On the morning of September 4, U.S. Ambassador to Beijing Johnson visited Hua Guoqiang, the foreign minister of the Xia Empire. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Johnson first congratulated the Xia Empire on its successful founding ceremony and military parade, and praised the Xia Empire's strong armed forces, high quality soldiers, and advanced weapons and equipment; And thanks to the Xia Empire for delivering the battleships ordered by the United States 1 month ahead of schedule.

After the exchange of pleasantries, Ambassador Johnson proposed to Hua Guoqiang that he hoped that the Xia Empire could shoulder the burden of ensuring peace and stability in Asia, and that the Xia Empire was now one of the great powers in the world and should shoulder a more important international burden and play a greater role in world affairs, such as defeating Japan this time, defeating the largest unstable country in Asia, and contributing to world peace, and the United States of America fully supported the terms of peace talks proposed by the Xia Empire.

Hua Guoqiang said that the Xia Empire is a peace-loving country, and the Chinese are a peace-loving nation, and they will definitely make their own contributions to the stability and peace of Asia, and are willing to play a greater role in international affairs. It's just that the empire was just built and the basic conditions were weak, and now the empire will concentrate all its energy on the development of infrastructure and basic industries, and strive to use a few decades to develop the Xia Empire from a backward agricultural country to a preliminary industrial country, and at that time it will make greater contributions to world peace.

U.S. Ambassador Johnson said that for the sake of peace and stability in Asia, the United States of America will continue to provide gratuitous assistance to the Xia Empire when necessary.

Hua Guoqiang said, first of all, thank the United States of America for its friendship with the Xia Empire, and extend a helping hand again and again to help the Xia Empire develop, but now the entire Chinese nationality is generally low in education, the population base is large, the difficulty of development is very great, and there are many difficulties, and it is the primary goal of the current empire to solve the problem of food and clothing, that is, to have the kind United States of America to provide free assistance, it can only be a drop in the bucket.

Johnson knew that Hua Guoqiang was raising the price, but he could not privately expand the amount of free aid, so he had to say that if the Xia Empire continued to eliminate the destabilizing factors in Asia and implemented an open-door policy within its control, the United States would provide free aid to the Xia Empire by $100 million.

Hua Guoqiang shook his head and said that he couldn't accept this price, it was too low, the current Xia Empire was not so short of funds when it was just starting, and now just Zhang Wei's monthly system score is worth more than 100 million taels of silver, and the United States wants to come up with 100 million US dollars, which will not make Hua Guoqiang tempted for the time being.

In the end, the two exchanged words and swords for several rounds, and Ambassador Johnson agreed to bid 200 million US dollars.

A verbal agreement was reached with the United States that the Xia Empire would not attack the Philippines, and that the United States would support the Xia Empire in recovering the Far East occupied by Russia, or to occupy territory occupied by the British and French; If it encounters financial difficulties, the Xia Empire can continue to borrow from the United States, but the funds from the loan and free aid can only purchase the products of American enterprises; The United States supported the conditions of the Xia Empire's negotiations with Japan; The United States will support the Xia Empire with $200 million free of charge within two months.

On the afternoon of the 4th, Hua Guoqiang made an appointment to meet with the ambassador of the Russian Empire in Shangjing, hoping that the two countries could further negotiate on the northeast issue of the Great Qing Dynasty, hoping to achieve peaceful coexistence, and everyone would have wealth and wealth, and could not eat alone, on the condition that the Russian Empire must support the Xia Empire's negotiations with Japan.

Hua Guoqiang's question was in line with Chekovsky's wishes, he was worried about how to discuss with the Xia Empire the request sent by the Tsar's telegram, and now the Xia Empire took the initiative to ask for peaceful coexistence, which made him overjoyed, and readily agreed to Hua Guoqiang's request, and stated that the Russian Empire is a peace-loving country, and the Russian Empire will, as always, support the Xia Empire in eliminating Japan, an unstable country, and the Xia Empire is contributing to peace in Asia, and the Russian Empire should support it.

