"Mr. President, Mr. President! How are you going to deal with this crisis? Does this speech mean that all avenues for a political settlement have been closed? How is your Navy ready to pass through the Strait of Malacca? Would you ask for Singaporean Chinese**? Will the fleet, trained in the Indian Ocean, go into combat? ”

"President, will tough speeches only exacerbate the crisis? Aren't you worried about the outbreak of a real war? ”

"Mr. President, does what you just said mean that Sino-British relations have broken down substantively, and can I think that the two countries have embarked on the road of confrontation?"

As soon as the speech destined to sweep the world ended, Yang Qiu was surrounded by reporters who rushed to hear the news, and in the face of their own thoughts, the presidential guard, which had always been very tolerant of the media in the past, pulled up a human wall, and Yan Yuqiu refused all interview requests on behalf of the presidential office.

Yang Qiu walked among the students without being interviewed, shook hands with every student he could touch, and repeated the same words over and over again: "Study hard, whether China can be strong is not me, it depends on your efforts and achievements!" ”

"President, President and I shook hands!"

"Long live the President! Long live the Motherland! ”

The students were still cheering, and they were in tears with excitement in their eyes. "Get up! Those who do not want to be slaves have built our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall. In the middle of the playground, girls sang the national anthem, which had been established in 1925. The familiar melody of the volunteers is like a bright color, breaking the hustle and bustle. Gradually, all the students sang along with the beat, and the passionate melody turned into a roar, pushing the atmosphere of the speech hall to the extreme.

From the national anthem to "My Chinese Heart", and then to the song "Loyal to the Country" that shocked the whole country on the bank of the Han River after the victory of Ozurayama. Tsinghua Garden has completely become a patriotic base, and everyone who is present or even passing through here is numb.

Lampson couldn't describe his mood at the moment, his brain was empty and he watched Yang Qiu walk towards him, but when he finally took a deep breath and was about to take the initiative to speak, the president who had just named and accused Britain in his speech had already stopped in front of Jensen and Stuart Leiden.

"Mr. President, this is really a speech that makes people boil, and you explain what responsibility is and what is a country. But don't you think it's a little too much? The two smiled and shook hands with Yang Qiu, complimenting them while testing the true intentions of the president.

"Being young means passion, impulsiveness and courage, no one can force this character, they need to be channeled, they need to vent, what I do is to find a way out for this force and guide them to follow their dreams." Yang Qiu skillfully avoided the problem and turned the topic to education: "Mr. Situ Leiden, thank you for giving our country a great help in education, this kindness we Chinese will never forget." I just talked about the education investment plan for the next 10 years, and there are still many things that puzzle me and cannot be improved, I wonder if you can please go back with Ambassador Jensen with me to help me solve my confusion and build a world-class university comparable to Harvard and MIT. ”

Jensen glanced at Situ Leiden, knowing that Yang Qiu deliberately didn't want to talk about this topic here, so he invited them under the guise of discussing education. Immediately understood, winked and joked: "Mr. President's confusion is actually very simple, you just need to wait patiently for fifty years to see it." ”

"Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, it seems that I am too anxious."

Yang Qiu smiled, turned around and walked towards the convoy with the two. Seeing that he was about to leave but didn't say a word to himself from beginning to end, Rampusheng was anxious and hurriedly shouted: "Mr. President, don't you really think about the crisis between our two countries? ”

Yang Qiu stopped, his expression was neither angry nor surprised, as if he had forgotten what he had just said, and said calmly: "Sir Lampson, I have made it very clear just now that my job is to make the lives of 470 million people better, and I have never thought of fighting with the British Empire for maritime supremacy. Therefore, the responsibility for this crisis is entirely caused by your country! Because you have trampled on the red line of ensuring the peaceful development of 470 million people! Please tell Prime Minister Macdonald that we will not negotiate with anyone until the two preconditions are met! Please also tell him that although 15 years have passed, my blood has never cooled! ”

"Although 15 years have passed, my blood has never cooled." Situ Leiden and Jensen looked at each other, remembering Yang Qiu's determination to send 500,000 expeditionary troops to Europe in exchange for the support of the Entente industry when the country's industry was almost non-existent, and only soldiers could be guaranteed guns and bullets.

