The man with a smoky face was none other than He Laosan, the cousin of He Zudao, the former leader of the Wuhu New Army. He pressed the bed with his hand to try the softness and hardness, lifted the list to look at the straw underneath, and retracted it like lightning when his fingers touched it, as if it was not a soft straw, but a hibernating poisonous snake, and then pouted in disgust, and sat down on the edge of the bed cautiously with half an ass.

The fat black man jumped onto another bed with a agility that did not match his figure, and stretched out comfortably, while the short man stood by solemnly.

He Laosan lowered his eyebrows and smiled pleasantly: "Lord Kuroda is really easy-going, and he doesn't dislike this kind of place." ”

The black fat man's face suddenly turned cold, his little eyes shot a cold light, He Laosan's body trembled and then closed his mouth, and the black fat man changed his smile and said: "He Sanye, remember clearly in the future, here I am Uncle Hei, a merchant who sells leather goods from Zhili to Nanjing." ”

He Laosan nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Hei, a leather merchant." ”

The black fat man is not a raw face, he is Baron Kuroda Saburo of the Mitsui Trading Company that Chai Dongliang met in the Wu family.

The old man shouted from outside: "Three masters, the meal is ready, do you three come out to eat, or will the little one send you to the room?" ”

Kuroda Saburo replied in a fluent Beijing film: "Old shopkeeper, bring the master to the house, and the good master who serves will be rewarded." ”

Steamed wild boar, wind chicken, stuffed wild duck, and a pot of osmanthus rice wine, a meal with mountain characteristics, although simple, but also fragrant. Kuroda Saburo nodded with satisfaction, and threw out a piece of foreign money to the old man, who smiled and said, "This is too much, I'll change it to you." ”

Kuroda shook his head and said, "Old shopkeeper, don't look for it, I still have to live for two days on the counter." ”

The old man was overjoyed, bowed and withdrew.

Kuroda Saburo glanced at the short man and said in a low and stern voice: "Nojiri-kun, this is Shina, you are now directly subordinate to Ye Wuye, and the Shina people are either bent over, squatting or sitting, and the Shina people have not yet learned to stand with a straight waist like you." ”

Nojiri found a missing leg and sat down on a bench made of half-broken bricks, his waist was still stiff, and he himself felt that something was wrong, and sneered: "I have been in Germany for too long, and I have become infected with some 'Mao Tang' habits." ”

Kuroda Saburo whispered with a cold face: "Ye Wuye, the empire sent you to study in the West, you have to lower your posture, and then lower, the sea is the lowest, but it has achieved the widest territory, and you must be humble to learn the advantages of others, so that others will sincerely impart the most valuable knowledge to the empire, and in the future, even in the most private occasions, do not use disrespectful words such as 'Mao Tang' and 'ghost animal'." ”

Nojiri straightened his face and nodded respectfully.

Kuroda Saburo turned his face and asked with a smile, "Third Master He, how are things going in Anqing?" ”

He Laosan smiled flatteringly: "Please rest assured, my cousin contacted many members of the Council Council, and they all promised to impeach Chai Dongliang and remove him from the position of governor of Anhui, and then elected my cousin as the governor of Anhui. You know, the new army in Wuhu was originally my cousin's subordinates, and these Qiu Ba rubbed and pinched flat, it was not my cousin's words, but there were more than 1,000 people in Anqing plus the Yangtze River Sailors, which was a bit troublesome. ”

Kuroda Saburo said with a smile: "The third master doesn't have to worry, as long as Brother Ling becomes the governor of Anhui, the Huang Huanzhang Department of Jiujiang will immediately send troops to Anqing, and control the new army in Anqing with lightning speed, and the Huaishang army will send troops to Wuhu, as for the Yangtze River Water Division, as long as the Xiaogushan Fort, Hukou Fort, and Madang Fort in Wuhu, Jiujiang, and Anqing are stifled, the Yangtze River Naval Division will become a turtle in the urn, and they will have their own system, and they will not make trouble because Anhui has changed the governor, as long as their supplies are controlled, The Yangtze River Naval Division can only obediently submit, and when the time comes, Brother Ling's army will advance by land and water, and then destroy the Huaishang Army entrenched in northern Anhui in one fell swoop, and the Great Empire and our Mitsui Trading Company will also fully support Brother Ling in weapons and money to unify Anhui by force. ”

He Laosan's eyes couldn't be seen with a smile: "That's a good dare!" My cousin occupies Anhui, and you personally occupy Anhui, which is the same, if you have any requirements in the future, just listen to you! ”

Kuroda Saburo said with a smile: "The following things that cooperate with the Huang Huanzhang Department of the Gan Army still need to be coordinated by the third master, and it must be done in one fell swoop." I won't leave the third master, it's a big deal. ”

He Laosan nodded like a chicken eating rice and said, "What the lord said is yes, I'll leave now." Then he turned and left.

