Yang Rui clamored for all Westernized elements to plant sea roots, and at No. 3 Dongdan Street in Beijing, the headquarters of the Jingshi YMCA, the cornerstone of this gate was engraved with the motto of the YMCA of 'Not to serve people, but to serve people'.

Speaking in the center is Xu Baoqian, director general of the Beijing Normal Youth Association, who is admonishing the precautions for tomorrow's anti-hunger, anti-war and anti-persecution march. In fact, the "anti-persecution" refers to the persecution of Christians by the government, Trinity, clans, and all walks of life - for more than 20 years, the number of Christians has fallen to the bottom, with only 70,000 to 80,000 people struggling, and the number of Catholics has dropped to 160,000, although they are not deliberately targeted, and these Christians are either in the old dioceses of more than 50 years or more than 100 years, or only in the cities. This means that with the exception of the coastal zone, the rural Catholics are largely extinct throughout the country.

In the past, in order not to arouse the resentment of the Chinese people, Christianity did not dare to organize meetings and activities in an open and honest manner, but now it is its own people who are in power, and I hope that President Roosevelt will openly emphasize the need to guarantee 'the freedom to believe in God anywhere, in any person, in any way.' In this way, they dare to stand up and march to complain.

“…… That's it. Xu Baoqian said. Disillusioned with the revolution, this early member of the League quickly threw himself into the arms of God, and because of his outstanding performance, he won the opportunity to study religious education in the United States, Columbia University. He then emphasized: "Remember, the procession must be civilized, and the world must know that Christians are not as terrible as some people say. ”

The meeting lasted half an hour. It is just a notice from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Yenching University. After Xu Baoqian finished speaking, when more than a dozen people were going to leave after the meeting was dismissed, Yu Rizhang, who was sitting next to Xu Baoqian, said: "There is one more point. Be sure to avoid ponds. ”

Yu Rizhang is a veteran leader of the YMCA and an executive member of the Pacific Institute of International Studies. In history, he was ****** witness to Song Meiling's marriage, and his words were much more important than Xu Baoqian. The participants were still a little stunned when they heard about Jishuitan, but when they thought of the former Qing Debeizi Mansion - the General Staff of the Great China State to the south of Jishuitan, they nodded silently.

After everyone left, Xu Baoqian asked, "Sir, this is ......, will something happen if it is difficult?" ”

"Liuji, ah......" Yu Rizhang said, "Over the years, there have been fewer and fewer parishioners, and if you don't do something, it won't work." We are not unpatriotic. Just don't want to love a specialized. system of the country. After the new cabinet came to power, the whole country was in a new mood, and it was time to do something, and if it didn't, it would have to go back to the old ways. ”

Yu Rizhang said these words lightly, his face full of sadness. He was still thinking about the words of the Sabbath pastor during his sermon in the school church yesterday: 'I don't love China, so you are not allowed to associate with other students...... I want you to obey us and love our America as much as I do.'" [Note 169: Christianity and Modern Education in China, p116.] A number of sources record that this statement was said by Pastor Mei of Wuzhou Jiandao School in Guangxi. Of course, this kind of rhetoric is much more radical than the former president of Yan University, Situ Leiden, who said 'I love China, I also love the United States.' But in the current situation, if the progressive forces do not suppress the dictatorship. Suppress the forces, and they will inevitably be attacked by them - if China and the United States go to war, the Catholics will be fine. Christians, especially the YMCA and the Pacific International Society, will inevitably be punished and even slaughtered by the corrupt forces.

"May God bless all beings." Yu Rizhang spat out this sentence and left the YMCA headquarters.

Early the next morning. The 'patriotic' students who had once again arrived from Tianjin crowded the streets and alleys of Beijing, and no one knew where these students came from. Only the officials of the Ministry of Transport know best. In order to transport these students to Beijing overnight, the railway and highway passenger transport in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou area were all stopped. In the case of still not enough, the trucks of Kaishen Logistics also pulled the students from the highway to the capital in the dark, and the traffic police, who had already been ordered, had no choice but to let the trucks go.

