"The five-star brand Yin Dan Shilin cloth is sold cheaply, one dime and two feet! It's late and it's gone, and the local foreign cloth is only sold for a dime or two! ”

"People from Guangdong, ten drops of water! Guarantee is not this product, support the domestic product to buy! ”

The market was crowded, the guys of the large and small shops spared no effort to shout at passers-by, the department stores on Nanjing Road were crowded, and domestic products were advertised for preferential promotions, boycotting the goods to give them a rare business opportunity. The students' parade unfurled flags and slogans were shouted loudly. Everywhere they passed, onlookers let out earth-shattering cheers, and firecrackers were hung in the shops, giving the student team a boost with the crackling sound of popping beans and the swirling white smoke.

"Boycott the goods!"

"Xiao Yueben get out of Manchuria!"

"Support the advance army, those who have money will contribute, and those who will contribute powerfully!"

The student procession spread out in all directions, along the shops to promote the boycott of goods, holding boxes to collect donations for the advance army.

The boys in the shop also stood at the door, infected by the enthusiasm of the students, and shouted slogans. The little boss was silent for a long time, gritted his teeth and moved the goods, cloth, and paper hidden under the counter to the street, and burned them with a ruthless heart, and poured barrels of dye into the gutter.

Although the value of the goods discarded and burned by each of these small merchants was only a dozen or twenty silver dollars, it was already a lot of money for them, and this money could make their whole family eat for half a year. But they burned it like that, and it was spontaneous and voluntary, and no one forced it. The vendor selling fruits and dry goods trembled and took out a handkerchief bag from his arms, wrapped it tightly in layers, and after opening it, there was a shiny silver dollar inside, and threw it into the donation box without hesitation. The ocean didn't know how much fruit he had to sell to save up.

Whether the guests in the teahouse know each other or not, the topic of meeting and talking about is the conquest of the Mongolian advance army. In a teahouse in the public concession, a fat black man who rented a house and ate tiles walked in with a bird cage. Xiao Er also hurried over, registered the bird cage without waiting for him to speak, and made another cup of strong tea.

He drank tea while listening to other people's chats.

"Fifth Master, I heard that the foreigners have set up an international investigation team to try the bombing case of this Xinmin Mansion, is it true or false?"

"Can foreigners judge a good one? Foreign devils are all family, can they not be towards their own people? ”

An old man looked at the black fat man and asked, "Third Master Bai, did you say that my train was blown up by the advance army?" The rumors can be refuted in the newspaper, and Chai Dongliang, the Jianghuai patrol envoy, said that it was definitely not the advance army that did it. ”

The black fat man Bai Laosan said with a smile: "Chai Dudu is busy fighting the Mongolian horse bandits and recovering the lost territory, so it is not good to build more enemies at this time??? Look, when the rebels of Uthai are cleaned up, there will definitely be a battle between the advance army and Xiao Yueben! ”

"There are too few advance soldiers, have you fought too little? I've seen enough of it, you said that Li Zhongtang had so many troops and such a big warship back then, and he just lost, so fucking not angry! ”

Bai Laosan said mysteriously: "Enough? Did you hear that? When the advance army was in Baotou, the army fell from the sky, and it was thunderbolts and thunderbolts, which scared the soldiers of Wutai! I heard that Chai Dudu can pinch and calculate, and he can also call the wind and rain! ”

"You're just going to break it!" Bai Laosan said disdainfully: "Nonsense? You don't know, my old watch is in Anqing, when the advance army went out, it was a strong wind and a torrential rain, the hail was bigger than the eggs, after the hail, an oolong fell from the sky, and the fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs jumped vigorously to the boat! ”

"Wow, that's unlucky!"

Bai Laosan lowered his voice and said, "Unlucky, you know a fart!" Later, Chai Dudu wrote two words and threw them into the Yangtze River, and in an instant the wind stopped the rain! ”

"What two words?"

Bai Laosan sold enough guanzi, dipped his hand in tea and wrote two words on the table.

"Excuse me!" A foreign dealer in a suit wondered.

The old man was suddenly stunned, and after a long time, he said tremblingly: "The Holy Son of Heaven travels to the rivers and seas, the hundred spirits are blessed, and the fish and dragon are coming!" The wind, rain and hail were all brought by the water tribes who worshiped the Son of Heaven??? Isn't it true that the Son of Heaven is about to come into the world! ”

Bai Laosan smiled knowingly, and all the people around him gasped and suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked thoughtful.

The scene in front of me was staged almost simultaneously in the Chinese Concession, the British Concession, the French Concession, and the Public Concession, and then spread to Tianjin, Dalian, Hankou and even the whole country!

On the second floor of a building in Shanghai's public concession, Inu Yangyi watched the crowd of demonstrators with concern.

"Toushan-kun, do you see it? Does this scene sound familiar? Inu Yangyi smiled helplessly.

Tou Shanman scratched his head and said: "When the Qing War and the Russian War were called, it was the same way. Terrible sight! ”

Dog Yangyi walked back from the window, sat cross-legged, poured himself a cup of tea, and then said with infinite emotion: "Yes, it's really like the book back then!" ”

"Isn't it good to be like this?" Toushanman asked.

