Chapter 295: Waiting for the Opportunity (1)

On the main hall of the Syracuse Palace, the military and political officials of the Southern Han Dynasty sat on both sides in a regular manner. Xue Ru looked at this formation and wanted to laugh a little. Zhou Tingru, a special adviser to the Southern Han Dynasty, was a Chinese who moved into Vietnam from China. After moving in for decades, some are pedantic and conservative, and some are Han national thoughts.

The Zhou family lived in the Yunnan-Guizhou region for generations, and the family was exterminated in the Manchu literary prison, and the original surname was Lü, which is said to be the descendant of Lü Wan Village, and escaped the persecution of the Qing Dynasty, so he changed his mother's surname to his surname Zhou. Zhou Tingru was arrested by the Qing court for supporting the revolutionary party Mr. Sun's uprising, and his family fled to northern Vietnam.

Zhou Tingru was very excited about the establishment of the Southern Han regime, he always thought that Vietnam was Chinese, and the name of the country was canonized by Emperor Jiaqing. As a special adviser specially invited by Xue Ru, he proposed to establish a kingdom with Han people as the main body in the southeast peninsula and implement monarchical rule. The name of the country was proposed by him, and it was referred to as the Southern Han Kingdom. This generation of anti-Qing literati can be regarded as old and angry youth.

Xue Ru knew him through his granddaughter Zhou Min, who came to participate in the application, and only then did she know that Zhou Tingru was a celebrity, but Xue Ru has always paid attention to collecting talents. got acquainted with Zhou Tingru through Zhou Min, and the two talked about it, of course, they hated to see each other. With Xue Ru's insight and thoughts, he quickly conquered Zhou Tingru and became Xue Ru's follower.

The Zhou family can be called a great Confucian for generations, and they are loyal to ancient Chinese culture and ancient ritual system. Although Chinese characters have been used in Vietnam for thousands of years, Vietnam has its own language, customs and traditions, which are very different from the Chinese.

After being ruled by France for so many years, the French Chinese language and French also have a large proportion, especially among the literate upper strata, there are many pro-French people. At this time, there were not too many Han people, and in order to increase the population, a large number of people from other countries were absorbed from the surrounding areas, making the Southern Han a hodgepodge, and the language and culture were all disorganized.

Xue Ru is an angry young man, and she has a very serious national complex, this time she has the final say, and finally has the right to control the world, of course, she will not call the cheongsam a national costume, nor will she call the horse coat a Hanfu, so what she wants to do is to determine the clothing and culture of the Han nation.

But it's easy to think about, but it's hard to put it into practice. After a lot of modern ideological indoctrination in later generations, when he was forced to learn English in order to be admitted to university, Xue Ru would not be able to do these ancient rituals. Zhang Donglin was born in the United States, grew up in the United States, and Li Zhengzhou's family has been in Vietnam for more than 100 years, and he is considered an authentic Vietnamese.

Nguyen Dong Van is a native of the Jing ethnic group, that is, an indigenous person in Vietnam, which reminded Xue Ru of Zhou Tingru and personally invited him to come out and hire him as his consultant. When Zhou Tingru knew why Xue Ru invited him, he actually wanted to kneel down and pay homage at the age of sixty, which scared Xue Ru enough. Zhou Tingru said that he didn't want a penny of salary, and was willing to give advice to Xue Ru.

When the country was founded, he suggested that the country should be called Han, and the next thing made Xue Ru cry and laugh. Mr. Lao, which is to promote Han culture and Chinese culture, is retro regression.

In this place, known as the Han Palace, a meeting is made like a dynasty. It was Xue Ru who resolutely opposed it so he didn't let everyone kneel, just saluted, and decided to sit down for a meeting.

Zhang Donglin and Li Zhengzhou intended to establish Xue Ru's authority, so they also worked with Zhou Tingru to add fuel to the fire, making it what it is now. But Zhou Tingru, who is in his 60s and almost 70 years old, is very energetic.

