Yang Yuxin's handling was decided in this way, and this led to the second question. Although the area of Shanghai New Area is not large, it is a very important city for the East China Government, an important window for the East China Government to develop economic and trade exchanges with foreign countries, and a transit point for the East China Government to obtain various sources of materials. In this case, it is even more important to not be left without an owner for a day, and it is necessary to determine a new leader as soon as possible, so that the Shanghai New Area can be restored as soon as possible.

Moreover, it is now difficult for the Executive Yuan to have trust in the officials of the Shanghai New Area, and it is impossible to select officials from among the officials of the Shanghai New Area, but to transfer personnel it trusts from other places to parachute into Shanghai. However, such an arrangement is also extremely risky, because the number one person who has parachuted in the Shanghai New Area does not know much about the situation in the Shanghai New Area, and it is necessary to have a familiar process, but it is impossible to give him so much time now, and in addition, whether the officials of the Shanghai New Area will cooperate with and obey the leadership of the new district head, and whether some officials who think that they should be in the position will regard the new district head as an enemy who has seized his position, and deliberately disobey the party in their work, and secretly stumble. This kind of situation, whether in the old plane or the current plane, is not uncommon.

However, there are many difficulties, and it is not impossible to overcome, not to mention that there is the full support of the Executive Yuan behind it, so Guan Jian still has to choose the right person. At present, the East China government is in the period of development, and it is true that it has cultivated a number of capable local officials, but the Shanghai New Area has its own particularities, and ordinary local officials are incompetent, and can only be selected among local officials in Qingdao, Tianjin, Jinan, and other big cities.

The final candidate was Li Songchen, the mayor of Tianjin New Town. Tianjin New Town and Shanghai New Area have many similarities, both are isolated enclaves outside of Shandong Province, and both are coastal cities, and there are other political forces in the area, and economically both are port circulation economy, so Li Songchen is the most suitable person to take over as the mayor of Shanghai New District to undertake this firefighting task.

Li Songchen has been in the position of mayor of Tianjin New Town for more than 4 years, in the first two years of the establishment of the East China Government, Tianjin New Town has been the fastest economic development city of the East China Government, but in the past two years the limelight has gradually been overshadowed by the limelight of Shanghai New Area, but this does not mean that Tianjin New City has stopped moving forward in the past two years, but has been developing steadily.

And Li Songchen did not blindly develop the circulation economy, but also attaches great importance to the development of the manufacturing industry, because it is a light industry, now most of Tianjin's daily necessities such as cloth, clothes, hardware, food processing, etc., are basically self-sufficient, and there is a part of the circulation to Beijing, Hebei and other regions, and in terms of heavy industry, there is also development, the use of Tianjin New City coastal geographical advantages, the development of shipbuilding industry as the leader, drive machine manufacturing, metal processing, Metallurgy and other industries have formed a development pattern of Tianjin New City with circulation economy as the mainstay and light and heavy industries as the main components.

In addition, in terms of foreign relations, Li Songchen maintained a relatively good relationship with Tianjin Old Town on the basis of adhering to principles, and sold the products produced in Tianjin New Town to Beijing, Hebei and other regions through Tianjin Old Town.

Of course, the Executive Yuan knows all about Li Songchen's political achievements, so it also has plans to promote Li Songchen, but now there are no vacancies in various departments of the Executive Yuan for the time being, and Li Songchen is still young, and it will be beneficial for him to work in the local area for a few more years and accumulate more experience. This time, Li Songchen was asked to go to Shanghai to put out the fire, on the one hand, he was forced to do so, only Li Songchen was available, and on the other hand, it was also a test for Li Songchen, if he did well in Shanghai New District, then he would definitely be transferred back to Qingdao, and at least he would be a minister.

Of course, the premise is that Li Songchen himself is willing to go to Shanghai, if Li Songchen is unwilling to go to Shanghai to fight the fire, the Executive Yuan will not be strong, after all, it is a strong melon is not sweet, and the second hand of the Executive Yuan is to send a member of the committee to the Shanghai New Area to help the emergency, and after the situation in the Shanghai New Area is stabilized, another person will be elected.

However, even if Li Songchen accepts this task, it is impossible to take office immediately, because Tianjin Xincheng still needs to select another personnel, carry out the handover, and go to Qingdao to officially accept the appointment, so it will take at least one week. Before the new head of the Shanghai New Area takes office, the day-to-day work of the Shanghai New Area will be handled by several local officials through consultation, and the Executive Yuan will immediately organize and set up a working group to take over the investigation of Yang Yuxin in Shanghai.

Overall, the first two issues did not cause much controversy, but in comparison, the third topic is much more complicated, because the first two issues are internal to the East China government, while the third issue involves external relations.

