The leak of the incident not only made Fang Zida angry, but Zhou Yuanliang, who had eaten the lead, was even more furious. Fang Zida brought him step by step from a young waiter to his current position, and taught him such an important task. His cultivation grace was like rebuilding. In Zhou Yuanliang's heart, Fang Zida was his god. As long as Fang Zida said a word, Zhou Yuanliang would not frown even if he went through fire and water. Zhou Yuanliang, who was already not Wuxia Amon, knew the importance of the intelligence department and was very cautious about the arrangement of plans and actions. The people he selected were all his most trusted subordinates, but shortly after he patted his chest in front of Fang Zida to ensure that there was no problem, the incident was leaked.

Zhou Yuanliang, who was gritting his teeth and trying to find the leaker, was furious and skinned. After Fang Zida left, he investigated the inside. However, after searching, he did not find out any problems. Just when he was about to expand the scope of the investigation, Fang Zida suddenly gave an order to stop the matter and no more investigation.

"Sir, why? Can you feel relieved if you don't find out if you find out?" Zhou Yuanliang, who was anxious, didn't understand why Fang Zida gave this order, so he rushed to Fang Zida and asked.

Fang Zida smiled bitterly and said, "The problem is not internal, and I can't even check it. San'er! I was wrongly criticized by Ji yesterday. I'm a little bit more serious. Don't worry if I scold Ji a few words."

"Sir, what do you say? Don't scold me, even if you beat me up, there will be no complaints. But... what happened to the leak? If you don't find out what's going on in my heart..."

"It's not the one who leaked the secret." Fang Zida sighed.

"Isn't our person? Whose person is that? How could he know we were acting?" Zhou Yuanliang asked in surprise, looking very nervous.

Waving his hand, Fang Zida said: "You don't need to ask what's going on. Tell me about it and stop the investigation and don't make people panic. In addition, no matter what you do or what you do in the future, remember to be careful and careful. There is no trick to intelligence work, it's just four words - careful and confidential!"

Zhou Yuanliang opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't ask anything. He agreed and said goodbye and left. After Zhou Yuanliang left, Fang Zida sighed helplessly and smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth.

Indeed, the leak of the matter cannot be blamed for Zhou Yuanliang, and it has nothing to do with the people under Zhou Yuanliang. As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Intelligence Department, Wang Shizhen noticed Fang Zida's intentions and reported it to Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai was able to hold a firm position as a leader in Beiyang for so many years, and his subordinates had already had his own intelligence team, but it was small in scale and was extremely secret. At the beginning, these spies were always under the responsibility of Lu Jianzhang. Since Lu Jianzhang was transferred to the northwest to encircle Bai Lang, he gradually handed over to Chief of Staff Wang Shizhen.

Wang Shizhen is known as the Dragon of Beiyang, and his strategies and methods are far from comparable to Duan Qirui and others. After taking over Yuan Shikai's intelligence team, although he did not expand his personnel, he did not relax at all about surveillance of various factions in the capital. Instead, he was much more detailed than Lu Jianzhang. When he noticed Fang Zida's intentions and learned from the pearl silk horses that Zhou Yuanliang and others were planning something, or there might be a major action, he hurriedly found Yuan Shikai and made a report. After listening to the report, Yuan Shikai thought for a while and instructed Wang Shizhen to secretly follow him. If no action was allowed unless necessary, he just had to monitor carefully.

Although Zhou Yuanliang's actions were very secretive, he still showed some of his flaws in the action due to lack of experience and was known to Wang Shizhen. On the day of the incident of Kenji Doihara, Wang Shizhen received first-hand information and secretly wiped away some traces of Zhou Yuanliang because of Yuan Shikai's advice to avoid being discovered by the Japanese side. This is why Yuan Shikai knew the whole story of Fang Zida. When Fang Zida was furious and thought that something was wrong with Zhou Yuanliang, Wang Shizhen, who was authorized by Yuan Shikai, secretly found Fang Zida. Although he did not say it clearly, a few words made Fang Zida understand the situation. After learning about the situation, Fang Zida immediately called to Zhou Yuanliang again, and there was a scene where Zhou Yuanliang came to ask about the final question just now.

"I really underestimated the heroes of the world!"

Fang Zida sighed, Yuan Shikai, Wang Shizhen and others were far from as simple as they imagined. Fortunately, they were dealing with the Japanese this time. Yuan Shikai asked Wang Shizhen to secretly help him for the sake of his father-in-law and son-in-law, otherwise he really didn't know what the consequences would be.

After all, Fang Zida was only a businessman. Although he had a forward-looking consciousness, some things were too taken for granted. He learned from his mistakes and secretly warned himself not to underestimate the heroes of the world.

