Chapter 92: Northeast Negotiations (7)
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Zhang Zuolin looked at the text in his hand and was very entangled, because it not only recorded the general actions of Zhao Erxun and the Zongshe Party, but also part of the record of Xu Lanzhou's transactions with Japan, and even mentioned Japan's plans in Manchuria. He knew that if this document was exposed, it would have an impact, and both the Northeast government and Japan would be dealt a huge blow, and even Japan would enter the Northeast strongly, and he didn't know if Huaxia would also enter the Northeast.
In order to prevent Japanese spies from assassinating him, he specially strengthened his defenses, and the Japanese should soon know that they have obtained this document, and the crazy Japanese will most likely come to attack him.
The lights in the governor's mansion were bright that night, not to mention that a few spies were really caught, some were old employees in the mansion, some were spies who had only recently mixed in, all of them were Japanese spies without exception, they were sent to steal the copy, and if they didn't succeed, they assassinated Zhang Zuolin, but they didn't succeed.
After a night of nervous work, Zhang Zuolin sent people to find Fukushima Yasumasa, the Japanese governor of the Kwantung Prefecture in Northeast China, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, and he wanted to have a showdown with the Japanese, one was to ask the Japanese to give him a large number of weapons, the other was to ask the Japanese to hand over Kawashima Naniwa to explain to the Chinese government, and the other was to suppress Japan's arrogance in Northeast China.
"You Japanese do a good thing, don't think I don't know, how do you explain this?" As soon as Zhang Zuolin saw Fukushima Yasumasa, he took out the copy and threw it to him.
"Yaga, this is slander, how could the empire do such despicable things, this is completely Kawashima Naniwa's own claim, and it has nothing to do with my Great Japanese Empire." After reading it, Fukushima Yasumasa immediately pushed all the things on Kawashima Naniwa, in fact, it was really Kawashima Naniwa and others who acted without authorization.
Zhang Zuolin said with a stern face: "I don't care if it was ordered by your government or not, but as soon as this is announced, the people and the Chinese government will think that your government did it, so now I ask you Japan to explain." And those things mentioned in it will definitely make the Chinese government, you know, they just succeeded in countering the rebellion in Tibet, and how do you deal with Russia? ”
"It's not the Japanese Empire's doing, we won't explain, let's say, what do you want, I know you won't just come to me like this." Fukushima Yasumasa said fiercely, he knew that Zhang Zuolin came to him to threaten him.
"Hmph, hand over Kawashima Naniwa, dissolve the Zong Socialist Party, and withdraw the garrison in Kwantung Prefecture from the Northeast, and ask for three divisions of weapons and five million taels of silver. If these things can't be done, I will publish this article, I don't know what you have done in Huaxia, I don't know what will happen to the Huaxia government when it finds out, I don't know if your country is ready to go to war with Huaxia and Russia? ”
Fukushima Yasumasa thought for a while and said: "I can't promise you this, I have to discuss it with the base camp, you wait for me, and I will give you news tomorrow." With that, he walked straight away.
Zhang Zuolin didn't make any movement after hearing this, and he also knew that Fukushima Yasumasa couldn't be the master, and now he was going to meet Zhao Erxun and Xu Lanzhou properly. This time the Japanese can't kill him, but it gives him a chance to rise again, he will laugh when he thinks about it, as for offending the Japanese, he doesn't care anymore, since Japan wants to frame him, then what scruples does he have.
Zhao Erxun and Xu Lanzhou, who did not leave because of negotiations, were quickly summoned to the Northeast Government by Zhang Zuolin from the mansion, and the two of them were not very surprised by this, after all, this assassination incident would definitely make them find a way.
"You two are here, close the door and come and take a look at this." Zhang Zuolin said quietly when he saw Zhao and Xu walking into the conference room, and then pointed to Wen Jiàn on the table.
