Chapter 1012 Duplicity (Last Part)
Facing Zhao Bei's "buying" Xiong Chengji, he was so hesitant that he was stunned. After he thought of the word "righteousness", it was indeed difficult to make up his mind.
"Lan Fang's relationship with China was determined by law and endorsed by various countries. It seems inconvenient to change it lightly
Xiong Chengji tried to refuse, but hesitated, leaving some room for what he said. He came to the house, originally planning to persuade Zhao Bei to stay away from politics, but now, he suddenly appeared. It is not only Zhao Bei who is so enthusiastic about pursuing his governing philosophy. It is indeed not easy to keep politicians away from politics. Thinking of this, Xiong Chengji suddenly felt a little guilty.
"The law can be modified. As for the endorsed European and American powers, they are now suffering from the economic crisis. Where can I have the heart to care about the relationship between China and Lan Fang? Besides, they want to see Lan Fang break free from China's control. But what I said is that after Lan Fang gained national defense and diplomatic autonomy, he could not be an enemy of China under any circumstances. This is fundamental
Seeing Xiong Chengji seemed a little hesitant, Zhao Bei decided to give him some time to think seriously.
"Let's do this, the presidential election will officially begin next spring. My campaign will be officially formed by the end of this year. Anyway, you won't go back to Nanyang for a while. I'll give you a few days to seriously consider my suggestions and then give me a formal reply. Don't rush to reject my proposal. By the way, during the banquet today, you sit next to me, and I want to formally introduce the family members to you. You have to be drunk and return to you. After hearing this, a stone in Xiong Chengji's heart fell to the ground. This exchange of interests really made him very embarrassed. On one hand, there is the domestic presidential election and the constitutional experimental field of Lan Fang, which is difficult to choose after all, so he agreed to seriously consider Zhao Bei's proposal.
Zhao Bei stood up and sent Xiong Chengji out of the wing room. He ordered Qin Sihu to send him to the villa to pay his birthday to Mr. Han. As for Zhao Bei himself, he also went to the villa after leaving the garden, but did not go to the birthday hall to preside over the ceremony, but entered a reception room and met two guests who had just arrived.
Both guests are Japanese, one is the Japanese ambassador to China, and the other is his translator. They are on the surface to pay their birthday to Zhao Bei's father-in-law, but in fact, they are here to explore the direction of the wind.
Japan is an island country with a narrow land area and poor resources, and a very limited domestic market. This determines that Japan's trade must be outward-oriented. When the international trade system is ended by tariff barriers, and when Japan's economy will experience a crisis.
Since the Great Depression, the international trade system has been on the verge of collapse. Countries have taken neighbors as police to raise tariffs and build trade barriers. Under such circumstances, Japan's industry is basically dying. In order to save the Japanese economy, the Japanese government tried to use the devaluation of the yen to enhance the competitiveness of Japanese goods, but it was strongly blocked by European countries, which regarded Britain as the first. After that, Japan's economy was in a slump.
After the economic crisis, Japan's political crisis also followed. Both the left-wing radical forces and the right-wing radical forces regarded the Japanese government as a representative of weakness and incompetence, and there were also divisions within the Japanese government, and there were also many differences between the Japanese government and military forces. It was under this situation that Japan's Aoi Inuyasu was assassinated, and since then, the constitutional era of Japanese politics began to end.
Under the Emperor's system, Japanese politics quickly moved towards militarization, "The Greater East Asia Comrades Association of Sakura Association. These right-wing radical organizations are just thugs who depend on the emperor's wing. They can add militarization to Japanese society, but in the final analysis, the root of militarism actually lies in the upper class of Japanese society.
In order to alleviate economic pressure and seek political solutions, the Japanese right wing finally provoked an incident in the New Guinea region through the military headquarters, quickly occupied the Papua Republic protected by Australia with military means, and established a so-called "King of Papua" to support the puppet regime.
But so far, no country in the world has officially recognized the legitimacy of this "Papua Kingdom". There was originally a puppet state controlled by Japan that could be done. However, the problem is that one year before the Papua Incident, Japan had officially announced the annexation of New Guinea's recommendation country. In this way, there were no puppets that shook the flag and shouted for the Japanese government.
Japan's eating habits are too ugly, which aroused unanimous disgust among European countries. The United States is also very worried about Japan's expansion in the Pacific, so the League of Nations quickly formed an investigation team to go to Papua to investigate the truth of the conflict. China and the United States also worked for the League of Nations investigation team. Now, the investigation has officially begun. All signs indicate that the League of Nations is very likely to pass a resolution that is unfavorable to Japan. At this time, Japan needs support from "allies. All around the world. Now, the only one that can give Japan strong support is probably China.
Under the influence of "Pan Asianism," the cooperation between China and Japan is very extensive. Although the two countries have not signed any form of alliance treaty, the current state relations between the two countries are generally regarded as "quasi-alliance relations". In many international issues and disputes, China and Japan always cooperate closely and cooperate with each other.
