"Haha, I guessed it!" Youpeng banged on the table with his cane, smiling proudly. It seems that he did not knock on the table, but Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma's head.

Genjiro Akashi, who was disheveled and smelly, also smiled: "The wisdom of the patriarch is beyond my imagination, and Okuma Shigenobu is probably going to commit suicide in anger now, right?" ”

Yama Prefecture Youpeng quipped: "If that's the case, I don't mind giving him a rib cha (a short knife for caesarean section), how about asking Akashi-kun to make a mistake for him (assisted decapitation after caesarean section) and give him a ride?" You're not afraid of getting your clothes dirty anyway. ”

Akashi Genjiro looked at his kimono, which had long been colorless, and couldn't help but wonder.

General Masaki Terauchi is really convinced at this moment, his teacher is really an old fox, and Akashi Genjiro, who tops ten elite divisions by himself, is also famous, and Okuma Shigenobu has only been the prime minister for a few days, and he has such a big black pot on his back.

"Teranachi, do you want to be the prime minister?" Shan County Youpeng asked.

The temple was in good spirits, knelt on the tatami mat, and bowed respectfully: "Everything is arranged by the teacher, and the temple is willing to go to the soup for the teacher." ”

Youpeng of Shanxian smiled indifferently: "Let you be the prime minister, not let you go to the battlefield, but this political arena is more dangerous than the battlefield, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

Terauchi Masashi nodded like a chicken eating rice, his heart was already happy, and finally it was his turn, he was pressed by his senior brother Katsura Taro for more than ten years, and it was easy for Katsura Taro to die, and let Okuma Shigenobu this lame man take the lead, and the mountains and rivers take turns, and it is time to let yourself be addicted to the prime minister.

As expected, Yuan Shikai really played Okuma Shigenobu to him. Yuan Shikai said to Lin Quanzhu, the minister to China, that he wanted to take refuge in Yue himself, but this was just lip service and did not leave any evidence. However, Okuma Shigenobu took it seriously and ordered the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to draw up sixteen secret treaties according to the instructions of Yama Prefecture Youpeng and others, and sent a special envoy to Yanjing to hand them over to Yuan Shikai.

Lao Yuan got the voucher in black and white, and immediately turned his face, not only notifying the diplomatic envoys of various countries in Yanjing, but also holding a press conference to make the entire content public.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the American Minister Luo Jiaheng immediately jumped like thunder, is this worth it? It is said that it wants to dominate China, which is the biggest threat to the US open-door policy. On the issue of Manchuria-Mongolia, the United States had a huge contradiction with the Harriman family, and the Harriman family's world railway plan could not be built in Manchuria because of the destruction of the book. As early as 18 years, the US Navy regarded the United States and Germany as an imaginary enemy, and in 1907, the United States and Germany were also regarded as imaginary enemies. Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the destroyer Kongo led by Heihachiro Togo almost went to war with the United States in Hawaii, and the contradiction between the two countries was no longer a matter of one or two days. Luo Jiaheng immediately sent a telegram to the US Secretary of State, requesting domestic instructions. The Secretary of State telegraphed back and ordered him to prevent the signing of the secret treaty and to threaten him with force if necessary. Although President Taft is not a warmonger, he knows very well that once Ben has China's manpower and resources, what ability does the United States have to protect Hawaii and the Philippines? Once the Ben occupied Hawaii and the Philippines, the American fleet would have to make a detour to Australia in the East, and if the British did not allow the United States to use their ports and colonies for supplies, the Great White Fleet would become an ornament!

Needless to say, as the concoctor of the famous painting "Bodhisattva Riding a Fire Dragon", German Emperor Wilhelm II immediately began to sell his private goods, advocating the Yellow Peril theory against Europe, and the German minister also issued a solemn warning to the book.

As an ally of Yu Ben, the British Empire was very angry that Yu Ben made such a move without ventilating in advance, and the British Minister Zhu Erdian was originally a close friend of Yuan Shikai, and the two of them had a good personal relationship and could wear a pair of crotch pants. As a British minister, he could ignore his personal feelings with Yuan Shikai, but he asked for hegemony over China, which the British Empire could not accept under any circumstances. Britain occupies 60 percent of China's foreign trade and 80 percent of maritime shipping, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have always been the forbidden territory of the British Empire, and the Far East Fleet's two home ports in Asia, one is Singapore, where the headquarters is located, and the other is Shanghai. Do you want to spit it all out and give it to Yuben? I gave you the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, do you want Singapore? India, do you want it or not? Buckingham Palace simply gave it to you??? Xiao said, Ben is too much to use himself as a dish, right?

