Chapter 259 Appropriate Response

At night, on the quiet street of Beiping, more than 20 shirtless men pulled and pushed hard, took the donkey cart, and pulled dozens of cars of vegetables towards Dongjiaomin Lane. With the street lights, they saw the approaching vegetable cart, and the members of the U.S. Marines at the entrance of Dongjiaomin Lane finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the grain stored in the [***] camps in the embassy district was enough to eat for several months, the fresh vegetables were cut off at the beginning of the boycott. Those vegetable vendors did not dare to sell vegetables to them in the name of swearing. After all, the eyes of the students were staring there.

And these twenty carts of vegetables were bought by the priests in the church in the city who persuaded the priests to buy them with the help of the teachers. The whole embassy area was waiting for these vegetables.

Just as they just breathed a sigh of relief, the motorcade stopped. A group of teenagers suddenly ran out of the alleys on both sides. They circled around the vegetable truck, holding all kinds of pots and bowls in their hands. The silent night was instantly broken by the noise of gongs.

"Look at Han Jun!"

"Come and see Han Jun!"

"Gou Han Jun! Stinky annior!"

"Come and see the traitor..."

In the shouting of hundreds of teenagers, several teenagers rushed to the donkey cart and lifted the grass curtain covering the car, revealing baskets of green vegetables. Despite the shouting of the men who drove the car, the teenagers began to pour baskets of vegetables out of the car.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? Be careful, I'll slap you!"

The person who escorted the car raised the leather whip in his hand and swished at these children, but his whip was just a lift, but through the light of the street lamp, he saw more than a dozen officers in military uniforms standing in the alley, staring at his officers and soldiers. Those people held bayonets in their hands, and the bayonets glowed with oozing white light under the street lights, several of them. He stared at him fiercely, and in an instant, his momentum weakened.

"Pump all these dishes"

The children became more and more excited and cheered to grab the basket and pour the vegetables, while those who escorted the car just watched them.

The children lay on the car and grabbed the basket, pushed each other and poured the basket of vegetables on the ground. Finally, they gave each of those people a big sign.

"The traitor!"

Even the children shouted the names of some of them, shouting to knock on the sign for their families the next day. This only scared those who were watching the people next to him dispersed with a coax.

Listening to the sound of gongs and drums over there, the U.S. second lieutenant standing behind the barbed wire had no choice but to look at his subordinates. All of them looked at each other resentfully, with an incredible look on their faces at what happened in front of them.

While the U.S. Marines looked at the teenagers who seemed to be cheering for winning a battle, the minister of various countries quarreled loudly in the conference room with the smell of cigars on the second floor of the British Embassy.

"The attitude I need to express is that our country agrees with the decision of joint action made by the minister of various countries four years ago, but I hope you can take one factor into account!"

Yasuya Uchida, who stood up and spoke, looked at the Russian minister as he spoke.

"Now, it is impossible for us to send a small team of soldiers to Beiping or Shanghai!"

"Consul Uchida, the Chinese cannon has been aimed at Dongjiaomin Lane!"

The French minister reminded that France, as an ally of Russia, naturally hopes to instinctively send troops to Peiping or Shanghai and a division here, so that the Russian army can reduce the pressure of a division in the northeast.

"Don't the cannons of the coalition forces on the wall also point to the Chinese? I don't think the current situation is dangerous enough to meet each other. After all, Minister Liang is still in the restaurant in Beiping!"

Uchida Yasuya shrugged his shoulders. Not to mention that Tokyo has reached an agreement with Nanjing on this matter, even if there is no agreement, it is Moto can't help. After all, for Japan now, the victory or defeat of the Northeast battlefield is the most important, especially after the full start of the Liaoyang Campaign. At this time, he looked at the Russian minister again, and he patted his chest the loudest.

"Russia is willing to mobilize at least ten divisions into Tianjin as it did four years ago, but now..."

His helpless smile seemed to tell everyone that Russia did not want to help, but that they did not have any extra troops sent to the customs. Even if there were extra troops, Russia could not send them to the customs. On the one hand, the volunteers cut off the railway inside and outside the customs and were marching to Fengtian, while on the other side It was a decisive battle between hundreds of thousands of imperial troops in Liaoyang and the Russian army.

"Isn't there a million elite imperial troops? You can challenge Russia, and it doesn't matter if you think about the Chinese! You boast that you can sweep St. Petersburg, and it should be no problem for those one or two divisions to sweep Nanjing!"

The Russian minister shouted for fear of chaos.

And Yasuya Uchida replied tit-for-tat.

