Zhang Yu doesn't like to talk much, but Zhang Yu is very observant. It wasn't until the train entered Zhengzhou Station that he saw the 36 grand marshalling stations densely packed in the nearly 1,000-meter-wide platform, and every few minutes a steam engine head was sprayed with thick white smoke, a piercing whistle sounded, and a rumbling roar was made.

The comrades of the People's Party are all very young, and even the oldest veteran revolutionary Zhang Yu in the diplomatic corps is not yet 40 years old this year. Most of the other delegates were in their early twenties. The vast majority of the young comrades had traveled such a long way by car for the first time, and when they saw Zhang Yu talking, everyone asked Propaganda Minister Zhang Yu what he had said.

"The Beijing-Guangzhou railway is saturated." Zhang Yu repeated to the young man.

The BJP's propaganda minister and the spokesmen of various departments have a lot of authority, and they have the right to attend all meetings that require publicity. In this regard, Chen Ke has always been very much in favor of the American system, and the Central Propaganda Department is the palace of the king of Hades, and a big reason may be that the duty of these people is "only to engage in propaganda." The information gathered by the decision-making mechanism and the problems encountered in the discussions are not known to the propaganda department. With a black eye, I only know how to guess the thoughts above, which is absolutely not good for publicity.

"Minister Zhang, why do you say that?" These young comrades did not have Zhang Yu's experience in fully participating in economic construction, nor were they good at railway operation. I was very puzzled by Zhang Yu's exclamation. Why can Zhang Yu make such a judgment just by looking at the number of trains coming in and out.

Zhang Yu didn't want to make a fuss, he said: "You can organize a special study of this matter in the future." Hurry up and relax, and then continue to ride the train. ”

The train is definitely going to be delayed, and there is absolutely no way around it. For example, Zhang Yu's train was delayed by more than two hours, which is still a relatively normal time. On the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, every car is now loaded with supplies transported from south to north. Not only the railways, but also the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which the People's Party has controlled, is full of boats, and all the capacity is saturated.

After waiting for the train to start, the negotiating delegation continued its regular meeting. Zhang Yu introduced Britain's diplomatic philosophy. There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. In the 19th century, British Prime Minister Palmerston said that it became the foundation of British diplomacy. In this matter, the so-called "shame" of betraying a teammate is not at all on the radar of the British.

The People's Party's diplomatic attitude has completely inherited Grandpa Mao's diplomatic philosophy. In history, Grandpa Mao's manipulation in international politics was even more domineering. Only when it can be proved that the United States cannot play without China can the United States extend an olive branch to China. Therefore, when China defends its own interests, it never cares about beating the United States. Since the beginning of the 1949 war against New China, in the 21 st century, China has been the only country that has been able to avoid retaliation after beating the United Nations forces, and it has fought actual wars with the United States and can sit with the United States on an equal footing, so that the United States is the only one who does not mention the events of that year at all.

Even if the young people of these negotiating delegations are momentary talents, it is not so easy to understand this easily.

"To make peace?" This question is the most difficult to understand and the most asked.

"It's good to fight, it's good to be peaceful. It's all for the sake of profit. At present, China's highest interest is China's independence and liberation. Whoever stands in the way of our independence and liberation will have to fight to the end. However, we must understand why we are fighting. At this stage, we are fighting Britain and Japan not to eliminate Britain or Japan, but to complete China's independence and liberation. If, at the mention of fighting, one thinks of destroying Britain and destroying Japan, it is a failure to grasp the main contradiction of the moment. Everything is limited, so we cannot expand the contradiction indefinitely. Zhang Yu repeatedly emphasized this matter.

But it's easy to say this kind of thing, but it's not so easy to really understand these things and turn them into the principles of doing things yourself. More than one comrade has said in public that since Britain and Japan are the enemies of China, they must try by all means to completely defeat these two countries, so as to avoid continuing to endure the troubles created by these countries in the future.

Zhang Yu said what he should say "cliché", he said. But in his heart, Zhang Yu has already blacklisted these people, and when this diplomatic work is over, Zhang Yu will kick them out of the team. Not only that, Zhang Yu was even considering whether to specifically indicate this matter in the resume files of these people. Although people can grow, most of the time, once you have left-leaning adventurist ideas, it is really difficult to reverse them. For human beings, this rush to "avoid trouble" attitude is often not a deliberate attempt to do so, but a manifestation of human biology beyond sociality. This is an essential question. The nature of the country is easy to change, and only after a painful lesson may there be a chance to change the essence of a person. However, the revolutionary work could not pay such a great price for the growth of these comrades.

