Soon after Xia Si arrived in Japan, the East China government launched the "Java Overseas Chinese Protection Operation," which also caused great repercussions in Japan, after all, this was the first time in modern times that China came out for overseas Chinese compatriots, and also forced the Dutch government to admit its mistake and pay compensation, which was particularly profound for Chinese overseas. On the other hand, it also shows the current strength of the East China government. Even with Xia Si's pain, his popularity has soared, and his voice among revolutionaries is much stronger. Many revolutionary groups took the initiative to invite Xia Si to the talks.

Therefore, Xia Siyan also took advantage of this momentum to vigorously publicize the situation and achievements of the East China Government among the Japanese revolutionaries, and actively invited revolutionary groups to visit Qingdao.

Some revolutionary groups accepted the invitation and were willing to visit Qingdao, but Xia Siwei hoped that he would be invited to the Xingzhong Society, and it would be better if Sun Yat-sen could personally go to Qingdao to talk to the East China government. Because through several months of exchanges, Xia Siwei left a good impression on Sun Yat-sen's views, ideas, style, and positive enthusiasm for the revolution, although at this time, Sun Yat-sen had not yet completed the famous "Three People's Principles" in the old time and space Theory, but also clearly put forward its own propositions, one is to overthrow the Qing court in the form of armed form, and the other is to establish a modern system of republic, and these two points are completely consistent with the plan of the East China government, while other revolutionaries are basically still at the level of overthrowing the Qing court, but they have no idea what to do after the overthrow of the Qing court? What kind of country to build; from this point of view, Sun Yat-sen was able to become the leader among the revolutionaries, and by no means had the experience of "suffering from London."

Moreover, Sun Yat-sen has lived overseas for many years, and since he has lived in the United States for a long time, he has a certain amount of research on the American political system. Concepts such as the separation of powers are all true, which is also an ability that other revolutionaries do not have, and these concepts Xia Siwei has also heard some in the East China government, so he believes that Sun Yat-sen and overseas Chinese ideas have many similarities, and hopes to promote the cooperation between Sun Yat-sen and overseas Chinese to discuss the great plan of the Chinese revolution.

Sun Yat-sen also intended to visit Qingdao to meet overseas Chinese and discuss matters of cooperation between the two sides. However, at the end of 1903, Sun Yat-sen decided to go to Honolulu, it turned out that Sun Yat-sen had developed in Japan all these years, but Honolulu, the founding place of the Xingzhong Society, was attacked by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao's Restoration Society, and many members of the original Xingzhong Society changed their ways and joined the Restoration Society. Seeing the fire in the backyard of his birthplace of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen naturally could not remain indifferent and had to rush back to put out the fire, so his visit to Qingdao could only be postponed.

In 1904, however, the situation changed again, as important members of the Huaxing Society and the Restoration Society came to Japan.

Huang Xingyuan, the founder of Huaxinghui, was a Japanese student studying military affairs in Japan. In 1903, in order to protest against Tsarist Russia's occupation of Northeast China, Huang Xing organized more than 200 Japanese students to form an anti-Russian volunteer team, wanting to go to Northeast China, but was forcibly disbanded by the Qing court. Therefore, Huang Xing was completely disillusioned with the Qing court and advocated the overthrow of the Qing court by force. In July of the same year, Huang Xing returned to China and founded Huaxing Association with Chen Tianhua, Zhang Ji, Liu Kuiyi, Song Jiaoren, Zhang Shizhao and others, and was elected president. and planned to launch an uprising in Changsha in 1904, but the matter was revealed, so Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others fled to Japan to find like-minded people.

The Guangfuhui was a revolutionary organization composed of local forces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with a very complex personnel structure, including intellectuals, merchants, craftsmen, a small number of enlightened landlords, gentry, local gangs, etc., and its political views were also relatively radical. After the establishment of the Liberation Society, it also went to Japan to find partners with whom they could unite.

In fact, before the establishment of the Huaxing Society and the Guangfu Society, many members had each other, and they also had contacts with Xingzhong, and some people even had dual identities, which was also the main reason why the Huaxing Society and the Guangfu Society came to Japan after their establishment.

After making friends with Xia Sipain, they were all very interested in the East China government, and the Huaxing Society and the Guangfu Society were both revolutionary groups established in China, and of course they were more familiar with the domestic situation, and naturally they had heard some things about the East China government, but the East China government was still subservient to the Qing court on the surface, and its activities were mainly in the north, although it also had its own territory in Shanghai, but it was mainly to develop economy and trade, and on the one hand, it did not have any dealings with political forces, but only had a certain interaction with students. Therefore, although these groups wanted to make contact with the East China government when they were in China, they could not find the opportunity, but they did not expect to meet representatives of the East China government in Japan.

Of course, Xia Siwei was also very happy, and he gave them a detailed introduction to the situation of the East China government, and also clarified some misunderstandings about the East China government, explaining that the East China government was only a vassal to the Qing court in name, and was completely an independent political organization internally, which had nothing to do with the Qing court, and that the East China government was determined to overthrow the Qing court and re-establish a country.

