, The snow first guessed. The whole city was covered with silver. The wilderness outside the city has been covered with ridiculed, and the public roads in the city are full of busy snow sweepers. As an important aspect of national consciousness education, the concept of "national obligations" has now been popularized in the city. Clearing the snow on the public roads in front of the door is not only conducive to cultivating national consciousness, but also convenient for transportation. For a country that is rapidly moving into the industrial era, this national consciousness is obviously worth further strengthening. Of course, this strengthening of national consciousness requires the guidance and supervision of the government. In fact, the municipal autonomous organs in the city are responsible for the supervision of this work.

As for the main roads in the city, there are naturally professional cleaning workers to remove snow. Since they use the latest snow-pumping machinery made by Chinese factories, so far, several main roads in the city can already pass through motor vehicles without worrying about wheels slipping. Drivers can relax on such roads, but the cars are still under control.

Sitting in this smoothly moving official car, Tang Shaoyi looked out the window. It was very cold. Apart from the snow sweeper, there were almost no pedestrians on the street. There were a few diners sitting on the Hunchun stall on the street. The moment the boss uncovered the lid of the pot, a vast white steam gushed out of the stall. Coupled with the original Beijing-style hawking sound, a picture of life in Beijing in winter was so simple outlined.

Although Tang Shaoyi is from Guangdong, he has been an official in the north for many years and has long been used to the life and climate here. Although he also thinks that the snacks in Beijing are very distinctive, he still misses the flavor of his hometown and has not returned to Guangdong for many years. Now he is indeed homesick. Sitting in the car, Tang Shaoyi is thinking about when to ask the president for leave, rush back to Guangdong to take a look, stay for more days, and talk to his fellow villagers and elders. However, he is also very clear in his heart, so he looks at the full-load working state of the central government. The president may not approve his leave request.

Thinking of this, Tang Shaoyi calmed down, leaned back, closed his eyes, and began to think about work.

Now, his Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot be idle. At present, the most important official business is two things: one is about the reorganization of the "Far East Peace Commission". Now the US government has officially made a recommendation to the Council of the Far East Peace Commission, suggesting that the organization be expanded into a global organization, an arbitration institution for international disputes, absorbing sovereign states around the world to join, and exercising power as an important body to handle inter-international relations in the future. If this proposal can be unanimously agreed by all countries, China may be able to use the organization's status as a country to further improve its international status. This matter is the diplomatic matter that Tang Shaoyi is most concerned about at present; the second is about diplomatic negotiations between China and the Soviet Russian government. Due to the re-division of the border between the two countries, this matter is the president's most concerned, and Tang Shaoyi naturally dare not be careless.

Regarding the reorganization and expansion of the "Far East Peace Commission", the US's initiative has been unanimously agreed by China, Japan, Luo Thailand, the Second Republic of Lan Fang, and the Republic of New Guinea. Asian countries unanimously agree, but at the same time, the two European countries that play a vital role in the Far East have a cold attitude towards the "naive idea" of the US government. The British and French governments agree that in terms of the current world power composition, even if the world needs an international arbitration institution, it cannot be located in Yayuan, and it can only be dominated by Europe. Therefore, the British and French governments believe that it is unnecessary to expand the Far East Peace Commission. On the contrary, both governments believe that after the European war is over, an international organization can be established based on the leadership of European countries under the leadership of European countries. The two governments also believe that this suggestion is to be placed in priority for consideration.

Tang Shaoyi could only smile at the counter-suggestions of the British and French governments. He knew very well that if Britain and France did not participate in this expanded version of the Far East Peace Commission, then this transnational organization would not be able to achieve the role of arbitration of international disputes envisioned by the US government.

Tang Shaoyi hopes that the US government and China, Japan and other countries will continue to consult with the British and French governments to achieve the arduous task of reorganizing the Far East Peace Commission. However, what surprised Tang Shaoyi was that Zhao Bei was not optimistic about this initiative at all. He also poured cold water on Tang Shaoyi and told him directly that even if European countries intend to establish an international organization, it will not be established based on the Far East Peace Commission, because the Far East Peace Commission is currently dominated by China and Japan, and the European powers will definitely not be willing to enjoy leadership over the world with the Asian leading countries. As for the United States, once the European war is over, it may immediately return to isolationism.

For this reason, the President asked Tang Shaoyi to completely put aside the matter of the Far Eastern Committee and concentrate on presiding over negotiations with Russia, striving to achieve the goal as soon as possible and recover the lost territory.

Compared with the reorganization of the Far East Peace Committee, the negotiations with Russia were not very smooth. Due to the large-scale speech of the central lion, the position of the Soviet Russian government has been shaking. He is willing to compromise and then becomes tougher. Everything depends on the situation on the front line. Tang Shaoyi is very clear about this situation, which shows that the Soviet Union's negotiating stance is very "flexible" and put it more clearly, that is, he has no position, and perhaps he is simply delaying the negotiations to wait for the complete reversal of the situation on the battlefield.

