Seeing He Rui's tall figure disappearing through the gate of Tokyo University, Lu Feng was very envious.

He Rui was a military student sent to Japan to study in the Republic of China. Not long after graduating from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, he entered the Second Division of the Japanese Army, the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Sendai Division, as an intern and served as a warrant officer trainee squad leader.

Before the internship period expired, the Beiyang government and the Japanese government reached an agreement on the training of military officers. Of course, the Beiyang side hoped that the officers could enter the Japanese Army University to study. However, the Japanese side proposed that they must be recommended by the Japanese division commander to qualify for the mainland university examination.

.Chinese officers who are not recommended can only have a special training class opened by Japan to receive training from Japan.

The Beiyang side felt that this was Japan's attempt to make things difficult. Unexpectedly, He Rui was recommended by the division commander Nanbu Tatsuuchi and was admitted to the 27th batch of the Army University with excellent results.

Lu Feng was not in Japan at the time and naturally did not know about this when he first arrived in Tokyo. The counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of China in Japan had no interest in military officers. He Rui, a soldier, became famous in Japan because of his academic fields such as politics and economics.

Jianshu. The reason why Lu Feng paid attention to He Rui was because He Rui made a far bigger noise than being admitted to the Japanese Army University.

During his time at Army University, He Rui had a kind personality, excellent grades and lofty knowledge. Although he was Chinese, He Rui quickly made friends with a group of Japanese classmates. He often chatted with them about world affairs during class breaks or at izakayas, and they all got along well with each other.

At the suggestion of He Rui, this group of young officers started a mimeographed tabloid called "The Soul of the Army" at Mainland China. With the recommendation of everyone, He Rui became the deputy editor.

In the spring of 1914, He Rui began to publish "A Preliminary Interpretation of Geopolitics" in tabloids, proposing "a science that recognizes countries and nations as geographical organisms or spatial phenomena." This theory became popular as soon as it was published.

Being ridiculed.

The style of samurai prevails in Japan, and the good thing is that "worrying about the world" has always been arrogant. Many lower-level samurai regard arrogance as a shortcut to impress the upper class. This method is very popular among the upper class in Japan, among the people and newspapers.

It is common in the world. Suddenly a Chinese person appeared and got involved in it. He spoke so brazenly that he became a joke in the press for a while.

He Rui was unmoved, and continued to publish articles about his views on geopolitics and how to use the methodology of this discipline to analyze the current international situation, preliminarily dismantling the concepts of country and nation, deducing sea power, land power, the Eurasian world island and

Other Islands, Oppositional Partnerships in the Americas.

At this time, the situation in Europe was already very tense. A certain criminal officer, Kanji Ishihara, submitted an article to the tabloid "Soul of the Army" and publicly laughed: "If Mr. He is true, can you use your bullshit geopolitics to predict the situation in Europe? If true,

If it’s accurate, I will definitely worship you as my teacher; if it’s inaccurate, don’t lie to people in Japan.”

He Rui immediately accepted the challenge and began to deduce the situation in Europe in tabloids. He published four or five articles in succession. Based on public intelligence published in major European newspapers such as The Times and Le Figaro, he gradually dismantled the situation in Europe and finally locked in

In the Balkans.

In addition to strategic deduction, He Rui also solemnly suggested at the end of the article that the Japanese Ministry of Finance should take immediate action to organize and coordinate Japan's major industrial enterprises to quickly enter the wartime production track, adjust the annual industrial and agricultural production plan, and re-plan the entire year and even the future.

In the several-year import and export trade plan, what is particularly important is that we must seize the last window period to help coordinate bulk commodity trade, take out precious foreign exchange and start emergency buying immediately, the more the better, the faster the better, even if we spend the foreign exchange

Hikaru is not willing to even take on debt, and he also recommends that the Japanese banking industry take a positive attitude to intervene in the management of the Japanese yen exchange rate.