Of course, there are not no geniuses that Zhang Yu admires, and a small number of comrades not only fully understand everything Zhang Yu said, but are also able to use these laws to look at the world by drawing inferences.

"Strategically defying the enemy, are we strong enough?" This question made Zhang Yu very satisfied. "How long can the red flag be fought", this kind of question can only be asked by a sober person, "There is no family at home, there is no enemy at home, and there are no foreign patients outside, and the country will perish!" "The greater the pressure, the more advanced it will be. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some people will retreat in the face of pressure, fear, waver, or even collapse. However, the revolution itself is a process of scooping up a lot of sand, and as far as the system of the People's Party is concerned, there are certainly comrades who will be able to stand up and withstand the pressure to accomplish their tasks and continuously advance the revolutionary cause. As a member of the Politburo, an important responsibility of Zhang Yu is to discover these comrades and entrust them with important tasks.

"All strength is based on self-building, and if the British ruling class and their lackeys are alone, our People's Party is at a disadvantage compared to our People's Party and our comrades. However, on the land of China, as long as we stand with the people and have the support of the people, we will definitely be able to win. Strategically contempt the enemy, but tactically also value the enemy. Zhang Yu replied.

As soon as Zhang Yu answered a question that satisfied him, another relatively naïve question was asked, "What do the British really want?" ”

"It doesn't matter what the British want, it's what the British can do. If they want to, they want us Chinese to be slaves to the British, and they want our People's Party to sign more traitorous treaties than the Manchus. But is it possible? So negotiation is a process of communication, and it doesn't matter what they say. The important thing is to be able to correctly tell each other our positions and conditions without ambiguity, and we ourselves can correctly understand each other's ideas and demands. It doesn't matter whether the other party's idea is reasonable or not, and whether the other party's request is ridiculous. We all have to try to understand each other correctly. Zhang Yu must say this to all the members, but what Zhang Yu really wants to tell is actually only a few people. Because it is only these people who can truly understand that what Zhang Yu said is not only a foreign diplomatic issue, but also a basic issue of life.

One of the reasons why Zhang Yu admires Chen Ke very much is that Chen Ke understands very well that the more his comrades are, the more he has to tighten the string of class struggle. Because it has become clear that there is a conflict of interest between us and our enemies, and between our own comrades, the conflict and cooperation are deeper and more acute. Among comrades, it is all the more necessary to correctly convey their own ideas and correctly understand the demands of comrades.

The ruling class is made up of laborers who participate in social labor, and regardless of their position, in addition to necessarily participating in social labor, they must also cross the threshold of social over biological. Zhang Yu participated in the ten-year revolution before he truly understood the evil of the "feudal power separation system". The existence of rulers is inevitable, and the greatest evil of the "feudal power separation system" is to make a large number of biological and social people become rulers, and this system is solidified.

However, Zhang Yu didn't think this kind of "enlightenment" was so wonderful, understanding this only made him feel more lonely. A clearer understanding of the hardships of labor. And a lot of the original "human nature" brought by the pleasure withered unconsciously. Only when he sees those young comrades whose nature is social over biological, will Zhang Yu truly feel joy. It is precisely with these comrades that there is no need to discuss the transformation of human nature. Almost all of the time is spent just talking about the work.

"The British are definitely going to try to struggle, how are they going to test our bottom line?" Although there is no original idea of this question, it is quite decent.

Zhang Yu replied: "The view of the Party Central Committee is that we must first see how the younger brother of the British will react to Japan, and if Japan dances happily, the British will be silent for a while. ”

The reason why the People's Party wants to involve the responsible persons of the propaganda departments at all levels in important meetings is to control propaganda and public opinion. If Zhang Yu had not participated in the foreign strategy meeting and had relied entirely on his own guessing of how to propagandize, Zhang Yu would certainly not have been able to understand why the People's Party had exerted so much pressure on Japan at this time.

Of course, the British and French ministers had a lot of information, and based on the current situation and the relationship of interests, their speculation about the People's Party was also correct, and the People's Party wanted to force Britain and France to express their position through Japan.

On September 3, 1915, the Hebei Military Region set out from Qinhuangdao, which had already been captured, and marched to Huludao and Suizhong. put on a posture of marching into the Northeast.