Xu Lanzhou closed the door with his hand, there were only three of them in the conference room, Zhao Erxun and Xu Lanzhou walked to the conference table and picked up the text to look at it, and after a while, the faces of both of them turned blue. Xu Lanzhou and Zhao Erxun stared wide-eyed, they didn't know where Zhang Zuolin got what he got from, but what was written in it was true, they just paid more attention to their own things, and this article was shown to them by Zhang Zuolin after it was sorted out, so there was no mention of Japan's desire to split Manchuria.
"Metropolitan Governor, where did you get this news, it's complete nonsense, this is a discord, we must have done it by the Huaxia government." Zhao Erxun was very nervous when he saw that his connection with the Zongshe Party was exposed, and he immediately said that the Huaxia government had brought it to confuse them.
Xu Lanzhou next to him was silent, he was not a brainless person, he knew that Zhang Zuolin would be able to have these news, so he wouldn't know what they had done, and he didn't feel that there was anything to be afraid of trading with the Japanese.
"Hmph, the Huaxia government doesn't have the heart to do this, I found out the black hand behind the assassination of the Huaxia representative, this is a Japanese plan called Kawashima Naniwa, Zhao Dudu must not say that you don't know this person. As for what you see in your hands, it's only a small part, and there are many that I haven't taken out, and I'm sure you won't admit it, but this article is all found from the Japanese, and I will publish this the day after tomorrow. ”
The two of them were shocked after hearing this, there were other texts, wouldn't it be that their actions were all known to Zhang Zuolin, and they would be sad once they were exposed, after all, they had done some unsightly things with Japan, especially Zhao Erxun was now covered in a cold sweat, and if the Zongshe Party was exposed, he would really be finished.
"Hmph, didn't the Metropolitan Governor ask us to see this? Let's open the skylight and say something, if this announcement is not good for you, at most everyone will break up, we are not happy, and you don't want to be happy. Xu Lanzhou uncovered his face and said fiercely, he felt that Zhang Zuolin would only be able to force them to a dead end now, so he simply said ruthlessly.
Zhang Zuolin was stunned for a moment, obviously frightened by Xu Lanzhou's cruel words, he didn't dare to force them directly now, so he had to change his tone, "I called you here to talk about how to face Huaxia, although Minister Tang was not injured, but the fact of assassinating Minister Tang has already been constituted, I think we should make concessions, the Japanese are too arrogant, we must suppress it well." As for the conditions put forward by the Huaxia deputies, I decided to partially agree, such as dissolving the Northeast Government, joining the Huaxia Government, abolishing the Security Corps, allowing the garrison of Liaohe, etc., we want to let the National Defense Forces enter the Northeast, and if there are three forces in the Northeast, it will be more stable, and if the three sides are established, a delicate relationship will be achieved, and the National Defense Forces are also our compatriots, so I will allow them to garrison the Liaohe. ”
"Impossible, Liaohe is no longer Jilin, of course you will say so, Liaohe is too close to Fengtian City, once the Wehrmacht attacks, I will be the first to suffer, I don't agree. As for the rest, we can agree that the Japanese did the work of the Japanese in this incident, and what do we have to do? "Zhao Erxun panicked when he heard that the National Defense Army was allowed to station in Liaohe, Liaohe was too close to Fengtian City, and there was still a large amount of land and population in Fengtian Province to the west of Liaohe, isn't this shooting his taxes.
"Do you think there is any difference between the stationing of the Wehrmacht in Liaohe and in Chaoyang? If someone wants to beat you, you can cross the Liao River at any time, can you stop it? Do you want me to announce those things with the Zong Socialist Party, do you think I don't know about your relationship with Kawashima Naniwa? I advise you to keep your distance from the Zongshe Party, and if Huaxia mistakes this incident for you, you will bear the wrath of the Wehrmacht. The Japanese assassinated Minister Tang not to provoke the anger of the Huaxia government, once they fought with Japan, it was still us who would end up in the end, and the Huaxia government had been waiting for our explanation for the past few days, if you were not satisfied, you also knew that he who dared to fight with the British might march into the northeast regardless of a single qiē, and at that time, even the Japanese would not be able to defeat us. Zhang Zuolin refuted when he saw that Zhao Erxun was so unlikely.
