Respectfully

Imai Ichiro sat cross-legged at the low table, and Honda Kumataro was already unconscious.

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, Imai Ichiro clapped his hands, the door of the room was opened, and a coquettish woman in Japanese kimono saluted at the door, "Imai-kun."

"Original, I'll leave the rest to you."

"Yes."

The woman called Oriko by Imai struggled to lift Kumataro Honda up. The drunk-eyed Honda only felt a burst of fragrance, and half drunk and half awake was helped out of the room by Oriko.

After Oriko took Honda away, a man wearing a kimono and glasses walked in. He is a well-known reporter. He has always been known for exposing the poverty of the Japanese lower classes, satirizing the Japanese authorities, and his relationship with workers’ organizations. Close, more than once inciting workers to strike, has many fans in Japan.In Japan, he is a dangerous person who has received the attention of intelligence agencies. Some people even speculate that he has relations with the Second International currently active in Europe.

In fact, he is an out-and-out Chinese, his ancestral home is Fujian, his real name is Jiang Qingshan, and his Japanese name is Xiaoshanqing.

Being wanted in Japan, he had to temporarily come to China to hide for a while.But he did not completely hibernate, and still communicated with Japan through Ichiro Imai. Not long ago, he even published an article in a newspaper, satirizing the cabinet for turning a blind eye to the famine in the country, and only thinking about expanding the power of the government,

"Little Tiger, please sit down." Ichiro Imai poured a glass of sake and sent it to Xiao Shanqing, "Have a drink."

"Call me Qingshan." Xiao Shanqing drank the wine in his glass and smiled wryly, "I almost forgot that I am a Chinese."

Ichiro Imai didn't speak, but just poured another glass of wine for Xiao Shanqing, "Hondo seems to be careless, but his mouth is unexpectedly tight. I invited him to the house several times, but there is no news about that matter. Ask out. I hope Zhizi can gain something."

"Zhizi should be fine." Xiao Shanqing raised his glass again, "Her mother was a maid who was taken away by her father and abandoned. They refused to admit that Zhizi had family blood. When I met her, she was almost hungry Dead. Her hatred for her father could serve us well."

"Very despicable."

"Yes, but what is this compared to what the Japanese did to us?" Koyama Kei echoed Imai Ichiro's words, "Besides, these despicable things have to be done by someone."

"Stop talking about that, have a drink."

In another room, Oriko lit a kind of incense that can soothe the spirit, and looked at Honda Kumataro collapsed on the tatami with a blank face. This is a government official. Her mother told her that her father was a Senior officials are still Chinese.

Zhizi knelt beside Honda, her white hand stuck into Honda's shirt, she lowered her head and leaned into Honda's ear, and whispered in a banshee-like voice: "Hondo-kun..."

The next day, when Honda Kumataro woke up, Oriko was no longer in the room, and lying next to him was a real Japanese prostitute.

"Are you awake?" The movement of Honda getting up woke up the Japanese woman lying beside her.

"Were you here all the time last night?"

"Yes, you are very drunk."

"Oh."

The memory of last night is very vague. Honda vaguely remembered that he drank with Ichiro Imai, and after he passed out, it was indeed a woman who helped him back to the room. Was it her?

Oroko has already told Imai Ichiro and Koyama Kei the information obtained from Honda's mouth. When Oroko finished speaking, the two could hardly restrain their anger.Japan's annexation of China's heart is clearly revealed in the content of this treaty!

"This must be stopped!" Xiao Shanqing said immediately after Zhizi left the room: "The southern government must not be allowed to sign such a treaty! Lose power and humiliate the country!"

"Don't be impulsive!" Imai Ichiro said in a deep voice.

"I'm already calm enough." Xiao Shan Qingteng stood up, "I will do this, and the Japanese must not succeed! There are still many people in the southern government who have illusions about Japan. I will personally break this illusion. Let them know that while they are talking and laughing with the Japanese, the Japanese are already cutting their flesh with knives!"

"The hill!"

Ichiro Imai didn't call Xiao Shanqing to stop, he could only watch him leave.Xiaoshan didn't know about the private partnership between Ichiro Imai and Wu Song. China was currently fighting a civil war. Disclosing this news, although it could expose the wolfish ambitions of the Japanese, was almost self-evident to the blow to the southern government.

Song Wu is likely to be affected by this incident, Imai is not willing to see this happen.

