Chapter 389: Press Conference (4)
In fact, for the vast majority of Chinese, the existence of the concession is indeed a shame, although the construction and management level of the concession is indeed much stronger than any Chinese city in this era. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoTherefore, Qin Zheng's words did resonate with many people, and Qin Zheng set the condition for recovering the concession as China's own strength, and at the same time apologized for his lack of strength, which made people feel a lot better.
In fact, everyone knows that this is self-humility, after all, the achievements of overseas Chinese are there, and Qin Zheng still said this, indicating that overseas Chinese are not carried away because they have strong force. Still maintain a humble mentality.
The foreigners present were a little embarrassed, but no one came out to argue with Qin Zheng, after all, the overseas Chinese had now snatched the three concessions, and the countries had no way to deal with them, and they still had to negotiate with them. As Napoleon said: Truth is within the range of a cannon. Therefore, if China's strength is really strong, then China's concession will definitely not be able to be preserved.
Later, Qin Zheng answered several reporters' questions in a row, and the answers were all reasonable, sometimes gloomy, which made the reporters present and other onlookers very admired.
Time is also passing quickly, two hours will soon come, after Qin Zheng finished answering a reporter's question, Li Sanjie got up and said: "Reporters, the time is almost up, so the following will be the last question of this press conference, and the reporter who failed to ask the question, please forgive me, next time I have the opportunity, please ask you to ask questions." ”
After everyone listened, although the reporters who did not ask questions were a little regretful, they did not object, first, everyone asked questions in a row, and they could only blame their own bad luck; second, the content of Qin Zheng's answers to other reporters' questions was sufficient. At this time, Li Sanjie said again: "The next person to ask a question is a reporter from that newspaper?"
At this time, a person stood up from the middle of the crowd and said, "Now it's the turn of our Japanese press corps to ask questions." ”
Li Sanjie was stunned, he didn't expect that the last person to ask a question would be a Japanese, but he was still very calm on the surface, and said, "Okay, Mr. Reporter, what questions do you have to ask?" ”
The Japanese reporter said: "We know from the pamphlet that introduces your origins that most of your ancestors should be descendants of the Ming Kingdom, and some of them are descendants of Zheng Chenggong, we know that the Ming Kingdom and the Qing Kingdom were originally enemy countries, and Zheng Chenggong is also famous for resisting the Qing Dynasty. Does this mean that the nobles do not actually recognize the rule of the Qing state, and do they intend to regain the inheritance of their ancestors when they return to their homeland?"
After the Japanese reporter finished asking the question, there was a burst of "buzzing" discussion in the audience, and at the same time, almost all Chinese looked at the Japanese press corps angrily, and the expressions of several reporters of the Japanese press corps were also very surprised, and only the Japanese reporter who had just asked the question looked free and sat down very calmly.
Although the reporters will ask some sharp and sensitive questions, and even dig holes for the questioners, they still have to be within a certain range and respect the necessary bottom line; although the questions asked by Britain, France, and some other reporters have gone too far, they are still within this range on the whole, but the question raised by the Japanese reporters has obviously broken through this bottom line, and it can even be said that they are deliberately provoking trouble and deliberately provoking the relationship between overseas Chinese and the Qing court.
At this time, one of the first onlookers was a young man who could not hold his breath and immediately rushed out and said: "What do you mean by that, is this a deliberate attempt to sow discord?"
He took the lead, which immediately aroused the righteous indignation of the people, so they all stood up one after another to accuse the Japanese reporters of their motives, and for a time the Japanese press corps became the target of public criticism, and even reporters from other countries felt that the Japanese questions were a bit excessive, and no one spoke for the Japanese.
In fact, after the pamphlet introducing the origin of overseas Chinese was circulated in Shanghai, Chinese who only wrote a little knowledge understood that overseas Chinese were actually descendants of the Ming Dynasty, so whether overseas Chinese returning to China would have the intention of regaining the world, but this topic is too sensitive. Because the defense of the Manchu and Han Dynasty has always been the core principle of the Qing court, not to mention that the traveler is a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing court was just founded, a third prince of Zhu disturbed the Qing court for nearly a hundred years.
