Deng Kai didn't know who Xia Sipain was, but he was very serious about the history of this era. Knowing that at this time, Dr. Sun was establishing the Xingzhong Society in Japan, formally proposing to overthrow the Qing court by force, propagating the revolution, recruiting comrades, and arguing with the Royalist Society led by Kang Youwei, and also planning to launch an armed uprising in the country, and also planning to unify the main revolutionary party organizations in Japan, so the Xingzhong Society was in the limelight at this time. Tang Caichang, whom Xia Siwei just mentioned, turned out to be a believer in Kang Youwei and advocated reform and reform, but it was when he met Dr. Sun in Japan, and under his influence, he changed his course and leaned towards revolution, so he returned to China to launch an uprising.

Xia Sipain's thinking is obviously inclined to revolution, so Deng Kai estimates that it is impossible for him not to have contact with Xingzhong during his time in Japan, and listening to Xia Sipain's statement, he and Dr. Sun have obviously established a certain friendship, otherwise Dr. Sun would not have invited him to join the Xingzhong Society, which is much better than Deng Kai expected, and it seems that this Xia Sipain should be useful to the East China government.

Of course, the East China government does not want to establish any friendship or even cooperation with Dr. Sun or Xingzhonghui, but in this era, this is also something that cannot be avoided, and the East China government will have contact with Dr. Sun sooner or later, and Xia Si Pain can undoubtedly play a great role in this, because if necessary, the East China Government can take the initiative to contact Xing Zhong Hui through Xia Si Pain. However, how to use Xia Sipain's line and maximize the interests of the East China government is not a matter for Deng Kai to consider, but what Deng Kai has to do is to truthfully report this matter to the Military Commission, and then the Military Commission will convey it to the Executive Yuan.

So Deng Kai said: "Okay, about your affairs, as well as Li Zhuangyong's handling, we will truthfully report to our superiors, and the superiors will decide how to deal with it." In the meantime, you can stay in the barracks with peace of mind. ”

After finishing speaking, Deng Kaicai left with Luo Yue, and arranged for personnel to prepare some food and clothing for them, and the injured personnel were also well treated.

Three days later, the Jinan garrison received a joint response from the Executive Yuan and the Central Military Commission, first inviting Xia Siyan to Qingdao, and the high-ranking personnel of the East China Government hoped that he would not be able to do so, but the handling of Li Zhuangyong was somewhat surprising, and he was allowed to rejoin the People's Army to make meritorious contributions, and also accepted the return of these members of the rebel army, and reorganized the rebel army on the principle of voluntariness. Those who are willing to continue to serve in the army can stay and receive training, while those who do not want to join the army can also be arranged by the East China government to arrange for them to work and settle in Shandong, and those who want to leave will also be given travel expenses.

However, this group of rebel army personnel will not be scattered and scattered into various armies, but will be formed as an army, and will not stay in Shandong for a long time, and when the time is right, this army will be sent to Henan, Shanxi and other places to open up new base areas.

It turned out that after receiving the report of the Jinan garrison, the high-level personnel of the East China Government immediately began to study and discuss it.

Deng Kai didn't know where Xia Sipain was sacred, but Qin Zheng, who was familiar with history, knew that although this person's weight in history was not as important as that of bigwigs like Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, and Dr. Sun, he was by no means an insignificant person.

In the old time and space, Xia Siwei was a well-known revolutionary activist, whose life almost ran through the entire semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of old China, and in order to save the people from the dire situation and save the country's fortunes from ups and downs, almost all of his life was spent in the revolution, several times planned and participated in the anti-Qing and later anti-Yuan uprisings, and most of the well-known revolutionaries of this era such as Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Cai Yi has a friendship, and because Xia Si is old and is the first to engage in the revolution, so other revolutionaries all respect him as a teacher, and even Dr. Sun respectfully calls him "Teacher Xia" in front of Xia Si pain, and respects him as a "revolutionary model" after Xia Si pain's death.

On the whole, although Xia Siyan's revolutionary qualifications were very high, he was relatively marginal among the revolutionaries at that time, mainly because he did not have a fixed team under him, although he later joined the League and has been following Dr. Sun's revolution, but he has never entered Dr. Sun's core team, so his reputation has not been raised after his death, and before the crossing, except for historians, ordinary people do not know about this revolutionary ancestor.

Such a person is of course useful to the East China government, although the East China government does not intend to cooperate with the Xingzhong Society, and to be honest, the East China government does not look down on the strength of the Xingzhong Society at all. Because Dr. Sun is just a revolutionary with some prestige overseas, his followers are only a few hundred people, and he does not even have a piece of actual land, fixed funds, and even activity funds have to rely on donations, and indeed there is no bargaining chip for cooperation with the East China government. After all, it is the father of the nation in the old time and space who is revered by the time-travelers, not the current Sun Cannon. Of course, in this era, Dr. Sun probably has no chance of becoming the father of the nation.

