(54) Abrupt changes in the situation
"Isn't your Baili brother also not wearing a military uniform?"
Xu Shuzheng recognized this person as Jiang Baili, the military counselor of the Presidential Palace, and immediately stepped forward with a smile and shook his hand.
"At this time, wearing military uniforms on the street, once the students surround it, it is not easy to get out." Suiyuan General Zhang Shao once looked at Xu Shuzheng, who was dressed in civilian clothes, with some amusement, and said, "Student representatives come to the War Department every day to follow Qin Tingzhi's crying, and it seems that Zheng can't stand it anymore." ”
"The students saw that the Japanese army invaded our land and killed our people, and they were indignant at it, and they were patriotic and sincere, and they should not be too restrained." Xu Shuzheng said hello to everyone briefly, and while talking calmly, he came to the table and sat down.
As the youngest deputy governor of the Chinese government, Xu Shuzheng, who is only 34 years old, is surrounded by many generals from other provinces and generals in Beijing, but he has a special majesty.
Seeing Xu Shuzheng seated, all the generals and overseers also sat down.
"Since the Japanese occupied Qingdao, they have been pressing on our country step by step, and I invite you to come here today just to discuss and see if there is any way to resolve this great crisis in front of us." Xu Shuzheng's gaze swept over the generals and said.
Xu Shuzheng's first sentence was cold, and the hall that was already quite lively just now instantly fell silent, and only the sound of people's heavy breathing could be heard.
"Today is just a private meeting of friends, what do you have to say, but it doesn't matter." Xu Shuzheng said, "It's not a way for us to blindly retreat, is it really impossible to give up the whole of Shandong to the Japanese?" ”
"Shandong must not fall into the hands of the Japanese," Jiang Baili took the lead in saying, "The Germans have robbed Qingdao for so many years, and in general they have done some construction, and the Germans are far away, so it is not easy to deploy militarily, and there is only a corner of Qingdao, which poses little threat to our country." But the Japanese are different, the Japanese just want to annex our territory, they have now occupied Taiwan and Korea, put Fujian in the beak, if Shandong is annexed by the Japanese again, Gyeonggi is always under the Japanese cannon, then our country will not die and perish. ”
"Everyone understands the truth, the question is how to stop the actions of the Japanese." Zhang Shao once said and looked at Xu Shuzheng, "Since the Japanese army landed, it was not in a hurry to attack the German army in Qingdao, but divided its troops to the west, occupied the railway in our county and then attacked Qingdao. ”
"The meaning of respecting public opinion is that we should take action now to prevent the Japanese army from invading the interior from the Jiaodong Peninsula." Xu Shuzheng nodded and said.
"In addition, we should also gather troops from Gyeonggi to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Tianjin by sea and forcing Gyeonggi without a reason." Cai Yi said, "The strength of our army is not as good as the Japanese army, and the action is slow, now the Japanese army has occupied the Jiaodong Peninsula, but it is currently fully participating in the European war, there are not many troops in our country, our army should take advantage of the time to assemble, gather the provinces to fight the army to come, even if it is not to recover Shandong, to do the necessary precautions should be." ”
"What Matsupa said is very true." Xu Shuzheng said, "Otherwise, once the Japanese army is launched, our army will have no arrangements and will inevitably suffer a big loss." ”
"If we really want to fight, I'm afraid the battlefield will not only be in Shandong." Jiang Baili sighed and said, "The strength of our navy is weak, and it is impossible to fortify the southeast coastal areas everywhere. ”
"This is also the reason why the president has always tolerated and restrained the arrogance and arrogance of the Japanese." Xu Shuzheng said.
"The Japanese Navy poses a great threat to our country, and if we are to survive this crisis, we must reorganize our coastal defenses. There can be no more such a sea defenseless. Jiang Baili said, "If the coast is lost, China's inland will eventually be encroached upon by Japan." ”
After listening to Jiang Baili's words, several generals from other provinces said yes one after another, and the discussion atmosphere of the meeting gradually became less dull than at the beginning.
At this moment, an officer from the War Department hurriedly walked in, and Xu Shuzheng noticed that his expression seemed very flustered, and he couldn't help but be very strange.
"What's wrong? Hyoan? Xu Shuzheng recognized the person who came as Fu Xiao'an, the chief inspector of training of the Beiyang New Army, got up and asked, "Didn't you ask for leave to go home to visit relatives?" ”
"Someone sent this just now," Fu Xiaoan saluted Xu Shuzheng, and said in a dumb voice, "After the subordinates saw it, they thought that the matter was very important, so they rushed back to report to the deputy minister." As he spoke, he handed over a letter in his hand to Xu Shuzheng's hand. ,
Xu Shuzheng noticed Fu Xiao'an's nervousness, he frowned, took the letter, pulled out the letterhead, only glanced at it a few times, and his face immediately changed.
"Who sent this?" Xu Shuzheng asked in a deep voice.
