Speaking of Hong Kong, the first reaction of later generations is that it is a large city in East Asia, the Asian Tigers, but although Hong Kong in 1907 has been run by the British as a colony for decades, it is still a not very prosperous port town, and its biggest role is to serve as a British Far East naval base, as for economic development, it can only be said hehe.

When it comes to the big cities of the Far East, people's first reaction is Shanghai, the second reaction is Shanghai, and the third reaction is that in addition to Shanghai, are there any modern cities in the Far East?

The Alice, a British passenger ship of more than 3,000 tons, is slowly sailing into Victoria Harbour, which departs from London, England, passes through France, Spain, Italy and India and other ports, and finally crosses thousands of miles to Hong Kong.

Most of the passengers it took were rogue and businessmen from European countries who wanted to make a fortune in the Far East, and in addition to these white faces, there were also a few rare Oriental faces.

On the first-class deck, Yi Liangxu, dressed in a German-style military uniform and wearing the rank of German lieutenant, was mingling among several noble ladies with fine wine, and from time to time the noblewomen could be seen lightly covering their red lips with their gloved hands, and at the same time, low laughter was heard from time to time.

This made Li Xiang, who had just come out of the deck, frown slightly, and then he coughed lightly, and then said, "Brother Jingchen!" ”

As soon as he came out, several noble ladies over there turned their heads in unison, and one of them laughed: "Another officer of His Majesty the Emperor is here!" ”

Yi Liangxu over there also wanted to make a joke, but when he saw Li Xiang's expression was a little stern, he immediately withdrew the joke, then stood up and said in slightly funny German French: "A few young ladies, let me be absent!" ”

As he spoke, he squeezed his eyes, and made the ladies laugh again!

Yi Liangxu walked over, looked at the Li Xiang in front of him, who was wearing the same German-style army uniform as himself, but wearing the rank of captain, and said: "Brother Wei Guo, why did you come here, I remember that you went to the second-class deck to find Brother Chen and Brother Fang!" ”

"I've looked for them just now, and now a few of the second-class cabins are on the lower deck, so I'll ask you to go!"

Li Xiang listened and said, "Why don't you call them up!" ”

"It's not like you don't know that those stubborn British won't let them come up!" Li Xiang frowned again when he spoke.

This year, no one told you that class discrimination is not allowed, they graduated from major military academies in Germany this year, and then returned to China together, when they boarded the ship, they refused to give them first-class tickets to several other classmates, of course, people will not use the excuse of ethnic discrimination so backward, the reason is simple and practical: the identity is different!

Among the Chinese students who returned to China together, except for the two 'officers of His Majesty the Kaiser' who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy, served in the German General Staff, and were awarded the rank of captain and lieutenant in the German Army, the other few students who graduated from the ordinary non-commissioned officer military academy and were not awarded the rank of German officer after graduation.

In fact, if it weren't for the British to see the faces of the two officers, Li Xiang and Yi Liangxu, they would not even sell them second-class tickets, but would only give them third-class tickets, so that they could stay with the common people.

Ira Xu scolded in a low voice: "These stubborn Britons! ”

But scolding and scolding, Yi Liangxu and Li thought that they would naturally not be unhappy for other compatriots, they didn't have that consciousness yet. The distinction between the classes of the British is not only on the ships of the British, but also on the passenger ships and trains in China, and it is difficult for ordinary people to sit in first class even if they have money.

In fact, Li Xiang and Yi Liangxu themselves do not consider themselves to be classmates with several other students who have returned to China, as the third, third and fourth Chinese military students who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy, they have their own pride. They are not classmates with those students who go to study in other military schools in Germany, they are classmates with Yang Deming and Zhao Dongyun, as for the others, they are compatriots at most, and maybe they will be colleagues in the future, well, it is not surprising that most of the people below will be their subordinates.

This can be seen from the fact that their predecessor Yang Deming was promoted to colonel only one year after returning to China, and served as the chief of the vital operations department under the General Staff of the Fengtian Army Headquarters.

