Chapter 754 The chaos caused by the wanted notice

February 1st, Washington.

"Barney, God, stop the damn work. Look at this."

"Newspaper, what's new? Did the Chinese hit Washington?

"Damn it, it's worse than this. They issued a wanted notice!"

"Wanted notice? What wanted notice? "

The loud conversation in the garden downstairs in the early morning made Thomas R. Marshall on the second floor very angry. Just as he was about to scold the housekeeper and secretary downstairs for being quiet, he heard the word wanted notice and immediately pricked up his ears.

As the vice president of the United States, although he is the most quirky and the least favorite vice president in history, he has seen a lot of wanted notices, but it is the first time that the Chinese have been published in American newspapers.

"Is there a very powerful thief?" R Marshall, holding a cigar and a cup of coffee, slightly closer to some windows, pricking up his ears and dispelling this ridiculous idea. Now, there is a world war, and the idiot thief is willing to take the lead to offend the most important countries in the covenant and alliance at this time.

"It's a wanted notice issued by the Chinese. They issued a reward to want those who ordered war!" The housekeeper said.

"Have you ordered the war? Nelson, are you kidding? It was President Wilson who ordered the war. Do the Chinese want to arrest our president?!" When the secretary's eyes widened and shook his head, the housekeeper had pushed the newspaper in front of him: "You can't read it by yourself!" Pointing to the first line, he said, "Woodrow Wilson, the President of the United States, a first-class war criminal, offers a reward of 100,000 blue coins!"

"Oh."

Hearing this, R Marshall couldn't help it anymore. A mouthful of coffee turned into a mist falling from the sky and wet the newspaper. The two looked up and found that the Vice President was holding coffee and staring at the newspaper in their hands. When they didn't know what to do, they shouted loudly: "God, show me!"

R Marshall hurried downstairs and grabbed a newspaper stained with coffee. Although he never liked the job of vice president, Wilson did not like him at all and never discussed state affairs with him, so he rarely went to the White House to attend meetings. Anyway, he was always an American political dignitary. In case the Chinese don't You are indiscriminately wanted, aren't you?

The long wanted list made R Marshall's eyebrows jump wildly. From the President of the United States to the generals of the three armies, there are hundreds of people! But he searched every corner and didn't find his name!

was despised, and the Vice President of the United States was ignored naked!

"Did you see it? The vice president is the worst job in the world. He is anonymous and no one remembers it! Even the Chinese don't want me!" R Marshall breathed a sigh of relief while complaining loudly, but the staff next to him was already full of black lines. He said that the vice president was really an alien. Is the wanted notice very glorious?

Just as R Marshall complained, there was a rumble of cars outside the villa. After a moment, the bodyguards came to report: "Mr. Vice President, Speaker Melkin, Senator Michelle, Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Navy." After the bodyguard reported a long list, his eyes were also dull. He didn't understand what was wrong with these big shots today. He said, "They're all here!"

"I'm looking for you!" The bodyguard also deliberately aggravated his tone, probably feeling that the vice president had finally received attention.

The housekeeper and the secretary were even more directly dumbfounded. Just now, they were complaining that no one paid attention to them, but now the American political axe officers are almost full of their homes. What's going on?

Even R Marshall was a little in a daze, but when his colleagues rushed in anxiously, he finally knew why his vice president, who didn't even know much about Americans, suddenly became a big celebrity.

"Mr. Marshall." Secretary of State Lansing's expression was serious: "Your Excellency the President is hospitalized. According to the law, you will act as president in this period before he recovers."

"Wilson is hospitalized? Isn't he in good health? What's the disease?" R Marshall asked puzzledly.

"Marschel, the situation is a little bad." The president of the Merkin Council rubbed his hands and looked anxious: "We got the news that after six days of fierce fighting, Carl could not hold on after paying the price of 160,000 deaths and injuries. Yesterday, he led his troops to surrender to the Chinese people in the evening!"

"What!"

R Marshall opened his mouth wide, as if he had heard the most incredible thing, so that he didn't notice that the cigar at the corners of his mouth fell to the ground. It seemed that the blow was not enough. Lansing continued: "California and Arizona have been completely fallen, and the west of the Rio Grande in New Mexico has also been occupied!

The president stayed up all night after getting the news, and today. Lansing pointed to the newspaper on the table and said awkwardly, "After reading it, he immediately fainted. After the hospital examination, he had confirmed that he had a stroke. Before he recovered, he could no longer be qualified for the job of president!"

"In the middle, I have a stroke! Is it the kind of disease that is paralyzed and unable to move like dough?!" Marshall seemed to see a ghost, and the housekeeper's secretary and bodyguard around him couldn't believe it.

