Seeing that everyone still didn't understand, Miyamoto Naoto said again: "On the surface, from the promotion of instructors to senior consultants, the status, status and salary have been improved, but what is lost is the opportunity to have direct contact with the Beiyang New Army, and it also loses its influence in the Beiyang New Army. This shows that Yuan Shikai has become suspicious of the two of them, so he used the means of ascending and descending secretly to eliminate the actual power of the two of them. And since Yuan Shikai can be suspicious of them, who dares to guarantee that overseas Chinese will not be suspicious. ”

Although everyone was quite dissatisfied with Miyamoto Naoto's statement, they couldn't find any reason to refute it for a while, and now Miyamoto Naoto is the top person in charge of the intelligence system department in Shandong after all, and everyone is not good to argue with him, so Kondo Naoya said: "So what kind of rectification does Your Excellency plan to carry out on Shandong's intelligence organization?"

Miyamoto Naoto nodded, this is to the point, so he said: "From now on, the trading house will only be engaged in commerce, trade, and business activities, and can provide a base and necessary adaptation training for intelligence personnel who come to Shandong from Japan, but they will not be engaged in intelligence gathering and investigation activities in the body. All intelligence personnel had to leave the business firms, establish a new intelligence system, and all of them would operate as Chinese, going deep into all social strata of Jinan. ”

When everyone heard this, they were all taken aback, and no one thought that Miyamoto Naoto would carry out such a major surgical rectification of Shandong's intelligence system, because although Japan's intelligence personnel in China also acted as Chinese, they basically relied on Japanese trading house activities, and before the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese had no privileges in China, but mainly relied on bribery and bribery to obtain intelligence, which was often done through trading houses; and after the Sino-Japanese War, Japan became a victorious country, and its position in China suddenly increased, and the name of Japanese trading houses could run rampant in China almost unhindered, and intelligence personnel, even traitors who were bought by Japan, only hid in trading housesEven if the name of the Japanese trading house is reported, the ordinary prefectures and counties do not dare to take care of it, which invisibly provides great convenience and security for Japan's intelligence activities, so it has become a habit for Japanese intelligence personnel to rely on the activities of the commercial bank, and Miyamoto's rectification is almost tantamount to overturning all of Japan's intelligence models.

Naoto Miyamoto further explained: " In the areas under the jurisdiction of the Qing State, our firm of commerce has greater diplomatic immunity, so relying on the firm to carry out intelligence activities can provide us with convenience and security conditions, but I have repeatedly stressed that the overseas Chinese are different from the Qing State, under the rule of the overseas Chinese, the firm has no privileges at all, and it cannot provide any convenient conditions for intelligence operations, and the goal of the firm is too obvious, but it is easy to be caught by the overseas Chinese as a loophole, and it is necessary to completely separate the firm from the intelligence operation, so that even if something happens to our intelligence system, we can keep the firm and let us still have a foothold in Shandong, so that we can rely on the foothold of the firm, re-establish the intelligence system, and not completely destroy it. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and Keita Suzuki said, "Your Excellency, what about the intelligence officers of the comptoir now?"

Miyamoto Naoto said: " All personnel stop their actions, give everyone three days to think about it, decide where to go, if I choose to stay in the firm, I can report to the general staff, go through the formalities of retirement, and from now on become an ordinary businessman, run the firm well; if I choose to continue to be an intelligence officer, after three days I will be ready to leave the firm, establish myself in Jinan as a Chinese, dissolve into Chinese society, and completely cut off contact with the firm, of course, we will establish another contact system, and the firm can train him to a certain extent. Therefore, I hope that you, including you, will be able to think carefully about your future goals during these three days. ”

After listening to Miyamoto Naoto's arrangement, the faces of several people also became uncomfortable. Staying in a commercial house as an ordinary businessman can certainly ensure safety, but to retire from the army, you will lose your future development, because in this era, the status of Japanese soldiers in Japan is extremely high, and the salary is much higher than the average level in the country, so they are of course a little reluctant to give up their military posts; but leaving the support of the commercial bank, and to be allowed to enter Chinese society, not to mention the great risk, and the action of collecting intelligence is also much more difficult, everyone is accustomed to having the big support of the firm to carry out intelligence activities, and suddenly without this support, it is inevitable that they are also a little uncomfortable。

Seeing everyone's hesitation, Miyamoto Naotaka couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, it seems that it is not an easy thing to reorganize the intelligence system in Shandong, so he said: "Okay, that's all for today, three days later, I'll listen to your decision." ”

The Japanese trading houses are changing unconsciously, and the squires, celebrities, Local heroes have also held meetings in a row for several days to discuss how to deal with overseas Chinese, and although Yuan Shikai knows, he pretends not to know, after all, Yuan Shikai has a lot of things to do now, on the one hand, he has to clean up all kinds of materials and prepare for the evacuation of Shandong, and on the other hand, he has to transfer troops and station them in Beijing, so Yuan Shikai really can't take care of Shandong's affairs, and what happens in Shandong has nothing to do with Yuan Shikai.

And while all the people in Jinan City were waiting, Wang Sheng and his party finally arrived in Jinan.

