Chapter 675 Saudi Arabia's founding of the country (Seventh)

"Mr. President, Mr. President! How are you going to deal with this crisis? Does this speech mean that the political solution has been closed? How is your navy ready to pass through the Strait of Malacca? Will you ask the Singaporean Chinese to **? Will the fleet trained in the Indian Ocean be put into operation?"

"President, will the tough speech worsen the crisis instead? Are you not worried about a real war breaking out?"

"Mr. President, does the speech just now mean that China-UK relations have been substantially broken? Can I think the two countries have embarked on the road of confrontation?"

.As soon as the speech was destined to sweep the world, Yang Qiu was surrounded by reporters who rushed over after hearing the news. Facing their own thoughts, the Presidential Guard, who had always been very tolerant of the media, raised a wall. Yan Yuqiu even rejected all interview requests on behalf of the Presidential Palace...

Yang Qiu did not accept the interview but walked among the students, slammed the high-end and shook hands with every student he could touch, and repeated the same words over and over again: "Study hard, whether China can be strong is not me, but your efforts and your achievements!"

"President, the President shakes my hands!"

"Long live the President! Long live the motherland!"

The students were still cheering, and their emotions were filled with tears. "Get up! People who don't want to be slaves will build our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall." In the middle of the playground, several girls sang the national anthem established in 1925. The familiar melody of the Volunteers was like a bright color, breaking the hustle and bustle. Gradually, all the students sang along with the beat, and the passionate melody turned into a roar, pushing the atmosphere of the speech venue to the best.

From the national anthem to "My Chinese Heart", to the song "Loyalty for the Country" that shocked the whole country by the Han River after the victory in Xiaocang Mountain. Tsinghua Park has completely become a patriotic base, and everyone present and even passing here are numb all over.

Lan Pusheng could no longer describe his mood at this moment. His brain was empty and he watched Yang Qiu walk towards him, but when he finally took a deep breath and was about to speak on his own initiative, the president who had just named the name in his speech and accused the UK of the United Kingdom had already stopped in front of Jensen and Stuart.

"Mr. President, this is really a speech that can make people excited. You interpret what responsibility is and what country is. But don't you feel that it is a little too extreme?" The two smiled and shook hands with Yang Qiu, complimenting and testing the true intentions of the President.

"Youth means enthusiasm, impulse and courage. No one can suppress this kind of character. They need guidance and venting. What I do is to find a way out for this force and guide them to pursue their dreams." Yang Qiu cleverly avoided the problem and turned the topic to education: "Mr. Stuart Leiden, thank you for giving our country great help in education. This kind of kindness we Chinese will never forget. I just talked about the educational investment plan for the next 10 years, and there are many things that confuses and cannot be improved. I wonder if you can ask you and Ambassador Jensen to go back with me, help me solve my confusion, and build a world-class university comparable to Harvard and MIT."

Jensen glanced at Stuart Leiden and knew that Yang Qiu was deliberately not wanting to talk about this topic here, so he invited them under the guise of discussing education. He immediately understood and blinked his eyes and joked: "Mr. President's confusion is actually very simple. You can see it by just waiting patiently for fifty years."

"Ten years of trees, a hundred years of trees, it seems that I am too impatient."

Yang Qiu smiled and turned around and walked towards the convoy with the two. Seeing that he was about to leave but didn't say a word to him from beginning to end, Lan Pusheng became anxious and shouted: "Mr. President, are you really not considering the crisis between our two countries?"

Yang Qiu stopped, looking neither angry nor surprised, as if he had forgotten his speech just now, and said calmly: "Sir Lan Pusheng, I have said it very clearly just now. My job is to make 470 million people live better. I have never thought about fighting for maritime hegemony with the British Empire. Therefore, the responsibility for this crisis is entirely caused by your country! Because you have trampled on the red line that ensures the peaceful development of 470 million people! Please tell Prime Minister MacDonald that our country will not negotiate with anyone until the two prerequisites are met! Also, please tell him that although 15 years have passed, my blood has never cooled down!"

"Although 15 years have passed, my blood has never cooled down." Stuart Leiden and Jansen looked at each other, remembering the determination of Yang Qiu to send 500,000 expeditionary forces to Europe in exchange for the support of the Allied Industrial Support 15 years ago, with almost no national industry and only guaranteed guns and bullets.

