Since being interviewed by American reporter McCormick once in 05, this is the second time Yang Rui has been interviewed by reporters. The manuscript of the previous interview was only published by McCormick in the New York Herald, but this time, I did not expect Morrison to submit the manuscript to the Beijing-Tianjin Times, plus Yang Rui's full-body photo, and the impact caused by it is not the same as the previous one. Not to mention the rest, it is rumored in Beijing that the target of Guangxuye's previous archery was written with the three characters of Yuan Shikai, but now it has been replaced by Yang Jingcheng's three characters and his unclear full-body photo.

Guangxu is like this, Kang Youwei and others also fiercely criticized Yang Jingcheng's words in the Xinmin Cong Bao, as well as the quintessence of the Fuxing Society, believing that the king is the foundation of the country, and if there is no king, there is no country, and if there is no country, the livelihood of the Li people is not guaranteed...... directly refuted Kang Youwei's words of respecting the monarch.

The royalists were refuted, and the League attacked again, but this time it was not Hu Hanmin and Wang Zhaoming who wrote the article to attack them, but Wu Zhihui, an old acquaintance in Britain, who established the World Society in Britain to learn Esperanto, promote cosmopolitanism, and advocate that Chinese characters are the biggest obstacle to China's learning of Western civilization, and if China does not want to destroy the country and species, then it must eliminate Chinese characters and learn Spanish. As soon as the article was published, it was immediately praised by many readers, but these people argued about which language to implement after the abolition of Chinese characters, some people said that Britain was the world's first power, and it should learn English; It was also said that French was now the lingua franca of diplomats. French is said to be the most beautiful in the world, so I think China still needs to learn French; Some people even say that the United States is also very strong, and they think that learning the Chinese language is also good. Of course. As soon as this person's article came out, he was ridiculed by everyone, and he was told that Mi Guo also spoke English.

The bustling arguments in the newspaper, Yang Rui just swept it away and ignored it, dealing with that kind of shameless literati, bayonets are more useful than pen and ink. At this time, he was in the German concession of Qingdao to meet Leo, who had returned from Europe, and had not seen him for many years. The baby girl that Leo adopted in his early years has now grown up, and when Yang Rui chatted with him, a little girl named Rebecca was led out by Cheng Ying. The two of them were the only ones left in the room.

"War is coming." Leo remains the same, it seems that only when he is with Rebecca is loving, and other times he is disgusted with the whole world.

"Germany is expanding its army now?" Yang Rui's gaze wandered, shifting from his face to the glass containing the wine. replied with a meaningless word. Of course, he knows the direction of history, but there are many things he does not dare to say.

"Yes. But! But! The foolish aristocracy of the army, on the pretext that they could not let the lowly defile the holy army, opposed the expansion of the army to the size it needed, because they could not provide enough noble officers. Leo shouted. After so many years of getting along, Yang Rui understands very well that he is an anarchist, but he is by no means a non-nationalist, and he is inevitably distressed by the situation in Germany.

"Then let them learn more advanced tactics. Develop a better strategy. Seeing him like this, Yang Rui could only come up with some bad ideas.

"Nope. It's useless! Leo shook his head and said, "The whole of Germany thinks of itself as 'surrounded.'" Everyone decided that the only way to break the encirclement was to use forceful means, and now there was a sense of 'patriotism' in society, and even the bishops of the Catholic dioceses had to stress that 'Catholics are not patriots of the second class, but patriots of the first class', and that the general strategy of the General Staff had been formulated. His Excellency the Baron has been completely abandoned by the Kaiser, he is now only an inspector-general, and it may not be long before he retires. ”

"I'm sorry!" What Yang Rui said is half true. But in his heart, as long as World War I would happen, then he wanted Golz to become the chief of the German General Staff, but this was completely impossible. In the eyes of the Kaiser and the German elite, this was nothing more than a copy of the Franco-Prussian War.

