"General, it's home!"

Jiang Fangzhen was woken up by the attendant, he opened his eyes and rubbed his cheeks with his hands, the car door had been opened by the attendant, he got out of the car, and several attendants followed him into the house.

There was a car parked diagonally across the road from Jiang Fangzhen's residence, and a middle-aged foreigner was sitting in the back seat of the car.

"Sir, is there anything you can do?" A guard standing guard at the door stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop the middle-aged foreigner.

The middle-aged foreigner was very polite and hurriedly said, "Hello, Mr. Guard!" A friend of General Jiang Fangzhen asked me to bring him a letter, could you please give it to him? I'll just wait here, and if General Chiang has any questions, I can answer them for him."

The guard looked at the middle-aged foreigner for a few seconds, then nodded, "Okay!" ”

"Excuse me!" The middle-aged foreigner handed over the letter.

"Please wait!" The guards turned and walked away with the letters.

Jiang Fangzhen handed over the military hat and coat to Mrs. Jiang and walked to the sofa and sat down, and the maid brought over a cup of tea, "Master, the tea is ready!" ”

"Well, there you go!" Jiang Fangzhen waved his hand, picked up the teacup and drank it.

The adjutant came over with a letter and reported: "General, a foreigner outside has sent a letter, saying that your friend asked him to bring it to you, and he is waiting outside, we have checked it, and there should be no problem with the letter."

"Oh? Foreign friends? Or was it sent by someone? That's kind of interesting, show me it! Jiang Fangzhen said and put down the teacup.

The adjutant handed the letter over, and Jiang Fangzhen took it. Pick up the fruit knife on the table and open the envelope, pull out the stationery and spread it out. He read it quickly, folding the letter as he folded it. While thinking about it, he made a decision in only a moment, and said to the adjutant: "You go to the door to find that person and take him to the West Hall, the necessary security inspection work still needs to be done!" ”

"Okay, General!"

At this time, Mrs. Jiang came over with her little daughter in her arms and asked, "Baili, is it time to eat?" ”

Jiang Baili said: "If you are hungry, eat first, I have something to deal with!" ”

Madame Chiang asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"About ?????? Half an hour! Jiang Fangzhen thought for a while and said.

Mrs. Jiang said: "Then let's wait for you together."

"Okay, I'll go first!"

Come to the West Hall. When the middle-aged foreigner saw Jiang Fangzhen coming, he immediately stood up and bowed, "Your Excellency General, hello!" Thank you for taking the time to meet me, you can call me Glenner! ”

Jiang Fangzhen looked at Grener for a few seconds, nodded and pointed to the chair next to him: "Mr. Grena, please take a seat!" ”

"Thank you, General!"

After both of them sat down, Jiang Fangzhen asked, "Mr. Grena, what do you do?" ”

Glenner owes a debt, "General." I am a businessman and I have been doing business in China for 20 years! ”

Jiang Fangzhen took out the letter and asked, "Who entrusted you to bring this letter to me?" ”

"A friend of mine asked me to bring this letter to you with a proposal in it. If you want to do that, I can inform him to come to meet you, and he needs to be cleared at the border! ”

Jiang Fangzhen thought for two seconds and said, "This matter." I need to think about it, so be it. You go back first, and I'll send someone to inform you after I've thought about it."

"Okay. Your Excellency, General! Excuse me, farewell! ”

The next morning, Jiang Fangzhen came to see Xiao Zhenlei and reported: "President, there is a strange thing to report to you."

Xiao Zhenlei put down the pen in his hand, "Oh? What's the weird thing that wants you to come over in person? ”

Jiang Baili said: "Yesterday a German sent a letter from my door, which was written by my former commander, Field Marshal Hindenburg of Germany, in which he said that Germany wanted to make secret peace talks with us!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled when he heard this: "This is indeed a strange thing, can you be sure of the authenticity of the letter?" ”

Jiang Baili nodded and said: "I have studied by Hindenburg's side for a period of time, and I am relatively familiar with his handwriting, and it should be certain that it was written by Marshal Hindenburg, he said in his letter that Germany's enemy is not China, and China's enemy should not be Germany, Germany and China have no conflict of interests, if our army can stop, Germany can completely resist the attack of Britain, France and the United States, does China not hope that Germany can weaken the military strength of Britain, France and the United States?" As far as China is concerned, Europe needs a strong country like Germany to contain Britain and France, otherwise once Germany is defeated, its strength will inevitably be greatly weakened, and then Britain and France can unite against China."

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and asked, "Did you bring the letter?" Can I watch it? ”

"Of course!" Jiang Baili immediately took out the letter from the pocket of his military uniform.

Xiao Zhenlei took the letter and read it, the letter was not long, he read it quickly, he returned the letter to Jiang Fangzhen, and took out a cigarette and smoked it.

Halfway through his cigarette, Xiao Zhenlei turned around and asked, "Baili, what do you think?" ”

Jiang Baili shook his head and smiled; "President, you can ask the wrong person, this is related to the post-war international situation, I am just a soldier, I don't know anything about this."

Xiao Zhenlei thought about it and said to Jiang Baili: "Let me think about it!" ”

"Okay, President, I'll take my leave first," Jiang Fangzhen finished speaking and left.

In the afternoon, Xiao Zhenlei convened a meeting of the staff group, and at the end of the meeting, Xiao Zhenlei threw out Germany's intention to secretly sue for peace, "Finally, there is one more thing, Jiang Baili came to see me in the morning and brought a letter, this letter is a letter written to him by the German Chief of the General Staff, Hindenburg said in the letter that the German army wants to make secret peace talks with us, Germany and China cannot be enemies, and there are no conditions for becoming enemies, and he also said that Germany's current purpose is very simple, that is, to strive for peace talks, He said that he could give up the islands in the Pacific Ocean that we occupied, and as long as our army stopped, the German army would have enough troops to force Britain, France, and the United States to negotiate peace on the Western Front, and Hindenburg also threw out a message, saying that Europe needs Germany to contain Britain and France, otherwise once Germany is weakened too much, Britain and France can free up their hands to deal with our country specifically. What do you think? Are we going to make a secret peace with Germany? ”

Tan Yanmin stood up and said, "President, the secret peace with Germany is contrary to the fourteen-point principle put forward by Wilson. It would have been nice if the Germans had surrendered, but they would not have surrendered. This kind of secret peace can easily be poked out, and then our country will fall into a passive position in diplomacy."

Liang Qichao and Zhang Qian also stood up one after another to express their concerns about the matter, and although these people did not say it explicitly, everyone else knew that they did not agree to negotiate secretly with Germany.

At this time, Yang Du stood up and said: "President, I think it is necessary to conduct secret negotiations with the Germans!" ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it! ”

"Yes!" Yang Du agreed, and immediately said: "I can't only see the present, I must see the situation after the war, if Germany is allowed to lose, Germany will inevitably be weakened by Britain and France." Although we can also get a lot of benefits from Germany, but without Germany's containment, Britain and France will use hundreds of years of heritage and accumulation, as well as a large number of benefits obtained from Germany, to quickly recover their strength, and after this war, Britain and France have made great development and progress in military science and technology, they will soon recover, and then turn around against us, although the war will not break out in a short time. But they will contain us in other ways, such as diplomatic and economic, in Europe, a castrated Austria alone is not enough to contain the British and French powers! ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The president. I also think that it is necessary for Germany to retain enough strength to contain Britain and France, but Germany must be weakened to a certain extent, and all their overseas colonies must be surrendered. And there is also the payment of a war reparation! ”

Most people agreed with Yang Du and Yang Shiqi that it was necessary to negotiate secretly with the Germans. Seeing this, Xiao Zhenlei said: "The importance of secret negotiations with Germany is already clear, but the key is how to realize our intentions. It is necessary not only to make the Germans willingly hand over their overseas colonies, but also to pay a war reparation, and to get Britain, France, the United States and other countries to agree, Hindenburg asked our army to stop on the Eastern Front, so that the German side has enough troops to deal with Britain, France and the United States, and it is not beneficial for anyone to drag on the war for too long, and the Germans believe that Britain, France and the United States will definitely be doomed to peace in the end, so that Germany will take the initiative in the negotiations and can try to recover its losses! ”

Yang Shiqi frowned and said: "President, if Britain, France and the United States do not make progress on the Western Front, and our army does not move on the Eastern Front, Britain, France and the United States will definitely send people to negotiate with us and let us attack on the Eastern Front, we just can't delay it for long!" On the other hand, if we promise to stop on the Eastern Front, then the Germans will have only a small number of troops on the Eastern Front, and the vast majority of their forces will be sent to the Western Front to defeat Britain, France, and the United States, and then Germany will be able to turn around and deal with us again, and we will lose more than we gain."

Someone immediately noticed the inconsistency of Yang Shiqi's two words, "Mr. Yang, what is your opinion, do you support the secret negotiation, or do you not support it?" ”

Yang Shiqi said: "We can promise to stop on the Eastern Front, but we will not negotiate or sign a secret agreement!" ”

Everyone didn't understand what Yang Shiqi meant by this, and Xiao Zhenlei also felt a little confused, but he understood that he didn't sign the secret negotiation agreement in order not to be caught, and he didn't understand what it meant to promise to stop on the Eastern Front but not negotiate.

Xiao Zhenlei took a puff of cigarette and said to Yang Shiqi: "Mr. Yang, please speak clearly"

"We can make a phenomenon of standing still on the Eastern Front, so that the Germans can safely transfer troops to attack Britain, France, and the United States on the Western Front, but do not negotiate with the Germans, so that we can send troops at any time to attack the Germans at a critical moment and prevent Britain, France, and the United States from being defeated."

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head when he heard this: "The Germans are not fools, there is no guarantee, how dare they rest assured that the heavy troops on the Eastern Front will be transferred to the Western Front?" Forget it, I have also thought about this matter for a long time, the risk of secret negotiations with the Germans is too great, our purpose is just to let Britain and France be contained after the war, so we can advocate after the war to keep Germany from being weakened to a great extent, Britain and France are not monolithic, they must be worried that the other side will get too many benefits from Germany, especially Britain will definitely worry that France will get too many benefits and dominate the European continent, which must be contrary to the interests of Britain, we use the contradictions between them to make a fuss! Therefore, the matter of secret negotiations with the Germans is still settled, and we should have never had such a thing." (To be continued......)