It would have been sufficient for twenty hours to send a telegram from Beijing to London or Paris, and then from there back, but now that the French dignitaries were on their way to Bordeaux, the President and the Prime Minister could not immediately convene a meeting of dignitaries, but the instructions of the British and Americans were the first to arrive in Peking.

In a note to the Prime Minister's Office the next day, the two governments unanimously condemned the Chinese government's wanton expansion of the scope of the war, and at the same time considered Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Railway to be important international thoroughfares, and advised China to open the railway and hand Vladivostok to other countries to ensure the safety of local foreigners.

After listening to the British finish reading the note, Yang Rui sent them away, saying that "war is just only when it occurs on Chinese territory, and it is unjust if it occurs on enemy territory." On the afternoon of the next day, French Minister Immanuel Kant brought an ultimatum, which demanded that the squadron withdraw from the Russian Far East within 48 hours and resume peace talks with Russia, otherwise France would enter a state of war with China after 48 hours.

Kant read the ultimatum with a pale face, he was stunned by the domestic meaning when he received the order last night, and now declaring war with China is completely looking for death, the Indochina region is under the saber of the Baath Army, once the two countries declare war, those few poor colonial troops will not be leveled by the Chinese in a week, this is simply to give people a handle.

The French decision could not be conveyed to the Chinese minister in France in time, and could only be completed through the French minister in northern ≤ to complete this mission, Yang Rui and Xie Zhangtai, who heard the ultimatum, were a little surprised, in fact, they did not know how much panic the German army brought to the French dignitaries in the suburbs of Paris. President Raymond. When Poincaré received a telegram from the Tsar of Petersburg that he intended to transfer the main Russian forces to fight in the East, he immediately panicked, and the pace of Russian mobilization was already slow. After Tannenberg was ambushed by the Germans and lost elite troops, the Russian army wanted to put pressure on Germany on the Eastern Front again. It all depended on the personal efforts of the Tsar and even the entire Russian military leadership.

Now that the Tsar is in the east, it is estimated that when the next batch of Russian troops will arrive in East Prussia. France had long been occupied by Germany. In Angoulême, near Bordeaux, President Raymond. After rounds of discussions between Poincaré, Prime Minister Viviani, and other dignitaries from various ministries, the cabinet immediately made the decision to put strong pressure on China - the Indian side is important, but the loss of its ally Russia will be a disaster for France, and it is clear who is more important between the colonies and the mainland.

The French were accompanied by representatives of Britain and France, and after Kant read the ultimatum, the two countries added an admonition, that is, the first squadron could not set foot in Indochina. Once in Indochina, Britain and the United States will take the necessary measures against China to prevent the expansion of the war.

Seeing that a few of them sang the duet so energetically, Yang Rui stopped Xie Jintai, who was about to speak, and stood up and looked at the three well-dressed civilized people: "Gentlemen, is it possible that in your logic, it can only be your army that comes in, and the Chinese army is not allowed to fight out?" If that's the case, then don't repeat the note, everyone just the guy and fight. China is very poor now. But two million guns can still be scraped together. ”

Yang Rui was violent, Ma Mule and Rui Enshi immediately changed color, they fully understood that Yang Rui's words were true, even if Russia mobilized troops to the east. It is also impossible to exceed a million people, and there is no problem for China's remaining one million troops to go south and flood the entire South Seas and even India.

Rui Enshi doesn't know if the 'everyone' Yang Rui refers to includes the United States. As he was organizing the words, Yang Rui spoke again. "Originally, I just wanted to fight a good war with Japan and drive out the invaders. However, the Russians came suddenly, they thought that they could take advantage of the fire to rob Mongolia, but who knew that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army was tofu scum, and it would collapse at the first touch, and it was also his retribution for fighting to this day.

