I don't know if it's Yuan Pengfei's illusion or Zhang Zuolin's disguise, he actually thinks that this is a very kind person, and it didn't take long for the three of them to talk very well.

Even Zhang Zuolin did not hesitate to expose his shortcomings in order to get closer to him, and said a bad thing that happened to him.

It was during the Russo-Japanese War, and after the Japanese occupied Mukden Xinmin, they arrested him and prepared to execute him on charges of being a Russian agent.

In order to protect himself, Zhang Zuolin immediately provided some evidence of his cooperation with the Japanese army.

At that time, a Japanese lieutenant named Idogawa Tatsuzo was actually moved by Zhang Zuolin's appearance, thinking that he looked like a woman, with clear eyebrows and meek eyes, but his speech attitude was bold and straightforward, and he thought that it might be beneficial to Japan to spare his life, so he suggested that he be forgiven.

And Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka Yoshiichi, the combat staff officer of the Japanese army at that time, also agreed. This allowed him to escape, otherwise the famous King of the Northeast would probably be executed as a spy.

I have to say that appearance can sometimes determine whether a person is life or death, and being handsome is a privilege.

The other is that Yuan Pengfei is particularly interested in the inside story of the Russo-Japanese War, and he always feels that in this war, the neutral attitude of the Qing government is a bit interesting, not as simple as it seems.

Speaking of this matter, Zhang Zuolin, who was personally involved, and Liu Zhengping, a staff member of a high-ranking official of the Qing government, had endless words, allowing Yuan Pengfei to piece together part of the truth of the entire war.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, Russia gathered France and Germany to force Japan to spit out the Liaodong Peninsula, which was already in its mouth, and was known in history as "the intervention of the three countries to return Liao".

Since then, Russia has begun to advance step by step into northeastern China. It signed the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Mutual Assistance against the Enemy" and the "Luda Land Lease Treaty" with the Qing government, and absorbed many benefits.

What could not be tolerated by the Qing government was that Russia appointed a new governor of the Far East, stationed a large number of land forces under the pretext of protecting the railway, and the Pacific Fleet relied on Lushun to try to control the Yellow Sea and the Korean Strait.

At this point, Russia in fact completely included Northeast China in its sphere of influence. In the usual style of the Russian bear, the next step is to swallow it completely.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was an ambitious fellow, how could a mere northeast satisfy his desires.

He had a grand plan in his head - to seize Manchuria for Russia, to annex Korea to Russia, and also to annex Tibet to his own country, and it can be said that he has an astonishing appetite.

The Qing government was a little overwhelmed, but the weak country had no diplomacy, and there was very little that could be done except to protest.

In the Russo-Japanese War, the Qing court declared "neutrality", which was bitterly reviled by the Chinese people. Objectively speaking, the Qing court simply did not have the strength to stop the flames of war from burning in its own territory.

If you really provoke others, the old witch will have to run away again, and then get a treaty to cede land and pay compensation to please the foreign lords, don't kill the Qing Dynasty.

Liu Zhengping took out a pair of words and explained: "This is a painting given to me by Lord Xu, which is written with Lord Li Jingxi's classic judgment on this matter at that time: Russia is bound to be annexed, and Risheng is nothing more than asking for reward, and if the two evils are dwarfed, the lesser of them." ”

"Oh, it seems that my uncle has the trust of Lord Xu." Yuan Pengfei smiled and said, looked at the calligraphy and asked, "Do other adults think the same way?" ”

Liu Zhengping touched his beard and recalled: "This is the judgment of most people, the Governor of Huguang, Lord Zhang Zhidong, the Minister of Posts and Communications, Lord Sheng Xuanhuai, and the Governor of Liangguang, Lord Cen Chunxuan, there are more.

By the way, there is also Lord Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, who holds the military power, he is a representative of the neutral faction, and the weight of his words must be paid attention to.

His reason was that if Russia is attached, Japan will use its navy to harass our southeast, and if it is attached to Japan, Russia will divide its army into our northwest and disturb our northwest. Japan and Russia broke up, and I should stay on the sidelines.

Two, sometimes it's not that the state is inactive, but that there is really no way. This is going to change the early years of our Qing Dynasty, when the national strength was strong, the generals were brave, and the soldiers dared to fight.