And as overseas Chinese continue to build up war achievements, and now the Chunting court has long been weak, almost precarious, so all Chinese, including the officials of the Qing court, are deliberately avoiding this topic, in the official documents of the Qing court, the identity of overseas Chinese is only brushed over after the remnants of the previous dynasty, after all, this topic has been revealed, and there is no benefit to both sides. However, the issue of the identity of overseas Chinese objectively exists, and no matter how it is avoided, it will not disappear, and it will one day be revealed, and now it has been unceremoniously revealed by this Japanese reporter.
However, in the face of the situation of a thousand failures, the Japanese press corps was also a little unable to sit still, at this time a person stood up, first bowed back and forth, left and right, and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, reporters, and Political Commissar Qin, just now Reporter Kobayashi was too young and inexperienced, so he said the wrong thing, but he definitely didn't mean to sow discord, this question we didn't ask, and Political Commissar Qin didn't have to answer." ”
Then he said to the reporter who asked the question just now: "Kobayashi-kun, quickly apologize to everyone." ”
When the Japanese reporter heard this, he also stood up, bowed, and said, "I'm sorry, but I asked the question inappropriately and caused trouble to everyone." ”
And taking advantage of this dispute, Qin Zheng was also anxiously thinking about the purpose of this Japanese reporter to raise such a question. Is it pure malice, or is it a deliberate attempt to sow discord between the Chunting and the traverser?
In fact, this question itself was not unexpected by Qin Zheng, he had already prepared in his heart, and someone would ask similar questions at today's press conference, and he had already thought of a response to it. It's just that Qin Zheng expected that it should be proposed by a British or French reporter, but he did not expect that it would be proposed by the Japanese. Because at this time, it is not in Japan's interest to raise this issue and stiffen the relationship with the traverser.
Now Japan's biggest enemy is Russia and not the Traverser, and since the Traveler appeared, it has not deliberately done anything against Japan, but has been tougher against Russia, not only closing the Russian Consulate in Tianjin, but also when Russia announced that it would send a fleet from Haisanwei to Port Arthur, the Traverser also claimed that as long as the Russian fleet entered the Bohai Bay, the Traverser would sink it. Therefore, Japan really cannot be the enemy of Russia and the traverser at the same time at this time. To some extent, at least for the time being, the Travelers still have a basis for joining forces with Japan against Russia.
Although it is said that Japan made many strategic mistakes in the old time and space, it was after the 30s, and at this time, Japan did gather a group of rare military and political elites, and made several major decisions.
Moreover, after the Japanese reporter finished asking, the rest of the Japanese press corps all had shocked expressions, and they did not seem to be pretending, which shows that the other people did not expect that the reporter who spoke would ask such a question, which seems to be a bit like the reporter's personal behavior, which is very possible, because this kind of personal behavior is a major tradition in Japan, but what is the purpose of this Japanese reporter's doing this.
It happened that the Japanese reporter got up to apologize, stood up straight after bowing, Qin Zheng paid attention to observe, and saw that the Japanese reporter was about 30 years old and about 1.70 tall.
At this time, the Japanese reporter also felt Qin Zheng's gaze, so he also looked at Qin Zheng. The eyes of the two looked at each other, and Qin Zheng faintly felt something in his heart, but he couldn't say it.
However, the eyes of the two did not make contact for long, and the Japanese reporter sat down again, and everyone's attention was focused on Qin Zheng, because the attitude of the Japanese was also expressed, and they also apologized, and now it depends on the traverser's statement.
Qin Zheng said: "Just now, the Japanese journalist asked a very excessive question, and we can not answer it. But I'm still going to reply, and at the same time, I would like to take this occasion to express our attitude. ”
Although the Japanese apologized and also indicated that they did not need to answer the traverser, the question had already been raised, so the question of the identity of the traverser had also been revealed, and he couldn't hide it if he wanted to, so Qin Zheng had to respond, not to mention that Qin Zheng had already prepared the answer.
Qin Zheng said: "China and China have always been synonymous with this land, and we all call our homeland this way overseas, not to mention that we are not officially appointed by the Qing court. As for our ancestors, it is indeed the remnants of the Ming Kingdom, but this does not mean that we have anything to do with the Ming Dynasty, in fact, all Chinese can now be regarded as descendants of the Ming Dynasty. For more than 200 years, we have been living overseas, and if it were not for the sinking of the island where we lived, we would not have returned to China. And I can guarantee that we never thought of restoring the rule of the Ming Dynasty in China, let alone proclaiming ourselves emperors, but only wanted to live and work in peace and contentment in our homeland, and do our best to help the Chinese nation become rich and strong. ”