Chapter 145 Embassy Quarter (Ask for a Monthly Pass!) Read! ）

To most Westerners, the Japanese are completely incredible. The way they use their tools is all wrong; They squatted when striking iron on the anvil. They use saws or planers to pull rather than push, and to build a house first and build a roof. The key is twisted to the left when unlocking: the direction is wrong. The Japanese do everything in the opposite way of others, saying the opposite. Books and newspapers are read upside down, and articles are written upside down.

People sit on chairs, he sits on the floor, and the fish and shrimp are eaten raw. After telling a personal tragedy, he would laugh out loud, fall into the mud in his brand-new clothes, get up with a smile on his face, say something unclear but say the opposite, and when discussing problems, he would beat around the bush; Treat you with excessive courtesy at home, but on the train you violently push and shout, kill someone and apologize to the servant that he has made his house nòngluàn.

Westerners do not understand and find Japan incredible, and China, as a close neighbor, cannot understand this neighbor who is "a strip of water".

In the embassy area of Tokyo, the Chinese Embassy in Japan shrouded in moonlight is surprisingly quiet under the illumination of street lamps.

Ambassador to Japan Dong Hongyuan squinted his eyes and sat on a Western-style sofa in the ambassador's office, the Jingdezhen porcelain cups on the table were steaming, and a cup of newly produced chūn tea was filled with a faint fragrance of tea.

It's night, it should be the time to rest, but Dong Hongyuan is still sitting here, recently, Tokyo or Japan's dark cháo surge, the new ambassador to Japan can't sleep all night, more precisely, sleepless all night.

"Knock ......"

When the bell rang at midnight, Dong Hongyuan glanced at the time, and it was already twelve o'clock in the night.

At this time, Wei Guobang, the counselor of the embassy, walked to Dong Hongyuan's side and whispered in his ear.

"Your Excellency, there are still twelve people who have not returned!"

Hearing this, Dong Hongyuan frowned, and then shook his head helplessly.

"I really don't know what they're doing in Nòng!"

There was a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone, and during the period of his appearance as ambassador to Japan, he noticed that the military attaché seemed to be different from the past, and the military attachés of both the army and the navy in Japan often left the embassy and were active.

"Is there really going to be a war?"

Thinking of this, Dong Hongyuan got up from the sofa, walked to the window, and by the light of the street lamp, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be a person standing in the shadow of yīn on the side of the road, not a person, someone was monitoring the embassy, and there was more than one person.

"Your Excellency, what are you thinking?"

It was a major in a white navy uniform who spoke, and walked behind the ambassador, and Li Tianyi glanced out the window at the shadow of yīn.

"Someone's spying on us!"

Listening to the ambassador's words, Li Tianyi just smiled, this matter is ...... It is normal that the surveillance of the Japanese embassy and legation and even the Japanese club by the Imperial Bureau of Investigation in China has reached the point of human marking, and even the yakuza are responsible for monitoring the Japanese people in various places.

"A lot of trouble you've caused!"

Dong Hongyuan's words were slightly dissatisfied, and even hummed such a sentence, several times from the newspaper to see the police intercept the "suspect", and the "suspect" chose to commit suicide after having no way to escape, he couldn't help but think, who will not come back, it seems that there is more than one person.

"There's a lot of trouble right now, and it's not the main one!"

Li Tianyi sent an elegant smile.

"I think sometimes, the trouble is not caused by us, but more often it is the trouble that we take the initiative to find!"

Dong Hongyuan didn't speak, he just looked out the window, he was a student in Japan last year, he never thought that he would be the ambassador to Japan one day, but now, he found that his ambassador may be ......

Shaking his head helplessly, Dong Hongyuan sat back on the sofa, picked up the teacup that had become warm, and looked at Li Tianyi when he was about to drink tea.

"Major Lee, I hope ......"

When the words came to his lips, he still took it back, the military and the government, even in the embassy, he had no right to interfere with the actions of the military, drinking tea, he understood what he needed to do now.

Wait! Wait until that telegram arrives.

"I heard that the negotiations between Japan and Russia are going well!"

Dong Hongyuan, who changed the topic, asked casually.

"Yes, I think the royal meeting they will hold in the palace tomorrow should be the final negotiation on the terms of negotiation!"

Li Tianyi inadvertently revealed a piece of information that Dong Hongyuan didn't know yet, and Japan would hold a pre-imperial meeting tomorrow! ,

"Imperial Council!"

Listen to the word, Kopazi? Hughes couldn't help but be surprised, he looked in surprise at the embassy counselor Carl ? Lauren.

