Song Biao's original intention was to return to Dalian in a low-key manner to deal with his private affairs, but after the news leaked, he was still warmly welcomed.

In this small harbor colonial town named "Darny" by the Russians, its special nature is just like Hong Kong under the rule of the British Empire. The Tsarist Russian Empire was an empire that was very popular. In the past seven years, the Tsarist Russian Empire almost did not hesitate.

The city was built with financial resources, trying to build it into an economic, financial, trade and shipping center in the entire Far East, and build it into a great city like Paris in the East. However, after the Russo-Japanese War, Song Biao easily took it.

Go deeper into it and gradually become the master of the city.

Just as Russia and Japan want to dominate the three northeastern provinces, the person who will really dominate this area will be Song Biao.

Considering that the political situation in the entire three northeastern provinces was undergoing a wonderful change, the consuls of various countries stationed here also visited Song Biao intensively during this period.

After waiting in Dalian for a few days, Jiang Yanxing and Rong Xingqiao arrived in Tianjin as representatives of Song Biao. With the help of Liang Dunyan, Cai Tinggan and other Rong Xingqiao students studying in the United States, they met Yuan Shikai and secretly negotiated for more than two hours.

And he sent an urgent telegram to Song Biao, who was in Dalian overnight to report the matter.

Rong Xingqiao's call back was very short, and he said that things went smoothly.

After receiving the telegram, Song Biao was very happy and went to bed first. At 2:30 in the morning, Shu Fangde hurriedly woke up Song Biao. It turned out that Yuan Shikai sent another telegram in person, and there were many contents.

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Song Biao washed his face in confusion and turned on the desk lamp in the room and sat on the desk reading the telegram.

The content of this telegram is indeed very long. It roughly means: I, Yuan Shikai, and you, Song Biao, have had contacts and friendships for a long time. I received your gift. This gift is too expensive. I, Yuan Shikai, dare not take it as a gift. I, thank you for your love.

I am grateful for it, and it will be passed down from generation to generation, so that future generations can know your General Song Biao's courage and greatly shock our country's prestige.

I remember that Japanese Army Marshal Dashan Iwai beat me Yuan Shikai very miserably on the Korean Peninsula. He threw away his armor and even the Hunan and Huai army were not his opponent. However, you could kill Dashan Iwai in Liaoyang and defeat the Japanese army in a row.

Generals from all walks of life. I, Yuan Shikai, have also been a general for the rest of my life. Naturally, I know your ability and level well. I really don’t know how much better than me.

In short, you, Song Biao, are really amazing. I, Yuan Shikai, admire you very much. I wish I could fly across the strait overnight to meet you, raise my glass to drink, become a sworn Jinlan, and discuss the major events in the world.

As for the position of governor of the three eastern provinces, I, Yuan Shikai, always believed that you were the ones.

The situation in Northeast China is very chaotic now. The Russians are becoming more and more rampant, and it is by no means something that the Qing Dynasty and the court can stop. Only you can stabilize the situation in the three northeastern provinces. If the court does not agree with the Russians' proposal, you will not let you go.

The governor of the three provinces, and you would rather not take this position than be threatened by the Russians. The three northeastern provinces will surely be able to stabilize the situation in the next few years, and the situation will become more chaotic. If this continues, the Russians will continue to take advantage of the situation. The three provinces will be in danger.

, will eventually die in Russia.

I, Yuan Shikai, devoted myself to serving the country, how can I sit and see such a situation? Therefore, tomorrow I will tell the Queen Mother and the court the interests. Instead of letting the Russians benefit from it and seize the three northeastern provinces in the chaos. If you are not appointed as the governor of the three northeastern provinces,

This is a dangerous situation and you are given the order. Please be sure to deal with the Russians to the end and not allow Russia to get involved in the three northeastern provinces.

If things can be done and you can resist the unreasonable demands of the Russians, that would be a great blessing in the world.

In short, I, Yuan Shikai, really want to meet you, but at this moment, major events are important. I believe we will always meet in the future. At that time, we must invite you to drink with you.

After reading the telegram, Song Biao counted roughly the number of words. It was estimated that Yuan Shikai would have to spend 300 rounds just by sending this telegram, which was quite expensive.

He read the content of the telegram again and thought about it before he told Shu Fangde: "You can draw a call for me, it won't take a long time. Just say that the Governor is right. I will follow the Governor's intentions to deal with it.

This matter.”

Shu Fangde thought for a while and replied, "What brother said is very true, I will listen to it!"

Song Biao nodded slightly and said, "It's not bad, just reply like this."

