Liang Qichao said: "Baixi knows that the education he learned from Japan is incorrigible, so since he took over the school, he has been inspired to reform, actively promote compulsory education, teacher education and technical education have also improved, and the higher education level of our Jingshi University has a huge impact in East Asia and even the world." It is believed that over time, the face of Chinese education will inevitably take on a new look, and it is unknown that it will surpass Japan. But Baili, you have been a counselor of military affairs under the curtain of a senior officer several times, and you have been in charge of the Baoding Army Military Academy, I don't know what is the way to save the army from the Japanese school? ”

Jiang Baili replied with a solemn hand: "Fang Zhen is ashamed! Although the students are slightly aware of the shortcomings of our army, the military problems are of great importance, and the shortcomings are deep-rooted, and the students' moral abilities are shallow, so it is difficult to say that you can move the meat eaters to change them. When they were in charge of the Baoding Army Military Academy, the students thought about starting with the grassroots officers and carrying out bottom-up improvements, including rectifying the appearance of the army, improving diet, mutual assistance and mutual inspection, and improving teaching. However, the relationship between the army and China is intertwined, your colleagues have a lot of criticism of the reform, and some military generals also criticize it from time to time, resulting in a shortage of school funds, school affairs cannot be promoted, and the reform can only die in the middle of the road, and students can only take the initiative to resign! ”

Liang Qichao laughed: "Baili, if you say 'meat eaters are despised' in front of Baixi, isn't it equivalent to scolding the monk for being a thief?" No wonder you can't talk about them, it turns out that the root is here. ”

Jiang Baili hurriedly apologized: "Prime Minister Baixi, please atone for Fang Zhen's miswords!" ”

Before Sun Yuanqi could speak, Liang Qichao took over the conversation: "Don't care about Baili, Baixi always cares about Pepsi and the world, and this bit of elegance is still there." Furthermore, the heroes who can really encompass the universe and encompass the four seas must be humble and tolerant, just like King Wen of Zhou can Jiang Taigong pull a cart for 800 steps, Han Gaozu can accommodate Li Shi and his long bow, and Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty (Liu Bei) can look at Zhuge Liang three times. Nothing less. ”

Sun Yuanqi finally roughly understood Liang Qichao's intentions: he just wanted to introduce Jiang Baili to himself, and it was best for him to accommodate his shortcomings and reuse them. Although Jiang Baili enjoyed a great name in later generations, Sun Yuanqi did not dare to hand over the power of reforming the army to him casually. After all, Zhao Erxun, Miao Chang, Yuan Shikai and others who he assisted before were all experienced in the army, but they were not illiterate people. If it really has the effect of resurrecting the dead, Jiang Baili would not have fallen to the point where he is today!

Second, the army is the foundation of one's own life, and it is related to the lives of countless people, and it cannot be left at the mercy of a newcomer. In the unlikely event that the reform fails, the morale of the army will be unstable, the combat effectiveness will decline, and the officers and men will be full of resentment. Isn't it self-destruction of the Great Wall?

Third, with World War I less than a year to go and a conflict between China and Japan imminent, the most important thing at present is to conduct actual combat drills in light of the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese army, and it is not appropriate to carry out drastic reforms in the troops.

To sum up, despite Liang Qichao's recommendation. It is impossible for Sun Yuanqi to immediately reuse Jiang Baili. Of course, letting such talents go is not Sun Yuanqi's consistent style.

After a little calculation in his heart, Sun Yuanqi said: "Sun has admired Baili Xian for a long time, and now he has succumbed to the military room of the China Policy Research Institute, which is inevitably overkill. Ren Gong and Baili don't know if they have heard of the Sichuan Army Military Academy? Founded in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, this military academy was formed by the merger of the Sichuan Higher Patrol Police Academy, the Military Garrison Academy, the Army Primary School, and other military academies and universities. Sun has always served as the principal. If Brother Baili doesn't dislike it, Sun wants to ask you to take the position of vice principal, I don't know what Brother Xian wants? ”

Jiang Baili pondered for a moment and asked, "Fang Zhen dares to ask, which aspect is this vice principal mainly responsible for?" ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "If possible, the main task in the early stage is to set up a military science research institute, and actively cooperate closely with the military office of the China Policy Research Institute to conduct research on current national defense construction, army building and major practical issues, and provide research reports for the cabinet, the navy and the army of the western provinces." ”

"Research?" Jiang Baili and Liang Qichao were both a little surprised, and couldn't help but ask in unison.

Sun Yuanqi nodded very affirmatively: "That's right!" The gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies mentioned by Baili just now is actually another point that the Chinese army is extremely lacking. That is, we always have the attitude of calming things and being kind to others, and lack forward-looking research and layout for possible problems and wars that may occur in the future, resulting in falling behind step by step and being controlled by others everywhere once a war occurs. In contrast, the Japanese army infiltrated Korea, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia and other regions a long time ago. Using graduation trips, academic investigations, funded research and other means, they carry out detailed investigations on the politics, economy, resources, society, history and even agriculture and forestry, animal husbandry, climate, hydrology and many other aspects of these regions, and many times they even know China better than us! ”

Liang Qichao also said: "What Baixi said is not bad, our research institute has synthesized various information and concluded that the Manchurian Railway Investigation Headquarters under the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd. should be Japan's largest national policy investigation agency in China, specifically responsible for all kinds of intelligence collection work on China and Tsarist Russia. At present, they are conducting surveys on crop resources and pests and diseases in the three northeastern provinces, and their wolf ambitions can be described as Sima Zhao's heart - everyone knows it! ”

