After the end of World War I, Turkey's history was dramatically reversed by the Greek invasion and the Treaty of Sèvres, and the rise of Kemal changed the history of Turkey. Due to the peculiarity and importance of Turkey's position, Kemal first relied on the support of the Bolsheviks to fight against Britain and France, and when he completely defeated the Greek army supported by Britain and France, Kemal, who saw the situation, jumped to the side of Britain and France, and finally signed the Treaty of Lausanne.

Such gorgeous dance steps were once envied by Sun Wen and others, but it was not the Kuomintang that finally completed the triple jump, it was just a stepping stone. Although he tried his best not to change history, the history of the East is completely different, and for Turkey, Yang Rui felt that it would be better for the Kemal regime not to appear, Turkey would maintain the shell of the Ottoman Empire, and he would definitely throw himself into the arms of Germany in World War II, and then the Baath Army would save it from the rule of darkness and superstition.

Yang Rui vs. Lloyd. George did not answer his question, and when the British asked again, he said: "As in Germany, if we push too much, then the people will make a revolution - overthrow the existing government, form a new one, and then they will surely seek the support of the Bolsheviks, which is almost ......a certainty."

"But we ......" Lloyd's. George spread his hands, and if he did not value the intelligence of the Chinese, he began to wonder whether he should talk to the Chinese about Turkey, which is not something that China can decide. "The dismemberment of the Ottomans has been completed, Baghdad and the Palestinian areas belong to Britain, the Crescent region is given to France, and the Arabian Peninsula will gain independence. The Ottomans as a defeated country, this is the price they should bear for defeat. ”

"No, it's not dismemberment, it's total annihilation, and the process is carried out by the Greeks and Armenians who once ruled them, and the proud Ottomans can't accept this fact in any way. If we push too hard. The Ottoman government may have signed a treaty, but once it was signed, the opposition within it, especially the military, would riot. Mr. Prime Minister, does Britain want to throw in a new war?

If the Turkish Revolutionary Party had not been destroyed by the army, the Greeks and Armenians alone would not have been able to ask about the Ottoman political situation. Then. You will see the communist Muslim army expelling all foreign powers, and the entire strait will most likely be controlled by the Bolsheviks......"

"But the Bolsheviks will soon be doomed, if your country does not sell them weapons and support food." Lloyd's. George interrupted, still resentful of China's strategy toward Russia and the inconsistencies of various countries.

"Weapons are not only sold by our merchants, but also by American merchants, and even by the Dutch. Food aid will end by the end of this year......" Yang Rui said, but his words were interrupted by the British very rudely.

"Do you mean next month? Oh great, thank God! "Lloyd's. George Road.

"Nope. I'm talking about the Chinese New Year, which is February 19, 1920 in the Jesus calendar. "Although the Bolsheviks still wanted us to sell grain, at the request of various countries, we had to close our border crossings and suspend trade. Mr. Prime Minister, you know that the Revival will represent the interests of the Chinese peasants, so I strongly ask you to support our country's demand for the lifting of the foreign trade blockade against Germany and the permission to sell grain. This is extremely important for my country. ”

"But the French will object." Lloyd's. George felt that the topic seemed to be manipulated by Yang Rui, and he felt very uncomfortable. "The Germans haven't signed a contract either."

"It's not that Germany is unwilling to sign it, it's that we haven't drawn up a treaty at all. I still stick to my previous opinion, if the countries cannot agree to sell Chinese grain to Germany, then I will have to sell it to Russia. It seems to me that the best time has passed for the elimination of the Bolsheviks, who are completely different from Kolchak's Provisional Government, and Kerensky's Provisional Government;

And the best way to move is not Siberia, not the Don. It was Petersburg - landing from Petersburg and then attacking Moscow. To accomplish this operation, it would have to be done with millions of troops, and the Poles could not complete this operation, but only by the British, French, or American armies themselves. But the question is, who wants to do this?

The most taboo in military affairs is the oil licking tactic, and at the same cost, the best thing to do is to use all your strength at once. So, from this point of view, no matter how loud and powerful the action against the Bolsheviks, he could not succeed. It is on this basis that our country refuses to intervene in the Russian civil war. Yang Rui said. Look at Lloyd. George, he can especially feel the difference between the British prime minister and the Chinese premier, they are just the stewards of the people, they don't have the power to reverse the direction of the whole country, all they can do is to comply.

