An Wanghai knew very well that the Japanese were looking for themselves for the rights and interests of the railway in Northeast China.

In the 31st year of Guangxu, that is, in 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan seized the ownership of the Changchun to Lushun Middle East Railway from Tsarist Russia, and renamed the section of the South Manchuria Railway.

In 1913, in order to support Yuan Shikai as a bargaining chip, Japan adopted a secret exchange of letters and signed the "Outline of the Reservation Method for the Loan and Construction of the Manchurian and Mongolian Five Roads" with the Beiyang Government at that time, and obtained the right to borrow the three roads from Siping to Taonan, Changchun to Taonan, and Kaiyuan to Hailong, as well as the preferential loan rights from Taonan to Chengde and Jilin to Hailong.

However, people are not as good as heaven, except for the completion of the five railways from Siping to Taonan as scheduled, the other four roads could not be carried out as scheduled due to the fall of Yuan Shikai, and then they brewed the "Manchurian New Five Roads" plan, preparing to increase the plundering and expansion of the Northeast through the control of these five roads.

And to achieve this goal, it is necessary to persuade Zhang Zuolin to agree, but Zhang Zuolin knows very well what Japan wants to do, and if he agrees, it will be tantamount to compressing his own living space.

Therefore, the Japanese will not miss any opportunity to contact the representatives of the Feng army, so as to test the attitude of the Feng army towards Zhang Zuolin and buy those who are dissatisfied with Zhang Zuolin, so as to achieve the goal of coercing Zhang Zuolin to agree to their demands.

An Wanghai said with a smile on his face, "It turns out that Mr. Ikeda is a member of the South Manchurian Railway, and I am also friends with Mr. Utsunomiya Motohito, the director of the South Manchu Railway. ”

Keiichi Ikeda was a little surprised: "Oh? Is it? ”

An Wanghai said with a smile: "Yes, I attended Mr. Utsunomiya Motohito's drinking party twice when I was in Mukden, and we met at the drinking party. ”

Keiichi Ikeda smiled and said, "It's a coincidence that I didn't write a book, and I worked as a clerk under Mr. Motohito Utsunomiya. ”

An Wanghai said: "Really? That's such a coincidence, and I don't know if Mr. Utsunomiya's leg disease is getting better? ”

Keichi Ikeda was stunned and said, "I left Mukden many years ago, so I don't know how Mr. Utsunomiya is doing. ”

An Wanghai deliberately asked: "When you left, was his leg disease still the same?" ”

Keiichi Ikeda said casually, "It's the same old way. ”

An Wanghai nodded silently, and after a conversation, he knew that the Japanese in front of him didn't know anything about Utsunomiya Motohito at all, in fact, he didn't know either, but he just heard about it by chance from the mouth of Manchu Tie, and knew that there was such a so-called director of China.

And he deliberately said that he was a friend of the director, firstly, in order to deliberately improve his status, because not everyone in the Feng army could participate in the cocktail party held by the director of the Manchurian Railway, and secondly, he wanted to test whether the Japanese in front of him was a talkative person, or just an errand runner.

An Wanghai didn't know Utsunomiya Motohito, and the other party's leg disease was naturally made up by himself, but Keiichi Ikeda made such a memory, which shows that this Japanese doesn't know Utsunomiya Motohito at all, and secondly, this Japanese also wants to elevate his status and not let An Wanghai despise him.

In other words, the opening remarks of the two were just to test each other.

An Wanghai didn't speak anymore, just looked at Keiichi Ikeda with a smile.

Keiichi Ikeda: "Mr. Ye, I invited you here in this way mainly because of two things, one is to raise money for Boss Li, and the other is for the future of Tohoku. ”

An Wanghai said with a smile: "I'm just a small envoy, and I only came to Yongcheng for some trivial things, and the future of the Northeast is not something that a person of my status has the ability to think about, let alone control." ”

Keiichi Ikeda didn't answer, but said, "Let's talk about Mr. Li first, after all, this is about Mr. Li's net worth." ”

An Wanghai said: "Boss Li encountered a fire, which no one wants to see." ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "I am sure that he was victimized, but we do not know who the person who killed him, and we do not have the ability to find out, but now because of the fire, he has to pay 150,000 yuan in compensation to the representatives of Britain and the United States, which is not a small amount. ”

What exactly is this Japanese trying to say? An Wanghai just nodded and remained silent.

Keiichi Ikeda added: "Since the Meiji Restoration, we in the Japanese Empire have not only wanted Japan to become strong, but also hoped that our former teacher, China, would also be restored to its former strength, and that by uniting China and Japan, we could build a truly powerful Asia that would no longer be oppressed by the Western powers." ”

An Wanghai still just nodded silently, he knew that these were just the opening words, this Keiichi Ikeda said a theory that Asia is one, and Shengsheng connected Japan and China, to put it bluntly, isn't it just to pave the way for the future railway? I want to tell myself that everything they Japan does in Tohoku is for the good of China.

It's a hypocrisy. An Wanghai was still smiling, and he decided to play a game to get away with it.

