A huge construction site has appeared in Changzhou Island, Guangzhou. A military academy called the Whampoa Naval Officer's School is under construction, which is the originally small-scale Whampoa Military Academy Naval Branch. Now the National Revolution is about to be in full swing, and the National Revolutionary Army will soon be replaced with the sign of the National Defense Forces. Of course, China's national defense cannot be separated from a strong navy, so the issue of naval construction has now been put on the agenda.

The Navy Department and Naval Operations Department are now added to the institutions under the Military Commission. The Navy Minister is Admiral Cheng Biguang, who led the Beiyang government to join the guardian military government. The Navy Minister is also a revolutionary veteran of the Kuomintang and is a figure of the Guangdong Navy named Chen Ce. After the establishment of the Navy Department and the Naval Operations Department, the original naval school will of course be separated from the Whampoa Military Academy controlled by the Army Department and become the Whampoa Naval Officer School directly under the Navy Department. Moreover, in the near future, the capital of the National Government will be moved to Nanjing, and the Army and Air Force branches of the Whampoa Military Academy will be moved to Nanjing. The school buildings on Changzhou Island in Guangzhou, including the military academy dock where Chang Ruiqing is now, will become part of the Whampoa Military Academy.

Chang Ruiqing came to the Whampoa Military Academy Wharf with Chen Duxiu, the Prime Minister of the State Council of the National Government, to welcome American guests. With them, there was also a guard of honor composed of trainees from the Whampoa Military Academy, the sea and the air force branches. More than 300 young men in woolen uniforms were like a group of majestic sculptures, lined up in three columns, holding bayonet rifles, and waiting silently for the arrival of the Americans. Beside them, there was also a small military band, who were practicing the tune of the American national anthem over and over again.

Chang Ruiqing was also wearing a military uniform and a long military coat. He held the command knife and chatted with Chen Duxiu while waiting. As for other important members of the National Government, he did not appear here... After all, this US-owned Philippines governor came to China in the name of "private". The National Government was not good at giving excessive courtesy. The Americans cannot make the Americans feel that China urgently needs their help.

In fact, the original welcome specifications were not available in Chen Duxiu, the prime minister who was busy with a lot of things. He was dragged to the Whampoa Military Academy by Chang Ruiqing. In Chang Ruiqing's words, "This meeting with the US special envoy is an opportunity to let the whole world understand that China's GCD is not a puppet supported by Russia's GCD. China's GCD's foreign policy is only based on China's national interests and is not restricted by the Russian Communist Party's policies."

Chen Duxiu scoffed at Chang Ruiqing's rhetoric. Now there is probably no one in the world except Chang Ruiqing who has such strange ideas? However, he still came to the Whampoa Military Academy Pier with Chang Ruiqing and was preparing to meet the US special envoy as soon as possible.

At this time, a long whistle sounded from afar. A small water diversion boat was leading the way, and an American cruiser converted from a merchant ship slowly entered the sight of Chang Ruiqing and Chen Duxiu.

"Brother Yaoru, I wonder if this American envoy would speak better than the British envoy? The Hong Kong Governor is very difficult!" Looking at the gradually approaching the US ship, Prime Minister Chen muttered in a low voice. Chang Ruiqing, who was standing beside him, smiled faintly when he heard this: "There will be a breakthrough. Brother Zhongfu, don't worry. Whether it is the Americans or the British, they will make concessions to us soon."

Following Harrison was the US Consul General in Guangzhou, Jansen, a slightly short and fat American. He always had a faint smile on his face. He boarded the boat when the Piranha was docking in Hong Kong. He briefly introduced the situation of the Guangzhou National Government to Harrison on the boat, and also mentioned some things about Chang Ruiqing and Chen Duxiu.

According to Jansen, Chang Ruiqing is a nationalist and social democrat, and may have some anarchist tendencies. If he is compared with the current political forces in Russia, he is more like a social revolutionary than a Russian GCD person. The famous Chinese terrorist, Zuo Min, the leader of the Red Brigade, is probably the same person as Chang Ruiqing!

As for Chen Duxiu, chairman of the Chinese G and Premier of the State Council of the National Government, in Jensen's view, he was considered a moderate socialist at most, but he just had a GCD sign. In other words, the current China GCD is actually a mixture of nationalism and social democracy. There is no small component of GCism at all.

Jansen also made some analysis on the requirements that the National Government might make in the negotiations. He had been in close contact with diplomats of the National Government before. Of course, he knew that the National Government wanted to overturn some unequal treaties signed by the Qing government and the Beiyang government, and to allow China to gain a status that can have equal exchanges with Western powers. If their requirements are not met, they are likely to take unilateral actions. By using force, end the special rights and interests of Western powers in China!

After listening to Jensen's introduction and analysis, Harrison couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It seems that the hegemony of the Western world in Asia will eventually fade! Japan, which seized the rich Russian Far East territory, has all the conditions to become a first-class power, but Britain, France and the United States have no choice but to do anything to them!

Now China is following in Japan's footsteps****? This country has all the resources to become a great power, but it is just artificially bound by various unequal treaties. The most important tool for Western countries to maintain this kind of bondage is actually Japan! Didn't they just be built up by the British Empire's watchdogs in Asia? But now the watchdog has become a tiger and has begun to swallow its weak neighbors! And China, the giant dragon that was finally locked, has also begun to break free from the chains on its body. In this case, the only correct choice for the Western powers is probably to let Japan, China, and Russia fight each other and suffer a defeat, right? But first of all, we must prevent China and Japan from forming an anti-Western alliance.

