I don't know if it was stimulated by the seized assets, the Russians actually started a second round of negotiations. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this time they asked for a change of location, and the location is now China, a country in the war, and Beijing was chosen.

Before the negotiations began, there were some political changes in the country at war, and the emperor of Japan was the emperor.

The old Emperor Meiji held on to his hospital bed for a long time, but he still didn't see the results of Japan's expansion of territory.

This old guy's reputation in Japan is too high, and defeating China is enough to make him a great Japanese ruler, not to mention another war with Russia, which greatly improves Japan's international status, has canceled all unequal treaties, and has become one of the top ten industrial powers in the world, ranking eighth after Italy.

As soon as Meiji died, the Japanese troops on the front line lost their morale for a while and stopped all military operations, but fortunately the Russians were unable to counterattack, otherwise they could have dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

After Meiji's death, the competition between Hirobumi Ito and the Yama Prefecture Aritomo group became fierce again, and Yamaguru Aritomo, who had long since begun to retire to the background to preside over everything, also jumped out in person, while making a big military propaganda in Japan, on the other hand, expressing his grief for the Meiji Emperor, calling on the people to carry on the war, win the battle, and expand the territory to show the emperor's foundation is the best comfort to the emperor.

Ito Hirobumi continued to promote Japan's constitutionalism, intending to succeed the new Taisho Emperor is a fool, and at the same time, there is no opportunity for too high fame to promote Japan's hypocrisy system, and loudly call for limiting the power of the king and restraining the power of the army, which is very conflicting with the idea of Yama Prefecture Youtomo.

It was in this context that the Russian negotiating delegation came to Beijing.

It's still Stolypin, his illness has improved after a month of recuperation, although it seems to be serious, but without hurting the bones, the bullet is removed, then it is equivalent to a skin injury, and the skin and flesh injury will heal naturally.

But it can't be so fast, it can only be said that Stolypin is still hard enough, and this move has added a lot of points to his patriotic image and the image of sacrifice and dedication to the country.

Stolypin had just arrived in Beijing, and instead of negotiating, he invited Yang Chao to meet.

Yang Chao said that it was inconvenient for him to get out on the front line, and Stolypin ignored the negotiations and went to Harbin to meet Yang Chao first.

Yang Chao had to meet with him at this time.

Stolypin waved the slogan of thanking Yang Chao in person for saving his life, but no one believed it at all.

Yang Chao also didn't believe it, although after Stolypin met, he first expressed his gratitude to Yang Chao for giving him surgery, but in the end it was inevitable to enter the practical problem.

"No way, we have a pact with the Japanese, we can't betray our allies in a war. We will support Japan's demands and will never reach an agreement with Russia alone, and I would like to ask the Russian Government to understand this. ”

Stolypin actually wanted to reconcile privately with China, that is, he was willing to give up the land on both sides of the Heilongjiang River, and then he would continue to fight with the Japanese?

This idea is still very tempting, but Yang Chao still doesn't plan to accept it after thinking about it, and now letting the Russians and the Japanese fight to the death is indeed beneficial to China, but the Russians will be ruined.

The economic crisis began in 1899, the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, and it was only stable in 1908, but in 1910 it began to start another war with China and Japan, so it can be said that from 1899, Russia's economy has developed in ten years, and even greatly regressed, and it is not even comparable to the level of ten years ago.

Yang Chao found that he was in great need of a strong Russia at this time.

Well, of course, Russia cannot be allowed to continue to be weakened by the Japanese.

Yang Chao is really not optimistic about the Russians continuing the war with Japan, of course, Russia cannot be destroyed by Japan, but it is very likely that an uprising will break out, and it will definitely be weakened even more, which Yang Chao does not want to see.

Therefore, Yang Chao must stand firmly with Japan, force the Russians to sign a treaty together, immediately get out of this war, recover some physical strength before the outbreak of World War I, and then continue to fight with his sleeves rolled.

Stolypin walked away gloomily, and it was evident that he was not willing to cede to Japan four million square kilometers east of the Lena River, even if that land was famously desolate.

However, Stolypin no longer had a choice, and he chose to negotiate in Beijing this time, obviously with the goal of making peace with China first, but if China did not agree, they could only agree to the demands of China and Japan.

