Chapter 145 Embassy Area

For most Westerners, it is completely incredible. The way they use tools is all wrong; they squat when they hit the iron on the anvil. When they use saws or planers, they pull instead of push, and build a house and build a roof first. When unlocking, twist the key to the left: wrong direction. It is said that everything I do is the opposite of others, and I say it backwards. Read the books and newspapers backwards, and write the articles backwards.

He sat in a chair, he sat on the floor, and the fish and shrimp were eaten raw. After talking about a personal tragedy, he will laugh loudly, fall into the mud pond in brand-new clothes, get up with a smile on his face, say something unclear but say the opposite. When discussing the problem, he will beat around the bush. At home, he will treat you with excessive courtesy, but he will push and speak rudely on the train. If he kill someone, he will apologize to the servant. The house is messed up.

Westerners don't understand and think it's incredible, but for China, which is a close neighbor, they also can't understand this "clothed and water" neighbor.

In the Tokyo embassy area, the Chinese Embassy in Japan shrouded in the moonlight looks surprisingly quiet under the street lights.

Dong Hong, the ambassador in Japan, squinted and sat on the Western-style sofa in the ambassador's office. The Jingdezhen porcelain cup on it was steaming, and a cup of new spring tea was filled with a faint fragrance of tea.

It's night. It was time to rest, but Dong Hongqi is still sitting here. Recently, the dark tide of Tokyo or Japan has surged, stirring up the new ambassador to sleep all night. To be more precise, it is insomnia all night.

"Deng..."

When the bell rang at midnight, Dong Hongqi took a look at the time. It was already midnight.

At this time, Wei Guobang, the counselor of the embassy, walked to Dong Hongqi's side and whispered in his ear.

"Sir, there are still twelve people who haven't come back!"

Listening to this sentence, Dong Hongqi frowned, and then shook his head helplessly.

"I really don't know what they are doing!"

There was a trace of dissatisfaction in his tone. During the period when he appeared as the ambassador in Japan, he found that the military attaché office seemed to be different from the past. Whether the military attaché in the army or navy, he often left the embassy and was active.

"Is there really going to war?"

Thinking of this, Dong Hongqi stood up from the sofa and walked to the window. Through the light of the street lamp, he could faintly see that there seemed to be people standing in the shadow of the roadside. He was not alone. Someone was monitoring the embassy, and there was more than one person.

"Your Excellency, what are you thinking about?"

The speaker was a major in a white navy uniform. After walking behind the ambassador, Li Tianyi glanced at the shadow outside the window.

"Someone is spying on us!"

Listening to the ambassador's words, Li Tianyi just smiled. This is... It's normal. The domestic imperial investigation bureau's surveillance of the Japanese embassy and even the Japanese company has reached the point of staring at people. Even the gangsters are responsible for monitoring the Japanese ronin everywhere. Now it seems that the Japanese government is monitoring the embassy on the surface. In fact, Li Tianyi knew how lax their surveillance was.

"You have brought a lot of trouble!"

There was a little dissatisfaction in Dong Hong's words, and even hummed such a sentence. Several times in the newspaper, he saw the news that the police intercepted the "suspect", and the "suspect" chose to commit suicide after there was no way to escape. He couldn't help thinking that there would be more than one person.

"There are a lot of troubles now, which is not the main trouble!"

Li Tianyi sent an elegant smile.

"I think sometimes, trouble is not caused by us, but more often by taking the initiative to find trouble!"

Dong Hongqi didn't say anything. He just looked out of the window. Last year, he was still a Japanese student. He never thought that he would have a day as an ambassador. But now, he found that his ambassador might... shake his head helplessly. Dong Hongqi sat back on the sofa and picked up the teacup that had become warm. When he was about to drink tea, he looked at Li Tianyi and said.

" Major Li, I hope..."

When the words came to his mouth, he still took it back. Military and political dual body, even in the embassy, he had no right to interfere in the military's actions. Drinking tea, he understood what he needed to do now.

Wat! Wait until the telegram arrives.

"I heard that the negotiations between Japan and Russia went well!"

Dong Hongqi, who changed the topic, asked casually.

"Yes, I think the imperial meeting they will hold in the palace tomorrow should be the last negotiation on the terms of negotiation!"

Li Tianyi accidentally revealed a piece of information that Dong Hongqi did not know, and it was said that the imperial meeting would be held tomorrow!

"The imperial meeting!"

Listen to this word, Kopacz? Hughes couldn't help but be shocked. He looked at Carl, the counselor of the embassy standing in front of him. Lauren..

"Mr. Lauren, are you sure?"

