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After throwing off the sentence of asking for autonomy, Yang Qiu patted his ass and took Miao Luo, Xu Xiujun and others, and took the light cruiser Zhaohe and two Nevada-class battleships that were due to be returned to the US Navy, and went to visit the United States.

His departure did not reassure Britain, but secretly wondered what he was doing in the United States? Is it to persuade the United States to support the autonomy of the Chinese in West Borneo, or to enlist the United States to deal with the empire on which the sun never sets? If the United States were on China's side, would it really turn into war? Sir Lampson's head was aching, and he was afraid that no one would have a good face in the face of the telegrams from Whitehall asking for clarity on Nanking's hole cards three times a day.

Similarly, the Nanjing Presidential Palace was also in a mess, and the bill to amend the constitution was like lifting the lid of a volcano, and countless strange arguments were pouring out, and President Leba, who was bent on amending the constitution, did not know what kind of evil motive he had made, and actually bypassed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to hand over the West Borneo crisis to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly for handling, which made Wang Zhaoming of the Management Committee dumbfounded. Because according to the Constitution, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly is just an ordinary day-to-day body, responsible for supervising and reviewing the government's foreign affairs work, and has never said that it is responsible for major foreign affairs. This can make Wang Zhaoming sad to death.

In fact, he knew in his heart that Li Yuanhong would never contradict Yang Qiu. Because of the loss of the big tree of the National Society, President Li Da is nothing! Besides, there are still four years left to come to an end in the presidential term, so why tear your face at this time? It's just a show for people to see, telling everyone that this is Li Yuanhong's revision of the constitution to engage in the presidential system, and it has nothing to do with him Yang Qiu, so he didn't violate the promise made by Song Jiaoren before his death.

Faced with this hot potato, the Democratic Party, which actively opposed the constitutional amendment, immediately shifted its target. For them, protesting against the constitutional amendment is shouting. There is no hope of a turnaround in the case where the national community occupies the vast majority, but the takeover of the West Borneo crisis negotiations is different! The Democratic Party bigwigs, who have been suppressed by the National Society for more than 10 years and have never participated in major state foreign affairs, immediately discovered that this is a good opportunity to expand the influence of the party, and if it is done, nearly 20 million overseas Chinese in the world will not be able to regard the Democratic Party as a benefactor!

Besides, everyone knows that Yang Qiu will not really ignore Nanyang, and the navy is ready to fight when it moves south! This kind of good thing of fox and fake tiger power can't be found even with a lantern. Therefore, there was immediately a lot of noise in the headquarters of the Shanghai Democratic Party.

"I think we should contact the UK first to find out what they have to say."

"That's not right! If you look for a British, you will send it to the door and slap people in the face. Since Borneo is Dutch, it is time to find the right man. As long as he forces the Netherlands to admit him, Britain will not have a problem. ”

"What's that? Britain has Hong Kong and Singapore, Cheng Biguang said, these two places can manage most of the South Seas. The British should be approached. ”

"Look for the United States, the United States has Little Luzon (at that time the Republic of the Philippines was called Little Luzon)."

"You are stupid, is your face as big as the soles of his Yang Qiu's feet?"

"What about France? It's not that France and Britain are at a stalemate. ”

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The conference room, which was more lively than the vegetable market, made Wang Zhaoming shake his head, and he finally understood how big the gap between the Democratic Party and the National Society was! In the past, Sun Yat-sen, Huang Keqiang and even Song Jiaoren could not grasp the international trend, and Yang Qiu, who was torn between Germany, Britain and the United States, took advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the rise all the way. Now, after 15 years away from the ruling circle, the talent fracture is even more serious, so much so that after a small regional crisis discussion for a long time, it is impossible to even come up with a plan for who to find first. On the other hand, under the leadership of Yang Qiu, the Guoshe has traveled through Europe and the United States to enter and exit the country, training young heroes like Wang Zhengting, Murong Han, and Bei Zuyi, and sending tens of thousands of young people from the Guoshe to overseas for training and learning. If you want to be economical, even if you paint a nude painting, there are a large number of options to choose from.

