Eryao strongly. The boulevard is sprinkled with light. A sedan was walking down the small road in front of the gate, and it was quickly parked in the cordoned off in front of the commander's hall.

Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi got out of the car and looked up at the two-story building, which seemed to be nothing special, and even compared with those beautiful western-style buildings in Beijing, this two-story building would look somewhat shabby, but no one dared to despise this small building, because there was a very special organ in this inconspicuous small building, and this organ was also where the center of power in China now lies, and this was the Commander's Hall.

In fact, before the establishment of the presidential political system, the Commander's Hall has occupied an important place in the political life of the country, and from the beginning of its establishment, the Commander's Hall has been above the law, and no one can find out from the legal provisions about the "Commander's Hall." The authority of the commander-in-command hall comes from the authority of the president, and no one dares to challenge this authority.

As the country's foreign minister and de facto prime minister, Tang Shaoyi is in awe of the authority of the Commander's Hall, and he knows very well that no one can replace the current "hall master" of the commander's hall, at least now he does not see this possibility at all, and the authority of this "hall master" is not only based on absolute military hegemony, but also on the infinite admiration of the people, for most people, they may not know what "constitutionalism" is. But they all understood. Whoever can keep the country prosperous and stable is qualified to sit in this commander's hall and give orders, even if this person is actually a military dictator or dictator.

Extreme thirst for power, absolute pursuit of order, this is Tang Shaoyi's basic evaluation of Zhao Bei, under the rule of such a military and political strongman, this country is running fast on a dangerous road while maintaining prosperity and stability, and the competitors are not ordinary countries, they are all world powers, China is now actually playing an international game, and the rules of this game are very cruel, absolutely can not lose, Zhao Bei can not tolerate himself to lose this international game, Tang Shaoyi also cannot tolerate China losing this international game.

Therefore, Tang Shaoyi fully supports Zhao Bei's unswerving strategy of infiltrating forces in the direction of Central Asia, but there are differences on specific details, such as the current differences, and this disagreement is about the relationship between China and Britain.

In the face of British pressure and the appeal of the participating countries in the Paris Peace Conference, he hoped that the center could take the initiative to take a step back, but Zhao Bei disagreed, which is where the current differences between the two lie.

Tang Shaoyi rushed to the Presidential Palace today's Commander-in-Chief Hall to bridge the gap with President Zhao Da, and this difference is likely to have a direct bearing on the state-to-state relations between China and Britain in the next few years, whether it is cooperation or confrontation, perhaps it depends on the meeting between Tang Shaoyi and Zhao Bei today.

In fact, Zhao Bei shook the phone and asked Tang Shaoyi to come over, but even if Zhao Bei didn't shake the phone, Tang Shaoyi would have come to visit the president later today, and the reason was that in addition to bridging the differences, he wanted to hand over to the president a formal written protest document, which was submitted to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Chargé d'Affaires of Tsarist Russia in China, Kosovitz, about the seven so-called "sovereign states" in Central Asia. In this diplomatic protest document, the Tsarist Russian government completely denied the independence of the seven sovereign Central Asian states, and the Tsarist Russian government still believed that the seven small states were still an integral part of Russia, and that Russia still had the right to rule over those regions. In view of the fact that the countries that actually recognized the independent status of the seven small Central Asian countries were not only the Chinese Government, but also the British Government, the Tsarist Russian Government submitted a protest document of the same content to the Foreign Affairs Department of the British Government at the same time as submitting a diplomatic protest document to the Foreign Affairs Department of the British Government, and tomorrow, the representative of Tsarist Russia to the Paris Peace Conference will also submit a proposal to the Supreme Council and the Special Committee of the Paris Peace Conference on this issue, asking the Paris Peace Conference to adopt a resolution vetoing the legitimacy of the independence of the seven Central Asian countries.

Tang Shaoyi knows very well that Tsarist Russia must have a background in doing this, and he believes that the country that instigated Tsarist Russia to do this may be Britain, and the British government is taking revenge on China by doing so, the reason is very simple, because just a few days ago, the Chinese and British teams had a small-scale armed conflict in Tashkent, a small country in Central Asia, in that armed conflict, the squadron not only defeated the British team, but also captured more than 100 British armed men, and after that, this one-sided armed conflict was officially called by Chinese public opinion" "At present, newspapers all over the country are frantically fueling the flames and inciting national sentiments; at the same time, Japan, which is also an East Asian country, is also using its newspapers to advocate pan-Asianism, and after this explosive news spread, the Paris Peace Conference also turned the sky upside down, and with the support and threat of the Chinese representatives, representatives of several small Central Asian countries attending the meeting expressed their opposition to Britain's remarks on interfering in Abysses affairs, and this made it almost impossible for the British Government to step down.

