Chapter 168 Intelligence Work in Japan

In 1885, after the Sino-French War, as the reputation of the Qing Empire began to recover, the United States and France gave up their privileges in China, and the British gave up their policy of neutrality in the Asia-Pacific region.

In order to ensure their privileges in China, the British began to support Japan.

In order to revenge and contain China's rise, the French are also supporting Japan. The two countries have successively signed new trade agreements with Japan, giving Japan more economic policy support and technical assistance, and successively purchased up to 140 million pounds of Japan's domestic debt.

This kind of support, which is close to the irrational surname, has taken advantage of Japan in the past three years. Not only has the export of raw silk and tea made a turning point, but the entire industrial economy has also achieved great development.

This also announced the failure of Hu Chuyuan's economic suppression campaign against Japan.

In 1887, Xiaochuan, the chief intelligence officer of Japan, completed the famous "Qing Kingdom Expedition Plan" again and again. He advocated a five-year period to complete combat preparations. When there was an opportunity, he launched an attack, stretched out his country's power, and tried to split the Qing state into countless small countries, divide and rule them one by one.

In this "Qing State Expedition Plan", Xiaochuan particularly realized that the key to the rise of the Qing State lies precisely in the body of Hu Chuyuan, the Jiangnan Shipping Supervision Office and Minister of Commerce. He proposed that it is necessary to let Hu Chuyuan and the Qing Zheng Axe have internal contradictions first, so that Hu Chuyuan cannot have an impact on the economy of the Qing State. When necessary Assassination can be used to prevent the economic recovery of the Qing Dynasty.

According to the exact information held by Hu Chuyuan, the emperor and the government axe cabinet had agreed to the "Qing Kingdom's Conquest Case", but he did not know that Hu Chuyuan soon got the original text of the Conquest Case, which was not bad.

Now, the political axe has officially approved the new action, providing six million yen, with the goal of alienating the relationship between the political axe and Hu Chuyuan.

Because of the special importance attached to this intelligence, Pan Qiying, the president of the Jiangnan Translation Bureau, the oldest intelligence agency in Japan, came to Shanghai to meet Hu Chuyuan in person.

The two talked in the big study of the Garden.

With this information, Hu Chuyuan looked at the signature of Prime Minister Ito Hirofumi at the bottom and couldn't help sighing.

After the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, I came to China to promote the reform of the New Deal. I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing.

For the Japanese version, the amount of intelligence held by Hu Chuyuan is very amazing and in-depth. This seems to be due to the decision he made at the beginning. He did not love that all his hidden power in the Japanese was exposed, and continued to take root in the Japanese version to develop a large-scale intelligence and spy network.

He thought for a moment and asked Pan Qiying, "Ito Hirofumi should be leaving, right?"

Pan Qiying nodded silently and said, "He will officially step down on April 30. The new Prime Minister is Kiyotaka Kuroda, the boss of Satsuma Domain. This person has a very special relationship with Inoue. As far as we know, there has been a dispute between the elders about whether to use assassination or alienation. Inoue Kaoru advocates assassination, while Ito Hirofumi advocates alienation. The key reason for the difference between the two is that the Japanese economic community advocates assassination to prevent the further expansion of CITIC and Jiangnan, paving the way for the chaebols to get involved in China and even monopolize China's economy.

Hu Chuyuan nodded, and this judgment was roughly the same conclusion as his other two resident intelligence structures.

In the confrontation with himself, Hu Chuyuan gradually cultivated a complete set of spy agencies, with his general secret office as the hub, operating eight intelligence machines: the left secret office, the right secret office, the Huishe, the Zhenguoshe, the general secret office abroad secret office, the overseas bureau of the Overseas Bureau of the China League Association, the translation bureau of Jiangnan Commercial Bank, and the Fuqingshe. Structure.

The first four are responsible for the inside, and the foreign secret office and other three are responsible for the outside.

Fuqingshe is a reading spy agency, which is not only responsible for spying on news, but also for assassinations. It is distributed at home and abroad and belongs to the China League.

Life is not so good. If you want to protect yourself, you always have to pay the price.

In the Japanese version, Hu Chuyuan has four major intelligence agencies: the General Letter Office in the Secret Office, the Jiangnan Translation Bureau in the Translation Agency, the Huameng Association in the Japanese Branch and the Fuqing Society.

The qualification of the translation agency in Japan is the oldest and the most involved. The scope of the Huameng Association's branch office is the largest, and the Fuqing Society is the main executor of assassination activities. The work in the secret office has only been carried out in the past two years, with the most funds and the most hidden.

Pan Qiying and Hu Chuyuan suddenly asked, "Your Excellency, can you assassinate Ito Hirofumi? We have very close spies around him. It's still easy to assassinate him."

Hu Chuyuan quietly raised his eyebrows and said, "No, continue to bury it. His death is not particularly good for us. We still have to continue to get more information around him."

Pan Qiying nodded and said, "So... Xin Inoue, this person is hiding so deep that it is almost difficult to find him, but we have introduced six very good sniper rifles from Germany. The gunmen have also been trained for many years and must be killed within 600 meters."

Hu Chuyuan thought about it in his heart.

He would rather say that he would continue to use assassination tactics against him. At present, he is well-prepared and has a lot of means.

