Beijing Dongjiaomin Lane, Banxi Mansion.

It is the residence of Major General Rihachiro Sakanishi, chief military adviser to the Beiyang government and military attache of the Japanese Legation in China, and it is also the center of Japanese spy activities in China.

Now, this Sakanishi Rihachiro, who was known in history as the "Seven Generations of Rise and Fall Tumbler" in the era of China's Beiyang government, is lazily sitting cross-legged on the tatami mat, carefully looking at the stack of texts in his hand, that is, the transcript of the "draft of the war" that Xu Shuzheng handed over to the British Minister Zhu Erdian that night! However, this manuscript was not sent by the British Legation, but was personally handed over to him this afternoon by his assistant and protégé Kenji Dohihara! Since then, Rihachiro Sakanishi has been studying this draft over and over again, and even has dinner brought to this Japanese-style room to solve it hastily.

And the one who is famous in history, Kenji Dohihara. Now he sat respectfully kneeling in front of his teacher, not moving, only the pair of little eyes wandering around, not knowing what he was thinking. He bought this draft for joining the war from an official of the Chinese Foreign Ministry for several thousand yuan. Naturally, he had already taken a closer look. To tell the truth, when he first saw the scale, conditions, and methods for training, organization, and equipment of China's participating armies proposed in this draft, he gasped!

This is exchanging China's lives for the strength of the Beiyang government! Hundreds of thousands of human lives are a bargaining chip, in exchange for the full support of the British and French powers for the Chinese central government, including the suspension of the payment of Gengzi indemnity, support for China's substantial increase in tariffs, support for the Chinese government to form a central bank to issue credit currency, and provide China with huge loans for recruiting, organizing, and training hundreds of thousands of soldiers to participate in the war! Of course, British and French officers were also hired to come to China to take full charge of the training of the participating armies, and in the future, this army will be completely commanded and mobilized by the British and French sides on the European battlefield! The strength of selling yourself is not small, and it is ruthless enough! There is a lot of meaning that the Japanese Empire entered the Russo-Japanese War......

With a snap, Rihachiro Sakanishi had already closed the Wen Jiàn clip in his hand, shook his shaved head, and took a deep breath: "What a trouble...... Duan Qirui really gave us a problem this time! ”

Kenji Dohihara let out a sigh and leaned forward: "Your Excellency, this plan of joining the war in China is obviously harming the interests of the empire!" The Empire should categorically stop it! ”

"Huh." Rihachiro Sakanishi smiled coldly and said lightly: "If the empire really has the determination to take drastic measures, this Beijing will probably be under the control of the Japanese Empire long ago...... Now that the great powers are busy with the European war, they have no time to take care of anything else, and China's Beiyang system is on the verge of falling apart. His expression was full of disdain: "But now the empire is practicing the so-called democratic constitutionalism, and it is also blindly accommodating to the European and American powers, and feels that it can let the people live a prosperous life with the charity of the European and American powers...... In that case, why should we stop this self-help plan of Zhina? ”

Kenji Tsuchihara also tightened his eyebrows when he heard this, he knew that in the first half of this year, Sakanishi Rihachiro had secretly sent a letter to Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu, and took advantage of the situation that after Yuan Shikai's failure to claim the title of emperor, China's Beiyang system was divided, and resolutely sent troops to annex Manchuria, and at the same time put the rest of China in the status of a Japanese colony! However, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and I waited for several months without any results. Obviously, at present, the Japanese Government's ambitions against China are limited to petty fights such as the "21 Articles" and have no courage to take further aggressive measures.

