?They come with greater success, but they end up returning with disappointment.?

However, even so, he never thought that Yan Guang would collude with the Germans. On the contrary, what he was most worried about now was not this, but Yan Guang would take advantage of the opportunity of Japan and Germany to start a war in Qingdao, watch the tiger fight, and then take advantage of the scumbag...

"If this is the case, it will be a little troublesome..."

Thinking of the six infantry divisions in Shandong, Rijiyi, who had just boarded the car, said in his heart.

Unlike the fanatical soldiers in China, as Japanese ambassadors to China, it is also an increasingly important task to investigate China's national strength.

Of course, given that Rizhiyi had just worked in China, he still needed the help of Heilong to test national strength and other things, but if he only examined the strength of the Chinese team...

Beijing is the political center of China and the location of the Beijing Military Region.

It is quite convenient to observe the army, so although I have not conducted too much observation, Rijiyi also knows the strength of some of the National Defense Forces.

"Six infantry divisions plus two artillery brigades..."

Thinking of this, Rijiyi felt a little troubled.

"It seems that the news will be delivered back to the country soon, so that the people in the country will be ready as soon as possible..."

Thinking of this, Rijiyi asked the driver to drive back to the embassy.

Not long after Ryujiyi left the presidential palace, Marzan, who had just arrived in the courtyard to avoid him, also returned to the living room.

Although he knew the increasingly popular purpose, after returning to the living room, Marzan still asked knowingly.

"Mr. President, don't you know that Minister Hibiki is coming for?"

Yan Guang was somewhat unhappy to see Marzan pretending to be so garlic, but he also knew that it was not the time to have conflicts with the Germans, so Yan Guang briefly explained the purpose of the day-to-day visit.

When Marzan heard Yan Guang explain everything, he first smiled bitterly and said, "It was the same as he thought," and then said.

"Since this is the case, we should act as soon as possible."

It is naturally the best to be able to do something in front of the Japanese, so Yan Guang nodded.

"I will ask General Cai Che from Shandong to accept it, and ask the Minister to go back to the embassy to pass on the contents of the agreement to Governor Meyervaldik."

Because of the confidentiality of the agreement, until the official handover, Meier Valdik, the governor of Jiaozhou Bay in Qingdao, did not know the true content of the agreement. This is also the reason why Yan Guang asked Marzan to take action earlier. After all, if Meier Valdik did not know the content, the troops deployed in Shandong would not be able to easily enter Qingdao Fortress.

Unless directly conquer by force.

Rizhiyi also knew that the sooner Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao Fortress were removed, the better, so he no longer politely treated Yan Guang. After saying goodbye to Yan Guang, he went directly to the German Embassy.

After returning to the embassy, ​​Marzan directly asked the telegrapher to send a message to Qingdao Fortress.

but…

The content of the sending news shocked the telegrapher...

"Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao Fortress? Mr. Minister?"

Listening to what Marzan told him, the telegrapher didn't know if he should send it truthfully.

Looking at the telegrapher's shocked and suspicious face, Marzan didn't talk nonsense and directly took the secret agreement behind the agreement in front of the telegrapher.

"There is no need to hide this agreement now."

After quickly scanning the agreement, he confirmed that it was not fake (although even if it was fake, he could not recognize it), the telegrapher quickly sent the content that Marzan had just given him to Qingdao.

And in Qingdao, Meyervaldik was also shocked when he saw the content on the telegram.

Because he never thought that behind the order that almost shocked the world, there would be such an agreement, and...

Moreover, behind this agreement, no one has ever notified him, the governor of Jiaozhou Bay.

"Is it true that the difference between a school official and a general?"

At the moment, Meyer Valdik, who was just a naval colonel, complained fiercely in his heart as he looked at the content of the telegram.

Although he also understood the reason why the government concealed this agreement, to be honest, as the governor of Jiaozhou Bay, no one told him that he was really depressed.

