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January 3, 1917, 2758 AD, Presidential Palace, Hanking.
Today is also the New Year's Day holiday.
New Year's Day is now one of the statutory holidays in China, and the holiday lasts for three days.
Most people across the country are still on vacation today, but top central officials like Wen Desi cannot take a break.
No, early this morning, the ambassadors from Britain and France came to visit in the name of sending congratulatory gifts.
"Your Excellency, this is a gift from His Majesty King George V to you on behalf of the Royal Family of our country.
Congratulations on the addition of your child.
This one is a gift from His Majesty Mr.
Lloyd George on behalf of the Chinese government to congratulate you on becoming a new child."
"Father" British Ambassador to my country John Aldian, although smiling all over his face, could not hide the fatigue and anxiety in his eyes.
French Ambassador to China Conte also sent a gift list and congratulated: "Dear President, this is presented to you by President Poincaré and Prime Minister Clemenceau of the Third Republic of France on behalf of our people and government respectively.
Congratulations and entrust me to convey my best wishes to you, your wife, and your children."
"Thank you very much, thank you very much for the blessings and gifts you brought."
Wen Desi accepted the congratulatory gifts from Britain and France with a smile on his face, and expressed his gratitude at the same time.
After the news came out that Wen Desi was expecting a son, many countries have sent congratulatory gifts in the past few days.
Japan is now interested in easing relations between the two sides, and they are also very active in this matter.
Because the two countries are close to each other, their actions are the fastest among the great powers.
They specially sent the Minister of the Interior to China and sent a set of Japanese swords as a congratulatory gift.
Then there was Nicholas II of Russia.
He sent someone to deliver a craft egg made of gold, diamonds, jade and other materials.
Wilhelm II of Germany gave something rather embarrassing.
He gave a complete set of horse gear and a set of medieval craft armor.
America sent a purebred foal Of course Zhu Erdian and Kant came to visit today not just to give gifts, because after several days of fierce fighting, the situation in London has deteriorated very much, and the British can hardly survive.
More importantly, Russia can hardly hold on anymore, and the situation of the Allied Powers is now very critical.
Although they sent gifts for the purpose of congratulations, Mr.
Wen had already seen through everything.
After the two sides exchanged pleasantries for a while, they began to get down to business.
After a few words, Zhu Erdian said straight to the point: "Your Excellency, President, we will not hide it.
The situation of the Allied Powers is not optimistic now, but if the Allies are allowed to win, it will be a disaster for the whole world and will not be good for your country. .
Therefore, we sincerely hope that your country can join the side of the righteous Allies to fight against the evil Allies."
Your sister's justice, your sister's justice and evil, go ahead and deceive children.
Although Er Dezi is not very good, it is not something you, the opium cow, are qualified to accuse.
Wen Desi rolled his eyes inwardly upon hearing this.
Well, "being shameless" is the basic skill of diplomats, and "confused right and wrong" is the basic quality of diplomats.
After all, Zhu Erdian is a qualified diplomat, so don’t use normal people’s standards in this regard.
Wen Desi smiled and said in the most sincere tone: "Haha, this request of your country makes us very embarrassed.
As you know, China has been a peace-loving country since ancient times, and our people are a group of peace-loving people.
People, we don't like war in Europe.
We feel very regretful and sad about the war.
We have always believed in persuading people with virtue, so we hope that both parties to the conflict can restrain each other and let everyone sit down and have a good talk.
Isn’t it good to use negotiation instead of war to resolve disputes?
This attitude has never changed. , it used to be the only one, and now it’s still the only one.”
"Therefore, our people will not agree to participate in a war thousands of miles away.
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What's more, the Allied countries are our friends, and the Allied countries are also our friends.
It is also wrong to help one friend fight another friend.
It is not in line with our traditional morals."
He said with a pure expression of "no harm to humans and animals, you make me feel very distressed".
Zhu Erdian also rolled his eyes inwardly.
Your sister loves peace, and your sister persuades others with her virtues.
Are all of your tens of millions of square kilometers of land given away with free phone bills?
At this time, when Kant saw Wen Desi like this, he gritted his teeth and directly made a bid: "Your Excellency, we believe that the order in Africa should be rebuilt.
Now the Allies have deviated from justice and become a threat to world peace.
If your country is willing If you are willing to uphold justice, then German East Africa, Eritrea and Italian Somalia can be taken over by your country."
Wen Desi shook his head and said: "Mr.
Ambassador, I think you have misunderstood.
Respecting friends is a traditional virtue of our Chinese nation.
