"The sun is scorching. The heat reigns over the land, and only the wind that blows from the surface of the sea is terrifying.

Yasumasa Fukushima walked to the window, unbuttoned his collar in annoyance, and took a deep breath in the cool sea breeze.

Two years ago. Although in order to show "friendship" to China, Japan ostensibly revoked the so-called "Kanto Office", but in fact, in the eyes of the Japanese in Lushun, this place is the "Kanto Office" rather than the "Kanto Prefecture", and Fukushima Yasumasa is not the "Kanto Governor" but the "Minister of the Kanto Agency"

Fukushima Yasumasa also thinks so, as a professional soldier who started as an intelligencer, he believes that the expansion of the Japanese Empire to China is inevitable, which is in line with the long-term interests of the Japanese Empire, and also in line with the spirit of the great powers of this era. Principles guided the expansion of the Japanese Empire.

In fact. Before Oshima Yoshimasa left, he recommended another 6th Army general to serve as the "Governor of Kwantung". However, after careful consideration, the Japanese government and the military department finally decided that Fukushima Yasumasa would take over the post of "governor of the Kwantung Prefecture," because the most important thing now was to gather intelligence from all sides of China. Military, political, social, economic, cultural, obviously, no one is more suitable for this job than Fukushima Yasumasa, in order to start a war against Russia, this intelligence general even single-handedly crossed Siberia, making great contributions to Japan's victory in the war against Russia, and now, the Japanese government and military department have entrusted him with the work of intelligence collection on China. In view of the special nature of Sino-Japanese relations, the "Governor of Kwantung" can undoubtedly provide a good cover for Fukushima Yasumasa so that he can easily preside over intelligence work against China.

The current Lushun has been built into a huge intelligence base against China by Fukushima Yasumasa, and if the Japanese spies lurking in various places are compared to limbs. Then, this small building in Lushun is the nerve center that directs the activities of this body, and Fukushima Yasumasa himself is the brain that presides over the work of the nerve center.

In order to enable the Japanese Government and the Ministry of Military Affairs to formulate a correct policy toward China, Fukushima Yasumasa has hardly slackened off in the past two years. Filled with mechanical clocks, he worked precisely and rigorously, military intelligence, economic intelligence, political intelligence, social intelligence, cultural intelligence... In order to keep up with the pace of China, he is tense all the time, there is no way, China's current development is too fast, people have a dizzying feeling, almost every day this family is changing.

Although Fukushima Yasumasa admits that China is indeed changing, and is gradually becoming less weak, he still believes that this country is unlikely to rise in the international background surrounded by great powers, as long as the current international order still exists, then. China is the fish on the chopping block of the great powers, and when it will be slaughtered by the great powers, it is up to the great powers to decide, not by a certain big man in this country, after all, this country is too far behind the times, and the people of this country are awakened too late.

What's more, at present, there are not many people in this country who are really awakened, although the top leader of this country is indeed one. A military strongman who has long awakened. But how can the power of one person compete with the power of the times? He may be able to lead the country to order, but he may not be able to lead the country to strength, which is determined by the international situation and will never change by personal will.

However, Fukushima Yasumasa must also admit that the president of this country is a difficult person to deal with, he always seems to see farther than others, and he not only seized the opportunity to bring this weak country to a path that seems to be the right one, but more importantly, he also seized the opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese Empire, and used the opportunity of Japan's annexation of Korea to plan a huge anti-Japanese independence movement in Korea, which lasted for two years and not only allowed China to win the time of the exhibition. And it also cost Japan a huge amount, and when Japan finally cleaned up the mess and turned to China, the Japanese were surprised to find that they seemed to have fallen into a trap set by the "mad president".

The "mad president" is a cunning guy, this is the assessment of Yasumasa Fukushima, and now, this "cunning guy" has dug a trap for Japan, just waiting for the Japanese government to jump in.

Just the day before yesterday. Nanjing, China suddenly broke a shocking news, a gang of party thugs went to the Nanjing Garrison Command, admitting that they carried out the assassination of Yang Du, they not only showed the guns and ammunition used in the crime to the garrison command, but more importantly, they also reported and exposed the mastermind behind all this behind the scenes, so a Japanese named Kenji Tohihara was arrested, and the Chinese accused that it was this Kenji Tohihara who planned the assassination of local officials in China, And behind Kenji Dohihara still stands the Japanese military headquarters, for the simple reason that because of this. Kenji Dohihara was an active officer in Japan's 6th Army.

In order to confirm the identity of this officer today, the Chinese 6th Military Department even sent several high-ranking officers to Nanjing to identify them in person, and these officers were all classmates of Kenji Dohihara's non-commissioned officer school, and many of them were famous figures, such as Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Xiaozhun. On the other hand, since Kenji Dohihara used a fake identity as a "Shandong businessman" when he stayed at the hotel, at least this, Kenji Dohihara was convicted of the crime of "Japanese spy".

"The Japanese military sent spies to assassinate the governor of Nakain!" This is the eye-catching headline of the German and American newspapers in China, and they don't seem to worry at all about getting into trouble because of it, after all, the matter involves diplomacy, and the British and French newspapers are relatively low-key, although they also report objectively on the dramatic turn of the case, but at the same time. They also expressed strong skepticism. After all, it is very sensational that the Japanese government or military is planning the assassination of foreign politicians.

But the Chinese don't think so, almost. The two newspapers pointed the finger at the Japanese military department behind the scenes, and some even pointed to Japan. Pull. In the past two days, most newspapers have been reporting on the latest developments in the assassination of Yang Du, and Kenji Dohihara's photos and portraits have become the most widely publicized portraits of Japanese people today.

