In this big war between Japan and Russia, no matter which side wins, Lin Fei doesn't care, because Japan and Russia, no one has an overwhelming advantage over the other, and after a big war, both sides will definitely lose, and it will not be a problem for Lin Fei to clean up either side at that time.

In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, Japan instructed Kodama Gentaro to make all kinds of concessions in order to confuse Russia and make Russia think that Japan would never dare to invade Northeast China, so Kodama Gentaro privately contacted Kabarovsky and made a statement that Japan hoped to ease the tension and that the Japanese troops stationed on the border between Qing and Korea could retreat 50 kilometers.

Kabarovsky was very happy to hear this, and the Russian top brass was even more happy, and Tsar Nicholas II believed that Japan's concessions under Russian pressure would undoubtedly buy Russia enough time to prepare for war.

Japan was determined to go to war, but Russia was unaware, they thought they had shocked Japan, and they also held a drinking party in the embassy, which of course Lin Fei did not want to see, Lin Fei wanted to make Russia and Japan lose both, and never allowed either side to become bigger.

The reception invited all the envoys involved in the five-party talks to participate, Ruan Phuc Bao Jiao, as a Chinese envoy, naturally wanted to participate, the Russian envoy Kabarovsky heard that Lin Fei was in Tianjin, so he invited Lin Fei to participate together, Lin Fei of course categorically refused, without the reception of Nicholas II, Emperor Guangxu and Emperor Meiji, how could Lin Fei go.

Lin Fei instructed Nguyen Phuc Baojiao to secretly inform Kabarovsky at the reception that the Japanese side might strike first to make the Russian army prepare for war as soon as possible, so at the reception, Nguyen Phuc Baojiao silently looked for an opportunity.

This reception also invited many Russian ladies to participate, these ladies were bejeweled and showy, but compared with Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao, they were all overshadowed.

Although Ruan Fu Baojiao was the most beautiful woman at the entire reception, no one dared to come over and invite Ruan Fu Baojiao to dance, facing the arrogant Ruan Fu Baojiao, not any man had the courage and confidence to conquer like Lin Fei.

No one dared to invite Nguyen Phuc Baojiao to dance, but the maids around Nguyen Phuc Baojiao, Li Zhihan and Li Zhixiu, were invited, and Ruan Phuc Baojiao instructed Li Zhihan: "Find an opportunity to bring Kabarovsky over." ”

Li Zhihan quickly brought Kabarovsky to Nguyen Phuc Baojiao's side, there were many small rooms on the side of the hall for guests to use, Nguyen Phuc Baojiao secretly pointed to the door on the small room and whispered: "I'll go in first, you go in later, I have something to tell you." ”

After Ruan Fu Baojiao finished speaking, she got up and walked into the room, Kabarovsky's heart rippled, this arrogant and beautiful Ruan Fu Baojiao, was she overwhelmed by my charm?

Kabarovsky got up and came to the outside of the house, knocked lightly on the door, Nguyen Phuc Baojiao opened the door inside, let Kabarovsky in, Kabarovsky is used to flirting with celebrities and ladies in the country, and directly used a frivolous tone: "Beautiful princess, did you call me here to relieve loneliness?" ”

Ruan Fu Baojiao raised her head and glared at Kabarovsky fiercely, Kabarovsky's evil fire was instantly extinguished, and she asked sneeringly: "Beautiful princess, is there anything wrong with you?" ”

"Japan has decided to go to war, and you, the Russian Empire, are in danger."

Kabarovsky drank some wine, his mind was not very clear, and he blurted out a sentence without a score: "Japan wants to attack Moscow and St. Petersburg?" "Moscow and St. Petersburg were the two most important cities of the Russian Empire at this time, far away in Europe, and it was impossible for Japan to attack them.

"Japan wants to attack Tohoku, just recently." Ruan Fu Baojiao threw down this cold sentence, pushed open the door and walked out of the house, under the pretext that she was not feeling well, and floated out of the Russian embassy and returned to the barracks, Lin Fei's side.

When he came to Lin Fei's room, he teased Kabarovsky about himself, but was scared back by his own eyes and told Lin Fei as a joke, Lin Fei glared at him and pretended to be angry, "I dare to seduce a man and say, how should I punish you......"

Ruan Fubaojiao lowered her head and pitifully admitted her mistake, this is actually a tacit game between two people, Ruan Fubaojiao used to admit her mistake to show her weakness, and then get a sense of security of being protected and loved, which is not essentially different from Ling Xue pretending to be angry to attract Lin Fei's favor.

Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao's words frightened Kabarovsky, Kabarovsky knew that Japan's favorite thing to do was to go to war without declaring it, and during the First Sino-Japanese War between the Qing and Japan, Japan just went to war without declaring a war and sank the Qing country's Gaosheng troop carrier.

Kabarovsky immediately reported this idea to the Russian high-level, who was not a wine bag and a rice bag, and they analyzed the situation in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty in detail and came to a similar conclusion as Japan, that is, in this possible war, it is what Japan wants to see if it starts as soon as possible, because every day of delay will give Russia more strength.

