Respectfully

In the fourth year of the Republic of China, on December 1912, 12 in the Gregorian calendar, Britain and the six northern provinces signed a machinery purchase contract with a total value of 15 million silver dollars.Without notifying the Japanese government, the two parties used Japan's war reparations to the six northern provinces as collateral, reached a cooperation intention, and signed the joint use agreement.

It was only after the contract was signed and implemented that Japan learned that it had been tricked by China and the United Kingdom.

The British consul personally visited the Japanese side and informed the Japanese side that thanks to their vigorous mediation, the six northern provinces agreed to lift the military takeover of 12 Japanese banks and branches in the province after December 20, and return the detained staff to the Japanese side .As Japan's allies, they have done their best, and Japan does not need to thank them too much.

Keitaro, who was also the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, was almost not vomiting blood by the popularity of the British.

Japan is in trouble at home and abroad at this time. It has just lost a battle, and the people in the country are full of complaints. Even if they are full of resentment, they can only pretend to be grandchildren in front of the British.Watching the British put their hands into their pockets, they even nodded and said, "You have worked hard."

On December 12, according to the agreement with the British, the six northern provinces lifted the armed takeover of 21 Japanese banks and branches.After the soldiers from the six northern provinces withdrew, apart from the earthen walls that could not be removed, there was not even a single window left in these banks.

The Japanese jumped to protest, and the soldiers turned a blind eye. In front of the guns and bullets, protest?Protest counts as a bird!Shout again and knock all the teeth out of your mouth!

"The platoon leader said no blood can be seen."

"No blood?"

Brother Bing, who was holding up the butt of his gun and was about to smash it down, paused, retracted the gun neatly, and blackened the eye socket of the Japanese slut with his fist. After the punch, he waved his hand, "No blood."

"..."

At the end of 1912, the international situation became increasingly tense. Not long ago, Serbia, which united with Greece and other countries to defeat Turkey, was almost pinched by Bosnia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.Although no war broke out in the end, the powder keg of the Balkans will be ignited sooner or later.

The domestic situation in China was also not peaceful. The rickshaw pullers in the Hankou Concession went on strike again, demanding that the government fulfill its previous promise to reduce taxes.The concession dispatched the police, which almost caused bloodshed.

People in Shandong, which was divided and occupied by the troops of the northern and southern provinces, were full of dissatisfaction. The people spontaneously organized and took to the streets to petition, demanding that the troops from other provinces withdraw from Shandong.Anhui, which has a similar situation, also spontaneously organized a militia, and Anhui gentry jointly wrote a letter to Song Zhou, the interim president of the South, if the troops from other provinces did not withdraw from Anhui, they would do it themselves!

Shandong is the territory of the north, while Anhui belongs to the south. Before the north and south fought, the armies of both sides were criss-crossed and almost fought together. After that, the war subsided temporarily.

Before the two sides agreed on the time for the second round of peace talks, the six northern provinces suddenly fought with Japan, and the Japanese were covered in beatings. All domestic attention was drawn to the war in South Manchuria, and naturally they had no time to pay attention to the issues in Shandong and Anhui. .Now that the war between the six northern provinces and the Japanese has come to an end, and there is no intention of fighting with anyone for the time being, all these problems caused by the interruption of the civil war peace talks between the north and the south are all highlighted.

How should such a situation be handled?

No one can come up with the best of both worlds.Even if Han Anshan from Shandong knows that his fate may be the same as Zheng Huai'en, and he is destined to be an apartment, he does not intend to give up the land so easily. For a moment, this time in Shandong, he has been fanning the flames behind his back.It is even more impossible for Song Zhou to cede Anhui, which has been in business for many years, to the north. In this way, the two sides can only continue peace talks besides fighting again.

Peace talks are easier said than done.

Li Jinyan put down the newspaper and sighed.

Due to seasonal factors, the industrial areas outside Guanbei City have been shut down one after another. The construction can only continue after the land thaws next spring.Li Jinyan doesn't have much free time, and he is trying to persuade George of the British foreign company to sign another order for breeding pigs with him.He swore that this time he would memorize every word in the contract and never let John Bull take advantage of him again!

Mr. Gu from Huzhou wrote a letter to Li Jinyan not long ago. Gu's soap factory has been completed and will start production in January next year.At that time, he hopes that Li Jinyan can go south to Huzhou to meet him. Not only him, but also several of his old friends also want to meet Li Jinyan.

"Go south."

When it comes to the south, one cannot help but think of Shanghai's Huahua World Shili Yangchang.What will Shanghai look like in this era?Li Jinyan was really curious, but only curious.There is only one year left before the outbreak of the First World War, and there is not much time left for him. Compared with satisfying his curiosity, making money is more important.

