Erfei Boulevard. Rows of green willows. On the left side of the road is the simple and elegant shark road, and on the right side is the sparkling lake, everything looks so harmonious, like a traditional Chinese landscape painting, which makes people indulge in it.

Under this picturesque summer sunset, several Chinese-made cars are driving unhurriedly along this road, although there is a flagpole in front of the car, and the five-color flag is hung on the flagpole, but these cars have not attracted too much attention from passers-by, after all, this is the city of Beijing, and there are too many government cars like this to count, as long as there is no special armed escort truck or armored car in front of the convoy, most passers-by will not be distracted to watch.

In fact, the passenger sitting in one of the cars now has a very high status, and it is none other than Tang Shaoyi, the premier of the Republic of China government.

The post of "Prime Minister of the Cabinet" was abolished by President Zhao Bei of the Republic of China many years ago, and since then the Minister of Foreign Affairs has been acting as the de facto cabinet brain, presiding over the affairs of the Cabinet, and Tang Shaoyi has always occupied the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, until President Zhao Da restored the setting of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Tang Shaoyi was relieved of the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and reappointed as the Prime Minister of the Cabinet.

The prime minister of the cabinet was restored in the middle of last year, and since then, Tang Shaoyi has been the prime minister of the cabinet, and it has been almost a year now, and in this year, the power of the cabinet has been strengthened, and the commander-in-chief has handed over some of the functions and powers that were originally responsible for the chamber of attendants and the superintendent office to the cabinet, which has won unanimous praise from public opinion, and people believe that this is an important step for the president to move from "government" to "constitutionalism".

But things are not as simple as speculated by public opinion, as one of the parties involved, Tang Shaoyi knows very well that the reason why the president reinstated the setting of the prime minister of the cabinet is actually a deal to appease the group of constitutionalists who are angry because of the promulgation and implementation of the "Antitrust Law", among these people, there are both members of the United Front and members of the National League, they are either bigwigs or chaebols, and these people are united, at least in terms of economic strength, which is enough to make people awe-inspired, so. In order to appease these people, the president took the initiative to make some concessions on cabinet power in exchange for their cooperation, rather than forcing them to transfer funds to the South Seas or even Europe and the United States.

Politics is so complicated, although the military and political strongmen hold the military power and political power, but in this era, the economic ties and exchanges between countries are getting closer and more complicated, businessmen and industrialists are no longer those lambs to the slaughter who have no power to fight back in ancient times, they can rely on the economic resources in their hands to bargain with the political strongmen who hold power, in order to safeguard their fundamental interests.

Zhao Bei has always believed that this is coercion, but Tang Shaoyi insists that this is a symbol of the awakening of civil rights, and the so-called "civil rights" are the people's right to participate, which is reflected in politics and sharing power.

Whenever he recalls Zhao Bei's helpless expression at that time, Tang Shaoyi will sigh with emotion, it turns out that there is also a "madman president" in this world, and the problem that cannot be solved, the power of capital once again made Tang Shaoyi feel awe, until this time, he really understood why the people who can serve as the president of the United States are usually the people who are optimistic about the American consortium, this is an era when capital is king, capital dominates everything, and whoever holds the capital will be able to have the right to speak politically.

However, although the setting of the prime minister of the cabinet was restored, this did not mean that the commander-in-chief lost its authority, on the contrary, Zhao Bei further strengthened his prestige in the current China by using the speculation and gratitude of the public opinion circles for the president's constitutional sincerity. No one or any force can threaten Zhao Bei's authority, even the current cabinet must only be the president, Tang Shaoyi, the prime minister of the cabinet, is actually still a clerk next to the president, and the president can call him back and forth with a phone call. Now, Tang Shaoyi is walking on the way to the Commander's Hall, unlike other senior officials, Tang Shaoyi has always behaved very close to the people, so he also refused the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide him with an escort armored car, not even a guard truck, usually go out is three cars, the front is a leading car, sitting two bodyguards, the back of the palace, sitting two bodyguards, and Tang Shaoyi himself and the secretary sit in the middle of the car.

Now, Tang Shaoyi was relaxing her nerves, leaning on the soft seat, and reading a private letter carefully by taking advantage of the oblique sunlight shining in through the window.

The letter was sent to China via a diplomatic parcel and was written by Gu Weijun, Tang Shaoyi's son-in-law, who is now China's ambassador to the United States and is specifically responsible for assisting the Chinese delegation to participate in the international disarmament conference in Washington, D.C., which began at the end of last year and has been talked about until now, and is finally coming to an end, just waiting for the governments to ratify the conference documents.

It's the A.D., the year, the early summer, and it's a new era, especially for China.

As the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the current Prime Minister, Tang Shaoyi has been following the progress of the Washington Disarmament Conference, and as he had guessed at the beginning, the international disarmament conference was very difficult, and the positions of the parties were too different to reach a consensus quickly, and as a result, the international disarmament conference lasted for several months, during which there was also a U.S. election, until the new U.S. President Tiren Harding was sworn in. It was only under the mediation of President Isheng, who is known as the most upright president in the United States, that the two parties finally reached a preliminary agreement of intent after difficult bargaining.