"Why are there so many people?!" As soon as Premier Weng Wenhao arrived at the Wenhua Hall in the morning, he called Yenching University, the headquarters of the march, and it was Lu Zhiwei who answered the phone, not Hu Shih. "I ask you how you have such a student?!" Weng Wenhao said in an angry manner, but he didn't know if it was a phone failure or something else, and the phone had been disconnected when he spoke again.

'Horn', the phone was slammed to the landline, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "What the hell is going on?!" It is said that there are only a few thousand people, how can tens of thousands of people come now! What does he want to do? Rebellion! ”

"Prime Minister ......," Wu Jingchao was sluggish, and even fools could see that Weng Wenhao was angry.

"Prime Minister's fart!" Weng Wenhao scolded himself, and he turned to glare at Wu Jingchao, "What are you going to do?!" ”

The men are brothers, and the women are sisters. Although Weng Wenhao knew that the people below him were all gangs, he couldn't do anything about them, except for the revival society's 'Tridac Power Generation Scandal', it was all because of the support of these people. It's nothing, everyone is committed to peace and progress, but today's chaos is obviously unacceptable to Weng Wenhao.

"Prime Minister ......" Wu Jingchao thought for a while before saying: "We are now sailing against the current, and if we don't advance, we will retreat." Although the power of the Revival Society has been curbed in the Inspectorate, the military world is still covering the sky with one hand. If they can't be contained in the military circles, then the war will have to start sooner or later. Especially now, when the United States and Japan are in conflict in the Pacific, maybe Japan will declare war tomorrow, and as soon as Japan declares war, they will want you to declare war in accordance with the treaty......"

"But tomorrow, isn't it going to pass a motion and withdraw from the East Asia Alliance?" Weng Wenhao jumped to his feet and shouted, it seemed that he was going crazy.

"Prime Minister, but that's not enough." Wu Jingchao looked at Weng Wenhao, who was jumping up and down like a monkey, and became more and more calm. "Peace can only be guaranteed if the chief of the General Staff is replaced."

"You guys! You guys! Weng Wenhao seemed to feel something, and he said, "What are you going to do?!" ”

"Prime Minister, we just want Admiral Seo Kyung-hee to resign on his own initiative." Wu Jingchao finally said the true purpose of the march.

Before the words fell, Weng Wenhao's face was dead. He shook a few times before saying, "You ......, who will we send to take over?" ”

"Admiral Duan Zhiquan was admitted to the hospital last year with stomach problems. Didn't you be discharged from the hospital after surgery? Wu Jingchao said euphemistically, he was very smart not to mention others. only mention Duan Qirui, who was born in Beiyang and made a name for himself in the first European game in France. "If he comes out to preside over the overall situation, then no one in the army should be dissatisfied, right? In addition, if it does not work, a code can be added to the title of chief of the general staff, indicating that after a few years, when the threat is lifted, the position of chief of the general staff will still be returned to the Renaissance Association. ”

"Then why don't you ......," Weng Wenhao was stunned again when he said this. Duan Qirui came out to preside over the General Staff, everyone discussed, but at that time Qirui had not been discharged from the hospital, of course, the matter was not easy to mention, at that time, many people also said that he might not survive this hurdle, and the Ministry of Rites secretly prepared for the state funeral. Now that he has been discharged from the hospital, it is not good to mention the matter of changing the chief of the General Staff. After all, there has never been such a convention. If we really want to talk about Xu Jingxi's dismissal, maybe there will be a Chinese version of the 'May 15 Incident' -- the Chinese Youth Association, the Greater China Veterans Federation, the Great China Samurai Association, and the Greater East Asia ......Association, which were transformed from the Revival YMCA, and these fanatical militants are very critical of the policies of the new cabinet, so it is better to let Xu Jingxi take the initiative to resign.

