Chapter 25 Chapter 25 Another Battlefield

Even if it is like the "Songhu Armistice Agreement", it is not easy to get it. Yan Huiqing, the Chinese representative to the League of Nations, has contributed a lot. After the "September 18th", the "revolutionary diplomacy" of the Nanjing government faced difficulties.The original diplomats hid and resigned, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs suddenly fell into a talent shortage. At this time, a group of diplomats who had served in the Beiyang government were ordered in danger and were reappointed.Among them, there are two people who have attracted the most attention. They have common characteristics, that is, they are both Shanghainese who studied abroad in their early years, and they have both come forward to form the cabinet.

Although the cabinet was not formed for a long time, you have to know that Beiyang was dominated by warriors at that time, and it was not easy to make a living in the cabinet, and the people in it could be regarded as elves among men. Yan Huiqing is one of the two diplomatic geniuses. After he went to Geneva as a representative of the League of Nations, he soon showed that he was different from his predecessor. When dealing with the League of Nations, in addition to being able to speak well in public, it is also important to build relationships in private.Ordinary people just set up a box and invite members of the delegation from the Great Empire or important officials from the League of Nations. This is called a key breakthrough.There are also rich and powerful people who simply book out the entire restaurant and invite everyone they can at once. This is called spreading the net all over the place.

The former puts all eggs in one basket, and those small and medium-sized countries may dismantle your platform if they find out. The latter spends a lot of money, and the effect may be to collect business cards. The name still doesn't match. Yan Huiqing's approach is different. He did more than cast a net across the board. Treat your guests, and all of them. People generally only invite the chief representative of the delegation, and at most one deputy representative. He sent invitations to all the secretary's assistants and staff, and none of them were left behind. Although the League of Nations at that time was not as large as the current United Nations, it still had more than 60 member states. In addition, there were still a group of people in the League of Nations office that must not be missed.

Inviting so many people to a restaurant for a meal, I guess the Chinese delegation will not be able to pay for the travel expenses back home. But this is just your idea, because Yan Huiqing didn't intend to invite the brothers to the restaurant at all.Not to mention restaurants, he doesn't even bother with food stalls on the street. The Chinese delegation has its own chef brought from China, and a working meal is prepared for lunch and dinner.Yan Huiqing thought about it, anyway, the table is big (foreign tables are relatively large), and a few people can eat, and a dozen people can also eat, so just don't waste it, call all foreign friends.

In fact, let's not think too vulgarly of the comrades in the delegations of various countries. They have also lived in all corners of the country, have seen the world, and have never eaten any good things.No matter how good a restaurant is, for them, it is no different from going to a wedding banquet. The food is tasteless. It's too greasy in your mouth, you need to change the taste. Then try authentic Chinese home cooking. When it comes to the quintessence of the motherland, I dare not brag about anything else, but the level of cooking is indeed unmatched by anyone.Cantonese, Hunan, Huaiyang, which country's chefs have you seen can distinguish so many genres?

Compared with us, what is made by foreigners is also called food? The guests came to taste it, and it really tasted good and chewy. After eating it this time, I want to eat it next time. Chinese food, very good. For these people in the delegations of various countries and the League of Nations, it was the first time that the Chinese invited them to their homes for dinner. They treated them as friends, which was both kind and classy. This trick is called getting closer. Later, Lao Mei also learned it. The most frequent and effective one was former President Bush Jr., who often took people to his farm for dinner.Although the food was not very good, none of the people who went there was proud and complacent - I have been in the president's house, Bel has a face!

During the meal, Yan Huiqing was not idle either.He asked this and that, understood the attitude of the delegation and the League of Nations, and obtained a lot of information that was difficult to obtain in formal occasions or through normal channels. I made friends again, and inquired about news again, so this meal was not in vain. After more than a month in Geneva, Yan Huiqing invited all the people who should be hired at the rate of one group every day, and got to know all the people who should be familiar with. Due to the fast entry into the role, Yan Huiqing quickly made the various procedures of the League of Nations, the explicit rules and unspoken rules, very familiar.

During the "January 28th" battle, Yan Huiqing asked the League of Nations to stop the Japanese invasion, but he did not submit the proposal to the Council of the League of Nations for a vote, but to the League of Nations General Assembly for discussion. The Council of the League of Nations is equivalent to the United Nations Security Council today, and the General Assembly of the League of Nations is equivalent to the General Assembly of the United Nations. Why not look for the "Security Council" but the "General Assembly"? The principle of procedure of the "Security Council" is that 100% of the members need to pass it. No matter who votes against it, the resolution must be declared invalid.

