Chapter 42: Lin Shaobai

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Fukushima Yasumasa's order soon spread to the Japanese Black Dragon Society, but the Black Dragon Society also knew little about the newly emerging revival society of the Qing Kingdom, and more news was still transmitted by the Huaxing Society. After all, the leader of the Revival Society, "Mr. Jingcheng", was not taken in and entertained by them like Kang Liang and Sun Wen. Originally, I thought it was an ordinary anti-Qing organization, but there are many groups shouting slogans today, and there is no need to pay attention to it. Of course, this kind of thinking didn't feel anything wrong before, but now once something happens, it feels different, except for the Xingzhong Society, the Fuxing Society, which is known as the earliest and most influential anti-Qing revolutionary organization in the Qing Dynasty, except for the public news, the Black Dragon Society actually knows nothing about it.

It has been more than a year since the launch of the magazine on June 1 last year, and now it has become the newspaper of choice for 3,000 to 4,000 international students in Tokyo, and the newspaper has sold more than 10,000 copies a week from a few hundred copies a week at the beginning. After more than a year of accumulation, Lin Ji, the editor, has become more and more perfect, and Yang Rui has some ideas from time to time, making the newspaper more and more popular with international students in Japan.

Not for anything else, just looking at the name is more atmospheric than what, Jiangsu, Zhejiang tide, and it does not call the current China the Qing Dynasty, nor is it the branch that revolutionaries often say among international students, but China is called China. Of course, the Qing envoy to Japan was very unhappy with this newspaper, but after a few tosses, there was no way, and in the end, the legation also subscribed to this newspaper all year round, after all, the news of this newspaper was faster than that of Japanese newspapers. And then there is the serialization of novels above, especially the anti-gold story called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", but I don't know who wrote it, and it is written with ups and downs and fascinating. Every issue is published, and the exhibition of the plot touches the hearts of tens of thousands of readers.

The China Times has achieved great success in attracting readers, which is incomparable to Liang Qi's Xinmin Cong Bao, and in the same way, in terms of revolutionary propaganda, the China Times has completely overwhelmed Xinmin Cong Bao. After all, unlike the mere preaching of Xinmin Cong Bao, the propaganda forms of "China Times" are more diverse, and now there is even a martial arts narrative that uses the past as a metaphor for the present, so that people can accept revolutionary ideas without knowing it. This Liang Qi didn't say that he wanted to write all kinds of articles, and then asked him to make a classic talk like "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". That's completely impossible, just so many martial arts above can't be created by him.

At noon on this day, the "China Times" newspaper in Suzuki Town, Surugadai, Kanda District, had another guest, an old acquaintance, and Xie Xiaoshi, who was on duty, did not call the busy editor-in-chief Lin Ji, but greeted: "Mr. Miyazaki." Here we go again today. The editor-in-chief is busy, please wait. ”

The person who came was the Japanese ronin Miyazaki, Xie Xiaoshi knew him, and when he was in Shanghai last year, he wrote the translation of "The Great Revolutionary Sun Yat-sen" by Zhang Shizhao, and he was a die-hard supporter of Sun Wen. This is not the first time that Miyazaki has been here, since the China Times began publishing the war diary of the Renaissance Army in July. He had come, first to see Mr. Cheng Cheng, the president, but then to see that he could not see him, so he returned disappointed.

Xie Xiaoshi asked him to sit in the outer room for a while, and then went into the inner room, Lin Ji was reviewing this Revival Army war diary at this time, the diary recorded the events of the resistance battle more than ten days ago, but from this clean cardboard Lin Ji could still smell the smell of blood and gunsmoke. There was a knock at the door, Lin Ji took off his glasses, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "Please come in." ”

It was Xie Xiaoshi who came in. Lin Zheng asked, "What's wrong?" Xie Xiaoshi was here to help when the newspaper was preparing, but since the rejection of Russia, he has also returned to China like other students, and in the middle of last year, he also paid for a National Day daily newspaper in Shanghai with Zhang Shizhao, Chen Youji and a few others, claiming to be the second Su Bao. However, after a month of running this newspaper, it was closed by the Qing court and the Ministry of Industry and Bureau. In desperation, everyone dispersed, Zhang Shizhao returned to Hunan to participate in the Huaxing Society, Chen Youji went to Anhui to run the Anhui vernacular newspaper, Xie Xiaoshi had nowhere to stay, so he couldn't help but return to Tokyo, joined the Fuxing Association, and still worked as a document editor in the newspaper.