Weng Wenhao thought that the hawkish Admiral Xu Jingxi took the initiative to resign, but Xu Jingxi was reading Zhou Sixi's letter. Zhou Sixu went to Pyongyang, but a copy of the minutes of the meeting was escorted back by his subordinates, so that he could know the content of the meeting as soon as possible.

glanced at Lin Yurong, who was recommended by Zhou Sixu, and Xu Jingxi, who had finished reading the letter, stared at him and asked, "Boy, do you want to go down the army?" ”

Lin Yurong was looked at by Xu Jingxi, and his whole body stood upright. He was worried that his riding boots had not been cleaned, even though he had wiped them twice before coming. "Report to the general, the subordinate just wants to go to the front line to be a company commander and kill the enemy and defend the country!" He said loudly.

Lin Yurong's resume, Zhou Sixu, has been explained in the letter. Graduated from the 30th class of the Infantry Department of the Beijing Non-commissioned Officer School; Graduated from the 28th class of the Heavy Duty Department of the Army University. The grades are extremely excellent, and the military rank is barely enough to be a regiment commander, but the problem is professionalism. He is a professional counterpart in the general rear, and it is a bit nondescript to be transferred to the front-line troops to lead troops to fight.

"Let's go to the 3rd Armored Teaching School to learn how to be a company commander first." Xu Jingxi said with a frown. He didn't want to arrange it. can think of Zhou Sixu's mention in the letter that this person was named by Yang Rui to enter the armor instructor, and he had to endure the principle and make an exception to agree. "But if you're not qualified. Then go back to the total queen! He had an unwilling warning.

"Yes, General!" When Lin Yurong heard that he was going to teach the instructor in armor, he was all excited, and his answer was almost shouting, which provoked the staff officers outside the office to look at him.

"Let's get out." Xu Jingxi glanced at him differently - thin as a monkey, but he didn't expect the voice to be so loud.

After sending Lin Yurong away, Xu Jingxi opened the minutes of the 'June 1st Conference', which was later called the fate of the world by world historians. Without reading two pages, he got up and walked to the map of North America to compare, and at the same time used a pencil to draw on the five oil-producing regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the Gulf of Mexico, the Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas, and California.

Indeed, as long as the Peng-type long-range bomber can knock out the last three oil-producing areas, the output of the remaining two oil-producing areas of 25 million tons will not allow the United States to support both the army and the navy, not to mention that domestic industry and people's livelihood also need oil. But that's not enough. Xu Jingxi pulled out a map of the distribution of coal resources in the United States from the North American mineral resources map folder. Along with oil, there are five major mines for coal, and the three largest of them are just east of the Mississippi River.

The Germans have the technology to convert coal into oil, and China also has it -- Baotou, the last industrial base, lacks oil, and in order to ensure military supplies, in addition to strategic reserves, it is necessary to convert coal into oil. It is conceivable that at a real crisis juncture, it is impossible for the Americans to produce oil without using coal-to-oil technology. Although the performance of the aviation fuel is not good, it is qualified to be used as oil for industrial and military vehicles.

Oil is not as important as it was said at the conference, and to fight a land war, with American manpower, even if 12 million blacks and Canadians are offset, 12 million soldiers should be raised. In the local war, the number of combat troops is about 7.2 million based on the ratio of six to four after the war. If the Navy had given up, the Army would have fought more than six million. Referring to the proportion of transoceanic operations in the last European war, the size of the army will reach an astonishing 15 million, and may even reach 20 million.

Although China, Japan and North Korea have a population of 700 million. In addition, the quota of naval and air force personnel is less than 5% of the population, but how can such a huge army be managed? And military spending. Five billion is certainly not enough, at least two billion per year is needed.

Xu Jingxi thought about the sudden change. It's very dignified. He didn't know how much the arms quotation in the military factory could be reduced, and how low the purchase price would be if he didn't take into account the three-year depreciation and the large-scale production of millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. There is also the most troublesome US Air Force (Army Airlines), for a country with an annual production of 5 million cars, the production of combat aircraft should be counted in 100,000......

