Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Chapter 331 News from Fusang Su Zhengyang's attitude

The next morning, He Qingzhu, who had not slept all night, knelt in the mourning hall, looking at his grandfather in the portrait, with an indescribable complex emotion in his heart.

At this time, Zuo Xinquan, the leader of the Hongyi Gang, a branch of the Hongmen in Jinggang City, walked in hurriedly.

"Qingzhu, something happened to those Japanese students that the old man sponsored."

He Qingzhu slowly stood up after hearing this, turned around and asked, "What happened?"

"Can I have a word with you?"

Half an hour later, He Qingzhu called the Su Mansion and informed them of the Fuso killing incident in detail.

In fact, Su Zhengyang also got up early today. The intelligence personnel of the Fuso Intelligence Department of the Northwest Intelligence Bureau passed back a series of relevant information targeting Chinese students and expatriates in Kyoto, Fuso overnight.

Xiao An, also known as An Qinghu, who died in the killing of overseas Chinese, was one of the overseas students sponsored by Mr. He. An Qinghu, who graduated from the top domestic university, Beilong University, was sponsored by Mr. He and, with a passion to serve his country, traveled across the ocean to study in Japan. His parents, worried about their son, followed him to study and started a small snack business in Kyoto's Sihai Chinatown.

Unexpectedly, in this killing of overseas Chinese, a family of three all died tragically on the street.

Kyoto's Sihai Chinatown was originally the scene of some samurai provoking, beating, and even killing overseas students and Chinese expatriates in the street. In the end, under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, it evolved into the anger of the entire Japanese people in Kyoto. They vented their frustration and humiliation in Northeast China on the Chinese expatriates. Tens of thousands of Japanese people, led by the Black Dragon Society samurai, rushed into Sihai Chinatown, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil.

The entire Sihai Chinatown was almost burned to the ground, and countless Chinese people were killed or injured.

However, under the deliberate bias and control of the Fuso government, the people from the Metropolitan Police Department arrived late and did nothing, characterizing such a serious incident as an accident, which made the samurai and Fuso people, who originally had some reservations, even more arrogant.

Su Zhengyang looked at the shocking figures that were initially counted on the telegram, and his expression became increasingly cold.

The country of Fuso, from top to bottom, is a blatant hypocrite. After suffering losses on the front battlefield and the Imperial Army being questioned by the people, they actually deliberately led the people to use Chinese expatriates and international students as an outlet for their emotions.

"Prepare the car! Go to the Central Government Building!"

At this time, in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Fuso, Emperor Jinto was sitting on the floor in his study, while opposite him, Prime Minister Tojo Takehide and Suzuki Taro were hunched over, unable to hide the smug looks on their faces.

"He, Su Zhengyang, dares to wantonly kill prisoners and humiliate us Fusang. We will kill all of his Chinese expatriates and give him a warning."

Taro Suzuki talked eloquently, shaking his head.

Emperor Jindong also smiled, "The people in the country have already expressed their disappointment and anger towards the imperial army. There have even been large-scale demonstrations in Kyoto. We first pushed out the war criminal Minamino Tojiro, and then directed the public's emotions to the incident of Su Zhengyang killing prisoners of war. This is another outlet to vent and solve the hidden danger. Suzuki, your idea this time is a good one."

Tojo Yuei frowned and said, "Your Majesty, Su Zhengyang is a bold and vindictive man. Once the news reaches China, I'm afraid he will never give up. I'm afraid he will retaliate. If so, our expatriates and merchants in the Chinese concession will face great threats."

Suzuki Taro snorted coldly, "Your Excellency the Prime Minister is wrong. Firstly, international opinion is increasingly unfavorable to Northern Frontier. At this juncture, if the Northern Frontier regime wants to gain international recognition in the future, Su Zhengyang will have to restrain himself. Secondly, this is not an official move by our Fuso Empire, but an act of violence spontaneously organized by angry people. If it gets out of hand, we can just push out a few scapegoats to solve the problem."

"I just don't believe that Su Zhengyang would dare to risk the world's condemnation and attack our Fusang Concession for a few Chinese students and expatriates."

At the same time, in the President's Office of the Northern Xinjiang Central Government Building, when Su Zhengyang told them the latest news from Fuso, Yang Jiakai and Duan Jinshu were both furious and their expressions became visibly gloomy.

You have to know that this is not the 17th or 18th century, when sea transportation was difficult and major countries had little communication. Almost every developed country has foreign students and expatriates. Killing overseas Chinese is a taboo and is tantamount to violating the bottom line of the entire China.

"The damned Japanese devils have just been defeated and forced to evacuate Northeast China. How dare they bully China like this!"

Yang Jiakai slammed the table angrily.

Duan Jinshu held his eyes and said slowly, "He Fusang has seen it clearly. Now in terms of international public opinion, our Northern Frontier has been pushed to the forefront. We dare not do anything radical at this time. Moreover, they can also push this matter onto the heads of ordinary people in Fusang, turning a big thing into a small one and a small thing into nothing. Fusang is indeed as cunning as a devil."

Su Zhengyang said firmly: "No matter what, this matter must be dealt with seriously! We must not let Fuso settle the incident so easily."

"Please be patient for now. I have asked Zhixing to raise questions at the diplomatic level in the name of the Northern Frontier government. Let's see how Fuso responds."

Yang Jiakai looked at Su Zhengyang deeply. He knew his son-in-law's temper very well. If he did not dissuade him, Su Zhengyang might directly use tough measures to resolve the matter.

Facing Yang Jiakai's gaze, Su Zhengyang said with a serious face: "If it goes as expected, just as Premier Duan said, Fuso will definitely introduce a few scapegoats to solve this matter. After all, they have not officially come forward, and this matter was incited by the people to do it, so they can just perfunctorily get away with it."

"My opinion is that no matter what, we cannot give Fuso what it wants! If the response given by Fuso cannot satisfy our Northern Frontier government, I will definitely solve it with iron-blooded means. Doesn't Fuso have any overseas Chinese in China? The best solution is to give someone a taste of their own medicine."

"As for the direction of international public opinion, I, Su Zhengyang, don't care. In today's world, the biggest fists are the hardest. Now that our Northern Frontier has just defeated the Kwantung Army, we are at the peak of our power. We must not compromise easily. If we don't deal with this matter firmly, we will lose the support of the local people, which will be counterproductive."

Yang Jiakai and Duan Jinshu looked at each other. In fact, according to Yang Jiakai's idea, this matter would be best resolved slowly with gentle means, so as to prevent Northern Xinjiang from being caught in the whirlpool of international public opinion again. But now that Su Zhengyang is set to succeed the president, it is a foregone conclusion, so it might as well leave this matter to Su Zhengyang.

"Since you have your own ideas, I'll leave this matter to you. I have only one request. First, you must not lose face and dignity for China. Second, you must not allow the reputation of our Northern Frontier regime to deteriorate further internationally."

Su Zhengyang nodded solemnly.