I remember that when Kangxi was there, Dzungaldan, which was supported by the Russians, was still known as the hegemon of Central Asia! Under the three wars, Gerdan was killed and annihilated, and the claws of the Russian ambition were directly cut off......"

A good Russo-Japanese War was revealed, and it directly became Liu Zhengping's memories of the past, although he did not really feel the glory of the Kangxi period, but that fascinated look was really a little interesting.

This is the same as talking about the history of 5,000 years, no one wants to talk about the Southern Song Dynasty that survived under the iron hooves of Mongolia, and no one wants to think about the story of the five chaotic Chinese clothes crossing to the south.

If it was his turn to imagine Yuan Pengfei, it would definitely be able to cut off the head of the Xiongnu Shan Yu and drive the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty, which was far away from Mobei.

How majestic that is! At that time, the Han people would straighten their chests wherever they walked, because those who offended me would be punished even if they were far away.

If you want to say rich, you must say the Tang Dynasty.

There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, and I have one bucket. The world is divided into one bucket.

The words used to describe the Tang Dynasty are that there is one stone in the world's GDP, the Tang Dynasty has six buckets, the Eastern Roman Empire has one bucket, the Arab Empire has one bucket, and the rest is divided into two buckets.

Of course, Datang is not only the leader in the economy, but also the world's first in the fields of science and technology, culture, art, etc., and other countries can't even see their backs.

The envoys of small countries who came to worship, and the foreign merchants who traded and did business, wanted to stay one by one, but they couldn't get rid of them. What is called the Heavenly Empire, this is called the Heavenly Empire.

Also, that must have overthrown the Qin Empire of the Six Kingdoms. Equip the First Emperor with an elixir and a map of the world.

A hundred years later, there may not be so many wars and strife in this world, because all the people in the world belong to one country - the Qin Empire.

In one sentence: Where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all Qin soil.

Look at the majesty of the ancestors, and then look at this time, one by one, they are groveling to the foreign adults, and they can't wait to be the ancestors to make offerings.

The affairs of the foreign lords, even if it is a big matter, the officials of the Great Qing Kingdom dare not slack off in the slightest, and the masters of this country are about to become foreign adults!

It's a pity that it's useless to think too much, so we still have to face reality.

The three of them drank tea for a while, and Liu Zhengping excused himself and left to vacate the place for the two of them. Zhang Zuolin finally showed his fox tail.

"Brother, Du Lisan and several of his cadres have already received their heads, but what happened to the three hundred people under him, you can't cut them all down with an order, right?"

"How is that possible!" Yuan Pengfei shook his head, "That's hundreds of lives, and it's immoral to surrender and kill." But the more than 200 bandits are not easy to settle, and the local county magistrate was afraid of causing trouble, so I pulled all these people back and filled in the big prison, so that the prison is now empty, and the county magistrate complained to me two days ago. ”

"Yes." Zhang Zuolin looked at him with a smile, "Brother, I beg you something, can you hand over those bandits to me?" Of course, I will pay for the journey, and by the way, I will get some wine money for the escorted brothers, what do you think, brother? ”

Yuan Pengfei came back to his senses at once, Zhang Zuolin took a fancy to the skills of these bandits.

The cost of training a peasant into a soldier capable of fighting is measured by the elite of the soldier.

Although the bandits under Du Lisan were defeated by Yuan Pengfei, it did not mean that they were not elite enough. If you can fight with the Russian soldiers, it is definitely not a weak chicken.

If Zhang Zuolin gets all these people in his hands, he will be an excellent army with guns, and it will also be a great improvement to his strength.

Of course, this is not harmful to Yuan Pengfei, he really doesn't have much effect on using these wastes except for wasting food.

After a pause, he readily agreed: "Brother Zhang, this little matter is not worth mentioning, brother, you must be satisfied if you open your mouth."

However, the distance is too far and my manpower is limited, so Brother Zhang, you should send someone to pick it up and save some trouble. ”

"Okay, brother, thank you for being here first, replace wine with tea, dry!" Zhang Zuolin raised the teacup arrogantly and thanked him, it was really a bit of a green forest hero's style.