Japan itself is a member of the "Security Council". If you want to sue me, will I take care of you? It was this rule that no one pays for one's death, which made Yan Huiqing's predecessor walk into a dead end that he seemed to never be able to get out of. Like the United Nations, the original League of Nations was also a bureaucratic department with extremely low efficiency and dominance by the strong, so that many weak and small countries were in the dilemma of having nowhere to complain. The solution Yan Huiqing found was to avoid the "Security Council" and go directly to the "General Assembly".

According to the regulations of the League of Nations Congress, no matter who is right or wrong, China and Japan are "competing countries", and suspicion should be avoided.China will lose its voting rights for this, but so will Japan. The latter is exactly what Yan Huiqing wants. After Shirakawa landed from Qiyakou, the League of Nations Congress made a resolution demanding that Japan stop invading Shanghai. This put a lot of pressure on the Japanese cabinet. It was against this background that the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" was born. After the resolution of the League of Nations was passed, a reporter from a British newspaper said on the spot:

"Yan Huiqing can outperform the best diplomat in our British Empire!" Weak countries have no diplomacy.Of course there is nothing wrong with this sentence, but we must also know that it is a weak country like ours, which once relied on a group of strong diplomats, and has fought its way through the thorny international diplomatic arena. At the end of 1932, Yan Huiqing participated in the deliberation of the report of the Litton investigation team by the League of Nations. This was a diplomatic war, which can be called the confrontation of the century between Chinese and Japanese diplomats. Another of the two diplomatic prodigies, Gu Weijun, Yan Huiqing's Shanghai fellow, surfaced. Gu Weijun is a handsome guy in China's diplomatic circles. He was called "beautiful and good-spoken" at the time. He became famous as the Paris Peace Conference. I haven't watched the movie "My 1919", but I heard that it was Chen Daoming who played Gu Weijun.Just from the image point of view, I don't think it's very similar.Who is most like it?I thought it was Fa Ge (Chow Yun Fat) in his heyday. Fa Ge seems to be able to interpret Gu Weijun in my mind better: Tall and handsome, with a sense of justice, waving two guns to come and go freely in the rain of bullets, unrestrained and bold, with a group of white pigeons flying up and down behind with flapping wings-you just need to imagine the background as The diplomatic front will do. In the year when the Paris Peace Conference was held, Gu Weijun had just turned 30 years old, but he had already shown quite superb diplomatic skills and outstanding ability to answer questions. At that time, Japan wanted to replace Germany and seize the rights and interests of Shandong. Gu Weijun said something that shocked everyone present: "Confucius in China is like Jesus in the West. China cannot lose Shandong just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem!" Don't you representatives still not understand the pain of China's loss of Shandong? Think about it, one day, when you suddenly lose God, or the holy place where God once came disappears from the earth, what will it be like, and what will everyone feel. The end of the world, life is better than death. Westerners may not care about Confucius and Shandong, but they absolutely cannot care about God and Jerusalem. What is a classic, I tell comrades, this is it. The audience burst into applause. The President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister of France and representatives of various countries present stood up one after another to express their sincere admiration to the young Gu Weijun. The whole of Paris was sensational.Since then, the world has known this outstanding diplomat and speaker from a small and weak country. In the League of Nations, the opponent of Gu Weijun and Yan Huiqing is the chief representative of Japan, Yosuke Matsuoka. Speaking of Matsuoka, this person's early experience is quite pitiful, and he can be made into a bitter and inspirational film. At the age of 11, the Matsuoka family went bankrupt.Two years later, his father handed him over to his younger brother who was the captain, hoping that the younger brother could find a way out for his son. Uncle Captain brought him to America.After coming to this fabled western flamboyant world, the "exit" that my uncle found for Komatsuoka was to throw him alone on the streets of the United States, and let the underage child figure out a way for himself.Then, he actually left Komatsuoka, patted his ass and left. It is estimated that this heartless uncle himself is a worthless thing. He originally wanted to take this opportunity to play a guest role as a human trafficker, trick Matsuoka to the United States and sell it, and earn a little money to spend, but he never thought that there is no market for the price, "Ghost animal "If he didn't accept it, he threw Matsuoka away in a fit of anger. What a pity, I'm only 13 years old, I haven't