The sun never sets

The United States has strong industrial strength, and Germany has some advanced technology. If these two countries hook up, the whole world will change. Lin Yongchang said that he wanted to form a "China, the United States, and Germany" tripartite alliance, but he didn't expect it to really work. Wang Shi is really not strong enough, and it's just overthinking to want Wang Shi to take the lead. The reason why he did it even though he knew it wouldn't succeed is that it belongs to the category of diplomacy.

The British were really disgusting some time ago. They were the kind of people who took advantage of others and also tried to deceive them. They were still supporting the people's government in the war against Tsarist Russia, while they were trying to sow discord and divide the country.

This is not the main point. The main point is that after freeing up their hands, the British turned their attention back to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

And their reasons are very good. The People's Army is so brutal. What if they rush into India from the plateau? In order to protect India's security, they must occupy Lhasa and establish a buffer state between China and Tibet. Isn't that what the Tibetan army did?

But this reason seems to be insufficient for Marshal Lin. He must be crazy to attack India via the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Even if he really wanted to attack India, he would definitely go through Southeast Asia or directly use sea transportation!

Chapter 245 Japanese Traitors

Princess Olga now lives with Wuyun Qiqige and Guan Xiaotong. Sometimes Lin Yongchang comes over, and then the three or four of them get together. Wuyun Qiqige is still young, so Lin Yongchang didn't come in. The little girl saw it a lot, and sometimes she was very curious and would bite it.

But he only came here when he wanted to relax and adjust his life. Most of the time, he was busy dealing with various things. Qinghai-Tibet, Western Regions and Mongolia were in a semi-autonomous state, so there were not many things to manage. In other places, the people's government really had to worry about everything, no matter how big or small.

If you do well, the people will see it. If you do poorly, the people will also see it.

Fortunately, the People's Party has done a good job so far. Not only has it defeated foreign enemies, but it has also done a good job in improving people's livelihood. The living standards of some people have been greatly improved, especially around factory areas and along railways. There are still some people whose lives are no different from before, and there is no way to deal with them for the time being. Even in the 21st century, the people living in the mountains are still in poverty.

In that environment, the output was so little that it was very difficult to get rid of poverty. Apart from relocating people to the plains, the only option was to spend a lot of money to build a road all the way there. But some people lived on the mountain that was almost straight up and down, and even Zhan Tianyou would be worried.

In general, the people support the work of the government, believe that the people's government has done a lot of practical things, and are enthusiastic about conscription and grain collection, and are actively signing up. From top to bottom, the majority of the people's party, not all of them, still insist on "seeking truth from facts". It is natural that they have made some achievements and are supported by the people.

Of course, part of the reason is that the previous court’s lower limit was too low. As long as they did a little better, it would be progress.

But in Lin Yongchang's view, what he has done is far from enough, and the results he has achieved are only a little bit. There is still a long way to go. At the end of the year, comrades in the People's Party will cheer for the fact that more than 3,000 miles of railways have been built this year, 50,000 tons of steel have been produced, and hundreds of millions of kilograms of grain have been harvested. However, Chairman Lin is always humble.

Marshal Lin said at the People's Party's internal summary meeting: "We must realize that China is still a poor and backward agricultural country. Development has just started and it is far from time to stop and rest. The country has not yet been unified, and the Russian army is still on Chinese territory. These are huge threats. Comrades, please be aware of this........."

However, those who deserve praise should be praised, and those who deserve promotion should be promoted. After talking about the problems and difficulties faced, Lin Yongchang began to praise the outstanding workers in various industries this year, most of whom were front-line workers and farmers. Lin Yongchang, Wang Qi, and the heads of various departments personally went on stage to present certificates and medals to the recipients to express their gratitude for their contributions to the country and the people in the past year.

Those outstanding workers had never seen such a big scene before. There were thousands of people in the Great Hall. Except for Lin Yongchang, almost everyone else had to speak with a loudspeaker. It was not easy to behave normally in front of so many people. Those who had never experienced such a thing would often be at a loss.

