At 11 a.m. on January 10, Zhang Renjun, the envoy of the Chinese Empire, set sail from the port of Tianjin on a Lanfang-class destroyer to the Xia Empire. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On January 25, Zhang Renjun arrived at the West Military Port in Beijing, and Hua Guoqiang personally greeted him at the wharf.

The people who greeted Zhang Renjun together also included Wu Tingfang, Yuan Keding, Yuan Kewen, Yuan Kehuan, and other ambassadors of the Xia Empire to Shangjing.

After Wu Tingfang signed the "Zhenyuan Treaty" with Japan, he stayed in the Xia Empire, and after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, he served as the ambassador to the Xia Empire at the invitation of Cao Rulin.

Zhang Renjun was very excited to be able to serve as the envoy and participate in the international negotiations for the forcible repossession of the leased land by force after the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Wu Tingfang and Zhang Renjun knew each other when they were in the same Qing Dynasty, and Wu Tingfang was 4 years older than Zhang Renjun, so they were very familiar at that time.

When Zhang Renjun got off the boat, Wu Tingfang greeted him from afar: "Qianli, hard work." ”

"Ambassador Wu is still in good health and is doing well, no wonder he doesn't want to return to China." Zhang Renjun responded.

Wu Tingfang and Zhang Renjun came to Hua Guoqiang and introduced them to each other: "Foreign Minister Hua, this is Zhang Renjun, the envoy of the Chinese Empire; Qianli, this is His Excellency Hua Guoqiang, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Xia Empire. According to the usual practice, Wu Tingfang first introduced Zhang Renjun to Hua Guoqiang

"Yes, Your Excellency the Foreign Secretary!" Zhang Renjun first greeted Hua Guoqiang and forcibly saluted Hua Guo.

"Yes, Zhang Lao! The Chinese people in the world are one family, so there is no need to be so polite. "Hua Guoqiang is considered to have met Zhang Renjun.

Subsequently, Yuan Keding and other brothers stepped forward to salute Zhang Renjun and said: "Uncle Zhang has worked hard! This was arranged by Yuan Shikai by telegram in advance.

Yuan Kewen is much darker and more powerful than before; Yuan Keding is much more stable than before; Yuan Kehuan is more sleek than before.

At noon, Hua Guoqiang held a banquet in the naval officers' cafeteria to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Zhang Renjun and others.

During the banquet, Zhang Renjun asked about the studies of the three of them, Yuan Keding is still in the army, and after 2 years of internship, he is ready to continue his studies at the Military Academy, mainly wanting to strengthen his military command skills; After one year of internship in the army, Yuan Kewen has transferred to the Imperial Administration College to study administrative management, and after two years of study, he is ready to serve in the local government of the Xia Empire; Yuan Kehuan studied mechanical and electrical engineering at Shangjing Institute of Technology.

Zhang Renjun was very satisfied with the studies of the three people, after a few years of study in the Xia Empire, there was no longer the habit of the original son, Zhang Renjun was also very pleased that Yuan Shikai's successors were also very pleased, so Zhang Renjun asked them to eat quickly, and after eating, they returned to school, and they could not delay their studies.

After the banquet, in the small conference room of the naval base, Hua Guoqiang, Wu Tingfang, Zhang Renjun and others held a short meeting.

Hua Guoqiang spoke first: "Ambassador Wu, envoy Zhang, this negotiation will focus on the Xia Empire, and the content related to the Chinese Empire is to recover the leased lands of Macao, Hong Kong and Jiaoao, as well as to negotiate the transfer of the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region to the Xia Empire in advance. ”

In the past, the two of them only knew about the resumption of Hong Kong and Macao, but now Hua Guoqiang has added the Jiaoao lease, which made the two stunned, so Wu Tingfang hurriedly asked: "Foreign Minister Hua, what's going on with the Jiaoao lease?" ”

Hua Guoqiang hurriedly explained: "The Chinese Empire took back Macao by force from Portugal, and the Xia Empire forced him to cede a part of the colonies of the Chinese Empire as compensation after returning Macao, and the Chinese Empire used advanced military technology to exchange the Jiaoao lease with Germany, and then the Xia Empire exchanged the Jiaoao lease with the Chinese Empire for the colonies ceded from Portugal. ”

Being able to recover Macao and Hong Kong has already made the two very happy, and now that the leased land of Jiaoao is recovered, then there will be no leased land outside the Xia Empire on the territory of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese will no longer have to be bullied by foreign devils.

