This visit to the Republic of China was Qin Zhiyuan's first trip since he became king, so the preparations can be imagined to be complicated.
First of all, the safety aspect must be determined. Since Qin Zhiyuan is going out, in principle Qin De cannot go with him. However, considering that he is visiting the Republic of China, it is more like a trip to find relatives. Qin Zhiyuan still hopes that Julie and Qin De
They all wanted to go with us, so we could only put more effort into safety.
There is no doubt that Dong Xingxiu, the number one master in the palace, is Qin Zhiyuan's personal military attache. Dong Xingxiu also leads an elite detachment of about a hundred people. This is Qin Zhiyuan's personal bodyguard. There is no doubt about this.
What is controversial is the peripheral security force, also known as the legendary Imperial Guard.
There is actually a Royal Guard Army in Lanfang. The 1st Armored Division of the Army has always been stationed in Yecheng. This unit actually assumes the responsibilities of the Royal Guard Army, but it has never been named the Royal Guard Army, so it is considered to be a real name.
So since we are going to travel now, the Yulin Army must be established. This new army immediately attracted the attention of the Lanfang armies. Almost all the commanders stationed abroad and the local defense forces hope to transfer manpower from their own armies to come
Form this imperial army.
This Royal Forest Army is different from Lanfang's ordinary troops. The most obvious sign is that it can use the military flag with red characters on a black background with Qin as the symbol, and there is also a dark red red bird pattern on the flag.
It is really a technical job to draw manpower from various armies to form this army without offending anyone.
Almost within three days, not only the local garrison in Lanfang knew about this, but also Chen Kangjian in the northern Xinjiang region knew about it, so a list of names was immediately sent to the Surabaya Military Headquarters, all of which were from various places.
The elite warriors in the army, those who have not won the rank in the military competition, are too embarrassed to show their hands.
Qin Zhiyuan only wants a guard army of about 1,000 people. In fact, just exchange the troops currently stationed on Penglai Island for a few flags. It is not like such a big movement, but now judging from the lists sent by the armies,
Preliminary statistics show that the manpower has exceeded 15,000, which is already a standard army division size.
Everyone was sincere, and it wouldn't hurt anyone to hurt him. Qin Zhiyuan thought he didn't have the ability, so he gave this power to the Chief of Defense Qin Zhisheng.
Qin Zhisheng scratched his head all night and lost an unknown amount of hair, and then gave this power to Foch.
It will be easy to handle when we get to Foch. Foch immediately sent them all with a stroke of his pen. This army will be called the Suzaku Division. Then, if there are good seedlings, we will continue to send them. We also have three divisions of Qinglong, White Tiger and Xuanwu to continue to form.
Now it was Chen Kangjian, Zhang Tianshou and the others' turn to be speechless. They did not have so many elites to send to Lanfang. Each major military region had to retain some elites as seeds.
Let’s put aside the matter of the Royal Guards first, and let’s talk about the attachés accompanying Qin Zhiyuan on his visit. Since the king is going on a visit, then Prime Minister Lu Zhengxiang will be in Lanfang, and Defense Minister Qin Zhisheng will not leave Surabaya. Except for those who follow Qin Zhiyuan to Lanfang
Former Prime Minister Huang Bohan, General Counsel Foch, Minister of Commerce Huang Jinsheng, Minister of Industry Zhang Tianyun, and Zhang Jingzong, who succeeded Lu Zhengxiang as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lanfang, this lineup is already strong enough.
Speaking of Zhang Jingzong, the reason why Zhang Jingzong is qualified to succeed Lu Zhengxiang as Foreign Minister has a lot to do with Zhang Jingzong's background in the Republic of China.
In fact, just before he became the foreign minister, Zhang Jingzong's military position was the deputy commander of the 1st Armored Division of the Lanfang Army. His military rank had been promoted to lieutenant general. He had a promising future in the army. However, Lanfang had a shortage of diplomatic personnel.
Zhang Jingzong had no choice but to retire from the army and took up the position of foreign minister, thus beginning his political journey.
This is not bad. Lanfang's military system is full of talents, and the oldest of Chen Kangjian's group is only in his thirties. It is estimated that it will be difficult for Zhang Jingzong to become a prince in his lifetime. In this case, entering politics
It can be regarded as a new approach.
After settling the personnel matters, it is only partially settled. There is still more preparation work to be done for Qin Zhiyuan's visit.
Fortunately, the planes that need to be taken during the visit are all ready-made. Just follow Qin Zhiyuan then. The cars need to be transported in advance. The current transport planes are not capable of transporting big things like cars. If you want to transport cars, you still have to rely on ships.
, this requires doing the work up front.
At the same time, there are also various ingredients that need to be prepared, because Julie and the little prince Qin De will also go there, so they have to consider the issue of acclimatization. Therefore, Qin Zhiyuan and his party need to use all the ingredients, especially drinking water, for this trip.
It has to be transported thousands of miles from Lanfang, and even the chefs have to prepare it themselves. At the same time, there are also staff responsible for filming various film and television materials such as photography and videography. Now that Lanfang has a publicity department, a lot of things need to be prepared.