Well, since Russia is here, then I want to teach him a good lesson, so that the tsar will know how to behave in the future, but I never expected your country to come again. Is the situation in Europe so dangerous, and the German army so strong, that your country can only hope in Russia, so that you have to advance and retreat with him in the Far East? Mr. Kant, this is simply a mistake! Germany, a country that is not even self-sufficient in food, will eventually fail if it loses trade, no matter how strong it is, and France will eventually win as long as it persists, but, ......"

Yang Rui's position seems to have been on the side of the Entente, France is so critical, hearing him say 'France will win in the end as long as it persists', Kant's tears of excitement are about to fall.

"Mr. Kant, there is no need to wait forty-eight hours, I can reply to you now, and the demands on Russia and China will not change; As for your country, I understand your situation and sympathize with it. I think that even if the two countries are really at war, as long as our country's interests are not violated, the two sides can declare no war, but if the French ** team steps into our territory or launches an attack on our country, then you should not say anything about China taking advantage of the fire to rob and barbarize bandits. ”

It is commendable that Yang Rui can make such a concession, Rui Enshi looked at him and felt that the great man before was back, and he said after Yang Rui finished speaking: "If Mr. Prime Minister really sympathizes with Europe, then the Trans-Siberian Railway should be opened, and Vladivostok should be handed over to the joint management of various teams, so as to show that China is not on the side of the allies and is strictly conservative and neutral." ”

"Mr. Minister, China is a non-belligerent and not a neutral country." Yang Rui reminded. "The Outer Northeast is originally our territory, and there is no legal basis for it to be entrusted to the condominium of various countries, and the consuls of various countries in Vladivostok are sufficient to guarantee the safety of the expatriate. The Trans-Siberian Railway is a railway invested and built by Russia, and if Russia does not expand the war, China can appropriately allow materials to be transported to Russia through part of the railway under the jurisdiction of China. ”

One of the two requests in yesterday's note agreed, the other did not, and Reinsch and Mamuller, who understood that this was a reply, went back to report at the moment, while French Minister Kant realized that the Chinese's concession was already benevolent and righteous, and also bowed deeply and went back.

As soon as they left, Yang Rui threw the ultimatum in his hand on the table, and said with a regretful face: "It's a pity that I have such an opportunity!" ”

"Actually, the occupation of the Outer Northeast is the bottom line of all countries. Nanyang is a snake's nest, very close to the British and American colonies. If the Baath Army really wants to occupy Annam, Britain will immediately declare war. The U.S. will also immediately reverse the embargo, which is extremely detrimental to our current plan. The plan to deal with the declaration of war by Britain and France had already been discussed, Xie Jintai insisted that Nanyang could not be moved, and under his persuasion, Yang Rui, who was already half-hearted, agreed.

"It's still not strong!" No one wants to miss the opportunity, but they are looking at the strength of their hands and the current state of the country. Yang Rui had to agree with Xie Zhangtai's point of view. In fact, from the perspective of strategic interests, the occupation of Annam, Malaya, and the Philippines will not only not change China's strategic environment, but will intensify contradictions with other countries. Only the occupation of the Outer Northeast can completely remove the bear's claws from the top of his head, so that the remaining threat is only in the Western Regions.

"Prime Minister, a meeting has begun." Li Zilong, who was waiting on the side, saw that the time was almost up, and he was prompted at the moment.

"Good! I'll be there right away. Yang Rui replied.

Three years after the founding of the country, how to build the country has always been the focus of the work of the Prime Minister's Office and various ministries, and Yang Rui only laid out how to make a profit in the European war, but no matter how long the war lasts, it will eventually end. In a few years, it will be interesting to see how this country will be built. Now that the country has truly stabilized, before the land reform plan is announced, it is still necessary to reorganize the construction outline of the entire country to ensure that the work of the various ministries can cooperate with each other. When Yang Rui rushed to the side hall. Zhang Taiyan of the Ministry of Rites is giving a report on forging the national spirit and promoting oriental culture.

