When Wang Shiqian heard the adjutant's comment, he only thought that the armored division did not know when the restrictions would be lifted and put into the battlefield. In his feeling, Mr. is too cautious, with an island country like Japan, as long as it is defeated as soon as the war starts, and loses the first-mover advantage, it will be doomed. He thought so, and many people in the staff of the General Staff also thought so, but Yang Rui had no worries about Japan in his heart, but he had great concerns about the great powers, just like the books he published before, if there are 100 people in China to study, Japan will have tens of thousands of people to study, so I don't understand whether it is patriotic or harmful.

For backward countries, if the emergence of new technologies cannot be fully used by themselves, it can only benefit the great powers, because whether it is scientific and technological heritage, industrial base, or personnel, the great powers are stronger than China, and the more advanced the technology, the more backward China will be. At the same time, he was also worried that once the tanks appeared in advance and various countries built tanks on a large scale, World War I would no longer be trench warfare, but tank offensive and defensive warfare. If this is the case, Germany will not be able to fight Britain and France in any case, after all, Germany's foreign trade was cut off during the war.

For various reasons, he put the armored division last, and only let it go out to rescue when the war was critical. Originally, after recapturing the Daqing River valley and ensuring that the 433 Heights were worry-free, the chariot battalion that was transferred to the rear of Gaizhou returned to Liaoyang to stand by, but something happened that changed their fate.

In San Francisco, USA at night, Yang Rui was meeting a mysterious guest at this time, that is, Zhang Yuanxu, the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain.

Eight years ago, he had another monk named Master Y who was coaxed here by Yang Rui to pretend to be a ghost and predict an earthquake, but at that time, only the Chinese were willing to believe, and the foreigners in San Francisco did not believe the pagan prediction that there would be an earthquake on the morning of April 18. It's just that some timid and cautious foreigners still got up at five o'clock in the morning and went out at five o'clock that morning to prevent accidents. The magnitude 7:8 earthquake started on time, and after the earth shook and the mountains shook, San Francisco was in flames. What happened after that is the story of the Chinese saving people in danger.

However, the matter was not over yet, the white missionaries believed that the earthquake was the reason for the pagans to summon Satan, but fortunately, some rescued white people reported the favor and vigorously defended the Chinese people's act of saving people, and the national newspapers widely publicized the matter, so the matter of Satan in China was over; After the earthquake in San Francisco, according to the previous plan, Zhang Yuanxu and Master Y came to Valparaiso, Chile four months later, announcing that there would be an earthquake here. At this time, the Chileans already knew the reputation of the Chinese missionaries, and they did not discriminate against the Chinese, although it was inconvenient to get up in the middle of the night than in the morning, but they still believed it, and only a few people were killed in the earthquake after the whole city was on alert;

Two years later, Zhang Yuanxu and Master Y, who had been revered as immortals by the Chinese, came to Messina, Italy, and at the same time announced that a major earthquake would occur in the city, the two were expelled by the Pope and the Italian government, because they had expected it. The Revival Society secretly contributed to the spread of the earthquake warning in Italy, attracting foreign newspapers all over the world to pay attention to whether the earthquake in Italy would really happen, and whether God could protect Italy and drive out Satan from China. The long-awaited December 28 was 5:25 a.m. A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the city of Messina on time, shattering the world's glasses.

Like charlatans, Zhang Yuanxu and Master Y politely refused Guangxu's summons afterwards. It is claimed that due to the leakage of the heavenly machine, Yang Shou has been lost, and he needs to retreat and cultivate Yunyun. After that, they did not return to China, but settled in San Francisco, which was loved by the American people for witnessing miracles continuously. But the more low-key the two men, the greater the controversy became. Although the Chinese missionaries have only mastered a kind of earthquake prediction technology, it is not that God does not bless Rome, but this is only a unilateral argument of the foreigners, and in the entire Chinese world, God does not have the spirit of Taoist monks and monks has become the truth, and the Chinese who believe in foreign religion have begun to abandon the religion on a large scale.