Both of them understood that it was the Xia Empire that forced the white Europeans to force them to make the Chinese Empire recover these lands without paying an additional price, which already made them very satisfied, so Zhang Renjun said: "With the arrangement of the Chinese Foreign Minister alone, the Chinese Empire is very satisfied that it can recover the three leased lands." ”

Wu Tingfang said: "This is all the credit of the Xia Empire, and the Chinese Empire has no objections. ”

Hua Guoqiang continued: "From now on, there is only the leased land of the Xia Empire on the territory of the Chinese Empire, I wonder if it will cause misunderstanding among the subjects of the Chinese Empire?" “

Although Zhang Renjun was at odds with Yuan Shikai, this did not affect his patriotic enthusiasm, so he said: "In just a few years after the Chinese Empire was home to the country, the economy developed rapidly, and the people's livelihood was improved to a certain extent, but the foundation was too thin, there were too many illiterates, and the industrial base was backward, so the total amount was still very low, and there was still a long way to go to reach the level of the Xia Empire. The Xia Empire's leased land in the Chinese Empire was also to protect the security of the Chinese Empire, and only the Xia Empire's efforts could reduce the military expenditures of the Chinese Empire, make every effort to develop the economy and improve the people's livelihood, and all the subjects of the Chinese Empire had no objections and misunderstandings, only gratitude. “

Hua Guoqiang said: "The Xia Empire has now occupied the British and French colonies south of the Chinese Empire, and now the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region has been safe, there is no external threat, so there is no need to continue to exist, the last time the Xia Empire's ambassador in Beijing, Wu Wenbin, has informed your country that it will withdraw from the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region before June 31 this year, and return all the military and administrative sovereignty of the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region to the Chinese Empire. After the Western Xinjiang Special Region and the Eastern Xinjiang Special Region are safe, the Xia Empire will also return these two colonies. “

Zhang Renjun and Wu Tingfang were very moved by the actions of the Xia Empire, they had no greed for the leased land in the Chinese Empire, and immediately returned the local military and administrative sovereignty after ensuring local security, and guarded the frontier for the Chinese Empire for so many years in vain.

Zhang Renjun was very dissatisfied with the Xia Empire's support for Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, and now he felt that the Xia Empire was completely thinking about the Chinese Empire, and he was very moved, so after talking about the matter, he asked Hua Guoqiang: "Foreign Minister Hua, I have always had two questions, and I hope you can give me an answer." “

"Envoy Zhang is polite, please speak!"

"First, why didn't the Xia Empire personally overthrow the notice of the Qing court? Second, why do you want to support Yuan Xiangcheng as emperor? “

Hua Guoqiang said with a smile: "I believe that not only you have questions, but Ambassador Wu and many people have these two questions, first, if the Xia Empire personally overthrows the Qing Dynasty and unifies by force, there will be a lot of wars, although the Xia Empire is not afraid of war, but it will always cause a lot of casualties among the Chinese, it is not the purpose of our Xia Empire to fight their own people, it is better to support the peaceful transition of Yuan Xiangcheng, with the least social turmoil and the least harm to the people of the Chinese Empire; The purpose of supporting Yuan Xiangcheng as emperor was to allow the Chinese Empire to gather the strength of the whole country to develop rapidly, otherwise, the implementation of democracy, not to mention whether the current society is suitable for the implementation of the democratic system, but the provinces are duplicated and the forces are scattered, and it will be difficult for the Chinese Empire to become strong in the shortest possible time. “

Zhang Renjun seemed to understand what Hua Guoqiang said, but he didn't seem to understand anything, he just knew that now he was going to take back all the leased lands of the foreign devils in the Chinese Empire, and took back the customs and various tax rights, and the Chinese Empire became stronger day by day, and was no longer bullied by the foreign devils, which the Qing Dynasty would never be able to do.

Imagine that he was the governor of Liangguang at the beginning, and he was terrified when he saw foreign devils, but now ordinary people of the Chinese Empire can treat foreign devils as equals, and now compared with before, the gap is too big, which is inseparable from the support of the Xia Empire, but it also has the credit of Yuan Xiangcheng's efforts.

He has always been obsessed with Yuan Xiangcheng's overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and his own proclamation as emperor, is he really wrong? (To be continued.) )