Jagged Warlord

When everyone was still immersed in the excitement, they saw Liu Musheng in the distance, shaking a folding fan, leading a group of people over without haste.

As he approached, Liu Musheng clapped his folding fan and saluted Li Mohan, "I've seen you, young master."

Li Mohan stepped forward, "Master is here." Then he looked at the group of people behind him, they were all old, middle-aged and young, the older ones were fighting in long gowns and jackets, and the younger ones were mostly in suits or Chinese tunic suits. "they are?"

Liu Musheng straightened up, and opened the folding fan again with a huff, "These are all talents from all over the world who have read your advertisement, young master."

"So~!" Li Mohan smiled and shook hands with them one by one, and said: "I am Li Mohan, please don't begrudge your talents, and join hands with me to benefit the local people and the common people."

A few young men in Japanese-style school uniforms walked out of the crowd, bowed to Li Mohan, and said, "Master Guardian, we are graduates of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. Please appoint us as officials."

People in the Republic of China had few channels to obtain information. At the same time, because Japan won the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, they had some blind imagination and worship of Japan, thinking that the Japanese Military Academy was a good school.

At that time, the instructors in military academies and lecture halls were mainly foreign instructors, mostly German instructors, as well as instructors from France, Russia, Japan and other countries. There were very few Chinese instructors, and even if there were, most of them were cadets studying in Japan.German instructors are much more realistic. German instructors teach small tactics and speak very carefully.The teaching methods of these Japanese instructors or non-commissioned officers studying in Japan are not good. The Japanese instructors deliberately harm the Chinese.The non-commissioned officer students studying in Japan are young and energetic, and they think that they need to learn big strategies and tactics.But he disdains the battalion tactics below the division.In fact, what Chinese military officers need most now is to learn tactics below the general level. It is easy to make big strategies, strategies, and command, but the most important thing is battlefield principles.If the battlefield principles are not accurate, and the orders cannot be implemented below, the command will become a problem.

Therefore, Li Mohan didn't have a good impression of the non-commissioned officers studying in Japan, and he didn't think they were anything special.He looked at the Japanese non-commissioned officers who looked a little arrogant, and asked with a smile: "Since a few of them are non-commissioned officers studying in Japan, how much do you know about Japan?"

The cadet replied, "I understand very well."

Li Mohan smiled and asked, "Then do you know why Japan was able to defeat the Manchus and Russia in 1895 and 1905?"

A cadet replied: "It is inevitable for a constitutional state to defeat a monarchy."

"Inevitable?" Li Mohan asked back: "Where is inevitable?"

Several cadets were at a loss for words.

Li Mohan laughed loudly, and said, "Forget it, let me tell you about the ins and outs of this place."

Liu Musheng secretly laughed at the overreaching of the non-commissioned officers, and said, "Everyone, please sit down in the small auditorium."

Hearing that what Li Mohan said was about Japan, everyone became interested.The miraculous and rapid rise of Japan, coupled with the victory over China in the Sino-Japanese War and the victory over the behemoth Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, made many Chinese very interested in Japan.

Li Mohan started from the closed-door policy of the Japanese shogunate, and talked about Japan's history and economic development characteristics.The traditional feudal system, the innovation and rise of the Changzhou and Mosas domains in modern times, and the development of the Meiji Restoration.From the causes of the Sino-Japanese War, where did Japan get the money to fight the Sino-Japanese War, and the role of overseas borrowing in Japan.One by one is clear.

After listening to such a clear explanation, everyone admired Li Mohan's profound knowledge and deep understanding of the world even more, and the few non-commissioned officers studying in Japan felt even more ashamed.

Li Mohan said: "In order to buy warships, the Japanese emperor took the lead in saving food and clothing, and only ate one meal a day. What about the Qing Dynasty? That old temptress Cixi embezzled the navy's military expenses to build the Old Summer Palace, and Li Hongzhang deposited the money in the bank for interest. The Beiyang Navy, the seventh in the world and the number one in Asia, did not have enough shells to fight the war; Japan had already received the support of the British before the war, and the Manchu Qing still imagined that Britain would come forward to mediate the war with Japan. The battle has not yet started, and the outcome is basically determined It has been separated."

Li Mohan continued: "Of course, China is not completely without room for recovery. If China can insist on not admitting defeat for a few months, Japan will cause its own economic collapse due to the maturity of the loan and European creditors coming to collect debts."

Then, Li Mohan explained the relationship between the Russo-Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese War.The Qing government was forced to sign the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki.Ceding the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan is incompatible with Russia's aggressive plan to monopolize our entire Northeast.The stipulations of ceding the Liaodong Peninsula angered Russia, which led to the event of "Three Kingdoms Interfering in Returning Liaodong" and forcing Japan to revise the "Treaty of Shimonoseki".The conflict of interests between Japan and Russia in the Far East further intensified.

Waiting for Japan to immediately step up preparations for war against Russia. In 1895, it looted 2.3 million taels of silver as indemnity from China, most of which were used for war preparations.Japan's national expenditure was 1893 million yen in 1894~8400, and increased to more than 1897 million yen in 2.4, of which military expenditure increased significantly.After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan passed an army and navy armament plan and a railway construction plan, which required a total of 5.16 million yen. This plan was basically completed by 1900-1901.This marks the readiness for war with Russia.

Britain has always regarded Russia as its rival for China.It attempted to use Japan's hand to prevent Russia from going south to compete with it for the Yangtze River Basin in China.Therefore, Britain and Japan colluded with each other and signed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in London on January 1902, 1, targeting Russia.Since the United States proposed the "Open Door" policy in 30, it tried to set foot in Northeast China several times, but was rejected by Russia.In order to break Russia's monopoly on Northeast China, the US government sided with Japan and Britain.The United Kingdom and the United States have given Japan a large amount of economic assistance to encourage Japan's military expansion and war preparations.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Northeast China was the battlefield of the land confrontation between the two sides. The local people suffered great disasters, and their lives and property suffered unprecedented catastrophe.Factories in Lushun were bombed, houses were bombed, and even temples were not spared.Cattle were taken away, food was robbed, and tens of thousands of refugees were displaced.Both Japan and Russia forced the Chinese people to deliver ammunition for them and serve them in hard labour.This war was not only a brutal trampling on China's territory and sovereignty, but also caused huge losses and casualties to the people of Northeast China in the war.

In addition, this war greatly stimulated the nerves of Chinese intellectuals, allowing them to see the truth that the Communist country (Russia) would never be able to defeat the constitutional country (Japan), thus promoting China's constitutional civil rights movement and objectively accelerating The fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Many people are hearing these claims for the first time.After contacting the previous Japanese borrowing matter, many people have been beating their wrists and beating their chests, cursing that the imperial court at that time was full of bastards with corpses and vegetarian meals, and also scolding the European and American powers for being duplicity bastards.Everyone was not only angry at the Japanese wolfish ambitions, but at the same time worried about the Japanese city and the depth of their calculations.

After finishing speaking, Li Mohan walked up to the non-commissioned officers studying in Japan, and said, "Guys, can my humble opinion still stand on the table?"

Several non-commissioned officers were ashamed and did not dare to look up at Li Mohan, but they were honest, and one of them replied: "We know that we are wrong. It is true that a mountain is higher than a mountain, so let's go."

Li Mohan smiled and said: "It's rare to come, so don't leave. You can do adaptive training with other people first."