Chapter 588: The Controversial Dihai Railway Plan (Part II)
In the past few days in Shanghai, Wang Yongan and Sun Yat-sen have negotiated very well with the other five countries, and the banks of the four countries and the Zhengjin Bank have expressed their willingness to build the Dihai railway with China, and they need a Chinese guarantee to use the 20-year mining rights of mineral resources along the railway line as collateral. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć But this part of the authority needs to be approved by the state, and the two had to go to Jingshi to report to Yuan Shikai, but Sun Yat-sen said that he would not go to Jingshi for the time being.
Although Wang Yongan repeatedly persuaded Sun Yat-sen to go north with him and guaranteed his safety, Sun Yat-sen could accept becoming an official in Yuan Shikai's government, but he could not accept the request to report to Yuan Shikai with his head bowed, and he asked Wang Yongan to go to Beijing to explain instead of him.
Wang Yongan knew that Sun Yat-sen couldn't let go, so he expressed his understanding, and then took a boat from Shanghai to Jinmen, preparing to take a train from Jinmen to Jingshi to report the Dihai railway plan.
Wang Yongan believes that after the successful construction of the Dihai Railway, it will inevitably be able to improve the country's strategic capabilities, but a propaganda campaign against Wang Yongan that the construction of the Dihai Railway is a traitor has been publicized by some well-intentioned people.
Wang Yongan, who didn't know about it, only found out about this propaganda against him when he arrived at Jinmen, and he got the Jinmen newspaper in his hand, and the headline was: "The hero of the past, but now the national thief, General Jingyun, has been stinked for eternity." ā
"What's going on?" Looking at the newspaper, Wang Yongan and his entourage were puzzled, and Lu Zhengxiang, who came to pick up the station, smiled bitterly: "It's not the Dihai Railway that caused the trouble. "Lu Zhengxiang recently presided over negotiations with the Russians in Jinmen, and the Russians have recently used frequent small maneuvers in Outer Mongolia and instigated the independence of Outer Mongolia. Because of China's civil war and the imminent establishment of the Republic of China, Tsarist Russia thought that the time had come to usurp Outer Mongolia, and originally Nicholas II thought that he could directly occupy Outer Mongolia, but he was afraid of German interference and did not dare to rashly send troops to occupy Outer Mongolia.
After the news of the defeat of the Japanese army twice and the decision to join the Beiyang to establish the Wehrmacht reached Russia, Russian Prime Minister Nikolayevich, as the uncle of Nicholas II, proposed that if the Chinese dragged Russia down, the Germans would be cheaper, so the best interest for Russia was to make Outer Mongolia an independent country, between China and Russia. So Nicholas II authorized the governor of the Far East to support the independence of Outer Mongolia.
The secret movements of the Russians were soon learned by Yuan Shikai, so Yuan Shikai urgently dispatched Lu Zhengxiang from the negotiations with Japan, and sent him to negotiate with Russia to protest the actions of the Russians in Outer Mongolia.
But this time the negotiations did not go well, the Russians pretended to be crazy and stupid, and suggested that the Han Chinese were slaughtering the Mongols, and that Russia, as a neighbor of China, could not tolerate inhumane behavior. The Russians forcibly intervened in Outer Mongolia on the grounds that the massacre of the Manchus in the south was a case of massacres and persecution of ethnic minorities in China, and warned Lu Zhengxiang not to try to act against humanity in the tone of protecting the ethnic minorities.
Lu Zhengxiang was so angry that he vomited blood, the massacre of the Manchus by the Southern Revolutionary Party was not the act of the Southern Revolutionary Party, whether it was Sun Yat-sen, Song Jiaoren, Huang Xing or any revolutionary party, they had never given or acquiesced in the massacre of the Manchus, this was completely a kind of hatred of officials and the rich of the people, and it was a mob behavior, and the Russians actually used this as an excuse to really make him angry enough. He tried to persuade Russia with the "preferential conditions of the Qing Dynasty", but the original purpose of the Russians was to make Outer Mongolia a Russian territory, so they scoffed at the equality of all ethnic groups in China, believing that it was just a signature of a piece of paper.
At this point, the Sino-Russian arrangement broke down, and Lu Zhengxiang was also depressed, and then learned that Wang Yongan had arrived in Jinmen, so he came to the dock to pick up the station and returned to Beijing with him.
"How did the Earth-Sea Railway get into trouble?" Wang Yongan was puzzled.
Lu Zhengxiang said: "It's just that you can find the Four Nations Bank to build the Dihai Railway, why do you want the Japanese to build the Dihai Railway?" ā
Wang Yongan shook his head and said, "Is there really a national war between China and Japan?" When I went to Japan Zhengjin Bank, I opened the barrier between China and Japan and tried to make peace between China and Japan. To tell the truth, my staff officers gave me a lot of battle plans, but all of them, China needs to spend a lot of money, manpower and material resources to be able to barely keep the three northeastern provinces from being lost. Therefore, the Sino-Japanese war led to the defeat of both China and Japan, and Japan needed a step down, and we asked Japan to participate in the construction of the Dihai Railway, which was to give them such a step. This time, I reported to the President that I wanted to participate in the Sino-Japanese negotiations. ā
Lu Zhengxiang smiled bitterly in his heart, if you don't know that negotiation is okay, if you know about negotiation, you will definitely be angry to death, the first condition put forward by the Japanese is to let you go into the wilderness.
Lu Zhengxiang hinted: "Jingyun, you have to be careful, although your original intention is good, but domestic nationalism is rising, beware of your good intentions have turned out to be bad." If you look at the newspaper, you know that there are some people who are willing to write something in a maverick way, and they don't really want to criticize you, but because criticizing you and insulting you will make more people buy your newspaper. ā
Wang Yongan frowned, this is the same as those scholars who overturned the case of traitors in later generations, those scholars can do anything in order to become famous and make money, what to overturn the case for Qin Hui, overturn the case for Zhao Gao, criticize Yue Fei as a traitor, etc., and can't live without grandstanding. And this kind of person is not just experts and scholars who do this, even ordinary people's self-media also engage in some sensationalism from time to time in order to win Bo's attention.
For these people who do not hesitate to disturb the social order for money, future generations can use administrative means to stop it, but now Wang Yongan is really powerless, and no one in the Jiangbei region under his control will definitely not say this, and no one dares to say so, but in newspapers outside Jiangbei, some literati intentionally or unintentionally "exposed" Wang Yongan's traitorous behavior.
"Whatever, if he says that I am worthy of the country when I die, will I really commit suicide by jumping into the river?" Wang Yongan said, "What is the difference between those mouth cannons and the Donglin Party of the Ming Dynasty, except for talking on paper, they will only attack their own countrymen, flaunting themselves as moral models, this kind of people are like toads, they don't bite people." ā
Lu Zhengxiang couldn't help laughing and said, "You still have to pay attention to some influences." ā
Wang Yongan spread his hands and said: "But after all, our country has no money to repair the Dihai Railway, and unless the capital of the Four Nations Bank and the Japan Zhengjin Bank intervene, the whole country will not be able to repair it." Those who write newspapers, can they think of anything? ā
"It's true that they are incompetent, but they can criticize you and tarnish your reputation." Lu Zhengxiang said.
"If I were a traitor, then there would be no patriots in China." Wang Yongan smiled nonchalantly.