The Japanese affairs were temporarily put on hold. Because of the occurrence of this incident, Yuan Shikai also paid attention to the intelligence department built by Fang Zida. However, Yuan neither agreed nor opposed this matter, and turned a blind eye to it, just pretending to be unaware of it. Even Wang Shizhen pretended to be deaf and dumb unless he had to, as if nothing had happened. However, the consequences of the incident still sounded the alarm for Fang Zida. He attached more importance to the intelligence department and asked Zhou Yuanliang to be more cautious and meticulous when working.

At the same time, with the European war in full swing, the commercial negotiations between China and Tsarist Russia also entered the process. With the authorization of Prime Minister Song Jiaoren, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had contacted the negotiations with Tsarist Russia in advance and conducted preliminary negotiations. Tsarist Russia did not refuse Fang Zida's suggestions, but instead argued back and forth in terms of details. This situation gave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs great confidence. In the view of Cao Rulin, who was in charge of the negotiations, Tsarist Russia, which had always been arrogant, was willing to lower its head and argue with them, which meant that Tsar Nikola's life was indeed not very easy, and Tsarist Russia was very urgent for this commercial negotiation with China.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has always been a weak diplomacy, showed a rare tough side this time. No matter how the representative of Tsarist Russia bargained with China and promised many benefits, Cao Rulin, who had long agreed with Fang Zida, insisted that his conditions would never be relaxed. The two sides negotiated back and forth for many days, but saw that China was stubbornly stubbornly. As the front-line war became more and more severe, the Russians could not sit still. They had no choice but to express their ability to negotiate and demanded that negotiations with China enter the final process.

"Brother Zheng Ming, I still can't see it correctly. The Russians can't bear it anymore." The agreed negotiation time is coming soon. Fang Zida arrived at the venue at the right time. As soon as he got off the car, he met Cao Rulin who was also tying up the time.

"Haha, the key is that Brother Runtian's credit. I heard that these days, the Russians can't even get angry, right?" Fang Zida asked with a smile, both sides laughed at each other.

When he entered the venue, the Russians had arrived long ago. Sitting in the center was the Russian Ambassador to China Kubensky. This old diplomat now has no such arrogant as last year's former self-confidence. He sat quietly waiting for the arrival of Chinese negotiators with a serious expression.

As the chief negotiating representative, Cao Rulin first greeted Kubensky with a smile, and then sat down at the other end of the table with Fang Zida and others.

"Your Excellency, can you start?" Kubensky asked fluently in Chinese.

"Of course, please!" Cao Rulin nodded with a smile, raised his hand to signal Kubensky.

He whispered to the staff around him, and soon the Russian side sent the draft agreement to the front of the Chinese side. Fang Zida opened the agreement and looked at the contents one by one, and softly negotiated with Cao Rulin beside him.

"This agreement cannot be signed for the time being!" Half an hour later, Cao Rulin closed the agreement and placed it on the table and pushed it towards the Russian side.

"Your Excellency, why is this! This is the agreement we have negotiated. Can the Chinese people repent?" Kubensky stood up in surprise, put his hands on the table, leaning forward, and his face showed anger.

"Of course not, you, you may have misunderstood." Cao Rulin said calmly: "We have indeed negotiated the commercial content in the agreement, and we have no doubts about this."

"Then why can't you sign!"

"Because there is still one missing."

"One is missing? What is it?" Kubensky asked anxiously.

"About Outer Mongolia." Cao Rulin pointed on the table with his finger: "We hope that your country can add a piece of the agreement. From the signing of the agreement, your country will cancel the 1913 Russian-Mongolia Agreement, deny Outer Mongolia's autonomy, and recognize Outer Mongolia as China's territory. At the same time, recall your country's representatives and garrisons in Outer Mongolia and hand them over to the Chinese central government to directly manage."

"No! This is impossible!" Kubensky widened his eyes and waved his fists and shouted: "You guys are blackmailing! It's blackmailing! My great Russia will never succumb to this blackmailing!"

"It's a pity. If you think so, we have nothing to say." Cao Rulin spread his hands and shrugged, nodded with Fang Zida beside him, and then stood up together.

"We China hope that you can report this request to His Majesty Nicholas. If your country agrees with our country's request, this negotiation can continue. If your country refuses, haha..." Fang Zida said with a faint smile, turned around and prepared to leave with Cao Rulin.

"No, no! You guys can't leave!" Seeing that Fang Zida and others were about to leave, Kubensky was immediately anxious. Tsar Nikola had great hope for this negotiation and was under great pressure. If this agreement could not be signed, there would definitely be no good results when returning to Russia. Moreover, the war on the front line became more and more severe. Now it was at the point where Tsar Russia survived and died. He was full of anger at China's blackmail, but the signing of the agreement was even more important. At this time, no matter how dissatisfied he was, he had to hold it in, and he must sign the agreement before talking about it.

"Your Excellency, please... please stay!" Kubensky never thought that one day he would bow to the yellow-skinned Chinese. He said with great difficulty: "I can convey your country's request to Your Majesty, but before Your Majesty responds, I hope the discussion will continue. Is it OK?"
Chapter completed!