The mist is gradually dissipating, there are still not many pedestrians on the street, today is a statutory rest day, there is no need to go to work, even the newsstand on the side of the road,.

The newsstand was not open, the newspaper delivery workers were happy to sleep, and even the newspapers sold by the diligent street vendors were published yesterday, and today's newspapers are still lying in the printing house of the newspaper office.

As a person with a very regular schedule, Gu Weijun still got up before seven o'clock as usual, practiced his fists and feet in the garden, went to breakfast on time at seven o'clock, and didn't find the newspaper when he sat at the dining table, so he reacted that it was Sunday.

"Is it Sunday?" Gu Weijun asked the lady sitting across the table.

"You're so busy that you can't even remember what day it is." Madame shook her head, and then gave Gu Weijun an affirmative answer.

"No wonder Lao Zhang didn't buy newspapers. I asked Lao Zhang to buy me a few comprehensive military books, and in this regard, I want to strengthen my study. ”

Gu Weijun smiled, he has been busy in the past few days, and he is completely acting according to the work schedule arranged for him by the secretary, and he doesn't care about the day of the week at all, anyway, where to go and who to meet, all are handled by the secretary.

"You forgot? Lao Zhang took a leave of absence yesterday and went back to his hometown to visit relatives. Madame said.

"Oh. These days, I, the Minister General of Foreign Affairs, am about to become the deputy minister of national defense, and I always have to meet with so many foreign military attachés every day. ”

Gu Weijun nodded, and then remembered that the housekeeper asked for leave to return to his hometown to visit relatives, so he stopped being verbose and buried himself in eating, as usual, it was also a Western-style breakfast, and the dessert after the meal was chocolate.

After breakfast, Gu Weijun instructed the servant to prepare a brand new "republican suit" for him, and instructed the driver to prepare the car.

"Where are you going? Don't you rest at home? "Madame is a little strange.

"Today, the president has a banquet in Xishan Mansion, I am invited to participate, you can eat your own lunch and dinner today." Gu Weijun explained.

"Am I not going?"

Madame is even more strange, such a banquet, the Minister of Foreign Affairs usually has to attend with Madame.

"Today's banquet is not a diplomatic banquet, it is a private party, so you don't have to go."

Gu Weijun shook his head, looking a little like he wanted to say something, but he still didn't explain much.

"It's not a diplomatic banquet, what are you going to do?"

Madame muttered a few words, but she didn't ask much, after so many years, she also knew very well the style of the "mad president", but I was afraid that Mr. President was planning to plan some state secrets in Xishan today.

Gu Weijun ignored his wife's nagging, shook the phone to his father-in-law, and after a few words of greeting, he hung up the phone, boarded the car, and went to the Xishan Mansion under the escort of bodyguards.

After the car drove onto the street, Gu Weijun found that the street was full of firecracker debris, and he couldn't help but ask the private driver who was driving.

"Xiao Chen, why were all the people in this city setting off firecrackers last night? You should have been in town last night. ”

The driver said with a smile: "Isn't it because of the news broadcast on the radio, last night, the news said that the Chinese Navy task force defeated the British Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Detachment in the Indian Ocean, sank one British Navy aircraft carrier, two battleships, and one battle cruiser, and also bombed the British military base on the Indian Ocean islands, which can be described as a complete victory. Last night, there was a torchlight parade at the Temple of Heaven, but I also heard that I didn't go out last night, and I stayed by the radio to listen to the news. ”

"Oh. I see. ”

Gu Weijun suddenly realized that as China's foreign minister, he had already learned the reliable news of the naval task force's victory in the naval battle yesterday morning, but he had been accompanying the German ambassador and military attache to China at the Nanyuan Air Base last night to visit the radar station of the base, and he did not return to Beijing until late at night.

"Chief, you don't seem surprised at all. If you add those sunken auxiliary ships, this time the British fleet is basically wiped out by us, this is the first time that the 'empire of the sun never sets' has claimed to dominate the sea. "The driver, Xiao Chen, is a little strange.

"What's there to be surprised about? Britain's strategic focus has always been on Europe, and on the Asian side, Britain's defense is relatively empty, and I heard that the British air force stationed in Southeast Asia has only more than 200 planes in total, many of which are old planes, and they cannot fight at all. ”

In recent years, some domestic newspapers and some foreign newspapers have been advocating China's "strategic rise", but these advocates are just speculation, and now, through this one-sided naval battle in the Andaman Islands, the world is truly aware of China's "strategic rise".

