Kuminsky had to admire Xiao Zhenlei for grasping the core of the problem, indeed, Tsarist Russia is not afraid of some losses, even if it is defeated, there is no need to worry, if it is defeated, you can surrender and start all over again, who has not failed? But in the face of the assassination of the crown prince, if you know that the murderer is the Japanese authorities but cannot take revenge, then not only Nicholas II will lose face, but all the people of Tsarist Russia will lose their dignity!

Kumingschi thought about it, he had to telegraph Xiao Zhenlei's conditions to the country in order to obtain domestic authorization, if the country gave the bottom line, he would be easy to do, so he said: "President, I must ask the country for instructions, if you don't mind, I will leave first, the day after tomorrow at the latest, maybe tomorrow, I will bother you again, then we can continue to talk, you see?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said, "Okay, I welcome Mr. Minister over at any time!" ”

At this time, the phone rang, Xiao Zhenlei picked it up and said, "Hey? ”

"President, the Japanese Minister Hinati Ichitsu Guò Foreign Affairs Department said that he wants to meet with you!"

The office was very quiet, and there were only two people, Xiao Zhenlei and Kuminsiqi, plus Kuminsiqi was sitting very close, he heard this sentence very clearly, Xiao Zhenlei glanced at Kuminsiqi, turned around and covered the microphone and whispered: "Take him Mingrentang and wait for me!" ”

"Okay, President!"

After putting down the phone, Xiao Zhenlei got up and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Minister, I'm delaying your time, I'll send you out, please!" ”［

Kuminsiqi is now in his heart, he can hear the voice on the phone just now, the Japanese minister is here, and that guy is very likely to be here to win over Xiao Zhenlei and China. If China were on Japan's side, and China sent troops to threaten the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is possible that the Russian army will not be able to reach the Far East in the future, and can only fight with China and Japan on the Central Siberian Plain. This is absolutely not possible, China must be stabilized!

Xiao Zhenlei knew that now China had become a sweet spot, not only Tsarist Russia wanted to win over China, but Japan, the Entente and the Allied Powers all wanted to win over China, although China is not strong now, but if China can be truly unified, and the center can control all local powers, then the strength of unified China should not be underestimated, especially the army. In this respect, military experts from various countries have also conducted full research, and the combat effectiveness of Xiao Zhenlei's national defense force is no longer inferior to that of other countries in the world.

Just as Kuminsiqi heard, Nichi-zhiyi did come to Xiao Zhenlei, and Xiao Zhenlei treated Rizhiyi like Kuminsiqi, and also put forward very unacceptable conditions, abolishing all unequal treaties signed by the former Qing Dynasty with Japan, and Japan needed to take ownership of a series of surrounding islands such as Wandao, as well as the Ryukyu Islands, as well as the Liaodong Peninsula and the attached land of Nanmanchu Road. The Japanese army withdrew from Liaodong and Wandao, the Ryukyu Islands, gave Korea autonomy, and so on.

Rizhiyi was so angry when he heard this, how could he stand it? But this guy can really endure it, and he almost held back his internal injuries and didn't brush his sleeves away. Instead, he continued to talk to Xiao Zhenlei, trying to persuade Xiao Zhenlei to put China on Japan's side and form an alliance with Japan. The idea of building Greater East Asia for co-prosperity.

The conversation with Ri Zhiyi made Xiao Zhenlei very tired, but Xiao Zhenlei also showed a rudeness. He has always dragged the day and never let go of what he promised. did not make concessions to the conditions he proposed, which made Rizhiyi like a hedgehog with thorns all over his body, and he had no choice but to decide to do it.

In this way, Kuminsiqi and Rizhiyi changed the time to meet Xiao Zhenlei every day, and Xiao Zhenlei also dealt with them, and finally the Tsarist Russia was anxious and made heavy concessions, and Tsarist Russia decided not to ask for any reparations, and in order to show sincerity, it was decided to withdraw troops from Mongolia first, and took the initiative to return the concessions in various parts of China. Although the Japanese side also made some concessions, they were not as big as those of Tsarist Russia.

Xiao Zhenlei immediately sent diplomats to conduct specific negotiations with Kuminschi, because these are the prerequisites for negotiations must be carried out before the next step of negotiations can be carried out, so the Tsarist Russian side quickly fulfilled it, and the Russian concessions in various places were soon revoked, and the patrols in charge of public security were disbanded on the spot, but the embassy and staff were still retained, but they no longer had any power to act as a prestige.

Immediately after the withdrawal of Tsarist Russia from Mongolia, the 1st, 5th, 7th, and 9th Divisions of the Wehrmacht, which had been waiting for a long time, quickly marched to Mongolia under the banner of garrisoning Mongolia and prepared to take over Mongolia's defense, according to the agreement between Tsarist Russia and China, China could not station so many troops on the border between Mongolia and Tsarist Russia, and could only station one division, the reason why Xiao Zhenlei sent three more divisions was that the drunkard did not mean to drink, and the extra three divisions stopped in the middle of the road, the first division had entered the Mongolian garrison, and the fifth division stayed in Rehe, The 7th Division remained in Chahar, while the 9th Division remained in Suiyuan.

The central government has achieved a heavy victory in diplomacy against Tsarist Russia, not only exempting the indemnity, but also recovering all the concessions of Tsarist Russia in China and returning Mongolia to the embrace of China, the news has been released, which immediately caused a sensation in the world, and the people in the country suddenly rejoiced, and people and progressives everywhere took to the streets to raise banners and hold a parade, the previous parade was to express dissatisfaction with the government, but since the new government came to power, there has never been a domestic march against the government and the new government, and the domestic people began to belong to the central government, The people's morale is high.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiao Zhenlei, as president of the Supreme Military Council, issued a military order that the third, sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, and fifteenth divisions of the National Defense Force set out from Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan respectively and marched to Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet, forcibly taking over the defense affairs of various places.

