Space-time SWAT

The Sichuan Governor’s Yamen is located on Duyuan Street in the city center. The soldiers standing guard at the gate are not the uniforms of the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty, but the standard uniforms of the new army.

Most of the new army employs German officers as instructors, and conducts training completely in accordance with the German battalion system and drills. The firearms and military tactics are all imitated from the West, and a foreign gun team has also been established, so Xu Chaolin has a sense of familiarity with the soldiers at the door.

Yesterday he had learned about the general situation of Lu Haocang, governor of Sichuan, and learned that he had studied in Japan and was also a high-achieving student who graduated from a military academy. Today he put on a full suit, polished leather shoes, a Western-style top hat, a slim wool coat, and a With a piece of unicorn jade pendant given by my mother, I went to the Governor's Yamen with complicated emotions, and asked to see Mr. Lu, the Governor of Sichuan.

He did not mention his father, but claimed that he had just returned from the German military academy and wanted to serve the imperial court, so he wanted to interview the governor.

Lu Haocang was appointed by Emperor Guangxu to serve as the governor of the three southwestern provinces.Later, the Reform Movement of [-] failed, Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai, Cixi became more vicious, and Lu Haocang was no longer restrained by the Qing court.Cixi wanted to weaken his power, only let him serve as the governor of Sichuan, and sent another person as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.However, the three southwestern provinces have been managed by two generations of the Lu family, and they have long been as stable as Mount Tai. The governor of Yunnan and Guizhou has been emptied, and there is no real power at all.Officials sent by the stubborn old forces in the DPRK to the three southwestern provinces either surrendered to Lu Haocang, or were squeezed out in despair.The governor of Yunnan and Guizhou has only been in office for a year. When he first came, he wanted to regain power, but it was not only in vain, but he almost lost his whole family's life. Finally, he surrendered and decided to stay in office for the elderly. Action, followed by a fortune.

Since the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the country has been riddled with holes. There are so many things that Cixi has to face and deal with.Lu Haocang took the opportunity to consolidate his power, and he was already a veritable king of the Southwest.If there are official vacancies in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, there is no need to report to the court, and he will send someone to take the post.He also intercepted taxation, mined copper mines, gold mines, and silver mines by himself, owned the salt government, privately recruited soldiers, and expanded the army.In name, he is an official of the imperial court, but in fact the three southwestern provinces have become a state within a state.

Not only did he act in this way, but the governors of Liangjiang, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Gansu, and the three eastern provinces all wanted to become kings on their own.Only Zhili can be fully controlled by the imperial court, and it can partially control Liangjiang, Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang.

The power of governors in various places is growing day by day, and Cixi has nothing to do.She is no better than Wu Zetian, and she knows nothing about governing the country. She only knows the secret methods of the harem, and her psychology is extremely abnormal.For the affairs of the former dynasty, she has more than enough heart but not enough energy.The nine governors are basically Han officials, all capable and knowledgeable, and they strongly disagree with her actions of harming the people and betraying the country.Since she embezzled naval funds to build the Summer Palace, which led to a disastrous defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], few people paid attention to her decrees issued across the country.

At present, Lu Haocang is preparing and training the new army. At the same time, he also wants to take the two new armies, one town and one association, which the imperial court has already trained and stationed in Rongcheng, for his own use. heard.Seeing Xu Chaolin's handsome, heroic and extraordinary bearing, the gatekeeper felt that Xu Chaolin must be reused, so he didn't dare to neglect him, and hurriedly informed Li.

Soon, a small official came out, took him in enthusiastically, and asked him to wait in the waiting room.There were several braziers in the room, and it was very warm. He took off his coat and hat, and sat quietly by the window, looking at the tall ginkgo trees outside the window.

There were already quite a few people in the room, most of them were wearing official uniforms of the Qing court, and there were also some gentlemen in long gowns with a braid behind their heads. Only he was wearing a formal three-piece suit, tie, and short hair. The eyes of those people looking over are a little weird.He ignored everyone, silently thinking about the words his mother told him alone yesterday, couldn't help reaching into his coat pocket, and gently stroking a piece of cool jade pendant.

People kept going out and people coming in. It was not until noon that someone came to inform him, "Young Master Xu, Your Excellency Governor invites you in."

"Thank you." Xu Chaolin stood up, with a top hat in his hand, and followed him gracefully through the corridor and into the governor's room.

Lu Haocang, Governor of Sichuan, is 43 years old this year. Because his father is from the Northeast and his mother is from Beijing, he is not as thin as the people in Sichuan, but tall and fit, with clear-cut features. .Sitting behind the big table of Huanghuali, he looked at the handsome young man who walked in, and couldn't help being slightly startled. He felt that this young man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before.

