Chapter 67 An invitation from Prime Minister Murayama

January 26, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.

Liu Dongshan stood in front of the window with a gloomy face, looking at the bright sunshine outside the window. Winter in the capital is cold and dry, and windy, and there are not many windless and sunny days like today. But even such good weather can't dispel the gloom in Liu Dongshan's heart.

It has been four days since the Kobe earthquake struck Japan, and the number of people who died in the earthquake has exceeded 5,000, and the number of injured Japanese is as high as hundreds of thousands, and the direct economic losses have reached tens of billions of dollars.

Of course, Liu Dongshan is not worried about the heavy casualties of the Japanese, let alone the Japanese, it is a Chinese, what can he do for him? As long as he is not his relatives and friends, Liu Dongshan does not care who lives or dies, and everyone who leaves this shijie will be transferred!

What bothered him, of course, was the office meeting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the evening of 23 January, which ended before it began. Before that office meeting, he had already expressed his attitude, and was mercilessly ridiculed by Chai Yan, Liu Dongshan was not afraid of Chai Yan, but the development of things later was too dramatic, and there was a real earthquake in Japan! It was still a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake, and Tangshan at the beginning was only 7.8-magnitude!

As soon as this earthquake broke out, all the problems were naturally solved, and the Japanese did not raise any protests, they were honest like a grandson these days, but he Liu Dongshan's face was completely lost! I don't know how the dispute at the office meeting spread, and now many people in the ministry know that Liu Dongshan strongly demanded that Fang Mingyuan apologize and compensate the Japanese for hundreds of millions of dollars in property! Although everyone would be polite when they saw him, and even called Director Liu flatteringly, Liu Dongshan felt that the gaze from behind him was all a little disdainful.

"Bangbang!" there was a rhythmic two knocks on the office door.

"Come in!" Liu Dongshan shouted angrily, who is so blind and doesn't know that he is in a bad mood now?

It was none other than Ma Yongfu, director of the Information Department, who was in sympathy with him.

"Director Ma, why are you here?" Liu Dongshan said with some surprise.

"No, no, alas, the Japanese have made trouble again!" Ma Yongfu said with a wry smile.

"What's the matter? Why didn't such a big earthquake make them honest?" Liu Dongshan said in surprise, "What are they going to do this time?"

"What's the matter? I just came back from the vice minister and got a message that the Japanese ambassador is here, isn't this just leaving!" Ma Yongfu said in a low voice.

"Suzuki Nosuke, what is he here for?" Liu Dongshan said strangely, asking for something? Japan is so rich, what disaster relief materials can't be bought? Need a rescue team? The Japanese have not even approved their allies and Americans to enter for a long time, so how can they look for the Chinese?

"He came to the minister and handed over an invitation letter from Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama! At the same time, he asked us to send someone to accompany him. Ma Yongfu sneered, "Guess who the Japanese want to invite to visit Japan now?"

"An invitation letter from Murayama Fu City, who are you invited?" Liu Dongshan felt even more strange in his heart; at this time, Murayama Fu City was not busy rushing to rescue and provide disaster relief to the Kobe disaster area, but who did he invite from China? Under normal circumstances, if such a big thing happened in China, diplomatic activities would generally have to be postponed. This one actually did the opposite!

"Fang Mingyuan!" Ma Yongfu gently spit out three words, but Liu Dongshan almost jumped up from the sofa.

"Weishenme?" Liu Dongshan immediately asked. The prime minister of this country will definitely not be on a whim and suddenly want to meet Fang Mingyuan, let alone make a mess in this country.

Ma Yongfu said with a bitter face: "It's not the Japanese themselves who made the trouble, the earthquake on the night of the 23rd, and on the night of the 24th, a large number of young people formed a demonstration team appeared in various parts of Japan, demanding that the government punish those officials who were ineffective in emergency rescue and disaster relief, and that Fang Mingyuan be innocent, which made the Japanese government even worse." Tomiichi Murayama personally made a televised speech and dispatched the Self-Defense Forces in various localities to maintain the situation. The old man is inviting Fang Mingyuan now, it must also be to calm the situation in the country!"

Liu Dongshan's brain turned, and he understood the mystery of this. Didn't these Japanese young people clamoring to restore Fang Mingyuan's innocence? Murayama Tomiichi invited Fang Mingyuan to Japan, and if he made another gesture, he believed that he would be able to calm down the resentment of many people in China and stabilize the chaotic situation in Japan.

But...... Murayama Tomiichi has stabilized the domestic situation, but what should we do?

