Pukou and Xiaguan wharves were under martial law, and a pair of officers and soldiers were like facing a great enemy.

The news of Duan Qirui's southward movement has spread, and according to the information from the Nanjing Provisional Government, Duan Qirui will be the official president after the official establishment of the government. After defeating Japan, the people of the country were excited, of course, they would not oppose the decision-making of the Nanjing government, and they behaved enthusiastically, especially the wealthy landlords in Nanjing, after all, only the wealthy families here did not riot because they were heavily guarded at the beginning, and the wealthy families were afraid that Li Bufan, a stunned young man, would continue to serve as president, for fear that he would move his head one day, and welcomed Duan Qirui's arrival very warmly.

Not only the Chinese people, but even the great powers don't like the tough Li Bufan, if a country as large as China and unlimited war potential is in the hands of a military strongman, they can't feel at ease, and Duan Qirui is obviously a representative of pro-British and French forces.

A steamer departed from Pukou and soon arrived at Xiaguan Wharf, and the group quickly drove into Nanjing City in several cars.

"What a change!" Duan Qirui sat in the car, looking at the scenery along the road, and couldn't help but sigh.

Nanjing is still the same Nanjing, although the Nanjing government continues to build a new industrial zone, but there is no part of Nanjing. Due to the concept of advanced planning and environmental protection of the traveler Wu Di, Nanjing is not ready to develop industry at all, but is ready to develop a political and cultural center, and even the existing industry must be gradually relocated to ensure the environment, so it can be said that Nanjing has hardly changed. The change lies in the people, in the morale of the people, and in the spiritual outlook of the people.

Xu Shuzheng naturally came to greet Duan Qirui in person, and he said with some concern: "The current Chinese people are just like the Japanese during Japan's victory over Russia, everyone is in a frenzy. Xu Shuzheng is naturally excited to defeat Japan and rise, but excessive fanaticism can also make people feel frightened.

Duan Qirui smiled and said, "This is understandable. We have been weak for too long, and we need a joyful victory too much. ”

Xu Shuzheng smiled bitterly: "I'm worried that Li Bufan is too pressing, and you must know that the dog will jump off the wall in a hurry." ”

Duan Qirui laughed and said, "Don't you think Li Bufan wants the Japanese to jump off the wall in a hurry?" ”

Xu Shuzheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that it really meant something, you must know that Li Bufan's treatment of Japan can no longer be described as deceiving people too much, and it is simply a desperate situation for Japan.

In a small apartment, Kenji Dohihara and several Japanese agents looked at the convoy with cold eyes.

"It was the convoy of Duan Qirui, the leader of the Anhui faction, and Li Bufan sent his adjutant Li Hengshan to greet him. Section Chief, do you want to kill them? ”

Kenji Tsuchihara shook his head and said, "No." Duan Qirui's existence is currently beneficial to the empire, and our purpose is to deal with Li Bufan, and our manpower is not ready, so we must not make any extraneous branches. ”

And in the base car of the Provisional Presidential Palace, the screen of the base car is showing the picture of Kenji Dohihara.

"Cutie, can you know what they say?" Li Bufan frowned and asked the base car intelligent assistant Meimei.

The intelligent assistant Meimei said: "Report to the commander, you can use lip language technology to repeat, with an accuracy rate of 97%. "The base car can monitor the footage, but it can't get the sound. But it's a technology that is hundreds of years ahead of its time, and the lip language technology is extremely discerning. Soon the lip repetition began, and the voice came

"Your Excellency, Li Bufan, the leader of China, has always lived in seclusion, and we have been observing for two days, and the temporary presidential palace is heavily guarded, so it is difficult to have a chance to start."

Kenji Dohihara's voice said, "If there is no opportunity, create an opportunity"

When Wu Di heard this, his eyes widened, and he shouted: "I'll rub, the little Japanese dog is not small, wow, he actually wants to assassinate the boss?" ”

Li Bufan sneered: "It's strange if you don't want to assassinate you." I think that the Japanese and Huo Yuanjia were invincible in the competition back then, and even resorted to the three indiscriminate methods of poisoning, what shameless things did they dare not do? ”

Wu Di immediately said: "Little Japan never dreamed that we have such a thing as a base car, and this Nanjing City has a radius of 100 kilometers, what can we hide from our eyes?" If it weren't for the monitoring of the base vehicle to nip the danger in the bud, would Nanjing be so peaceful? Boss, immediately dispatch the Tiger Ben Regiment, cut them with thousands of knives, and kill a piece of armor without leaving a single piece of armor. ”

Li Bufan said calmly: "No hurry. You can only catch big fish by putting a long line, and even if you close the net, you have to leave some bait. Elder Duan is about to arrive, and we are ready to greet him. ”

Wu Di said helplessly: "What is he doing now?" Can't wait? ”

Li Bufan smiled and said, "What are you thinking?" It's almost time. Anyway, Duan Lao still knows the general situation, and I think we should have a good talk about it. ”

Wu Di pouted, in his opinion, only by being the boss can he better control the situation, even if he supports his personal position, he can't be such a respected and influential person, it is best to support a puppet through and through

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A row of cars parked in front of the provisional presidential palace was Duan Qirui's motorcade.

