"Mr. Xiao Xu did not say in the telegram what to do after finding out, he came to discuss countermeasures with Mr. in this telegram. Now in order to conceal the organization, he just asked Wu Baochu to take the lead, and he came forward to ask foreign doctors to find out the cause of death. ”

"Who is Wu Baochu, it seems to be very familiar, he is our person?"

"He is not our person, he is the son of Wu Changqing, the former general of the Huai Army, and he is called one of the four sons at the time."

"He's not one of ours, and he's going to help us?"

"Sir, yes, when Su reported the case the year before last, he went around begging for Mr. Taiyan, Wei Dan and others."

As soon as Liu Boyuan said this, Yang Rui understood. This is an era different from later generations, people in this era are not self-reliant, but are imprisoned together by various relationships and thoughts, fathers commit crimes and sons are not filial piety if they do not hide it with all their might, fellow villagers ask for help if they see death and do not save it is unkind, friends are in trouble and do not bear it together, then it is unjust, of course, many people just say so, but what they really do is another set, but in fact there are still many people who will act according to this moral law, after all, it has been thousands of years.

Based on this logic, Wu Baochu was friendly with Zhang Taiyan during the Restoration, so even if Wu Baochu knew that Zhang Taiyan committed a felony of exterminating the Nine Clans, he still wanted to be saved, and even if Yu Qiaqing had guessed that Yang Rui was likely to be a thief, he still pretended not to know, and even if Yang Rui was arrested one day, he would not pick the head to come out to rescue, it would be unkind and unjust. This is actually a super-stable society, all of whom are bound by benevolence, righteousness, morality, loyalty, filial piety, and martyrdom, and have all kinds of constant ties with fellow villagers, classmates, and fellow subjects.

In such a society. It is still very difficult to build a truly modern centralized political party, because the members cannot sever these original ties, and the purity and independence of the organization cannot be guaranteed for a long time...... However, now the Revival Society, under the call of patriotism, especially in the Northeast, a completely unfamiliar place, has broken away from such bonds, but if it returns to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to make a revolution, how can this invisible ideological rope be cut? Although there is a saying since ancient times that righteousness destroys relatives, but this kind of righteousness is actually a kind of morality, the so-called three outlines and five constants in the outline are also superior, righteousness and loyalty and filial piety can not be both in fact just for the king to destroy the father, is it really to get out of the descendants of the former Ming Dynasty. Then he said to everyone: One qiē for the emperor? It's also too ......

Yang Rui didn't know how to come up with such a large amount of things, and Liu Boyuan on the opposite side saw that Yang Rui was obviously distracted, so he stopped. But after waiting for a while, Yang Rui said: "Xiao Xu hasn't thought about what to do if he dies after he finds out the poison?" ”

"Yes, sir."

"If Wei Dan is poisoned and dies. Then go through the judicial process and prepare the evidence. Find a lawyer to sue the Concession Public Office for murder in the patrol room! ”

"Judicial proceedings? Accusing the patrol room? Lawsuits? Liu Boyuan glanced at Yang Rui a few times suspiciously. He suspected that Yang Rui was still in the previous trance and had not recovered yet. Litigation in the concession and the patrol house in the concession, this ......

"Don't look at me like that. As long as our side files an appeal and the concession does not accept it, then the newspapers can say that they have a ghost in their hearts. Confirm their crimes; They took that better, there was a post-mortem report, they sentenced us to lose, then not only even patrolling the house. Even the prestige of the Ministry of Industry in the concession will plummet, and if he judges us to win, then he will hand over the murderer. ”

Liu Boyuan seems to understand a little that although the logic of the West is different from that of China, it also has its inherent flaws, and starting from this flaw, it is natural to be able to make a difference.

