On March 12, a piece of explosive news was published in all newspapers across China at the same time. The newspapers that were unwilling to publish it have been banned.

On March 12, nearly 2,000 newspapers in the Chinese Empire, stretching from northwest Arabia in the west to the Hawaiian Islands in the east, the Timor Sea in the south and Mohe in the north, covering an area of ​​about 17.35 million square kilometers, simultaneously published "

The Americans assassinated Sun Zaizhi to prevent the merger."

Of course, in order to attract attention, each newspaper uses different headlines and explains them differently.

However, the general trend is to secretly change the concept of Americans into Westerners, white people, foreigners, etc. The assassination of Sun Zaizhi is also explained as fear of the emergence of the Chinese Empire.

This caused widespread discussion in society.

At this time, the people at the bottom of China's attitude towards foreigners was one of hatred and fear. They hated that their arrival had caused suffering, but they were afraid that the foreigners would complain to the officials.

At first, the people at the bottom of China rejected foreigners, but they were not afraid of them. It was the foreigners who were afraid of the people.

Because the people won't let you talk about other things, and they don't like you, so they just go against you and talk about your theories, so they don't care about you.

Anyway, as long as the people feel something is wrong, it must be the fault of the foreigners. There are examples of people voluntarily demolishing churches, killing foreigners, and rejecting foreign religions everywhere.

Until, the gentlemen of the Qing Empire took action. The gentlemen who fought against foreigners could not defeat them, but the gentlemen who fought against you, a commoner, still had the strength to fight against them.

After a few more visits, the people discovered that if a foreigner died, they would have to be killed by soldiers and bandits. Not to mention the culprits, soldiers and bandits were soldiers and bandits, which meant that the difference between them and the bandits was that they had better equipment and were covered with dog skins.

Over time, the people have treated foreigners with respect and respect. Even if they are bullied, they can only swallow their anger for the sake of their families.

After all, the official has implemented a continuous sitting system!

The emotions accumulated over the years have led to the fact that when the Chinese people heard that foreigners did not want to see the merger, their first reaction was "This is bad, this thing can't be done."

The second reaction is to imagine what would happen if this thing happened.

But in the end, they will bury the second reaction deep in their hearts and continue to live in confusion.

The original Chinese part was like this, but the original Nanhua part would not tolerate foreigners.

In other words, the South Chinese youth who received military education from an early age and developed a martial spirit were, like Europeans at this time, eager for war.

On the afternoon of March 12, fierce demonstrations broke out in Southeast Asia, with students, workers, farmers, and industrialists as the main components of the demonstrations surrounding the U.S. Embassy.

In order to prevent the situation from escalating, Liu Yiming had to send someone to "protect" the U.S. Embassy. After all, guns were not allowed in Nanhua, and the students even conducted target shooting regularly and included it in their physical education grades.

Physical education classes are not just for show, but are closely related to whether you can enter higher education.

This group of students, let alone many, can hit 60 or 70 rings with ten shots per 100 meters. Anyone who cannot hit it will be ridiculed and have to practice harder until they hit it.

Bullets are not expensive anyway, and the local government or construction corps is not short of money.

After being "protected", the U.S. Embassy immediately fell into a situation where it was impossible to enter and exit, and it was embarrassed to ask for help from the mainland.

The U.S. government expressed serious protest to Nan Hua for his inaction in this incident. When the protest was submitted to Lin Anmin, Lin Anmin returned the protest form.

He also said: "I am the Foreign Minister of the Chinese Empire. This is a protest submitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanhua Empire that no longer exists. I cannot accept it. You can go to the Nanhua Empire."

The American was really stubborn for a while and decided to ignore him for the time being. Anyway, he was sure that Liu Yiming did not dare to do anything to the embassy. It would be an act of war.

Indeed, apart from being unable to enter and exit the US embassy, ​​there seems to be no problem. The Americans have nothing to lose other than losing some face.

Moreover, the Americans also took this opportunity to hype up the situation and package themselves as victims. While gaining sympathy, they also insinuated that the Chinese Empire was "illegal".

On March 15th, demonstrations also broke out in the former Huaxia region, but unlike the former Nanhua region where people approached the U.S. embassy or consulate, the Huaxia region surrounded all foreign embassies.

Therefore, although there are fewer people participating in the Huaxia region, the impact is much greater.

A group of ambassadors or secretaries who managed to escape approached Huang Keqiang and demanded that Huang Keqiang immediately intervene and stop the parade activities and corresponding publicity, and consider merging the incident again.

Huang Keqiang thought for a while: "This matter? I still have to think about it and solicit opinions from all parties. After all, I am only one person, and I can't support myself..."

When the ambassadors heard this, they thought Huang Keqiang was an opposition but weak in strength, and expressed their support for him one after another.

The ambassadors of the United Kingdom (France, Germany, etc.) also stated that the United Kingdom (France, Germany, etc.) will provide necessary support to Huang Keqiang.

After Huang Keqiang sent everyone away, he opened the small door of his office, which connected to a small room, which was used for them to rest when they were busy.

