Yang Hao didn't run to Tianjin with nothing to do.

Nominally, he sent the first batch of goods with Song Yunsheng, and at the same time received his telegram to entrust the merchants of Pingyao to buy a courtyard house outside the east gate of Tianjin, in the big lion alley, as one of the northern strongholds.

The real goal is to establish the first official space-time anchor in the B plane.

In this world, he has purchased a private estate in Kenya through Guò, and built an anchor point at that end under the authority granted by Yan Huang Ding, which can be used as a springboard through the old mansion that spans two planes in Guò, and directly pass through the second plane, without having to take a slow plane.

On the other hand, he can establish another space-time anchor point on the B plane, so that he can travel directly from this world to this place without the need for more tedious travel.

These two anchor points are what Yang Hao recognized as Yan Huang Ding, and only the holder of the Shuangding seal can do, and the other five family members can only honestly communicate with the old mansion, and the convenience is completely disproportionate.

However, in order to set up a space-time anchor, the prerequisite requires that the property must be legally held by Yang Hao. This means that in the country where the land is nationalized, he should not expect to get a second territory that can be traversed at any time. Even if you buy a real estate, you can only easily send materials and other inanimate things across the plane. Even if there are active grain seeds and the like, they will be inactivated after they are put in, so don't expect to be able to use the good seeds of this world to go there directly in one step.

The reason why Tianjin was chosen as the unique space-time anchor at present is that in a short period of data summary and analysis, it was found that Tianjin and its concession will serve as an extremely important source of the entire Far East Wind Cloud Changes and various major events in the coming decades.

Before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court, Beiyang, and the great powers carried out a series of military and political construction operations near the central imperial capital; It is also the starting point of the long and huge transnational trade routes of North China, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Russia and even as far as Europe, bringing together the import and export products, capital and power of contemporary China, second only to Shanghai.

Moreover, after the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the planning and execution of a series of turbulent changes such as partition, plunder, manipulation and division launched by the great powers, as well as the Boxer Rebellion, the political game in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, various figures who influenced the course of Chinese history, huge amounts of funds, and countless conspiracies and schemes, all had a great deal to do with this ancient city located in the lower reaches of the Haihe River.

It can be said that Tianjin was the location of a series of major events that took place in China and even the Far East in the 50 years or so of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and the gathering place of mobilization forces, and its importance is far greater than that of Shanghai, which grew rapidly into one of the world's major metropolises in the following decades.

In such an important place, so close to the capital, all the actions that the Yang clan wants to plan are not more convenient than here. Moreover, the whole project has the effect of killing birds with one stone.

And the Songchang foreign company that Yang Hao had just visited was the first target to clean up in Tianjin--- Japanese spy agency. Whether it is from the understanding of this world or the urgent threat that the B plane is facing in front of us, Japan must be the first to deal with it, and it must be swept away in one fell swoop without mercy.

In the past decade or so, Japan's espionage activities in the Qing Dynasty have become more and more rampant, and all kinds of spies disguised themselves as Chinese people have gone deep into various places to reconnoiter and spy on them.

With the backstage support of Kotaro Hiraoka and Jiro Nakano, the leaders of the Genyosha, this group sent a group of young spies Yamazaki Yozaburo, Narasaki Hachiro, Hiraoka Tsunejiro, and Toyomura Fumihei as the backbone, with the initiator Kishida Ginka personally sitting in the center, and Munakata Kotaro single-handedly planning, gathering more than 20 bold and brave Japanese elites to form local branches in the name of opening "Rakuzendo branches", and launched a huge movement called "Expedition to the Mountains and Countryside of More Than 400 Prefectures".

The "outsiders" of Leshantang entered the two lakes and Sichuan one after another, directly pointing to Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, as well as Xinjiang and Tibet, and all the terrain and climate, customs and customs, industrial transportation, checkpoint barracks, military fortresses, etc., were all within their reconnaissance range.

These young Japanese spies, not afraid of hardships, first carried them on their shoulders, disguised themselves as merchants, and sold goods everywhere. After the goods were sold out, they pretended to be Lang Zhong, Mr. Feng Shui, and even beggars to travel around. When encountering checkpoints, the Chinese language is not standard, so he lied that he was a Fujianese or a Cantonese and was deceived to pass the checkpoint. Almost all kinds of spies in various places encountered dangers, and this became a "real rehearsal" for espionage work during the First Sino-Japanese War, and these young people also became experts who knew China's national conditions well because of their solid investigation and research.

In April 1889, Arao Seiki sorted out a large amount of information obtained in the three years since the establishment of Rakuzendo, and refined it into a "Book of Resurrection" of tens of thousands of words, which was submitted to the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army.

In this summary of the espionage, Arao Seiki clearly stated that China has been completely corrupted and that Japan must strike first before it can use China against the West. He proposed that commercial warfare should be used to nurture spy warfare, to expand armaments through commercial warfare, to establish the Japanese-Qing Trade Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and to establish branches in Hankou, Zhenjiang, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and other places, and to collect intelligence while doing business. This construction yì has a huge resonance in the first part of the spy war 65 Japanese spy lurking in the Japanese government and the opposition.

