Respectfully

On September 1912, 9 in the Gregorian calendar, Emperor Meiji was buried.

On the same day, Xiao Shanqing, who secretly sneaked back to Japan, disguised himself as a ronin and hid in the crowd on the side of the road.When the funeral procession passed by, he rushed forward, threw two bombs into the procession, and fired several shots at the leaders.

The scene suddenly became chaotic, and some radicals in contact with Xiaoshanqing took the opportunity to distribute the leaflets they had prepared in advance. One person even climbed onto the roof of an izakaya and threw the leaflets to the crowd from above.

The sharp whistle of the police sounded, and only one person involved in the operation escaped by chance, and the other five were arrested on the spot, and Xiao Shanqing was killed on the spot with more than ten gunshots.

Before dying, he shouted loudly: "For the people! For the country!"

Among the panicked crowd, someone shouted, "Xiao Shanqing, he is Xiao Shanqing!"

Among the lower classes, Xiao Shanqing and some literati advocated justice for the poor in the newspaper, representing the justice of the poor. Several workers immediately ran towards the fallen hill, and the scene became even more chaotic for a while.

The chaotic scene gradually subsided until the subordinate unit of the First Division guarding the capital rushed to the sky and fired warning shots, and shot and killed several workers who were rushing to the front.

The originally grand and solemn funeral became a bloody farce.What is even more "unfortunate" is that Nogi Noki, who was known as the "Military God" of Japan but was called a foolish general by later generations of Japanese, died in this assassination operation.He was slashed in the neck by shrapnel from a grenade and died on the way to the hospital.

One of the chief culprits who committed heinous crimes in China, the Lushun Massacre, failed to commit suicide and be buried for the emperor with his wife, but died at the hands of a Chinese.Japan's militarists have even lost a "loyal minister of the country" that can be advertised.

The final result of the incident was that the Xiyuanji cabinet fell three months earlier than in history, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Katsura Katsura, formed a cabinet with the support of the Japanese military minister, Laoshan Xianyoutomo.After the forces supported by the military came to power, they immediately asked Emperor Taisho to search and arrest domestic radicals in the press, progressive literati, and people suspected of being related to the Second International.

Among them, people who have contact with Xiao Shanqing are the key search targets.Among those arrested was Iguchi, who was also an overseas Chinese in Japan with Xiaoshan and Imai. Because he could not be tortured, he revealed Xiaoshan's true identity.

"Huaxia people?!"

The police in charge of the interrogation immediately reported this important news, and they were ordered to quickly arrest the Chinese students and businessmen in Japan on the charge of spying on Japanese intelligence. Almost none of the arrested people could get out of prison alive.

This incident was reported back to Huaxia, and once it was published in the newspaper, the public opinion was uproarious and the public sentiment was excited.The list of missing Chinese people in Japan kept appearing in the newspapers. On September [-], students, citizens, and businessmen took to the streets to jointly petition, demanding that the government stop the crazy behavior of the Japanese.Shouting the slogan "Down with Japan" and spontaneously boycotting Japanese goods, later it developed into student strikes, workers' strikes, and merchants' strikes. Some Japanese mill owners used thugs and Japanese ronin to beat and oppress the workers, forcing them to go back to work. , This move angered the Chinese people even more, and even some government officials took to the streets to participate in the demonstrations and protests against Japan.The "Fourth People's Treaty" that Japan attempted to destroy China was brought up again, and some people shouted, "Japan's heart to destroy China is not dead, how can we just sit and wait for death!"

The development of the situation is gradually getting out of control. Southern interim President Song Zhou and Northern President Sima Jun have successively sent telegrams to the whole country, and they will do their best to give the people an explanation!

The mansion of Japanese Minister Ijuin and Japanese consulates in various places were also besieged. The police who were ordered to protect the safety of the consulate were thrown stones and vegetable leaves by the angry crowd, and many people's heads were smashed out of blood.

In the end, these policemen finally couldn't bear the censure, took off their police uniforms and joined the marching crowd.

Several young students rushed out of the crowd and threw stones into the mansion. Suddenly gunshots rang out from the door, and a student fell into a pool of blood.Seeing the shooting holes in the wall, someone shouted: "The Japanese have fired!"

