Enthronement parade......

"They're bold, aren't they?" Yi Shui shook his head, but no one responded to his exclamation - there was no one around him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yi Shui didn't want anyone else to know that he was in secret contact with the three Chinese generals, even though they were all Umbrella mercenaries. Qin Lang once repeatedly warned that the more people who know about a secret, the higher the possibility of leaking it. And if the mercenaries know, it means that Qin Lang knows. Although he always knew that there was no secret that could hide from his intelligence network, that didn't mean that the details could be shown in front of him at a glance.

If Qin Lang knew those details and Yi Shui knew, he would be reprimanded and recalled to San Diego directly, and at the same time, Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng, and Wu Luzhen would be in trouble.

Because of some of their conversations, although the three young people couldn't see the problem, Qin Lang knew what the problem was, and that was exactly what he didn't want to see.

Because their conversation had the potential to influence his plan - "sabotage", Yi Shui believes that his actions have not yet reached this level, but "influence", there is no doubt about it. As long as Lan Tianwei and the others suddenly become smart, or he doesn't control his emotions and says a little more, Qin Lang's plan will be affected.

That wasn't his intention, though.

His intentions...... Yi Shui didn't want to influence, and of course, didn't want to sabotage Qin Lang's plan, he just wanted to fight for a more favorable situation for China. As a person who still has a deep affection for the motherland, he must do this, although now, Qin Lang's plan is still beneficial to China's interests, but sooner or later, Umbrella's interests will conflict with China's interests, and at that time, whether it is out of his personal will or not - Yi Shui cannot see through Qin Lang's thoughts, and no one can see through - everything he is doing now will become a threat to China.

It's just that only a few people have seen this so far, and they have even openly debated with Qin Lang - yes, Zhang Binglin, he is the first. Therefore, he is secretly carrying out some activities, trying to build a force that can confront Qin Lang and the United States in the future - but Yi Shui knows that most of these activities are still under Qin Lang's control, and the comrades chosen by Zhang Binglin are not as smart and determined as he thinks.

However, Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng and Wu Luzhen, just like Qin Lang said, too_young, too_simple, sometimes_native, could not see the future threat, fully accepted Qin Lang's guidance, fully trusted Umbrella's military advisers, and unreservedly accepted graduates from the Zhanjiang branch of the Virginia Military Academy, in fact, giving the armed forces they mastered to potential enemies. Therefore, Yi Shui could only come up with some opinions that differed from Qin Lang's arrangement to the extent that he could do it, to reduce the chances of the three young generals making mistakes, and to reduce the damage that might be caused by the mistakes they had made and were about to make.

This kind of thing can only be done secretly, and Qin Lang can't be let know.

However, in addition to this, Yi Shui had a slight concern: his knowledge was not as broad as Qin Lang's, nor was he as smart as Qin Lang, so he couldn't see the deep impact of Qin Lang's plan—at least not all of them. To make matters worse, Qin Lang's plan always doesn't reveal its full purpose until the last minute, so Yi Shui is afraid of whether what he's doing might in turn be harmful to China.

It's like another sentence that Qin Lang used to say, "All bad ideas have one thing in common, they all look like a good idea until it turns out to be a bad idea." ”

Yi Shui always felt that his guess could become a reality at any time, but in that case, he would become a fool and a laughing stock.

There are many similarities between people in this world, one of which is that when people feel that they have made a mistake, they will do everything they can to cover it up and not let others know about it, to avoid themselves being punished, blamed and ridiculed, or even if they have to voluntarily admit their mistakes, they will first prepare their weapons.

Of course, Yi Shui is no exception, but he can't admit his mistake to his father with an axe like a child who cut down a cherry tree, so he has to carefully hide his secret correspondence with the three generals, and then pray that this secret will not be discovered by accident.

Normally, such prayers are difficult to fulfill, but in Dunhuang, it is relatively easy to do. At least Umbrella's mercenaries and the vast majority of archaeologists know how to follow the rules, and if they are going to disturb Yi Shui, they will still knock on the door first, even if it is open.

Like now, "bang", "bang", "bang", someone is outside.

"Who?" Yi Shui asked, putting the letter in his pocket.

"Zhang Biao, sir." The mercenary on a special mission replied loudly.

"Come in."

"Thank you, sir." Zhang Biao pushed open the door, strode into the room, and stood in front of Yi Shui. "Sir, the Swedes have arrived."

Swede-Yi Shui knew what Zhang Biao was talking about, and when the expedition arrived in Dunhuang a few months ago, there was also a Swedish scholar, geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer and travel writer. Anders. Hedin, an ambitious man, declared that he was going to the desert of Xinjiang in search of the ancient cities buried there—at first, he thought the Swede was just going to do it, but the truth is, he did.

And then he died. No one knew how the disaster befell him, perhaps he had lost his way in the desert, or had not carried enough drinking water, but in any case, he died, and Mr. Hedin's sun-dried body was found and returned to Dunhuang.

So Yi Shui sent a telegram to Beijing, asking the U.S. minister to inform the Swedish government that a Swedish citizen had been killed in the hinterland of China. Finally he received a reply, and the legation sent an investigation of about fifty men with the participation of the Swedes to Dunhuang to receive Heding's body, examine the cause of death, and then send him back to Stockholm.

That's what the "Swedes" mean, and now, here they are.

"Very well, I'll go see them right away." While speaking, Yi Shui had already put on his coat and picked up his hat, but when he was about to take a step, he suddenly stopped again and stared at Zhang Biao with stern eyes. "Your special mission with Sven. Can you guarantee that there is no connection between Hedin and the cause of his death? ”

Of course, the cause of Heding's death must be related to Zhang Biao, Yi Shui never doubted his conclusion, but he didn't want someone to get this conclusion through an autopsy, or it was not so precise, but he still established a direct and inseparable connection between the whole incident and the mercenaries.

