Because of the emergence of Wang Yi and the rise of the Northeast Autonomous Region, Yuan Shikai's training of new troops at the Tianjin station was advanced by nearly ten years. Xu Shichang, who was thirty-three years old at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, married Yuan Shikai in 1879 as a brother, and was later sponsored by him to take the examination in Beijing. When he heard the news that the Qing court ordered Yuan Shikai to train troops in the small station, he defected to Yuan Shikai again and became his chief staff.

The old and young masters in the capital have high hopes for the new army, and they don't forget to brag to the girls that the new army is the first army in Asia. These words are stupid words in the Northeast that laugh off the big teeth, and the insurance team of the Hundred Battles Division does not dare to boast like this. The new army, which has never fought a battle and has never even been touched by bandits, is so arrogant, it is difficult to say whether its combat power is the first in Asia, but it is really possible to face it. In the words of the bandits in the insurance team, the upper lip is next to the sky, the lower lip is next to the ground, you have such a fucking big dog face!

No matter how the gang in the capital bragged, Yuan Shikai knew it very well in his heart. The new army is an expensive ornament, and it is really about combat strength, not to mention the Northeast Insurance Team, that is, whether the other Beiyang troops under Li Hongzhang can win by themselves with an overwhelming advantage, there is still a gap between the two. For this, Xu Shichang is a little difficult to understand, how to say that his son is still his own parent.

Just before the end of the year, the Northeast Autonomous Region and the Russian Empire launched negotiations on the western border, and Yuan Shikai couldn't sleep at night after knowing the news, and he wandered alone in the barracks in the middle of the night. Coincidentally, it was just in time for Xu Shichang to get up at night and walk back to his residence from the toilet with a cotton coat. Because in the barracks, the two of them don't pay attention to what they live, just in a compound. When the barracks were newly built, they slept on a kang.

"Weiting, you are ......" Of course Xu Shichang will find it strange, in the middle of the night in winter, Yuan Shikai can't sleep, wandering outside alone, which daughter-in-law is this worried about?

Yuan Shikai was fascinated by what was on his mind, but Xu Shichang suddenly asked, and suddenly woke up from a dream and was startled.

"Oh, it turned out to be Fifth Brother Bu!"

The two are brothers who worship the son, although after Yuan Shikai became the emperor in later generations, Xu Shichang was silent and far away, and he was not far away, but at this time, both of them were still in the stage of hardship and entrepreneurship, and the relationship was naturally extremely close.

"I don't know why today, I just can't sleep!" Yuan Shikai made it on a big stone and sighed helplessly.

Xu Shichang was slightly surprised, stunned for a moment, and then understood, and said with some hesitation: "But what new news from the Northeast has come over?" ”

"Hey......!" Yuan Shikai sighed again! It took a long time before he said: "The Northeast and the Russians have begun to hold negotiations on the western boundary of the north. ”

Xu Shichang didn't react at first when he heard the news, but after all, he was not an ordinary person, and after thinking about the stakes, he immediately knew the key issues that his younger brother was worried about.

In East Asia, there were two families who were most reluctant to stop the war in East Russia, the first was naturally the Japanese, and the other was the Qing court. Compared with the Japanese across the sea, the Qing court's worries were significantly more severe.

"Weiting is worried that the northeast will be unfavorable to the Qing court?"

Isn't that obvious? In fact, everyone understands that even if East Russia signs a peace agreement, the northeast will still maintain a certain number of troops on the border, but compared with wartime, the number of insurance teams will definitely be greatly reduced. And the whereabouts of these transferred back troops has become a concern for everyone. Whether it is placed on the border of the Eastern Qing Dynasty, or Hokkaido, or the five provinces of Southeast Asia, there will definitely be opponents in the Northeast who are worried about this, for fear that the Northeast will aim the knife at themselves.

"Those who know me, Fifth Brother Bu!" Yuan Shikai, who was originally small, now seems to be a little shorter than usual, and you can imagine how much pressure on his shoulders is.

Xu Shichang was a little puzzled, looked at Yuan Shikai and asked, "Comfort Pavilion, are we a little worried about this?" Although the Northeast will significantly reduce its garrisons on the front line after the signing of the border agreement with the Russian Empire, they may not point the finger at us, right? As far as the foolish brother knows, although the bandit king in the northeast does not want to see the two in the palace, he is even more hostile to Japan in comparison. At the beginning, for a trivial matter, I almost slaughtered the Japanese in the Northeast. Well, putting aside Japan, the Northeast is not a balance in the five provinces of Southeast Asia, and there is still a dragon king over there who has not been exterminated! ”

Yuan Shikai waved his hand, shook his head again, and said, "Big brother doesn't know anything!" Others don't know Wang Yi, but I know very well. I began to study this man's way of doing things a few years ago, and yes, Tohoku and Japan seem to be at odds with each other, and the dragon king of Southeast Asia is also a blood feud. But that doesn't mean he has these people in his eyes! Let's talk about Southeast Asia first, and now sitting in the town is Wu Xiao, the former chief of staff of the Northeast Insurance Team. I know that when I followed General Wu Changqing in Korea, it was this person who commanded behind his back, beat the Japanese and threw off their armor, and almost wiped out the whole army. Although he was later implicated by his family and sent by Wang Yi to the Northeast Army Military Academy as the principal, it can also be seen that Wang Yi protected him. Now that Wu Xiao is back in the mountains, sitting in the five provinces of Southeast Asia, Wang Yi's respect for him is still the same, he is not so much that Wang Yi is worried about the situation in Southeast Asia, but rather that he is using the Dragon King to teach Wu Xiao, who has been in the battle formation for a long time, to practice his hands, and at the same time to improve the combat power of the newly established insurance team in Southeast Asia! ”

Hearing Yuan Shikai's analysis, Xu Shichang nodded. He didn't deal much with the Northeast, while Yuan Shikai spent most of his time dealing with the Northeast since he joined the army, as was the case in the Korean War and in Vietnam.

"Could it be that the king took the five provinces of Southeast Asia as another Tsarist Russia?" Xu Shichang understood what Yuan Shikai meant, but he was still a little puzzled, and said: "Even if it is as you said, isn't there Japan in front of us?" ”

"It's not Japan! …… Originally, Japan had four major islands, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Hokkaido. Hokkaido is now the autonomous region of Tohoku, and the Ryukyus in southern Japan are also under the control of Tohoku. If Japan is regarded as a chess piece, the four sides have gathered their energy, and now the two qi of the north and the south have been cut off, and the remaining West is the vast Pacific Ocean. For Japan, the West is inherently inherently inflated. As for the East, it is our Great Qing Dynasty! Although this side is constantly breathing and can still gather some money, under the strong economic competition in the Northeast, this only vitality is also decreasing. ”

"If you count the navy in the northeast, Japan is actually out of breath!" Xu Shichang sighed.