Chapter 465: Confrontation

"Protest, I lodge a serious protest with you!"

Hiroshi Morita was a little hysterical, even almost roaring, and he kept waving his arms exaggeratedly, as if not doing so would not be enough to attract the attention of the other party!

Ma Xiao has always been very calm, he patiently listened to Morita Haoshi's words, but there was no interface, which made Morita Haoshi have a feeling of singing a one-man show there.

"Zhang Xiaohuai, the chief of the army of the People's Republic of China, the People's Republic of China, has arrived!"

Ma Xiao stood up with a "clear mind", and Morita Hiroshi immediately stopped his "solo performance" temporarily.

Zhang Xiaohuai walked in expressionlessly, didn't even glance at Morita Haoshi, sat down, and listened to Ma Xiao's report.

When Ma Xiao reported, Morita Haoshi kept interrupting on the side, constantly "resisting the discussion", and Zhang Xiaohuai suddenly yelled:

"Shut up!"

This roar immediately stunned Morita Hiroshi.

Zhang Xiaohuai said with a gloomy face: "Mr. Consul General, I want you to pay attention to your words and deeds, is this what you Japanese people have been educated?" ”

Only then did Morita Hiroshi realize that his words and deeds were indeed inappropriate.

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Morita Hiroshi tried his best to sound his voice as smooth as possible: "Your Excellency, I thank Fang Cai for your rudeness, but I think that your approach is even more rude!" ”

"Oh, really?" Zhang Xiaohuai replied lightly.

"Yes!" Hiroshi Morita perked up his spirits: "I, the director of the Imperial Japanese Police Office in Fujian, Yoshikai Eguchi, have been detained by your government for no reason, and I strongly demand the immediate release of all Japanese headed by Director Yoshikai Eguchi. At the same time, the Japanese sailors who have been captured by us should be released immediately and unconditionally, and the necessary compensation should be given to them."

Morita Hao put forward more than a dozen requirements in one breath, Zhang Xiaohuai listened very carefully and patiently, and waited until Morita Hao finished speaking, and discussed with Ma Xiao in a low voice for a long time, then he glanced at Morita Hao and said calmly:

"First, it is not surprising that Yoshikai Eguchi participated in an attempt to attack the parade of our Central Empire. Second, the Japanese sailors had nothing to do with us, and according to my investigation, it was because of the serious contradictions between the Japanese sailors and the Japanese overseas Chinese that the incidents of fighting with each other arose, and our police officers were only carrying out their official duties there. If the normal execution of public duties is punished, I would like to ask if there is a precedent in Japan for this? ”

Hiroshi Morita was speechless for a moment.

Zhang Xiaohuai's expression seemed to be so flat forever: "Your Excellency Consul General, I hope you remember that this is the land of the Zhongyuan Kingdom after all, and we will never cause incidents, but once the normal social order of the Zhongyuan Kingdom is destroyed, then we will definitely make efforts to restore the order."

As he spoke, he suddenly asked, "By the way, His Excellency the Consul General put forward many conditions before I came, can I talk about them now?" ”

Morita Hiroshi reluctantly said: "This incident is due to the arrival of students to make goods, and I have repeatedly prepared warnings that the governor of Fujian and others have no practical measures except for issuing one or two notices. The merchants were extremely angry, and they began to set up a commodity cover team to resist the system. When it was said that the accident was caused by the fact that the Amada foreign company sent coolies to carry silk products, three students from the middle school went to fight for it, causing a fight. The commodity cover team stepped forward to help, and was taken back to a private house by a student and sent to the police station soon after. The student groups came to seize each other, shooting each other with guns, which led to a serious case, and asked the Central Yuan State to restrain the students. ”

Zhang Xiaohuai suddenly laughed when he heard this: "The student groups came to grab each other and fired at each other. Let me first ask Your Excellency the Consul General, where did the guns of the students come from? Are you any injured? ”

Morita Hiroshi was stunned, not knowing how to answer.

Zhang Xiaohuai sneered: "The information I got is different from yours. In this case, it was said that the merchants were really deliberately provoking, and they were talking nonsense, and it was against the righteousness of the regulations to arrange the goods, but the direct victims due to the discharge of goods were still the Chinese people who bought Japanese goods, and the Japanese merchants did not indirectly receive losses. Even if there is a real infringement on Japanese businessmen, it should also be handled by the Japanese consul or the minister and the local officials and the foreign affairs department, and should never set up commodity cover teams without authorization. In the case of equality, such an act is already emotionally sad. If the Japanese businessmen are really persecuted, they can plead for compensation under the cover of their own treaty; How can you act arbitrarily and treat the country as nothing? Moreover, crimes against property do not result in death. The Japanese businessmen have already set up a cover team without authorization, and they have also detained the students in private houses, beaten them without permission, and then regathered the crowd to release guns, and died and injured many people. ”…,

Zhang Xiaohuai's words were merciless, and he was stunned.

Zhang Xiaohuai continued: "This incident in Fuzhou is a case of Japanese businessmen committing murder to the students, and the students are literati, and the Japanese overseas Chinese are absolutely different from the bandits who killed the people and set the fires, and the Japanese overseas Chinese are not in danger of their lives, and the consul actually led the army to send a team, is there such a reason in the world?" ”

At this point, the two sides have completely pulled down.

