When Wen Yuewei, the female leader of the Twist Army, came to Nanjing to ask for cooperation with the Liberation Army, Wei Ze was exchanging information with Zuo Zhidan. There were no radios, and there were no submarine cables to Asia. Liaison between China and the United States can only be done by boat.

Zuo Zhidan did not have confidence in Wei Ze's construction, and it was really beyond his imagination to discuss the major matter of buying and selling land with the Americans who were thousands of miles away, but since Wei Ze ordered it, the Guangfu Army discussed it with the American ambassador at this time, and also prepared ships and diplomats to go to the United States, preparing to discuss the matter with the US government.

"Dudu, can two or three million taels of silver buy such a large piece of land?" Zuo Zhidan did some homework and probably knew how big Alaska really was.

Wei Ze smiled: "That place is day for half the year, and night for half the year, and it's so cold that it's deathly." Do you really think anyone likes these days? There is no money in the world today. ”

More than ten years have passed in this era, and although Wei Ze is completely unacceptable to foreign invasion of China, he has become more and more clear about the reasons for foreign invasion of China. A significant portion of the world's hard currency is in China. In the last few decades of the Qing Dynasty, China lost 1.3 billion taels of silver with interest. When Wei Ze crossed, the Chinese population was only a little more than 1.3 billion. 4 pieces of silver per gram. One or two pieces of silver is fifty grams, and with the powerful Cheng dù of China in the 21st century, everyone has lost 200 yuan.

This amount of money was astronomical in the 19th century, and without such a large amount of funds, the economic development of European and American countries would encounter a great bottleneck. With the "universal values" of this era, it is inconceivable not to come to China to loot wildly.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zuo Zhidan also knows the level of countries around the world through guò embassies and consulates in Europe and the United States. The Chinese population is large, the market is huge, and there is a foundation in agriculture. New China's industrial development was extremely fast, the socialist system was adopted in policy, and the state presided over the basic departments of people's livelihood. Judging from the standard of living alone, the living standards of China's heroes and officials are not comparable to those of the nobles and capitalists of Europe and the United States, but the living standards of ordinary people are not necessarily worse than those of Europe and the United States.

So Zuo Zhidan persuaded: "Dudu, it's okay to really buy Alaska, but can we keep it?" ”

Wei Ze actually didn't want to tell the truth, but after all, the Liberation Party has internal democracy, and Wei Ze's current status is not based on his nonsense. It is precisely because Wei Ze never conceals the truth that the comrades' trust in Wei Ze has been established. Weser weighed the pros and cons of Alaska's gains and losses, and he found that if he fooled Zuo Zhidan with nonsense now, Alaska would be taken away in the future, and Wesger's credibility would suffer a great loss. Compared with that kind of loss, the price of telling the truth to Zuo Zhidan is that it takes some effort to convince Zuo Zhidan now.

Buying Alaska is, after all, business, and judging from a business-like point of view, the benefits of telling the truth far outweigh telling nonsense. Thinking of this, Wei Ze simply made his judgment clear.

To Wei Ze's surprise, after Zuo Zhidan listened to Wei Ze's explanation, he actually agreed with Wei Ze's opinion very much. Zuo Zhidan replied excitedly: "Dudu, if you make it clear to me earlier, I won't have anything to do." ”

This attitude surprised Wei Ze, and he asked, "Aren't you worried about war?" ”

Zuo Zhidan looked at Wei Ze in surprise, and after a while, he said, "Governor, all units are looking forward to fighting now." How much benefit did you reap in Luzon this time, and why can't you fight more of this kind of battle? As far as I know, from the government to the military, all departments are in a hurry to fight. ”

Wei Ze's main energy in the past few years has been on how to solve the domestic production problem, he originally thought that all domestic units were forced by domestic problems to be anxious, but now this huge pressure has made everyone have the idea of solving domestic problems abroad.

Plundering the colonies is indeed a good solution to the problem, and Europe is already sparsely populated compared to China, and even more so the United States. However, Europe and the United States are frantically plundering colonies, and the other is engaged in westward expansion. All of them have adopted expansionist policies. For them, expansionary policies do solve the problem. For China, with a population of 500 million, the effect of expansionary policies in easing domestic pressures was even more immediate.

There are simple and straightforward solutions, and they should be discarded and more difficult solutions should be adopted. It's not human.

Looking at the foreign minister, who was happy because there was a war to fight, Wei Ze lamented in his heart: "What did I release me!" ”

At present, the total population of Europe and the United States is about 200 million, and the whole world has been covered with a sea of corpses and blood. With China, a huge country of 500 million people, joining ......, Weser suddenly had strong doubts about the direction in which the earth would go.

Will it go in a better direction? Or is it spurting in a worse direction?

But this compassionate feeling lasted only a few moments, and Weser put these thoughts behind him. History has made Wei Ze think that the socialist system is indeed more suitable for China than any other system, but whether he believes in the socialist system or the communist system, Wei Ze is first and foremost a Chinese. Wei Ze can willingly accept that China's interests are above Wei Ze's personal interests, and he can also accept that the liberation of the Chinese people is higher than the selfish interests of the Chinese government. But Weeser could never have been an internationalist.

If it is really in the 21st century, the people of the world's major industrial countries have finally awakened, eliminated the national borders between countries, and finally turned the major industrial countries into an equal country, Weeser may be able to accept it. But Weeser could never accept the sacrifice of Chinese interests for the benefit of foreign aristocrats and capitalists.

After determining his position, Wei Ze was once again like a stone, and if the whole world was turned into a sea of blood for the sake of China's interests, Wei Ze did not care about getting his hands dirty.

Returning to the office with a somewhat martyr-like feeling, Wei Ze read a telegram about Wen Yuewei, the female leader of the Twist Army. He was unfazed in his heart, and said, "Sue the army, if they want to seal the territory and divide the land as the king." It is impossible for the Liberation Army to accept such conditions. If the Twist Army really wants to join the ranks of liberating China and go home to live a good life after the war, then the Liberation Army welcomes such progressive forces to join us. Where to go, let the Twist Army make its own decisions! ”

At this moment, the pity and sympathy based on personal feelings in Wei Ze's heart had become extremely rare. Since he is destined to become a cruel person, it is better to tell the truth to the other party who does not know the enemy and me, "Those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die", that's all. R1058