Seeing that everyone was still confused, Miyamoto Naotao said: "On the surface, the promotion from instructor to senior consultant, with increased status, status and salary, but what he lost was the opportunity to contact the Beiyang New Army directly, and he lost his influence in the Beiyang New Army. This shows that Yuan Shikai had already become suspicious of them, so he used the method of rising and falling openly to eliminate the actual power of both of them. Since Yuan Shikai could both become suspicious of them, who would guarantee that overseas Chinese would not be suspicious."

Although everyone was quite dissatisfied with Naotao Miyamoto’s statement, they could not find any reason to refute it. And Naotao Miyamoto is the highest person in charge of the Shandong intelligence system after all, and it is difficult for everyone to argue with him. So Naotao Kondo said: "So what kind of rectification do you plan to make on the Shandong intelligence organization?"

Naotao Miyamoto nodded, which was the point of the topic, so he said: "From now on, the business bank will only engage in business, trade, and business activities, and can provide bases and necessary adaptation training for intelligence personnel from Japan to Shandong, but they are not engaged in all kinds of intelligence collection, inquiry and other activities. All intelligence personnel must leave the business bank, and establish a new intelligence system, and all activities as Chinese people, and go deep into all social strata in Jinan."

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. No one expected Miyamoto Naotao to carry out such a major surgery on Shandong's intelligence system, because although Japanese intelligence personnel in China also acted as Chinese, they basically rely on Japanese commercial activities. Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese had no privileges in China, but mainly rely on bribery to obtain intelligence. These were often completed through commercial banks. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, Japan became a victorious country and its status in China increased sharply.

The name of Japanese business banks can almost be rampant in China. Intelligence personnel, even traitors who were bribed by Japan, are equivalent to security guarantees as long as they hide in the business banks. Even if they report the name of Japanese business banks, ordinary prefectures and counties dare not care about them. This invisibly provides great convenience and security for Japanese intelligence activities. Therefore, Japanese intelligence personnel have become a habit of relying on business activities. Miyamoto's rectification is almost equivalent to pushing all Japanese intelligence models back.

Miyamoto Naotao further explained: "In the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty, our business has a greater diplomatic immunity, so relying on the business bank to carry out intelligence activities can provide us with convenience and security conditions. However, I have repeatedly emphasized that overseas Chinese are different from the Qing Dynasty. Under the rule of overseas Chinese, the business bank has no privileges at all and cannot provide any convenient conditions for intelligence operations. Moreover, the business bank's goals are too obvious, and it is easy to be caught by overseas Chinese as loopholes. The business bank and intelligence operations must be completely cut off. In this way, even if something happens to our intelligence system, it can keep the business bank and allow us to still have a foothold in Shandong. We can rely on the business bank's foothold and re-establish the intelligence system so that we will not be completely destroyed."

Everyone was silent for a while, and then Keita Suzuki said, "Your Excellency, what should I do if the intelligence personnel of the business are doing now?"

Naotao Miyamoto said: "All personnel stop taking action, give each person three days to consider and decide where they are. If they choose to stay in the business, I can report to the staff and go through the retirement procedures. From then on, I will be an ordinary businessman and run the business well. If I choose to continue to be an intelligence officer, I will prepare to leave the business after three days, gain a foothold in Jinan as a Chinese, and dissolve into Chinese society. From then on, we will completely cut off contact with the business. Of course, we will establish another liaison system, and the business bank can provide him with certain training. Therefore, including you, I hope you can think about your future goals well in these three days."

After listening to Naotao Miyamoto's arrangement, the faces of several people became uneasy. Staying in a business bank can certainly ensure safety, but if you want to retire from the army, you will lose your future development. Because in this era, the status of military personnel in Japan is extremely high, and their salary and benefits are far higher than the domestic average, so they are certainly reluctant to give up their military positions. However, leaving the support of the business bank and having to enter Chinese society is not only the risk, but also the operation to collect intelligence is much more difficult. Everyone is used to having the support of the business bank to carry out intelligence activities. Without this support, they are inevitably a little uncomfortable.

Seeing everyone's hesitation, Miyamoto Naotao couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seemed that it was not easy to reorganize the information system in Shandong. So he said, "Okay, let's be here today. I'll listen to your decision in three days."

Japanese trading companies were changing without realizing it, and the gentry, celebrities and local tyrants in Jinan have been discussing how to deal with overseas Chinese for several days. Although Yuan Shikai knew about it, he pretended not to know. After all, Yuan Shikai had a lot of things now. On the one hand, he had to clean up all kinds of supplies and prepare for evacuation from Shandong. On the other hand, he had to draw troops to Beijing. Therefore, Yuan Shikai really didn't care about the matter in Shandong, and what happened in Shandong had nothing to do with Yuan Shikai.

While the various waiting of all living beings in Jinan City, Wang Sheng and his team finally arrived in Jinan.