Morita Hiroshi sneered and bowed slightly: "Since that's the case, I don't think we have anything to talk about." Leave! ”

And when the government of the Central Government and the government of Japan were confronting each other on the issue of the Taiwan River, the Russians provoked another incident.

The newly-born government is once again facing a challenge!

This is the Great Strike of the Eastern Railway.

Previously, the China Eastern Railway has experienced several strikes.

On November 10, 1919, the workers of the Ussuri Railway in Vladivostok staged a strike and sent people to the land to contract the tandem.

Due to the years of war in Siberia and the Far East of the Soviet Union, not only grain, but also cloth and all other means of subsistence had to be imported from Harbin. As a result, there is a shortage of materials in Harbin and the price of goods has skyrocketed. At that time, Kolchak issued paper money indiscriminately, so that the Hubei currency in the market at that time was worthless. One ruble can only be exchanged for one cent and six cents of the ocean. As a result, 50 or 60 stores in the country outside the province closed down one after another and went bankrupt. The old Baiyuan surname in Harbin simply lives in the heat of the water.

On October 11, 1919, more than 700 Chinese workers and more than 150 Russian workers from the Harbin Locomotive Depot, together with more than 2,000 workers from the 36th Shed Factory and more than 600 Soviet workers, kicked off the strike. Immediately afterwards, all departments on the Middle East Road began to strike.

All trains to various places stopped, and the China Eastern Railway was paralyzed again.

After the strike began, the contractors posted and distributed leaflets everywhere. He called on the people of the city to actively support the strike, and the strike won the support and sympathy of all circles. Originally, the railway bureau asked the police to help suppress the strikers, but the police inspectors and military units of the Central Circle State expressed sympathy for the strikers and blamed the railroad authorities for the workers' strikes. The boycott caused the railway authorities to panic, so they had to increase the wages of the workers and pay them with old posts.

From 1918 to 1919, the workers of the Eastern Railway held four general strikes. These four general strikes were all held to counter against the remnants of Tsarist Russia led by Horvat.

Horvat's full name is Dimitri. Leonidevich. Horvat was born in 1859 in the city of Leminchug, Poltava Province, Russia, Ukraine, to an old noble family. In 1878 he graduated from the Nikolaevsk Engineering School and was sent to the War Department as a second lieutenant. In 1885, he was sent to Central Asia to build the Trans-Caspian Railway, and rose to prominence for the construction of the wooden bridge over the Amu Darya River, and was promoted to the head of the Central Asia and Ussuri Railway. His wife and mother were related to the Empress of Tsarist Russia, and Horvat was favored by him and rose to prominence. When the China Eastern Railway was officially put into operation, he served as the director of the Railway Administration with the rank of colonel, and was later promoted to lieutenant general.

Horvat's brutal control of the railroad workers caused a strong resentment. In November 1905, the workers of the Harbin Railway General Factory staged a strike, demanding that the military be removed from military control and that the eight-hour work day be implemented. Horvat's promise to settle the matter the next day was actually a deception, and the workers found out and surrounded the railway building. Horvat had to slip through the back door, and then brought in a large number of military police to suppress the workers. After Harbin was opened to trade, forces from Japan, the United States, Britain and other countries infiltrated, breaking the monopoly of Tsarist Russia. In 1907, Horvat promulgated the "Constitution of the Guild Council" without the consent of the Central Government, and decided to transfer part of the land and some enterprises and institutions in Nangang and Daoli to the jurisdiction of the Harbin Self-Governance Council. Under his manipulation, in 1908 the Harbin Municipal Self-Governance Council and the Municipal Board of Directors were established, and all important resolutions of these two councils could only be implemented after being approved by the Railway Public Corporation. As the manager of the railway company in China, Horvat is in power.

After the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, the former Russian noble landlords, high-ranking military officers and bourgeoisie sub-clans fled to Harbin. The following year, the former Tsarist Russian branch in Harbin, under the planning of Horvat, formed a so-called "Far Eastern Council for Supporting the Motherland and the Constitution"!

More than 10,000 former Russian fugitives regarded the Harbin Railway annex under the rule of Horvat as a "refuge". In April 1918, Horvat went to Beijing to attend the shareholders' meeting of the Eastern Railway. During this period, in order to gain the support of the Entente countries, he had frequent contacts with the Entente representatives in Beijing. After returning to Harbin, he recruited a military team in the name of "protecting the road" and established the so-called "Far Eastern Volunteer Regiment".

At the beginning of 1920, with the covert support of the Japanese forces, he vainly attempted to "take control over all military operations" of the China Eastern Railway, and he also embezzled the railway funds without authorization, and purchased arms from Japan amounting to 1 billion yen, so that the arrears of labor funds were not paid for two months, making it impossible to maintain the livelihood of the workers, and finally triggered a general strike by the workers of the China Eastern Railway. The workers solemnly declare:

"Huo's not going for a day, and the roadworkers not going for a day." This unprecedented scale of the strikers was supported by the people of all circles in Harbin, with businessmen and workers striking to demand that Horvat be stripped of his powers!