The name of this expert in international relations was not given by the Chinese, but by the Japanese, and Wang Maoru suddenly became famous when he refused an invitation from a famous Japanese university. At that time, there were no Chinese who worked as teachers in foreign universities, but Wang Maoru was the first to receive an invitation and the first to refuse the Japanese Empire, which had defeated China. It can be said that Japan at that time objectively achieved Wang Maoru's reputation, which made him gradually enter Yuan Shikai's eyes and become an important staff. Therefore, the path a person chooses is not only important, but also the opponent he chooses. Japan, the opponent, has fulfilled Wang Maoru's path, and it must be said that real life is often more dramatic than fairy tales.

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "In fact, the purpose of the great powers is very simple, they do not care about the establishment of diplomatic relations between us and Soviet Russia, but care about whether we in China will wake up because of this after we accept the renunciation of all unequal treaties by Soviet Russia and lead them to abolish all unequal treaties with the great powers, so that their interests will be damaged." The corners of his mouth turned up with a sneer, and said, "As for the war against China, another invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance?" It was like a dog barking, and if the British really dared to come, it just gave us an excuse, China must implement the rule of a military government if it wants to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, and we happen to achieve a military government. Sun Liwen and the people of the Kuomintang are not fools, how could they not know the impact of foreign invasion of China on our country, and it was their Kuomintang that died first, so the Kuomintang was most opposed to us provoking foreign countries. In my opinion, in the five years since the end of the European war, the foreign powers have not recovered from the whirlpool of the European war, and apart from the increasing isolation of the United States, the other European powers have been powerless to intervene in China and Russia. ”

Gu Weijun also said: "In fact, among all the countries, only Japan has the greatest influence on us, but we signed the "Wanping Treaty" with Japan, which allows Japan to concentrate on consolidating domestic stability and eliminating the workers' strike movement and insurrectionary movement in the country, so Japan will not really send troops for the time being." Also, they seem to be more interested in Eastern Siberia now. ”

"Foreign Minister Gu's analysis is very reasonable, and our military department also thinks so." Jiang Fangzhen said. "According to intelligence, after the workers' uprising in northern Japan was put down, the three divisions that were about to be dismantled were suddenly mobilized to Hokkaido, and it was clear that their target was Kamchatka. The Japanese have made up their minds to seize the territory of the Arctic Circle, so Japan's note to China this time is just a smoke bomb. ”

"The Japanese side can make some preparations, and there is no need to make a big move." Wang Maoru said.

"Yes." Someone from the military immediately said.

"As for the Americans......" Wang Maoru smiled faintly. He said: "The composition of the US government is very similar to that of our current government, both of which are governments formed by the bourgeoisie, and if the Eight-Nation Coalition comes again, we will become a Bolshevik state, and the loss to the United States will be even greater." The Americans have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in our country, so how can they take advantage of China's war? Everyone nodded in agreement.

Wang Maoru glanced at everyone. said: "Now that we have determined that the great powers are just bluffing, we must pay attention to the way we face the great powers, and we must not be weak and polite, nor can we provoke them. Brother Shaochuan, your Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to play a role at this time. ”

Gu Weijun immediately said: "Yes, we will definitely take it seriously and complete this task." ”

Wang Maoru nodded. He continued: "Then let's talk about next year's presidential candidate. "Everyone stretched out their ears and listened, and finally it was another important turn, the presidential candidate, who will be the presidential candidate? Next year's presidential election is different from the 10th year of the Republic of China, and the first presidential election after reunification is actually logically speaking, not a presidential election that fully complies with the procedures. The popular elections were completed at the end of the ninth year of the Republic of China and the beginning of the tenth year of the Republic of China, and it is known that the real president was elected on October 10 of the tenth year of the Republic of China.

In China, it is a quadrennial presidential election year. The tenth year of the Republic of China (1921), the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925), the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929), etc. The official presidential election date is October 1, and if calculated according to the time node, the national general election will be held at the beginning of the 14th year of the Republic of China, and the vote count will continue until October 1. The inauguration day of the new president is October 10, and the National Day of Double Tenth is celebrated nationwide. And the year before. The parties and organizations are going to have to propagate their presidential candidates, which means that this year, in 1923, the parties will elect their own candidates. Prepare yourself as a candidate.

There is no doubt that among the four major parties, the only candidate of the Kuomintang is Sun Liwen, who is also the first presidential candidate who has already been decided. The Progressive Party is not ready to nominate anyone for the presidency, and one of the ideas now is to disrupt Congress, because their party alone is too weak. The Youth Promotion Association was loyal to the military Wang Maoru, and Wang Maoru proposed that the military should not interfere in politics, so that they could not put forward candidates, so as not to mislead the members of the Youth Promotion Association into thinking that the fascist party leaders were too confused. Three years ago, the Baath Party named Meng Enyuan, and now Meng Enyuan has been a puppet vice president for two years, basically in a semi-retired state, occasionally coming out to cut the company, to give a name to that cultural attraction, and his influence is already very weak. So who does the Baath Party recommend for president this time?

