Chapter 469: The British's Reaction
Potala Palace, Lhasa.
Langdun Kunga Wangchuk was anxiously pacing up and down the room, and next to him sat a child who was only three years old. There were still more than a dozen cronies standing in the room, and they all looked at Langdun Gongga Wangchuk with uneasy expressions, the de facto ruler of Tibet was greatly panicked after receiving the news that the central government had sent a large army into Tibet, and hurriedly summoned his cronies to the room of the reincarnation of the thirteenth ** lama who had just been selected for urgent consultation.
It's just that this reincarnated Lingtong, whose milk name is Lamu Tengzhu, is only a three-year-old doll this year, and he has not yet succeeded to the throne, and now he is just a child who needs to be taken care of, and he can't give them any instructions.
Since the death of the 13th ** Lama in 1933, Langdun Gongga Wangchuk has served as the Si Lun (equivalent to the regent) of Tibet with the support of the British government, and since he tasted the fine wine brewed by power, he was no longer willing to let go of the power in his hands, so at the instigation of the British, he has tried his best to instigate his cronies and subordinates to make trouble in Tibet for the past two years, setting off a wave of opposition to the Han people, trying to make the affairs of Tibet bigger, and finally attracting the attention of Western countries, so as to seek an excuse for splitting Tibet.
Last month, the newly elected president of the central government went so far as to announce that he would let the 10th Panchen Lama in Qinghai return to Tibet, which is tantamount to cutting off the roots of Langdun Gongga Wangchuk, and if the 10th Panchen Lama returns to Tibet with the support of a large number of Tibetans, what will happen to him? So he frequently sent telegrams to his British masters, asking the British government to intervene in the matter.
In the end, he got his wish, and the British really supported him. They sent their own ambassador to China to warn the newly elected president, Su Tong. However, he not only resolutely supported the 10th Panchen Lama's return to Tibet, but also intensified his efforts to send nearly 60,000 troops to accompany the 10th Panchen Lama into Tibet, and the mighty and unstoppable procession along the way continued for dozens of kilometers.
At this time, Langdun Gongga Wangchuk and a group of cronies were dumbfounded, although they also raised a team of 15,000 people, "But everyone knows that it is okay to let this garbage and miscellaneous army in the name of apologetics bully ordinary Tibetans, and let them confront the battle-hardened Central Army, uh, forget it, let's study how the rats defeat the old cat."
According to the report, the Han army has arrived in Nagqu, and it is estimated that it will arrive in Lhasa in about a week. My lord, the military shoes of the Red Han people are about to set foot on the land of our Tibetans, and now the spirit boy has not yet succeeded to the throne, you have to give us an idea! Listening to the gossip in the room, Langdun Gongga Wangchuk only felt that there were flies flying around in his ears. The room was full of only Lamu Tengzhu, a child who watched curiously as the adults around him muttered in the ground, saying things he didn't understand.
Langdun Gongga Wangchuk took a deep breath and asked the liaison officer on the side, "Does the British ambassador to China have any new instructions?" The liaison officer shook his head in frustration, "Since he sent the news that those Han people were going to enter Tibet a few days ago, there has been no news. ”
Langdun Gongga Wangchuqiang cheered up his subordinates and said, "It doesn't matter, don't those Han people still have a week to reach Lhasa? There is still time, so we will prepare first, and order the cathars to go to Lhasa 300 miles to stop those Han Chinese, and delay as much time as possible. Don't look at those Han people dancing happily in their place, when we come to our place protected by the Buddha, he will be a dragon and will have to become a soft-footed shrimp, and we can pinch it as much as we want. ”
"That's right!" , everyone then remembered that not everyone can come in Tibet, "I think that in order to appease Tibet, the Ming Lord of Tang Taizong had to send Princess Wencheng to pacify Zangambu?" Why didn't the Tang Dynasty, which was powerful at that time, dare not attack Tibet, and it was not because Tibet was a place sheltered by the Buddha, and it was difficult for outsiders to adapt to the terrain and climate here after coming in, and they could not use troops on a large scale?
"Or Lord Si Lun is wise, how can we forget that this Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under our feet is our biggest talisman?" , after being cheered up by Langdun Gongga Wangchuk, everyone began to be angry again like a ball full of air.
Langdun Gongga Wangchuk, who was originally cheering for everyone, heard the sound of his subordinates clapping horses like a tide, and unconsciously began to dance with his eyebrows: "It seems that a beautiful scene really appeared in front of him, and countless and heroic apologists rushed to the Han army that was difficult to walk, and beat them to the ground, and the central government had no choice but to recognize the independence of Tibet, and he became the greatest hero of the Tibetan people who led the Tibetans to get rid of the Han rule after Tsangangpo."
