"Lord Wu, since you can come to see us today, I'm afraid that your loyalty to the Qing court is also limited." Joffe smiled and said, "Since you are fellow revolutionaries, you might as well talk about it openly." ”

"What to talk about? Talking about ideals and ambitions? Wu Chenxuan also smiled, "If you talk about ideals and ambitions, I am willing to bow down." But everyone is an adult, so it's better to talk about something practical. The atmosphere here isn't very good just now, why don't we talk somewhere else? ”

"Ah, no problem." Touyama didn't expect that the two of them, who had just been tense, would enter the substantive stage of negotiations so quickly, "I still have a quiet room here, where I can face Mount Fuji, please come with me." ”

Wu Chenxuan and Qiao Fu walked side by side to a small door in the courtyard, and a maid opened the sliding door, which turned out to be a gazebo-style tea house, because it happened to be on a protruding rock, so it had a wide field of vision, and could see Mt. Fuji and the delicate paddy fields of Chiba in the distance. Huang Kedi saw that the young guard also followed inside, and hurriedly got up to follow, but seeing that the other party's secretary Huang Xinpei did not move, he also waved his hand to stop the other people from coming over. The young guard rushed into the room and looked around, then withdrew, and then stood in the doorway with a gun. Seeing this, Huang Kedi knew that the other party was not hostile, but after all, he couldn't rest assured, and he also stood at the gate of the courtyard.

Wu Chenxuan and Qiao Fu entered the pavilion this time and sat down, both of them facing Mt. Fuji, and the maid began to wash and boil water according to the requirements of the tea ceremony, ready to cook tea. Wu Chenxuan smiled and took out two bags of tea from his pocket and handed them to the maid.

"Please fill the glass and send it in."

The maid took the tea bag and looked at Qiao Fu blankly, Qiao Fu often came here, knew the maid, and knew that she did not understand Chinese, so she repeated it again, and the maid bowed and retreated.

"Looks like Mr. Jove is a regular here." Wu Chenxuan sat on the futon casually, while Qiao Fu knelt on the futon with a solemn posture, looking at Wu Chenxuan who spread his legs, Qiao Fu couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"When I was in Tokyo, I came here a lot." Qiao Fu said: "Lord Guan Wu is not formal, and his style of acting rashly is a fight with the enemy. ”

"Heaven and earth are big, years are long, although we are the longest human beings of all things, in fact, we are just as small as the sand of the Ganges, so why make ourselves serious?" Wu Chenxuan said with a smile.

"At this point, Pingshan-kun will probably agree with your point of view, but Toushan-kun and they have their own rules, so it's better for us to respect the master here." Joff said. "Are the rules of the Qing court stricter, I really don't know how Lord Wu can accept it?"

"Bye the dead, it's not a big deal." Wu Chenxuan waved his hand, "The Qing court is already a dry bone in the grave, so you don't have to care too much." But our nation is facing the scourge of national extinction and extinction, but I don't know what Mr. Jov thinks? ”

"Expelle the Tartars and restore China. Could it be that apart from this, Lord Wu thinks that there is something else that we need to fight for more bloodily?" Qiao Fu didn't understand what Wu Chenxuan meant.

"It is not difficult to expel the Tartars. Restore China, but I don't know which China you want to restore? ”

"Of course, the Han family has been restored."

"This is a mistake, if our generation only recovers the Hanjia rivers and mountains in the eighteen provinces of Guannai, and abandons the great rivers and mountains that the Han people have sacrificed tens of millions of miles since the Han and Tang dynasties, then we are sinners of history." Wu Chenxuan had already put away his leisurely posture, and said with a straight face: "First of all, China is by no means a Han family, nor is it just a republic of the Manchus, Mongolians, Hans, Hui and Miao as the Manchus say, but the common integration of all ethnic groups in China. Secondly, the territory of the state must not only recover all the territories opened up by the successive dynasties of our country, but also ensure our territorial waters at sea, and establish a sphere of influence commensurate with the strength of the country beyond our land and sea. Finally, it is necessary to realize dialogue between nationalities and classes on an equal footing at home, establish a set of systems that can represent the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, improve the people's actual living standards and the overall strength of the country, strive for an equal status with any country in the world, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of any overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese from discrimination and infringement. The above is my annotation on the four words of restoring China, I don't know what Mr. Qiao thinks? ”

