Since the abdication of the Qing Dynasty and the Forbidden City, the abolished emperor Fuyi has been under house arrest by the republican zhèngfǔ in the Cool Palace, because the palace was heavily guarded, the news was cut off, and the old and young of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not get in touch with their masters.

Therefore, when Gong Qingxiu said that he could communicate with the alcohol palace, Duanjin was naturally excited.

"You" Can you talk to the emperor in the Cool Palace? Duan Jin asked while tugging at Gong Qingxiu's collar.

Gong Qingxiu nodded, but her brows were twisted.

Duanjin asked again: "Is what you said true or false?" The Alcohol King's Mansion is now a birdcage, can you really communicate with it? ”

Kimio Nishizawa, who was standing on the side to observe Yan Guan Sè, walked up and put his hand on Duanjin's arm. said: "Mr. Duan, if you have something to say, you have something to say." If you want to know if this person is telling the truth or a lie, you just need to verify it. ”

"How do I verify?" Duan Jin let go of Gong Qingxiu's collar and turned his head to look at Nishizawa Gongxiong.

"A handwritten letter from His Royal Highness Prince Alcohol, just check the handwriting, our Great Rì Empire has relevant documents, and there are handwriting experts. Since being under house arrest, the palace has been closely guarded by the Republic of China, no information is available, and no one even knows whether His Majesty Xuantong who abdicated is now dead or alive, and it is rumored that His Majesty Xuantong has been secretly poisoned by republican radicals in the place of house arrest, in this regard, it is necessary for us to find out the truth, if His Majesty Xuantong is really dead, we will not find an heir from the royal family.

Nishizawa Kimio's words made everyone present stunned, but it was only stunned. It doesn't matter whether Xuantong is alive or not, the important thing is that once the restoration is successful, everyone will be the heroes of the Great Qing Kingdom, as for His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, it's a big deal to find someone else to do it. Three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged people can be found everywhere.

"That's a good idea! Let's bring a letter to the palace of the alcohol, and say that a group of loyal ministers and righteous people of the Great Qing Kingdom are still working for the emperor, and our banner people are waiting for the emperor to come to the three eastern provinces to restore the country. Guishan echoed.

Duan Jin let go of Gong Qingxiu's collar and said, "Gong Qingxiu, you have also met, whether we believe it or not, the key to you is still yourself, do you dare to send this letter to the Alcohol Palace?" ”

"This,"

Gong Qingxiu hesitated for a moment and said, "It's no problem to send a letter, but there are some risks. Now the Alcohol Palace, which is guarded by the Beiyang Army, the Republican Army, the Alliance, and the Liberation Society, is heavily defended, and the tens of thousands of taels of silver have smashed tens of thousands of taels in this Cool Palace, so I have found a few eyeliners in the Beiyang Army and the Alliance, not only soldiers, but also officers. However, these eyeliners have only been bought for a short time, and it is not clear whether they are reliable or not, originally, I intended to use these eyeliners to come in handy, and it would be a little rash to take the risk just to send a letter. ”

"Indeed, it is too risky to send a letter to the Alcohol Palace, in black and white, if you ask someone to check it, it will leak the news."

Duanjin nodded, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "In my opinion, just send someone to mix in!" It is always safer to use people to spread the word than to use the letter to spread the word. ”

"Send someone in?"

"Who to send?"

Guishan and Erle Dengbu heard Duanjin's words. Suddenly, his scalp was numb, and he looked at each other, dodging Duanjin's gaze.

"Look at your little bit of life! I didn't tell you to go. Even if you volunteer to go, you may not agree! You also rolled your eyes, I really don't believe that you are not afraid of death! Ye is different from you, Ye has been in the ghost gate twice, once in Huangnigang, once in Chengdu, Ye is not afraid of death, you dare not go, Ye go by himself! ”

Duanjin's words made Guishan and Erle Dengbu breathe a sigh of relief, and they both set their eyes on Gong Qingxiu.

Gong Qingxiu was secretly shocked in his heart, he really didn't expect Duanjin to be so bold and dare to enter the Longtan Tiger's Den alone, which was contrary to his original plan, and also contrary to the original intention of the task he received.

Gong Qingxiu is indeed a talent in Jiangxi, but he is not Zhao Erxun's guest, and he has never even seen the face of the governor of Sichuan. The words he said to Duanjin and the others just now were all lies, and even his name was fake!

