing first replied: "Reporting to the prince, the civil and military officials performed strangely, and most of them did not act abnormally. At most, they complained and complained. They were within a reasonable range. Only Jiangnan governor Zhang Tai and Liangjiang Censor Xing Hui and others acted abnormally. After the incident, they kept contacting the civil and military officials in the city and made a big statement. They separated the relationship between the officials and the prince, and even secretly sent their confidants to the city, and finally crossed the river. The prince was ordered by the prince without stopping it."

Li Weiguo nodded and asked back: "What do you think are Zhang Tai and Xing Hui?"

Li Jing said: "Bizhi thinks they are Li Hongzhang's people!"

Cheng Kun added: "It cannot be ruled out that they are people who are loyal to the court!"

Do you care for the court?

Li Weiguo sneered that he had been enslaved by the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years, so his slavery was naturally difficult to change. He was very concerned about the court, which was expected.

"Since they want to continue to be slaves, let them do it! Let's continue to instruct, don't alert them and let them make trouble. I want to see how many people are sincerely loyal to me."

Li Jing and Cheng Kun nodded in agreement with surprise, and had already guessed that Li Weiguo's intention this time was probably going to have a major purge.

This is true for all those who have accomplished great things since ancient times.

Tianjin, Zhili Governor's Office.

A 800-li urgent secret letter was presented to Li Hongzhang, and he stood up in an instant in surprise.

This is a piece of information, officially Wu Yong's "careless" missing information from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. The contents are the highest secret, which not only involves the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's arms production capacity and combat readiness reserves, but also includes the deployment and combat readiness of the Nanyang Army in various places.

"How is this possible? A mere Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can actually make 300,000 guns, cannons and weapons every year, which is more than a hundred times stronger than my Tianjin Machinery Bureau. It is simply incredible."

As a military officer under Li Hongzhang, Qian Dingming is now the general manager of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. He is already an outstanding talent in the domestic military industry. The Tianjin Machinery Bureau he managed has achieved brilliant results in just a few years. He thought he could become the leader of the domestic military industry, but now when he sees the production capacity and scale of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, he has lost his temper in an instant.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau produces a total of 300,000 guns and artillery pieces, while the Tianjin Machinery Bureau produces less than 3,000 guns and artillery pieces per year. Otherwise, Li Hongzhang would not have to look at Yixin's expression and borrow money from foreigners to purchase arms from abroad.

This is just a comparison of two weapons, guns and cannons. If you compare ammunition, Qian Dingming will be even more ashamed.

The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau produces 300 million bullets per year, while the Tianjin Machinery Bureau cannot produce integrated bullets and shells. It can only produce warheads. Even if it only cuts metal warheads, it cannot cut out 300 million bullets.

This is the gap!

Qian Dingming analyzed: "Your Majesty, it seems that your original decision is right now. Judging from the current military factory production capacity and arms reserves of King Wu, it can support at least one million Nanyang Army to continue high-intensity combat for one year. However, the production capacity of our Beiyang Army's military factory is far from enough. If the firearms and ammunition are calculated according to the consumption standards given by the British, it will only be enough for one million Beiyang Army to continue high-intensity combat for ten days. If calculated according to our own combat standards, it will be at most one month."

Li Weiguo frowned and asked back: "That is to say, if we can't defeat Li Weiguo within one month, then we will lose?"

Qian Dingming nodded and said, "It is theoretically the case, but there are variables in the middle. For example, it is impossible for our million-strong army in Beiyang to go to the front line to fight. At best, only 300,000 will be reduced, so the logistical pressure will be reduced by half. It should be fine to persist for two or three months."

Li Hongzhang sighed: "I looked down on Li Weiguo before, because Li Weiguo was like a profiteer, building factories everywhere to do business, and it was so tempting to get money. When we were still the Huai Army, we didn't feel much burden even though we had a team of foreign guns and cannons under our command. But as our family's great business grew, the logistics pressure was reflected. Our army needed a lot of equipment to fight. Although it was just old weapons, it also made us exhausted. But look at Li Weiguo and millions of South China Sea Army, all equipped with expensive advanced guns and cannons, and they smashed them into it for tens of millions of yuan. How do they live? We have to tighten our belts and live a life. It's really awesome!"

Qian Dingming smiled bitterly. This person was afraid of comparing. He didn't know anything, and he was shocked when he compared it.

They are all princes, and they all support a million troops. One is poor and the other is almost selling blood. The other has endless money.

"When Li Weiguo is destroyed and his path to wealth is taken into his hands, the prince will not have to worry anymore!"

Li Hongzhang was happy, Qian Dingming would comfort people.

"Knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated. Now that we have received the news that Li Weiguo's amazing weapon and ammunition reserves are amazing, we cannot wait to die. We should send people to find a way to destroy the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. As for the deployment of the Nanyang Army, it is also extremely beneficial to us. When the foreigners sent the arms, we immediately took action and caught Li Weiguo off guard."

Qian Dingming agreed: "Before the war starts, destroy the enemy's arms factory and follow the key points of military tactics. I heard that before Li Weiguo went to war with the British and French coalition forces, he sent people to sneak into Hong Kong to bomb the British and French coalition forces' arsenal. With the Nanyang Army's troops deployment data, the prince can concentrate his troops at one point and defeat the enemy forces one by one, so as to achieve greater results."