"Is this the reason why your country refuses to send troops to Russia......, uh-huh, I understand." The British nodded. He had heard similar opinions to Yang Rui in the War Department, but as Yang Rui thought, he could not convince the parliament and the British people to let the British Army intervene in another war, so the oil licking tactics were certain, and failure was also certain.

"I'll bring it up to the French at the next meeting, if the French agree to act together......" said Lloyd. George himself did not believe that the French would organize hundreds of thousands of troops to intervene in the revolution in Russia, so the words fell silent.

Yang Rui smiled when he saw this, "Similar to the situation in Russia, the same is true for the Ottomans, she is now in the period of the Kerensky Provisional Government in Russia, once the treaty is too harsh, then it is logical for a revolution like that in Russia to break out." Why do you have to mess things up and then send troops to fix it? If the Ottomans were given some dignity, the current government would be able to suppress the revolutionary parties on the basis of the majority of the popular support, which would better protect the interests of the countries in the Ottomans. ”

I have to admit that Yang Rui said those reasons Lloyd. George was clearly listening, and at the next meeting, he spent an hour and fifty minutes debating with Clemenceau, Wilson, and Orlando about what to do with the Ottoman question, but the outcome was still harsh. Yang Rui didn't know what would become of his final treaty, but none of this mattered, what he wanted was to change Turkish history.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and the issues that needed to be discussed were solved one after another, because he kept speaking for Germany and for Ottoman, and the displeased French newspapers called him the 'head of the fifth country'. It is implied that his status was actually part of the Central Powers rather than the Entente. There were also some French tabloids who wanted to insinuate the performance of the Ba'ath Army in the war, but Marshal Foch, the commander-in-chief of the French army, immediately denounced this behavior the day after the news was published, claiming that without the Chinese army, France would suffer several times the heavy losses even if it would not ask for an armistice and peace talks, and claimed that any report slandering the Chinese army and the armies of other allied countries would be treason and guilty.

Yang Rui was not interested in the French performance at all. France lost its European hegemony after the Battle of Sedan. The face of the second most powerful country in the world can be held up in the back is entirely thanks to the Franco-Russian alliance. Now that World War I is over, traumatized France will need new allies if it is to maintain its colonial and world-second glory, especially if the dismemberment of Germany is impossible - not to mention that China, Britain and the United States are completely opposed to this plan, Yang Rui is curious to see what she will do.

"Mr. Prime Minister, in order to remember the friendship between France and China, the college will set up a special Xianfenghan Scholarship to sponsor international students from your country to study in the college." Paris Conservatoire, 14 rue de Madrid, Paris. Host Yang Rui and French President Poincaré of the Academy of Colleges Gabriel. Fry's cordial kindness said.

A few years ago, he didn't know anything about this oriental woman named Han Xianfeng, but after Han Xianfeng returned to China, it was different. The soundtrack is extremely complex and rusty, but the melody of genius is often hidden, and the outside world seems to the outside world to be so prolific and so different in style that it is almost indistinguishable from genius. Politically speaking, Han Xianfeng may be the biggest intersection between the Chinese and French governments. She married the Chinese premier only after graduating from the Conservatory, in the French interpretation. It seems that she married a French woman instead of a Chinese student.

"It seems...... It's too high-profile. Yang Rui's expression was gloomy, the death of Han Xianfeng was his deepest pain in this time and space, he didn't want to hear others mention her name, but today's naïve Frenchman wanted to praise her.

"Nope! Not at all. "Gabriel. Fry's head shook his head seriously, "Han is one of the most talented students in the Conservatory in the past fifty years, and she is the pride of the Academy. Unfortunately, we didn't find out about this sooner. Mr. Prime Minister, we are preparing a special concert in which all of her works will be performed......"

Thinking that the soundtracks that had been perfected by Han Xianfeng would be played in Paris, Yang Rui smiled rarely, and he said: "She is just a very ordinary woman, and she just wants to be a very ordinary woman." But fate played a joke on her. Everything about her is extraordinary. If it is only musically, I am very appreciative of your initiative, as long as those works have such value, but please forgive me for not being there at the concert, it will be a pain to me, not a pleasure. ”

"It's a pity!" The dean looked at Yang Rui seriously, and then at Poincaré, bending down to apologize.

