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    As the reporters swarmed behind the wheel, their cameras and eyes gradually focused.  *1*1*

    In what Gu Weijun later said, "The U.S. Marines opened the door, and I was almost stunned by the flash when I followed the vice president out." In contrast to the Wilson administration, the American civil society, business groups, and Congress were very concerned about the young vice president's actions.  As soon as it was confirmed that he would go to Capitol Hill to give a speech, there was even a situation where someone wanted to find connections to sneak in and attend.

    Because this young man is so crazy!  A country that was poor and backward and had just begun to rely on the European War to gradually get rid of a semi-colonial country actually sent 25 infantry divisions to fight on the terrible Western Front battlefield at once!  A reporter from the New York Times who was present at the time even wrote harshly: "For sacrificing 600,000 lives in exchange for benefits, I can only say that he is a madman. Of course this madman now looks gentle and refined."

    These words also reveal the huge differences between Eastern and Western cultures.  In the simplest terms, this is a collision between China, which has not yet completely emerged from imperial power and authoritarian ideas, and the American idea that human rights and life are above all else.  Yang Qiu himself also knew the consequences of doing so, and was even privately prepared to accept the heavy price of 100,000 to 200,000 sacrifices!  But no one can deny that this is the best opportunity for the world to change its view of China and win a more relaxed international environment for development after the war!  So he would rather pay the price of heavy casualties and years of postwar social unrest.

    On behalf of Congress, he was welcomed by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Ron Brown. This is a veteran Republican congressman with decades of political experience. The House Foreign Affairs Committee he heads is also the biggest opponent and critic of Wilson's foreign policy.

    "Welcome, I believe today will be the most important moment on both sides of the Pacific." When Brown extended his hand politely, there was an old man with gray hair next to him, wearing glasses, and his eyes were slightly narrowed behind the lenses.  Looking at Yang Qiu.  "Let me introduce to you, this is" Brown introduced the old man to him, with greetings like an old friend in his tone: "His Excellency Theodore Roosevelt, the former president of our country."

    It's him?  Yang Qiu did not expect that his speech would attract this big name.  An energetic American cowboy, Wilson's most troublesome critic.  An advocate of active participation in the war in the United States, he was also one of the five people who were later named "the founders of modern America" ??by Americans and placed on Mount Rushmore.  Of course, he was also the driving force behind making the Chinese Exclusion Act a permanent act.

    "Nice to meet you, Mr. Teddy." How Yang Qiu dreams of becoming the old Roosevelt of the East!  So I reached out my hand very excitedly.  On the contrary, Roosevelt frowned slightly, but still shook the big yellow hand that he didn't like very much.  The two didn't have much interaction. The days of Teddy as a stick and carrot were over, and his threat to the Pacific had been removed.

    After entering the hall of Congress, the hustle and bustle almost made Gu Weijun unable to believe that this is one of the highest authorities in the United States.  Some of the congressmen were talking and laughing, some were dozing, and more were talking about the behavior of "madmen" who exchanged human lives for meager profits.  But when they saw Yang Qiu and his entourage entering the venue.  Their voices suddenly became much quieter, and there was even a trace of confusion in their eyes, just because their clothes completely subverted the image of Chinese people in their impressions.

    The neat, military-style short hair, well-tailored suit, friendly smile, and calm expression in front of hundreds of reporters and congressmen all changed the traditional image of the Chinese.  "Did I read that correctly? Are you sure he's not from Malaya? (Chinese in Malaya were the first to launch the Chinese Boy Scout movement and were regarded as successful areas of westernization by the United States.)" A senator saw Lu Bicheng wearing the clothes that had just emerged in the United States.  After dressing up as a professional woman, her eyes widened.

    The reporters quickly grabbed their seats and squatted in front of and behind the podium.  As Brown knocked down the hammer, the hall finally fell silent, and only the old man's voice echoed: "Gentlemen and ladies. Today is probably the first time that this podium welcomes friends from the East. I am looking forward to this time as much as you are.  Speech, we will walk into history together!¡±

    The voice was very loud, and the eyes gradually focused on Yang Qiu, who was about to take the stage.  As he walked towards the podium without any speech notes, boos suddenly sounded from the corner.  Parliamentarians from the Irish and German communities used this method to express their dissatisfaction with China's participation in the war at the most critical moment. Gradually, other people began to join in, and there were a few harsh whistles.