"Yang ......" Leo only looked at Yang Rui, his eyes were extremely hot, as if he was on fire, "I want to assassinate the Kaiser!" ”

"What!" Yang Rui was shocked, he didn't look like he was drunk when he looked at Leo, he patted his hand on the shoulder, and only subconsciously said, "This is impossible!" ”

"Nope. It's entirely possible! Leo shook his head stubbornly, "The best gunslinger in your army can shoot at eight hundred yards. This distance can completely surpass the distance of the Kaiser Guard. There is a high probability that the assassination will be successful. ”

Leo went to Germany for two and a half years, and he had gone with the mission of having the German army accept Risnaswast interns, a plan that he did not achieve, but with the help of his teacher, Baron Goerz, and with his influence on the Turkish Army, all officers of the Baath Army could go to the Ottoman Empire for internships. It's just that Yang Rui, the Ottoman army, didn't look down on it, and asked Leo to move the Ottoman navy, and even wanted to order warships in the name of the Ottoman in the future, but the plan didn't go well.

Yang Rui saw that he had been in Europe for so long and had not returned, but he didn't want this guy to be bent on assassinating the Kaiser, Yang Rui was silent for a while before he said: "I can order the best sniper to go to Europe with you, but what I have to tell you is that even if the Kaiser dies, the status quo in Germany cannot be changed." ”

"No, the reason for the qi ē is William, the emperor who is more stupid than a pig!" Leo waved his fist with one arm, as if he were going to break the Kaiser's head.

"You're wrong! Leo. Looking at his appearance, Yang Rui was a little helpless, "The Kaiser just conformed to the trend of thought of the whole society, compared to other countries, the size of Germany's colonies and his national strength are not comparatively equal, even if the United States has the Philippines." Every German wants 'territory under the sun', this is the cause of war, even if you kill the Kaiser, there will be a second Kaiser, and one person cannot resist the whole country. Perhaps only war can show everyone that everyone is actually wrong, that the whole world is not completely the law of the jungle, and that force alone is not enough to gain more rights......"

Yang Rui's words only made Leo look in a trance, and he only felt that what Yang Rui said was right. "But even if it's a war, there's no stupid pig like William......" He couldn't say it anymore. If war cannot be avoided. Then it doesn't matter if William lives or dies.

Yang Rui saw that he was so unpersuading, but he still followed his words and said: "The rise of Europe lies in the recovery of reason and human nature, but now is the time for Europe to pay the price for it." The rationality they revere is nothing more than the compass of the voyager, which seems to be sailing all the way to the east, but in the end they will find that it is guided by reason. They eventually returned to where they were, again believing that force and technology would give them more territory. But in the end, you will end up with ruins after the war. Leo, even if Germany does not start a war, then Austria-Hungary and France do not want to go to war? Now the war is imminent. The most important thing is not to avoid war. It's about making Germany as a winner, not a loser, as much as possible. Even if we do not choose the best strategy, we can still improve operational efficiency tactically and make the inappropriate strategy a better result. ”

Yang Rui flickered Leo with apologies, he had already decided in his heart that after the defeat of Germany. He will certainly mobilize the Chinese people to donate money and materials to the German people. After being persuaded by Yang Rui, Leo devoted himself to studying the artillery command system of the Renaissance Army. This is the latest weapon of the Ba'ath Army. According to Yang Ruidao, at the appropriate time, all these research results will be transferred to the German Army.

Yang Rui sent Leo away, and he was not idle, but went directly out of the concession, and mixed with Dong Laodao in Maoershan, Liaodong, he came to Shandong to see the preparations for the peasant association here, or how the peasant training was doing. The reason why Shandong was chosen as the first stop was because Shandong in Guannai was the best place for the grassroots work of the Fuxing Association, and the reason for this was because the Boxers on Dong Laodao helped as the leading party, and the immigrants from Liaodong basically came from Shandong.

