The issue of whether the emperor gave a speech in the US Congress on behalf of the empire or was represented by the queen has experienced relatively complex and long-term discussions within the Central Cabinet and the General Administration of the Inner Court.

Song Biao supports the speech by the queen. This is not because of his plot of Soong Mei-ling, but based on the principle of interests first. China and the United States need a more friendly and relaxed American environment to be held in China. Only in this way

Only by striving for China's national interests to a greater extent.

He was a very tough soldier emperor all over the world, claiming to be the Emperor Napoleon of the East. Before that, Gu Weijun also made a random collective visit in the United States and found that His Majesty the Emperor of China in the hearts of the American people to a greater extent

The upper class is regarded as the Chinese Tsar, and his usual attitude is too tough.

This is obviously not conducive to the needs of China-US diplomacy.

Finally, with the support of Song Biao, the central cabinet decided to invite the queen to give a public speech on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and the Chinese Empire in the US Congress.

The theme and speech of Queen Shu Xuan's speech were also revised several times. Finally, the theme of the speech was determined by Li Enfu, who was extremely proficient in Latin and American culture. Queen Shu Xuan wrote the speech herself, and underwent many revisions during this period.

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On the morning of November 8, 1921, Song Biao and his wife were invited to visit the U.S. Capitol. Then in the House Hall, Queen Shu Xuan took her speech to the conference table, while Song Biao was in the U.S. Secretary of State Kang

Accompanied by Ens Vanderbilt and Foreign Minister Leung Dun-yan, Ensse, sat in the parliamentary seat and quietly waited for his wife's speech.

Song Biao has rarely spoken publicly. He also believes that he is not a good person at speaking, but his queen is the opposite. This elegant and quiet queen is still the most well-known translator of European and American fairy tales and poetry in the empire.

I also often create some modern poetry. I have published two collections of poems and a collection of prose entitled "The Diary of the Pearl", which has high praise in the new literary world in China.

Queen Shu Xuan is a noble lady who is proficient in English and good at reading poetry. She uses vocabulary elegant and sophisticated, and has the special elegant and noble aura of prose ladies.

Because she prepared in advance very well, she deliberately wore a corset evening dress today, and the cutting and design style of a new lady with popular American characteristics. However, she used the Su-embroidered silk satin with a bright yellow background and vermilion tattoo on the phoenix, with

Shows the royal identity of the Chinese Empire.

Ten years of queen career have made Shu Xuan more elegant and noble. Although it was her first public speech, she also seemed surprisingly elegant. She walked onto the stage at her own pace, as the most beautiful and noble queen of the empire.

His Highness scanned the US congressmen and husbands in the audience.

After about ten seconds of brewing and waiting, until the venue was silent, she said calmly: "My dear Senators and Representatives of the American Cooperation Country, first of all, I want to thank my husband, His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire,

Thank him for giving me such a beautiful and noble opportunity, because he knows that I have always had a special relationship with the United States and the American people. It is a kind of love like a young girl to a mature gentleman.

Missing and loving.”

His expertise in poetry made Shu Xuan choose special sentences with parallelism and a rhyme that was as beautiful as prose poetry. Her special and wonderful metaphor, and her special and gentle voice in Eastern Kangzhou

The line quickly won the attention and surprises of the MPs,

With just one exquisite opening remark, Queen Shu Xuan won a lot of applause, which temporarily interrupted her speech.

After waiting for a moment, she calmed down again in the Capitol. She continued: "Many people may not know that His Majesty the Emperor and I were married in a beautiful and exquisite chapel in the small town of Wallingford, Connecticut

Yes, at that time he was not the emperor, and I was not the queen. We were young and full of beautiful visions for the future, and we were eager to be married in a happy world and always connect each other, no matter our marriage is

Magical and brilliant, or ordinary and warm, just like all the young lovers in the United States and China who are bathed in love. At this moment, when I stand here and think of my day at Wallingford, I

It was as happy as drinking honey wine. I just don’t know, you all, you still remember the church where you held your wedding for your wife? If you still remember, you must have beautiful memories, right? Yes

, If you can have such memories, you can understand the feelings of His Majesty the Emperor and me for Kangzhou."

Warm applause rang again.

Shu Xuan was elegantly reciting a wonderful prose poem, which was rhythmically and distinctively constantly aroused other people's emotions and resonance. This seemed to be destined to be a classic national speech from the beginning.

Because of the identity of the queen and the lady, Shu Xuan avoided the various issues in the passionate remarks and realism, only talked about the feelings between China and the United States, and interspersed them into it to explain the ancient and longevity of the Chinese Empire and the United States.

The brand new and greatness of her, she mentioned oracle bone inscriptions and bronzes from Shang and Zhou dynasties, mentioned Mayflower sailboats, and mentioned the first trade between China and the United States and the era of the foreign trade in the flag-changing foreign business.