At the same time, the fourth division set out from Fujian into Guangdong, the sixteenth division of Hunan marched into Guizhou, attacking the Guizhou warlord Tang Jiyao who did not obey the central administrative order, and the fourteenth division stationed in Yunnan also drove into Guizhou from Yunnan, Tang Jiyao did not want to lose the title of king of Guizhou, and led his troops to fight with the 16th and 14th divisions of the National Defense Army, and was soon defeated, so Tang Jiyao went to the field in order to save his life, and left a mess to flee to Hong Kong in disguise.

Guangxi Lu Rongting saw that Tang Jiyao was killed, he was a small Guangxi, the army was only fifty or sixty thousand, and the equipment was very poor, it could not be compared with the national defense force, it could not be beaten, Lu Rongting saw that the central government was coming this time, in order to save an old life, before the national defense army entered Guangxi, he telegraphed and announced that he would go to the field, and the generals of his army saw that Lu Rongting had gone into the field, so they sent a telegram to the central government to express their willingness to accept the reorganization of the Ministry of National Defense, and the central government immediately sent people into Guizhou and Guangxi, on the one hand, to take over the administrative work, On the other hand, the reorganization of the local army, Hu Hanmin on the Guangdong side saw that the general trend had gone, and it was difficult to support it alone, so he could only give up the position of governor of Guangdong and expressed his willingness to belong to the central government, so Xiao Zhenlei asked Song Shijie to send people to Guangdong to take over the power and army.

Chahar, Rehe, Suiyuan and other places of Beiyang remnant warlord forces saw the central government send troops in, for a time everyone was in danger, in the situation was extremely tense for a time, they wanted to contact Zhang Xiluan in the three eastern provinces at the same time to raise troops against the center, but they were hit by the center of a strong blow, the fifth, seventh, and ninth divisions of the national defense army received the order of the Supreme Military Council immediately launched an attack, Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan Beiyang remnants were quickly defeated, most of the Beiyang generals have since been incognito, a few led the troops to submit to the central government to accept the reorganization. At this point, after more than a month, only the three eastern provinces of the country are not within the control of the central government.

At this time, a major event happened, outsiders did not know, the new government soon spread within the little emperor, the original little emperor who no longer had the title of emperor was gone, together with many Manchu Qing relics in the capital and everywhere at least half of them were gone, Xiao Zhenlei was furious after hearing the news, and Hu Weishan, the head of the Internal Investigation Department, was severely criticized for this.

After Hu Weishan was criticized, he immediately organized a force to investigate, and soon found that the disappeared little emperor and more than half of the Manchu relics appeared in the three eastern provinces, these people were headed by Zhang Xun, according to reliable information, these people were ready to re-establish the little emperor in the three eastern provinces and restore the rule of the Manchu dynasty, and Zhang Xiluan, the supreme military governor of the three eastern provinces, also became the backbone of these.

On 25 February, after Xiao Zhenlei convened a cabinet and military meeting, he immediately issued a telegram announcing that the armies of both sides were not allowed to enter China, otherwise they would declare war on China, and in order to prevent such a situation from occurring, he ordered the 2nd, 11th, 13th, and 17th Divisions of the Wehrmacht, totaling more than 100,000 men and more than 600 artillery pieces, to set out from Beijing and march rapidly in the direction of the Sino-Korean border in the three eastern provinces on the pretext of supervising the armies of both sides.

The troops marched to Shanhaiguan before being blocked by Zhang Xiluan's troops, the defenders of Shanhaiguan refused to let the Wehrmacht pass Guò, Xiao Zhenlei who received the news was immediately furious, he was worried that he had no reason to kill Zhang Xiluan, and immediately declared Zhang a traitor on the charge of supporting the army and fighting against the center, and ordered the 2nd, 11th, 13th, and 17th Divisions of the Wehrmacht to attack!

The battle of reunification entered the final stage, two days after the battle began, the defenders of Shanhaiguan were defeated and retreated, and the national defense army entered outside the pass from inside the pass, and Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the 27th Division in Fengtian, suddenly attacked, sent troops to arrest Zhang Xiluan, Zhang Xun and all the old and young Manchu remnants who fled outside the pass, and expressed his willingness to belong to the central government and accept the reorganization of the central government.

No one expected things to evolve into this step, due to Zhang Zuolin's defection, the hope of the Manchu Qing relics led by Zhang Xun and Zhang Xiluan in Dongsan to restore the Qing Dynasty was completely shattered, and then Heilongjiang overseer Song Xiaolian and Jilin overseer Meng Enyuan immediately telegraphed to announce their departure, and the commander of the 28th Division, Feng Delin, telegraphed to lead his troops to return to the central government. After receiving the order, the National Defense Forces quickly took over the defense of the three eastern provinces and reorganized the armies of the former three eastern provinces, thus completing the real unification of the whole country.

On March 10, Xiao Zhenlei immediately announced the abolition of the Qing preferential treatment regulations on the grounds of the rebellion of the Manchu relics, and confiscated all the property of the little emperor and all the Manchu relics who participated in the rebellion. This investigation was incredible, and it was found that the property with a total value of three billion taels of silver was found. (To be continued......) R1292