Hiroshi Morita acted a little hysterical, even almost roaring. He kept waving his arms exaggeratedly, as if not doing so would not be enough to attract the other party's attention.
Ma Xiao always behaved very calmly. He patiently listened to Morita Hiroshi's words, but never responded. This made Morita Hiroshi feel like he was performing a one-man show.
"Zhang Xiaohuai, Commander-in-Chief of the Civil Affairs and Army of the Republic of China, arrived"
Ma Xiao suddenly stood up, and Morita Hiroshi also temporarily stopped his "personal performance".
Zhang Xiaohuai walked in expressionlessly, without even looking at Hiroshi Morita, sat down and listened to Ma Xiao's report.
When Ma Xiao was reporting, Hiroshi Morita kept interrupting and "protesting" on the side. Zhang Xiaohuai suddenly yelled:
"Shut up"
This loud roar immediately stunned Morita Hiroshi.
Zhang Xiaohuai said with a stern face: "Mr. Consul General, I hope you will pay attention to your words and deeds. Is this the education you Japanese people receive?"
Only then did Hiroshi Morita realize that there was indeed something inappropriate about his words and deeds.
Swallowing a sip of saliva, Morita Hiroshi tried to make his voice sound calmer: "Your Excellency, I thank you for your rudeness, but I think your approach is even more rude."
"Oh, really?" Zhang Xiaohuai replied lightly.
"Yes." Hiroshi Morita cheered up: "I, Director of the Imperial Japanese Police Station in Fujian, Eguchi Yoshikai, was detained by your government for no reason. I strongly demand the immediate release of all Japanese headed by Director Eguchi Yoshikai."
.At the same time, our captured Japanese sailors should be released immediately and unconditionally, and necessary compensation should be paid to them..."
Hiroshi Morita made more than a dozen requests in one breath. Zhang Xiaohuai listened very carefully and patiently. After Hiroshi Morita finished speaking, he and Ma Xiao discussed in low voices for a long time, and then looked at Hiroshi Morita, calmly.
typical:
"First, Yoshikai Eguchi participated in the attempted attack on our Chinese parade, so it is not surprising that he was arrested. Second, the Japanese sailors have nothing to do with us. According to my investigation, it is because Japanese sailors and Japanese expatriates
A serious conflict occurred, which led to a fight, and our police were just performing their official duties there. If they are punished for performing their official duties normally, I would like to ask if there is any precedent in this regard in Japan?"
Hiroshi Morita was speechless for a moment.
Zhang Xiaohuai's expression always seemed so calm: "Your Excellency, Consul General, I hope you remember that this is China's land after all, and we will never cause trouble. But once China's normal social order is destroyed, then we will definitely work to restore order.
And those who make the effort..."
As he said that, he suddenly asked: "By the way, Your Excellency, the Consul General, just put forward many conditions before I came here. Can you talk about it again now?"
Hiroshi Morita reluctantly said: "This incident was caused by students' boycott of Japanese goods. I repeatedly prepared warnings, but the governor of Fujian and others did not take any practical measures except issuing one or two notices. The Japanese businessmen were so angry that they set up a product protection team.
To resist. On the day of the accident, the Japanese Amada Company sent coolies to carry silk products. Three Chinese students went to fight for it, which caused a fight. The commodity protection team came to help, and one of the students was taken back to the Si's house, and soon he was sent to the police station. The student
A group of people came to seize it and shot each other, which led to a serious crime and China was asked to liberate the students."
Zhang Xiaohuai suddenly laughed when he heard this: "Student groups came together to seize it and shot at each other. Let me first ask your Excellency, Consul General, where did the students' guns come from? Are there any injuries on your side?"
Hiroshi Morita was stunned, not knowing how to answer at all.
Zhang Xiaohuai sneered: "The information I obtained is different from yours. In this matter, the Japanese merchants actually deliberately provoked. They were talking nonsense, and the students' arrangement of goods violated the rules and regulations of free trade. However, they were directly involved in the arrangement of goods.
The victims are still Chinese people who buy Japanese goods, and the Japanese merchants do not indirectly suffer the damage. Even if the Japanese merchants actually infringe, it should be handled by the Japanese leaders or envoys, local officials and foreign ministries, and they should never be set up without authorization.
Commodity protection team. According to the principle of equality, this kind of behavior is hurtful to the country. Although there are differences in the students' arrangement of goods, their actions only hurt property. If Japanese businessmen are really persecuted, they have their own treaty protection and can plead
Compensation; how can you indulge in violence and treat China as nothing? Moreover, the crime of infringement of property does not lead to death. The Japanese businessmen have already set up a cover team without permission, detained the students in their houses, beat them without permission, and then gathered people and fired guns, causing many deaths and injuries.
People say that they didn’t seek the shore intentionally, but who can believe it?”
Zhang Xiaohuai's words were merciless and left Hiroshi Morita dumbfounded.
Zhang Xiaohuai continued: "This incident in Fuzhou was caused by Japanese businessmen trying to kill students. The students were literati, which is absolutely different from the bandits who committed murder, murder and arson. The Japanese overseas Chinese had no life-threatening danger, but the Japanese consul actually asked to send troops. There is such a thing in the world.
