As soon as Liu Tong left, Wang Yongan frowned, on the one hand, he was dissatisfied with Li Shirui's insistence on launching an attack on Japan, and on the other hand, he was moved by this attack, and was gradually persuaded by Li Shirui. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He suddenly thought of one thing, not long after the completion of the Beiyang Naval Division, it became the first fleet in Asia, Japan secretly instigated Korea to launch the Renwu Mutiny, trying to get rid of the Qing Dynasty's vassals, the Qing court immediately sent the Beiyang Naval Division to quell the rebellion, and the Japanese Navy immediately sent the Navy to confront the Beiyang Naval Division, and the two sides confronted each other off the coast of Inchon for a time, and if the Qing Dynasty or the Beiyang Naval Division Admiral Ding Ruchang ordered a war, then the Japanese Navy could be completely annihilated in a war, and there would be no Sino-Japanese War of ten years.

However, at this time and at that time, the Qing Empire was the first in Asia, and it was able to provoke Japan but did not dare to provoke, and if it wanted to provoke but did not have the strength to provoke, if it could solve the conflict with Japan through the unification of the whole country, why should it be accompanied by the lives of thousands of soldiers. Moreover, Wang Yongan was still worried that the war would lead to a decline in Jiangbei's strength, and he would lose the upper hand in the future struggle for hegemony, resulting in Jiangbei's future position being squeezed out, of course, on the other hand, he felt pity and hesitated about the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

"There are all opportunities to fight Japan, and we will not fight for a while." Wang Yongan said to himself, and at this time Chen Zhaotang smiled: "The opportunity is rare, Li Shirui can't sit still." ”

Wang Yongan smiled: "I know that he has been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance to prove himself, but it's a pity that God didn't give him a chance." ”

"No, it's not that God doesn't give him a chance, it's that you don't give him a chance." Chen Zhaotang said.

Wang Yongan smiled slightly, looked at the scenery outside the window, and thought of Churchill's famous saying, war serves politics, so he said: "Shu Gong thinks that war is war for war's sake, or is it war for politics's sake?" Chen Zhaotang laughed, Wang Yongan said: "War is just a means of politics, for example, this time through the two engagements of the Qing army, so that Yuan Shikai no longer dared to underestimate Jiangbei, through the tough confrontation with the Japanese, indirectly prompted the signing of the Nanjing Agreement, which fully illustrates a truth, war is the continuation of politics, when politics can not solve the problem, war comes, when politics can solve the problem, the war is gone." The purpose of war is only to serve politics, and there is no other use. If I can solve the problem by political means, I will definitely not use war, after all, fighting a war is to kill people and lose money. ”

Chen Zhaotang laughed out loud and said, "Wonderful theory, wonderful theory." ”

Not long after the two had just talked, Liu Tong came back with a sad face and said: "Li Shirui and the six generals are invited to fight, since the Japanese army has landed in Nantong, it will never retreat naturally, and it must be driven down by our army." ”

Wang Yongan was dumbfounded, Chen Zhaotang laughed again, and said: "This Li Shirui will not give up if he does not achieve his goal." ”

Wang Yongan said: "No! ”

"Yes."

However, Liu Tong had just sent a telegram to Li Shirui, and received a reply from Li Shirui: "Li Shirui and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians from the 12 generals on the front line are asking for war, the Japanese are already preparing for a decisive battle, and there is no turning back when they open their bows, and our army will fall into passivity if they do not make a move." ”

Li Shirui's three consecutive requests to fight made Wang Yongan angry, and he was about to give an order not to be allowed, when suddenly Wei Daofeng asked to see him, this little guy was in charge of the military police and military law, and he never asked to see Wang Yongan easily, and he didn't know what was going on, so he let Wei Daofeng in.

After Wei Daofeng entered the room, he said directly: "Just now, the Gendarmerie Department cracked a spy case, the Japanese set up a radio station in Nantong City, and bribed our army's internal telegraph personnel to decipher our army's telegram. ”

"What?" Wang Yongan, Chen Zhaotang, and Liu Tong were all taken aback, it turned out that their telegram had already been learned by the Japanese, which meant that the Japanese knew everything about the conversations between them.

"Damn little devil, he has already deciphered our telegram code." Wang Yongan got up and asked, "Is there a backup password?" ”

Liu Daodao: "No. ”

"Are you sure you haven't?"

"No, we don't pay that much attention to telegraph work." Liu Channel.

Wang Yongan said: "From now on, you will be responsible for our army's telegraph work, do you know?" ”

"Yes."

Wang Yongan thought for a while and said, "Liu Tong, you send a telegram to Li Shirui now, telling him to go to the army to plan, then to attack the enemy, then to attack the army, and then attack the city." ”

Liu Tong immediately saluted and called back, and Wang Yongan said to Wei Daofeng again: "Your gendarmerie department has done a very good job this time, I have nothing to reward you, I hope you will continue to work hard, and you must not let the little devils and traitors make trouble in Jiangbei." All the agents and their families were imprisoned. ”

"Yes." Wei Daofeng said, and asked: "I don't have this sentencing standard in Jiangbei yet, Yun Shuai, what should I do after I am arrested?" If the Japanese government were to ask for people......"

Wang Yongan said: "Under no circumstances should espionage activities be protected in any way, for Japanese spies, if he did not kill or instructed others to kill, he can be sentenced to life imprisonment, and if someone has a life in hand, he can be sentenced to death or a suspended execution." For those Chinese who served Japanese agents, in addition to the death sentence themselves, their families confiscated all their property, and the adults in the family were sentenced to imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years, and minors were sent to nunnery, monasteries or even Taoist temples to be raised. ”

Chen Zhaotang's eyes widened and he couldn't help but speak: "This ...... Isn't this a cut off of children and grandchildren? ”

"For traitors, this punishment is much lighter than the extermination of the Nine Clans." Wang Yongan said lightly, "What my Han people hate most is not a strong opponent, because any strong opponent in front of the Han people will always be crushed by the resilience of the Han people." However, it is not aliens or foreign countries that bring the greatest harm to the Han people, but traitors and traitors, and it is precisely because of traitors that our Han people will be poisoned and killed again and again. More than 200 years ago, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Manchurian Eight Banners were only 120,000 troops, the total number of Manchurian Han and Mongolian Eight Banners was only 180,000, and the 120,000 Manchurian Iron Cavalry took 20 years to unify the Ming Dynasty with a population of 100 million, do you know why? Because there are too many traitors. ”

Chen Zhaotang shook his head and said: "No, no, it is true that there was no strong national leader to lead the Han people at that time, if Emperor Chongzhen gave up the Beijing division at the end of the Ming Dynasty and came to Nanjing to preside over the war, I am afraid that the Manchu Empire has no hope of dominating the world." ”

Wang Yongan waved his hand and said: "Whether the Manchu Qing can be unified is not the key point I want to say, what I want to say is that traitors hurt China far more than foreign enemies. Our Chinese civilization has survived many powerful opponents for thousands of years, so we are not afraid of how powerful our opponents are, but we are afraid of our own people who dig up our own foundations, so I will never forgive traitors. Chen Zhaotang saw that he was resolute, so naturally he wouldn't say anything, Wei Daofeng saluted and turned to leave, the room fell silent all of a sudden, angry and a little embarrassed, this meal can't be eaten, Chen Zhaotang asked the guards to withdraw the meal, and then accompanied Wang Yongan to the headquarters.