Respectfully

The Consul General of France in the six northern provinces did not come to the Marshal's Mansion to inquire about his crimes, on the contrary, he came to clear the relationship.

"This matter has nothing to do with the French government from start to finish."

The attitude of the French consul is quite clear. The woman who went to the police station did what she did only out of her own will. Help her.

After listening to the words of the French consul, Li Jinyan understood that the Frenchman meant that this matter had nothing to do with him.

He never "understands", "participates in", or "prosecutes" the cause, process, and result.But there is a premise that the personal safety of "French citizens" must be guaranteed.

"Her husband is not a French citizen." The French consul added, which relieved Li Jinyan.

The veto of the reporter's French nationality proves that this is a matter for the Chinese themselves. If the French woman wants to save her husband from prison, she must abide by the laws of China and follow the rules of China.

To put it bluntly, she was relying on her status as a foreigner to bring reporters to her door.Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and even Indians colonized by the British have a sense of superiority in the land of China. Although the six northern provinces have won several battles, the Chinese coalition government has also Co-management of the German, Austrian and Italian concessions has been realized, but the veteran countries such as Britain and France are still "pretending to be confused", and have neither approached the Chinese coalition government on the concession issue, nor have they expressed anything else.Even though Young Marshal Lou was still holding onto their "handle" and their army was fighting lively battles with Germany in Europe, John Bull and Gaul Rooster never thought of bowing their heads to the Chinese.

Perhaps they are already considering giving up part of their interests in China to ease the relationship with the Chinese coalition government, but it is only possible.They can easily betray the interests of Russia and Japan, and it is not so easy for them to make up their minds when it is their turn.Cutting someone else's flesh is very enjoyable, but if it's me, even if it's just a cut, it will hurt for a long time.

"Your Excellency the Consul, I understand what you mean." Li Jinyan did not speak fast, "As long as the citizens of your country do not act violently, personal safety can be guaranteed. China has always been a country of etiquette, and we pay attention to convincing people with virtue. .”

Convince people with virtue?

Regardless of whether the French consul believed it or not, Ren Wuchu, who was sitting by the side, almost spit out the tea in his mouth.

It's okay for others, the troops of the six northern provinces are still surrounding Vladivostok, and they may fight at any time...

Immediately afterwards, Li Jinyan sincerely assured the French consul that what he said was absolutely true. Even if the French consul was dubious, he could only superficially accept Li Jinyan's words.As for how he will report to his superiors after returning to the consulate, it is not something that Li Jinyan should worry about.

After the French consul left, Ren Wuchu said, "Third Young Master, can you promise him this way?"

"What's wrong?" Li Jinyan shrugged his shoulders, "It's not up to the French to decide whether the behavior is too aggressive. He is willing to believe what I say, and if he suffers, he can only blame himself. Judging by his appearance, he may not believe it. Everyone pretends to be confused, pretending to be ignorant, and it’s enough to save face. I learned this trick from Minister Zhan."

Ren Wuchu: "..."

"However, I can't really do anything to that French woman. After all, the influence is not good." Li Jinyan put his hands on his legs and tapped his fingers, "Maybe Ding Zhao will be needed to help."

Ren Wuchu knew the existence of Ding Zhao and Qiao Leshan, he had met them, but he didn't know much about their research.Hearing Li Jinyan mention Ding Zhao, he didn't ask too much. Smart people know a truth. Curiosity is okay, but it's best not to have too much curiosity.What's more, a smart person like Ren Wuchu is well versed in the truth.

Looking at Li Jinyan in front of him, and then recalling the situation when he first met him, if Li Qinglong knew this, he would feel very relieved.

In front of the Guanbei Police Station, a blond woman was yelling loudly. Her Huaxia voice was very strange, but people could still hear what she was saying.

Four policemen stood in front of her, one over the age, the other three were in their early twenties, the oldest policeman always looked calm, while the faces of the young policemen were ugly, but because of the six policemen behind the woman The foreign reporters and their superiors haven't issued an order yet. All they can do is block the woman and the reporters behind her from rushing into the police station.

Among the six reporters, four were European faces, while the other two were Asian faces. They made more and more noise in front of the police station, and gradually many people gathered around them.

When the car from the Marshal's Mansion arrived, the French woman was crying to the crowd, saying that the Guanbei Police Station had arrested her husband for no reason, which aroused the sympathy of many people.