Gong Qingxiu's real identity is an intelligence officer of the Republican Army. Codenamed "Tieqiao" belongs to the Fifth Division of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and is the head of the Tianjin Northern Intelligence Station, and the "Wuhu Trading Company" is one of the liaison offices of the intelligence station

Yes.

The person who sent Gong Qingxiu to the north was none other than Zhao Bei, the commander-in-chief of the Republican Army, and this so-called "restoration fund" was also a scam planned by Zhao Bei himself.

The "Restoration Fund" is just a fragrant bait, which is used to catch big fish, but it is not Duanjin.

The big fish that Zhao Bei wants to catch is in the Northeast, which is the so-called "Eight Banners outside the Guan"

Since the revolution, under the protection of Rì himself, a group of Guanwai bannermen led by Gong Wang Fuwei and Su Wang Shanzhi jumped up and down, very actively, and this situation aroused great concern and jǐng ti in Zhao Bei.

In the history that Zhao Bei is familiar with, after the Xinhai Revolution, there was no "Eight Banners outside the Guan" in the Northeast until the "918 Incident", and there has never been a puppet regime such as "Manchukuo" in the Northeast Rì本zhèngfǔ was surprised to discover the "external strength and middle cadre" of the European and American powers, so Rìben then had the courage to support a catty in the northeast region. "Manchukuo" and accelerated the pace of encroachment on China.

However, in this space-time plane, due to the intervention of Zhao Bei, history has changed a lot, the Qing Dynasty fell two years early, Yuan Shikai failed to achieve the same strong position and influence as in history, and the central authority of the Republic of China was prematurely challenged by the south. The strong anti-British stance of the Republican Army led the Entente bloc to vacillate in its diplomatic stance towards China. Nationalism and nationalism in modern times also spread among the people in advance because of Zhao Bei, and the central China region centered on Wuhan has replaced Guangzhou and Kunming in southern China as the revolutionary holy places where the revolutionary forces and the center of the Beiyang are in a state of confrontation." All this shows that the storm set off by the "madmen of the Far East" has obviously changed the course of history, and no one knows where history will go.

In the words of a traverser, this is the so-called "butterfly effect"

As a evidence of the "butterfly effect", the "Eight Banners outside the Guan" has risen, although at present, the claws, the door, and their restoration actions are still only on the lip service, but no one dares to dare. Take it lightly. Zhao Bei paid special attention to the actions of this group of old and young people.

The activity of the Eight Banners outside the Guanxi made Zhao Bei a little worried, he was worried that the "918 Incident" might be staged in the northeast region in advance, if so, what would be the attitude of the Entente bloc? After all, the relationship between Zhao Bei and Britain is very stiff, and Britain, as the core country of the Entente bloc, has absolute dominance in the bloc, and it is still an ally with Rì, who can guarantee that Britain will not be affected by this. The "918 Incident" of the times took a sideline stance?

Britain's diplomatic stance in the Far East has always been to "maintain the balance of power", and it does not want to see either the overpowering or the sudden decline of the Britain, because the Rì is the watchdog that Britain raised in the Far East, and this dog must keep an eye not only on Russia, but also on the rising United States. Although Russia had been weakened by the Russo-Russian War, the United States was growing stronger, so Britain did not mind, if possible, of giving up some of its interests in China to feed its own capital, so that it would have enough strength to guard the Far East for Britain.

If the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai take a substantial action to restore the country, and rìben is behind the scenes. The attitude of the UK will become important.

Who can guarantee that Britain will not sacrifice China to satisfy its greed? Britain doesn't need to explicitly support Rìben, it just needs to take a "non-interference" position, for Britain anyway. The current Northeast China is not its sphere of influence, but the forbidden merchants of Rìben and Russia. And these two countries are precisely members and associate members of the Entente group, and if they acquiesce in their partition of the northeast, it may not be a way to consolidate the "friendship" of the Entente group.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages, Zhao Bei will inevitably offend Britain while moving closer to Germany, although this is not what he wants to see, but as long as Britain is still firmly supporting Yuan Shikai, he cannot abandon it

Country.

If Britain is offended, once a crisis similar to the "September 18 Incident" occurs in the northeast, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, Zhao Bei decided to prepare in advance to deal with the possible crisis in the northeast, and for this reason, he personally planned and implemented the "Manjuro Punishment". The purpose is to penetrate one's own intelligence personnel into the "Eight Banners outside the Guanwai" and to know oneself and the other.