Shu Fangde asked, "Military, will you go now?"

Song Biao knew that the telegraph company in Dalian was located in the nearby Nikolayev Square, only a few hundred steps away, so he nodded and said, "Go, go early and go back soon."

Shu Fangde immediately stood up and saluted and said goodbye, and then went to the telegraph company to get the matter done.

After he left, Song Biao was alone in the hotel room thinking about the powerful relationship here. If the situation really would be as Yuan Shikai said, the Qing court would readily hand over the power of the governor of the three eastern provinces to him.

Don't wait for the Russians to force them. Instead, he has room to deal with the Russians so that the Russians will not make any profit from it.

That night, Song Biao never fell asleep.

Just when he couldn't sleep at night, Russia and Japan quarreled all day during the final armistice talks in Portsmouth. No matter how much difference is there between the two sides' armistice requirements, the war has ended after all, and both sides fight.

Can't go on.

Japan fired the first shot against Russia on behalf of Britain, the United States and other countries. Russia's plan to monopolize the Northeast was already bankrupt. At this time, Russia's negotiating opponent was not just Japan, but the entire British-Japanese alliance, and even the mediation of the

The United States actually prefers the British-Japanese alliance.

Although Russia won an unprecedented victory in the army thanks to the Liaoyang Battle and the Liaodong counterattack commanded by Song Biao, its navy was almost sunk by Japan and no longer able to maintain Russia's overseas interests.

The land was exposed to artillery fire from the entire British Empire fleet.

Song Biao came to Dalian this time for purely for soybean business, but it turned out to be a political journey. A few days after receiving Yuan Shikai's telegram, he met with consular officials in Kanto State from Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries.

Even the British Empire's Minister to China, Juerdian, took advantage of the opportunity to coordinate the negotiations between Russian and Japanese prisoners of war, and met Song Biao briefly at the British Consulate in Kanto State, and exchanged opinions on the situation in the three eastern provinces.

After this period of time, Song Biao had clearly felt that Britain, the United States and other countries. Especially Britain, and even Japan, they hoped that Song Biao would become the governor of the three northeastern provinces, because at this time, only Song Biao still had the ability and opportunity to curb Russia in the Northeast.

In the Qing Dynasty, no one else could do this.

The meeting between Zhu Erdian and Song Biao was only half an hour, but during this half hour, Minister Zhu Erdian said it very clearly that if Song Biao needed special help, the British Empire and him personally would provide necessary assistance.

When military operations fail to achieve their due results, countries will continue to make more political efforts. But the direction of this effort is still military, and the so-called necessary assistance from Britain is undoubtedly in the military.

A few days later, just as Song Biao was about to return to Shenyang and re-convened the third consultation with General Madnidolph on the affairs of the governor of the three eastern provinces, the Qing court finally sent two officials to Dalian to meet Song Biao secretly.

One is Yinchang, the general manager of Tianjin Wubei Academy, and the other is Tang Shaoyi, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Yinchang was a Manchu, and he had always been deeply trusted by the important officials of Manchus. He was also Yuan Shikai's close friend and relative of his children. Tang Shaoyi had just maintained national sovereignty during the previous Sino-British ** talks, forcing Britain to recognize the Qing Empire's reverence.

*'s territory rights were given, so he was promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he was fully responsible for the issues of the three countries of China, Japan and Russia on the Russo-Japanese War.

It was heard that it was these two people, and Song Biao, who had already bought the train ticket, decided to stay temporarily and book a room for them in the hotel he was staying. He also sent Shu Fangde to lead the troops to pick him up.

At this time, Dalian was gradually moving towards prosperity, and it was far from its heyday. Although there were many hotels and restaurants in the city, only four were truly high-end. Except for the three run by Russians and British Commercial Bureau, the rest was bought by Song Biao.

Next to this Kanto Hotel.

Because Song Biao met with special guests during this period, the Kanto Hotel has basically not been open to the public recently, and is more suitable for Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi to check in.

Seeing that the time was almost over, Song Biao went downstairs to greet the two distinguished guests. He led the team to wait for more than ten minutes at the door. The horse team responsible for welcoming Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi arrived outside the hotel in a lively manner.

Song Biao gave enough of the other party, not only sent Shu Fangde to greet him with his guard battalion, but also asked Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov to arrange for the 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment to be martial law at the port to avoid any accidents.

I heard that the other party was Song Biao's guest, and Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov even led a team to escort him.

