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In the dead of night, Li wanted to stay alone in the study and think about tonight.

Almost all the important people around Sun Yat-sen have begun to waver. Although Sun Yat-sen has not wavered today, he can't be ignored. Although he tried his best to support Sun Yat-sen behind his back, and the Ezhou Revolutionary Army also had the strongest strength in the Southern Army, which could make Sun Yat-sen continue to promote the Northern Expedition with difficulty, these important figures around Sun Yat-sen had been immersed in him for a long time, and it would not be so easy to deal with such a thing tonight. It seems that Yuan Shikai's people must be active in the presidential palace, and this person should also be the backbone of the alliance! Who on earth has defectioned, campaigned for Yuan Shikai in the presidential palace, and "reacted" so many important people?

He was meditating. The door opened gently, and the narcissus came in. She went straight to Li Xiang and put a plate of fried noodles on his spacious desk. The strong spicy smell made Li Xiang's index finger move.

"I thought you had fallen asleep... Looking at you like this, there must be some good news to tell me?"

The narcissus pulled out a snow-white handkerchief, wiped the already clean chopsticks, and said casually, "Yes, there is good news and bad news. Which one do you want to listen to first?"

Li Xiang smiled. When he grabbed the chopsticks, he gently patted the little hand of the narcissus and said, "Whatever you want, it depends on what you like."

The water fairy ate and laughed, shook off his claws, and said, "Li Shuai, you didn't often take advantage of your beautiful secretary like this, did you?" She put away her handkerchief and watched him immediately turn into a hungry look. She swallowed the spicy fried noodles and said with a smile, "Well, let me tell you the good news is that the Ezhou Revolutionary Army's Xizheng public bonds issued by Xinhua Bank are sold in the Shanghai securities market! It seems that although the rich businessmen in Shanghai hate you very much, they are full of confidence in the battle of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army. So many people sell you to win. In the fierce battle with the Beiyang Army in Hubei, we fought with prestige, which led to such a situation. Look, it is also war bonds, but no one cares about the Northern Expedition bonds issued by the Nanjing Provisional Government.

Li Xiang was overjoyed. He put down his bowls and chopsticks, picked up the water fairy, turned around twice, and then kissed him heavily with his mouth full of oil.

The narcissus smiled, and a small hand quickly pinched the snow-white handkerchief that wiped the chopsticks just now and blocked Li Xiang's greasy and hot mouth. She said, "Don't worry, there's another bad news!"

Li Xiang was stunned and asked, "What's the bad news?"

"The acquisition of the Ship Merchants Bureau failed."

Li wanted to hear it and couldn't help frowning and said, "How come? Today, they were still crying and were so poor that they almost gave up the Northern Expedition.

The Narcissus hooked Li Xiang's neck with both hands and looked deep into his eyes: "Where do you want to go? It was the Japanese who intervened. The price they offered is much higher than yours, and they just ask for a joint operation, which is much better than your food.

"Japanese?!" Li wants to be angry! He added: "The nature of borrowing foreign debt with government-run industry as collateral is changeable. It is to sell the country's sovereignty! Man Ting was scolded a lot because of this, and finally finished the country because of this.

Li Xiang still has a layer of hidden worry that he didn't say, that is, the Japanese wolf's ambition, and his heart will not die. The inevitable war between Japan and Japan can form the handle for some people to play a stinky Sun Yat-sen.

"Who is in the lead?"

"The treasury is empty, the huge military expenditure is not available, and even the salaries of government officials cannot be paid. Sun Yat-sen negotiated loans from Anglo-American banks many times, and foreign banks were unwilling to lend money to the provisional government, so Sun Yat-sen had to once again turn his eyes to Japan, which had helped him in the revolution. Accompanied by Torazo Miyazaki, Sun Yat-sen met with Masajiro Fujise, the head of the Shanghai branch of Mitsui Property Co., Ltd., the largest industrial company in Japan, to discuss the loan. Huang Xing also called Kaoru Inoue, a Japanese political veteran, to ask Japan for assistance.

Li Xiang snorted and said, "Since the establishment of the Nanjing Provisional Government, Japan's attitude towards the Chinese revolution has completely changed. Under the guise of "opening the door", Japan took over the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan and Manchuria and became its commercial reserves. Japan is obviously in line with Russia, and the tacit understanding between them may be revealed one day through shocking joint actions, such as the Third Japanese-Russian Secret Treaty. Therefore, we can make Russia's control of Mongolia just the beginning of this series of amazing actions, which will completely change the situation in China. And the contact with Sun Yat-sen is a continuation. Because Japan has a strong incentive to formulate future policies towards China, if the Japanese Empire can share a big cake in China, its partition plan will not shrink..."

This is still what Li wants to keep. If he says that Japan's heart is not dead, and even wants to destroy China in three months, it is estimated that no one will believe it in this era.

"Unless Japan can fully control China, or at least most of the regions, Japan will not continue to maintain its position as a world power. Japan's domestic resources are too poor to support its military institutions. In the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan ranked among the great powers through the millions of war reparations seized from China. Today, at this critical moment, Japan wants to continue to consolidate its hegemony in the Far East, and it is still China that pays for Japan!"

