After a long while, Bao Daizhen finally came to his senses.
After coming back to his senses, Bao Daizhen also became a little angry. Your Songhu Independent Group was too arrogant. It only threatened the public concession over and over again. Now you actually dare to bombard the Chinachem Hotel!
The Chinachem Hotel is the face of the public concession. You bombarding the Chinachem Hotel is a slap in the face of the concession!
At that moment, Bao Daizhen roared with a dark face: "Captain Xie, this is a serious provocation to the public concession!"
Maurice also roared angrily: "The dignity of the French Republic cannot be blasphemed. You Chinese have successfully pissed us off in France. Just wait for sanctions!"
Masanori Okamoto, who was lying on the ground, almost laughed out loud.
Stupid Chinese people have preconditions for being tough on the West.
We don't have the powerful national power of the Great Japanese Empire, but we insist on imitating the empire and being tough on the West. Isn't that asking for death? Now that France and Britain have been offended at the same time, I want to see how you end it?
Song Changwen and Yu Hongjie hurriedly put out the fire.
"President Bao Daizhen, please calm down, don't be angry."
"Xie Tuanfu is just a bit impatient, but he doesn't actually mean any harm."
"Thank you, Tuanfu. Come quickly and apologize to the two presidents."
"Also, tell the artillerymen on the opposite side not to mess around again."
"We will never dare to do such lawless things as bombarding the Chinachem Hotel again."
Song and Yu were really frightened, fearing that this incident would trigger an international dispute.
However, Xie Jinyuan ignored these two people at all, and even felt a little disdainful in his heart.
As Yan Yan said, China's big capitalists and bankers are inherently weak.
"Sanctions?" Xie Jinyuan smiled and said, "Okay, do you want to launch economic sanctions against China, or do you want to send troops on an expedition? Or do you want to burn the Old Summer Palace again?"
Bao Dezhen and Morris were immediately speechless. There was a prerequisite for their threats to be effective.
The premise is that the other party must be weak. Bankers like Song Changwen and intellectuals or government officials like Yu Hongjie have always been weak, so their intimidation can be effective.
But Chinese soldiers like Xie Jinyuan obviously have nothing to do with weakness.
Madmen like Yan Jun in turn trampled on their bottom line crazily, forcing their bottom line to drop again and again. The Japanese began to laugh at them for their lack of bottom line.
In fact, at this time, the West had no bottom line in front of the Japanese.
On the first day of the Songhu Battle, the convoy of the British Consulate in Shanghai was accidentally bombed by Japanese aviation. Many diplomats were killed on the spot, and Ambassador Xu Jason was seriously injured. The British government only asked the Japanese government to Apologize, but the Japanese government only issued a statement with uncertainty about responsibility, and nothing more happened.
After the Battle of Nanjing began, the Japanese army began to bombard British and even Japanese warships unscrupulously. However, the British and Japanese governments in turn defended the Japanese army, claiming that the bombing was just a mistake.
Therefore, the so-called bottom line in the West is a sponge, and its elasticity is actually very high.
Yan Yan is very clear about this, and Xie Jinyuan was severely affected.
Xie Jinyuan straightened his face and said solemnly: "Sir Bao Dezhen, Vice President Morris, I must tell you that the shelling just now was just our warning shot, but the next shelling will no longer be a warning. If The public concession and the French Concession still refuse to let cross-border road construction go, so let’s wait for the stone to perish together.”
"Again, the jade and the stone are both dead. Can't we do something else?" Bao Dai was really going crazy.
Morris's tone also softened: "Captain Xie, don't be anxious. We have things to discuss, and we have things to discuss."
"This matter is non-negotiable!" Xie Jinyuan refused to give in. In fact, he did not have room to make concessions, because thousands of wounded people had gathered to build roads across the border and could be massacred by Japanese planes at any time.
Therefore, the matter of the wounded entering the concession must be resolved immediately, and the wounded cannot be allowed to gather.
