About the assassination of Hirobumi Ito. The international legal scholars generally believe that it is reasonable for China to organize a tribunal to hear the case with full powers, and that there is no reason for foreign governments to interfere in this matter, and through this incident, the international legal scholars have also recognized the strong determination of China's central government to defend judicial sovereignty.

However, as far as Zhu Erdian, a senior British foreign affairs official, is concerned, his views on this matter are very different from those of people in the legal profession.

First of all, in Zhu Erdian's view, the assassination of Ito Hirobumi was tried by a Chinese court, and this decision of the Chinese Central Government shows that, at least in the eyes of the United Front and the President Zhao, there is a fundamental conflict of interests between China and Japan, so that the Chinese Central Government will not make any visible concessions to the demands of the Japanese Government, which can be seen as a strategic choice of the Chinese Central Government, but at the same time, it also seems to be another performance by the President Zhao Da to show the people his strong determination to defend China's sovereignty.

Second, this is not only China's internal affair, but also an important step in the further refinement of the international situation, and after the Chinese Ministry of Justice announced that it would try the assassination case of Ito on its own, the German legal community almost immediately expressed its complete approval of this decision, and the German legal experts even cited scriptures to find relevant provisions in the legal provisions of various countries for the decision of the Chinese Ministry of Justice. Use the law to support this decision of the Chinese central government. The German government is also performing, not only for the Chinese to enhance the "friendship" between China and Germany, but also for the British to remind them that the Chinese are not fighting alone.

But the question is, what does the assassination of Ito have to do with the British government?

It is true that Ito Hirobumi has made outstanding contributions to the "friendship" between Britain and Japan, but it is purely driven by national interests and has nothing to do with the feelings or relationships between 'private' people. At best, the radicals are just cannon fodder for the Japanese military department, and they now have no power to influence the decision-making of Japanese politics, after all, Ito Hirobumi is dead, but he is not the only Japanese veteran, as long as those veterans are alive, the destructive 'sexual' power of the Japanese military will be suppressed, and those veterans are all politicians who came from the early years of the Meiji era, although they are greedy and brutal, but compared with those young Zhuang factions in Japan, their minds are basically calm, and they know how much appetite they have. How much food should be eaten, with those patriarchs here, Japan will not be strangled.

Therefore, as long as the other Japanese elders have not died, then the assassination of Ito Hirobumi has nothing to do with the British government, and the Germans jumped up and down on this matter, which is inevitably a bit of a fuss, at least Zhu Erdian did not receive any instructions from the British government to give strong support to the Japanese in the trial of Ito Hirobumi's assassination.

After all, Britain is a country governed by the rule of law, and now, China's central government is also advocating the rule of law, and it is naturally not good for the British government to point fingers at the assassination of Ito Hirobumi.

Zhu Erdian did not want to get involved in this matter, but the Japanese did not let him go, no, just now the Japanese Minister to China Ijiin Hikoyoshi visited Zhu Erdian and asked him to mediate this matter, and he must let the Chinese Central Government agree to the Japanese judicial circles to participate in the trial of the assassination of Ito Hirobumi.

Right now. Zhu Erdian was on his way to the Presidential Palace of the Republic of China, and he was going to visit Mr. President and convey the "plea" of the Japanese minister to President Zhao.

"Pleading", that's right, in Zhu Erdian's view, the Japanese minister's performance in this matter was not a "request", but a "pleading", which made Zhu Erdian very surprised, he did not understand why the Japanese minister, who had always been tough on China, suddenly became so "weak", and did not even dare to protest directly to the Chinese central government, instead of asking him to intervene to mediate.

Along the way, Zhu Erdian has been thinking about this question, but he has not been able to get an answer, and perhaps he can only go to the Chinese side for answers.

When the carriage arrived at the presidential palace, Tang Shaoyi, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China, was already waiting there, and when he met Zhu Erdian, he was indispensable for the courtesy and etiquette of foreign 'friendship', and soon, several cars carried Zhu Erdian, Tang Shaoyi, and their entourage into the presidential palace.

