In the following days, Xu Jichao held talks with the French Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and other officials, and the attitude of the French officials was obviously pragmatic, no longer trying to put forward some unreasonable demands to East China, but began to seriously discuss the common interests of East China and France with Xu Jichao, in order to find ways to improve the relationship between East China and France. This also shows that France finally agreed with Xu Jichao's suggestion, starting from the common interests of the cooperation, and gradually improving the relationship between the two sides.

Now it can be used as a common interest point of the two sides, only economic and trade cooperation, the original France has a large number of economic interests in China, is second only to the United Kingdom, and after the establishment of East China, it also maintains economic exchanges with France. However, during the Far East War, due to France's final entry into the war, East China terminated all commercial and economic exchanges with France, and after recovering the Shanghai Concession, all French assets were confiscated, and at the same time, it also tried its best to suppress the control of East China, France's commercial interests led to a sharp decline in France's economic interests in China, and the interests of northern China and the Yangtze River basin were almost lost, and they could only hold the southwest of East China However, China's southwest region is inaccessible and poor, which does not bring much economic benefit to France.

In fact, not only France, but also Britain's interests in China have also suffered huge losses, but Britain has relatively rich southeast coast and southern regions, so it is still better than France.

Although after the end of the Far East War, East China lifted restrictions on France, but during this period of time, the United States, Germany, Italy, Obi and other countries have already taken advantage of the weakness to quickly seize the market lost by France, which is the United States and Germany, and its own economic and industrial strength is not under France, and has also signed many economic and trade agreements with East China, which are far superior to France in terms of tariffs and quotas, so even if there are no restrictions, France is simply unable to recover the lost interests.

And in the long run, under the dominance of East China, China is becoming a huge market in the rise, although East China is not as weak and incompetent as the Qing court, doing business under the rule of East China, it is impossible to have the same privileges as the Qing court, but the social order is better, the social rules are more clear, and the business environment is much better than that of the Qing court. And under the rule of East China, the economy has developed rapidly, the income of residents has also increased substantially, and the purchasing power has been greatly improved, in this era when all countries are trying to find new markets, no matter which country can not be ignored, so many French businessmen are calling for the improvement of relations with East China, which is to restore economic and trade relations with East China, and after the visiting delegation of East China reached a series of economic and trade agreements in Germany, this demand is even stronger.

France's courage to brave strong opposition and insist on inviting a delegation from East China to visit France is not only based on a pragmatic policy, but also because of the support of some people. However, whether France will send a mission to visit East China has not yet been submitted to the House of Representatives for resolution, because France still has a lot of preparatory work to do, including a large exchange of interests, in order to ensure that the resolution can be passed after reaching the House of Representatives. Therefore, during Xu Jichao's visit to France, he only issued a few non-binding statements, but did not sign any legally binding agreements.

Of course, Xu Jichao also participated in a lot of social activities in France, visited some famous places in France, and held a symposium with overseas Chinese and international students in France with the support of France.

At the symposium, Xu Jichao had a conversation with representatives of overseas Chinese and international students in France to learn about their life and study in France. Overseas Chinese in France basically belong to the bottom of the society, engaged in heavy manual labor or low value-added service industries, not only low income, only very few people can do a little business, or have a good job, but they can only be regarded as well-off, but in French society is still very discriminated against, and often by social nomads, even extorted and bullied by the French police.

The situation of international students is better, after all, international students mainly live in school and have less contact with French society, although they will also be discriminated against by classmates and teachers in school, but they are still much stronger than in society. However, the cost of studying in France is expensive, even if most of the international students' families are relatively wealthy in China, they cannot afford to study in France, and they have to do some odd jobs to subsidize their study abroad, but it is not easy for Chinese students to find a suitable job. Therefore, whether it is overseas Chinese or students studying in France, there needs to be an organization to coordinate and manage these things and provide some necessary help, which should be done by the country's diplomats, but although the Qing court has a minister in France, it does not care about these things at all.

So Xu Jichao announced at the symposium that led by the Consulate of East China in France, the French Association for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Overseas Chinese was established to protect overseas Chinese and students in France in the name of East China, and to safeguard their interests as much as possible, to help overseas Chinese and international students in France to solve and deal with various problems encountered in social life, etc., and also welcome overseas Chinese to return to China to start a business.

