"Stop the war of aggression."

"Get back to the Eight-Nation Alliance."

"Defend the rights and interests of the Chinese nation."

"Protesting Russia's invasion of Northeast China."

"All Chinese people unite."

"Revitalize China and strive for self-improvement."

As these slogans shook the sky, the consuls of various countries standing on the balcony on the third floor of the British Consulate seemed to feel the building under their feet trembling.

Looking down from the balcony, I saw that the street in front of the British Consulate was full of people, and it was lined up for hundreds of meters, filling the entire street. However, it can be seen that these people were very young, probably no more than 20 years old. They seemed to be students, and they were all wearing various slogans and banners with slogans and slogans, which seemed to be huge.

However, the entire team seemed quite orderly, and stopped 6 or 7 meters away from the gate of the consulate. There were more than a dozen young students, including two women, wearing a long banner with a large banner saying "Protesting the invasion of imperialist powers in China". One of them was facing the crowd, waving his hands, as if he was giving a speech in public. Although the distance was too far, he could not hear the content of her speech, judging from the enthusiastic reactions of the students, it was quite influential.

After returning to the room from the balcony, the consuls of various countries did not look very good. In fact, this kind of demonstration is common among European countries, and the main participants in the parade were workers. On the one hand, the rise of the emerging class of workers and the improvement of ideological awareness after the Industrial Revolution led to the workers' protection of their own rights and interests; on the other hand, after the emergence of Marxist theory, the workers' movement has been guided by theoretical ideas, and the struggle is also organized and purposeful. Moreover, in recent years, due to the continuous increase in industrialization of China's close neighbor Japan, workers' demonstrations have also increased. Therefore, consuls of various countries have seen demonstrations.

Compared with the demonstrations that often cost tens of thousands of people in European countries, the maximum number of this march was only 20,000 to 3,000, and most of the participants were students, which was much smaller in scale. However, the consuls of various countries were still shocked because according to their experience, such a large-scale march would definitely not be their own. Behind it, someone must be organized. Just like the current march of students in European countries, most of the believers of Marxist theory were planned and organized by believers of Marxist theory, and in some countries, relatively strict societies or political party organizations have been formed. As for whom the march was organized, the answer is almost about to emerge.

In addition, although European countries will take tough countermeasures on the march, dispatch military and police to disperse and even suppress, for each country, the march is a major crisis event, which will not only have a great impact on social order and economic development, because if you are not careful, it will lead to revolutionary events and cause subversive changes to your governments, such as the British constitutional revolution, such as the French Revolution. Therefore, after the march, whether it is peaceful or forcibly suppressed, governments of various countries will often make some policies to concessions to workers to alleviate social contradictions.

Moreover, the influence of the Boxer Rebellion movement, which was mainly xenophobic in China, has not yet ended yet, and Shanghai has launched a march with the main purpose of opposing the Eight-Nation Alliance. In addition, the participation of overseas Chinese has also made this incident more complicated. Therefore, in the face of such a situation, the consuls of various countries are not only at a loss.

After returning from the balcony, Huo Bilan said to the consuls with a serious expression: "Everyone, we must control the situation in Shanghai now and we must not make Shanghai the second Beijing. So what do you think?"

Dmitryev said: "What else can I consider? I will immediately notify the concession police station, send police to disperse them, and arrest the leading people."

American Consul Guna frowned and said, "Don't forget that the police in the concession are all Chinese. It's probably not easy to make them attack their compatriots."

Dmitryev waved his hand and said, "Then transfer the army to come over, shoot with guns and bombard them with cannons. The most effective way is to deal with these yellow-skinned monkeys."

However, after he finished speaking, the other consuls looked at the Russian consul with an idiot. Some people even doubted whether this guy could become a Shanghai consul and use some operation. This IQ was too gratifying.

In fact, Dmitryev is a relatively capable official in Russia. However, in response to workers' movements, parades and other European countries are relatively restrained. If they can be comforted, they will try their best to appease them and resolve them peacefully. If they cannot be comforted, they will generally only send police to disperse them. Only when the marches are large and have a significant impact on the government on society will they dispatch troops. However, only the Russian government has the most intense means of treating workers' movements, parades and other behaviors. Almost every worker movement and parade born in Russia, the government will use strong suppression, and even dispatch troops, causing bloodshed. Therefore, Dmitryev suggested sending troops to suppress this student parade, which was just a habit, not a lack of wisdom.

