Jiang Jing went out happily, and after Li Kongrong felt that this person could be trusted, he wondered if he was engaged in a kind of speculation -- according to his resume, he was Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today, but he had already been promoted to colonel, and many forty-year-old officers were still only captains and majors. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info they retired with the title of colonel at most, and themselves, no matter how bad they are, will be a major general, not to mention that everyone has a good evaluation of their own style, whether it is the ministry or Nanjing, there are all ways, only if they don't make mistakes, they will be promoted to lieutenant generals when the time comes.

Suspicious, Li Kongrong not only felt that Jiang Jing's allegiance might be a kind of speculation, but also that the naval princes. The party, too, sneered at it. Only when they marry a woman from the Zeng family do they believe in themselves, but how can they believe in them - who of them can prove that they are not afraid of death, and how can they prove that they are skilled? Is it really that easy to get together every day and talk nonsense, looking forward to driving a submarine back and making meritorious contributions to the Japanese?

Li Kongrong was talking about the group of people downstairs, but his eyes fell on the letterhead, the letter was fortunately written, and he signed it: 'The husband who has kissed you tens of thousands of times in my dream', and then put it in an envelope and sealed it. After writing the letter home, he drafted a short telegram and hurried out while the telegraph office was still closed.

It was snowing outside for a day, and Li Kongrong wondered if he should have gone to Florida in the United States earlier - he still couldn't remember the chart in his memory, so he thought that it might be a good choice to go to Florida to see it. It's just that the British reminded him that the German military intelligence was very interested in him, and it was true that he knew a lot of secrets about the German submarine forces, but the internship of a naval officer in Germany was imminent, and he did not believe that the Germans would restrict him from leaving the country, and besides, he still had to come back. The only trouble is that Jiang Baili is stalking and clutching himself......

Since that Saturday's unpleasant conversation, Jiang Baili no longer spoke to him in the tone of an elder nobleman, and the two of them only talked about things on a case-by-case basis, and there was no other conversation after the matter was over. Perhaps in Jiang Baili's view, he is arrogant and unruly, and such a person is recommended to Chang Gong, which will inevitably cause trouble and eventually ruin his reputation. It's too late for him to think that Li Kongrong is happy, at least he won't be judged by him like a piece of goods, and then be grateful while being sold.

On the way back, Li Kongrong somehow thought of Jiang Baili, and when he arrived at the dormitory, Jiang Baili really called: he asked him to rush to Berlin early tomorrow morning, saying that he had something important to discuss.

"Did you say something?" Li Kongrong asked. The officer on duty is an old classmate Su Jinghu, the twelfth of the rotation management class, and graduated from the same class as Li Kongrong in 1920, but the difference is that he is only a captain, and now he has to salute Li Kongrong, the colonel.

"Didn't say anything." When there are only two people, there is politeness between the two. "Why don't you call back?"

Germany's telephone network covers the whole country, and Flensburg is more than 400 kilometers away from Berlin, which is about the distance of a province in China. Li Kongrong silently remembered Jiang Baili's phone number, and when he called, it was Jiang Baili's voice: "Come over immediately, and we will go to see General Goering together early tomorrow morning......

"What time is it?" Li Kongrong asked. "It's snowing heavily here, the plane should be grounded, and I may not be able to buy a train ticket."

"Then drive the car!" Jiang Baili still knows a little about the naval dormitory. "Be sure to arrive by 10 a.m. tomorrow!"

"What? Going to Berlin on business again? The phone was called in front of Su Jinghu, and Li Kongrong asked with a smile after hanging up.

"There should be something." Li Kongrong frowned, and he was simply guilty of rushing to Berlin, 400 kilometers away, on a snowy day. But there is no way to suffer the crime, who let him get acquainted with the dead fat man of Goering.

Li Kongrong rushed to the Berlin embassy in Germany early the next morning, took a hot shower and changed into a navy dress while Lieutenant Zhong Qiangong drove to the Audi maintenance department by taking a bath from the embassy staff on the fourth floor. At nine o'clock, Jiang Baili came, and he, Li Kongrong, and Cheng Tianfang, the ambassador to Germany, entered the small conference room.

