"What about the Times? Are they also Japanese newspapers? Their rhetoric this time was extremely vehement, and they had often defended Japan in the past. ”

"The Times is not." Wang Xiaolin had a headache about Cai Yuanpei's political IQ, "The Times is the Adam's apple of the overseas royalist Kang Liang in China, and the biggest source of fundraising for the royalists is overseas Chinese in the Americas. ”

As long as there are cities in the United States where there are overseas Chinese, there are royalists, and Kang Liang, who fled overseas, went around defrauding money with a forged imperial edict, and finally even set up a company to save Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. But from the Wuxu year to the present, for seven or eight years, overseas Chinese have long been tired of that kind of royalist rhetoric, and now the heaven-sent opportunity has given them the opportunity to regain the favor of overseas Chinese, so they are all vigorously advocating the boycott of American goods.

Knowing the reason why the Times was trying his best to advocate, Cai Yuanpei stopped talking, the royalists were not to be feared, but it was the Japanese who were to be feared. From the beginning of Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army", Cai Yuanpei slowly kept vigilant against the Japanese like everyone else in the meeting, and from the details he learned, this boycott of American goods, the Japanese continued to add fuel to the fire, the Shanghai office of the Tonghua Railway Company was burned down, and now the attack on Yu Huizu is also a column, and the student demonstrations in Fengtian and other places are also a column. At the juncture of the Russo-Japanese War, the American mediator, the Japanese did not dare to come forward directly, so they could only use such a tactful method to prevent the infiltration of American forces into the northeast.

Knowing that the Japanese were so scheming, Cai Yuanpei couldn't help but worry about Liaodong after the Japanese-Russian peace talks. If the Americans can't support the local forces in Liaodong strongly, then Tonghua Nabuqi is afraid that it will be difficult to live. Cai Yuanpei thought about it and waved his hand to let Wang Xiaolin go out. But as soon as Wang Xiaolin left, Mu Xiangyao came again, and when the two were staggered at the door, Mu Xiangyao glared fiercely, but Wang Xiaolin walked away with his head down.

"Sir, someone threw something in Mr. Yu's house......"

"What's that?"

"A bloody dog's head!"

"What!" Cai Yuanpei stood up, but sat down helplessly, he really didn't know what to say. If he had done the same, he might have encouraged students to march. But now, once he intervenes in military affairs, he knows that there are many things that the courage of blood alone is not enough to sustain.

"Did the Japanese do it?"

"It was a bunch of students who did it. The one who took the lead was called Hu Shi. It's our student, and when I see that it's my own person, I let him go. "Mu Xiangyao is now taking over the security work of all important people in Shanghai, and at the same time investigating the situation of the Qing Gang. that one day they will be plucked out completely.

It's actually a student at my own school. Cai Yuanpei closed his eyes and sighed, "Hey! These students, what a ...... Brother Hanzhang wasn't intimidated, right? ”

"Not really. Mr. Yu was still very happy with the dog's head, and he now took it to the U.S. Consulate. ”

"What! What did he take that for? Cai Yuanpei was taken aback.

Mr. Yu said that his reputation had already stinked when he congratulated Cixi on her birthday the last time, and that he had been scolded as a Manchu slave before, and now it doesn't matter if there is another traitor. The student gave a dog head, which was a good gift! He could take him with him to show his loyalty to the Americans. In this way, maybe the Anbong Railway will come back. Mu Xiangyao shook his head when he said it, he still thought that Yu Huizu was just a good gentleman. It's not a big deal, and now I know that he is such a person who endures humiliation.

Unlike the hot gatherings and protests of students and citizens in Shanghai, when the wave of boycotting American goods spread to Liaodong and other places, all the senior Chinese workers with a background in the United States went on strike on a certain day, resulting in the basic suspension of the construction of the Antongfeng Railway.

"Are there any Japanese people making trouble inside?" Yang Rui, who had just finished inspecting the immigrants in the Tumen River area and was about to see the railway, was a little angry.

