Chapter 450 Diplomatic mediation (7)
Overall, Huo Bilan's speech is considered a Chinese rule and the students are still in a peaceful mood. The female student representative who gave the speech just now also replied to Huo Bilan that they were conducting a peaceful march with the purpose of expressing China's attitude and demands to various countries, not as sabotages, and therefore will not have any impact on the public facilities and living order in the concession.
After saying that, she turned around to greet other students. The task at the British Consulate had been completed and will now turn to the next target. The students immediately burst into cheers and then left the British Consulate in an organized manner.
Huo Bilan did not return to the consulate immediately, but stood outside the door and watched the students leave, and at the same time he felt relieved. Although it was early spring, he still wiped the sweat from his forehead. It seemed that his prediction was not wrong. These students were quite reasonable, so this parade had a great chance of ending in peace.
After returning to the consulate, Huo Bilan hurriedly sent telegrams to the public concession, the French Concession Bureau and the consulates of various countries to explain the process of meeting with student representatives. He also asked the public concession, the French Concession Bureau and the consulates of various countries to maintain restraint, not to anger students, and not to conflict with the marching team, and try to comfort the students in gentle language, and first pass the crisis in front of them.
In fact, it was not only Huo Bilan who breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Sanjie was the same. At this time, he was sitting in a carriage about 10 meters away from the British Consulate. After watching the whole process, it was basically within the range he expected and was not out of line. It seemed that the parade was half successful.
This student parade was of course a collective plan by the Shanghai Office, but the starter was Li Sanjie, who wanted to use the parade to put pressure on various countries and force countries to make concessions to the time travelers, so that they no longer pursued the People's Army's search of embassies of various countries.
Just the afternoon before yesterday, the Shanghai office recruited a group of students, mobilized them, and organized a concession parade to express the attitudes and demands of the Chinese to various countries, and to show the style of students who have received new education. Liang Qi's [Theory of Youth China] was also quoted to inspire these students.
Young students are full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm. The new education has broadened their horizons. In addition, they are very respectful of overseas Chinese. Therefore, under the inspiration of Li Sanjie and others, they immediately responded positively and expressed their willingness to return to school to mobilize their classmates. Of course, a few students also expressed fear in person, and even two students suggested not to do it on the spot.
Li Sanjie did not force this and also prevented other students from being troubled by them. He said that the parade was entirely voluntary and could not be forced, but only asked the withdrawn students not to disclose the news of the parade in advance. It also showed the generous mind of overseas Chinese, and also made the students who were willing to participate in the parade more respected. Of course, in Li Sanjie's heart, these students were blacklisted.
Of course, time travelers do not want to turn the parade into violent activities, so they have also formulated several disciplines for the parade: First, when participating in the parade, they must respect the principle of voluntariness, not be forced, and only students are allowed to participate, and not introduce social personnel; second, obey discipline, act uniformly, obey commands, and not act privately; third, maintain restraint during the parade, do not destroy public property, and take the opportunity to rob money; fourth, keep a distance in front of the consulates of various countries, and do not throw stones or other objects. After submitting a letter of protest, they will immediately leave and turn to the next target; fifth, when the police are blocked or maintained order, do not conflict with the police, and overseas Chinese will come forward to resolve the issue.
Although the students agreed to respect these five disciplines, Li Sanjie and others were still worried. In the end, they decided that Liu Lantao and Li Hongbing would change their twelve soldiers to dress up as students, mingled in the parade team, secretly maintained order, and stopped some extreme behaviors at the extreme.
At the same time, in order to prevent the concession from dispatching police and the army to suppress the march, causing bloody conflicts, after the march, Li Sanjie arranged for Gao Lei to immediately send a harsh warning to the concession bureau and consulates of various countries to issue harsh warnings to the concession bureau and consulates of various countries in the name of the Tianjin Provisional Government, demanding that they prohibit the deployment of force.
