108471908 Far Eastern Maniac: Chapter 3: The Wisdom of Diplomacy

In the eyes of Song Jiaoren and other parliamentarians, China's best diplomatic choice now is to educate the people. Whether it is Britain or Germany, how they fight each other is their business, it is a matter for Europe, it is a matter for foreigners, and it has nothing to do with China, even if China really needs to form an alliance, it should also form an alliance with Britain. The reason is very simple, because China is almost all in the sphere of influence of the Entente bloc, and they are always embarrassed to attack "their own people", right?

Perhaps, this is the diplomatic wisdom of a weak country.

But the problem is that this is just the wishful thinking of some members of Parliament, and Britain will never take the initiative to seek an alliance with China, because British politicians also know very well that the current China is nothing more than food that Britain uses to feed Japan and Russia, and Britain needs these two catties, and the country restricts Germany and counters the Allied bloc, and there is not enough benefit, and these two countries will never work for Britain. And that benefit they see is China. For example, Britain will never offend two watchdogs for a single bone, so Britain will not form an alliance with China in the form of a treaty. At least not now, the Sino-Japanese War basically determined Britain's foreign policy in the Far East, and international politics has always been based on strength. Japan is stronger than China, then, Japan is the dog of the United Kingdom, and China is the bone that the British used to feed the dog.

This is China's current diplomatic dilemma. And this dilemma is almost impossible to break through, unless there is a major change in the international political landscape. With China's own strength, it will not be able to counter the entire "international order".

This "international order" also binds Germany, but Germany has power, and German politicians and military members are gearing up to use war to rewrite the rules of the international order. But compared to the Entente. Germany's strength was not enough, in order to win the first war, Germany decided to pull China into its own chariot, for this reason, they took a fancy to the United Front, but also to Commander-in-Chief Zhao, and after the Battle of Henan, German politicians finally decided to completely abandon Beiyang and fully support the United Front to hold the central power of the country, only in this way can they exert stronger influence on China. If you add rhetoric, perhaps. It can pull this country of 400 million people into the chariot of the German emperor.

Therefore, Colonel Hannagan and Major Dinkman organized this field tour and appeared in the team of Zhao Bei to inspect the front line with a rare high profile. They are showing by their actions that Germany is optimistic about the United Front and even more optimistic about this "Far Eastern madman"

At the same time, the German government also made a decision against the Beiyang bloc, and the German envoy to China not only refused to sign the joint statement of the British envoys to China, Japan, Russia, and France condemning the United Front's "sabotage of peace talks." And continue to maintain the "economic restrictions" on Beiyang and do not allow the German consortium to provide any financial support to the Beiyang Group, the Germans see very clearly, the foreign power and the middle of the Beiyang is now crumbling, just like the First Sino-Japanese War that took away the beautiful clothes of the Manchu court, the fiasco of the battlefield in southern Henan also stripped Beiyang, so that it stood naked in front of the world, people only then found that under the beautiful military uniform wrapped in a skin and bones is actually a skinny tuberculosis ghost, There is no need to waste time and energy on this shell anymore, it is better to find a new agent who can at least protect himself as soon as possible.

This new agent is the United Front, although he still looks relatively thin at the moment, but he is in good spirits, as long as he is given some nutrition, he will soon be strong, even if he can't stand on the German tank to block bullets for Germany. At the very least, they can stand in the Far East and shout for Germany, distracting the few watchdogs raised by the British.

In order to make the united front strong as soon as possible. The German Emperor was very generous, a telegram, 20,000 German rifles stored in the German fortress in Qingdao were loaded onto ships and transported to Wuhan, which was the largest batch of arms received by the United Front, and along with these rifles were transported to Wuhan dozens of the latest field guns and a large number of shells, and at the same time, those ocean-going ships full of German fire were still steaming towards China in the Indian Ocean with billowing black smoke, if they successfully arrived in China, then the United Front would be completely new in terms of the quality and quantity of weapons, and it may not be long before The country's government forces will all use German-made weapons, which will not only bring new financial resources to the German industrial oligarchy, but also further strengthen the Sino-German "friendship"

For the help of German "friends", commander-in-chief Zhao Bei is very "pleased", but he is not satisfied with this kind of arms deal, he hopes that German "friends" can help him establish a complete set of industrial system, at least so that China can manufacture heavy weapons and light warships on its own, of course, the manufacture of aircraft and automobiles is also indispensable, in fact, the use of aircraft by the united front in this war has aroused great concern among the world's military powers, and the German General Staff has even sent a military observation mission, Coming east via the Trans-Siberian Railway, it won't be long before they reach the Beijing Railway Station.

Machine guns, airplanes, warships, automobiles, boilers, internal combustion engines, machine tools, almost all enterprises, factories related to heavy industry and military industry, the commander-in-chief wanted to build, and he hoped to build these industries in just a few years with the help of German "friends", a grand plan that not only made people stammer, but also aroused great interest in the German emperor.

Never before had an industrial power helped a backward agrarian country to draw up such a complete and detailed plan for industrial development, and if German industrialists had been able to accomplish this feat this time, it would have gone down in history.

For German industry, the plans for the industrial development of this oriental country were not only grandiose. And it is profitable, because the commander-in-chief promised that all these industrial enterprises are all

The way of the Sino-German joint stock is to say that "the German companies can also share at least half of the profits brought by the products produced in the factory!" And considering the cost of labor and transportation, these industrial products produced in China will be very competitive in China and the entire Far East!