The ruling ideology is extremely important, and no country can flourish without spiritual inspiration. And when the citizens of a country think that the moon of a foreign country is rounder than its own, then the country is not far from its destruction. The Three Principles and Five Constants of Confucianism, the Heavenly Father of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the liberal democracy of the United States. The militarism of Prussia, the bushido of Japan, and later the Marxism of the Soviet Union, the racial superiority of the Nazis, the Juche ideology of the great and glorious Korea, and even the fundamentalism of the Taliban. There is a systematic set of theories that can subvert the audience's perception of the existing world, and then organize everyone. Or to put it more simply, to have faith! Only faith can dedicate oneself; Only by dedication can we be strong.

Zhang Taiyan's design obviously fails to comprehend this essence, and the ultimate point of an idea that can make the country rise is death, that is, it is glorious to die for faith, and it is shameful not to die for faith. But he was good, but he was the opposite, asking everyone to survive.

“…… The culture of the East is originally a natural culture, and the three outlines and five constants imprison the hearts of the people, and if we want to remove this imprisonment, we must advocate homogeneism. What is Qi is Qi, that is, 'Qi is not Qi is Qi', or in other words, it is 'let everything be uneven'......"

Zhang Taiyan's report was the most difficult to understand of all the books, Yang Rui listened to it for a while, and felt more and more that it was wrong, but he finally listened to him finish the report before questioning: "Uncle Mei, do you want to make the whole country become a monk and cultivate the Tao?" ”

'Purify the name', 'body non-formal' and 'rational sayings' are similar to Buddhist words, 'purify the name and appearance' means to break away from fame and fortune and get rid of utilitarian worldliness, and 'body and non-formality' means to break the ontology, what is the ontology? A qiē religious system is the ontology; The last 'famous saying' is not to think that there is a supreme rational being, which is somewhat similar to Heidegger's later 'everything is reasonable, and everything is good and beautiful'. Yang Rui agrees with these things in normal times, but if there is no absolute truth, then how can the central government and the great leader rule the country with all their words?

"It's a joke, what I advocate is to break down religion and return people to nature, how can I ask the whole country to become monks and cultivate the Tao." If it was someone else, Zhang Taiyan would have been angry, but in the face of Yang Rui, he still gave a step.

"I mean laughing." Yang Rui confessed, "But Uncle Mei, we are a centralized country, and homogeneism will make everyone work independently, and if they can't unite, they will be broken by the enemy one by one, and there are a lot of lessons like this." Only when everyone is united can we overcome the enemy. ”

"I know that the state is centralized, but no matter what kind of centralization is enslaving the people, most of the people in today's government are honest and dedicated to the country. How can we ensure that future generations will not be enslaved in the name of unity? I believe that only by removing the shackles of a qiē principle can a person truly become a human being, and only a real person can resist a tyranny. Zhang Taiyan said. He looked around, trying to find eye support, but this kind of discussion on the level of thought. Except for Qiu Jin's occasional interjection, the Shangshu waiters in the other departments basically only listened and didn't speak.

"We know that we have to make people real people. However, there are too few people who can do this. Yang Rui shook his head. Just as many people feel that the emperor is panicked and worried about their livelihoods, many scholars and students think that only by believing in a doctrine can they have strength and feel safe. In the past, there were many people who regarded Sun Wen's Three People's Doctrine as a treasure, and with the Revival Association, they regarded nationalism as a treasure.

Have you noticed that governing the country and educating people are fundamentally opposite concepts? Whether it is Confucianism or Sun Wen's Three People's Doctrine. Or the nationalism we advocated before, it is all cohesive people's hearts, and people's hearts cannot be dispersed, and if they are scattered, the country will not be easy to govern, and then it will ......"