Wang Maoru swept around his subordinates, everyone longed for Wang Maoru to name his name, and even Tang Shaoyi was worried in his heart, the position of prime minister, whether he was a puppet or not, everyone was eager to do it. Wang Maoru smiled and said lightly: "I will personally be the presidential candidate of the Baath Party." ”

"Huh?" Everyone was so surprised that they almost went crazy, Wang Maoru is going to run for president? This...... What's going on.

Tang Shaoyi stood up and pretended to be shocked and said: "Xiusheng, you really have a lot of courage...... this is a very good performance, and the rest of the people believe it and really think that Tang Shaoyi doesn't know, so they also opened their mouths wide and were dumbfounded, and a few people such as Yang Du and Jiang Fangzhen were not overly surprised because they knew in advance.

Wang Maoru said lightly: "I know what everyone is surprised about, is it because I once named that soldiers are not allowed to interfere in politics, and in-service soldiers are not allowed to participate in any department of the government except the Ministry of National Defense?" Seeing everyone nodding, Wang Maoru smiled slightly and said, "So, I'm going to build momentum now, since the Kuomintang asked me to go into the wilderness, I will go into the wilderness." But I went down to the field for another purpose, and that was to run for president. ”

"Okay!" It was Wang Maoru's godbrother Gai Tianjiu, who was born in bandits, and was the first to shout, this nursery was too obvious for others to see, but he didn't care, and immediately said: "Xiusheng is the president, and I am the first to stand up and support." ”

However, Liu Guanxiong said: "Xiushuai, it's just the army, how to ensure stability?" ”

Liu Enge was not exactly a straw bag, and he immediately asked: "We should first ensure that the army of the generalissimo Shangwu will not be chaotic." ”

Wang Maoru nodded and smiled: "I have a way." He motioned to his father-in-law Tang Shaoyi, and Tang Shaoyi stood up and said, "Everyone, I have another bill, everyone listen to it." Everyone craned their necks to look at him, and Tang Shaoyi said: "The bill I proposed is to shorten the presidential election from ten months to two months in the future, starting from August 1 and ending on October 1. In this way, the Kuomintang will have more than half a year to organize and plan the election campaign, and President Sun Da will not have to be frightened within half a year. And for us to have more benefits, Xiusheng can have a year and a half to fully appease the morale of the army. ”

The so-called pacification of the military is nothing more than the elimination of the unstable dìng factor among the generals, and all the officers who are loyal to Wang Maoru are replaced, and the people who are holding meetings here are all close ministers of Wang Maoru, and even the sixty-four-year-old former Gui boss Lu Rongting has now taken refuge in Wang Maoru, which shows that his current momentum is indeed in full swing.

Wang Maoru stood up and asked with a rainbow of momentum: "Regarding the Prime Minister's bill, do you approve of it?" He looked at the crowd and said, "Raise your hand if you approve." After saying this, he was full of domineering, and he looked up at everyone around him.

Immediately everyone raised their hands, and only then would a fool object. Seeing that everyone agreed, Wang Maoru said with a smile: "That's good, I'd rather give the Kuomintang half a year to appease the army." Then he said: "Okay, this bill will be proposed by the prime minister, and everyone will cooperate." Now we're going to talk about how to run the presidential campaign next year and how the various departments will communicate and work together, and the latter two issues are the government's ......," he said to military officers, "and it has little to do with the military." ”

Jiang Fangzhen, deputy commander of the National Defense Forces, realized that the two had been working together for many years, and he didn't like politics, let alone being involved in politics. Regarding Wang Maoru's confrontation with the KMT, Jiang Fangzhen only assisted Wang Maoru as an executor, and sometimes he didn't even know what Wang Maoru was going to do. In terms of fighting, Wang Maoru is definitely inferior to him, but when it comes to political struggle, Jiang Fangzhen can't compare, he heard Wang Maoru's meaning, and immediately said: "In this case, I don't have to stay too long, let's go back early and prepare." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Okay, you guys should rest first." ”

All the people in the military except for the vice minister of national defense Sa Zhenbing and the director of the propaganda department Ma Liang left, leaving Sa Zhenbing because Sa Zhenbing was familiar with officialdom, and leaving Ma Liang because Ma Liang's propaganda department had more dealings with the government. Everyone then offered suggestions for next year's presidential election, claiming that they could build momentum for Wang Maoru at the beginning of this year and create a public opinion environment for a period of time, so as to put pressure on the KMT.

Li Ziwen, the chief minister of culture, jokingly said that it would be better to find some more articles to smear the Kuomintang and publish them, and everyone said in unison that it was great, and the meeting was held until 8 o'clock in the evening, and everyone made a preliminary plan before leaving.

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