Before he knew it, 15 years have passed. This young man who was fierce and cruel to his enemies and was equally cruel to himself has become the president of a country that can create the most advanced battleships. If he angered him, what kind of earth-shaking things would he do? Thinking of this, even Lan Pusheng felt chill and a terrifying scene was drawn in his mind.

Singapore, Sarawak, Sabah, East India, Afghanistan, India, Persian Gulf. The Soviet Union and Japan are waiting for opportunities, and the United States and France are benefiting.

The speech in Tsinghua Park shocked the world. It was the loudest roar that China said no to the world's number one power after 20 years of reconstruction! No one could ignore the voice of this country. When the full text of the speech was reproduced by European newspapers, European and American countries discovered that after taking advantage of the benefits of the European war and the post-war world powers to balance diplomacy, China has become a force that cannot be ignored. Its industrial capacity is five times that of Japan! The economic scale has remained on the same scale as the United Kingdom (including colonies), and its manufacturing capacity has reached the French level. Moreover, it seems that it has some mysterious forces funded it, and it has made continuous breakthroughs in high-end manufacturing fields such as battleships with stricter restrictions in Europe and the United States. It is as incredible as someone gave it all European and American technologies and drawings.

Yang Qiu's speech caused a sensation, especially in the end when the navy drove small warships to rush towards his opponents in order to safeguard national interests, a powerful wave of patriotism among young people was set off. For the first time, many people understood what is the deep blue sea, what oil channel, and what supreme national interests are!

"Let someone go, let go!" The mere four words represent a challenge from the new world to the old world rules.

On the third day after Yang Qiu's speech, 27 cities in China launched protests one after another. Five days later, the protests reached 56 cities! Parliaments and officials in all provinces across the country were publicly published in the newspaper to support any decision of the president!

By the end of January 1931, Chinese people in West Borneo, Singapore, Sumatra, Siam and other places in Southeast Asia took to the streets to protest the unfair treatment of the British government and demanded that the British navy release sailors and release oil tankers to severely punish the murderers.

At the same time, the Chinese Navy also gathered in the South China Sea in large numbers. By February 2, about 66 Thunderbolt bombers arrived at the Natuna base, and there were 2 battleships and 2 battlecruisers on the sea. Britain was also unwilling to be outdone. The Degree and Counterattack rushed into the Indian Ocean to find traces of the 21 special mixed fleet. The Malaya cooperated with the Queen, who came to support, to block the Strait of Malacca.

If it were just a navy, the British Empire was not afraid of any country, but the two news on February 2 made the MacDonald's administration realize for the first time that war is likely to be imminent!

On February 2, a battalion of the 1st Infantry Division, known as one of the nine aces of the National Defense Forces, and two companies of the 101st Division arrived in Xi'an. On the same day, a battalion of the 16th Plateau Mountain Brigade stationed in Sichuan broke through the promise of not stationing regular troops in Tibet in the Shanghai Communiqué and arrived in Lhasa. As soon as the news came out, the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and Europe and the United States speculated that this was a precursor to Beijing's loss of patience and began to mobilize more troops to the northwest regions such as Tibet, Afghanistan and Tajik.

On February 3, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Shi Zhaoji arrived in Moscow for a visit.

On February 5, Qin Zhangshu, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Defense Army, arrived in Anjiyan and inspected an infantry division stationed in the local area.

On February 11, the day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, Yang Qiu even wrote in the Central Daily News with the title "Imfair than Die" and severely denounced the British's destruction of justice, rules and free trade, and accused the MacDonald government of deliberately diverting its attention during the economic crisis, regardless of the welfare of the people, and deliberately creating conflicts to push the world into a hot war. The severity of the words and deep criticism of this article, and the interpretation of the concept of the new and old world after the Paris Peace Treaty were extremely rare, so that as soon as it was published, it immediately caused a strong shock in Latin America, Asia, and even Europe and the United States.

