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Chapter 1156 The Battle of Ban Hong (1)

Because of his revenge, Rufus Isaacs ordered the army to enter China. Because of his arrogance, he looked down on the Chinese people and thought that the Chinese were vulnerable.

Of course, Rufus Isaacs has the highest power in Asia and is also the reason why he dares to do this. It is precisely because of his toughness that Britain's status in India and South and Southeast Asia has been stabilized within two years.

Therefore, Rufus Isaacs had reason to believe that he could achieve the results he wanted, in addition to sending troops into the 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment, which was wiped out by the Chinese Kashmir territory. The troops he sent into China this time were called elite Indian troops, and the 1st Indian Glory Regiment, which had invaded China and served as a thug of the Eight-Nation Alliance. In addition to the 1st Honor Regiment, it also included an infantry battalion composed of pure British people, entering China with the strength of one regiment plus one battalion. It can be said that after the 49th Mountain Infantry Regiment was completely wiped out, Rufus Isaacs gave the Chinese a lot of face.

Although the Indian Governor thought the Chinese would react, he did not expect that the Chinese would react so strongly. The Chinese would directly send a division into the Banhong area, and the two sides confronted each other halfway up the mountain. The British defended the commanding heights at the Banshan and built a suggestion bunker on the road. With the dangerous heights of the mountains and ridges, Li Shucheng's troops were forced to stagnate at the Banshan.

Faced with the Chinese demand for withdrawal, the British replied disdainfully: "Whether to withdraw troops is the above matter, and we must not let you go through our matter."

One of the Indian officers from Baotou still pulled his military flag with great might and said, "Did you see it? Did you see it? This flag was once inserted in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing, and Lhasa in 1840, 1859, 1863, 1900, and 1904 respectively. We are your nemesis, poor Chinese!"

When the translator told the soldiers of the 3rd Mountain Division of the Chinese National Defense Forces, the soldiers here were so angry that they asked to kill these British people - or the British hunting dog Indians.

Although Li Shucheng, the commander of the 3rd Mountain Division, also wanted to order an attack, he had not received Xiao Yaonan's order. I don't know if Xiao Yaonan had gone around Ban Honghou to complete the siege against the British, and at the same time, the superiors had not ordered the first shot to fire. At this time, the Chinese Presidential Office received a secret telegram directly from Li Shucheng, and Wang Maoru sent him a telegram to ask him if he was difficult. Are you ready - Wang Maoru was not a commander over the level, he was just mobilizing the troops before the war.

Li Shucheng was very surprised after receiving the telegram from the President. He immediately announced that the President was looking at us at this time. The 4,600 soldiers were very excited. It turned out that our every move was paying attention to the whole country, and we represent China. Li Shucheng immediately replied that we were ready. He also reported the information of the opponent's opponent to Wang Maoru, saying that this army had invaded China five times, and every British invasion of China was their vanguard. The Qing Dynasty was defeated repeatedly, which gave this army a name that was invincible in the Eurasian continent.

When Wang Maoru heard that it was so good, he immediately called back and said, "Prepare for battle. Once it is fought, wipe this army out of the earth."

Li Shucheng was immediately excited and read the president's reply to the soldiers. The soldiers shouted that they would definitely live up to the president's expectations, and their desire for war in their eyes became even stronger.

At this time, the "war" in diplomatic channels officially began. The British Ambassador to China Sir Maklay flatly rejected China's request for withdrawal and return of the Pham region and the Mengmao Triangle, and directly sent people to submit the remaining rent and interest in the Mengmao Triangle to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, saying that it was the Chinese Civil War government that was not known before, and we will deliver it on time from now on.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen Yi was not a good person. He asked with a sneer: "You really want to return it according to interest?"

"Yes." Mr. Heisen, the second-class British secretary to China, said proudly.

Chen Yi sneered: "Okay, you guys come tomorrow, let's calculate the accounts."

"It's best, I look forward to your good news." Heisen turned around and left.

Then Chen Yi reported to Wang Maoru at this moment and expressed his plans. After hearing his attention, Wang Maoru laughed and said, "It's worthy of being a governor in Mongolia. You are so cunning."

The next day, Heisen went to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of the British government to return the rent in the Mengmao Triangle. Chen Yi immediately invited a few accountants and took the ancient Chinese abacus, which made Heisen sneer. He brought a few Jewish accountants and had calculated the rent and interest. Even if the Chinese cheated on him, he could handle it. It was just a few hundred silver dollars that our British Empire could afford.