After a moment of silence, the crowd broke out into an even more angry roar, ignoring the flying bullets, and smashed open the door.

Japanese Minister Yijuin escaped through the back door by chance, and other personnel in the mansion, including a military attache and a clerk, were severely injured.

The news spread to Dongjiaomin Lane, and ministers from various countries gathered together to discuss how to deal with the incident.

"This is a matter for the Chinese and the Japanese." The German envoy said, "We don't need to intervene."

"Yes," the American envoys and the German envoys agreed, "The matter of the yellow race should be resolved by the yellow race."

The French envoy and the Italian envoy looked at the British envoy Zhu Erdian at the same time, Zhu Erdian was getting older, "Napoleon once said that China is a sleeping lion, don't wake him up. It's a pity that the Japanese made a very stupid mistake. Just like our Russian friends."

The Russian envoy raised his chin and was very dissatisfied with Zhu Erdian's words. Just as he was about to speak, Zhu Erdian continued: "However, we should also inform the Chinese government that we must control the development of the situation and not harm our interests. As for the Japanese, they Let them resolve the dispute with the Huaxia people themselves."

The next day, the governments of the North and the South received notes from the ministers of various countries, hoping that they could control the development of the situation.Sima Jun and Song Zhou's attitude towards this was surprisingly consistent, neither giving an affirmative answer nor making a clear objection. Consider it carefully.

The situation in Europe at this time is already very tense, and all countries are guarding against their neighbors. It is basically impossible to organize a joint army to attack Beijing like in the Gengzi Year.The only thing they can mobilize is the garrison in the concession, and are they willing to go to war with China for Japan?

"Dream!" Marshal Lou handed a telegram he kept to Young Marshal Lou: "This is from Pan Guangxing. He is doing well with some Japanese now, and he has gotten a lot of useful things from them." .”

Although all the Japanese spies in the six northern provinces have been wiped out, the Japanese consulates and overseas Chinese are still there, including those Chinese who are willing to work hard for the Japanese. The diaspora formed "friendships."Xu Guangzhi, who had been a bridge between him and Reiichi Kawaguchi before, had already been beheaded by Marshal Lou, and no insider would reveal his identity.

In the eyes of outsiders, he is a poor wretch who devoted half his life to the Lou family but was kicked away. Such a person is the easiest to be bribed.

"The Japanese on the South Manchuria Railway have also begun to be dishonest." Xiao Youde, who stood aside, said, "The commander is safe and sound, but there seems to be a disagreement among them. Since the young commander's independent brigade and the third division changed defense, they The provocative activities also stopped suddenly, but recently it seems to have started to move again."

"Really?" Marshal Lou frowned, "Xiao'er, if you decide, what are you going to do?"

"Fight." Young Marshal Lou hardly thought about it, and blurted out, "Even if they don't provoke, we still have to fight."

"Are you sure?"

"Even if you die, you have to teach the Japanese a lesson!" A murderous look flashed across Lou Shaoshuai's face, "Kill our people, humiliate China, bully others too much!"

At the same time, Qiao Leshan approached Li Jinyan on his own initiative, and Li Jinyan was surprised when he saw Qiao Leshan's appearance.His clothes were disheveled, his hair was messed up like a chicken coop, his face was unshaven, and there were two dark circles under his eyes.Sniff, how many days has this guy not showered?

"Li, I..." Qiao Leshan was in a hurry. He couldn't speak Mandarin well after he had just learned it. A series of German mixed with English made Li Jinyan roll his eyes.

"Stop!" Hastily raised his hand to prevent Qiao Leshan from continuing, Li Jinyan called a girl and asked her to see if the young general came out of the study, and if he didn't come out, call for Adjutant Ji.

The girl agreed and left. Li Jinyan turned around and saw that Qiao Leshan was already sitting on the sofa. He grabbed a piece of snack and stuffed it into his mouth. He ate a little anxiously and took a big mouthful of tea before he stopped coughing.

"What the hell happened to you?"

"Watermelon!" Qiao Leshan immediately raised his head when he heard Li Jinyan's question, "Watermelon!"

Li Jinyan is also refreshed, could it be that the research has yielded results? !

There was a knock on the door, and Adjutant Ji walked in. Before he could speak, Li Jinyan grabbed him and said to Qiao Leshan, "Tell him everything!"

