Before Churchill finished speaking, Tang Jian immediately interrupted with a firm heart: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Churchill smiled and said, "President Tang Jian should not be too arbitrary. My conditions have not been finished yet! As long as President Tang Jian agrees to be independent, the British Empire will help the Chinese government build 15 latest battleships in the next ten years, and will also give the Chinese government one million pounds of economic support in twenty years, equivalent to 700 million taels of silver, and will also give a large amount of equipment and machinery required for industrial production. The list agreement is on the documents in your hands. How about it? Is it rich enough? "

Tang Jian didn't even read the document, so he threw it on the red painted solid wood table in front of him and said, "Hisser Churchill, I guess you didn't hear it clearly, so I repeat it again. I can't accept these conditions at all, it's impossible!"

Churchill smiled awkwardly, and he suppressed the anger in his heart. There was never a weak country (in Churchill's eyes, at least China is still very weak now) who dared to reject the British Empire's request directly and arrogantly. However, since it was the task assigned to him by the cabinet, he had the responsibility to complete it.

Churchill thought Tang Jian felt that the conditions were not generous enough, so he added: "If President Tang Jian feels that the conditions are not enough, we can discuss it again."

Tang Jian slapped the table suddenly and said angrily: "His Excellency Churchill, I think I have already made it clear. I will never allow the **** things, it is absolutely!"

Churchill finally couldn't help it. He lowered his face and said, "I hope President Tang Jian can be responsible for the decision you made today."

Tang Jian snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, don't worry, I will be responsible! **Since ancient times, it has been my territory of China and cannot tolerate divisions from others**. No matter how generous your conditions are, even if you give me an ocean-going fleet, I will never agree."

Seeing that Tang Jian was unmoved under such generous conditions, Churchill couldn't help but admire Tang Jian. He could still maintain an absolute calmness in the face of such a huge temptation and always wanted to preserve the national territorial integrity. It seemed that Tang Jian was different from other leaders of the Far Eastern countries.

Previously, when Britain seized colonies around the world, it was proved to be successful in using coercion and temptation. When encountering weaker countries, they directly used their strong ships and cannons to open their doors, and used forced force to control the regime of this weak country, making it completely a colony of the British Empire.

For some countries with slightly stronger national strength, they first interfere with other countries' internal affairs by force, force them to sign unequal treaties, expand their interests bit by bit, and then collude with the upper ruling class to jointly oppress the people of their own country, so as to achieve the goal of ceding part of the land and making it a semi-colonial and semi-feudal state.

However, admiration is admiration. As a soldier of the British Empire, Churchill took the principle of safeguarding the interests of the country as his code of conduct. Tang Jian flatly rejected Churchill's suggestion, which was to indirectly damage the national interests of the British Empire. Therefore, Churchill also stood up angrily and said coldly: "It seems that President Tang Jian doesn't want to live in peace with our British Empire?"

Tang Jian sneered: "What a joke, I force other countries to divide the territory, and now I still say we don't want to live in peace with you?"

Churchill turned around and wanted to leave. Before leaving, Churchill said viciously: "President Tang Jian, I may have to re-examine the peaceful relationship between the Chinese Republic and the British Empire now."

Tang Jian said: "Wait a minute!"

Churchill turned around and sneered: "President Tang Jian? Is there any possibility that we will continue to talk?"

Tang Jian stood up and said with a smile: "We don't need to continue talking, but I just want to say one thing to you. If someone doesn't offend me, I won't offend others! Those who offend me in China will be punished even if they are far away!"

When Churchill heard this, his heart shivered for no reason. When he looked at the young leader of the new country in front of him, he always felt a sense of fear. The look was like a powerful lion looking at a weak antelope.

However, this strange thought quickly flashed in Churchill's heart, and he laughed in his heart: "How could a small Chinese become a powerful lion? In the face of the great British Empire, the newly established Chinese is more like a weak antelope!"

After leaving the presidential palace and getting on the carriage, Churchill looked back at the presidential palace reluctantly. He just saw something familiar in Tang Jian's eyes. He really couldn't figure out what it was. He only knew that when his eyes were facing each other, a familiar feeling suddenly surged out of his heart. From Tang Jian's expression, he could see that Tang Jian must have had this feeling at that time.

This Tang Jian is really not simple! Churchill sighed in his heart that Tang Jian is likely to become a stumbling block on the British Empire's global colonization path in just a few years.

"I hope I won't see him on the battlefield in the future." Churchill sighed lightly.

Tang Jian walked to the glass window, holding a lit cigarette in his hand, and his eyes kept staring at the direction of Churchill's carriage leaving. It was not until Churchill's carriage completely disappeared at the intersection that Tang Jian retracted his gaze a little reluctantly.