Sun Yuanqi said: "We are powerless and unable to stop Japan's various measures, so we can only govern others in their own way." Of course, we should not only make targeted research on the aggressive Japan, but also jump out of the circle of East Asia, look at the changes in the global situation, and then make reasonable judgments on major practical issues from the perspective of the growth and decline of the power of countries around the world, so as to provide a basis for national decision-making. If you were to preside over China's military scientific research, you would definitely be able to catch up! ”

Jiang Baili immediately replied: "Thank you Prime Minister Baixi for your kindness, but Fang Zhen alone will not be able to shoulder such a heavy responsibility in the short term." ”

Sun Yuanqi didn't care at all: "If we build the institute step by step, and then collect talents, books, and information to carry out research after the basic structure is built, it will be difficult to produce results in the short term, and the current situation also allows us to do research in such a peaceful manner." Therefore, I plan to follow the strategy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in establishing the academy, make full use of the advantages of our army's officers and men, such as young age, active thinking, rich knowledge, and large number of personnel, and take the Academy of Military Science as the leading factor. By mobilizing people of insight throughout the army to participate in the study in the form of publishing topics, I believe that we will certainly be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Post a topic?" Jiang Baili felt that this method was relatively new.

Sun Yuan was confident: "The topic is the main problem and major issue that needs to be studied and solved urgently based on the current national needs. As far as the present situation is concerned, there are four main issues that are more urgent: First, the changes in the relations between the two major European military alliances and their impact on the situation in East Asia. The second is the prediction of China's recent military development and the main disturbance factors, the third is the main advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese military and the strategic and tactical responses, and the fourth is the impact of the application of aircraft and air supremacy on modern warfare. I don't know what Baili thinks? ”

Liang Qichao was shocked: "Premier Baixi thinks that the two major military alliances in Europe will undergo drastic changes in the short term, and Japan will take this opportunity to invade our country?" ”

In fact, it is not difficult to find Sun Yuanqi's judgment on the current situation from the names of the four questions just released by Sun Yuanqi, that is, the two major military alliances in Europe will undergo drastic changes in the near future, so that Japan can unscrupulously launch a new round of aggression against China. Therefore, Sun Yuanqi had to make active strategic and tactical responses to the main advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese army, especially the use of the only sharp weapon aircraft that China could use at present. So it's not surprising that Liang Qichao noticed it.

Sun Yuanqi's expression was very bland: "The two major military alliances in Europe have been hoarding arms on a large scale since three or four years ago. The smell of gunpowder in the newspapers is getting stronger and stronger, and each of them is criticizing each other, they are not preparing to fight, are they preparing to play home? And the recent sales data of Zhiyong Pharmaceutical companies also shows. The major European powers have purchased a large number of special drugs such as artemisinin, penicillin, sulfonamides, and oxytetracycline. You must know that due to technical limitations, the expiration date of these drugs is very short, and they will become waste products in less than a year after they are produced and shipped. Isn't this a sign of drastic change in the near future?

"As for Japan's coveting of China's territory, it is no longer a matter of a day or two, the difference is only whether they have the ability to do it, and whether they dare to do it. In the past, they were afraid of the pressure exerted by Russia, Britain, the United States, and other countries, and did not dare to be too presumptuous, once these powers turned their attention to Europe. Japan will inevitably take advantage of the opportunity to jump out and expand its territory. This is self-evident. If we don't make all the preparations in advance, we will be the ones who will suffer at that time! ”

Jiang Baili added: "The key reason why Japan covets Chinese territory is that it wants to use the war dividends to maintain the rapid development of the domestic economy, improve its military strength, and then plunder the war dividends again with its military strength, thus forming a virtuous circle." It can be said that the success of Japan's Meiji Restoration and its prosperity and strength today depended on the war dividends obtained from aggression. However, as Japan's domestic industrial strength grew, its demand for war dividends became higher and higher, and its appetite grew.

"In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi of the former Qing Dynasty (1874), Taiwan was invaded. The Qing government was forced to sign the "Beijing Treaty", recognizing Ryukyu as a Japanese protectorate and compensating Japan with 500,000 taels of silver. This small amount of compensation alone surprised the Japanese, enough for them to enjoy for more than ten or twenty years. Wait until the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894). Japan's foreign debts to the European and American powers had reached an astonishing amount, and when it was difficult to repay them on their own, they brazenly launched the First Sino-Japanese War and forced the Qing government to sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki," which, in addition to ceding the island of Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, and the Liaodong Peninsula, also increased the amount of compensation to 200 million taels of silver!

After that, Japan's aggression intensified, during the Gengzi Revolution, it participated in the Eight-Nation Coalition to capture Beijing, burned, killed and plundered in China, and then forced the Qing government to sign the "Xinchou Treaty" and compensated more than 30 million taels of customs silver; During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army once again occupied Lushun, Mukden and other places, forcing the Qing government to sign the "Sino-Japanese Conference Treaty on the Matters of the Three Eastern Provinces" and obtaining the privileges of the southeastern part of China; Taking advantage of the decline of the country at the end of the Qing Dynasty and their busy internal affairs, they signed the "Japan-Korea Merger Treaty" with the puppet Korean Empire in the second year of Xuantong (1910), formally annexing the Korean Peninsula.

"From these incidents, it can be seen that the target of Japan's demand is getting higher and higher, and the interval between them is getting shorter and shorter. It's been three years since the annexation of North Korea, and it's time to open your mouth again. If something happens to Europe, they will not let go of such a godsend! ”

Liang Qichao rebuked indignantly: "Japan is just a small country in the east, they are so devoured, aren't they afraid of becoming worms?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian. )

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