Wang Yi is reading the newspaper, huh...... Look at the declaration...... This kid is a little proud now, ah, let's be in the newspaper too.

Of course, the two girls scoffed at this.

Although Wang Yi made a lot of nonsense in the "Declaration", hoping that the people of the whole country would unite and expel Japanese people and Japanese businessmen, but to be honest, there were very few domestic servants. To put it simply, there are too few people who can read. The second and most important one is who you are Wang Yi!

Of course, now Wang Yi is also famous.

The reason was not that he announced the news of the Japanese occupation of the Ryukyus and issued the "* Book", but that he killed 38 Japanese spies.

The news has been quiet during this time...... Except for Li Hongzhang, who said in front of the ministers of various countries that the Qing Dynasty did not recognize Japan's occupation of the Ryukyus, he neither said that he would fight, nor did he say that he would not fight, and it was gone! And Zheng Yongning, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty from the Japanese embassy, only shouted a few words of protest in the first two days and said a few words to send troops, but he was also honest. And the genuine Japanese minister Shishito Ji is still in Japan, and now he is struggling with how to go to Qing Kingdom.

In Mukden, it is also very calm!

General Shengjing Chonghou is still in Russia, and the acting Qi Yuan is the Qing clan, Manchuria is the Red Banner, he is a big man, he has some ability, and he is stronger than the average Manchu Qing son, but most of the current positions are still taken advantage of by Genzheng Miaohong.

Qi Yuan came with Chongshi, the previous general of Shengjing, but Chongshi was killed by Wang Yiqi in office, and he has now taken over Chongshi's younger brother Chonghou's class. Although he is still only an agent, and it is impossible to think that Chonghou has betrayed the country now. As long as he returns to China, he will be able to become a full-time job.

Therefore, to take a popular phrase now, his current job is mainly to maintain stability.

Now the Shengjing General's Mansion owes 500,000 taels of silver to the Great Shang, which was borrowed by Chongshi for a period of three years, and the interest is the three-year mining right of Fushun's coal mine, which is now about to expire. But looking at the current meaning, Wang Yi also saw it, maybe Qiyuan Chonghou and his gang had such a net worth in their pockets, but it was not the silver of General Shengjing's mansion. I had never heard of officials donating money abroad, so later Wang Yi discussed with Li Yuzhen and directly gave Qi Yuan a face, and the loan period was extended for two years, and the conditions remained the same.

Qi Yuan still admires Wang Yi very much, but he thinks that this brother is too violent.

To be honest, although Wang Yi does what he says, there are only a few things he can control. The place where there are really many Japanese is in Shengjing City, and he has the ability to reach in, but he always has to take into account the face of General Shengjing.

"The calm before the storm......," Wang thought as he leaned back with his legs on his desk.

On April 25, 1879, the new Japanese minister to China, Shintoji, finally arrived in the Qing Dynasty, and immediately protested to the Prime Minister's National Affairs Yamen.

Shishido demanded that Wang Yi, chairman of the board of directors of Dashang, be severely punished, the insurance team of Dashang should be disbanded, the Japanese side should be compensated for its losses, and innocent Japanese people should be killed in order to clear their innocence. Jing Lian and Wang Wenshao demanded that Japan withdraw its troops from the Ryukyus.

The chickens on both sides talk to each other, and no one follows anyone's pace.

When Wang Yi received the news from Beijing, he just smiled and ignored it. He doesn't care what the Japanese say, the Japanese are foxes. One-on-one, now the Japanese are giving for nothing! Unless you pull in a great power, it's no fun.

On May 28, 1879, the former president of the United States finally came to Tianjin, and he was Frederick Dent Grant.

Grant's ancestors were British, born in Ohio on April 27, 1822. As a teenager, he loved to work and ride horses. He graduated from West Point in 1843 and joined the Fourth Infantry Corps as a second lieutenant. When the United States invaded Mexico in 1846, Grant had a bad time in his life. Of course, there are more unfortunate times to come. But the only thing that is fortunate is that he married a daughter-in-law at that time.

After the Mexican-American War, Grant left the army and returned to work as an employee in his father's shoe factory.

When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Grant was persuaded by his wife to return to the army. Later, he became the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, and was respected by the American people for his good military achievements and excellent demeanor. In 1866, Grant became a four-star general, the first four-star general in the United States. He was elected the 18th president of the United States in 1868 and was re-elected for a second term, but his presidency was far less remarkable than in the Civil War. After leaving office, Grant and his wife began to travel around the world from May 1877 to September 1879, and Daqing was one of his stops.

On May 28, the day of Grant's visit, Li Hongzhang met with him.