An Wanghai said: "May I ask Mr. Ikeda, how are you going to help Boss Li?" ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "I believe that Boss Li has already told you, and we have decided to use the insurance situation to help him, but the premise is that Mr. Ye must become a guarantor, after all, there is only a relationship of interest between us and Mr. Li, but Mr. Ye is different." ”

An Wanghai smiled: "Really? How am I different? ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "We treat Mr. Ye as a true friend. ”

An Wanghai nodded slightly: "Thank you Mr. Ikeda for your trust in me, I am willing to be this guarantor, but in the end, how to decide depends on Boss Li." ”

Keichi Ikeda: "Of course. ”

An Wanghai immediately said: "Then, let's talk about the future of the Northeast." ”

An Wanghai suddenly changed the topic, so that Keiichi Ikeda didn't react.

Keiichi Ikeda turned and pulled out a box that contained ten neatly stacked gold bars, which he opened on the table.

An Wanghai asked, "What is this?" ”

Keichi Ikeda: "Meet and greet gifts. ”

An Wanghai said: "No merit will not be punished." ”

Keiichi Ikeda smiled and said, "We know that Mr. Ye is a special envoy of the Feng Army, and we also know Mr. Ye's position in the Feng Army, although Mr. Ye once served as a staff officer under General Guo, but Mr. Ye's personality and wisdom have always made us admire, as for Mr. Guo's affairs, we deeply regret it." ”

Cats cry rats, the hypocrisy of this group of dogs is simply outrageous. An Wanghai kept scolding in his heart.

An Wanghai said: "Then it should be providential." ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "General Guo misunderstood the Japanese Empire, and I hope Mr. Ye will not misunderstand, as I said before, we in Japan just want to help China become strong again." ”

An Wanghai said: "Mr. Ikeda, you have gone around too far in this circle, and you have not talked about it even to the point. ”

Keiichi Ikeda smiled awkwardly: "Mr. Ye, I came to you mainly for the matter of the five roads of the Manchurian Railway. ”

Really. An Wanghai thought to himself, exactly as I speculated, so many hypocritical words were foreshadowed, and in the end it was for the railway.

An Wanghai's gaze deliberately fell on the gold bar: "I understand what Mr. Ikeda meant, you want the marshal to promise you to continue to build the unfinished Manchurian Fifth Road, right?" ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "Mr. Ye is really a smart man, and, as far as we know, Mr. Ye, you are not Han, but Manchu, right?" ”

An Wanghai picked up the gold bar: "Yes, does it matter?" ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "Manchuria has been the land of the Manchus since ancient times......"

An Wanghai directly interrupted Keiichi Ikeda's words: "Mr. Ikeda should know the sixteen words of expelling the Tartars, restoring China, founding the Republic of China, and equalizing land rights, right?" ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "Of course, this is what Sun Yat-sen said. ”

An Wanghai said: "During the First Sino-Japanese War, when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, there was a person named Kotaro Munakata in Japan who wrote an article called "Open and Honest Advice to the Heroes of the Eighteen Provinces...... Mr. Ikeda knows what a 檄文 is, right? ”

Keiichi Ikeda was extremely embarrassed at this time: "I know, but I ......"

An Wanghai put down the gold bar: "In that article, he wrote at the beginning that a barbarian tribe outside the Yuan Sai of the Manchu Qing clan was neither the virtue of the order, nor the merit of China, taking advantage of Zhu Ming's declining luck, violent robbery, pretending to be for a while, full of opportunities, and skillful manipulation of the world. At that time, Haojie was invincible by force, and he swallowed hatred and indignation to this day. ”

Keiichi Ikeda was so embarrassed that he didn't know how to answer for a while.

An Wanghai said with a smile: "The meaning of this is also to drive out the Tartars and restore China, right?" The meaning of Tartar in this refers to the Manchurians, that is, me, right? ”

Kei Ikeda: "We in Japan and China are actually of the same culture, but we also know very well that Manchuria is actually the land of the Manchus, and that in the past the Manchus occupied the Central Plains, and even if the Manchus ceased to exist, the Han people should not occupy the land of Manchuria, so ......."

An Wanghai picked up a gold bar and tapped it gently: "So, from a very early age, you Japanese have taken advantage of the contradictions between the Manchu and Han ethnic groups in our China since the early Qing Dynasty to achieve the goal of dividing us. After the First Sino-Japanese War was completed, you asked us to cede Taiwan, Penghu, and Liaodong...... At that time, the loud slogans were just to make us mistakenly think that you were helping us, but in fact they were plotting against the tiger. ”

Once again, Keiichi Ikeda fell into the language trap of An Wanghai: "No, no, no, it's not you, it's you, they're them, it's different." ”

An Wanghai asked, "Am I me?" Are they them? What do you mean? ”

Keiichi Ikeda: "You are Manchurian, they are Han. ”

The gold bar in An Wanghai's hand fell on the ground in the cabin, and he sat down and said, "Mr. Ikeda, I don't know what the Chinese nation is, do you?" It is true that I am a Manchu, but whether it is a Manchu or a Han person, as well as all ethnic groups in the land of China, they all have a common name, called the Chinese nation, and they also have a proud title - Chinese! ”

Keichi Ikeda was stunned, he didn't expect that An Wanghai would make such a summary when it came to it.

An Wanghai got up and said, "Mr. Ikeda, my father once told me that in this land, no matter what nationality I am, no matter what I look like, no matter what different eating habits I have, no matter what beliefs I have, I and them are all Chinese, we are all part of the Chinese nation, we are a family, no one wants to separate us!" ”