"What does Inu-kun mean to teach a lesson, then withdraw the troops? So, what's the point of this war? Receiving war reparations? Okuma Shigenobu was a little puzzled.

"The reparations must be paid, but the amount does not have to be too large, what the empire needs most now is a market for the dumping of resources and goods, to give the people of the empire jobs, to make the chimneys of the factories smoke, and money alone cannot get the empire out of trouble??? The significance of this battle is to make the people of China understand that the affairs of Asia can only be decided by the Asians, and that the dominant power of Asia can only be the capital! Smash the delusion of the Chinese people to use European and American whites to balance the empire, so that they can see the reality clearly and understand that the interests and dignity of the empire cannot be insulted! Inuyang Yi said coldly.

Okuma Shigenobu was still a little hesitant: "But in this case, the hatred between the empire and China will be too deep, which is not conducive to the economic interests of the empire in China." ”

Inuyang Yi laughed and said: "Prime Minister, you don't know China too well, this nation is very indifferent to kindness and hatred, those Tunguska chieftains on the throne of the Forbidden City, the rule of two hundred and sixty years, has turned China into a country with an extremely low sense of morality, this country can be described in three sentences. ”

"Oh, which three?"

"Officials are corrupt officials, soldiers are ruffians, and the people are people??? Such a country will not care about kindness, when you help him, he will thank you a thousand times, but he will laugh at your stupidity behind your back, and the country will not care about the harm it has suffered, they will only fear the whip, and even praise those who hurt them because of fear???? The characteristics of the people of China are simply two words: numbness! ”

Okuma Shigenobu couldn't help but smile bitterly, before the Meiji Restoration, he used to worship China so much, including martial artists like Nogi Noshinori, who could do good Chinese poetry, not to mention well-educated literati like Okuma Shigenobu and Inuyangyi. Once upon a time, the young Okuma Shigenobu held a glass of sake to the bright moon in the sky and chanted "When is the bright moon, ask the blue sky" in the night when the night was as cool as water, at that time, he dreamed of going to China in person, to see Chang'an and Luoyang, which he had seen thousands of times in his dreams, to touch the bronze camel and golden horse, and listen to a song of Yan Zhao's tragedy.

However, when he opened the door of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had been closed for more than 200 years, the China he saw had become a barbarian wearing a strange horse coat, shaved forehead with braids, and "wearing his hair on the left side". Those Chinese who came to Yuben by chance were surprised to find that Yuben's clothing, classics, and buildings all retain the Han style and Tang charm.

From that day on, his admiration for China suddenly faded and was replaced by infinite contempt.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, China was amazed by the rapid development of the company, and tens of thousands of students went east to Fuso, but to his surprise, these people were not studying natural science, economics, politics, and other knowledge of enriching the country and strengthening the army, but lingered in Kabukicho and spent time on the belly of women. Many students still can't speak Chinese until they return to China, let alone say that they have achieved success in their studies.

Even educators such as Jigoro Kano, who has the most favorable feelings for the Chinese, are disappointed in the Chinese students, and at the same time completely disappointed in the Chinese nation.

Such a group of people turned out to be the most advanced intellectuals in China, and after returning to China, they quickly took control of China's economy, diplomacy, and military, and became hot figures in the Qing court and the Republic of China??? The level of elites is the same, can this nation have a future?

"Inu-kun, what you said makes sense, but if there is going to be a war, I must meet the requirements of the Navy and Army to increase military spending, which is really humiliating!" Shigenobu Okuma remembered his situation and was a little disheartened.

"Prime Minister, please cheer up, the future of the Imperial Kingdom depends on you! For the time being, I can imagine what crazy things the army people will do when they become prime ministers, even if it is a glass of wine, and if you resign, I can hardly imagine what crazy things the army people will do when they become prime ministers??? Masaki Terauchi is not Katsura Taro! ”

Okuma Shigenobu shook his head violently, as if to shake the negative emotions out of his head, he said viciously: "That's it, since Yuan Shikai wants to play with fire, then let him experience the fun of being burned by fire!" ”

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Chai Dongliang has never hated a person so much as he does today, he hates Yuan Shikai so much now, he feels that he is holding a breath in his chest, and he can't go up or down.