Xie Xiaoshi said: "The Japanese ronin Miyazaki who came last time is here again, I don't know what the so-called thing is, I have already served him tea, Brother Baishui, do you want to meet him?" ”

Lin Ji heard that it was Miyazaki who was coming, but his brows were furrowed. After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, there were many ronins, doing nothing all day long, forming gangs, doing evil, there were no big evils, but small evils were constant, even the government police were difficult to control them, because of the previous incident, Lin Ji has never liked them, although this Miyazaki monstrous is also a literati, but he is also a ronin, thought about it and said: "Let's meet." ”

Miyazaki was drinking tea in the outside room while watching the recent serialization of the Legend of the Condor Heroes of the China Times, which said that the department was well written, after being serialized in the newspaper, not only international students read it, but also the Japanese chased after it, he had to read it several times in each issue, and when Guo Jing and Huang Rong and Yinggu were watching the pair, Lin Ji didn't know how to come out, and he hurriedly got up to greet him.

Lin Ji smiled and said, "Mr. Miyazaki's visit to our museum today is really brilliant. ”

Miyazaki still admires Lin Ji very much, and among the revolutionaries, he said that in addition to Liang Zhuoru, he would count Lin Baishui as a newspaper, and this person has always been jealous and hateful. Although the war between Japan and Russia started this year, it was the 70th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the whole country was preparing for the birthday ceremony. Fifty lost the Ryukyus, sixty lost the Taiwan Strait, seventy lost the three eastern provinces, five thousand miles of territory is missing, and every longevity will be borderless.

As soon as this couplet came out, it was recited for a while, and the revolutionaries from time to time put this couplet on their lips to mock the imperial court, and this matter soon reached the ears of Yang Shuqing, the minister of the Qing State in Japan, and he specially sent a note to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in panic to close the newspaper, but under Yang Rui's advice, the newspaper was very legally conscious, and had already hired a legal commissioner. Moreover, the Japanese originally hoped that the Chinese would share their hatred of the enemy without sending troops in the Russo-Japanese War, and the newspaper's position was generally consistent with their position, so it completely rejected the Manchu demands.

It seems that the light is not good, so the dark comes. I don't know who came up with the idea in the Manchu legation in Japan, so I privately bought some ronins to come and make trouble, the newspaper was smashed several times, Lin Ji was also admitted to the hospital twice, but the "China Times" did not stop for a single issue. How to write or how to write. This Lin Zheng originally used his cousin Lin Shaoquan as a pen name in the newspaper, but after he was discharged from the hospital, he changed his name to Lin Baishui. What is the meaning of this white water, that is, the word "spring" has a different body, so it has become white water, which means that it is willing to die with his body. Such a man of lofty ideals is very admired by Miyazaki.

Miyazaki said: "Can Lin Jun contact your leader, Mr. Jingcheng?" Seeing that Lin Shaobai was puzzled, he explained, "Now that the Japanese army and the Lu ** team will fight a decisive battle in Liaoyang, the princes of the base camp want to cooperate with the revival army of your association to reject the Lu country, and ask Lin Jun for help." He bowed deeply.

It turned out to be this thing. Although Lin Ji may not be fully aware of the high-level affairs of the meeting, the instructions from Shanghai told him not to be hostile to Japan in the newspaper as much as possible, and if there is such content in the war diary, it should be deleted when the report is published. From this point of view, the attitude of the Fuxing Society towards Japan was secretly resistant, and the Japanese were restrained, although the Japanese preached everywhere that the invasion of China against the Lu State was to help the Qing State expel the Lu State. But as long as there is no shortage of people, they will not be unaware of the ambitions of Japanese wolves. Thinking from this, the revival army is not very good at cooperating with any base camp, so Lin Ji said: "Miyazaki-kun, Mr. Cheng Cheng is still overseas, I really don't know where he is at the moment." As for the Renaissance Army, the Renaissance Pavilion only publishes the newspaper, and the war diary of the Renaissance Army published is also mailed from Shanghai, where do you ask me to contact the Renaissance Army? ”