The Japanese seized a large stake in Northeast China in the Russo-Japanese War, and their garrisons were mainly stationed in Northeast China. The news of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's northward movement first made Zhang Zuolin, the Fengtian Overseer of Northeast China, who had already learned the news of the collapse of Beiyang, panicked and panicked all day, and then it was known to Japan.

Since the annihilation of the Kyushu Division, the relationship between the People's Party and Japan has reached a freezing point. If the People's Party had seized Tohoku, there was no need to imagine what would have happened to Japan in Tohoku. The Japanese minister was trapped in Beijing and could not deliver a message. However, the Japanese military department and the cabinet quickly got the news through Zhang Zuolin.

After less than a year of hard work, the Takahashi Isaki Cabinet had initially stabilized Japan's economic situation, and the army, which had been severely restricted in military spending and other aspects, could no longer bear it anymore. First, the Beiyang collapsed, and then the People's Party may move north into the Northeast. This news first made the Japanese military headquarters feel at a loss, and then the war headquarters completely bombed the battalion. The War Department headed by Katsura Taro immediately demanded that troops be sent to China, at least to the northeast.

Naturally, the Admiralty could not agree to such a request, and after the experience of the last time, the Navy knew very well that it would not be possible to capture Qingdao with naval guns alone. Not to mention that it is impossible for naval artillery to blow Qingdao into ruins, even if it does, what can it be?

Saionji Gongwang simply and straightforwardly quarreled with Katsura Taro in front of Prime Minister Takahashi Shikiyo, "Katsura-kun! If China is not allowed to cede land and pay reparations, there is no point in any military strike. Qingdao is very important to the People's Party, but it is not so important that it is irreplaceable. The People's Party's important place is in Wuhan, in Wuhu. But it is impossible for the navy to drive warships into the Yangtze River! ”

Katsura Taro first squinted at Saionji Gongwang, and after a while before he spit out a sentence full of contempt, "Coward! ”

Saionji Gongwang almost picked up the teacup in front of him and smashed it at Katsura Taro's head, he really didn't because he was scolded by Katsura Taro, anyway, it didn't matter if the two scolded and scolded each other. The policy proposed by Katsura Taro is simply not something that Japan's national strength can afford at the moment. What ten divisions and regiments entered the northeast and completely controlled the situation in the northeast. Even if Japan's national strength was able to withstand a war of this magnitude, Saionji Gongwang also had deep doubts about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army. Katsura Taro's paranoia made Saionji almost indescribable.

Suppressing his anger, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said as calmly as possible: "Is the average combat effectiveness of the army now higher than that of the Kyushu Division?" ”

Now it was Katsura Taro's turn to expose the blue tendons on his forehead, and the Japanese War Department must not mention the matter of the People's Party's annihilation of the Kyushu Division. Being poked in the sore spot by his political opponent in such an understated tone, Katsura Taro couldn't find the words to refute it at all.

And Xiyuan Temple Gongwang had no intention of stopping at all, he continued: "Guijun, the war said that the time and place are favorable. Now, even if the troops are sent to Manchuria, it will soon enter winter, which will be extremely unfavorable for the troops to fight. After all, the People's Party is Chinese, and it is also a half-land snake in Manchuria, and the vast majority of our troops have never been to Manchuria. As for Zhang Zuolin, he will certainly resist the People's Party, but when the Japanese Army enters Manchuria to fight, it is impossible to get Zhang Zuolin's sincere support, if you make Zhang Zuolin feel that no matter who wins in Japan or the People's Party, the result will be to eat Manchuria, who do you think Zhang Zuolin will choose to support? This is not to occupy people. I don't want to laugh at the War Department, and I believe in the bravery of the War Department. But is it really the time to send troops? ”

Takahashi is very clear that he was elected to be the prime minister of the cabinet, and he did not take the position of prime minister by his own strength. Whether it's Katsura Taro or Saionji Kobo, the conversation between them is actually not something that Takahashi Kiyoshi can interject into. Even so, Takahashi is pure heart still very much agrees with the views and calm attitude of Saionji Gongwang.

Katsura Taro is not a fanatic who doesn't know what to do at all, and Saionji Gongwang's attitude is so serious, Katsura Taro was silent for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "These difficulties do exist. But Xiyuan Temple-kun, if we don't intervene now, do you think we will have a chance to intervene in the future? ”

This question also touched on the point, and the public of Xiyuan Temple lowered his gaze slightly, falling into silence.