Li Wenxiu complained directly, because Zhou Tingru was a special adviser, whether it was his current status, or his reputation and prestige among the Han people in the Southern Han Dynasty, Li Wenxiu did not dare to provoke him. Zhou Tingru also had the characteristics of Chinese literati, paranoid and admitting death, calling the schools established in various places academies, and demanding that Confucius be respected as a sage and patriarch, so Li Wenxiu could not do anything. Xue Ru said that he would get it, and Li Wenxiu had to listen.

But Zhou Tingru also has something to admire, in order to build the Syracuse Academy, Zhou Tingru was stunned to ignore the opposition of his son and grandson, sold the family property, and invested a lot of money himself, and at the same time, in southern Vietnam, and China, many of his students and protégés also gathered in Syracuse to serve as Chinese language teachers.

Today is a plenary meeting, and it is the same as the previous court, so Xue Ru is a little happy. Although it has not been a long time to eliminate feudal society, it is also a modern society at this time, and a group of people from the 21st century have made themselves emperors and have a fight with Yuan Shikai. It seems that you can't listen to Zhou Tingru in the future, this is a reversal of history, not progress, but a regression.

Seeing Zhou Tingru's serious appearance, Xue Ru really wanted to say: "Everyone loves Qing's flat body" Thinking about it, if you make a big joke like that, I'm afraid it will be difficult to clean up in the future, and it will also make people disgusted. After all, at this time, the senior military and political officials of the Southern Han Dynasty were very young, and there were not many of them, and even Prime Minister Zhang Donglin was only in his thirties.

In addition to Zhou Tingru, Li Zhengzhou is the oldest, and he is just fifty years old, especially the generals in the army, Liu Yuanshan is only thirty-one or twelve years old, and his own will cause many people to be dissatisfied. After all, these people have accepted new ideas, and many of them are college students, and new ideas and new cultures are very resistant to feudal society. Not to mention China, the whole world is a period of democratic revolution and the era of the demise of the monarchy.

Xue Ru said solemnly: "Ladies and gentlemen, our plenary meeting today is to report on the military situation at this time and the focus of the work of the Southern Han Dynasty in the future, so please ask Chief of Staff Ouyang to talk about the situation at this time." ”

Ouyang Sari stood up, took the command whip, and said in front of a large map that opened the curtain: "According to the intelligence of the reconnaissance aircraft and the intelligence department, as well as various understandings, the General Staff has determined that the Japanese side has not made any more moves to attack the Southern Han, but they have formed the 2nd Air Fleet in Wugang, merged the 3rd Fleet in Sanya, and formed the South China Sea Fleet. This time there were not so many land forces to follow, so it was certain that they would not attack the Southern Han. However, there must be some purpose in using such a large military force, and the Ministry of Intelligence has not been able to provide information, so the General Staff believes that we are speeding up the building of the army at the present time based on defense. ”

He paused and said: "The war situation in Europe is far away from us, but the Southern Han is no longer a military organization, it is a country. According to the Queen's decree, it was impossible for the Southern Han Dynasty to close itself off from the rest of the country and would inevitably enter the international arena, so in the case of the Japanese-German alliance, the war situation in Europe also had a great impact on us. The particularly southern region is French Vietnam. Cambodia and part of Laos are still under French control. In addition, Thailand and Burma are the British Indochina Federation, so the European war situation is also closely related to the Southern Han Dynasty. ”

Originally, these people, especially the government and cabinet, didn't care about Europe, so what does it have to do with the Southern Han Dynasty? But as soon as Ouyang Sari said this, he also had brains to enter the high-level of the Southern Han Dynasty, and immediately understood that the wars between Germany and Britain and France in Europe directly affected the surrounding countries.

People in the armed forces, in particular, listened attentively, because this was a matter related to military operations and world strategy. Miss Queen has repeatedly said that the Snow Fox Army is the national army of the Southern Han Dynasty, and all generals should take a long-term view and look at the war from the perspective of overall world strategy, and cannot be limited to the strategic height within a country.