"There must have been Japanese involvement in the Shanghai incident, but the railway company ...... Not really! Liu Boyuan's face was full of sternness, the Tonghua Railway is extremely important for the development of the economy of Liaodong, but this railway company does not belong to the army, and the political department can understand the things inside, but it is difficult to control it, and no one can understand what a group of Cantonese people can say.

"What about Chen Dafa? What is he doing, also on strike? ”

"He didn't. Yesterday he invited the leaders of the Chinese workers in the United States to drink tea and talk about the numbers, but he lacked prestige, and the Chinese workers went on strike either because they wanted to increase their money or to ask the railway companies to support the Sino-US treaty change, and it seems that they had suffered a lot in the United States earlier. ”

"Change the fart! These bastards are more stupid than the other, and they don't want to think about it, the country is not strong, don't talk about the United States, even if Mexico wants to bully you, it will bully you. "Yang Rui's temper has come up again." And that Zhuzhai side, I went to Shanghai for so long and played soy sauce. You sue him, don't look ahead and backward, take advantage of the fact that he is now the leader and consul of the Germans, and quickly clear up all the Xingwu to me, the door of the house is not peaceful, and there are still small deflated three troublemakers, what is it? ”

Chen Guangshou didn't speak on the side, only wrote down everything Yang Rui explained, he hadn't finished writing it yet, Yang Rui said, "On the railway side, the workers from Shandong are still honest, let people see if they can open the mountain, transport materials, anyway, the simple things that can be done first." Also, the Japanese are agitating for a boycott of American goods, and you will see if you can grasp some levers to let the Americans know that this is adding fuel to the fire. ”

"Sir, this ...... I'm afraid it's hard. Liu Boyuan said, "The Japanese did not come forward at all, and only let the royalists come forward to agitate, and it is still difficult for us to grasp the evidence." ”

"Then think about how to fight back. If you don't fight back and just get beaten, then things will get bigger and bigger. Yang Rui said.

It's just that defending and not counterattacking is not Yang Rui's style, if the Japanese were really inside, things wouldn't be so simple. The day after Yang Rui just finished his prediction, there was news that some shareholders of the railway company in Jiangsu and Zhejiang asked to withdraw their shares, and after the company cleaned up these people in accordance with the previous articles of association, there was terrible news in the capital: it was said that Xingjing, where the Antongfeng Railway passed, was where the dragon vein was, and the iron bars were paved on the ground and the heavy cars were running, which was really hurting the dragon vein. The imperial court ordered the Tonghua Railway Company to change its route in order to secure the dragon vein.

The most important of the three tombs outside the Manchu Qing Dynasty is actually Yongling. This is the ancestral tomb of Aixinjue Luo, according to the rumors of later generations, there are a total of twelve mountain bags in the Qiyun Mountain behind this Yongling, each mountain bag corresponds to an emperor, the length of the reign of the twelve emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the size of the mountain bag correspond one by one, and the end is very mysterious. Although the railway had already been detoured during the planning of the railway, the ministers of the DPRK and China already felt that it was okay. But this feng shui is said to be believed, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it, if this kind of statement is really said by everyone. Then the realignment is a certainty.

Du Yaquan pulled Chen Dafa and hurriedly arrived in Tonghua New Town, Yang Rui and Chen Dafa had met as early as Seattle and had returned to China together. But Yang Rui went to other places halfway. Chen Dafa has been in Liaodong for a long time. I know very well the ability of Yang Rui and the forces behind him, many times the bell with the sword of Shang Fang can't be requisitioned, but on the second day, people will obediently send the title deed over, and the same is true for the tombs along the way.

"Big brother!" Chen Dafa greeted Yang Rui like this when he saw him.

Yang Rui saw that he had become dark and strong when he was white and thin before, and he beat his shoulder happily, and said with a smile: "Hehe." You. It's been a hard year. ”

Chen Dafa's messy hair was sour, and he was polite when he saw Yang Rui. Then he said meaninglessly: "Hey." I didn't do a good job this time, everyone suffered too much in the United States, and that's it when I got excited. ”

"This time the incident is also that the Americans are bullying people too much, and it's okay to make a fuss." Yang Rui didn't want to put too much pressure on him, and the most important thing now was not for the Chinese workers to resume work, but to re-select the line just in case.