Yuan Shikai first sent Feng Guozhang to lead a team of troops, thirty miles away to welcome the overseas Chinese army. He led all the officials of Jinan Prefecture and the main officers of the Beiyang New Army to wait outside Yonggu Gate in the southeast outside Jinan, and also arranged his own full set of ceremonial guards. The governor was also considered a rank of officials of the Qing court, so he had a very pompous ceremonial guard style, which required more than 30 people. Now all were arranged, which also expressed Yuan Shikai's emphasis on time travelers.

This time, the only one regiment, one battalion and a cavalry company came to Jinan with Wang Sheng's working group. They were equipped with two warrior cars and a 16-seater minibus. Because this group of people was in front of the station, there was no need to come so many. After they gained a foothold in Jinan, the follow-up personnel would come in the next batch.

At this time, there were two city walls in Jinan City. The inner wall was reinforced in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), and the original Jinan earth city wall was rebuilt with bricks and stones. The circumference was twelve miles and forty-eight feet (about 6.1 kilometers), three and two feet (about 10 meters), and five meters wide. The range was generally along the coast of the Ringcheng Park in the old time and space, and basically had a square shape, and there was a city gate on each side, with Qichuan Gate (commonly known as the Old East Gate, near the East Gate Bridge), Liyuan Gate (commonly known as the West Gate, near the West Gate Bridge), Shuntian Gate (commonly known as the South Gate, near the South Gate Bridge), and Huibo Gate (commonly known as the South Gate, near the South Gate Bridge), and Huibo Gate (commonly known as the Huibo Bridge in Daming Lake Park). Each city gate was built with a city tower and a urn city, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the "Jingnan Incident" that occurred in the early Ming Dynasty, the army of King Zhu Di of Yan was blocked under the city of Jinan and could not be captured repeatedly.

In the 30th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1904), Jinan opened a port and business developed rapidly. In order to facilitate transportation, the inner city of Jinan opened four new gates. However, at this time, there were still four gates in the inner city of Jinan. There is a saying in the old Jinan: There is no high-ranking officials in the three mountains, and the four gates are not opposite to each other. This refers specifically to the unique Feng Shui pattern of Jinan. Among them, "four gates are not right" means that the four gates in the inner city of Jinan are not opposite each other, the south gate is in the middle and the north gate is in the east, the west gate is in the south and the east gate is in the north, the image is quite strange.

The outer wall of Jinan was built relatively late. In the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1861), when the Nian Army went north, the Qing court urgently built the Tuxu City Wall. Since Sanniangzi Bay in the north of Jinan was still a puddle, the entire dike was actually only three sides, and the north and the inner city wall of Jinan were combined. The three dike walls were 3,670 meters long (about 11.4 kilometers). From the fourth to sixth year of Tongzhi (1865-1867), the dike wall was converted into a stone dike wall. A total of 11 city gates were opened. Therefore, these two city walls constituted the defensive force of Jinan and formed the so-called "three-mile city and seven-mile village" solid city model in the military books.

However, after entering the recent society, this traditional city was greatly ineffective in front of firearms. Therefore, in the 1950s, Lu Ji, the city wall in Jinan was demolished and built into a road and a ring park.

The team of the traveling group came to Jinan City. The team stopped. Wang Sheng and others got out of the car. Yuan Shikai also welcomed him. He had met Wang Sheng when he was in Qingdao. Although he had no close friendship, he did not need to introduce each other. Yuan Shikai said: "Director Wang, you have worked hard all the way."

Wang Shengdao: "It's okay, it's okay, Governor Yuan greets you."

Yuan Shikai laughed and said, "It's true that Yuan hopes that your people can come to Jinan soon and entrust all the affairs of Shandong to you. Yuan will also go to Beijing to take office soon."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing. Although Yuan Shikai was frozen in the heroes and thieves in troubled times, they also felt that Yuan Shikai was frank and had a bit of demeanor in this image.

At this time, Yuan Shikai said again: "Director Wang, the military camp has been arranged for you. In the outer city, and in the southwest of the inner city, beside the Zhaotu Spring, I just don't know if Director Wang and your group live in the military camp or plan to live in the city? If you live in the city, it will naturally be more convenient to handle matters in the handover of affairs, and Yuan can also arrange for you to live in the prefect's office."

Of course, Wang Sheng had to choose to live in Jinan City. Although Yuan Shikai said he was in a hurry to go to Beijing to take office, he actually had to wait for the official appointment of the court to officially resign. It would probably take at least one or two months. Therefore, during this period, the main work of the working group was to examine the people's sentiment and social situation in Jinan City, and prepare for the next step of rule over Jinan. Only by living in the city can we better observe the society in Jinan City. So Wang Shengdao: "Of course we have to live in Jinan City, but we have not received the official appointment of the court. After all, we have not been in the official position. It is probably not suitable to live in the government office now. It is best to rent a house. If there is no suitable house, then you can also book a whole inn."
Chapter completed!