The Shanghai New Area has suffered such a big destruction, and it is naturally known to everyone, and this terrorist attack was completely planned and organized by Japan, and Shanghai is originally an area where various forces are intertwined, and it is impossible for other forces not to know some rumors.

Moreover, in the past, the East China government has always been tough on the outside world, and at this time, it is naturally even more intimidating, so it is necessary to have a clear statement to the outside world, and it must not be too weak.

Some people advocate protesting against Japan, while others believe that protesting alone is not enough, and that Japan should be regulated, such as stopping economic and trade exchanges with Japan. Although the East China Government is now at a standoff with Japan and refuses to provide supplies to Japan at preferential prices and conditions, if Japan buys them at the normal market price and pays for them with real money, the East China Government is still willing to sell them. After all, the East China government has not yet entered the war, so why not take this opportunity to make more money.

Japan has a shortage of domestic materials, and it is necessary to purchase a large amount of foreign goods, but the East China government is close to the Liaodong Peninsula, which can save a lot of manpower and material resources, so it still procures a lot of materials from the East China government. Now, the East China government can stop economic and trade exchanges with Japan as a means of controlling Japan.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "I think the weight of these attitudes is enough, and my opinion is to take this terrorist attack as an opportunity to officially and completely sever diplomatic relations with Japan, expel Japanese personnel, freeze Japanese assets, and stop all exchanges." ”

Qin Zheng's suggestion also surprised everyone, because no one expected that Qin Zheng would make such an extreme suggestion, and there was almost no room for relaxation.

Li Sanjie said: "Isn't this tantamount to declaring war on Japan?"

Qin Zheng nodded and said: "We are about to enter the war, even if we declare war, there is nothing, just take this opportunity to completely tear up the face with Japan, so that Britain, France and other countries have nothing to say, of course, we can also say it tactfully, for example, 'reserve the right to take any retaliatory measures'." ”

Ye Yanfu frowned and said, "Political Commissar Qin, in this way, will it be a surprise to the snake? Let Japan take precautions against us, it will be detrimental to our participation in the war!"

Qin Zheng said: "There is no conspiracy in the game between countries, in fact, Japan has been guarding against us from the beginning, no matter what kind of reaction we make, Japan will not relax its vigilance against us, and this time it is Japan that takes the initiative to provoke us, I am afraid that it has long been prepared for such a thought, so there is no problem of scaring the grass and the snake." ”

And Xia Bohai also took over the conversation and said: "I agree with Lao Qin's opinion, in addition to the reasons that Lao Qin said, I think there is also an important role, which is to make the '5.6 Shanghai terrorist attack' our 'Pearl Harbor incident', and take the opportunity to stir up the people's hostility towards Japan and give us full support for our next formal entry into the war." ”

The East China Government wanted to enter the war, of course, out of grand strategic considerations, but the scale and scope of this battle were different from those in which the East China Government had participated in the battles before, so it required the entire East China Government to unite as one, and the people's support for the war was quite important. The East China government had been carrying out propaganda and mobilization for the war since the second half of 1904, and had achieved some success, but these results were mainly based on the prestige of the East China government and the traversers. To put it simply, because the people are quite convinced of the East China government, the East China government is whatever it says, and the East China government says that it wants to fight Japan, so it naturally supports the government's participation in the war, but it does not have a clear understanding of the war itself.

Of course, there is no major problem in the smooth running of the war, but if the war is unfavorable or the battlefield enters a stalemate, there is no hope of victory in a short period of time, and it is inevitable that some people will have various ideas. In the old days, Japan's victories in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War were inseparable from the full support of the domestic people.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on the people under the rule of the East China government, although the East China government has also deliberately strengthened the propaganda and education of national concepts and national consciousness in the past few years, but after all, the East China government has only been established for more than four years, and it is not a short time to improve the overall quality of the people. Moreover, the Russo-Japanese War was not fought on the territory of the East China Government, so in the eyes of many people, Liaodong is not the territory of the East China Government, and Japan and Russia fought a war in Liaodong, and they did not come to provoke the East China Government.

However, the nature of the terrorist attack organized by the Japanese in the Shanghai New Area is completely different, because the Shanghai New Area is the territory of the East China Government, and this time Japan took the initiative to provoke the East China Government, and if it seized this opportunity to carry out high-profile propaganda and mobilization to arouse the people's hostility towards Japan, the propaganda effect would be completely different from that of the past.

After listening to Xia Bohai's supplement, the others had nothing to say, firstly, Xia Bohai and Qin Zheng's opinions were indeed reasonable; secondly, the first and second characters had spoken, who was so uninteresting?