However, this does not mean that the East China government and the Xingzhong Association will not be able to establish a certain liaison relationship. After all, the Xingzhong Association still has considerable influence among the overseas Chinese in Nanyang, because most of the members of the Xingzhong Association are overseas Chinese, and the activity funds are basically obtained by the donations of the overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and this is the greatest value of the Xingzhong Association to the East China government, and the East China government can use the influence of the Xingzhong Association in the overseas Chinese in Nanyang to gradually establish its own network in the Nanyang region.

Nanyang is of course important to the East China government, for the time being, the East China government needs Nanyang rubber, oil, mineral resources and other commodities, now can only rely on Shanghai to buy them, so not only more transit expenses, but also completely subject to others, but if the East China government can establish business relations with Nanyang businessmen, directly import from the Nanyang region, not only can save costs, but also much more autonomy.

Secondly, the East China government is attracted to the wealth of overseas Chinese, although the Nanyang overseas Chinese have been jointly suppressed by the Western colonizers and the local aborigines, the anti-Chinese and massacre incidents emerge one after another, but the tenacity and tenacity of the Chinese nation is also unimaginable, after hundreds of years of accumulation, there are still a number of rich people among the overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and a large amount of wealth has been accumulated, the East China government hopes to attract them to Shandong to invest, accelerate economic development, and most of these overseas Chinese are relatively broad-minded, With a certain international vision, it is exactly the investor that the East China government needs.

From the perspective of long-term goals, Nanyang is China's backyard, in terms of geopolitics, it is very important to China, so once the traverser seizes the power of China, it will definitely expand to Nanyang and include Nanyang into China's sphere of influence, although this may be a long time later, but it does not prevent the traverser from now on, in Nanyang to carry out deployment, first of all, of course, from economic exchanges, to strengthen ties with Nanyang. Now it's time to get to work on that.

Therefore, the Executive Yuan finally decided to send an invitation to Xia Siwei to go to Qingdao to meet with the leaders of the East China government, and decide on the strategy to be adopted depending on the results of the talks between the two sides. And even if it is unsuccessful, there is nothing to lose to the East China government.

In addition to Xia Sipain, it is the treatment of Li Zhuangyong and the handling of the rebel army. In fact, the inclusion of the rebel army in the People's Army was a decision that had been reached a long time ago. However, Xia Bohai put forward a new idea, that is, to use this army to use the Red Army model in the old time and space to go outside Shandong Province to open up new base areas and expand the strength of the East China government.

Although the traverser has basically gained a firm foothold in Shandong, it is obviously not enough to rely on Shandong Province alone, and after the Qingzhou incident, although the traverser has not completely torn his face with Chunting, it is actually not much different, and the two sides are only a layer of paper away from a complete split, so the traverser cannot help but make plans to prevent a complete split. In addition, even if the two sides continue to maintain this fragile bond and do not break down, but in the event of the Qingzhou incident, the Qing court will not give up and will definitely use other means to deal with the East China government, although it is unlikely to completely shake the rule of the East China government in Shandong, but it can also interfere with the development process of the East China government.

Of course, the East China Government should not respond passively, but on the contrary, it should also take the initiative to attack and open up new base areas outside Shandong, which can not only expand the strength of the East China Government, but also form an arrangement with Shandong that is mutually restrictive and adaptable, and at the same time can contain the attention of the Qing court and play a role in countermeasures.

According to Xia Bohai's initial plan, the East China government will not invest too much manpower and material resources in the new base area, and will have to dissociate itself from relations on the surface. In terms of personnel, at present, the group of rebel army personnel who have fled to Shandong will be the mainstay, and the East China Government will be responsible for reorganizing and training them and providing them with a certain amount of weapons and ammunition; after the operation begins, the East China Government will only send a small number of traversers and local personnel from Shandong to lead the organization and direct the operation, and after opening up the new base areas, it will recruit troops on the spot and establish an administrative system.

The model of the new base areas follows the model of the Red Army in the old time and space, encircling the cities with the countryside, first of all, not rushing to capture the cities, but basing itself on the countryside, and immediately carrying out land reform in every village they visit, so as to win the support of the broad masses of peasants. In this way, it will not irritate the Qing court too much, and by the time the Qing court reacts, I am afraid it will be too late, and the new base area has already become a climate.

After Xia Bohai's idea was proposed, it immediately won the support of many people, but some people opposed it, and some people thought that the East China Government's attempt to sever off its relationship with the new base areas was nothing more than a cover-up, because the weapons and ammunition in the new base areas basically depended on the East China Government for supply, so it would be difficult to cover up the past after a long time, and sooner or later the Qing court would find out.

However, Xia Bohai thought that even if the Qing court found out, it would not be a big deal, and now the Qing court had already discovered that the East China government was fundamentally anti-Qing, but what could it do? It was not only superficial, so even if the Qing court found out that the East China government was secretly supporting the new base area, it could only pretend not to know, unless the Qing court wanted to immediately and completely break with the traversers. Now that the East China government is opening up new base areas, it is actually preparing for the future break with the Qing court.