It seems that today's military and political meeting is by no means a tactical issue, it should be a strategic meeting, so they are all listening attentively, trying to see from Ouyang Sari's introduction what strategy the snow fox will have.

Indeed, today's military and political meeting is not a question of where to fight, but the result of Xue Ru's thinking for a long time.

After Jiang Fengchuan left, Xue Ru had already understood that he could no longer interfere in China's internal affairs, and Chiang Kai-shek had regarded Snow Fox as a foreign army from the bottom of his heart. Jiang Fengchuan's respect and promise to Xue Ru was so heartfelt, he was a little unsupportive, so he waited until the goods were loaded before leaving. He did not understand how a country, as a country, could so readily agree to the demands made by the Chinese side.

According to the analysis of the Military Commission, Xue Ru's troops withdrew from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, all the way to the south, and it seems that they had been prepared to occupy Vietnam. As soon as the order was given, the New Ninth Army and the road escort team withdrew to North Vietnam, and then announced the establishment of the country in a high-profile manner, which may be a long-term plan. This demon-like girl is hard to believe that she is only seventeen or eighteen years old.

But this is the case, with the minds of Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin, it is impossible to believe that Xue Ru is a vixen, that is just a statement that deifies himself. But this woman is a genius, there is no doubt about it.

In the end, he believed that Xue Ru must be treated with the attitude of a country, so there were two letters from Xue Yue and Song Xilian, one knew it with affection, and the other moved with reason, hoping that Xue Ru would not be too difficult. At the same time, Jiang Fengchuan is also given permission, and the general conditions can be considered. After all, Japan's blockade has made China's situation even more difficult. Even the CCP's base areas behind enemy lines, which have always been used to open up base areas to seize territory, have also shrunk by a large margin.

Eighty percent of the guerrilla units behind enemy lines of the Nationalist Army surrendered to the enemy, and the rest were wiped out, and many areas became occupied areas. Without supplies and foreign aid, the troops were unable to carry out a large-scale counteroffensive and could only maintain the status quo.

What Jiang Fengchuan didn't expect was that Xue Ru agreed very happily and asked too much. When he saw Sun Zheng and Zhang Donglin with incomprehension, he couldn't believe it. There are many problems that the Southern Han Dynasty did not ask for deeply, which is something that has never been done when dealing with foreigners, and even with those local warlords is not so simple.

Not to mention Jiang Fengchuan, even Chiang Kai-shek couldn't imagine that Xue Ru and the others had never regarded themselves as foreigners, and Snow Fox established the Southern Han Dynasty for this passage, which would make it difficult for the Chinese government, and the matter was resolved smoothly. All this, Xue Ru understood, Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist Government regarded the Southern Han Dynasty as a country, and the next thing was the norms of state exchanges and affairs.

Since this is the situation and situation, Xue Ru must adjust his strategy and treat the international situation with a new mentality that he does not know. She doesn't have too much political talent, but she is a smart person who learns quickly, and she comes from the modern era of knowledge explosion, and the knowledge she has heard and seen and learned has also made her understand and master more than others.

Today's meeting first of all made his subordinates understand that if the Southern Han wants to get out of its predicament, it cannot rely on force alone, and it should also understand that the political factor of international struggle will account for more than half, and the military victory may be lost politically. What's more, the Southern Han Dynasty is a small country, with a land area comparable to Japan, or even a little less than him, and the difference in national strength and scientific and technological level is even more than 108,000 miles.

The Southern Han Dynasty was inferior to Japan, not to mention France and the United Kingdom, as well as the behemoth United States, so political competition was even more important.