After the visit to the Conservatory, Poincaré, who felt that he had messed up, also apologized: "I really regret ......"

"Everyone has sad things, and they will always sound inadvertently, so it's good to get used to it." Yang Rui smiled bitterly, and then quickly changed the subject: "Mr. President seems to have something to say to me alone?" ”

The Chinese were so direct, Puencaré was very surprised, but he did not deny that he really wanted to communicate with Yang Rui privately, so he asked a topic that did not make much sense, but was extremely concerned, "Mr. Chancellor, what do you think about the future of Germany?" ”

"Germany's future?" Yang Rui smiled, "It depends on the final content of the treaty, if it is still so harsh, the Germans will eventually vent this anger, and the others will be happy to watch for the most part." ”

Poincaré knew who the other person in Yang Rui's mouth was, and he nodded: "That's why I asked for the dismemberment of the German ......."

"It can't be done either! Just as some would never agree to the German occupation of France. Yang Rui said.

"So......" Poincaré's eyes widened, he looked at Yang Rui and said, "Can we and Germany only move towards the final reconciliation like China and Japan?" ”

"It's hard, too." Yang Rui shook his head, "The hatred between China and Japan is not deep, not long after the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, China began to study Japan in an all-round way, many people went to Japan to study, and by the time of the Russo-Japanese War, the government and even public opinion were fully tilted towards Japan, and many people helped Japan to be hostile to Russia......

Listening to the Chinese in front of him say that China's position during the Russo-Japanese War was to help Japan hostile Russia, Puencaré's eyes couldn't help but blink. How did the Revival Society rise at the beginning, the political leaders of various countries are still relatively clear about the inside situation, and Yang Jingcheng is Yang Jingcheng. Or Yang Jingcheng is also Wen Side, everyone has their own opinions. Poincaré leaned towards the latter from a romantic point of view, but he shuddered at the thought that Revival would now refuse to help the Tsarist Russia, which had helped him.

The French were distracted, but the quality of politicians made his performance flawless, after Yang Rui finished speaking. He echoed regretfully: "Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, as you pointed out, this is indeed a difficult thing, so I have been wondering, can France and China strengthen cooperation? ”

"Strengthened cooperation? What kind of cooperation is it? Yang Rui could feel that the French were distracted just now, but it didn't matter, he wanted to know what the French were going to say.

"For example......" Poincaré seemed a little overwhelmed, and he switched angles. "In our judgment, the next stage of your country's work will be construction," he said with a smile: "I have heard that your country now has billions of pounds in foreign exchange, which will be invested in agriculture, education, railways, roads, water conservancy, and industrial infrastructure, which are France's strengths." I have to say that France and China are too similar, and the French economy is also based on agriculture. I think that the French engineers will definitely be able to build China into France in the Far East. ”

The French talked about Sino-French cooperation, which turned out to be economic cooperation, and Yang Rui did not refuse this. Not to mention that France also has some good things, just because she also uses the metric system. It is more applicable than the United Kingdom and the United States. "I fully agree, Mr. President, and it is a great honour to have the help of your engineers, but for historical reasons, some of the cooperation that has been interrupted by the war and Germany will continue......"

"Skilled Worker Program?" Poincaré laughed and said that France could not have been unaware of the fact that China had sent thousands of technicians to Germany for internships. "Mr. Prime Minister, our two countries can carry out a larger-scale technical cooperation program, and on behalf of the French industry, I welcome Chinese skilled workers to come to France for internships, and I can guarantee that." They will learn everything they expect.

The scale of international students in both countries can also be expanded, and although the economy is tight, I will still persuade the Congress to return the full amount of the reparations from the previous Beijing incident to your country in the name of sponsoring Chinese students. The French colonies will also be completely open to the diaspora of your country without discrimination, and even if your company is interested, you will be able to invest in the French colonies......"

The more the French talked about the benefits, the more and more they said, and before he could finish speaking, Yang Rui interrupted his gushing description of the prospects for Sino-French cooperation, and asked with some seriousness: "Mr. President, what do I have to pay?" ”

"Pay for what?" The French smiled even more, "Although the British have signed an alliance with your country, this does not prevent our two countries from forming a certain degree of good partnership, not only economically, educationally, but also militarily. ”

"If you really want to reach close cooperation in the military......" Yang Rui suddenly understood what Poencaré meant at this time, which was completely the meaning of hiring thugs.