When they went on stage to receive the awards, many people were trembling all over, their hands and feet were shaking, but it was not because of fear, but excitement. Lin Yongchang showed his most friendly smile and shook hands with everyone enthusiastically. After everyone from a certain industry went up, Lin Yongchang took the lead in applauding, and the representatives of the People's Party members below also applauded.

The applause in the grand hall was like thunder, and the hot atmosphere seemed to melt everyone. Yang Du sat below, clapping and observing. He observed the people on and off the stage, and saw how excited they were, especially those who were being commended. I'm afraid they would be willing to die for Chairman Lin.

Thinking of this, Yang Du couldn't help but laugh. If Marshal Lin knew what he was thinking, he would definitely say that he was not conscious enough and needed to learn more. But from Yang Du's observation, what Chairman Lin said and what he did were not the same. Lin Yongchang kept saying that we should trust the people and our comrades, but he shot many people and sent more than 100,000 people to the Western Regions.

Although most of the killings were ordered by Premier Wang, was it possible without Chairman Lin’s permission?

It seems that Marshal Lin has a benchmark in his heart, and he usually demands himself according to that benchmark, but when it comes to critical moments, or when he needs to make an important decision, Marshal Lin will put aside all scruples and constraints and choose the most favorable option. Yang Du saw the inconsistency of Marshal Lin, but he did not want to leave because of it. Instead, he became more determined in his previous thoughts.

What China needs now is not

When he read the history of the late Ming Dynasty, he often sighed that God did not bless China, and regretted that there were no heroes like Cao Cao and Zhu Wen among the Han people. Li Dingguo was loyal and brave, but for the whole of China, it would be a good thing if Li Dingguo had more ambitions.

He has learned the "dragon slaying technique", and although he has now learned another set of theories and systems, he still subconsciously uses what he learned before when observing, researching and judging.

Mr. Lu Xun once commented on "Dream of the Red Chamber" in this way, saying that "Confucian scholars see the Book of Changes, Taoists see lewdness, talented people see lingering love, revolutionaries see the expulsion of the Manchus, and gossipers see the secret affairs of the imperial court." Shakespeare in the West also said, "For every thousand audiences, there are a thousand Hamlets."

The same thing has different meanings in the eyes of different people. Just like the awarding of certificates and medals to outstanding workers, Yang Du saw Lin Yongchang's superb skills in bewitching and agitating people, Wu Tingfang saw the people's government's inclination towards the grassroots people in terms of policies and laws, Chen Tianhua, Wang Hai, Yan Shutang, Qiu Jin, Lin Heier, Funakoshi Fumio and others saw the same situation, but their feelings were also different.

Why can a Japanese also attend the summary meeting of the People's Party? Because Fumio Funakoshi is a member of the People's Party. Not only Fumio Funakoshi, many Japanese joined the People's Party, especially those members of the Fifth Division who stayed in China. They did not go back to China because they could eat enough. Many of them later brought their families over.

It is not easy to make a living in a foreign country. In order to blend into the surrounding social environment, some people gave themselves Chinese names and claimed to be descendants of Chinese who drifted to Japan in the late Ming Dynasty or at any time. Some people actively joined the People's Party and became glorious members of the People's Party.

Many people did both, changing their names and actively joining the People's Party. Of course, there are still some people who can stick to their national characteristics. They joined the People's Party and continued to use Japanese names. However, these people generally strongly demanded that the People's Army liberate the Japanese archipelago, and they are often called Japanese traitors in the Japanese folks.........

Chapter 246 Review

Bang! Soon, 1902 passed, amid the "bang bang bang" sound of firecrackers and the "bang bang bang" sound of applause.

Looking back over the past year, a lot of big things happened. The British finally finished the Boer War, and their overall strategy began to turn conservative, but even in this situation, they still couldn't forget the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then the "China, America, Germany and Austria" alliance was born. Unfortunately, the king's army was not strong enough, and the alliance failed.