However, Chen Yi's words made Haisen crazy. Chen Yi said: "We Chinese people are honest. If you pay rent on time, we will not charge a penny of interest. If you don't pay rent on time, we will calculate it at 3 cents of interest. However, we will calculate it according to the day." Several accountants immediately calculated it, for a total of thirteen years, and calculated it in total at 45 silver dollars per year, that is 45 times 1.03 4745 cubic meters (4745 days in thirteen years), plus 45 times 1.03 4380 cubic meters (4380 days in twelve years), plus eleven years, ten years, nine years... The total calculation is more than 8,000 trillion silver dollars. Chen Yi said generously that due to the trouble of counting, our Chinese government is very generous, so the leader is not allowed, and you just give us 8,000 trillion silver dollars.

Heisen vomited blood in anger and said angrily: "Are you guys playing rogues?"

Chen Yi said innocently: "Three-point interest is already the lowest interest in China. We do not stipulate how this interest is calculated? China calculates it according to the sky, so if you rent Chinese land, you have to calculate it according to the interest in China. Is this very reasonable?"

Heisen said angrily: "Fuck! You are more usury than usury, and more Venetian merchants than Venetian merchants. Are you provoking the great British Empire?"

"Without notifying our government, sending troops into our territory without authorization, is this your greatness in Britain?" Chen Yi said coldly, "Then you are so great that you are arrogant. You are so great that you lose the North American colony? Why did the Americans beat you so hard that they were so angry that they knelt in front of the Americans during the European War and begged the Americans to protect you?"

"It seems that you were deliberately provoking this time?" Heisen said.

Chen Yi said: "It's you who deliberately provoked you. I believe that your invasion in Banhong area is not even aware of it. Now that China-UK trade is becoming more and more prosperous, you have started to stumbling on your business partners. If this matter is known by the return prime minister McDonald, I don't know what he will react."

"Hahaha, then you can wait." Heisen turned around and left.

After the British left, a accountant immediately said, "I've calculated it wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"We calculated it wrong." The accountant said regretfully, "It's not just eight hundred trillion, but eight hundred billion..."

Chen Yi was sweating coldly, thinking that if you don’t say 80 trillion yuan, even 80 million yuan, the British would not pay 80,000 silver dollars. He quickly comforted the old man and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm afraid you'll calculate too much and scare the British. Do you think you'll scare the British to death? Isn't this causing diplomatic conflict?"

The accountant immediately regretted again: "If I had known, I would have scared him to death, and I would have become the first accountant to be a national hero."

Everyone burst into laughter. The joke reached Wang Maoru's ears, which made Wang Maoru laugh too much. He said that the old man was sour, but he was sour and cute.

Heisen reported the Chinese as a scoundrel to Sir Macre. Macre was furious and found Chen Yi. Chen Yi was still the same rhetoric. China's calculation method is different from you...

Maklay immediately contacted the Earl of Isaacs, the governor of India, and asked him whether the Banhong incident was approved by the British House of Lords. Rufus Isaacs also called back with a proud voice: "Before I left, King George V once told me that I could decide everything in Asia."

Sir Maklay was very depressed. He was just a baron and was an earl. It seemed that he was just like this in other people's eyes, but the interests of the British Empire had to be maintained, so he was very depressed. At the same time, Sir Maklay understood very well that the person in charge of the British now is the leader of the Labor Party, MacDonald.

At this time, Britain's economy had not recovered yet, and the influence of the Soviet revolutionary boom, the workers' strength gradually increased, and the Labor Party's strength in the House of Commons gradually increased. MacDonald also took the opportunity to become the left-wing leader of the Labor Party, gained the support of radical workers, claiming to truly carry out the British economy and increase the treatment of workers. In the midst of the constant labor movement boom, Lower House MP MacDonald was elected as the British Prime Minister almost at the same time as Wang Maoru as president at the beginning of the year, and he also became the first Prime Minister of the Labor Party.

After Sir Maklay learned about McDonald's background, he was immediately disappointed with him. He was a speculator, a complete speculator, and a party whip that only focused on his own voters but did not value the country. He did not think that the arrogant Earl of Rufus Isaacs would report to Prime Minister McDonald, who was born in the Labor Party and was an illegitimate son.

This is bad. Rufus Isaacs made a decision without authorization, and he represented the interests of the British Empire, which gave Sir Maklay, the British Ambassador to China, a headache. Then Maklay reported the British army's temptation to China to the British government in a complete and complete manner. The roughly means that you can do it, and I can't afford to offend anyone... The British government called back with a line of words: Try it.
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