At half past eight o'clock in the morning, a convoy of cars came over on Deshengmen Street, starting with several service vehicles with license plates from the Ministry of the Interior. In the car sat heavily armed guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They were responsible for protecting the cars that followed, but the passengers in those cars were not ordinary people, they were several key figures in the Congress, such as Senate Speaker Li Yuanhong and House Speaker Tang Hualong, who all came from Xishan early in the morning, and their destination was the Capitol.

After the convoy entered Deshengmen, it sped south along Deshengmen Street, getting closer and closer to the Capitol, and the mood of these passengers in the car was also different.

Just today, in the Capitol, the president will personally sign a peace agreement, and once this peace agreement is signed, it means that China and Japan have officially ended the state of war, and from the moment of signing, the military confrontation between the two countries will end, and the beacon fire on the border will be calmed down, and the people can enjoy a peaceful life.

For the sake of this peace agreement, the Chinese peace talks led by Gu Weijun held diplomatic talks with the Japanese peace talks in Manila for more than 10 days. After some intense bargaining, this mutually acceptable peace agreement was finally reached, and the negotiations on the Manila side officially ended the negotiations a few days ago, and the two heads of state signed and recognized by the state agencies of the two countries.

Yesterday afternoon, the Japanese government officially recognized the legal effect of this peace agreement, and today, as long as the Chinese president signs this peace agreement and it is endorsed by the National Assembly, then. As long as the contract exchange is completed, the war between China and Japan will be truly over.

According to the relevant communiqué of the Government, Mr. President of China will formally sign the agreement to end the war and restore peace at 9 o'clock this morning. The signing ceremony will be held at the National Assembly building, and representatives of the National Assembly, including Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong, will also attend the signing ceremony to show the National Assembly's approval of the peace agreement, and a press conference will also be held on the spot to inform all sectors of society about the full content of the peace agreement, so as to show the people the government's sincerity in pursuing "open diplomacy" and the president's determination to reject "secret diplomacy."

According to this peace agreement, China will not only regain full sovereignty over the southern part of the three eastern provinces. In addition, sovereignty over the island of Taiwan and its affiliated islands will be recovered, as well as Japan's concessions and leased lands in China. Although the Japanese side has put forward a number of additional conditions on the issue of the return of the island of Taiwan, these conditions are not premised on harming China's sovereignty, and considering China's current national strength, the conclusion of this peace agreement can indeed be regarded as a great victory for China in military and diplomatic terms.

It is precisely for this reason that most of the representatives from all walks of life who attended the signing ceremony of the peace agreement rushed to the National Assembly building with excitement, and Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong were no exception, and their mood was even happier, because just the day before yesterday, they had been officially appointed by the president as members of the "political committee." They will be able to participate directly in the affairs of the country as members of the central government, and as for the National Assembly, they will temporarily withdraw from political life and exist only as a central department of the state advisory body. Until the end of the government.

As for the important members of the National Assembly who were not selected for the Scraping Committee, they felt a little lost, so sitting in the car at the moment, everyone was in a different mood.

Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong sat in the same car, both of them were in a good mood, all the way over, the two were talking and laughing, until the convoy stopped in front of the Capitol, the two of them restrained their smiles, sorted out their instruments, and then got out of the car and took the secretary to the white marble steps in front of the Capitol.

At this time, the front of the National Assembly building was already crowded with people, and journalists, people from all walks of life, foreign friends, the military and police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the people of Beijing who were watching the excitement surrounded the National Assembly building. Although the crowd was noisy, the order was still very good, no one broke into the warning area, no one pointed at the spectators who rushed to the Capitol one after another, and many people were asking about the time. Can't wait for the arrival of the presidential motorcade.

At 9:50 a.m., the presidential motorcade arrived at the Capitol on time, and before the car could stop, the crowd erupted in cheers.

"Long live the Republic! Long live the Wehrmacht! ”

"Long live the presidential system! Long live the government! ”

Amid the cheers of the people, the president stepped out of the car and stepped up the white marble steps in front of the Capitol. As he walked up the white marble steps, he waved his right hand and waved to the cheering crowd standing on the side of the steps, with a confident smile on his face.

Soon, surrounded by government officials, the president walked into the Capitol and walked straight into a small conference room, where he waited. Those who were waiting in the corridor also walked in, led by Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong. The small conference room was packed. Moreover, Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong stood behind the president, and several reporters set up cameras in front of them at the right time. "Shrug,"

The clock struck nine o'clock in the morning. Yi Xunshu is sunned and concave is not the same body clam

Cha Yuanhong took out the specially prepared steel hand and held it. Drought to the president old ※

The president took the pen, and Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi turned the page to the end of the peace agreement. He rested lightly on the round conference table in front of the President, and pointed to the right of the last page with his right hand

Horn.