"However, there are several prerequisites for doing this, one is to take Wei Dan's parents over, because they have to sue in the name of his family, and then they must protect the evidence, including the doctor who invited them, and finally, these people who operate this matter, in addition to ensuring their safety, must also sue them to persevere to the end, because when the matter is big, the official and personal friendship will come together, or this will provoke diplomatic disputes, or persuade the plaintiff to settle the matter, these must be prevented in advance. The others are the local newspapers in our possession, which should report the whole process, follow up comprehensively, and stir up public opinion. Don't focus on the revolution when you told the patrol house earlier, just say that the foreigners deliberately poisoned the Chinese, so that the people will be provoked to hatred, and the bigger the trouble, the more likely it is that the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau will abandon the pawn and protect the car and push out the Manchu Qing behind it. At this time, the focus of newspaper propaganda was the vicious autocracy of the Manchus. ”

When Yang Rui spoke, Liu Boyuan didn't know where he conjured up a small notebook, wrote down Yang Rui's words in detail, and when he finished memorizing, he asked: "Everything else is easy to solve, what if the Ministry of Industry and Bureau does not confess to the Manchu Dynasty, such as the trial will not be completed in the end, or what if it is simply tried for a few years?" ”

"It's simple. That is to carry the dead and crush the living. Yang Rui's voice sank, and his eyes sharpened.

"I see. If it is not resolved, it will be determined that the Ministry of Industry and the Manchu Qing Dynasty are in collusion. Liu Boyuan said.

"In addition, the people at the telegraph office will see if they can think of a way, and it would be better if they could find evidence of the Manchu Qing's behind-the-scenes planning from the telegrams related to this matter."

Although most of the Revival Society now uses wireless telegraphy, the cable telegraph is also the focus of attention, and it is customary for the Telegraph Office to leave a copy of the manuscript after sending the telegram, and the people in the Revival Society should be able to get it. This is how the secret telegram that Li Hongzhang negotiated in Maguan during the First Sino-Japanese War was stolen by Japan, of course, important official telegrams were encrypted, but there was Wang Fengzao in the First Sino-Japanese War, and now there is Xu Xilin in the Revival Society.

"Okay. I'll go back and arrange it right away. Liu Boyuan nodded.

"Don't worry, I'm looking for you for something else." Yang Rui began to talk about big things. "The last espionage incident made our losses strict, so ......"

Seeing Yang Rui talk about the last espionage incident, Liu Boyuan immediately stood up, and the censorship of the two sisters was done by the Ministry of Political Affairs, although there were some things that he didn't understand at the time, but no one thought that a female beard was actually Japanese. "It's still my ...... on this matter"

"Now is not the time to hold accountable, if you want to say that the most problematic is me, if you have no desire, you are rigid, and I have the biggest problem. But this time we suffered a loss, and we can't do it again next time. So what I'm going to talk to you about this time is to separate some things from the Ministry of Political Affairs and form a military intelligence bureau. When Yang Rui said "no desire is rigid", his face was hot, he couldn't blame others for this, in fact, he should still blame himself, not so much because of his own thinking. Because Xiao Yinfeng did not have traces of wearing clogs on her feet, he thought that she was not Japanese, it was better to say that she was a sperm worm, and it was not his fault that the independent army was besieged, but Xu Liezu's death was entirely because of him, and he thought that such a young life would die because of him. He felt guilty.

Yang Rui's words made Liu Boyuan sit down, and he fell silent when he saw Yang Rui finish speaking. Then he said, "Sir." This MIA is ......"

"The main thing is to separate the functions of intelligence collection and counter-espionage of the political department," Yang Rui continued: "Intelligence is extremely important, Japan won the Russo-Japanese War on intelligence, and the last time we were surrounded, we lost on intelligence." That's why we need to step up our intelligence efforts. Especially with regard to Japan, our position after the Great War will determine that our future enemy will be Japan, and we do not have a comprehensive understanding of their movements and do not clear our own hidden dangers. In the future, there will be three or four more things happening, and this kind of price is too great for us to bear. ”

"Is Bo Cong back?" Yang Rui asked again. In addition to Liu Boyuan, there are also two people, Qian Bocong and Zhang Chengyue, who stayed in school to be in charge of school affairs, but now with the official implementation of the political commissar system, Yang Rui has asked Qian Bocong to come back to preside over this matter.

"He... He didn't come back. Qian Bocong was supposed to return with the sixth batch of graduates, but he did not come back because of other things.

