"Report to the general! An urgent call came from Tanggu. General Hunchun's vanguard troops have already boarded the train... Hunchun requested the allocation of a batch of arms worth 400,000 taels of silver, but he needs to pay back..."
To the west of the Chinese Military Headquarters building is close to the beautiful beach. There is a white health resort building. This building is in an excellent location. There is a white beach at the door. It is made of coral sand transported from Southeast Asia. It is soft under your feet. It's not sticky to the feet either.
Coconut trees are swaying, flowers and plants are fragrant, and the entire beach is blocked by warning lines. Ordinary people cannot pass without invitation.
This small sanatorium is actually a resting place for senior military officials on duty. The Chinese military has a 24-hour duty system.
There are general-level officials on duty every night, and the Four Heavenly Kings cannot be lazy!
Even when Xiao Letian was in Naha, he had to work the night shift here for one day a month. This is tradition, and it shows the Chinese people's vigilance against the dangerous world!
The higher the level of officers on duty, the more efficient they will be in handling emergency matters!
The Chinese National Congress knew that this work was hard, and was afraid of tiring the head of state, the Four Heavenly Kings and other elderly people, so they specially built such an extremely comfortable sanatorium building on the beach to the west of the military headquarters building.
It is a three-story building with not many rooms but luxurious decoration. The service staff are all carefully selected. The chefs on duty in the kitchen alone must ensure that there are two cuisines every day and more than 20 chefs.
As for the remaining nutritionists, masseurs, escorts, and doctors... they are all selected from the best!
The military department has a special telegraph line dragged here so that the generals on duty can handle urgent matters without running away.
It happened to be Luo Huo's turn to be on duty today, and he received an emergency telegram just after dinner. A telegram from Tanggu sent an IOU from Hunchun.
Four hundred thousand taels of silver supplies were a drop in the bucket for the Chinese. Luo Huo himself had the authority to sign. Looking at the list on the telegram, he saw that they were all second-level war preparation supplies.
The main ones are wound medicine, bandages, military rations... and there are actually cooling oil, black coffee and other supplies in the back!
The first-level combat readiness materials are all weapons and ammunition, while the authority of the second-level combat readiness materials is very relaxed. Luo Huo read it twice and took out a pen to sign and asked his subordinates to send it back.
"Tell Tanggu that General Hunchun's IOUs must be paid truthfully. Especially for this second-level combat readiness material, there is no need to ask for instructions. You will be given as much as you have..."
"It will be included in the imperial gold settlement bill later, so we won't suffer a loss... By the way, I would like to ask about the dispatch situation from Tangshan. How many vehicles are estimated to be needed? When will the dispatch be completed..."
"Yes!" The civilian official saluted and retreated. Luo Huo leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. After a while, another report sounded.
"Report! General! There is a little trouble... there was a riot at the Kailuan Mining Bureau station, and the Guanwai Army in Hunchun clashed with us..."
"Huh? Let me see..." Luo Huo straightened his back and took the telegram and read it carefully.
It was only after he saw that Hunchun personally suppressed the troops in the later period and paid compensation to his subordinates that he finally breathed a sigh of relief. "We didn't suffer a loss, did we? Are the injured people in serious condition?"
"Looking at the telegram, it's probably a skin injury. It won't be disabled for a while!"
"That's good, don't make the matter bigger... They have also compensated, apologized, and beaten people. Let's not hold on to them, and don't make things difficult for them in the future!"
"Hurry up and arrange trains to send these ghosts and monsters from outside the customs to cross the border quickly! It's really not easy to worry about..."
Luo Huo was leaning on the sofa. Just after taking a breath, his right eyelid suddenly started to beat wildly, and then the veins on his forehead were popping like he was having a convulsion.
Moreover, he was still restless and restless. He stood up and walked around the room, but the annoyance in his heart could not be dissipated.
He opened the door and strode out of the small health care building. He walked barefoot on the beach and paced back and forth. The moonlight slanted down, making his shadow grow long!
"Bring me a bottle of rum...the ice bucket is bigger...Damn, why don't you feel right today? Your left eye jumps for wealth, and your right eye jumps for disaster. Something big is going to happen..."
The attendant had just set up the beach chairs and placed the ice bucket and rum on the sand. Before General Luo Huo could sit down, a sudden gust of wind blew up.
A dark cloud rolled in from nowhere in the sky, and the bright moonlight just now was blocked. The salty sea breeze rushed over, and the coconut trees rustled and swayed like a magic hand in the darkness.
"General...it might be a storm, you'd better rest in the house!"
"Damn! Something's wrong, there's something evil today, so damn evil..."
General Luo Huo is shouting evil here, but in Tianjin Wei, thousands of miles away, there are still people who are shouting evil!
A group of gloomy-looking people walked out of the Tianjin Railway Station on the edge of the Haihe River. They were protected by some soldiers. The person walking in front turned out to be a foreign Japanese.
Walking out of the train station is the flowing Haihe River. There was no iron bridge at this time, but there was a pontoon bridge on the Haihe River, and many anchored ships were connected together with iron locks.
The bridge deck is covered with wooden planks.
"Dear friends, the train cannot move forward for some reason. We can only take a rest in Tianjin for the time being... The British Concession is not far across the way. I invite you to be our guests!"
After saying that, the foreign devil raised his hand and was about to call a rickshaw, but the dozen Chinese people behind him stopped him, "Sir Gordon, we are not going to the British Concession. They have all returned to our own country. Are you going to sleep in a British place?"
The person who spoke was none other than Deng Shichang. This group of naval elites who had returned from studying in England had already disembarked from Dagu Port and were preparing to take the train to the capital.
But they never expected that the train would stop as soon as it arrived at Tianjin Wei, and soon a conductor would come to ask them to get off.
"My lords, I'm really sorry. The train has been temporarily requisitioned and has to go back to Tangshan... You can only get off here!"
"Huh? Why are you going to Tangshan? We bought the tickets!"
"I'm really sorry. You can get off the train and get a refund, but the train must go back. This is an order from the court. We don't know what happened..."
Gordon, Deng Shichang and others had no choice but to get off the first-class carriage and walked to the bank of the Haihe River under the protection of the court guards who greeted them.
This is a group of Western-style officials. Although Deng Shichang and others all have braids, they have just gotten off the ship and have not had time to change into their robes and jackets. Like Gordon, they are all wearing suits.
Such a group of people were protected by guards with guns. The moment they appeared on the bank of the Haihe River, they shocked the crowd. There used to be a row of thatched huts outside the station, selling fried dough sticks, noodles, steamed buns and so on. They started shouting quite enthusiastically. Yes, it turned out that these people were so frightened that their shouts were lowered by three points.
Gordon persuaded them, "Everyone! It's already eight o'clock in the evening, it's completely dark, and the Tianjin Acropolis has closed its gates. How can you enter the city?"
"There are only government offices or inns in the city! You can't stay in a place like this, right? I know... there is a name for this kind of place... it's called a big car shop or a chicken shop!"
"It's not in line with your status! After working as a rickshaw for a while, you can rent it in the UK. The embassy will prepare the best room and hot water for you!"
"No! Even if we live in a big car shop, we still live on our own land!"