She talked about the exquisite history of Chinese tea, silk and porcelain, awakening Americans' beautiful memories of the legendary ancient empire. She told the Spring and Autumn Period when the various philosophers contend, the philosophical China 2,400 years ago, and told the story of

The reawakening of the empire’s era of “respecting law and loving the people”, a little bit of mentioning China’s pedantic and rigidity under the Manchu rule, and the end of this dark history of China’s medieval period, telling that China is entering a brand new Renaissance similar to the European Renaissance

The era of the Spring and Autumn Period Philosophy Revival, and is actively studying in the United States.

She did not mention what members of Congress might want to know more about China's attitude towards the British-Japanese alliance and Sino-US trade negotiations, nor even Japan and the United Kingdom. She just talked about China and the United States, interpreted the new Chinese Empire, and translated China and the United States.

The friendship in the United States is likened to a kind of "a romantic history of love on both sides of the Pacific."

Even so, Shu Xuan received fourteen warm applause during the entire speech. Song Biao and the entire imperial visiting delegation were extremely satisfied with this effect. As long as the US Congress can be handled, the US and China.

Trade negotiations are still relatively easy to solve. It will have a very positive driving effect on deepening cooperation between China and the United States and further resolving the problems left over from the Chinese Exclusion Act.

As expected, the next day, almost all newspapers in the United States reported the speech, and most media published the speech by Queen Shu Xuan in full. The United States and the American people seemed to have been ignited overnight.

Passionate. I also have many beautiful imaginations about China, as if the alliance between China and the United States can change the entire world, which is the most stable and powerful force in the world.

The Empire also had the opportunity to hold a tour exhibition of the China Expo in the United States at this week before the Washington Conference. The first stop was set in Washington to welcome diplomatic teams from all over the world and to the world.

Exhibition of Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, bronzes, porcelain, gold-thread jade clothes, ink paintings, brocades, bonsai, and new industries and advantageous agricultural products in the empire era, and at the same time promote the concept of "Spring and Autumn Renaissance" to the world, trying to promote China 2,300 years ago

Ancient philosophy allowed the world to re-understand and interpret a real China.

If a great empire wants to revive, it must not only have strong industrial and agricultural strength and military strength, but also have cultural output. The culture that China tries to export to the world is the Spring and Autumn Period thought. In particular, "respecting law and loving the people", "and "

Love", "benevolent government", and "moral governance" are Chinese-style thinking.

The Empire actively lobbies famous universities such as Yale and Harvard to set up majors in Chinese classical philosophy, Chinese history and Chinese, etc., to export soft power and cultural influence. As the power of the Empire further expands, the Empire also needs to export this soft power to further improve.

The influence and status of the empire in the international world.

On the thirteenth day after Queen Shu Xuan's Congress speech, the Washington Conference was officially held, and His Majesty Emperor Song Biao attended the meeting in person.

Because of his special identity and came very early, Song Biao entered the venue with President Warren Harding on that day, which was almost half the identity of the host.

This is normal. Because China's position is basically to fully support the leading role of the United States in the Washington Conference, to suppress the British-Japanese alliance through joint France and Italy, and to force countries to sign a treaty to suspend naval competition. In addition, during this talks,

The United States will also coordinate various issues between China, Britain, China and Japan as host and coordinator.

At this time, China and the United States united to compete with the British-Japanese alliance, and this position is extremely obvious.

Song Biao didn't know much about the Washington Conference. As of now, the situation at this conference is still very loose, and the officials sent by various countries are not of high level, far less solemn and high-level than the Paris Peace Conference.

In fact, there are many problems in the organization of this meeting. There was no formal meeting date from the beginning. In the initial stage, bilateral negotiations were mainly based on bilateral negotiations. First of all, Britain and the United States basically reached an agreement to maintain equality in the total tonnage of the main naval ships, and the United States also came into being.

Try to strive for and intimidate the conditions that Britain has achieved.

China and the United States have already reached a conclusion on naval tonnage negotiations, that is, the main battleships of the Chinese Navy remain at half of the United States, or 70% of the scale. The specific amount depends on Japan's situation. Japan is half, China is half, Japan is half, Japan

It is 70%, and China is 70%. In short, it is equal to Japan.

Of course, the United States supports this because the U.S. naval power in the Pacific is relatively weak, and the tonnage of the main ship is much smaller than that of Japan. The stronger the tonnage of China's main ship, the greater the pressure on Japan and the smaller the pressure on the United States.

On November 23, 1921, even if the Washington Conference was officially held on the first day, all countries sent delegations to the Capitol of the United States, gathering here, preparing to reach a basic peace talks first, and then slowly.

The naval tonnage specific, as well as various other issues.

Song Biao walked into the venue with President Warren Harding, accompanied by US Secretary of State Conns Vanderbilt and Foreign Minister Liang Dunyan. They looked at it at first glance and found that there were basically three major camps inside the venue, one French and Italian

The camp is actively negotiating countermeasures, and the British and Japanese camps are also negotiating countermeasures.