Xu Lanzhou was basically sure that Zhang Zuolin was pro-Huaxia at this time, otherwise even if he was afraid of Huaxia, he would not have made the decision to dissolve the Northeast government and let the National Defense Army be stationed in Liaohe, and his own territory was not only far away from the National Defense Army, but also under the nose of Russia, as for Japan, he would not consider it, and Japan's strength in Heilongjiang was not as good as Russia's. After this incident, Huaxia will definitely support Zhang Zuolin, Zhao Erxun has the support of the Japanese, but he has no one to support, it seems that he is also going to take refuge in a force, maybe an alliance with Russia is a good thing, Xu Lanzhou thought so.
"I basically agree to these conditions, but we just dissolve the government, our rights remain unchanged, and I don't care about the rest of the negotiations, so I will leave it to the Grand Governor." Xu Lanzhou is in Heilongjiang, and these conditions are dispensable for him.
Zhao Erxun just silently pondered on the side, and after a while, he also spoke: "Governor Dadu, I agree that the National Defense Force will be stationed in the western part of the Liao River, but the National Defense Force cannot take a step across the Liao River, and as for the rest of the negotiations, the Metropolitan Governor will be fully responsible." By the way, these shouldn't be announced, right? ”
"The announcement is to announce something, you can rest assured that I am announcing the news of the Japanese, but the matter is not over yet, the Zong Socialist Party must be dissolved, otherwise I will not be able to explain to the Chinese government, but they are also involved, Kawashima Naniwa is a member of the Zong Socialist Party. Here I want to make a gentleman's agreement with you, when the Northeast government is dissolved, you and I will secretly establish a mutual help organization to deal with the changes in the Northeast in the future, and Mukden and Heilongjiang will take Jilin as the center, so it is equivalent to the Northeast government in the dark, how about it? Zhang Zuolin said slowly.
Zhao Xu and the others immediately understood after hearing this, Zhang Zuolin wanted to use this text to restrain them, Zhang Zuolin also wanted to be the leader of the Northeast, although the two of them were very angry in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say anything on the surface, so they had to agree. As for Zhao Erxun, he originally wanted to refute Zhang Zuolin's request to dissolve the Zongshe Party, but when he thought of Kawashima Naniwa, he was discouraged, no matter what, what Kawashima did was likely to be counted on the Zongshe Party, and once it was made public, they would be hit by the destruction of the party, and if so, even if it was dissolved, it could be re-formed.
The next day, Fukushima Yasumasa came to Zhang Zuolin with a telegram from the Japanese base camp, saying that he could hand over Kawashima Naniwa and others, but it was impossible to withdraw from Kanto Prefecture, and at most there was only one division of weapons and two million taels of silver. These have made Zhang Zuolin very satisfied, the army of Kwantung Prefecture knew that it was impossible to withdraw after he knew about Japan's plan in Manchuria, so he didn't care very much, but what made him most satisfied was that under his pressure, Japan decided to withdraw the Japanese troops stationed in Jilin to guard the South Manchurian Railway, leaving only the basic Japanese workers who maintained the railway.
On the third day, he found Tang Shaoyi, and after the two talked for a whole day, they basically determined the success of the negotiation, as long as Qin Yu's consent was obtained, he could end it satisfactorily, and Qin Yu agreed after receiving Tang Shaoyi's telegram that night.
On New Year's Day in 1913, Zhang Zuolin, the governor of the Northeast government, sent a telegram to the whole country to dissolve the Northeast Autonomous Government, recognizing that the Huaxia government was the only legitimate government in China, and that businessmen inside and outside the customs could come and go freely. He also explained that the assassination of the Huaxia deputies was the work of the Zongshe Party, and that the behind-the-scenes instigators Kawashima Naniwa and others were handed over to the Huaxia Government.
At this point, China was nominally unified except for Taiwan and Ryukyu, which were occupied by Japan, and Outer Mongolia, which was forcibly occupied by Tsarist Russia.