This respect also includes the property of friends.
In our tradition, friends can entrust their wives to their wives." of children, not to mention property.
Germany and Italy are both our friends.
We will not do this kind of thing.
As for justice and evil you mentioned, I'm sorry I didn't see it.
It’s the difference in thinking between Easterners and Westerners.”
Well, at this point, Zhu Erdian and Kant also understood that they would definitely not be able to reach an agreement this time.
As for the things that both sides talk about about justice and evil, traditional virtues, love for peace, etc., they are all just words.
Those who really believe them are idiots.
Having a bad friend between countries is not a benefit.
They are very clear about what Mr.
Wen means, that is, "This price is not enough, and this little thing is not enough to make me lose face."
The implication is that as long as the benefits are sufficient, our traditional virtues are not impossible to change. .
But if the price is not enough, then I'm sorry.
The traditional virtues of our Chinese people are very firm.
If you love peace, you must love peace.
But Zhu Erdian and Kant understood that it was useless.
They were just ambassadors and their powers were very limited.
They couldn't make the decision at all in this kind of thing.
Now I can only report this situation back and see how the gentlemen in the country handle it.
In Zhu Erdian's view, it was completely reasonable that China's request to participate in the war was rejected.
Based on his understanding of Wen Desi and the Chinese government, it was obvious that such a level of empty promises could not fool them.
The domestic gentlemen do not understand at all that today’s China is no longer the country ruled by the Tatars.
Today’s top Chinese leaders have obviously received excellent and modern high-level education.
Such insincere conditions cannot be met.
Impress them.
But there was nothing Zhu Erdian could do.
Those masters in China were still reluctant to bleed, and wanted to deceive people with some bad checks to sacrifice their lives.
However, Wen Desi's attitude also made Zhu Erdian feel slightly at ease.
It seems that the Allies are even less able to drag China into the water, because they are even more unable to make bids.
Seeing that Wen Desi didn't take the bait, Zhu Erdian changed the topic: "Well, Mr.
President, we are going to purchase a batch of warships from your country.
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Can your country agree to this request?"
"Oh, do you still want to order warships?
Our country's shipyards are now operating at full capacity, and most of the products on the slipway are orders from your Allied Powers."
Wen De was stunned for a moment.
Zhu Erdian said quickly: "No, no, no, what we want is not new ships, but the pre-dreadnoughts and armored cruisers that your country already has."
At this point, even with his professional diplomat's face, he felt a little embarrassed.
When did the British Empire, the world's largest navy, fall to this?
It actually purchased old warships from a country like China that had no naval tradition.
What made him most embarrassed was that two of these pre-dreadnoughts were British. of senior stars.
Things that were thrown away as junk now have to be bought back with money, which makes me feel ashamed just thinking about it.
"Pre-dreadnought" Wen Desi immediately became embarrassed.
Damn it, didn't you look down on it last time?
Why have you changed your mind now?
Of course, Wen Desi was just vomiting in his heart when he said this.
Someone was helping to collect the rags.
Why wouldn’t such a good business be done?
Selling, selling, selling, he would be a bastard if he didn’t sell.
Wen Desi immediately said that in principle, these old ships could be sold to friends of the Allied Powers, and the price was easy to negotiate.
After the general direction is finalized, it is of course impossible for Wen Desi to discuss the specific price in person.
This is a matter for the relevant departments below.
Britain and France have no choice, because the two battles between Jutland and Corsica have severely damaged their naval vitality, and the Russian fleet has been sealed in the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea, unable to get out, although Japan is now united fleet, but it was also unable to cope with the Allied navy.
The most important thing is that after the Battle of Jutland, the German Navy completely broke free.
Not only are their submarines now very active, but all kinds of surface attack ships are also on the scene, setting fires everywhere, and even a few German cruisers are swaggering into the Indian Ocean.
The Allies have too many colonies and there are many places that need to be defended.
The current warships are really not enough.
Britain and France are not fools.
Of course they know that it is better to buy new ships.
But if we place an order for new warships now, the day lilies will be cold by the time the ship is built, and we can't afford to wait.
But China will not sell those new warships in service.
The negotiation was not successful last time, and it will not be possible this time.
Therefore, they had no choice but to focus on those old warships that they had looked down upon a few months ago.
Not only were they talking to China, their ambassador in the United States was also talking to the United States about purchasing old warships.
Even South America's top three players were approached.
"This kind of blackmail that comes to your door without knocking hard is a disservice to the motherland and the people," said the Premier of the State Council, Zhang Lizheng, with a righteous face
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