However, even if Xiao Shan can be stopped once or twice, it is impossible to stop him every time.If this arouses his resentment or suspicion, the situation will be even worse.Unlike Ichiro Imai, Koyama Kei, or should I say Jiang Qingshan, has a deep blood feud with the Japanese, as long as he can hit the Japanese, he will definitely spare no effort.He doesn't care about the final impact. Unlike Imai, he doesn't care whether it is the south or the north that unifies China in the end.

Imai Ichiro knew that he could not stop Jiang Qingshan, so he had to send a telegram to Song Wu.The telegram was not sent directly to Song Wu, but to a secret contact point agreed between him and Song Wu.He has a good relationship with many officials of the southern government and even the superintendent who holds military power. He is very careful when he can do things, and he doesn't want anyone to see his flaws.Especially for things that may arouse Japanese suspicion, Imai Ichiro will not let people catch him.

Song Wugang participated in the combat meeting of the coalition forces of the southern government. When he walked out of the meeting room, he saw his adjutant waiting at the door, "What's wrong?"

When the adjutant saw Song Wu, he immediately handed Song Wu a note in the file, "Young commander, telegram."

Song Wu opened it, and a cold light flashed in his long and narrow eyes.

"Young commander, do you want to call back?"

"No need." Song Wu shook his head, holding the note in his hand.Perhaps, this is also an opportunity. In the telegram that Lou Shengfeng sent to his father, he implicitly proposed to establish a North-South coalition government. If this proposal is to be achieved, there must be a prerequisite...

The situation of the adjutant coming to Song Wu was noticed by many people. Sun Qingquan, the No. 20 second division commander of the six southern provinces, came over and asked, "Young commander, is there something wrong?"

"It's okay." Song Wu shook his head, "Uncle, how many times have I told you, just call me Ah Wu."

"Etiquette cannot be abolished." Sun Qingquan insisted: "There should be rules in the army."

"That's all." Song Wu smiled, and continued: "Lou Xiao has also arrived in Shandong, right? Speaking of which, shouldn't he also call you uncle? In this way, he and I are also considered relatives."

Sun Qingquan didn't know what Song Wu meant by saying these words, was he reminding him, or was he warning him?Or just unintentional?No matter what it is, the only thing he can be sure of is that he is increasingly unable to see through the young man in front of him.

"Young commander, I..."

"Uncle, I have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Song Wu interrupted Sun Qingquan, "The 22nd Division is the vanguard of the attack on Tai'an, and I'm here to wish Uncle victory."

After saying that, Song Wu turned around and left. Sun Qingquan stood on the spot, looking at Song Wu's back, his brows became more and more wrinkled.Zhao Lianxing, the commander of the No.12 Division of the Six Southern Provinces who made great contributions to capturing Taierzhuang and Zaozhuang before, and Sun Qingquan have always had a good relationship. Seeing that his expression was wrong, he asked, "Qingquan, what's wrong?"

"I just think, young commander..."

"Young master, what?"

"It's nothing." Sun Qingquan paused, "Maybe I'm overthinking."

Mr. Zhao was confused by Sun Qingquan, and asked several questions one after another, but Sun Qingquan kept talking about him.After asking, Sun Qingquan simply changed the topic.Zhao Lianxing couldn't get anything out of Sun Qingquan's mouth in the end, so he had to give up.

The actions of the Southern Allied Forces were very rapid. The next day after the battle plan was set, the No. 20 Second Division of the Six Southern Provinces, as the vanguard, gathered its troops and rushed to Tai'an.The Sixth Division of the Guangdong Army and the No.60 First Division of the Guangxi Army were also cooperating in the operation.At the same time, in Anhui, where the war was first ignited, the Hubei army that captured Anqing was suddenly attacked by the Jiangxi army and the Anhui army, and the situation was critical.The Lu army who was besieged in Suzhou was basically helpless, and the Yu army who entered Bozhou started to retreat, but a telegram from President Sima completely shattered Yuan Baoshan's small plan, and the Yu army could not retreat!

Although the focus of the current competition between the North and the South is Shandong, Anhui is equally important!If Anhui can be captured, Jiangsu can be threatened. At that time, the southern coalition forces entering Shandong will always face the danger of being completely cut off and trapped in the north, and the generals will be unstable.