The rise of an emerging power must come at the cost of the fall of an old power, which has been the case since ancient times, and the only way to prove this truth is through a real war.

In fact, the reason why Gu Weijun went to Xishan Mansion to participate in that "private party" today was because of the naval battle of the Andaman Islands, yesterday morning, the center got Shen Honglie's battle report, and at noon that day, Japan and Germany learned the results of the naval battle through diplomatic channels, and the governments of the two countries were very eager to get a more detailed report on the war situation from the Chinese government, so they expressed this intention to Gu Weijun through the ambassador to China, and Gu Weijun also conveyed the request of Japan and Germany to the center. So the president nodded without thinking about it, but there was a request, that is, the naval battle of the Andaman Islands could not be discussed in the government office, and if he wanted to talk, he would go to the West Hill Mansion to talk.

Xishan Mansion is now a real "private territory", and talking there is naturally a "private party", but then again, Gu Weijun still doesn't understand why the president deliberately called him over, it is said that this matter should be regarded as a military matter, and he, the chief of foreign affairs, went to talk to foreign military attachés, it was really a hatchet.

It turned out that the people who rushed to the Xishan Mansion today were not only military attaches from Japan, Germany, Italy and other countries in China, but also the ambassadors of these countries to China, and even a guest with a very special status.

This very special guest is Italian Foreign Minister Ziano, who is also the son-in-law of the Italian "leader" Mussolini, such a person is actually a secret visit to China, and Gu Weijun did not know anything in advance, when he saw Ziano at this moment, he understood why the Italian government announced a few days ago that Mr. Foreign Minister could not handle official business for the time being due to "health reasons", but was going to a Mediterranean tourist resort to "recuperate", it turned out that Mr. Foreign Minister was not in Italy at all, nor was he in the Mediterranean. Instead, he secretly came to the Chinese capital and met with Mr. President of China.

Ziano arrived at Beijing Airport the day before yesterday, he came by plane, and in order not to land in the sphere of influence of those "unfriendly countries" and replenish fuel, he took a specially modified long-range passenger plane to Beijing, and this kind of passenger plane is also the world's first long-range trunk airliner with four engines that the China Aviation Administration completed its design and finalized last year and began mass production, this kind of passenger plane has a range of more than 4,000 kilometers, but it is not enough for Ziano to fly directly to Beijing without landing halfway, so it must be modified. All the extra seats in the cabin were removed and the drop fuel tanks were installed, and even then, it was necessary to land once in Central Asia to refuel.

Ciano was accompanied by more than a dozen senior officials of the Italian government, most of whom came from the industrial sector, especially the aircraft industry and the electronics industry, who came to discuss industrial and technological exchanges with the Chinese government. The Volunteer Aviation Corps "suffered so many losses that even the German Volunteer Aviation Unit, the Condor Legion, could not match it, so that the pilots of the destroyer squadron of the Italian "Volunteer Aviation Unit" refused to take to the skies unless they could be equipped with fighters as good as the Falcon.

Ziano's task was to lead a secret visit to China and at the same time to forward a handwritten letter from the Italian leader to the Chinese president, and it was clear that the ambition in the Italian leader's chest was finally starting to beat faster at the sight of China declaring war on Britain.

It must be admitted that Ziano arrived in Beijing the day before yesterday, and yesterday came the news from the Indian Ocean that the Chinese Navy's task force had defeated the British Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Detachment, and this news was also confirmed by the senior spies lurking in the British government's colonial department, because after suffering defeat, the retreating British fleet had to return to India to recuperate, and the British government's colonial department and the naval department received reports of the British fleet's crushing defeat almost at the same time.

Ziano is also very interested in the details of the Sino-British naval war, because Italy's ideal is to establish an "African Empire" in Africa, which requires mastering the sea dominance of the Mediterranean, but now there is still a powerful British fleet cruising in the Mediterranean, if the French Mediterranean fleet is taken into account, then once a war breaks out in Europe in the future, the Italian Navy will have to fight a very difficult naval war, at this time, any example of defeating the British Navy is worthy of attention and reference.

It is true that as a diplomat who is well aware of the details of the combined forces of Britain and France, Ziano does not want Italy to go to war with Britain, but the problem is that the decision is not in his hands, but in the hands of his father-in-law, that is, Mussolini, the leader of the Italian fascist movement.