Yang Rui pulled him to the side of the large map, pointed to the section from Tonghua to Fengtian and asked, "If we don't repair this section, how much will we lose?" ”

Chen Dafa didn't know the rumors in the capital, and was shocked when he heard the rumors: "Ah. Why didn't this paragraph be fixed? ”

Yang Rui patted him on the shoulder and said, "The railway may have to be rerouted, I want to know how much it will cost to give up this section?"

Chen Dafa looked at Yang Rui as if he was joking, and after thinking about it seriously, he said: "Fengtian, Fushun, and Xingjing only made preparations, because the Japanese in Fengtian did not allow them to repair, so only Fushun and Xingjing started construction. Because there are many people in Fushun, the work is the most ......."

The person who did the engineering spoke in an orderly manner, but Yang Rui only wanted to know an approximate number, so he interrupted him, "Don't be so slow, what I want to know is the approximate loss." ”

Chen Dafa was forced by Yang Rui, stunned and said: "200,000 people have been paid three months' wages, some materials that have been used, and some road survey costs. If the re-selection is fast, it will take at least two months, which adds up to five months. These are still few, if you choose another line, then the construction difficulty, the length of the route will increase the cost of the whole line. ”

"The wages of 200,000 people for five months......" Du Yaquan calculated in his heart, "two dimes a day per person, there are 200,000 yuan here, plus the used materials, the cost of re-selecting the line, I am afraid it is more than 300,000 yuan." ”

Yang Rui also made a mock calculation in his heart, and came to the same conclusion as Du Yaquan, 300,000 yuan is very small for the entire railway, but it is a lot of money when calculated alone. Fuck little Japan, Yang Rui scolded in his heart.

"You don't care about the new line, now the company has decided not to go to Fengtian, nor to go to Fushun, we plan to build the railway here." Yang Rui's fingers stretched from Tonghua to the north to the mouth of the Meihe River, which is more than 120 kilometers, and then knocked heavily in this place, "The railway will be repaired here." ”

Chen Dafa didn't know Yang Rui's calculations, looked at Meihekou and said: "But this is a dead end, there is no connection to the railway inside and outside the Guan, then the passenger flow must be very small, the income is not optimistic, and the shareholders are afraid that they are unwilling to contribute." ”

Chen Dafa knew that the Tonghua Railway Company was not well funded, and it relied entirely on raising share capital. If the railway does not intersect with the railway network, the benefits can be imagined.

"Don't worry about the money. The company has already paid a lump sum to the steel company for the railroad tracks. Some time ago, those who clamored for the withdrawal of shares also returned their money, and we now have the money to build this railway on our own. The railway is repaired to the mouth of the Meihe River, it seems that the location is not good, but in fact it extends in all directions, one hundred and twenty kilometers to the west of this place is Siping, one hundred and sixty kilometers to the north is Kuanchengzi (Changchun), that is, it is not connected to the Dongqing Railway, as long as it goes ten more kilometers is the capital of Jilin Province, here is the starting point of water transportation of Songhua River. The flow of goods is huge......" Yang Rui talked eloquently at the map, as if he had already been confident, in fact, he had long felt that the Antongfeng Railway cost was extremely huge. It is a waste to repair such a tortuous road of 20 million taels.

Taking advantage of the feng shui problem, he wanted to build the railway north to the mouth of the Meihe River under the guise of a detour, and when Harriman could not buy the South Manchurian Railway at the end of this year, he would go directly to Harriman to talk, as long as the Americans supported it and the Russians did not oppose it, then there would be no problem in extending the railway from the mouth of the Meihe River to Changchun 160 kilometers away. In this way, the Dongqing Railway has two branch lines in the southern section. One is the original line, and the other is Changchun through Tonghua to Andong, the length of this route is equal to the original Antongfeng. The construction cost was slightly more than 1 million taels, but because it was in Andong to go to sea, it was more than 100 kilometers more than 100 kilometers to go to the sea province of Dalian, which was being built by the Japanese. If the Americans can't get along, then Yang Rui will have to talk to the Russians by himself. I can't talk about it anymore. Then it can only be repaired to Jilin and docked with the Songhua River waterway.