After the three accurate predictions of the earthquake cast Zhang Yuanxu and Master Y into gods, the first thing the two immortals did was to persuade overseas Chinese to buy founding bonds, and at the same time advocate that Greater China will follow the fortune of heaven and will surely prosper the country, as for other things to do, it depends on Yang Rui's arrangement.

"Don't come unharmed, sir!" Zhang Yuanxu was dressed in a Taoist robe, with immortal wind and bones, but he was very respectful to the real immortal in front of him.

"Hehe, the Heavenly Master is here, it's hard work." Yang Rui bowed his hand to him very politely, "The king has been talking about it since you went abroad." ”

"I'm also... I want to be emperor too... O king! Zhang Yuanxu has been named a national teacher by Zhu Kuansu, but the missionary cause of this national teacher has been abroad, "but now there are more and more foreigners in San Francisco who believe in religion......"

Let him and Master Y go abroad, firstly, the earthquake has only been abroad in recent years, and secondly, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is necessary to mobilize overseas Chinese to buy bonds, as for preaching, it is not Yang Rui's original intention, if he is that Chinese people do not believe in foreign religion, not foreigners believe in Chinese religion.

"The local missionaries didn't protest?" Yang Rui asked with a smile, he was very satisfied with the current result, in addition to the vision of reviving China, the strict organization of the revival society, and the declining imperial power, the carefully established divine power is also a weapon to fight against foreign religions and unite the people of the country - or to ensure the rule, the most important thing is that only he knows when the earthquake will occur, that is, this divine power is completely controlled by him.

"There are protests, they hate us but grit their teeth with hatred, but helplessly some foreigners just believe us!" Speaking of the missionary, Dragon and Tiger Heavenly Master Zhang Yuanxu twisted his beard and became deeply worried.

Yang Rui also knew the current situation through the Guò Intelligence Bureau, and only said, "Now the imperial court has no way to protect overseas Chinese, and many things still require the United States, if the United States can't stay, you and Master Y should return to China." ”

"Are you going to just go back?" Zhang Yuanxu was a little reluctant, he knew what virtues domestic missionaries had. Finally, there was such a missionary point in the United States, and he was not reconciled.

"It's good to go back." Yang Rui said, "There have been no earthquakes in the United States in the past few years, so it's useless for you to stay here." Besides, the international system does not allow us to preach abroad on a large scale, and in the end, we still don't have guns in our hands. ”

"My lord, there are foreign priests when you go back!" Zhang Yuanxu said that the foreign priest was a little angry. "It's better to fight them here than to fight them here."

'No, at home we play at home, here we are only away. However, there is a war going on in the country, and many things have to be seen on the faces of foreigners. When you go back, rest for a while, and then wait until the time is right. Attack those hairy people again! Yang Rui said.

As soon as Yang Rui's three words 'foreign hair' came out, Zhang Yuanxu suddenly understood his intentions, he didn't say this about foreigners before, and said excitedly at the moment: "My lord, when can we do it?" ”

"In six or seven years." Yang Rui said. As soon as he said this, Zhang Yuanxu was discouraged, and it was too long.

"Couldn't it be sooner, sir." Zhang Yuanxu said.

"Earlier, how early?" Yang Rui saw that he was disobedient, and his tone became heavy. "Do it earlier, the foreigners' strong ships and cannons are about to come in, and you can stop it with one mouth when the time comes?" Speaking of this, he glared at Zhang Yuanxu and said: "It is important to have miracles in the mission, but there is no gun in your hand to protect it, I think you will be tied to the cross and burned to death by foreign priests, they have been doing this for thousands of years, and they are very good." You can rest assured that we have the same goal, you have to preach. It's better for the whole world to believe in your Taoism, that's fine, I'm glad to see it happen, but this goal must be coordinated with the strategy of the imperial court. If something goes wrong, it's going to be messed up. ”

