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Volume D, Chapter 82, The Capital 2

The imperial guards in front were 26,000, patrols and police officers, and more than 62,000 people. Yang Rui only recorded the numbers in his notebook, and Gong Baoquan began to talk about the foreign soldiers in Beijing. "There are many foreign troops in Beijing, and all countries have them. In addition to Beijing, these troops are stationed in Tianjin, Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Military Food Station, Tanggu, Shanhaiguan, and Qinhuangdao. Among them, Beijing and Tianjin are the most. Now, there are 243 British soldiers, 131 American soldiers, 229 Italian soldiers, 178 Austrian soldiers, 113 Russian soldiers, 324 Japanese soldiers, 256 French soldiers, 246 German soldiers, 246 German soldiers, 1717 total.

In addition, Britain has two rear-mounted five-inch howitzers, two twelve-pound rapid-fire cannons, and six thirty-inch horse-style cannons; the United States has four thirty-one-inch field cannons, one 23-inch field cannons, and six thirty-inch machine cannons; Italy has three 45-inch field cannons, three thirty-one-inch field cannons, and five machine cannons; Austria has seven 66-inch field cannons, and six eight-inch machine cannons; Russia has two 75-inch field cannons, and thirty-one-inch machine cannons;

There were two guns; Japan had three 75 field cannons and three machine guns; France had two 37-inch rapid-fire cannons and two 80-inch mountain cannons; Germany had three 75-inch field cannons, three 37-inch field cannons, and six Maxim machine guns. The above were 39 various types of mountain cannons, twenty machine guns, and six machine guns. These troops were stationed in the embassy area of ​​the capital to defend the embassy and foreigners everywhere.

In addition, Tianjin is only four and a half hours away from the Beijing train. Once something happens in Beijing, foreign foreign soldiers from Tianjin and the entire railways inside and outside the pass will lead to Beijing. The combined force of these troops will exceed 4,000 people..."

Yang Rui was remembering it in his notebook, but in the end he heard so many foreigners piled up in Beijing, he couldn't help but stop writing. He even had the idea of ​​not wanting to put the capital in Beijing. Even if he switched to any other place, it would be thousands of times better than Beijing in terms of safety. The navy was weak, the fort was demolished, and the troops stationed in the capital were stationed. No matter how you look at it, this place was extremely unsafe. If there were tens of thousands of people from the sea, you could immediately land in Tanggu, and then take the train with seven or eight holes to the front door of Beijing in four hours, and then... What a fucking bullshit capital!

In the morning, Gong Baoquan introduced all aspects of Beijing, and then Chen Zhaowen, the representative of Zhili, introduced the situation of Wei County. In general, no more than one thousand soldiers could get in the capital. However, it is unknown whether there would be one of these thousand people who caused trouble and the detectives in the arrest bureau saw the problem. Moreover, although Wei County is far away from the capital, it cannot occupy too many bandits. It can only be occupied separately in the entire Taihang Mountains. The current investigation results are that within a range of 100 kilometers from the capital, there can only be ten companies at most. That is, a regiment's force, and within a range of 200 kilometers, a brigade can be arranged. According to the arrangement of the mountain brigade, this is more than 8,000 people, and more than 8,000 people against more than 60,000 people. Not to mention the distance of 200 miles, it is said that there is no heavy firepower in the capital. I am afraid that it is difficult to have a chance of winning.

After Gong Baoquan and Chen Zhaowen reported the situation at the bottom, Yang Rui was completely disappointed with the so-called central flowering strategy. At most, ten thousand people were arranged within 200 kilometers of the capital. There could not exceed one thousand people in the capital, and this battle seemed to be difficult to fight. The meeting ended in the morning, and when the discussion was held in the afternoon, Gong Baoquan stayed at the end. He only called Yang Rui.

Gong Baoquan is a senior manager of the Military Intelligence Bureau. He is already in charge of Beijing, and many things cannot be circulated under the confidentiality code. Seeing that he had something to do, Yang Rui just took him to another room and greeted him kindly to sit down. But when he was about to wait for him to speak, Gong Baoquan wanted to say it but couldn't speak, and his whole body trembled.

