"Mr. Nobujun Aoki, I don't know what you mean."

Sitting in front of Duan Qirui was Aoki Xuanchun, the military attache of the Japanese Legation in the Qing Dynasty, and he naturally knew about Aoki Xuanchun Duan Qirui, the former confidant of Yuan Shikai.

During the Russo-Japanese War, this Aoki Xuanchun had been using the identity of the military attache of the legation to contact Yuan Shikai, and also facilitated Yuan Shikai to cooperate with the Japanese to provide intelligence, so the existence of Aoki Xuanchun made the Japanese add a lot of advantages to the Japanese when they were fighting with the Russians.

In Duan Qirui's eyes, people like Aoki Xuanchun are some people who are unprofitable and can't afford to be early, if there is no benefit to them, how could Aoki Xuanchun come to find him, a person who has lost power.

"Duan Sang, I don't believe that you will always be willing to obey Wang Bin's orders, you must know that Wang Bin's seniority in Beiyang is not as high as yours, but now you have to obey Wang Bin's junior, can you endure it?"

As soon as Aoki Xuanchun's words were finished, Duan Qirui raised his vigilance, and sure enough, this time Aoki Xuanchun came to be a lobbyist.

"Mr. Aoki, what do you mean?" While Duan Qirui was raising his vigilance, his face showed an inquiring look.

Aoki Xuanchun saw that Duan Qirui had already shown an inquiring tone, and immediately thought that Duan Qirui had been moved, so Aoki Xuanchun opened his mouth and said: "Duan Sang, the empire thinks that only you are worthy of the territory of the three provinces outside the Guan, what qualifications does Wang Bin, a descendant, have to stand above Duan Sang?" ”

When Aoki Xuanchun said this, he didn't notice the slightly mocking look in Duan Qirui's eyes, as if Aoki Xuanchun already knew that Duan Qirui couldn't refuse this temptation.

"What does Mr. Aoki mean that you want to help me become the governor of the three eastern provinces?" After hearing this, Duan Qirui finally knew what the Japanese were thinking, and he co-authored it to let himself cooperate with the Japanese, and it was estimated that even if this kind of thing became himself, he would have to pay a great price.

"Oh, there is such a good thing, don't I need to pay any benefits?"

"Duan Sang, of course, there are some small prices to be paid for this, but these small prices can make Duan Sang you the master of the three eastern provinces."

"Mr. Aoki, please tell me, what is the price to make someone pay for me?"

"Duan Sang, the empire just hopes that after Duan Sang becomes the governor of the three eastern provinces, the empire can have the priority right to develop minerals in the three eastern provinces, as well as the ownership of iron ore and coal mines in the Benxi area, and the corresponding empire will make Duan Sang the new governor of the three eastern provinces."

Aoki Xuanchun said very confidently, in Aoki Xuanchun's opinion, Duan Qirui turned out to be above 10,000 people in the Beiyang system, but this situation was with the death of Yuan Shikai and the dispersion of Beiyang's forces, Duan Qirui was ruthlessly treated coldly from the imperial court.

From the previous glory to the current obscurity, Aoki Xuanchun has a great deal of confidence in pulling Duan Qirui to his side.

After listening to Aoki Xuanchun's words, Duan Qirui did not answer immediately, but said after thinking for a while

"Mr. Aoki, there are some empty words, you have to let someone in my Duan know that this is where my confidence to become the governor of the three eastern provinces is!"

After listening to Duan Qirui's words, Aoki Xuanchun knew that Duan Qirui was already tempted, and since he was already tempted, everything would be easy to say.

"Duan Sang, please rest assured, the empire has already discussed with the magnates of your Qing Kingdom, these magnates are already very dissatisfied with Wang Bin taking charge of the three eastern provinces, so the magnates of your Qing Kingdom have given up some interests, and want the warriors of the empire to teach this Wang Bin a lesson, after this Wang Bin is defeated by the warriors of the empire, we will naturally vigorously support Duan Sang to become the new governor of the three eastern provinces."

In fact, according to the original plan, the Japanese just wanted to defeat Wang Bin and obtain the ownership of Benxi's minerals from the Qing people, but the intelligence department did not think so, in the eyes of the intelligence department, the imperial army could easily defeat Wang Bin's army.

However, the result of defeating Wang Bin's army was only to obtain the ownership of Benxi's minerals, which was unacceptable to the people in the intelligence department, and it was extremely uneconomical for the empire to completely defeat Wang Bin's army, but only to obtain the mineral resources of Benxi.

Therefore, Aoki Xuanjun had the idea of supporting a governor of the three eastern provinces from his side, and then the empire could gradually control the three eastern provinces, and then slowly invade the mainland.

"Isn't there a need for me to do something before this?" Duan Qirui never believed that at this time, there would be someone who would let you sit here and wait to be the governor of the three eastern provinces, but he didn't do anything before that.

"Of course, Duan Sang hopes that when the warriors of the empire and Wang Bin's army go to war, Duan Sang's army can deal a fatal blow to Wang Bin's army in the back."

After Aoki Xuanchun finished speaking, Duan Qirui nodded and said, "Mr. Aoki, I still have to think about this matter, and after I have a decision, I will tell you as soon as possible." ”

"Then please think about it as soon as possible, once Duan Sang decides to do this, you can come to the rich grain and rice store in the city to find me."

Aoki Xuanchun could see that Duan Qirui was already moved, and all he could do was wait for Duan Qirui to come to him, so after finishing speaking, Aoki Xuanchun left Duan Qirui's mansion.

Not long after Aoki Xuanchun left, Duan Qirui also left his mansion, and if anyone paid attention to Duan Qirui's direction at this time, it would be Wang Bin's mansion.

In fact, Aoki Xuanchun made a huge mistake, that is, he did not understand what the relationship between the current Wang Bin and Duan Qirui was, and Aoki Xuanchun has been smooth sailing since he entered the intelligence community and has not encountered any failures, so he took it for granted that Duan Qirui would choose to defect to the Japanese.

But he only missed a little, at this time some people still have a little bit of patriotism, Duan Qirui is barely a person with a little patriotic faith, and the most important point is that Aoki Xuanchun is too confident, after telling Duan Qirui such a big secret, he did not send his subordinates to keep an eye on Duan Qirui's every move.

After Duan Qirui came all the way to Wang Bin's mansion, he didn't encounter any obstacles, but he came directly to Wang Bin's office after a notification. (To be continued.) )