In response to the sudden large-scale mobilization of the Southern Allied Forces, the Northern Allied Forces also responded immediately. On the one hand, they built a solid line of defense to contain the leading troops of the Southern Allied Forces in Tai'an, creating the illusion that they could capture Tai'an and go north to Jinan by increasing their efforts. On the other hand, taking advantage of the local army's familiarity with the terrain, set up an ambush or go around behind the southern allied forces, and eat them one by one, weakening their strength to enter Shandong, so as to facilitate the final counterattack!

At this moment, a major incident occurred within the Northern Allied Forces. The governor of Shandong, the nominal deputy commander of the Northern Allied Forces, ran away when the battle was about to start!Before I ran far, I ran to Qingdao, where the Germans were entrenched!

"Is Han Anshan dizzy?!"

All the generals in the Northern Allied Forces didn't understand what Han Anshan was thinking, so he just left the troops and the title of deputy commander-in-chief and ran away?Had he been stoned in the head?

After the war, Han Anshan denied that he ran away on his own initiative, insisting that he was knocked out and put into a sack and "transported" all the way to Qingdao, but he couldn't tell who "hijacked" him, even the guards around him I don't know whether the commander-in-chief left by himself or was robbed by someone in a sack.

The matter of "Han Dushuai ran away timidly" has always been a mystery. After all, it is not Han Anshan's character to retreat before the battle, and he was the one who started the North-South War, and the northern coalition forces actually had the advantage. The road is really unreasonable.

Some people speculated that Han Anshan was telling the truth, and that he was kidnapped by the Japanese. The Japanese had always had a close relationship with the southern government, and perhaps they wanted to use this to shake the morale of the northern army.Some people also said that it was done by people inside the Northern Allied Forces. After this battle, Shandong will change hands. Han Anshan is the biggest obstacle for others to take over Shandong.Anyway, he is only in the name of a deputy commander in chief. Someone else actually commands the army to formulate the attack plan. Whether he is there or not will not have much impact on the coalition forces. It is better to take the opportunity to ruin his reputation. , He was completely expelled from Shandong.

In fact, even without this farce, Han Anshan's reputation in Shandong is not very good. The most criticized thing is that he encourages the people to grow opium and is very bloodthirsty.

The news of Han Anshan's escape reached the ears of the Southern Allied Forces. Before they were happy, there were also internal problems.Overnight, a piece of news about the southern government negotiating a traitorous treaty with the Japanese government pushed the southern government to the forefront of public opinion.

Although the newspaper that originally published this news had little influence, it was reprinted one after another in major newspapers in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, with convincing postscripts, this is by no means a fabrication.

So far, there has been a great uproar among the people, since Nanjing, Maguan, Xinchou, and Huaxia, under the persecution of foreign races, have signed treaties that forfeit power and humiliate the country one after another, but none of them can compare to the harshness and greed of this treaty!

"The loss of power and humiliation of the country is really the loss of power and humiliation of the country!

"Shame of China!"

"The Japanese prodigal son is ambitious and wants to destroy China!"

"Appalling!"

All of a sudden, the limelight of the Civil War between the North and the South was overshadowed by this treaty. The southern government, which was at the center of public opinion, became in a state of desperation. President Zheng Da was even thrown a bomb in front of the gate of the presidential palace. Fortunately, the explosive power of the bomb Not big, and he was a little far away, but only slightly injured.The police arrested the person who stabbed him on the spot, but he was besieged and cursed by the surrounding people. The assassin was regarded as a hero, and the newspapers reported him many times, all of which were sympathetic remarks.

Li Jinyan looked at the report on the treaty in the Guanbei City newspaper, and read the clauses listed above. Except that there was no content about Shandong and Hanyeping Company, it was almost exactly the same as the 21 clauses in history!

Yuan Datou was wiped out by a certain butterfly fan in history, but this disguised "Four Treaties of the People's Republic of China" still appeared.Although it was brought forward from 1915 to 1912, it was still the fourth year of the Republic of China according to China's time!

Does this mean that there is a force in the dark that has always wanted to bring the changed Chinese history back to its original track?

Thinking of this, Li Jinyan's back froze, thinking of the sufferings that the Chinese nation had suffered in those half a century, he told himself that the history of China must never return to the original point!Even if he tried his best, he would not hesitate!

At the same time, the German Governor-General Waldeck in Qingdao met an old friend, the German Minister to China Hackshausen, and there was a Chinese person whom Waldeck didn't know who was traveling with him.

After greeting each other, Waldeck asked, "Why don't you introduce me? My friend."

"This is Zhan Changqing, Mr. Zhan." Having said that, Hacks Shaoshen's tone changed, "He brought us a sincere gift."