Because of criticizing the punitive tariffs that restrict German industrial exports, Germany was unable to repay war reparations as soon as possible, resulting in deepening conflicts and increasing the threat of conflict. German newspapers even praised it as "great justice". Yang Qiu himself also appeared on the cover of Times in the United States for the sixth time. The editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine gave an extremely loud title because he criticized Britain for irresponsible behaviors such as raising tariffs and closing the market in the early stages of the economic crisis, which led to the aggravation of the US crisis.

"Since someone dares to tell the truth."

Although criticism from home and abroad continues to heat up, McDonald still refuses the prerequisite for releasing people, requiring China to negotiate with the United Kingdom on the Arab-China Petroleum Agreement, otherwise everything will be free of negotiations.

Can't step down!

Whether it is Yang Qiu, who chose to be tough to the end, or MacDonald, who knew that he could not retreat, they knew that this step must not be retreating. However, the most tense atmosphere was Riyadh, a country that had just announced the founding of the country for a month, was nervous and chilled all over, especially after they found that the main force of the Chinese navy was blocked in the Strait of Malacca, even Ibn Saudi Arabia regretted not being so hasty to sign the agreement.

"Minister Song, my father is very worried." In the headquarters of the Gulf Oil Company Riyadh, the young Ben Aziz couldn't hide his nervousness and sat on a rattan chair and spoke in a hurry: "The chief reported to us, and the British were trying to convince them to provide funds and arms to overthrow us. News also came from Baghdad that the British envoy had proposed that as long as Faisal Hussein sent troops, Iraq could be completely independent."

Song Ziqing, who was sitting opposite, had a calm face. Compared to the eager Saudi government, he was quite calm. After hearing this, he said: "Your Highness, I have already obtained information about what you said, so Foreign Minister Gu had already taken a plane to Baghdad to meet King Faisal this morning, and will go to Istanbul to meet President Kemal. So I don't think you have to be too nervous. Even if Iraq is convinced by Britain, the army needs to cross Turkey to get here, so they are just bluffing."

Aziz believes that after the European War, Turkey finally gained independence under the leadership of Kemal, so in recent years, it has been a policy of non-alignment and no participation, so it is unrealistic for the Iraqi Faisal family to attack Saudi Arabia. But there is not only one Faisal family in the Persian Gulf, there are too many ambitious chief tribes. So what he is most anxious about now is when the "Arab Chinese Oil Company Security Team" will arrive and be established.

Song Ziqing understood his thoughts and analyzed with a smile: "I have a question. Your Highness, do you think if Britain really wants to overthrow you, it is necessary to rely on Iraq and those second-rate tribes to arm you?"

Aziz saw that he didn't understand what this meant. This look made Song Ziqing scratch his head secretly. These Arabs were really useless in military consciousness. So he asked and answered: "I am frank, the UK has garrisons in Iraq, Egypt and Oman, and India opposite Amman has several British and Indian divisions. The coastline in the direction of your Red Sea is completely exposed, and there is no military force in the waters of the Persian Gulf, so if the British government really wants to start, there is no need to borrow soldiers from all over the world! Doing this now can only show that they are also weak inside!"

Ben Aziz also felt that it made sense after hearing this. If Britain really wants to overthrow the Saudi family, it only needs to mobilize 10,000 troops from Egypt and India to do so. But he still dared not take it lightly and said, "What you said makes sense, but we cannot continue like this for a long time. If it cannot end as soon as possible, it will harm both of our countries. Moreover, our troops' combat capabilities cannot be compared with your soldiers, so we hope to get the security team to operate as soon as possible."

"You can rest assured that I have organized the naval officers and soldiers who sent me and some early personnel. Although the road to the sea is gone, we still have an air channel. At present, we have sent some security team personnel to Anjiyan and are renovating some aircraft. At most, the first batch of transport planes will arrive here directly from Kashgar. So I don't think you need to be too nervous, and I can guarantee that the crisis will end soon."

Not understanding where Song Ziqing got the confidence, Ben Aziz asked: "Minister Song, why do you have this idea? Is Britain ready to compromise?"

Of course, Song Ziqing couldn't tell him the secret, and stood up and said proudly: "You will know soon! Please tell the king on my behalf that I will not leave here before the crisis is over! Any act of trying to deal with the Saudi family is a declaration of war on our country!"

"This is our guarantee!"

.(To be continued.
Chapter completed!