After a small 2, the temperature in Beijing gradually rose. Afternoon is the most waiting. At this time, it was the time when the government departments went to work in the afternoon, and the streets were full of traffic, dusty, and looked chaotic. Add to that the higher temperatures. This man's mood is not relaxed.

A Chinese-made sedan turned from the street into the gate of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and eventually stopped in the parking lot. After the car door opened, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi got out of the car with a serious face. A secretary standing near the parking lot hurriedly greeted him, handed a document to Tang Shaoyi, and said a word. "Chief, this is the summary of the newspaper that I just put together, which has been classified according to your position and tendency according to your instructions, and I am also preparing to send a copy to the Commander's Hall according to your instructions."

Tang Shaoyi took the document, stood under the sun and hurriedly flipped through it, the sun was dazzling, and he could hardly see anything clearly, so he had to close the document first, put it in the briefcase, and then walked into the office building with a frown, while the secretary entered the car with another document with the same content. Tell the driver to rush to the presidential palace.

When he walked into the office, the first thing Tang Shaoyi did was to call the War Department to inquire about the current border situation, and learned that the Russian Far East had basically fallen into the hands of the republicans. The Russian republicans have also sent additional troops to the Russian side of the Sino-Russian border, and at present, the squadron and the Russian squadron are still facing each other on the border in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and other regions.

Press down the microphone. Tang Shaoyi walked around the office with her hands behind her back and stopped by the window. Reach out and open the curtains and look out into the garden downstairs. There were still white thorns outside, and the sun was strong, which could not ease his depressed mood.

Truth be told, the president has insisted on going his own way, escalating the diplomatic dispute between China and Russia into a military confrontation. Tang Shaoyi disagrees very much, although he agrees with the president's tough stance, but at the same time he also thinks. A few days ago, the situation did not reach the point where only military means could be used to show resolve, and now the tension on the Sino-Russian border is entirely caused by the president, and the Russian provisional government is not as scheming as the Chinese president.

Tang Shaoyi didn't know why Zhao Bei would show his determination to use force in such a high-profile manner. After the political committee passed the resolution on the general mobilization of the army, Tang Shaoyi asked Tang Hualong, Yang Du and several other political commissars, and the answer was "the president's decision"

At that time, the political committee met to discuss whether to send additional troops to the border and issue a general mobilization order for the army, and there were 16 political councilors, including the president, of whom seven abstained and nine voted in favor, except for the military's seven votes. One of the other two votes was cast by Li Yuanhong's little "presidential shadow", and the other vote was cast by Zhao Bei himself, so. The general mobilization order of the army was officially issued, and the War Department immediately decided to send additional troops to the border as a demonstration of deterrence.

No one dared to vote against it. The reason is simple, this is not a secret ballot, but a show of hands. It is clear who is for and who is against, so the political committee cannot stop the president's hot-headed move.

Tang Shaoyi had long thought that the "Political Committee" was a complete decoration, but now, his views have been proved once again, and facts have proved that the Small Political Committee cannot limit the power of the president at all, and it is only a small body that hides people's eyes. Everything is decided by the president, and all policies are made by the "president's decision"

A "presidential decision" put the country on a path to war. Although he is still standing at the intersection and has not officially stepped on it, no one dares to guarantee that President Zhao will not put his military boots on Russian soil as soon as his head is hot.

The "mad president" stopped at that intersection in his military boots and immediately attracted the attention of all the powers. Now, not only the British and French governments are nervously staring at the boots of Mr. President, but also the governments of the United States and Germany are nervously staring at the shiny boots, as for the Russian Provisional Government. is even more nervous, and he doesn't even dare to breathe. After all, Russia is now in a dark battle with Germany in Europe. How could there be time to cope with this pair of Asian military boots kicked in from the Far East? The Russian Provisional Government is full of confidence in cleaning up the Tsarist government, which has lost the support of the people, but it has no confidence in dealing with China, which has just eaten a full meal in the South Seas and is shining brightly. What is being done to deal with it. It's just a bluff, that's it. Not only Zhao Bei saw it, but Tang Shaoyi also saw it.

But Tang Shaoyi's concern is not what countermeasures the Russian provisional government will take now. What he is worried about is the future, after the end of the war in Europe, although the war in Europe is still going on, but since the US ** team entered the war, the defeat of the Allies has been revealed, and defeat is only a matter of time. In the future, then, when the Entente defeated the Allied bloc and then helped Russia to seek justice for China, how would the confident Mr. President deal with it?

Where did President Zhao get the confidence to provoke the Russian Provisional Government at this time? Could it be that in his opinion, one of the titles of the Russian Provisional Government is "temporary" and easy to bully?

For this, Tang Shaoyi really can't figure it out, can't figure it out.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Tang Shaoyi simply didn't think about it. After standing by the window for a moment, he returned to his desk, picked up the newspaper summary of public opinion that his secretary had just handed him, and studied it carefully.

According to Tang Shaoyi's instructions, the public opinion summaries of these newspapers were divided into two categories, one was the "war clamory" and the other was the "pacifist faction." Tang Shaoyi wanted to see it. Which newspapers were clamoring for war, what was the background, and whether it was directly instructed by the Presidential Office.

After watching it for a while, Tang Shaoyi has come to the conclusion that what is clamoring for the Sino-Russian war now is some sensational tabloids, which really have backs; "The villains are always cautious, but the "Jing Youkou Lianxin", which represents the United Front Guchang, only published some painless border news reports, and has no position at all on whether to go to war.