Reserve it consciously so that you can maximize your power when needed.
In fact, compared to these, the most troublesome thing is security. Because of the pro-Japanese tendency of the Republic of China, no one knows how many people in the capital of the Republic of China are still hostile to Lanfang. It is certain that there must be such people.
These people need to be screened in advance, not to mention to the extent of controlling them all, at least they cannot approach the Lanfang delegation at will.
Therefore, although Qin Zhiyuan's scheduled visit date is mid-March, Gao Hongshi's people must take action now. They must go to Yingzhou, Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Northern Xinjiang, the capital of the Republic of China and other places to conduct terrain surveys in advance and plan various contingency plans.
Developing accident plans, etc.
There are indeed a lot of places to visit, and it is rare for Qin Zhiyuan to go out once, so he should visit a few more places and at least leave Qin Zhiyuan's footprints in places such as the northern border area of Goryeo. Only in this way can he truly declare his territorial sovereignty.
Of course, relatively speaking, places like the Yingzhou Ryukyu Islands are Lanfang's inherent territories. There is no need to declare sovereignty over these places because sovereignty has never been in dispute.
Even so, Qin Zhiyuan still had to move around more, at least to deter some criminals with evil intentions and stop them from having any whims.
Calculating it carefully, Lanfang was quite busy in 1920. In the first half of the year, Qin Zhiyuan will visit the Republic of China, and will also visit Japan after that. Then he will go to Antwerp, Belgium to participate in the Olympic Games with Emperor Taisho of Japan.
During this period, Qin Zhiyuan will visit places such as France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Denikin's South Russia, and Kolchak's coalition government.
Is there a lot of travel during this Olympic period?
No, no, no, not much at all. If Qin Zhiyuan remembers correctly, the Laoshizi Olympics will last from April to September, so Qin Zhiyuan has enough time.
At the same time in 1920, there was another thing that must attract Lanfang's attention, and that was the Washington Conference that was to be held in Washington at the end of the year.
The Washington Conference was originally supposed to be held at the end of 1921 in order to curb the intensifying arms race at that time and to reconcile the conflicting interests of various countries in the Pacific region.
But it is different from the history of another time and space. Japan, the original backbone of the conference, is no longer what it used to be. Lanfang has now replaced Japan. And because of Lanfang's relationship with France and the Republic of China, the Americans and British
It is more tense than in another time and space. In the Far East, there is now a tendency to stick together for warmth. This has also directly led to the Washington Conference being convened a year in advance. The purpose of the Americans and British is no longer to ease the contradiction, but to contain it.
The expansion of Lanfang.
To be honest, Qin Zhiyuan is not very optimistic about the Washington Conference. The reason is very simple, and it is because the United States is such a troublemaker.
In fact, from the perspective of fishing in troubled waters, Americans are really the godsons of the British. The British are just troublemakers on the European continent, and Americans are the troublemakers around the world.
Do you still remember the Versailles Treaty after the World War? The U.S. Congress has not agreed to it until now, which means that the Americans have not signed the Versailles Treaty at all. This fully expresses the Americans’ malicious intent on world affairs.
Think about it, the Fourteen Points that promoted the Versailles Peace Treaty were proposed by U.S. President Wilson. Just because some of the clauses were not confirmed in the Paris Peace Treaty, the U.S. Congress decided openly not to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty.
It is truly a true biography of the British father.
In Qin Zhiyuan's memory, although the Washington Conference was convened by the Americans and the Americans fully demonstrated their dominance, after the conference, the relevant regulations made by the conference, such as the United States, Britain, France and Japan on island possessions and territories in the Pacific region,
The treaty, also commonly known as the Four-Power Treaty, on the day it was signed, the four countries jointly issued a statement stating: By concluding the above-mentioned treaty, the United States cannot be deemed to have agreed to the terms of the mandate.
This means that the United States is not bound by the Versailles System
This is simply ridiculous. The Americans proposed convening a conference, and the Americans took the lead in signing the treaty. As a result, the Americans were not controlled by the treaty.
Can there be any more double standards?
With such a gem in front of him, Qin Zhiyuan does not have any expectations for the Washington Conference. At the same time, because of the existence of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Qin Zhiyuan will definitely not set foot in the United States. This also casts a layer of doubt over the yet-to-be-convened Washington Conference.
shadow.
Speaking of the Chinese Exclusion Act, two social trends of thought have formed in the United States, and debates are ongoing as to whether this act should be repealed.
The congressmen who advocated paying for the Chinese Exclusion Act were all congressmen who were related to Lan Fang to some extent. Although these congressmen did not deal directly with Lan Fang, they had many contacts with Lan Fang's companies in the United States.
At the same time, there were more congressmen who insisted on the Chinese Exclusion Act, and their power became stronger, including President Wilson.
You read that right, including Wilson, who proposed the Fourteen Points. This guy is indeed a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and he is also an out-and-out racist.
There is a question that is very funny. Nobel, who was born in explosives, actually set up a peace prize. What does this mean?
Ridiculing repentance or some people’s conspiracy to show their presence
