When Witte came to the study in the courtyard, he saw Zagoev sweating profusely looking anxiously at the door on his chair, and as soon as Witte walked into the house, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, urgent telegram from Petersburg." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Witte took the telegram, looked at the hot water on the table in the house, and said, "You sit down and drink water first, it's not easy to come here from Shanghai." ”

Zagoev thanked him gratefully, then sat down in his chair and drank water, while Witte looked at the telegram, which read: "Consul General of the Great Russian Empire in Shanghai in the Qing Dynasty Vasily. Borisovich. His Excellency Witte: By the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Cabinet of Ministers and the consent of His Majesty the Tsar of the Russian Empire, Your Excellency has been appointed Minister of Military Affairs of the Manchuria Concession Territory since the telegram was received...... Depart for Port Arthur today...... All foreign affairs in Shanghai are temporarily entrusted to His Excellency Vladislav as acting ......"

Witte knew that after the signing of the "Lend-Lease Treaty" between Qing and Russia last time, Russia sent the Pacific Fleet to Lushun, renamed Port Arthur, and set up a military and political department, with Vice Admiral Dubasov, commander of the Pacific Fleet, as the minister of military affairs, to manage the military and political affairs of the Lend-Lease Land, and it was only two months ago, why did he let him go?

"When did this telegram come from?" Witt asked.

Zagoev replied: "I came yesterday at noon, and as soon as I received the telegram, His Excellency Vladislav asked me to come to Nanhui to find you. ”

"Is there any news from the intelligence services about Port Arthur or Manchuria lately?" Witt asked.

"Some time ago, a group of naval soldiers under General Dubasov carried out a brutal massacre of a village near the Manchurian leased territory and brought all the girls of the village back to Arthur's military port. The incident was finally reported by a Qing man who had returned to his hometown, and newspapers in Europe and the United States and other countries rushed to report it. As he spoke, he took out a newspaper and handed it to Werther.

"It seems that this is it." After reading the newspaper report, Witte said, "Your Majesty, this is asking me to put out the fire!" It's just that there are a group of unruly naval officers and men that I can easily tame? Well, since this is already the case, it is useless to complain too much, go to Manchuria, go to Manchuria! ”

After Witte finished speaking, he looked at Zagoev and said: "Okay, you rest for a while and then return to the Shanghai consul, clean up, I will go back tomorrow, and then you will go to Manchuria with me." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Zagoev replied.

After sending Zagoevit away, he returned to the conference room and sat down, and said: "Our station has been settled, Arthur of Manchuria, it is not far from Russia, with the completion of the Dongqing Railway, we can return to Russia directly, and it is our leased place, there is no one else but us, and I am the trusted Minister of Military Affairs of Arthur." ”

"Yo, congratulations to His Excellency Witte on his ascension!" Lenin quipped, and the rest of the room erupted.

Seeing this, Witt smiled indifferently and said: "I will return to Shanghai tomorrow to go to Arthur's post, I suggest that we adjourn the meeting for the time being, and everyone should also pack up and go to Arthur, I don't know what you think?" ”

"Vasya's proposal is very good, the things we decided today, Ilyich will sort it out and send it down later, and the other things will continue to be discussed when we arrive at Arthur, and everyone can think about it during this time." Plekhanov said.

The next day Werther returned to Shanghai, and after a brief handover with Vladislav, he departed early on the morning of July 16 on a passenger ferry from Shanghai to Arthur.

Werther stood on the side and thought about the situation in the area of Dalian Bay at this time, at this time the urban area of Dalian in later generations was still called Qingniwa, as the name suggests, it was a mudflat close to the Bohai Sea, and at this time, the most prosperous unconscious land military town near Dalian Bay - Jinzhou and the sea town - Lushunkou.

Jinzhou, the name was originally built in the Jin Dynasty, after the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, it is an important town in Liaodong, during the First Sino-Japanese War, Jinzhou was broken by the Japanese army, and the military administration was set up to implement military rule, and then withdrew from Jinzhou under the pressure of "Three Kingdoms to Liao", and now it has become the most important city in the Russian Manchurian Brigade lease.

Lushunkou was originally a seaside post under Jinzhou Wei, called Jinzhou Zhongzuo, until the end of the Qing Dynasty. In 1880, Li Hongzhang began to build the Beiyang Naval Division, after a detailed hydrological investigation, determined that Lushunkou was the Beiyang Fleet station, after more than ten years of unremitting construction, Lushunkou Port was called the main naval base of the Beiyang Naval Division, the largest fleet in East Asia at that time. In November 1894, the Japanese army conquered the Port of Arthur by land and carried out a brutal massacre in the mouth of Arthur, killing more than 20,000 people. It is now the anchorage of the Pacific Detachment of the Russian Empire and a colony of the Russian Empire in the Far East, and it also has a Western name, Arthur, which is said to be the name of the first Englishman to arrive here.

At this time, the city of Dalian in later generations is still a puddle of mud, in the original history in 1899 the Russians began to build a city there, focusing on building a commercial city similar to Paris, the name of the city is also very Russian flavor - Darny, and also in this year the Russians officially called the Luda lease "Kwantung Prefecture", and later Japan defeated Russia to seize here, and formed a notorious army in Chinese history - the Kwantung Army, As a result, the name remained with Chinese history until the return of the Luda leased land to China.

The cruise ship slowly sailed into the port of Arthur, since the port of Arthur can be used as an important naval base of the Beiyang Naval Division, it has to be said that the natural conditions here are very good, the average water depth is about 15 meters, the deepest depth reaches 17.5 meters, and compared with the Vladivostok port and other places owned by Russia, it is also the only ice-free port in the Far East.

The Port Arthur is divided into two parts: the Inner Harbor and the Outer Harbor. The outer harbor is within the line between the eastern corner of the old iron mountain and the clamp mouth and the water area outside the line between the two lampposts in the port, and the water area within the line between the two lampposts is the inner harbor. The inner harbor is divided into three parts: the east port, the west port and the waterway.

The military port wharf was determined to be in the east port, the overall length of the port basin is 900 meters, the width is 450 meters, it was put into construction in 1883, and in November 1890, the construction of the port of Lushun military port was completed. Lushun Military Port became one of the world's five major military ports with complete functions, complete defense and grand scale at that time.

On the east side of the Port is the Lushun Dock, which started in 1882 and was completed and accepted in November 1890. The dock surface of Lushun dock is built with granite large stones, the dock pool is rectangular with rounded corners, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a total length of 132.7 meters, a width of 23.9 meters at the top, and a width of 21.96 meters at the bottom. On November 9, 1890, the dock was accompanied by nine factories, warehouses, water and electricity equipment around the dock.

According to Werther's later information, there are 3 240mm shore defense guns and 6 120mm shore defense guns, which were designed by German engineer Hannagan and built in 1883 in two years and five months; The Tiger Tail Fort Group has 2 120mm coastal defense guns, 6 80mm coastal defense guns and 2 tubeless guns. These batteries had a strong deterrent effect on any fleet at the time, but when they were about to play a role, they were broken by the enemy from behind, and in the end they could only be heroically choked.

"What a good port, it's a pity!" Witt couldn't help but sigh.

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