"Well, civil rights, people's livelihood, and democracy are all embodied, and the goals are ambitious and the direction is clear, and I really have nothing to say." Joff thought for a while, and readily admitted that his three-man doctrine was not as comprehensive as the other party, "But the implementation of these articles is not so simple, our country has been poor and weak for a long time, how can we fight against those powers." ”

"If it is China against all countries, it is just the idea of a boxer. But the great powers are not monolithic, and perhaps if the Gengzi Kingdom can be more than ten years late, there will not necessarily be a country that can organize this eight-nation alliance. Only by taking advantage of the opportunity of the great powers to contain each other can we consider the expulsion of the Tartars, instead of just thinking about the anti-Qing restoration, and if the wolf is brought into the house at that time, it will be too late to regret it. Wu Chenxuan said: "We can first open up the wisdom of the people through education, organize and train the new army, expand the armed forces, develop industry and commerce, and improve our strength, and then when the time is ripe, we can seize the national power in one fell swoop, and strive not to leave any opportunity for the foreign powers to interfere." Only then can we concentrate our energies on reforming the rule of officials, greatly promoting education, and developing industry and commerce, and after 10 or 20 years of development, there will always be a chance for China to rejoin the ranks of the world's great powers. ”

"Why do you want to allow the Manchu Qing to continue to plague my Han descendants, Qiao thinks that it is imperative to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and it is urgent to do so, as for international interference, I don't think there is much need to worry." Joffe touched his beard and said, "Actually, many great powers were not satisfied with the Manchus, but I have a lot of land and elites, and the great powers cannot control China like they colonized India, so when they see us overthrowing the Manchus, they may not interfere with the revolution for the sake of a rotten and barbaric regime..."

"If the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is imminent, they cede Liangguang and Liangjiang to Britain and France, Xinjiang and Mongolia to Tsarist Russia, Northeast China to Japan, and borrow troops from several countries to encircle and suppress the revolutionary party, I don't know if Mr. Qiao is sure to repel the advance of the Four Kingdoms and the Beiyang New Army?"

"Why?" Jov exclaimed in surprise: "Isn't this move of the Manchus bringing about their own destruction? If the four countries occupy these places, how much will China have? Wouldn't he all have to lose the Central Plains, the Two Lakes, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu? Aren't they about to die? They certainly won't. ”

"They will, unless they don't have time to do so." Wu Chenxuan smiled, I don't know if he was laughing at Qiao Fu, the leader of the chaotic party, who was so naïve, and would believe in the ethics of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, "The king does not hear it, the Manchus have a saying that "it is better to be with outsiders than with domestic slaves", because they feel that slaves turn over and become masters, they will fall into the bottomless abyss and must not be born, and if outsiders are in charge, they can at least live as slaves in the world. So if they feel that their demise is imminent, they will not be afraid to betray themselves in their madness? The country, most of which is not their own land anyway, and they have never been soft on the interests of the Han people. ”

That's true. Manchu selling? The country has no scruples, they are cubs who sell Ye Tian and don't feel distressed. Jov nodded yes, "But what you just said about Japan will interfere in our revolution, I don't think it should be." ”

"Oh, how can you see that?"

"In this Russo-Japanese War, didn't Japan return all the northeastern lands it occupied to the Manchus after the war? Well, only one of the Kanto states on the Liaodong Peninsula was occupied. Moreover, there is no shortage of people of insight in the Japanese people who have provided assistance to the revolution in our country, contributed money and efforts, and even bravely sacrificed their lives, and it can be said that the Chinese revolution is inseparable from the contributions of people with lofty ideals in Japan. ”

"Well, I think you mean the people of the Genyosha when you say Japanese scholars."