While pondering, a page of documents suddenly fell out of the North American mineral resources map folder he was holding, and Xu Jingxi glanced at it hastily. After a pause and hesitation, I put it back - this is the distribution map of North American non-ferrous metals, like 'deadly' oil, most of the non-ferrous metals in North America are distributed in the west, that is, in the Rocky Mountains, mainly in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, and Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana on the border with Mexico. This is a belt of non-ferrous metals, and if the Army lands in California, then long-range bombers will naturally be able to bomb these mines.

But this is not fatal, the world's production of more than a million tons of copper, zinc, and lead is a necessity for war. But Canada also has these three metals, and although the production is less than half that of the United States, who can guarantee that no new mines will be discovered in wartime? There is also manganese, which is said to be necessary for steelmaking. However, it is said that the deoxidation effect can also be achieved with aluminum, but the quality of steel will be greatly reduced. On the contrary, chromium is more deadly, and it is needless to say that chromium is used in the military. If there is a lack of chromium, there will be no qualified guns, qualified knives, and qualified bearings.

Thinking about the importance of chromium, Xu Jingxi, who was putting the document back in the folder, suddenly swept something. But he didn't react until the file was put back. So he pulled out the file again, and then stared at Arkansas, above Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. It was only after half a ring that he was a little scrambling to find the compass. It took three measurements to determine that it was only 1,700 kilometers from Cuba, which was completely within the bombing radius of the Peng bombers.

Is it really such a coincidence? In disbelief, he carefully scanned the entire mineral resource map and determined that there was only one mining area in the entire North American continent; Finally, he looked at the date again and saw that it was updated at the end of last year. Finally, he became agitated and stabbed his pencil in central Arkansas. Fate! Americans' life! Yes, there is!!

*

On Deshengmen Street, countless students held banners and slogans. One of them, a young voice, shouted, "We want to eat!" Immediately, a group of voices responded: "We want to eat!" "We want peace!" The voice in front said again. Immediately after, more people shouted: "We want peace!" "We want to be free!" "We want to be free!!"

"Students, this is the General Staff, we want them to hear... Our voice, we need to be louder! The leader's voice shouted. However, his words were too long, and he couldn't catch up in one breath and stopped for a while before shouting. But that was enough, and the students who had already arranged it all screamed, and a flock of pigeons that landed on the ridge of the roof were suddenly frightened and flew in an uproar.

Although the Taiwei Mansion is in the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City, it is obvious that there can't be a random antenna and a hole in the ground, so although there is a nominal office there, the General Staff is still in the former Qing Debeizi Mansion by the pond. The new cabinet is not in line with Xu Jingxi's taste, so he basically does not go to Wuyingdian except for the third day of every month.

At this time, the procession went from the Desheng Bridge on Deshengmen Street to turn left, walked through Tofu Lane and Gaomiao, and the south side of the road was the General Staff. The procession suddenly filled the small triangular square between the General Staff and the pond, and the students in the front row even clinged to the bayonets of the guards on the inside of the cordon. But the leading student who had beaten the chicken blood was undaunted, he turned to look at the somewhat dazed students, and shouted again with a telegraph, "Students, this is the stronghold of the militants, they just want to destroy the peace." We want to petition even more! We have to protest even more! Students, shout to me: Fight to war! ”

"Fight to war!" There were many brave people, and after the leading students shouted, a group of students involuntarily shouted.

"Defend the peace!" The leading voice shouted again.

"Defend the peace!" This time, the voice was neat, and then the student shouted slogans repeatedly, like a gramophone.

Between the shouts of the crowd, a piece of white cloth of more than 30 meters was torn out by several students, and the leading student bit his index finger without any reason, and began to write blood on the white cloth, and then, the most exciting scene appeared: the student next to him pulled out a dagger, and he took it and cut off the tail finger of his left hand without saying a word.

Holding his fingers and holding his bloody left hand, the leading student shouted with a pale face: "Students, we want Xu Jingxi, who has destroyed the peace, to resign!" ”

"Good!" Perhaps stimulated by the blood, a group of students were even more excited than just now, they bit their index fingers to go up to write blood on the white cloth, and some of them were even more fierce to learn to cut their fingers like the leading students, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Xu Jingxi, who was asked to resign, was asking his staff officers to check the distribution map of North American mineral resources just now, and he was immersed in the joy of finding the American's life, and he didn't know that a farce was being staged at the door.

"What's going on?" Xu Jingxi held one hand on the purple sand teapot and asked his adjutant.

"General, there are students petitioning outside." The adjutant was very cramped to report, he had been in for a day, but seeing that Xu Jingxi was busy, he didn't dare to disturb, and the shouting outside was not easy to report.

"Student petitions? Running here to petition? Hehe. Xu Jingxi didn't know why, but it was a little funny. If you have a grievance, you should go to Zhonghua Gate or Tingwei's Mansion, or go to the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Inspectorate Yuan, what are you doing here, you should find the wrong door. As he spoke, the shouting outside intensified, and finally, through the half-open window, he finally heard the group of students shouting.

"Presumptuous!" Xu Jingxi was furious. Calling him the name of the founding father of the country is not to mention it, and to say that his official position is something that a group of students can blame. If students don't like whoever they want to step down, then the world will not be lawless. "Call the patrol and get rid of all these people!" Xu Jingxi said.

"General, after the ......fight," the adjutant said with some gloom, "the whole team familiar with the Beijing Division Patrol Police Department has been sent to Shanghai for a meeting." The rest of the people are procrastinating, pushing, and hindering, and none of them can be the master. ”

"Then the Praetorian Guard ......," Xu Jingxi couldn't go on. At this time, the commander of the Praetorian Guard was not Wu Peifu before, but Wen Yingxing, who graduated from West Point Military Academy. "Pass the order, don't let the students rush in." Xu Jingxi remembered the incident of storming the Prime Minister's Office more than ten years ago, and ordered it at the moment, and then said: "Close the window when you go out." ”

China is a country with a legal system, and although the shouting is noisy, it is useless to call the police, so Xu Jingxi has no choice but to close the window and endure it, but the officer on duty at the entrance of the General Staff Department cannot remain indifferent. After receiving the order from inside, the soldiers of a company suddenly moved the rejection horse out to prevent the students from storming in. The students shouting the slogan were originally surprised to see more than 100 soldiers suddenly rushing out of the General Staff, but when they saw that these big-headed soldiers were just moving away their horses and setting up obstacles, they became emboldened again, and their shouts became even more intense for a while.

"We want to see Xu Jingxi!" After shouting for half an hour, the student who took the lead saw that everyone was a little tired and had to create some more topics. He shouted to the officer on duty inside through the barbed wire fence of the Juma River.

The officer on duty was a short, bespectacled Major Sven. If you walk in and look at the name tag on his military uniform, you will definitely see the word 'Liao Yaoxiang'. It's just that the two sides are separated by barbed wire, and the leading students can't see clearly at all. However, this kind of Qiu Ba has always been the object of contempt for those who advocate freedom, and even if he can see it clearly, he will not shout.

Liao Roller is a native of Hunan, as in history, after graduating from middle school, it was not his wish to go to university, so he applied for the military academy. Among the 200,000 candidates, he ranked thirteenth, but when he took the retest, he was transferred from the infantry section to the newly established armored force section. The Hunan stubborn mule who didn't know what was going on went to the principal's office with the admission notice to ask, and the principal Yang Guobi had to show him a warrant: "Liao Yaoxiang has undergone a special assessment by the Ministry of Officials, and it is appropriate to transfer to the armored army department to study." It did. May 24. ’

Seeing the final payment Liao Roller's head simply exploded, if others he thought it was a prank, but Yang Guobi obviously smiled - he was not the first student to be deployed like this. After that, Liao Yaoxiang worked hard and graduated only after Qiu Qingquan. This return to Beijing to become the duty officer of the General Staff is also to lay a foundation for the future, after all, you must get acquainted with the people of the General Staff before you can be promoted.

"Housheng, don't make trouble, Admiral Xu won't see you." As soon as Liao Roller opened his mouth, he was in Hunan dialect, just like his fellow villager Peng Datou. (To be continued.) )