Li Liejun next to him also sighed, and couldn't help but think of Cai Yi's proposal to let the Kuomintang be an opposition party before his death. It turned out that the old friend had already seen the weak nature of the Kuomintang and knew that even if the Kuomintang was overthrown and came to power, it would not be able to manage the huge China. That's why I tell you to be honest and down-to-earth, starting from cultivating talents. Seeing that everyone couldn't make up their minds for a long time, he had no choice but to stand up: "Divide into two groups, Japan and Batavia." ”

"Japan? What's the matter with Japan? ”

As one of the few high-ranking generals in the Kuomintang who participated in the European war and went to Russia to stand alone, Li Liejun's position in the Democratic Party is too special. Many people have always felt that if it weren't for the things of the past, even if they weren't as good as Cai Yi and Yue Peng, they wouldn't be worse than the current Wu Peifu and Shi Xiaolou. So even if there is doubt. Everyone only dared to say it softly.

Only Wang Zhaoming nodded secretly and said: "Brother Xia Ru is right, although Japan has a holiday with our country, after all, it is a close neighbor of Asia, and we should first win their support." ”

Since the two most discerning people agree, the rest is easy to do. It is difficult for the Kuomintang to contact anyone, but it is too easy for Japan, and Batavia is led by Hu Hanmin, and in the end, everyone recommended Li Liejun to join for security, after all, he is a member of the military. After the decision was made, Wang Zhaoming immediately reported the plan to the president, and finally Li Yuanhong simply appointed Wang Hu and Li to form a plenipotentiary envoy to Batavia to deal with the crisis in West Borneo.

The backbone of the country has gone to Batavia, and the Democratic Party, which remains in the country to oppose the constitutional amendment, cannot resist it. After Zhang Taiyan, Minister of Education, Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Railways, Chen Guofu and others expressed their support for the constitutional amendment, especially the three parties that were the biggest beneficiaries of Yang Qiu's social reform policy, and the students, workers, and representatives of peasant cooperatives who had great influence among the peasants expressed their attitudes, the National Assembly finally passed the bill to move the capital, and decided to officially move the capital at the end of 1928, and at the same time included the constitutional amendment bill into the 1926 National Assembly work plan, which meant that the countdown to the 15-year parliamentary system had begun.

When Wang Zhaoming went to Batavia as a special envoy, Yang Qiu had already arrived in Honolulu, the first stop of his visit to the United States.

The pennant was unfurled in Pearl Harbor, and the battleships were like clouds, and whoever saw this scene would probably feel a deep sense of awe. Yang Qiu is the same, he is not afraid of the Pacific Fleet, but really admires the strong manufacturing capacity of the United States, now the United States is the only one in the world that can study more than a dozen unfinished capital ships in one breath without blinking, and only they have more steel production than the sum of the last five, and the annual output of only one Ford company exceeds that of the British and French automobile manufacturing industries combined.

Under Wall Street's scheme, the United States has controlled 5 billion of the world's $9 billion gold reserves. Take control of half of the world's silver reserves! Even if there are clever and reckless data machines in recent years, the total domestic manufacturing industry is less than one-sixth of the United States, and the high-end manufacturing industry is less than one-tenth! Moreover, after the European war, the United States has gathered about 700,000 high-level talents, and those people are not Jewish technicians, but scientists, engineers, white elites who can make any country in the world drool! This is also the reason why Yang Qiu resolutely and decisively hugged his thighs. The talent advantage cannot be solved by stacking blast furnaces, and China, which has just reaped the fruits of compulsory education, is completely incomparable in this regard.

So unless you can make an atomic bomb like a sausage. Otherwise, he really can't think of a way to defeat this country at the moment. The only thing that can be thankful is that there is finally a chance to close the gap.

Yang Qiu was envious of the strength of the United States, and Vice Admiral Rodman, who was tall and now fifty years old, looked at the two Nevada-class battleships docked in port, and had an urge to order them to be sunk. Because he didn't want to take back the two capital ships at all. Not to mention that they occupy valuable treaty tonnage in vain, just after several years of repeated high-intensity training by the Chinese Navy, the attrition of the two capital ships has actually seriously exceeded the standard. It is not possible to dismantle them, because the two capital ships were built in 1914 and could not be dismantled and replaced until after 1934 according to the treaty.

