After beating Sun Wen, Yang Rui returned to the inner hall and was about to enter the inner room to see how Cheng Ying was, but she had already gotten up and was combing her hair under the service of the maid. He was looking to the past, but the outside said that Cheng Weinan came to invite, according to the marriage customs, the father-in-law summoned his son-in-law on the second day after marriage, but since he came to invite, there should be something urgent, Yang Rui saw that he had to go out to Cheng's mansion.

"A person named Kiyoto from the Japanese Consulate General came to visit, gave a gift and left a letter." As soon as Cheng Weinan opened his mouth, it was not something that Yang Rui guessed, he thought that something was because of Sun Wen or something happened to the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, but he didn't expect that Little Japan came over. Could it be that the arrangement in the northeast has worked? In order to make the outside world not think that the Mountain Army (formerly the Independent Army) and the Fuxing Society were in a group, the General Staff formulated a number of cover plans, one of which was to rob the Tonghua Railway Company in the Russian sphere of influence and force the railway company to pay protection money.

"What else did he say?" Yang Rui was thinking about the Japanese intentions in his heart, afraid that there was something missing.

"He also said he wanted to meet you." Cheng Weinan said, "I don't think this Japanese have a good heart. "Then I took the letter.

"What great power is at ease." Yang Rui shook his head, only accepted the letter, and looked down:

Brother Chengren: The younger brother heard the name of his brother during the war in Japan, and the brother raised his own food and salary, led his own lonely army, regardless of life and death, and fought with the Lucia people in the Manchurian wilderness, and was regarded as a hero in East Asia......

Little Japan's letter was extremely sought after by the flesh and numbness, and Yang Rui, who only read it, was furious in his heart. He's not a guy who likes to be touted, and the more he does, the more alert he becomes, just omitting all this nonsense. Then I saw that the Japanese wanted to meet them personally.

The more Yang Rui saw the words of the flesh, the more vigilant he became, and the more solemn the look on his face became, he was so dignified, but Cheng Weinan next to him was startled, his daughter was just getting married, what if his son-in-law had three long and two short. So he hurriedly asked, "What did the Japanese say, it can't be any ill intentions, right?" ”

I heard Cheng Weinan ask. Yang Rui's brows stretched and said, "Lord Taishan, don't worry." This Japanese just wanted to meet. Probably because the Alliance has been abandoned by them as worthless. ”

"What about us?" Cheng Weinan wanted to speak and stopped, looking at Yang Rui who was not easy to speak. He didn't know much about the Revival, and he didn't want to build a mess.

"Since he wants to meet, it's better to see him." Yang Rui said it easily, but Cheng Weinan was very worried. He said, "Yes." We're not going to do what the alliance did before, are we? ”

Seeing his euphemistic persuasion, Yang Rui smiled, "We don't need to do the act of the alliance, we just want to, and I don't like it either." ”

Yang Rui's statement only reassured Cheng Weinan, and he said: "Then when will the Japanese meet, and should the brothers in the Angolan Congress be gathered?" ”

The Angolan National Assembly is a hall of the Hongmen, and there are seven or eight thousand members in this assembly. It has a great influence in Honolulu, and Sun Wen was finally named Hongbang when he entered the Hongmen Gate in the past. Cheng Weinan is actually the backbone of this meeting. But he has always ignored the affairs of the association, and only donated some money during the New Year's Festival, and now because of the relationship between his son-in-law, he has made friends with the big man in the hall again, in case the Manchu Qing Dynasty made trouble when he got married.

Yang Rui's guard company was originally with him, and when he heard that Cheng Weinan said that he would summon the Hongmen brothers in the Angolan Congress, he immediately said: "This is unnecessary." The Japanese should be trying to win us over, so that our Tonghua Railway Company in the northeast can stand on their side, and then they will support us to make trouble for the Manchus, in this case they should not be unfavorable to me, and if there is any situation, the people around me are enough to deal with it. As for the meeting...... I'll see him whenever I leave Honolulu. What Yang Rui said was reasonable, Cheng Weinan was just cautious, so he didn't talk about it at the moment, and let Yang Rui go back after chatting for a while.

When he appeared in Honolulu, naturally there would be people who wanted to see him, but what Yang Rui didn't expect was that the Japanese would find him so quickly. When Yang Rui returned home, he only called Chen Guangshou over and said, "Let Tokyo check this call...... What does Koshichiro Kiyoto do? After he finished remembering, he said, "Is there anything going on in the country?" ”

"It's the Spring Festival soon, and there's already a truce on the Yanzhou side. When the gentry in Zhejiang saw that the war was endless and the donations were excessive, they thought about recruiting the revolutionary army in Yanzhou. In addition, the boycott of Japanese goods initiated by the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce was extremely successful, and the chambers of commerce in various places responded positively, although Japan frequently protested in China, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also vigorously suppressing, but it was not effective. Because Yang Rui got married, Chen Guangshou didn't report the briefing for several days, and now when Yang Rui asked, he had to briefly say important things.

"That's all? You don't want to report good news or bad news. "I knew these two things before, but now they are on display. Yang Rui has been busy working since he got up, and now he is drinking ginseng soup, the temperature of the soup is just right, and his heart is full of comfort when he takes a sip.

"That's it." Chen Guangshou said, standing more straight.

"In addition to suppressing the chambers of commerce in various places and prohibiting the boycott of Japanese goods, is there nothing going on in the Manchu Qing Dynasty?" Yang Rui asked again.

"Yes," Chen Guangshou replied, there were a lot of things on his side, but they were not too urgent. "Yanzhou, Linxi and other places spent a lot of money on encirclement and suppression, and the Manchurian and Mongolian new army that had planned to organize six towns was compressed into four towns, and then together with the Praetorian Guard, the 6th military headquarters was no longer planned, but directly under the responsibility of Guangxu, and now it is Guangxu's younger brother Zaitao who is responsible for training, and the specific minister is Yinchang, who originally took the sixth town to Zhejiang to encircle and suppress, and Liangbi and others who suffered defeat in Yanzhou and were dismissed."

"Well, anything else?" Yang Rui asked again.

"There is also the grenades and mortar shells used by the Yanzhou troops that were picked up by the Manchurian army on the battlefield and a few unexploded, which are being studied in Hanyang and Tianjin. The MIA estimates that they will be produced by the middle of next year. Chen Guangshou said another bad news, and when Yang Rui heard this, he threw aside the soup he was drinking, and asked, "The mortar wasn't lost." ”

"If the mortars are gone, they are lost, and they are all recovered. It's cannonballs......" Chen Guangshou replied.

"No one can control the shells, so many shells fly over. Who knows if they were all blown up, and although the shells didn't blow up, the projectile packs burned out. This is one of the keys to whether the shells can be accurate. Later, I will report to the Military Intelligence Bureau to find a way to sabotage the Manchu research mortar, and even if it can't be destroyed, then it must be delayed. Yang Rui commanded, and then shook his head and sighed, "Hey, the new army is the new army." "According to intelligence, many officers in the new army have learned the new school. And most of them are Japanese 6 graduates, although these are rookies, but the ability to learn war in the war is not comparable to the old army. In such cases. After more than a year of encirclement and suppression, they naturally learned the new weapons of the revolutionary army.

"Has there been a change in their tactics?" Yang Rui asked again, it doesn't matter if you learn weapons, the key is to keep up with tactics. Or rather. It's still people who can wield weapons. People can't. No matter how good a weapon is, it won't work.

"The new army in various places has to make some changes in its operations, but it has only increased the baggage corps, strengthened the firepower, and is afraid that we will encourage the people, and the people who are now using them are not Zhejiang locals, but all people from other provinces. Only the Eighth Town side also began to disperse the battle in teams (companies), but they did not have specific training in mountain warfare, and the battalion commander did not want the officers below to fight alone. After a few attempts, I was banned. Chen Guangshou said.

"Hmm. The eighth town is worthy of a lot of scholars and some brains. Yang Rui said, "Do the General Staff and the Yanzhou Command have any predictions, according to the current situation, how long can Yanzhou be able to support it?" ”

After the establishment of the supply line in Yanzhou, except for a small number of black powder grenades, other ordnance and ammunition raw materials were supplied by the outside world, although this reduced the pressure on the base area, but the soldiers' food and clothing were still to be borne by the base area, and now the entire Zhejiang Front Army has 28,000 regular troops, more than 40,000 militia and front teams in various villages, when the battle is fierce, all the personnel add up to more than 100,000, which can be regarded as a clean excavation of the human resources in the base area, especially now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is extremely cunning, and they are all attacking in a big way when the farmers are busy. In this way, while the young and strong go to the front, only women can do those farm jobs in the rear, although they can barely support it, but the labor force is insufficient, and the grain output will gradually decline.

"The estimate of the General Staff is one year, if the Manchu Qing continue the blockade and maintain the current strength of the force and the intensity of the offensive, then after a year, the manpower and material resources in the base areas will inevitably be exhausted, especially the Yanzhou Mountains are more and less, and if the current situation is followed, the food supply will become more and more tight. Yanzhou's side is estimated to be two years, but it is necessary to implement the wartime system from now on, all grain will be returned to the public, and the remaining rural labor force will be arranged in a unified manner, so as to reduce waste and improve efficiency to the greatest extent. Chen Guangshou said.

"Hmm. Can Yanzhou do a good job of control now? "Yang Rui is no stranger to the wartime system, this should be implemented in the base area, but in the countryside, because of the vast land and sparsely populated area, the management difficulty is greater than that in the city, and the requirements for the executive personnel are also very high.

"Yan Zhou's side thinks it's okay now. Most of the members of the receiving regiment when they fought in Hangzhou before were withdrawn to Yanzhou, and in the past year, all townships and villages have been deployed, and management has begun to be in place, and there is no problem in carrying it out. Chen Guangshou said.

"Then implement the wartime system. Grain, salt, oil, cotton, these are all controlled. The gendarmes should also get a good grasp of it, and if anyone takes advantage of this to enrich their own pockets and abuse their power for personal gain, they will all be killed. There is also the Qiandao Lake, if there are many fish, organize more people to catch some fish to replenish the military rations. Yang Rui commanded.

In the flower hall of the house, Yang Rui and Chen Guangshou dealt with official business for a long time, and returned to the back hall after finishing the dishes accumulated in the past few days.

"Are you done?" When Cheng Ying saw Yang Rui coming, she dropped the things in her hand and got up to greet her, but the pain in one place made her movements suddenly stagnate, and she only saw Yang Rui smile.

Cheng Ying saw Yang Rui smiling evilly, and wanted to sit back in shame, but finally threw himself into Yang Rui's arms, and muttered in a low voice, "It's all a good thing you did, I can't walk a few steps if I want to go out now." ”

Yang Rui only felt that the fragrant breeze was blowing on his face, his ears and temples were grinding, and the rigor of handling revolutionary affairs before was suddenly thrown out of the clouds, and while retreating from others, he only smiled: "A few more times, it's good to get used to it." ”

"You ......" Cheng Ying saw that he was still teasing, and pinched his waist, but Yang Rui didn't care about the pain, and only took advantage of her before saying: "We will go to the United States in three days." ”

"Going to the United States in three days? Aren't you going back to Shanghai? Cheng Ying asked curiously. She was happy to be able to travel far away. She didn't want to spend more time in the cold winter of Shanghai, but wanted to spend more time in Honolulu or somewhere else.

"Of course, I still have to go back to Shanghai in the end, but I think it should be after the New Year." Yang Rui said. Then he sprung up: "You will know a lot of things when you are with me in the future, and you must keep everything secret!" Because every word, even every word, every expression that comes out of it will cause the revolution to suffer heavy losses. ”

Cheng Ying looked up at him in his arms, only touched his cheek and said, "What if I accidentally leak it?" ”

As soon as she said this, Yang Rui glared at her and said coldly: "Then you will definitely pay the price!" ”

"You...... Won't you save me? "What a woman in love thinks is completely abnormal. What I say is stupid.

"Not only will I not save you, but I will divorce you." Yang Rui's words are half-truths and half-truths, and he feels that some people cannot be treated equally. Instead, it should be fiercer and more domineering. Cheng Ying seems to be like this, the more space she is given, the more naughty she becomes. Only some are forced. With more restraints, she felt steady. The woman is so wonderful, he knows a lot.

"Then I'll listen to you, I'll listen to you for everything." Hearing that Yang Rui was going to take a break from himself, Cheng Ying immediately shrank his head into Yang Rui's arms and hugged him tighter in his hands. Yang Rui just smiled when he saw her like this.

When Yang Rui tamed his wife, the Japanese Consul General in Honolulu was in the area, and the consul Shimizu Shoichi said to Kiyoto Koshichiro: "Then." How can we tame Yang Jingcheng? As far as I know, he is not as easy to control as Sun Yat-sen. His stubbornness was evident during the Rilu War, when the 6th Army seemed to subdue him, but he refused. Moreover, the scale of the Revival Society is much larger than that of the Alliance, and he is not a person who can be bought for a few thousand yen. ”

"Yes, Mr. Shimizu, you have a point. Yang Jingcheng is a stubborn revolutionary party, but which revolutionary party is not stubborn? "Kiyoto Koshichiro is actually a member of the Black Dragon and a member of the League, he happened to appear here Yang Jingcheng, so he immediately sent a telegram to Tokyo's Toyama Man, Jian Yì and Yang Jingcheng first made contact, and then used aid as a bait to let him serve Great Japan." The revolution of the Qing Dynasty is no different from the rebellion in ancient times, the more soldiers the rebel commands, the greater his ambition will be, and Sun Yat-sen we generally talk about the establishment of a province or a republic of two provinces, but with Yang Jingcheng, we can talk about a complete China. As far as I know, the revival will advocate the quintessence of the country, and inferred from their words, it is very likely that they will be the emperor in the future, which needs the support of the outside world, and I believe that Yang Jingcheng will need us. ”

"Oh......" Qing Shui was groaning, and finally said, "Yes, it is true. There was no rebel hero in the Qing Kingdom who didn't want to dominate the whole country, but if Yang Jingcheng wanted to be the emperor...... This is very bad for the empire, and a China with enlightened rule will definitely compete for the living space of the empire, and a weak and incomplete China is the most beneficial to us. ”

"That's right." Kiyoto Koshichiro nodded and said. "But my advice is to support Yang Jingcheng as emperor. Now that the Qing Congress has been opened, if there is another emperor in China, it must be to hand over the power to the Congress, so that Yang Jingcheng can not do anything when he becomes the emperor; If he wants to be emperor and refuses to relinquish power, then the voices against him will spread throughout China, and he will lose his power and throne at this time. Then we can let Sun Yat-sen come to power, he is our most suitable partner. ”

"Qing Teng Sang, do you mean that you want Yang Jingcheng to complete the revolution, and then let Sun Yat-sen organize the government?" Qing Shui Zhengyi shook his head and said, "This idea is too whimsical, even if Yang Jingcheng steps down, the power is still in the hands of the Revival Association, and there is another question I suspect very much, a puppet Qing government is in the best interests of the empire, once a new government is established after the revolution, it is not necessarily necessary to compromise with the empire, what good does this do to the empire?" ”

"It's not for Sun Yat-sen to organize the government alone, but for him to organize the government with the rest of the Renaissance Society. The hardliners of the Renaissance Association are Yang Jingcheng and Zhang Taiyan, and once they step down, then joining Sun Yat-sen will be a government that is in line with our interests and those of other countries. Obviously, Kiyoto's thoughts were well thought out, and he spoke eloquently in the face of Shimizu Shoichi's questioning, "As for supporting the Shina revolution, according to my opinion, after the Qing government opened the Diet, the prestige of the central government was further lost, and the members of the Diet and the cabinet did not know how to operate this new set of statecraft. ”

"What! That's impossible. Shimizu shook his head in surprise, even if he was an admirer of Ito Hirobumi, it was difficult for him to approve of such a judgment like Kiyoto.

"His Excellency Ito said: 'Although the Diet is divided equally between the appointed members and the elected members, in many cases the members of the King James Congress cannot hold their own positions, and the parliament of the Qing State is only a tool for the struggle between the local and the central government, and the local officials use the revolution to force the Guangxu Emperor to convene a parliament to restrict the imperial power, and Guangxu convenes provincial councils in the provinces in order to restrain the local officials. In addition to the struggle between the local and central governments, various political forces in Beijing were also vying for power, and the Guangxu Emperor did not have the strength and ingenuity of the Empress Dowager Cixi at all. All of this led to the loss of the authority of the central government, and if there was another uprising in Hangzhou, the revolution would be out of control. Ito Hirobumi's words were not like this at all, but Kiyoto added a lot of his own things, but Shimizu Shoyi kept nodding his head as he spoke.

"Then what we have to do now is to support the revolutionary party and support them in the success of the revolution?" Shimizu asked.

"Yes. It's like buying stocks, we have to pick a good stock to buy, and Yang is the best. Kiyoto Koshichiro replied.

"But what can we earn?" Shimizu Shoichi asked, "Now that China has been divided up by the forces of various countries, and the war with Lucia has exhausted us, do you want to provoke another war with other countries?" ”

"No, it won't!" Kiyoto shook his head, "We have reconciled with Lucia. What needs to be done now is to legitimize South Manchurian and Eastern Mongolia and make them the true paradise of the empire. ”

When Qing Teng said this, he was full of confidence, and when he saw Yang Rui a few days later, he was also full of confidence, and when he said that Japan would support the revolution of the Reconstruction Society, and even support Yang Jingcheng to become the emperor, he saw that Yang Rui's eyes seemed to be shining. Yes, this is the familiar Shina people, who give up longer-term, more holistic interests for their own and immediate interests. He likes such a person, even if it is difficult to deal with, he will be obedient in the end.

"So, Mr. Kiyoto, how are you going to support us?" Yang Rui smiled at Japan, this Kiyoto is more arrogant and clever than other Japanese he has seen, he likes such Japanese people, even if they are not easy to deal with, they will be obedient in the end.

"We hope that your guerrillas in Linxi will unite with the Mongol princes to revolt and form an independent state, and we will recognize it at the first time and take care of its protection. In addition, we will find a way to provide the military expenses and weapons needed for the uprising. Kiyoto Koshichiro looked at Yang Rui's solemn appearance and was very satisfied.

"How much money and how many weapons can you provide?" Yang Rui didn't play with Little Japan, and asked the price directly.

Seeing Yang Rui so eager, Qing Teng was even more happy, and after a little thought, he said: "We can provide a loan of three million yen and weapons and ammunition for 20,000 people." "In order to attract attention, when Qing Teng said 'three million' and 'twenty thousand people', he deliberately said it very seriously, as if Yang Rui couldn't hear it.

"And what do you want?" Yang Rui was unmoved and went straight to the bottom line of Little Japan.

"Yang Sang is really worthy of a hero, and he speaks so cheerfully." Kiyoto was talking nonsense while secretly thinking about what price to offer, and finally, he said, "After the establishment of **, we will have the exclusive right to domestic railways and minerals." In addition, Japanese nationals are not allowed to interfere with normal entry and property purchases. ”

"No!" Yang Rui said.

"No way?" It's a good talk, why can't it work, Kiyoto was surprised.

"It is not my idea to establish a state in Mongolia, I want the whole of China, 3 million yen is too little, at least 30 million, this is the period, we estimate that it will take about 100 million yen to achieve the success of the revolution, Mr. Kiyoto, without 100 million yen, we can't talk about it." Yang Rui said very sternly, and the mouth of the Japanese on the other side suddenly opened into a circle, and the yellow teeth inside were very conspicuous, which only made him feel nauseous. (To be continued......)

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