The Chinese naval base is now in Shandong, in cooperation with the Germans. In a strict sense, Qingdao is not suitable for a complete naval base, Yang Xiaolin initially wanted to establish bases in Dalian and Lushun, and the choice of Qingdao was really a last resort. There is only one reason, the fear of being beaten by the Japanese.

It is not surprising that Yang Dagui has built a training base, and if the Chinese warships only stay in the Qingdao area, their soldiers will not be able to get training. However, his establishment of a training base in Nansha, so far away from Qingdao, is a bit abnormal in itself, and he also offered to cooperate with Britain and France, and the message conveyed is quite clear.

Both Mr. Sa Daoyi and Mr. Zhu Erdian realized that Yang Dagui was obviously also very wary of the development of the Japanese in Asia! Once the training base in Nansha is completed, China will certainly send warships to patrol here all year round, and he can directly threaten Taiwan, and even cut off Japan's sea transportation line from the mainland to Indonesia.

The British were really interested in this proposal.

Little Japan is trying to break the current Asian pattern, especially after Japanese Prime Minister Saionji visited Siam, they seem to be more enthusiastic about Asians in Asia, and the containment of Japan is already an imminent matter.

That's the way things are for the country, Japan is now an ally of the United Kingdom, and China has not yet established normal diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, but that's okay. Just as the Americans will support us in fighting Vietnam in the future, everything should be done in the interests of the country, and the allies must also be relieved.

The United States and France have long had the intention of supporting China to contain Japan, even if Yang Dagui does not say that they are willing to see China do this, not to mention that now Yang Xiaolin not only said that he would cooperate with them.

What does collaboration mean? In one respect, cooperation means that Britain and France can know the development of the Chinese navy inside out, and they can influence the strategic deployment of the Chinese through certain channels.

Just like the battle between Yang and the Russians this time, although the subjective factor is that China itself wants to fight Russia, the Germans also played a key role in fueling the flames. In particular, some German soldiers were directly involved in the battle of the Chinese troops in Mongolia.

And the most crucial point. Cooperation means that Yang beats the ghost once again sends a very clear signal of reconciliation to the British.

Mr. Sadaoyi has always believed that the most wrong decision he has made about the problem in China is to deal with Yang Dagui. He had been treating the bandit with an arrogant attitude. Later, after coming to Britain, Sa Daoyi thought about a lot of things, in all fairness, from Yang Xiaolin's beginnings to his own departure from China, this Chinese bandit has released signals to himself many times that he is willing to cooperate with Britain.

I had never dealt with him before. This time, he once again expressed this intention, cooperation in the establishment of a naval training base is certainly just the beginning, once the two sides begin to contact, it is equivalent to letting go of the former antagonism, and subsequent cooperation will definitely follow.

The products of Chinese businessmen are really excellent. Their bicycles were sold to Europe to a very good reception, and the beauty of their handmade fabrics became the favor of European gentlemen. If these commercial cooperation is not enough to influence the British policy towards China, then the reform pilot carried out by the Chinese in Langfang has really made many foreign banks focus on this piece of fat! China's 300 million peasants, each of whom pays back their own silver dollar interest, how much does it add up?

Bankers are able to influence the government's policy toward China, and cooperation with China has become very popular within the British Empire, and Sa Daoyi and Zhu Erdian originally decided that no matter who wins Yuan Shikai or Sun Wen, Sino-British relations will immediately return to normal. But like Yang Da Ghost also threw an olive branch, catch it?

The look at them contained such a question.

Conger saw that they were still hesitating. There was a puzzled look on his face: "Gentlemen! What are you waiting for? Yes, I know that guy is a beast, but it doesn't matter! The important thing is that he is now willing to work with us! To be honest, I would prefer that the Chinese fleet would be under his command. If his skills in naval warfare are as good as those on land, the Philippines will be safe! ”

"Conger, I am afraid that our policy of propping up China in order to restrain Japan will create a greater enemy," Zhu said. ”

Conger had a smile on his face, "I know you must be worried. So I'm going to take the lead and get China and Japan to come to an agreement as well, and this is the first draft. Please take a look at it. “

Conger took out a document from his bosom, and Zhu Erdian took it and looked at it: "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Peaceful Coexistence in Asia."

In this treaty, the Americans thought very well for China and Japan. The United States said that Japan has no right to restrict the development of the Chinese Navy, but in order to ensure peace in the Asian region in the future, China should not start a shipbuilding race with Japan, so the Americans proposed a method, that is, the total tonnage of the Chinese Navy should not exceed 60 percent of the Japanese Navy, and the number of submarines on either side should not exceed the other side's five.

Once the treaty is signed by both China and Japan, it means that the Chinese navy will never be able to challenge Japan, so if China wants to maintain its maritime rights in Asia, it will have to rely on the support of Western countries.

