It was already past one o'clock in the morning GMT, and the small meeting room at 10 Downing Street was still brightly lit, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher held a picture of the missile wreckage printed with the word C801 on it, and glanced at several core staff members present:

"It is already clear that the missile in the hands of Argentina is not France's 'Exocet', but a missile from China, and there is clear evidence that the loss of the task force these days is inextricably linked to this batch of Chinese missiles, and not only that, according to the intelligence just obtained, Argentina still has a considerable number of missiles in its hands, so, gentlemen, what should we do next?"

"In that case, we are directly pressuring the Chinese government to stop selling missiles and hand over the core signal frequencies of the missiles at the same time!"

As soon as Mrs. Thatcher finished speaking, a young adviser with a tough attitude immediately spoke, but as soon as he finished speaking, another veteran adviser sitting opposite him shook his head and objected:

"What reasons do we use to put pressure on the Chinese Government? You must know that so far, the Chinese Government has not publicly admitted that it has sold these anti-ship missiles to the Argentine side, and the Argentine side is the same.

"But we have proof!" The tough young adviser was not convinced, and unfolded the information he had just received about the Argentine anti-ship missile in front of the old and serious adviser, and then continued in an eloquent tone:

"Very favorable evidence, no matter how the Chinese government quibbles. None of the facts can be changed!"

"They can't change, but they don't want to change either, they just watch. Waiting, and finally denying it!" Listening to the meaningful words of the old Cheng Zheng consultant, the young consultant was a little dazed, but then the old consultant completely released his confusion:

"So, the information we have is nothing to China, and they will naturally shrug their shoulders with us. And then he said to us, I'm sorry sir, you're looking for the wrong person! And then what? What should we do? Military deterrence. Or economic sanctions? Or is it joint suppression with the United States? You must know that we are now in a state of war with Argentina, and the empire on which the sun never sets was in the past, not now, and we have no strength to set up an enemy at all!"

Listened to the words of the old consultant. The young advisor also stopped talking. Instead, he leaned back in his seat, and the people who could sit in this small living room were not stupid people, and the same was true of this young consultant, who was right, there was no evidence between countries at all, but actual outrageous benefits.

Perhaps the British government can still rely on its absolute superiority to put pressure on a small country. However, we cannot afford to be cautious with regard to China, a permanent member of the Security Council with a population of one billion and a "nuclear" country. What's more, the current Reagan administration in the United States, out of global strategic considerations, is trying its best to win over China to confront the Soviet Union.

In such a situation, it is difficult to get the full support of the United States if there is a rift with China, and the Falklands war is in full swing, if there is any friction with China, then the United Kingdom will completely fall into a passive situation, the young prime minister's adviser is not unexpected, but some authorities are just confused, and the old adviser will wake up as soon as he says this, a pair of dark yellow eyebrows suddenly wrinkled deeply, and sighed helplessly:

"What then? Do we have to increase our troops, or strike at the anti-ship missile bases on the Argentine mainland?"

"Attacking Argentina itself would plunge the United Kingdom into a quagmire of war, and we cannot afford such consequences!" Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke, determined to fight the Falklands naval battle at the very beginning, and she positioned the war as a limited local war, not a full-scale war with Argentina.

Because of this, it has the support of the opposition Labour Party, and now, in the face of huge losses in the task force, the Labour Party is once again ready to launch a motion of no confidence in the government, under such circumstances, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher naturally cannot rashly expand the war, nor can he establish a strong enemy, and of course cannot lose the war.

Therefore, the current Thatcher is like an acrobat sitting on a tightrope with thrilling movements, and the slightest carelessness may ruin her political life and fall into the abyss from which she will never recover, because of this, the "Iron Lady" who was full of energy in the past looks much older today, but her determined gaze has not lost half of its tough brilliance, and then glanced at everyone present again, and finally fell on Lord Atkins, who was responsible for MI6 who never spoke:

"Mr. Lord, what channel do you think is more appropriate to use to approach China?"

Listening to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's words, everyone present, including the young adviser, couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that when she had just received information about China's anti-ship missiles, Mrs. Thatcher's reaction was extremely strong, and no one knew what kind of irrational decision this tough and stubborn prime minister would make.