Just like those fanatics in Japan, He Rui's article "seriously" warned Japanese Minister of Finance Takahashi Korekiyo, The Art of War says: The one who builds temples before fighting is considered the winner, and the one who builds temples before fighting is considered the winner.

If you can't count, you have to count with less. If you can count with less, you can't win. What's more, if you count with less, you can't win.

After this conclusion was published, it was rightly ridiculed and became a joke in the Japanese military circles. Everyone joked about this "divination"-style prophecy when they met. Ishihara Wanji even openly laughed at: "Our Japanese military

There are so many idiots in the world that they can’t fit into a team, and now even Chinese students studying abroad have become red deer.”

This matter was such a big deal in Japan that Counselor Lu Feng knew about it. With the capabilities of the Republic of China embassies abroad, they actually had no ability to take the initiative to do anything. In order to fill in the content of the report, Lu Feng wrote the matter into the report and sent it back

Domestically, after the report was sent, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no more news.

However, He Rui soon got results. He did not let many Japanese scoffers wait too long. The situation in Europe took a turn for the worse in the summer of that year. With the sound of a gunshot in Sarajevo, the First World War broke out. In addition to He Rui's failure to accurately predict

Except for the assassination of the Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire's participation in the war for strange reasons, other parts including time, location and even process are all hit.

This incident immediately caused a sensation throughout Japan. The editors of "Asahi Shimbun" and "Yomiuri Shimbun" took the "Military Spirit" tabloid that they had finally found, and were shocked by the high degree of overlap between the prediction content above and reality. They tried to send reporters to interview

He Rui.

During the interview, He Rui did not make predictions out of thin air like a magician. Instead, he substituted known information into the theories proposed by He Rui to deduce, and once again analyzed and predicted the war situation and Japan's economic trends.

After the newspaper editor sent out the interview content, he waited anxiously. Soon, according to He Rui's prediction, Japan began to receive a large number of orders, and the economy quickly became active. News about the war situation in foreign countries came back later, but it was also inconsistent with He Rui's prediction.

of the same.

At this time, interview invitations from all walks of life in Japan were pouring in. He Rui's article, which was previously published in the mimeographed "Military Soul" tabloid and was only circulated among a small number of army officers, was immediately published. It was left intact in the political and economic pages.

Dynamic 'reprint'.

Since then, the "geopolitics" proposed by He Rui has transformed from wild talk to an object of research. From wild talk that was ridiculed by everyone, it has made great strides towards becoming a recognized and prominent science.

As early as 1914, when He Rui published "A Preliminary Interpretation of Geopolitics", he was unexpectedly noticed by Associate Professor Ping Fengsheng, a scholar studying international law at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan. After reading a series of articles written by He Rui, Associate Professor Ping Fengsheng met in private with

He Rui met for academic cooperation.

Since then, He Ruiye's description method has rapidly transformed into the conventional writing style in the academic world, and has gained higher acceptance in the academic world. Professor Ping Fengsheng also published his own research results, was recognized by the academic world, and received a professorship.

Afterwards, Professor Ping Fengsheng hired He Rui as a special lecturer to give lectures at the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo. The two collaborated and designed 30-50 class hours based on "Geopolitics" to teach geopolitics to a group of students from the Faculty of Law.

This was already in February 1915.

At this point, the Embassy of the Republic of China in Japan still felt nothing. Lu Feng felt that this matter must be taken seriously, so he wrote a detailed report. In order to prevent the report from sinking into the sea, Lu Feng did not dare to take formal official channels.

He asked his teacher, who is now the Director-General of Education of the Beiyang Government, to submit the report to Director-General Duan Qirui of Beiyang. It finally attracted Duan Qirui's attention.

Diplomatic matters had to rely on the connections of the Ministry of Education to be known to the superiors, and Lu Feng was also very sad about this. Fortunately, Director Duan sent a message later, and the Beiyang bureaucrats took action. The Ministry of Finance communicated with He Rui every month

, ask him to provide foreign advice and trade advice.
Chapter completed!