Presidential palace.

Xiao Zhenlei is very concerned about the situation in Southeast Asia, especially Siam, this country is not a British and French colony, so when negotiating with Britain and France, Britain and France have no right to make decisions to include Siam in the sphere of influence of China, and now China has taken over the southeast peninsula, and Siam is surrounded by it, which is also a problem that China must solve, the sooner this problem is solved, the better, and wait until the war to solve it, other countries may free up their hands to interfere.

"Great President, King Rama VI of Siam has refused!" Yang Shiqi reported to Xiao Zhenlei.

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the report in his hand, and after listening to Yang Shiqi's report, he said: "Judging from Rama VI's experience and education, it is reasonable for him to refuse, but we don't have time to spend it with him, since Siam is not interested, then let them taste it, convey orders to our garrisons in various parts of the Southeast Peninsula, notify the diplomatic department to note the Southeast States, close the border checkpoints, strengthen the patrol frequency of the border patrol team, prohibit anyone from entering and leaving Siam, severely crack down on smuggling, and order the naval fleet to strengthen patrols, All ships smuggled in and out of Siam will be sunk! ”

Yang Shiqi was greatly excited to receive such an order, so that Siam would definitely not be able to support it, and he immediately said: "Yes, great president!" ”

After explaining the affairs of the Southeast Peninsula, Xiao Zhenlei believed that it was time to solve the problem of the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese were still staying well in the lower peninsula, but now the situation on the Korean Peninsula has also begun to undergo subtle changes, mainly because Japan has been crippled by China, and some political forces in North Korea see that Japan is no longer good. Therefore, they began to make a move, but now these forces in North Korea are obviously insufficient in strength. Even if Japan is now crippled by China, there are still tens of thousands of Japanese troops stationed in Korea. This is not something that these local North Korean resistance forces can contend with.

Today, Korea has been merged by Japan as early as 1910, but the second emperor of the Korean Empire, Yi Kun, is still alive, and even his father, Emperor Gojong Yi Hee, the only son of the 26th king of the Lee dynasty of Korea and the first emperor of the Korean Empire, Gojong Yi Hee, and Empress Myeongseong.

In 1907, the first emperor of the Korean Empire, Yi Hee, was overwhelmed by the arrogance and arrogance of the Japanese, and because he was old, his energy was not as good as before, and he thought that he did not have the energy and ability to deal with the Japanese, and refused to sign a treaty of loss of power and humiliation under the pressure of Ito Hirobumi and others. So the throne was passed to his son Yi Kun, and the treaty was signed by the pro-Japanese cabinet minister Lee Wan-yong and Park Qi-chun and others, but Li Kun was abolished by the Japanese after three years as emperor, and Japan forced Li Kun to sign the "Japan-Korea Merger Treaty" to merge Korea, and his father and son were also imprisoned by the Japanese, and the Korean Empire perished.

For more than a year or so, the imprisoned Korean Gaozong Li Xi was inexplicably excited after receiving the news that Japan was being disabled by China, and he was always thinking of sending people to contact the high-level of the Chinese State in order to win the support of the high-level of the Chinese State. Actually, after the Sino-Japanese War. Li Xi completely lost confidence in the Qing Dynasty and no longer expected the Qing Dynasty to uphold justice for Korea, but the current situation made Li Xi see hope if he could get the support of Hua. South Korea will inevitably be able to get rid of the control of the Japanese, and this time Lee Hee finally got a chance, and he secretly met with his cronies Lee Sang-su and Lee Wei-jong. confessed that the two of them left secretly, went to Huaguo to find a way to meet the high-level of Huaguo, and conveyed his wishes to the high-level of Huaguo. It is best to meet Xiao Zhenlei, the president of the National Congress of China, and after the two agreed, they quietly left North Korea and took with them the letter of state that Li Xi tore off the fabric of his clothes and wrote in blood. Li Xiangwei and Li Weizhong were the main leaders of the Imperial Association of the political forces under Li Xi.

At the same time, another force in Korea also began to send people to try to contact the Chinese high-level with the Chinese leadership, and this force was called the Independent Association, which had many ties and involvement with the pro-Japanese faction, and it was inseparable from the Imperial Association, and repeatedly attempted to overthrow the rule of Yi Xi.

The representatives of the Independent Association include Yoon Zhihao, Seo Jae-pil, Lee Seung-ryong (later renamed Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea) and others, and it was Lee Seung-ryong who was sent to China to contact the high-level leaders of China, and he came to China with him to develop Korean overseas Chinese in Hawaii Lin Bingji, Yoon Zhiying, Xu Zheng, Lee Won-soon and others.

On this day, after Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang got off work, he was protected by the security personnel to go home, three cars were driving on the way home, suddenly rushed out from the side, several young people in suits blocked the way of the convoy, the car in front of the emergency brakes, the car behind also had to stop, the security personnel realized that something was wrong, quickly took out their weapons and pushed the car door one after another, and pointed their pistols at several young people blocking the road.

"Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong, we are progressives in the Korean Empire, my name is Lee Seung-ryong, and I am one of the main leaders of the Korean National Association (the organization of the Korean Independence Association in Hawaii, USA), we have no malicious intentions, we just want to ask to see Lord Lu!"

