Qin Zheng nodded and said, "Although we can't send troops to attack the Korean Peninsula and drive out the Japanese army now, we can still help you in other aspects, of course, before that, I have something to say to Mr. Jin first." ”

Seeing Qin Zheng's serious attitude at this time, Jin Changzhu couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and said, "Speaker Qin, please say, what is the matter?"

Qin Zheng said: "We will try our best to help you, but whether South Korea can finally restore its independence does not depend on how much help we have, nor on how hard people like Mr. Kim work to restore the country, but on whether all South Korean people have the will to restore independence." If the majority of the Korean people do not have the will to return to independence, then no matter how much we help you, no matter how hard Mr. Kim and others try, it will be useless. ”

Kim Chang-so hurriedly said: "Of course, it can be said that except for a small number of traitors, the vast majority of the people in South Korea now hate the Japanese invaders very much, and only hope that one day these invaders will be driven out and South Korea can return to independence, you can rest assured." ”

Qin Zheng said: "I don't doubt that most of the Korean people hate Japan, but this hatred is based on Japan's cruel oppression and exploitation of South Korea. ”

In fact, Kim Chang-so first joined Donghak-do to resist the Korean government at that time, because the Korean government at that time was similar to the Qing court, and it was a compromise and traitor to the outside world, and it could not protect the national interests of the DPRK; It was only after the First Sino-Japanese War that Japan took control of the Korean Peninsula and brutally suppressed the Korean royal family and the people at that time, which aroused Kim Chang-so's righteous indignation, so he embarked on the road of resistance against Japan, but Kim Chang-so really did not think about whether he would still be anti-Japanese if Japan adopted a more gentle policy towards Korea at that time. In Bi Jing's impression of Kim Chang-so, Japan has always been a fierce, cruel, and violent image. But Qin Zheng's words had to cause Kim Chang-so to think.

Qin Zheng said: "In fact, the situation of China's Qing court and the Joseon Dynasty in the past is almost the same, they are all feudal autocratic countries, the public opinion has not awakened, the people's wisdom has not been opened, and the people at the bottom only know that there is a king, but do not know that there is a country, so in Chinese history, not only many times to change the dynasty, but also there have been several foreign invasions, and finally the dynasty, and for the people at the bottom, this is just a change of emperor, they still pay taxes, obey, as long as they can survive, who is the emperor, Han people, Mongolians, Manchus are the same." Six years ago, during the war of aggression against China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, many Chinese people helped the Eight-Nation Alliance to do things, and the reason was very simple: the Eight-Nation Alliance would pay them wages. ”

Kim Chang-so sighed lightly, and had to admit that Qin Zheng's words were indeed reasonable, there were not as many changes in the history of North Korea as China, but North Korea has always existed as a vassal state of China, so China changed its dynasty, and North Korea also changed its suzerain, from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and then from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and now it is Japan, as long as it can ensure that the Korean dynasty can continue, it is the same for whoever is the suzerain. It's just that the Chinese dynasty basically adopted a policy of softness towards Korea, and at most it was a combination of grace and power, and even Kim Chang-so didn't think there was anything wrong with this. Japan, on the other hand, is brutally oppressing Korea purely as a colony, but if Japan also adopts a more lenient policy toward Korea, should the current South Korea also continue to exist under the suzerainty of Japan? So if Japan insists on resisting Japan, does it want South Korea to return to independence or let Japan change its policy?

Qin Zheng said: "When I say this, I am not denying the Yuan and Qing dynasties in Chinese history, after all, they belong to history, and the Yuan and Qing dynasties are also part of Chinese history, and the Mongols and Manchus have now been assimilated into a part of the Chinese, so Mr. Kim does not have to dwell on the history of Korea as the suzerainty of the Chinese dynasty." In this era of change, the old road is not going to work, if any country wants to achieve national independence and national rejuvenation, it must first awaken the people, open up the wisdom of the people, and let the people establish a national consciousness, the people are loyal to the nation-state, not a family of emperors and monarchs, and then the establishment of a modern state system with constitutionalism as the core, the development of industry, only in this way can we ensure that the country maintains true independence in the world. Since our return to the motherland, in addition to the military achievements, the most important thing is to establish education, improve the knowledge level of the people, awaken the national consciousness of the Chinese people, and the next step is to overthrow the Qing court and establish a modern republic with constitutionalism as the core. If Mr. Kim wants to realize the independence and restoration of South Korea, he must first arouse the national consciousness of the Korean people, otherwise even if we send troops to defeat Japan and help South Korea recover in the future, South Korea still cannot be regarded as independent, and we hope that South Korea will be our friendly neighbor in the future, not our vassal state. ”