This feeling hasn't appeared for a long time.,I saw the plot of abusing the master in my favorite before I crossed over.,There will be this unbearable entanglement.。

Yuan Shikai successfully provoked national sentiment and reversed the unfavorable situation at once, and now his image is extremely magnificent, he is simply possessed by his father-in-law and Wen Tianxiang, and he is almost engraved with the four big words "Loyal to the country" on his bright head.

Yuan Shikai has driven the political axe to a desperate situation, with Chai Dongliang's understanding of Okuma Shigenobu, he is not a weak and bullying person, can he be a good man and a woman who can fight against Ito Hirobumi and Yama Prefecture for decades? He can do anything when he is in a hurry!

Yuan Shikai has undoubtedly forced him to be anxious, he is playing with fire, this fire is very likely to burn the 90,000 miles of Guanshan in Huaxia into a sea of fire!

There is nothing more painful in the world than knowing what to do, but not being able to do it!

Chai Dongliang's current situation is like this, he clearly knows that Yuan Shikai's actions will bring disaster to the country and the people, but not only can he not beat him, but he can't even criticize him in the newspaper, otherwise he will be regarded as having ulterior motives.

Nationalism is always a double-edged sword, if you use it well, you will kill 10,000 enemies, and if you use it badly, you will lose 8,000 yourself!

Information gathered by the newspapers and the intelligence department of the Jianghuai Army indicated that the violent actions against Yue himself were escalating in various places, and that the situation was gradually escalating, and that serious clashes broke out between the demonstrators and the Yue Ben police in the concession area, with both sides killed and wounded, and some Yue Ben businessmen were killed in various places for no apparent reason. It's just that it can't be judged who did it, but every time the news of his death comes out, it will cause cheers from the people. The students took the initiative to search the goods of various shops from house to house, and then gathered in the streets to burn them, and whenever they heard that a ship carrying goods had arrived at the dock, they would stop them and not be allowed to dock.

Whether it was the burning of goods or the news that he had been beaten, the people in the streets and alleys were like the excitement of the festival.

A national carnival has begun, and Yuan Shikai, the initiator, has gained the blind worship of the people!

Yuan Shikai's hand is exactly the same as Cixi instigating the Boxers to kill foreigners, which is taking the fate of the country and the nation as their bet.

If you lose the bet, it will be 450 million people across the country who will pay for them!

There was an uproar in his own country, and the clamor for war with China was rising higher and higher, and the same was true throughout China, and the call to drive him out of China also overpowered all rational voices.

Chai Dongliang knows better than anyone else that this kind of deliberately agitated national sentiment is not reliable at all, and many people who demonstrate are not so much hating Yueben, but rather that the suppressed emotions in Pingyu cannot be dissolved.

Chai Dongliang's knowledge of modern history is quite good, and in his memory, he can even clearly remember that on May 30, 1900, it was the Empress Dowager Cixi who issued an edict ordering the Boxers to enter Beijing. Prior to this day, the Boxers had killed tens of thousands of Chinese parishioners and innocent people in various places, and only one Englishman, Bux, had died at their hands.

The small probability event of 10,000 to 1 can only be said to be the fate of that foreign devil, and it would be too nonsense if it was forced to oppose imperialism!

After May 30, 1900, the Boxers received the will of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and immediately under the leadership of the Qing court, they launched a large-scale murder campaign against foreigners, even sparing infants Chinese??? Killing people by order is much more than Stephen Chow's begging for cattle, a foreigner's head is worth fifty taels of silver, no matter if he is a good person or a bad person, where can human life compare to silver?

The more than 100,000 Boxers, who are known as invulnerable, when the foreign soldiers really entered Yanjing City, they actually disappeared, which is comparable to the dragon seeing the head and not the tail. In the huge Yanjing City, only Dong Fuxiang's Gan Army and the Eight Banners Forbidden Army made some weak resistance, and the Boxers took off their red clothes with their surnames and disappeared into the streets and alleys of Yanjing City, and even hung a snatched cross around their necks and turned into a religious citizen.

Chai Dongliang is very clear about this history, and he wrote this history in the first book "1900 Clouds and Rain" written at the starting point before he crossed over!

