Chang Ruiqing returned to Nanjing on December 18, 1920. The climate of this era is much colder than in later generations. At this time, the capital of the Republic of China was covered with white snow. The city on the Yangtze River was covered with silver. The newly completed monument to the Martyrs' Temple stood tall in the flying snow, and a layer of thin ice floated on Xuanwu Lake in front of it. However, the streets of this city are still as prosperous as before.

Chang Ruiqing was sitting in the car. Today he was wrapped in a yellow military coat and quietly looked at the capital under his rule outside the window. The one who was by his side was Zhen Xiaoru. This trip to Guangdong was accompanied by her. The little loli Sun Yuexun was sitting in the passenger seat. The little girl had a tear mark on the corner of her eyes. His Japanese adoptive parents, Miyagi and his wife, disappeared in the Japanese government's attack on the Black Dragon Association a while ago. So when this little girl saw Chang Ruiqing at the Xiaguan Wharf, she threw herself into the arms of Chang's revolutionary family in front of everyone and cried bitterly. The senior officials of the National Government who came to greet him were stunned! Fortunately, Sun Xiaoli's true identity is confidential, and the journalists and friends present did not know that she was Chang Ruiqing's newly acquired concubine and ignored it directly. These reporters did not dare to take out the gossip news of Chang's dictator to reveal the news!

As for Chang Ruiqing's other women, they did not come to greet him. Wang Ruonan had just given him a son and was now in confinement at home, while Pan Xiaoqian was taking care of the children at home, while the sister named Zhao continued to "confinement" at home with tears in her face.

However, Chang Ruiqing is not very concerned about his family, which is getting bigger and bigger, but continues to consider the "Shanghai Conference".

Japan's reaction was extraordinary and strong. The newly-entered Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka toughly rejected any suggestions aimed at controlling the arms race, and also publicly claimed that the Great Japanese Empire had enough financial resources to build the world's most powerful navy and army - the former sounded like a sleep talk, while the latter seemed to be a response to the cooperation between China and Britain.

In addition, the Japanese government also rejected Churchill's request for access, allowing the British Minister of Colonial Affairs to return to Europe with no face.

However, Chang Ruiqing saw the shadow of the Democratic Republic of Korea in the Japanese's tough statements - they did not really want to refuse to control the naval military conference, but instead fought for more favorable conditions with a tough attitude! In history, didn't they also attend the Washington Conference? In the end, they also accepted the 300,000-ton battleship total tonnage proposed by Britain and the United States in a "full of humiliation" manner.

Such a "little" naval battleship is indeed less for Japan, an ambitious country. So Chang Ruiqing is preparing to help his Japanese friendly countries as much as possible so that they can have more battleships and battle cruisers at the beginning of the Second World War in the future. He is looking forward to a decisive battle between the US and Japan battleships!

To this end, on the way back to Nanjing, he ordered the diplomatic department to send an invitation to Japanese Prime Minister Yoichi Tanaka to visit China through the radio station on the Haiqi. He also received a positive reply soon. Prime Minister Tanaka will start visiting China and Siam in January next year...

In addition to Japan, Soviet Russia also strongly opposed the "Imperialist peace conference" this time. According to reports sent by the Chinese Embassy in Moscow and the China GC International delegation to GC International, Moscow citizens have held rallies every day on Red Square to oppose the "Shanghai Peace Conference". Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev and other Russian GC leaders also took turns to deliver fierce speeches. They are all opposed to China's participation in the launch of the "Shanghai Peace Conference" - According to the report of Zhong Zhijie, the general representative of China to GC International, both Lenin and Trotsky believed that the Shanghai Peace Conference may allow international capitalism to enter a period of stability and once the negotiations on limiting the arms race are successful, it will also postpone the outbreak of World War II, thereby having an adverse impact on the world revolution and liberating all mankind.

Well, according to the latest analysis of the revolutionary prophet Comrade Trotsky on the world revolutionary situation: World War II is inevitable - this view is obviously correct! It seems that this prophet still makes some sense!

But he also believed that World War II will break out between the two most powerful imperialist countries in the world - Britain and the United States! The purpose is of course to compete for world hegemony. The naval arms race between Britain and the United States is similar to the British-German arms race before World War I, and will definitely lead to World War II! The result of World War II must be that the red flags will spread all over the world! So now China is holding an arms control meeting, of course, helping imperialism!

The popularity of the three most powerful imperialist imperialists in Britain, the United States and France seems to prove the view of the revolutionary prophet. The monopoly capitalists in these three countries probably want to postpone their demise, so they now want to save limited financial resources to increase social welfare and cope with economic crises, right? French Foreign Minister Berlin expressed his willingness to attend the Shanghai meeting at the first time, hoping to control the naval scale of various countries within a reasonable range through negotiations. Although the US government has not yet made a statement, Harding, who has just won the election and is about to become the next US president, has already expressed his appreciation for the arms control meeting in Shanghai.