R Marshall understood that if he doesn't like this job, after all, he is an American elite with a good political sense. Today, these people come not because they think they are important, but because the great President Wilson was first stunned by the unprecedented surrender of more than a million troops, and then because of China. The blatant price wanted notice was paralyzed by a stroke!

So these guys need to find someone to replace him immediately, so as not to let the United States enter chaos!

But the problem is!

R Marshall looked at the newspaper on the table in a daze. Today, he finally waited for a moment when the world could know him and pay attention to him. He didn't even need to nod, because the law had admitted that he would become the interim president of the United States!

President of the United States.

Before the war, this was a job that was envied by countless people, but now, when the Chinese have killed the West Coast, they may soon sweep the whole southwest. Europe's war is not coming to an end, and the world is about to collapse!

Who is willing to take over at this time?

What's more, if you take over today, you will definitely be included in this list by the Chinese tomorrow and become a war wanted criminal!

R Marshall thought for a moment and suddenly took a deep breath: "Gentlemen, I am willing to abide by the law, but the premise is that if President Wilson has an accident or resigns, I will not seek to become a full president, and I will not be responsible for anything that happens during my time as interim president!"

This sentence immediately made the hurried Lansing and others fall off their chins, and they were not responsible for what happened during the interim presidency! What else do you want me to do? Is it a decoration?!

No one expected that R Thomas would put forward this condition. Just as everyone was dumbfounded, a car suddenly braked in front of the gate. The secretary jumped out of the car, waved a telegram and ran in a panic. After looking at it, he handed the telegram to Marshall and shouted, "Mr. Vice President, Chicago, Boston and so on happened. Anti-war chaos!"

February 7, 1917 was perhaps the most humiliating day in the history of the United States.

After the Albuquerque Bridge was occupied and the Rio Grande River was blocked, eight U.S. troops withdrew from California to Arizona. Although they struggled to resist for six days in the absence of food and ammunition, they had a total of 1,100 tanks and armored vehicles, 300 aircraft and more than 1,500 artillery guns. Under the blow, after paying the price of more than 100,000 casualties, the army finally collapsed and had to surrender to Luo Feng, the commander of the Second Army of Xinhua.

At the same time, President Wilson, who got the news, did not sleep all night. In the early morning, when China issued him an international wanted notice and listed him as a first-degree war criminal, he was so angry that he was paralyzed by a stroke and was sent to the hospital.

The United States is caught in a major earthquake!

Not only did the United States fall into chaos, but the whole world felt the earthquake. First of all, after the Xinhua Prime Minister's Office announced the situation of the Nevada concentration camp, it immediately announced 127 U.S. political officials, including Wilson, as war criminals and issued an international wanted notice!

At the same time, Germany, Austria-Hungary and other allies have seized the opportunity to report on the chaos in the United States. The United States suppressed peaceful demonstrations and condemned this militaristic action.

A series of bad news finally plunged into chaos in the panicked United States. Large-scale anti-war demonstrations broke out in Chicago, Boston and other places, and the marches gradually turned into riots. In the end, Acting President R Marshall had to order the military police to kill and arrest more than 12,000 people. It gradually calmed down.

The drama is that after the repression order was issued, R Marshall submitted his resignation to Congress in a lightning-wilight way, saying that he could not bear the stressful presidential work!

On February 12, after R Marshall's lightning resignation, U.S. President of Congress, Republican John Melkin, became the acting president. Wilson, who was sick the next day, issued a resignation statement and officially stepped down as President of the United States. As a result, Melkin became the 29th President of the United States.

14 On the 14th, Melkin delivered a national speech, saying that the United States had reached the moment of life and death, and the United States would not accept division. At the same time, he asked all citizens to be armed to defend their own land and homeland and expel foreign invaders.

At the same time, he also euphemistically said that he would seek the possibility of ending the war at the right time.

As soon as this statement came out, it immediately caused chaos within the Ally, especially Britain and France, which were preparing to attack Paris in the end. They were completely panicked. You know, if Mel Jinzheng announced the end of the war and surrendered, I'm afraid that the recapture of Paris would also face the consequences of failure.

On February 15, the day after Melkin's speech, Britain, France, Portugal and other countries sent special envoys to try to persuade him not to end the war easily, hoping to resume the supply of raw materials in Europe.

On February 17, two days before the Chinese New Year, 270,000 Allied troops began to attack Paris in the northern part of the French province of Erluard, controlled by Germany.

is on the verge of breaking out.

(to be continued)