When they arrived at the "State Guesthouse" that had just been renamed, Zhu Erdian and Tang Shaoyi got out of the car and were led into a small conference room by several confidential officials from the presidential palace, where President Zhao Bei had been waiting for a long time, and there was no one else here.

Not long after, Tang Shaoyi also left the conference room. As soon as the oak 'door' closes, the secret meeting begins.

"Mr. Minister, Chief Tang has sent your Minister to explain to me that I know that you are here for the trial of the assassination of Hirobumi Ito. As a matter of fact, yesterday the Japanese minister lodged a verbal protest to the government of the Republic of China on this issue, and for this reason, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country was very embarrassed, and General Tang even planned to hand it over to me. Although I persuaded him to submit his resignation, Chief Tang himself had reservations about the decision of the Central Committee, but I really did not expect that even Mr. British Minister would intend to intercede for Japan, in fact, in recent days, the legal circles of various countries have reached a consensus on the trial of this case, that is, this is China's internal affair, which involves judicial sovereignty, and there is absolutely no reason for Japanese government to put its beak in question. ”

Here, Zhao Bei opened the 'door' to see the mountain and occupied the moral high ground, and Zhu Erdian over there was also to the point. It's a circuitous route.

"With all due respect, although the decision of the Ministry of Justice of your country is reasonable, in consideration of the feelings of the Japanese people, I hope that Mr. President will reconsider the trial arrangements for the assassination of Mr. Ito, and I suggest that the judge for the trial of this case be a Chinese judge, but it is better for the prosecutor to hire a Japanese prosecutor, which may be a compromise solution, and it is also the best arrangement for China and Japan to avoid a complete break."

Zhu Erdian finished speaking. looked at Zhao Bei, but saw that the other party just smiled faintly, and then stretched out his hand to the captain of the guard standing behind him, and the captain of the guard 'touched' out of the pocket of his military uniform and 'handed' it to Mr. President.

Zhao Bei handed the official document forward and said: "Mr. Minister, please take a look at this document, perhaps, you will understand why the Japanese Minister must ask you to come forward to mediate." The Japanese are thieves with a weak heart, and they know that they are at a loss, so the Japanese government does not dare to blatantly adopt tough measures now, and they are afraid that they will 'force' the central government of our country to a dead end, and they will lose both. ”

Zhu Erdian took the document, read it again, his brows furrowed, and he understood why the Japanese minister looked a little timid.

This is not an ordinary document, it is actually an interrogation transcript, and the subjects of the interrogation are several Japanese people.

Those Japanese are not ordinary people, they are all Japanese active-duty soldiers, and they were all sent out by Japan's "Taiwan Governor-General" Sakuma Zuomathei, who was responsible for escorting a shipload of munitions, transporting them to Guangdong, and transferring them to the gang of people who launched the "Guangdong Incident." Long Jiguang and Chen Qimei are their liaisons, and after arriving in Guangdong, these Japanese active-duty soldiers will conduct military training on the so-called "Guangdong Rebel Army."

However, the ship was seized by the Chinese naval fleet on the river near Guangzhou, and all the Japanese soldiers who were responsible for escorting the arms were arrested and imprisoned in the Guangzhou barracks together with the Japanese sailors.

Zhu Erdian had no doubt that the Chinese must have used violent means in those interrogations to get the confessions they wanted. Zhu Erdian has been in China for many years, and he knows very well what kind of torture has been invented by the powerful ministry of this country, although the current government of the Republic of China keeps saying that it will pursue the "rule of law" and abolish the bad habit of "coercing" confessions by torture, but Zhu Erdian fully believes that these Japanese must have been tortured, otherwise, their mouths would not be pried open so easily. Zhu Erdian also understands the sexuality, that is, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, worshiping the strong, and despising the weak.

When the "Canton Incident" broke out, the British government speculated that the Japanese government had something to do with it, and now that this evidence has been placed in front of Zhu Erdian, the Japanese really can't deny it.

But so what? Could it be that Britain would alienate Japan because of the "Canton Incident"? In any case, Britain's current Far East strategy is to support Japan and maintain the strategic balance of power in the Far East, so that British interests in the Far East can be maintained when the situation in Europe changes abruptly and Britain cannot be distracted from the Far East.