So the Huaxing Society and the Guangfu Society also hoped to visit Qingdao and investigate, and hoped to make the trip as soon as possible, Xia Si Pain naturally welcomed this, and sent a telegram to Sun Yat-sen, asking him if he had time to visit Qingdao, but at this time Sun Yat-sen was still in Honolulu and could not get away, but also replied to Xia Si Pain, and would send representatives from the members of the Japanese Society to Qingdao.

After receiving Sun Yat-sen's reply, Xia Siyan immediately began to make preparations, first sending a telegram to the East China government, explaining his activities in Japan, and that he had agreed that revolutionary groups such as the Xingzhong Society, the Huaxing Society, and the Guangfu Society would visit Qingdao.

Soon Xia Si received a reply from the East China government, welcoming the visit of these groups, and also suggested that each group send 2-3 main responsible persons, 3-4 entourage, and control the total number of people at about 20 people, because both sides are in contact for the first time, there is a mutual understanding of the past, and it is not convenient to communicate with more people, and after they have a considerable understanding of each other, they will carry out deeper exchanges, and at the same time, the East China government also promises that it can undertake all the personnel to and from Qingdao for food and lodging. The cost of the journey.

The Xingzhonghui, Huaxinghui, Guangfuhui and other revolutionary league associations also thought that the proposal of the East China Government was very good, so after consultation, the various league associations decided that the representatives of the Huaxing Association were Huang Xing and Chen Tianhua, the representatives of the Guangfu Society were Xu Xilin and Qiu Jin, and the representatives of the Xingzhong Society were Zhu Zhixin. Ma Junwu, there were 4 entourages in each regiment, and there were also two Japanese Hirayama Zhou and Miyazaki monstrous, these two people were the disciples of the Japanese politician Inu Yangyi, who had a deep friendship with the Chinese revolutionaries in Japan and even the reformists at that time.

In 1898, he served as Minister of Education of the Okuma Shigenobu Cabinet, and after the fall of the Okuma Shigenobu Cabinet, Inukai Takeshi withdrew from the cabinet and served as a member of the House of Representatives. Although Inukai is not a member of the cabinet now, he is also concerned about Japan's national fortunes, and now that the Russo-Japanese War is related to Japan's national fortunes, Inukai is also very concerned.

At this time, there was no direct shipping route between Qingdao and Japan, so the group first took a boat from Yokohama to Shanghai, and then transferred from Shanghai to a passenger ship from the East China government to Qingdao. Moreover, the East China government had already notified the Shanghai office to take them over and arrange for them to take a boat to Qingdao, so Xia Si didn't worry about it.

In the evening of the same day, Qin Zheng, on behalf of the East China Government, arranged a banquet to receive everyone, expressing his welcome to all revolutionary leagues to visit Qingdao and hoping to cooperate with the revolutionary leagues to conspire for great things. At the same time, the East China government first arranged for the revolutionaries to visit for three days, so that they could have a more intuitive understanding of the East China government, and then hold talks.

After listening to the arrangements made by the East China Government, the revolutionaries also thought that this arrangement was good, because after all, they had only heard about the situation of the East China Government before, so they were all skeptical, and through the visit, they could have a general understanding of the East China Government, and they would be able to have a clear understanding of the East China Government before holding talks.

On the first day, the revolutionaries were first arranged to visit the launching of the warship, which was a 10,000-ton armored cruiser built by the East China government, while another type of 7 0 0 0 0 0 ton armored cruiser had been launched two months ago, and was being outfitted on the dock at this time, and it is expected that the outfitting will be completed and sea trials will be carried out before the end of the year. However, the 7 0 0 0 ton armored cruiser was built on the slipway, while the 10,000-ton armored cruiser was built in the dock. The two warships of the same type built in Germany were launched in the first half of the year and are undergoing sea trials, and it is expected that they will be able to return to the sea by the end of the year or early 1905.

Although this is the largest warship built by the East China government so far, and the first capital ship, the East China government has already built several warships, so it is not so excited, but for the revolutionaries, it is not an ordinary shock. Although the shipyard did not hide it from them, it told them very frankly that more than 70% of the materials and equipment used were imported from Germany, and the people who supervised the construction of warships were also German engineers.

Revolutionaries don't know much about the navy, even Huang Xing studied military, but he studied the army not the navy, but the revolutionaries basically have considerable cultural knowledge, and have a certain concept of world view, and most revolutionaries have lived in Japan for a long time, although the current industrial level of Japan can only be regarded as second- or third-rate, not only far inferior to Britain, France, Germany and the United States, but even Italy, Austria is inferior, but after all, it is also a modern industrialized country, the appearance of the whole country, The social composition was quite different from that of an agrarian country like the Qing court, so the revolutionaries still had a certain understanding of the industrial state.

A government that can build its own warships, even if most of the materials and equipment used need to be imported, and the construction is carried out under the command of German engineers, but it is also quite rare, you must know that Japan can only build 5,000-ton warships at present. Therefore, in the minds of the revolutionaries, they could not help but look down on the East China government.