Inu Yangyi said coldly: "The territory of this country is thirty times that of Yuben, and the population is eight times that of Yuben!" I have long said that it is most unwise to take a bite directly into this big stupid elephant in China, even a seriously ill elephant is very difficult to deal with! Only when it is sleeping, quietly insert a tube in its vein, so that it dies unconsciously! What worries me is that Yuben's stupidity is waking up this sleeping elephant, and if the Chinese are aroused in national sentiment, even if they do stupid things, it will not benefit Yuben! ”

Tou Shanman shook his wine glass and said calmly: "I agree with this, the consequences of direct armed confrontation in China will only benefit the Caucasians, and the side that wins the war between the Qing Dynasty is the empire, but it is the Russians who get the greatest benefits!" ”

Inu Yangyi said bitterly: "Do you really believe that the bombing of Xinmin Mansion was done by the Chinese army?" ”

Toushan said categorically: "It must not be, the current China is not the Qing Dynasty." Both in the south and in the north, their leaders are surrounded by a large number of intelligent people who are well versed in international rules, and since the first shot was fired in Wuchang, both the north and the south have tried to restrain themselves from infringing on the property and lives of foreigners. Moreover, there is no need for the Jianghuai army to oppose the empire at all, it is extremely dangerous and meaningless for them to do so. Moreover, the empire is not opposed to their stationing troops in Manchuria at the moment, and China can stabilize its rule in Manchuria and also share the threat of the Russians to the empire??? There are too many Russian soldiers in Manchuria! ”

Inu Yangyi nodded frequently: "If we have a direct conflict with the Shina people, what will be the consequences?" ”

Toushan Man shook his head and said: "This is difficult to predict, the only thing I can guess is that the people of China will seek the help of the Russians, and they will agree to the extremely harsh conditions of the Russians??? As happened after the Qing War and the Eight-Nation Alliance, Russia emerged as China's protector to relieve the immediate crisis of the Chinese political axe, and then take the opportunity to claim greater benefits. That's what the Russians have always done! ”

Inu Yangyi sneered: "What you said is not bad at all, the people of China understand very well that Britain and the United States are unreliable at a critical time, and only the Russians are willing to take the risk of confronting the empire, and the premise is that China is willing to pay an extremely heavy price." The ultimate beneficiary of the bombing in Xinmin Mansion is Russia, so the biggest suspect in this case is Russia! ”

Toushan said in a deep voice: "Since you have already seen the crux of the problem, why don't you ask the Xiyuan Temple Gongwang and the Imperial Political Axe to immediately participate in the international investigation team?" ”

Inu Yangyi said with a depressed expression: "Now the pressure from the people is too great, and the Prime Minister of Xiyuan Temple is very embarrassed. The Congress is also calling for a boycott of international investigations, and even more so against the internationalization of the Manchurian issue! ”

Tou Shanman slapped the table and roared angrily: "Is it because you are afraid of stepping down?" An incompetent guy who can't even compare to a single hair of Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito! ”

Katsura Taro has been the prime minister for three years, and he just stepped down at the end of August, and the veteran of Saionji Gongwang succeeded him as the prime minister, and he has just been in office for a month, and his butt has not yet been hot in the chair. Although Saionji Gongwang is also a veteran minister, his surname can be described as weak and incompetent compared to his predecessors Ito Hirobumi, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Okuma Shigenobu, Katsura Taro and others. Ten years ago, he served as acting prime minister for the first time and stepped down for a month, and the second time he managed to hold out for two years without doing anything, this is the third time he has formed a government.

Inuyang Yi shook his head and said: "The imperial prime minister is a difficult errand to do, Ito Hirobumi and Yama Prefecture Aritomo are like pins and needles, and others are even more difficult to do." ”

As a veteran of the Meiji Restoration, Ito Hirobumi never ignored the emperor's opinions when he was in power, and Aritomo Yamaguchi was relatively obedient in the Meiji era, and when Emperor Taisho was in power, he unceremoniously knocked the emperor on the knee with his cane because the emperor dozed off at the imperial meeting. Hirobumi Ito and Aritomo Yamaprefecture can overpower the emperor with their seniority and prestige, and they can control the army, but even then they are made big by public opinion.

"An incompetent politician who knows what to do, but even if the mob does something that harms the interests of the empire, is not worthy of being prime minister!" Toushan Man roared.

Inuyang Yi was speechless, indulging the mob to incite public opinion to control public opinion, and then used it to empty the Congress, which was a well-known trick used by the old and important ministers, and this trick has been tried and tested repeatedly since the beginning of the Qing War. However, after a long time, public opinion and mob control of the political axe will be formed in turn, and the most radical speech will be able to win the support of the public and be successfully elected. Voices of reason are often denounced as traitorous rhetoric.

Ito Hirobumi was stabbed to death, and no one can suppress the ambition of Yama Prefecture Youpeng, who covers the sky with one hand, and the army and the political axe have to act according to his face, and even the matter of the crown prince's choice of concubine has to be interfered. As a soldier, Shan County Youpeng dreams of being able to set his military boots on Chinese soil in his lifetime. He did not think at all of Inukai Takeshi, Okuma Shigenobu and others of the plan to make friends with powerful figures in China, create turmoil and chaos in China, drain the blood of Manchuria while cultivating pro-clan forces, and then gradually encroach on China's plan.

The reason why the Xinminfu bombing case was able to trigger such a big reaction in Yueben triggered a strong confrontation between China and China, and Youpeng Shan County and the military under his control were undoubtedly the driving forces behind it.

Among the politicians in the whole book, only two people, Inu Yangyi and Toushan Man, dared not to buy his account. But it's just that I don't buy it, and the disparity in strength is pitiful.

"Toushan-kun, now is not the time to get a jail, how to stop the further deterioration of the situation, this is the key!" Inu-raisan is helpless.

Tou Shanman pondered for a moment and said: "Let me come, the wind of public opinion will change, I will let those reporters know what to write and what not to write!" ”

(To be continued)