On September 2, the Japanese minister in Beijing, Hayashi Quanzhu, made eight unreasonable demands to Foreign Minister Chen Jintao, namely: 1. Severely punish Feng Delin, commander of the 28th Division; 2. Severely punish officers and soldiers involved in military conflicts, and remove all generals of the 28th Division from their posts; 3. The Chinese Government publicly apologized to the Japanese soldiers and ordered the governors of the Northeast to prevent their soldiers from clashing with the Japanese troops; 4. The Japanese police station is stationed in all areas of South Manchuria; 5. In South Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, the squadron may hire Japanese as military advisers; 6. Employing Japanese as military professors; 7. To compensate the families of the deceased in Japan; 8. The Mukden Overseers apologize to Japan.

Thinking of the unreasonableness of the Japanese, Wang Maoru sighed for a while, Russia is declining, but Japan is thriving, while China is in a melee, no wonder the Russians can be forbearing, but the Japanese are aggressive, and China can only suffer splint anger.

"Let's go to the living room." Wang Maoru said lightly, after tidying up, he took the secretaries Zhou Taidao and Zhang Wei and the adjutants to the living room, and saw these Japanese in military uniforms or black suits. ”

"Well, I'm also glad to meet the Japanese guests, please take a seat, please take a seat." Wang Maoru said with a smile on his face, and after a few people sat down, Wang Maoru said: "I don't know what Mr. Dazuo is doing here?" ”

All five Japanese sit with their backs straight. The smallest is Doi Ichinojin. said: "Mr. Xiusheng has been known for a long time, and we are also here this time, and at the same time we are here to give a gift to General Shangwu." ”

Wang Maoru smiled and said: "It's too polite, it's too polite." ”

"As a scholar, Mr. Xiusheng deserves to be China's No. 1 scholar of international relations, as a poet, Mr. Xiusheng is actually China's No. 1 poet, as a general, the martial general is famous, known as the South Cai Yi and the North Shangwu. Mr. Wakahidemori is a national of Japan. It is the spirit of bushido. ”

"Bushido?" Wang Maoru smiled and said: "Righteousness, bravery, benevolence, courtesy, sincerity, reputation, loyalty, this is the spirit of bushido, right?" ”

"Mr. Hidemori is really familiar with Japanese culture, I wonder what Mr. Hidemori thinks of the "Treaty of the Fourth Republic of China"?" Doi asked.

Wang Maoru sighed in his heart. This "Treaty of the Fourth Republic of China" is the official name, and there is also a name in China called "Twenty-one Articles", this traitorous treaty even Yuan Shikai did not dare to agree, did the Japanese want to ask me to agree? Shouldn't they be looking for Duan Qirui and Zhang Zuolin? When did you take a fancy to me? He said in a deep voice, "Mr. Dasaku, I know a little bit about the Fourth Treaty of the People's Republic of China. ”

Doi Nojino sighed and said, "If President Yuan Da agrees to sign the Fourth Treaty of the People's Republic of China, how can he lose? The Chinese Empire would be placed under the protection of the Great Japanese Empire and would be invincible. ”

Wang Maoru nodded and smiled, but gritted his teeth in his mouth, scolding the bastard little Japan in his heart. My day your grandmother's civil four treaties, my day your grandmother twenty articles!

Doi praised the benefits that the "Fourth Treaty of the People's Republic of China" could bring to China, how much benefit it could bring to Yuan Shikai, and how good China and Japan would be if they were to continue to sign them. Wang Maoru just nodded, how could he not know Doi City's thoughts, I am afraid that the gift is fake, and the persecution is real. The Japanese sent a cup of poisoned wine and drank it, and there was nothing to do with Zhang Zuolin in the Northeast in the future. But in the future he will be a puppet of Japan! If you don't agree, you will be a thorn in the side of the Japanese in the future, and sooner or later the Japanese will blow up like Zhang Zuolin of Huanggutun.

Say yes or no? Wang Maoru's heart turned over the river and the sea, and the benefits of being the king of the Northeast were immediately displayed in front of him.

Wang Maoru thought about it before and after. didn't respond to his words, laughed and said, "I don't know what gift Dazuo brought?" ”

Doi Ichinojin thought he was ready to agree. He was happy in his heart, and said to his subordinates: "Gangcun Shaozuo, take out the gift list." ”

This is Okamura Ninji, a policymaker of China Tong and Sanko? Wang Maoru took a closer look, this Shaozuo called Gangcun is now about 30 years old, with a long face, a tall figure, a mustache, and a blazing eye, he is very calm, and he respectfully took out the gift list, and said in somewhat stiff Chinese: "I have long heard that General Shangwu's subordinates lack artillery shells, and my Great Japanese Empire gave my Chinese friend General Shangwu 20 75-caliber Krupp field guns and 10,000 shells. He raised his head and said with a smile: "This is just a greeting gift, I hope Your Excellency the General likes it." ”

Wang Maoru clapped his hands and smiled: "Thank you very much for the gift from the Japanese government, I have always believed that China and Japan should be friendly." Liu Wei took the gift list, walked to the back, and glanced at Wang Maoru, Wang Maoru smiled again: "Mr. Dazuo is indeed generous, I hope to become friends with the Japanese government." ”

"So, I wonder if Mr. Xiusheng can continue to implement the "Treaty of the Fourth People's Republic of China"?" Doi asked hurriedly.