Seeing him like this, Yang Rui still felt sick and was standing up to call people, but he waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I'm fine. I'm fine!"

He said not the official language but dialect. However, Yang Rui still understood it, poured him a cup of hot water, and then said, "Don't worry, say whatever you have. Say what you have to worry about slowly."

Gong Baoquan took a sip of hot water and said, "Brother Jingcheng, I! I! I am so excited! I... I can't help it." As he said, he took out something from his arms, and after it was unfolded, it was a map of the capital. He still said with some trembling words: "Brother Jingcheng, I have completed... I have completed the investigation outside the capital, and..." He trembled with his hands and took out another map and said, "And this is the investigation inside the capital, which was completed by Huanqing. The strategy of blooming the center of the General Staff can be realized! It can be realized!!"

Gong Baoquan said incoherently. Tao Chengzhang and he had been instilling the strategy of the center's flowering, but at that time the revival would be in the stage of accumulation. Yang Rui had no way to support this strategy. Then Tao Chengzhang couldn't wait to leave Beijing and went to Shanghai to promote Hangzhou to initiate affairs, leaving only the matter of Beijing to him. Gong Baoquan only followed what Tao Chengzhang had not done, carefully investigated outside the capital, namely Miyun, Fangshan, Changping, Tongzhou and other places, and finally came up with a general plan, but this plan had loopholes, because people could enter Beijing, but weapons could not be transported in, let alone the weapons of tens of thousands of people. But today, he learned about the idea of ​​the General Staff.

Each airship can carry a minimum of ten tons, with a gun of eight kilograms, and only 10,000 can only be 40 tons. If eight airships landed at one time, one hundred tons of materials could arm 15,000 people. These 5,000 people could attack the Nanyuan camp of the Imperial Guard overnight, and then seize the weapons of the Imperial Guard. In this way, 20,000 can be fully armed and cannons of the Imperial Guard. When these 20,000 people were fighting outside the city, the 5,000 people who had been infiltrated in advance in the city could occupy the key points of the city gate in a very short time, and then let the field army outside enter the city. As long as these 20,000 people entered the city, then the major events in Beijing could be decided, and the major events in Beijing were determined, and the national depot could be determined. Thinking of this, Gong Baoquan couldn't help but tremble excitedly.

Gong Baoquan finished his brief thoughts, but was still excited. Yang Rui was moved by what he said, and hurriedly asked Chen Guangshou outside to take a look at the door, and no one was allowed to approach him. He even wanted to cancel the meeting below. But he felt that this was too obvious and stopped halfway. When he returned to the room, Gong Baoquan seemed to calm down a little. Yang Rui looked at him and said, "Weisheng, didn't you just say that only one thousand people could enter the capital? How could you enter five thousand people now? Besides, we just calculated that the maximum of ten thousand people could be arranged within a 200 kilometers of Beijing. Where were your 200,000 people in advance?"

If Yang Rui had known this, Gong Baoquan spread out the map of the Beijing city and said: "The inner city of the capital is very strict, but the outer city does not control the population. There are more refugees and beggars. Most of these people have no fixed livelihoods. Huanqing's previous statistics mean that there are nearly 100,000 people in the entire outer city. They all live in shantytowns and only do some small workers or short-term workers. If we take the temple fair, then 5,000 or even more people will enter the outer city in one day."

Yang Rui understood the temple fair, but he asked, "When will there be a temple fair?"

"There are always time." Gong Baoquan said. After saying that, he turned over the map. There are many temple fairs written on it. "There are temple fairs from the first lunar month to November, and the most are in the first lunar month."

"What do you mean is to send these 5,000 people into the outer city by unemployed wanderers first and then go to the temple fair?" Yang Rui asked.