However, no matter how depressed it is, the most important thing at the moment is the matter on the telegraph. So after Meyervaldik asked the telegrapher to send a telegram to Berlin to confirm, he had already started preparing for the handover matter. He didn't believe Marzan, but it was always good to confirm it for the sake of his son's safety, otherwise he wouldn't have sent a telegram here to confirm, and he would have prepared for the handover matter on the other side.

The facts also proved that Meyervaldik was not wrong. Just when Meyervaldik conveyed this amazing incident to military and political officials at all levels in the conference room at Qingdao Fortress and Jiaozhou Bay, the telegraphers there were already running over with the telegram that Berlin had just replied.

"Sure enough......... it was true..."

Looking at the contents of the telegram, Meyervaldik said with a wry smile.

At this moment, he didn't know whether he should feel regret or glad?

I may be sorry for those "Chinese friends" who are getting better. However, as the governor of Jiaozhou Bay's leased land, even if the land was snatched by the Germans back then, Meyervaldik still does not want this beautiful land to no longer belong to Germany on one day, and he does not want this land to be lost in his own hands. Meyervaldik, the German naval colonel, will be the last governor of Jiaozhou Bay in the German Empire...

but…

"The European war has begun now. I believe that it will take not long before the Japanese and British will launch an offensive against Jiaozhou Bay, but now there are so few imperial soldiers in Qingdao Fortress. If you persist like this, you will probably really have to fight for the honor of the empire..."?

Thinking of this, Meyervaldik, the last governor of Jiaozhou Bay, who fled in a plane during the Japanese-German Qingdao War, smiled bitterly.

In fact, the German army originally had a relatively large number of troops in Qingdao fortress.

However, on the eve of the outbreak of the European War, Germany had already encountered the victory or defeat of the war before the war, and it was difficult for Germany to defend the isolated colonies in the overseas world with Britain's sea control, so it had already transferred most of its main forces back to Europe before the war. At that time, the German army stationed in Qingdao had only had a marine battalion, four infantry companies, one cavalry company and two artillery units, plus more than 300 soldiers from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the urgently mobilized German expatriates, with a total force of about 5,000.

As for the navy, the main force of the German Far East Fleet has also evacuated. Only more than 10 small boats and the old Austro-Hungarian cruiser "Catherine, Queen Elizabeth" were left in the port.

This is why, during the Qingdao War, the Japanese took down the Qingdao Fortress at only more than 2,000 casualties because the Germans had too few troops in Qingdao.

Before the war, Berlin had conveyed the order of German Emperor William II to Meyer, asking Meyer, Valdik to stand up to the last soldier for the sake of "the honor of the German Empire."

However, now, according to the telegram sent by Berlin, the latest will of the German Emperor William II is to allow him to put down his weapons and accept the protection of the Chinese team when necessary...

Because according to the agreement reached between the Germans and the Chinese, the Chinese have agreed that as long as the Germans put down their weapons, they are willing to ensure the safety of the Germans, even if they offend the British and Japanese for this.

There are certainly many people who oppose Yan Guang’s decision, but the Germans are still very grateful.

After all, in the eyes of the Germans, China is still a weak country, a weak country that is simply not comparable to Britain, Germany and other countries (in fact, it is true). When the war broke out in Europe, the Chinese promised to protect the safety of the Germans. Doing so would definitely make the German British and Japanese. However, the Chinese still chose to do this. What a great sentiment!!!

Even Marzan and Meyer who had just seen the telegram, Valdike was moved.

There were also Sunil and other Germans who served Yan Guang. On July 30, after the matter was announced, almost all of these Germans worked hard, preparing to use their work to repay Yan Guang's kindness to them.

However, just when this group of people were still moved there, Yan Guang was not as moved as they were.

Yan Guang's idea is actually very simple. He must have fought a battle with the Japanese. This is useless even if the British come forward to stop him. After all, it is not a matter of one or two days for the Japanese to covet Shandong.