"Yes, sir." Zhang Biao's body was tense and straight, "Sven. The cause of Hedin's death was severe dehydration, and I can assure you that the doctors can only come to this conclusion. ”

"Just dehydration?"

"It's just dehydration."

"It's better to be like this." After speaking, Yi Shui put on his hat, straightened his clothes, and walked out of the room to meet the investigation team from Beijing.

Of course, his fears proved to be completely unfounded, and the Mission's doctor's examination of the body confirmed that the cause of Hedin's death was indeed severe dehydration, with no external or internal injuries or signs of poisoning. This result finally made Yi Shui secretly relieved, and the communication with the members of the investigation team became relaxed and pleasant - no one noticed this change, and the members of the investigation team were either more concerned about the artwork in the Mogao Grottoes, or they were absent-minded and did not care about anything, and only became focused when Yi Shui brought the topic to the international situation.

Then normal communication turns into complaining and arguing.

It is easy to understand that the British, the Germans and the Russians, and the Americans, whose relations are now terrible, are now terrible, the British accuse the Germans of still supporting the Boer forces, and then the Americans accuse the British of setting up concentration camps in southern Africa and systematically killing the Boers, and then the situation changes again, and the Russians protest that the Americans deliberately provoked an armed conflict between Russia and Japan, and even made "declaring war on Russia" a condition for providing loans to Japan......

And this was only part of the quarrel, because the Russians would then accuse the Germans of favoring the Austrians in the Bulgarian question, even though this was a cliché, and the Germans would attack the Americans for providing military loans to the British and supporting the British army in creating a humanitarian crisis in southern Africa, so the Americans immediately turned their guns and sided with the British to accuse the Germans of destabilizing Africa and destabilizing the region.

It must be said that Yi Shui did not like these meaningless quarrels at all, although this quarrel was largely one of his instigations, because he asked about the current international situation very inappropriately. He did not like to get involved in a heated quarrel of an international nature, on the one hand, he was an American, a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, and he did not need any reason to be drawn into the conflict, and on the other hand, he did not want to waste his time.

There was still a little benefit to arguing, not entirely a waste of time: at least in the course of the quarrel, he already knew what the British were doing in southern Africa: Lord Kitchener, chief of staff of the expeditionary forces, arrested nearly 140,000 Boers, all women, children, and the elderly, and eighty thousand black servants, and put them in about fifty concentration camps[note], and then imposed a strict rationing system in the concentration camps, providing each Boer with three-quarters of a pound of cornmeal, rice, and potatoes, and an ounce of coffee every day, Two ounces of sugar and half an ounce of salt, then a pound of meat per week - there was no meat for the Boers who had relatives in the guerrillas - and all the camps were severely lacking in tents, blankets, clothing, and medicines, and the result was a plague epidemic, which, combined with widespread malnutrition, made the death rate of the Boers quite outrageous.

"At least half of the Boers are dead, or they are struggling on the brink of death." The Germans accused, of course, of this figure was both inaccurate and excessive, but no one objected except the British.

Anyway, no one knows the exact figures, only that the situation there is bad, the morale of the Boers is declining, and at the same time the image of the British is plummeting in front of the international community.

Although these guys, who made their fortune by robbing, selling slaves and smuggling opium, don't care about their image at all.

But it's not the worst. "It is said that the British army is seeking to acquire more lethal weapons," the Germans continue to denounce, "they have bought very accurate rifles from the United States, as well as portable mortars, and they also want to obtain the ...... that the Americans used in Manila"

Then he stopped, realizing that he was talking too much - Yi Shui was on Umbrella's board of directors, and everyone knew about it.

It's just that Yi Shui didn't know the plans of the British. Poison gas, Qin Lang and Rachel never mentioned it, of course, the two of them would indeed sell poison gas to the British army, and they didn't care at all how serious casualties this weapon would cause, and it would even be used against civilians to create a larger disaster; Qin Lang and Rachel will definitely sell poison gas, as long as the British are willing to pay a lot for it.

The key is the big price.

Now, the only uncertainty is whether the British will have the money to buy poison gas, and the 400,000 troops deployed in southern Africa spend tens of thousands of dollars a day, almost throwing pounds into the stove as firewood. Although the British Empire had the largest colonies in the world and had amassed a lot of wealth from hundreds of years of plunder, it seemed that London still had a problem with cash flow and needed to borrow money from American conglomerates.

Of course, it is still uncertain, after all, the diplomats in the Far East have not been able to get the local information in time, not to mention that the people sent to Dunhuang are not high-ranking diplomats, they are basically small roles, and the information they have is even more limited, and it is not accurate. And on the other hand, the American consortium has already provided a loan of 100 million dollars to Japan, and then it will also give a loan to the United Kingdom?

Yes, American conglomerates are in a position to do so now, but are they willing to do so?

"You're going to take out loans," the Russians say, "and you Americans, now you're a bunch of war brokers, and wherever there is a war, or you can provoke a war, you're going to put your capital there." ”

This view is undoubtedly one-sided and shallow. I must emphasize that Jews do not represent Americans," said the second secretary of the U.S. Legation who was present with a sentence that almost made Yi Shui laugh, "The United States is a peace-loving country. We love peace as much as we love democracy. ”

"And freedom." Yi Shui resisted his impulses.

"Really?" The Germans replied sarcastically, "How did I hear that the U.S. Navy intends to sell its warships to the Japanese Navy?" ”

Here's another sensational news.

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Note: The concentration camps in South Africa were established in 1901 in history, and this book was advanced (to be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )