The first few people looked at Yu Huizu when they spoke, and now Yu Huizu didn't look at everyone when he spoke, but coughed a few times, after he said this, the first few people who asked for money immediately said in harmony: "Lord Yu is reasonable, if you can borrow, the conditions are not bad, then it is always good to borrow more......

A few days ago, Minister Rui Enshi in China specially talked about this matter, and Yang Rui was not very interested in this, after all, there was a war coming soon, and when he got the money, prices in various countries had skyrocketed. In addition, even if you can buy things, the delivery of bulk goods will not be until next year, and if it is next year, it is also a question whether it can be shipped out under the economic control of various countries.

Yang Rui was interested, but Yu Huizu thought that it was prepared, if he was not afraid of too much money, he was afraid that it would not be enough, although the war was still under control, but if there was really any accident, he would definitely not be able to get by without money.

Compared with Yu Huizu, Xie Jintai means that he resolutely cannot borrow, the 200 million foreign debts he borrowed before, in the final analysis, are still commercial in nature, and both countries have found special companies to operate below, and this time the US minister took the opportunity to lend, which has an obvious political purpose, considering that Taiwan is about to be attacked, in order to reject the US demand for Taiwan in the future, it is better to refuse first this time.

The Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have conflicting opinions, and Yang Rui is also very embarrassed by this, in fact, what the two of them said is right, but how to weigh one inside and one outside, it is a matter of wisdom for decision-makers. Yang Rui didn't make a decision at that time, and now Yu Huizu should mean urging himself to make a decision early.

"Let's hold off on the bonds." Yang Rui decisively said, "It's not a good thing to borrow too much money, let alone our ...... Let's come up with a plan first. Those who build reservoirs, roads and railways have come up with plans," he suddenly remembered that Tao Chengzhang said that the immigrants were coming. denied: "Don't think about it in the Western Regions, I don't have the money to go so far." If there is land in Shaanxi, you can see it. As for the funds, let's move them from military spending, and I will stress at the meeting of the General Staff that we must save on operations. ”

The prime minister promised like this, and several people next to him breathed a sigh of relief, originally in the style of a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, and the meeting was dismissed after the matter was discussed, but after everyone left, Yu Huizu, Xie Jintai, and Zhang Chengyue did not leave, Yu Huizu glanced at Zhang Chengyue and said, "It was done." When will we be able to counterattack? Yin Ge said that there are many gentry from all over the country in tandem, and if we hadn't won the war before, these people would probably have caused some trouble. If there are no big results this year, and the Japanese cannot be beaten back, I am afraid that the autumn tax will not be collected, and if it does not bear fruit by waiting until next spring, then many things will be messed up. ”

Yu Huizu said, and Zhang Chengyue, who is in charge of the national police, also said: "The situation is still controllable now, after all, we have not suffered any major defeats." Although two countries came to attack, they were still in a good position, so there was no movement in various places, but the Japanese army was to approach Beijing. If someone makes a rumor that the Jingshi has been captured, then it will be difficult to clean up. Especially on the side of Liangguang Yungui. ”

Seeing that the two of them were talking about domestic stability, Yang Rui suddenly asked the secretary Li Zilong. "Where did the Russians hit the Mongols?"

Li Zilong saw Yang Rui asking, and arrived after being stunned. "Thirty kilometres into the country, to Shamal. The Russians are not going fast, they are building the railway while fighting forward, probably because they want the railway to be built there, and the place will be occupied there. ”

Against the Russian army, the northeast retreated, and Mongolia also retreated, but just as the northeast could not lose Shenyang, the Mongolian side must not lose Kulen. In order to calm the morale of the army, one of Zhu Kuanjiong's uncles also went over there to sit in the town to reassure the people.

Yang Rui heard Li Zilong's answer, looked at the two of them and said, "Don't worry, the war will end in a few months, there will be no delay in the autumn tax, and there will be no chaos on the public security side." ”

"Then I'll be relieved." Yu Huizu saw that Yang Rui was sure, and Zhang Chengyue left with confidence.

As soon as he left, Xie Zhangtai said, "It's also difficult for Hanzhang." ”

Xie Zhangtai is from the Liangguang Overseas Chinese Department, Yu Huizu is from the Ningbo Gang, the two seem to be a little bit unmatched, but Yang Rui rarely sees any clues, Xie Zhangtai does not mention it, but Yu Huizu is still a humble gentleman, and now Xie Zhangtai is helping Yu Huizu and said, Yang Rui only smiled: "Governing the country and governing the country is, in the final analysis, governing money." Let's talk about things, what's going on on your side? ”

"It's the Germans and the Americans on my side." Xie Jintai knew that Yang Rui was busy and fainted, so he started from the beginning and said: "Heinrich has been hanging for a long time, he is a foreigner, he can't be too lazy, it's better to meet him, but in order to prevent Russia and France from gossiping, it's best to call them officially, and then don't talk for too long." ”

"Hmm. You talk to the office and let them organize their schedules. Yang Rui nodded and replied, very helpless, Germany cheated himself, but he still pasted it with a hot face, who told thousands of technicians to go to Germany for internships.

"That's good." Xie Zhangtai was originally worried that Yang Rui would not see the Germans in a hurry, but now he was relieved to see him agree. He went on to say the next thing, "The U.S. Minister was commissioned by the U.S. Navy to find out what the last tsunami was all about, and if it was man-made, they wanted us to transfer this technology." ”

Tsunami bombs are still very bluffing, I didn't think the Americans came to find it, you must know that according to history, tsunami bombs were developed by the Americans, in 1915, a merchant ship full of ammunition accidentally exploded in the English Channel, causing a small tsunami to attract people's attention, some people were inspired by this to create an artificial tsunami, but this idea was not realized during World War I, and Australia's Thomas in World War II. Professor Thomas-Leech completed the development of the tsunami bomb with the support of the U.S. military, but the weapon was never used again after the atomic bomb was dropped in order to make the Americans stand for the better.

It should be a good idea to sell the Americans' things back to the Americans, Yang Rui thought of this and said: "You can promise him that this thing has no skills...... No," thinking of the tsunami, Yang Rui changed his words: "Let's say we don't know, although this thing has a very low cost-effectiveness ratio, it can still bluff people." ”

"I see." Xie Jintai understood that Yang Rui and the Ministry of Rites were engaged in that set of mysterious things, although he did not completely agree, but he thought of the people of this era. There is no way to do it.

"There's one more important thing." Xie Zhangtai said again. "Lin Zikeng of the Lin family in Taiwan and a literati named Lian Heng in Taiwan have been in Beijing for a long time. How to deal with it? ”

"The Lin family? Lianheng? "Maybe someone reported this matter to Yang Rui, but he had forgotten about it.

"It's Taiwan's Wufeng Lin family. Lin Tzu-hang proposed to the governor of Taiwan last year to renounce his Japanese nationality, and even if his private property was confiscated, he still abandoned Taiwan and returned to the mainland; Lian Heng is a well-known local literati in Taiwan, who has gone to Beijing when the founding of the People's Republic of China and has been preaching the recovery of Taiwan, and is already a celebrity in Beijing. Xie Jintai glanced at Li Zilong, and then briefly explained the situation of the two again. After the Sino-Japanese war, Japan suddenly increased its troops in Taiwan, are our troops enough? To fight Taiwan, do you still have to rely on the help of the locals? ”

"Hey......," Xie said, Taiwan. Yang Rui was a little heavy, because there was a division of the Fuxing Army in Fujian, and after the war began, Japan not only sent additional warships to patrol the strait, but also sent an additional reserve brigade, so that the regular armies of the two sides were one-to-one, and with the more than 10,000 policemen in Taiwan, things were a little out of control.