The reporter nervously pinched the electric door of the magnesium lamp, waiting for this historic moment. The room suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned their eyes to the fountain pen in the president's hand, and although the electric fans in the conference room were spinning fast, many people were still sweating.

"Rustle

The fountain pen in the president's hand finally fell on the paper, and immediately began to write quickly, and Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong, who were standing behind him, could even hear the sound of the tip of the Na'an fountain pen rubbing against the paper. It was too quiet in the conference room.

"Click!"

In the flickering of the chin light, a historically significant camera negative was left on the bottom plate of the camera.

After the signing, the president took the base box that Tang Hualong had held, took out the national fish, and dipped it in mud. Solemnly stamped the seal of hope on the peace agreement. Then he put Guowang back into the box, and stood up, leaving the chair free.

Li Yuanhong and Tang Hualong humbled each other, and then Li Yuanhong sat down in his chair, still using the pen that the president had just used, signed his name on the peace agreement, and stamped the seal of the Congress.

The peace agreement is to be made in duplicate in both Chinese and Japanese languages and is kept separately by the Chinese and Japanese governments. Although the entire signing process took only a few minutes, in the eyes of many, it was such a long time that it was not until the foreign minister, Tang Shaoyi, closed the peace agreement, that many people came to their senses.

"Now, the war is officially over."

Tang Shaoyi held up the two peace agreements, with a smile on his face, solemnly announcing the arrival of peace to everyone, this smile is from the heart, not a professional smile, after all, this is the first victory treaty signed by this country since modern times, although it did not receive war reparations, nor did it cede even an inch of land from the territory of the defeated country, but at least it recovered the sovereignty and interests that had been lost.

This is a good start, and with this good start, the future national exhibitions will be more smooth sailing.

This is not only Tang Shaoyi's good wish. It is also the good wish of all Chinese present.

The applause rang out, and all the Chinese were blessing the motherland.

In addition to Chinese, a small number of foreign friends attended the signing ceremony of the peace agreement, including US Minister to China Stade and British Minister to China Zhu Erdian.

The identity of this Japanese envoy is rather special, he is not only a veteran of the Japanese Navy, but also an admiral. Imperial Earl, and also once served as the prime minister of the Japanese government, this person is the former Japanese Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonbei who went into the field because of the "Siemens Incident", and it is this person who abolished the military attache system of the military minister in the Japanese cabinet during his term of office, and cleared the way for non-military cabinet members to serve as military ministers, and this is the biggest difference between him and the army generals, he can seek a compromise with the constitutionalists.

Yamamoto came to China not only to attend the signing ceremony of the peace agreement. Moreover, he also came to consult with the Chinese government on the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Japan as a special envoy of the Japanese government, and it is for this reason that immediately after the signing ceremony, he asked to meet with the president.

Gonbei Yamamoto knows very well that as Japan's land neighbor, China's rising momentum is unstoppable, and if it cannot develop normal international relations with China, then Japan will not be able to talk about recovering its national strength. If China is caught in an arms race for a long time. It is also not conducive to Japan's recuperation, and it is precisely for this reason that he is anxious to meet the Chinese president.

The president agreed to meet with Gonbei Yamamoto, but the meeting date was set for the next day, so Gonbei Yamamoto could only stay at the Rokkoku Hotel under the arrangement of the British minister.

For a whole day, the city of Beijing was filled with the sound of firecrackers. The Chinese are celebrating their victory. In any case, for this ancient oriental country that has been in decline for hundreds of years, the victory of this war against Japan is very exciting, even Yamamoto Gonbei has to admit that in this Sino-Japanese war, China is not only the winner, but also won very beautifully, if history can repeat itself, Yamamoto Gonbei will definitely do everything to prevent Japan from going to war against China, even if China takes the initiative to provoke, Japan should compromise, because China has awakened.

However, history does not assume that the fact is that Japan was defeated, and it was extremely badly defeated, and if it were not for some people of insight in the Japanese government who prevented the hardliners from taking further action in a timely manner, Japan might have suffered a lot in this war against China, and even lost its old capital.

Now that the Chinese are celebrating their victory while the Japanese are swallowing the bitter fruit of defeat, Japan can only choose to compromise because Japan is in danger and cannot continue the war with China.