finished elementary school yet, so I'm just abandoned in a foreign country.For a while, it was really called every day, and the earth was not working. It was Matsuoka's life that should not die. Just when he was desperate, a kind-hearted American family saw this lonely child and adopted him. From then on, the story of a farmer and a snake began. It was this Matsuoka who, after gaining power in the future, swept away the pro-American and British factions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promoted the Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan, and advocated "never show weakness" to the United States. Maybe the days when he first went to the United States were really unbearable, which made him not have a good impression of the United States. It's really strange, there are grievances to redress grievances, and there are favors to repay favors.Instead of hating that uncle who is not human, why blame Uncle Sam.No matter what, they saved you, fed you, clothed you, and went to school for you, great benefactor. Because of his special experience, this Matsuoka has the vigor of "If you don't mess with me, I will try to kill you" in his life and work. He often poses as a muscular man, which can attract everyone's attention. In Japan, Matsuoka can be regarded as an idol star.That guy, there are huge crowds of people below, he just farted on the stage, and everyone below cheered. There is a saying at the time: Since Matsuoka, Japan has transitioned from silent movies to dubbed movies, which means that the cheers and applause are the same, just like the automatic applause operation button in karaoke. They all came out. Do you know Master Xing's nonsense? At first he needed to do two signature moves. Later, it was said that as soon as he appeared on the stage, no matter what he said or did, everyone would laugh. It was a conditioned reflex.At that time, Matsuoka enjoyed such treatment. In an era when sensationalism is most needed and full of sensationalism, this buddy reminds you all the time with his vivid expressions and movements: Brother Xin Gang, you have eternal life! Matsuoka is very popular in China, but when he came to the international venue and met Gu Weijun and Yan Huiqing, two water-tight veterans, he obviously couldn't keep up. During the debate between the two sides, Yan Huiqing once cited the "Tanaka Memorial" as an example to illustrate that Japan had long had territorial ambitions for the Northeast. The two sentences above the "Tanaka Memorial" are indeed very lethal, that is, "To conquer the world, you must first conquer China, and to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia." If these two sentences are true, it proves that the "September 18th" incident and "Manchukuo" were both created by the Japanese government under long-planned plans. We now know that the "Tanaka Memorial" was most likely not written by Tanaka himself, and that the "September 18th" incident was actually the mastermind of the Kwantung Army. Of course Matsuoka was aware of this incident, but he himself did not witness it himself, and actually heard it from hearsay. Hearing what Yan Huiqing said, he became clever: "Tanaka Memorial" is for the emperor to read, and after reading it, it must be kept in the palace archives and cannot be circulated. How could the Chinese know? This kid thought he had caught something, and immediately fought back, saying that there was no such thing at all, and you can't falsely accuse a good person with red lips and white teeth, you have to have evidence. Yan Huiqing has evidence. Matsuoka was stunned. Do you still have copies? It’s impossible. What Yan Huiqing presented was Matsuoka's own masterpiece. This brother probably has nothing to do and often edits books to mix manuscript fees. I don’t know if it’s for the sake of creating a gimmick. In the book, he mentioned the “Tanaka Memorial” that he had never seen before, and he forgot about it not long after. Now people take his book and ask him, you said that there is no "Tanaka Memorial", so how did you make it so vivid? Could it be that everything you said was false? Of course, Matsuoka can't say that he is lying. The only way is to pretend to lose his memory instantly. Yan Huiqing snorted: What your Japanese army did in "Manchuria" was done according to the "Tanaka Memorial". Injustice, Matsuoka has troubles and can't tell, so he has to let the other party play. It's like going back to my childhood, there are no fans here, not even honest farmers, it's really depressing. Why can't the wonderful things in China be copied abroad?Or if I use Master Xing as an analogy: why when I show up in Hong Kong and Taiwan (later including the mainland), the audience will laugh if I don’t let the audience laugh, but when I go abroad, even if I tickle foreigners, they won’t laugh anymore? Or say: Maybe it's the acclimatization. Matsuoka is a strong man, he doesn't believe in this evil.After picking it for a long time, I dug out the most popular one from his domestic speeches, and the title was called "Japan on the Cross". Very provocative, comrades.Listen to what is said in the article: All European and American countries have no good intentions and want to crucify Japan to