Every bit of news was provided by Yang Rui, and several successive predictions were accurate, and in Zhang Yuanxu's eyes, he was already a person who could reach the sky. Now Yang Rui's tone is heavy, and sweat is on his back. At the moment, he said: "It's me Meng Lang, and I will return to China with Master Y tomorrow." ”

"Don't be in such a hurry. Just go back this year. Yang Rui saw that he was soft, and said warmly, but thinking of Master Y, he said again: "And Master Y, you ask him not to go around poisoning and spreading rumors if he has nothing to do, and something will happen one day if he goes on like this." ”

"Yes! Be! My lord. Zhang Yuanxu wiped his sweat, Master Y actually wanted to curry favor with Yang Rui and publicize that he was the reincarnation of the Qilin, who knew that this fart was still slapped on the horse's leg.

"You and Master Y must be safe and keep your whereabouts secret, the Pope hates you to the core!" Yang Rui said again, "If you really can't do it, I'll find the Intelligence Bureau to send you back to China." ”

"Yes, sir. Master Xie cares. Zhang Yuanxu bowed again, he saw that Yang Rui had already served tea, knew that the meeting was over, and at the same time it was late at night, so he hurriedly got up and said goodbye.

After Zhang Yuanxu left, Yang did not rest immediately, he sat on the sofa and thought about Zhang Yuanxu's side for a long time, although it was a temporary idea to support theocracy with the help of accurate prediction of earthquakes, but if the prediction was accurate in a hundred years, it was necessary to consider whether Taoism would become as authoritarian as Islam in a hundred years. However, with the increasing understanding of the national situation, the role of local religion has been paid more and more attention by him, if you want to destroy its country, you must first destroy its history, and if you want to destroy its history, you must first destroy its religion, only when people no longer believe in the beliefs of the past, the history written under the previous ideology will be questioned and overturned.

Now that the West has successfully defeated Confucianism with foreign guns and cannons, and has lost power and humiliated the country, those mental cultures similar to Darwinism, scientism, and materialism will soon become popular, and this is what he wants to try his best to prevent. He wants the integration of China and the West, not only the foreign, or he hopes that the spiritual civilization inherited from ancient times to the present can be passed on, people's nature can be unlimited, natural stretch, everyone does not worship things or idealism, technology will not be condemned as a strange skill, and the soul will not be degraded as a great rebellion. In today's westerly winds, theocracy can achieve just that. He believed that the foreign scientists and materialists would never be able to explain why the 'gods' had succeeded in predicting most earthquakes for hundreds of years, just as they could not explain the time travel.

The more Yang Rui thought about it, the more he realized that the benefits of the 'Divine Stick' were not only used to exorcise foreign religions, but also to resist Marxism. You must know that before that, his response can only be to go to war with the outside world, and strive not to lose once - in the process of falling into the abyss of misery from the Celestial Empire, even the unification of China cannot prevent the cannon fire of Russia in October, as long as China's international status does not improve for a day, and the semi-colonial nature does not change for a day, those angry young people will think of using more advanced doctrine to save China, based on this, he must continue to fight foreign wars, and constantly recover rights and interests to win the hearts and minds of the people and the resentful youth, but once it fails, the Revival Association will have to step down, If he compromises, he will be dismissed as an imperialist stooge.

From sinking to rising, it seems to be sailing against the current, it is not okay to be conservative, but it is not okay to be rash, the former will be overthrown by the people led by the angry youth, and the latter will be strangled by the powers. However, the gods will increase popular acceptance and unity, and miracles will also discourage the indignant youth's reverence for the culture of the mind, if they believe in science. So why can't science predict disasters? If you believe in Mike, then why is there such a continuous stream of living miracles in the world?