The Russians worked hard to find food for themselves in the Northeast, and they were very close to Japan for a while, as if Japan and Russia were going to join hands to fight against China. However, the Russians were greedy, and the Japanese were calculating and liked to take advantage of small things, so the two sides could not come to an agreement after all. The contradictions between Japan and Russia were irreconcilable, and there was no possibility of them sitting together.

The breakdown of the Russo-Japanese alliance was also due to factors from Britain and the United States. The United States could not tolerate an alliance between Russia and Japan, as that would threaten Hawaii and even the entire West Coast. Britain also could not tolerate an alliance between Japan and Russia. Britain invested a lot of money in Japan and wanted to raise a ferocious watchdog by supporting Japan.

If a guard dog runs off to cling to someone else's thigh, what's the point of keeping it? Maybe you'll have to kill it and stew it for meat.

The British had released two vicious dogs in the Far East, but one of them said it didn't want to be a dog anymore and jumped onto the table, making the gentlemen of the British Empire itch with hatred. The Chinese were really unkind, taking British aid (which they didn't have) and then turning against Britain in Qinghai-Tibet.

The Japanese saw that the Chinese could not treat the British Empire well, so they also wanted to try. The British pulled the dog chain, and the Japanese government became obedient again. Japan is different from China. Marshal Lin could be ruthless and build factories in the mountains and rivers of Shanxi Province. Where could the Japanese run?

Japan is surrounded by the sea, and the British army can land anywhere at any time. They don't even need to land. As long as they cut off Japan's shipping lanes, they will starve to death. So after the Japanese jumped twice, under the threat of the British, they dared not jump again, and they still behaved honestly and concentrated on being a good fighter.

Then Japan proposed to Britain to form an alliance. If the "Japan-UK Alliance" could be reached, then Japan's security would be guaranteed. The Japanese Prime Minister and the night raid group: ⑥九④⑨,３⑥①三五 diplomats said a lot of reasons and good words, roughly meaning: being a dog of the British father is the happiest thing in the world.

With the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the direction of Korea would be restrained. It was just restrained, not completely cut off. With the greed of the Russians for land, even if Japan and Britain formed an alliance, they could not stop their ambitions.

Public opinion in Japan changed drastically, from an alliance with Russia to an alliance with Britain. The "Long Live the Tsar" banners hanging on the streets were taken down and replaced with "Long Live Edward". Banners such as "Japan-Russia Friendship" and "Long Live the Tsar" were not burned but stored in warehouses. Now it's "Long Live Edward VII", and who knows if the wind will change again one day?

Japan is now in chaos, with all kinds of voices, such as alliance with Russia, alliance with Britain, joining the United States, leaving Asia and joining Europe, letting the Chinese liberate Japan... There are all kinds of plans, but the main idea is only one: find a thick thigh to hug.

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Foreign policies change three times a day, but domestic policies cannot be changed at all. What? Want to learn from the People's Party? That is definitely "non-citizens"! They will be "punished by heaven" by people of lofty ideals. Is it the Army who said this? The Army must know shame!

After a series of defeats, the Japanese army's reputation among the people plummeted, and sometimes people pointed their noses at them and scolded them. The Japanese ruling class was more ruthless than the previous Chinese dynasty, and the peasants and other lower-class people had long been fed up. Young men in the countryside could only eat white rice by joining the army, and young women could only survive by selling their bodies in Southeast Asia.

But even if it is unbearable, they have to endure it. Japan's ruling class has a lot of experience in suppressing the people.

After the army failed, it brought back many "heresies" from China, which made people panic. The military had to purge many soldiers and expel some officers from the army, which was considered to suppress the matter. But the matter was not over yet. There were too many people traveling and doing business in China, and someone might have been "redified".

The internal pressure was too great, and the Japanese government had no choice but to continue to expand outward, so they wanted to create the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. In the eyes of the British, it was the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, and in Japan, it was the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The military advocated that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was a panacea, and that as long as they formed an alliance with Britain, things would get better.

