After receiving the notice from Japan, Sutaro Komura immediately notified the East China government that the Japanese government was willing to accept the four conditions proposed by the East China government, so the two sides began to negotiate again on the details of the four conditions.

After the negotiations restarted, Japan first expressed its full acceptance of Article 1 and Article 2, but the East China government proposed that time limits should be added to Article 2, otherwise the Japanese side would notify the East China government by one hour before the military operation. Therefore, the time limit proposed by the East China government is 72 hours in advance.

Japan originally wanted to vaguely pass the time, but knowing that overseas Chinese really didn't rub sand in the eyes of sand. Seeing that they could not get over it, Japan said that it could only accept the 12-hour time limit, because the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and even Japan could not determine all the action plans within 72 hours, so it would be impossible to notify the East China government 72 hours in advance.

In fact, the East China government also knew that it was basically impossible to advance 72 hours. This requirement was just a sky-high price. In the end, both sides decided to set it to be 24 hours in advance. However, the time node was subject to the delivery to the East China government. Because the communication in this era was transmitted in a password, and after it was transmitted, it had to be reviewed and checked. If the long message was sent, it would take several hours to complete, and there would be a lot of room for operation. In the old time and space, Japan took advantage of such loopholes more than once, so the East China government wanted to plug these loopholes. Komura Sutaro could only sigh that overseas Chinese were indeed shrewd, but they could only agree.

In Article 3, Sutaro Komura promised on behalf of the Japanese government that he would send a delegation composed of Japanese military personnel to Qingdao to negotiate the establishment of a joint combat command and joint management of the occupied areas within 15 days after the negotiations ended. The East China government had no objection to this.

Only Article 4, the two sides had major differences. Japan only promised that before the system of jointly managing the occupied areas was determined, Japan respected the East China government's business, enterprises, factories and citizens in the Northeast region and ensured their personal safety. However, the East China government required personnel in the Northeast region to establish a temporary management committee on the spot. All matters related to the East China government will be resolved within the framework of the Interim Management Committee. Japan cannot go beyond the Interim Management Committee to deal with the personnel and property of the East China government in the Northeast region.

Of course, such conditions are unacceptable to the Japanese government, because this is equivalent to giving diplomatic immunity to the East China government. Because it is all matters related to the East China government, the scope of this is too large. For example, do locals who work for the East China government count? This is too passive to Japan. However, the Japanese guarantee is too empty and has no substantial significance, and the East China government cannot agree.

After three days of debate and discussion, the two sides finally made a move. First, the Japanese government established a temporary management committee at the same time, but divided the personnel of the East China government in the Northeast into three categories. One is senior personnel, that is, the so-called overseas Chinese. If there is anything, it must be resolved within the framework of the temporary management committee. The second category is direct personnel, that is, people brought from Shandong. The temporary management committee can coordinate and participate, but the Japanese side cannot recruit them; the third category is local staff, which is handled by the Japanese side. If the recruitment is carried out, it must compensate for losses; and if the East China government's commercial banks, enterprises, factories, and Japanese side in the Northeast region, they must consult with the temporary management committee and compensate for the losses. In terms of military terms, the East China government allows the dispatch of military observation groups to follow the Japanese army.

Then Sutaro Komura sent the details of the negotiation back to China. After reading it, the Japanese government also thought it was acceptable because it was successfully delayed the establishment of a joint combat command and the joint management of the occupied areas. In this way, it was successfully excluded from overseas Chinese at the beginning of the war. As for sending military observation teams, it was an internationally accepted practice, which was understandable. However, Japan finally obtained material support from the East China government, which was the biggest victory. Other things were just small details. Now the East China government only has a few shops in the Northeast region, no factory, and less than 1,000 staff members, making them irrelevant to the overall situation.

So Sutaro Komura immediately signed an agreement with Li Sanjie, but Sutaro Komura did not return to China immediately to submit the order, and waited in Qingdao. After 12 days, Japan indeed sent another delegation, including Masayoshi Kazumatsu Kazumatsu, Masayoshi Lusui, Masayoshi Yamamoto Kobee, and Foreign Minister Sutaro Komura, a total of 4 cabinet officials. They formally negotiated with the East China government to establish a joint combat command and jointly manage the affairs of the occupied areas, which seemed to be sincere. In addition, the first batch of materials provided by the East China government to Japan, otherwise Japan would not have sent Masayoshi Kazumatsu Kazumatsu (equivalent to the Minister of Finance) to the group.