death, but we, Japan, are not afraid, because we are righteous, glorious, and great, and we will surely "To be understood by the world". This article is very long, and it will take an hour and a half to tell. It can be described as an old woman's foot wrap, but it is said to be extremely popular in Japan, and it can be described as rave reviews. Full of longing, Matsuoka read this proud work of his at the League of Nations meeting. Before he finished reading half of it, he sneaked a look at the seats of representatives of various countries, and his heart was half cold. What's the matter? It’s fine if there’s no cheers or applause, and it’s fine if some people are drowsy. After all, you don’t feel tired after reading it in one breath, but the people who listen to it still feel tired. What Matsuoka doesn’t understand is that many representatives Also showing anger. Of course I am angry, what kind of bastard are you in Japan, you compare yourself to the Lord Jesus on the cross, we are all Judas, sinners, and demons! Especially in some Christian countries, they usually respect Jesus more than the sky. Hearing Matsuoka's words, I really wish to drag him down and beat him up. It seems that this Matsuoka is really self-righteous and superficial. You have lived in the United States for so many years. I don’t know what are the most taboo and disgusting things in the West? Not surprisingly, the "world" other than the Japanese did not understand this masterpiece, so Matsuoka was excited in vain. On February 24, 1933, the General Assembly of the League of Nations put the ruling report to a vote. This ruling report is very unfavorable to Japan, which clearly stated that "Manchukuo is not recognized."The result of the vote was: 42 votes in favour, including China, except for Japan's one vote against and Thailand's abstention, and the resolution was passed with an overwhelming majority. But at this time Japan made a move that everyone did not expect. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Matsuoka led the Japanese delegation to pat their buttocks and left. It is worth mentioning that according to many historical records, Matsuoka read the statement with a livid face and left the stage with a smile. In fact, Matsuoka also has troubles that he can't tell. He didn't expect the result to be so miserable. He said, he couldn't win, he couldn't argue, he couldn't argue, and finally got a score, which was still 42 to 1 (if it wasn't for the Thais who gave him some face, it would be 43 to 1). Come to make a fool of yourself. Seeing that the defeat was already decided, wouldn't it be discredited to go back in this state, and he couldn't even get up. what to do? Matsuoka responded with his actions. Playing with styling is playing with styling. Don't look at Matsuoka's manly appearance when he exited the stage, but he is actually quite guilty.After all, it's a complete defeat, and you can't fool the experts.So he was uneasy along the way, not knowing what kind of ending he would face after returning to China, and he had already prepared a draft in his heart, compiled such words as "his own failure" and "apology to the country", and was always ready to repay his old fists to the people of the country. Or throw rotten eggs over to pretend to be a grandson and beg for mercy. But what he never expected was that there was already joy in Japan, and the tone was as if Japan had won 42 votes in favor. Matsuoka's ugly performance was recognized by the vast majority of people, and the newspapers published numerous words of praise for him, especially when Matsuoka exited the stage, which was rather cool, which was enlarged and described in detail in the media. At the time when the "demons are dancing wildly" in various countries, our Matsuoka bravely shouted "Where is Sa?", which is really handsome. The League of Nations "regardless of the opposition of just public opinion" "blatantly" passed the ruling report, and our Matsuoka resolutely withdrew on the spot, without giving this group any chance. Our Matsuoka... Let's put it this way, now Japan finally has two national heroes. One is Ishihara. The other is him: Yosuke Matsuoka! Please turn on the spotlight a little, yes, a little more, and give our "hero" a perfect close-up. Mr. Matsuoka, please talk about how you made such a heroic feat when you went deep into the tiger's den?What did you think at that time? Surrounded by reporters and flowers (and perhaps beauties), Matsuoka-kun was completely dizzy. So I became a national hero?What a big-headed ghost. Matsuoka was not good at speaking, but his acting skills have always been good. He immediately turned his worries into joy, and showed the demeanor of the previous "muscular man": I just do it as I usually do. The most beautiful moment is when the cherry blossoms are gone. That is the time to carry forward my Japanese spirit. Wow, the following fans immediately fell over like losing their souls after hearing this. It's a romantic lyric poem, as expected of an idol. Don't you know how popular Matsuoka was at that time?Think about the later Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who was quite old. According to him, the women who chased him were at least double digits.