Qiao Leshan blurted out a series of German words as if he had found a savior.After Lieutenant Ji listened, a very vivid "囧" appeared on his face.

"Adjutant Ji, what did he say?"

"He said that the watermelon that Young Master Yan gave him was very good, very good." Adjutant Ji wondered if he had heard it wrong as he said, "He also said that if Young Master Yan still has rotten watermelons, or other rotten watermelons, Fruit, as long as it has green hair, can be given to him, he needs it very much."

"He really said that?"

"Really." Adjutant Ji looked at Li Jinyan, whose eyes were shining, and Qiao Leshan, who was gesticulating at Li Jinyan while eating snacks. What's going on?

"Success, I understand." Li Jinyan nodded and said: "Qiao Leshan, as long as you can really research what I want, let alone a salary increase, I will directly give you the shares of the Western Medicine Factory!"

"It's a deal! Don't renege on it!"

"..." This fake foreign devil only had these two sentences fluently.

Qiao Leshan ate a whole plate of dim sum and packed two more before being sent back to the laboratory by Adjutant Ji.Li Jinyan went straight to the kitchen to see if there were any fruits with green hairs.

The cook was taken aback by Li Jinyan, a fruit with green hair?Where does this start, how can there be such a thing in the kitchen!

"Master Yan, I have worked in Lou's family for more than ten years, but I dare not keep these. Don't worry, the vegetables, rice and fruits at home are the freshest."

Li Jinyan sighed, what he wanted was stale!

In the end, a girl found him a moldy and hairy dress from the servant's room, "Master Yan, there are really no fruits or anything, can you see this?"

Clothes with long green hair?Li Jinyan scratched his head, is that okay?He really doesn't know.But it is true that the inventor of penicillin had found Penicillium in the soil.The green hair on the clothes... Forget it, send it to Qiao Leshan, he has the final say on whether it is there or not.

Let the girl talk to Mrs. Lou, and Li Jinyan went directly to the farm by car.Along the way, I saw many shops with banners saying "Authentic domestic products, boycott Japanese products". I remembered that Li Bing told him before that the business of the two cloth shops in his hand was getting better and better. Recently, some cloth shops selling foreign cloth were empty. Even if they say they are not selling Japanese cloth, the common people can’t tell whether it is British cloth, American cloth or Japanese cloth. In short, they are all foreign cloth, and Lijiabuzhuang is famous for selling homemade cloth, even if it is not as good as foreign cloth. Regardless of color, people will still buy homespun cloth.

The steward of the cloth shop reported the matter to Li Bing, and the homespun cloth sold in the past half month alone was as much as the previous half year.

"Master Yan is a lucky star!"

Lucky star?

Li Jinyan didn't think so. Thinking of the reason for all this, Li Jinyan felt a fire in his heart. When will we completely drive these Japanese scumbags out of Huaxia? !When will our own country really stand up straight in the East?When can Chinese talents say no to anyone? !

Seeing Li Jinyan's expression was wrong from the rearview mirror, the adjutant who followed him asked worriedly, "Master Yan, are you alright?"

"It's okay." Li Jinyan shook his head, motioning the car to pull over and let the student parade in front pass first, "Are these all students from Guanbei?"

"Yes. Look at their school uniforms. Most of them are from Guanbei Middle School and North University, but military students don't have any." After the adjutant stopped the car, he turned to Li Jinyan and said, "But yesterday the military students set up a stage on Changning Street and performed a drama. There was also a speech, and many people went to see it.”

"Oh? Whose idea is this?"

"It's Shen Heduan, the deputy director of the teaching office of the military academy, and the grandson of Mr. Shen Zeping."

"It's him?" Mrs. Lou mentioned to him before that she wanted to be a matchmaker for the Shen family and the Li family. The next day, Li Jinyan talked with Master Li San. Master Li San said to go back and think about it, but there is no news these days, and it is probably about this matter. No joke, "Listening to what you said, I'm quite curious about this person. He seems to be only 21?"

"Yes, but he studied in France when he was 16 years old, and has been working in the political department of the military government since he came back. The military academy in the six northern provinces was established, and he was specially sent to work in the teaching office. His work ability is very good." Speaking of here , the adjutant paused, "It's just that I heard that he has something to do with the Second International abroad."

