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***The diplomatic car had just slowed down and had not stopped yet. Yuyuki Hamaguchi couldn't wait to open the car door and jump down, and quickly walked towards the East-facing Secretary Hall of the Presidential Palace. Yuzi County, Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was waiting at the door of the secretariat. After seeing Yuyuki Hamaguchi, he stepped forward and took a step forward.

"I want to meet your Foreign Minister, I want to meet your Vice President!" Yuyuki Hamaguchi's face turned pale and shouted at Yuzi County without hesitation.

"Minister Binkou, you are here just in time, and we are about to send someone to contact you." Yuzi County said lukewarmly.

"Is that so good? That's great. I don't want to say much now. Where is your vice president? I want to meet him immediately!" Yuyuki Hamaguchi said coldly. He knew it was meaningless to talk to Yuzi County, so he simply showed up after seeing Feng Guozhang.

"Please here." Yuzi County didn't say anything more, and turned around and walked towards the atrium of the Presidential Palace with Yuyuki Hamaguchi and several aides from the Embassy in China.

Soon, the group came to the door of the vice president's office. The special service staff only allowed Hamaguchi Yuyuki to go in, while the rest of the staff stayed in the tea room outside the door waiting. Hamaguchi Yuyuki walked into Feng Guozhang's office in a fierce manner. In addition to Feng Guozhang, Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang and several foreign translators were also present in the office.

Yuki Hamaguchi walked quickly to Feng Guozhang and said bluntly: "Mr. Vice President, I believe you have heard about what happened in Dandong. I must make a serious statement that China's ongoing military operations are declaring war on our Allies. If China wants to prevent the situation from worsening, it must stop all military actions immediately. Your army will withdraw from the Sino-North Korea border thirty miles within today!"

Feng Guozhang stood up from behind the desk with a contempt expression on his face and said, "Mr. Hamaguchi, why do you say that we declared war on the Allies? It was you who fired fire at our exercise troops first, but the war was initiated by you. I must seriously warn you that your conspirators assassinated our head of state two months ago, and then pretended to be willing to compensate for this matter. As a result, the problem of the South Manchuria Railway in the Lushun Concession has been delayed for a month. Today, they deliberately fired fire at our exercise troops. Don't think you can deceive again!"

Although Yuyuki Hamaguchi had been mentally prepared for a long time, he came this time to make things bigger, and fortunately he gained an advantage in the diplomatic community. But he really could not tolerate it. The Chinese suddenly launched an attack on Shinyiju in the early morning, but he said with a high-sounding sound that he would shoot first and question the *** side. This was simply a barbaric and unreasonable behavior. He was very excited, but he said in a very calm tone: "Sir Vice President, I hope you understand what you are doing! Not everything can be confused by international justice by just being rude!"

Feng Guozhang sneered: "International justice? While delaying the provisions of the 'Double Five Agreement', you sent additional troops to North Korea and even openly arranged fortifications along the Yalu River. The Republic of China is to prevent your bigger conspiracy, so we held military exercises today. As a result, we found that a new recruit took the opportunity to cross the border and fled, preparing to send troops to search deserters. But we knew that our military police force had not even crossed the Yalu River's middle boundary, your army would open fire first! Now you still have the face to say international justice to me!"

Yuyuki Hamaguchi widened his eyes and protested loudly: "Military exercises? You Chinese are planning to use such ridiculous reasons to perfunctory our empire? You have not noticed before, and even crossed the border without authorization, regardless of international law, and searched so-called deserters. Mr. Vice President, as a senior leader of a country, you should be very clear that the unauthorized cross-border military operations are just bare invasions!"

Feng Guozhang did not rush to answer Yuyuki Hamaguchi's words. He turned to a foreign ministry and said, "Take the telegram record, it's the one in the early morning."

The ministry immediately found a filing document on the vice president's desk and handed it to Feng Guozhang. However, Feng Guozhang did not take it, but signaled him to hand it directly to Yuyuki Hamaguchi. Yuyuki Hamaguchi took the document and took a look. This was a formal diplomatic telegram, a notice sent by the Nanjing Presidential Palace to the *** Fengtian Consulate in Japan, about the application of deserters crossing the border into North Korea at 5 o'clock this morning, and Chinese military personnel requested to go to Shinyizhou to search.

