In accordance with the relevant regulations of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Legislative Yuan voted on the three bills one after another. The result of the vote on the "Motion of No Confidence in the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government" jointly submitted by Sun Wen, Hu Hanmin, Wang Ching-wei, and others of the Kuomintang was: 35 votes in favor, 140 abstentions, and 418 votes against. The confidence case failed and ended in a fiasco.

The result of the vote on the "Bill on the Replacement of the Central Government by the National Government" proposed by Wang Zhenyu was 510 votes in favor, 41 abstentions, and 42 votes against. From now on, the legal qualifications of the central government in Beijing will not be recognized in the areas under the jurisdiction of the national government, and the national government will be the new central government, and all circulars will refer to the Beijing government with a puppet government.

Finally, Wang Zhenyu's "Declaration of War on Japan" was put forward, because the hat of national righteousness was too big, this proposal full of nationalist colors was finally unanimously adopted, and from this moment on, the pattern of world history underwent major changes, at least 20 years ahead of schedule, and Sino-Japanese relations entered a state of war.

For a while, the reactions of all parties were different, and the first to get the news was, of course, the central government, which had just been deposed. Yang Yuting is really the most diligent existence in the Feng department, and as soon as he got the telegram, he rushed to Jurentang to report to Zhang Zuolin. And Zhang Zuolin immediately jumped up and laughed after reading the telegram: "This is good, this is good, I am still afraid that he Wang Wenzheng will not enter Shandong, and now they will come to the door by themselves, and then it will be up to Little Japan." Tell Sun Liechen and Zhang Jinghui that they should seize the time to conquer Shanxi, and then wait for the Japanese to defeat the Youth Army in Shandong, and he Zhang Jinghui hurriedly led his troops into Henan to take Wang Wenzheng's nest Wuhan, while Sun Liechen led his troops to Shaanxi and Sichuan. ”

Yang Yuting has no objection to Zhang Zuolin's words, this has been planned a long time ago, and some of them are even set by himself. He just asked with some worry: "Then over there in Shandong, do Zhang Zongchang's plan to attack Xuzhou still be implemented?" ”

Zhang Zuolin slapped the table angrily and funny: "It's all come to this point, it's a fart, let him withdraw from Shandong quickly, don't be stirred in." Shandong will be left to the youth army and the Japanese dog-eat-dog! ”

In Tokyo, Japan, Prime Minister Hara Kei was surprised when he received a telegram from the Nationalist Government in South China and asked Tanaka, "Tanaka-kun, what's going on?" Why is this happening? Could it be that the government of South China was already preparing for war with the Empire? ”

Tanaka Yoshiichi smiled very calmly: "The people of China are always so angry and like to shout and kill in their mouths, which has been proven in the Gengzi Rebellion more than ten years ago. That Lafayette didn't declare war on the eight strongest countries in the world at the same time, but the end was to measure China's material resources and the favor of all countries. Your Excellency the Prime Minister, you are not a soldier, so it is not clear to you how great the advantage of the Imperial Japanese Army is. First of all, we have the largest navy in the whole of Asia, which the Chinese people cannot keep up with. Their long coastline is defenseless, and as long as the combined fleet of the empire wishes, we can carry out landing operations in Shanghai, Canton, or in short, any seaport in China. As for the terrain of the peninsula, Shandong is even more in the direct radiation range of the Combined Fleet, and if the Imperial Army still can't win such a battle, then it can basically go to seppuku to apologize. And when it comes to the army, you don't have to worry about it, His Majesty the Emperor's loyal samurai will soon prove what kind of army is a world-class army......"

The most depressed person was almost Shanxi Overseer Yan Xishan: "What is Chu Xiongfei doing?" Why shoot? Originally, I was just dancing on the two eggs of Bongjang and Namwang, but now it's okay, and the third egg of the Japanese has appeared. Let me dance on three eggs, and the rest of the days will be bitter......"

In Zhanjiang Port in Guangdong, Vice Admiral Chen Shaokuan, Minister of the Navy and Navy Commander, was giving a lecture to the officers and men of the Navy's No. 1 Detachment and No. 1 Submarine Formation. As a matter of fact, since the May Fourth Movement triggered the Shandong issue, the navy's five 5,000-ton British-built "Haiqi"-class cruisers "Wuhan," "Nanjing," "Changsha," "Guangzhou," and "Shanghai," 10 500-ton domestically produced destroyers, and two torpedo boat formations with 12 torpedo boats fully staffed have already set off from Shanghai's Wusong Military Port and moved to Zhanjiang. On the point of breaking the fleet, Wang Zhenyu reached an agreement with Chen Shaokuan, the new head of the navy, that is, it is unrealistic to go to a decisive battle with the Japanese combined fleet or cut off Japan's maritime supply lines, but there is no problem at all in cutting off Japan's trade routes to Southeast Asia. Wang Zhenyu also obtained information that the Japanese clearly underestimated China's will to resist, and they did not even consider the question of whether the Chinese navy would attack. Also, the total tonnage of the entire broken fleet is only 30,000 tons, which is not as good as the two Japanese battleships, and it is estimated that anyone who will use such a fleet to hold Wusong and prevent the combined fleet from going upstream, threatening Nanjing and Wuhan. It is a pity that in this life, because of the National Security Bureau and Wang Yaqiao, Japan's intelligence work on China is very ineffective, if they knew that in Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, and Wusong, three extremely strong German-style navies were to race, and eight 370 mm caliber German-made naval heavy guns were placed in each, it is estimated that the Japanese would not be so embarrassed......