Li Hongzhang nodded and immediately summoned his staff to open fire.

But the staff had just arrived one after another, and another eight hundred miles of urgent secret letter was sent in.

"Li Weiguo actually killed Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan? If this matter is true, it is really God's helping me!"

Li Hongzhang jumped up happily. Over the years, the names of Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan, the right-hand man around Li Weiguo, are well-known. Li Hongzhang dreamed of killing these two people, but unfortunately he never had a chance. Now he didn't expect that Wu Yong's life would be taken away because of an intelligence leak, and Chen Jingnan's life was also taken.

Is there anything happier than this?

Ding Richang immediately said: "Prince, this matter is probably strange. How important is Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan to Li Weiguo? How could he kill him just by saying that he could kill him?"

It's indeed unlikely!

Many staff members expressed their incredibleness.

However, Qian Dingming and others thought it was true.

"This seems ridiculous, but it is inevitable! Wu Yong lost the top-secret document. This document is now here with the prince. It can be imagined that Li Weiguo's family background will be known. Of course he is angry. It is understandable to want to kill Wu Yong when he is angry. I guess he didn't plan to really kill Wu Yong, that is, he acts as a show. Wu Yong's power is too great, and Li Weiguo must be afraid of it. He must take the opportunity to weaken Wu Yong's rights, but he never thought that all civil and military officials all pleaded for Wu Yong. This is a taboo for the master. He is so powerful that he will definitely not tolerate any master. But another powerful minister, Chen Jingnan, is risking his life to plead for mercy at this time. Li Weiguo is in a difficult position to get rid of the tiger, and he will definitely kill the chicken to warn the monkey."

This is also true, and many staff members also agreed.

Li Hongzhang immediately hesitated.

At this moment, Xu Ting walked in from outside and handed a hot-painted letter to Li Hongzhang, and said, "Prince, this seems to be the information you arranged to come from the inside line in the south. My subordinates dare not delay and hurriedly delivered it to you."

Li Hongzhang was stunned. The insider in the south would never easily transmit information unless he had no choice.

He hurriedly checked the hot paint seal, and saw that there was no flaw in dismantling or forging, so he opened his eyes and was immediately overjoyed.

"Everyone, now it's certain that Li Weiguo did kill Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan. Among them, Chen Jingnan was also Li Weiguo himself shooting. The inside line who was arranged by the king to witness this with his own eyes. In addition, Wu Yong was shot on the street and countless ordinary people saw it. It was just because the intelligence was stolen, and there was no news about Shanghai martial law."

Ding Richang and others couldn't believe it, but Li Hongzhang was sure that what the insider said would never be fake.

Xu Ting said excitedly: "Congratulations to the prince, Li Weiguo cut off his arms. This time, killing Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction among many officials in his tent. It is a great opportunity for the prince's Beiyang Army to destroy Wu in one fell swoop."

Wang Kaitai sighed and said, "The rabbit died and the dog cooked, and the birds were all buried. I didn't expect that Li Weiguo would even kill Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan. I thought he was the hero, but now I can't see a single man."

Others can't understand Wang Kaitai's implicit voice, but Li Hongzhang and Xu Ting understood that this incident had a great blow to Wang Kaitai. From the moment he respectfully called King Wu to calling Li Weiguo a name and scolding him for being a man, it proved that Wang Kaitai had completely disappointed Li Weiguo.

Li Hongzhang suddenly looked up and asked for advice: "Everyone, I want to lead a large army south to destroy Li Weiguo, can I have any good plans?"

Xu Ting immediately said: "Prince, Li Weiguo killed Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan because of the leak of the top secret. He would soon react. The prince should take action first."

Li Hongzhang asked: "How to start first? The arms I bought from Britain have not arrived yet and are not prepared enough. Li Weiguo is strong in troops and has sufficient ammunition, so how to start first?"

Xu Ting said: "I am not saying that I will send troops first, but that I will first make the internal chaos of Li Weiguo."

Li Hongzhang's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked, "Let's hear!"

Xu Ting then said, "Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan are the right-hand man of Li Weiguo. Once they are killed, they will definitely cause panic among all civil and military officials. Wu Yong and Chen Jingnan are the chief officers and deputy chief staff. They hold huge military power, have a high prestige and wide connections in the Nanyang Army. In particular, Wu Yong's son Wu Zhiqiang is the commander of the Fourth Army of the Nanyang Army, who controls 50,000 troops in the two towns, and are all elites of the Nanyang Army. If he knew that he was killed by Li Weiguo, he would probably not give up?"

Qian Dingming immediately agreed: "There is a great hope to instigate Wu Yong's son Wu Zhiqiang. Then, using Wu Zhiqiang's connections in the army, he can organize at least 50,000 Nanyang Army rebellion. If successful, on the day of the prince's army's southern expedition, Wu Zhiqiang will fight back at the battle and will definitely cause a fatal blow to Li Weiguo at a critical moment."

Xu Ting nodded and said, "That's right, even if the subordinates mean that. Not only Wu Zhiqiang, but also sent people to continue Chen Jingnan's group. I believe that even if they do not surrender to the prince, they will inevitably have a gap with Li Weiguo, resulting in a disarray of Nanyang Group."
Chapter completed!