Cheng Tianfang was the first to speak, he said: "The Japanese army is about to attack Nanjing, and the chairman of the committee means that he hopes to compromise and ask the German government to mediate again, and he has made certain concessions for this. That is, on the basis of the previous one, the Shanghai Demilitarized Zone can be expanded; The government also agreed not to be anti-Japanese, but anti-Japanese sentiment was rising among the people, and it would take a process to stop being anti-Japanese. Inner Mongolia may establish an autonomous government, but the sovereignty and administrative power of North China shall not be changed. The second is to agree to jointly reduce tariffs on Japanese goods and respect the rights of overseas Japanese in China. In addition, Germany, for its part, hopes that Germany must remain a mediator throughout the restoration of peace. [Note 46: Chang Kaishen Annals, p259.] On December 2, he personally approached the German ambassador Todmann. ]”

Cheng Tian took a breath and finished the instructions from Nanjing, which was basically a response to the seven requirements put forward by Japan before (November 2): 1. Establish an autonomous government in Inner Mongolia; 2. Establish a demilitarized zone in North China; 3. Expand the Shanghai Demilitarized Zone, which will be controlled by international police; 4. Stop anti-Japanese; 5. Common ****; 6. Reduce tariffs on Japanese goods; 7. Respect the rights of foreigners (Japanese nationals) in China.

These seven articles were agreed to all except for the reservation in the second article, but the time was too late, and now that the Japanese army was approaching the city, how could they agree to these demands.

"The North China Demilitarized Zone can also be discussed." After Cheng Tianfang finished speaking, Jiang Baili added a little more. When he said this, Li Kongrong was shocked, but when he thought about the current situation, he was relieved again -- it was not that Chang Kaishen wanted to surrender, but that the Kuomintang such as Wang Ching-wei, Kong Xiangxi, Zhang Qun, Yu Youren, and others wanted to negotiate peace with Japan. Although Chang Kaishen is a hooligan and a red guy, he absolutely knows what the alliance under the city is, and now the peace talks are just a show and coaxing the surrender faction.

"Are we going to talk, or are we going to talk?" Li Kongrong couldn't help but ask.

"This ......" Cheng Tianfang couldn't answer this, just looked at Xiang Jiang Baili.

"It's good to do our best, it's not something we can do with wishful thinking." Jiang Baili said. After he finished speaking, he glanced at Cheng Tianfang again, and Cheng Tianfang said knowingly: "Han Sheng, Mr. Tianyongzhi sent you a telegram the day before yesterday, but you have gone to Flensburg, and I was busy here for a while, and I accidentally forgot it." ”

Cheng Tianfang said and took a telegram, which was ciphered. Although I don't know the content, from Kong Xiangxi's standpoint, the current period must be related to the peace talks with Japan. Li Kongrong didn't mind Cheng Tianfang's 'carelessness', anyway, he just carried this pot on his back, as for Kong Xiangxi wanting to make himself his special envoy and secretly use Germany to promote Sino-Japanese peace talks, he would never do this thing -- this is not because he is not cleared up, but because the matter has reached this point, it is already too late to do anything.

The peace talks must be the resignation of Chang Kaishen and the coming to power of Wang Jingwei and his ilk, that is, China's ship that will meet Germany, Japan and Italy nine times out of ten. In terms of the consequences of World War II, this is the most undesirable outcome. Japan may still be able to survive on its own because of the Cold War, but China will certainly be annexed by the Soviet Union, and the rest will be dismembered and then reunited to fight the Soviet Union. This division may end with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but there is a greater probability that it will not be unified – the Americans will not be able to re-establish a giant rival after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Japan will re-establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is a different matter.

With Li Kongrong's clumsy ******** knowledge, for the United States, the best thing for the United States to lose the Soviet Union in East Asia is for China and Japan to fight each other. There are two situations to be prevented: first, China re-establishes a tributary system similar to that of ancient times to cover most of Asia's sphere of influence; Second, Japan has once again established the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. After all, the integration of sea power and land power is extremely terrifying, and once integrated, it will inevitably challenge world hegemony, and neither the United States nor Russia will stand idly by.

Thinking of the endless game of chess in East Asia, Li Kongrong was a little distracted. He regretted that he crossed too late, if it could have been a few decades earlier, maybe East Asia could overturn the entire Anglo-American world, but now, judging from the results of Japan's challenge to Britain and the United States in World War II, in the foreseeable future, China has lost the opportunity forever, and she can only become a local power in the Anglo-American world, and the only feasible way to challenge is not to climb some technology tree, which has no hope of turning the tables. She should have children as hard as black people and ******, which is actually another kind of 'challenge'. As long as the Chinese can give birth, and the adult man's salary is only enough to eat, let alone welfare and labor insurance, then with the urine of the capitalists, the whole world will be Chinese workers, and the Chinese will occupy the whole world in hundreds of years.