Yang Rui thinks a lot, but these ideas have a premise, that is, the boundary between the spheres of influence of Japan and Russia is not in Changchun but in Siping. Historically, because of the graves of two Japanese soldiers, the dividing line between the two countries was drawn in Changchun, but now, the two Japanese graves do not exist at all, so the demarcation must be between Changtu and Siping, which are held against Japan and Russia. According to the Russian temper. The mountain and forest areas do not pay attention to the time of armistice and peace talks in history. Russia ceded a large area of mountainous areas to the east of the northeast to Japan, so that Japan's sphere of influence was once close to the Mudanjiang River, and now the dividing line between the two countries is not in Changchun but in Siping, and at the same time the independence army is deployed in the mountainous area east of Siping.

Yang Rui has a lot of plans, but there is no way to explain many of them to Chen Dafa, because the results of the division of spheres of influence in the Japanese-Russian peace talks and Harriman's purchase of the South Manchurian Railway are all things in the future, and he doesn't want to say it, so as to save leaking secrets and being regarded as a magic stick. The final result was that Chen Dafa patted his head and went in a daze, taking advantage of the current shutdown, he happened to go to Liuhe County to survey the road and select the line first, and only waited for the order to change the line from Beijing, and the construction could start there.

After Chen Dafa left, Du Yaquan said worriedly: "Do you really want to change the line?" Repair to the mouth of the Meihe River, although it is close to Kuanchengzi and Jilin, it is still a broken road. ”

"Don't worry! Brother Qiu Fan. A little further north is either the Songhua River or the North Manchurian Railway. Yang Rui drank tea leisurely, not worrying about the railway at all.

"But are the Russians willing?" Du Yaquan is still not at ease.

"They hate Japan so much, how can they not want to? The North Manchurian Railway connected to our railway, so the Japanese would have suffered great losses. The more Yang Rui spoke, the more he laughed.

"What if the Japanese protest?"

"He has no way to protest, the realignment was made up by them, and everyone has nothing to say when it reaches Meihekou, and as for the more than 100 kilometers north of Meihekou, it is not his sphere of influence, what is he protesting, if he wants to protest, he will find the Russians. Besides, this section will be repaired later, and when the military factory is built, it will depend on how much foreign debt he can borrow. ”

"What, to fight?" Du Yaquan was a little surprised.

"Well, if you repair to the mouth of the Meihekou, you won't be able to fight, but once you go north from the mouth of the Meihekou, then the Japanese will come hard. This more than 100 kilometers is very difficult to repair. Yang Rui's words were relaxed, but his expression was a little hideous, but after a while, he calmed down, and said: "You go and find it, the monk and Taoist priest in the Northeast are the most effective, and the Japanese used feng shui to pit us, so we should not be too polite, and we should treat others in their own way." ”

Du Yaquan said strangely: "Actually, you want to use the mouth of the warlock to make the Japanese Anfeng Railway unable to build, but there is no Manchu mausoleum over there?" ”

"There are no mausoleums, but earthquakes can have." Yang Rui said with a smile.

"Earthquake?" Du Yaquan was puzzled.

"yes. If this warlock can predict a major earthquake twice in a row, and then threaten that as long as the Anbong Road is completed, then there will be a major earthquake in Mukden, and then the dragon vein will be broken, then the railway will not be able to be built. ”

Yang Rui said easily, but Du Yaquan looked solemn, he didn't believe it or didn't believe it, the Revival Association had long rumored that Yang Rui was a god-given supernatural power, and he could know the first three hundred years and the next three hundred years, he immediately stopped asking more, just wrote down the matter and went out.

Yang Rui no longer had the option to take care of the rumors that he was a god, and after he left, he called Liu Boyuan over and asked him to mobilize the military intelligence bureau in Japan's intelligence network to find a few ronins who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the country.

"Sir. This is? Liu Boyuan was puzzled.

"Do you know about Japan's three-edged diplomacy?"