And Lin Fei's Huaxia Empire was in a state of powerlessness in this war, even if Lin Fei wanted to send troops to intervene, there was no route to march, unless the Qing State opened Shengjing and let the Huaxia Army enter, but there were lessons from the three provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the Qing State did not dare to open Shengjing anyway.

However, Russia made an extremely terrible mistake in its analysis, that is, Russia mistakenly overestimated its own strength, and Makarovsky, commander-in-chief of the Russian Far East Army, vowed that every Russian soldier could defeat five Japanese soldiers, and Japan's total strength in Qing and Korea was about 200,000, so we only needed 40,000 troops to completely defeat Japan, not to mention that we had 100,000 troops.

Under this premise, Russia did not use strategy to delay Japan's attack, but allowed Japan to attack according to its own plan.

At this time, it was 16 March 1899, Jilin was still relatively cold, and the minimum temperature of the day was still below freezing, and fighting in cold weather would bring a lot of non-combat attrition to the troops, so Lin Fei analyzed that Japan would put the time of its advance in April, and the temperature in April had already risen greatly compared with March.

The precipitation in April was twice that of March, and in April the major rivers in Jilin would enter a period of high water, which was very helpful in solving the problem of drinking water for the Japanese army.

There was still about half a month to go before April, and Lin Fei decided to stay in Tianjin for half a month, on the one hand, to pay attention to the actions of the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and Russia, and on the other hand, to come up with a way to provoke Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Italy to start a world war.

At this time, it was 1899, and there were still about 15 years before the First World War in Lin Fei's era.

Lin Fei couldn't think of a good way for a while, after all, the European countries were not as incompatible as Japan and Russia, and the European powers were not stupid, so it was impossible for Lin Fei to simply provoke a war.

So Lin Fei needed to think about it for a while and come up with the best way.

Lin Fei's big game of chess, counting Russia, Japan, Qing and South Korea, now it seems that Russia and Japan have fallen into Lin Fei's trap, and a war is about to start soon, South Korea is purely a puppet that can be ignored, and Qing Guo is not a role at the mercy of others.

Lin Fei ignored one point, that is, Qingguo is not a puppet, it is impossible to let Lin Fei play with it, Qingguo will inevitably have a trick to deal with Lin Fei's tricks.

On March 17, in the private residence of Li Hongzhang, an important minister of the Qing court, Li Hongzhang was talking with Yuan Shikai on his knees, and this meeting was extremely secretive, and all his subordinates were left outside the house, guarding around the house, not allowing anyone to approach, and both of them lowered their voices, as if there was an ear outside the window.

Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice: "Has the lost new army been replenished? ”

Yuan Shikai nodded silently, "It's already been added." ”

"Do you know what I called you for this time?"

Yuan Shikai hesitated and shook his head, "The subordinates are dull." ”

Li Hongzhang said softly: "Lin Fei ordered his subordinates to organize talks between Russia and Japan, do you know what Lin Fei's intentions are?" ”

Yuan Shikai still shook his head, and Li Hongzhang sighed lightly, "Could it be that in the Great Qing Kingdom, only the old man is sober?" ”

Yuan Shikai bowed down, "The subordinates are stupid, I hope Lord Zhongtang will mention it." ”

"Get up." Li Hongzhang gave an order, took a sip of tea, and waited for Yuan Shikai to stand up and sit down again, then he said gloomily: "Lin Fei has already moved his mind to take away my Qing Dynasty foundation." ”

"How dare the snitch do that!" Yuan Shikai slapped the table and stood up, Li Hongzhang waved his hand lightly, asked Yuan Shikai to sit down, and said in a deep voice: "Lin Fei swept my Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and the wolf's ambition was clearly revealed. Lin Fei wants to take away the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, and the people he fears are the great powers of Britain, France, Germany and Russia. ”

Yuan Shikai was shocked, "Lord Zhongtang, as you said, how should I deal with it?" ”

"Looking at the competition between the great powers, all of them are superior to the advantages of the military revolution, can my Qing army win the Huaxia army?"

Yuan Shikai's face was full of shame, and he bowed his head and mourned: "The subordinates are incompetent, and the soldiers trained are not the opponents of the Huaxia Army." ”

Li Hongzhang smiled, stood up, and paced leisurely, "Lin Fei is the dragon and phoenix among people, and he can't win without a trick." ”

Yuan Shikai hurriedly asked, "My lord, what is the strange plot you are talking about?" Do you still need to use assassination? ”

"Let Lu Xian'er's strategy to assassinate the snitch fail, the snitch has already taken precautions, if we use this strategy again, it will be useless, but well, directly killing the snitch is indeed the best strategy among the best strategies."

Yuan Shikai's face was full of doubts, "Lord Zhongtang, if you don't have to assassinate and kill the snitch, will there be such a way?" ”

"Of course there is." Li Hongzhang laughed loudly, his snow-white long hair trembling, "It is said that things are man-made, how can there be no such a method?" It happened that Lin Fei was in Tianjin these days, and it was a godsend for the old man to use his methods. ”