Therefore, even if Japan makes a small move in Guangdong and harms the interests of Britain and France in that region, the British government will absolutely not waver in its stance on Japan's foreign 'relations'.

Is this clear to the president of the Republic of China in front of him? Zhu Erdian was a little undecided, after all, this man was by no means a madman, and his strategic vision was admired even by the British government.

"Mr. President, may I ask what you are going to do by 'handing' this document to me?"

Since the other party had been prepared, Zhu Erdian simply made his words clear.

"If the Japanese government cannot give a reasonable explanation, I think there will be no international friendship between China and Japan, and I will make this interrogation record public to the world, so that the people of all China will know what the Japanese government wants to do." For example, if the French government planned an armed rebellion in Britain, would the British government pretend to be deaf and dumb?

Today, the main purpose of 'handing' this interrogation transcript to Mr. Minister is to make him understand that it is not China that is now harming the peace situation in the Far East, but Japan, and that the Japanese government is playing with fire! Britain and Japan are allies, so I hope that Mr. Minister can convey to the Japanese government that whether or not the Japanese government can get rid of the involvement in the 'Guangdong Incident' depends on how the Japanese government chooses. ”

Although Zhao Bei's words were a bit of a bluff, Zhu Erdian did not dare to be careless, and he understood that once Japan appeared on the list of suspected culprits behind the "Guangdong Incident," then the "radical" elements in China and Japan would certainly add fuel to the fire, and he did not even have the slightest doubt that the president in front of him would be the first person to pour oil on the fire.

If this incident caused a war between China and Japan, it would undermine the strategic balance of power in the Far East of the British government, and the British government would certainly not want to see this happen, and it is clear that the young president once again used his unparalleled strategic vision to see this, so he tried to use the British government to exert pressure on the Japanese government to force it to make concessions, and he saw the British government's Far East strategy of "one movement is better than a stillness", so he made a decisive move.

Zhu Erdian understood this, he did not dare to underestimate this young president anymore, he was surprised that China in this era would rise such a strongman, perhaps, the British government must re-examine the country's foreign 'diplomacy' stance.

Zhu Erdian stood up and said very politely: "Mr. President, I will tell the Japanese minister what you mean." However, I must also remind you that the alliance between Britain and Japan is unshakable, and I may be able to mediate between China and Japan in foreign 'relations', but you must also know that under no circumstances will British government allow any country to disrupt the peace in the Far East. ”

Zhao Bei also stood up and said very politely: "I believe in Mr. Minister's promise, and sincerely wish that Britain can enjoy permanent peace." But on the other hand, I must also remind British politicians that as a staunch patriot, I am not alone, behind me, stand millions of patriots who are willing to give everything for the revival of this country, including their lives, and behind them, stand 40,000 hard-working Chinese, we will not be afraid of any enemy, the enemy's 'scheming' and tricks will only make us stronger and more united. In addition, I will continue to cooperate with your government for mutual benefit as to the negotiation of a new Sino-British treaty, and I believe that as long as peace remains in the Far East, the commercial relations between China and Britain will be even closer, and the merchants of the two countries will benefit from it. ”

"I have heard that your country's Ministry of Finance has officially published the 'Four-Year Industrial Development Plan', and if possible, I would like to be able to consult with the relevant 'departments' in your country on the details of this industrial development plan, and the British Industry Group is also interested in your country's industrial investment projects, especially heavy industry projects. I feel it is necessary to remind your country that the principles of ''openness' and 'equality of interests' are not only pursued by the US government, but also by the British government, and if British businessmen and industrial groups are discriminated against in this industrial development plan, it will seriously damage the relationship between China and Britain. If you are able to cooperate with the British government, then I personally guarantee that I will provide you with the best possible help for this industrial development plan in your country. ”

Jurdian soon left the presidential palace and left with his promise.

Zhao Bei stood in front of the State Guesthouse, looking at the car that was going away, without any expression on his face.

This is another speculation, and Zhao Bei's goal is not just to 'force' the Japanese government to cooperate on the issue of judicial sovereignty, and if everything goes well, he will get more benefits.