"Second Communist International?"

"It seems to be this?" The adjutant said: "I don't touch this international or that international. I don't touch these as a soldier. But the young commander seems to know, and he once discussed it with him when he went to the military academy. Don't look at the young general. He didn’t talk much, but every sentence was to the point. At that time, he was speechless when he was asked, and when the young commander wanted to leave, he still refused to let him go, saying that he would continue to discern the truth.”

The adjutant said it as a joke, but Li Jinyan couldn't laugh.He really didn't expect Shen Heduan to be such a person. Should he meet him?Although there is not much relationship between the Second International and the Third International established in the Soviet Union, the great revolutionary mentor was one of the members of the Second International.Maybe Shen Heduan still knows him.

Speaking of revolutionary mentors, it is true that the whole family is revolutionizing.The elder brother assassinated the Tsar and was killed.My sister opposed the government and was arrested.Even my sister is an out-and-out radical.

The so-called revolutionary family should be like this?Well, indeed.

As the parade approached, someone saw a car parked on the side of the road with the sign of the Marshal's Mansion on it, which was very conspicuous.Several leading students stepped forward and knocked on the car window. The adjutant glanced at Li Jinyan and rolled down the car window when he saw his agreement, "What's the matter?"

"Who's in the car?" A student in the uniform of Northern University asked rudely.

Adjutant Ji frowned, "Why are you asking this?"

"Why, dare not show your face?" Another student said: "We are all running for the country, and as the people in power in the six northern provinces, we hide in the car and dare not even show our faces?!"

"Nonsense!" The adjutant was a little angry. These students do things with enthusiasm, and it is also a headache to mess around.

"Is what I said wrong?!" The young student continued, and several other students followed suit: "These feudal warlords are always thinking about fighting for power and profit, and searching for the people's fat and anointment, and they simply turn a blind eye to the injured and bleeding citizens!"

Several students became more and more excited as they talked, and raised their arms high: "Down with Japanese imperialism! Down with feudal warlords!"

The rest echoed loudly, Li Jinyan frowned, something is wrong!

The next moment, several men holding wooden sticks and stones suddenly rushed out from the corner of the street. Although they were also wearing student uniforms, it was obvious at a glance that they were not students!Taking advantage of the chaos, these people rushed to the front of the car, raised sticks and stones, and threw them at the windows and roof of the car!The sound of shattering glass made the crowd even more agitated. Then, a smoking bomb was suddenly thrown into the car. Both Li Jinyan and the adjutant were shocked. The adjutant grabbed the bomb and threw it out. He saw the bomb thrown on the ground. Bomb, the crowd scattered in all directions, shouting bombs.

With a bang, there was an explosion, and several people who were close to him fell to the ground, and the car windows were shattered. The scattered glass shards scratched Li Jinyan's forehead, and a few traces of blood slowly flowed down.

Li Jinyan had encountered such a thing before, but this time it was completely different. The person who threw the bomb obviously wanted to kill the people in the car!

Is it aimed at Lou's family, or just at him?

Director Zhao of the police station learned that Li Jinyan was the one who had the accident, and slipped from his chair to the floor again. God, why is it Master Yan again? !If Young Master Yan scratched his skin, he would lose his skin!

Director Zhao rushed to the scene as fast as he could, but found that someone was faster than him. Young Marshal Lou was standing beside Li Jinyan, brushing his forehead with his fingers, and his snow-white gloves were stained red.

"It was cut by glass." Li Jinyan touched the injured area, "Small hole, it's okay."

Young Marshal Lou's face was cold, and the adjutant following Li Jinyan had already reported the whole story to Young Marshal Lou.The young students who were the first to attack the car were brought over. They were all frightened by the explosion just now, especially after seeing those who were injured and carried down, two of the female students were already crying.

"We didn't mean to..."

The voice was very low, Li Jinyan sighed, and just about to speak, another voice came from behind: "Third brother?"

"You are?" Li Jinyan turned his head, and it took him a long time to recognize that the person who ran over was Li Jinshu, the daughter of Master Li San: "Jinshu, why are you here?"