At the same time, for Japan, it is also equivalent to a tight spell. China's naval tonnage is only 60 percent of yours, but if Britain, France, and the United States intervene, with a little effort, they can help China push you down.

The gentlemen are still playing Tai Chi again, and they are still playing their balance game again.

After reading it, Zhu Erdian was obviously very interested in this treaty: "Conger, do you think the beast will agree?" ”

Conger was noncommittal: "Maybe he will bargain, but as long as he is willing to talk, it means that he really has the intention of reconciliation, and we should not give up this opportunity." ”

Sa Daoyi also spoke: "Zhu Erdian, I think we should try it. ”

Zhu Erdian finally nodded, but he also asked again: "Then, what should Yuan Shikai do?" ”

Conger immediately said: "We have declared our support for him, and we can support him as much as we want, but if he can't get Yang to fight the ghost, we can't help him." ”

"Okay, that's it."

The signal released by Yang Xiaolin this time was finally accepted by the gentlemen. It's not because he's become civilized, or because gentlemen have suddenly changed their sex. In fact, the beast is just a title, how much does Yang fight ghosts and kill people? He remembered that he seemed to have killed a lot of Russians and Japanese, but he really didn't do much against the British and French.

This is the way of the world, don't think about reasoning with the robbers, the Manchu Qing is a very good lesson, it is good to talk to foreigners, and it is good to do things, but so what? It is impossible to win the favor of the great powers by measuring China's material resources, and it is too difficult to satisfy them.

When your fists are hard enough for them to know how powerful you are, they can face up to the words that come out of your mouth!

In ten days, the Chinese troops walked back more than 400 kilometers, which was quite fast, Yang Xiaolin was forcing the palace to the old Yuan, and he knew that the faster he walked, the more panicked Yuan Shikai was in Beijing, and the more impatient he was to deal with some problems, because in Yuan Shikai's view, he had to deal with all the problems before he went back.

In the past few days, Yuan Shikai sent a lot of telegrams to Yang Xiaolin, and even directly asked him what attitude he would take after he came back, but Yang Xiaolin didn't give him any answer, just kept moving forward.

"Songpo, is there any news from Yang Du?"

Cai Yi shook his head and said: "No, the latest telegram was still yesterday, Yang Du is just normal, and he hasn't sent another telegram until now." ”

Yang Xiaolin sighed after hearing this: "Alas! We'll be in Beijing in a few months, and I really hope that Yang Du will take care of everything when I go back. There are some things I don't want to do, and I can even say I'm afraid to do it myself. ”

Yang Xiaolin knew that this idea could only be thought about by him, and he himself knew that Yang Du would definitely leave a tail for him to clean up. Just as Yang Du left it to himself to decide whether the Bank of China should do the support of the bank in the reform and whether it should be done by foreign banks, Yang Du positioned him as a strategist, who came up with ideas and decided for himself.

Just do it, although Lao Yuan is his father-in-law, but Yang Xiaolin was born as a bandit, and his father-in-law has too much money, so he has to start when he should rob it.

"What's the situation on Zhang Zuolin's side?"

"Deputy Commander Zhang sent several telegrams a day, reporting on the events in the prisoner camp. Commander Zhang said that the suicide rate of officers in the Russian army in the past few days has been quite high, and even some of the major generals who have been protected by us have committed suicide. ”

Commander Yang smiled bitterly on his face, this situation was already expected by him, he knew how cruel these methods in the organization were, how many generals who had fought all their lives had broken through the enemy's bullets and bullets but fell on such a road, it is estimated that there is no clear number of people.

Those Russian officers in the prisoner camp survived the battlefield, and they did not give up their lives in the face of Chinese artillery fire and the torture of hunger, cold, and disease, and chose suicide at this time, which is enough to show that this struggle is more cruel than war.

In fact, this is a very domineering psychological blow to people! Just as Yang Xiaolin thought at the beginning, those Russian officers also thought, no matter what, let's hold on together until now, in the Chinese prisoner camp, we should be in the same boat. Maybe we've gone too far, but now is not the time for you to reckoning.

They thought they might be abused, but they thought it was something Chinese had done. When they were pushed and shoved by those Russian soldiers on the stage in the prisoner camp and forced to accept the so-called trial, when they were curled up on the ground by those soldiers, they saw many of their colleagues being abused and killed by Russian soldiers, and the Chinese next to them just looked indifferently, and their hearts were really discouraged!

They chose to commit suicide not to escape physical pain, but not to lose the last bit of dignity in the hands of their own compatriots!

Yang Xiaolin sympathized with them, but he still said: "Tell Zhang Zuolin that it is enough to protect the officers above the major general, and they will make trouble with the rest!" ”

"Yes." (To be continued......)