The captain of the security personnel raised a pistol and looked at Li Chenglong and several others, and then waved his head to several security personnel around him, and the four security personnel quickly stepped forward to check the bodies of Li Chenglong and others after receiving the order, and found no weapons, and the security personnel in charge of the inspection waved their heads to the captain, indicating that no weapons were found.

Only then did the captain of the security bow his head and say to Lu Zhengxiang: "Chief Chief, they don't have weapons on them!" ”

As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lu Zhengxiang has some understanding of some situations in various countries, and he has also heard of this Korean National Assembly, so he thought about it and said to the security captain: "Let the leader Lee Chenglong come over!" ”

"Yes, Chief!"

Lee Seung-ryong was quickly taken to the side of the car, "Lee Seung-ryong, vice president of the Korean National Assembly, meets Lord Lu!" ”

Lu Zhengxiang looked at Li Chenglong for a while and asked, "What does Mr. Li want to see me?" ”

"Lu Daren, the people of our Korean Empire are under the bloody rule of the Japanese and are being humiliated, pigs and dogs are not as good, we always want to resist the rule of the Japanese and drive the Japanese away, but our strength is too weak, this time we came to Huaguo, hoping to get the support of Huaguo, Huaguo and South Korea have been separated by a strip of water since ancient times, Huaguo was also the suzerainty of our Korea, we hope that Huaguo can uphold justice for our Korean people!"

In another time and space in history, after the end of World War I, the Paris Peace Conference was about to be held, and Wilson, then president of the United States and the old president of Syngman Rhee, put forward the "Fourteen Points", declaring that the interests of weak and small nations should be safeguarded, which ignited the hope of diplomatic independence among Koreans, including Syngman Rhee. On December 1 of the same year, the Korean National Assembly decided to send Syngman Rhee, Chung Han-kyung, and Min Chan-ho as Koreans' representatives in an attempt to attend the Paris Peace Conference. After Syngman Rhee, Chung Han-kyung and Min Chan-ho were appointed, they repeatedly petitioned the United States, in which they called themselves "your obedient servants," and Ahn Chang-ho's Korean National Association has been negotiating with the United States over the visas of the three men. However, in consideration of its Asian strategy and relations with Japan, the United States refused to grant visas to Syngman Rhee and others on the grounds that the DPRK was subordinate to Japan, thus making the move of Syngman Rhee and others to petition Paris come to naught. Syngman Rhee thought that President Wilson, who had a good relationship with him, would give him face, but in the face of the division of interests, Wilson did not buy it.

In view of the fact that there was no hope of going to Paris, Syngman Rhee, Cheng Hanjing, and others discussed revising the petition to the United States and decided to include the "Mandate of Rule" in it. On February 25, 1919, after requesting and obtaining approval from Ahn Chang-ho, the leader of the Korean National Assembly, Chung Han-kyung sent a letter and a petition entitled "Syngman Rhee and Chung Han-kyeong, Provisional Committee of the Central Committee of the Korean National Assembly" to Wilson, which contained three contents: "The Great Powers have freed Korea from Japan's harsh government; The Great Powers guaranteed the complete independence of Korea in the future; to place Korea under the League of Nations Mandate". But the petition went unanswered. Syngman Rhee came up with a way to put pressure on the U.S. government by making a public petition. On March 16, 1919, he held a press conference in Washington, D.C., and officially published a petition calling for a mandate to rule Korea, which was reported by the New York Times and other major media outlets.

However, the release of the petition not only did not touch the US government in the slightest, but also caused an uproar in the overseas Korean community, leading to a wave of condemnation of Syngman Rhee and his mandate. Although Syngman Rhee withdrew the mandate plan on March 28, 1919, at Ahn Changhao's request, and only mentioned complete independence, it was already in ruins, and the mandate became a stain and a lever that accompanied him throughout his life.

After listening to Syngman Rhee's words, Lu Zhengxiang pondered for a moment and asked, "Where do you live now?" ”

Syngman Rhee didn't understand what Lu Zhengxiang meant for a while, and replied: "I live in Huangliang Hutong."

Lu Zhengxiang said: "You go back first, I will send someone to find you and find time to talk in detail!" ”

In his opinion, as long as Lu Zhengxiang is willing to have a detailed discussion with him, there is hope for success at this time, and he immediately agreed: "Okay, okay, I will wait for the envoy of the Lord in Huangliang Hutong!" ”

The next morning, not long after Lu Zhengxiang went to work, he heard the secretary come in and report: "Chief Chief, just now the guard called and said that there were two people named Li Xiangjun and Li Weizhong who claimed to be the envoys of the Emperor of the Korean Empire, Yi Xi, and they wanted to ask to see the Chief."

"The Korean Empire? Emperor? Ha, that's ridiculous! Lu Zhengxiang was furious when he heard this: "A small North Korea also dares to call itself the Korean Empire and the emperor in front of our country, do they change the name of the country and call the emperor with the consent of our country?" Go let them in, I'd like to see why they dare to call themselves that! ”

The secretary hurriedly agreed: "Yes, chief!" (To be continued......)