A scholar once said that if you give him a fulcrum, he can pry the earth. An official once said, give him a fulcrum, and he can pry any official position. Another woman once said that if she was given a fulcrum, she would be able to pry open any family that seemed to be very happy. Yang Xiaolin knew that he must now find a good fulcrum to pry the whole situation, and this fulcrum is in Japan.

Little Japan is not a fool, Japan's abacus is also very shrewd, Yang Xiaolin knows that it is difficult to make Japan come out, but it is not completely impossible. The Japanese government is not a Western democratic government, they are basically the same as the German model, which is a democracy under a constitutional monarchy.

Under this system, Japan has to pay more or less attention to the opinions of the people in Japan, and the will of their government is sometimes swayed by their public opinion. Just like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, the Japanese emperor, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku knew very well that Japan and the United States had no chance of winning a war.

A group of people who understand but did a very stupid thing together, not because they were collectively hot-headed, but because the anti-American sentiment in the country was quite high, at that time Japan won even wars, and half of China's country fell into their hands, those ordinary Japanese no longer took China seriously, they thought that the Japanese Empire was invincible, they thought that the United States was not Japan's opponent, plus Germany's victory step by step at that time, The cries in Japan for war with the West have led those who understand to take it to heart.

If a country wants to become strong and prosperous, it is necessary for the people to have the plot of a great country, and nationalism is also the value pursuit of beauty. However, the political ideals of the top level should be kept at a certain distance from society, and the aspirations of the society should not be used as the political goals of the top level of the country.

In other words, you can't let nationalist sentiments hijack your government's actions.

Everyone understands this in the 21st century, but at this stage, all countries want their citizens to support their governments, and all democratic governments take pride in embodying the will of their citizens.

It seems that as long as the government embodies the will of the majority, it is democratic. It's advanced. Nationalism is often sacred, giving people a sense of existence and passion, thus forgetting the banality and frustration of reality. But there are two kinds of passions, one is the passion that can be controlled, and the other is the passion that cannot be controlled.

The line between these two passions is blurred, as is the case in Japan today, the British took the lead in forcing Japan to promise autonomy in East Timor, and the British took the lead in organizing France and the United States to restrict Japan on Asian issues, all of which made the Japanese people's favorability of the British government slowly decrease, and the scene of celebration of the whole country after the Anglo-Japanese alliance no longer exists. Although the alliance was still alive at this time, British merchants in Japan often suffered from white eyes.

Japan did not realize the seriousness of the matter, and the emperor and Saionji at this time felt that it was not a bad thing that national sentiment was high. At least when the Russian Red Stream struck the whole world, Japan was close at hand and did not suffer much harm. The workers are still working desperately for the government, and the ships are constantly being launched, and every warship that is launched means that their country's strength has surpassed that of China a little bit, so little Japan thought.

They are still continuing to use myth-making and sensationalism to rally the middle and lower classes and grasp more resources. Let Japan move faster than China. Now the Japanese had more than two hundred battleships, and the number of battleships had reached twenty, almost catching up with Germany.

In the past six months, the Chinese navy has only added two cruisers and three destroyers, and the speed of such development has obviously lagged behind Japan. While the Fuzhou shipyard in China has been massively expanded and developed. But most of what they produced was merchant ships.

The Chinese also built a small warship, similar in size to a medium-sized commercial ship, and the Japanese received reliable information that those small warships and commercial ships came out of the same production line. These ships have a displacement of only a few hundred tons. There are generally only two guns on it, and the firepower is not very strong.

There were more than a dozen of these warships, and most of them were active in the Nansha area. The Chinese side said that the ships were specially built to fight pirates. Indeed, it seems that it can only fight pirates. The Japanese have seen small warships like China more than once at sea, they want firepower without firepower, they want to defend without defense, and if they really go to war, those Japanese admirals said that they can blow her up with one shot.

The only trouble is that China has equipped these ships with the best engines, which are extremely fast and have nimble steering. Once a Japanese cruiser saw one such Chinese warship, mischievously trying to scare and scare the Chinese, and hit it with full power.

However, the Chinese warships fled several hundred meters as quickly as they turned around. Even if you just escape, the Chinese on that ship were obviously very angry with this rushing action of the Japanese, and they actually fired at the Japanese cruiser!

The Japanese cruisers were greatly annoyed and also returned fire. More than a dozen shells were fired from both sides, and the Chinese boat was too fast for the Japanese to hit at all. The Chinese artillery fire was not very powerful, and they did not dare to approach, and none of them hit, and the cruiser received an order from the upper peak, asking them to retreat immediately after leaving the battle.