"My idea is that there are many schools in the inner city. In the name of opening the school, there are many wanderers in the outer city who are unemployed and semi-employed. Some of these people are in the outer city and some are in the city. In order not to arouse suspicion, some of them are arranged inside and outside the city. There are about five or six thousand people here, and in the end, there are 20,000 people in the suburbs of Beijing. These people are the main force in defeating the Imperial Guards. The Imperial Guards of the Qing Dynasty have both been seen through and trained. They are all in a fancy way." Gong Baoquan said. He finally made the words clear this time. But Yang Rui was still a little confused. He thought that the 20,000 people said before was a mountain brigade within 200 kilometers of the capital, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"I understand the students in the inner city, I understand the five thousand people in the outer city, but where are the 20,000 people in the outer city hidden in your suburbs?" Yang Ruiqi said.

"Here!" Gong Baoquan spread out the suburbs of the city and pointed to a place west of Beijing and said, "Mentougou."

"Mentougou?" Yang Rui had never heard of this place, so he had to ask again.

"Yes! It's Mentougou." Gong Baoquan said. Seeing that Yang Rui was puzzled, he said again: "This place is the largest coal mine outside the capital. There are 40,000 to 50,000 coal miners, and the other people serve miners and their families are no less than 20,000 to 30,000. I said that the railway was to be built here, but Yuan Shikai stepped down and the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was not paid enough. In addition, Sheng Xuanhuai was thoroughly investigating the accounts of the entire railway company. Everyone in the upper level of the railway company was panicked, so the repairs were not repaired, which led to 20,000 or 30,000 coal transporters. There were more than 100,000 people and 20,000 people mixed in. One was the laborer for transporting coal, and the other was the workers of the coal mine, and they would not be discovered at all.

However, in order to keep things secret, we would better find a famous person in the capital and a foreigner to buy ore mine in Mentougou and gradually grow bigger. In this way, there will naturally be more miners in several mines. Since we dig coal, we have to transport coal. At that time, we can organize a coal transport team to transport coal to Beijing and Tianjin by mules and horses. In the end, Mentougou is under the jurisdiction of Wanping County. It is best to arrange our own people to become the county magistrate here, and the local patrol officer will take over it. Even if something happens, there is a way to remedy it."

During Gong Baoquan's account, Yang Rui slowly remembered it. There was a long-term news in his memory that he wanted to rectify the small coal mine in western Jing, but he didn't expect that the Jingxi coal mine would be available now, and it was so large. However, it was precisely because of this large that so many people could be hidden. The coal mine was opened and the county magistrate was established. County magistrate Yang Rui thought of Xu Xilin for a moment. He had been with Enming for many years and should have moved, but the coal mine could not be presented by Tianzi. He asked: "The candidates for the county magistrate can be arranged, but it is easy to find foreigners in this mining process. Who can the local famous ones look for?"

"You can find Huang Siyong." Gong Baoquan said. "He is our informant now."

"Huang Siyong?" Yang Rui remembered that this person had been a documentary for the Taiping Army in Nanjing for more than ten years. After breaking the city, he hid in the temple and escaped. He was even the top scholar in the Qing Dynasty. His previous events were not known, but now he was known by Yang Rui. He was threatened and bought, and he became an external personnel of the Revival Society.

"He was in the Ministry of Commerce and now he has opened a craft bureau. It is not difficult for him to come out to run a mine in Mentougou. In the backstage, he can completely suppress the coal mines in Mentougou. At that time, he will work with foreigners. In addition to the coal mines jointly organized by China and foreign countries, other coal mines can be bought, and the coal mines can be expanded to the scale we need within a year." Gong Baoquan has been in Beijing for many years and has a clear understanding of the situation everywhere after careful investigation. Now, once the problem of the source of weapons is solved, the plan for the entire center to blossom will be natural.

"Well. It's okay for him to come forward. But Wanping is a county under Shuntian Prefecture. Can our people be sent to become county magistrates?" Yang Rui confirmed the coal mine and asked the county magistrate again.

"In the Qing Dynasty's officialdom, as long as you have money, nothing can be done. In the past, Prince Qing Yili sold official positions with a clear price. Now that he has left the stage and his power has been transferred to Guangxu, as long as he contacted Zaifeng's concubine, she now has a clear price. Although Wanping wants a county, it can be bought with 50,000 taels. However, the sent people must be able to gain the trust of the Qing Dynasty, so that they can be foolproof." Gong Baoquan said.

"Why is Zaifeng's concubine?" Yang Rui smiled.