Tang Shaoyi relaxed a little, he knew that as long as the "Pioneer Daily" did not clamor for war, then everything was easy to say, at least it showed that the center had not yet made up its mind to start a war, and the situation could still turn around.

On the other hand, however, Tang Shaoyi also understood that the day before yesterday, when the diplomatic departments of China and Russia were in a heated dispute over the matter of the Far East Army Corps and the bomber force, the Japanese Government secretly dispatched a diplomatic envoy and accompanied by Tang Shaoyi to meet with the "madman president." "It was the Japanese government's diplomatic envoy. In front of Mr. President, Tang Shaoyi suggested that China should go to war with Russia, and Japan would provide China with the necessary logistical support if the war went well. The Japanese government would even consider directly participating in the war against Russia, attacking the Russian Far East together with China, and carving up the Russian Far East territories after the war was over.

At that time, Tang Shaoyi was very surprised, in the last Nanyang War, Japan and China fought against the Netherlands at the same time, although it was not a joint operation in name, but in fact it was a joint operation, and it was through that war that Japan seemed to have tasted the sweetness. So now they are gearing up again, instigating China to start a war against Russia in order to fish in troubled waters.

Tang Shaoyi once asked the Japanese envoy at that time if Japan also started a war against Russia. So how to deal with the British and French questions? After all, Japan has now declared war on Germany and is a member of the Entente bloc, and Russia is also a member of the Entente, so how can Japan go to war with Russia?

Tang Shaoyi was even more surprised by the Japanese envoy's answer, and the Japanese told him that if war with Russia "was inevitable." then, "Japanese nationals." Perhaps it may force the Japanese government to "withdraw from the war against Germany." "Concentrate on the war against Russia. The meaning of this of the Japanese government could not be clearer, in order to seize territory from Russia. Japan Does Not Hesitate to Betray the Allied Powers, and It Is Even Possible That It Is Not Without This Possibility; After the Japanese envoy arrived in China, the first person to meet with him was not Tang Shaoyi, but the German ambassador to China.

It seems that Japan is carried away by the leakage of "Pan-Asianism" and does not seem to have thought about the consequences of doing so.

It is worth thanking that President Zhao did not agree to the Japanese government's proposal at that time. Instead, he replied that the other party should "think about it, and obviously, he didn't seem to have made up his mind."

What exactly the president intends to do, Tang Shaoyi is still unsure, his intuition tells him. The reason why Zhao Bei did this was probably not a whim, but a premeditated plan, but what the premeditated plan was, Tang Shaoyi really couldn't figure it out.

Huan pondered in the office for an hour, and when Tang Shaoyi finally got rid of this thought, the secretary who went to the presidential palace to deliver the documents had hurried back and brought an order from the commander-in-chief, which was a handwritten order from Mr. President.

"I hereby order the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately launch secret consultations with the Russian side on the issue of unequal treaties over the years. In any case, all unequal treaties between China and Russia must be abolished in their entirety! The matter is extremely confidential. It is not allowed to talk to any unrelated person until there is an eyebrow. small

This order was clear and crisp, Tang Shaoyi immediately woke up, perhaps this is the president's purpose, a few years ago, when China and other countries revised treaties and new treaties, only Russia insisted on refusing to revise those unequal treaties signed by the Manchu court and the Russian Empire, so this matter has always been a very difficult matter for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"So, for the best. There must be no more wars. At this time, rest and recuperation is the national worship of our country.

Tang Shaoyi nodded with satisfaction, the doubts in her heart were eliminated, and her mood naturally relaxed.

Five days later, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi and the Chargé d'Affaires of the Russian Provisional Government in China, Kosovitz, formally signed a series of diplomatic documents at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announcing the abolition of all unequal treaties between China and Russia and all privileges attached to the treaties, and at the same time, China and Russia would sign a new Sino-Russian treaty at an appropriate time on an equal footing.

As witnesses, the envoys of Britain, France, the United States, Italy and other countries in China attended the signing ceremony and signed the necessary documents as necessary.

The next day, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced that the Chinese central government had decided to accept the asylum applications of the Russian Tsar and the Regent and allow them to reside in China, and at the same time, announced that it would take over the command of the Tsarist army and dismiss them in stages, and until the final dismissal, the Chinese side would restrain the actions of these Tsarist troops and not allow them to do anything that might threaten the rule of the new Russian government.

A few days later, the Chinese War Department announced the lifting of the general mobilization order of the army, and all units returned to their stations. At the same time, the Russian ** team also made corresponding actions, and the smell of gunpowder on the Sino-Russian border immediately dissipated.

In this way, the disturbed Sino-Russian border returned to tranquility, on the one hand, China was still focusing on industrial and economic construction, and on the other hand, the new government of the Russian Republic was busy fulfilling its promises to the allies of the Entente and continuing the war against Germany.

Later, two new independent states emerged in the South Seas, one called the "Republic of New Guinea." "Under the protection of the Japanese government, the other called the "Second Republic of Lanfang" is under the protection of the Chinese government, and the two countries also immediately saw a boom in economic construction, at the same time. The Borneo region, which is "evenly interested" by all countries, also showed signs of economic warming, with rubber cultivation, oil extraction, tin mining, rice cultivation, and spice trade, all economic projects that were essential for modern industry and commerce, gradually becoming the dominant industries in the region for many years to come. The entire Nanyang region has also benefited greatly from the rapid economic development here.

In the midst of the noise of industrial construction and war, the summer of the old mouth year came to an end, and soon, autumn arrived.

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