Wu Peifu's team entered Sichuan, and Sun Chuanfang's team entered Guangdong, so that the southwest mutual protection, which did not know the strength of the Beiyang Army, immediately faced the two most powerful Beiyang armies in the south.

At this time, Zhao Yun, who had been running for several days, had just arrived in Nanjing, and he took over such a chaotic situation. It's not good, but it's not bad, and there are telegrams asking for money and food everywhere, not only in the south, but also in the north. The unstable situation in the south is more dangerous, but in the north, the situation is much more controllable, and among all the warlords in the north, only Fengtian's beard has been relieved after half a year of cultivation, and he has begun to aggressively ask the Jixian government for money and food.

And these disturbances are all the civil war that Zhao Yun dislikes the most, so Zhao Yun immediately became the shopkeeper, and replied to the requests for instructions from all over the country, "I will do it myself", and threw all these troubles to the two groups in the north and south, and let them settle it by themselves.

But Zhao Yun can ignore the civil war, but external pressure makes Zhao Yun have to give instructions.

On March 27, 1898, that is, on the 6th day of the third month of the 24th year of Guangxu, and on March 15, 1898 in the Russian calendar, the Great Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the Great Emperor of Russia wanted to change the "friendship" between the two countries and signed a "Sino-Russian Treaty." Of course, this treaty also has other names, called the "Sino-Russian Treaty on the Great Lease of Tourism" and the "Sino-Russian Treaty". The main contents of the Sino-Russian Treaty and the Treaty on the Renewal of the Luda Land Lease are: 1. Lushun, Dalian and their vicinity will be leased to Russia for a period of 25 years. At the expiration of the period, Russia enjoyed full authority to govern the localities and dispatch land and water armies in the leased territory, and the Qing government had no right to garrison troops. 2. A section of "gap" (almost the entire Liaodong Peninsula) was set aside to the north of the leased land, which the Chinese army was not allowed to enter without the permission of the Russian side. 3. Huaxia agreed that Russia would build a branch line from the China Eastern Railway to Lushun and Dalian, and that "this branch road passes through the localities, and (Huaxia) will not give the benefits of the railway to other people."

Well, this is exactly what the Qing court continued, an unequal treaty. Twenty-five years had passed, that is, on March 27, 1923, the treaty had lapsed. And the Tsarist Russia in the treaty, that is, the current White Russia, they have gone into exile in the Far East and established the "Duma" in Ulan-Ude, although in Russia, there are not many people who agree with this, only a quarter, but it is also a "local power" in Russia.

If they go out, it's perfectly fine to terminate the contract. But the problem that caused Zhao Yun was that on February 8, 1904, the Japanese army attacked Lushunkou and the Russo-Japanese War broke out. After an extremely tragic battle, the Japanese army captured the Port of Arthur. So the owner of the treaty has been changed from Tsarist Russia to Japan, you know, against Japan, it is not so easy to speak.

For the sake of Lushun, Japan also made a plan early, forcing Yuan Datou to sign the renewal of the treaty, the "Treaty of the Fourth Republic of China", and changed the lease term to 99 years.

Seeing that the date on the treaty is about to expire, such a traitorous thing, do the high-level leaders of Jixian County, who have now taken refuge in Zhao Yun, dare to continue to implement it?

Nonsense, of course I didn't dare, so this matter was pushed to Zhao Yun's desk.

Of course, before that, the Jixian government still did some work. Jointly with some non-governmental organizations, they issued telegrams and statements, demanding that the government make representations with Japan and take back Lushun and Dalian, first creating up the atmosphere, and then seemingly "reluctantly" approached the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Minister in China, announcing the cancellation of the "Fourth Treaty of the People's Republic of China" and approaching the resumption of the lease period of the expiration of the lease in Tushun and Dalian. However, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly replied and rejected the request of the Jixian government, which was both expected and unexpected.

Not surprisingly, Japan has always been so stubborn, so it's no surprise. Unexpectedly, now the Japanese army in the Far East is being pinned down by the two forces of Soviet Russia and White Russia, and this time they didn't even fight a war of words, so they directly slapped the Jixian County Government with a loud slap, so they were not afraid of provoking the Beiyang Army of the Republic of China?

"I really have some sympathy for that President Xu Shichang...... "Because of Zhao Yun's birth, after the first Zhifeng War, although the direct family won and controlled the Jixian government, Wu Peifu was forced to go to the south, and Xu Shichang, who was good at manipulating Xu Shichang as a veteran and mediator in the struggle of the various factions of the Beiyang warlords, continued to be his president.

When Xu was in the Hanlin Academy, he was defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War and jointly impeached Li Hongzhang with dozens of colleagues; It can be seen that he is not in a good mood for Japan, and this time he saw that Japan began to toss again, and Xu Shichang couldn't come up with any good solutions.

The military is generally a subordinate policy in political wrestling, but without military support, will the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs attach importance to the note of the Jixian County Government?

