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Pu Guanshui and Chai Qingguo were talking about the recent land reform and industrial construction in Hebei, but the intelligence officer handed in a telegram. The content surprised the two, "From now on, the food supply to the first-line barracks from Beijing to Shanhaiguan will be interrupted. If Japan asks for it, tell them that the price of a pound of grain is five silver dollars, and the freight is ten kilograms of gold. ”

Under the terms of the Treaty of Xincho, the Great Powers not only extorted 450 million taels of silver from the Qing government, but also imposed a number of harsh conditions, one of which was that foreign troops could be stationed in Beijing and 12 strategic points along the route from Beijing to Shanhaiguan. At that time, it was called the Qing State Garrison Army, and in 1912 it was renamed the "Chinese Garrison Army". Because the army is stationed in North China, it is usually called the "North China Garrison Army", and because its headquarters is located in Tianjin, it is also called the "Tianjin Garrison Army".

Tianjin is still in the hands of the remnants of Beiyang, and the People's Party has surrounded all foreign military garrisons outside Tianjin. Not only did they draw a white line outside the barracks, but they also used ropes to circle them, and the sentries led the wolf dogs around day and night. Now the instructions of the central authorities clearly mean that the Japanese troops stationed in China are to be driven to a dead end.

"This is going to hit the dog?!" Chai Qingguo said excitedly. He hated the Japanese to the core, and in the process of the Eight-Nation Alliance and Yuan Shikai's suppression of Jing Tingbin and Zhao Sanduo's uprising, Japan made great efforts.

Pu Guanshui completely agreed with Chai Qingguo's idea, and he also fought with the Japanese in Shandong and Qingdao. The Japanese naval artillery caused considerable casualties to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. This Qiu Pu Guan Shui has no intention of letting go gently. "It also depends on the owner to beat the dog, but this time it is for the owner to beat the dog. We're going to have to get the Japanese dog right. After saying this, Pu Guanshui sneered.

By this time the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants had surrounded the foreign garrisons, providing 150 grams of flour per person per day. This supply lasted only two days, and the Japanese garrison in China was 400 people. Stationed along the railway line from Beijing to Shanhaiguan. After a ten-day siege, the Japanese army's food stocks were already in short supply. On August 25, the Japanese troops stationed in China were suddenly told that from that day onwards, their food supply would be completely cut off. The telegraph communication between the Japanese garrison and the legation had been cut off at this time, and the Japanese garrison immediately panicked. They immediately sent men to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army units besieging them to ask what was going on.

The siege of these 400 Japanese troops was a battalion of troops. The battalion commander was a native of Shandong, and he was extremely unkind to the Japanese, but after listening to the culture of the Japanese representatives, he replied with a sneer: "It's nothing, I just won't give you food." Don't you understand this? ”

"What are we going to do if we don't have anything to eat?" The representative of Japan asked.

The battalion commander felt that this Japanese was too thick-skinned, so he replied with a smile: "Don't be afraid, medical proof shows that as long as you have water to drink, you can't die of hunger for more than ten days." "This is the content of the course taught in the physiology education class of the army.

Listening to the understatement of what the battalion commander said, the Japanese, of course, did not have the optimism of the battalion commander, "Are you going to declare war on our Great Japanese Empire?" ”

When the battalion commander heard this threat, his face sank, "We are going to Japan, and that is a declaration of war against you." You Japanese came to China, and on Chinese soil, we Chinese have the final say. Whatever you are asked to do, you will do it honestly. Where is so much nonsense? ”

The Japanese were furious, "Yaga! He couldn't help but shout.

The troops have received some basic foreign language education, and an army that does not understand the enemy's language has no future, which is one of the education of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Swearing words are the easiest to learn among all languages, and the battalion commander stood up with a glare, "What do you tell me?" ”

The commissar hurriedly stopped the battalion commander, "You can't beat diplomats, it's discipline." ”

The battalion commander hurriedly sat on the stool, and before receiving the Japanese representatives, the party committee had said the matter, knowing that he could not fight the Japanese, so the battalion commander would speak so harshly. If he could fight, the battalion commander would have commanded the troops to kill these more than 400 Japanese devils.

