Regarding the request of the Japanese to meet him, Wang Bin was ready to put the Japanese aside for a while.

The first is that today I am really not suitable to meet with the Japanese, and I have no good impression of the Japanese, and besides, this time the Japanese came to ask for some help from themselves in military logistics, just like the Russians.

It's all here to beg for yourself, so let's wait until tomorrow to talk about this meeting.

The next day, Wang Bin was reading some documents that needed to be processed today in his office, and Ma Zikai entered Wang Bin's office and whispered

"My lord, the Japanese is here, do you see it?"

"Oh, so soon?"

There was a hint of boredom in Wang Bin's tone.

"The adult department also inquired, this Japanese is called Ichiro Sato, and it is said that he brought a group of people who are in charge of surveying and mapping this time, and many of them are still students in our Beiyang Surveying and Mapping School." Ma Zikai continued: "This time I came here to let us provide them with some convenient help. ”

Wang Bin's face became even more unsightly after listening to Ma Zikai's words, this Sato Ichiro made it clear that he was using the war period to collect intelligence, and he was drawing a military map by the way.

This Sato Ichiro was originally a major in the Japanese Army, and this time he was secretly sent by the Japanese military to Northeast China to collect intelligence, and he has been spying on intelligence since the beginning of the war, and this time he drew a military map and negotiated a deal with Wang Bin.

But this time, since he came to the barracks to find himself, he was not easy to refuse, so Wang Bin and Ma Zikai went to the living room.

After arriving at the meeting room, Wang Bin saw a man dressed in Western style, wearing a dress with a top hat and a civilized staff, and he did not see that such a person could be a spy.

In fact, Ichiro Sato is not an orthodox spy, he actually came to Jinzhou in a semi-public situation this time, and his main task is to win over Wang Bin, followed by drawing maps.

Judging by his main task, he is actually more like a diplomat.

Ichiro Sato's Chinese is quite good, and his mouth is extremely fluent in Chinese: "I have long heard in the newspaper that General Wang is a rising star in Beiyang, and has also created a number of records of promotion in the Beiyang system. ”

As soon as Ichiro Sato opened his mouth, Wang Bin had a headache.

Although he was really dissatisfied with Ichiro Sato, he still had to hide his dissatisfaction at this time, so at this time, Wang Bin talked to Ichiro Sato with a smile on his face, and his words were full of some good feelings towards Japan.

"Your country, it is very admirable that it can go to war with Tsarist Russia for the sake of safeguarding the interests of Asia and the dignity of the yellow race!"

As a soldier and moving closer to politics, Wang Bin, shamelessness and nonsense are a good skill.

The term "political" was also used by the pre-Qin princes of China.

"Shangshu Bi Life" has "Taoism and Politics, Zerun Shengmin"; "Zhou Li, Diguan, Suiren" has "a political ban on holding it".

But more often than not, the word "government" is used separately from "governance".

"Government" mainly refers to the power, system, order and laws of the state; "Governance" mainly refers to the management of the people and the education of the people, and also refers to the realization of a stable state.

The modern word "politics" in Chinese comes from the same word "politics" that the Japanese created with Chinese characters when translating Western languages.

When the English word "politics" was introduced to China from Japan, people could not find a corresponding word in Chinese.

Sun Yat-sen believed that "politics" should be used to translate it, believing that "government is the business of the people, governance is management, and the management of the affairs of the people is politics." His statement was very influential in China at the time.

However, in this world, politics is always a hypocritical thing.

Politicians will never have principles, no positions, no beliefs, only themselves. Truth, justice, and ideals are but a façade for them. As long as it is beneficial to themselves, they will "talk about finances today, photography tomorrow, transportation the day after tomorrow, and finally suddenly recite the Buddha." (Utterance from Lu Xun's "Two Thoughts on the Collection")

Politicians are often able to paint a picture of a perfect world for people to fall into, and then they will lead you into the abyss step by step.

"Against the will" is the mantra of politicians and an important sign to identify them.

In fact, the goal they pursue has always been the same, that is, how to maximize the benefits, how can they ever "go against their will"?

And now Wang Bin is trying to become a qualified politician.

After the two had some exchanges, they didn't say much politeness and went straight to the topic

"General Wang, this time I will lead the team to some places in Mongolia and Mukden, hoping that the general can give some logistical help."

The reason why Sato Ichiro said this directly to Wang Bin was because he had already known that he had reached some agreements with Yuan Shikai in China, which could allow him to get some convenience outside the customs, and there were many active officers and students of the Beiyang system under his command.

For this reason, Yuan Shikai had already sent a telegram to Wang Bin, asking Wang Bin to cooperate with the actions of the Japanese and provide logistical help.

Wang Bin said: "This is naturally no problem, the relevant logistics supply will be ordered by the official, you don't have to worry about this." ”

After listening to Wang Bin's words, Sato Ichiro showed a satisfied look, this time he went to spy on intelligence and draw maps, in order to reduce the attention of the Russians, he specially brought the officers in the Beiyang system, after all, the Russians did not want to involve the Qing court in this war again, so the attention to this team will be reduced a lot.

Wang Bin didn't have much feeling about the logistical help, his fifth town was not equipped with Japanese weapons, but his bandit suppression detachment still captured a lot of Japanese rifles in the bandits, Calais three or four hundred still available, and there were still some bullets, so it was not a big problem to provide Sato Ichiro with Japanese-style rifles.

Wang Bin in a business-like attitude, naturally obeyed Yuan Shikai's order, and did not give Sato Ichiro too much embarrassment, but agreed to Sato Ichiro's request very readily, and Sato Ichiro did not ask Wang Bin to do this for free, and quickly took out a 5,000-pound HSBC check from his arms, which was supposed to be the reward for this logistics supply.

Wang Bin didn't shirk anything, so he took it over.

But then Ichiro Sato once again took out a check from HSBC that was bigger than before, and Wang Bin could see a check for 40,000 pounds very clearly.

Forty thousand pounds, which is converted into silver, that is a full 300,000 taels of silver, but what does this Sato Ichiro want to do with this huge check?