"Russia is a European military policeman, and you can all sweep Europe. Naturally, China is not a problem!"

After a quarrel all afternoon, after dinner, the meeting could not continue because of the quarrel between the Russian envoys, which made Sakyi sigh helplessly in his heart. Until now, he has to admire Chen Moran in Nanjing. He chose a time that is most beneficial to trouble countries.

Without the intervention of Japan and Russia, then interference is empty talk. It is impossible for the navy alone to force it to give up the collection of tariffs and surcharges. Among the countries, the only country that has the ability to send a large number of army troops into Tianjin and Shanghai is Japan and Russia, while now Russia is tearing up in the northeast.

Listening to the quarrel in his ear, Sakyi frowned.

"Okay! " Gentlemen!"

As soon as his voice sounded, the conference room was finally quieter.

"Gentlemen, I need to remind you of the fact that the Chinese have sent nearly 25 divisions to Shanghai, Peiping and Tianjin, and their troops are still moving to the north. Now we must make a choice whether we accept the blackmail of the Chinese or reject them!"

"Do you have a choice?"

More than ten minutes later, after leaving the British legation, the U.S. minister Rou Keyi asked Claude beside him. It had been three days, and the legation still failed to reach an agreement.

"The reason why the countries can't reach an agreement is very simple. The root of the problem is that the interests of the countries are different. Japan and Russia are the only country that has the ability to send a large number of troops into China, but Russia are killing each other in the northeast. They are more eager for each other to interfere in China than any other country, because that will contribute to China. In addition, Germany has the ability to intervene in the army. Between tariffs and the future market, the Germans chose the latter. Nanjing once sent Germany an order of 100 million marks. It is not in Germany's interest to increase tariffs, and the same military intervention is not in the interests of the German business community.

Listening to the words of the minister, Claude just pondered in his heart that as the assistant counselor of the embassy that had just arrived in China, what he needed to do was to listen, not express his views. After all, he knew almost nothing about the country, except for the madness four years ago and the madness now. Beyond the heat.

"Sir, what about the British? Among the countries, Britain has the largest commercial interests in China.

Claude raised his doubts, saying that Russia's inability to intervene is inevitable in the war between the two countries. Germany is due to larger commercial interests, but what about Britain?

"Of course, the British don't want to see the Chinese people's tariff autonomy, let alone accept additional taxes, but what can they do? The British navy is very large, but what China needs to interfere is the army. The performance of the British army in the Boer War is well known to the world, and the Chinese... Well, their volunteer army has annihibited many Russian infantry regiments in the northeast. Maybe they are not better than the Japanese army, but at least better than the Burr farmers! What's more, for the British, what they are most willing to see is to use the soldiers of other countries to achieve their own goals, but this time, the British's calculation is wrong. Who will be a British thwark without Russia and Japan?

There is some mockery in Rou Keyi's words. Just like four years ago, the British did not do anything at all. If there is a real outbreak of conflict this time, the scale of the conflict will be no less than the Russian War.

"At the beginning, we all thought that Nanjing was bluffing, but now the development of the situation makes it clear that we are all wrong. Nanjing is different from Peiping, and Chen Moran is also different from Cixi. For him, if he compromises, he will be trapped in political instability. Compared with compromise, he can only choose to be tough, or even his The wife also showed the courage to surprise the world. The British's statement can be said to have slapped herself in the face fiercely. As long as Mrs. Chen is on the warship, they dare not fire. Even London is unwilling to bear the responsibility of the British navy for killing a British duke. The British are now riding a tiger!"

When he lamented the trouble brought to Britain by the British's arrogantness in his heart, Claude raised another question.

"Sir, why didn't you act positively? China is the largest overseas market in Japan. Cotton cloth and cotton yarn are mainly sold to China. It is a backward country. The important surname of the Chinese market is far away or even any country. Why do they refuse to interfere!"

"Exported cotton and raw silk are exempted from additional tax, imported cotton yarn is exempted from 4.5% additional tax, and imported cotton cloth is 2.5% additional tax! Among the Japanese exports to China, cotton yarn and cotton cloth account for more than 80% of the total exports, while imported cotton and raw silk also account for more than 50%. From the beginning, the Chinese did not touch the interests of Japan too much. Even the two countries may have reached some agreements in private, just like some cooperation in Northeast China. Yes, so the Japanese performance is not only not active, but also agrees with the additional tax!"

"What about us? What kind of position should the United States take?

When he asked this question, Rou Keyi just smiled and then took a look to the south.

"The United States will respond appropriately at the right time!"

(to be continued)