Well, as expected, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance fell through. The People's Government refused to conclude a military alliance with Germany in exchange for Britain not being able to ally with Japan. If Britain and Japan joined forces, the People's Government would have no choice but to side with the Germans in order to protect itself, even if the Americans did not join. After difficult negotiations, which were mainly physically difficult, the People's Government reached a consensus with the British Empire.

After the news came out, the whole country of Japan was shocked and public opinion was in an uproar. The Japanese have been shocked many times. They were shocked by the Russian expansion into Korea, and they were shocked by the bloody battle of the army in Liaodong. Now the Japanese are shocked again. Logically, after being shocked so many times, the Japanese should be used to it, but they still want to make trouble.

Angry Japanese youths rushed into the Chinese embassy and set it on fire. But there was no one from the People's Government inside, because the Japanese government did not recognize the Central People's Republic Government as the legitimate government of China, but had diplomatic relations with the National Government in Nanjing. The people living in the Chinese embassy were sent by Zhang Zhidong, who was beaten for no reason. After understanding the whole story, they didn't know who to complain to.

What does it have to do with the National Government? It was done by the Northern People’s Government.

But the Japanese didn't care about that. The young people were oppressed by the world and were full of anger. If they didn't find a place to vent, they would suffocate themselves to death. What's wrong with the Nationalist government? They are also Chinese! Not to mention a diplomat, even if Li Hongzhang crawled out of the soil, he would be beaten!

When Li Hongzhang was negotiating with the Japanese, he was stabbed. But the ronin who attacked him was not very good at martial arts, and he failed to kill Li Hefei after several slashes. So, if you want to assassinate someone, you still have to use a gun. You have to keep up with the times. Samurai swords are really not easy to use!

Even in ancient times, the samurai sword could only cut down unarmored soldiers and was only used in melees or street fights. In real battles, the spear was still needed.

Chapter 247 As usual

Because of the opposition of the People's Government, the British Empire said that it could not form an alliance with Japan, but the two sides strengthened economic cooperation and sold a lot of machinery and equipment to Japan, the most important of which were various machines used to make warships and guns and cannons. The Japanese were trying every means to enhance the combat effectiveness of their army, and military equipment was an important part of it.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 3-, Japan obtained million taels of silver from China, which greatly improved the financial situation of the Japanese government and provided impetus for Japan's development. However, six or seven years had passed, the war dividends had long been eaten up, and the Japanese government fell into a predicament of being out of money again.

Even though they had no money, the Japanese continued to increase their military strength. They rebuilt the Fifth Division and added three standing divisions. The navy was also adding warships and auxiliary ships. In order to raise funds, Japan not only sought loans from Britain, but also from France and Germany, accepting high-interest loans from the former and placing an order for an ironclad ship in Germany.

Well, Germany cooperated with the People's Government to study the "dreadnought" while negotiating with the Japanese about the sale of warships. The conflicts of interest between major powers are often very complicated, often involving both cooperation and struggle, or both struggle and cooperation. In later generations, there was also a husband-and-wife relationship of "you are in me, I am in you". The current situation is just a drop in the bucket. After seeing the relevant intelligence, Marshal Lin just stamped a "know" stamp and then left it alone.

The main purpose of Japan ordering new warships from Germany was not to buy warships, but to curry favor with the Germans so that they would not side with Russia. So when the German government said it could sell the newly launched warships directly, the Japanese agreed. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, German ships were still quite durable, and the Japanese were very confident in the quality of German goods.

But the Germans had no good intentions. The warships were newly launched, but they were all products of the "pre-dreadnought era". It usually took about two years for a warship to be designed, constructed, and launched for sea trials. When the German Navy received the design of the "dreadnought", most of the warships had been completed. Although they were outdated before they were launched, they could not be dismantled.

After all, it is a battleship. Even if it is outdated,

After getting the design drawings of the "Dreadnought" and some of the related technologies, the German Navy was ecstatic, thinking that the huge British fleet had all become outdated toys. Similarly, the warships that Germany had built and was building had also become toys. The Japanese happened to be delivered to the door, who else could they kill?