"Are you sure, Mr. Lauren?"

"Yes, this is accurate news from within the Japanese government!"

Cal? Lauren said as she sat down across from Kopatzi, looking at the ambassador.

"This morning, Prime Minister Katsura has already submitted a request to the emperor, and the meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon!"

"The Imperial Council?"

After a moment's silence, Kopaczi looked at Karl and asked.

"Do you think this Imperial Council has anything to do with the negotiations between the Japanese and the Russians?"

Almost instinctively, Kopatzi's first thought was the two-country negotiations in the United States.

"The convening of the Imperial Council may mean that the Japanese are prepared to make huge concessions......"

In the past few months, Britain has been in a hurry to repair the tensions between Britain and Russia caused by the Russo-Japanese War, and in this negotiation, Britain has the same idea as the United States and France, and a collapsed Russia is by no means in the interests of Britain, and if this Imperial Council is a negotiation of great concessions from Japan, then ......

At that moment, Karl smiled strangely.

"Your Excellency, have you ever considered a question?"

"Huh?"

Kopatzy was stunned and looked up at Karl.

"For example, this Imperial Council is the preparation of the Japanese for another war!"

"Another war!"

Kopatzi instantly understood what Karl was referring to, and he was referring to a possible war between China and Japan.

"Your Excellency, there is no doubt that the Japanese seem to have won this war, but in fact they spent more than two billion yen, and in the end they got nothing, and they were not even much better than Russia as a loser, it was nothing more than a nominal victory, and even they had to spit out the fruits of the victory they achieved ten years ago.

It's no secret that Karl's powerful speech only made Kopaczi nod his head in agreement, but is it possible that it will be so soon?

"According to our analysis, the war between China and Japan should break out in May-October next year, not ...... now"

"That's the previous analysis!"

At this time, a voice came from outside, interrupting Kopazi's words, and the two turned their heads to look, and the naval attache in Japan, Lieutenant Commander David, who appeared to be a British Royal Navy officer, was actually a naval intelligence officer.

"Your Excellency, a month ago, a war between Japan and China would break out in the middle of next year, but now!"

Lieutenant Colonel David, who walked into the room, nodded to Counselor Carr as he walked, and then sat down in front of the ambassador with a slight expression.

"Oh? Did you get any more information? Mr. David! ”

Of course, Kopache would not ignore such a "professional intelligence officer", who has collected too much Japanese and Russian naval intelligence in the past year, and he can make such speculations for reason.

"1,000 yards to the east!"

"That's the Chinese Embassy!"

David nodded, and it was the strangeness of the embassy that confirmed his suspicions.

"In the past period, there have been a lot of unidentified Japanese people near the Chinese embassy, just like two years ago before Christmas!"

"Maybe it's just a coincidence!"

Saying this, Karl couldn't help but believe in this "coincidence" Two years ago, before Christmas, there were many unknown Japanese near the Russian Embassy, who monitored the Russian Embassy day and night, and two months later, the war began.

"Coincidence?"

Shrugging his shoulders, David said helplessly.

"The Japanese will soon be able to repair their warships and captured warships!"

"But that doesn't mean war will break out anytime soon!"

"Unlike Japan's current financial dilemma, the Chinese have sufficient funds, with the Chinese Navy previously received an allocation of 250 million yuan, they are buying warships from all over the world, we rejected them, but the Germans agreed to sell warships to them, because the appearance of the Zhiyuan ship eliminated almost all warships in the world overnight, and all warships except the Zhiyuan ship have become outdated, so Germany sells old ships to China, you can get funds to build Zhiyuan ships, and you may eliminate old ships, which can be described as the best of both worlds!"

In his opinion, it should have been Britain that eliminated the old ships to China, but in the end, under the lobbying of the Japanese, it was also to weaken China, Britain chose to support Japan, not China, while the Germans took advantage of this opportunity to obtain a lot of substantial benefits from China.

"No matter how you look at it, the more the war drags on, the better it is for China, the Chinese have enough money so that they can buy warships from the world, we are now refusing to sell warships to China, but who knows if there will be any changes in the coming months?" Now the Chinese Navy is at a disadvantage, but if it drags on for a year or two, then the comparison between Japan and China will become an elephant and an ant, and the ant will never be able to touch the elephant's ant! So the sooner the war is declared, the better it is for Japan and the worse it is for China! ”

"But it cannot be ruled out that the Imperial Council was to discuss a peace treaty with Russia!"

"Negotiations are in the final stages, is there any need for this?"