In the conference room of the Anhui Military Advisory Office, Gao Ming, Gao Chuguan, Lu Kai, He Tianshou, Fang Qingyu, Yang Liren, Yu Qiaqing?? Chai Dongliang's civil and military team was almost gathered, and his manic roar could be heard from afar. The guards outside were trembling, and they didn't dare to had.

"How can this be true? Actually let Lao Tzu surrender the gun! Chai Dongliang smashed a piece of paper in his hand on the table and crackled.

"Xiao Yue has a war book? Then we can't help but continue! Lu Kai, who hurried from Jiujiang, shook his hands and said: "Please give the order of the governor, I will take the second division to Manchuria." ”

Gao Ming, who had just become the governor of Jiangxi, also returned to Anqing in a hurry, and he frowned and said, "You sit down first, this matter is strange." Xiao said that they are all pigs? Fools can see that the Russians deliberately framed us, and instead of seeking revenge from the Russians, they are looking for trouble for us! ”

He Tianshou roared angrily: "This is a pinch to eat persimmons and pick up soft, there are 80,000 Russian soldiers in Manchuria, and Xiao Yue is only a little more than 30,000, I don't dare to fight with the Russians, but I came to find the bad luck of the advance army!" This is called the wolf biting the dog, and the dog does not dare to fight with the wolf, but wants to make up for it in the rabbit! ”

"Fight, there's nothing to say, we also have three divisions idle now, and the equipment is no worse than Xiao Yueben, why can't we fight?" Lu Kai sneered.

"Of the three divisions, at most only one division has undergone rigorous training, the others are all recruits, and the training of officers is still very insufficient, so this battle cannot be fought! I am categorically opposed to war at this time! The Englishman Barnes immediately objected.

"Lao Ba, who the are you from? You sit on your ass tightly, you are taking the capital of Chai Du and our Jianghuai Army, not your own! He Tianshou reprimanded angrily.

Barnes showed no weakness: "Just because I am taking the salary of the Jianghuai Army, I should consider it for the Jianghuai Army, at this time, I will fight hard with myself, and we will be wiped out!" Besides, without the assistance of the Yanjing Provisional Political Axe, how could our army be transported to Manchuria, and even if the army could pass, what about the material supply? In a little more than a month, it may snow in Manchuria, and it will be very difficult to replenish supplies. ”

Tang Xiangming, the commander of the Yangtze River Fleet, said with a wry smile: "It's really a fight, the navy is really not enough to stuff my teeth, let's just have a new ship 'Feihong', which has not been sent over yet, and the other ships are small and broken, not to mention fighting hard with the combined fleet, even escorting transport ships, it is very dangerous!" Everyone, you are counting on the navy, Lao Tzu confessed today! After that, he looked at Chai Dongliang with great grievances.

Tang Xiangming and Cheng Biguang repeatedly asked Chai Dongliang to add new warships to the navy, but Chai Dongliang shirked them for various reasons. It was easy to agree to buy back the "Feihong" built by the United States for the Qing Dynasty, but there has been no shadow of that ship so far.

Chai Dongliang waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't make any noise, say it slowly one by one." Barnes, you speak first. ”

Barnes coughed and cleared his throat, then straightened out his thoughts and said: "I have a mission in Kwantung Prefecture, 27,000 people, and there are six brigades of railway garrisons along the South Manchurian Railway, with a total strength of more than 30,000, and the total strength of the advance army in Manchuria is only 2,000, even if Kuang Haishan's 4,000 people stationed in Kulen are all rescued, it is only 6,000." The strength of the army is 1 to 5, and the disparity is huge. Moreover, it could have been possible to use the sea route to carry out the supply, and we had to take the land route, but the attitude of the Yanjing temporary political axe was very ambiguous, and it was very difficult to predict what kind of reaction Yuan Shikai would make. I don't see any chance that we will win this battle. ”

Gao Ming interjected: "Supplies can be bought from the Russians, isn't that what Kuang Haishan did in Mongolia?" ”

Barnes interrupted him unceremoniously: "Impossible, it was the Russians who caused the Xinminfu bombing, the Russians in Manchuria and the Russians in Mongolia, and the ideas are different." ”

Chai Dongliang was holding an official letter from the consul in Wuhu, demanding that the advance force immediately stop all military operations in Manchuria and accept his own investigation, otherwise the Chinese side would bear all the consequences.

This is nothing less than a "mournful book of Meedun", which is equivalent to giving the Jianghuai army a war table!

His brain was spinning faster than the axle, and he really couldn't figure out why he would refuse to participate in the international investigation mission, and not blame the head of the advance team for the bombing of the train. It stands to reason that the greatest threat to Yue himself is not the advance army, but the Russians, provoking a war and triggering the indignation of the [***] team against him, and the only one who can only profit is Russia. For both sides, this is a lose-lose event.

Could it be that my brain is really broken?

"Governor, ask the Americans to intercede, the commercial representative of the Bethlehem Company has promised to lobby the United States to stop his provocation in Manchuria." Gao Chuguan said in a low voice.