Li Xiang's face was heavy, and he hadn't said anything more sensational.

Narcissus stared deeply into Li Xiang's eyes, hooked his neck and slowly closed his arms. She said softly and charmingly, "Just those little dwarfs, I think you have already figured out how to deal with them. Don't think about this tonight, think about me and you..." Her red lips are round and soft, as if they were about to drip out of water, as if they were open, constantly expanding in front of Li Xiang's eyes. Then, a cold and slippery feeling came from his lips, and a wisp of hot fragrance reached into his lips extremely flexibly. Li Xiang's hands were clenched and his strength was so strong that the water fairy rolled gently in his throat.

"Well, spicy, um, spicy..." The narcissus groaned in her throat.

Li Xiang also knows that the chili under the fried noodles he just ate is extremely spicy, and ordinary people can't stand it. Hearing the narcissus's moan, she was still careful at first and always paid attention to her reaction. She half closed her eyes, her arms became tighter and tighter, and her breathing seemed to be rushed for a while, and slowly there was no discomfort. Lixiang's eyes also closed and focused on enjoying the rare warmth of this moment.

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Huang Xing called Kaoru Inoue, a Japanese political veteran, to ask Japan for assistance. After another Yuanlao Shan County Youpeng learned the news from Inoue, he immediately knew that another opportunity had come.

In the history of more than 2,600 years, China has always been admired, feared, imitated and even worshipped by Japan. However, Japan has a fatal attraction fantasy that if one day, it can compete with the Central Plains to dominate China.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan found this opportunity to transform fantasy into history. If Japan can complete modernization before China, it can take advantage of the huge advantages generated by modernization to dominate and slaughter China, which was still closed and backward at that time. In this way, Japan can transcend the historical pattern of China's inferiority complex for 2,000 years. It will use the modern ship's strong artillery as a tool to build a "Sun Empire" that shocked Huaxia and Wanbang Dynasty.

In the past history, Japan's limited resources could not develop into a first-class power, and it must be done step by step to avoid direct conflict with major powers to prevent its own country from being overthrown. It can be said that all Japanese citizens have infinite fear complex. China is rich in resources and has a vast market. Therefore, only by dominating China can Japan get out of the crisis consciousness of survival and development. How to adopt China's mainland policy has become a consistent foreign goal for the whole country since Japan's Meiji Restoration. So how to manipulate and dominate China, to obtain the resources and markets needed for Japan's development and competition, to ensure that it can have rich countries and strong soldiers, to shock the foundation of East Asia and the world, and to build a Japanese empire, which has become a consistent national political consensus between the Japanese government and the opposition.

It's just that Japan has a dispute between the government and the military about how to achieve this political strategic goal. Among them, the hardliners advocate imitating the Prussian method and directly invade and rule China with military force. Moderates argue that because China is too big, it is difficult to conquer directly by force. It is better to imitate British-style strategies, use economic, political and diplomatic means, and military deterrence, and try to integrate China's market and resources into Japan's control.

The First Sino-Japanese War was the first test of Japan's dream of conquering China. As a result, Japan, under the Meiji Restoration, defeated China's fictitious Beiyang faction on the basis of industrialization and the strength of national unity. After Japan's first victory against China in 2,000 years, Japan not only obtained the privileges of all the great powers to exploit and squeeze China, but also asked China to compensate 200 million taels of silver to build a rich and powerful Japan, and asked China to cede its sovereignty over North Korea and the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan. The territory of the bay is the beginning of Japan's millennium dream of the Central Plains.

For Japan, since the invasion of China has become the national policy of the Meiji Restoration, Japan will try to take all opportunities to continue to expand its aggression against China. In the year of Gengzi, Japan took advantage of the Boxer Rebel incident to form an eight-nation coalition with international powers, invaded China, and obtained the garrison power from Tianjin to Beijing, China, and another large amount of "compensation". And Japan is trying to take advantage of the collapse of the Manchu Qing government and is instigating the independence of Manchuria and preparing to occupy the northeast of China.

At this time, Japan is facing another new opportunity for historical development, which is the opportunity brought by the Chinese revolution.

Youpeng from Yamagata immediately instructed Takashi Masuda and took this opportunity to make a secret contract with the revolutionaries to make the three eastern provinces owned by Japan. Takashi Masuda turned around and handed over this task to Sen Ke, who immediately began to run for it.

(author's note: Mori Ke, born in 1882, from Osaka, Japan. In 1901, he was sent to the Shanghai branch by Mitsui Property Company as an intern and was soon promoted to an employee. He successively moved to Shanghai, Changsha, Hankou, Tianjin, Beijing and other places, and became an expert in Chinese affairs of Mitsui chaebol. Takashi Masuda, born in 1848, is a native of Japan, the head of Mitsui Chaebol. He was in business in Yokohama during the Meiji Restoration. In 1872, recommended by Inoue, he entered the Ministry of Tibet. After 1872, he served as the chairman of Mitsui Property Co., Ltd., which played an important role in the development of Mitsui chaebol.)