"Is there any relevant remark on the British side, such as our attack on North Korea and Taiwan? What will they do? Yang Rui just thought about Taiwan's military strength for a while, and then asked about Britain's attitude.

"Zhu Erdian did not express any remarks in this regard." "On the contrary, many British newspapers are discussing the fact that we are very likely to attack Korea, and those newspapers think that if we take the initiative to attack Japanese territory. Then Britain, as an ally, should abide by the alliance agreement. ”

"The contents of the Times?" Yang Rui was not surprised by the statement of the British, after all, as a civilized person. The agreement cannot be disobeyed, otherwise where does the pride come from.

"Yes. There are other newspapers with much the same content. Xie Jintai nodded.

"What does the Political Intelligence Department think? And what do you think? Yang Rui asked. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Service began to cooperate some time ago. An inter-departmental political analysis unit was established to analyse power changes and government policy trends in various countries.

"My view is the same as that of the Intelligence Division, and the UK's response is mainly based on the extent of our attacks on North Korea or Taiwan, and their own situation. If we occupy the whole of Korea or the whole of Taiwan at once, then Britain will definitely use force, but it depends on their situation if it is not a declaration of war, if there is really a European war, and there is no possibility of declaring war, especially if this will drive us to the side of Germany, and then they will attack Russia on both sides, which they do not want to see; Besides, their rights and interests in China are very large, and if war is really declared, it will be over. I think if Britain were in a big war and we attacked Korea and Taiwan in a big way, the best thing they would do would be to find the United States to mediate, after all, Japan listened to Britain and we ......."

Xie Jintai suddenly blushed a little when he said this, Japan is a lackey of Britain, and now China is a lackey of the United States, for example, he can't accept this.

"What about the United States?" Yang Rui didn't think about whether a man was a dog or a dog, what he wanted now was to win back Taiwan at any cost.

"American ......" Xie Jintai pondered for a moment, his face gradually faded from the ruddy, and began to regain his senses: "If we occupy Taiwan, then the Americans are very likely to agree to the British demands. After such mediation, the negotiations should be based on the actual occupation of the treaty, and after the treaty is signed, then the United States will be the hero, and when the time comes, they will naturally ask for intervention in Taiwan and North Korea, which is why I don't want the United States to take a loan. The things we signed with the United States last time were sufficient, and with submarines, airplanes, and tsunami bombs, the Japanese would not be able to come. ”

"Then let these two people in Taiwan go." Yang Rui said. "Receiving them will only arouse the alarm of the Japanese and the protest of the British, and it will not help us in what we are doing, and these families may not be in line with our revival society, right?"

"Actually, just meeting with Lin Tzu-hang, who has renounced his Japanese nationality, is unlikely to cause protests in Britain, and it will be good for us to arouse the hearts of the people in Taiwan. Taiwan's clan power is the strongest, and if it is really like other places to completely turn the peasants into unions and the people, I am afraid that the place will be unstable. Xie Zhangtai said.

"Places are unstable?" Yang Rui said with a smile, "Our rules have long been laid out, and no matter how much the Fujian people hold together, they will also break it." Otherwise, if you come up with something independent that day, it will be a big trouble. Taiwan is somewhat special. But no matter how special it is, it is also a part of China, and I am afraid that I will be used to compromising with them. And they smote the serpent and put it on the stick, thinking that they were great. The government abides by the law and benefits the people, and if they dare to be unstable, it depends on whether they have a hard head or a hard gun. ”

Yang Rui said murderously, and Xie Zhangtai was inexplicable when he heard it, but he thought that Yang Rui had never liked those gentry, and the revival society was completely from the position of the people, and was the most hostile to the landlords. And it was relieved.

Seeing that Yang Rui insisted on not seeing Lin Zikeng, Xie Zhangtai had no choice but to retreat. According to the arrangement, the next wave of people to meet on Yang Rui's side is the people of the General Staff, and this time the discussion is not about expanding the war, but how to end the war.

