The Russians were still not convinced, the Russo-Japanese War was won or lost, and the Russians absolutely did not admit that they had lost, thinking that it was their domestic problems that the Japanese seized the opportunity, and then Yang Chao saw the needle and took the opportunity to take back the Northeast. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Russians had been busy dealing with domestic problems, and at the end of 1907 there was even a civil war in their country, but the rebels were unable to capture any of the cities, and were finally suppressed by Stolypin, which fortunately allowed them to avoid the economic crisis.

In 1908 production resumed in Russia, and although it was affected by the British economic crisis for a time, it was not serious in the end, and under Stolypin's protective policy, the market of the Russians was almost closed to the British, and their own productive forces were slowly restored, and there was no market for them.

Thus, in 1908, the Russian economy was the best in the world, and with Stolypin's reforms, by the end of the year he had returned to its best state before the Russo-Japanese War.

After regaining strength, Lao Maozi was restless again, taking the opportunity of Japan's expansion in the northeast, the Russians began to try to restore their power in the northeast, so in the name of opposing Japan, they began to secretly win over the Chinese government.

At the same time, the Japanese also began to carry out active activities, and they declared to the outside world that the reason why they stationed troops in Dalian was because the Russians never abided by the provisions of the Russo-Japanese War Treaty, and the number of troops stationed in Lushun was always maintained at 100,000, far exceeding the 10,000 limit stipulated in the treaty.

The Japanese said they had to station troops in Dalian to protect the security of the free commercial city of Dalian as a precautionary against the Russians.

The Russian envoy frequently met with Yixuan and Zhang Zhidong, and even sent a consul from Yantai to lobby Yang Chao.

Now all countries have a tacit understanding, that is, to deal with the China issue, Yang Chao cannot be bypassed, just as Li Hongzhang was inseparable in the past, regardless of whether Li Hongzhang is the prime minister or the minister of the Yamen, he has great influence on foreign diplomacy.

Even many countries believe that today's Yang Chao. has more influence and power than Li Hongzhang back then.

That's what the Russians thought, and they tried hard to convince Yang Chao that the Qing government would join them in fighting the Japanese. even pulled out the Sino-Russian secret agreement that had been thrown into the trash a long time ago.

Yang Chao responded positively to the Russians' lobbying, and the government presided over by Zhang Zhidong also sent one protest note after another to Japan, and at the same time kept meeting with the ministers of various countries, hoping that all countries would come forward to stop the Japanese troops stationed in Dalian, especially not to moor warships. Zhang Zhidong said that on the Bohai Sea coast in northeast China, only warships of the Qing Dynasty can dock, and warships of other countries are not allowed to dock, otherwise it will not be conducive to peace in northeast China.

The Western powers also sent various notes to Japan, and even Britain, an ally of the Japanese, expressed their confusion at the Japanese government's approach and hoped that Japan would not break the regional peace.

However, Japan still goes its own way, which makes people feel confused.

"Hirobumi Ito announces reform in North Korea?"

At this time, Yang Chao remembered an old report about Ito Hirobumi passing the reshuffle of the North Korean government. The institutions of the DPRK at all levels were replaced with a pro-Japanese government.

This is certainly to pave the way for the merger of North Korea and Japan, but Ito Hirobumi is a moderate faction, he is a moderate on the issue of Japanese reform, and he is still stable on the Korean issue, and he does not shy away from the issue of the DPRK-Japan merger, but he has repeatedly said that "the merger is a long-term issue", and Ito Hirobumi is not in a hurry.

But after the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese became more and more urgent, and the radicals slowly gained the upper hand. Especially at this time, in the midst of an economic crisis, the Japanese desire to annex Korea is getting stronger and stronger, even if North Korea has long been meat in their mouths, and Ito Hirobumi has turned Korea into a de facto Japanese territory by political means. In Korea, the law is similar to that of Japan, the Korean army is formed by the Japanese, Japanese companies are tax-free in Korea, and Korea has been swallowed by Japan from politics to economy, but Korea is not declared to be part of Japan for a single day. It will not be able to satisfy the psychology of the radicals in Japan.

"Japan is going to do something to North Korea!"

Yang Chao immediately judged the reason for Japan's sudden invasion of Dalian.

Yang Chao decided that the Japanese were going to merge Korea, but the Russians, who had recovered their strength, might take the opportunity to intervene, because after the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians became more and more unconvinced, and they had not withdrawn their troops from Lushun in accordance with the provisions of the treaty, so the Japanese had to be prepared, so they sent troops to Dalian.

Lushun is a Russian colony, stationed 100,000 Russian troops, Japan wants to annex Korea, the Russians want to intervene, Lushun Russian army must be the main force, so here is the focus of the Japanese army's defense, so they not only have to garrison troops in Dalian, but also send a fleet.

"Japan wants to annex Korea, Lao Tzu needs a war!"

Yang Chao secretly became excited in his heart, a timely war will be able to help him adjust the industrial structure of Shandong, solve the market problems of a large number of heavy industrial enterprises in a short time, and also make the current crazy influx of Shandong's self-owned enterprises retreat, delay the time for these people to invest in Shandong, and stick the time point to before the First World War, so that Shandong's industry will not collapse suddenly, and at the same time it will just be able to catch up with the development opportunities of the world war.