Before you know it, 15 years have passed, and this young man, who is fierce to his enemies and equally cruel to himself, is already the president of a country that can build the most advanced battleships, and if he is provoked, what earth-shattering things will he do? Even Rampusheng felt a chill at the thought of this, and a terrifying scene was sketched in his mind.

Singapore, Sarawak, Sabah, East India, Afghanistan, India, the Persian Gulf, the Soviet Union and Japan, and the United States and France.

The speech in Tsinghua Park shocked the world, and it was the loudest roar of China saying no to the world's number one power for the first time after 20 years of reconstruction! No one can ignore the voice of this country. When the full text of the speech was reprinted by European newspapers, European and American countries discovered that China had become a force to be reckoned with after taking advantage of the European war and the post-war world powers' counterbalancing diplomacy. Its industrial capacity is five times that of Japan! The size of the economy has reached the level of Britain, the manufacturing capacity has reached the level of France, and it seems that some mysterious force is funding, and it has made continuous breakthroughs in high-end manufacturing fields such as battleships with stricter restrictions in Europe and the United States, as if someone had given it all the European and American technology and drawings, which is incredible.

Yang Qiu's speech caused a sensation, especially the last part of the navy in order to protect national interests, desperately drove a small warship to the opponent, but also set off a strong wave of patriotism among young people, many people for the first time understood what is the deep blue sea, what is the oil channel, what is the supreme national interest!

"Release people, let go!" These four words represent a challenge to the rules of the old world by the new world.

On the third day after Yang Qiu's speech, protests were held in 27 cities in China. Five days later, the scale of the protests reached 56 cities! Parliaments and officials in all provinces of the country have publicly published their support for any decision of the president!

By the end of January 1931, the Chinese in West Borneo, Singapore, Sumatra, Siam and other places in the South Seas took to the streets one after another to protest against the unfair treatment of the British government, demanding that the British Navy release sailors and release oil tankers to severely punish the murderers.

At the same time, the Chinese navy has also massed in the South China Sea. By 2 February, about 66 Raygong bombers had arrived at the Natuna base, and a huge fleet of two battleships and two battlecruisers had gathered on the sea. Not to be outdone, the British rushed into the Indian Ocean in search of Task Force 21, and the Malaya blocked the Straits of Malacca, with the Queen blocking the Straits of Malacca.

The British Empire feared no nation if it were just a navy, but the two pieces of news on February 2 made the MacDonald government realize for the first time that war was likely to be imminent!

On February 2, a battalion of the 1st Infantry Division and two companies of the 101st Division, known as one of the nine aces of the Wehrmacht, arrived in Xi'an. On the same day, a battalion of the 16th Plateau Mountain Brigade stationed in Sichuan arrived in Lhasa, breaking through the promise in the Shanghai Communiqué not to station regular troops in Tibet. As soon as the news came out, the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Europe and the United States speculated that this was a precursor to Beijing's impatience and began to mobilize more troops in the northwest regions such as Tibet, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

On February 3, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Shi Zhaoji arrived in Moscow for a visit.

On 5 February, Qin Zhangshu, commander-in-chief of the Chinese National Defense Forces, arrived at Andijan to inspect an infantry division stationed there.

On February 11, the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Qiu even published an article in the Central Daily under the title "Unfair or Dead", severely denouncing Britain's behavior of undermining justice, rules and free trade, accusing the MacDonald government of deliberately diverting attention during the economic crisis, disregarding the well-being of the people, and deliberately creating conflicts to push the world into a hot war. The severity of the wording, the depth of the criticism, and the exposition of the ideas of the old and new worlds after the Paris Peace Treaty are so rare that the publication of this article immediately caused a strong shock in Latin America, Asia, and even Europe and the United States.

Because of the policy of attacking the punitive tariffs that restricted German industrial exports, which led to Germany's inability to repay war reparations as soon as possible, and led to the deepening of contradictions and the increase in the threat of conflict, German newspapers even praised it as "great justice", and Yang Qiu himself appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the sixth time, and the editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine gave an extremely loud headline because he criticized Britain's irresponsible behavior such as raising tariffs and closing the market in the early stage of the economic crisis, which led to the aggravation of the crisis in the United States.