At this moment, I saw a waiter coming and report to Huo Bilan first. It turned out that the student at the entrance of the consulate asked the British consulate in Shanghai to go out to meet them and accept the letter of protest submitted by the students. At the same time, I also gave Huo Bilan a document, which turned out to be an emergency telegram from overseas Chinese to the British consulate.

Huo Bilan refused to comment on the requirements of the parade students, but he did not dare to ignore the telegrams from overseas Chinese because it was a coincidence that there must be important content. So he hurriedly took them and his face changed. The other consuls saw it, and everyone was thinking about what was written on the telegram.

Huo Bilan did not ask them to wait too long, and even handed the telegram to Guna, saying, "Everyone, take a look. This is given to us by overseas Chinese. I guess every consulate will receive one."

Guna took the telegram, and the other consuls came to him to watch. Although it was in English, most consuls could understand it. The telegram reads: It is known that students in Shanghai Concession held protests against the invasion of China. This is a move by Chinese students to care about the future and destiny of the motherland, and their patriotism, rather than an exclusion of hatred and Yang. Looking at the concession, consulates in various countries remain restrained and respond to students' demands. They must not dispel the earthquake pressure by force. If there is any conflict, they will still cause blood. The Tianjin New District Government will take intervention actions. All consequences will be borne by the concession. I hope to do it myself.

If at the beginning, the consuls of various countries only suspected that the march was related to overseas Chinese, then it was basically a foregone conclusion now. But now the consuls of various countries did not have effective means to counter overseas Chinese, and they did not dare to underestimate the warnings of overseas Chinese. Since the People's Army conquered Beijing, no one dared to doubt the determination of overseas Chinese, because if overseas Chinese really sent troops to attack Shanghai, it would be impossible to resist with the current garrison power of Shanghai. Therefore, even Dmitryev, who had just called the highest tone, did not make any more noise at this time. The fighting nation is actually quite pragmatic. Although the Russian army in the northeast is ready to advance south, it is too far from Shanghai. If overseas Chinese are really annoyed and sent troops to attack Shanghai, then the unlucky one is himself.

At this moment, the Public Concession and the French Concession Department had successively telegrammed to the British Consulate. It turned out that they had received news that someone was marching in the Concession. They were originally going to send police, but at this time they received threatening telegrams from overseas Chinese, so they interrogated the British Consulate.

Before the consulates could react, other consulates also sent telegrams. As expected, every consulate received telegrams from overseas Chinese, but at this time all consulates gathered in the British consulate, so they called to inquire.

The consuls were all looking at each other, really not knowing what to do. At this time, Huo Bilan said: "Let's do this, we should stabilize the concession situation first for this parade. From now on, the march team is still quite restrained. I think as long as we maintain restraint, they should not cause much trouble. As for how to deal with the situation in China, this is no longer something our consulate can solve. I suggest that you recruit the situation in China truthfully to the country and let the governments decide." After a pause, Huo Bilan said: "I will go out to see their representatives later and see what they say. I will tell you the results immediately."

At this time, countries could only follow Huo Bilan's opinion, so the consulates of various countries also said goodbye and left the back door of the British consulate. Huo Bilan also walked out of the gate of the consulate, met with the student representatives in the march, and received the letter of protest submitted by the students. The two sides also had a brief conversation. In fact, the requests made by the students were similar to their slogan, which was to demand that all countries stop war, stop aggression, and restore peace to China.

Huo Bilan also made a simple speech to the students, saying that he had known the students' demands and would convey the students' demands to the domestic government, and he would suggest to the domestic government that the negotiations with China should be restarted as soon as possible, end the war and restored peace in China. At the same time, he also asked the students to end the march immediately and return to their respective schools. If the students still insist on conducting the march, they hope that the students can maintain restraint during the march, do not use violence, do not destroy the public facilities of the concession, and do not disrupt the normal living order of the concession.
Chapter completed!