The Kwantung Army Headquarters finally held this secret meeting, at which it was finally confirmed that a military operation to invade the northeast would be launched in mid-September of the same year.

At the same time, he supported the decision to take the late Qing Emperor Pu Yi as the puppet emperor, and the candidate to greet Emperor Pu Yi was also decided, which was Major General Dohihara and his proud disciple Yoshiko Kawashima.

At this time, Pu Yi was under semi-house arrest by the Nationalist Government in Zhangyuan and Jingyuan in Tianjin. Although his freedom is not restricted, he cannot go out casually, even if he has to go farther, he is restricted by the local military and police.

However, as long as Pu Yi stays honestly in Zhang Yuan and Jing Yuan, it is safe. And since the family moved to live in the Tianjin Concession in 25 years, they have lived a leisurely life. The widows of the former Qing Dynasty often came to visit with various gifts.

Including Zhang Zuolin, Duan Qirui, and Wu Peifu are often guests here, and Tu Feiyuan once served as Zhang Zuolin's military adviser in the Northeast Army, so he also has a good relationship with Pu Yi.

And the meeting between Tu Feiyuan and Pu Yi was also very harmonious, and the two sides could be said to hit it off, and Tu Feiyuan just said that he wanted to invite Pu Yi to come out and become Manchukuo. It was strongly approved by Pu Yi.

It turns out that the life of exile in the past few years, the life of being restricted by people everywhere, Pu Yi has long had enough, he is still young, and he doesn't want to be in such a suffocated past in this life.

Not for themselves, just for their lovers and children to live better. Therefore, Pu Yi and the widows of the Qing Dynasty were eager to restore their former glory. Now that Japan has strong reinforcement to contribute money, strength, and troops, why worry about the big thing.

Moreover, the northeast was the so-called land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty. The establishment of a predominantly Manchu state in Northeast China and Mongolia was indeed a matter of course in accordance with public opinion.

So Pu Yi just summed up with the surviving Qing Dynasty bigwigs, and everyone agreed to this cooperation with the Japanese.

Although Pu Yi and his staff thought very clearly, as soon as Manchukuo was established, they would definitely be puppets in the early stage.

However, they believed that as long as Manchukuo was established and there was the help of Manchukuo led by the royal family member Yoshiko Kawashima, they Manchukuo would naturally be able to grow slowly as long as they worked hard for a few years.

It is impossible for the Japanese to stay by Pu Yi's side every day, as long as the Japanese relax their guard a little, they will always have the opportunity to kick the Japanese away and achieve real autonomy in Manchukuo.

Therefore, on the evening of the agreement, the officials of both sides personally entertained the celebration reception in Tufeiyuan, although everyone had their own ghosts, but the atmosphere was indeed quite harmonious.

Just when Pu Yi and Tu Feiyuan clinked glasses. Pu Yi looked at Tu Feiyuan's fat face and became more and more cute, and he couldn't help but think badly in his heart:

"This is a big injustice given to me by God, if I don't scrape more oil on the Japanese, I will be sorry for my ancestors and ancestors."

And Tu Feiyuan also had bad thoughts in his heart: "Poor Qing Emperor, your vision is so short-sighted, when Manchukuo is established, in a few years, we Japanese will have a firm foothold in the Northeast, and it will be time for you to die of a violent illness."

As for who will be the future emperor? Of course, it is Yoshiko Kawashima, who has the body of a royal princess of the Qing Dynasty, and is actually a Japanese at heart.

It was only when Yoshiko Kawashima became the emperor of Manchukuo that they could finally promote the ultimate plan of Manchukuo to be incorporated into Japan. ”

The two of them toasted again, toasting to the successful completion of their respective arrangements.

And just when the Kwantung Army thought that they had completed all the arrangements for the invasion of the Northeast, Li Tie also completed all his own arrangements.

Then at the end of May, he finally made a public appearance in Shenyang, and Li Tie had frequent contact with people from all walks of life in Northeast China in the past few days, including generals at all levels in the military circles who received a large amount of money and gifts from Li Tie, and even Ma Zhanshan, who was still unknown at this time, did not fall behind.

Li Tie thanked the villagers from all over the Northeast for taking care of his parents and Tianfang Grain Company for many years, but his parents were old, and his father was assassinated, and now he has finally recovered from a serious illness, so it is reasonable for Li Tie to take his parents back to Shanghai to live for the future.

Seeing Li Tie's filial piety, people from all walks of life in the Northeast were also greatly moved, and their perception of Li Tie was even better.

And Li Tie was finally able to return to Shanghai with his father and mother after arranging various matters in the Northeast. In the entire Northeast, only the iron egg was left to sit in the town.

However, when Li Tie left the Northeast, no one paid attention to the fact that between Li Tie's departure from Shenyang in May and September, many places in the Northeast suddenly had groups of ringing horses.

And the behavior of these ringing horses is very strange, they hide in the deep mountains and old forests every day, and they don't see them come out to rob houses, and these people who call themselves ringing horses also buy and sell with the surrounding villagers, and their only demand is that no one is allowed to enter their sphere of influence.

The Northeast Army in the Northeast saw that these ringing horses did not do anything harmful to the local area, and at the same time, these ringing horses often sent all kinds of filial piety to the Northeast Army.

Li Tie, who returned to Shanghai in May, immediately devoted himself to the storage of strategic materials, and countless orders were sent to Britain, France, Germany, and the United States.