"My husband is innocent. I want to sue the police here, as well as the government!" The woman had been living in the Shanghai International Settlement before, and she had heard a little about the situation here in Guanbei, but she didn't know the details. See Guanbei Police They behaved very "cowardly" and became more and more arrogant, claiming that her husband is a French citizen, and the Guanbei Police Station arrested the French citizen without reason. Aren't they worried about causing international disputes?

"If you don't want to cause more serious consequences, release my husband as soon as possible! And apologize to us and make compensation!"

"Good idea!" A young policeman blushed with anger, grabbed his police cap and said loudly: "It doesn't matter if he is a French citizen or not, he is suspected of assassinating the young marshal, he must not be let go! He also apologized, what a fart!" !"

Most of the onlookers didn't notice the young policeman swearing. What they were concerned about was that the husband of this foreign woman was suspected of assassinating the young marshal?The assassination case that happened in front of the hotel had been spread across the six northern provinces through newspapers, and the names and actions of those reporters were also on the newspapers.

It turned out to be those bastards? !

The expression of the person who showed sympathy before suddenly turned aside, and the others also lowered their faces.For a moment, everyone looked at the troublemakers with unkind eyes.

The French woman was still yelling, but the two Asian-faced reporters sensed that something was wrong, and they exchanged a look. If these Chinese civilians hurt this woman and the European reporter, maybe the development of the matter will be more favorable than the planned result!

The two reporters decided to push the situation to continue in a chaotic direction. One of them spoke fluent Chinese and said loudly: "This lady's husband is French. Whether she is guilty or not should be decided by the French consulate. right to arrest him!"

Another reporter interjected: "You must be released immediately! Otherwise, you will be retaliated by the great France!"

These words were like hot oil poured on the fire, the crowd of onlookers became restless, and the scene might get out of control at any time.

Guanbei people have their own pride!

In Guanbei, a dragon has to coil up, and a tiger has to lie down!How about foreigners?Can foreigners be lawless?Gone are the days when gringos were domineering in China!

Consular jurisdiction?Go to your consular jurisdiction!

A stone flew out of the crowd and hit the head of the shouting reporter. The reporter touched the back of his head, saw the blood on his hand, and cursed angrily: "Baga!" This sound completely exposed him. true identity.

Just as his companion was about to take pictures of this scene, a bigger stone flew towards him, but the four European reporters did nothing. They are not fools. What the two Japanese did just now was intentional Arouse the anger of the Chinese people and put all of them in a dangerous situation!

The woman's yelling also stopped, and the previous arrogance was swept away, and a panic expression appeared on her face.

Li Jinyan saw this scene through the car window, turned to Ding Zhao who was sitting in the front row and said, "Mr. Ding, it's time to do something."

"It's my honor to be ordered by the beauty."

Ding Zhao's words made Li Jinyan get goose bumps again, but the soldier in the front seat was very calm. If you ignore his veined forehead and the hand touching his waist, he is indeed quite calm.

The scene finally started to get out of control. Several men rushed out from the crowd and rushed towards the two Japanese reporters. The French woman screamed, and the other four reporters also turned pale, and they gathered together back to back. They regretted it. He should have been instigated by the Japanese to come to Guanbei rashly without inquiring!The current Huaxia is not the same as before, it is not the land where they are allowed to come and go freely and act recklessly.

The strange thing is that those few men were besieging the Japanese journalists. Compared with the two Japanese, the attacks on the few Europeans were negligible.These Chinese people seem to surround them deliberately, separating them from the Japanese, so that others can punch and kick these two Japanese scumbags.

The two Japanese were beaten up very quickly, and the police whistle sounded. A dozen policemen with batons seemed to be dispersing the crowd. In fact, it was hard to say who the batons fell on in the chaos.

When a Japanese reporter was beaten dizzily, a gun suddenly appeared in his hand. Even he himself did not know where the gun came from, or how he pulled the trigger. For a moment, he might have thought it was a hallucination.

The gunshot rang out, and a man fell down in response. The crowd who witnessed this scene fell silent, and the French woman screamed and fainted to the ground after rolling her eyes.

Several Europeans didn't know that the Japanese had a gun on him, and he would shoot in full view!

"God, he's crazy!"

The woman fainted and was unconscious, the man who was shot had blood on his chest, the Japanese man with the gun seemed to be stunned, and the whistle of the police became sharper.