Thinking of this, the US envoy finally showed a satisfied smile on his face, and he also took big steps towards Chen Duxiu and Chang Ruiqing who came to greet him.

****??

Paris, Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirror.

"Mr. Prime Minister, Harrison, the American special envoy, has arrived in Guangzhou and is staying in a military academy of the National Government. The terrorist Chang Ruiqing who went to the dock to greet Harrison was the terrorist Chang Ruiqing! As for what Mr. Harrison talked with the terrorist, it is unknown."

The person talking was British Prime Minister Lloyd George. He came to France to coordinate with French Prime Minister Clemenceau George's position on the upcoming Versailles peace meeting. As a result, he heard about the "Christmas Incident in Vladivostok" and "Nenjiang Victory" at the Palace of Versailles, so at this private preparatory meeting between Britain and France, there was an issue of "Far East Crisis".

Of course, the so-called Far East crisis is not the main topic of this preparatory meeting. It is just a small issue where the leaders of Britain and France only sit together and discuss casually after arguing for the interests of their respective countries.

After hearing Lloyd George's words, Clemencer was just silent. The French tiger prime minister, Clemencer, actually cared more about the Far East crisis than the British Prime Minister. However, his focus was not on China, but on the fate of White Russia. Because Russia is a traditional ally used by France to restrain Germany, and France is also the biggest creditor of the Tsarist Russian government. If Russia finally falls into the hands of the Bolsheviks, the foreign country will definitely lose the most foreign country! And now Japan's sudden attack on Belarus in the Far East will definitely cause the Bolsheviks to fall down the Bolsheviks in the Russian domestic war, so the French Prime Minister almost hated Japan to the core.

As for China****? Clemenceau doesn’t have much time to consider the affairs of this country now. France does not have much interests in China, and even if it is taken back by the Chinese, it will not lose much. If you have the energy to get involved with the Chinese, it is better to knock on Germany more at the Versailles and Conference!

Thinking of this, he barely smiled at Lloyd George: "Mr. Prime Minister. Just tell me if you have any ideas. I remember that your British envoy has arrived in Guangzhou long ago. How are you talking to the Chinese? Didn't you reach any agreement?"

Lloyd George smiled and shook his head slightly: "Actually, we have reached some consensus with the Chinese National Government. For example, they agree not to take back Hong Kong for the time being, and they can continue to fulfill the repayment and compensation obligations of the former government****?"

Clemencer snorted softly: "What about the conditions? Do the Chinese want to take back all the British concessions and public concessions except Hong Kong, and also take back the customs and significantly increase the tariffs?"

Lloyd George nodded with a wry smile: "They also want the British government to guarantee them the loan from the British syndicate, which is much larger than the amount they will repay to the UK. I think they will probably make the same request to France and the United States, right?"

Clemencer shrugged and spread his hands: "It seems that he can only agree to their request. What else can he do? Send troops to fight a war with the Chinese? Prime Minister, I think you should still remember that they just wiped out a Russian army of about 60,000 people? With this victory, they are indeed qualified to get back the concessions and tariffs. We do not need to bother with the Chinese for this little profit! Lloyd, what we need to consider now is the permanent peace in Europe and the culprit of severe sanctions against Germany, the culprit of the European peace!"

Lloyd George couldn't help but smile bitterly. Britain and France had serious differences on how to deal with the defeated Germany. The French obviously wanted to solve this old opponent once and for all. Dismember Germany into a small country, and at the same time annex the industrial zones in western Germany. But in this way, France would establish hegemony on the European continent ****? Britain does not want to see the resurrection of the Napoleon Empire now!

"Mr. Prime Minister, although Germany needs severe sanctions, at the same time, we cannot take things lightly about what happened in the Far East. ****? I really want to remember that your Emperor Napoleon once portrayed China as a sleeping lion. Once it wakes up, it will pose a huge threat to our civilized world! So we must be vigilant enough about China's rise. Our two countries should join forces to remain consistent on the issue of China, and we must never retreat before their diplomatic blackmail. We must teach them to respect some basic rules of the civilized world before China has risen to become another Japan! At the same time, we should protect the special rights and interests of our two countries in China as much as possible."

Lloyd George still brought the topic back to the issue of China. The British Prime Minister obviously did not intend to give up the privileges of the British Empire in China, at least he did not intend to let go easily.

Clemenceau pressed his forehead and sighed: "Mr. Prime Minister, it is okay to ask our French Republic to be consistent with Britain on the issue of China, but ****? France can only express spiritual support for Britain's actions in China. France cannot send troops to China! France has shed too much blood for the European war. Now the French people will not support the government to be involved in a new war for a little profit!"

"Mental support is enough." George Lloyd nodded with a smile: "Our British Empire does not intend to fight a real war with the Chinese. We just need to make full use of the existing chips in our hands and apply some military pressure appropriately, which may force the Chinese to respect the rules of the game in the civilized world."

After hearing the British, Clemencer just nodded without comment. He thought a little in his mind that the so-called bargaining chip was nothing more than the power to participate in the Paris Peace Conference. Perhaps he could also mess with right and wrong between China and Japan, and use Germany's rights and interests in Shandong as bargaining chips to blackmail. The military pressure is probably to send a fleet to demonstrate to the Chinese, and the British Army is absolutely impossible to dispatch **** If all these methods do not work, the British probably can only choose to give up, right? (To be continued...)
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