According to this preliminary agreement of intent, the six major participating countries of Britain, the United States, Japan, France, Italy, and China will gradually reduce and control their armaments from the year following the end of the conference, and this armament control involves not only the control of the navy's capital ships, but also the control of the size of the army.

The Conference on Disarmament finally agreed on the ratio of capital ships of each country's navy to 4:2:2:2, according to this ratio. The total tonnage of the capital ships of the British Navy is the same as that of the capital ships of the US Navy, both of which are 500,000 tons, while the total tonnage of the capital ships of the Japanese Navy is slightly 400,000 tons compared with that of Britain and the United States, and the total tonnage of the capital ships of the navy of the remaining three major participating countries, France, Italy, and China, is 200,000 tons.

When the draft of the international naval arms limitation agreement was disclosed by the press, public opinion in various European countries was very surprised by this, and in particular, the naval strength of China and Japan was widely questioned, and public opinion in European countries generally held that the scale of the main naval fleets of China and Japan is too large and not commensurate with the national strength of the two countries, especially China, whose total tonnage of the main naval fleet is not even 100,000 tons, and it is still far from the "quota." It is not so much that this naval arms limitation agreement limits the strength of the Chinese navy. It is better to encourage the Chinese Navy to step up the construction of capital ships.

However, it is not clear to the public opinion circles in various European countries that in fact, this naval arms limitation agreement was finally completed with the mutual cooperation of China and Japan, and China supports Japan's position, and Japan supports China's position, and in the face of Asian unity, Britain and the United States both felt a kind of pressure and finally had to make major concessions on the quota of capital ships.

Although China's naval strength is not strong, China has the world's largest standing army force, and this in itself is a good bargaining chip to bargain with Britain and the United States and other countries at international disarmament conferences, only when Britain and the United States and other countries recognize that China is consistent with France and Italy in terms of naval strength, China will reduce the current standing army force of astonishing size, if Britain and the United States and other countries do not accept China as a member of the international naval power club, Then China will use this army force, which numbered more than two million people, to "move freely" in Asia. Faced with the threat of the Chinese army, the British and American governments had no choice but to make concessions and specifically included in the disarmament agreement a clause limiting the total strength of the armies of each country, according to this clause. In peacetime, the total strength of the standing armies of any country cannot exceed one million.

International politics and domestic politics are the same, that is, to find a balance in the balance of forces, and now that the delegations in Washington have finally found this balance that is acceptable to all the participating countries, it is up to the governments to ratify the draft international disarmament agreement.

Just this morning, Tang Shaoyi received a diplomatic bag sent back to China by Gu Weijun, which contained the Chinese draft of the international disarmament agreement and the letter that Tang Shaoyi now held in his hand.

This is a purely private letter, in the letter, Gu Weijun did not discuss anything related to work, after all, the things that should be discussed have been attached to the text of the international disarmament agreement, as for this private letter, the content of the discussion is basically Gu Weijun's family affairs, after all, he is Tang Shaoyi's son-in-law, and now, Tang Shaoyi's baby daughter is also in Washington with Gu Weijun, and the pearl in his palm is not around, Tang Shaoyi, a father, of course, should care more about his baby daughter in a foreign country, And Gu Weijun obviously knows what his father-in-law is thinking, so this letter not only talked about his happy life with Miss Tang in Washington, but also included a few latest photos in the envelope to comfort Tang Shaoyi's feelings for his daughter.

After reading the letter, Tang Shaoyi took the photos and looked at the pair of enemies in the photos and couldn't help but be stunned.

"After the Washington meeting, find an opportunity to talk to the president, or transfer Xiao Gu back to China and go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to experience and experience, speaking of which, there is also a shortage of manpower in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Xiao Gu's experience is no longer lacking, what is lacking is only qualifications."

Just as Tang Shaoyi was thinking about how to cultivate her son-in-law, the car had already driven into the presidential palace, so Tang Shaoyi hurriedly put away her thoughts about cultivating her son-in-law, put the letter and photos into a briefcase, and then waited for the car to stop in front of the commander's hall.

After Tang Shaoyi's sedan stopped in the warning area in front of the commander's hall, Tang Shaoyi got out of the car and saw a very familiar private car at a glance, which was a domestically made "iron mule" car, which is a cheap car for the public, generally speaking. High-ranking government officials don't look down on it, but Tang Shaoyi knows that among the government officials who often go in and out of the presidential palace, there is one who has been driving this kind of "iron mule" car, and that person is Xie Zhantai, director of the Aviation Administration.

This old sedan is Xie Zhantai's personal car, which is also a prize awarded by the president to the meritorious personnel of the Aviation Safety Administration. Because the performance of the "class Wasp" fighter designed by the Aviation Administration is quite good, it has won unanimous praise from the air force units and the army and naval aviation units.

Obviously, now Xie Zhantai is also in the commander's hall.