The Paris Peace Conference, the Spoils Conference, there are no seats for the Russians here, the Russians have no say here, let alone Russia, even China has no right to speak, because China has not joined the war. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But if you participate in the war, do you have a say?

The Americans think that they participated in the war, but basically no one listens to what they say, so there is only one real reason, that is, the two hegemonic countries of Britain and France do not want other countries to share their interests at all, and do not want to see China or the United States interfere in European affairs.

The President of the United States personally went to Paris for a meeting, and he was very active, and put forward a 14-point plan to vigorously win over allies and expand the international influence of the United States.

It's a pity that no one listens to them, the Germans are willing to listen, but the Germans themselves talk like farts, and they disarm the country and taste all the humiliation.

Although no one listened to China's words, it did not expect to get involved in Europe, and Lu Zhengxiang did not make excessive demands, after all, Europe did not have much interest in China, so Britain and France gave China face, and pulled another big country, Italy, plus the United States, Britain, France, the United States, Italy and China, each sent two representatives, and formed a meeting of ten people.

The United States are President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing, British Prime Minister Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Belfort, French Prime Minister Clemenceau and Foreign Minister, Italian Prime Minister Orlando and Foreign Secretary Sanino, as well as Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang and Ambassador to the United States Gu Weijun.

All major international issues are discussed and decided by the meeting of the five major powers first, and only after they have reached a private agreement will the relevant parties be invited into the meeting, in fact, to tell them a result.

But the controversy of these ten people is also very big, and the market is arguing.

"My country calls on the great powers to renounce their colonization in East Asia. Britain must give up its colonial rule in Hong Kong, and no major country in the world can accept its territory being colonized by other countries. It also demanded that France renounce its colonization of Vietnam and allow Asian, especially East Asian countries, to stand on their laurels and guarantee their sovereignty. ”

It is true that China does not demand much, and these are the points that make demands on Hong Kong, the last colony of the Great Powers in China, and at the same time oppose the colonial rule of the Great Powers in Asia.

Britain and France were adamantly opposed to this demand, because they held that their territories in Asia were acquired by international treaties and were protected by public international law, and that any attempt to infringe on their territories would be sanctioned by public international law.

Even the United States has objected to this, hoping that China will abide by public international law, because they still have a colony in Asia, and that is the Philippines.

Italy, on the other hand, is more detached, but they speak too quietly.

"We strongly urge all countries to pay attention to China's interests, because our demands are completely reasonable, and if all parties continue to maintain this attitude, it will not benefit any other than create contradictions and frictions, and it is completely indifferent to the international order."

Gu Weijun was very indignant.

China's speech has always been opened by him, but Lu Zhengxiang has been very silent.

Lu Zhengxiang is a very humble Christian, he is a native of Shanghai, during the Opium War, his father came to Shanghai, in order to make a living to join the church, believe in Protestantism, Lu Zhengxiang's mother is also a devout believer.

For this reason, Lu Zhengxiang received a good education in a church school in Shanghai, and later entered the Shanghai Cantonese Dialect Museum sponsored by the Prime Minister's Yamen, and later entered the Beijing Tongwen Museum to learn foreign languages, and was very proficient in Russian. In 1893, he served as an interpreter for the Chinese Embassy in Russia. In Russia, he met the Belgian Catholic woman Peide, and Lu Zhengxiang married in 1899 despite the opposition of the embassy.

In 1906, Lu Zhengxiang was promoted to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to the Netherlands. After the republican revolution in 1912, at the request of President Yuan Shikai, he returned to China from the post of ambassador to Russia and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

After Lu Zhengxiang came to power, with many years of experience in diplomacy in the West, he focused on building China's modern diplomatic institutions, and as soon as he took office, he dismissed all the members of the ministry, and after he personally inspected them, he found them qualified and reappointed, and even Yuan Shikai's nephew was among the people who were laid off.

It has formulated a strict management system, formulated the organizational methods of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the model of diplomatic institutions in Western countries, formulated the "Official System of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs", with a general director and a deputy director, and one department, four departments and one office responsible for daily affairs, namely, the General Affairs Department, the Foreign Affairs Department, the Trade Department, the Communications Department, the General Administration Department, and the Counselor's Office.

Lu Zhengxiang took the lead in strictly abiding by the system, starting with the smallest on-time work as an example, Lu Zhengxiang said: "I, Lu, am incompetent and immoral, and I am really worthy of the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, but if I have a long, I can work on time, so I dare to ask you to do the same." "Leading by example soon led to a new atmosphere in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the past, the old bureaucratic system did not have many qualified personnel at all, and Lu Zhengxiang could only train new people from scratch, and all the members of the department were admitted after examination, and those who knew foreign languages were preferred.

Through various efforts, Lu Zhengxiang completely changed the situation of foreign bureaucratic diplomacy in the past, and established a professional and modern diplomatic institution, Lu Zhengxiang's Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be regarded as the second department in China other than customs to achieve a modern organizational structure, and it is the first modern department established by the Chinese themselves, which can be described as of far-reaching significance.

It's a pity that in the original history, Lu Zhengxiang was scolded for many years because he signed a lot of traitorous treaties for Yuan Shikai, but he was scolded for many years for carrying this black pot, so his historical status was not as good as Gu Weijun he cultivated.

Unable to even establish himself in China, he went to Europe with his wife, where he settled in a monastery and spent his entire life abroad. But in this era, he didn't have to bear so much infamy, on the contrary, he also gained considerable fame, and this time he represented China to participate in international conferences, which made his career reach its peak.

It's just that he is a very humble believer and doesn't like to fight with others, so the work of arguing with others is handed over to the young Gu Weijun.

"We ask Mr. Gu to note that Hong Kong was ceded to China by the Qing government, and any attempt by your country against Hong Kong is a destruction of the international order!"

"I would also like to draw my attention to Mr. Gu that the relationship between China and Vietnam has nothing to do with China's interests, and if your country tries to interfere with China's interests in Vietnam, China will protect it at all costs."

Gu Weijun's words made Britain and France dissatisfied, and they immediately opened their mouths to say-for-tat.

The clamor was not decided at all, but when the news of the talks spread, it immediately aroused the imagination of the countries concerned, and the Vietnamese in France rejoiced, and they finally saw that a big country began to speak for their interests.

Lu Zhengxiang personally met with many Vietnamese student groups in France to visit the Chinese diplomatic mission, and proposed to them for three days that China should peacefully strive for the freedom of the country and become an equal East Asian country, and that China was willing to provide political and diplomatic assistance.

But can peace really drive out the colonizers?

The only success may be Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation, Gandhi is very admired by Western countries, because he did not use force against Western colonizers, but whether the British do not want the burden of India, or India itself won the freedom, everyone has their own understanding in their hearts.

South Africa's Mandela, who is also admired by the West, succeeded in putting blacks in power, but turned a developed country in South Africa into a BRIC country, which sounds good, but this is a developing country.

So whether what Westerners praise is in their own interests or not, it's really worth discussing, because they only praise actions that are in their interests, and whether such behavior is beneficial or harmful to their own country, Westerners don't care.

The Chinese expressed that they did not want the Vietnamese to use force against the French, which made the French breathe a sigh of relief, and if the Chinese had plans against Vietnam, they would really have a big head.

When China expressed its attitude that it would not use force to change the situation in East Asia, the French secretly expressed their understanding, because it was in their interests.

In return, the French expressed support for the views of some Chinese, such as that China's interests will be fully respected in Asia, and that France will get China's understanding in advance when dealing with all East Asian issues.

Well, this is China's quest for hegemony in Asia, although it already has it, and the French have made it clear.

Lu Zhengxiang and Gu Weijun then revisited the German Pacific colonies, such as Samoa, New Guinea, Mariana and other Pacific colonies.

These colonies had already been settled with the British, and the British not only reneged on their promises for these worthless places, but at this time they were only a confirmation, not a gain in earnings.

The British did not object to the trusteeship of these colonies to China, but demanded that China once again guarantee the demilitarization of these areas, that no army and navy be stationed in these areas, and that at most a minimum police force be maintained.

In addition, China's demands at the Paris Peace Conference were few, mainly on the Russian issue, but Britain, France, and Italy did not accept that Russian representatives should be allowed to participate in the Peace Conference, and Russia, like Germany and other defeated countries, was excluded from the Paris Peace Conference.

However, the countries once again explicitly assured that the tsarist government was the Russian government that they recognized, and reached an understanding with the tsarist government, promising that the tsarist government would only take on a debt of $3 billion for the time being, which was a reassurance of the previous commitment.

After discussing the Asian question, the discussion of other regional issues began, and the great powers discussed the interests of each country in the Americas, and the countries promised each other free trade, but also expressed their approval of the United States' demand that all countries should not expand their colonial power in the Americas.

At this time, Gu Weijun raised another sharp question, that is, the issue of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, and Gu Weijun protested to the President of the United States in person on the basis of the discriminatory nature of this bill against China.

"The Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States is an insult to an ancient civilization with a population of 50,000, and the United States must immediately repeal this discriminatory bill and apologize to the Chinese people whose feelings have been hurt."

The face-to-face protest of Chinese diplomats embarrassed Wilson, who considered himself a gentleman and displayed a very high-profile display of American friendliness in Europe this time.

Wilson could only emphasize that Chinese Americans have also made a very significant contribution to the development of the United States, but due to the national conditions of the United States, he has no way to promote the repeal of this bill. (To be continued.) )