Zhao Yun, who was in Nanjing, Jiangsu, looked at the Nanjing city wall from afar, Zhao Yun sighed slightly, Japan, this is the pain of China in the past hundred years, for Xu Shichang's actions, Zhao Yun couldn't help but feel a kind of affection in his heart.

Judging from the current situation, Xu Shichang's "transfer of troops" before and after can only be said to be in order, without the slightest difference. He wanted to play the international card and the popular card, but unfortunately Japan ignored it at all, and slapped it directly and neatly.

In all fairness, if Zhao Yun was directly placed in Xu Shichang's position, he would also feel that asking his subordinates to use "Wenfa" was the most appropriate way to deal with it.

At this time, Zhao Yun also heard a poem by the people of the time: "I am sleeping deeply, how do I know that loving the country is loving the family, and the people should wake up today, and don't wait for the land to be divided like a melon." ”

Zhao Yun couldn't help but remember, the song "Do you know that Macau is not my real surname?"

I've been away from your swaddling clothes for too long, Mother!

But it is my flesh that they take away (lǔ),

You still hold my soul.

The biological mother who has dreamed of it for 300 years!

Please call me "Macau"!

Mother! I'm coming back, Mother! ”

The "Seven Sons" in this "Song of the Seven Sons" refer to the seven lands occupied by the foreign powers at that time: Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Kowloon, Weihaiwei, Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang, Guangdong) and Luda (Lushun, Dalian).

Among them, Weihaiwei was leased to Britain for 25 years in July 1898 in the "Chartering Weihaiwei Treaty" signed by China and Britain. That is to say, before July 1, the Huaxia Jixian County Government still has to negotiate with the British about the expiration of the lease of Weihaiwei. And it is clear that if the Japanese set a precedent, none of the leased land in the back will be recovered.

The Chinese navy has not been able to get up since the First Sino-Japanese War, although it is said that after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty Navy purchased three protective cruisers from Germany: Hairong, Haichou and Haichen

But that was already the goods that were completed on September 15, 1897, and the displacement of a single ship was only 2,950 tons, plus two Nassau-class battleships with slightly larger tonnage and ten submarines of nearly 1,000 tons, the total tonnage of the entire Chinese Navy was less than 60,000 tons.

Take a look, before World War I, in 1914, after experiencing the two bloody baptisms of Japan, Japan and Russia, the Japanese Navy had rich experience, and reached a total tonnage of 680,000 tons, ranking fifth among the world's navies.

It can be said that the Japanese Navy nine years ago was able to completely defeat the Huaxia Navy in terms of tonnage, and in terms of talent, Huaxia seems to be able to pick up the girder with Sa Zhenbing, a veteran of the Qing court, Li Dingxin, who succeeded Sa Zhenbing as the chief of the Navy in 1921, and Cheng Biguang, who led the army far.

On the Japanese side, with the end of World War I in Europe, the Japanese Navy, which had undergone a baptism of European ocean-going warfare, not only gained valuable experience in ocean-going operations, but also made the Second Special Fleet go to Europe to fight in large numbers, including Koichi Kishii, the first person in submarine operations, Tarumi Yamaguchi, a leading aviation expert, and Yorizo Tanaka, who is known for his mine warfare, and Sato Sakuzo, commander of the Second Special Fleet, was also awarded the Order of the Second Class Crown by Belgium for his meritorious service in combat. The Saint Michael and St. Georges Medals of the United Kingdom and the Legion of Honor from France. This is still a detachment of the Japanese Navy, so Huaxia is pessimistic about dealing with the Japanese Navy head-on at the moment, of course, if there is no golden finger of Zhao Yun, even the Nassau-class that supports the scene will not appear.

It can be said that whether it is personnel or equipment, Huaxia is in a weak position.

Of course, this is also because the two navies have different ideas for building their forces; for the Japanese navy, the ocean is their battlefield, while for the weak Chinese navy, being able to hold the coast and even the sea entrance is a great achievement. Therefore, small ships and planes that can be torpedoed are all priority objects for Zhao Yun's development, and these equipment are usually ignored in the calculation of the tonnage of the navy, but in actual war, they can often be miraculous on specific occasions.

Torpedo boats, Zhao Yun is still a copy of the batch purchased from Britain by Zhejiang Lu Dujun, 25 imitations, worried about the quality is not good, and imported 12 speedboats from the UK. Then he copied a batch of planing torpedo boats with folded ribs according to the shape of the 6602 wooden torpedo boats in his memory, with 2 533-mm torpedoes and 63 torpedoes copied from the Nassau-class battleships. With the large number of torpedo boats under construction on the slipway, there are already more than 100 torpedo boats.

In his spare time for the transformation of torpedo boats, Zhao Yun also allocated a separate sum of money for the manufacture of "mosquito" warships in the Beiyang Naval Division. Although this kind of sailing ship is quite old-fashioned, it is also a sharp weapon for close combat when equipped with new-style artillery, and with the deployment of "mosquito" warships and torpedo boats, at least it can prevent the Japanese army from entering from the mouth of the Yangtze River.