Xu Chaolin stood in front of the table, only took a look at him, and realized that he and he were indeed in an extremely close blood relationship.After thinking for a while, he decided to cut straight to the point, "Lord Lu, my name is Xu Chaolin, and I just returned to Rongcheng yesterday. Before that, I was studying in the UK, studying at St. George's Medical College, University of London and Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. Germany, entered the German Senior Military Academy for further studies. In these three universities, I have completed my studies and graduated with honors. After I came back yesterday, I visited my mother and she gave me this." He took out a suet jade carving Qilin Pei, gently put it on the table, "My mother once sang on stage in Beijing. She was very popular and her stage name was Sai Jinling. At that time, she had a lover named Lu Yunfei who was born in a wealthy family. Noble young master, so she was unable to marry her into the door. Later, Lu Yunfei disappeared quietly, and she was forcibly taken away and sold to others. At that time, she was pregnant and insisted on giving birth to me under the pretext of premature labor. Master Lu, I am 25 years old."

Lu Haocang, nicknamed Yunfei, was not nominated when he was living outside with his beloved, he only spoke words.At this time, he became more and more surprised when he heard it, picked up the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, then looked at the young man's face that resembled his own, and after a while he asked with a complicated expression: "Apart from this, what other proof do you have?"

Xu Chaolin thought for a while, "If you use medical methods, you can go to the nearby French hospital with me for a blood type test. Others, such as the person who took my mother away and the woman who gave birth to my mother, watched my mother give birth. You can find all my maids and mothers now. Most of them are still alive, you can go and check."

Lu Haocang let out a sigh of relief, a trace of nostalgia appeared in his eyes, "Is your mother... all right?"

"Very good. She is my father's third concubine, and she has two sons and one daughter. Although the wife of the big house doesn't like her very much, and the concubines of other houses are also somewhat repulsive to her, but she has my support and lives well. It’s not bad.” Xu Chaolin said truthfully, with a calm expression, “My adoptive father was very kind to me. Later, the wife of the big house and the concubines of the few rooms made him suspect that I was not his biological son. Wait for me Gradually growing up, I did not look like him or my mother at all. But he never treated me badly and took good care of me. When I was young, I was self-willed and insisted on going to Europe. He sent me all the countless silver coins in full, and he never complained, and his kindness to me is as great as a mountain."

Lu Haocang nodded, "It's really good."

He thought of those long-forgotten teenage years.He was born in a wealthy family, and lived with his grandparents in Beijing when he was young. He also read some foreign books in addition to studying the Four Books and Five Classics, so he was very resistant to the marriage arranged by his parents.His first concubine and concubine also came from a great family, with bound feet and an old man's hair in a bun, behaved in a well-behaved manner and kept a serious attitude, which displeased the sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy very much.He went out with those princes and grandsons to visit the brothels, holding opera singers, originally for fun, but he didn't expect to fall in love at first sight with the girl Hua Dan who had just appeared on stage.The two lived together in a rented house outside, living a carefree life like a commoner couple.Unexpectedly, the good times didn't last long, the grandparents learned about this and sent someone to arrest him, and the beautiful girl with the red phoenix eyes also disappeared.After Mrs. Lu took the grandson home, he quickly married the grandson-in-law who had been appointed into the house, but Lu Haocang was really displeased, so he reluctantly stayed at home for three months before going to Japan.Six years later, when he returned from his studies, his first wife had passed away in depression, which made him feel guilty.

There were times when he was young and wild, and there was youth and romance. He no longer resisted the orders of his parents, so he married a wife and took up the responsibility of the family.Until now, there are many wives and concubines around him, many daughters, and only two sons, both of whom are concubines. They are still young, with average qualifications, and they don't seem to be very successful.The father at home was quite worried, and he was also worried that there would be no successors.

Looking at the son in front of him who is like a jade tree facing the wind, he has a faint joy amidst his instinctive doubts.The blood is connected, and there will always be some inexplicable intimacy. He feels a throbbing in his heart, which is hard to describe, but it makes him want to believe that this extremely outstanding child is indeed his own son.

This young man was very firm and calm, and he clearly said that he could do blood tests, check people, and do all kinds of verification, which showed that he was very open-minded and didn't intend to plot anything.Although he was rational and calm, he couldn't help but want to believe this heroic young man.

After a moment of silence, he asked casually, "How many years have you been in Europe?"

"I went there when I was 12, and I stayed for a total of 13 years." Xu Chaolin's voice was very soft, "When I first went, my white classmates looked down on me as a yellow person and bullied me in every possible way. My father taught me various ways to beat people since I was a child. Beat them up one by one, and the world will be peaceful."

"Good fight." Lu Haocang couldn't help laughing, "It was the same when I first went to Dongyang. They looked down on us Qing people, insulted, beat and punished them, and wished they could kill them all. Later, I led someone to beat us severely. After a few pauses, I will calm down a bit."