Erran is still a few days away from Chinese New Year's Eve. But the sound of firecrackers on the street has been seen everywhere, it snowed a few days ago, and the school is also on winter vacation, the street is full of children playing, those snowmen are also piled up by them, firecrackers are an indispensable toy in their hands.

In recent years, China's industrial and commercial exhibition, the people have more or less more ample, this New Year is the most important custom in the traditional Chinese festival, usually you can save food and use, but when it comes to the New Year, the meal should be picked to eat, and the clothes should be selected to wear, so now these children who are playing on the street are also wearing newly made clothes, looking for their happiness in that carefree.

Most of the adults are also smiling, but there seems to be a hint of sadness in that smile, since the end of the war in Europe, the world's industry immediately depressed, orders from Europe have been greatly reduced, not only a large number of Japanese factories have closed down, closed, and Chinese factories are also experiencing a depression, the newspaper said, the root cause of this depression is the weak demand in Europe, and the depreciation of the money in the pockets of the European people, in the past, a British bill may buy a sheep, but now, Maybe you can only buy one chicken, which is called "inflation", and the direct cause of inflation in European countries is that war.

The Europeans are now poor and can't afford to buy industrial products made in China, so China's factories will immediately lose their market, and those large factories have begun to lay off workers, as for the small factories, many have closed down, especially those industries directly related to the war, steel, coal, chemicals, automobiles, ships, these industries are the first victims of this global economic depression, and now the industries that can still maintain the prosperity situation are related to food, clothing, and housing, after all, this is directly related to the survival of people. No matter how much money you have to spend, you can't pick on it.

In the era of depression, workers lost their jobs, the incomes of peasants and craftsmen plummeted, and prices fell so much that the price of shaving their heads is now only half of what it used to be, and the newspapers say that this is called "deflation."

On the one hand, there is inflation, on the other hand, deflation, whether it is inflation or contraction, even European economists are muttering, simply call it an "economic crisis", the specific manifestation is that the prices of various commodities have risen rapidly and generally after a short period of rise, and agricultural products have fallen faster than industrial products, it is said that this is caused by the war in Europe, but some people believe that it is caused by overproduction.

However, compared with Europe, China is still a country that is more suitable for ordinary people's lives, and European countries are now full of chaos, either British strikes or French demonstrations, or even revolutions, and a European war has caused such a far-reaching and broad impact, which is indeed beyond the expectations of many people.

Like many Chinese civilians, Tang Shaoyi is also smiling now, and there is a hint of sadness in his smile, but he is not worried about the future, after all, he is still the Minister of Foreign Affairs, even if he does not enter politics in the future, he can go to the university to give a speech, or even be a visiting professor, there is no problem with eating, Tang Shaoyi is worried because of diplomatic matters.

Some time ago. The British government has announced in a high-profile manner that it will deploy the latest battleships built by the British Navy to the Singapore Naval Base in the Far East to "maintain peace and stability in Asia." "The excuse was well found, so that, after the British acted, the French followed suit, and now the two French battleships were leading the French fleet on its way to the Indian Ocean, and it was said that it had reached Egypt, and the British fleet had arrived in India.

The British and French battleships came east with a high profile, and the purpose was naturally that the drunkards did not want to drink, and the central government of China quickly reacted by deciding to hold a large-scale naval exercise in the Yellow Sea, and at the same time, an army exercise was held in the lofty mountains of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces

The exercises of the Chinese Navy are only defensive in nature, which is nothing, but the exercises of the Chinese Army have a strong offensive meaning, and even a military layman only needs to look at the map of Asia in this era to understand that the so-called "tropical regions of Southeast Asia" actually refer to the British colonies of Burma and Malaya, as well as the French colonies of Vietnam and Cambodia.

In this era, if the Chinese army says that its scale is the second in Asia, then I am afraid that no one in the countries dares to say that its army is the first in Asia, although Britain and France have recruited a large army force in the European war, but since the end of the European war, Britain and France have immediately cut the army funds, a large number of army soldiers have retired and joined the ranks of the unemployed, Britain and France are now impossible to mobilize an army force in Asia that can compete with the Chinese army, as for the British and French navies, Unless the warship can be equipped with tank-like tracks, it will not be able to stop the Chinese army from galloping on land.

Then the facts are now very clear, Britain and France threaten China with their navy, and China uses their land forces to carry out counter-threats against Britain and France, and if Britain and France will be detrimental to China's interests on the sea, then it will not be long before the British and French colonies in Southeast Asia will fly the battle flag of the Chinese army.

Of course, it is not in everyone's interests to say that it is not in everyone's interests to start fighting directly, after all, now that the world economy is in recession, all countries have a difficult time, and when they cry, don't talk about war, even war mobilization is also short of money. All the trainees are saving money and making up their minds to fight, and it is indeed not so easy.