But now it seems that the strategic disadvantage of the Soviet army on the Siberian front is unlikely to be completely reversed, because the Western Conference

The route is still being bombed by bombers from the "Far East Legion Air Force" bombers. The Soviet Russian troops on the front line cannot get enough supplies and ammunition and can only passive defense. The army of the Tsarist government is advancing step by step. It has controlled most of the cities in Central and Siberia and is trying to further advance the power eastward to occupy Russia's eastern outpost of the sea cucumber, so as to more conveniently obtain arms supplies from the Allies.

In this situation, Tang Shaoyi believes that as long as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs insists on a tough stance in the negotiations, the Soviet Union will definitely make concessions. As for how much it can be, Tang Shaoyi is not very confident. According to the information from Petrograd, the Soviet government seems to be closely watching the Far East, and is more contemptuous of the Central Asian region, which has weak ruling power. Perhaps, the president's analysis is correct, and the Soviet government may eventually exchange Central Asian interests for Far East interests.

No matter how you analyze it, the basic facts are clear. If you want to recover the land that was lost decades ago, it is not enough to do without sufficient strength. Now, Tang Shaoyi is also very clear that the central government is preparing to further put greater military pressure on the Soviet government. As for the next breakthrough in Central Asia or the Far East, Tang Shaoyi is not clear.

When Tang Shaoyi was thinking about the strategy of the central government, the car had stopped. Tang Shaoyi looked out the window. Now he had arrived in front of the presidential palace, the officer in the attendant's room was checking the details of the car and checking the driver's ID. It didn't take long. The adjutant waved his hand and let the car go.

He quickly arrived in front of the commander-in-chief hall. After the car stopped, Tang Shaoyi got out of the car with his secretary. There were staff waiting there and led Tang Shaoyi directly into the commander-in-chief hall.

This time, Tang Shaoyi came to the Tongshu Hall to attend the weekly regular cabinet meeting. Although it is now the presidential government, the central power is actually in the hands of the president, but the cabinet still has enough power to suggest. This weekly regular cabinet meeting was suggested by Tang Shaoyi. Every Saturday afternoon, all cabinet members of the cabinet would arrive at the Tongshu Hall to hold a meeting. Sometimes the president would preside over the meeting in person, and sometimes the confidant sent by the president was only a confidant sent by the president, and the head of the Supervisory Department usually played this role.

As Tang Shaoyi guessed, the president himself was the one who presided over the regular cabinet meeting today. Now everything is busy, so it is indeed necessary to strengthen communication between the Commander-in-Chief and the cabinet so that everyone can understand what the most important matter is at present, so that they can concentrate their main energy on the main affairs and improve their efficiency.

The main topic today is indeed about Sino-Russia negotiations. At the meeting, the president even revealed his latest idea to the cabinet. He was preparing to send a navy to assist the Allied Fleet in interfering with the revolution of the Sea Cumbar, restoring the order of the city, and occupying the Russian Far East port city that is currently controlled by the Russian Bolsheviks and anarchists, in order to alleviate the military pressure from the East faced by the Tsarist government of Baikal and enable it to let go of the attack on the western Siberian outpost Omsk.

Tang Shaoyi understood the president's idea very well. The current situation is that on one hand, the Sino-Russian negotiations have been delayed in achieving satisfactory results. The president is very dissatisfied. On the other hand, the Russian Soviet regime has put strong pressure on the great powers at the strategic level. Considering the particularity of the Soviet regime, Europe and the United States agree that it is necessary to eliminate it in the bud to avoid chain reactions. However, the problem is that the European war is not over yet, and the troops of all countries are restrained on the European battlefield. Under such circumstances, there are not many countries that have no intention of interfering directly. Japan is one. China can only be considered half. After all, China is not a member of the Allied.

However, Britain and the United States are trying hard to persuade China to send troops to Shihuwei. This is not only because China is closest to Shihuwei, but also because the two countries hope to pull China on the Allied War Chariot. Even if they cannot participate in the war against Germany, they can still share military pressure for the Allied War. Tang Shaoyi can see this clearly and the President can also see clearly. Some time ago, the President was not interested in the little urging of Britain and the United States, but now he has suddenly changed his position. This only shows that the President has gradually lost patience for the Sino-Russian negotiations that have been delayed in making progress. Now he is planning to force the Soviet Union to make major concessions by exerting stronger military pressure. For this purpose, the President even decided to join forces with Japan to interfere with Shihuwei's revolution.

The main purpose of the president telling the cabinet about his ideas is to remind everyone to modify the relevant policies. For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs chaired by Tang Shaoyi. The amendment of this policy involves negotiations with Russia. If necessary, the second round of talks can be unilaterally ended, so that the Soviet Union feels the strong pressure faced in both military and diplomatic aspects, and ultimately forces it to actively demand the resumption of negotiations.

Tang Shaoyi is most concerned about now, not when to send a telegram to Petrograd, and let the representatives of the talks stop the negotiations. What he is most concerned about now is when the Chinese naval fleet will be in northern Shanghai. It is winter now. Although the sea hunchwei is known as the "unfreezing port", in fact, the harbor city will still be frozen for a period of time every winter, which is not conducive to naval operations. Therefore, Tang Shaoyi believes that the naval operations may be delayed until the spring of the next year, and during this period, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still has plenty of time to defeat the enemy without fighting.
Chapter completed!