Liu Boyuan was still puzzled. Yang Rui had no choice but to explain: "The earliest blade was to assassinate the then Russian crown prince and the current tsar, the second blade to assassinate Li Hongzhang at the first noon, and the last to assassinate the Korean concubine Min was the third blade." This is Japan's three-edged diplomacy. Now all you have to do is send someone to see a ronin in Japan, and then go over and ask: 'I am from the Black Dragon Society, do I want to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor,' and if he wants, he will eat and drink and entertain him, and then ship it to Portsmouth, USA in August......

"The United States? Portsmouth? ”

"Yes, Japan and Russia will negotiate there. Because it is in the United States, the Russians will not take strict precautions, and it is better to let the Japanese ronin go up and shoot when the time comes. It's okay to use the knife, anyway, it has to be made into a fourth edge. In this case, either Japan and Russia will resume the war, which is highly unlikely, of course, or Japan will have fewer bargaining chips. The benefits to be gained are also diminished. ”

Yang Rui told the four-edged plan. Liu Boyuan was very excited, but in the end, he was calm, and after the joy, Liu Boyuan asked again, "Finding someone is the most important thing, what if the Japanese don't believe us?" Also, who will be in charge of this? ”

"Just buy a gambler with money, and let him fool a stupid ronin. It's just to extinguish it afterwards. Now that so many people have died in Japan, any ronin who hates Russia to the core. The key is to keep it a secret! As for who is in charge......" Yang Rui thought for a while. A person flashed in his mind, "Just let Zhang Shi go, he is almost rested after the naval battle, let him go." He had spent some time in Japan before. ”

That night, Zhang Shi went from Lushun to Zhifu, and when he crossed the sea, he encountered a Japanese destroyer, and during the artillery fire, he jumped into the sea under the protection of the escort to escape, and it was fateful to float to the coast with a log, but the Japanese were also searching everywhere on the shore, and he could only run to the Russian concession in Tianjin with a few Russians who escaped death. Although he did not provide any key information on the naval battle between Japan and Russia, the Russians still treated him with good manners, and after June, he left the Russian concession under the cover of the Military Intelligence Bureau and returned to Shanghai.

"I'm afraid the Japanese know his portrait, right?" Liu Boyuan also thinks that Zhang Shi is the best candidate, but he is still a little worried about the Japanese Black Dragon Society.

"Don't worry, he's so inconspicuous, and his hair and beard are changed, and no one will recognize him unless they've seen him. Have you seen Wang Qinian's portrait, who can recognize the ghost he painted? Yang Rui is funny when he thinks of his portrait, it doesn't look like it at all. Thinking of this, he asked again, "Have you found my stand-in?" ”

Hearing Yang Rui ask this question again, Liu Boyuan was a little embarrassed, he said: "Find a look-like one but not so tall......

"How tall?"

"Less than 1.7 meters."

"Then wear heightened shoes." I'm afraid he won't understand, "Just stuff some wood into your shoes and stand on tiptoe." Speaking of this, thinking that he would be leaving in a few months, Yang Rui looked at the lush forest outside and was very reluctant. How good is the Northeast, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, you can eat wild pheasant stewed wild mushrooms during the day, and lie down on the bed after writing a book at night, and fall asleep listening to the bursts of pine waves. It's really a damn Manchu, a damn power, if this country can not be saved by him like the future generations, then life will not be too happy. But now, for the sake of the revolution and the salvation of the country, women don't have it, they don't enjoy it, and they will cause infamy after a hundred years.

"What's going on in Tokyo, didn't the people from Huaxing Club say that Sun Wen is going over?" Comparing his "weak" revolutionary will, Yang Rui couldn't help but think of Sun Wen, who was running around for the revolution. I have heard his name many times since I decided to revolutionize, but when I came to the Northeast and actually started the revolutionary work, this person seemed to have forgotten about it. However, after the funeral of Zou Rong and others in Tokyo, the revolutionary party there said that he was coming back.

"I heard that we have arrived in Yokohama." Liu Boyuan said, he was a little puzzled why Yang Rui paid so much attention to Sun Wen.

"Oh. It's Yokohama. Yang Rui said lightly, he only knew that the alliance was established at the end of July, and now it is the beginning of July, and history seems to have advanced a little earlier, what has his appearance changed? (To be continued......)