Ouyang Saari still said: "A few days ago, the German army bypassed the Maginot Line and attacked northern France, at this time the French and British troops were retreating. According to the analysis, the defeat of France is only a matter of time, and it will not last too long, and it is simply incapable of controlling Asia. However, His Majesty said that no matter what government France changes, it will be impossible to give up the Southeast Peninsula, so we must have a clear understanding that the situation in the Southern Han Dynasty is still grim. ”

Dai Zong and Qiao Han showed a look of disdain, what if those French garbage troops have the ability to take care of Vietnam? Ouyang Sari continued: "The General Staff believes that since Japan stopped attacking Nanhan, it formed a powerful fleet to enter the southern part of the South China Sea and enter Cam Ranh Bay, and its purpose should be southern French Vietnam. If South Vietnam is occupied by the Japanese, they will attack the South Han from the north and south, and we will inevitably endure a two-sided battle, which is the most dangerous thing. ”

This time, all the generals kept their eyes on the map, yes, if the Japanese army occupied Saigon and southern Vietnam, it would attack the southern border defense line of the Southern Han, while the Japanese army in Nanning, Qinzhou, attacked the northern part of the Southern Han from the territory of China, and advanced from the north to the south.

Ouyang Sari said: "We can't count on the Chinese side at all, the Japanese army has been carrying out law and order rectification operations for more than a year, and the occupied areas are relatively stable. The Nanjing puppet government was established, and a large number of national troops surrendered to become puppet troops. The Nationalist troops lacked offensive intentions, and their combat effectiveness was very low, so it was impossible to contain the Japanese attack. Once the French were defeated in the hands of Germany, they would not be friends with the Southern Han, and we were built on their colonies, so the Southern Han would inevitably face the Japanese attack. ”

He sat down after introducing these, and the meeting became a little dull. What does Nanhan need? What is needed is time. Although the generals of the army do not participate in local construction, the coast, seaports and borders are all in the hands of the army, the two main ports of Ha Long and Haiphong, how many foreign merchant ships, the largest coal mine in the north and the iron mine in the central part of the country, and the materials transported from China, the snow fox is thriving, but what about time? Will the Japanese give time to the Southern Han? This is a real sense of crisis.

Seeing the solemn faces of these people, Xue Ru smiled: "Everyone, the situation is indeed very serious, the situation introduced by Chief of Staff Ouyang is the dangerous side of the Southern Han Dynasty, but we must also see the positive side." We only occupy a part of the area, and the political intentions of the Southern Han are not clear, and there is no contradiction with other countries except for touching the interests of France. Thailand and Burma are British influences, Malaysia and Singapore are Dutch influences, and the Philippines is the sphere of influence of the United States, and we do not have much conflict of interest with these countries. France has no ability to intervene here for the time being, and our north is China, although China's weak strength cannot help us, but they will not cooperate with Japan, and will actively attack and intercept the Japanese army. So we are not without friends, without allies. The current task is to step up the training of the army, speed up the construction of industry and agriculture and all aspects, stabilize and strengthen the interior of the Southern Han Dynasty, and prepare to fight the Japanese army. ”

Li Zhengzhou said: "Your Majesty, I don't understand military operations, but I also understand our situation, what if the Japanese army really attacks?" ”

Xue Ru smiled very confidently: "Minister Li, I think the Japanese army will not be able to sail ashore when attacking the Southern Han, and they will eventually have to land and fight." How many divisions of the Japanese army dared to conduct a landing battle? Therefore, he did not dare to carry out a landing operation against the Southern Han, and most likely occupied Vietnam from the south and then attacked from the land. Moreover, Japan's goal is not only the Southern Han, but also the entire Southeast Asia, as long as we develop the interior, the Japanese army will not attack in a short time, and give us another year and a half, the Southern Han will never be afraid of Japan. ”

"That's good, I know Your Majesty has a way." Whether Li Zhengzhou really believes it or not, no one knows.

Liu Yuanshan said: "Your Majesty, what should we do then?" I think that since we know that Japan is going to occupy the south, why don't we send troops to occupy Saigon first, so that not only can we expand the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty, but also make the Japanese army dare not land? ”

Xue Ru didn't want to do that, the staff had already mentioned this plan. Xue Ru said: "The Southern Han Dynasty is just waiting, it is a wait-and-see opportunity, why not do it, there are the following questions......"