However, in the use of submarine formations, the differences between Wang Zhenyu and Chen Shaokuan are a bit big. According to Wang Zhenyu's point of view, the value of the existence of submarine formations is to use them against enemy warships, so where are the enemy's warships? In Shandong! Then what are you hesitating about, go directly to Shandong, and then wait for the Japanese combined fleet to come and send you to death.

Faced with Wang Zhenyu's idea of claiming to be a genius, Chen Shaokuan sneered with great disdain: "Your Excellency Honorable Chairman, you really look down on these submarines, even if the Japanese fleet has the world's lowest anti-submarine capability, if they choose to escape, do you think they can catch up with only the speed of 11 nautical miles of submarines?" ”

Wang Zhenyu didn't have a seizure, but he was very dissatisfied with Chen Shaokuan's arrogance in his heart, but he still asked very modestly: "Then according to what you mean, how should our submarine force be used?" ”

Chen Shaokuan looked at the map without fear, and slid his hand from Shandong directly to the mouth of the Yangtze River: "Right here, I have planned it, relying on the fort, it is estimated that it will be much easier to play a vote when the Japanese fleet is shelling, and it will not be so easy for the Japanese to run away at that time." ”

Wang Zhenyu frowned and said, "Then if Little Japan does not invade the Yangtze River, our submarine formation will be useless?" I've invested so much money to become a decoration? ”

Chen Shaokuan said with even more disdainful sarcasm: "My chairman, I think you are more suitable to be a businessman than a soldier, and the technical data of the submarine determines that it can only exist as a deterrent weapon that strikes the strong with weakness." And from our point of view, the Yangtze River basin is the lifeblood of our economy, and it would be better if there was no war. The biggest role of the submarine formation placed there is to throw it out as the last trump card in the event of a war and minimize losses. ”

Although Wang Zhenyu was unhappy, he could only nod and said: "That's it, I will let Gu Weijun and them communicate with Britain, the United States and France, and try to avoid the southeast coast becoming a war area, these ghost guys have a lot of investment here, especially a few American consortiums, I don't believe that we will do it with the Japanese, these Yankees will not be in a hurry." ”

Sure enough, Michelle, head of the Shanghai office of the US Rockefeller Foundation, and the US consul in Nanjing, after Wang Zhenyu issued a declaration of war against Japan, rushed to Cao's house overnight and visited Wang Zhenyu, who was preparing to return to Wuhan the next day.

"Thank you, dear American friends, for your concern for peace in China, and in fact I hate war. But there is no way, as you can see, it was not I who sent my troops to Kyushu in Japan, but the Japanese sent their troops to our Chinese Shandong on the grounds of protecting the diaspora. In my opinion, only democratically elected governments like Britain and the United States will really care about the lives and deaths of their expatriates, and when will a ** country like Japan, which emphasizes the selfless dedication of its citizens to His Majesty the Emperor, really care about the lives and deaths of their expatriates? So they are just doing the most barbaric things under the banner of civilization. ”

Having said that, the US consul was so bad that he could not say much, and he could only say that he would directly report to the United States what was happening in China. Compared with the official, Michelle, a business representative, does not have so many troubles and scruples. You must know that Rockefeller, Morgan and other large American conglomerates have invested about $400 million in China, and they have also underwritten up as much as $600 million in government bonds from the Nationalist Government. In other words, if the Japanese Combined Fleet appeared at the mouth of the Yangtze River or if the Chinese Nationalist Government was defeated and collapsed in the war, then the big American conglomerates would have almost a billion dollars in a bubble, and even the richest like them would not be able to turn a blind eye to such losses.

"Dear Wang, many of our cooperation projects with the China Development Corporation are still ongoing, and about two-thirds of them are concentrated in Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, and we are very worried that the Japanese Combined Fleet will carry out landing operations at the mouth of the Yangtze River, which may undermine our cooperation."

"Mr. Michelle, war is the ugliest thing in human beings, but the Japanese love it and strengthen it again and again. As a partner, I am reluctant to drag the peace-loving Americans into such a battle with the barbarians, but my strength is limited after all, and the only thing I can do is that once the real Japanese army appears in the above areas, I will command my army to fight to the end, and defend the personnel and property of my friends with my life. ”

Michelle was dumbfounded when he heard this, it's the same as not saying it, but he doesn't know what to say, he can't let people give up the above areas without resistance, this doesn't make sense. Michelle nodded and said some and left, and had to tell the big business groups in the United States about this terrible situation