It must be noted that the reason why the former president traveled around the world and circled the world was mainly because he wanted to take the opportunity to make a name for himself, so that he could make a comeback and run in the 1880 presidential election. In June 1880, the Republican National* meeting in Chicago, Grant received 304 votes in the first round of voting, but the opposition forces in the party won James 61 Garfield, and after 35 votes, he was defeated, Grant was the first person in American history to want to serve as president three times, but failed...... Well, this thing doesn't look like the one in our northern neighborhood, but one fails and one succeeds.

It is precisely because of the reason that he wants to make political capital that the former president of Grant confessed himself to mediation as soon as he arrived in Tianjin.

"Hello Mr. Grant, I have deep admiration for the great achievements you have made in Citigroup."

"Lord Zhongtang, you have won the prize." Grant smiled, this middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes and a federal beard sat there very imposingly. "I have heard that Japan has attacked your vassal state of the Ryukyus, and I am willing to mediate and coordinate in the hope that the Qing and Japanese sides can peacefully resolve the dispute and maintain peace and stability in East Asia."

Li Hongzhang had already learned about the experience of this person in the first half of his life before Grant came, so he was deeply admired. As soon as he heard the other party say this, he immediately said with joy: "Mr. Grant said this, of course the official can't ask for it, and this matter is counting on you." ”

"Willing to serve."

After that, the two began to chat, and Li Hongzhang saw Grant's cane and picked it up to watch. It was a parting gift from Grant's national business community when he stepped down from the presidency. The cane is intricately carved and richly decorated, especially at the handle, which is inlaid with a diamond larger than a thumb and surrounded by many small diamonds.

It is said that Li Hongzhang is also unproductive, and he fell in love with someone's cane when they met for the first time.

Grant also saw what Li Hongzhang meant, but said with a smile: "Since Lord Zhongtang likes this cane, I should have given it away, but this cane was given to me by the national industrial and commercial circles when I left office, which represents the will of the people, and it is inconvenient for me to give it privately." When I return to China, I will ask for everyone's consent before sending it to you. ”

Li Hongzhang smiled.

Strange to say, the two got along for a while and became friends. Seventeen years later, when Grant had passed away, when he visited Grant's widow Julia, Julia asked in public: "Today coincides with Mr. Lee's visit, so I would like to ask you if you would like to give Mr. Li a cane?" ”

The room was full of people who agreed. Later, the cane belonged to Li Hongzhang, and he never left his body.

According to Li Hongzhang's own recollections, all of them became friends because he, like General Grant, had been on the battlefield for a long time to save the motherland...... Whenever Wang Yi saw this, he would always get goosebumps, and he couldn't help but sneer: Did this Lao Li hypnotize himself? Otherwise, he really thinks of himself as Yue Fei? If Zuo Zongtang said this, the little master could barely endure it, but how could you Li Hongzhang, in addition to three thousand miles away want to be a marquis, do you have something else in your mind?

Wang Yi was talking to several high-level executives of Dashang, only to hear Li Yuzhen say: "Chairman, you don't seem to care too much about Mr. Grant. ”

Wang Yixiao, President of the United States? Not to mention the departure, it is a few current ones back then, what kind of small bushes, watching the sea, when did the little master take it to heart? Isn't it just the president of the United States, he can even be a drama, what is rare?

"Why should you care about him?"

Everyone wondered: "Isn't he the former president of Citigroup?" ”

"Don't you think he is the emperor of Citigroup, do you?" Wang laughed.

However, what Wang Yi didn't expect seemed to be in the minds of Shen Yazhi, Tong Qianjia and others. "I wiped my tears, do you really think so? People are different from us, they don't have an emperor. Although the president is like an emperor, he only works alone for a few years, and then someone else does it. ”

"Such a big rebellion?"

"It's okay, the president is more like ours...... The first assistant of the military aircraft will be replaced after a few years. So you don't have to pay too much attention to him, to put it mildly, that is, the phoenix that has landed is not as good as a chicken! ”

Others are skeptical, and always feel that the leader of Citigroup is not without any prestige.

A few days later, Grant's letter was returned, and as is the usual in history, Grant's mediation failed, and Japan refused to return Ryukyu sovereignty to the Qing government. So Grant began to reverse mediate and persuade Da Qing to be lenient. Anyway, as long as he can't fight, his mediation will be considered successful.

Originally, he had such a breath, he didn't have him in the wet, and he didn't have him in the dry, in order to get political capital, so that he could return to China to elect the president. It would be best if Japan could return sovereignty over the Ryukyus, but if it couldn't be done, at least the two sides couldn't fight, otherwise it wouldn't be a slap in the face?

Wang Yi was having dinner at the time, and after seeing Grant's statement, he sneered, and said to Li Yuzhen opposite: "If the Russians reoccupy Alaska, and I go to mediate, I don't know if I say leniency, can he, Mr. President, listen to it?" ”

"Alaska? Where's that? ”