At this time, the room was filled with reporters/controllers from major newspapers.

"Wherever the negatives are, you know what to say, right?" Huang Keqiang asked stiffly.

"Know."

"clear."

"Don't worry, tomorrow's newspapers will contain threats and inducements from various countries..."

"Ahem!" Huang Keqiang coughed.

"I don't know anything. Since there's nothing wrong, you can leave first." Huang Keqiang waved his hand.

The reporters or presidents left in a hurry, one after another, hoping to be the first to report the big news.

Starting from the afternoon of March 15th, major cities in the former Huaxia region began to rush to report on it. At this time, in order to compete for eyeballs, newspapers that had lost the opportunity to say more and more mysterious stories.

Huang Keqiang never spoke much, but now he chats and laughs and chats with other scholars.

Moreover, the description was so accurate and the facial expressions were described so delicately that after reading the newspaper, he even wondered if he had lost his memory.

The fluctuations caused this time affected all strata of the Chinese Empire, especially those in the original Huaxia region. The people at the bottom who "kept alone" also felt direct oppression from the West.

On March 16, 1915, towns, towns and even villages began to discuss this matter. When scolding Westerners for being dirty and meddling in other people's affairs, they inevitably talked about the advantages and disadvantages of merger.

This is what Liu Yiming wants. As long as the people start thinking and discussing, no matter what, the final public opinion will be in favor of merger.

It's very simple. From the simple thinking of the people, no one would think that expanding territory is redundant, even if it is a useless wasteland, let alone the rich land of Southeast Asia.

So on March 19, the teacher published the military strength of the Chinese Empire in the newspaper, talked about some strategies, the current situation of the European battlefield, etc.

Some literati were also hired to talk about how to defeat the Westerners.

The angle is very cunning, even more cunning than the Eight Masters and the F Empress. From time to time, it also involves metaphysics, but ordinary people like to watch these.

Just like modern people always love to watch high-tech warfare, they don't care that only American soldiers have a complete high-tech warfare system, and other countries are not very comprehensive.

Eastern Europe has begun to engage in positional warfare. There are so many high technologies, and they all cost money.

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"Surveys in various places show that this incident has penetrated into small teahouses everywhere. 38% of villagers in Bashu area and 86% of township residents have heard of it."

"In big cities, this kind of thing spreads more widely, and generally public opinion is developing in a positive direction."

Jiang Wang handed the questionnaire to Liu Yiming, who nodded slowly.

This is the first investigation of the Chinese Empire. It mainly depends on the degree of attention this matter has attracted after half a month.

It’s not just about hearing about this incident, but it’s about at least knowing about the merger of the two countries, the assassination by the United States, the intimidation and inducement of the European ambassador, etc.

38% is already a number that is beyond Liu Yiming's expectation. Even though half a month has passed, China's small-scale peasant economy has not yet completely disintegrated, and the village is relatively closed.

Nearly 40% of the villagers have heard of this, which is a very high number. In the former Qing Dynasty, if the emperor died for half a month, it would be normal for the local authorities not to know.

This is due to the township rights system established by Liu Yiming. After a while, the news will spread more widely.

"The next step is to bring the conflict to Westerners. If we need a real target, it's Americans. It's okay to offend them."

"It emphasizes that we are one and share the same origin. All problems are caused by Westerners. They want us to fight among ourselves and then crawl on us to suck our blood. Do you understand?"

Liu Yiming looked at Jiang Wang seriously.

This is very important. To move the contradiction away, you only need to temporarily change your focus and take advantage of the opportunity of making money in the First World War, and the little contradiction will be eliminated soon.

After all, 90% of the conflicts in the world are caused by insufficient resources and uneven distribution of wealth.

Like the original Huaxia region, Sun Zaizhi has vigorously promoted rent and interest reductions, land surveying, stepped land taxes, etc. to limit the scale of landlords.

In essence, this is a redistribution. Liu Yiming is also considering introducing property tax, real estate tax, etc., to reduce distribution and hierarchy issues as much as possible without involving the God of Law.

Jingle bell bell~~

The secretary picked up the phone.

"Hey, Imperial Office...Okay, I understand, please wait a moment." Wang Linhai covered the phone.

"Your Majesty, the Foreign Minister called, the Ottoman Empire has joined the war." Wang Linhai said.

"Which side are they on?" Liu Yiming asked.

No wonder Liu Yiming was confused. The Ottomans had been coy with Britain and France recently. They had also asked Nanhua for his opinion. Without the One Week, there seemed to be no reason for the Ottomans to join the war.

But the weekly issue was just a primer. The reason why the Ottomans participated in the war was ultimately for profit.

"On the Allied side, Osman said it would stop paying loans." Wang Linhai said.

Prior to the Balkan War, Nanhua had lent a huge loan of up to 300 million to the Ottoman Empire.

"It doesn't matter, the bonds have been sold long ago. When the bonds are reduced to useless paper, we will buy them back. After the war, we will use this thing to conquer the Turkish Strait."
Chapter completed!