Wang Maoru said: "It's a pity, I'm just a small Heilongjiang overseer, how can I have the ability and position to govern the affairs of the whole country, and when I become the prime minister of Duan Qirui, the position will definitely be studied with you." As the saying goes, if you are in your position, you will not be in your position, and now, I can only represent myself. As soon as Doi Shizhijin wanted to speak, Wang Maoru interrupted and said: "Even the Russians, I can't cope with it, I guess you all know that the Russians are arrogant and unreasonable, right?" I once said to Kawashima that Asia is the Asia of Asians, the Asia of our yellow race, and the white race should go back to Europe. ”

"You're absolutely right." Another Japanese officer clapped his hands and exclaimed, "I also think that Asia should be the Asia of Asians, and I very much agree with His Excellency the General." ”

"This is ......"

Doi Ichinojin introduced: "This is Mitsumasa Nakasa Yonechi, a top student at the Imperial Japanese Naval University. "The Japanese are very hierarchical, the chief doesn't speak, and the lower officials won't interject, this Mitsumasa Rice is just a faux pas, but looking at Doi's meaning, it seems that he is not interested in this Nakasa. And this Mitsumasa in the rice does not seem to be good for Doi. Here's what's going on. Could it be that the Japanese are also intriguing with each other? Doi continued: "By the way, Hidemori-kun, I know that you have always been friendly to the Japanese, and this time we have come with news of your two friends. ”

"Oh?" Wang Maoru was interested.

Doi nodded to Okamura Ninji, and Okamura Ninji said, "Your Excellency General, I know that you have a Japanese best friend named Kozang Heiliang. ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said with emotion: "Yes, Gong Zangjun once helped me when I was at my lowest, to be honest." When I first wrote "The Rise of a Great Power", I didn't really want to write this book into such a series of articles, and at the beginning of the writing, it was only because I chatted with Gong Zangjun at the banquet, and he triggered me to write articles. That's what made me famous because of this article. Therefore, I have today's achievements, and I owe a large part of my gratitude to Gong Zangjun. I once asked my Japanese friend Kawashima Shonan-kun to give Gong Zang-kun some money, and I heard that his life was not very good after returning to Japan. ”

Okamura Ninji said: "Yes, but unfortunately, Gongzang Ryohei suffered from acute pneumonia a year ago, and even if the medicine of the Great Japanese Empire was developed, he didn't get his life." ”

Wang Maoru stood up suddenly, pointed at Okamura Ningji with trembling hands, and said in disbelief: "You...... You...... You are talking nonsense! ”

"Your Excellency, General. Please mourn. Okamura Ninji bowed and said, "The reason why Gong Zang-kun works so hard is because his father died young, and he had to work hard to earn money to support his mother and young sister. And after returning to China, Zang Jun's salary was much lower than when he was in China, and the reason why he returned to China was only because he had to take care of his sick mother, his mother was seriously ill, and his sister was still in high school, and the whole family was counting on him alone. ”

Wang Maoru sighed and said, "I was very strange at the time, he did a good job in Shuntian Times. Why did he go back to Japan, but I didn't expect it to be because his mother was seriously ill, and I didn't care enough as a friend. ”

Okamura Ninji said: "After Gong Zang Jun died of illness, his mother died soon after being too sad, and now Gong Zang Jun has only one sister, Gong Zang Misaki, who has just graduated from high school. Alas, poor family. There was only a fourteen-year-old girl left. ”

The more Wang Maoru listened, the more it was not a taste, not a sadness, but a ...... Since the Japanese military knows everything about the situation in Gongzang, why can't you give relief? Don't...... He continued with Okamura Ninji's words: "It's really pitiful, as a friend of Gongzang, I really don't know what I can do." Why don't I find someone to mail her some money? ”

Doi Ichinojin shook his hand and said with a smile: "Xiusheng-kun, don't you hear about wealth and make trouble?" The more money you give Misaki, the more dangerous she becomes. ”

"How can this be good?" Wang Maoru pretended to be anxious and said.

"Forget it, let him fend for himself, no one has gone through a lot of hard work, and a woman is not in the way." Okamura Ninji took the opportunity to say.

Damn, this is for me to take over, Wang Maoru scolded in his heart, needless to say, you are calculating me like this, even if this Gong Zang Misaki is the sister of Gong Zang Liangping, it is estimated that he is also a member of your Japanese military department, your meaning is very simple, let me take over her as her guardian, so that I can have one of your ears by my side, and as an orphan of a friend, I was stabbed out after I didn't take over, and my reputation is not good. Wang Maoru sighed and said, "If I have the opportunity, I would like to be her guardian, as her brother's friend, at least let her grow up safely, study, and marry." ”

Doi Ichinojin and Okamura Ninji looked at each other and smiled, and Okamura Ninji said, "The general has a fancy for his friend. Let me see the scholars of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of your country. ”

Wang Maoru shook his head and smiled bitterly, scolding you little Japan for being sinister in his heart.

Mitsumasa Naminai looked at Doi Ichinojin and Okamura Ninji with disdain, as if he looked down on their methods. Mitsumasa Yonechi was subordinate to the Intelligence Section of the Admiralty, and this time as a temporary observer, the battle between land and sea within the Japanese army was very fierce, and the two factions of soldiers also took a clear position. Of course, the biggest dispute between the two factions is the contention for military spending, and the division of Japanese military spending has always been 30 percent of the military expenditure received by the army, while the navy accounts for 70 percent of the military expenditure. On the one hand, they looked down on it, and on the other hand, they were angry, and even Mitsumasa Yonechi, the intelligence observer of the navy, was squeezed out by the army intelligence officers.