"Big boss," In a secluded courtyard, Dong Laodao dressed as an authentic vendor and bowed deeply to Yang Rui. Looking at Cheng Ying beside Yang Rui, he saluted again and said, "I've seen Madame." ”

Four years ago, Maoershan was drunk, Yang Rui hadn't seen Mrs. Dong Lao Dao Yang for a long time, at this time, I felt very relatives, and when I saw him salute, Yang Rui stepped forward and grabbed his hands and said: "Brother Dong hasn't seen him for many years, why be so polite." ”

Yang Rui was polite, Dong Laodao didn't dare to stand it, although he was older, it didn't matter if Yang Rui shouted big brother, but he saw Chen Guangshou and others present, and hurriedly broke free and said: "The big boss can't be like this, the meeting and the army have their own rules, and it's not good to break the rules." ”

Dong Laodao is also a member of the older generation, seeing that he cares so much about the rules, Yang Rui didn't stop him, so he had to let him reach the ground before saying, "How are you doing on the mountain?" ”

"It's all good in the mountains. The cubs have all joined the army, leaving only us and the old people guarding the cottage. The big boss, the fifth town is transferred, is this Shandong going to do something? After retiring from others, Dong Laodao looked at Yang Rui and asked this worrying question. In the past few years, he has been running around outside and inside the Guan, contacting the Boxers in various places to join the Fuxing Society, and he has long known that the big boss is ready to do a big business, and now Yanzhou has won a big victory, and the fifth town resident in Shandong has been transferred, such a good opportunity, which has to make him guess whether the big boss is going to seize Shandong.

Seeing Dong Laodao's dim eyes, Yang Rui smiled and said, "This fifth town is transferred, how many soldiers are left?" ”

Dong Laodao didn't know that Yang Rui was just joking, and said very seriously, "In the year of the Emperor's reign, Governor Zhang Renjun cleaned up the military horses in the province, and at that time there were a total of 32 battalions of horses, infantry, and artillery, although there were 32 battalions, but there were a lot of empty salaries, and the most 10,000 people were counted, which was these 10,000 people, which were also very old, and they could not be compared with our army at all; This is the old army, and there is also the new army trained in Shandong Province, although it is said that it is necessary to train a town, but now it is only a standard, and there are only more than 1,000 people. As long as there are two or three thousand people in charge, then Shandong can be all mine. ”

It is indeed feasible to take advantage of the fact that the Manchu and Mongolian new army has not been organized and trained to complete the uprising, but thinking of the international environment and the talent reserve, Yang Rui vetoed such a method in his heart. It's not good to explain to Dong Laodao, Yang Rui only sighed lightly and said, "It's not time to do something now." I just came to Shandong to go to the countryside. ”

"Walking around the countryside? Is this the big boss going to the peasant association to see? The eagerness in Dong Laodao's eyes darkened, and he was very disappointed.

"yes. I just want to go to the peasant association to have a look. Yang Rui said very easily. In fact, he had already had the idea of going to the grassroots level this time. So far, the peasant training center in Shanghai has run six sessions. Nearly 2,000 rural cadres have been trained. According to the arrangements of the General Staff Department and the Political Affairs Department, these cadres returned to their hometowns with a number of classmates and applied for a peasant association in the county. Farmers' training centers at the county and town levels have also been opened. In accordance with the principles taught in Shanghai, the peasant associations began to look for some marginalized elements of society, and only trained them so that they could serve as the backbone of the revolution in the future. Since the first graduates in Shanghai, this work has been in operation for a year, and more than 5,000 graduates of county-level and town-level training institutes have been trained. According to the latest statistics, there are more than 1,600 graduates at the county and town levels in the province. Yang Rui just wanted to see how the rural work was going here.

In April and May, the spring ploughing has been completed, and the corn and sorghum planted in the field have become the height of a villain. Yang Rui and his entourage went out of Qingdao. He disguised himself as a trader and walked in the southeast of Shandong, and the purpose of this trip was Yizhou Mansion. The Yizhou Mansion is actually the Yimeng Mountain of later generations, with jurisdiction over Juzhou, Lanshan, Feixian, Yizhou, Mengyin, Rizhao, Tancheng and other prefectures and counties at this time, with a population of about 2.4 million. The acres of land are more than 70,500 hectares. Compared with the entire expanded Yanzhou base area. The population is slightly larger, but the acres of land are twice as large. Yang Rui remembered that Yanzhou's acres of land were only more than 27,000 hectares, and there was a shortage of grain.