Yuan Shikai first sent Feng Guozhang to lead a team of men and horses out of thirty miles to meet the overseas Chinese army, while he led all the officials of Jinan Prefecture and the main officers of the Beiyang New Army to wait outside the southeast Yonggu Gate outside Jinan, and also discharged his full set of honor guards. The governor is also regarded as the feudal official of the Qing court, so there is a very pompous ceremonial guard style, which requires more than 30 people, and now all of them are discharged, which also shows that Yuan Shikai attaches great importance to the traverser.

This time, only one regiment, one battalion, and one cavalry company came to Jinan with Wang Sheng's working group. At the same time, they were also equipped with two warrior cars and a 16-seater minibus. Because their group of people is the front station, they don't need to come so much, and after they gain a foothold in Jinan, the follow-up personnel will come in the next batch.

At this time, there are two city walls in Jinan City, and the inner city wall is in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), the original Jinan earthen city wall was reinforced, and it was rebuilt with bricks and stones. It has a circumference of 12 li and 48 zhang (about 6.1 kilometers), a height of 3 zhang and 2 feet (about 10 meters), and a width of 5 zhang. The range is roughly along the coast of the ring city park of the old time and space, basically a square, and there is a city gate on each side, the east is Qichuan Gate (commonly known as the old East Gate, near the East Gate Bridge today), there is Luoyuan Gate (commonly known as the West Gate, near the West Gate Bridge today), there is Shuntian Gate (commonly known as the South Gate, near the South Gate Bridge today), there is Huibo Gate (now the Huibo Bridge of Daming Lake Park) in the north, each city gate is built with a city tower and an urn city, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the "Jingyan Change" that occurred in the early Ming Dynasty, the army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was blocked under the city of Jinan and could not be attacked repeatedly.

In the 30th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1904) in the old time and space, Jinan opened the port, the rapid development of commerce, in order to facilitate transportation, the inner city of Jinan opened four new gates, but at this time, there are still four gates in the inner city of Jinan. And there is a saying in old Jinan: the three mountains do not see high-ranking officials, and the four doors are not right. It refers to the unique feng shui pattern of Jinan, in which the "four gates are not right" refers to the four gates of the inner city of Jinan are not opposite to each other, the south gate is in the center and the north gate is east, the west gate is south and the east gate is north, the image is quite strange.

And the outer city wall of Jinan was built relatively late, in the Qing Xianfeng ten years (1861), when the army went north, the Qing court urgently picked up the moat outside the city of Jinan to build the earthen polder city wall, because at this time the Sanniangzi Bay in the north of Jinan city is still a puddle, so the whole polder wall is actually only three sides, the north and the inner city wall of Jinan are combined, and the total length of the three polder city walls is 3670 zhang (about 11.4 kilometers). In the fourth to sixth years of Tongzhi (1865-1867), the earthen wall was rebuilt into a stone polder wall. There are a total of 11 gates. Therefore, these two city walls constitute the defensive force of Jinan, and form the so-called "three-mile city, seven-mile Guo" fortified city model in the military book.

It is only after entering the modern society that this traditional fortified city has been greatly ineffective in the face of firearms, so in the 50s of the old time and space, the city walls of Jinan were demolished one after another and built into a road and a ring park.

The team that crossed the group came to Jinan City, the team stopped, Wang Sheng and others got off the car, and Yuan Shikai also greeted him, he and Wang Sheng had met when they were in Qingdao, although there was no deep friendship, but there was no need to introduce each other, Yuan Shikai said: "Director Wang, you have worked hard all the way." ”

Wang Sheng said: "It's okay, it's okay, there is Governor Lao Yuan's greetings." ”

Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "It's not a secret, Yuan is looking forward to the fact that the nobles can come to Jinan sooner and entrust the affairs of Shandong to you, and Yuan will go to Beijing as soon as possible to take office." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing, although in Wang Sheng's impression, Yuan Shikai was already fixed on the heroes of the troubled times and the thieves who stole the country, but at this time they also felt that Yuan Shikai was frank and honest, and he was quite generous.

At this time, Yuan Shikai said again: "Director Wang, the military camp has been arranged for you, inside the outer city, outside the inner city in the southwest of Baotu Spring, but I don't know if Director Wang and your party live in the military camp, or do you plan to live in the city? If you live in the city, it is naturally more convenient to handle the handover of affairs, and Yuan can also arrange for you to live in the prefect's yamen." ”

Wang Sheng, of course, chose to live in Jinan City, although Yuan Shikai said that he was in a hurry to go through the handover procedures and go to Beijing to take office, but in fact, he still needed to wait for the official appointment of the imperial court before he could officially leave his post, and it was estimated that it would take at least one or two months, so the main work of the working group during this period of time was to examine the people's ecology and social situation in Jinan City, and prepare for the next step of ruling Jinan. And only by living in the city can we better observe the society of Jinan City. So Wang Sheng said: "Of course we want to live in Jinan City, but after all, we have not been officially appointed by the imperial court, and now we will live in the palace, I am afraid it is not very suitable, it is best to be able to rent a residence, if there is no suitable residence, then it is okay to charter a whole inn." ”

Yuan Shikai said with a smile: "The environment of the inn is complex, and the personnel are messy, not to mention that the nobles are the parents of Jinan in the future, and they are the lords of a province in Shandong. The servants and maids are all ready, you can live in it if you move in, if you don't dislike it, you can go into the city with Yuan now to have a look, whether you like it or not, you can talk about it after you see it. ”