Chapter 64 Fighting the grass to startle the snake
Yang Hao didn't run to Tianjin without any trouble.
In name, it was the first batch of goods delivered with Song Yunsheng, and at the same time, it received the first batch of goods and was entrusted by a telegram by Pingyao merchant to buy the Siheyuan house outside the East Gate of Tianjin, as one of the northern strongholds.
The real purpose is to establish the first formal space-time anchor point in plane B.
In this world, he has built the Yanhuang Ding granted authority by purchasing a private manor in Kenya. The anchor point at that end can be used as a springboard to pass through the old house spanning two time and space, without having to take a slow plane to dress up.
In contrast, he can establish another space-time anchor point in the B plane, so he can travel directly from the world to this place without the need for more cumbersome troublesome boating.
Such two anchor points are something that Yang Hao, as the Yanhuang Ding, can only do with the holder of the Double Cutle Seal. The other five family members can only go through the old house honestly, and their flexibility is completely disproportionate.
However, to set up a time and space anchor, the prerequisites require that the property in which he is located must be legally owned by Yang Hao. This means that in the country where land is nationalized, he should not expect to get a second territory for traveling at any time. Even the property he bought can only be convenient for crossing the plane to deliver materials and other inanimate things. Even active grain seeds, they will be inactivated after being released, so don’t expect to use the good seeds of this world to go there and get it in one step.
The reason why Tianjin is chosen as the current unique space-time anchor point is because in a short data summary analysis, it was found that Tianjin and its concessions have served as an extremely important source of strategy in the next few decades in the entire Far East and various major events.
Whether it was the starting point of the long and huge transnational trade routes before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing court, Beiyang, and the great powers carried out a series of military and political construction actions near the central imperial capital; or as the starting point of the long and huge transnational trade routes of Northern China, Inner and Outer Mongolia, Russia and even Europe, it gathered the import and export products, funds and power of contemporary China second only to Shanghai.
Moreover, after the outbreak of Sino-Japanese War, the great powers carried out a series of plans and implementations of various turbulent changes such as divisions, plunders, manipulations and divisions, as well as the Boxer Rebellion, the political game in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, various figures that influenced the course of Chinese history, huge amounts of funds, and countless conspiracies and plans, all had great relationships with this ancient city located in the lower reaches of the Haihe River.
It can be said that Tianjin was the location of traders who took place in China and even the Far East in more than 50 years of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Its mobilization power gathered is far more important than Shanghai, which has rapidly grown into one of the world's major metropolises in the following decades.
In such an important place, so close to the capital, all the actions that Yang had to plan were no more convenient than here. Moreover, the entire plan also had the effect of counting birds with one stone.
The Matsuchang foreign business that Yang Hao had just visited was the first target to deal with in Tianjin - the Japanese spy agency. Whether it is from the understanding of this world or the important threat placed in the B plane, Japan must be placed first to deal with, and it must be swept away mercilessly.
In the past decade, Japan's espionage activities in the Qing Dynasty have become increasingly rampant, and various spies have disguised themselves as Chinese people to conduct reconnaissance and spy on various places. As a crazy organization, it is a force with the "Leshantang" in Hankou as its core stronghold.
This group of young spies including Yamazaki Katsuraoka, Narazaki Hachiro, Hiraoka Tokijiro, Tomohiro Tomomura Fumihei were sent as backstage support. As backbone, the initiator Kishida Yinka personally took charge of the center. Soba Kotaro planned and summoned more than 20 brave Japanese elites to establish branches in various places in the name of opening a "Leshantang Branch", and launched a massive go-to-mountain movement called "Adventure of More than 400 Prefectures".
The "outsiders" of Leshantang entered the two lakes, Sichuan, directly pointing to Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, and even Xinjiang and Tibet. They all have terrain, climate, customs, industrial transportation, checkpoints and barracks, military fortresses, etc., all within their reconnaissance scope.
These young Japanese spies were not afraid of hardships. They first carried their shoulders and carried them on their backs, pretended to be peddlers, and sold goods everywhere. After the goods were sold out, they pretended to be doctors, Feng Shui masters and even beggars traveled around. When they encountered checkpoints and said that they were not standard in Chinese, they lied that they were from Fujian or Guangdong people were deceived. Almost all spies from all over the country encountered various dangers, which became a "rehearsal" of intelligence work in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. These young people also became experts who knew China's national conditions because of solid investigation and research.
Various kinds of intelligence were summarized in Hankou. In April 1889, Arago Jing classified a large amount of intelligence information obtained in the three years since the establishment of Leshantang, sorted it out and refined it into a "Reply Book" of tens of thousands of words, and submitted it to the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters.
In this summary of spy, Ayao clearly stated that China has been completely corrupt and that Japan must take the initiative to use China to fight against the West. He proposed that business wars should be used to support spy wars, expand arms with business wars, establish the Japanese-Tsing Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, and establish branches in Hankou, Zhenjiang, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other places, collecting intelligence while doing business. This is "the first priority for the Qing Dynasty, and it is the most urgent task today." This suggestion resonated greatly in the first part of the Japanese spy lurking in the 65th part of the spy wars.