The Russian tsar has recently had a good relationship with Xiao Yuben, and the two sides have signed three secret treaties to divide up the interests of Manchuria, but every time it is cloudy and rainy, Nicholas II's severe headache reminds him of the knife he suffered in Yuben that year. Not to mention the Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet, which were sent into the depths of the ocean by the combined fleet, whenever I think about it, Nicholas II is not only distressed, but even his liver hurts!

The only commendable colony of the French in Asia was Annam, and if Ben had full control of China, they could easily drive the French in Annam to the sea to feed the fish, either by land or sea. The French also do not want to see China dominate.

Although the Great Powers were focused on Europe and preparing for the coming great war, it did not prevent them from trying to contain the ambitious Yue himself for the sake of their own interests.

Yuan Shikai, who was supported by the foreign powers, suddenly became bolder, and got another loan from the United States and France, and he immediately waved a check to summon the Beiyang generals, for the sake of the face of gold francs and dollars, Cao Kun and others were also very cooperative, patting their chests and promising to be loyal to President Yuan.

Yuan Shikai was relieved for the time being, while the Okuma Shigenobu cabinet was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, and they repeatedly issued statements trying to prove that it was Yuan Shikai who first proposed this secret treaty, not to mention that the foreign powers refused to believe it, and even Yue himself did not believe it. Yuan Shikai willingly gave China to Yueben? Is Yuan Shikai stupid or crazy? Shigenobu Okuma wants to prevaricate with this kind of nonsense, it's just a dream! Okuma Shigenobu couldn't wait to kill Yuan Shikai, an old liar, and that confused minister Lin Quanzhu. The "peace statesmen" of the Taisho period came to power on the basis that they advocated a reduction in military spending and demanded improvements in people's livelihood. In the early years of Taisho, the economic situation of the company was extremely difficult, and the debts owed by the Russian war could not be held up, and according to the statistics of the political axe, more than half of the bankrupt peasants sold their daughters to the Jiyuan. Therefore, there is a saying in the political arena that calls the early years of Taisho "the Taisho era raised by bitches".

It was with the help of such public sentiment that Saionji Gongwang and Okuma Shigenobu ascended to the throne of prime minister, but Yuan Shikai's cloud-turning methods forced Okuma Shigenobu into a corner. If they insist on a tough voice, they will have to go to war with China, but if they want to go to war, they must meet the demands of the navy and army to increase military spending, which will violate their promise to the voters, and if they do not go to war, they will be criticized as "weak and incompetent" and "losing power and humiliating the country."

The only thing that the navy and army have in common is that they always feel that military spending is insufficient. Politicians from the National Assembly and those with non-military backgrounds are always looking for ways to cut military spending, and this is a contradiction that cannot be reconciled between the political and military circles. The army and navy reached an unprecedented agreement to join hands to beat the water dogs, and who let these so-called "peace politicians" of the Taisho period keep cutting military spending, and cutting off people's financial resources is like killing their parents, and the bigwigs of the Choshu and Satsuma domains have long been itching the roots of their hates.

Yuan Shikai's sudden change of face forced the Okuma Shigenobu cabinet to a dead end, either to fight hard and break the net, or to step down and get out of the gloomy way. Other than that, he had no third option.

It was not only Shigenobu Okuma who was driven to a dead end, but also Chai Dongliang, who was scratching his ears and cheeks in the Anqing Military Advisory Office. The Jianghuai Army had already prepared for war, and Chai Dongliang also analyzed that the military circles headed by Youpeng in Shan County would not support Yuan Shikai, and their real purpose was to deal with Okuma Shigenobu, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang and other politicians.

However, Chai Dongliang didn't expect Lao Yuan to do such a desperate job, and suddenly stood on the commanding heights of morality, and now not only no one in Beiyang dared to make a discordant voice, but even Huang Xing, Bai Wenwei, Wang Jingwei and other veterans of the revolutionary party who were far away in Tokyo also ran from Tokyo to Hong Kong, and issued an initiative, asking the party members in China to recognize the overall situation and unite with the outside world to help Yuan Shikai deal with himself.

