Updated: 2012-12-22

Because of the emergence of Wang Yi and the rise of the Northeast Autonomous Region, Yuan Shikai was advanced to train the new army in Xiaozhan, Tianjin by nearly ten years. Xu Shichang was 33 years old this year. In 1879, he became a brother of a disciple and a son of Yuan Shikai. Later, he was funded by him to go to Beijing for the examination. He first passed the imperial examination and then passed the imperial examination. The court was appointed as editor of the Hanlin Academy. When he heard the news that the Qing court ordered Yuan Shikai to train troops in Xiaozhan, he defected to Yuan Shikai again and became his chief aide. The two of them were both civil and military, which gave the new army the momentum today.

The young and old men in the capital had high expectations for the new army. They went to the kilns and went to the eight major hutongs and boasted to the girls that the new army was the number one army in Asia. This was a joke in the northeast, and the insurance team of the hundred battles did not dare to boast like this. The new army, who had never fought a battle and had never even touched a bandit, was so greedy. It was hard to say whether the combat power was the number one in Asia, but the face was really possible. In the words of the bandits in the insurance team, the upper lips were close to the sky and the lower lips were close to the ground. You are so fucking big!

No matter how those people in the capital were bragging, Yuan Shikai knew very well. The new army was an expensive decoration. In terms of combat power, let alone the Northeast Insurance Team, it is still between the two whether the other Beiyang troops under Li Hongzhang could win with an overwhelming advantage. Xu Shichang was a little confused about this. How could he say that his son was still his own relative?

Just before the end of the year, the Northeast Autonomous Region and the Russian Empire started negotiations on the western border. After learning the news, Yuan Shikai couldn't sleep at night and wandered around the military camp in the middle of the night. It was a coincidence that Xu Shichang was about to get up at night and walked back to his residence with a cotton coat. Because in the military camp, the two of them lived in a fine manner, and they were in the same courtyard. When the military camp was newly built, they slept on the same kang.

"Weiting, you are..." Xu Shichang would of course find it strange. In the middle of the night in winter, Yuan Shikai stayed asleep and was wandering outside alone. Which wife are you thinking about?

Yuan Shikai thought that his thoughts were fascinated, but when Xu Shichang suddenly asked, he suddenly felt as if he was awakened from a dream, and was startled.

"Oh, it turns out it's Brother Bu Wu!"

The two were brothers who worshipped the sons. Although after Yuan Shikai became emperor in later generations, Xu Shichang remained silent and was not far away from him, at this time, both of them were still in the stage of hard work and starting a business, so their relationship was naturally extremely close.

"I don't know why today, I just can't sleep!" Yuan Shikai made a big stone and sighed helplessly.

Xu Shichang was a little surprised, stunned for a moment, then understood and hesitated: "But is there any new news in the Northeast?"

"Hey...!" Yuan Shikai sighed again! It took him a long time to say: "The Northeast and the Russians have begun to negotiate the western border of the north."

Xu Shichang didn't react at first when he heard the news, but he was not an ordinary person after all. After thinking about the interests, he immediately knew the key issues that his younger brother, who was a beggar, was worried about.

In East Asia, there are two companies that are most unwilling to stop the Eastern Russian War. The first one is naturally the Japanese and the other is the Qing court. Compared with the Japanese across the sea, the Qing court's concerns are obviously more serious.

"Which Weiting is worried that the Northeast will be detrimental to the Qing court?"

Isn't this obvious? In fact, everyone understands that even if Eastern Russia signs a peace agreement, the Northeast will still maintain a certain amount of troops on the border, but compared with wartime, the number of insurance teams will definitely be greatly reduced. The whereabouts of these transferred troops have become a concern for everyone. Whether it is located on the border of the East Qing Dynasty, Hokkaido, or the five Southeast Asian provinces, there will definitely be opponents from Northeast China worrying about this, for fear that the Northeast will aim its knife at itself.

"The one who knows me is Brother Bu Wu!" Yuan Shikai, who was originally a small man, now seems to be a little shorter than usual. You can imagine how much pressure there is on his shoulders.

Xu Shichang was a little puzzled and looked at Yuan Shikai and asked, "Weiting, isn't we a little too worried about this? Although the Northeast and the Russian Empire will significantly reduce their garrisons on the front line after signing a border agreement, they may not point the finger at us, right? As far as Brother Yu knows, although the bandit king in the Northeast doesn't like the two people in the palace, he is more hated to Japan in comparison. At that time, he almost slaughtered the Japanese in the Northeast for a little trivial matter. Well, let go of Japan and not mention it. The Northeast is not a world of equitable world in the five Southeast Asian provinces. There is still a dragon king there that has not been wiped out!"

Yuan Shikai waved his hand, shook his head, and said, "Brother doesn't know anything! Others don't understand Wang Yi, but I know very well. I started to study this person's way of doing things in the early years. Yes, Northeast China and Japan seem to be irreconcilable, and they have a deep feud with the Dragon King of Southeast Asia. But this does not mean that he has taken these people into his eyes! Let's talk about Southeast Asia first, now the former chief of staff of the Northeast Insurance Team - Wu Xiao. Do I know this person? When I followed General Wu Changqing in North Korea, this person was behind me.

Commander knocked the Japanese out of their arms and almost wiped out the entire army. Although he was implicated by his family and sent to the Northeast Army Officer's School as the principal, it was also obvious that Wang Yi's protection was made. Now Wu Xiao has come out again and is in the five provinces of Southeast Asia. Wang Yi's respect for him remains the same. In Southeast Asia, he is not so worried about the situation there, but rather that he is using the Dragon King to teach Wu Xiao, who has been away from the battle formation for a long time, and at the same time, he uses the battle to support the war to improve the combat effectiveness of the newly established insurance team in Southeast Asia!”

After hearing Yuan Shikai's analysis, Xu Shichang nodded. He didn't deal much with the Northeast, and since Yuan Shikai joined the army, he spent most of his time in the Northeast, as was the case in the Korean War and Vietnam.

"Is it possible that the king treated the five Southeast Asian provinces as another Tsarist Russia?" Xu Shichang understood Yuan Shikai's meaning, but he was still a little puzzled, saying, "Even if you said Weiting, isn't there any Japan before us?"

"Not Japan! ... Japan originally had four major islands, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Hokkaido. Hokkaido has now become the world of the Northeast Autonomous Region, and the Ryukyu in the south of Japan is also under the control of the Northeast. If Japan is regarded as a Go piece, the energy gathers in all directions has been cut off. The remaining West is the vast Pacific Ocean. For Japan, the West is born with insufficient energy. As for the East, it is our Qing Dynasty! Although this place is constantly breathing and can still gather some money, under the strong economic competition in the Northeast, this only vitality is also decreasing."

"If the Northeast navy is included, Japan is actually invincible!" Xu Shichang sighed.
Chapter completed!