Germany wants to sell all the battleships launched in the past two years to Japan. The Japanese government said they really want them, but they don’t have the money…

Loans from Britain and France were not enough, and Japan also increased its domestic exploitation, so the traditional "rice riots" routine was staged on the Japanese archipelago. Fortunately, the army was very experienced in suppressing the people, and after shooting a dozen people and arresting hundreds of people, the incident was suppressed.

The Meiji government's internal oppression was already very severe. If the exploitation was further intensified, there would be big problems. Many Japanese had already fled to China with their families. Those who were not Japanese citizens did not know how to contribute to the country!

The saying that China and Japan are "separated by a strip of water" is not a random statement. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people had rowed boats to China. Poor people who could not survive were deceived by the rebels such as Funakoshi Fumi, and either took a boat or walked to enter the Chinese territory. They were transformed into Chinese and immediately divided the land. The government also distributed some seeds and food for free.

The runaway incident reached its first peak after the soldiers of the Fifth Division returned home. Fumio Funakoshi and others promoted the "free land distribution by the People's Government" in Japan, which triggered a second peak. The Northeast is vast and sparsely populated. Even if the Production Corps used tractors, it could not cultivate so much land. It was also good to give some land to "naturalized Japanese" for cultivation.

Those Japanese love to eat rice. Every time a Japanese escaped to China, they would burst into tears after eating rice in Tianjin or Huludao. At the beginning, the comrades in charge of reception thought that their work was not done well and someone bullied the farmers from Fusang.

Later, I figured it out and it was no longer surprising. The Japanese government's exploitation and oppression of the people was even worse than that of the previous Chinese dynasties. The government, warlords, and financial tycoons colluded with each other. They not only emptied six wallets and took away the last penny, but also tried every means to make the people owe large loans, with interest compounded, the kind that they could not pay off in their lifetime.

Japan said it was enlightened through the Meiji Restoration, but they only achieved centralization, which looked much stronger than before, but the essential things, such as "production relations" and "means of production", did not change much. Moreover, their government was deeply tied to the chaebols, forming bureaucratic capital, which is the worst of all forms of capital.

The Japanese government could no longer squeeze out more money from the Japanese archipelago, so it turned its attention to the Korean Peninsula. They could not openly drive a large number of Japanese into the mines, but they did not have to be so polite to the Koreans. Although they had never been polite before.

All the big financial groups are scrambling to grab land in North Korea, and the army and navy are also involved. They can get the mines for free, and can get a large number of young and strong people to dig the mines for free. All they have to pay is some guards and moldy and spoiled food. Anyway, the army is idle anyway, so there will be no additional expenses to let them guard the miners.

This kind of business is simply a profit without any investment, and both the chaebols and the warlords like it very much. Later, the chaebols simply colluded with the warlords, and the two sides worked closely together to make a lot of money together. However, these things are not worthy of being on the table after all, and there are many people at home and abroad who oppose them, so the scale is not large. But now that Japan is about to explode, it doesn't care whether it looks ugly or not.

With the tacit approval of the Japanese government, the Japanese army, navy and major financial groups expanded their business in Korea. The money they earned was divided among the various companies, and the rest was handed over to the government to be used as military expenses for military expansion and preparation for war. The government had not yet decided how to fight, should it fight the Russians or the Chinese as well?

But no matter what, it is definitely right to make more money and expand the army. Even the emperor cannot change this idea.

Koreans were enslaved by the Japanese and were already full of resentment. Now that Japan has intensified its plunder and revealed its vicious face, even many pro-Japanese factions have changed their attitudes. Korean uprisings broke out in many places, but they were all suppressed by the Japanese army.

But not all of them died. Some were captured and forced to do hard labor, while others managed to escape to China and seek help from China. During the Ming Dynasty, it was China that helped repel the Japanese pirates. Now they are coming again, so we can use the old recipe to treat the old disease and everything will be the same as before.