"If only it could be sunk." After sinking the two capital ships several times in his heart, Vice Admiral Rod Man walked quickly to Yang Qiu to salute and welcome: "Welcome to your visit, Mr. Vice President, I hope you can have a good start here." ”

"I am also very happy to be here in Honolulu, and I hope that under your leadership, this fleet can become an important force for maintaining peace in the Pacific."

After a few words of greeting, Luo Men accompanied Yang Qiu and Miao Luo to review the entire fleet. The well-arranged docks, docks and storage facilities in the harbor are impressive. But as he expected, Rodman did not even mention the tense situation in the South China Sea, as if the Pacific Fleet was on vacation.

When you arrive at your hotel, open the windows and take in the whole of Pearl Harbor. The modern atmosphere on his face made Yang Qiu seem to go back to the past, and he turned his head and asked, "Aren't you very envious?" ”

In addition to Xu Xiujun and Pei Zuyi, who were accompanying the visit, they were from the business circles. There is also Bingwen as a representative of the Navy. As a naval man, he was attracted to Pearl Harbor as soon as he entered the waterway, and nodded emphatically: "A world-class harbor, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack at the throat, if we had been born twenty years earlier." ”

"Even if we were born twenty years earlier, Lafayette would not hand over the Beiyang to you to cross the ocean to fight a projectile island country." Yang Qiu smiled, stretched his waist and propped his hands on the railing. Suddenly asked: "By the way, last time you asked you to send someone to Guam, what did you say?" ”

Bingwen didn't expect him to ask Guam now, but fortunately, he has been paying attention to the changes in the Pacific Ocean in the past few years, and introduced: "As you guessed, after the US occupation, there was no mind at all, there was only a coal filling station, about 20 American sailors rotated to guard, and no officials were even dispatched." Most of the islands are now Japanese, making a living by growing sugar cane and digging up guano. I have seen the location of the harbor you mentioned, the water depth is enough, but there are piles of rocks around it, and it will take a year or two to clean it up, and the mouth of the waterway is also very narrow and needs to be blasted and widened. ”

Xu Xiujun was very curious about the conversation between the two, and didn't understand why Yang Qiu was so interested in a small island, so he interjected: "Vice President, what's the mystery of this Guam?" ”

At present, Guam is far inferior to Luzon and Rabaul in terms of strategic location, and even the US Navy itself does not look down on it. Guam really gained attention until World War II, but it was not until after the war that Guam was developed, and it was not until after the war that the US military faced the embarrassment of withdrawing from the Philippines that it became a military base, so Yang Qiu smiled: "You say, how about we buy Guam?" ”

"Buy Guam?!"

For this kind of whimsy, Xu Xiujun felt that his head was not enough, and even Bingwen felt that it was unnecessary. Because Guam was too far away, and right under the noses of the Japanese-occupied Rabaul and Guinea, a pile of battleships might not be able to hold it. In terms of strategic location, instead of buying Guam, it would be better to fight to the death with Britain to take the Natuna Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of West Borneo, so that they can control the entire South China Sea.

Pei Zuyi was very interested in this proposal, but before he could speak, Murong Han, who accompanied the visit, walked in: "Vice President, I just received the telegram." President Li has appointed Wang Zhaoming, Hu Hanmin, and Li Liejun as special envoys to Batavia for negotiations, and they have also sent people to Japan to seek support. ”

After listening to this, the corners of Yang Qiu's mouth were quietly hooked without being noticed, but he quickly disappeared and said: "Send a report to Ziqing immediately, and ask him to remind Wang Huzi that after Japan and the poor party intervene, Britain may take a risk!" ”

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PS: Take a day off tomorrow.

I received a phone call just now when I was coding words, and Hippo's grandfather passed away an hour ago.

In fact, I can't say how sad he is, after all, he has been tortured on the sickbed for three years, and he has issued a lot of critical illness notices alone. Every time I think of him being devastated by piles of pills, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and several surgeries at the age of 90, I feel that maybe it is a relief to leave.

Hope my grandfather goes all the way!!

I'm going to the funeral tomorrow, forgive me...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )