The Russian minister Gausawitz also warned Yuan Shikai that Japan had sent an envoy to St. Petersburg and proposed a plan to carve up Northeast China, with Changchun as the boundary, Changchun to the north as Russian territory, Changchun to the south to Shanhaiguan, and the Yalu River to the Khalkha in Outer Mongolia all under the control of Japan. Nicholas II did not want to share Northeast China with Japan, and Russia had no intention of occupying Chinese land, but if China interfered with the independence of Outer Mongolia, Russia would sign a treaty with Japan to divide Northeast China.

The generals of Beiyang naturally knew in their hearts that Outer Mongolia was barren, but it had a population of 24,400,000 and more than 20 million in the Northeast. If you had to choose between the Northeast and Outer Mongolia, anyone would choose the Northeast. So the Russian threat made Yuan Shikai have to make concessions, Duan Qirui said with red eyes: "President, you must not accept, you must not accept the independence of Outer Mongolia!" ”

"What if it's unacceptable?" Yuan Shikai seemed to be aging by more than ten years, sitting motionless in his chair, only his mouth was talking, "What if you can't accept it?" ”

Duan Qirui said: "You must not sign the Declaration of Independence of Outer Mongolia. ”

Yuan Shikai nodded: "You declare to the outside world that the Republic of China does not recognize the independence of Outer Mongolia, but don't have any military acts, we can't afford to provoke the two empires of Japan and Russia." ”

"Yes."

Duan Qirui returned to the War Department and held a meeting to announce the split of Outer Mongolia to the officers, and the officers were excited, especially Xu Shuzheng's red eyes and said: "The thief dares to do so, the thief deceives people too much!" However, the Russian persecution, everyone had nothing to do, but Wang Yongan sat quietly on the side without speaking or expressing his position, Duan Qirui asked at this time: "What can Vice Chief Wang do?" ”

Wang Yongan got up and said: "We can't defeat Russia, so wait for the opportunity, I don't think Russia will be so strong forever, they will be finished sooner or later." ”

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "It's too difficult." ”

Xu Shuzheng said with a smile: "It's the first time I've heard that I'm counting on the enemy's end." ”

Wang Yongan said: "Compared to Chief of Staff Xu, he doesn't understand the current pattern of Europe, right? ”

"Could it be that Vice Chief Wang understands?"

Wang Yongan said proudly: "Naturally, I understand, why don't I tell you about the tense situation in Europe today, and then we will carefully analyze how to deal with it." ”

Duan Qirui nodded.

Wang Yongan stepped down from his seat, spread out the world map, pointed to Europe and Germany, and said: "Europe is like a powder keg now, all it takes is a fuse, a little spark, and it will explode." And the reason why Europe is so tense is because Germany, the country with the most powerful army in the world, wants to redraw the world. ”

"Everyone knows how Germany became the number one power in Europe, so I won't repeat to you those useless topics here, but when it comes to Germany, we have to talk about this extremely anti-Chinese Emperor Wilhelm II, a man who was born with a disability." Wang Yongan said.

Everyone was taken aback, the German Emperor Wilhelm II was disabled, and this was the first time they had heard of it.

Wang Yongan said with a smile: "This William II's father and mother are aunts and cousins, so they belong to close relatives to marry, we in China since ancient times have required that no intermarriage within three generations, but their European nobles sent their brothers to marry their sisters, and their brothers could not take their own sisters, so their brothers' children went to their sister's children and gave birth to William II." William II was born with Elb's palsy, so much so that his left arm atrophied and he suffered from low self-esteem from an early age. To compensate for his shortcomings, he received rigorous military training from an early age and wore gloves at all times, while he always held a scepter or sword in his left hand to cover up his flaws when he attended any occasion. Everyone sees all the pictures of Wilhelm II and only sees pictures of him in military uniform, and that's why. It is precisely because of his disability that he has been very psychologically distorted since he was a child. Wilhelm II was very hostile to England, because his mother was an English princess, and after he was born, she didn't like him when she saw him disabled, and his father was treated by English doctors after he fell ill, and as a result, his father died of illness, which he believed was a conspiracy of the British, so he always wanted to defeat England. The British Empire, the world's largest empire, needed a strong army, and Germany, which was thriving, accelerated its military expansion, which led to Russia's fear. Russia had 3 million troops, and in order to guard against Germany, 2.8 million of the 3 million troops were placed in Europe, and only 200,000 troops in Asia, but all of them were placed in Vladivostok in the Far East to guard against Japan. Therefore, Russia has no time to attack us for the time being. Russia is clamoring for the division of Outer Mongolia because they see that we have received a threat from Japan and take advantage of the opportunistic behavior, but if we send troops to Mongolia now, Russia and Japan will definitely join forces, after all, there is no great chaos in Europe. ”

Xu Shuzheng said: "Then what do you think, when will Outer Mongolia be recovered?" ”

"When Europe is in turmoil, it will be the day we recover Outer Mongolia." Wang Yongan said categorically, "There will inevitably be a war in Europe, and now that Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy have formed an alliance, Britain, Russia, and France have formed an entente, and the two sides are gearing up to continuously expand their forces, and sooner or later the two sides will start to fight, and if the two sides fight together, it will inevitably be bloody." Although Russia can defeat us, they cannot defeat Germany, so Russia will inevitably continue to throw troops into the European theater and weaken its control over Asia, and this is the best time for us to recover Outer Mongolia. ”

Xu Shuzheng sneered: "This is all your guess. ”

Wang Yongxin said that in history, you took the opportunity to recover Outer Mongolia, but now you are against me in order to oppose me, will you not slap yourself in the face in the future after Xiao Xu's rule?

"So your suggestion is to wait?"

"Yes, my advice is to wait, wait for the moment, wait for Russia to take care of itself." Wang Yongan said.

Xu Shuzheng wanted to refute, Duan Qirui said: "I have discussed with the president, now that Russia is persecuting and Japan is threatening, it is not appropriate for my country to go to war with the two big countries. However, the Russian wolf ambition has eaten Outer Mongolia today, and tomorrow it will inevitably attack Inner Mongolia, so he decided to divide Inner Mongolia into several special zones directly under the central government, so as not to be invaded by foreigners. Moreover, as soon as the opening of Outer Mongolia is opened, it is very likely that Xinjiang, Tibet, and other places will be instigated by foreign countries, so he held a meeting this evening and decided to build several new provinces to divide the richest areas of Mongolia into them. ”

Wang Yongan immediately applauded: "This suggestion is a clever plan, a clever plan. He didn't expect that the historical Chahar, Rehe, Suiyuan and other provinces were actually proposed at this time, and he once again witnessed history.