“…… The landfall is set before September, when the wind is mostly southwesterly and generally around level 3, and from September to February, it is mostly northeasterly. The wind force is as high as four to five, and sometimes even six or more, so we think it is best to make landfall in July and August, but Taiwan is usually a storm typhoon. There are an average of five or six times a year, and the center is located in the Taiwan Strait on average twice, which again brings great hidden dangers to the landing. The current approach is in addition to strengthening weather forecasting techniques. Then there is the experience of the old fishermen, as long as there is a window of about five days. Then the action can be launched.

As for the landing site, the preliminary decision was not to land in Penghu in the early stage. Instead, it landed directly in Taiwan: in the north, starting from the Pingtan line in Fuzhou, going straight to the Taoyuan area of Hsinchu, the coast here is basically a sandy bank, the shore is the plain, and then the city is the city, where a brigade of the Japanese army is stationed, and the two armies will fight each other in the streets and alleys; In the south, starting from the first line of Xiamen, Dagou landed, here are mostly sandy lagoons, the troops are easy to go ashore, and there is only one wing of the Japanese army stationed there, and there is no battery.

After occupying the north and south lines, the troops quickly mobilized Taichung along the north-south line to eliminate the last wing of the Japanese army deployed here, and then obtained the sea control of the entire strait through Guò submarines and torpedo planes, and then cleared the Japanese ...... in the Magong fortress in Penghu."

Hearing Xu Jingxi's introduction here, Yang Rui suddenly interjected: "How to clean up?" At this time, we have lost the opportunity, and the Japanese troops on the island should be very vigilant, and even the wing in Taichung, seeing that Taiwan has nothing to do, is very likely to land in Taiwan and Peng. ”

"The initial plan was to use poison gas to clean it up, and at the same time, the floating batteries built by the shipyard would bombard the entire Magong Fortress with the help of the aircraft by means of smoke covering. As long as the fortress is destroyed, then all that remains is a simple landing battle. Xu Jingxi replied.

"Good! Go on. Yang Rui knew that the floating batteries in the shipyard were actually modified from shore defense guns, with a caliber of 305 millimeters, and they could always destroy the fortress by constantly bombarding it.

"In order to achieve a sudden effect in a landing operation, it is still necessary to pay attention to concealment in advance. At the beginning of the plan, they will split into two routes and march to Fuzhou and Xiamen by night and day, while the former 14th Fujian Division will pretend to go north to reinforce Beijing, thus creating the appearance of an empty force in Fujian.

More than 10 years ago, when Kodama Gentaro and Goto Shinpei were stationed in Taiwan, they had already befriended the gentry in various parts of Fuzhou and Xiamen, and were all over the party, and they even used extraterritoriality to build Japanese Honganji Temples in various parts of Fujian to preach and win over Chinese to join the Church to confront Catholics in various places.

Taking this opportunity, the two brigades of the 1st Marine Division will receive munitions from the local barracks, and then land on fishing boats and merchant ships from Guangdong and Zhejiang, and ships docked in Fuzhou and Xiamen under the pretext of avoiding typhoons will also be requisitioned by the army, so that they can barely raise 100,000 tons of merchant ships. In order for the merchant ships to be hidden, the navy's light cruisers, which have been hiding in the mouth of the Yangtze River, will also make frequent sorties in the next few days to attract the attention of the Japanese navy......"

Xu Jingxi basically introduced the entire landing plan in bits and pieces, and the generals of the entire 1st Marine Division also introduced it, because the troops were divided into two routes, the Taipei direction would be personally in charge of Lu Mengxiong, and the Tainan direction would be in charge of the newly appointed commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Marine Division, Lu Wan. Hearing him talk about this Lu Bang, Yang Rui was impressed.

"Isn't this person unsociable? I've heard that a lot of people don't like him. Yang Rui asked.