Since I don't want to fight, let's talk about it, in the past few days, Tang Shaoyi has been busy with this matter, not only negotiating with diplomats from various countries in China, but also issuing instructions to Chinese diplomats in various countries, ordering them to act in accordance with the policies of the central government, to win over what should be co-opted, to intimidate and intimidate, the current China is no longer the China that was slaughtered by others in the past, and now China has a certain strength to argue with European countries, not to mention, the US government has been mediating this matter. Japan has also made up its mind not to make any concessions on the issue of Borneo's interests, after all, the Japanese navy's demand for heavy oil is becoming more and more alarming, and as a resource-poor country, Japan cannot do without Borneo's oil fields.

But the negotiations did not go so well, and the British government demanded written assurances from the Chinese government that it would never take any form of military action, including military exercises, in the Borneo region in the future, and even if the Chinese government made such assurances. The British government will not transfer those new warships back to Europe, and in the future, those British warships will be stationed in the Far East for a long time.

If the negotiation didn't go well, of course Tang Shaoyi would be worried, but since the Spring Festival was very close, this sadness really had to be put away, so he sat in the car with a smile on his face, looking at the children playing on the side of the street, and the passers-by who were hurrying.

Soon, the car drove into the presidential palace, Tang Shaoyi did not delay, immediately rushed to the commander's hall, today he was ordered to come over to report the progress of the negotiations with the president, and will also meet an old friend in the presidential palace, it is none other than Huang Xing.

When they arrived at the president's office, Zhao Bei and Huang Xingzheng sat face-to-face on the sand and chatted, seeing Tang Shaoyi arrive, the two got up to greet each other, and inevitably said a few auspicious words according to the custom, "Congratulations to Cai Bu Xing" These words came out of the mouth of the dignified president of the Republic of China, which made people laugh somewhat, and now Tang Shaoyi is the actual Prime Minister of Ran Ge, and if he is promoted to the highest position, I am afraid that this office will have to change owners, and as a government official, "Cai." It often means that he may be investigated by the Governor's Office, unless he is a big guy in the first place.

"I wish the President all the best in everything and lead the people to continue to accomplish the great cause of strengthening the country."

Tang Shaoyi replied solemnly, this is also what he said in his heart, indeed, although the current China cannot be called a strong country. Otherwise, Britain and France would not have been in such a hurry to deploy additional battleships to the Far East, and if it had been left in the former Qing Dynasty, a few armored cruisers would have basically been able to deter China.

"Keqiang, I'm not wrong, Chief Tang is now the most beautiful Minister of Foreign Affairs in modern China, you see that he is full of energy and spirit, which is very different from the Beiyang era back then

Zhao Bei praised Tang Shaoyi, and also put gold on his own face, to say that Zhao Bei is not happy that it is false, Zhao Bei is indeed very proud now, in just 11 years to completely reverse China's decline, looking at the world, I really can't find a second person, now Zhao Bei, his prestige has not been reduced because of the arrival of the economic depression period, on the contrary, because of the foresight of this economic depression in advance, Zhao Bei's prestige is further improving, especially in the industrial and commercial circles, in the past, business people thought that President Zhao Da played politics, play military is very skillful, but may not understand industry and commerce, but now, many people have admired Zhao Bei to the ground, "civil and military all-rounder" is the best comment to Mr. President.

"Yes, in the past, China's diplomacy was weak, but now, Chinese diplomats can stand up and speak."

Huang Xing nodded and seconded.

Tang Shaoyi smiled bitterly and said: "The scenery is the scenery, but the scenery can't block the shadows, and now, I'm worried about the negotiations with the British." Let's not talk about the scenery, let's talk about the current situation. ”

After speaking, Tang Shaoyi took out the minutes of the meeting and handed it to Zhao Bei, who sat behind his desk and read it carefully, while Tang Shaoyi sat down face-to-face with Huang Xing. Reminiscences chat.

"Bang!"

"Too much deception!"

Tang Shaoyi and Huang Xingzheng were chatting energetically, and the sound of Mr. President slapping the table came from the desk.

The two turned their heads to look and saw that Zhao Bei had already stood up, with a gloomy face, very dissatisfied with the British government.

"How can this be true? Last time on the Central Asian issue, we saved enough face for the British, but now the British government has made such an excessive demand, which is simply a provocation, a provocation." After a temper, Zhao Bei's face looked better, sat down beside Tang Shaoyi, crossed Erlang's legs, and complained a few words to the foreign minister.

"Your Foreign Ministry's position is still not tough enough. You don't have to worry about breaking out into a war, as far as the current domestic economic situation in Britain is concerned, the British government will never dare to provoke a Sino-British war at this time. Isn't Ireland making a fuss right now? I'll send guns and cannons to the Irish. Aren't British workers on strike? I'll send them guns and cannons, and then ask Soviet Russia to send some capable people with them, and we'll start a red revolution in Britain! Red Britain! Red France! Red Europe! If you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the muscle horn Zhuojie more, support the author, support genuine reading!