The weather is different from place to place: daytime has a daytime scene, and nighttime has the characteristics of night. If a person who is accustomed to the dry spring in the north comes to Shanghai at the end of April, the whole person will definitely become very depressed, Shanghai at the end of April and early May is rainy, and the rainy day will always make people feel a little depressed.

It's midnight, the street lights in Pudong are still on, the French plane trees on both sides of the street that have been in their infancy because of the transplanting of the capital, have just replanted some plane trees that are only three or four years old, at this time the people in the emerging city of Pudong have not yet fallen asleep, or rather, they still have not woken up from the excitement, today when their eyes opened, the overwhelming news, the extra, is the news that the Guards sent troops to North Korea, this is the first time since the first no-day war, the first time the Chinese [***] team went out to fight, although it has not yet won or lost, But three out in one day.

The news that the Korean Guards Regiment marched into North Korea for 100 miles really made the people excited, if it was in other cities, maybe there would be a lantern parade that night, but in Pudong, a new city with street lights on every street, naturally there was no need to hold a lantern parade, but the parade was always held, and after the parade, propaganda posters and slogans could be seen everywhere in the streets of Pudong.

For such "mass activities", it seems that people have changed from strangeness to habit, and even become enjoying this kind of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people parade, the atmosphere can be infectious, in this parade, people can experience a long-lost sense of pride as Chinese.

But even the most exuberant people get tired, and after ten o'clock in the evening, the once-noisy city unconsciously and naturally enters another process...... The only thing that sleeps is the patriotic propaganda posters sponsored by "private institutions" on the streets, which tell the hustle and bustle of the city before.

Every day, a steady stream of military supplies is sent from Pudong, China's largest industrial base, to the port, and then transported to Yuxikou and Wuhan by cement ships and iron-hulled ships, and then forwarded by train to the Northeast Battlefield.

On the news column on the street, in addition to the patriotic propaganda posters, there are also posters of "cooperation between the police and the people, anti-annihilation and anti-espionage", in the posters and street dramas, Han annihilation and spies are always the protagonists, in order to let the people have the mind that everyone is contributing to the war, so as not to stay away from the war, and finally produce an attitude of indifference.

Next to the lighted streetside cupboard, Mei Enping first glanced at the poster posted on the wall, "Han Jian is by your side", and then moved a few steps to the glass window, inside the glass window was a model of a Guards soldier wearing a steel helmet, and behind the model were rows of military portraits.

Standing in front of the glass window, Mei Enping saw his appearance appear under the steel helmet, and in an instant, he was originally wearing a suit, but he became a guard soldier with a loaded gun.

"China needs you!"

Looking at himself in the mirror, and then looking at the sentence above, Mei Enping sighed helplessly, and then he glanced into the distance, under the street lamp, a man in a top hat was walking towards him, the person was getting closer and closer, but he was still looking at himself in the glass window.

"Hey, you're going to be a soldier, aren't you? Carry a gun, go to the front line, protect the country, and defend the king......"

"Then I'm better at home......"

Listening to the words behind him, Mei Enping swallowed in the interval between speaking, but this time the tone of his voice had lost the passion of the past.

"What's wrong with you?"

Shao Qingshan still noticed that he seemed to have undergone some changes today.

"How so...... The money is in place, and the people are in place, but it's ...... I always wondered if something was going to happen! ”

Wiping his sweaty neck, he shook his head silently, as if to confirm his worst guess.

"If you want to stop now, I'm afraid you're in a hurry?"

"There is no turning back when you open the bow!"

Nodding, of course he knew this, in fact, even if he stopped now, he was afraid that he would ...... "Sir, do you think Fan Gao is ...... him"

Shao Qingshan still had some doubts in his heart, how could a person like Fan Gaotou be easily persuaded to participate in tonight's riot?

"Alas, you don't know, Fan Gaotou, he ...... If he doesn't do it, he won't last a few days, and the Investigation Bureau will take him down, and the Investigation Bureau will control some people, and then crack down on some people, Fan Gaotou is not their person! ”

As a member of the judicial committee of the Shanghai County Consultative Bureau, Mei Enping naturally knows some inside stories about the judiciary, and even in this China, which claims to crack down on all gangster activities, gangsters are still useful, especially for such a "hooligan" regime.

"Sir, when are we going to ......?"

"Wait, let's go again after two days, go to him at this time, it's easy to arouse the suspicion of others......"

As he spoke, he cast his eyes into the distance, and in a few days, a thunderclap would sound on the flat ground in Shanghai, and when the fire brigade and police rushed there, Shanghai would be ...... Make a revolution!

After putting more than 2,000 yuan in his pocket and then preparing some documents, Liu Xin quietly left the clinic through the back door. The next step is to go to the gun shop opposite to buy weapons.

The vast majority of Chinese do not like weapons, which may not be unrelated to thousands of years of education, in Chinese history there are only two dynasties prohibiting the private possession of weapons, one is the Mongol Yuan, the other is the Manchu Qing, both are motivated by the prevention of Han riots, after the establishment of the ruling axe, whether to allow the private to hold weapons, to a certain extent, is equivalent to the restoration of national rights and interests, the civil naturally opened the gun ban, but the corresponding introduction of some restrictions on surnames.

