Lin Yuan agreed and asked Prince Doma to take Princess Arlinn, Lin Yuan recalled in his heart every look of Prince Doma just now, and thought, "It seems that I am not mistaken, Siam must be secretly preparing for war against Laos and Cambodia. Lin Yuan returned to the office while thinking, at this time the phone on the desk suddenly rang, Lin Yuan picked up the phone, only to hear Shen Wanqing's voice ringing inside: "Do you have something to do now?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "I just sent Prince Doma away, and now there is nothing important. ”

Shen Wanqing smiled: "If you have nothing to do, come to me, and I will show you a good thing." ”

Lin Yuan was just about to ask what a good thing it was, Shen Wanqing hung up the phone, Lin Yuan came to Shen Wanqing's office, and asked when he entered the door, "What good things do you want to show me?" Why don't you send it to me, and let me do it myself? ”

Shen Wanqing smiled charmingly and said, "Why do I send you something every time, this time I want you to pick it up in person!" After Shen Wanqing finished speaking, she took out a pile of texts and said with a smile: "Look, this is the information sent back by my subordinates from Siam, you must be interested." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "How can you be sure that I will definitely be interested?" As he spoke, he opened the Wen Jiàn folder, and saw that the front copy of the Wen Jiàn was a table, and Lin Yuan's eyes lit up when he looked at the table, because the table head read: Statistical table of the number of ships arriving at the twenty-seven major ports of Siam from January 1897 to September 1898.

Shen Wanqing smiled: "Why did your eyes light up just when you first started looking?" Is it that important to see what's on the first page? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I said that Siam is preparing to attack Laos and Cambodia is just my guess based on the international situation and Siamese public opinion, I need facts to support my guess, your first form supports my guess, you see: the number of ships arriving in June 1898 increased by 80% compared with May 1898, and the number of ships arriving in Hong Kong in the previous seventeen months has been stable and unchanged, the sudden increase in the number of ships shows that Siam is urgently purchasing a large number of supplies, and the only possible thing is munitions!" ”

Shen Wanqing smiled: "If you look back, there is even more exciting information." Lin Yuan flipped back, and suddenly found a message that "the Siamese garrison in Chiang Mai purchased a large amount of rice", he couldn't help but laugh and said: "It seems that my guess is not wrong, Siam is really going to do something to Laos, Chiang Mai is an important city on the border between Siam and Laos, once the war starts, this must be the logistics base of the entire Siamese army, and the garrison stationed in Chiang Rai buys a large amount of rice, just to prepare for the subsequent war." ”

Lin Yuan continued to look behind him, and found that the text was all about preparations for the Siamese War, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Wanqing, you are so good!" I really didn't expect that I didn't even ask you to prepare them, and you helped me prepare them. ”

Shen Wanqing smiled disdainfully and said coquettishly: "Do you think I will only do things when I am ordered to do things?" Sue you, when you told me the day that the Seven Kingdoms were wrestling, I asked my subordinates to prepare relevant information! ”

Lin Yuan exclaimed: "Okay, great! I'm going back to give orders. After speaking, he got up and left, and Shen Wanqing said in the back: "How do you want to thank me?" ”

Lin Yuan walked to the door and smiled back, and said with a wicked smile: "I'll thank you so much when I get home!" Shen Wanqing's face turned red and muttered "hate", Lin Yuan returned to the office and connected the phone of the 28th Division Headquarters, and the division commander Yun Tiangang first asked: "Lin Shuai, what instructions do you have?" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "How far is the forward of your troops from Siam Chiang Mai?" ”

Yun Tiangang replied: "The 252nd regiment is 150 kilometers away from Chiang Mai. ”

Lin Yuan said: "You and Thailand are separated by the Shan State of Burma, I give you three days, you have to cross the Shan State and reach the border between Shan State and Siam, can you complete the task?" ”

Yun Tiangang replied loudly: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The main ethnic group of the Shan State is the Shan people, which is similar to the Dai people in China, you must hire more Dai people as guides when marching, the Shan people are brave and warlike, you must pay attention to national unity when you act there, the productivity of the Shan people is extremely low, lack of cloth, medicine, household utensils and other things, you carry more of these things when you march, and give them to the Shan people, understand?" ”

Yun Tiangang replied: "Although Lin Shuai can rest assured, our 28th Division has been stationed in areas where ethnic minorities gather for many years, and we are very familiar with these situations. ”

Lin Yuan praised Yun Tiangang for a few words, put down the phone, and then called the French Embassy, directly found the French Ambassador, and said, "Mr. Ambassador, how did you think about what I said to your country?" ”

The French ambassador said: "This matter was rejected without being submitted to the parliament for discussion, and even if it was submitted, it would be useless, and those parliamentarians are the spokesmen of various big capitalist groups, how can they make the capitalists spit out their interests?" ”

Lin Yuan sighed and said, "Then how is your military strength in Laos and Cambodia?" ”

The French ambassador said apologetically: "I'm sorry Lin Shuai, I'm not a military commander, so I can't answer your question." ”

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, put down the phone, and thought in his heart: "No matter how the three countries of France, Britain and Siam are tossed, as long as I have troops on the Siamese border, the initiative is in my hands." ”

At the same time, the 252nd Regiment of the 28th Division, under the leadership of regiment commander Sun Siming, marched along the forest path to the border between Siam and Shan State, they were riding on light all-terrain vehicles and trucks, carrying heavy weapons such as tanks and 75mm light howitzers, this howitzer is called "light" because it uses relatively low-density alloy steel for the barrel, and the gun body uses a large number of engineering plastics.

The roar of the convoy alarmed the locals, who curiously walked out of the cabins and flocked to the path to see the freshness, while the 252nd Regiment handed them mosquito repellent toilet water, water storage buckets, iodized salt, and painkillers.

At this time, Shan State was a Tusi system, Tusi was the administrator of a region, combining life and death to seize power, of course the 252 regiment understood the reason for buying them, and they did not send any actual items to Tusi, what they sent was very simple - RMB!

Every toast knew that the renminbi was a good thing, and with this kind of thing, they could go to China, the paradise in the north, and buy whatever they wanted, and with the renminbi and all kinds of gifts to pave the way, the 252 regiment had a smooth journey, and the Shan people did everything they could to help them, and even a truck stuck in the mud would be carried by hundreds of Shan people.