While Hua Guoqiang met with the ambassadors of the United States and Russia, representatives of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, as well as representatives of several countries, including Brazil and Chile, discussed with the General Staff the purchase agreements for battleships, battlecruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, as well as rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, artillery, bullets, and shells. After Hua Guoqiang learned about it, he immediately asked to see Zhang Wei, hoping to make concessions to the other party on the price, in exchange for these countries to support the Xia Empire on the issue of Japan, anyway, this time the United States provided another 200 million US dollars in free aid, and now there is no shortage of money, and it is also learning from the United States to carry out money diplomacy.

Zhang Wei agreed to Hua Guoqiang's suggestion and asked the General Staff to put forward the support for the conditions against Japan as an additional condition for the purchase of weapons, and the Xia Empire would not dare to sell weapons to countries that had hostile ideas towards the Xia Empire.

At first, these countries did not dare to make this statement, and later Lu Weimin said that if this statement was issued, each country would give a Lanfang-class destroyer, or reduce the total purchase of ships by 100,000 pounds, and now the sales price of the Lanfang-class destroyer is 100,000 pounds, which is equivalent to 700,000 taels of silver, that is, to issue a telegram statement to support the Xia Empire's negotiation conditions with Japan, and it would be a fool not to agree to such a good thing. The foreign ministries of the four countries rushed to issue telegrams in support of the Xia Empire's terms for peace talks with Japan.

The United States, Russia, and Germany also issued telegrams one after another, supporting the Xia Empire's negotiation conditions with Japan, eliminating Japan, the most unstable country in Asia, and supporting the Xia Empire's contribution to Asian peace.

Of course, the Xia Empire also wanted to reduce the price of the steam turbines and main guns purchased by Germany by 20% in return, and both sides were happy.

Zhao Erxun felt that so many countries supported the Xia Empire's negotiation conditions with Japan, and now Japan has no strength to turn over, and everyone is willing to do the thing of beating the water dogs, and besides, when he himself was the governor of the three eastern provinces, he did not eat the anger of the Japanese, and now that he has the opportunity to take revenge, how can he not take action?

Therefore, Zhao Erxun held a press conference in Shangjing, denouncing all kinds of crimes committed by the Japanese in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, especially the Lushun massacre, in which more than 30,000 unarmed civilians were brutally killed by the Japanese army, even the old, weak, young, and pregnant were not spared, and resolutely supported the Xia Empire in punishing the crimes committed by Japan against the Qing Dynasty and the Korean people.

Sa Zhenbing also denounced Japan at a press conference as the main culprit in undermining peace and stability in Asia, the first sneak attack on the Qing Navy, later the sneak attack on Port Arthur, and then the sneak attack on the Russian Far East Fleet, the Japanese have no other ability, they will sneak attack, every time Japan takes the lead in undermining Asia's peace and stability, and calls on the international community to jointly support the Xia Empire, eliminate Japan, a destabilizing factor, and contribute to world peace.

Britain and France were shocked by the shouting and beating of the world, how could the Xia Empire have such a strong appeal to make several major countries in the world all support the terms of negotiations with Japan, and whoever opposes it now will become the main culprit in undermining peace and stability in Asia.

The Japanese have completely become street rats, and everyone shouts and beats them.

Li Zhaoshui did not understand the purpose of doing this, and he was very unhappy about letting the navy lose four destroyers in vain.

Zhang Wei explained to him: "Only what you get in your hands is your own thing, although you have defeated the Japanese on the battlefield, if you want to eat things legally into your mouth, you must get it at the negotiation table, and you must get the approval of a large number of powers, otherwise this battle will be in vain, and we don't want to be enemies of the world now; Besides, this is the charm of money diplomacy, otherwise why do you think the United States has contacted us twice to provide free assistance? Aren't you using us as gunmen? Problems that can be solved with money are small problems, and the loss of 4 destroyers in the Navy will be exchanged for more destroyers, compared to which these 4 destroyers are just a drizzle. (To be continued.) )

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