"In fact, only those who are truly not bound ideologically are the true pillars of a nation. The reason for advocating homogeneism is to want to have more such people, and the national defense of a country is not in the central court. It's the human heart. Only when the people know how to resist foreign humiliation and defend the country can the country last for a long time, and only if the people are not fooled by the bureaucracy. Only then will the nation be strong. This is the same kind of nationalism that we advocated before. Zhang Taiyan retorted loudly, he fanned the fan, and finally said:

"At the end of the day. The question of whether to believe in the court or the people. To believe in the imperial court, there must be an idea that is convenient for centralization. unite for peace; And believing in the people, that is naturally to break the shackles of thought. Let people truly become human beings, and only when people become human beings can they understand dignity, resistance, and self-improvement. ”

Zhang Taiyan's speech was very inspiring, everyone applauded, Yang Rui could only keep shaking his head, this is a cabinet meeting, not an internal meeting, many things can not be said clearly, he waited for everyone to applaud for a while, and asked: "Uncle Mei, let me just say this, the Japanese take bushido as the foundation of governing the country, and the whole people are loyal to the emperor, which is the spiritual spirit of a small country like him; And what about us? What do we have? What do we believe? ”

"Japan has samurai, while China has chivalrous." Zhang Taiyan became more and more energetic the more he spoke, "The prince and the general, would you rather have a kind?" Thousands of years after the change of dynasties, the spirit of self-reliance and resistance of the Chinese people has completely defeated Japan, and this spirit can be the foundation of governing the country. Ladies and gentlemen, why are we revolutionary, is it really that we people can't live our lives? No! We are not accustomed to the mediocrity and slavery of the Manchu court, and we are not used to seeing the Manchu court lose power and humiliate the country, so we see the unevenness of the road and draw the sword for revolution, this is our revolutionary spirit, and it is also the reason why we throw our heads and blood for it, and dare to trample on a moral precept. If the 45,000,000 people in the country are all chivalrous warriors, towering China, who dares to commit it? ”

As soon as Zhang Taiyan's chivalrous words came out, everyone present laughed and applauded, and Yang Rui also had to admire his witty words, the real foundation of the revival meeting is the people of Zhejiang, and the reason why the elders in the meeting are revolutionary is indeed because of chivalry and righteousness. Yang Rui waited for everyone to finish laughing, and also smiled: "The whole country is a chivalrous man, how can the corrupt officials sleep." As soon as he said this, everyone laughed even more, and when the laughter was over, he said again: "Today is just a scene for everyone, and we will discuss it tomorrow and the next few days." ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, Yu Huizu, who presided over the meeting, said: "That's the case, the reports of all ministries have been reviewed today, and a comprehensive discussion will be made after all are over." The next one is ......" Yu Huizu is fifty years old, his eyes are a little glazed, and he immediately holds his glasses and looks at the book before saying, "The next one is the Ministry of Agriculture, Huanqing, it's your turn." ”

Tao Chengzhang had already prepared, and he coughed when he heard it: "My report is that agriculture is the mother of industry. The prime minister advocated the construction of an industrialized China, and the Ministry of Industry also made a lot of plans, and the 56 industrial projects cost a lot of money, but the purpose was still to take the European war as the direction, and once the European war ended, many of these factories would be shut down.

In the morning, Mr. Hua Feng's report planned many factories, and after listening to it, I was only worried about one thing, that is, who will sell the things made by these factories? Each country has colonies, and each colony is an unequal market in which the overlord sells industrial products at high prices and buys agricultural products at low prices, and unless our country can build factories like diesel engines, which are the only ones in the world like diesel engines, these factories will eventually close down......."

Tao Chengzhang has always been strong, he opposed the industrialization plan proposed by Xu Huafeng in the morning as the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, but Xu Huafeng's report was repeatedly discussed with Yang Rui, Tao Chengzhang did not understand industry and wanted to oppose industry, Yang Rui and Xu Huafeng laughed, but his report was still somewhat interesting after hearing it, although he did not understand industry, but he understood agriculture.

