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 46 Pet Dog
This chapter's subtitle: Master's Promotion
The telegram Miss Wei Mingzhu sent to her fiancé not only reported that she was safe, but also urged him to go to Semarang as soon as possible to pick her up.
Our Master Yuan now plans to travel to Europe after completing the first system task in June, and then go to Southeast Asia to pick up his wife and return to Shanghai to get married.
“Woof woof woof…”
Just then, two servants passed by them with several dogs.
Ms. Huang Huilan was a well-known dog lover. At her peak in Beijing, she owned more than 20 famous and expensive dogs and had four dedicated servants to take care of them.
As the saying goes, it is better to be a dog of a rich family than a child of a poor family. How true it is.
Yuan Yan's heart couldn't help but move when he looked at these lively dogs... Don't get me wrong, he didn't suddenly want to eat dog meat, but he thought of something.
"Wait a minute!" He suddenly raised his voice to stop these dogs and observed them carefully.
Then Master Yuan pointed at a white Shih Tzu and turned around and said, "This dog is great! Huilan, are you willing to give it up?"
Mrs. Gu chuckled and said, "Since you like it, Hongjian, I'll give it to you."
"It's not for me." Yuan Yan shook her head and said, "It's for..."
As we all know, Americans a hundred years later are crazy about dogs, but in fact, Americans a hundred years ago were not much different.
So much so that only three presidents in history did not keep pet dogs in the White House. The other American presidents and their families are dog lovers, at least on the surface.
These pet dogs are all known as the "First Dog of the White House."
During a visit in 1944, the great savior of the free world accidentally lost his beloved dog "Fala" on the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. In order to get his beloved dog back, he actually ordered a destroyer to rescue "Fala" . This kind of thing that would be criticized to death by the people in a certain big country in the East is actually a legend that the American people talk about with relish.
However, the most famous White House First Dog in history was President Harding's "Little Fellow," an Airedale, also known as a wirehaired mongrel.
How famous was this "young man"? Two of the four major newspapers in the United States, The Washington Post and The New York Times, wrote a story about this dog almost every day in the months after Harding took office.
In two days, on March 5, the New York Times will report: "The president was very happy to bring his pet into the office, and it treated it as its own home."
Over the next 39 days, the following headlines will appear on Gray Lady:
“Airedale dog becomes mascot”
"Young man, news maker"
"Chased the White House Cat up a tree"
"The boy has a playmate"
Well, Master Yuan didn’t know how to complain about this kind of thing.
The Hardings treated it like their own child... well, the couple was also very daring. The husband had at least one illegitimate daughter, and the wife had an illegitimate son before they got married, but the two of them had no children.
Yuan Yanshu said seriously, "Brother Shaochuan, I heard that the Hardings are dog lovers like my wife. It would be most appropriate to give this dog to them as a testimony of the friendship between China and the United States."
"Take a dog as a gift?" Gu Weijun was stunned when he heard this.
Our Master Yuan said as a matter of course: "Yes, Abe Jin Dog... Well, there is a precedent for giving a dog to a head of state anyway."
"Hongjian, is it true?" The great diplomat Gu pondered for a long time but could not figure it out.
"Yes, there must be." Yuan Yan nodded again and said, "Brother Shaochuan, those cousins in Europe must have exchanged dogs with each other, including the kings and queens."
He pointed at Huang Huilan and said, "Besides, can you give it to the First Lady in the name of the Minister's wife? Maybe you can become friends."
Anyway, her husband is cheating on her now and your husband will cheat on you in the future, so it would not be a bad idea for you two dog-loving ladies to become friends first.
Mrs. Gu was also a person who loved to be in the limelight, so her eyes lit up and she nodded immediately, saying, "Hongjian's idea is really great."
She turned to her husband and said sweetly, "Weijun, what do you think ?"
Although his newlywed wife was acting like a spoiled brat in public, Gu Weijun hesitated for a moment and shook his head, saying, "In my opinion, this matter is a disgrace to the state. Besides, we are going to London soon, so even if we need to send someone off, it should be done by Madam Shi..."
Master Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "Since Brother Shaochuan feels it is inappropriate, then let me deliver it. Anyway, I am not a diplomat of the Republic of China. If they reject me, it will only hurt my face, and there will be no other loss."
"Well..." Huang Huilan sighed and said gloomily, "Then I will leave Huahua to you."
After this little interlude, the four of them went into the restaurant and started eating, of course, Chinese food.
At the dinner table, the four of them talked about relatively light topics. After finishing their meal, Yuan Yanshu and Meng Xiancheng followed Gu Weijun into the study.
According to the history that Master Yuan knows, the Shandong issue really needs to be discussed with the current Chinese Minister to the UK.
In the original timeline, the main members of China attending the Washington Conference were Wang Chonghui, Gu Weijun and Shi Zhaoji.
Wang Chonghui, also known as Liangchou, was born in Hong Kong in 1881. His ancestral home is Dongguan County, Guangdong. His education and political experience are strikingly similar to Gu Weijun's: both were born in the turbulent autumn of the late 19th century; both received traditional Chinese cultural education and formal Western education in their childhood; both received doctoral degrees in the United States.
After the Xinhai Revolution, they returned to China to engage in politics. They were in the middle layer between the political center and the periphery in the political structure of the Republic of China, and were indispensable operators of practical government affairs. In their public and private interactions, the two formed a friendship that lasted nearly fifty years.
They and Shi Zhaoji made careful arrangements and division of labor before the meeting, assigning each person's tasks according to their personal interests and expertise.
Shi Zhaoji was responsible for the withdrawal of troops, the abolition and transfer of foreign post offices; Wang Chonghui was responsible for issues related to his legal expertise, such as the recovery of foreign concessions, the abolition of consular jurisdiction, and the cancellation of the Twenty-One Demands; Gu Weijun was responsible for issues such as leased territories, spheres of influence, tariffs, and the abolition or revision of unequal treaties, as well as the Shandong issue.
After Lu Zhengxiang, the head of the Paris Peace Conference delegation, fell ill, Gu Weijun was actually the chief representative of the Republic of China. Therefore, the clause on the Shandong issue in the Treaty of Versailles was the greatest humiliation in his career.
Of course, he was determined to wash away such a great shame, and now the opportunity had indeed appeared.