"Yes, somewhat. But Yu Yu likes him, saying that he has aura, and he relies on intuition to fight, and the two of them are Wang Ba...... Anyway, it's on the eyes. Xu Jingxi's analogy is not only laughing himself, but also Zhang Shi next to him. In many cases, it is necessary to rely on the commanders themselves to make correct judgments on the battlefield, and there are quite a few people who can do this, but not many can achieve excellence, and Lu Bang is one of them. ”

Xu Jingxi said this, Yang Rui agreed, as soon as the Marine Corps went ashore, it was basically on their own, he nodded and then asked Zhang Shidao: "How is the intelligence here?" Originally, the landing was next year, but it was not good to fight for too long, and the General Staff had to launch the landing ahead of schedule. I'm worried that there will be a leak in the information. ”

"Sir, there is no problem with the intelligence, although many comrades have been sacrificed, there are also a lot of gains, and now we have eyes and ears inside the Governor's Palace." Zhang Shi said confidently, "In addition, the governor Sakuma Zuo Matthew is mobilizing troops from all over the country to prepare for the conquest of the Taroko tribe, which was originally in this month, but because of the fear that we will be unfavorable to Taiwan, it was not until the Japanese army landed in Tianjin that the garrisons and police in various parts of Taiwan began to be mobilized. In this way, the conquest will begin next month, and as long as the Taroko Ministry can support it for one to two months after the start of the war, then the situation for us will be very good! ”

Japan's conquest of Taiwan was step-by-step, at first it was only to recruit the Chinese and the remnants of the Qing army who were trying to resist, and after these people were violently exterminated, they began to extinguish sporadic rebellions in various places, so more than ten years later, when Kodama Gentaro was the governor of Taiwan, he no longer blindly killed hard, but first used guò to appease the means, and promised the rebels a qiē condition, and after they lowered their defenses, the Japanese army, which had already understood the details of the rebels everywhere, suddenly sent troops to strangle these people in one fell swoop, such as Lin Shaomao and so on. In addition, Kodama also put pressure on the Qing government, ordering the Fujian Yamen on the other side of the strait to arrest rebels who had fled to Xiamen, Fuzhou, and other places, such as Jian Dashi, who were arrested by the Qing court in Xiamen and handed over to the Taiwan Governor's Office, and then brutally tortured to death.

One inside and one outside, Kodama Gentaro basically wiped out the rebels in Taiwan, but it was still not enough, and he used a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, supporting Sun Wen to gain a foothold in Taiwan to recruit various rebel forces to oppose the Qing Dynasty.

After these sets of methods, the island was decided for a while, and the governor in the back in addition to stabilizing the existing situation, began to conquer the barbarians in the mountains - if the Japanese want to develop Taiwan, they need more camphor and timber, then they have to occupy the tribal areas that do not belong to the Han people, and at the same time, the unruly aborigines are too strong, and the Japanese are uneasy in their hearts. Then it's up to the barbarians on the mountain to cut it.

When Yang Rui said that the governor of Taiwan was going to conquer Taroko, Yang Rui flashed all kinds of information reported before in his heart, and then nodded: "If when we landed, the Japanese were strangling the mountain tribes, and Keelung and other places were empty, it would indeed be better, but how long can this Taroko tribe fight against the Japanese, maybe a month, until June and July, can they hold it?" ”

"Absolutely!" Zhang Shi is very confident, "This is not the first time that the Japanese have conquered the Taroko Department, but the fifth. The last time the Japanese sent an infantry brigade, a number of artillery, engineers, and other services, totaling more than 3,000 people, but they still failed. This time, Governor Sakuma plans to personally lead more than 6,000 troops, plus a small number of tribes and police from all over the country, the total strength of more than 10,000 people, although these people will learn the lessons of the previous times, but I think that with our assistance, the Japanese army will still be defeated in the face of the Taroko troops with sufficient weapons. After all, on the high mountains, it is still the world of the aborigines! (To be continued......)