"Half a minute, I only give you half a minute to think about it. After half a minute, either let go and build the road across the border, or..."
"Thank you Jinyuan!" Song Changwen stood up and shouted angrily, "Do you still have the national government in your eyes, and do you still have the supreme commander of the Chairman? What qualifications do you have to talk nonsense here?"
Xie Jinyuan ignored them. He really didn't want to talk to Song Changwen and Yu Hongjie.
But Zhu Shengzhong remembered the harsh evaluation and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "Our chief of staff said that there is a group of people in the country who treat foreigners obediently and attack compatriots hard. He must be talking about people like you."
"You?!" Song Changwen was so angry that he vomited blood. How dare a little pawn attack me?
But Bao Dezhen had already pulled Morris to a corner of the small auditorium and started whispering.
Song Changwen didn't believe the half-minute warning, but Bao Daizhen and Morris didn't dare to gamble.
Let’s talk about things like bottom line or face. When it’s valuable, it’s valuable, but when it’s not, it’s worthless. The most important thing is profit, and only profit is eternal.
As long as it's profitable, it's not impossible to sell your butt.
Of course, when it comes to treating wounded soldiers of the national army, there is another logic, that is, which approach can minimize losses.
The situation is now clear. It is obvious that the loss of accepting the seriously injured members of the national army will be minimal.
Because the Japanese will never die with them, but if they push Yan Yan into a hurry, this lunatic will really die with them in the concession. There is no doubt about this.
After all, China is about to collapse, isn’t it?
In just ten seconds, Bao Dezhen and Morris reached an agreement.
Morris walked back and said: "There is no problem in receiving the wounded, but who will pay for this? The budget for public affairs in our French Concession has been exhausted."
Bao Dezhen shrugged and said: "The public budget of the public concession has also been exhausted."
Xie Jinyuan was just about to say stop pretending to me, but Song Changwen on the other side had already rushed to say: "We will pay for the expenses, and our central bank will use part of the reserve fund to accommodate these injured people."
Liao Yannong was not wrong. The central bank headed by Song Changwen had deposited foreign exchange worth hundreds of millions of French currency in the accounts of foreign banks such as HSBC and Citigroup. Therefore, the cost of treating tens of thousands of wounded soldiers in the national army was not enough for him, the God of Wealth. It's really just a drizzle, and just a few leaks between your fingers is enough.
…
The four-party talks are finally over.
The Chinese left the small auditorium immediately, and the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai Yoshimasa Okamoto also left shortly after, but Bao Dezhen and Morris did not leave immediately.
"Bao Daizhen, it's not a problem if this goes on. We can't always be threatened by the Songhu Independent Regiment, right? Last time, we asked you to release the national troops detained in Hebang Building. This time, we asked our two major concessions. To accept seriously wounded members of the national army, who knows what kind of excessive demands they will make next time?"
Bao Dezhen smoked his cigar and kept silent.
Morris whispered: "How about shutting down the coke ovens in the gas plant?"
"Absolutely not." Bao Dezhen flatly refused. "The loss from shutting down the gas plant is too great. This is not a loss of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of pounds, but a huge loss of hundreds of thousands or even millions of pounds." Economic losses."
"But if we don't shut down the gas plant, we will always be threatened by the Songhu Independence Group." Morris spread his hands and said, "China might really be subjugated this time, so they can really do anything. Instead of It would be better to cut off a strong man's wrists than to keep such a bomb that could be detonated by the Chinese at any time."
"Don't even think about it. Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking." Bao Daizhen snorted, "Don't you just want us to buy gas from the French Concession? We will bear the loss, but you will make the money? No. Such a good thing.”
"Hey, what you said hurt my feelings. It doesn't really matter whether it's money or not. The main thing is to help you."
"Okay, okay, Maurice, shut up. I will never pay real money for useless face. That's called losing face and suffering. It's not the way of a British gentleman."
Morris could only get up and leave angrily.