The next few days. Yang Rui was thinking about how to maximize the use of divine power, but on the day he first arrived in Washington. Li Zilong's face turned pale and said: "Sir, there is a move on the Russian side, and they suddenly increased their troops to the Far East a few days ago. ”

"What?!" Yang Ruixin suddenly lifted it, "Didn't you say ...... some time ago"

As he spoke, the car had already reached the White House lawn, and as he got out of the car to greet President Wilson, the prepared band began to form the Yellow River Song, hoisting the Yellow Dragon Flag, and the outside of the lawn. The guard of honor began firing a 21-gun salute. If there is no news of Li Zilong, this qiē is extremely beautiful, but Russia's increase in troops in the Far East makes him very frightened.

At the same time as the national anthem was played, the salute was also just finished, and Wilson began to give a welcome speech after Yang Rui's head, which he said very briefly, except to welcome Yang Rui's visit. He also expressed his personal excitement.

According to the usual procedure, after a few short sentences, Yang Rui delivered a speech. Suppressing his irritability, Yang Rui began: "In a winter more than twenty years ago. I came to Washington, D.C., and looked at the White House for a long time, and I had this question: Why is the palace so small in such a huge, wealthy country? Why do people who live in it have to move in four years? Is it because everyone doesn't like to be an emperor? ”

At the beginning of his speech, Yang Rui closely linked himself to the United States and the White House. Questions about the White House and the presidential system reflect the greatness and progress of the American democratic system, and immediately won the applause of all Americans present. Especially after praising the United States, he began to praise the open door system of the United States. Think of this as a civilized and beautiful diplomatic relationship. He was interrupted fourteen times by applause in his short speech, and the Americans, who had previously had an opinion about him who did not wear a suit or shake hands, reversed this idea in his amusing and wise speech.

After the event on the White House lawn, the next step was to go to the office for a discussion. After the dismissal, Wilson and Secretary of State Brian, after condemning the Japanese and expressing their sympathy and regret for not being able to participate in the war, began to inquire about the war situation with concern. Yang Rui was not surprised by this, but said: "Mr. President, although the war is getting more and more intense, but the Japanese have not made any progress, for China, because the war came too suddenly, the number of our rifles is too small, and now we can only barely arm a million troops, if the war continues, the Japanese can not hold on at the same time, our soldiers will be more and more." Please believe that victory will definitely belong to China! ”

A week ago, Wilson would not have believed in the fighting power of the Baxing Army, after all, it was not difficult to defeat a force like the Qing army, especially when Beijing was occupied, but with the failure of the Japanese plan to blast through the Guò tunnel and outflank the defenders' left flank a week earlier, and the battle on the 433 Heights that night was translated into English and published in American newspapers, he finally believed that the Chinese army was not much worse than the Japanese army, and thus began to reconsider with the cabinet what would be the best outcome of this war for the United States.

According to the Secretary of War Lindley. M. Garrison's judgment that as long as the Chinese army does not make mistakes, it should be able to defeat the Japanese army and drive Japan out of South Manchuria, and if lucky, the Chinese army can still enter Korea, of course, only into the mountainous northern part of Korea, and advancing to Pyongyang will be the limit, and it is impossible to occupy the whole of Korea, after all, Korea is a peninsula, and under the premise of the absolute superiority of the Japanese navy, the deeper the Chinese army penetrates into Korea, the weaker the advantage will be.

The Secretary of War so judged, the Director of the Department of Far Eastern Affairs of the State Department, Ransford. Miller argues that if China wins the war, it must face up to China's rise, and that while the Chinese government begins to reject European colonialism, it will increasingly need an ally that can support it internationally, and the United States can do just that; In return for their support, the interests of European countries in China will inevitably be transferred to the United States. The more radical China is, the more isolated they are in the world, and the more isolated they are, the greater the reward for the United States that can support him, and the U.S. strategy should be to fully encourage China to be radical, and the most important thing is to start slowly controlling China while supporting China.