Chai Dongliang said disdainfully: "It's not a big problem to make Americans pay, it's harder to make Americans bleed than to ascend to the sky!" In Manchuria, the Americans could not help but frighten Xiao Yuben. ”

Gao Chuguan was still a little unwilling, and said tentatively: "Why don't you try to find the Russians?" ”

After finishing speaking, Gao Chuguan himself regretted that it was the Russians who provoked the incident, and he hoped that they were tantamount to plotting with the tiger.

Chai Dongliang walked around the war room with his hands behind his back, Fang Qingyu handed over a lit cigarette, and everyone was waiting for his decision.

"Mr. Xiang Yuan, you talk to the business representative of the Bethlehem Company and ask him to lend me five million US dollars, and I will use the tungsten ore in Jiangxi as collateral."

Gao Chu nodded and said, "Okay! ”

Chai Dongliang roared hysterically: "Since others are coming to the door, even if we don't want to fight, we can't help it, Anhui Province and Jiangxi Province will mobilize and recruit 100,000 people within a month!" The whole country is electrified, the Jianghuai army wants to go north to resist, whoever dares to stop it is the Han Dynasty and the national thief, I don't believe that he Yuan Shikai dares to fight with me at this time! ”

He really couldn't suppress his impulse, and after the crossing, all Chai Dongliang's preparations were for the First World War two years later. Controlling the Manchurian and Mongolian monopoly on trade with Russia is a step that must be taken, and without such a huge war fortune, Chai Dongliang cannot support the subsequent development. And this is not just a matter of money, but more importantly, it is more important to give military enterprises an opportunity for development, otherwise blindly expanding production capacity will drag themselves down. But a Xinminfu explosion case turned the world upside down, and the railway garrison actually asked Gu Mazi to hand over his weapons and accept their investigation.

The greatest shame for a soldier is to surrender his gun!

If Chai Dongliang really ordered the advance army to surrender their guns to Yueben, the entire Jianghuai army system would collapse immediately, and the soulless army would be the walking dead, no matter how well-trained and advanced the equipment was, it would not have combat effectiveness.

Seeing Chai Dongliang's appearance, Gao Chuguan said worriedly: "Dudu, have you thought about it, in case we come out of the nest and Yuan Shikai cuts off the supply road of the Jianghuai Army, then we are really all finished!" Six thousand advance troops are in Manmeng, maybe Yuan Shikai can still tolerate it, tens of thousands of troops are between his elbows and armpits, Yuan Shikai will not sit idly by! ”

Chai Dongliang said categorically: "Needless to say, I will also fight this battle to smash the pot and sell iron, let Lao Tzu surrender the gun?" No way! ”

Yu Qiaqing, who had been silent, suddenly stood up and said, "Governor, can you allow the old man to say a few words?" ”

Chai Dong nodded and said, "Just old man, please speak." ”

Yu Qiaqing said plainly: "I have dealt with myself for a lot of years, and my surname is like a wild dog, honest and shameless but cunning and dangerous, but there is also a characteristic, that is, I am fierce and timid." He said that he was doing things like a fox crossing a glacier, first cautiously tempted, if he felt that there was a advantage to be taken, then he would intensify it, and if he found that there was danger, he would immediately stop and pretend to be pitiful??? The old man does not understand military affairs, and he does not dare to say anything about the war, but he can help the brothers of the governor and the Jianghuai army. ”

"Oh, please speak!"

Yu Qiaqing sneered: "Don't dare to say anything else, there are still three points of thin noodles in the business world, as long as I say hello, the twenty-five commercial ports in the country, plus the Chinese business associations in the Americas and Europe, will rise up to boycott the goods!" I'm going to make it impossible to sell a single stitch on the ground in China, and let all their goods rot in the warehouse??? Hum. Without the Chinese market, Xiao Yue Ben has to go to the street with a bowl to beg for food! ”

Chai Dongliang's eyes lit up: "Is your voice a comprehensive boycott of goods?" ”

Yu Qiaqing nodded and said: "It should be an economic severance!" ”

At this time, it was an all-round export-oriented economy, and in particular, trade with China accounted for almost half of the total exports. Moreover, in this era, the quality of the goods is low, and it is only because of the low price that it occupies the Chinese market, which is not irreplaceable. The 21st century is an era of global integration, and boycotting goods will hurt China much more than China, because it has mastered too many high-tech core technologies, which are indispensable for China.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the country's exports were primary manufactured goods that could easily be replaced by goods from other countries.

And Yu Qiaqing is familiar with this set. In 1905, the American government was so contemptuous of the Chinese that even diplomats in the Qing Dynasty were beaten by the police. The humiliated diplomat committed suicide by throwing himself into the river. When the news spread, the whole country was indignant. The Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium headed by Yu Qiaqing raised the heights and shouted, and the country's 25 treaty ports comprehensively boycotted American goods. The textile industry in the United States alone has lost a whopping $20 million. President Theodore Roosevelt, who could not bear the great pressure, in order to calm the anger of the Chinese, returned half of the Gengzi compensation to China, built Tsinghua University, and launched the Gengzi compensation study abroad program.

Only seven years have passed, and Yu Qiaqing still remembers the scene at that time, so he immediately remembered the means of severing economic relations.

"Okay, just do it, if you want to make a big fuss, let me drink the northwest wind!" Chai Dongliang patted the table and said.

(To be continued)