With the participation of three naval powers of Britain, the United States and France, plus a Japan that is tough on the surface but will definitely attend the end. There is no problem with the successful convening of the Shanghai meeting. However, Chang Ruiqing still hopes that the Soviet Union can also send representatives to attend the meeting, at least not to deteriorate Sino-Soviet relations again.

Because Chang Ruiqing is still self-aware of the existing strength of the Republic of China, which has just squeezed into the circle of powers, is now a paper tiger with twitching claws. Therefore, while using superficial toughness and high attitude to strive for national development, we must also carefully grasp the standards and avoid breaking with any powerful country.

So he is thinking about ways to appease the Soviet Union. It seems that a person who can represent the Chinese great man to visit Moscow and openly discuss the situation of the world revolution and the position held by China with Lenin and Trotsky.

After returning to his official residence in Tangshan, Chang Ruiqing personally hung up the phone to Chairman Mao Zd to have dinner with him, and the other party also accepted it happily. The Chairman of the Chinese G was still busy promoting China's democratic constitutionalism recently. He also served as the vice chairman of the China Democratic Promotion Association initiated by Jiang JShi, and is said to have also paid homage to Chiang!

The place for the meal was in a secluded private room in the canteen of the Military Commission where many senior military officers in military uniforms. The Chinese President vaguely complained about the current national government and the National Defense Forces. He danced his arms from time to time to strengthen his tone. He also prescribed a prescription for the current local government and bureaucracy, which is democracy and freedom, and let the people use votes to supervise the government! It really doesn't sound like what the GCD Chairman should say.

When the topic turned to the world revolution and the upcoming Shanghai conference, it seemed that ** had returned to the role of the great revolutionary in history.

"The world revolution will surely win," he said. "Just after World War II, although they (referring to Britain and the United States) would use various methods to postpone the war, they would eventually fight."

"Why did the fight start?" Chang Ruiqing asked.

"Of course it is to compete for the market and cheap raw materials. This is determined by the nature of the capitalist system. Because there is exploitation in the capitalist system, there must be a large amount of overproduction. In order to find a market for excess products, and to obtain cheap raw materials to produce these products, there will definitely be a war between them!"

He spread his hands calmly. "Especially the United States, they have no other way! They have the most powerful manufacturing capabilities in the world, but they do not have enough huge colonies... The rise of Britain, France and other old powers have divided up all the land that may become colonies. They will not allow American products to enter freely. They will not allow Americans to buy resources there at low prices. Comrade Yaoru, just look at the map and you will know that Canada, a British colony close to the United States, has nearly 10 million square kilometers of land! The total population is only more than 10 million. What reason does the United States not attack Canada? This is completely unconforming to common sense! I think the United States and Britain are engaged in arms race to launch a war to seize Canada in the future, and this war will be the beginning of World War II!"

Mao zd grinned at Chang Ruiqing and the little loli who was with him. Then he said: "Once Britain and the United States start war, the fragile balance pattern maintained between the great powers will be completely broken. Other great powers in the world will definitely choose one of their two countries to form an alliance. I guess France will still stand on the side of Britain, but Britain will agree that France will annex the entire Rhine region. Japan has ambitions for the entire Southeast Asian region, and they should make a decision after the bids of both sides. But they will definitely join... and we and the Soviet Union should wait and wait until they are exhausted before attacking. Of course, it is not to fight for hegemony, but to liberate the oppressed colonial people and the working masses of imperialist countries in dire straits."

Chang Ruiqing looked at Mao Zd with a wry smile. Although he did not agree with the other party's estimate, he had no intention of refuting it. "Well, before we and the Soviet Union liberate all mankind, we should still make our own people live more like humans - this is a big problem. So we and the Soviet Union should try to ease relations with the imperialist powers so that we can focus our main energy on economic development."

"Is this the reason for the Shanghai Peace Conference?"

"Yes, we and the Soviet Union need a relaxed international environment. President, can you work hard and make a trip to Moscow?"

"I'm going to be a lobbyist?" Mao zd smiled. "I'm not good at doing this. I wonder if I can convince Lenin and Trotsky?"

"What can be convinced is that it is imperialism now they don't want to close their doors. What can they do?"

Mao zd stopped laughing. "Yes, they don't want to close the door now. But this door will always be closed in the future. Comrade Yaoru, don't hesitate to liberate the oppressed nations in Asia at that time."

"Okay. That's it. When Britain and the United States fight, we will liberate all mankind."

Due to the tight time, Mao Zd did not delay and took his wife Yang Kaihui and a small delegation to the north early the next morning. His travel route was the Siberian Railway by land, which took about a month to get to Moscow. If Lenin and Trotsky could be persuaded, he would spend the same amount of time to return with the Soviet delegation. The rough time of the Shanghai Conference was determined in February 1921, three months later, in February 1921, a little earlier than the historical Washington Conference. This was also the first time that China ruled by Chang Ruiqing held such an important international conference, and the National Government attached great importance to it, hoping to succeed. Therefore, when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka visited China in January 1921, he was also received with a very grand reception.

