Chapter 293 Yu Wanling

Bothe Zhu Erdian and Zhao Dongyun are proficient in Chinese and English. They know what the other party is saying without translation. The reason why they use their own words is purely because of diplomatic occasions. To put it bluntly, these two translations are decorations.

The reason why there are female translators today is that today's diplomatic occasion is not a formal ordinary diplomatic occasion, but a private reception. Those who come to the banquet often bring their wives. The ministers of various countries basically bring their wives to attend, and Zhao Dongyun also brings Fang. If Lian participates together, it will not be so easy to arrange a translation for Zhao Dongyun in this case.

Because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has to consider the existence of Fang Ruolian, and the domestic defense of men and women is still attached great importance to it. If a male translator is accompanied by Fang Ruolian, it is naturally not suitable for etiquette, so the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have collected a large number of female translators who know foreign languages and have diplomatic translation experience, the most Later, he chose the Yu Wanling in front of him.

This woman is the third daughter of Yugeng. Her father Yugeng is from Hanqi. Speaking of her resume, I'm afraid that this woman is a veritable social flower in the contemporary powerful class. The social flower mentioned here is not a derogatory, but a compliment!

This woman has followed Yu Geng, a Qing diplomat, to live in Japan and Europe since she was a child. She is not only proficient in many languages, but also has a deep understanding of the cultures of many countries. In addition, she has also learned Japanese dance, modern dance, ballet and painting with her two sisters, which is truly versatile in contemporary times. Women's representatives in the new era.

A few years ago, after her father Yugeng returned to China, she entered the palace with her two sisters and mother to become a female official of Cixi, serving as a translator and guiding the court dance troupe of Cixi. Yu Wanling was also awarded the title of princess at that time. Her father Yugeng left the palace after his death. Last year, when Wang Yingkai investigated the former Qing Dynasty, he Our industry has also been investigated, and even the jewelry has not been left for the mother and daughter.

In the past six months, the mother and daughter have not been doing well. The great changes in the family have led to the marriage of Yugeng's eldest daughter. If it hadn't been for the help of friends, I'm afraid that they would have been forced to go to the eight alleys to make a living like many former Qing Gege monarchs. From last year to now, there have been a lot of popularity in the eight alleys of Beijing. Several of the famous prostitutes are the former Princess Qingge.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spent a lot of effort to hold this reception. Considering that there were no qualified female diplomats in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specially found the female interpreters who served Cixi in the previous Qing Dynasty and finally chose this woman. She has been working as a translator for Cixi in the past few years. She is not only proficient in English and French, but also very familiar with the diplomatic ladies of various countries. To be honest, it is difficult to find a more suitable female diplomatic translator than her in contemporary China.

Knowing foreign languages is nothing. More importantly, she has this top-level diplomatic translation experience and is well known to the ladies of various countries.

Therefore, the Foreign Affairs Section of the Secretariat of the Presidential Palace came forward and hired him to be the translator of the presidential palace and the diplomatic translator of President Zhao Dongyun's family.

That's why she appeared on this occasion today.

In the face of the invitation of the presidential palace, although their family is dissatisfied with the republic, it is not Zhao Dongyun but Wang Yingkai who copied their family. Zhao Dongyun is really not surprised.

In addition, they used to be court ladies and were active among the wives of the imperial envoys of the capital every day. They are the famous diplomatic flowers of Beijing, but now they have fallen to worry about three meals a day, which is unimaginable for outsiders.

Now that they have the opportunity to turn over, they naturally accept it!

As a result, Yu Wanling became a special translator of the Foreign Affairs Section of the Secretariat of the Presidential Office, and today, she will once again be active in the top diplomatic community of this country.

Yu Wanling was also looking at a president of the Republic who was too young for everyone. To be honest, it would have been hard to believe that Zhao Dongyun had broken into such a big sky and become the president of the Republic at the age of less than 30.

You should know that there are many young rulers these days, especially those monarchies. Not to mention young people, even a three-year-old child can become king, but Zhao Dongyun is different. He used to be just a cloth, relying on his own efforts to climb to this position step by step, and the process The short speed is enough to surprise everyone.

In the past, Yu Wanling also had some doubts about Zhao Dongyun's age, but now when she sees Zhao Dongyun, although Zhao Dongyun has an eight-character beard like most people and wears a presidential dress that makes him look much older, it can still be seen that he is very young.

When Yu Wanling quietly observed Zhao Dongyun, Zhao Dongyun had already focused on Zhu Erdian. Just now, he was just a little surprised by the change of translator, but he did not pay special attention to Yu Wanling. He was surrounded by many strangers every day, but he didn't have time to As for Yu Wanling's beauty, it is undeniable, but there are fewer beautiful women around Zhao Dongyun?

Not to mention Fang Ruolian and Li Wan, many female staff in the presidential palace are also not bad. After all, no one dares to get a few female staff who are visually obstructing in Zhao Dongyun's house.

So Zhao Dongyun was only slightly surprised and then focused on Zhu Erdian.

At this time, Zhu Erdian said in English, "I would like to congratulate the president on the series of military victories achieved by your army in the early stage!"

Jourdian's words are very cautious. What he said is very clear. He just personally congratulates the victory of Fengjun, which has nothing to do with the attitude of the British Empire.

