It was already noon after talking with Yu Qiaqing, Wang Yongan got an urgent telegram from Qiao Zhen, the chief of the Nantong County Police, after the Japanese fleet shelling ended this morning, the two regiment commanders withdrew without authorization, which caused the collapse of the garrison army, but Qiao Zhen and the Nantong gentry organized the county's police, militia and rout to return to the Langshan Port wharf to block the Japanese landing, and by noon, the Japanese did not send troops to land, but only sent two surveyors to conduct a simple survey and mapping in Langshan Port, but were driven away by the police disguised as fishermen, The other two commanders of the reserve regiment were captured by the squire militia and asked for instructions on how to proceed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The news that the Japanese did not actually land still made Wang Yongan breathe a sigh of relief temporarily, he praised Qiao Zhen's performance in turning the tide, and directly ordered Qiao Zhen to shoot them at the dock to shock the morale of the two fleeing regiment commanders.

On behalf of the Southern Revolutionary Government, Sun Yat-sen hoped for peace between China and Japan, and hoped that the two sides could negotiate a settlement instead of the threat of force, and that if the Japanese insisted on forcibly landing in Nantong, the Southern Revolutionary Government would give full support to the Jiangbei Liberation Government. At the end of the telegram, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Hu Hanmin and other revolutionaries jointly signed in support of the Jiangbei government. At this moment of national crisis, even if the various forces in the country have different intentions, they must not show weakness to the outside world at least in terms of reputation.

Wang Yongan thanked Sun Yat-sen and other government officials in the south, and said that the Jiangbei side is willing to sit down for negotiations rather than use force to confront them, and that China and Japan should be good-neighborly and friendly and should not have a conflict at this moment.

Wang Yongan then asked his secretary to send a telegram to the Japanese side saying that the Jiangbei government is not afraid of Japan, but the Jiangbei government is in the interests of the Chinese people as well as the interests of the Japanese people, and hopes that Japan will give up confrontation and confrontation and that the two sides can sit down and discuss in detail.

Not long after this statement was sent, Wang Yongan suddenly received a telegram from the Beijing Division, in which Yuan Shikai expressed his willingness to withdraw his troops from Jiangbei and hoped that Jiangbei would resolve the conflict with the Japanese at an early date, and that the relationship between the imperial court and Jiangbei could be further negotiated and negotiated.

Wang Yongan and other Jiangbei officials were immediately very excited, but they did not expect that the Japanese would give the negotiations a new opportunity, and the negotiations between the Qing court and Jiangbei were reconvened. If the reunification of China is caused by the hegemonic demands of the Japanese, this will be a huge strategic loss for Japan, and it will also be a serious misassessment by the Katsura Taro cabinet.

Then Yuan Shikai sent a secret telegram to Wang Yongan, saying: "In any case, the relationship with Japan cannot evolve into a national war, small forbearance for oneself, and great forbearance for the country." ”

Wang Yongan held the telegram, shook his head and smiled bitterly, Wei Wenkang said: "Jingyun, how is it?" ”

"Look."

After Wei Wenkang saw it, he also smiled bitterly and said: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, you understand this truth, but the Japanese will not have a small appetite." It's not an inch of territory, it's the bottom line of my Jiangbei people, maybe for this bottom line, we will lose more. ”

"But if China is reunified, I think it would be more appropriate." Wang Yongan said, "In your opinion, the meaning of Yuan Shikai's two telegrams before and after is to negotiate with us sincerely, or just to convey an attitude to the Chinese people." ”

Wei Wenkang sneered: "This move by the Japanese has really destroyed the previous layout in China, and I think it must be the dominance of domestic hardliners, which makes Japan have to make a tough statement." ”

Wang Yongan nodded and said: "There has always been a debate between the strategists and the tacticians in Japan, the so-called strategists are Ito Hirobumi and his student Saionji Konobu and other political parties, they advocate boiling frogs in warm water and gradually annexing China and Asia, while the tactics are Katsura Taro and Yamaguchi Aritomo and their military representatives, they advocate a more fierce confrontation to force the management of Asia, in their opinion, in the face of weak opponents in Asia, there is no need to consider what strategy, the military is enough to solve everything." ”

Wei Wenkang said with a smile: "I heard that the Japanese Prime Minister has become Katsura Taro, that's why so many things have happened, right?" ”

If he doesn't transfer the domestic contradictions to us, I'm afraid he won't be able to come to power for a few days, because the biggest contradiction in Japan today is the contradiction between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, that is, the rich are getting richer and richer, and the poor are getting poorer and poorer, so that the poor are starving to death, while the rich are extremely poor." Don't look at the Japanese on the surface, but there are a lot of messes behind them, and Katsura Taro is just trying to divert the contradictions. ”

Wei Wenkang smiled: "Isn't Japan quite rich? ”

Wang Yongan said: "Japan has money, but most Japanese people don't have money, don't you think there are a lot of brothels opened by Japanese people in China?" Especially after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, three Japanese brothels were even opened in Yangzhou last year. ”

Wei Wenkang said: "I haven't been there, so I don't know, it seems that Yun Shuai knows this well." ”

Wang Yongan snorted and said, "What do you earn?" ”

Wei Wenkang laughed and said, "I didn't marry a wife, I went there to relax, but Yun Shuai, you four wives, you still go there...... Isn't it a little too desired? ”

"Whew!" Wang Yongan said, "Don't divert the topic." ”

Wei Wenkang smiled evilly, turned his face and said: "The Japanese are obviously doing this with the lower body dominating the upper body, which is thankless, but the Japanese paranoia may bring us greater losses." ”

Wang Yongan laughed and said, "Your words are interesting, the lower body dominates the upper body, hahaha......"

From noon until the evening, there was no news about the Japanese landing at Langshan Port, and the Japanese did not give any feedback to the Jiangbei government, and it seemed that the Japanese were also very conflicted, and there was a fierce debate within them. Even after Katsura Taro had previously negotiated with the military department, he was fiercely obstructed by the political friends association parties such as Saionji Konozo, especially at a time when the Japanese economy was in a downturn, and the consortium took the opportunity to control the Japanese parliament and wanted to wrestle with the senate and the military.

Katsura Taro found that his enemy was too troublesome, because the Japanese army had to need financial support if it wanted to fight, and now the money was in the hands of political parties such as the Foundation and the Political Friendship Association, and it was obviously impossible for the military to start a war alone, even if everyone agreed, as long as the Political Friendship Association obstructed it, Katsura Taro still could not order the army to land and fight.

Yuan Shikai secretly launched a tripartite talks, hoping that Sun Yat-sen and other southern representatives, Wang Yongan's Jiangbei representatives and Beiyang representatives would renegotiate in Beijing, and this time Yuan Shikai finally clarified the purpose of the negotiations to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty, and the three parties were finally able to negotiate with their hearts.