On the basis of this outline-style report, Nezuichi, who later presided over the Leshantang, sorted out and compiled all the information in more detail, forming a set of brilliant masterpieces called "Overview of Qing Trade". The book is divided into two parts and three volumes, with more than 2,000 pages and comprehensive contents, covering all aspects of Chinese society, politics, economy, finance, commerce and trade, industry, education, transportation, geography, climate, customs and habits.

A wealthy businessman named Eijiro Okazaki in Osaka was moved and happily agreed to sponsor the establishment of a practice base for the "Nissin Trade Institute," a spy school that had just been established in Shanghai. This internship base was well run and the business was prosperous, which greatly alleviated the financial difficulties of the Nissin Trade Institute.

Going up the mountains and to the countryside and to the most difficult places, the young spies of Leshantang traveled thousands of miles in China, "wrote" thousands of books, conducted solid investigations and studies, and had a deeper understanding of this country than the Qing dynasty and the opposition. These also seem to have doomed the fate of China and Japan in the ensuing Sino-Japanese War and ...... afterward.

(The above 1000 words are from the Internet, because the writing is really good, I picked it up, and the free chapters don't cheat money.) In addition, a group of Japanese devils boldly predicted in the 19th century that "the people of Hunan will dominate China." ）

As a key area, Tianjin naturally has "Leshantang" elites. However, now they do not have a concession, so the branch hall did not open, but first used a "Songchang Foreign Company" on Zizhulin Street as a base of activities. A Japanese spy who can speak Chinese is the boss, and a senior "outsider" is a partner.

For example, Yang Hao's target this time, Ishikawa Wuichi, is one of the best.

Ishikawa is an outstanding talent in the "Go to the Mountains and Go to the Countryside" campaign, and once successfully ran the Sichuan branch. Last year, he went north to expand his business, and accompanied the Japanese military attache and naval staff in China to send Navy Major Toshio Inoue to Yantai on a rented Chinese sailing ship, visiting Changshan Island, Miaodao Island, Xiaoping Island, and so on, and inspecting the Lushun Fort, and on the return journey, he passed through Dagu Mountain, as well as the Taedong River, Pyongyang, and Incheon Kou in North Korea, and returned to Yantai via Weihaiwei. The sea surface and the sea mouth they passed through were measured accordingly and a report was formed. Prepare for a naval battle between the Japanese Navy and the Chinese fleet in the future.

In August of the same year, Ishikawa followed Toshio Inoue and Mitsutomi Kamio, a military lieutenant, and others, and took the Japanese ship "Tsukushi" to enter Lushun, Dalian Bay, Daheshang Island, Weihaiwei and other places, spying on the shape of each fortress, and mastering a large amount of important military information. After that, Ishikawa returned to Tianjin, disguised himself as an employee of Matsusho & Co. in the British Concession, and continued to collect military intelligence.

In February of this year, he contacted Liu Di, the secretary of the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau, and obtained important military information such as the number of firearms and ammunition in the various military camps in Tianjin, as well as the daily production and stock of firearms and ammunition in the various bureaus of the Ordnance Institute.

If Yang Hao wants to make trouble in Tianjin, he will inevitably not be able to hide it from the Japanese, and the best way is naturally to uproot them first. Moreover, the first goal of the Yang family's original action was to sabotage Japan's First Sino-Japanese Conspiracy, so it was only fitting to take Tianjin's spy agency to sacrifice the flag.

With four followers to go through Zizhulin Street, like all the tourists who came to open their eyes, they found a Lu restaurant not far from Songchang Foreign Bank, went to the private room on the second floor, and through the window, they could see the face of the target.

As night fell, the gas lamps on the streets were lit, which was also an exceptionally rare light in the concession where there was no electricity, so the tourists were still interested.

Yang Hao ordered some meat dishes at random, and after they were all together, he beckoned the two bodyguards and the two followers to let go of their bellies, eat and drink to their heart's content, let them stare at the door, and told the guys not to disturb. When I arrived at the window, I pushed open the glass window, opened the suitcase that Liu Dafu was carrying all the way, and took out a four-rotor drone from it.

A fist-sized cylinder hung under its pylon, operated by a remote control, with a slight humming sound slowly rising, swaying towards the backyard of Matsuchang in the darkness that could not be illuminated by the light.

Through the footage returned by the camera, Yang Hao accurately controlled the drone to close to the closed window of one of the houses, and after hovering, pressing the switch, the head of the cylinder "poofed" out a thin tube, and the hard alloy head smashed into the glass and fell in, snorting quickly spewing out a large amount of gasoline.

The drone immediately loosened the hook and rose into the air, the light shot by the high-power laser pointer next to the camera focused on the canister, and the extremely thin tank was quickly penetrated, and the remaining oil and gas inside were ignited, and the explosion exploded, and a dazzling fire shattered the window, and a raging fire suddenly broke inside!

"It's on fire!" On the street, exclamations came and went, and seven or eight people rushed out of the front and back yards of Songchang Foreign Bank, carrying buckets and basins.

Yang Hao said with a smile: "The show has begun!" ”