The nascent Red Russian regime was terrifying and mysterious, and the October Revolution made the Great Powers tremble and form intervention armies to strangle Red Russia, as well as on the spy front.

Today's Far East, turbulent, intricate, the collapse of the Tsarist Russian Empire to the Japanese Empire brought endless opportunities, Vladivostok, Harbin, Mongolia, the Eastern Railway, these territories, colonies, spheres of influence and assets that originally belonged to Russia, have become the target of Japan's coveting, and now the sudden appearance of the Red Russian spies in Beijing can not help but make people think about it, for the grand goal of the empire, whether it is civilian or military, they must do their best to investigate.

Recently, a large number of White Russian refugees have poured into China, and there must have been no lack of Red Russian spies, and after some discussion, Fang Ze and Yamamoto prepared to start an investigation of the White Russian refugees in Beijing, and at the same time impose an imposition on the Beiyang government, warning them not to hide any small actions from Japan.

"Tomorrow I will visit His Excellency Duan Qirui and ask him to explain the reason for this matter." Fang Zejun said.

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In the training office of the participating army, there were four tall soldiers standing at the gate, dressed in yellow military uniforms, holding Japanese-made 30-year-old rifles, leggings, leather shoes, water bottles, and bullet boxes.

These soldiers are different from the original Beiyang Army, the soldiers are all newly recruited from Anhui, Shandong, Henan and other places healthy peasant children, received the training of Japanese instructors, can be described as the elite of the elite, the military salary is higher than the ordinary Beiyang Army, not only the food is full, but also can get some meat and tooth sacrifice every three or five times, naturally indispensable.

The soldier who guarded the door saw an old man in a robe and a horse coat sneaking over, and immediately stopped him: "Stop, the military plane is heavy, and you are not allowed to enter!" ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled kindly: "I'm Duan Qirui." ”

"No one, go far!" The big-headed soldier looked impatient.

The old man was not angry, but took a few steps back and stood outside the cordon, when an officer hurried behind him, with shiny riding boots and a sonorous saber, and three stars on the French vertical epaulettes on his shoulders indicating that he was an army colonel.

"Salute!" The soldiers guarding the gate immediately saluted with their guns, their waists were straight, and the spears flashed with cold light, and the colonel didn't look at them, and said respectfully to the old man: "Supervisor, please." ”

The old man smiled, nodded his head back to the saluting soldiers, and proudly entered the gate of the training office of the participating army.

"Superintendent...... Duan Qirui. The soldiers came back to their senses, it turned out that his old man was the former prime minister, and now he was the supervising officer of the war, Lord Duan, who actually offended the tiger power of the supervising officer, and several soldiers couldn't help but sweat like rain.

In the office of the chief of staff of the participating army, Xu Shuzheng, who was dressed in military uniform, greeted him out of the door and said with a smile: "The superintendent is here, your house has not been cleaned, come and sit with me first." ”

Duan Qirui entered the office, first talked about some training matters, and then asked: "Today, the Japanese minister Kohata Youyoshi came to visit me, and mentioned the appearance of the Soviet Russian secret envoy in Beijing, I don't know if you can understand this matter?" ”

Xu Shuzheng said with a smile: "The news of Minister Kohata is very fast, but it is completely wrong, it is not the secret envoy of Soviet Russia who came to Beijing, but the secret envoy of the Russian Provisional Government, and their supreme government wants us to send troops to help destroy Soviet Russia." ”

As he spoke, he recounted in detail the situation of yesterday's meeting with Andrei, and when it came to the two of them escaping from the gun, Duan Qirui sighed: "Another Zheng, you are doing things a little bit of Meng Lang, the two countries do not cut each other, no matter whether the other party is the provisional government or Soviet Russia, we should be hypothetical snakes and wait and see what happens." ”

Xu Shuzheng walked to the wall, opened the curtain to reveal a large strategic map, and said: "Supervise you, my northern land has been cut off a lot by the Russians, and now the Russian civil strife is a good opportunity for me to send troops to recover the lost land, the Russians have always been greedy, wolf ambitions, whether it is Soviet Russia or Tsarist Russia, everything is unchanged, so there is nothing to talk about with them, this matter is confidential, if Japan learns about it, it will inevitably interfere with our country's troops, so I think the best way is to let them disappear." ”

Duan Qirui nodded slightly and said, "So, you are planning to use troops in the north." ”

Xu Shuzheng pointed to the map and said, "Supervision, there is a huge China, but there was once an area under our direct control. ”

Speaking of this, Duan Qirui couldn't help but feel gloomy, although he was the boss behind the Beiyang government, but except for Beijing, there was no territory directly under his control, warlords all over the country were divided, and the overseers in the provinces were like local emperors, and they disobeyed the orders of the central government, not to mention the southern government in Guangzhou, and they were in the same situation as Beiyang.

There is no land and no income, and the income of the Beiyang government is only so pitiful, the tariffs of Chongwenmen, the balance of Gengzi's indemnity, and the income of several railways, which are only enough for the expenses of government civil servants, and not enough to raise soldiers.

