Finally, Xia Bohai said: "Everyone's speeches are very good. To be honest, I agree with the announcement of this news. First, I believe that our determination will not be intimidated by this news. Second, our goal is to establish a government that is transparent, democratic, open and efficient. Every time traveler should have the right to know. However, in terms of announcement time, we should choose a good time. Now we are about to join the war, so I think it should be announced after we participate in the war. First, it will not affect our participation in the war; second, after we achieve a preliminary victory, we can boost our confidence and hedge some of the impacts caused by the announcement."

After hearing this, the others had no objection, so they decided to make a decision.

The last issue is also the simplest, which is the issue of participating in the war. Everyone who attended the meeting agreed unanimously and still participated in the war as usual. After all, the East China government has made several years of preparations for this war. Now that it is waiting for this moment, it is naturally impossible to give up halfway. Moreover, although the Shanghai New District has been severely damaged, it is not yet at the point of stopping or postponing participation in the war.

After the meeting, the East China government did not delay for a moment. The Executive Yuan immediately issued a formal statement to remove Yang Yuxin from all positions. The administrative affairs of the Shanghai New District were temporarily represented by several other officials, waiting for the new district mayor to take over the appointment; at the same time, the Executive Yuan established a special task force to go to Shanghai to take over the trial of Yang Yuxin, and Zhou Senhang was still under the responsibility of the working group. After all, his situation was different from Yang Yuxin, and he had confirmed the crime of treason.

The Foreign Affairs Commission then issued a formal document to the Japanese Consulate in Qingdao, severely accusing Japan of planning and organizing the May 6th Shanghai terrorist attack, causing significant casualties and economic losses to the East China government, and causing serious negative impacts. It requires the Japanese government to formally apologize to the East China government, severely punish organizers and participants, and compensate the East China government for losses, ensuring that similar incidents will not occur. Before the Japanese government meets the requirements of the East China government, the East China government will immediately stop all political, economic, cultural exchanges with Japan, and immediately freeze all Japanese assets in the East China government, and order members of the Japanese consulate, merchants, and expatriates to leave the East China government within 48 hours. If they do not leave within the time limit, they will be regarded as spies for arrest. Finally, the East China government will still retain any form of further retaliation measures.

At the same time, the consulates and the resolutions of the East China government were notified. They were published to the entire society in a newspaper in the form of an extra-nouncing document. At the same time, the newspaper also published photos, names and other information of some arrested Japanese spies as evidence.

Sure enough, after the resolution was announced, it immediately caused great shock among all countries, because no one expected that the East China government's reaction would be so fierce, which basically meant that it would completely break off diplomatic relations with Japan and officially declare war. However, the East China government has been actively preparing for war, and the army has been deployed in western Liaoning, so it is almost imperative to participate in the war. Therefore, all countries also believe that the East China government is just taking this opportunity to completely break up with Japan.

So for a moment, telegrams flew like flying and spread all over the world through wires. Although governments of various countries had expected that the East China government had a high chance of participating in the war, firstly, the East China government did not participate in the war, so there were still variables; secondly, the time for participating in the war was not determined, and this resolution of the East China government not only indicated that the East China government would inevitably participate in the war, but was about to participate in the war.

Of course, it doesn't matter what it really looks like. The East China government obviously intends to seize this incident as an excuse and declare war on Japan. This kind of thing is not new in European countries. As long as you want to fight, excuses can always be found. 7 years ago, the United States also launched the Spanish-American War under the pretext of the Maine incident. Now the East China government is just following the example. So after receiving this news, the governments of various countries started urgent consultations on how to deal with major changes in the Far East.

In the afternoon, all countries began to express their respective attitudes one after another.

The first thing that comes to reaction is naturally Japan. In fact, before launching an attack on the Shanghai New Area, Japan had considered the consequences and might be strongly reacted and retaliated by the East China government. However, Japan's judgment on the current situation is that the East China government will participate in the war within one week. Therefore, whether there is any attack on the Shanghai New Area, the East China government will definitely participate in the war. Launching an attack on the Shanghai New Area may also prevent the East China government from participating in the war, or delay the East China government's participation in the war, which will at least have some impact on the East China government.