Li Bufan personally greeted him in front of the provisional presidential palace, and the scene was naturally harmonious. This is the unspoken rule of officialdom, don't say that Duan Qirui is the leader of the older generation of Anhui celebrities, and Li Bufan is the leader of the new generation of young Zhuang faction in Anhui, that is, the two sides have a deep hatred, as long as they don't tear their faces, they have to behave like brothers.

Li Bufan respects Duan Qirui more, not to mention his grand act of rebuilding the republic, that is, his strategy of "unifying the whole country by force" coincides with Li Bufan. As the saying goes, the outside must first be secured, which is the foundation that a strong country must have, and even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought back against the Xiongnu after he bulldozed the civil strife. Duan Qirui's defeat was not due to his poor strategy, but because the Beiyang government's control of the army was too poor, and the internal factions and warlords were infighting. If Li Bufan didn't have a clone warrior to control the army and ensure military power, he would not be much better off with his foundation, after all, the warlord mentality in this era is deep-rooted.

Enter the inner hall of the Provisional Presidential Palace and sit down to serve tea.

Duan Qirui finally spoke: "Extraordinary, you are a hero I have never seen before in the Anhui department, and your ability is outstanding. It's just that why do you keep delaying on the issue of dealing with the Japanese, aren't you afraid of long nights and dreams? The old man wants to know what you think. ”

Li Bufan looked at Xu Shuzheng and smiled at Duan Qirui: "I think my idea is that Duan Lao has already learned it from Brother Youzheng. Very simply, the great powers want to support Japan's existence and continue to contain our country, but I don't want my country to be contained in East Asia, and I don't want us to be bitten by the vicious dog of Japan one day when we face off with the Western powers. ”

Duan Qirui looked at Li Bufan for a while, and seeing that his expression was firm and calm, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Extraordinary, your ability is obvious to all." However, strength is not equal to strength, and we may be able to deal with Japan, but we still need to take a long-term view to deal with many entrenched powers. Accumulating grain and slowly becoming the king is the king. ”

Li Bufan said with a straight face: "Old Duan, one go, then decline, three and exhaustion. At present, the people's will is available, and the momentum of the three armed forces is like a rainbow, and once the morale is exhausted, the people's fear of foreign countries will rise again, and it will be difficult to confront the foreign powers. ”

Duan Qirui said a little angrily: "What's the use of just having morale? Fighting a war also requires guns. Extraordinary, don't get carried away by a few victories. Especially our Navy, how many warships do we have? But how many warships are there in the Great Powers, Britain, France, and the United States? Without sea supremacy, our long coastline will be a place for the Great Powers to attack. I know that the air force you built is very powerful, but the great powers are not as good as the Japanese, the Japanese only have a few broken planes, but Britain, France and the United States have tens of thousands of planes in the world war, is it so easy to deal with? ”

Li Bufan smiled bitterly: "Old Duan, it is precisely because the Western powers have many aircraft and large aircraft production capacity that we must deal with them as soon as possible." At present, the production capacity of our aircraft is about 100 J-1 fighters per month, about 30 J-2 Swallow biplane all-metal fighters per month, and about 20 H-1 Thunderbird twin-engine bombers. However, even our original J-1 was much more advanced than the current aircraft of the Great Powers. We are confident in air warfare, it is impossible for the great powers to invest tens of thousands of planes in East Asia, how many ground crews are needed for such aircraft, what a huge amount of logistics, and what a huge airport? As for the navy, our size is indeed not comparable to that of the great powers, but we also have killer weapons that are useless, the salvage warships in Jiaozhou Bay, and the Japanese Kirishima and Hiei can be salvaged and repaired. The most important thing is that we can dominate the sea with the air, and I believe that with the lessons of the naval war against Japan, the navies of the great powers will not dare to be so rampant. But we have to admit that the great powers have a much stronger background than us, as long as they are given time, they will soon catch up in the technology of aircraft and warships, and at that time, we do not have the leading technology, let alone the superiority in numbers, and we have no chance of defeating them. ”

Duan Qirui sighed: "Do we have a chance now?" We have too little capacity. The production capacity of the Western world is ten times that of ours, even if the Air Force and Navy can barely support it, but what about the Army? How many heavy weapons do we have? How many heavy artillery does the Great Power have? Once there is a war with the West, the way for our equipment to import will be cut off, how to develop? ”

Li Bufan said lightly: "We can design and manufacture the equipment ourselves, we have estimated, and when we almost turn the other powers, our equipment can basically meet the needs of domestic industrial development at this stage." We have long expected this day to develop industry, the introduction of a large number of German manufacturing talents, a large part of which are machinery manufacturing and industrial machine tools, under their hands-on teaching, equipment production is not a problem. Old Duan, we are sure enough to keep the enemy out of the country, and the only thing we are worried about is the Japanese. If the great powers use Japan as a base to attack our Northeast Asia and arm the Japanese army with a huge number of industries, it will be a mortal threat to us. ”

Duan Qirui said angrily: "We can rise in a more secure way, why take the risk? ”

"Is it safe to continue to endure the exploitation of the great powers and continue to recognize unequal treaties?"

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!"

"I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore!"

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