Both Zhu Erdian and Zhao Dongyun are proficient in Chinese and English, and they know what the other party is saying without translation, and the reason why they use their own words is purely because of diplomatic occasions, to put it bluntly, these two translations are decorations.

The reason why there are female translators today is that today's diplomatic occasion is not a formal ordinary diplomatic occasion, but a private reception, and those who come to the banquet often bring their wives together, and the ministers of various countries basically bring their wives to participate together, and Zhao Dongyun also brought Fang Ruolian to participate together, in this case, it is not so easy to arrange a translation for Zhao Dongyun.

Because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to take into account Fang Ruolian's existence, and the country still attaches more importance to the defense of men and women, it is naturally not polite to get a male translator to follow Fang Ruolian, so the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have collected a large number of female translators who know foreign languages and have diplomatic translation experience, and finally chose Yu Wanling in front of her.

This woman is the third daughter of Yu Geng, her father Yu Geng is a member of the Han Banner, speaking of the resume, I am afraid that this woman is a veritable flower of communication in the contemporary elite class, the courtesan mentioned here is not a derogatory name, but a compliment!

This woman has lived in Japan and Europe with Yu Geng, a Manchu diplomat, since childhood, and is not only proficient in many Chinese, but also has a deep understanding of the culture of many countries, in addition to learning Japanese dance, modern dance, ballet and painting with her two sisters, she is a truly versatile female representative of the new era.

A few years ago, after her father Yu Geng returned to China, she and her two sisters and mother entered the palace together to become Cixi's female official, serving as Cixi's translator, directing the palace dance troupe and other work, this Yu Wanling was also named the county lord at that time, and his father Yu Geng died out of the palace.

In the past six months, the mother and daughter have not lived smoothly, and the marriage of the eldest daughter of Yu Geng, who has changed dramatically in the family, is in the soup, if it is not for the help of friends, I am afraid that it will be forced to run to the Eight Hutongs to beg for a living like many Gege monarchs of the former Qing Dynasty.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spent a lot of effort to hold this reception, considering that there were no qualified female diplomatic translators in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specially found the female translators who served Cixi in the pre-Qing Dynasty, and finally chose this woman. She had been working as Cixi's interpreter for the past few years, and was not only proficient in English and French, but also very familiar with the wives of foreign diplomatic ministers of various countries.

Knowing a foreign language is nothing, but the more important thing is that she has this kind of top-level diplomatic translation experience, and she is even more familiar with the ministers and wives of various countries.

Therefore, the Foreign Affairs Section of the Secretariat of the Presidential Office stepped forward and hired him as an interpreter for the Presidential Office, specializing in the diplomatic interpretation of President Zhao Dongyun's family.

That's why she's here today.

In the face of the invitation of the presidential palace, although their family was dissatisfied with the republic, it was not Zhao Dongyun who copied their house but Wang Yingkai, which is really not to blame Zhao Dongyun.

In addition, they used to be court officials, and they were active among the ministers and wives of the countries of Beijing every day, and they were the flowers of diplomacy known in Beijing, but now they are reduced to worrying about three meals a day, and the gap is unimaginable to outsiders.

Now that they have the opportunity to turn over, they naturally accept it!

As a result, Yu Wanling also became a special translator in the Foreign Affairs Section of the Presidential Office Secretariat, and today, she will once again be active in the country's top diplomatic circles.

Yu Wanling was also looking at the president of the republic who was too young for everyone at this time, to be honest, if he hadn't been born in this era and listened to it with his own eyes, it would be hard to believe that Zhao Dongyun had broken out of the huge sky at the age of less than thirty and became the president of the republic.

You must know that there are many young rulers in these years, especially those monarchies, not to mention young people, even a three-year-old child can become a king, but Zhao Dongyun is different, he was just a cloth cloth before, but he relied on his own efforts to climb to this position step by step, and the process is short, and the speed is enough to surprise everyone.

In the past, Yu Wanling was also a little suspicious of Zhao Dongyun's age, but now seeing Zhao Dongyun, although Zhao Dongyun has a mustache like most people, and the presidential dress he wears makes him look a lot older, but it can still be seen that he is very young.

When Yu Wanling quietly observed Zhao Dongyun, Zhao Dongyun was already thinking about Zhu Erdian, just now he was just a little surprised by the change of translators, but he didn't pay special attention to Yu Wanling, he was surrounded by many strangers every day, but he didn't have time to pay attention to them one by one, as for Yu Wanling's beauty, it was undeniable, but there were still fewer beautiful women around Zhao Dongyun?

Fang Ruolian and Li Wan don't say that the many female staff in the presidential palace are not bad, after all, no one dares to get a few female staff members who obstruct the vision in Zhao Dongyun's inner house.

So Zhao Dongyun was only slightly surprised, and then he focused on Zhu Erdian.

At this time, Zhu Erdian said in English when Lang Lang spoke: "For the series of military victories achieved by your army in the early stage, I personally want to congratulate the president!" ”

Zhu Erdian's words were very cautious, and he made it very clear that he was only personally congratulating the victory of the Feng army, and had nothing to do with the attitude of the British Empire.

"However, I have also seen that although the war in Zhili Province has ended, the situation in the surrounding areas of Zhili and Jingshi is still relatively tense, and I have received letters from many businessmen in my country, saying that the situation in Zhili, especially in the surrounding areas of Tianjin, is too tense, and their business activities have also been greatly hindered!"