"Sir, the front is Juzhou." Chen Guangshou rode over to report back. Coming from Qingdao, everyone was disgraced all the way, and they also encountered several bandits on the way. However, these are scattered bandits near the village, and they will catch a handful when they see a good catch. If it's not easy to fish, pretend to be passers-by, Yang Rui and the others will show the spear when they go out of Qingdao, and put it away when they get to the state and county, so no one dares to mess with it.

"Good. Quicken! Get into town early. Yang Rui nodded. Juzhou is actually one of the destinations, it is a big county, according to the map, it is close to Yishui County, which is already Yishan.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Rui and dozens of people arrived at a prepared inn in the south of the city. As soon as he got off the horse, Li Guangyi, the person in charge of the local revival association, came over, and Li Erhu came with him, the former is this Yimeng man, who studied in Japan at official expense, entered Tokyo Hosei University, and is the head of the communication section of the Tokyo branch of the revival association; The latter was a battalion commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Northeast Mountain Army. Li Guangyi was in charge of the peasant movement, and Li Erhu was here to investigate bandits and defend the peasant movement.

"Mr. Cheng!" Li Guangyi stayed for a long time, and only took Yang Rui's hand to shake hands. On the other side, Li Erhu straightened up, saluted neatly and shouted: "Commander!" ”

After Yang Rui shook Li Guangyi's hand, he also solemnly returned the salute to him, and then looked at them and said, "How are you here, are you used to it?" ”

"Get used to it! Very used to it! The two said in unison, looking at each other and smiling. The General Staff Department of the Political Zhì Department asked Yang Rui for this combination of literature and martial arts. According to Li Guangyi's report, there are many bandits in Yimeng, and these bandits are not peasants who can't survive and are forced to become bandits, many of them are local rich gentry, I don't know if it is too expensive to raise a strong man to take care of the family and nursing home, so he wants to go out to get some oil and water to make up for the loss. In view of this, the Northeast dispatched a company of troops to Yimeng first, and then increased the troops after gaining a foothold. Li Erhu was a battalion commander, which was not within the scope of the choice, but considering that he was a beard and was familiar with the various routines of bandits, he was transferred.

Seeing that they were well matched, Yang Rui was relieved, and said: "I haven't eaten yet, so take advantage of this effort, you can introduce the situation here, it's good to be brief, I'm going to stay here for a while this time." ”

Hearing that Yang Rui was going to stay here for a while, both of them were happy. Li Guangyi said: "Sir, in the land of Yimeng, the people have always been brave, but because it is located in a mountainous area and the cultivation is very extensive, although the contradictions between the tenants and landlords are not as good as those in southwest Lu, they are also extremely unharmonious. In addition, the weather has not been good in the past few years, and the catastrophe in northern Jiangsu the year before last also affected Yimeng. At present, in order to raise taxes, the government is checking the acres of household registration, and it is very easy for the peasant associations to settle down, and it is not difficult to mobilize the people. At present, there are more than 130 cadres who have graduated from Shanghai in the whole of Yimeng, and nearly 1,000 people have been trained by local training centers. Sir, can we do justice at the end of this year? ”

"The cadres in Shanghai are cadres, but how many cadres are there in the local training centers?" Yang Rui saw that he was so optimistic, and he couldn't help but pour some cold water. Now that Yanzhou has won a big victory, it seems that everyone thinks that the revolution will succeed next year, and this kind of blind optimism is a headache for Yang Rui.

"That's probably only about one-fifth." Li Guangyi replied. It is impossible for all the cadres who come out of the county and town training centers to be of the highest use, and many of them are peasants who have land to grow, and the peasant associations, under the banner of helping farmers increase production, do not charge money for attending classes, and attract some farmers with active brains, even if they come and graduate, they may not be regarded as revolutionaries.