In fact, after the assassination attempt by Duanjin and others, they tortured Guishan, Erle Dengbu and others. Zhao Bei learned that although Duanjin's actions were not directly related to the "Eight Banners outside the Guan", this person had the same goal as the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, that is, to restore the Manchu Dynasty, so, theoretically. If Duan Jin is let go, he is likely to set up a line with the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, then this is a bridge, a bridge that can break the Republican Army intelligence officers into the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai.

Zhao Bei was not worried that Duanjin would not be able to contact the Eight Banners outside Shangguan, because there was Nishizawa Gongxiong himself by his side, if Nishizawa Gongxiong did not have a background in the military department or the intelligence department. It is impossible for him to participate in Duanjin's conspiracy, and there must be the shadow of the Rì Ben zhèngfǔ and the military department behind the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai, for the sake of Rì Ben's expansion plan. Rì himself would almost certainly have co-opted anyone at his disposal, King Gong and King Su were the targets of Rì's own wooing, and Duan Jin was certainly the target of Rì himself, and Rì himself might have brought these two groups of Manchu diehards acting separately into convergence.

And this is the only reason why Zhao Bei must let Nishizawa Gongxiong and Duanjin "escape" together, after the escape they have nowhere to go, there are wanted notices everywhere, they can only go to the northeast, hiding under the wing of Rì himself to seek refuge, and the northeast region is also the activity area of the Eight Banners outside the Guan.

As long as Kimao Nishizawa introduces Duanjin to the "Eight Banners outside the Kansai." "Zhao Bei can find an opportunity to insert his intelligence agent into this organization. All that's missing is bait.

So there was Zhao Erxun's "blood letter" so there was a fire in the model prison, from the very beginning, this small "Manruluo sentence" was arranged seamlessly, in order to lure Duan Jin to take the bait, Zhao Bei even sent a sum of activity funds to the Tianjin Intelligence Station, as an intelligence officer defected to the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai "Surrender Certificate." ”

That activity was financed by the so-called "Restoration Fund." The remaining amount is also the "road silver" in Zhao Erxun's blood book.

In order to assist the work of the intelligence department, Zhao Bei also made a series of small actions, not only escorted all the guests of Zhao Erxun's shogunate to Xikang, but also forged a county letter of confession to confuse Duanjin, and in order to prevent exposure, he even ordered someone to bring a photo of Zhao Erxun. handed over to the "Iron Bridge" As for Zhao Erxun's family, including Zhao Erfeng, the minister of Kawabe, they will also be under special "protection" by the Republican Army.

The task assigned by Zhao Bei to the "Iron Bridge" is very clear: find a way to gain the trust of Duanjin, if Duanjin contacts the Eight Banners outside the Guan, find a way to blend in and obtain the necessary information, if the other party cannot get the absolute trust, then find a way to kill the soul of the Eight Banners outside the Guan, so that the group of dragons is leaderless.

Therefore, Gong Qingxiu's task is not to assist Duanjin to infiltrate the Cool Palace, but to follow Duanjin to the northeast as soon as possible and set up an online with the Eight Banners outside the Guanwai.

But now, Duanjin's request deviated from the main line of the task, and he actually planned to go to the Alcohol Palace's Mansion to meet the Xuantong Emperor who abolished it.

"How? Qingxiu, can you help me get into the Alcohol Palace? ”

Duan Jin's words interrupted Gong Qingxiu's thoughts. Let him be slightly chilled.

"It's nothing to send a letter, but it's not easy to get a big living person into the heavily guarded Alcohol Palace. You might as well wait two days. Wait for me to explore the way. ”

Gong Qingxiu didn't say anything to death, after all, he was the head of the Northern Intelligence Station, and there was a way to mobilize the Republican troops stationed in the Alcohol Palace, but this matter was indeed too risky, and it was necessary to obtain the permission of the commander-in-chief.

Just now, in order to win the trust of these Manchu restorationists, Gong Qingxiu had no choice but to bring out the signboard of the Alcohol Palace, but it caused the current passive situation, which was not his original intention.

In the words of the commander-in-chief, intelligence warfare is a special battlefield, and there is not much smoke of gunpowder on this battlefield, only deceit, and only frightening every step; if we want to live on this battlefield for a long time, we need not only to be cautious, but also to adapt to changes.

"If the commander-in-chief brings more funds. It doesn't have to be so troublesome. , do you want to take them into the Alcohol Palace, or find a way to kill them? But kill them, and the mission fails. ”

Gong Qingxiu's mind was racing, but she didn't notice that the back of her clothes was already dripping with sweat.