Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 29: Xinxiang Dialogue
Subtitle of this chapter: I'm going to cause some trouble for the Japs first!
A hundred years later, the United States is the leader of the five major gangsters. It dominates and participates in various international organizations, such as the World Bank, IMF (International Monetary Fund), WTO (World Trade Organization), Organization of American States, SHIELD... It seems that some strange things have sneaked in, anyway, there are countless of them.
In the military, the United States is even more powerful. It is the leader of NATO and the leader of the Trans-Pacific Alliance. Its overseas bases are all over the world, and the six major war zones of the Pacific, Africa, Europe, Central, and North and South cover the entire earth .
This attitude of "everyone in the world is my brother, and anyone who is not my brother is my enemy" has nothing to do with the word isolation.
However, isolationism is the "ancestral law" left by the United States' founder, George Washington.
In 1796, when Hua Taizu abdicated, he published a "Confession", in which he proposed the isolationist diplomatic principles of not forming an alliance with any country (mainly European powers), not getting involved in disputes among powers, and handling international affairs completely independently.
To put it bluntly - "We act for ourselves, not for others."
As the saying goes, "Natural disasters are not to be feared, ancestors are not to be followed, and people's words are not to be pitied."
In 1918, Wang Anshi...well, Woodrow Wilson proposed the famous "Fourteen Points" to the US Congress, which was actually to abandon isolationism and hope to achieve international cooperation and safeguard world peace through the establishment of the League of Nations.
His "Fourteen Points" suffered the same ignominious defeat as Wang Anshi's New Law. After the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson submitted the Treaty of he returned home. He asked: "Do we dare to reject it? Do we dare to hurt the hearts of the people of the world?"
However, the US Senate dared to hurt the hearts of the people of the world and bravely voted to reject it.
But, the US GDP has exceeded one-third of the global GDP. Even if this grown-up octopus wants to shrink in a safe jar (America) (Australia), this jar can no longer accommodate its huge body. Whether it is willing or not, its tentacles will eventually reach the world.
So there is...
"Mr. Zhi, did you know that after President Harding came to power, he proposed to all countries to hold an international conference. This conference will discuss a series of unresolved issues in the Versailles Conference. Of course, its main purpose is to resolve the naval power comparison and the Far East Pacific region among the great powers..."
Our Master Yuan smiled bitterly and spread his hands, saying, "Especially in China where there are conflicts of interest."
"Is this true?" Shi Zhaoji asked hurriedly, "Hongjian, can you confirm this? Where did you get the news from?"
Yuan Yan nodded and said, "Mr. Zhi, how dare I joke about such a big thing? Any news..."
"I wonder if Mr. Zhi has ever heard of Mr. George Baker?"
After getting a positive answer, he said calmly, "I have some business dealings with the Baker family, and I am also very close to the third generation of their family, Mr. Louis Baker. Fortunately, Mr. George Baker took a fancy to me and hoped that I could represent the East Asian affairs of the First National Bank of New York after returning to China. So they revealed some information to me."
"Besides, what do you think the Secretary of State of the Republican government would ask me?"
He didn't necessarily say that he saw this in a history book a hundred years later, so he avoided the main point and didn't say that he wrote to Mr. Hughes to suggest holding such a conference.
In fact, the Washington Conference was the general trend. It would have been held with or without his suggestion. It would have been the same whether he said it or not.
"Why……"
Shi Zhaoji and Yuan Yan sighed at the same time, and looked at each other in silence. The only sound in the study was the low hum of the incandescent light bulb, which was not yet fully developed.
As China's top diplomat and intellectual at that time, Ambassador Shi naturally felt extremely uncomfortable.
The current situation of China being dominated by the great powers really makes the Chinese people who have a little sense of shame feel grief and anger. That is why so many people with lofty ideals are willing to throw themselves into the revolutionary tide of saving the nation.
However, as a time traveler who can be considered an intellectual, our Master Yuan is fine, because to him, it is "your country" that is dominated by the great powers, and "our country" is Chinese imperialism, which ranks second to American imperialism...
Well, although Chinese imperialism is always slapped in the face by the tiny countries around it, and even the North Koreans who have helped it survive and survive do not give it face, our great Qing Dynasty is always much stronger than the Republic of China in 1921.
Therefore, Yuan Da, a time traveler who has received a complete historical and political education, can understand the inner feelings of Shi Zhaoji and his group, but it does not mean that he has such real feelings.
It’s just that when others are worrying about the country and the people, you don’t always act as if nothing is wrong. Doesn’t this make you seem to not love “your country” at all?
Minister Shi sighed again. No matter what, this was a piece of extremely important news. If it was true, he would definitely report it to Beijing immediately.
So he asked solemnly: "I wonder what Hongjian thinks of this meeting?"
Master Yuan, who had been prepared for this, said calmly, "Mr. Zhi, in my humble opinion, the most critical aspect of this meeting for our country is that it can use the momentum of world peace to pressure Japan... to resolve the Shandong issue."
"Solve the Shandong problem?!" When Shi Zhaoji heard these six words, he stood up suddenly.
This was the biggest concern of Chinese diplomats at that time!
As one of the victorious nations in World War I, China was forced to transfer the German colony of Shandong to Japan under the oppression of the great powers. How could such a great humiliation not lead the Chinese people to launch the "May Fourth Movement"?
The direct participants of the Versailles Conference at that time, such as Shi Zhaoji, Gu Weijun and others, not only personally felt the shameless faces of the great powers, but were also accused of being traitors by domestic public opinion. They were basically like rats in a bellows - being bullied from both sides. How could they feel good about that?
As Gu Weijun said in his memoirs: As the car drove slowly in the dawn light, I felt that everything was so bleak - the sky, the shadows of the trees, the quiet streets. I think this day will be regarded as a tragic day and remain in Chinese history.
Shi Zhaoji asked anxiously, "What does Hongjian have to teach me?"
"Mr. Zhi, you are too kind." Yuan Yan was humble for a moment before continuing, "In fact, the two Anglo-Saxon countries, the United States and England, have long been dissatisfied with Japan's ambition to monopolize its interests in China, but they have been holding back for their own benefit."
"Now that Germany has surrendered, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has disintegrated, and Russia has become communist, the general trend of Europe has been determined. Now it's the turn of these little dwarfs who don't know their own limitations!"