After listening to Qin Zheng's words, Jin Changzhu also breathed a sigh of relief, and he felt like he was empowered. In fact, in the past few years, he has also read a lot of progressive books, and he also has some vague cognition of the national consciousness, but he has not formed a complete system, after all, Kim Chang-so is still young, and his understanding of the new era is also insufficient, in the old time and space, he was only around 1920, he had a more mature ideological understanding of the national consciousness and the establishment of a modern constitutional state after the restoration of Korea. However, Qin Zheng's words undoubtedly played a catalytic role for Kim Chang-so, although Kim Chang-so does not have much concept of national consciousness now, but at least there is a clear direction.

So Kim Chang-so stood up again, bowed respectfully to Qin Zheng, and said, "Thank you for Speaker Qin's advice, so that I can suddenly open my mouth and understand the direction of my future struggle." ”

Qin Zheng said again: " Now Mr. Kim can set up a Korean restoration organization in Qingdao, or other places under our East China government, so as to call on people with lofty ideals in South Korea to organize them, on the one hand, to accumulate talents, on the other hand, to learn advanced statecraft and knowledge together, in this negotiation, we will put forward a request to Japan to share the commercial interests of the Korean Peninsula, so that Mr. Kim can sneak into the Korean Peninsula under the cover of business, publicize and educate the Korean people among the people, arouse their national consciousness, and also set up an army with us, we have captured many Korean soldiers in this warWe can draw them into the independence movement of South Korea through education, we can provide weapons training and so on, and in the future, when South Korea is restored, there will inevitably be battles and preparations. ”

When Jin Changzhu heard this, he also nodded again and again, and said, "Speaker Qin is really too thoughtful for us. ”

Seeing Kim Chang-so's grateful, Qin Zheng was also very satisfied, because in the future planning of the traverser, the future China will of course dominate Asia, and the countries on the Korean Peninsula will be China's important partner countries in the future, but this country must be able to develop independently and independently, and provide help to China in the future, rather than relying on China's blood transfusion supply to survive and become China's burden.

As for controlling South Korea and not letting South Korea become a white-eyed wolf, Qin Zheng believes that it is completely controllable, on the one hand, it depends on China's own strength in the future, as long as China's own strength is strong enough in the future, South Korea will naturally not easily betray; on the other hand, it is to penetrate Chinese values and ideas among South Korea's elites, and to make South Korea's elites identify with Chinese values, and it is not very difficult to do this, after all, South Korea still has a strong sense of identity with Chinese civilization, while the universal values of the West have not yet formed a complete system, and the West has not fully grasped the global discourse, so as long as it starts from nowCultivating Kim Chang-so's group of people will not only train them to become elites, but also make them fully identify with Chinese values, so that after the restoration of South Korea in the future, they will also become reliable allies of China.

Qin Zheng said again: "Your affairs, we will send someone to deal with it, and we will arrange for you to meet tomorrow, so that if you have any needs, there will be someone to connect with you." ”

Of course, Kim Chang-so's party needs to have someone in charge, and the personnel have already been arranged, that is, several Koreans in the crossing group. Among the crossing personnel, there are a total of 7 Koreans, 4 men and 3 women, all of whom are equipment suppliers, including business personnel, technical personnel and translators. However, although it has been 6 years since they came to this era, these 7 Koreans are not very good, and it is not as good as a few European foreigners among the crossing personnel, some of these foreigners have become technical backbones, and the others are also working in the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the overall is more than less than the above, and there are a few Taiwanese, although there are betrayers like Gao Senhang, but the others have also created their own industries, which is also unsatisfactory, only these 7 Koreans, in addition to two and other crossers marrying, husband and wife work together, the other 5 people have no technical ability to get their hands on, and the other have different ideological conceptsTherefore, it is difficult to accommodate the large collective of people who have crossed the country, and they can only be marginalized, and the East China government can only arrange idle posts for them, so that they have something to do.

And now it's finally their turn to be useful, because they are originally Koreans, so it is more appropriate to be responsible for communicating with Kim Chang-so and others, these Koreans know that they can finally be in charge of important things, no longer marginalized, and they are still working with the Korean founding father of the old time and space, and they are also very happy, and naturally they are happy to obey.