In the embarrassment of the British government, the Chinese national mood rose to the extreme, very similar to the Japanese national sentiment after Japan's defeat of Russia.

After all, the enemy of this battle is not Japan, nor those European countries that have been in decline for a long time, the British Empire, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has taken advantage of the frontal military conflict with Britain, and this "Tashkent victory" has undoubtedly fundamentally shaken the foundation of Sino-British relations for a long time, and this basis is that "Britain sets the rules of the game" But now, the situation is different, and the cannon fire in Tashkent officially declares to the world such a basic fact: from this moment onChina has to formulate its own rules of the game within its sphere of influence, and this rule is obviously in conflict with the rules of the game set by Britain on the ground, and once a conflict arises, China will take all necessary means to safeguard its national interests, including military means.

The battle in Tashkent not only further strengthened China's popular morale, but also caused a dangerous tendency in the military to drag China into a full-scale war with Britain, and the scale and destructive power of this war are not what the military is willing to consider, and Tang Shaoyi is not alone in worrying about this situation, many heavyweight politicians have called for the Chinese and British governments to exercise restraint and solve the problem through negotiations, among these heavyweight politicians, there are Chinese, There are also foreigners, their purposes are different, but the actions are similar, they do not want to see China and Britain because of the dispute over the interests of Central Asia and war, after all, now the world economy is in a depression, and the war in Europe has not long been over, at this time, any large-scale war is intolerable, the Russian civil war is already a headache, if there is another war in the Far East, it is definitely not good news for world peace, because Britain must understand that their opponent is not a bunch of European politicians, but one"Far Eastern madman." This military and political strongman has never intended to abide by the rules of the game set by Britain, and he and Britain's European opponents are completely different realms, and in order to challenge British hegemony, no one doubts that this military and political strongman will not set off an "Asian national revolution".

"The Asian National Revolution." Although the author of the article is an unknown figure, no one can be sure that this is not the clamor of the "madman president", who is now carrying the "liberation of Central Asia." As one of the proofs, after capturing the British armed men in Tashkent, China immediately released all the Indian officers and soldiers, and only imprisoned the British officers and soldiers in prisoner of war camps.

Although China's national strength is far from that of Britain, the problem is that Britain has been severely weakened by the European War, not only is it economically depressed, but also heavily indebted, and in this case, Britain's actions are interfered with by many factors, and even if the British government is determined to wage war against China, it may be difficult to achieve the victory of the Opium War.

Since it was inconvenient for Britain to come forward directly, Tsarist Russia jumped out in order to show "justice." "The Tsarist government not only made representations to China, but also to Britain, arguing that the interests of Central Asia should still belong to Russia, but everyone can see which country's interests are really harmed by these diplomatic protests, and it is not Britain that is really interested in Central Asia, but China.

In the past, the Tsarist government has been relying on China's support for a long time, and is very dependent on China, but now, with the deepening of the military intervention of the Entente in Russia, the Tsarist government is more and more inclined to move closer to Britain and France, in this situation, the pro-Chinese forces in the Tsarist government have been weakened, and the pro-British forces have begun to rise, after all, Russia is first a European country, and then a country that straddles Europe and Asia, out of instinct, the Russians prefer to be close to Europeans rather than Asians. Tang Shaoyi did not dare to take lightly the protest of the Tsarist government, he knew very well that although the current Tsarist government was very weak, the problem was that this time the Tsarist government would also take action at the Paris Peace Conference to assist Britain in curbing China's expansion in the direction of Central Asia.

So, after receiving a call from Zhao Bei, Tang Shaoyi immediately left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took the protest documents of the Tsarist Russian government, and drove to the Presidential Palace Commander's Hall.

After Tang Shaoyi got off the train, he only stood in the warning area for a moment, and then walked into the two-story building, where an adjutant from the attendant room was already waiting in the reception room, and when he saw Tang Shaoyi arrive, he immediately led him to the president's office.

When Tang Shaoyi walked into the president's office, President Zhao Da was studying the map with several senior officers in the General Staff, and those senior officers were not ordinary people, Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Xiaozhun, all of whom were famous "hawks." After the Tashkent fighters, they once made strong remarks in the "Pioneer Daily" under their real names, claiming that once Britain increased its troops in Central Asia, then China would also take corresponding additional actions to ensure China's national interests and national interests.

Tang Shaoyi did not immediately step forward to disturb the gathering of the hawks, but motioned for the adjutant of the chamberlain who had led him over to leave with his assistant, while he himself sat down on the sand behind the door, silently waiting for the hawks' meeting to end. , If you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the heart, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!