    Brown and Roosevelt smiled and turned a deaf ear, Gu Weijun frowned, and Lu Bicheng, who had experienced such a thing for the first time, looked a little stiff.  But Yang Qiu was very calm. He held the podium with both hands and expressed his heart in fluent English: "I heard the attention! I enjoy this feeling. Five years ago, my country and I never received this kind of attention. No matter what we do,  Isolated by the world! Dictatorship and imperial power brought serious harm to my country, so my compatriots began to use various methods to save the country The great martyrs paid their blood and their lives, and finally?In exchange for our success!  And now we are starting to get attention again, which shows that China is integrating into the world.  "

    The boos gradually subsided, and the ears in the venue stood up.  Lu Bicheng looked at his powerfully waving arms, with a slight smile on his lips and eyes full of admiration and admiration. Even the harsh old Roosevelt admitted that humor and wit helped him regain his disadvantage.  From the decline of people's livelihood before 1911 to the overthrow of corruption and the establishment of a republic, from the Japanese invasion to the expulsion of gangsters from the mainland, from imperial power to the active reform of the country and social system, Yang Qiu used his concise and witty words to tell the United States a true story  China.

    His emergence and rise are already very legendary in the eyes of the West, and various newspapers have described them in the form of stories.  So after hearing him say it in his own words that he believed in the path, it seemed that he brought everyone into the era of high spirits, passion and pursuit of dreams in the early industrial revolution.  After he finished speaking, he suddenly took out two pieces of blackened paper from his pocket, and the attentive reporters immediately turned their cameras around.

    Everyone is curious, what is that?  Even Brown craned his neck from behind.

    "My right hand is a money order from New York to Shanghai issued by the Bank of America As politicians, everyone should know what this thing is and what it does." Yang Qiu pinched the stained money order and said,  Holding it high: "40,000 barrels of gasoline, 1,000 engines and 60 trucks With a total value of 2 million US dollars, it was stained, wrinkled, ink-stained, smelling musty, and it was almost impossible to see.  Clear the handwriting! But it still represents the contract and credit! Tens of thousands of tons of precious goods produced in the United States are transported from New York, the center of the world, to Shanghai, the center of the Far East. So why does this piece of paper-looking thing have such magic power?  What? Because it represents the credit of merchants and the contract culture of the Western world!

    My left hand is the most traditional Chinese bill worth 100 taels of silver. We call it a silver bill.  This banknote was created 13 years ago and has more than 30 stamps that have been used across the country, including Shanghai, Wuhan, Beijing and remote Mongolia, Yunnan  Why did I put them together?  Because I want to tell everyone that China has never been a treacherous country!  In the East, contract and credit are also the most precious things!  For thousands of years, my country has seen many deeds of making promises and gold, and businessmen have been following this precious tradition for thousands of years!  Although we have different values, we still adhere to the most basic and best things between people!

    And as politicians Treaties and promises are bills of exchange for those of us, and we must abide by them!

    We are differentculture, food, beliefs, etc., no one will deny these, and we will not even be the same for a long time in the futurebecause we have multiplied in that land  For five thousand years, it has formed its own tradition.  So I believe that any values ??that are promoted through violent means cannot be truly realized.  But it happens!  Now some people are taking this path and trying to bring the world into their system. This is an act of killing civilization. The world should be a big family, not a unilateral power!

    We are backward, poor, and cannot even be compared with a state on the land below my feet. I don¡¯t want to and cannot deny this!  So we need help from America and all civilized nations around the world¡­.  You've started before, so I thank you and I thank the United States of America.  But when we imagined the future, war broke out!  Some countries even try to take advantage of your temporary absence to conquer us.  But they were wrong!  This is no longer the China of five years ago!  The Chinese people who hold their heads high and move forward will never return to humiliation, let alone be conquered!  When we exchanged blood and sacrifice for victory and raised our heads in exchange for freedom, we found that civilization was being abandoned and the future of our country was cast into a shadow

    In FranceI saw the pain, the corpses and the blood, and when I arrived in Paris I couldn't even believe that it was once one of the centers of the world!  Dark clouds are coming, and the goods, technology, and equipment our people need are unavailable. The largest republic in the world is facing an existential crisis!  At that timeI knew that my country and I had to do something!  So we fulfilled our promise and sent troops to help our allies in distress, and we have a clear conscience.

    I will also promise here that we will continue to open the market. The 450 million Chinese people have prepared fine wine for you. We welcome everyone to invest and promise to protect their legitimate rights and interests. We promise and believe in it!   We will not become enemies of the United States.  Let me use four simple words to thank you for listening.

    Communication, understandingfriendship and handshakes!  "

    When Yang Qiu finished his speech and handed the money order and banknotes to the staff for storage on Capitol Hill in full view of the public, two small blackened pieces of paper connected the east and the west, and applause slowly erupted in the venue  and then continue into pieces.

    He smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, now it¡¯s time to think about war  (To be continued)

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