Now that the gun ban was opened, gun shops naturally came into being, and most of the weapons sold in the gun shops were old-fashioned old weapons, mainly the millions of old weapons of all kinds purchased by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

There, Liu Xin gave the salesman a lot of problems: he asked for two easy-to-carry Browning pistols, 100 rounds of ammunition, a double-barreled shotgun, and shotguns loaded with deer bullets, and also took a thin leather strap made of shoulder straps, the reason why he chose these weapons was purchased according to the requirements of the bureau, in order to leave some evidence.

After buying the weapon, he left the gun shop on his bicycle to get to his friend before midnight.

"You know, it doesn't look very obvious!"

Wei Kecheng looked at the opening of the elbow and said.

"Now I'm a little worried......"

Liu Xin lifted his puffy eyelids with some difficulty and looked at his friend.

"Do you think we're really doing the right thing?"

A silent silence followed. Wei Kecheng looked at his friend seriously, and after a while he smiled.

"As you said, for an emperor like that, if we don't shoot, he will never listen to the people......"

As soon as he spoke, he showed his two slightly larger front teeth.

"That's why we have to use the sound of gunfire to remind him of the people's demands."

"You ......"

Looking at his friend, Liu Xin sighed secretly, he brought it in by himself, is this really correct?

"I ......"

The two of them fell silent, Liu Xin knew that Wei Kecheng was more of an idealist than himself, initially he had opposed a riot at this time, but in the end he was persuaded by Mei Enping, and in this process, he played a role in fueling the flames, perhaps, he would ...... "What if we die?" ”

Faced with this question, Wei Kecheng was silent for a while, and then looked at his friend seriously and said.

"Revolution,...... There will be no bloodshed in the revolution! We are dying for the future of this country! ”

"Whether we succeed or not, you and I will be a great credit to the country!"

Liu Xin stared at his friend and said with a pun, the two of them are completely different skills!

"I think...... It should be a great credit to the compatriots of the whole country, even if it fails, at least we can tell the emperor and the people that the voice of the republic will never sink because of the imperial system! ”

He picked up a Browning pistol from the table.

"In fact, I have always believed that every Chinese should not only understand the meaning of the republic, but likewise, every Chinese, or at least have a gun!"

"Why? ……”

"No guns!"

Wei Kecheng sighed sadly and said.

"The people will not rebel against the tyrant!"

Agreeing, he nodded, and walked over to his friend.

"Yes, but if everyone knows the republic, do they need weapons?"

"If that's the case, it's all the more necessary, only the people have weapons to resist the scholars who might usurp power! …… I'm a republican,"

Speaking of this, Wei Kecheng suddenly stopped loading the shotgun, and his expression became a little heavy.

"When I was studying in the United States, I traveled to some countries in South America, so although I believe in republicanism, I also know that republics are not a panacea, and sometimes political parties are more deceptive than emperors, because it pretends to be ...... history."

After loading the shotgun, Wei Kecheng suddenly fell silent and said.

"I hope that in the future, if China really establishes a republic, the last thing I want to see will never happen here......"

"Definitely not!"

This sentence Liu Xin said is full of confidence, China cannot establish a republic, only the shield and sword of the empire exist, they will ensure that the country will never be subverted by any force, whether it is the empire or the republic, the current empire is elected by the people, it is given by the people, as Chinese, they must fulfill their duties and defend the country as the shield and sword of the empire.

Putting the double-barreled shotgun produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Factory on the table, Wei Kecheng glanced out the window and muttered two words on his lips.

"Revolution!"

"There is no doubt that this will be a riot!"

In the imperial palace in the center of Nanjing, Zhang Jing looked at His Majesty sitting behind the table and reported softly.

"A rebellion planned by Zai himself and with the cooperation of the Investigation Bureau!"

In order to completely wipe out those republicans, he did not hesitate to borrow himself to launch a rebellion in Shanghai, so that he would have sufficient reasons to arrest all the republicans in the country.

I'm afraid that there won't be enough prisons in the northwest by then!

This will Zhang Jing sigh at the scale of the prison, how many people will the Investigation Bureau arrest this time, a thousand? Two thousand? At least 3,000 people will be arrested, and who will blame the Bureau of Investigation then? There will be no one who will sympathize with those who cooperate with the enemy, no one will sympathize with Han Jian, and in the end, under the trial of the court, those republicans will become sinners in China, and even become the public enemies of the whole people who everyone shouts and beats.

What will Cha Zhiqing and his Bureau of Investigation get?

In the face of Zha Zhiqing's report, Chen Moran didn't say anything, just half-closed his eyes.

Hundreds of schools of thought contend, leading the snake out of the hole!