The shelter outside Guanbei City has been handed over to a special person for management, and with the consent of Marshal Lou, the military government's sign has been hung up.In this way, even if someone wants to find fault, they have to weigh it carefully.At best, Li Jinyan would drive the troublemakers out of the shelter, but if he provoked the military government, he might lose his head.

So, feudal warlords and dictatorships are sometimes very useful.

Several schools in Guanbei City have organized students to visit the shelter in batches. They saw the situation in the shelter with their own eyes and talked with the people here. Many students were silent.

"Our faith is not as good as a steamed bun in the hands of these people." Yang Pingting, who visited the shelter, wrote in her diary: "It was the first time I really saw the world clearly. Aren’t these the working people who talk about it every day? I’m shocked and ashamed that what they need is so different from what we pursue.”

There are many people who have the same idea as Yang Pingting. After returning to school, they changed their previous impetuousness and began to think about what path they should take in the future.When many people learned that the shelter was short of manpower, they offered to help out at the shelter.

In this regard, Li Jinyan is happy to see the success.

Perhaps these young students are reckless in their actions and impetuous in character. Some of their ideas and behaviors are ridiculous to others, but no one can deny that they are the most precious wealth of this era and this country.They do not lack patriotic enthusiasm and ability to do things. Moreover, this kind of serious personality is very suitable for working in government agencies such as the "Independent Commission Against Corruption".But at this stage, they still have a lot to learn.

"You can let them go to the shelter to help in their spare time, which can be regarded as an extracurricular practice."

Li Jinyan's suggestion was quickly adopted, and after going to the shelter several times in person and having several conversations with the students who helped there, Li Sanshao finally received his first love letter in two lifetimes.

The letter paper exuded a light fragrance and the beautiful handwriting. After a moment of emotion, Li Jinyan's first thought was not to put the letter away, but to find a way to destroy the corpse.

After getting along with Marshal Lou for a long time, Li Jinyan believed in his intuition more and more.And a series of things that happened later also showed that his move was really incomparably correct.

In the middle of Li Jinyan's mind wandering, he suddenly trembled and raised his head. At some point, Young Marshal Lou had finished his business and sat behind the desk with one hand resting on the table, while the other hand combed his black hair. looked at him.

"Young commander, are you done?"

"En." Young Marshal Lou loosened his collar, with a rare trace of fatigue on his expression, "Come here."

Li Jinyan stood up and walked to the desk, and was pulled into his arms by Marshal Lou.

"Young Marshal, you have to rest." Li Jinyan moved and changed himself into a comfortable position. Although he has been growing in size this year, it is still not enough to stand in front of Lou Marshal, so he stepped on his feet. nose.Li Jinyan can only comfort himself, he is only seventeen, and he can still grow... But he also has to admit the fact that if he wants to grow to the height of Marshal Lou, unless he wears it again, don't even think about it.

Young Marshal Lou didn't speak, he just hugged Li Jinyan's waist tightly and buried him in his neck.

"Young Marshal," Li Jinyan pushed Young Marshal Lou, the breath on his neck made him feel itchy, recalling the news he had just read in the newspaper, he asked, "Do you want to restart the peace talks between the North and the South?"

"..."

"Young commander?"

The result of interrupting Young Marshal Lou's eating was that Li Sanshao was bitten hard on the neck again.

Li Jinyan clutched his neck and cursed in his heart, is it really a tiger?Specially pick the neck and mouth!

"It hasn't been decided yet." Young Marshal Lou straightened up, apparently Li Jinyan was not the first person to mention this matter to him, "It's very difficult."

"It's not easy." Li Jinyan straightened his collar.

Not long ago, Wu Song and Marshal Lou proposed that after the establishment of a North-South coalition government, the central government would be in charge of local finances, but neither Marshal Lou nor Marshal Li thought this proposal was feasible.No one is willing to hand over their money bags to others, let alone the provincial warlord commanders who are used to being emperors.

"Is there no better way?" Li Jinyan leaned back, his waist stuck on the edge of the table, hissed in pain, but a flash of light flashed in his mind, since everyone wants to be the emperor of the land, foreign powers don't want Huaxia to take it seriously Great unification, then simply follow the example of the United States Federation, under the unified government, temporarily go their own way, and then find a way to separate the military from the government, so that the central government's orders will prevail.

There was indeed such an attempt in the history of China in another time and space. It was first proposed by Liang Qichao, and some local powerful factions responded. It was interrupted by the Northern Expedition halfway, and it was never mentioned again.

If he remembered correctly, this kind of political system, which imitated the American federal system and had Chinese characteristics, was called federal self-government by the people at that time.