Lin Ji's answer was the same as Miyazaki had expected, and he knew that the China Times newspaper was only responsible for publishing the newspaper. There are other people who specifically engage in revolution to attract people to join the association, but those who show their faces to pull people into the revolution are all small minions, and they came straight to the newspaper to ask Lin Zheng for questioning, knowing the original meaning of his words, Miyazaki said: "Lin Jun." The reason why our country sent troops to fight against Lucia was also to seek to seize your country's Manchuria, and these were all decided by those high-ranking officials and nobles, and I was against it and could not change it. Now, if your country wants to turn the tide of the country, you have to think of more ways to do it yourself. If we can take this opportunity to cooperate with the Manchurian Army, the base camp, and supply guns to them, it will be better and bigger to wait for the revolution on another day. ”

Miyazaki's monstrous words were so confessional, which also made Lin Ji feel good. In fact, he didn't know that although this Miyazaki monstrous was Japanese, he had always believed that the world was now westerly and eastward, and the white race was oppressing the yellow race, and India, Annam, the Philippines, Egypt and other places had been occupied and enslaved by the white people, and only China, Japan, and Thailand could still maintain their independence, and the only hope to save the yellow race was not in Japan but in China.

Of course, this is not just his idea, but a large number of Japanese people have this idea. At this time, Japan had not yet reached the time when confidence burst in the future, and at the same time, China had not experienced a period of warlord warfare, and the Japanese had not yet realized that China was a sleeping lion that could not wake up, and even if they had the idea of going west to the Great 6, they were only bent on advancing north to fight Manchuria and the Far East of Tsarist Russia, hoping to occupy Korea, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Vladivostok, Sakhalin Island and other encircled lands, and build a great Japanese empire with the Whale Sea (that is, the Sea of Japan in later generations) as the inland sea. Truth be told, if Japan persists in its strategy for decades, the world map will really change in the future.

Seeing Miyazaki's monstrous heart-to-heart, Lin Ji thought for a while and said, "Miyazaki-kun, what you said is very reasonable, there are many benefits of cooperating with the Japanese army. But what will we do when the Japanese army occupies Northeast China after this day? If the Japanese army occupies the northeast in the future, the revival army will have to fight; But now that I have received your favor, if I really want to fight but lose my faith, isn't this a dilemma? As the saying goes, people with lofty ideals don't drink the water of stolen springs, and those who are inexpensive don't get food from them, so in my opinion, this is really not a good thing to cooperate with the Japanese army. Since Miyazaki-kun has his heart set on our country and knows that Japan has ambitions, let's not embarrass us. "In the era when "Thick Black Learning" did not come out, Lin Zheng read a lot of books of sages, and he was a humble gentleman who didn't know what dead skin and expedient measures, so his words were naïve but not necessarily unreasonable.

Miyazaki also sighed when he heard this, in fact, when the Black Dragon Society told him about this yesterday, he was not particularly willing to come. But in the past, this black dragon would help him a lot, so he had to come. At this time, although Lin Qi's words were naïve, the more he showed his morality, he was convinced, and he didn't say anything more. After sitting for a while, he got up and said goodbye, and Lin Ji didn't stay, so he let him go.

As soon as Miyazaki left, Xie Xiaoshi came out to pack his things, and smiled at Lin Ji: "Comrades fought well outside the gate, and the Japanese came up when they smelled it." I wish I was outside the gate right now. Carrying a big knife to kill those Russian hairs. Xie Xiaoshi is very yearning for this kind of military career, he has already signed up for the next phase of military school enrollment, and after the physical examination, he joined the German training course held by the Education Association in Tokyo, and now he is waiting for admission in Shanghai.