As soon as he thought of this, "Langdun Gongga Wangchuk felt that his heart was full of motivation. If Su Tong is here, he will definitely sigh, this girl is really YY limitless.
Just when Langdun Gongga Wangchuk led a stick of his men in the Potala Palace and began to lust in broad daylight, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was also worried about the Far East.
Why did the British cling to the Tibet issue and not let go? The reason for this is because of the problem of India, which is one of the most important British colonies overseas. The British called it the jewel in the crown of the British Queen, and since the nineteenth century, India has become the most important source of resources, minerals and product dumping places for Britain, "so the larger the territory of India, the more beneficial it is to Britain, in 1914, the former foreign secretary of the British and Indian governments, McMahon, took advantage of the weakness of China to take care of it, and arbitrarily drew a small McMahon line, which does not matter", but a large piece of territory that originally belonged to China was divided into India. Although this is only a unilateral demarcation of the border by the British, the British just said that this is the legal border, and now the greedy British want to take Tibet into their arms, but they did not expect to be strongly rebuked by the Chinese government, and Su Tong directly sent an army into Tibet in the name of escorting the 10th Panchen Lama.
Of course, the British were not comparable to the daydreaming fools of Langdun Gongga Wangchuk. They clearly knew that as soon as the Chinese army arrived, it would be the end of Langdun Gongga Wangchuk's gang. But Chamberlain and his men could not come up with a good solution at this time, and Churchill, the leader of the Conservative Party, proposed that the navy be sent to Hong Kong to intimidate the Chinese government and force them to make concessions. Churchill declared in Parliament: Since negotiations do not solve the problem, let us speak with cannons!
At this time, after the attrition of World War I, Britain's strength has declined, but the emaciated and dead horses are bigger than horses, and the confidence of the British Empire is still there. They will never tolerate that the Huaxia Kingdom, which is now equivalent to barbarians in their eyes, dares to challenge the dignity of the British Empire. In the eyes of the British, they could tolerate the barbarism and rudeness of the Germans, the arrogance of the French, and even the ridicule of the Americans who drove them out of the American continent, because they were all of the same white race, but they could not tolerate even the slightest disrespect in the country of the Yellow race in the East, and that was the logic of the British. Churchill's proposal was approved by the majority of the parliamentarians, who thought that even the Chinese government, which had just defeated the Japanese monkeys, would surely succumb to the deterrence of the Empire, and even if they did not give in, the warships and artillery of the British Empire would make them submit.
Soon, the British Parliament approved Churchill's proposal, and the British government immediately ordered the British Far East Fleet stationed in Kitts, Australia, to send out two aircraft carriers, the Athletic God, the Royal Ark, and two battleships and sixteen destroyers to form a mixed fleet in the direction of Hong Kong.
The British government declared to the outside world that Britain was very concerned about the Tibet issue in China, because it involved British interests in Tibet, so the British government decided to send a fleet to Hong Kong to protect the rights and interests of the British Empire in Asia.
When the news came out, the whole country in China was in an uproar, and world public opinion was also talking about it, could it be that China, which had just ended the war against Japan, was going to usher in another war against Britain? In the face of the rare hard-line attitude of the British government, how will the Chinese government led by Su Tong respond? For a while, everyone's eyes were focused on Nanjing, and everyone was waiting for the Chinese president's answer.
On the afternoon of the same day, Su Tong announced that a hearing would be held at the Capitol at 10 a.m. tomorrow, when he would announce his decision to the Capitol and seek the consent of the Congress, and the hearing would be broadcast live to the nation.
The Nanjing National Assembly Building, which covers an area of more than 3,000 square meters, was expanded on the basis of the original Senate building by Su Tongming, the main body is a four-storey building, and two huge stone lions more than three meters high are placed at the door, which looks very majestic and magnificent. Today, Su Tong will hold the first hearing since he took office, in which all members of Congress participate.
At 10 a.m., the doors of the Capitol were crowded with journalists from all over the world and countless anxious people, waiting for their elected president to announce his decision.
At ten o'clock, more than a dozen black luxury cars drove to the door of the building, and Su Tong walked out of one of the cars inside wearing a black tunic suit. The hundreds of reporters who had been waiting at the door for a long time pressed the shutter in their hands almost simultaneously, and bursts of light lit up at the same time. Su Tong waved to the crowd with a smile on his face with a pair of dark sunglasses, and he stood calmly for reporters to take pictures before walking towards the building.
When he walked to the door of the mezzanine building, seeing that the wide and thick door was slowly opening, Su Tong took a deep breath, his hands were clenched into fists and then slowly released, and his feet took firm steps in the direction of this building that symbolized the highest power building in China! ~!