People are gloomy. Temperatures are still very high and muggy. In this kind of weather. Walking down the street is already sweating, let alone stuffy in the car.

Although the car was very stuffy and hot, Wu Tingfang did not dare to open the window for the reason that he was unsafe, had a headache, and was afraid of the wind.

The cause of the headache has something to do with the recent chaos in the center and the Congress, which is the root cause, as for the direct cause. I'm afraid it's still those tricky official duties in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially this one. Foreign Representations.

There is no way, and now the rumors that China and Germany are about to enter into a formal military alliance treaty are boiling over. The members of the Entente bloc expressed great unease, Britain, France, and Russia. When these foreigners arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they simply took out the posture of the Qing Dynasty before the Qing Dynasty, pointed to the nose of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and asked, and the British minister asked Shinshi, "Does your country want to destroy world peace?" The French minister asked a little inexplicably, just like the strange grammar of the French language, "Is Germany trustworthy in the eyes of your government?" As for the Russian minister and the Japanese minister, without exception they raised the issue of the three eastern provinces, in a word, the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China has almost become a vegetable market, and Wu Tingfang is the only person in this vegetable market who is not qualified to set prices, but either side has come to put pressure on him, one side is the central government, to be precise, the presidential palace, and the other side is the group of diplomats of the Entente countries in China.

Under this pressure, Wu Tingfang has even begun to envy the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Tang Shaoyi, that Mr. Tang is now working as a minister to Russia, leisurely, carefree, maybe, now in Moscow or Petersburg to enjoy a Russian-style Western-style meal, where is like his Chief Wu Chief, these days have been coarse tea and light rice, which further aggravates his headache.

Sitting in this official car of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wu Tingfang was thinking about how to deal with the current situation. But his mind was so confused that he was helpless for a while, and it was the first time since he took over as Minister of Foreign Affairs that he was faced with such a difficult situation, which seemed to have been created by the President.

Who is it that does not blame the president? Originally, those members of the National Assembly said it well, everyone was united in their hearts and minds, opposing China's alliance with Germany, and also opposing China's alliance with the Entente bloc, and everyone was bent on defending China's parliament Mr. Speaker A few days ago, it can be regarded as a broken mouth, and finally in exchange for a harmonious atmosphere in the Congress, but in the end, at the critical moment, public opinion in the Congress suddenly changed direction, from opposing the alliance with Germany to advocating an alliance with Germany, and the front desk figure who provoked all this was a group of senior congressional staffers. For example, Yang Wangpeng, Li Suohe, Jiang Hangdi, Zhao Wei, Wang Zhanyuan, and others have hired only 15 senior staff members in the Congress, but now there are nine senior staff members who have jumped out to advocate the Sino-German alliance, which shows the strength of the "pro-German faction" in the Congress.

But are those people really "pro-Germans"? Not necessarily, I'm afraid Yang Wangpeng was still in the National Assembly a few days ago, if there was nothing boring, Wu Tingfang was willing to give up the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs to this Yang Wang Gaoshen, as for Li Suhe, the director of the chamberlain's office is the president's minion at all, he can't have his own position at all, his position is actually the position of the commander-in-chief, that is, the position of Mr. President, as for Jiang Guidi, Zhao Tong's gang of martial arts high-level staff, they are purely illiterate and semi-literate who eat in the Congress. What do they know about the international situation?

Therefore, in Wu Tingfang's view, the sudden turn of public opinion in the parliament must be a conspiracy behind this, but as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. But he had to remain silent about it. It's just a pity that Mr. Zhu Erdian, the British minister to China, also found out the conspiracy behind this, so he went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask General Wu Xingshi for his guilt. Since then, Wu Tingfang's head has ached. So much so that it affected the work, and I had to ask the center for a few days off to go to Xishan to recuperate, and now. His vacation has ended, and he has just rushed back to Beijing from the Xishan recuperation area, but this headache is not good.

In order to recuperate well in the past few days, Wu Tingfang has interrupted all social activities, and he doesn't even read the newspaper, what has happened in the past few days, and whether the farce in the parliament has ended, he doesn't know what's going on, so. When the car drove into the front door, he specially instructed the driver to stop the car, and called a guard to get out of the car and buy him a few copies of the latest newspapers published that day, so as to learn about the progress of this Sino-German alliance incident.

But after only a few quick glances at the newspaper, Wu Tingfang's head hurt even more, because the news headlines in the newspaper were basically sensational.

"Congress staged an all-out military march! Pro-British parliamentarians and pro-German parliamentarians fight each other! ”

"Congress is all in force. Affected the pond fish, Senate Speaker Li Songqing was beaten until he fainted, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tang Jiwu, went to the latrine in embarrassment and locked the door until the military police arrived. ”

"The president is in person in Congress. A renewed call for unity. ”

U.S. Secretary Stade suggested that in order to prevent political instability, Congress might as well put aside alliances with foreign countries and emulate U.S. policy. Pursue a diplomatic strategy of glorious isolation

With the newspaper in hand, Wu Tingfang can even imagine the excited expressions of those reporters or editors-in-chief, who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and these reports have the tendency to add fuel to the fire.