The reason for his and Ma Yongfu's attack at the beginning was Fang Mingyuan's untruthful words, which aroused strong protests in Japan, and many social organizations and well-known personalities collectively signed protest letters were submitted, which seriously affected the stable diplomatic relations between China and Japan and undermined the friendly relations between China and China. As a result, only a few days later, the invitation letters of the Japanese prime minister were personally sent by the Japanese ambassador, isn't this a naked slap in the face of him and Ma Yongfu!

However, no matter how angry Liu Dongshan is, it will be useless! Not to mention that he can't be the master in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even if he does, he can still manage the Japanese prime minister? Besides, the invitation letter issued by the people, not the letter of protest, can you stop such a good thing that is conducive to the diplomatic relations between China and Japan?

Liu Dongshan's face turned red, his fists were clenched tightly, and his nails had already pulled out blood in his palms, but he didn't feel it at all. He could fully imagine what kind of results would be triggered in the ministry once the news spread. At that time, I am afraid that it will not only be Chai Yan's cynicism, but I am afraid that my promotion in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also come to an end for the time being.

Ma Yongfu's situation is not much better than Liu Dongshan's, and because Qiu Mingli, who accompanied Zuo Youzhi to the door last time on Ma Yongfu's orders, will also be implicated! Qiu Mingli can also be regarded as Ma Yongfu's confidant in the division, and if he ends up in such a situation, Ma Yongfu is unable to protect him, which really chills the rest of the division.

"I understand, Aunt Xiexie Chai!" Fang Mingyuan put down the phone, and felt a little strange in his heart.

With Chai Yan, the "traitor" in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the news that Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama of Japan had sent him an invitation to visit Japan, and Fang Mingyuan already knew about it without waiting for the Japanese ambassador to enter the door.

For Murayama Fuji, Fang Mingyuan still knew a lot in his previous life. The reason is actually very simple, after 9495, since Fang Mingyuan had the consciousness of paying attention to national affairs, among the successive prime ministers of Japan, Murayama Fuji is one of the most friends of China. Although he has not been in power for a long time, and because of the three-party coalition government, the political situation has been relatively turbulent, and Japan has not taken any major foreign initiatives.

In addition, Fuji Murayama is one of the few high-level Japanese prime ministers to face up to Japan's World War II history, and is the second Japanese politician after Prime Minister Hosokawa Gohei to verbally daoqian to the Asian victims of World War II in his capacity as prime minister.

During his visit to Singapore, he not only publicly declared that "Japan can no longer escape and must face up to its past aggression and colonial rule," but also laid flowers in front of the memorial to the victims of the Second Shijie War in Singapore, becoming the first Japanese prime minister to lay flowers here after the end of the Second Shijie War.

Tomiichi Murayama also said, "He could sense the strong anti-Japanese sentiment latent in the region, hoped that this would preserve the future peace and stability of the region, and realized the importance of strengthening political, economic, and cultural exchanges." ”

After entering the '95 years, Tomiichi Murayama issued a statement at the 50 th anniversary of the end of the Second Shijie War, saying that Japan must carry out deep self-reflection on the suffering caused to Asian countries in World War II, and also expressed his deepest guilt and heartfelt apologies for Japan's aggression and colonization of Asian countries before World War II.

Moreover, with regard to China, Murayama Tomi City has also consistently adhered to a friendly policy toward China.

In the second half of '95, when Murayama Tomiichi visited China, he personally went to Lugou Bridge and visited the Lugou Bridge Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall. Later, he delivered the famous Murayama speech, in which he expressed his attitude of cherishing and loving peace and facing history squarely, and put forward a proposal that Japan would join hands with Asian countries to consolidate this precious peace. The spirit of this speech has been recognized by successive Japanese governments, and has been called the "historic Murayama Talk" by Shijie public opinion circles.

Later, he solemnly expressed his deep remorse for the tremendous damage and suffering caused to the Chinese people by Japan's colonial war of aggression and expressed his heartfelt sentiment. This is the first time after the Second Shijie War that the Japanese prime minister has made a clear statement about the Japanese invasion of China.

Moreover, it was precisely because of Tomiichi Murayama's friendly attitude toward China that the theory of the Chinese threat, which had been on the rise in Japan in the mid-90s, was suppressed by the Japanese government at that time, and the continuation of Japan's aid to China was ensured.

Therefore, Fang Mingyuan is still very interested in Murayama Fushi in his previous life, one is because of his longevity, he was born in 1924, and when Fang Mingyuan died in his previous life, he was still alive in the world; the other is that Fang Mingyuan sometimes wonders that if Murayama Fushi had not taken the initiative to retire after just two years in power and handed over the post of prime minister to Ryutaro Hashimoto, would there have been new changes in the relations between China and Japan?

Therefore, the surprised Fang Mingyuan quickly made a decision!

Go! Of course you have to go!