So we can only use a step-by-step method like the one just now to persuade the stubborn Thatcher to adopt a more flexible method, which also makes the meeting enter a long marathon time, to be honest, Mrs. Thatcher is not unable to see the good intentions of her advisers and staff, but she is also struggling and contradictory in her heart, but in the face of the urgent reality, the reason of the politician finally prevailed over the woman's sensibility, so that she finally put down her body and tried another possibility:

"I mean, a channel that allows us to accept each other without being noticed!"

"Madam, we still maintain a certain channel of communication with China, please rest assured!" replied Lord Atkins, taking off the gold-rimmed glasses from his eyes, and in a deferential tone characteristic of an English gentleman.

Margaret Thatcher nodded: "Yes, I hope to get a reply from China as soon as possible, oh, by the way, do you have a suitable candidate there?"

"I think Drake is a good fit, ma'am!" said Lord Atkins, tapping his copy of the information in his hand, intriguingly:

"I also believe it. He's been preparing for this for a long time!"

"Well, I hope to get a reply soon"

A few hours later, in the north~~~~Beijing, in the middle, in the south, and in the small conference hall. The relevant leaders of the State ~Administration~ Yuan, the Second Bureau of the General Staff, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Navy gathered here to discuss the proposal about the British government that they had just obtained from secret channels, and the meeting had lasted for nearly an hour, but everyone still did not come up with a concrete result.

Just then, a confidential secretary knocked on the door and came in, whispered a few words into the old chief's ear, and then handed a note to the old chief. The old chief hurriedly put on his reading glasses, and after just one glance, a peaceful and bright smile immediately appeared on his face. I couldn't help but say with interest:

"Well said, well said!"

After finishing speaking, he handed the note in his hand to the confidential secretary next to him, and motioned for the leading cadres present to circulate it, and waited until all the people present had read the contents of the note. The old chief then asked:

"How's it going? Do you see what that means?"

After listening to the old chief's words, some people seemed to understand, but some people were still at a loss, but whether they understood or were at a loss, they were a little surprised and stunned, and then they all looked at the old chief, and the old chief glanced at everyone, and then tapped the note back in his hand with his finger. Smiled and continued:

Comrade Xiaoping borrowed this sentence from the Tao Te Ching to really point out the essence of the problem. 'The avenue is invisible, and doing nothing is doing something', instead of fooling the British behind closed doors, why don't we go out and ask them what they are going to do in person!"

"Old chief, isn't this the end of our sale of C801?" said a cadre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with some concern, but the old chief waved his hand indifferently:

"So to 'do nothing is to do', this is something that can only be understood and cannot be spoken, of course, then again, the British are also hurt, otherwise they will not ask to come to the door, this is like a quarrel between neighbors, and those who persuade the quarrel must grasp a degree!"

"It's not easy to grasp this degree!" said another leader of the Second Bureau of the General Staff Department: "Not only must we have flexible skills and superb skills, but we also need the courage to dare to fight and the vision to control the overall situation.

"I have a candidate!" Before the leader of the Second Bureau of the General Staff finished speaking, Jiang Huichuan, the commander of the Navy who attended the meeting, spoke, and the leader of the Second Bureau of the General Staff hurriedly asked curiously:

"Who?"

"Lu Jiadong in Buenos Aires!"

Hearing this name, the leader of the Second Bureau of the General Staff couldn't help but suddenly realize it, nodded approvingly, and a satisfied smile appeared on the old chief's face

Soon a telegram was sent through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' radio station, and a few minutes later, the confidential communications room of the Chinese Embassy on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, received the message, which looked like an ordinary family letter.

Of course, as a staff member of the confidential communications room of the embassy, it is impossible to really regard this telegram as a letter from home, but clearly know that it contains extremely confidential content, so he did not dare to slack off, and directly sealed it in a confidential envelope and quickly sent it to the hands of Lu Jiadong, the head of the Chinese military technical team who had just moved into the embassy.

Lu Jiadong couldn't help frowning when he saw this encrypted message, so he quickly opened the password manual to decipher, and after writing out the last word, Lu Jiadong read through it again, and couldn't help but smile meaningfully:

"The wrestling behind this curtain has finally begun" (To be continued.) )

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