Since I must fight, why are I afraid of offending the British and the Japanese?

The British will not mention it for now. Now the British are busy with wars in Europe and have no time at all, and they do not have the ability to control themselves.

As for the Japanese?

Unless you give your hands to Shandong Province, will you blame other ways to stop this war?

So, instead of shrinking at this time and watching the Germans and the Japanese fight in Shandong, it was like during the Russo-Japanese War that year, the former Qing Dynasty, that is, the Manchus, did things, so it would be better to come forward and directly shelter the Germans.

In this way, "it can dispel the concerns of the Germans and make them return Jiaozhou Bay more refreshingly", and it can also enhance the Germans' favorability towards China.

For example, if the group of Germans who serve themselves, they will definitely be able to work hard for themselves as soon as this matter is passed on. And those Germans who are still busy with European wars in Berlin will definitely give themselves some benefits.

In fact...

In Berlin's telegram to Yan Guang, the Germans have begun to give Yan Guang good.

For example...

In the original transaction content, the Germans were only responsible for returning Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao Fortress (although both places are the same place). As for all Germany's rights and interests in Shandong Province, of course, they can also be exchanged for China. However, afterwards, Yan Guang needed to use other things to compensate.

This is the same as in history. In history, when the Germans proposed to Yuan Shikai that they would return all rights and interests on the Shandong Peninsula for free, they also proposed it.

"It's free to return it to you now, but you will have to compensate us in the future."

Moreover, this compensation is comprehensive, not only those rights, but also the leased land of Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao Fortress must be compensated...

Although the Germans could not ask for compensation afterwards, we Chinese did not seem to have taken back the land in Jiaozhou Bay...

Now, the Germans are ready to return all their rights and interests thoroughly.

In fact, if the amount of compensation for the Boxer Incident was not too large and the Germans were hesitant, I am afraid that the Germans would even waive Yan Guang's compensation.

Until 1914, until now, the Germans still accounted for tens of millions of dollars in the Boxer Indemnity. This is not a small number. Not to mention anything else, it is enough to build a newest battleship.

Like Meyer and Valdik, Cai Chou, who was in the Jinan Military Region, also received a telegram from Yan Guang. However, unlike Meyer and Valdik, as one of the few generals that Yan Guang valued the most, Cai E knew the real secret behind that transaction.

"Jiaozhou Bay? I didn't expect that the first concession that was taken back" was actually taken back by me, Cai Chou himself..."

Thinking that such a thing would definitely be famous in history, Cai Che's face turned slightly red.

However, as soon as Cai Che’s face turned red, a white and tender hand came over there?

"Master, your health is not completely healed yet, don't be excited..."?

To put it this way, a person who looks......... does not conform to our aesthetic view. According to our aesthetic view, he can only be considered an ordinary 14-year-old loli come over and is quite mature.

This little loli is Xiao Fengxian, who once knew Cai Cher in history.

Xiao Fengxian was born in 1900, so he is only 14 years old. Moreover, because Xiao Fengxian was born in August, this 14-year-old is still a vain year. It will take a while before he can reach 15 years old...

But it doesn't matter, because when Sun Yat-sen first met Dayuexun, Dayuexun was only a year old. But Sun Yat-sen fell in love with Dayuexun at a glance. Moreover, when Sun Yat-sen proposed to Dayuexun's father Dayuesutang, Dayuexun was only 15 years old, only one year older than Xiao Fengxian now.

The most important thing is that women in this era are very precocious, and unlike women in ordinary families, when Xiao Fengxian learned art with a boss named Hu and was singing in Nanjing, Xiao Fengxian was only a year old. (It should be true, because Xiao Fengxian fled to Nanjing with Boss Hu during the Hangzhou Uprising in the 1911 Revolution." That was November 1911)

When Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun used cannons to open the Nanjing city gate, Xiao Fengxian followed Boss Hu to Shanghai, and soon arrived in Beijing.
To be continued...