"A fifth is considered high." Yang Rui sighed. "Before the peasant associations went deep into every town, it was too early to raise a rebellion. Don't be blindly optimistic. It is only a matter of form to raise righteousness early and late, and even if the revolution succeeds, the work of the peasant associations must continue. The roots of the Renaissance Society are in the countryside and townships, and if these places are occupied and managed, then the revolution will succeed and the country will become rich and strong. Xiao Yan, don't sacrifice your roots. ”

Yang Rui said this seriously, in fact, he was worried that some of the people below would think about the success of the revolution, and then go to the peasant union work in a hurry, and in the end the report could be raised, and then a cannon sounded to overthrow the Manchu Qing. As for rural work, who remembers, everyone went to the city to become officials and enjoy happiness.

Li Guangyi had only received a telegram from Yang Rui once in Japan earlier, this was the first time he saw Yang Rui, and he thought that he could be praised by Mr. Jingcheng for his active planning of the revolution, but who knew that Mr. was not happy and worried, and his face was red, and under reflection, he suddenly felt that he seemed to be too eager for quick success. He stood up and bowed and said, "Mr. is criticizing." Guangyi looked at the results of Yanzhou's side, and only thought that Yimeng could also become such a base. ”

Seeing him like this, Yang Rui praised him in his heart, and said broadly: "Don't look at other people's achievements, you should look at other people's practices, revolution is also a cause, and you must endure loneliness." Many people can do a vigorous act of righteousness, but it is the most difficult to dedicate themselves in obscurity. The revival will need a lot of unsung and impatient cadres, and these people are the backbone of the real revolution and the backbone of the revival of the country. Xiaoyan, I'll stop here for today's introduction, and I'll go first in the next few days. As for you, inform the comrades of the entire Yimeng to come to Juxian County for a meeting, and we will all discuss how the situation on the Yimeng side should be opened up and how the work should be planned. If there is something that the comrades do not understand, then let me tell them why they can't be impatient. ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was going to give a speech to everyone in person, Li Guangyi's originally depressed heart became cheerful again, and she just smiled and said, "Yes, sir, I'll arrange it right away." ”

The matter was decided, the next thing is to chat, Li Guangyi talks a lot here, Li Erhu talks less, he used to just stand on the playground, and he has seen the big boss from afar, but now he is so close, he is not used to it. In Li Erhu's view, no matter how large the scale and number of people there were, the revival society was still only the lord of a place, but now the revival society has the strength to resist the Manchu court. Yanzhou is a litter, Yimeng is another litter, and a few company commanders who were selected with him are estimated to be a few litters, so it seems that it will not take many years, and the base areas in the customs will bloom everywhere, and it will be a simple matter to command the world at that time.

"Do you have a lot of beard over here?" Seeing that Li Erhu was a little embarrassed, Yang Rui had to take the initiative to ask him.

"Many, it's not right," Li Erhu didn't mean anything, touched his head embarrassedly, and then said: "The beard in this hair can't be put on the stage, it's as much as a cow's hair, but it can't fight, even if it's a ticket kidnapping, it doesn't follow the rules." ”

Seeing him like this, Yang Rui just smiled and asked, "Why are you unruly?" ”

"It's just that the female dependents are tied, and they can't be moved according to the rules, and they have to release tickets after collecting the money, but here's ......" Li Erhu is a professional, and he has a headache looking at those two knives, "Commander, these people are also going to be collected?" ”

"Don't be angry with the people, and don't want those who are murderous and do all kinds of evil. How many bandits are there here? If the entire Yimeng is cleared and recovered, how long will it take? Yang Rui looked at him and said.

Seeing Yang Rui ask about the war, Li Erhu laughed and said, "Two or three thousand beards at most." Commander, as long as you give an order, I will be able to suppress the largest ones in two months, and the rest of the rumors will basically be collected. (To be continued......)