"Finally someone dares to tell the truth".

Despite rising criticism at home and abroad, MacDonald still refused to be a prerequisite for the release of the people, demanding that China first start negotiations with Britain on the Arab China Petroleum Agreement, otherwise everything would be waived.

There's no way to step down!

Whether it is Yang Qiu, who chooses to be tough to the end, or MacDonald, who knows that he can't back down, he knows that this step must not be retreated. However, the most tense atmosphere was in Riyadh, a country that had just announced its founding for a month, and even Ibn Saud regretted that he should not have signed the agreement so hastily after they found out that the main force of the Chinese navy was blocked in the Strait of Malacca.

"Minister Song, my father is very worried." At the Gulf Oil Company's headquarters in Riyadh, young Benaziz couldn't hide his nervousness, and sat on a rattan chair and spoke hurriedly: "There are chiefs who have reported to us that the British are trying to persuade them to provide money and arms to overthrow us. There is also news from Baghdad that the British envoy has offered to make Iraq completely independent as long as Faisal Hussein sends troops. ”

Song Ziqing, who was sitting opposite, had a calm face, compared to the anxious Saudi government, he was still calm, and after listening, he said: "Your Royal Highness, I have already received information about what you said, so Foreign Minister Gu has already taken a plane to Baghdad to meet King Faisal this morning, and will then go to Istanbul to meet President Kemal." So I don't think you need to be too nervous, even if Iraq is persuaded by the British, the army will need to cross Turkey to get here, so they are just bluffing. ”

Aziz believes that Turkey finally gained independence under the leadership of Kemal after the European war, so in recent years it has always believed in a policy of non-alignment and non-participation, so it is unrealistic for the Iraqi Faisal family to attack Saudi Arabia. But the Persian Gulf region is not just the Faisal family, it is awash with too many ambitious chieftains. Therefore, what he is most anxious about now is when the "Arab China Oil Company Security Team" will arrive and be established.

Song Ziqing understood his thoughts, smiled and analyzed: "I have a question. Your Highness, do you think that if Britain really wants to overthrow you, it will need to rely on Iraq and those second-rate tribes? ”

Aziz saw that he didn't understand what this meant, this picture made Song Ziqing scratch his head secretly, these Arabs are really useless in terms of military awareness. So he asked himself: "With all due respect, the British have garrisons in Iraq, Egypt and Oman, and India opposite Amman has several Anglo-Indian divisions. Your coastline in the direction of the Red Sea is completely exposed, and there is no military force in the waters of the Persian Gulf, so if the British government really wants to attack, there is no need to borrow troops from all sides! Doing so now only shows that they are equally weak in heart! ”

After hearing this, Ben Aziz also felt that it made a lot of sense, if Britain really wanted to overthrow the Saud family, it only needed to mobilize 10,000 troops from Egypt and India. But he still didn't dare to take it lightly, and said: "What you said is very reasonable, but we can't continue to stalemate like this for a long time, if we can't end it as soon as possible, it will hurt both of our countries." And our troops can't compete with your soldiers, so we hope to get the security team up and running as soon as possible. ”

"You can rest assured that I have organized some of the officers and men of the Navy who have sent me here, as well as some of the early ones. Although there are no more roads to the sea, we still have air lanes. At present, we have sent some of the security team personnel to Andijan, and some aircraft are being refitted, and the first transport planes will arrive here by direct flight from Kashgar in a maximum of half a month. So I don't think you need to be too nervous, and I can guarantee that the crisis will be over soon. ”

Not understanding where Song Ziqing's confidence came from, Ben Aziz asked, "Minister Song, why do you have such thoughts?" Is Britain ready to compromise? ”

Of course, Song Ziqing couldn't tell him the secret, so he got up and said proudly: "You will know soon!" And tell the king on my behalf that I will not leave here until the crisis is over! Anything that wants to deal with the House of Saud is a declaration of war against our country! ”

"This is our guarantee!"