In fact, Yang Chao is still forced, the recent influx of American enterprises is too large, and they are all outside Yang Chao's introduction plan, they are a group of capitalists who see profits coming in, they don't want Yang Chao's preferential loans, they don't cooperate with Yang Chao, they blindly come to invest, to expand, completely ignoring Yang Chao's computer-calculated industrial system model, disrupting Yang Chao's industrial deployment.

However, waging war for industrialization, in terms of the mentality of the Chinese, is indeed a bit crazy, and it is difficult to accept.

"It's just that the Japanese are not very easy to fight!"

Yang Chao needs a war, but he feels that Japan's opponent is a bit prickly, not because the Japanese are stronger than the Russians, but because Japan's geographical location is determined, Japan is an island country, and has a strong navy, which means that Yang Chao cannot threaten Japan's homeland, so he cannot achieve a decisive victory.

"It would be nice to be Russians."

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, if it was a Russian, Yang Chao would be a big deal to use an airship to push it flat and bomb all the way to Moscow, would the Russians still not give in?

Moreover, in this situation, China will certainly not fight alone, whether it is to fight Japan or Russia, the other country will definitely fight together, but it is obviously easier to unite with Japan to fight Russia, and to unite with Russia to fight Japan is to drive out the Japanese army.

The Russians, who did not know that Yang Chao had begun to fight their own ideas, were staring at Japan at this time, and they were not convinced by the Russo-Japanese War, and they were even more unconvinced than in the original history, because this Russo-Japanese War was instigated by Yang Chao, and the Russians fought better than in the original history, and the strategic place of Lushun has not been lost, and the Russians have reason to believe that they did not lose on land, but only the shameful navy.

Now that the Russians have recovered their national strength and come out of the Russo-Japanese War, their national strength is still much stronger than Japan's, their economy is at least twice that of Japan, their population is three times that of Japan, and their military strength is more than twice that of Japan.

Therefore, the Russians chose to be tough this time, on the one hand, they co-opted China, on the other hand, they began to mobilize troops, saying that they would strengthen the Lushun garrison, but the Qing court resolutely opposed this and did not allow the Russians to increase troops in Lushun.

The Qing government has this power and this ability, because the Russians must pass through the Northeast Qing Railway if they want to increase their troops in Lushun, and the reason of the Qing government is that there has not been a war yet, and the Qing government said that China will abide by the treaty with Russia and allow the Russian army to enter Lushun through the East Qing Railway in the event of a war, but now there is no war, and the Qing government refuses the Russian army to use the Northeast Railway.

On the one hand, the Russians wooed China, and on the other hand, they also moved the Vladivostok fleet to Arthur.

The Russo-Japanese War, including the war with the Russians launched by Yang Chao later, and the agreements and treaties finally signed, did not allow the Russians to station a fleet in Arthur, and this time the Russian fleet took advantage of the actions of the Japanese to enter Lushun, which was a clear violation of the treaty.

But the Russians were targeting Japan, so they didn't think too much about it, but they didn't expect the Qing government to be the first to stand up.

"We, the Qing Dynasty, have always adhered to the principle of peaceful settlement of international problems, and if there is a choice, we will never choose war. Neither Japan nor Russia, we can accept that they station a fleet in the Northeast, this is our principle, and there will be no compromise! ”

In the face of the Russian fleet stationed in Lushun, Yang Chao jumped out eagerly, immediately bypassed Yixuan, publicly expressed his political attitude, and began to target Russia, he had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

Of course, before expressing his attitude, Yang Chao had already communicated with Zhang Zhidong, and Zhang Zhidong also felt that the Northeast issue was too thorny, and Zhang Zhidong did not want to see Japan and Russia fight a war in the Northeast like last time, and in the end, the Northeast was occupied militarily again.

So Zhang Zhidong immediately gave Yang Chao power and appointed Yang Chao as the plenipotentiary ambassador to deal with the Northeast issue, just like Yuan Shikai's identity at that time, but Yuan Shikai was squeezed out of the Northeast by Zaifeng at that time, and Yang Chao took the initiative to fight for it, the same is that Yuan Shikai was also the governor of Zhili at that time, and Yang Chao is now concurrently serving as the governor of Shandong.

"In order to maintain the situation in the Northeast and deal with any possible changes, the Shandong Road Protection Group will be stationed in the Northeast!"

Yang Chao soon began to move, openly expressing to the outside world that the Shandong army would be mobilized to the northeast.

Even though Yang Chao announced that he would transfer troops to the northeast, the Russians still did not react, and they even believed that Yang Chao's transfer of troops must be aimed at Japan and had nothing to do with them.

The Qing government supported Yang Chao to transfer the Shandong Road Protection Regiment to the Northeast, and at the same time ordered Yang Chao to take over the Beiyang Army in the four towns of Northeast China.

Previously, the Northeast Beiyang Army was scattered in the three provinces, but it was secretly controlled by Yang Shixiang, the governor of Zhili, and there was still a shadow of Yuan Shikai behind it, so it can be said that it was still the Hunan faction of the Westerners.

But now that Yang Shixiang is dead this year, the governor of Liangjiang, Duan Fang, has gone north to take over as the governor of Zhili, and the Beiyang Army of Zhili and the Beiyang Army in the Northeast are temporarily leaderless.

"Yang Shixiang is dead, it seems that Zhang Zhidong is about to die in history!"

Yang Shixiang's death made Yang Chao worried about Zhang Zhidong's body. (To be continued.) )