Seeing him walk away, Nojiri asked in the language of his surname, "Do you really think they can succeed?" ”

Kuroda said with a fierce glint in his eyes: "Fifth Master Ye, you have forgotten your identity again!" Then he smiled easily: "Chai Dongliang is not an easy guy to deal with, who knows what the result will be?" ”

Nojiri was stunned: "Then why do you still support this uncertain mutiny?" ”

Kuroda Saburo sneered: "Sun Wen's finances are close to collapse, but he is not willing to hand over power to Yuan Shikai, if we provoke a war between Li Liejun in Jiangxi and Chai Dongliang in Anhui, the power in the south will be further weakened." ”

Nojiri exclaimed: "Baron, this is absolutely impossible, if that is the case, Yuan Shikai's power will be greatly expanded, this guy has a very good relationship with the British Minister Zhu Erdian, Yuan Shikai has always relied on the British to be very unfriendly to the Great Empire." If he were allowed to unify China, it would be a great loss for the interests of the empire. ”

Kuroda Saburo smiled slightly, and said eloquently: "You don't know Sun Wen and Yuan Shikai too well, and you don't know the surname of the Shina people, the tolerance of the Shina people has never been only for foreigners, and will not forgive failed competitors, 'Huairou Yuanren', 'Rather with foreigners than with domestic slaves' This is the most real ruler of China." Like Shogun Tokugawa Yoshiki, who was still able to enjoy 65 koku a year after his defeat, Saigo Takamori rebelled and his younger brother Saigo was still appointed Minister of the Navy by the Empire, a story that would never happen in Shina.

Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen are not surnames that can be subservient to others, there is a saying in Zhina, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, both of them are tigers, it is impossible for Yuan Shikai to be safe and sound, and Sun Wen is equally clear! Therefore, the two of them can reconcile for the time being, but in the near future there will inevitably be a life-and-death war, which is their fate and is also determined by the national surname of the Chinese people. ”

Nojiri was confused when he listened: "Yuan Shikai is at an advantage, and he is very close to the British, although the empire and Britain are allies, it does not mean that the empire and Yuan Shikai are also allies!" If Sun Wen is weakened, it means that the power of the British will further expand in China, which is extremely unfavorable to the empire! ”

Saburo Kuroda sneered, "Ally? It is said that the British alliance is unreliable, and when the empire and the Russians were at war, did the British send troops? Did that war bring a penny of reparations to the Empire? The Empire fought an inexplicable proxy war with their enemies the Russians instead of Britain and the United States, and the loans borrowed during the war have not yet been paid off, this kind of stupid thing is enough to do it once, only by ourselves, by the sword of the imperial warriors, to create a territory for the empire to survive! As a samurai, you must not only have a sword, but also have a brain, Sun Wen is still full of illusions about Western countries such as Britain and the United States. When the southern people's army marched north, they would rather walk on two legs than dare to requisition the railways and trains controlled by the Westerners, the people's army in Wuchang killed a few Manchus, and the Westerners came out and said a word, and since then the killing of Manchus has never happened again, but the Westerners did not even give Sun Wen a dime! It's funny! ”

Nojiri seemed to understand a little, and nodded: "What does the baron mean to further weaken Sun Wen's power, break the balance between the north and the south, and make Sun Wen feel a personal threat?" ”

Kuroda smiled with satisfaction: "Shina is the size of Europe, and it is difficult to conquer it if you rely only on the force of the empire!" Only by letting the people of China kill each other, when the blood of the people of China is drained, is the real opportunity of the empire, what we have to do now is to make Sun Wen feel threatened at all times, force him to throw himself into the arms of the empire, and then, we will look for a suitable opportunity to kick this nasty guy away and divide up the sea and land, and we can only look up to the sky, it has been too long! ”

Nojiri looked at the mountains outside the window with fascination, and said quietly: "Yes, what a lovely land, compared to the narrow Saben, the mountains and rivers of Shina are really spectacular, and the people of Shina are not worthy of ruling such a vast and rich land!" ”

Kuroda stood up, patted him on the shoulder and said: "For this great idea, let's work together, but the road has to go step by step, and further splitting the south is the most important thing at the moment, Chai Dongliang's sailor is the biggest barrier in the south, and Li Liejun is the elder of the Alliance, as long as the two of them fight, Chai Dongliang will be completely disappointed in the Alliance and Sun Wen, and Sun Wen will also lose the biggest barrier, Sun Wen's high hopes for the Westerners are currently in no time to look east, ignore him, At that time, only the empire can make Sun Wen's political axe linger, and it will be too big and too rich, as long as the efforts of one generation can surpass the capital, only a divided war disaster will continue to be in the interests of the empire! ”

Nojiri bowed respectfully to the ground: "The idea of dividing China, dismembering China, and annexing the barons of China is really grand!" ”

Saburo Kuroda shook his head and said, "It's not my idea, it's Inukai-sama's!" ”

Nojiri couldn't believe it: "Inukai Yi? Is it the dog who preaches the theory of Greater Asia every day and asks for friendly relations with China? ”

Saburo Kuroda laughed and said, "What, I didn't expect it, right? Inuyang Yi said that China is an elephant, and if you want to kill an elephant, the best way is not to bite it to death, but to suck its blood dry, force Sun Wen to make concessions, and let us control the economy of China and drain the blood of this elephant! ”

Nojiri showed a look of sudden realization: "I see. ”

The horizontal flesh on Kuroda's face trembled and smiled, "So, I called this plan 'Vampire Bat'. ”

(To be continued)