The Qing Dynasty
Chapter 237 Shady things
Chapter 237 Shady things
Liu Shijiu only shut up after being poked secretly by Li Xiance who was standing by.
In fact, the reason why Liu Yuzhi was allowed to leave with them was not because of his concerns, but mainly to prevent Hu Dianjia, Cao Futian, and Pan Jinshan from feeling that Teng Yuzao was hiding something from them and did not regard them as his own people.
Now not only Liu Changfa, but also Liu Yuzhi, whom Teng Yuzao trusted very much, left with them. This made them have nothing to be dissatisfied with, even though they knew that Teng Yuzao had something to do and wanted to arrange separate arrangements for Li Xiance and Liu Shijiu.
After watching Liu Yuzhi and others walk out the door, Teng Yuzhao said with a smile.
"Brother, Chengde, your promotion this time is a bit low, are you not satisfied?"
Teng Yuzhao's words made Wang Decheng stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly became extremely excited and he spoke with a smile.
"How can you say that? I am just a commoner. I am grateful to you for not abandoning me and for allowing me to follow you. I will be grateful for the rest of my life. Besides, I have only been following you for a few dozen days, and I have such a status now. How dare I have any unreasonable expectations? Satisfied!"
The reason why Wang Decheng was a little excited was not because his military rank was mentioned, but because Teng Yuzhao started to call him by his courtesy name for the first time, which at least seemed to show that he was treating him as a close person.
Moreover, he suddenly realized that Teng Yuzao had a confidential matter to entrust to them, which meant that Teng Yuzao no longer regarded him as an ordinary subordinate. Not only was their closeness to each other greater than that to Cao Futian, but it might even be closer than that to Hu Dianjia, a regular military officer. How could he not be excited?
This time, the imperial court approved and instructed Teng Yuzao to officially grant military ranks in the vanguard army for the first time. Except for Teng Yuzao himself who was "forcibly" awarded the rank of general by the imperial court, five people, Li Yulin, Liu Yuzhi, Li Xianze, Hu Dianjia and Liu Changfa, were awarded the rank of major general, which corresponded to the second rank of the imperial court.
Wei Jinghai, Liu Shijiu, and Sun Shijun, Xue Qian, Liu Yuanshou and others who followed Li Yulin in training were only given the rank of colonel, while Wang Decheng, Cao Futian, Pan Jinshan and others were only given the rank of lieutenant colonel, which corresponds to the third grade.
Unlike Wang Decheng, Liu Shijiu said indignantly, "Damn it, if we talk about the number of foreign devils I killed and the merits I have made, I dare not say that I have killed more than Kangnian, but I am not much worse. At least I am not worse than Hu Xuanqing. But they are all major generals, but I can only be a colonel."
"It's obvious that they don't trust me because I came from the Boxer Rebellion."
Wang Decheng was so frightened by Liu Shijiu's words that his face turned pale. Taking advantage of the table's cover, he kept kicking Liu Shijiu.
Liu Shijiu said angrily, "Decheng, don't kick me. Don't say that in front of Xingfu. I dare to say that in front of those damn important officials in the Military Affairs Office. These bastards are all bad people. One day they should rebel and nominate Xingfu to be the leader."
Li Xianze hurriedly grabbed Liu Shijiu's hand and shook it hard, interrupting Liu Shijiu's next words.
"Brother Liu, as long as the adults are here, your major general will not be able to escape!"
Liu Shijiu also knew that his words were a bit too much, so he changed his tone, "Needless to say, I still say the same thing, if any bastard dares to have ideas about Xingfu, I will twist off his head."
Although Teng Yuzao wished that his generals would have the same attitude, he still tried to suppress his true feelings on the surface. Teng Yuzao took out a letter from his military uniform pocket with a wry smile, "This letter was sent back by Ziyu some time ago. It clearly states that the court is deliberately suppressing your military ranks. I wanted to tell you, brother, Chengde, are you worried?"
As Teng Yuzao spoke, he put the letter on the table and pushed it towards Liu Shijiu.
Liu Shijiu didn't even read the letter Wu Peifu wrote back but pushed it back to Teng Yuzao, "That's what I said. Damn it, they just want to force those of us who came from the Boxer Rebellion to leave early. Xingfu, you just keep it in your heart. You just won't give me this useless military rank. I want to stay in the Vanguard Army and I'll take care of this property for you. If anyone dares to have ideas about you, I'll kill him, the son of a bitch, and then I'll rebel against him."
Teng Yuzao sighed and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this, brother. The task assigned to you this time is a bit special."
Teng Yuzao glanced sharply at Wang Decheng and Liu Yuanshou and continued, "Some things can only be known by you and must not be spread to others. This includes Yuxuan and the others. Do you understand?"
Wang Decheng and Liu Yuanshou knew that Teng Yuzhao was mainly reminding them, so they nodded hurriedly and agreed.
"Your assault team should not wait until night to set out. We will only give you two hours to prepare, and then set out with Kangnian's Second Mixed Brigade, and strive to enter the capital city in the early morning of tomorrow."
"I guess you will be asked to take over part or all of the defense of the capital. You can follow the arrangements of the Military Affairs Council. But there is one thing you must remember. Before I arrive, if anyone orders you to go out of the city to fight, you must say that you have to wait until I arrive."
Having just heard that they had a special mission assigned to them, Liu Shijiu, Wang Decheng and Liu Yuanshou stretched their necks waiting for Teng Yuzhao to tell them what the special mission was. However, they received such instructions at this moment, and all three of them showed a look of disapproval on their faces.
Teng Yuzao continued, "There is one more most important thing for you to do. This is what I said, and it must be kept strictly secret. Remember, after you do this, I will only record your merit in my heart, but it will never appear in the memorial to the court, or even in the merit book of our vanguard army."
"Something went wrong. This was your men's unauthorized action. It is a personal matter and has nothing to do with the Vanguard Army."
"In short, if you do it well, this matter will never be mentioned again, including you, and it will be as if it never happened. If you don't do it well, I'm afraid you will be in big trouble. At least you can't stay in the vanguard army for a while, and you have to hide incognito for a while."
Hearing what Teng Yuzao said was so secretive and serious, even something that could not be made public, not only did Liu Shijiu, Wang Decheng and Liu Yuanshou, who had just relaxed, become nervous again, but even Li Xianze and Wei Jinghai, who was sitting next to them, could not help but pay extra attention and listen carefully to what Teng Yuzao said next.
Teng Yuzao said with a serious expression, "You should have heard that the Boxers and Green Camp soldiers in the capital, including Dong Fuxiang's Wuwei Rear Army, are mainly besieging two places where foreigners are hiding, one is Dongjiaominxiang, and the other is Xishiku Church."
"What I want to say is"
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