"I came here with my classmates." Li Jinshu said, "Third brother, don't blame Lu Yin and the others, okay? They didn't know you were in the car. In fact, everyone admires you very much, saying that you have created so many factories. It is to revitalize the national industry, even our teachers praise you in class."

The little girl's voice was very crisp, but Li Jinyan frowned, this is really not the place to talk: "The truth of the matter is left to the police. Don't worry, as long as they have nothing to do with this incident, nothing will happen. You come with me."

"Third brother, I want to be with my classmates!"

"Do third uncle and third aunt know about your coming out?"

"..." Li Jinshu bowed his head and stopped talking. Li Jinyan couldn't help but feel a headache. Just seeing Li Jinqin in the front yard would be a disaster. With Jinshu like this, I don't know how the third uncle and the third aunt will be angry.Although he doesn't think girls must be kept at home, but the current social atmosphere is like this, if today's incident gets out, she will never want to find a good family again.

Li Jinshu still wanted to argue, but Young Marshal Lou got on his horse, pulled Li Jinyan up again, gave her a cold look, and said to the adjutant who followed Li Jinyan before, "Drive her back to Li's house."

"Young Marshal, you can't just send Jinshu back like this." Li Jinyan hurriedly said: "Send her to my mother, and then send someone to Li's house to inform the third wife, remember not to tell Master Li San."

"Yes!"

No matter how reluctant Li Jinshu was, he knew that Li Jinyan was doing it for her own good, so he got into the car, and the adjutant drove him to the bungalow where the second wife lived.Seeing her being brought by the car of Lou's family, the second lady was taken aback, asked what happened, and knew that Li Jinyan was injured, she was even more worried.If it wasn't for Li Jinshu being here with her, she would have rushed to Lou's house immediately.

"Second aunt..." Seeing the expression on the second lady's face, Li Jinshu finally realized the seriousness of the matter, and sat honestly on the sofa without daring to speak.

The third lady who received the news almost fainted, she didn't dare to tell Mr. Li San, and she even wanted to hide it from the old lady, and came to pick her up by herself with a girl.Seeing Li Jinshu, after confirming that she was not injured, he tapped her forehead fiercely: "You, why are you so courageous!"

After Li Jinyan and Young Marshal Lou returned to Lou's house, Marshal Lou and Mrs. Lou were waiting in the living room. Dr. Liu was also invited to the mansion. He carefully treated Li Jinyan's wound, prescribed medicine, and told him not to get wet for seven days. , there should be no scars.

"Thank God." Mrs. Lou clasped her hands together. She is almost seven months pregnant and her hands and feet are swollen badly. "It's finally all right. Xiao'er, what's going on here?"

"Investigating." Young Marshal Lou sat beside Li Jinyan, brushing his forehead with his fingers, "Does it hurt?"

"It's really fine. The cut is less than half a finger long, and it's just scratched and bleed." Li Jinyan thought for a while, and then said: "Young commander, I'm afraid this matter is not simple. Those students must have been used. It was the people with wooden sticks and stones who did the real work, but I didn’t see clearly who threw the bomb.”

"I will find out." Young Marshal Lou's hand slowly stroked Li Jinyan's hair, "I will make those who did this regret coming to this world."

Lushun, Kanto Governor's Mansion

The governor, Oshima Yoshimasa, saw the telegram sent by the Ministry of Intelligence, and slammed the table: "Okay! Well done!"

"Your Excellency, do you want to adopt the second step plan?"

"Of course." Yoshimasa Oshima said, "It doesn't take much effort to blame the assassination on the southern government, right?"

"Yes!"

"As long as China falls into war again, it will be an opportunity for our Great Japanese Empire!" Yoshima Oshima opened the drawer, took out a file bag from it, and handed it to Hexia, "These people are the intelligence personnel who planned and implemented this incident. The three of them are new to the intelligence department, and you will be directly under your leadership afterwards."

"Yes!"

Hexia respectfully took over the file bag, took out the documents inside, the photo posted on the top document was exactly Xing Wu who hid in the Japanese consulate before!

At the same time, two figures of a man and a woman were kneeling in front of the gate of the Li family, and the man was holding a box in his hand.The concierge heard the voice from outside, looked out through the crack of the door, and was startled: "Young Master, Miss?!"