For some reason, the thought came to his mind that in the past nearly 11 months, public opinion in China has been unprecedentedly liberalized, and anyone can find his own opinion in the newspapers, and it is the free expression of this opinion that has enabled Zha Zhiqing to build a file of "potential internal enemies", and now he wants to use a rebellion to wipe out those people at the root.

Although deep down I didn't want to see that scene, I ...... Raising his head, Chen Moran looked at Zhang Jing in front of him.

"Are the Russians ready to do it?"

At this time, he would rather choose to ignore, maybe ignoring, turning a blind eye is the best choice, people will always make self-interested choices, and Chen Moran is no exception.

His Majesty's question made Zhang Jing stunned for a moment, and then he understood the reason why His Majesty asked this question, and His Majesty did not want to get involved in this matter, in other words. He didn't even want to know if it was up to them, like this, or if it was up to them, as for Your Majesty...... He is always right and away from any intrigues.

"Your Majesty, the recent frequent movements of the Russian army in the coastal area, we have reason to believe that the Russian army is very likely to launch an attack on North Korea in the near future......"

Looking up at His Majesty, Zhang Jing then added.

"Now that 100,000 people have been re-recruited in the country, in addition to the losses of the supplementary troops, three new reserve divisions have been formed, according to the analysis, the human resources of the country have been exhausted, although its industrial production has not been affected, but its agricultural production has been conscripted into the army due to a large number of laborers, so that there are still about 70 percent of the cultivated land in this year's farmland that has not yet been transplanted, because the planting period has been delayed, this year's rice output will be reduced by 3 to 40 percent......

Chen Moran just nodded when Zhang Jing reported on the intelligence of the book, he liked to hear the news that the book had suffered such and such blows, and even every time he saw the report of the annihilation of the enemy, he would always have a sense of revenge in Nanjing, that is, in this city, in another time and space, hundreds of thousands of compatriots were slaughtered by the army, and now he is just getting back some interest.

If, if the main force of the Manchurian Army can be completely annihilated, 300,000 people...... This can be regarded as a return to the capital, but he can't, this war can play a weakened Russia, but not a seriously weakened capital, China also needs to win the Russo-Russian war, appear in front of the United States as a victor, only in this way, China can maximize its interests, so as to use American technology and funds to rapidly modernize the country.

"And what about the Navy?"

Thinking of this, Chen Moran asked.

"Your Majesty, now the Combined Fleet is still training in Zhenwan, and there is no movement now!"

"Town Bay ......"

Whispering this term, Chen Moran knew that after he had repaired the warship, the Combined Fleet went to Zhenwan on the west coast of Korea, where it trained hard and waited for the Second Pacific Fleet to meet the Russians, and the method of operation was a seven-stage operation formulated by Akiyama Shinyuki, along the narrow Saiben Sea, from the Tsushima Strait to Vladivostok, a total of seven attacks were prepared.

God willing, this navy must not make any changes!

A big reason why I pray in my heart is because I have to win the naval battle, and only if I win the naval battle, China will be useful to Russia and the United States, otherwise China is just a pawn that can be discarded at any time.

"Pay attention to gathering intelligence on the navy, I don't want their fleet to appear in Sanduao, do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Nodding in response, Zhang Jing cautiously asked a question.

"Your Majesty, if the Russian army crosses the Tumen River, it will inevitably launch a comprehensive military reconnaissance of the entire DPRK, and if it will certainly threaten the existence of the Jinhai Fleet, if the Combined Fleet hidden in the Zhenwan is detected by the Russian army, will it affect the decisive battle of the Jinben Navy against the Russian Navy?"

As the director of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, Zhang Jing of course knows His Majesty's thoughts in this war, and whether he is a Russian winner or a winner on land, it has nothing to do with China, and for China, he is said to be an enemy and a pawn, and Russia is a pawn and an enemy.

Taking advantage of the irreconcilable war contradictions between the two countries to maximize China's interests is the fundamental starting point for China's involvement in this war, but the victory or defeat of the land war between the two countries may not matter, but it is said that the navy must defeat the Russian fleet, and His Majesty has expressed this opinion many times, but according to the current development of the situation, if the Russian army approaches, the combined fleet will make some changes out of the need for concealment.

"As long as they want to win this battle, then they will definitely stay in Zhenwan!"

Chen Moran affirmed in an almost arbitrary language that he was not unaware of this possibility, but at this time he preferred to believe that he would never make any changes, and in order to be willing to take this risk, all the plans made by Akiyama Shinyuki were carried out around the decisive battle with Tsushima, in this case, how could they risk moving and reformulating the battle plan.

"I hope so!"

Waving his hand, Chen Moran motioned for Zhang Jing to leave his office, and when he was about to leave, Chen Moran gave another command.

"Pay attention to the movements of the Navy, if ...... The Admiralty must be notified as soon as possible, and the Intelligence Service must fully cooperate with the Naval Intelligence Service and must ensure that it ...... Make sure we know what is going on in this navy? ”

Zhenwan, half-closed eyes, Chen Moran muttered this term repeatedly in his heart, hoping that Dongxiang could stay in Zhenwan honestly!

(To be continued)