The matter of the patrol battalion's military control over the central and western districts of the public concession quickly fermented. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In particular, Xu Rui's order to treat the embassy personnel of Western countries in the Shanghai Public Concession equally, immediately caused an uproar in the entire diplomatic field.

At noon on the same day, the envoys of Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, and other Western countries in Shanghai rushed to the office building of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession to protest against Jonathan, the general director of the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, against his barbaric act of blatant contempt for international conventions.

More than a dozen ministers in Shanghai flocked into Jonathan's office.

Jonathan hurriedly got up, but before he could defend himself, more than a dozen ministers in Shanghai had already launched a crusade against him.

"I am deeply shocked by the announcement by the Ministry of Industry of the Concession to implement military control over the central and western districts of the public concession! It expressed surprise and disappointment that the British Government had not been able to prevent the Ministry of Industry of the Concession from implementing this decision, which was inconsistent with the assurances given by the British Government when it negotiated the formation of a public concession. ”

"This is the saddest day in the history of diplomacy, because the Shanghai Public Concession Bureau of the Ministry of Industry has blatantly trampled on international law and blatantly violated the diplomatic immunity of foreign envoys, and the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession has compared the staff of Western embassies in Shanghai with Chinese refugees, which is simply humiliating."

"The board of directors of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession must be held responsible for his wrongdoing."

"I will truthfully convey this atrocity of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession to Her Majesty the Empress."

"I will truthfully relay to the Central Committee of the CPSU the diplomatic incident that took place in Shanghai, and the British government behind the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry of the Concession and the Bureau of Industry of the Concession must be held accountable for this!"

Due to the suddenness of the incident and the failure of the telephone bureau, the legations of Western countries in Shanghai could not verify it by telephone, so they could only collectively come to the door to ask for explanations, and before they came to ask for explanations, several ministers had already spread the news, and now almost everyone knows about it.

In the face of the angry ministers of various countries, Jonathan was so anxious that his face turned white.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no, no." Jonathan shook his hand repeatedly, however, his voice was soon drowned out by the voices of more than a dozen ministers, and Jonathan tried several times but failed miserably, so he could only obediently shut his mouth and let a dozen ministers vent around him, squirting saliva in his face.

In the end, it was not until Steve arrived, the British minister to China, that Jonathan was finally rescued.

After seeing Steve, more than a dozen ministers immediately shifted their targets and surrounded Steve again.

However, Steve was not as good-tempered as Jonathan, and was stirred up by a dozen ministers, even if he pulled out a Browning pistol and shot it at the ceiling.

With a gunshot from the horn, more than a dozen ministers finally calmed down.

Only then did Steve say angrily: "I finally re-examined it, the order to implement military control over the central and western districts of the concession was not issued by the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession, and it has nothing to do with the British government, so you are looking for Jonathan's theory, looking for my theory, but you are looking for the wrong person." ”

After a pause, Steve said, "You should go to the Patrol Camp Theory!" ”

"Patrol camp?" A few foreign ministers still didn't believe it, "How dare the patrol battalion do this?" ”

"Of course you dare!" Steve said coldly, "The patrol camp dares to go to war with the British Empire, what else in this world do they dare not do?" ”

The dozen or so ministers present woke up like a dream, and when they thought about it carefully, the patrol camp seemed to be really daring.

Steve put away his gun and continued: "I am going to go to the patrol camp station immediately to negotiate with their commander, their barbaric behavior not only seriously violates the rights and interests of the public concession, but also seriously violates international law, the British Empire must not sit idly by, if anyone is interested, they can come with me." ”

"Let's go, let's go together, the patrol camp must give us an explanation."

"Of course we go together, this is a serious international incident."

"The patrol camp has to be made to pay the price."

More than a dozen ministers stationed in Shanghai were filled with indignation.

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At the same time, the first plenary meeting of the Songhu Military Sub-district was successfully concluded.

Xu Rui said to Wang Husheng as he walked out: "Lao Wang, after the military control of the central and western areas of the concession is implemented, the ministers of Western countries in Shanghai will definitely protest en masse, so I'm afraid I have to go to the patrol camp to sit in town, and the Broadway Building can only ask you to sit in town, if there is anything, I can ask the veteran to notify me." ”

Wang Husheng nodded, and asked puzzledly: "Old Xu, I really don't understand, why are you doing this?" Seeing that the battle to defend Shanghai is about to start in an all-round way, at this time, why should we offend Western countries? ”

Wang Husheng's idea is that at this time, more things are better than less things, and if there is no such thing as today, once the Japanese army burns the flames of war near the central or western areas of the concession, Western governments may even intervene, but now that there is such a trouble, it is impossible for Western governments to help them anymore.