When Zhu Erdian said, Zhao Dongyun also listened carefully, although he knew what Zhu Erdian would say, but he still waited for Yu Wanling next to him to translate before he spoke in Chinese: "Although the situation in Zhili Province has been controlled, there are still many bandits, and now my army and police force are actively suppressing bandits, I believe that it is expected to completely eliminate bandits in Zhili Province within a month, so that the trade routes in Zhili and other northern provinces will be restored and unimpeded!" ”

When Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth, he detoured the topic to bandits, and avoided talking about the topic of heavy troops stationed near Tianjin!

After entering the customs, Zhao Dongyun has always paid close attention to the attitude of the great powers in order to guard against foreign intervention armies, and deployed heavy troops in the surrounding areas of Tianjin to prevent the great powers from forming an intervention army to go north from Tianjin to Beijing.

At present, the Feng army has deployed quite a few troops in and around Tianjin, and there are 3,000 military policemen dispatched in the name of the police in Tianjin, with the 13th Division stationed in Tangshan, the 5th Mixed Brigade stationed in Langfang, and the 11th Division stationed in Machang, Tianjin.

The garrisons of the Feng army in other directions were: the 7th Mixed Brigade was stationed in Nanyuan, the 9th Mixed Brigade was stationed in Shanhaiguan, and the 10th Mixed Brigade was stationed in Shenyang and Jinzhou.

In addition to the regular troops, there are more than 20 regiments of patrol police units, according to the patrol system of the Feng army, the patrol regiment is divided into patrol infantry regiment and cavalry battalion, each patrol infantry regiment is to adopt a three-company and three-battalion system, the weapon is only equipped with rifles and a small number of mortars, each regiment is full of about 1,500 people, but many of the patrol regiments are equally dissatisfied, basically ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 people, these patrol infantry regiments are stationed in major cities, responsible for local security, bombing and suppressing civil rebellion and other tasks.

In addition, there are quite a few patrol cavalry battalions, which are also not equipped with too many heavy weapons, only equipped with horse pistols, a very small number of heavy machine guns and 60 mm mortars, most of which have more than 200 to more than 300 cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is not bad, at least much stronger than those patrol infantry. These patrol cavalry battalions are mainly deployed in Rehe, Heilongjiang, and Mongolia, and the main task at present is to exterminate many bandits rampant inside and outside Mongolia, and in the early Tangshan Campaign, a number of patrol cavalry battalions also participated in the battle, especially in the direction of Rehe, there are two patrol cavalry battalions to participate in the Chengde Campaign.

Among the many military forces of the Feng army, the troops deployed around Tianjin and Beijing are as many as two divisions and two mixed brigades, and the intention in this is very obvious, that is, to prevent the intervention of the foreign powers.

Zhu Erdian is also an old diplomat, seeing that Zhao Dongyun avoided talking about it, he did not continue to entangle, at this time Zhao Dongyun also took the initiative to speak: "If the northern provinces of our country are now devastated by war, and the people's livelihood is difficult, it will cost a huge amount of money to restore the people's livelihood, and our country's finances are overwhelmed, and I hope your country can help in this regard!" ”

Seeing that Zhao Dongyun talked about the topic of borrowing so quickly, Zhu Erdian showed a casual smile on the corner of his mouth, and then said: "I am deeply saddened by the difficult situation of the people of your country, but the matter of borrowing is very important, and I will only be able to give your country a reply after returning to London, but I personally believe that based on the deep friendship between China and Britain over the past century, as long as your country is sincere to this loan, it should be possible to talk about it!" ”

Zhao Dongyun sighed lightly: "I don't know how to be sincere?" ”

Zhu Erdian said: "For example, salt mortgage, tariff mortgage, financial supervision, if your country can agree to these conditions, then I am personally optimistic about the loan negotiations!" ”

Zhao Dongyun was not as angry as Zhu Erdian expected when he heard this, and even Zhu Erdian couldn't see any change in Zhao Dongyun's expression, so he only heard Zhao Dongyun say: "It is natural for this loan to be mortgaged, but the salt policy and tariff are related to the foundation of the republic and cannot be tampered with, and the financial supervision is related to national sovereignty, which is naturally not feasible!" ”

Zhu Erdian secretly sighed that Zhao Dongyun was really calm enough, and each of the three clauses he said was enough to make every Chinese crazy, but Zhao Dongyun only refused lightly and directly, and he couldn't see his angry appearance at all, and the more this happened, the more it represented that this Zhao Dongyun was an extremely rational person, and dealing with this kind of person was not a good thing.

Zhu Erdian wanted to think about it, but he still said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Lu, the Minister General of Foreign Affairs of your country, once mentioned that your country's aftermath loan is as high as 20 million pounds, and if such a huge amount of money is not secured by salt administration and tariffs, I think those bankers will not be at ease, and if such a huge amount of borrowing is not supervised, many people are also not at ease." For example, I don't want this money to be used to the detriment of the British Empire! ”

Now Zhu Erdian looks like a demon with a smile, and the meaning he expressed is very clear, you can borrow money, but you Zhao Dongyun also have to come up with a matching benefit price, as for whether you Zhao Dongyun will become a traitor because of this, this is my business!