“…… Taking the United States as an example, the United States has the most developed industry in the world, but why is the industry of the United States developed? The root cause of this is the development of agriculture. Since the American Civil War, agriculture as the leading industry has triggered and driven the emergence and development of industry, and the forward-related industries of agriculture, such as the food industry, the textile industry, the leather industry, and the footwear industry, have accounted for more than half of the entire industrial output value for a long time, and the backward related industries of agriculture have directly stimulated and nurtured the development of the steel and automobile industries.

Taking the automobile industry as an example, the CIA's survey believes that more than seventy percent of the buyers of American cars are farmers, which is why Ford set the price of cars below 1,000 yuan, because farmers are price sensitive; In European countries, no car company will set the price of a car below 2,000 yuan, because it is the exclusive property of the rich, and there are still very few people who buy the car at a low price. The CIA's investigation found that the reason why American farmers are willing to spend money to buy cars is that they can not only drive into the city and travel long distances, but also use it as a source of motivation for mobility, and second, farmers can use cars to drag agricultural products to the market to sell them to avoid exploitation by middlemen.

It can be seen that agriculture is a prerequisite for industrial development. Only with developed agriculture can there be low-priced, low-quantity and sufficient cotton, and only then can there be a prosperous cotton spinning industry; Only with developed agriculture can there be low-priced, low-quantity and sufficient grain, and only then can there be a prosperous food industry; Only with developed agriculture can there be agricultural machinery industry and chemical industry that serve agriculture, and only then can steel and chemistry develop. It can be said that, except for mining, all industries are derivative industries of agriculture, and only the development of agriculture can lead to industrial prosperity.

After all, China's situation is different from that of the United States, which has fewer people in the land and more people in China, and judging from the situation inspected last year, China is not suitable for the development model of American agriculture, but is suitable for the development model of agriculture in France, Japan, and Italy. In other words, American agriculture is actually agricultural mechanization, farmers can harvest more as long as they plant widely, the real key is how to be able to multitude, China's tractors are very popular in the United States, with annual sales of tens of thousands of units, in addition to the lowest cost of diesel engines, more importantly, because the use of tractors can increase the cultivated area;

In countries such as France, it is rare to see large tractors when you go. Yes, there are only small-scale agricultural implements, and farmers in these countries can only find ways to increase their incomes by developing crop rotation and making full use of the land. In this regard, I call it the chemical of agriculture, and the use and popularization of chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides is the basis for increasing income. After the end of the European War, all the synthetic ammonia explosives factories built in China were converted into ammonia fertilizer factories, and they were promoted in more than 400 provinces across the country to increase land fertility and help farmers increase their income; In the first generation of highly toxic agriculture, in addition to promoting the use of non-food crops, edible crops can also be used under supervision as appropriate. In addition, hybrid rice should be increased to achieve initial success within 10 years, so as to increase the yield per mu of rice to ......"

Tao Chengzhang led a team to go abroad to inspect various countries last year, and the domestic agriculture in the first two years also had a thorough view, so he had a complete idea of how to revitalize agriculture, but his speech involved industry, although it was an example of the industrialization path of the United States, but there are still enlightenments for China's industrialization.

There are only two ways of industrialization that Yang Rui knows, one is the Sigong model, and the other is the Deng Gong model; The Soviet Union only started its five-year plan in 1926, and it took only 14 years until World War II. China can take this road, but Yang Rui feels that it is not necessary, he believes that China has twice as much time as the Soviet Union, and at the same time, World War I can get war dividends, coupled with high-tech road guidance, the development of World War II is also extremely considerable.

And the Deng Gong model is simply impossible in this era. The reopening is that the factory is in China and the market is in a foreign country, but now the reopening will only be the factory in China, and the market is also in China, so why bother inviting foreigners to earn money from Chinese? Therefore, after the signing of the new treaty with Japan, the concession of foreigners to set up factories in China in the Treaty of Shimonoseki was abolished with immediate effect, which was regarded as tightening the fence. (To be continued......)