Xu Rui smiled and said, "What's the matter, do you still expect foreigners to help us?" ”

Wang Husheng said angrily: "Of course I won't be naïve enough to think that the foreigners will help us, but at least, the foreigners will not help the Japanese to fight us, but if you make such a fuss today, maybe the Western countries will secretly allow the devils to act cheaply, which is not a good thing for our Songhu Military Division." ”

"Lao Wang, you think too much." Xu Rui waved his hand and said indifferently, "For foreigners, never have illusions. ”

Chairman Chiang has always been full of illusions about the West, but in the end, he has been disappointed again and again.

Wang Husheng shook his head and said: "As I said, I have never had illusions about foreigners, but we can't make such an international incident at this time." ”

Xu Rui smiled and said: "If you don't make an international incident, how can you attract the attention of Western countries?" ”

"Attracting the attention of Western countries?" Wang Husheng said in surprise, "Old Xu, it turns out that you did it on purpose!" ”

"On purpose, of course!" Xu Rui said hesitantly, "For such a big thing, pat your head and decide how to do it?" ”

Wang Husheng nodded, and asked again: "Then tell me, what is the real purpose of you making such an international incident?" Don't tell me, it's just to get the attention of Western countries, to be famous. ”

"Isn't it good to be famous?" Xu Rui smiled and said, "Being a celebrity is said to be very beautiful." ”

"Can you stop kidding?" Wang Husheng said with a dark face, "Tell me the truth, otherwise I will be in a hurry with you." ”

"Okay, I'm not kidding." Xu Rui said with a straight face, "The reason why I want to implement military control over the public concession is to make up for the lack of military needs, because after the full implementation of military control, most of the last batch of 500,000 stone rice of the Sino-Italian Steamship Company will not be able to go ashore, so it can only be replenished from the grain store in the public concession, which is one of the reasons." ”

Wang Husheng nodded subconsciously when he heard this, he had already guessed this reason just now.

Xu Rui continued: "On the other hand, it is to create international hot events, attract the attention of the world, and make the next battle for Shanghai the focus of the world!" ”

"Make the Battle of Shanghai the focus of world attention?" Wang Husheng frowned and asked, "Is there any benefit?" ”

"It's a lot of good!" Xu Rui said, "Lao Wang, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, almost the entire Western world chose to stand by and watch, either regret or surprise, at most it was to give little Japan a few words of verbal condemnation, only the Soviet Union was willing to give China assistance, do you know why?" ”

Wang Husheng said: "Because they don't dare to offend little Japan? ”

"It's just a joke, France and the United States aside, Britain is the world hegemon, will he be afraid of little Japan?" Xu Rui shook his head and said, "The reason why the British are reluctant to help China is of course because the UK's strategic focus is in Europe, but the more important reason is that the British government believes that China is not worth helping. ”

"China is not worth helping?" Wang Husheng frowned and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Xu Rui said: "Because the British government thinks that the Nationalist Government is a muddy mud that cannot be put on the wall, no matter how much resources the British government invests in it, it will never be possible to win the Sino-Japanese war!" And the U.S. government also thinks the same thing, the so-called glorious isolation is simply bullshit, but it is just a shield, if the U.S. government thinks that the Nationalist government is still worth helping, the U.S. Congress has already passed a special bill to give China a large amount of military aid. ”

Before the Pacific War, no matter how Soong Ziwen or even Madame Chiang lobbied, the Americans always ignored it, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the US government's aid continued to come in.

To put it bluntly, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Americans did not change their views on the Nationalist Government, but only felt that giving the Nationalist Government a very large amount of aid would always be able to share the pressure from the Japanese Army, and the US military would be able to lose one person, and this would be a good deal for the US Government.

After listening to Xu Rui's words, Wang Husheng suddenly said: "Old Xu, I understand, do you want to make the Western world see clearly through this battle to defend Shanghai, and we Chinese are also capable of fighting tough battles, so that the United States, Britain, France and other Western powers are full of confidence in China, and then come up with weapons to aid China?" ”

Xu Rui nodded and said: "To be more precise, it is to make the Western powers full of confidence in our Communist Party, so as to induce the Western powers, especially the United States, to abandon the Kuomintang and aid our Communist Party!" After a pause, Xu Rui said again, "Even if you can't do this, you must at least make sure that you get a piece of the pie from the US aid!" ”