In the RB Legation in Qing Dynasty in BJ Dongjiaomin Lane, Lin Quanzhu, who was temporarily acting as a minister, was staying in his office at the moment and looking at the invitation on the table and was quite bored, just because the invitation on the table was handed by the Russian Legation last night, and the inside page of the post was only written in Russian, so there was also a blank piece of paper translated into Japanese in the Legation attached to the inside page of the invitation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lin Quanzhu sighed slightly, and then called the secretary and said, "Send the contents of this invitation back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by telegram, and let the cabinet members review it." ”

The secretary took the invitation and respectfully stepped back, Lin Quanzhu watched the secretary go out, picked up the tiger ornament made of mahogany on the desk, looked at it carefully, and then sighed slightly.

When this telegram traveled across the ocean to the RB Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was quickly handed to the stage of RB Foreign Minister Shigenobu Okuma, who sighed helplessly when he saw the telegram and went out of the house to meet Masayoshi Matsukata at the Prime Minister's official residence. Masayoshi Matsukata was born in a samurai family of the Satsuma Domain, his young name was Konjiro, and in 1884 he was canonized by Emperor Meiji as Earl Matsukata.

When Shigenobu Okuma came to the Prime Minister's residence, Masayoshi Matsukata had just finished writing a word, and when he picked up his pen and saw Shigenobu Okuma, he said, "Okuma-kun, but what's the matter?" Take the trouble to come to the mansion yourself. ”

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, today I received a telegram from the Embassy in Qing China, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not dare to do it without permission, so I have come to ask the Prime Minister to show me." Shigenobu Okuma said as he placed the draft of the telegram in front of Matsukata's desk.

Song Fang put down his pen and picked up the telegram and read it, and then sighed and said: "What Lu Guo did this time is a pity that my big RB empire has no face, and the current national strength is not as good, and this matter needs to be treated with caution." Then he said to Shigenobu Okuma, "Please Ito-kun and Yamagu-kun come and meet." ”

While RB was discussing, Witt was circling the waters near Liaodong on a warship, and the accompanying officials of the Kwantung Prefecture Governor's Office also gradually worked out the city plan of Darni in the midst of the quarrel, and the accompanying army staff officers also planned the overall defense plan of Kwantung Prefecture.

Kanto Prefecture covers an area of 3,200 square kilometers, stretching from Adam Bay (Pulandian Bay) and Maria Island (Xizhong Island) on the Liaodong Peninsula in the west, to Pitt Island (Xiaochangshan Island) in Vasily Bay in the east, to Pushkin City (Chengzi Hitomi) in the north, and to the sea in the south. On the basis of the original Liaodong fortifications of the Qing court, the Adam Fortress, the Pushkin Fortress, the Vasily Fortress, and the Darni Fortress were added, and the Arthur Fortress (Arthur Fortress) was expanded.

At the same time, the naval staff came up with a plan to expand the naval base on the basis of the original Qingguo Lushun naval base, in addition to preparing to build a new Darney base and Adam base, of which the Darney naval base will be used as a sub-anchorage of the Pacific Fleet in the Far East, in order to prevent the disadvantage of no reinforcements when Arthur's military port is attacked, and the Adam base has become the anchorage of the newly established Kwantung State Fleet, which is subordinate to the Kwantung Prefecture Governor's Office, and is only allocated to river gunboats and small-tonnage cruisers as auxiliary combat forces of the Russian Pacific Fleet. Assist the Kwantung Prefecture Governor's Office in better implementing military management.

"Your Excellency, judging from the current situation in Kanto Prefecture, we are very little threatened from the outside, but the Qing State in Kanto Prefecture still has jurisdiction over Golden State City according to the agreement." Kolchakin pointed to the location of the Golden State on the map and said to Werther: "The Golden State is located at the waist of the entire Kanto Prefecture, if our Kanto Prefecture encounters a crisis and the Qing State completely cuts off the transportation near the Golden State, then our Kanto Prefecture will face the situation that the north and the south cannot take care of each other, and the east and west cannot stay together." ”

Witte listened carefully to Kolchak's words, and then looked at the location of the city of Golden State on the map, Witte knew the importance of Golden State to Kwantung State, and in the original history, the Russians also raided Golden State in July 1900, expelled the officials appointed by the Qing State, and directly incorporated it into Kwantung State.

"Vasilyevich, you are quite right. But at present, we can't go too far, the English, the French, and the Germans will not allow us to further control the Kwantung state, and if we further persecute the Qing State at this moment, then it is likely to be criticized by the other countries," Witte said lightly.

After hearing this, Kolchak said solemnly: "Your Excellency the Governor is thoughtful, and his subordinates are too worried!" ”

"No, Vasilyevich, as a military man, you are right in your thinking, you can see and raise it to show that you are a qualified military man." Witt said to Kolchak,

"Clausewitz, a famous Prussian military strategist, once said that 'military is the continuation of politics', so in order to become an excellent soldier, in addition to having a unique military vision, you must also have a unique political thinking. I am sure that you will definitely become a good military man in the future. ”

Kolchak said: "The subordinates must study hard!" ”

At the same time, in the official residence of the Prime Minister of RB Tokyo, Prime Minister Matsukata Masayoshi and Foreign Minister Okuma Shigenobu were discussing with Ito Hirobumi and others, only to hear Yamaguchi Aritomo say: "Gentlemen, now the country is powerful, and our country has just experienced a bloody war with the Qing country, although we have received compensation from the Qing country, but the domestic people's livelihood is withering, and now we can only endure it for a while, otherwise it will affect the overall situation of Your Majesty." ”

"What an unwillingness! Many of the Empire's previous diplomatic efforts may have been in vain with this matter, and it would have a very bad effect on the hearts and minds of the people of the Western civilizations. After sighing, Ito asked Foreign Minister Shigenobu Okuma, "How are our negotiations with England progressing now?" ”

"The preliminary plan has been reached, but the English have asked us to limit the number of naval vessels, which is inconsistent with our established national policy, and we continue to fight for greater rights," Okuma said. ”

"Okuma-kun, negotiations with the British must be accelerated. In fact, the British are also very urgent now, Lu Guo's step-by-step actions in the Far East have threatened the interests of the British, first SH and then Liaodong, and the British do not know what else Lu Guo will do next, so the foreign affairs department must step up. This is also what His Majesty meant. Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, who had been listening and did not speak, spoke slowly at this time.

As a member of the "RB Jiu Qinghua" family, Saionji became an attendant to Emperor Komei at the age of 4, and at the age of 18, as a representative of Emperor Meiji, he contacted Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshitsu, and then made many meritorious contributions in the "Battle of the Fallen Curtain", which won the trust of Emperor Meiji.

After hearing this, Okuma Shigenobu replied, "Please reply to Your Majesty, and the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs will live up to Your Majesty's trust!" ”

"In that case, who should be sent to Liaodong this time?" Shan County Youpeng asked.

Ito Hirobumi smiled and said: "Just let me go, I am very interested in this guard attendant of the Tsar of the Lu Kingdom, he is young, but he can always take advantage of the situation, and I heard that this person controls the secret agency of the Lu Kingdom, and his uncle is the Prime Minister of the Lu Kingdom, Witt, and his background is extraordinary." Judging from this person's past experience and performance in the Far East for a period of time, this person is as capable as his uncle, and he will definitely be a strong enemy of our country in the future, and there will be many twists and turns in the war with Lu Guo. ”

After listening to Ito Hirobumi's words, everyone nodded in unison.

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