Even so, the Russians were very difficult to deal with, because they were known for their greed, and they had nothing to do with China and Japan.

It was already October, and by the end of October at the latest, the north would enter an ice age, and the war would naturally be interrupted again.

The Japanese were already in a hurry, urging Yang Chao to launch a major offensive with the Japanese army in order to urge the Russians to submit as soon as possible.

But Yang Chao refused, Yang Chao didn't want to cut Russia for a long time, and he hated to protect the fighting nation.

And Yang Chao has a very good reason, that is, his soldiers can no longer fight, and he also invited the Japanese to visit it to confirm that what he said is true.

This is a fact, it is already a miracle that an irregular army can fight the Russians for three years.

This is Russia, and if it were any country, it would be impossible for these Northeast soldiers to hold out for so long.

In just a few decades, Russia took advantage of the decline of the Qing Empire to frantically grab China's territory. It has successively seized more than 1 million square kilometers of land north of Heilongjiang and east of the Ussuri River in China. In the invasion of Northeast China, the Russians used all kinds of methods, using political, military, economic, and other means, and also resorted to conspiracy, diplomatic blackmail, heavy bribery, sending spies, and instigating rebellion.

Ten years ago, the Germans occupied Qingdao and the British occupied Weihai, which caused the people of Shandong to have psychological pressure to be divided, and the Boxer Rebellion broke out.

Moreover, the invasion of Tsarist Russia in the Northeast is more barbaric than the expansion of Germany and Britain in Shandong, and the crazy things that the Cossack barbarians in Russia have done can be described as outrageous, slaughtering and even eating the locals, which are widely spread in the Northeast.

However, the Northeast Army formed by Yang Chao is, after all, a temporary army, with 50,000 well-trained officers and officers who have been brainwashed for three years, but ordinary soldiers do not have such careful training, although during the three-year war, the propagandists in Yang Chao's army are also crazy brainwashing, but after all, the effect in the war is too much to laugh, and if the fighting time is too long, these soldiers will inevitably have an anti-war mood.

After the stalemate in the war, the Yang Dynasty began to let the army take turns on vacation, and immediately a large number of soldiers did not come back after returning home, that is, they became deserters.

Put this series of facts in front of the Japanese, and the Japanese also knew that the Chinese army was no longer good, but not only did they not feel unhappy about the weakening of this wartime ally, but they breathed a sigh of relief, because the performance of the Chinese in the war this time was too surprising, and for a time they were able to defeat the Russians without the slightest ability to parry, which made the Japanese actually very nervous.

Now the Chinese are no longer good, the Russians have been beaten into turtle grandsons, and in the future, in this part of East Asia, it is not Japan that is the king and hegemon, and the Japanese army with this idea generously expressed their understanding of China's situation, but proposed that the Chinese army support them to launch an attack, which Yang Chao agreed without hesitation.

The Japanese were desperate to force the Russians to make concessions, and of course they wanted to get more land, so they mobilized a million troops during this stalemate, and now they were all deployed in Chita, and when the conditions were right, they immediately launched a general attack to the west.

Japan's aim was to advance along the railway to the west of Lake Baikal in a month's time, and to sweep across the west of Lake Baikal in Russia until Chelyabinsk, which had been under the control of Chinese troops, so that Japan could threaten Russia's European heartland, first, to greatly deter Russia, and second, to prove to the whole world the strength of the Japanese army.

After talking to the Japanese, Yang Chao immediately called Wu Peifu.

"Did Hirobumi Ito have an accident?"

Yang Chao couldn't help but suspect that the Japanese hitting Chelyabinsk could indeed scare the Russians, and it could indeed make the whole world re-examine Japan, but this is not Ito Hirobumi's character, this old fox should understand the truth of Taoguang's obscurity, and it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to point directly at Europe, which will make Britain and France and other countries have a sense of crisis, and thus be afraid of Japan.

Wu Peifu looked at Yang Chao suspiciously: "The adults already knew?" ”

Seeing Wu Peifu's expression, Yang Chao knew that he had guessed correctly: "What's wrong?" Is it down? ”

Wu Peifu shook his head: "It's not that it has fallen, but that Ito Hirobumi has been assassinated!" ”

Yang Chao suddenly realized, sure enough, if there was Hirofumi Ito presiding, he would definitely not be so reckless.