Lin Ji saw that he was daydreaming about the author, and he was used to speaking bluntly on weekdays. He said, "You." I'm so bad at learning German, when will I be able to pass it? Besides, as soon as you graduate, the battle will be almost over. Where are you going to find Lao Maozi then? ”

After getting along for a long time, Xie Xiaoshi also has a strong immunity to this Lin Qi's outspokenness, Xie Xiaoshi said: "What are you afraid of, even if the Russo-Japanese War is over, I can be majestic in the anti-Qing war in a few years." Pull the Manchu Tartars out of power. Hum. ”

Lin Ji didn't expect that he would not be hit but would become more and more energetic, but thinking that in a few years, the banner of righteousness would be raised, and all places would respond, and the Manchu court would suddenly collapse, which was really desirable. Putting down his reverie, Lin Ji said: "Although Miyazaki's monstrous proposal is inappropriate, it still has to be reported to Shanghai, you heard it in the compartment just now, you add and subtract this matter in the letter this time." By the way, and what did Zixun say in the last telegram that he came back? ”

Yu Zixun is the head of Tokyo. But usually in addition to showing his face in business, other things do not come forward in person, but there are some big things that still have to be decided by him, just now when it comes to this German training class, Lin Ji thought of the recent flood of domestic students. I came up with the idea of running a Japanese language class or even a study abroad school. However, this matter is too big, and it still has to be discussed with Yu Zixun.

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Yu Zixun, who Lin Ji was thinking, was now in the United States, tens of thousands of miles away, and this time he was invited to participate in the St. Louis World Expo as the official delegation of the Great Qing Dynasty. Different from the previous attitude towards such exhibitions, after the new policy of the Qing court, it did not hold the previous disdain for "new and ingenious things", and for the first time sent a formal exhibition group, led by Bei Zi Pulun, and also ordered people to fund the construction of the China Pavilion at the venue last year.

Yu Zixun didn't want to go, but Yu Huizu, the main angle of the exhibition, had to serve the adults throughout the whole process, and once he had any personal affairs, or wanted to engage in illegal free activities, he couldn't leave at all, so he temporarily added Yu Zixun in, which made him laugh at himself and say that he was also a flyer. This flying remark was originally the words of Zhang Taiyan when Su reported the case to trial, and it was a joke for the Qing court, which was a robber's nickname. Having said that, but his burden is heavy, there are several important things to do, one is to further make good friends with Hongmen, and steadily expand the military personnel training program, so that Situ Meitang and Rong Hong have more people to choose from, so as to ensure that the talent reserve of the military factory is sufficient;

The second is to comprehensively and meticulously explore the situation of cotton spinning and silk spinning in the United States, and now the Japanese buy cotton from the United States and return to China to spin and weave cloth, and then sell the gauze to China to collect enough silkworm cocoons and raw silk, and finally process these silkworm cocoons and raw silk and sell them to Europe. At this time, the world's raw silk market is still in Europe, and silk spinning, as an emerging industry in the United States, has not yet been fully concerned by Japan for the time being, but Yang Rui knows that the United States will dominate the world's raw silk industry in the future, so it is necessary to lay out early.

The third is to find a way to collect all kinds of industrial equipment at the World Expo, especially military equipment information, buying and selling military equipment is actually very difficult, this is a private enterprise after all, and the average person who buys military equipment rashly does not dare to sell, so this time it is mainly to collect information, after determining the equipment, the early negotiation has McNeill hired foreigners to interview and explore, if the other party has this meaning, and then Yu Zixun and Xu Huafeng and others come forward, one is responsible for business, and the other is responsible for technology to begin detailed negotiations, although so, But there are still a lot of risks, and this matter is still related to smuggling in recent years, and Yang Rui is not very hopeful about buying such equipment in the United States.

The fourth thing is that after staying in the United States, he went directly to Germany, which was a task that Yang Rui added later. Since the relationship between Tong Guò Christian and Rheinmetall, Yang Rui has been full of lard, not only wants to send those who interned at the steel mill of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau to Rheinmetall for internships, but also plans to buy back all the equipment temporarily added by the Somaida Arsenal due to the Russo-Japanese War, completely ignoring the fact that the current Rheinmetall is not the Rheinmetall of later generations.