From guns, steel, and rubber, to pig bristles, toothbrushes, and lime powder. Coupled with the serious economic crisis in Western countries, Li Tie increased the hoarding of food and medicine.

Especially raw materials for hygiene, epidemic prevention, disinfection, and antivirus. Li Tiedu was crazy about the introduction, and all of a sudden, large merchant ships from various countries on the Bund in Shanghai docked at Huaxing Wharf almost every day, and thousands of dock workers worked day and night.

The Huaxing warehouse in Shanghai has also been expanded several times, and even the famous large warehouse in the urban area of Shanghai has been filled with Li Tie.

According to the calculations of businessmen from all walks of life in Shanghai, Li Tie has invested no less than 100 million yuan in just one month. Everyone was shocked by Li Tie's wealth again. It really deserves the title of Li Da God of Wealth.

And the reason why Li Tie is so desperate is because 918 is coming. An even more important thing is that this summer, China will experience a huge flood that has not been seen in a century.

Although Li Tie had warned the local governments on both sides of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River in advance, except for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions that were under the complete control of Commander Chiang, the rest of the provinces of the Republic of China were obedient to orders and did not listen to the announcements.

They even ignored Commander Jiang's words, let alone Li Tie, who was just the head of the small grain and medicine statistics department.

If it weren't for seeing that Li Tie also had the title of the richest man in the world, everyone wouldn't want to offend this God of Wealth, maybe they would ask him to borrow money in the future, and a gelding with big ears would have come over a long time ago.

So no matter how hard Li Tie tried, he was still helpless about it. I can only watch this disaster coming.

The year 1931 was really a year of many disasters for China at that time, first of all, in the first half of the year, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party engaged in two successive large-scale exchanges of fire in Jiangxi and Fujian, and the Kuomintang lost its troops.

Although the Communists took the opportunity to expand their territory, they also suffered great losses, and in addition to sacrificing a few important generals, production and life in the Soviet areas also fell into a state of stagnation.

If it weren't for the 1 million yuan gold ticket and the box of gold sent by Li Tito and Li Kenong, the Communist Party would not have been able to buy the much-needed medicine and food.

Then, in mid-July, the Yangtze River flooded, flooding 16 provinces across the country and affecting 50 million people. The direct loss amounted to $2 billion.

In a previous life, 140,000 people drowned in this massive flood. The various epidemics that occurred since then have led to the misery of life in many parts of China, with millions of deaths and injuries.

And in this life, although Li Tie appeared, and after Li Tie informed the governors of the flood in advance, many provinces and cities have taken corresponding preventive measures.

However, in this society where transportation and information remain unchanged, coupled with the fact that government decrees are not in line with the law, people are floating in the world, and the positive effect is still not great, and the number of people who died directly from the flood still reached 120,000.

This made Li Tie deeply feel his helplessness and insignificance. At the same time, I felt how difficult it is to govern a country with a large population.

In his previous life, he always complained that the government did not do a good job, but today he is the richest man in the country, and he is a member of the party, and with prior knowledge, he still has not reduced the number of deaths by much.

This made Li Tie deeply blame, but fortunately, there were still 20,000 fewer deaths than before, and Li Tie's heart could still be somewhat comforted.

However, in the next epidemic prevention work in the disaster area, Li Tie finally made a difference, because Huaxing Company had already prepared enough important materials such as lime and disinfectants for flood prevention.

At the same time, the current branches of Huaxing company are all over the country. What's more, Li Tie has a good relationship with the warlords of all parties, and the territory of the warlords has also suffered certain losses, and they are in need of help from the outside world to tide over the difficulties.

Therefore, when Huaxing's fleet pulled truckloads of epidemic prevention materials to various disaster areas for disaster relief, Huaxing's fleet did not suffer any difficulties.

Although Huaxing Company has spent a lot of money, the reputation of Huaxing Company has been recognized by the people of the whole country.

After the catastrophe, there was no major epidemic, and the efforts of Huaxing Company were recognized by the people of the whole country, and newspapers from all sides reported the news that Huaxing Company was united and made every effort to help the disaster.

At the same time, under the leadership of Huaxing Company, people from all over the country have actively donated money and materials, and people around the country have also actively carried out production and self-help actions. With Li Tie's experience and guidance from later generations, this flood disaster was finally passed safely.

And Li Tie also made another meritorious contribution because of this, and was promoted to colonel of the special service by Commander Chiang. In particular, Li Tie's Food and Medicine Statistics Department made the greatest contribution, and hundreds or thousands of tons of grain and medicine were transported to various disaster areas through various means of transportation, so that thousands of people received timely assistance.

Because Li Tie was under the banner of the Nationalist Government, the Nationalist Government was unanimously praised by the international community, and Commander Jiang was overjoyed and directly upgraded the Statistics Department to the Bureau of Statistics, which was directly under the leadership of Song Ziwen.

At the beginning of September of that year, when the post-disaster reconstruction work was in full swing, Commander Chiang launched the third encirclement and suppression of the Red Bandits for some unknown reason when the post-disaster reconstruction work had not been completely completed and the treasury was becoming increasingly empty.

And on the second day of his encirclement and suppression, the generals of the Northeast Kwantung Army gathered again at the headquarters of the Northeast Kwantung Army.

This time they held a second pre-war meeting, which was also a pre-war mobilization meeting. Because these generals of the Kwantung Army thought that their time to occupy the Northeast had finally come.