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Zhang Haixiao said: "Then according to what you mean, sir: I will not send troops to attack Lin Yuan?"

Shang Yuanxin said with a smile: "Of course not, I'm doing this for the sake of Mr. You, think about it, the Qing court will end sooner or later..." Zhang Haixiao couldn't help but change his face when he heard this, Shang Yuanxin said with a smile: "Don't dislike me. My words are ugly, and what I say is the truth. Now few people in our Great Japanese Empire tell the truth. Guys like Kodama Gentaro and Mori Natsutaro drew too many cakes for your Qing court to satisfy your hunger, but unfortunately you can’t eat them. The Qing court will starve to death in the end."

Zhang Haixiao smiled apologetically, and said: "Mr. dare to tell the truth, I admire you very much, just now Zhang was rude."

Shang Yuanxin said with a smile: "Master Zhang, don't blame yourself. I have been in China for a long time. You have treated me well, and I am very grateful, so I want to tell you the truth. Master Zhang, Lin Yuan is as powerful as a bamboo, and he is not our party at all." A few troops can stop it, so I advise you to leave a way for yourself as soon as possible, if you have troops in your hand, Lin Yuan will be jealous of you, and will give you some face in the future."

"Although your troops are nothing more than a piece of cake in Lin Yuan's eyes, Lin Yuan is a businessman who is good at calculating. He will never attack the enemy if he can outsmart him. This will minimize his losses. If you have Troops, Lin Yuan will definitely recruit you, after you surrender, life will definitely not be as comfortable as it is now, but there is still a guarantee of food and clothing, and you will not be decapitated like Xu Shan's generals."

Zhang Haixiao nodded and said, "What you said is very true, but I have already rejected Lin Yuan's telegram to persuade you to surrender. Will Lin Yuan hold grudges?"

Shang Yuanxin smiled and said: "If Lin Yuan was a person who put his personal hatred above national interests, he would not have the power he has today. Don't worry, he will never. What you have to do now is to find all kinds of people. Lin Yuan will definitely think that if you don’t send troops for various reasons: You really want to surrender, and the previous dispatch of troops was just a show for the Qing court, so Lin Yuan will not only hold grudges against you, but also be grateful to you.”

Zhang Haixiao nodded again and again and said: "Mr. is really wise. I ordered Sun Zhengmao to come back immediately, but I have a question to ask sir. I don't know if I should ask it?"

Shang Yuanxin smiled and said, "But it's okay to talk about it."

Zhang Haixiao said: "I think you are very different from other Japanese military advisers. I don't know if you have noticed it?"

Shangyuan Xinyi laughed and said: "Sooner or later, those people will push Japan into the fire pit. I can't control them anymore, and I don't want to control them. For me, it's enough to be comfortable every day."

Zhang Haixiao thought to himself: "This Shangyuan Xinyi is really a strange guy." Zhang Haixiao came out of the house while thinking, and when he returned to his headquarters, he asked someone to send a telegram to the Qing court, saying that troops were being dispatched, but he was told His own subordinates stood still and never attacked Lin Yuan without their own orders. At the same time, they secretly sent special envoys to Shanghai to meet Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan didn't know Zhang Haixiao's thoughts yet. Seeing that the Qing army had only tried to attack briefly and then stopped moving out, despite the urgent telegrams from the Qing court, he was very puzzled and thought: "The Qing army What exactly do you want to do?"

On October 28th, Liu Yufeng, the head of the guard, suddenly said to Lin Yuan: "There is someone outside who wants to see you. It is said that he is Zhang Haixiao's special envoy."

Lin Yuan frowned, and asked, "Have you searched yourself?"

Liu Yufeng said: "We searched, but found no weapons or dangerous goods."

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, let him in." Not long after, Liu Yufeng led a tall and thin man in. Seeing that the man's clothes were covered with patches, Lin Yuan thought, "This man is wearing Can you be a special envoy?" So he asked, "Are you really Zhang Haixiao's special envoy?"

The man nodded and said, "Not bad."

Lin Yuanzai looked at this person carefully for a while, and saw that he had a dark complexion and a solid figure, unlike the civil servants commonly seen by special envoys, he couldn't help asking: "How can you prove that you are Zhang Haixiao's special envoy."

The man said: "I brought you a letter from Master Zhang Haixiao."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I haven't seen Zhang Haixiao's handwriting, how do I know if the letter you wrote to me was written by Zhang Haixiao?" But then he thought: "Liu Yufeng searched him, but he didn't find the letter on him. I don't know where he hid the letter? I'll just take a look."

Lin Yuan then asked, "Where is your letter?"

The man bowed and saluted, and said: "Shuai Lin, the villain is overstepping." After speaking, he took off his clothes. The weather in the south of the Yangtze River in October is quite hot, so the man was shirtless as soon as he took off his coat. Yuan saw several scars on this man's body, and then he understood: "So this man is a military officer."

The man tore the clothes fiercely with his calloused hands, and only heard a "呱啦", and the patch on the clothes was torn off. The man handed the patch in front of Lin Yuan and said, "Commander Lin, please take a look. The autograph is on the patch."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What a clever method of delivery." While thinking about it, he looked back at Liu Yufeng, Liu Yufeng lowered his head in shame, Lin Yuan looked at the words on the patch and said to Liu Yufeng: "Don't blame yourself , Just pay attention to this matter in the future.”

Liu Yufeng agreed, and Lin Yuan continued to read the letter, only to see that it wrote: "Zhang has long been dissatisfied with the Qing government's government, and his heart is for the new dynasty, but the Qing court is very intimidating, so he led the army to attack Hangzhou, forgive me." Lin Yuan laughed secretly in his heart after watching: "What a prudent Zhang Haixiao, neither I nor the Qing court would offend him."

Lin Yuan said to the special envoy, "Is this thing real?"

The special envoy said: "I have heard for a long time that Lin Shuai is smart and witty, why can't he even figure out such a simple truth? How could this letter be fake? Who would write such a thing for you?"

Lin Yuan rolled his eyes and thought: "It seems that this letter is true. Since Zhang Haixiao intends to surrender, he has value to use." At this moment, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered something, that was yesterday, the telegram The clerk reported to himself: "The Qing court used a brand-new cipher, and the telegrams we intercepted could not be deciphered for a while."

Thinking of this matter, Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Very well, I believe this letter was written by Zhang Haixiao. Now I have a chance to make meritorious service. I wonder if he wants it?"

The special envoy asked: "What opportunity? Please tell me, I will go back and tell Mr. Zhang Haixiao."

Lin Yuan said: "The Qing government recently changed the password, do you know?"

The envoy asked blankly, "What's the password?"

Lin Yuan thought helplessly: "It seems that this guy is a military officer, and he doesn't know what a telegram code is." So Lin Yuan said: "You remember this word: 'the latest telegram code', go back and tell Zhang Haixiao this word, Let him give me this thing, if he can do it, it will be a great achievement, and I will definitely not treat him badly."

The special envoy nodded and said, "I understand, I'll go back and report right away."

Lin Yuan turned his head and said to Liu Yufeng, "Take him out, and send him some travel money by the way." Liu Yufeng took the special envoy down, and the special envoy took a fast boat and returned to Ningbo the next day, October 28. When he came back, he met Zhang Haixiao immediately, and told Zhang Haixiao Lin Yuan's request, and Zhang Haixiao immediately asked Shangyuan Xinyi to discuss.