"Why didn't he come back, didn't he decide that he would come back with the sixth phase?" Yang Rui's brows furrowed.

"There's something new on the South African side." Liu Boyuan seemed to be thinking about the wording, and then said: "After the Boer War, there was a shortage of labor in South Africa, but there were more and more gold mines, so the local mining company proposed to bring in 200,000 Chinese laborers from China, and this plan began last year, and the first batch of Chinese laborers arrived in South Africa in June last year." At first, the treatment of Chinese workers was good, but the more they got to the back, the worse the treatment became, many times they could not eat, and the promised salary could not be cashed, and now they have to work ten hours a day under the mine, and they have to dig a two-foot stone hole every day, otherwise they will not ......pay a penny."

"How much do they pay? How many people are there? "Yang Rui has heard too many rumors of Chinese workers in this era, but it is surprising that there are such a large number of Chinese workers in South Africa.

"The salary was promised five pounds a month when they were recruited, but when they arrived, it was only one and a half pounds, but because they couldn't get enough to eat, they had to buy their own food in the mines, because they lived in fences, and the things in the mines were ten times the price on the streets outside, so they couldn't get any money a month." Speaking of this, Liu Boyuan paused, and then said in a low voice: "According to Qian Bocong's report, the Xingzhong Society already has a local branch. ”

"What? Xingzhonghui? Yang Rui couldn't help but stand up in shock, Nanyang and American Hongmen are Sun Wen's territory, could it be that South Africa is also his sphere of influence? There has never been news of the African Revival Society in history, why is there a South African Revival Society suddenly now, is it that it has changed history?

"Yes, sir." Although it is not clear why Yang Rui was surprised, he still introduced according to Qian Bocong's report: "When he visited Huagong, he met Xie Zhangye, who was a clerk in a mining company, and this person was a member of the Xingzhong Association......

"Wait!" When Liu Boyuan wanted to continue, Yang Rui stopped him, he seemed to have heard of this matter somewhere, and the name Xie Zhangtai, yes, it seems that the year before last, in the United States, in Rong Hong's house, he said that he had contact with Xie Zhangtai before, but since the failure of the uprising of the Shuntian Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, he has cut off contact with him.

After sorting out his thoughts, Yang Rui said to Liu Boyuan: "You go on." ”

"Yes, sir. Afterwards, Bo Cong said that at that time, Xie Zhangye probably accosted him because he saw that he was visiting Chinese workers and had some plans, and after Xie Zhangye said that he was a member of Xingzhong, Bo Cong also said that he was a member of Xingzhong. This Xie Zhangye probably knew about our revival society from foreign newspapers, and he greatly appreciated our move to the north to resist Russia, so the more he talked about it, the more he hoped to unite with us in the end. ”

"Join us?"

"Yes. According to Xie Zhangye, the Xingzhong Society is actually composed of two branches, one is the Furen Cultural Society founded by Yang Quyun, and the other is the Xingzhong Society founded by Sun Yat-sen in Honolulu, and the two associations merged in 1895, and after the merger, it was called the Xingzhong Society, with Yang Quyun as the president. In that year, he planned to launch an uprising in Guangzhou. Unfortunately, the British in Hong Kong were forced to enter the country for five years under pressure from the Qing court, during which he established the Xingzhong Society in Johannesburg, Pietermalitzburg, and Lorenço Marques; And after that defeat. The staff of the Furen Cultural Society and Sun Yat-sen and the people in Honolulu fell out, and they failed again when Gengzi Huizhou got up. After Yang Quyun was shot dead by Qing court assassins. The personnel of the two departments were completely broken, and the incident of the previous year was completely organized by the people of the Furen Literary Society, and Sun Yat-sen was not involved at all. ”

I can't imagine that Xingzhonghui will have such a hidden secret, it is really incredible, Yang Rui has always thought that Xingzhonghui was founded by Sun Wen, but in real history. Before 1900, most of the strength of the Xingzhong Society came from the Furen Literary Society, and after 1900, the two associations fell out, and Sun Wen became the president of the Xingzhong Society, but at this time, the Xingzhong Society was only the original Honolulu Sun Wen's Xingzhong Society.