However, it was impossible to make any substantial progress in the first negotiation. After all, neither side had cooperated similarly before, and Japan also intends to set up problems and raise many issues that require their own internal negotiations. Therefore, the two sides only reached a framework agreement of intention, which did not have much practical significance. It was just after the negotiations ended, the two sides agreed to hold the next round of negotiations in Japan one month later. However, the time travelers understood that by that time, the war had begun.

Of course, the time traveler did not really want to form a joint command with Japan. One is to reassure Japan and believe that the East China government still has the sincerity to cooperate; the other is to let it go after the war, it has a considerable degree of self-reliance in the Northeast region, which is also conducive to the collection of intelligence.

In modern warfare, intelligence is the top priority. The East China government intends to take advantage of the Russo-Japanese War, so naturally it will not ignore intelligence work. Therefore, it has been deploying intelligence since 1902. In the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the People's Army defeated the Russian army that went south and rescued more than 20,000 of them with the army. They were all from Northeast China. After the war, more than half of them returned to their hometown in Northeast China. About 8,000 people remained in Shandong, of which nearly 5,000 participated in the People's Army.

Of course, the intelligence department would not miss this opportunity, because these people are natives in Northeast China, with accents, languages, living habits, identity information, and local social relations. They are almost all excellent candidates for intelligence personnel. So the Ministry of Security selected more than 300 people for training, and then sent them back to the Northeast region in batches to collect intelligence. In 1903, after the East China government obtained the permission to open a business in Lushun, it took the opportunity to further develop the Northeast intelligence network and absorbed a considerable number of local people.

Now the intelligence network of the East China government in the Northeast has been fully deployed, with a total of more than 500 personnel. It has set up points in major cities such as Shenyang and Liaoyang, and in addition, it has penetrated into the countryside in a large number. In less than two years, it has achieved such results.

However, the intelligence progress in Japan is quite limited. On the one hand, in the old time and space, Japan was the most difficult place to carry out intelligence work; on the other hand, the influence and ability of the East China government are now limited. After all, to go to Japan to carry out intelligence work, you must first know Japanese. In this article, the choice of the East China government in the East China government is extremely limited. So far, only 16 people have been sent to Japan in the name of international students, and their main task is to integrate into Japanese society and collect information through public publications such as newspapers.

But now there have been some breakthroughs in intelligence work in Japan. It turned out that at the beginning of 1903, two time travelers volunteered to apply to the Executive Yuan and were willing to go to Japan to serve as intelligence personnel.

One of these two people is Deng Liwei, 35 years old, and the other is Luo Jiaquan, 29 years old. He is a lukewarm person in the East China government. However, in the old time and space, they all studied in Japan and worked for more than 4 years. Of course, there is no problem with language, and they also have a considerable understanding of Japan's history and culture. Of course, in their words, understanding Japan is to conquer Japan. It is only in the old time and space, and has vigorously advocated "occupying Japanese islands and capturing Teacher Cang alive" in many forums. He was warned several times by the moderator and fought with the Japanese spirits. According to Luo Jiaquan himself, he was also a man of a Japanese spirit.

In this time and space, although it is impossible to "capture Teacher Cang alive", "capturing Japan Island" is a very possible goal. Moreover, as the Russo-Japanese War approaches, it is a place of use, so both of them volunteer to apply to go to Japan to be undercover. In the danger of being undercover in Japan, both of them firmly believe that they have the protagonist's halo and there will be no problem.

Shang Qisong, the head of the Ministry of Security, made an appointment with the two to talk, but he couldn't figure out where the confidence of these two people came from. He even suspected that they just wanted to go to Japan to spend money on public expenses. However, after careful evaluation by the Ministry of Security, he thought he could give it a try, because judging from the quality and conditions of these two people, he was indeed suitable to go to Japan to do intelligence work, and he took the initiative to apply. Even if these two people were exposed, the Ministry of Security had no responsibility and did not suffer much damage to the East China government. After all, these two people were insignificant roles in the East China government, and if the two really opened up the situation in Japan, it could be considered an unexpected surprise.

Of course, these two people think about the intelligence very simply, but the Ministry of Security had to make sufficient preparations, so they formulated a detailed training plan for the two and made careful arrangements. The Ministry of Security believed that even if these two people were going to Japan for undercover, it would be better to obtain the identity of a Japanese person, which would be more convenient to act. Maybe they could get into the Japanese government, and it would be better to be an overseas Japanese overseas. Because at this time, there were many Japanese people studying abroad and doing business, and many people settled abroad. Therefore, if the two returned to China as the second generation of Japanese overseas, it would be very consistent with the situation of the two.
Chapter completed!