The battalion commander ordered the troops to step up patrols from now on, and to shoot first and then question anyone who provoked Japan. To the surprise of the battalion commander, the Japanese army stayed in the barracks honestly and couldn't shrink after sending someone to make a fuss. This made the battalion commander even more nervous. Anyway, if the barracks of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were quiet, something would definitely happen.

By September 1, the Japanese army had cowered in the barracks and still did not move, which made the battalion commander even more uneasy. He hurriedly sent a report to the newly formed Hebei Military Region in Beijing and asked for instructions on what to do next.

Also on September 1, a meeting was also held in the Legation District, which is located in the bus alley. The Allied ministers gathered at the British legation to discuss the next steps. These ministers were very frustrated, and if they had encountered such a situation before, or even not at all, as long as the current Chinese government dared to take action against foreign countries, the British fleet would have come to demonstrate. At present, the British Yangtze River Fleet is blocking the Wuhan gate of the People's Party, but it is powerless in the face of the People's Party's mine array, and it is neither fighting nor leaving. Before the legation was sealed, the British minister had already received the news. The People's Party (KP) has conducted mine attack drills in many parts of the Yangtze River. If the British fleet had left Wuhan, it would have been impossible to return to Wuhan at all. So even in order to maintain its own existence, the British Yangtze River Fleet could not retreat.

The German sabotage fleet was making waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans at this time, which also caused great headaches for the British. More importantly, the Beiyang Army, which Britain had spent a lot of money supporting, disappeared in such a short period of time, and Britain's large investment was immediately wasted. As ministers to China who support such a policy, they are not destined to end well in Britain.

Seeing that the British and French ministers were depressed, the Japanese envoy came up with his own idea, "Our Japanese fleet can shell China's coastal cities and deal a heavy blow to the People's Party!" ”

The British Minister really had no strength to laugh at such a stupid statement, and the People's Party was now looking very cunning. They never expose their forces to the enemy's advantageous areas, such as the coast. With the strength of the People's Party, it was not impossible for them to seize Shanghai. Until now, however, they have been able to ignore Shanghai, China's largest trading and tax city. The British fleet could attack Shanghai at any time, but after entering the Yangtze River, no matter how powerful the warships were, they were helpless in the face of mine arrays.

Until now, the only way to fight the BJP was to send the army on the offensive. Thinking of this, the British minister looked at the Japanese minister with a disdainful emotion. Japan has the best say in this matter. The fall of the Kyushu Division proves everything. The British minister now understood the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army in front of the People's Party. But this did not make the British minister have a higher opinion of Japan. Even now, the British minister did not see what the Japanese could show in the face of the People's Party.

The French minister has remained silent, and the European theater of war is mainly unfolding in France. According to news from France, in the spring of 1915, the Anglo-French forces took advantage of the concentration of the main German forces on the eastern front and launched two offensives at Shambani and Adua. However, due to the old tactics and the lack of strong firepower, the Germans successfully resisted, and their own side suffered heavy casualties. In April of that year, the Germans counterattacked and used poison gas for the first time, adding to the heavy losses on both sides. As a result, on the western front in 1915, the British and French troops suffered one million casualties, and the German army also suffered 610,000 casualties, but the war was still stalemate.

Such a tragic situation was something that the French side had never imagined before the war, and now that the French nation is mobilized, its own troops are not enough, where is the strength to go thousands of miles to suppress the Chinese revolution.

The Russian envoy has always remained silent, and Russia's strategy toward China is to try not to mix with Britain and France, but to take advantage of the opportunity of China's decline to bite hard. At present, the Eastern Front, where Russia is located, has gradually become the focus of war in Europe, and Russia has tried to organize an army to carry out a counterattack. Since the People's Party has shown such strength, it has inflicted heavy losses on Japan on its own and defeated Beiyang. The Russians hope that the People's Party will stop in Hebei, and if such a military force is allowed to reach the Sino-Russian border, it will definitely be a disaster for Russia. The Russians are never going to be the first to come out at such times.

As for countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium, they are basically the same with them or not, and it makes no difference whether they speak or not. So they wisely shut up.