"Now Guangxu handed over the army to Zaitao and the Navy to Zaixun. The power near the capital of the capital was handed over to Zaifeng. Zaifeng was afraid of his wife, and the concubine was the daughter of Ronglu. He was extremely fierce. Although the party at the back was collapsed, this woman still had the final say in Prince Chun's mansion. She had the final say on many of the affairs in Zaifeng's hands." Gong Baoquan said.

The plan is extremely perfect, including inner city, outer city, suburbs, and mountain brigades near Wei County. In this way, there seem to be nearly 40,000 people. These 40,000 people are against more than 60,000 people from the Qing Dynasty. They have a first-mover advantage, and there is no suspense to defeat these troops. However, once Beijing occupies, other places must take action at the same time, and the northeast must immediately occupy the provinces of Fengtian. The territory within the pass must be quickly seized to prevent the peach-like independence in history. Political workers, officers, science and technology, talents in these aspects must be able to keep up, as well as arms and military expenditures must be prepared. Finally, the political situation and the international situation must be more accurate.

Gong Baoquan introduced the entire plan. He thought Yang Rui would be as happy as him, but he didn't expect Yang Rui to be even more profound. Tactical victory could not achieve strategic victory, and military victory could not achieve political victory. Strategies could not be adjusted for tactics, nor could politics compromise for military affairs. Gong Baoquan did not understand what Yang Rui thought.

"Before you are born, you should go back first. I will send someone to help you. Let me summarize the entire plan. Which ones are indeed credible? What are not necessarily feasible? We must analyze it comprehensively and meticulously. In addition, no matter whether it is feasible or not, we must send people to conduct on-site inspections, geography, climate, personnel, etc., and these must be repeatedly counted and confirmed. We must implement the plan for the blossoming of the center, but when to implement it is another question. How do you do the work of execution, and when will I be responsible for the work of execution. Before birth, the victory of the revolution is right in front of you!" After Yang Rui said that, he grabbed Gong Baoquan's shoulder and shook it hard, very happy.

Gong Baoquan thought Yang Rui did not agree with this plan, but when he heard him say this, he said that the victory of the revolution was right in front of him. His heart was relieved and he shouted: "Brother Jingcheng, I will do my best to ensure that everything is foolproof!"

Gong Baoquan was in high spirits, and Yang Rui was also infected by him and said, "You go back first, don't worry, victory must belong to us!"

Yang Rui sent away the excited Gong Baoquan, but he did not go back to have a meal. He only lit a cigarette in the room, trying to drive out the plan of the center's flowering plan - Siwei always stared at one place, and it was easy to make the problem of seeing the trees but not seeing the forest. But when he finished smoking, he was still thinking about this matter in his mind. He was tempted by this plan. Think about it, overnight, the capital changed color. The Yan Banner of the Revival Society and the Eagle Banner of the Revival Army fluttered in that ancient city. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city were full of fear. The ministers of various countries were surprised. The Qing Dynasty was destroyed and the Chinese were revived... and those princes, Beile, and the young officials were young.

Even if you are greedy, they can find out their money. At least tens of millions, or more than hundreds of millions. Those who have eaten enough money should throw them into the pot and boil oil. By the way, there is also the private money of the Qing Dynasty. If this huge pound of more than 10 million pounds is collected, then the funds after the founding of the country will be... In addition to money, the biggest gain is that they are not afraid of foreign interference. Overnight, all the Qing royal family members from Guangxu to the yellow and red belts were arrested. They want to support who can't find the support, the Japanese, British, and French. This time there is nothing to do...

In the claustrophobic room, Yang Ruiyan smoked more and more, and his thoughts became more and more chaotic. Just as his anger rose, Chen Guangshou outside knocked on the door and said, "Sir, my wife, come and call you when will you go back to have a meal?"

The knock on the door only gave Yang Rui a clear gap in his fevered head. He only felt that being so excited is not a good thing. Madam, Madam is his own woman, and he happened to go to Cheng Xu to relieve his brain. Yang Rui thought of this and opened the door and rushed to the apartment without waiting for Chen Guangshou.
Chapter completed!
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