However, several Chinese reporters rushed over at this time, and took several photos of the Japanese with guns and the man lying on the ground, and then pointed the camera at the fainted French woman and the few foreign reporters who were at a loss."Processing" these photos and publishing them in the newspaper can make the person who planned this event look good.

"Please step aside, I am a doctor."

A handsome young man in western clothes pushed aside the crowd, first checked the man lying on the ground, and immediately asked someone to carry him away to the nearest hospital, and then walked up to several foreign reporters, "Has this lady fainted?" ? Please allow me to check on her situation."

Fluent French succeeded in relaxing the tense nerves of these reporters. They were completely unaware that the smelling salt bottle that this man took out from his coat pocket contained a subtle fragrance.

At this time, the two Japanese reporters had been controlled by the police, and the pistol was confiscated as evidence.This gun does not belong to the two reporters, but it does belong to the Japanese.Guanbei captured many Japanese spies, and there were no fewer than ten pistols of the same model.

Li Jinyan was sitting in the car, watching the chaos in front of the police station gradually subside. The man with blood on his chest was sitting next to him, but he had changed his clothes and his beard had disappeared. It was the man who followed Li Jinyan to the south leopard.

"Yan Shao, these foreigners, especially those two Japanese, must have practiced before." Leopard said with a cold look in his eyes: "Bring them into the interrogation room and keep them open until tomorrow."

"En." Li Jinyan nodded, "I leave this matter to you. I don't care how you ask, but people can't die, at least not now."

"Don't worry about words." Leopard grinned, "There are a lot of good things in our place now. You have seen the methods of Mr. Qiao and Mr. Ding. I guarantee that there will never be too many on the skin. A wound."

"You do things, I don't worry." Li Jinyan leaned back and looked away from the outside of the car. Several foreigners were brought into the police station, and Ding Zhao also managed to get away. He had done what he should do, so there was no need to continue "joining in the fun" ".It was the French woman who seemed a little reluctant when he left.

Sure enough, it should be said that the French are a naturally romantic nation?Or is it because Ding is too attractive?Or was he taking the wrong medicine?

But looking at the two Japanese who had weakness in their limbs and had to be dragged by others to walk, Ding's level of drug administration should not have regressed.

"Yan Shao, where is Mr. Xiao..."

Xiao Youde was busy arresting Markov. Today, Li Jinyan went directly to Leopard.Since going south with Li Jinyan, Leopard has been regarded as Li Jinyan's confidant, and his status in the Intelligence Bureau has also changed. Even his captain said jokingly: "I knew you were born with good luck, but I didn't expect it to be so good! "

"You are responsible for this matter." Li Jinyan interrupted Leopard, "Mr. Xiao has other things to attend to."

Li Jinyan's words made Leopard's mind flash, if he was not mistaken, is Young Master Yan trying to flatter him?Then he must not be ignorant.As for Mr. Xiao... It's not a good word to say that the tofu has two sides.

No matter what caused Yan Shao to be dissatisfied with Mr. Xiao, Leopard decided to seize this opportunity.Even if those who engage in intelligence can't see the light, once they have the opportunity, no one is willing to climb up.

Afterwards, Li Jinyan went to see Boss Wen of the newspaper office. Tomorrow's newspaper will definitely make a big deal about today's incident in front of the police station. Those foreign reporters have been temporarily restrained, and the news will not be spread out for the time being. They must grasp it first. machine.

Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Goebbels said that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.

What Li Jinyan wants to do is not to spread the truth to the world, but to let the man behind the scenes who planned this incident swallow the bitter fruit he planted in his stomach!

Capital, Banxi Mansion

Rihachiro Sakanishi and Shigeru Honjo are playing chess. On the chessboard, the black and white chess pieces are fighting inextricably. As long as one is negligent, they may be strangled by the opponent at any time.

The expressions of both of them are very serious, and they often have to think for a long time before dropping the pieces in their hands. When Honjo Shigeru's black piece is about to drop, a voice came from outside the room: "Your Excellency Sakanishi, Kikunei sent a message that the action failed. "

Snapped!

The sunspot in Ben Zhuang Fan's hand fell, but it didn't land on the desired position, but hit another sunspot, disrupting the whole chess game.

How can it be? !

"The Chinese captured the Europeans?"

"No." The voice outside the door also seemed to be puzzled, "According to the news, our people shot and killed a Chinese man, and those Europeans saw the shooting at the foot of the mountain."