"Your Excellency," Kenji Dohihara, of course, knew that what Sakanishi said was a whin, so he accentuated his tone and persuaded again: "As long as Shina continues to remain poor and weak, the empire will have the opportunity to take decisive measures at any time, and if the empire takes the opportunity to send troops to Europe to participate in the war, it has the support of the British and French powers and gradually recovers, then the empire will never have a chance!" ”

"Humph!" Rihachiro Sakanishi snorted coldly, his face full of disdain: "Take the opportunity to participate in the war to win back a little bit of national power, get some support, and then gradually revive...... It's a shame that Duan Qirui can come up with such a wishful thinking, but with his Beiyang government, is there any possibility of success? It's just wishful thinking! To stop them, there is no need for the country to come forward, and it is not convenient for the country to do this. Speaking of this, he suddenly saw a different color flashing on Kenji Dohihara's face, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, so he asked, "Dohihara-kun, what's wrong with you?" Anything to say? ”

"Oh," Kenji Dohihara replied, "I just remembered a person, and the plan for joining the war this time was proposed by Yang Zude, the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, to the War Department. ”

"Really?" Rihachiro Sakanishi raised his eyelids slightly, "Who is this person?" What for? ”

"He is a graduate of the third phase of the Baoding Military Academy, named Chang Ruiqing, who is well-known in the military academy, and is the one with the best academic performance in the third phase of Baoding, and he also organized an iron-blooded comrade to advocate what to participate in the war to save the country."

"Got it." Banxi nodded quietly, such a small role was not in his eyes, he paused, and said to Tu Feiyuan: "You copy this draft of Duan Qirui's participation in the war and send it to Zhongnanhai to Li Yuanhong." If you let the wind out again, it will be said that Duan Qirui wants to take advantage of the opportunity of sending troops to participate in the European war to collect military power from the various overseers of the Beiyang system, so that he should be able to mess things up. ”

……

"It's out! It's out! The allotted list is out! Brother Yaoru conferred the rank of captain and company commander! ”

In the courtyard outside the barracks where Chang Ruiqing lived, dozens of young soldiers in military uniforms gathered early in the morning, most of them were members of the Iron and Blood Comrades Association, and some were not, probably because they saw that Chang Ruiqing had won the favor of the deputy minister of the War Department, so they hurried to make friends.

While everyone was gathering together and talking, they heard the official dialect with a slight Hunan accent coming from afar, and then they saw a small non-commissioned officer who was dark and thin, but with big eyes that were rolling around, pushed the door and ran in, waving a few pieces of white paper that I didn't know what was written.

Seeing this person, there was a sudden wave in the courtyard, some congratulated Chang Ruiqing on his promotion, and some asked where he was assigned, and the gossip was really a little chaotic. The little man who reported the news took a few breaths, ignored the gossiping questions, and walked directly to Chang Ruiqing, who was still maintaining a reserved image sitting in the courtyard, and laughed loudly: "Congratulations to Yaoru big brother, but it's a captain!" It is estimated that he is the biggest official in our issue. Assigned to the Model Battalion of the 13th Division of the Army in Beijing as the company commander of the first company! The company commanders of the second and third companies of this model battalion are also members of our comrades' association, the commander of the second company is Brother Yu Xun (Wu Shi), and the commander of the third company is Brother Jiansheng (Bai Chongxi), but the military rank is ...... lieutenant."

The person who spoke was also a member of the Iron and Blood Comrades Association, a native of Xiangtan County, Hunan, named Yan Hao, whose name was Zihao, and he was the youngest and youngest member of the Comrades Association. He didn't come all the way from Lu Xiao and Lu Zhong, he had just been admitted to Hunan Provincial No. 1 Middle School during the Xinhai Revolution, but he didn't study for a few days, he joined the student army, and finally was drawn to the Second Army Reserve Officer School in Nanhu, Wuchang, where he became friends with Chang Ruiqing.

In the past few days, he has been guarding the door of the principal's office every day, stretching his neck and waiting for the final distribution plan, and today he finally got his wish. In one breath, he reported the whereabouts of all twelve members of the Iron Blood Comrades Association. That Xu Shuzheng and Xu Da Commander were talking about it this time, and they were all drawn into a model battalion, three people, including Chang Ruiqing, were given to the company commander, and the remaining nine people were all platoon commanders, and almost all the commanders in a battalion were rounded!

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