China and Japan have fought each other in this matter, and neither side has gone to negotiate with each other, as if it had not happened at all. The Japanese side came to a conclusion that such Chinese warships were no match for the Japanese Navy at all, and the Japanese Daisa on the cruiser said that if a war really broke out, one Japanese ship could hit dozens of small gunboats like China, and the only trouble was that they might not be able to catch up if they wanted to run.

The Japanese did not know what to do, just when the Chinese small gunboat and the Japanese cruiser were fighting, that is, when the Japanese thought that they had complete absolute superiority, the two submarines of the Chinese were next to the Japanese cruiser, and Luo Naijun's sea mail ship directly controlled every move of the small gunboat, from firing back to retreating, the small gunboat was carrying out the orders from the mail ship.

The Japanese side did not even notice the existence of the mail ship formation, and they did not expect that if it were not for the fact that the cruiser was found on the mail ship with a signal to send radio waves, Luo Naijun would even have thought of ordering the submarine to sink the cruiser.

China's submarine technology comes from Germany, but now China's submarines are more advanced than Germany's. Because the radios equipped by the Germans on submarines can only receive signals on the surface of the sea, the radio waves of the Chinese can be transmitted to submarines more than ten meters deep underwater.

The reason why Yang Xiaolin built those gunboats with only speed was because he couldn't make such a thing as radar now, and the role of those gunboats was the maritime scouts of the future aircraft carrier formation. The development model of China's navy is incomprehensible to Japan, and the Japanese are now looking at the number of ships.

Quantitatively speaking, the current Japanese navy is the first in Asia and the third in the world. Moreover, they had defeated the Beiyang Naval Division and the Russian fleet, which were much more powerful than them, and this ranking and record gave the Japanese confidence in their navy.

It's not enough, it's not crazy enough. Yang Xiaolin felt that he still needed to encourage and stimulate the Japanese again. Only when the country is crazy will they do what they want them to do. As long as the entire Yamato nation goes crazy, they will go to extinction.

When it was time to make an appointment with Mr. Sadaoyi, the ministers of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Austria and Russia came to Yang Xiaolin's headquarters, which seemed to be the first time that the two camps in World War I came together to find themselves in such a complete way.

The Russian envoy was Mr. Desi Jiansnovich, and although the situation in Russia was now turbulent and Nicholas II had been driven to the Russian border, the Chinese side did not establish diplomatic relations with any Russian power, and the Nicholas regime was still the only legitimate power recognized by China that could represent Russia.

"Sir, please be seated."

Yang Xiaolin pulled out the chair in the conference room, he sat in the seat on it, Mr. Sa Daoyi did not be verbose, the purpose of their coming has been very clear in the diplomatic letter, and now time is precious, and there is no time to be verbose.

"Commander Yang, we are here in the name of the international community. We have all carried with us diplomatic letters from our country to China, hoping that the Chinese side will do its part in this turbulent situation in Russia. This is a telegram from your Excellency the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ”

As he spoke, Sa Daoyi took out a telegram from his bosom, and the ministers of several other countries immediately made the same move. Yang Xiaolin said at this time: "Don't look at the gentlemen. I very much agree with Mr. Sadaoyi's remarks, because now that the political turmoil in Russia has become a problem for the whole world, the Chinese side is willing to do something to come out, not to mention any obligation for the sake of the country, but also for our own security. ”

Sa Daoyi was quite satisfied with Yang Xiaolin's attitude: "This is very good. It is in the interest of all of us that China is willing to intervene in the turmoil in Russia, Mr. Desi Jiansnović, can you now explain to Commander Yang the specific requirements of the Russian side? ”

Desi Jianshi Novovic immediately said: "Of course, this is what I have to do. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't need to say anything more about the tense situation in Russia, His Majesty the Tsar has already drawn up a plan for a counteroffensive, but for various reasons it cannot be implemented. We will not allow that Trotsky guy to continue his nonsense! So on the one hand, we hope that you can give us the greatest support for Russia at this time! Unconditional support! On the other hand, the tsar hoped that the Chinese side would send troops directly to support us. ”

Yang Xiaolin nodded after listening: "The current problem is that it seems that it is not appropriate for the Chinese side to send troops now, which will give others the illusion that we are interfering in Russia's internal affairs, at least the Russian people will have such an opinion." ”

Desi Jianshi Novochic was a little anxious: "No! Commander Yang, you must not have this kind of thought, you are sending troops at the invitation of His Majesty the Tsar, this is two different concepts from interfering in internal affairs, and His Majesty the Tsar will explain clearly to the Russian citizens in the future, and none of us will have prejudices against China. ”

Yang Xiaolin's attitude was very resolute: "Mr. Desi Jianshi Snowwich, we have known each other for a long time, and we have dealt with each other more than once. I don't want to talk to you about those diplomatic terms, but let's be clear, I have doubts about whether Nicholas II will be able to continue to sit in this position after the Russian revolution, and I don't have much affection for him. (To be continued......)