"Hansheng ......" Li Kongrong lost his mind, and Cheng Tianfang spoke, he was worried that his behavior of withholding the telegram would make him unhappy.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Li Kongrong came back to his senses from the occupation of the whole world by Chinese workers, and he remembered Cheng Tianfang's words just now, and said: "There should be a lot of urgent matters on the telegram, and it should be okay to delay for a day or two." ”

"It's good if you don't delay, it's good if you don't delay." Cheng Tianfang glanced at Jiang Baili, "With Brother Hansheng's understanding of Germany, do you think there is any hope for this peace talks?" ”

"Of course the Germans are willing to negotiate peace between China and Japan, but are the Japanese willing?" Li Kongrong said with a smile, the reason why Chang Kaishen delayed until today to order Jiang Baili to take action was because he had a plan that could not be negotiated. "Historically, the alliance under the city has been to cede land and pay compensation, and the Japanese will definitely not agree to our condition. Of course, if he doesn't promise the best, then it's up to who can hold it. ”

Jiang Baili is old, Mu Na is a little, Cheng Tian is angry, but when he heard Li Kongrong say this, he immediately understood, he said: "I seem to understand what Brother Hansheng means, but we ......."

"My suggestion is that it is better to simply lay out all the conditions in one go, to make a good impression on the Germans, and to shift the responsibility for the war to the Japanese side as much as possible. Let them feel that it is the Japanese who are unwilling to suffer. This is beneficial to the domestic war of resistance, and I am afraid that Goering will restrict the sale of arms again, and once the sales are restricted, the domestic production will be insufficient, and this will be ......"

Li Kongrong said his opinion, Cheng Tianfang listened to it with a smile, as the ambassador to Germany, of course he hoped that Sino-German relations would be harmonious, but Jiang Baili was groaning, he looked at Li Kongrong and said: "Hansheng thinks that even if all the conditions agreed to the Japanese side before, they will not agree to armistice negotiations?" ”

"The soldiers are coming to the city, tens of thousands of Jinshanwei have died, the face of the army and the navy have been lost, how can they be willing if they don't take Nanjing?" Li Kongrong looked at him with a smile, wondering what he thought.

"But nothing is ready in the country." Jiang Baili still said this, "If there is a temporary peace talks, wouldn't it be okay to fight after the industrial construction is roughly completed?" ”

"There is a way to be a one-time blow, this time it is all peace talks, so will there be peace talks next time? What should the soldiers and generals at the bottom do? In North China and Shanghai, is the blood of the sacrificed soldiers in vain? And the chairman, does he want to go into the wilderness for peace talks? At present, there are quite a few people who want to assassinate the chairman of the NPC National Committee, and the defense force is weak after going into the opposition, in case it ......," Li Kongrong said about the drawbacks of the peace talks, and finally said: "I don't think there is a need for peace talks with Japan other than to win the favor of Germany." As the saying goes, if you don't do anything, you won't stop fighting, and since the Japanese have all fought to Nanjing, we should continue to fight until we win. ”

"Hansheng thinks we can win?" Jiang Baili thought about it, and he had also carefully considered his significance in Germany these days, and vaguely felt that Chang Kaishen didn't seem to really want peace talks, but just wanted to give face to the Germans.

"You can win by taking advantage of the momentum." Li Kongrong replied according to history.

"Excuse me?" Jiang Baili was puzzled. "Will the Soviet Union send troops?"

"Never count on the Soviet Union, we better pray that he will not send troops." Li Kongrong said.

"Then ......" Jiang Baili still wanted to say, Cheng Tianfang looked at the pocket watch carefully, and said, "Mr. Baili, we have to go." ”

It's still the Chancellery of Wilhelm Street, and it's still the swaggering Goering. After his arrogant return salute, Jiang Baili began to elaborate on the Nationalist Government's reply to Japan's seven conditions last month. Hearing that Jiang Baili had agreed to all seven conditions, Goering "quacked" and said, "Do you think the Japanese government will meet these conditions now?" ”

Jiang Baili asked: "Then may I ask Your Excellency, what conditions does the Japanese government need to agree to the armistice and peace talks?" ”

"I don't know." Goering did not shake his head, but shook the cane in his hand instead of his head. He said: "Since the 7th of last month, Japan has not summoned our ambassador, and they do not want to hold peace talks for the time being. When Goering said this, he looked at Li Kongrong and complained: "Li, why can you come up with such a vicious plan? You know, a lot of Japanese people say they're going to kill you? ”

"That's my pleasure!" Li Kongrong saw that Japan did not want peace talks, and all worries were gone, so he smiled and talked to Goering. "I just did what a soldier does."

"I'm surprised, how did you know that the Japanese army would land from there?" Goering asked, and he thought the whole thing was strange.

"Because...... Because I know a little bit about Zhou Yi. Li Kongrong's heart moved, and he began to talk nonsense.

“zhouyi？” Goering recited Chinese out of tune, "What's that?" ”

"It was invented 3,000 years ago...... Witchcraft, the ability to know what has not yet happened in the future. Li Kongrong smiled, and Goering's eyes lit up. (To be continued.) )