Like Churchill, Tanaka Yoshiichi came to China on the most powerful battle cruiser in Japan. He was riding the King Kong - a 26,000-ton battle cruiser built by the Vicks Shipyard in Barrow Inverness in the UK. Although it cannot be compared with the British Hood, when driving into the Huangpu River in Shanghai, the Chinese Navy still felt ashamed.

However, Chang Ruiqing did not go to the dock on the Huangpu River to welcome Tianaka. Instead, he was waiting for the Japanese Prime Minister at Shanghai North Railway Station. The first secret talk between the two sides began on the special train heading to Nanjing.

Yoichi Tanaka is not very good at Chinese, while Chang Ruiqing does not understand Japanese at all. So Chang Ruiqing arranged for Sun Yuexun, who is on the winter vacation, to serve as her translator. This little loli seemed to be even more favored after her Japanese adoptive parents "disappeared". It seems that she has a lot of hope to become Chang Ruiqing's private secretary.

However, she didn't know that the Central Security Bureau and Chang Ruiqing's guards did not relax her joint surveillance! However, this surveillance still gained nothing. In fact, after Toyama Manta and Uchida Ryohei committed suicide, the Japanese Army Intelligence Bureau, which took over the Black Dragon Society intelligence network, did not try to contact Sun Yuexun. The spy little loli was still in a completely disconnected state.

Tanaka just glanced at the little beauty who looked like a flower and began to question Chang Ruiqing with a gloomy face: "Chairman of the Standing Committee, you have not forgotten the content of the "Treaty of Non-aggression Treaty"? China does not allow battleships and battlecruisers!"

The little loli tried to imitate Tanaka's vicious tone and translated his words into Chinese. However, Chang Ruiqing smiled and shook his head: "China does not have battleships and battle cruisers now, and there will not be any in the future. Because we don't need such weapons - they are too expensive, they are really money-burning machines. And the actual combat effect is also questionable. In the world war, there was only one real battle of battle... The fleet built by the German emperor spent so much money stayed in the port and rusted in the port! If the Germans used the expenses spent on the navy to strengthen their army, the war would end in 1914, and the German Empire would still be the most powerful country in the world, rather than becoming a semi-colonial like now. So I would not make the same mistake and waste too much money on the navy."

When Tanaka's translator told him what Chang Ruiqing said, the Japanese Prime Minister's face looked a little better.

"How do you explain the joint statement with the United Kingdom?"

Chang Ruiqing shrugged and smiled, "The navy always needs to have it. Although we don't want the main ship, cruisers less than 10,000 tons and aircraft carriers more than 20,000 tons are still needed. Now Britain is willing to help us develop the navy, how can we refuse such good intentions?"

"But how should China explain that the tonnage of the main ship is no more than 30% of the total tonnage of the British main ship?"

"We both countries need these shipbuilding quotas." Chang Ruiqing blinked at Tanaka when he said this. "Prime Minister, how do your naval seniors view the issue of restricting naval armament?"

"Of course I objected! Do you think our navy would agree to cut their funds and warships?"

"Uh. I mean, the Japanese Navy believes: How much does it need to compare their strength with the US Navy to ensure victory?"

"This..." Tanaka Yoshiichi didn't know how to answer this question. At present, the Japanese Navy has not discussed this issue seriously. And even if the Japanese Navy has answers in this regard, it is a military secret and cannot be told to Chang Ruiqing.

However, Chang Ruiqing already knew the answer to this question. He paused for a few minutes and said with a smile: "I estimate that the Japanese Navy needs at least 70% of the strength of the US Navy to ensure victory in the war with the United States! Because the United States is actually a maritime country, they have a very professional navy and have strong industrial strength, and their ability to supplement losses is incomparable to Japan. In addition, the United States' industrial technology is also more advanced than Japan, and the warships they manufacture should also be more advanced than those made by Japan themselves.

But can Japan maintain the tonnage of its naval battleship to 70% through shipbuilding competitions? I think this is completely unrealistic. The United States' steel production is twenty times that of Japan, and its economic strength is almost twenty times that of Japan... If they want to maintain their naval total tonnage more than twice that of Japan, they can still do it easily. Therefore, it is completely irrational for Japan to take the shipbuilding competition to defeat the United States, and the British also realized that they could not win in the naval arms race, so they pulled China to propose controlling the naval arms and hope that Japan could participate. In fact, the naval arms meeting in Shanghai is Britain, France, Japan, China, and perhaps Italy to curb the United States! Mr. Tanaka, do you understand what I mean?"
Chapter completed!