"However, I also saw that although the war in Zhili Province has ended, the situation in the surrounding areas of Zhili is still relatively tense. I have received letters from many businessmen in China. They said that the situation in Zhili, especially in the surrounding areas of Tianjin, is too tense, resulting in their commercial activities. It has been greatly hindered!"

When Zhu Erdian said, Zhao Dongyun also listened carefully. Although he knew what Zhu Erdian said, he still waited for Yu Wanling next to translate before saying in Chinese: "Although the situation in Zhili Province has been controlled, there are still many bandits. Now my army and police force We are actively suppressing bandits. I believe that it is expected to completely eliminate banditry in Zhili Province within a month and restore the business roads in Zhili and other northern provinces!"

Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth to bypass the topic of bandits and avoided the topic of stationing heavy troops near Tianjin!

After entering the customs, Zhao Dongyun has always paid close attention to the attitude of the great powers in order to prepare for foreign intervention forces, and deployed heavy troops in the surrounding areas of Tianjin to prevent the great powers from forming an intervention army from north to Beijing.

At present, there are many troops deployed by the Feng army in and around Tianjin. There are 3,000 military police sent in Tianjin in the name of the police. The 13th Division is stationed in Tangshan, the 5th Mixed Brigade is stationed in Langfang, and the 11th Division is stationed in Tianjin Horse Factory.

The other garrisons of the Feng army are: the 7th Mixed Brigade is stationed in Nanyuan, the 9th Mixed Brigade is stationed in Shanhaiguan, and the 10th Mixed Brigade is stationed in Shenyang and Jinzhou.

In addition to regular troops, there are more than 20 regiments of patrol troops. According to the Feng army's patrol system, patrol regiments are divided into patrol infantry regiments and cavalry battalions. Each patrol infantry regiment adopts three companies and three battalions. The weapons are only equipped with rifles and a small number of mortars. If each regiment is fully composed, there are about 1,500 people, but Many of the patrol regiments are equally dissatisfied, basically ranging from 1,000 to 1,500. These patrol infantry regiments are stationed in major cities and are responsible for local public security, suppressing civil war and other tasks.

In addition, there are many patrol cavalry battalions. These patrol cavalry battalions are also not equipped with too many heavy weapons. They are only equipped with horse guns and a very small number of heavy machine guns and 60mm mortars. Most of them have more than 200 to 300 cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is not bad, at least much better than those patrol infantry. These patrol cavalry battalions are mainly deployed in Rehe, Heilongjiang and Mongolia. At present, the main task is to eliminate many bandits rampant inside and outside Mongolia. In the early Tangshan Campaign, many patrol cavalry battalions also participated in the battle, especially in the direction of Rehe, two patrol cavalry battalions participated in the Chengde Campaign.

In many military forces of the Feng army, the troops deployed around Tianjin and Beijing are two mixed brigades of the two divisions, and the intention is very obvious, that is, to prevent the intervention of the great powers.

Zhu Erdian is also an old diplomat. Seeing that Zhao Dongyun avoided talking about it, he did not continue to pester. At this time, Zhao Dongyun also took the initiative to say, "For example, the northern provinces of China have been devastated by war and people's livelihood is difficult. It is very expensive to restore people's livelihood, and our country's finances are overwhelmed. In this regard, I hope that your country can do it. Help!"

Seeing that Zhao Dongyun talked about the topic of borrowing so quickly, Zhu Erdian smiled inadvertently, and then said, "I am deeply sad about the difficult situation of your people, but the loan is of great importance. I can only give your country a reply after returning to London, but I personally think that, Based on the century-old deep friendship between China and Britain, as long as your country is sincere about this loan, it should be possible to talk about it!"

Zhao Dongyun said softly, "I don't know how to be sincere?"

Jourdian said: "For example, salt mortgage, tariff mortgage, and financial supervision. If your country can agree to these conditions, then I am personally optimistic about the negotiation of loans!"

Zhao Dongyun was not as angry as Zhu Erdian expected, and even Zhu Erdian could not see any change in Zhao Dongyun's expression. He only heard Zhao Dongyun say: "It is natural for this loan to be mortgaged, but the salt government and tariffs are related to the foundation of the republic and cannot be moved without authorization, and financial supervision is related to national sovereignty, which is naturally It's also not workable!"

Zhu Erdian sighed that Zhao Dongyun was really calm enough. Each of the three terms he mentioned was enough to make every Chinese crazy, but Zhao Dongyun just refused lightly and directly. He couldn't see his anger at all, and the more so, the more generation he became. It shows that Zhao Dongyun is an extremely rational person, and it is not a good thing to deal with such a person.

Zhu Erdian thought about it, but still said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, the head of your country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, once mentioned that the after-care loans your country needs are as high as 20 million pounds. If your country is not mortgaged by salt and tariffs, I don't think those bankers will be relieved, and such a huge amount of loans Without supervision, many people are also worried. For example, for myself, I don't want this money to be used to harm the interests of the British Empire!"

Now Zhu Erdian looks like a demon with a smile. His meaning is very clear. It's okay to borrow money, but you Zhao Dongyun also have to come up with a matching interest price. As for whether you Zhao Dongyun will become a traitor because of this, it's none of my business!