However, during the Papua crisis, the central government of China failed to give Japan strong support. The reason is very simple, because Japan's "eating appearance" is too ugly, and China is really difficult to protect. After all, in the international exchange norms, "not invading the sphere of influence of other countries" has become the default principle of all countries. This time, if China supports Japan to use force to invade Australia's sphere of influence, then, if there is a certain country in the sphere of influence of Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Russia and other regions next time, then don't let it go, and the verbal family will help China.
In order to gain China's diplomatic support, the Japanese government had to do everything possible. In addition to bribing parliamentarians and politicians, it also tried to pick up the banner of "pan-Asianism" again and use the radical forces of the Chinese people to fight from the side.
When the Veterans' Congress marched into the country, the Japanese government was very concerned about this matter and immediately ordered the ambassador to China to pay close attention. When he learned that Zhao Bei was interested in participating in the next presidential election, the Japanese government immediately ordered the ambassador to China to visit Zhao Bei. He tried to go directly to the "madman route" because history has proved that Zhao Bei was very interested in "Pan Asianism", and Zhao Bei was more efficient than the constitutionalists.
This is also the main purpose of the Japanese ambassador to China to visit Zhao Bei this time. In addition to bringing a diplomatic memorandum, the Japanese ambassador also brought some very valuable gifts.
Zhao Bei accepted the diplomatic memorandum and Zhao Bei also accepted the gift, but did not give any guarantee to the Japanese on the spot. He just told the Japanese ambassador that he would think about it seriously and also reminded the Japanese diplomat that China's presidential election will be held next spring. Judging from the current international situation, the League of Nations will soon pass a resolution on the Papua issue. Therefore, Zhao Bei is likely to be helpless about this Papua crisis.
After seeing off the Japanese ambassador and his fenze Xiao Zhaobei paced back and forth in the reception room, thinking about the Papua crisis.
Due to Zhao Bei's intervention in history, Japan is no longer able to continue to expand to East Asia 6. And under Zhao Bei's deliberate guidance, Japan finally embarked on the road to expanding towards the Pacific Ocean. To be honest, Zhao Bei was really not sure that Japan would take the initiative to challenge Australia. After all, Australia is not the weak China in history. Australia is a sovereign and complete country, and there is a hard bone behind it. Obviously, such a tough guy is not easy to chew.
However, facts proved that Zhao Bei still underestimated the madness of the militarists. They actually set their sights on Australia. Zhao Bei was happy about this situation, of course not for Japan, but for China. Finally, he successfully led the disaster of Japanese militarism to the Pacific and to the territory of Europeans. Then, the next thing was very simple, that was, to watch the tiger fight, and from time to time encourage Japan to challenge the great powers of Europe and the United States.
This requires one degree to be grasped. It must neither make the European and American powers think that China incited Japan nor make Japan betrayed by China. This is like walking a tightrope, and caution is the most important thing.
Japan's "eating appearance" is ugly, which is not important. What is important is whether the Japanese government can make a firm mind like the "September 18 Incident" in history, giving the League of Nations a dead pig without fear of boiling water. Zhao Bei is not very sure about this. After all, Australia has now announced local military mobilization across the country, and it is hard to say whether a Japanese-Australia war will break out.
Whether the war between Japan and Australia will break out is only one thing. On the other hand, since the world economic crisis broke out more than a year later than Zhao Bei expected. The current international situation cannot keep up with the development of Zhao Bei's strategy, especially Germany, where the Nazis have not yet fully grasped Germany. Under such circumstances, the possibility of a world war breaking out is very low.
If the world war does not break out, the old international order will not end completely. Therefore, Zhao Bei does not want to see Japan defeated by the alliance of European and American powers, but at the same time, he does not want China to be involved in the war now, because China is not ready for a full-scale war.
In the face of this choice, Zhao Bei hesitated for a moment. He found that his interference with history was too severe, so he could no longer accurately grasp the details of future historical exhibitions. The world war would definitely break out, but it was difficult to grasp whether it would go on like in history.
"I hope the Japanese government will not be obsessed with it now. It is a wise choice to stop when you see it is better. Now is not a good time to challenge the white order.
Looking at the map of Asia, Zhejiang and the Pacific, Zhao Bei fell into deep thought, and it was not until Qin Sihu arrived that he interrupted his thoughts.
"Xiong Weigen has celebrated his birthday to the old man and has now gone down the mountain."
"Zhang Taiyan went down the mountain with him?" Zhao Bei asked.
"Yes." Qin Sihu nodded.
"Have you also brought the scroll of painting in Zhang Taiyan's briefcase?"
"Yes. I thought it was a birthday ceremony, but later I found out that it wasn't Qin Sihu, but there were some temple monsters.
"That's not for the old man. That's the "gift" that Zhang Taiyan planned to give me in public at the banquet. A very special gift. Although he is mysterious, I already know that he wants to give me a well. It's actually a letter he wrote."
"A letter?"
Qin Sihu didn't find it strange. Zhao Bei's fine works were everywhere, but he was afraid that Zhang Taiyan would have an undercover agent next to him.
"Actually, it's nothing. Just give it away. But this Mr. Zhang is too arrogant. After thinking about it, I still can't make Zhang Taiyan's group of people too proud. So, I want to drop the letter in advance and leave it to you to do it, don't mess it up." Zhao Bei said.
"Yes! I'll arrange it right away
Chapter completed!