The problem is... his family.

In contrast, if he uses the tactics of alienation, he will have a lot of trouble.

Of course, the funds I issued are not enough to complete the alienation, which is not equal to 1/5 of the funds he bribed the Qingzheng axe officials every year.

After thinking about it for a moment, Hu Chuyuan said, "The problem is not too big. If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan. You don't need to take such extreme revenge for the time being. The most urgent thing is to find out my specific strategy and through whom they are going to complete the alienation plan.

Pan Qiying said, "We have been working hard to find out, and I believe we will be able to do something soon. However, the domestic secret hall should also be tightened. I think 90% of the possible surnames are around Cixi."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and said, "I guess it's the same."

Pan Qiying said, "There is another thing. My uncle is very happy that you are willing to marry Limei as a second wife. However, considering that the whole country has a deep hostility to you, he means not to be too loud, just do it so simply. I just need to be a mother's family here.

Hu Chuyuan smiled and said, "Then we will be relatives in the future. My father-in-law said he didn't say anything about the bride price?"

Pan Qiying smiled and said, "Uncle said, it's up to you. It's the glory of our Pan family that his daughter can marry into your house."

Hu Chuyuan said, "Then you send him a telegram. I have prepared a bride price of about one million yuan for him. It's not very valuable. Let's talk about it... Please explain it for me a little bit. After all, it can't exceed Shuzhen's share."

Pan Qiying smiled and said, "We can understand, so I'll do it."

The General Letter Room of the Garden has its own reading telegraph office, which can send a telegram in the Garden, and he doesn't have to go far.

As soon as Pan Qiying left, Chen Shanyuan hurried in and handed in an urgent telegram to Hu Chuyuan, saying, "Li Hongzao, Lord Li's telegram."

"Hm?"

Hu Chuyuan opened the telegram and couldn't help smiling bitterly.

It turned out that Li Hongzao sent a message for Cixi that Shanxi had suffered another drought this year. He wanted to ask Hu Chuyuan to donate millions of yuan to Shanxi Province to play a leading role among businessmen.

Li Hongzao also said that if the money turnover is not good, the money donated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in recent years can be less, and the money can be used in practice, and there is no hurry to build Yichun Garden.

Isn't this obvious?

Cixi is not in a hurry to return to the government for retirement at all, and she still wants to live in the Forbidden City.

At this time, Hu Chuyuan did not dare to offend her. He immediately explained to Chen Shanyuan that he first donated 3 million yuan to Shanxi Province, and Yichunyuan continued to donate 2 million yuan. In addition, let Poly Company and Kimberley Jewelry use snacks to extract some good platinum jewelry from abroad, and what other rare treasures. The amount of three million yuan will continue to be sent.

Ride the wall.

Continue to ride the wall.

At the critical moment, I stabbed this old woman in the back.

There is another advantage of letting Cixi continue to control the real power of the Qing Empire... The dawn of the revolution, but there are also greater disadvantages, especially Hu Chuyuan's family business, which is still within her mind after all.

Li Hongzao said another thing, saying that he would let Hu Chuyuan's two younger brothers participate in next year's meeting to try their luck.

Hu Chuyuan thought, what kind of luck is this? Nine times out of ten, Cixi wanted to give the Hu family a quota for one or two Jinshi, and he was recruited into the Hanlin Academy and glorified his ancestors.

She thought it was a great reward, but she didn't know that whether it was Hu Chuyuan or the Hu family, she didn't care much about this at the present.

Generation gap, generation gap, this is the generation gap!!!

With the consent of the Pan family, the marriage of Hu Chuyuan and Pan Limei was held in a low-key manner in April, and many people were not notified.

Of course, Hu Chuyuan and Pan Limei were very happy, but the first lady, Fourth Lady Luo and Fourth Master Hu Yueqiao were not so happy. They asked Hu Chuyuan to take a concubine, intending to find a younger girl to pass on the Hu family.

It's good now. It's a bargain for an old girl. It's twenty-seven or twenty-eight. Can you still give birth?

Newly married Yan Er, soon after, Hu Chuyuan left Shanghai with his family. After an inspection in Fuzhou, Hong Kong and coastal defense, he went to Kuching, Borneo.

Over the years, the scale of his investment in Kuching has been very large, promoting the construction of a large number of new cities such as Kuching, St. Oman, Shiwu, Kundian, Yamaguchi Yang, Sili Kui, Shiwenran, Bindulu, Meili, Xilian, etc. The development of rice, rubber, railway and industry and mining are very rapid.

In Xilian, they also used the local iron ore and copper mines to build a military factory to produce firearms, bullets and artillery.

In Kuching, they established a complete set of shipbuilding industry.

With the gradual strengthening of the strength of the autonomous state of Borneo, the nominal suzerain of northern Borneo, the Sultanate of Brunei, is also protected by the autonomous state, temporarily prohibiting the possibility of British infiltration into Borneo.

For this reason, Borneo must submit a tax of about 1.4 million taels of silver to the British Empire every year... This is certainly not a big problem.

The rapid development and stable social environment in recent years have caused the transfer of Nanyang Chinese to Borneo one after another. Coupled with new immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, the total number of Chinese has gradually expanded by more than 600,000, accounting for an absolute amount in major cities.

(to be continued)