"Are you dead?"

Yang Chao only cares about this.

Wu Peifu said: "The Japanese blocked the news before, and it was not until Ito Hirobumi died that the news was made public. The obituary was sent to Beijing, and I just received it here. ”

Yang Chao nodded, in history, Ito Hirobumi was assassinated and killed, but in the original history, Ito Hirobumi was the North Korean superintendent, and when he went from North Korea to Harbin to discuss Northeast affairs with the Russians, he was assassinated by the North Korean An Chonggen at the train station, but I don't know who assassinated him this time.

"Who killed it?"

Yang Chao immediately asked.

Wu Peifu said: "A North Korean, at the Incheon pier. Hirobumi Ito fired while inspecting the construction of the port. ”

It's still a North Korean, and it's still the same An Chonggen, but Yang Chao doesn't care, but doubts in his heart.

"Who is the Prime Minister of Japan now?"

"There are friends in Shanxian County!"

Yang Chao suddenly realized, it was really strange.

He has always been very suspicious, in the original history, Ito Hirobumi died too easily, an assassin, a pistol, killed him? As a veteran of the Meiji Restoration, he must have been heavily protected when traveling, and it was impossible for the North Koreans to approach Ito Hirobumi without internal response.

And as soon as Ito Hirobumi died, the most beneficial thing was his biggest and only political opponent, Aritomo Yamaguchi.

Unlike Ito Hirobumi, Yama Prefecture Aritomo was born in the military, he is the ancestor of the Japanese warlords, and it was from him that the Japanese military began to interfere in politics.

And not only that, not only Ito Hirobumi died, but even Emperor Meiji contracted the disease and died in July this year.

This means that there are friends in Shanxian Province who cover the sky with one hand.

It is no wonder that this fanatical old imperialist warlord is in power, and he not only wants to counterattack the Russians, but also further increase the influence of the army!

"Now it's interesting. There will never be peace in the East! ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh.

In the original history, after the death of Emperor Meiji and Ito Hirobumi, the Taisho Emperor who succeeded to the throne was a fool, and Yama Prefecture Aritomo did not even pay attention to the emperor, and the power was monopolized to cover the sky.

"We can't manage Japan, we do our own thing. Which deserters are you really going to shoot? ”

A large number of soldiers were undisciplined, and after returning home from leave, they never returned to the army, and worked as farmers at home.

This made Wu Peifu very angry, when he was in the army, his military regulations were very strict, but when these people left the army, they immediately became scattered, as if after leaving the barracks, they were no longer soldiers, but the war is not over, they have not retired, they are just on vacation!

Therefore, Wu Peifu planned to use heavy-handed means to specially organize the gendarmes to go to villages to arrest people with lists and addresses, and to arrest these people and shoot them directly.

"I can't make up my mind even if I am lowly."

At the beginning, Wu Peifu did shoot a group of people, but more and more people were caught, and there were too many deserters, even more than half of them.

"Give them a chance, demerit once, and punish them again according to law."

Yang Chao sighed.

There are a lot of these people, and they have been frightened, one by one hiding in the prison and shivering, thinking that they will be shot, believing that if they are given a chance, they will definitely not choose to be deserters.

And in fact, they can't be blamed, when they were in the army, they had transformed into a soldier and behaved, but when they returned home, their families and friends expressed to them a sophisticated mentality, what "rich fools only go to the army", "the law does not blame the public, everyone does not go back, what are you afraid of".

These soldiers have earned enough money, and the family wants them to stay and build a house and marry a wife, and once this situation starts, it is not just one or two, but everyone does not want to go back.

"And aren't there many more people who haven't been caught, don't arrest them, and now there are evasions everywhere. They all hid in the house of the seven aunts and eight aunts, and it was impossible for us to use the method of Zhulian, so if we really caught them one by one, we couldn't catch them all. Let the propaganda team go to the countryside to publicize, and those who have not returned to the barracks within three months will be issued a wanted warrant for deserters! ”

Through this incident, Yang Chao believes that Wu Peifu has learned a new experience, and the soldiers have also learned a new lesson, and it is not so easy to transform an idle agricultural society into a strict and meticulous modern society.

Whether it's the upper or lower level, you need to pay the price and study hard! (To be continued.) )