However, although the time travelers made sufficient preparations for this parade, Li Sanjie also knew that any preparation was impossible to be foolproof. First, it was hard to say whether the parade team could be completely controlled. After all, the young people are very uncertain and prone to impulsiveness. If they were hot-headed during the parade, forget about discipline and do something extraordinary. Even if the time travelers could control the students, they could not control the concession, the consulates of various countries, how much the warnings of the time travelers could play to them, or whether there would be a naughty policeman or soldier shooting at the students, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
In short, there are too many uncertainties in this parade, and once the parade becomes a bloody conflict, it is a bad situation that is difficult for time travelers to deal with. After all, now time travelers do not want to break up with other countries or capture Shanghai. As the initiator of this parade, Li Sanjie must bear all the consequences. Even if the political future is not completely over, he will definitely be marginalized in the time travel group.
But Li Sanjie still decided to organize this parade without hesitation, because the greater the risk, the greater the profit. Once the parade is successful, he will have enough achievements in the Time Travel Group and will definitely have his own foothold in the leadership in the future. If he is slacking off in everything, he will simply do nothing. Although in the old time and space, Li Sanjie was just an ordinary counselor of the embassy abroad, and his administrative level was also department level, he did not lack the spirit of adventure. However, in the old time and space environment, there was no chance of risk. Therefore, in this era, Li Sanjie also decided to seize the opportunity to do a big fight. Anyway, he was a member of the Time Travel Group. No matter how bad he was, he could not be inferior to the old time and space.
At least the parade at the entrance of the British consulate ended safely, so Li Sanjie was relieved and hurriedly ordered the carriage to rush towards the next parade.
In the evening, Huo Bilan still stayed in his office and did not return to his residence to rest, but his face looked relieved. Because he had just received a telegram from the French Consulate, the march team disbanded on the spot after submitting a letter of protest to the French Consulate and returned to the school. The entire march did not have any major events, and it could basically be considered a peaceful ending.
After receiving the telegram, Huo Bilan was greatly relieved. The crisis in front of him was finally passed safely. So how can he report to the country next? Huo Bilan is very clear that more than 70% of the domestic policy on overseas colonies and leased land is based on the report decision submitted by diplomats stationed in the colonies and leased land. Although this also gives diplomats great power, it also poses great risks. Once the country's policy on overseas colonies and leased land failed, the first one is the diplomat who provided the report, because the domestic government wants to find a scapegoat to suppress responsibility, and diplomats are naturally the best object, and the excuse is easy, that is, the content of the report provided is inaccurate. Therefore, this report cannot be written randomly. However, Huo Bilan still cannot figure out what overseas Chinese plan to do and what purpose it is. So how should this report be written?
Just when Huo Bilan was hesitant, he was about to report from the report that Li Sanjie, a representative of the Shanghai Office of Overseas Chinese, asked for a meeting. Huo Bilan couldn't help but feel moved when he heard this. He knew that overseas Chinese had set up an office in Shanghai, but consulates from various countries had not had any contact with this office now. Judging from today's march, this office is probably not simple. Now someone comes to ask for a meeting with him, and I am afraid he will show up with him.
However, Huo Bilan was happy because the showdown also meant that the two sides had to reach an agreement and he could understand the purpose of overseas Chinese. If overseas Chinese planned to capture Shanghai, then he would be powerless. But if overseas Chinese had other goals, there would be room for negotiation. It would be a good thing to be able to negotiate, and it was nothing more than an exchange of interests. Therefore, Huo Bilan immediately ordered Li Sanjie to be invited to the reception room.
After the two met, Huo Bilan said calmly: "Mr. Li, is the parade during the day today under your command?"
Li Sanjie nodded and said, "Yes, this parade is indeed organized by us."
Huo Bilan was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he thought Li Sanjie would deny it in every way, so he prepared a lot of evidence, but he didn't expect that Li Sanjie would admit it so happily. This made Huo Bilan unable to say a word, but instead was choked. After a while, Huo Bilan said: "Mr. Li, your behavior has seriously interfered with the normal order of the concession and challenged the authority of the concession. If it were not for the concession, and our consulates in various countries maintained restraint, it would probably cause bloodshed. Can you bear such consequences?"
After hearing Huo Bilan's words of being strong both at home and abroad, Li Sanjie felt very funny. It was true that after the march was successfully completed, Li Sanjie did not return to the office, but immediately came to Huo Bilan to have the final showdown. After all, the purpose of organizing the march was to negotiate with various countries. Now we can take advantage of the huge influence caused by the march to negotiate with various countries, forcing countries to accept the requests of time travelers.
Chapter completed!