The word control is the term used in Director Miller's report, and he listed two specific methods, one is that the students who went to the United States a few years ago have returned to China one after another, these people have been influenced by American thought, and many people advocate the United States, if these people can be enriched into the Chinese political arena, then the control of China will become extremely simple, of course, China sends more students to Germany, but fortunately, most of them are studying science and engineering, and these people may not be able to enter the Congress and the cabinet.

In addition to the infiltration of talent, the Chinese government has begun to systematically rectify the financial system, and Director Miller judged that the next step for the Chinese government after the so-called unification of the silver dollar specification must be to change the silver standard to the gold standard. If China's gold standard can be changed to a gold exchange standard that relies entirely on the US dollar, and if it sends US banking advisers to the Bank of China to take up important positions, it will have a serious impact on its economy, which is a more profitable thing than building 10 railroads.

In addition to talent penetration and financial control, Miller's other method is to encourage China to go to war against Britain and France, and he, like some sharp-eyed people in China, believes that China's rise will be a more terrible thing than Japan, and that it may not be difficult for China to defeat Japan, but it is very difficult to defeat Britain, and that the more enemies China has, the more important support from the United States will be, and encouraging China to compete with the European powers and lose is the best way to gain benefits without cultivating enemies.

Miller's report Wilson read it several times, and as a gentleman, he actually advocated the first way, and of course, if the first method could not be implemented, then he would choose the second way. As a president of Princeton University who discouraged black students from applying for admission in an effort to maintain an exclusively white student environment, and a president who established a 'segregated and equal' system in Washington to evict black employees of the federal government from office buildings, Wilson was a complete white supremacist who really had little affection for China, and in his view, white rights in Asia could be transferred, but they could never be taken away, and yellow people could fight among themselves, but they could never be equal to white people. Therefore, his mentality during the discussion was only to ask about the battle situation of the monkey king in front of him, and he did not really mean to help.

"Your Excellency, if the war is a smooth one, will the Chinese army be able to enter Korea?" Secretary of State Brian asked, compared to Wilson's white superiority, he is a populist, and he has a good opinion of Yang Rui, from Li Hongzhang to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the visit to the United States is all pompous, but Yang Rui and his delegation are simple like a crappy little businessman, and he has heard that Yang Rui's salary is only ten dollars more than the average American worker, and he likes such a national leader.

The assumption that the Ba'ath Army would regain Korea after the victory was the speculation of domestic optimists, and internationally, given that the number of Chinese troops was already as high as one million, and that foreign journalists had the same speculation, but many more believed that the Chinese army would stop at the Yalu River in order to prevent Britain from going to war.

"If the U.S. government can support it, we can enter North Korea to fight." Yang Rui said with a smile.

Hearing Yang Rui say this, Wilson glanced at Brian, but seeing that he was silent, he had to say to himself: "We fully support the Chinese army to enter Korea to fight in order to bring democracy and freedom to the Korean people, it is said that under the rule of the Japanese, the local people are not doing well." After all, Wilson is a high-level intellectual, not good at talking, and his eyes wander a little when he speaks, "But the political system of the United States is somewhat different from your country, and if the White House's proposal is vetoed by Congress, we still can't do anything substantial." However, as long as the restored DPRK follows the principle of open door, I believe that congressmen will agree with the White House's proposal, and I personally would like to see the DPRK become independent and govern itself without being enslaved and interfered by other countries. ”

"Mr. President, Japan and Britain are allies, and if they attack Korea, then according to the alliance agreement, Britain is very likely to declare war on us." Yang Rui listened to Wilson's words around the corner, which meant to understand, especially his emphasis on personal positions, which was even more unreliable. "If Britain declares war on us, what kind of support can the United States give us?"

"The minimum is only moral support, and the maximum is to join the war, but this is unlikely." Brian came back to his senses at this point and began to speak: "But we will do our best to mediate and get Britain not to go to war." (To be continued......)