"It's a woman stuffed into a subordinate's bag." Fu Xiaoan said, "I looked like a student in the costume, because my subordinates were surrounded by students at that time, it was too crowded, and my subordinates couldn't see his face clearly and couldn't talk to him." ”
Listening to Fu Xiao'an's answer, Xu Shuzheng's face became even more ugly, and after he read the letterhead carefully, his hands trembled unconsciously, obviously angry to the extreme.
"What is this? Again? Jiang Baili noticed Xu Shuzheng's strange change and immediately asked.
"See for yourself." Xu Shuzheng handed the letterhead in his hand to Jiang Baili and said in a hoarse voice.
Jiang Baili took the letterhead and glanced at it, and his face changed greatly.
"This ...... Someone can't be deliberately faking it to create chaos, right? Jiang Baili looked at Xu Shuzheng in surprise and asked.
"Look at the content and terms, and the blood letter, does it seem to be forged?" Xu Shuzheng sneered and asked rhetorically.
Jiang Baili let out a long sigh, and his gaze fell on the letterhead again.
Hearing the conversation between the two, Cai Ye got up and came to Jiang Baili's side, leaned over and followed Jiang Baili to look, and the surrounding generals saw that the faces of the two of them turned from red to white, and then to red, and Cai Yi's eyes were almost spewing fire.
Xu Shuzheng easily stabilized his emotions, he looked at the generals and said, "Let's take a look!" The Japanese are going to do something to us! ”
When Xu Shuzheng hurriedly came out of the door of the Five Nations Hotel and got into the car, he didn't notice that under a street lamp in the distance, a couple of young men and women seemed to be looking at this side from time to time.
"You say, will he believe this 'twenty-one'?" Shuijing looked at Jiang Xueying beside him and asked in a low voice.
"He'll believe it." Jiang Xueying nodded slightly, watching Xu Shuzheng's car disappear, "And the Japanese will soon help us prove its authenticity." ”
At this time, snowflakes began to fall in the sky, Jiang Xueying straightened her scarf and said to the well, "Let's go, we have to go back and send a telegram to 'Baiyang'." She looked at the dim sky, "A blizzard is coming soon. ”
"Tonight, it's going to be a bit of a buzz." Shuijing said to himself, looked at the direction where Xu Shuzheng's car disappeared, and turned around and left with Jiang Xueying.
As Shuijing expected, it didn't take long for the presidential palace to be filled with military and political dignitaries who had been summoned by Yuan Shikai.
"At present, because the Japanese forcibly occupied the Jiaodong Peninsula, the Chinese people have strong anti-Japanese sentiments, and the call for the people to send troops to Japan is getting louder and louder. It is estimated that it is likely that Sun Huang rebelled against the party. ”
"I'm afraid it may not be Sun Huang's actions against the party." Vice Foreign Minister Cao Rulin said with a worried face, "Looking at the contents of this article, all of them are attached to the original Japanese text, and the format and language of the text are exactly the same, and they are extremely clear about the situation of our country's negotiations with Japan, and they are absolutely impossible for anyone to fabricate at will." ”
"You mean that the contents of this treaty are likely to be true?" Yuan Shikai looked at Cao Rulin and asked loudly.
"Whether it is true or not is not immediately certain, but judging from the recent movements of the Japanese side, it is very likely that they will propose a treaty with similar content to us......" Cao Rulin sweated on his forehead, he looked at Yuan Shikai's face, and said carefully, "It's just that the fifth content here is too harsh, and I have never heard of it before......
"Have you heard of the first four before?" Yuan Shikai heard the hidden content of Cao Rulin's words and asked violently.
After listening to Yuan Shikai's questioning, the military and political dignitaries standing around focused their eyes on Cao Rulin.
"I've heard a little about the Ministry ......of Foreign Affairs before," Cao Rulin nodded effortlessly and gave an affirmative answer.
"Then why didn't you come and tell me earlier!" Yuan Shikai was furious, and slammed the letterhead in his hand on the rosewood table, "What did you do earlier!" ”
"After all, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not received the official text from the Japanese side, and it is not clear about the specific contents, so it failed to ......report it in time," Cao Rulin said almost with a crying voice, "The important task of diplomacy is not trivial, and the slightest carelessness will cause an uproar......
Yuan Shikai waved his hand at Cao Rulin in annoyance, and Cao Rulin immediately stopped saying goodbye and took a few steps back as if he was about to be amnestied.
"It's so deceitful!" Yuan Shikai slammed his fist on the table again, "A few days ago, the generals of the nineteen provinces sent telegrams separately, pointing out that Japan had no separate intentions against our country and asked for precautions, and I was afraid of causing tension between the two countries, so I replied that 'Japan is friendly and friendly, and there will be no surprises, so we should wait and see, and there is no need to be slightly disturbed and hinder the future of diplomacy', but they actually came up with such a thing to deal with me!" It's so deceitful! It's too much of a deception! ”
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It's too late.,Let everyone wait for a long time.,I'm sorry.,Let's send the two chapters together.。
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