However, Japan had already thought of a solution. Simply put, it was just a few words, and he refused to admit it and turned it over. Therefore, at 4 pm that day, Japan issued a statement expressing its attitude. In the statement, Japan's statements severely accused the East China government of making up the truth, and fabricated facts. It had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks in the Shanghai New Area. All the evidences proposed by the East China government were forged. Moreover, the Japanese government has always been committed to establishing China-Japan friendship and is willing to maintain good relations with all political forces in China. It also fought bloody battles to help China resist the Russian invasion. The current statements of the East China government and the measures to be taken are completely destroying Sino-Japanese relations and disrupting the regional situation. It has made Russia's arrogance. Japan demanded that the East China government must apologize and give Japan a cleansing. The relevant adverse consequences arise are all the responsibility of the East China government.

The second Russian government to issue a statement, when the news reached St. Petersburg, it was late at night. Nicholas II was awakened by the ministers in his sleep. After listening to the ministers' reports, he was extremely excited and cheered continuously, "God bless Russia." Because in Russia's view, Japan's actions would undoubtedly anger the East China government and prompt the East China government to join the war as soon as possible. Russia could just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, let the Japanese and East China governments fight to the point of losing both sides, and take advantage of the battle between them to recover the lost ground, and finally clean up the mess and become the only winner.

So the Russian government issued a statement overnight, strongly accusing the Japanese government of terrorist attacks targeting innocent civilians in the Shanghai New Area, and fully supporting the East China government's crackdown actions against Japan. At the same time, it is willing to provide assistance to the East China government. It also accused the Japanese government of never abide by international rules, without national credit, cunning and shameless, brutal, and a sabotage of peace, a savior of regional situation balance, and a public enemy of the whole world. Countries around the world should unite to jointly build Japan, maintain world peace, and defend human justice and conscience.

Of course, Russia's statement that it had carried a large amount of private goods did not attract much attention. Britain and France expressed regret for the terrorist attacks in the Shanghai New Area, but hoped that the East China government would remain calm and should conduct a serious investigation of the perpetrators and not make rash conclusions. Moreover, the East China government's behavior of Japan's cultivation will seriously affect regional balance and stability and cause new conflicts. Both countries expressed close attention to this and hoped that the East China government could seriously consider its behavior. At the same time, the two countries also proposed to the East China government that the two countries were willing to come forward to set up an international investigation team to investigate the Shanghai terrorist attacks and find out the true appearance of the matter.

In fact, both Britain and France know that the East China government will never stop military operations because of the attitudes of the two countries, but what should be said still has to be said.

Other countries such as Germany, the United States, Italy, and Ossi have also issued statements, expressing their sympathy for the terrorist attack in Shanghai, and on the other hand, they also called on the East China government to remain calm and resolve the problem with peaceful means. In short, everyone knows that the East China government is about to participate in the war and is waiting for the change of the situation.

However, when countries made a fortune, another important party involved, the Qing court, remained silent, as if this incident had nothing to do with them. Of course, all countries instinctively ignored the existence of the Qing court at this time, as if this was the case.

But the Qing court is now in chaos. At the same time as the East China government issued a statement, it issued a stern warning to the Qing court through Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong, demanding that the Qing court severely punish Prince Shanqi and compensate for the losses in the Shanghai New District. It will also cut off the grain transportation from now until the Qing court takes actions that satisfies the East China government.

Of course, Yuan Shikai and Zhang Zhidong knew about these things that Prince Su did. After all, more than 300 people gathered and 6 or 70 guns were gathered. Such a big news could not be hidden. However, Prince Su and the radical Manchu nobles jumped out to warn Yuan and Zhang not to be troubled. After discussing with Zhang Zhidong, Yuan Shikai and Zhang also thought it would be better not to say it. Cixi supported these Manchu nobles in order to limit the power of Han ministers, mainly Yuan and Zhang. Therefore, even if the two exposed this matter to Cixi, at most they would scold Prince Su. Cixi would never punish Prince Su.

It’s better to pretend not to know and let Prince Su go and jump. Anyway, Prince Su is going to be offended by overseas Chinese this time, but overseas Chinese are not easy to mess with. At that time, there will naturally be overseas Chinese to deal with Prince Su, so you can save yourself worry.

Now that they have received warnings from overseas Chinese, they are secretly happy that Prince Su’s good days are coming to an end, so they immediately reported to Cixi together.
Chapter completed!