Chai Dongliang hated Yuan Shikai for no reason, he knew this history, Yuan Shikai knew better, Chai Dongliang had only seen these past events in the history books, and Yuan Shikai was a first-hand witness!

During Yuan Shikai's tenure as governor of Shandong, he used a Mauser gun to break the invulnerability of the Boxers, he knew too well the consequences of this abuse of popular morale, otherwise he would not have taken a huge political risk to participate in the "Southeast Mutual Protection" initiated by Zhang Zhidong, Li Hongzhang, and Liu Kunyi, the three major governors, but this kind of means that once made him scoff, he still did not hesitate to use it, just like his political enemies in the Manchu court, Gangyi, Xu Tong.

The current China and the book are like two piles of dry firewood poured with fire oil, and only one spark can ignite a flame that soars to the sky.

Chai Dongliang walked around the Military Advisory Office, he already understood that this war was inevitable, and now he still lacked an excuse to say about the past!

Under the pretext of this thing, as long as you want to find it, you will definitely find it??? The question is, if there is a real fight, which of the generals of the Beiyang Army is willing to really contribute? In the end, it is not the Jianghuai Army who wants to wipe Yuan Shikai's buttocks, and no matter how cold-blooded Chai Dongliang is, he can't sit back and watch himself run rampant on Chinese soil. This is beyond his bottom limit, and he can't tolerate the foreign [***] team entering China to burn and loot, while he is indifferent!

"Governor, I just received the secret telegram, the three monks were killed in Tianjin, and the Ben side asked Yuan Shikai to hand over the murderer!" Gu Weijun hurriedly walked in, holding a draft of the telegram that had just been translated.

Chai Dongliang said without thinking: "This monk? The monk of the Lotus Sect, right? ”

This time it was Gu Weijun's turn to be stunned: "How did the governor know?" Have you received a tip? ”

Chai Dongliang snatched the message from Gu Weijun's hand and looked at it carefully. The three monks were on the streets of Tianjin, and they happened to encounter a student demonstration, so they hid at the gate of the Tianjin Dasheng Yarn Factory. Hearing the students shouting anti-Yue slogans, they scolded them in Yue, and the workers of the Dasheng Yarn Factory found out that these monks wearing hats were Yue himself, so they scolded them in Chinese. The crowd of onlookers just shouted a few hello, and these people drew daggers and killed the three monks at the door of the Dasheng Yarn Factory, and then these people disappeared into the procession with blood stains.

From the three monks of the Lotus Sect to the gate of the Dasheng Yarn Factory to their killing, it took less than five minutes before and after, and each of them was hit by at least six or seven knives, almost all of which were stabbed at the vital point, and the techniques were extremely sophisticated and ruthless.

Chai Dongliang shook his head and smiled bitterly, saying that he really found an excuse, and this excuse will definitely make the country boil! The Lotus Sect is a very special sect in the Lotus Sect, and the Buddhists in general are quite gentle, only the Lotus Sect is particularly strange, this sect has been advocating war, and many people in the military circles believe in this sect. The influence of the Lotus Sect in the political and military circles cannot be overestimated!

Don't ask, the death of these monks must have been done by himself!

The death of a few soldiers, policemen or businessmen is not as powerful as killing the monks and the people of the country, and the excuses I made are quite powerful!

"Quickly, pass on my order, inform the naval commanders Tang Qianming and Cheng Biguang, the four light cruisers Sanhai and the Feihong, and several other gunboats to cruise along the Yangtze River, and the other ships will immediately move to Weihaiwei Harbor, and without my order, they are not allowed to leave the port for a single step, and notify the batteries along the river to be on strict alert??? All units of the Jianghuai Army are ready for battle, and all officers and men have canceled their vacations! ”

Gu Weijun also saw Chai Dongliang's solemn expression, and unconsciously became nervous: "Dudu, do you really want to fight?" Is it necessary for us to fight for this bastard Yuan Shikai? ”

Chai Dongliang gritted his teeth and said: "Although Yuan Shikai is a bastard, he is a bastard in China, and it is not his turn to take him away!" ”

(To be continued)