"Yes, this is accurate information from the inside of the Japanese political axe!"

Carl? Lauren sat down opposite Kopazzi and looked at the ambassador and said.

"This morning, Prime Minister Gui has made a request to the emperor, and the meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon!"

"The imperial meeting?"

After a moment of meditation, Kopazzi looked at Carl and asked.

"Do you think this imperial meeting has anything to do with the negotiations between me and the Russians?"

Almost instinctive reaction is average, and the first thing Copazy thinks of is still the negotiations between the two countries in the United States.

"The convening of the imperial meeting may mean that I am ready to make a huge concession..."

Before he finished speaking, Kopati thought about this possible surname. In the past few months, Britain was eager to repair the tension between Britain and Russia caused by the Russian war. In this negotiation, Britain's idea was the same as that of the United States and France. A collapsed Russia was by no means in the interests of Britain. If this time The meeting was a discussion that was intended to make huge concessions, so... At this moment, Carl had a strange smile.

"Ambassador, have you considered a question?"

"Huh?"

Kopazi was stunned and looked up at Carl.

"For example, this imperial meeting is to prepare for another war!"

"Another war!"

Kopazi understood what Carl meant in an instant. He was referring to the possible war between China and Japan.

"Your Excellency Ambassador, there is no doubt that I seem to have won this war. In fact, they spent more than 2 billion yuan. As a result, they got nothing. It is not even much better than Russia as a loser. It is nothing more than a nominal victory, and they even have to spit out the fruits of victory ten years ago. It can be said that now in China, the whole country wants to tear up the peace treaty signed with China from top to bottom, and Ito was assassinated and the assassin was sentenced to only half a year in prison, which shows the reversal of public opinion in China.

Carl's powerful speech just made Kopazzi nod and agree. It's not a secret, but is it possible to be so fast?

"According to our analysis, the war between China and Japan should break out from May to October next year, not now..."

"That's the previous analysis!"

At this time, a voice came from outside, interrupting Kopazzi's words. The two turned around and looked at Lieutenant Colonel David, a naval officer stationed in. On the surface, he was a British Royal Navy officer, but in fact he was a naval intelligence officer.

"Your Excellency Ambassador, a month ago, the war between Japan and China would break out in the middle of next year, but now!"

Lt. Colonel David walked into the room as he walked, nodded to Counsellor Carl, and then sat in front of the ambassador slightly.

"Oh? Did you get any information again? Mr. David!"

Of course, Kopach will not ignore such a "professional intelligence officer". In the past year, he has collected too much Japanese and Russian naval intelligence, and it is natural for him to make such a speculation.

"1000 yards to the east!"

"That's the Chinese Embassy!"

David nodded, and it was the strangeness of the embassy that confirmed his speculation.

"In the past period of time, there were many unidentified people near the Chinese embassy, just like before Christmas two years ago!"

"This may be just a coincidence!"

He said so, but Carl couldn't help but believe this "coincidence" two years ago before Christmas, many unidentified people appeared near the Russian embassy. They monitored the Russian embassy at night. Two months later, the war began.

"Coincidence?"

shrugged his shoulders, and David said helplessly.

"I will soon be able to repair their warships and captured warships!"

"But this does not mean that the war will break out soon!"

"Different from the current financial dilemma, the Chinese have sufficient funds. The Chinese navy has received an allocation of 250 million yuan before. They are buying warships from all over the world. We rejected them, but the Germans agreed to sell warships to them. Because of the emergence of Zhiyuan ships, the world was eliminated overnight. All warships, except Zhiyuan, are outdated, so if Germany sells the old ships to China, it can get the funds to build Zhiyuan, and it may eliminate the old ships, which can be said that both are perfect!"

Davily mentioned the elimination of the old ship, and David's face was full of chagrin. In his opinion, Britain should have eliminated the old ship from China, but in the end, under his own lobbying, it was also to weaken China. Britain chose to support Japan instead of China, while the Germans took advantage of this opportunity to get a lot from China. The substantial benefits of quantity.

"No matter how you look at it, the more the war drags on, the better it will be for China. The Chinese have enough money to buy warships from the world. We now refuse to sell warships to China, but who knows if there will be any changes in the next few months? Now the Chinese navy is at a disadvantage, but if it drags on for a year or two, at that time, the comparison between Japan and China will become elephants and ants, and ants can never regret the ants of elephants! Therefore, the earlier the declaration of war, the more beneficial it is to Japan, and the more unfavorable it is to China!"

"But it cannot be ruled out that the imperial meeting is to discuss the peace treaty with Russia!"

"The negotiations have reached the final stage. Is it necessary?"

(to be continued)