"Crackling ......"

On September 19, the big day of Hanzhong Island.

Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the Supreme Council of the People's Republic of China, sent his own envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Guolai, to Hanzhong Island with the No. 1 Supreme Executive Order issued by the Supreme Council.

In Hanzhong Town, Hanzhong Island, Vice Minister Zhou Guolai, who is in charge of the affairs of the Asian Department and the Department of Chinese Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with some local Chinese representatives with high moral integrity, especially Mr. Zhang Chaozhong, an elder of the Zhang family. During the talks between the two men, Zhou Guolai conveyed the greetings and respect of Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the Supreme People's Committee, to Mr. Zhang Chaozhong, and said that the central authorities had reached a consensus on the establishment of Hanzhong Province.

On September 19, under the joint attention of several thousand people and people's officers and soldiers on Hanzhong Island, in Hanzhong Town, Zhang Chaozhong, the representative of the Hanzhong Island people's opinion, submitted the results of the Mingzhu vote to the special envoy Zhou Guolai, and after examining the public opinion, under the notarization of a German deputy envoy to China and a US counselor in China, Zhou Guolai announced that the voting results were valid, and he sent a telegram to the country, announcing that the Hanzhong Provincial Political Axe of the Chinese People's Mingzhu Republic would be established immediately, Liu Shaoqi would serve as the first governor of Hanzhong Province, and Zhang Minshan would serve as the vice governor of Hanzhong Province. Xu Geng, the former commander of the People's Army Garrison Division, served as the commander of the Hanzhong garrison. After a two-month preparatory period, Hanzhong Island will be officially incorporated into the territory of New China.

At the same time, hundreds of islands and reefs in the entire South China Sea, large and small, will also be included in the territory of New China along with Hanzhong Island. Judging from the new version of China's large map, which will be distributed nationwide at the end of September, the entire South China Sea will become a huge egg-shaped, at the bottom of the rooster map, extending all the way to the hinterland of the South China Sea, not far from the Strait of Malacca.

In response to the Dutch's request for negotiations, the New Axe also responded, and only after Zhou Guolai presided over the founding ceremony of Hanzhong Province did he board a steamer, escorted by a heavy cruiser and a destroyer, and went to Jakarta, Indonesia, to negotiate with the Dutch, the de facto masters of the Dutch East Indies.

"Oh God, look, that's the Chinese's fleet!!"

The news of the Chinese occupation of Hanzhong Island had already spread, and when Zhou Guolai's warship entered the port of Jakarta, it immediately attracted countless onlookers.

Many white-skinned foreigners, with their own noble ladies, stood on the seashore with complicated expressions and pointed at the approaching [***] ship.

"Damn the Orientals, compared to their warships, the cruisers of the Dutch should be reheated as scrap metal."

This is the perception of many Westerners, and the entire port of Jakarta, in addition to countless merchant ships, is the warships of the Dutch and Chinese. The Dutch warships numbered a lot, seven or eight large and small, but they were all very old, and the only new warship was only a destroyer.

Looking at the Chinese warships, the almost brand-new, concise superstructure of the warship, the mighty streamlined design, and the sailors standing on the deck, holding their heads high, and energetic like victors, are not comparable to the warships of the Dutch next to them.

"Damn the Dutch, one of the former overlords of the seas, has now fallen to such a point. The Chinese warships, hum, are better looking, newer, except for those two main guns, there are not a few naval guns. A self-righteous Spaniard scoffed.

"But they have terrible anti-aircraft guns, and I bet that unless a squadron of planes attacks them, they will be shot down by their dense anti-aircraft fire. Chinese, they may no longer need naval guns. Said an Englishman dressed in civilian clothes, but looked and behaved like a sailor. What everyone did not know was that the British sailor, who had dealt with the Chinese, was captured and retired from the Far Eastern Fleet and joined a steamship company. He can only scoff at the views of these ordinary people, after all, people who have not been sailors and have not fought with the Chinese cannot understand that feeling.

Even if you have countless main and secondary guns, the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet will not give you a chance to open fire, because they always bombard you with their damn planes.

The sailor looked at the horizon in the distance, the Chinese warships lacking main guns came to the South Seas, maybe their aircraft carrier fleet also came, of course, what is this about themselves. He is no longer a damned sailor, but an employee of a steamship company who can often dock and find a few women to pour out fires.

Compared with these damn foreigners, the performance of the Chinese is very happy.

"Look, that's our warship! What a huge battleship, much stronger than the Dutch. A worker with a sack on his back, leaning the sack slightly against the slope, happily pointed to the warship that was entering the port, and said to the workers.

"It turns out that we Chinese can also afford to drive such a large warship." A small vendor unconsciously straightened his waist while flipping the fritters in the pot.

"Damn the Chinese, damn the navy."

The governor of the Dutch East Indies colony, von Barbett, first cursed fiercely, then put on a soft smile and stood on the red carpet of the port with the most gentlemanly expression, ready to greet the negotiator from New China.

The port's red carpet stretches from the port authority to the harbor, but leaves a muddy stretch of road.