After a moment of silence in the room, Banxi suddenly swept all the pieces off the chessboard, and Honjo Shigeru's face became extremely ugly.Due to the failure of the last operation, the base camp has gradually lost trust in Banxi, and Honjo Shigeru, who was appreciated by Banxi and became Banxi's disciple, also had a difficult career.

This time, the master and apprentice planned to adjust the relationship between China and European countries, especially France. In their view, these proud Europeans would definitely put pressure on the Chinese government.If the plan goes well, two Japanese journalists will kill five European journalists, and then blame the Chinese.As long as it is done properly, it will completely discredit Huaxia, especially Lou Xiao's image.

A dictatorial, cold-blooded, indiscriminate warlord, this warlord will raise his butcher knife at any time.

Such a person will surely arouse the vigilance of European countries.

If you want to suppress this warlord, it is useless to support China's domestic forces, and you can only support Japan!

The borrowing from the British is far from enough. Japan needs more capital to develop industry, manufacture weapons, and strengthen the country.

In addition to Japan, there is also a country involved in this conspiracy, Tsarist Russia.

The chaotic North Korea and the precarious Vladivostok have brought Japan and Russia common interests. These two enemies who used to fight for their interests in northern China have now reached a secret agreement. As members of the Allied Powers, the two countries will work together to deal with China. !

Surprisingly, when the Russian ambassador to China, Kuppensky, heard the news, he submitted an objection to the foreign minister. He believed that signing an agreement with Japan at this moment has no real meaning, and it may completely anger the Chinese people!

"It's not just Vladivostok, Siberia is also very dangerous!" Kuppensiqi is in China, and he can see the situation better than the bureaucrats in St. Petersburg. Being tied to Japan will not do Russia any good, but may cause trouble. Come to Huaxia for even greater anger.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs carefully considered his opinion and reported it to the Tsar. Tsar Nicholas II began to hesitate. Empress Alexandra, who liked to meddle in political affairs, scoffed at Kuppensky's concerns. Breeding pig!

Under the strong intervention of his wife, the Japanese-Russian secret agreement was finally reached, and Irina, who successfully gained Rasputin's trust, sent the news back to the six northern provinces as quickly as possible.

"Japan, Russia." Li Jinyan couldn't remember whether Japan and Russia really had this agreement during World War I, or which butterfly flapped its wings. In his opinion, even if Japan and Russia really formed an alliance, it would not be good for China. It's all right.

It is now 1915, and in 1917, the guns on the Aurora cruiser are about to sound, and the Tsar's empire is about to fall apart. treaty.

The Japanese will eventually fetch water from the bamboo basket in vain.

After thinking about it, Li Jinyan still sent this news to the front line.Marshal Lou's reply came quickly, but it was not about the Japan-Russia agreement. There were only four words in the entire telegram: Wait for me to come back.

Looking at the words on the telegram, Li Jinyan was stunned for a while, but the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.

In the frontline headquarters, Adjutant Ji took the translated telegram from the telegraph operator, glanced at it, and immediately understood why the soldier who received the telegram had such a delicate expression.

Standing in front of the meeting room with a telegram, Adjutant Ji suddenly had an incredible thought in his head. The young commander brought this radio station to the front line to contact Guanbei specifically, not to flirt with Master Yan Swearing?

Thinking of the cold face of Young Marshal Lou, Adjutant Ji decided to be Spartan.

From the end of June, the cloud of war has been hanging over Vladivostok.

The Chinese army is gearing up to watch, while the Russian garrison in Vladivostok is desperately digging fortifications and building defensive positions along the bunkers.Eating and sleeping are their only rest time, and in the remaining time, they pray to God non-stop.

In the early morning of July [-]rd, the moment the sun jumped above the horizon, the gunfire finally sounded in Vladivostok, but it was not the Chinese army or the Russian defenders who fired the guns, but the four cruisers on the sea!

The three cruisers launched an attack on the other cruiser, and the huge naval artillery shells smashed into the sea, setting off a huge water column. The Russian defenders who witnessed all this thought they were dreaming!

The sound of cannons on the sea was like a signal, and the offensive of the Chinese army had officially begun. The roar of more than 200 artillery pieces of various types was deafening.

The earth was shaking, and the cannons were roaring.

In the sixth year of the Republic of China, on July 1915, 7 in the Gregorian calendar, the Battle of Vladivostok finally kicked off.