Once the banner of nationalism is provoked, whoever speaks out against it will be a Han annihilation and a national thief, and who will dare to wear this hat? At least Chai Dongliang didn't dare, if he wore it, it would be tantamount to announcing the end of his political life. Although Chai Dongliang can get information from many sources to prove that Yuan Shikai first proposed to take refuge in Yue himself, who would believe it?

The current Yuan Shikai is the image of a national hero, if Chai Dongliang throws out information that is unfavorable to Yuan Shikai, the people will also think that he deliberately smeared Yuan Shikai in order to compete with him for status.

Yuan Shikai, who is so powerful, this move has eliminated the aggressive offensive of the Jianghuai army into invisibility!

Chai Dongliang can't imagine now that if he ordered the Jianghuai army to enter Yanjing City, would his soldiers mutiny? When the national disaster is at the head, it actually provokes a civil war, isn't this what is Han Annihilation?

Chai Dongliang has instilled too much national consciousness in the soldiers for a long time, the army is the iron fist of the people and the country, there are no heroes in the civil war, and it is the duty of the army to resist foreign enemies??? The soldiers of the Jianghuai Army have almost melted these ideas into their blood!

The current situation is that Yuan Shikai called for the whole country to resist the war, but Chai Dongliang wanted to provoke a civil war, which will confuse the concept of the soldiers, which will not only affect their combat effectiveness, but more importantly, will make them have huge doubts about the education they have received, and in the long run, this will cause more serious damage to the Jianghuai army.

Chai Dongliang has always been a little disdainful of Yuan Shikai, always feel that he is a bit exaggerated, using ruffians to coerce elections, dissolving the National Assembly and the Kuomintang without authorization, and making domestic elites deviate from him.

Nationalism has always been the banner carried by Chai Dongliang, and the recovery of Mongolia and the attack on Mukden are all the same, which also won him great prestige, and Yuan Shikai did not have to fight a soldier, just by virtue of the secret manuscript of two pieces of paper, he instigated public opinion, so that he turned over from an absolutely weak position, and suddenly occupied the moral high ground, and also won the support of the great powers.

If you don't fight Yuan Shikai, it will be a damage to morale after spending half a day and finally working in vain, and if you beat Yuan Shikai, it will confuse the values of the Jianghuai Army, which is also a harm.

???? Dividing line ????

"The president has a good plan, now look at what other spells does that Chai Dongliang have?" Xu Shichang twisted his beard and smiled.

Yuan Shikai was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't smile at all: "This is just an expedient measure, and you have to think of a perfect strategy!" ”

A few days ago, Yuan Shikai's mind was a little unclear when he was tortured by illness, and the attack of renal colic was worse than death, and the Western doctor recommended surgery to remove the stones in the kidney, but can that place be easily moved? Let's not talk about unbuttoning your pants and seeing each other bare-buttocks when you open the knife, if you hurt your kidney, wouldn't you become a eunuch?

Yuan Shikai resolutely rejected the advice of the foreign devil doctor, pinching his nose every day to eat those difficult to swallow Chinese medicines, but the condition is always not good, now not only often attack renal colic, but also the whole body is swollen so badly that he can't even wear shoes.

When his illness was serious, Yuan Shikai made up his mind to simply break the net, take refuge in Yue himself, rely on the power of Yue Ben to coerce the Jianghuai army, and hold on for one more day. But I didn't expect Xiao Yueben to not cooperate, always pushing back, and the conditions were also extremely harsh, if Yuan Shikai signed such a secret agreement, I am afraid that Duan Qirui, Xu Shuzheng and others who are eyeing each other will call on the Beiyang Army to rise up and overthrow Yuan Shikai in the name of crusading against Han Annihilation.

After Yuan Shikai came to his senses, he was frightened and did not possess his body, but he was in a hurry, so he simply fought back, and put all the responsibility on his head, anyway, he just told Minister Lin Quanzhu that he wanted to take refuge, and he didn't have a written note, and he didn't admit it if he didn't admit it, who could bite his own egg?

Thinking of the bitter gourd face of Minister Lin Quanzhu, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but feel a little proud, he had been bullied by himself all these years, and finally he was angry. It is estimated that Chai Dongliang in Anqing City is also scratching his head anxiously, and the army of more than 100,000 is ready to go, but he is tied hands and feet and cannot move.

Now, no matter how he explains, no one will believe that Yuan Shikai took the initiative to take refuge in him, and the image of the old Yuan national hero has settled.

Fight with Lao Tzu, you are all still a little tender!

(To be continued)