Chapter 248: Daiying starts to tremble again

In the second half of 1902, a major incident occurred in Northeast China. It was not a war. War was not news. The Chinese and the Russians had been fighting in Northeast China for several years. It was not surprising that they would fight at any time. Although it was not a war, what happened was still terrifying. In many cases, plague is more terrible than war.

Cholera broke out in Harbin and along the Chinese Eastern Railway under Russian control, infecting tens of thousands of people. The plague lasted for more than three months and killed four to five thousand people. This incident can only be regarded as a relatively serious one. Although four to five thousand people died and the Russians and Chinese were panicked, it was finally brought under control.

When the plague first broke out, Lin Yongchang got the news. In "The Sun Never Sets in the Celestial Empire", after the plague broke out,

An event comes up with two options: "Isolate" and "Leave it Alone". Choosing the former will deduct 50 administrative points, while choosing the latter will result in the spread of the plague and deduct 10 administrative points.

At that time, Lin Yongchang was no longer extremely short of points, so of course he chose the "Isolation" option, so the plague was controlled in the villages controlled by the People's Army. But the People's Army could only control itself, not the Russians. The plague spread in the railway lines controlled by the Russian army and cities such as Harbin, which once caused panic among the people. It was only when Chekhov found a way to get a lot of sulfa that the cholera was suppressed.

The kind-hearted Chekhov not only got sulfa, but also donated 10 rubles to treat families who lost their labor force in the plague. Well, it was probably the main money he and Andrei made from the plague. Yes, you can make money from the plague. The plague doesn't care about Chinese or Russians, or the rich or the poor. The poor can only endure the disease, but when the rich are infected, they have to spend real money to save their lives, right?

Sulfonamide is not very effective in treating cholera and can only work when the symptoms are mild, but even so, it is the best drug available on the market. Chekov and Andrei are big figures in the Eastern District of Russian Garden. They have great power and connections. When many rich people were also infected, they stood up and spent ten times the price to buy life-saving drugs on the black market, and then sold the drugs to those in need at a very low price, that is, two or three times the price.

Chekhov and his team made a fortune from this business alone and also gained a good reputation.

China followed up the disaster in detail, and published a series of articles in the newspapers on the causes of the plague, the routes of transmission, and the precautions. It also mobilized all government workers to go deep into every village and every street to carry out propaganda. Especially in the northeastern part near Harbin, outsiders were not allowed to enter the village.

Plague is also called "human disease" in many places in China. When one person dies, a whole village will die. Sometimes, people in hundreds of miles will die. The people are terrified by the plague. When they heard that there was a plague in Russia, they cooperated with the government and actively eliminated the "four pests", which are rats, flies, mosquitoes and bedbugs, the four harmful organisms that are most likely to spread diseases.

This time the sparrow escaped, and the bedbug took its place on the list.

Because of the plague, the Russian Empire's rule in the Northeast became increasingly difficult, and the prestige of the People's Government was once again enhanced. Many people knew that sulfa and some other drugs were invented by the Chinese, and their views on China changed. However, most people remained the same as before, with no changes.

The focus of the world's attention was not on the black soil in the northeast, but on Britain, in London. Edward, who had been waiting for a long time, waited for the opportunity to ascend the throne and be crowned in his sixties, but had to cancel the coronation ceremony because of appendicitis. At this time, modern medicine was not very developed. The doctors diagnosed for a long time and did not know what was wrong with His Majesty. They could only follow the old tradition and feed His Majesty some poppy juice and bleed Edward VII, and finally rescued the king.

Otherwise, Edward VII would have died of a cold during his coronation ceremony.

This was the heyday of the British Empire, but it was also the beginning of its decline. The gentlemen of Downing Street knew that the previous global expansion strategy was no longer viable and needed to enter a new stage, but the inertia of the original policy would not disappear so easily. Britain turned to conservatism in general, but in some local areas, it continued the previous expansion policy.

Whether it is Queen Victoria or Edward VII who survived a catastrophe, their existence is just symbolic. Britain's national policy has never changed, and it has always been playing the "offshore balancer" trick. Their attitude towards Europe, Asia, and the whole world is the same. No matter how the Anglo-Saxon gangs put on makeup, they can't cover up the bloody smell and the nature of the troublemakers.