"If Xie Zhangye and these people can join the Revival Society. And if we agree with the ideas of the Revival Society and abide by the discipline of the Renaissance Society, then we can unite with them, but will they agree to these conditions? Yang Rui didn't know anything about Furen Literary Society, Yang Quyun, Xie Zhangye and others, so he made such a request from a cautious point of view.

"I would probably agree. After talking with Xie Zhangye, Bo Cong analyzed that now these people in the Furen Literary Society have experienced the uprising of the year before last and are very weak, and now only Xie Zhangye is active around, and his brother Xie Zhangtai is basically no longer involved in anti-Qing affairs. It is estimated that the only strength of the Furen Cultural Society is Hong Kong and the Xingzhong Society established by Yang Quyun in Africa in his early years, and he went to South Africa in the hope of finding anti-Qing forces among overseas Chinese and Chinese workers. ”

"Oh, what is he doing in the Transvaal Gold Mining Company, is he trying to instigate a rebellion against the Chinese workers?"

"That's true. However, he did not rebel against South Africa, he hoped to recruit revolutionaries from the Chinese workers, and then after the Chinese workers returned to China after their term of service, he would do something again. The actions of Yi Weinian and the year before made Xie Jinye feel that there was no hope of success with the party, so he hit the idea on the Chinese workers. Speaking of this, Liu Boyuan couldn't help but glance at Yang Rui with reverence, and what Xie Jinye said confirmed Yang Rui's previous view, that is, you can't rely on the party revolution.

Yang Rui didn't see Liu Boyuan's gaze, he was just thinking that if it was really according to what Qian Bocong said, it would be feasible to unite the Furen Literary Society, but should the road Xie Zhangye talk about go on, and whether those Chinese workers could really rely on Xie Zhangye as Xie Zhangye thought?

"How many Chinese workers are there now?" Yang Rui asked.

"According to Xie Zhangye's statistics, there are more than 38,000 people, and now there will be about one or two thousand new people every month, and it is estimated that by the end of this year, there will be 60,000 people." After speaking, he added, "Most of these laborers are from Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and some are from Liangguang, but the number is very small, and the contract signed by the Chinese workers and the mining company is three years, and they can return to China after three years." ”

Liu Boyuan said optimistically, but Yang Rui didn't think so, "So how high is the disability mortality rate of Chinese workers now, and how many of the 60,000 people will be left in three years?" ”

Liu Boyuan was shocked by Yang Rui's question, he couldn't answer this question, but according to general estimates, the Chinese workers on the farm are fine, but the Chinese workers in the mine are not. "When I get back, I'll send a telegram asking Bo Cong."

"Hmm. There is another one, that is, after three years of working under the mine, they can't eat enough, and after three years, can they still shoot when they get out of the mine? And then they signed a three-year contract, but what if the mining company didn't release them after three years, it was tens of thousands of people, not hundreds, and in that place in South Africa, they didn't know where to flee. Therefore, when you call back, you should explain these situations clearly to Bo Cong, don't see so many people at once, your brain will be hot, and you feel that you can take this opportunity to expand the staff. The more people there are, the more difficult it is to manage, the more they need more food, and if they are not well managed, then the whole army will collapse, and all the hard work before that time will be in vain. We want to expand, but only on the premise that we can control it, this is like the army, there are not enough well-trained officers and political commissars, no matter how many soldiers are useless, one is not good, and it will suddenly defect like the second division. This lesson is profound! ”

"Yes, sir!" The mutiny of the Second Division brought catastrophic losses to the Renaissance Army, which is an incomparably profound lesson.

"As for the Furen Literary Society, we can talk to them, if they want, then they can talk in Shanghai, talk to Xiao Xu first, if there is anything that Xiao Xu can't solve, then you can talk to me. After the armistice between Japan and Russia and the situation in the northeast have stabilized, I will leave. Yang Rui thought that he would leave here in a few months, and his heart was suddenly a little reluctant, he felt that he had gained experience here, he was no longer the otaku before, he was already a revolutionary who had experienced blood and fire. (To be continued......)