At the entrance of the hotel, Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov brought two infantry platoons and escorted them all the way. Song Biao was also very surprised. He had never expected this to be the case. When the two carriages stopped at the entrance of the hotel, Nezna

Lieutenant Colonel Moff turned over from the back of a golden Don River war horse, walked up quickly and saluted Song Biao, "Brother General, I heard that it was your guest, so I decided to lead the team to escort myself.

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After Song Biao returned the gift, he shook hands with Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov and said, "I'm sorry to you. I just prepared a banquet at noon. I'll take my brothers to have a meal with me at noon. Last time it was you.

I'll invite you today."

Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov smiled and said, "Then I'm not polite. Actually, this time I came here, I also want to talk to you about the Far East Non-commissioned Officer School. I would like to ask you some questions."

Song Biao was a polite word, but since he agreed, it was hard to refuse anymore. He could only smile and said, "Okay, then let's talk slowly at the dinner table."

When Song Biao and Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov were polite, Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi walked out of the carriage. Shu Fangde, who was accompanying him, felt a little worried when he heard that Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov was going to stay.

Anxious, but still calmly stepped forward and introduced Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi to Song Biao.

Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi were both wearing casual clothes, and interestingly, they were all wearing black suits. It was basically impossible to tell that they were officials of the Qing court.

Since Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov was present, it would not be possible for Song Biao to not introduce the two sides. He first introduced to Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov: "This Mr. Yinchang is the principal of Tianjin Non-commissioned Officer School and has previously studied in Germany.

The Army Academy was a classmate with Emperor William II of Germany and had a good relationship. Mr. Tang had studied at Yale University in the United States. Both of them were friends I specially invited to visit here."

Immediately, he and Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi introduced: "Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov was my most capable subordinate during the Battle of Liaoyang. The 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment he led at that time was almost trained by me.

It's very familiar. It's very convenient to call. Although the Russo-Japanese War is temporarily over, the dock is still not peaceful. I'm worried that something will happen to you, so let Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov, who happened to be stationed nearby, pick you up."

Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi were naturally more enthusiastic and hurriedly shook hands with Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov to show his affection, but I don’t know if Song Biao’s arrangement has other profound meanings.

The banquet in the hotel is ready. Since everyone has arrived, they will naturally be able to hold the banquet at the table. Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi are very adapted to the lifestyle of Europe and the United States, and are also an alternative figure with a Westernized lifestyle in the Qing Dynasty.

With Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov present, Song Biao temporarily changed the red wine.

After taking two sips, Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov couldn't wait to ask Song Biao: "Brief General, you are asking me to work at the Far East Non-commissioned Officer School. Do you still continue to count?"

Song Biao smiled and said, "It must be counted. You can come anytime, I welcome you anytime. It is best to come now."

Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov said: "Okay, when the empire and Japan end the armistice talks, I will take the initiative to submit an application to the headquarters to stay in the Far East Non-commissioned Officer School to teach. I personally think it should be to calm down now.

It is time to sort out the various army battles during the entire Russo-Japanese War. I think it would be a better choice to do this work, staying in the Far East non-commissioned officer school, if possible. I hope to spend three to four years

I will prepare a summary report on the development direction of military theory and tacticals for this war, and I hope to put forward some targeted opinions on our reforms."

Song Biao, on his conscience, did not support Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov's actions. It would be better to be a little confused. Anyway, it won't take long to make the October Revolution in Russia. At that time, he took the opportunity to raid Russia, regain the Far East, and regain control of the outside world.

Good time for Meng and Tanu Ulianghai.

The stronger the Russian army, the more risks and troubles there are.

But what could he say?

Song Biao could only nod slightly and said to Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov: "I think your idea is very good, in fact. I also have this idea. Through this war, we can fully see the development of future wars.

Directions and more comprehensive reform opinions on weapons, combat theories, tactics, training and military system. I will support you in doing this."

Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov smiled and said, "That's thank you, by the way. Do you have any new thoughts on the small-scale infiltration of the tactical forces adopted by our 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment?"

Song Biao thought about it and said, "This issue will take a longer time to discuss. Since you will teach at the Far East Non-commissioned Officer School later, let's wait and discuss it slowly later. As for now, I actually have some

There is no new idea, but no relevant training is conducted, so it is difficult to explain the specific possibilities of some new directions clearly.”

Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov nodded cautiously.

Because of the unexpected visitor of Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov, Song Biao, Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi did not talk about any serious matters. After the luncheon ended, Song Biao sent Lieutenant Colonel Neznamov away, he hurriedly returned.

In your own room.

Yinchang and Tang Shaoyi were both waiting in his room, while Shu Fangde accompanied them to chat. When Song Biao came back, the three of them hurriedly got up.
To be continued...