Every Frenchman could feel that the war with the Germans was not over, and even if the Germans signed a treaty, it would only be a copy of the original Frankfurt Peace Treaty. This time France is bound to completely dismember Germany, but Britain, a-stirring stick that has always adhered to the policy of continental equilibrium, and Wilson, who has universal feelings, will not agree to this, so France needs a strong and reliable ally, this ally is best backward, with a large population, and it is best to be poor, but considering the reality faced by France after the war, even if there are German reparations, France does not have more money to invest abroad, so China, which has a lot of foreign exchange, is the best object of cooperation and alliance.

"I have to say, this was really unexpected!" Yang Rui would never refuse the olive branch of the French, and the hostility of the United States and the vigilance of Britain made him only wholeheartedly curry favor with Germany. Now that the French are showing goodwill, it is tantamount to saying that there is another way out, becoming a key source of technology, talent and industrial equipment; Moreover, there is no need to worry about cooperation with France, which can continue until Charles de Gaulle, and even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, because the next pattern of the world will be China uniting Europe, and the East and West forces against the North and South forces.

"Mr. President, this is a very ambitious idea, and it has a very solid foundation." Yang Rui was stunned for a while before he came back to his senses from the imagination of Sino-French cooperation. "Although... Although there is very little that has been done between us now, I can see a very long term and a bright future, really! It doesn't get much more beautiful than that. ”

Seeing that his proposal caused such a strong reaction from the Chinese, Puencaré laughed so hard that his mouth cracked to the back of his head, and he didn't want Yang Rui to praise it, but said: "But, Mr. President, I want to know what the people of your country think of the colony of Annam?" As far as our people are concerned, any enslavement of the yellow race, especially the history of Annan as a Chinese vassal state, makes them disagree with what your country has done in Annan in their hearts and hearts. Of course, this does not mean that our country will intervene in the affairs of your colony in Annam, which is impossible, and our country will never have a colony. ”

After the Chinese Revolution, many Indochinese nationalists gathered in Guangzhou and Beijing, hoping that China would help them restore their country in the same way that they helped North Korea. It can be said that what China did in Korea was a bad example for the nationalists of the colonies around the world, and although in the New Testament China promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of its colonies, the hope of the natives was not prevented by the treaty. The implications of China's rise for Asia are well known throughout Europe.

"France has very important commercial interests in Indochina, so we can't afford to lose her for a long time," Poincaré said, "but I can be sure that she will eventually go to autonomy." ”

"Is it like Ireland now?" Yang Rui couldn't help but laugh when he heard the French talk about autonomy.

"I know...... I understand that ...... in the long run, it will not belong to France, but just like Franco-German relations, everyone does not want another tragic war, but all we can do is to demand the dismemberment of Germany as much as we can to gain security. "I think the most painful thing about a leader is that he must not go against the will of the people, even if the country ends up in ruin."

Because of short-sightedness and vested interests, we had to stick to our previous colonial policy and insist on severely punishing Germany, which were irreversible. I admit that Indochina and the other colonies will eventually become independent of France in the foreseeable future, just as there will be a resumption of war between France and Germany, but until the French people realize that colonization is not a thing to do, all I can guarantee is that she will be allowed a degree of autonomy, and that God can only decide what it will be like in the future. I have always felt that the people are the puppets in the hands of God, and we are the instruments in the hands of the dolls. ”

"I can understand this predicament, but I have to remind that if war does break out again in Europe, then the colony of Indochina will be the only obstacle to our country's help to France, and the will of the people is not something that I, as prime minister, can prevent. To a certain extent, I think the Americans are more flexible in their tactics because they are less willing to carry the burden of ruling the colonies......"

"It's because the Americans have everything, they don't need much of a source of raw materials, they want a market for industrial goods. The reason why Wilson has been thinking about opening the door and has been denouncing the colonial strategy is because American goods can no longer be digested by the American market alone, and even the American market alone is not enough, and they need a larger market to release domestic industrial capacity. "Poengaret Road." What they are looking at now are the colonies and your country with a population of 400 million. But I don't know what the Americans think, don't they know the importance of your country? ”

Whether it is flattering or seeking truth from facts, Yang Rui did not comment on this, but said: "In line with the great goal of Sino-French cooperation, if Mr. President does not object, I hope that your two countries can hold deeper talks as soon as possible." (To be continued......)