Following Li Xiang, Yi Liangxu said, "Have you talked to a few of them?" What do they say? ”

Li Xiang said while leading the way: "There are a few who haven't given me a letter yet, Chen Fenglan has already said that he may have to go back to his hometown in Jiangsu first to visit Shuanglao!" ”

Unexpectedly, Yi Liangxu snorted coldly: ", that kid said he was going back to his hometown, but I think he is going to take refuge in the Southern Federation, thanks to me for taking care of him more in the past two years, and now he has betrayed us to join the Southern Federation!" ”

Li Xiang sighed and said: "Everyone has their own ambitions, we can't force him to go to Shenyang with us, but Fang Qingkun and Kang Dianqiao have already expressed their attitude to me in private and are willing to go to Shenyang with us!" ”

As the two spoke, they went down to the deck of the second-class cabin again, and then joined the rest of the students studying in Germany, and while they were talking to each other, the passenger ship Alice was already docked at the dock.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there will always be a time when the feast will disperse, and now it's time to say goodbye to each other!" After Li Xiang said that, he got off the boat with Yi Liangxu and the other three students who decided to go to Shenyang, and the other people also got off the boat one after another, and then they would all change boats and go to Yingkou, Tianjin, Shanghai and other different cities to follow their life goals.

Not to mention where the other international students went after getting off the boat, but Li Xiang and the others, as soon as they got off the boat, Yi Liangxu saw a familiar figure in front of the dock with sharp eyes, and this person had not yet arrived, so he shouted excitedly: "Senior Yang, we are here!" ”

After a while, Yang Deming looked at the people in front of him, but after counting the number of people, he found that there were only five people, so he frowned and said, "What about the other four people?" ”

Li Xiang said: "They left separately!" ”

Hearing Li Xiang say this, Yang Deming also frowned slightly, he didn't expect that he would come to Hong Kong to pick up people in person, and even let them run away, and he knew with his toes that the other four people who went would either be loyal to Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui in the future, or they would go to the Southern Federation, no matter where they went, they would become enemies of the Soviet Union.

Since the Republic embassy in Germany sent a telegram back saying that a group of students were about to return to China, Zhao Dongyun personally instructed Yang Deming to intercept the people before other forces.

Even regardless of the old face, he directly sent a telegram to Li Xiang and Yi Liangxu, two juniors of the same school who were still in Germany, inviting them to serve in the Northeast as seniors, and hinting in the telegram that if they were willing to come to the Northeast, then the high-ranking officials would not be stingy!

In the face of Zhao Dongyun's personal invitation, Li Xiang was okay, although this person was from Hubei, he graduated from Huwubei School before, but later entered the advanced training class of the Third Mixed Association Suiying School, followed Zhao Dongyun to study, and was finally favored by Zhao Dongyun and sent to Germany to study.

The brand of the Soviet system on his body is even deeper than that of Yang Deming, and he will naturally continue to work for the Soviet family after returning to China.

As for Yi Liangxu, he is a native of Jiangsu, graduated from the Beiyang Military Academy before, he had nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun before, but Yuan Shikai was personally selected and sent to Germany to study, and only after he was admitted to the Berlin Military Academy did he get involved with Zhao Dongyun and became a junior of Zhao Dongyun in the eyes of outsiders.

However, no matter what their previous identities were, they and Zhao Dongyun are alumni, and Zhao Dongyun's juniors in the eyes of outsiders are real. For example, the relationship between the military schools of Tianjin Wubei Academy and the Beiyang Military Academy and even Lu Shi's classmates does not work, because there are too many people, and hundreds or thousands of classmates are almost the same.

But there are only a few graduates from the Berlin Military Academy in China, none other than Zhao Dongyun, Yang Deming, Li Xiang, Yi Liangxu, even if you add the other five people who are studying, there are only nine people in total, which is one of the few who are serious.

This thing is rare and expensive, and this number is worth less than classmates and alumni.

In addition, Yang Deming's precedent is there, so Li Xiang and Yi Liangxu didn't think much about it, they planned to go to Zhao Dongyun, a senior in the same school, after returning to China.

These two juniors of the Berlin Military Academy chose to go to the Northeast without much consideration, but several other people just had a lot of concerns, and among the seven students who returned to China together, they were all sent to Germany by Yuan Shikai, to be honest, it has nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun, and not every student studying in Germany can be reused by Zhao Dongyun as quickly as Yang Deming and these people after returning to China, after all, there are many military talents under Zhao Dongyun, and all kinds of students studying in Germany and Japan can catch a large piece of it at will. When they go to the Northeast, they always want to start from the grassroots level and compete with them step by step.

Moreover, not everyone is optimistic about Zhao Dongyun, in the hearts of contemporary people, it is actually Zhang Zhidong and Wang Yingkai who dominate the process of Chinese history, as for Zhao Dongyun, although he has two newspapers in three days, but he has not been able to dominate the center, he is still just a warlord who is partial to peace, at most he is a little stronger, and there is no essential difference between Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Wu Fengling and others.

The main reason why Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai competed for the position of the boss of Beiyang in the first place is this, if you don't look at you as the boss of Beiyang, you are a small warlord, and if you can't get on the stage, those talents or speculative politicians and businessmen will not set their eyes on you.