After Edward VII ascended the throne, the People's Government sent a congratulatory message, but Lin Yongchang never expected the British gentlemen to be kind. Even after the People's Army proved its strength in the Liaoxi War, the British did not give in at the negotiation table and continued to plot against southern Tibet.

In order to force the People's Government to make concessions at the negotiation table, the British took actions in military, economic and political aspects. Their warships were still cruising on the Yangtze River, and many arms after the Boer War were sold to the National Government in Nanjing. They were still negotiating "loans" with Zhang Zhidong.

The Boer War was over, and Britain finally had the freedom to take back its lost interests in northern China. Although those interests did not originally belong to Britain, they felt they were theirs.

As soon as the New Year holiday was over, the British Minister to the United Kingdom, Sir John Jordan, sent a note requesting the restart of negotiations on a series of issues including Tibet, tariffs, compensation and arrears. At this time last year, with Britain stockpiling 450,000 troops in South Africa and unable to manage the affairs of the Far East, Sir John Jordan had restrained himself a little. Now that the war was over, Sir John Jordan resumed his domineering attitude.

Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang was in St. Petersburg conducting tough negotiations with Tsarist Russia, so the task of entertaining Jordan and other diplomats from various countries fell to Wu Tingfang and Tang Shaoyi. Diplomacy, in essence, is an exchange of interests, and it must rely on the strength behind it. It is useless to just talk.

Memorizing international laws by heart is not as effective as having strong military force.

The truth is only within the range of the cannon!

This statement is still valid even in the 1903st century, and it was also valid in when the great powers used physics without scruples. Jordan used a strategy of inducement, saying that as long as China made concessions in some aspects, the British Empire would recognize the People's Government as the only legitimate government of China.

Wu Tingfang, Tang Shaoyi and others were unmoved. It was not up to the British to decide whether to recognize or not. Even if the British did not recognize it, did that mean that the Central People's Republic Government no longer existed?

Then Jordan began to intimidate, threatening to use tactics such as "economic blockade" and "threat of war".

Chapter 249 Diplomacy

To be honest, Lin Yongchang was very wary of the "global hegemon", the so-called "empire on which the sun never sets", and his degree of fear was far greater than that of Tsarist Russia and Japan. The British Empire of that time was like the United States in later times, which was really causing trouble all over the world. Perhaps it was a little behind the United States in terms of influence and tyranny, but it was no less insidious and cunning than the Americans.

The British used coercion, inducement, and all means to actively plunder the world. They were the first to invent poison gas bombs, and they were also the first to come up with the policy of merging villages and villages and the policy of all-out destruction. What Lin Yongchang feared most was not the British's strong power and their unscrupulous means, but the British's strength in diplomacy.

Napoleon was a great fighter. The British organized "anti-French alliances" again and again, spending money and manpower to wear Napoleon down. If the people's government was listed as an "old enemy" by the British, it would not be able to withstand repeated sieges. Even if they were good at fighting, the war still required soldiers to fight for villages and towns one by one, and people would die.

In the past few years, the British used all their military and financial resources in South Africa, which is why they did not organize the second Eight-Nation Alliance. Now that the British have withdrawn their hands, the situation is different. Although Marshal Lin is confident that he can win even if the Eight-Nation Alliance comes again, it is better not to be surrounded and beaten.

Therefore, the People's Government did not continue to provoke the British's fragile nerves after entering 1903. When the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiated with British diplomats, the army was still used in the Northeast, rather than turning south. Going to the Northeast to fight the Russians was in the interests of Britain, but going south to unify China was not in the interests of Britain.

Of course, the great cause of unification is what the people want, and no one can stop it. But it is better not to make too many enemies. First take back the Northeast, and then turn around and go south. What if I ignored the Western Regions and Mongolia in the past two years and led the army south directly? Is it possible that the British will sit idly by?