Neither the French President nor the Prime Minister attended the meeting, but only sent Acting Minister of Colonial Albert Salau as chairman of the French delegation. It also seemed that the lowest-standard dispatch of the meeting, even formal cabinet members were considered

Not to go, but at Song Biao's personal advice, French Prime Minister Aritesde Brian had rushed over urgently.

France's current problems are relatively complicated, and its domestic anti-war sentiment is extremely high. The public has always been strongly opposed to the naval competition, which is why the French right-wing Republican Party lost the entire elections, allowing the left-wing coalition front to win a big victory.

The newly appointed French President Alexander Millerland is a famous reformed socialist who actively advocates the nationalization of the economy and the welfare of the social system, and strongly opposes France's naval competition, demanding increased army strength and building fortress defense against Germany.

Potential threat.

It can be said that Alexander Millerland's influence on France is positive and long-term, and he is also the first French president to be a left-wing and reformed socialist.

Because of his contempt for the Navy, Millerland was extremely negligent about the Washington Conference and only sent an interim minister to attend. In the end, it did cause great damage to France. What's worse is that the level is too low to be impossible to

It is difficult to interact and cooperate with the Chinese Empire, the allies here.

Considering that it was a very special ally relationship, French representative Albert Salau quickly took the initiative to walk forward and bow to Song Biao, and then introduced himself.

Look at how bad this situation is.

The emperors of the allies do not know who the representatives you sent to work together to deal with Britain.

France, an ally... is really speechless.

Song Biao was very dissatisfied, but he still shook hands with Albert Salao to show his affection and had a brief conversation. At this time, Japanese Navy Minister Tomosaburo Kato also walked forward and bowed to Song Biao.

The Imperial Navy Minister Song Wenhui accompanied Song Biao behind him and knew this main enemy very well. He stepped forward and took the initiative to introduce him to the other party.

I heard that the thin middle-aged naval general in front of me was the Japanese naval minister. Song Biao was a little surprised. Think about it, although this navy has a dwarf-like physique, it can support and demand that the Japanese Empire go to the United States.

How strong heart and confidence does the navy need to launch a challenge?

Song Biao took the initiative to shake hands with Tomosaburo Kato and said to him: "Didn't the naval principal Akiyama, who is very good at talking and thinking, come to attend such a meeting? If he doesn't come, it's your loss!"

Tomosaburo Kato agreed: "You really know that Major General Akiyama. He also wants to come here, but because of the heavy teaching tasks, he can only report all his ideas to me."

Song Biao said simply, "What a pity, I wanted to see him, an interesting guy here!"

Tomosaburo Kato smiled and said, "Yes, that's such an interesting guy. He has always praised you as the god of the Asian Army, and I think so. When I came here this time, Mr. Takahashi, the Prime Minister of my country, heard about you. I will also come here in person and specifically entrust me to convey my admiration for you. It is precisely because you led the Chinese Army to defeat the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Union that the whole world is impressed by Asia. Your Excellency the Prime Minister also hopes that I can I will formally convey to you my sincere expectations for peaceful and friendly relationship between China and Japan."

Song Biao uttered, then counterattacked bitterly: "I heard that the word "Chinese" has been a very powerful derogatory term after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The empire has clearly defined titles in Chinese characters, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of my country also The full name and abbreviation of the Chinese Empire in Chinese, English, French, Russian and German languages ​​were announced to all countries. The announcements of my country were used by all countries. Only after accepting my country's announcements, Japan deliberately issued regulations in 1913, requiring the government and the public to use China. 'The name of my country, the Japanese people also deliberately set the territory of China very small, not even the Northeast and Far East, not even the ** and Xinjiang. They are very ambitious. I have always been to Japan. The reason why I have no good feelings is that in addition to you killing almost all the population of my parents and family, Japan's various peeping and greedy and aggression mentality towards our country is also the main reason, and this greed and aggression heart It shows that the word "Chinese" you are using. In other words, if Japan lacks any respect for an empire with an economic aggregate of 8 times that of you and a territory of 18.9 million square kilometers, use the worst word Publicly call our country in government documents, and even in diplomatic terms in front of the emperor, then Sino-Japanese peace is a nonsense, because you don’t want to maintain peace with our country at all, you only want our territory and want to defeat Our country, occupying our territory and invading our market, wishing to destroy all our industries and become your colonial country. So, since I heard that you, the Navy Minister, said the word "my country" in person, I know what Japan calls it Friendship is just a deception. After I return to China, I will actively step up my preparations for war. I can here guarantee to you, the Navy Minister, that as long as there is one person in China who survives, we will compete with Japan until all of you are eliminated. Invading the armed forces.”

Tomosaburo Kato made a mistake in front of Emperor Hua, which was a major diplomatic rude and a mistake. It was normal for Emperor Hua to refute so ruthlessly.

Using a derogatory term is your "freedom", just like we use Japanese and Japanese to call the Japanese Empire, but it cannot be used in such international occasions and government documents. This itself is an extremely inferior problem for the Japanese Empire.

The fact is that Japan did use the term "China" in 1913 to impose mandatory restrictions on the use of the term "China".
To be continued...