"Yes, Toushanjun once supported the Chinese* Revolutionary Party in overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty and gave our Party a large amount of funding for the revolutionary movement, and our Party recognized him as a "revolutionary aspirant" of our Party. On July 30 of this year, under the mediation of the Genyosha princes, the Chinese revolutionary organizations of various factions jointly established the China* Revolutionary Party at the headquarters of the Genyosha in Tokyo. ”

"Maybe some people in the Genyosha are really sympathetic to the revolution, but the East Asian region can only accommodate one great power, and Japan will never allow China to rise strongly." Wu Chenxuan couldn't convince Qiao Fu, knowing that the revolutionary party and the Japanese were entangled, and it was not something that could be clearly explained in one or two sentences. Before the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, not many people thought that Japan would swallow an elephant with a snake and had the arrogant idea of all-out invasion of China. "The main purpose of my visit this time is to make an agreement with your party and see if you and I can live in peace under certain principles."

"Oh, Qiao would like to hear about it." When Jov heard about the peaceful relationship, he also felt that it was a good opportunity, at least in the future, he would not have to worry about the strangulation of the powerful force of the new army.

"First, don't sell? countries, which cannot exchange national interests for foreign support; Second, it is not dependent on the organization of the sect, and the non-governmental organization cannot be laissez-faire, and must abide by the law and justice in the general sense; Third, the two sides trust each other and cannot carry out rebellion against personnel in areas controlled by the Wuyi New Army, otherwise the Wuyi New Army reserves the right to retaliate, and both sides can develop each other's party members and followers, and ensure the safe withdrawal of the backbone of the uprising when the Wuyi New Army is ordered to suppress it; Fourth, the two sides should abandon the use of assassination, assassination, rumor-mongering, and other unethical means to attack each other, and if there is a conflict between the two sides, it can be resolved through consultation, and if it cannot be coordinated, it will decide right and wrong through open debate; Fifth, no one should be encouraged to attack the Qing government by means of assassination, explosions, inciting riots, etc., except for military actions such as uprisings. ”

Looking at the white letterhead handed over by Wu Chenxuan, Qiao Fu fell into deep thought, and for almost a quarter of an hour, Qiao Fu finally expressed his position after weighing the pros and cons of the gains and losses.

"Lord Wu, this matter is very high, and I need to discuss it with a few of my allies, but I personally think that these five terms can be used as the basis for our cooperation." Joffe said carefully.

"Okay, I can understand that this is actually the result of my discussions with several important military and political chiefs before I came. But I have to put it in front of me that if the agreement is leaked, we will not recognize it and will retaliate against the Revolutionary Party. ”

"Clear." Qiao Fu said: "I will only discuss with the enemy and Yutang, and I will never leak it. I was just surprised to look at these clauses and really don't understand why your agreement doesn't mention your benefits at all. ”

"Our benefit is that the advanced strength of the nation has been preserved, and there is no longer internal friction. The revolutionary youth of your party will not spend their lives on pointless assassinations. More important is a principle, and we all have to abide by the insurmountable principle. Wu Chenxuan said that there is some gray expression here: "Perhaps our nation is too shrewd, often looking for loopholes to break through principles, but taking the principles that should protect them as a kind of shackles, and finally complaining about others not following the rules when their own interests are completely destroyed by things other than principles, which has to be said to be a kind of sadness for our nation." ”

"You can trust that our revolutionary party will not disrespect our principles and keep our promises." Joff said confidently.

"Perhaps, I expect you to behave as you look. Happy working together! The two big hands shook together, this may be the first and last time the two heroes shook hands so sincerely, but unfortunately there was no one to witness except the cicadas outside the window