Does it make sense?"
At this point, both sides have completely lost face.
Hiroshi Morita sneered and bowed slightly: "In this case, I think we have nothing to talk about. Farewell."
...
And just when the Chinese government and the Japanese government were confronting each other over the Taiwan issue, the Russians stirred up trouble again.
The new national government once again faced challenges
This is the China Eastern Railway Strike.
Previously, the China Eastern Railway had experienced several strikes.
On November 10, 1919, the Vladivostok-Ussuri Railway workers went on strike and sent people to the ground to contact them.
Due to the years of war in Siberia and the Far East of the Soviet Union, not only food, but also all daily necessities such as cloth had to be imported from Harbin. This caused a shortage of materials in Harbin and soaring prices. At that time, Kolchak issued banknotes, so that the market at that time
The E coins on the market were worthless. One ruble in the bank could only be exchanged for one cent and six cents in the ocean. As a result, five or sixty Chinese shops closed down one after another and they lost their fortune. The people of Harbin were living in dire straits.
On October 11, 1919, more than 700 Chinese workers and more than 150 Russian workers in the Harbin Locomotive Depot, together with more than 2,000 Chinese workers and more than 600 Soviet workers in the Sanliupeng Factory, first kicked off the strike.
Then all departments along the Middle East Road went on strike.
All trains to various places were stopped, and the China-Eastern Railway was once again paralyzed.
After the strike began, the land contractor workers posted and distributed leaflets everywhere, calling on the people of the city to actively support the strike. The strike won support and sympathy from all walks of life. Originally, the railway authorities asked the police to help suppress the strike, but the Chinese police and military expressed their disapproval of the strike.
They sympathized and blamed all the responsibility for the workers' strike on the railway authorities. The strike panicked the railway authorities, so they had to increase wages for the workers and pay them with old wages.
From 1918 to 1919, China Eastern Railway workers held four general strikes. These four general strikes were all held to oppose the remaining forces of Tsarist Russia headed by Horvath.
Horvath's full name was Dmitry Leonidovich Horvath. He was born in 1859 in an old aristocratic family in Leminchug, Boltava Province, Ukraine, Russia. In 1878, he
He graduated from the Niklaevsk Engineering School and was later sent to the combat forces as a second lieutenant. In 1885, he was sent to Central Asia to build the Trans-Caspian Railway. He distinguished himself by building the wooden bridge over the Amu Darya River and was promoted to the post of Central Asia and Uzbekistan.
Director of the Suri Railway Bureau. His wife and mother were related to the Tsarist Empress. Horvath was therefore favored and rose to prominence. When the China-Eastern Railway was officially opened to traffic, he served as the director of the Railway Bureau with the rank of colonel and was later promoted to lieutenant general.
Horvath's brutal control of railway workers aroused strong dissatisfaction. In November 1905, workers at the Harbin Railway General Factory went on strike, demanding the lifting of military control and the implementation of an eight-hour work system. Horvath promised to solve the problem the next day, but in fact
It was a deception. After the workers saw through it, they surrounded the railway bureau building. Horvath had to sneak away from the back door, and then mobilized a large number of military police to suppress the workers. After Harbin opened to trade, forces from Japan, the United States, Britain and other countries infiltrated and broke through
In 1907, Horvath published the "Charter of the Public Council" without the consent of the Chinese government, and decided to transfer part of the land and some enterprises and institutions in Nangang and Daoli to the jurisdiction of the Harbin Autonomous Council.
Under his control, the Harbin Municipal Council and the Municipal Board of Directors were established in 1908. All important resolutions of these two councils must be approved by the railway company before they can be implemented. As the railway company's agent in China, Horvath
The power is in your hands.
After the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, the former Tsarist Russian aristocrats, landlords, senior military officers and bourgeois elements fled to Harbin. The next year, the former Tsarist elements in Harbin organized a so-called "Far East Support for the Motherland" under Horvath's planning.
and the Constitutional Convention Committee”
More than 10,000 former Tsarist Russian fugitives regarded the Harbin Railway Annex under Horvath's rule as a "sanctuary." In April 1918, Horvath went to Beijing to attend the China Eastern Railway Shareholders' Meeting. Here, in order to obtain the support of the Allied Powers, he and the Allied Powers
He had frequent contacts with representatives in Beijing. After returning to Harbin, he recruited troops in the name of "road protection" and established the so-called "Far East Volunteer Corps".
In early 1920, with the covert support of Japanese forces, he attempted to have "universal control over all military operations" on the China Eastern Railway. He also misappropriated railway public funds without authorization and purchased 1 billion yen in arms from Japan, resulting in two months of arrears in workers' wages.
The long lack of development made the workers' lives unsustainable, which finally triggered the China-Eastern Railway workers' strike to drive away the hulks. The workers solemnly declared:
"If Huo doesn't go there, the road workers won't open." This strike of unprecedented scale has won the support of people from all walks of life in Harbin. Businessmen and workers went on strike, demanding that Horvath be deprived of his power.