The Japanese envoy was sent by the army, and now that the navy is in power, the army is not having a good time. If the envoys of various countries in China can make demands on Japan, the influence of the army faction will be greatly enhanced. And the Japanese minister has an even more wonderful abacus. If Japan can send troops to China first with the support of other countries, once it can survive until the end of the war in Europe, the Entente countries will strongly support Japan. At that time, Japan will be able to literally bite off a few pieces of meat from China. For example, the whole of Manchuria, Mongolia, can even make a lot of money in Hebei and Shandong.

Seeing that the envoys of the Entente countries were silent, the Japanese minister said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the People's Party is now violating international treaties and illegally infringing on us. We should be able to intervene in Chinese affairs under the treaty. We now have quite a few troops stationed in China, and we also have Tianjin as a support. The People's Party has just captured Beijing and is not firmly established, and we should be able to fight effectively. ”

"So should we let the German garrison in China take the lead and find another German to be the commander?" The French minister had long been displeased with the transpiration of the Japanese minister, and he could not help but laugh at the Japanese minister's instigation of the troops stationed in China to participate in the fighting.

Whether it was the Entente or the Central Powers, the BJP did not discriminate against foreign troops. The backlash of the German garrison was the smallest, and even though Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government promised to join the Entente after eliminating the People's Party, he did not put Germany to death. Because of the loss of ground in Qingdao, the German garrison concentrated in Beijing. Even after the start of World War I, the ministers and garrisons of the Allied and Central Powers did not engage in too direct confrontation. Now the team of the Eight-Nation Coalition is still there.

The Japanese minister, of course, could hear the French minister's ridicule, and he blushed when he arrived. However, the Japanese minister knew very well that if Japan's master, Britain, was to choose to be close to each other, France would definitely rank ahead of Japan. Therefore, even if he received an insult, the Japanese minister could only swallow his anger.

The meeting of 1 September did not produce any effective results, and the Allies were of the opinion that the misdeeds of the People's Party must be stopped immediately. But how to stop it, and who will stop it, there is no discussion among everyone.

However, the report submitted to the Hebei Military Region Headquarters by the battalion commander of the People's Party encircling the Japanese garrison was replied on the same day, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army resumed telegraphic communication between the Japanese garrison and the Japanese minister. And be sure to inform the Japanese garrison unequivocally.

Therefore, on September 2, when the Allied ministers in China resumed their meeting, the Japanese ministers began to angrily scold the People's Party at the meeting, and said with a strong attitude that in order to achieve the principle of unanimity within the Entente countries, the Entente had the obligation to jointly declare war on the People's Party.

Of course, it was impossible for the British and French ministers not to know that the price of grain in the People's Party-controlled city of Peking and the legation area was four or five times different. They know better that this is a deliberate act by the BJP. Even so, the British and French ministers were not moved by the Japanese minister's account of the tragic situation of the Japanese garrison in China running out of food. The BJP's hard-line approach is clearly to beat the dog to show the owner. If it really wants to eliminate the troops stationed in China, the People's Party does not have to go to great lengths. As far as the Japanese garrison of 400 people is concerned, it is only a matter of minutes for the People's Party to destroy them. The British and French ministers both felt that the BJP had a profound meaning in doing so, but the direction in which this profound meaning was aimed needs to be discussed. And at this time, the Japanese minister really looked at it and made people feel uncomfortable.

Such diplomatic conferences had time to rest, and after nearly an hour of howling at the foot of the Japanese minister, the Dutch minister proposed to adjourn the meeting. The British and French ministers naturally agreed to the matter. Then the two went into the private room and began to discuss the matter.

The British Minister closed the door of the small conference room tightly and said, "If the People's Party is willing to join the Entente......

The French minister was not too surprised, and even when Yuan Shikai's government agreed to join the Entente, it demanded the full recovery of China's sovereignty. And Britain did not refuse. The BJP's attitude towards the troops stationed in various countries is extremely tough at the moment, and a tough attitude is something external. In essence, what the BJP is doing can be said to be "maintaining the status quo".

These are things that have been discussed many times within the French legation, and France has found that if it does not dismember and carve up China, but takes normal dealings with China as the starting point, the People's Party may even be able to deal with it better than the Beiyang government. At least in terms of business dealings, the People's Party is a more reliable and wealthy object than Beiyang.

"Do you mean that the People's Party is trying to force us to take a stand through Japan?" The French minister inquired about the British minister.