But can this blame the reporters or editors-in-chief? I can't blame them, after all, it is a group of politicians, not a group of journalists who fanned the flames, who decided the central policy.

It's not easy for journalists either. If you want to make a living, if you want to eat, you must find a way to make the report more attractive, Wu Tingfang is not easy, he also has to maintain a decent life, more importantly, several of his juniors are now eating in the diplomatic circles, if he does not have this strong backing, I am afraid that his future career will be very problematic, so no matter what, Wu Tingfang must also persevere to the end, and cannot walk away like the former Tang Shaoyi Tang.

"President, President. What the hell are you trying to do? ”

Wu Tingfang threw away the newspaper. Sighing, I looked out the car window, and now it was already raining outside. So he opened the window, and a cool breeze immediately blew into the car, making his thinking a little clearer, but his head hurt even more.

It's really too hot right now; You need a rain to cool down, but what do you expect when the temperature in the Capitol is higher than that?

Wu Tingfang pondered. Soon. The car stopped in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the driver showed the guards his pass before he was able to continue his journey, and it was not until he stopped in the office area of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Wu Tingfang retracted his thoughts.

A staff member had already been informed by the guards at the door that they were waiting by the car with an umbrella, and saw Wu Tingfang push open the car door. Hurriedly took a few steps to shield Chief Wu from the wind and rain.

"Chief, the British Minister, Mr. Juerdian, has just come over and is now in the reception room, do you want to see him at once, or will you wait until you have changed your clothes?" The staff whispered.

"Zhu Erdian is here again?"

When Wu Tingfang heard this, he hurriedly sat back in the car and told the driver to drive quickly, leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and go home directly. He didn't want to see Zhu Erdian.

But before the car could move, I heard Zhu Erdian's shout.

"Mr. Wu, you're finally back. I inquired yesterday that you're going to end your vacation today, and now it seems. The message is accurate. ”

Wu Tingfang was a little annoyed. Reluctantly, he ordered the driver to turn off the engine. Then he got out of the car and looked forward, and saw Zhu Erdian standing on the steps with a smile on his face, without an umbrella, just drenched directly in the rain. Although the rain was not heavy, the expensive dress was already half wet, and the top was dark, and the bottom was light, and it looked a little funny.

Of course, the British minister did not come to perform a burlesque for Wu Tingfang to see. The reason why Zhu Erdian came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to lodge a verbal protest with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Mother and the Central Government.

This verbal protest by the British minister was not his own intention, but the intention of the British Government, and yesterday the British Foreign Secretary had officially issued an order to Zhu Erdian, asking him to lodge this verbal protest with the Chinese side "at an appropriate time" against the dangerous move of the Chinese Central Government to undermine peace in the Far East.

"Dangerous move." This refers to the ongoing Sino-German alliance turmoil in Parliament, in which the British government smelled of danger and decided to express its dissatisfaction with the Chinese side through diplomatic channels.

Wu Tingfang received Zhu Erdian's verbal protest in the reception room, which, according to diplomatic procedures, was accepted. Zhu Erdian must be led to the presidential palace to hand over this diplomatic protest to the president, whether the center will fight back against the British government, this has to be said by the president, Wu Tingfang is just a mouthpiece.

For the arrogance of the British. Wu Tingfang asked a few words very unceremoniously.

"Our country is a republic, and although the president is the head of the country and holds great power, he is not the emperor of the past, and the foreign policy of this country is now decided by the Diet, and whether or not to form an alliance with Germany is still being discussed by the Diet. Although the controversy is fierce, since no agreement has been reached, and the Sino-German alliance is just a rumor, why should the government of your country protest against this? ”

Zhu Erdian glanced at Wu Tingfang expressionlessly, and his answer made Wu Tingfang a little frightened.

"As the main defender of world peace, it is the responsibility of the British Empire to correct any incorrect international relations! For the Government of the British Empire, the current controversy in your parliament is very dangerous, and in order to avoid chaos in the Far East, and to prevent your country from being divided by some powerful country, the Government of the British Empire is actually helping you by making a verbal protest to your central government! Now, please go with me to the Presidential Palace as soon as possible, and if the situation becomes out of control because of the delays of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then Mr. Wu will be the second sinner, as for the first sinner, in your country. Mr. Ng should know who he is referring to. ”

Wu Tingfang was a little shocked. Zhu Erdian is blatantly provoking, and what the British government wants to do is really unpredictable.

"Come to someone, arrange a merge car, and go to the presidential palace".

Wu Tingfang gave an order to a Foreign Ministry staff member, and in this situation, there was only so much he could do.