As soon as the two Chinese warships docked, they were warmly greeted by the Chinese. Stopped by the Dutch military police, the Chinese who had made a special trip stood at the far end of the port, waving flags to welcome the envoys from the mainland of the motherland.

"Welcome! Welcome Vice Minister Zhou Guolai ......"

Although they were far away, they still roared, still shouting in their loudest voices, as if only the loudest voices could express their enthusiasm for the motherland. Of course, they also hope that maybe if their voice is louder, the messenger will be heard, and then he may hear our voice and seek some welfare for our survival.

"One day, you will no longer have such eagerness to look forward to, because the motherland will provide you with everything you need." Zhou Guolai stood on the deck, with a lot of thoughts in his heart, and the Chinese people's eagerness to look forward to it just shows that they need the support and help of the motherland, and they need themselves.

As soon as he got off the boat, Zhou Guolai's brows furrowed slightly, and he saw that the place where he got off the boat was a muddy road until the middle of the red carpet in the distance.

There are a lot of tricks in my heart, and there seem to be a lot of ghosts in the minds of foreigners, and this negotiation will not be as smooth as I expected.

Zhou Guolai didn't think much about it, refused the rain boots handed by the staff next to him, wore a windbreaker-style gray-brown suit, wore leather shoes, and stepped on the muddy road quite imposingly, until he walked to the red carpet.

"I'm sorry, your feet are so dirty, you can't step on the red carpet."

At this time, a Dutch official standing on the left side of the red carpet shook his head and stretched out his hand to stop Zhou Guolai, who was about to step up.

Zhou Guolai smiled, knowing that the other party was embarrassing himself, but in such a situation, how could he lose the national body, and then said in fluent Dutch: "My shoes were originally very clean, but after stepping on Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies, they became extremely dirty. ”

When the Dutch official heard this, he was stunned for a moment, then his face turned red, he bent down slightly, and made a gentlemanly salute, "Sorry, Mr. Zhou, it was our work that was not done well, I hope you can understand." I apologize for the rudeness. ”

Zhou Guolai smiled and waved his hand, changed into the spare shoes handed over by the staff, and then stepped on the red carpet, straightened his body, and walked towards the Dutch outside the port.

"Dear Mr. Zhou Guolai, welcome to your visit, as the founder of the friendship between the two countries, you will receive the most honorable reception in Jakarta."

"Mr. von Babette, China and the Netherlands have a long history, and I think this negotiation will also go very smoothly." Zhou Guolai saw that this person was a bit pretentious, and he didn't embarrass himself like the little official just now, but he secretly said in his heart, the two countries do have a long history, but you Dutch were beaten by us in Taiwan back then.

The Dutch East Indies Governor von Babette gave Zhou Guolai a diplomatic courtesy, and Zhou Guolai generously shook hands and hugged him, and the two talked so happily that they didn't even need an interpreter.

In Jakarta, Zhou Guolai quickly met with the royal envoy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the two sides held preliminary negotiations on the issue of Hanzhong Island/Greater Natuna Islands.

In the negotiations, Spears, the royal envoy of the Netherlands, changed his previous delaying tactics and sternly demanded that China immediately return the island of Great Natuna, otherwise, the Armada of the Kingdom of the Netherlands would not be about to arrive in the Dutch East Indies.

Unlike this special envoy's fierce inwardness, Zhou Guolai did not mention anything else, let alone quibble, but just insisted that this was the free choice of tens of thousands of people on Hanzhong Island, and that this was the result of public opinion, which was unanimously voted by the people on the island.

As for the other residents of the island, Zhou Guolai said that the Dutch and Indonesians on the island are suspected of murdering overseas Chinese, and in order to protect the overseas Chinese, China has adopted the same means as the West has always done, and the executioners have been collectively detained, waiting for the citizens of Hanzhong Island to form a civil court for a public trial.

The Dutch envoy Spears said that the island of Great Natuna was part of the Dutch East Indies, and as a colony, it was also an inalienable and sacred part of the kingdom. China should have asked the Dutch authorities to send in the military and police to quell the riots and stop the massacres, rather than sending troops on its own.

Zhou Guolai said that the issue of overseas Chinese is not negotiable, and there is a clause in the constitution of the new China that the rights and interests of overseas Chinese must not be infringed upon, otherwise, the Chinese people have the right to send troops on their own to maintain effective peace and protect those Chinese whose survival is threatened.

Negotiations stalled, and the Dutch hoped to return the Greater Natuna Islands in exchange for punishing the rioters' executioners and removing Carlson from his position as colonial officer. and threatened that if the problem was not resolved, the Kingdom of the Netherlands would not only send an armada to the Dutch East Indies, but would also report the matter to the League of Nations for an international ruling.

Zhou Guolai said that China did not join the League of Nations, so the Chinese government would not approve of any possible ruling.

However, he also revealed a piece of information: New China hopes to have more exchanges and cooperation with the fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, because the main force of the East China Sea Fleet has already left the port and will arrive at the port of Nanwan on Great Natuna Island two days later than the Dutch fleet.

After two days of negotiations that had not made substantial progress, a shocking piece of news came.

Indonesians in Jakarta are being instigated by unknown incitement and are besieging the Chinese community, and a major situation is expected.

(To be continued)