Just now when he and Churchill competed against each other, Tang Jian felt a sense of mutual appreciation. When he was facing Churchill, Tang Jian even felt that Churchill had this strange feeling about him.

When Tang Jian thought of this, he didn't feel funny. How could he and Churchill have never been masked? How could he have such a strange feeling in just half an hour of communication? And he was also a mutual appreciation during the verbal battle.

Tang Jian guessed that the reason why he felt this way with Churchill at the same time was probably because they had some commonalities in their bodies!

Although Churchill just said those words that wanted to split **, Tang Jian was not as annoyed as he thought. As a soldier, it is understandable to regard the interests of the country as the highest interest. Churchill was for the interests of the British Empire, and Tang Jian was for the interests of China. The confrontation between the two just now should be considered a confrontation between the countries behind the two.

However, after Churchill's reminder just now, Tang Jian became vigilant about the problem of **, and the British would never give up.

Tang Jian knew from later generations that because the border with India and India was the largest colony in the Far East, the British coveted the **, and it was not a problem for a day or two to train the *** in India.

In history, in 1914, the Foreign Minister of the British and Indian government, McMahon conceived a line of India-Tibet dividing, using the connection line of the Himalayan ridge watershed as the boundary line. McMahon tempted the representatives of Gasha and carried out a demarcation change with the representatives of the Beiyang government of China. At that time, the Chinese government, which had sovereignty over **, did not know anything about it, and the Lama and the Gasha regime did not authorize the demarcation of their representatives to attend the Shimla Conference. Later, the Gasha regime, who learned about the situation, refused to recognize the lines drawn by McMahon.

Therefore, Tang Jian felt that Churchill would not give up without permission. Even if Tang Jian disagreed, Britain would continue to want to split up. The reason why Churchill proposed that condition was just to put on a cloak of righteousness. Now that the outerwear is gone, Britain will definitely split up secretly.

There are three territorial issues facing Tang Jian now. One is to go to war with the Russians and take back the three northeastern provinces; the second is to take back Outer Mongolia, and it is best to use diplomatic means, and if there is no choice, use force; the third is to strengthen the control of the ** Kashag government, stabilize the ** Lama, and completely transfer the ** into the control of the central government.

There are also some problems that need to be solved by Tang Jian, which is the border bandit problem. When Tang Jian and Yuan Shikai fought a civil war in the north and south, there were serious bandits in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places, especially Xinjiang. The situation obtained from the CIA was that Xinjiang had long been separated from the central government during the civil war in the north and south, and the central government's control over Xinjiang was weakened. Then, under the instigation of some overseas forces, some separatists in Xinjiang wanted to make ****.

Regarding the issue of Xinjiang, Tang Jian could naturally guess who it was. The Russian royal family's desire for land reached an unparalleled pervert. During the civil war between the north and the south, only the Russians closest to Xinjiang would take advantage of the situation and intend to incorporate Xinjiang into Russia's territory.

Tang Jian thought about it and felt that he should send an expeditionary force to the northwest to eliminate bandits and strengthen the central government's control over the northwest. However, all this will not be implemented until the biggest economic problem is dealt with first.

Three days later, the National Business Conference was soon held at the Wuhan Horse Reading Farm, and most of the attendees were wealthy businessmen.

Tang Jian prepared a dinner at the horse-sacrificing farm, and Yan Fu would also travel with him. At night, wealthy businessmen who had already arrived in Wuhan began to enter the venue and sit.

This time, there were more than a thousand wealthy businessmen coming, and the entire venue was crowded with people, and they accidentally stepped on a person's foot. The owner of the foot might be the richest man in a certain province, or a business giant that monopolized a certain industry. In short, the lowest value of the wealthy businessman attending this dinner was 100,000 taels of silver.

The first person to appear was Prime Minister Yan Fu of the Cabinet. Yan Fu toasted the wealthy businessmen present on behalf of the new Chinese government. However, the atmosphere of drinking this time was not a bit awkward.

Most wealthy businessmen are frowning and dare not eat with chopsticks. Even if they taste the delicacies on the table, they feel the same as chewing wax. They taste the taste and drink wine, and they dare not drink too much.

Every wealthy businessman was worried that the dinner would not be a Hongmen banquet. Since the new government had just been established and the finances were tight, these wealthy businessmen were afraid that the Chinese government would force their property.

At this time, the crowd in front was crowded, and the people sitting behind knew that today's finale was coming, and the President of the Chinese Government, Tang Jian, was standing on the stage with a glass of wine and preparing to speak.
Chapter completed!