This move was naturally welcomed by overseas Chinese and international students in France, and many people were so excited that they cried, and many international students said on the spot at the symposium that they would return to China after graduation and work for East China.

On the fifth day of Xu Jichao's visit to France, the French parliament officially invited Xu Jichao to give a speech in the parliament. Although many parliamentarians are dissatisfied with the ** invitation to Xu Jichao to visit, but people have come, and Xu Jichao is the second Chinese to visit France after Li Hongzhang, so many parliamentarians are also full of curiosity about him, and behind Xu Jichao is the defeat of France's East China **, which should not be underestimated, so in the final vote, a resolution to invite Xu Jichao to speak in parliament was passed.

So Xu Jichao delivered a speech entitled "Opposing Colonialism and Maintaining World Peace" in the French Parliament, pointing out that with the awakening of all nations, colonialism has been backward and outdated, and is destined to be eliminated by history. At the same time, we hope that the countries that still adhere to colonialism will recognize the general trend of this historical development and make corresponding changes, otherwise they will be doomed to be eliminated, dragged down and eventually weakened.

Xu Jichao's speech aroused the deep thought of some parliamentarians, but most of them were deeply disapproving, because now France is the country with the second largest number of colonies, with an area of more than 10 million square kilometers, second only to Britain, and is still enjoying the dividends brought by having a large number of colonies, and can obtain a large number of cheap agricultural products. Mineral resources, production raw materials, etc., at the same time, a large number of industrial products produced in France were digested by the colonies, and it can be said that the number of colonies directly determined the strength and wealth of France. Although there were constant revolts in the colonies, in the face of France's powerful armed forces and the means of dividing the rule, it could not shake the French rule over the colonies. And Germany has been shouting, "The Germans have seen enough of others sharing bread", "We also want the land under the sun", etc., in the hope of getting more colonies.

At this time, Xu Jichao said that colonialism was backward and outdated, and was destined to be eliminated by history, which of course would make most parliamentarians unable to agree, after all, they had foresight and could see the crisis of the colony, after all, they were only a few people.

After the end of the speech, it was a routine question time, there were originally many parliamentarians who were hostile to East China**, and after listening to Xu Jichao's speech, they were even more dissatisfied, so they also planned to use the question time to create problems for Xu Jichao and let him make a foreign appearance, so after the speaker announced the start of the question, the raised arm was as dense as a jungle, which scared the speaker, I didn't expect the parliamentarians to be so active, of course, the speaker is also a person who is used to seeing the scene, and immediately understood that the parliamentarians wanted to embarrass Xu Jichao by asking questions.

However, even the speaker can't stop the parliamentarian's question, and he doesn't want to stop it, after all, if he can embarrass Xu Jichao, it's not a bad thing, let the yellow-skinned monkey see the knowledge of the civilized world, don't think that you can get carried away if you win the war occasionally, the heritage and accumulation of the civilized world are far from what the barbarian people can imagine.

The first congressman to ask a question was an old man, who looked no more than 70 years old and almost a few years old, and said: "Mr. Xu just said that East China is a peace-loving country, yes!"

Xu Jichao nodded and said, "Of course, the Chinese nation has always loved peace and opposed violence. ”

The old congressman smiled and said: "That's a little wrong, let's take this Far East War as an example, as we all know, this was originally a war between Russia and Japan, and it has nothing to do with East China, and neither country is an enemy of East China, but East China is actively involved in this war, a peace-loving country, will take the initiative to intervene in a war that has nothing to do with itself? Mr. Xu, can you explain it to me?"

Xu Jichao said with a smile: "Who said that this war has nothing to do with East China? Does this gentleman know where the battlefield of the war between Russia and Japan is?"

The old parliamentarian was stunned, he only knew that this war was taking place in the Far East, as for where the body was, of course he didn't know, Bi Jing had no stake in the Far East, and he was not a soldier, so naturally he would not specialize in studying the geography of the Far East, so he was suddenly stopped by Xu Jichao.