Based on this outline report, Nezuichi, who later presided over Leshantang, organized and compiled all the information in a more detailed manner, forming a set of brilliant masterpieces "Overview of the Trade of Qing dynasties". The book is divided into two volumes and three volumes, with more than 2,000 pages, and has a comprehensive content, covering Chinese society, politics, economy, finance, commerce, industry, education, transportation, geography, climate, customs and habits, and is like a major Chinese encyclopedia. After its publication, it was popular among all walks of life in Japan and became a guide for Japan's invasion of China.
"Qingguo Trade Overview" also shocked the Japanese business community. A wealthy businessman named Okazaki Eijiro was moved and happily gave up his bags. He agreed to sponsor the establishment of an internship base for the spy school "Niksung Trade Research Institute", which was just established in Shanghai. It is called "Niksung Commodity Exhibition Center" internally and on the outside, it is called Yinghua Hiromao Pavilion, which gives young spies a platform to practice business wars. This internship base is well operated and has a prosperous business, which greatly alleviates the funding difficulties of the Niksung Trade Research Institute.
Going to the countryside and going to the most difficult places, the young spies from Leshantang traveled thousands of miles in China, "written" thousands of books, conducted solid investigations and research, and understood everything about this country more deeply than the Qing dynasty and the fate of China and Japan afterwards...
(The above 1,000 words are from the Internet. Because they were written so well, they dug it up, and the free chapters do not cheat money. In the 19th century, a group of Japanese devils boldly predicted that "those who dominate China must be Hunanese", which is really awesome.)
As a key area, Tianjin naturally has elites of "Leshan Hall". However, they have no concession now, so the branch has not been opened, but first uses the "Songchang Foreign Tour" on Zizhulin Street as the activity base. Japanese spies who can speak Chinese skillfully serve as bosses, and senior "outsiders" serve as friends.
For example, Yang Hao’s target of Ishikawa Wuichi is one of the best.
Ishikawa is an outstanding talent in the "Going to the Mountains and Going to the Countryside" operation. He once successfully operated the Sichuan Branch. Last year, he went north to expand his business and accompanied the Japanese military officer in China's Navy Staff to send Navy Toshio Inoue to take a rented Chinese sailboat, departed from Yantai, traveled to Changshan Island, Miao Island, Xiaoping Island, etc., and checked the Lushun Fort. The return journey passed through Dagu Mountain, as well as the Datong River, Pyongyang and Incheonkou in North Korea, and returned to Yantai via Weihaiwei. The sea surface and sea mouth they passed by were measured accordingly and formed a report. Prepare for the future naval battle between the Japanese Navy and the Chinese fleet.
In August of the same year, Ishikawa Wuichi followed Toshio Inoue and the Army's Jung-jin Kamio and others, and took the Japanese ship "Chi Zi" to enter Lushun, Dalian Bay, Damon Island, Weihaiwei and other places, spyed into the situation of the fortresses and mastered a large amount of important military intelligence. Afterwards, Ishikawa Wuichi returned to Tianjin, disguised himself as a staff member of the Matsuchang Foreign Service in the British Concession, and continued to collect military intelligence.
In February this year, he contacted Liu Fen, the clerk of the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau's clerk, through Wang Kaijia, who came here to drive foreign food, and through him, he obtained important military intelligence such as the number of guns and ammunition in various military camps in Tianjin, as well as the daily production and stock of guns and ammunition in various bureaus of the Ordnance Bureau.
If Yang Hao wants to cause trouble in Tianjin, he will definitely not be able to hide it from the Japanese. The best way is to remove them first. Furthermore, the first goal of the Yang family’s original action is to destroy Japan’s Sino-Japanese conspiracy, so it is perfect to use Tianjin’s spy agencies to exert the flag.
He took four followers to stroll Zizhulin Street. Like all the tourists who came to open their eyes, they found a Shandong restaurant not far from Songchang Foreign Service, went to the private room on the second floor, and through the window, they could see the target's door.
As night falls, gas street lights on the street are lit one after another. This is also an extremely rare light for the concession without electricity, so tourists are still in a state of interest.
Yang Hao ordered some meat and vegetables casually. After serving, he invited two bodyguards and two followers to let go, eat and drink, and asked them to stare at the door, and told the guy not to disturb him. When he arrived at the window, he pushed open the glass window, opened the suitcase that Liu Dafu was carrying all the way, and took out a four-axis aircraft from it.
A fist-sized tube was hung under its hanger. The remote control operated, and a slight buzzing sound slowly rose. In the darkness that was not illuminated by the light, it swayed toward the backyard of Songchang Yangxing.
Through the camera, Yang Hao accurately controlled the aerial camera to approach the closed window of one of the houses. After hovering, he pressed the switch and a thin tube "pop" spurted out of the head of the barrel. The hard alloy head smashed the glass and fell into it, and a large amount of gasoline was quickly sprayed out.
The aerial camera then loosened its hook and rose into the air. The light emitted by the high-power laser pen next to the camera focused on the can. The extremely thin tank body was quickly penetrated, and the remaining oil and gas inside were lit, igniting, and a dazzling flame shattered the window, and a raging fire suddenly appeared inside!
"It's on fire!" There were screams of exclamations one after another on the street. Seven or eight people rushed out of the front and back yards of Songchang Foreign Company, carrying buckets and basins.
Yang Hao laughed and said, "The show is about to begin!"
Chapter completed!