"Fengtian Consulate? Humph, you are really naive. Not to mention that such military affairs need to be reported directly to our embassy. Even if you sent it to the Fengtian Consulate, the telegram from the Fengtian Consulate two months ago had been destroyed by your Chinese thugs. Although the new telegram machine has been replaced, the cut-off line has not been completely repaired. You...you did this on purpose..." Hamaguchi Yuyuki said angrily.

"Mr. Hamaguchi, do you know that *** is a major incident of conspiring to assassinate the head of our country. Our central government unanimously demands to declare war on Japan. It is me who considers the relationship between China and Japan's neighbors and strives to weaken the impact of this matter. If I had not sent someone to talk to you about the Double Five Agreement, what would you think would be like? But I never expected that I thought China-Japan relations could be more harmonious, united and friendly after experiencing this incident. So I thought that just inform your consulate about this military exercise. I didn't expect that your *** army arranged heavy troops on the south bank of the Yalu River and opened fire directly on military personnel who had not crossed the border." Feng Guozhang changed his tone and said with a very disappointed expression. Of course, these words were just said for the sake of acting, and the purpose was to make Hamaguchi Yuki lose any opportunity to fight for diplomatic advantages.

Yuyuki Hamaguchi knew very well that he could not believe Feng Guozhang's words simply by filing this telegram. The war that occurred in Yalu River is very serious. When he just received the news, the casualties on the entire battlefield had almost exceeded 3,000. Faced with such a fierce military conflict, he certainly did not expect to rely on diplomacy to calm down. It is even very likely that this was the long-planned plan of the Chinese.

"Your Excellency Vice President, I have the last and sincerest to ask you, do you think it is necessary to calm this conflict now?" After taking a deep breath, Yuyuki Hamaguchi asked Feng Guozhang with a serious expression.

"Mr. Binkou, do you think there is still room for remedy for this matter?" Feng Guozhang asked in a cold tone.

"I understand." After a while of silence, Hamaguchi Yuyuki said slowly, "Since that's the case, I won't bother with the Vice President anymore, so I will say goodbye." After he said that, he turned around and walked out of the Vice President's office very decisively.

Everyone present knew very well that the military conflict that began in the early morning of this day was destined to be just an opening ceremony, and the conflict between China and Japan officially began to escalate from today. Whether China is ready or not, this war will become a decisive battle that determines the new Asian circle of forces.

"Duke Wu Wen, prepare for the press conference. The war has begun." Feng Guozhang said to Wu Tingfang next to him without hesitation.

As noon approached, the Nanjing Presidential Palace held an unprecedented press conference. The entire Western Chaofang Auditorium was filled with journalists from all over the world who were invited or applied to come. The Sino-Japanese military conflict in Dandong in the early morning spread throughout Asia in just three hours. For the increasingly tense European war, although the Sino-Japanese war has long been a prejudice event for many people, when it really broke out, its influence attracted millions of attention.

Feng Guozhang personally attended the press conference and gave a detailed explanation to diplomacy, emphasizing that the Chinese team held a military exercise within the Yalu River border, and was voluntarily fired and attacked by the *** army on the other side. The raid caused serious casualties. The Chinese team was forced to launch a counterattack on Shinyiju. At the same time, he also emphasized that given that the *** government refused to travel to the "Double Five Agreement", the *** diplomatic officials assassinated the head of state will be investigated to the end, so the Dandong conflict will become the fuse, and the Republic of China officially declared war on *** starting today.

Subsequently, Wu Tingfang announced the details of the China-National Exercise exercise and submitted a communication record, confirming that the Japanese side deliberately opened fire first. He also made some additional statements to his diplomatic rhetoric, emphasizing that this formal declaration of war on Japan was not only a counterattack of the garrison of Shinyizhou, but more importantly, it was a revenge on the assassination of the head of state of ***. This was a targeted grudge between the Republic of China and the *** and had nothing to do with other countries.
Chapter completed!