In the sixth year of the Republic of China, Zhang Xun led troops into Beijing, in the name of mediating the conflict between the government and the court, to support the restoration of the Qing Emperor, as the prime minister of the state, he had no troops to deploy, and finally asked Cao Rulin, who was pro-Japanese, to borrow 1 million yen from the Japanese Mitsubishi Foundation, and made 500,000 salt surpluses, bribed the little wife of Li Changtai, the commander of the Eighth Division, and asked her to blow the pillow wind to invite Li Changtai to send troops, and then spent a large amount of money to invite Cao Kun's third division and Feng Yuxiang's 16th mixed brigade to go out, which leveled Zhang Xun's 5,000 pigtailed soldiers.

After this battle, Duan Qirui became a hero for rebuilding the republic, and at the same time, he also realized that if he wanted to do something big, he must have his own descendants.

When someone was dozing and someone sent a pillow, the Japanese businessman Xiyuan Ghost San secretly contacted Duan Qirui, borrowed tens of millions of dollars on extremely generous terms, borrowed tens of millions of yen, and trained three divisions of elite soldiers to participate in the war, from the establishment to the clothing, it is almost a copy of the Japanese army, and even the horses that pull the artillery carriages are imported from Japan, this army is in hand, Duan Qirui feels that he has some confidence.

Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "What do you mean, but to recover Outer Mongolia?" ”

Xu Shuzheng said ambitiously: "Not only Outer Mongolia, if the conditions permit, I want to take advantage of the situation to recover Vladivostok, recover the homeland, the soldier's own duty, this move can greatly strengthen my Chinese morale and people's hearts, and the unification of the whole country is just around the corner. ”

Duan Qirui said: "It's hard work again, you can do it, the Japanese, I'll cover it up for you, and the Russian secret envoy who escaped must be arrested with all your might." ”

……

Unconsciously, the bus station, railway station, and various city gates in Beijing have been equipped with patrol police and plainclothes detectives, and a wanted notice has also been posted on the wall.

Chen Zikun took the foreign car out to investigate, and walked back and forth at the city gate several times, and even stood in front of the wanted warrant for a long time, but the patrol police and detectives next to him didn't look at him, because the portrait of the handsome and dashing young man in a suit with a fashionable head and mustache was too far from this sloppy coachman.

There is no danger to himself, but what should Andre do, although there are many foreigners in Beijing, most of them are active in the area of Dongjiaomin Lane, and a foreigner with a high nose and concave eyes appears on the street, and the police do not need to arrest him, and the people will watch first.

Chen Zikun returned to the Ziguang Depot and discussed with Andre, how to escape became the biggest problem.

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At the Six Nations Hotel, Yao Yilei hurriedly walked in, came to the front desk and asked, "Has Mr. Solomon come back?" ”

The waiter said, "Miss Yao, Mr. Solomon has not come back since he went out yesterday. ”

Yao Yilei's face turned pale, the matter of the shootout in Anfu Hutong last night had spread in the circle of Beijing's elites, and those who were dissatisfied with the Anfu system gloated, some said that Xu Shuzheng met the assassin, and some said that there was an internal fire, but Yao Yilei knew that this shootout must be related to Julian.

She didn't dare to ask Xu Shuzheng directly, so she had to run to the Liuguo Hotel to find someone, but the news she got made people so uneasy, Mr. Julian, didn't he die in Anfu Hutong?

Although Miss Yao is a woman, she has also heard some things in the officialdom, although Uncle Xu looks smiling and polite on the surface, but in fact, he is ruthless, Beiyang General Lu Jianzhang, because he always makes trouble for Duan Qirui, was invited by Xu Shuzheng to the small garden in the name of drinking and feasting, and was collapsed with one shot, and the dignified generals can deal with it like this, let alone Mr. Solomon.

Walking out uneasily, I happened to meet Lin Changmin and Lin Huiyin's father and daughter, because they were both students of Peihua Girls' High School, Lin Huiyin greeted him politely: "Hello Miss Yao." ”

"Hello Mr. Lin, hello Miss Lin, what are you?" Yao Yilei asked.

"Oh, come and meet a friend." Lin Changmin replied politely and coldly, although he and Yao Yilei's father are also colleagues, one belongs to the research department and the other belongs to the new transportation department, and they have no contact, so they don't want to talk about anything with Yao Yilei.

But Yao Yilei asked, "Are you looking for Mr. Solomon?" They ...... last night was invited by Vice Minister Xu and didn't come back. ”

Lin Changmin glanced at his daughter in astonishment, obviously they had also heard about the things in Anfu Hutong, Xu Shuzheng's ruthless methods, Lin Changmin naturally knew better than Yao Yilei, he scanned the lobby of the hotel vigilantly, there were two guys in top hats sitting on the sofa, the brim was low, pretending to read a newspaper, next to the public telephone in the corner of the hall, a man held a microphone in his hand, and a pair of eagle-like eyes stared at this side.

"Thanks, we're not here for Mr. Solomon." Lin Changmin said, bowed slightly to Yao Yilei, and walked into the hotel with his daughter.

Yao Yilei was very disappointed, when she encountered this kind of thing, she didn't even have a confidant to talk to, those girlfriends only like perfume in Paris, furs outside the border, diamonds in South Africa, and men with oily faces like powder, who can write vernacular Chinese, thinking of these, she was disappointed for a while, and Yixing Shan got out of the Six Nations Hotel, got into her car, and whispered: "Drive." ”

Suddenly, a young man in a hotel uniform stepped forward quickly and whispered, "Miss Yao, I see Mr. Solomon." ”

Yao Yilei's eyes widened, she glanced at the door of the hotel vigilantly, took out a ten-yuan bill and said, "Where is he?" ”