As Japan's highest-ranking foreign intelligence officer, Yasumasa Fukushima knew very well in his heart that this was a trap, a trap laid for Japan by the "mad president".

That's right, the person who planned the assassination of Yang Du was Japanese, but it was not Kenji Dohihara, the unlucky bastard, but "Shima Lang's stupidity, and as the top boss of the two, Fukushima Yasumasa was also inseparable from this political assassination case, because the person who approved Kawashima Lang to carry out that assassination was Lieutenant General Fukushima Yasumasa."

At first, Kawashima Nan informed Fukushima Yasumasa of this through Kimio Nishizawa and the Japanese Minister to China. When the assassination plan was planned, Fukushima Yasumasa also hesitated, after all, the stakes were high and it was necessary to be cautious, but in the end, Fukushima Yasumasa still approved the operation, for the simple reason that according to Kawashima Wave and Nishizawa Kimio. Once Yang Du is assassinated, whether it succeeds or not, it will create chaos in China, and once China is in chaos, Japan will be able to fish in troubled waters.

In fact, it was also the Japanese military department that helped Fukushima Yasumasa make up his mind to approve this action plan, and the Japanese 6th Army elder Yamaguchi Tomo even personally took a telegram to support this action, so as to put pressure on the group of constitutionalist politicians in Japan from the side; in the eyes of this veteran of the 6th Army, no matter what the result of the assassination operation is, it will definitely make the Chinese suspicious, and now that it is very close to China's parliament and presidential election, provoking disputes at this time is indeed beneficial to Japan to profit from it, so. The military supported this action, after all, China had just achieved a republic, and the political system was still very shaky.

All in all, this should be the second assassination of Chinese republican politicians supported by the Japanese military forces, the last one was the assassination of Zhao Bei, planned and carried out by Nishizawa Kimio, but in the end it suffered a shameful failure. As a result, Kimio Nishizawa was kicked out of politics by the Japanese government as a scapegoat, and this time he was assassinated. Kimao Nishizawa was also involved, but it was the same. There was also a shameful defeat.

The so-called "failure" does not mean that Yang Du was not killed, it is not important, and the reason why Fukushima Yasumasa believes that the assassination attempt failed. It was because the strategic objectives were not achieved, there was no chaos in China, and the "mad president" did not wield a butcher's knife at the opposition in the Diet because of the list of "rebels" forged by the Japanese spy agency, and he did not even let the newspapers disclose any information about the list. On the contrary, he actually pointed the finger at the Japanese military department and the government

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But on the other hand. Fukushima Yasumasa knew that the Chinese had no conclusive evidence to accuse the Japanese military and government for a simple reason. The "Assassin Leader" they captured was Kenji Dohihara, not Kawashima Nani. It is not Nishizawa Gongo, which shows that the Chinese are "planting" that they just randomly captured a Japanese spy who had long been mastered by them, and then found a gang from a corner to sue the dead ghosts. Thus, this trap prepared for Japan was dug.

This trap cannot be jumped; Fukushima Yasumasa telegraphed to the military department yesterday that the real assassins who had taken refuge in Tokyo, Japan, must be immediately "dealt with"; as soon as the Chinese gang thugs die, Japan can completely get rid of this assassination case, and then, the government will come forward to deny the accusations of the Chinese with all its might, and further take this opportunity to sow discord between various political causes in China.

But what Fukushima Yasumasa does not understand is that China's "mad president" does not seem to intend to really fight the Japanese in court, he is only inciting anti-Japanese sentiment through newspapers, and now, in just two days. A boycott of Japanese goods has been launched in China's southern provinces, and the movement is spreading rapidly from south to north. Here, the so-called "Iron Youth League" played a key role, and the Chinese businessmen were obviously happy to see Japanese goods completely expelled from China's Big 6 market, and on one side were hot-blooded youths. On one side were wealthy businessmen, and the two forces united to quickly push this anti-Japanese movement into a frenzy.

So it seems. Perhaps from the beginning, the Chinese did not intend to reason with the Japanese, or perhaps the wishful thinking of the "mad president" was to set off a fanatical anti-Japanese campaign in order to create a frenzied atmosphere for him to win a second term in the presidential election, although he still has not said whether to run for the next presidential election. But Fukushima Yasumasa insisted that this man would never give up the power in his hands, since ancient times. No country's strongman will voluntarily give up his rights, and Fukushima Yasumasa will never do so.

Therefore, Fukushima Yasumasa must deal with this trouble, otherwise, if the "weak and incompetent" Japanese government also kicks him out as a scapegoat, then he may be like that Nishizawa Kimio sent people to the fence.

While Yasushi Fukushima was standing by the window and thinking about what to do, a secretary walked into the office.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency Tachibana has returned from his inspection and is about to return to Lushun."

The "Tachibana Ranxia" mentioned by the secretary is Major General Koichiro Tachibana, who is now in charge of commanding all the troops of the "Kanto Agency". That is, the so-called "commander of the Kwantung Army", the day before yesterday, he went to the north to inspect the Japanese troops, and now he has apparently completed the inspection work.

"You prepare. I'll head to the train station to greet Tachibana-kun's return.

At the moment, it seems. We must strengthen the defenses of the Kwantung Agency, and all spies must be reminded to pay more attention to the actions of the Chinese military! ”

Yasumasa Fukushima fastened the button on his neckline, and then, with the assistance of his secretary, put on the lieutenant general's uniform. He has just realized that intelligence warfare and public opinion warfare are always only secondary aspects, and it is the armed forces and the battlefield that really determine the success or failure of the two countries.

Politics serves interests, and the military serves politics.