Although at present, this catty, the commander-in-chief's blueprint for industrial development has just been transmitted back to Germany, but. For most of them, as long as Commander-in-Chief Zhao holds the central power of the country, the only remaining problems are financial and technical problems, which are not a problem at all for German companies. German industry was now in a period of expansion, and because of British restrictions and competition, all the German factories were waiting to be fed, and they were eager to invest excess capital in areas beyond the control of the British.

Damn British! They control this eastern country through the Beiyang bloc, and now it is time for them to taste the power of Germany, and when the United Front enters the center, it is the time when the disadvantages of Germany in the Far East are completely changed!

Song Jiaoren was very clear about the thoughts of the Germans, but he also knew that it was not on the German side that determined the German Far East strategy at all, and on the side of Zhaobei, as long as Zhaobei did not form an alliance, Germany could not use China to deal with Britain and the entire Entente bloc.

After a perfunctory conversation with the members of the war tour group, Song Jiaoren managed to get a chance to be alone with the commander-in-chief, and the two had a conversation in the dispatch room of the railway station.

"Please tell me the truth, do you have any intention of forming an alliance with Germany?"

Song Jiaoren asked sincerely, his eyes were fixed on Zhao Bei's face, but he was panicked in his heart, for fear that the other party would give a positive answer.

Zhao Bei also stared at Song Jiaoren's face, and asked rhetorically with a smile.

"If you were the president of the Republic of China, would you ally with the British?"

Song Jiaoren hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said: "According to Song's opinion, in terms of the current international situation, not forming an alliance with any powerful country is really the best choice for China's diplomacy. ”

Zhao Bei nodded and said with a smile: "What the hero sees is slightly the same!" Tan Chu is indeed worthy of being the number one politician in China today. ”

This is too modest, in the eyes of the Germans, the commander-in-chief is the first politician in China and even in the Far East.

Song Jiaoren didn't pay attention to Zhao Bei's modesty, and just asked, "What does the chairman mean that if you control the center, you will not ally with Germany?" ”

"In fact, it doesn't matter who you ally with, the important question now is how to solve it

"Eight Flags Outside the Gate"

"So, the chairman is also worried about the situation in the three eastern provinces?"

Zhao Bei smiled bitterly: "It's not that I'm worried, but I'm very worried!" You're not an outsider, and I'm sure you're tight-lipped, so I'll tell you the truth. According to the information obtained by the intelligence department of the Republican Army a few days ago, "The Eight Banners outside the Guanwai will instigate an armed rebellion in the near future, and they have even given the name of the country, called "Manchukuo" This is the idea of the Japanese, the purpose is to legally divide this country into two, we can't let the Japanese succeed!" Now it is inconvenient for the Japanese to come forward directly, so they will put the "Eight Flags outside the Guan". Push to the foreground, as long as the "Eight Flags outside the Gate." If it is resolved, there will be no chaos in the three eastern provinces. ”

"But if you don't stop fighting, how can you pull out your hand to clean up the "Eight Banners outside the Guan", what? Song Jiaoren asked.

"Truce? There is no truce yet, my plan for the march is to fight to Baoding in one go, and now there is still some way to go from Baoding, and there can be no truce in the next few days. ”

"So, the chairman of the committee is not opposed to the peace talks between the north and the south?"

Hearing what Zhao Bei said, Song Jiaoren's heart was relieved, and then he tightened, not knowing what the chairman of the committee had in mind.

"I have always advocated peace, but Beiyang does not want peace. Since you are a lobbyist in Beiyang, you must have a way to directly contact the top management of Beiyang. You can tell Xu Shichang that as long as our army occupies Baoding, the Northern Expeditionary Army will immediately stop advancing and the north and south will resume peace talks.

"I have a codebook and can send a telegram to the presidential palace."

As soon as Zhao Bei's promise came out, Song Jiaoren couldn't sit still. Hurriedly took out the codebook and followed an adjutant to the telegraph room.

As soon as Song Jiaoren left the dispatch room, Zhao Bei immediately called Tian Jinfu.

"Yiren, you immediately call someone to send a telegram to Xu Baoshan, telling him that he must take action within two days, and if the action is successful, I will guarantee him as the governor of Jiangsu!" Don't shoot telegrams directly from here, use your intelligence station to reshoot them. ”

Tian Jinfu turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Zhao Bei.

"Yiren, you are willing to be a brigade commander and division commander. Or would you rather continue to be your intelligence chief? ”

Tian Jinfu pondered for a while, and said hesitantly: "Or, I will continue to be the intelligence leader for a while?" Now that no one in the Military Intelligence Agency can take my position, I can't call the commander-in-chief part-time, right? When you hit Beijing in the future, your old man became the president, so you can't still manage a bunch of meticulous work and spies, right? ”

"The president? Hehe, let's talk about it later. But even if you are the president, why can't you also be the head of intelligence? The Yongzheng Emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. There's not a bunch of "blood droplets" under your hands. Is it? In the final analysis, whether it is the president or the emperor, there is always a need for a group of special subordinates, who can not only ensure that the subordinates are satisfied, but also ensure that the will of the superiors is implemented. ”

Zhao Bei smiled mysteriously, and the expression on his face was quite funny.

Political struggle itself is a contest of human wisdom and strength, and wisdom and strength are indispensable.