After receiving the French notice, the Russians also realized that their allies' patience had reached the limit. But without the assistance of France, Russia would not be able to wage a new war. Although some people are angry and propose that the Russian-French alliance should be terminated altogether, and the framework of the Three Emperors Alliance should be returned, on the condition that Germany provide economic assistance to Russia, so that France can completely get rid of French interference, lest France always hinder Russia's expansion in the Far East.

However, this proposal was quickly opposed by the majority, although Germany does have the economic strength to replace France to continue to transfuse blood to Russia, but the premise is that Germany must carry out a seamless connection with France, because now Russia's economy is basically collapsed, and it is completely dependent on French blood transfusion to survive, and it cannot be broken for a moment, and French funds have completely penetrated into Russia's social economy, if there is a link in it is not docked, Russia will immediately go into shock, but if Russia wants to terminate the Russian-French alliance, France will have a friendly handover with GermanyThis is thought with the thighs, and the results can also be produced.

Moreover, the termination of the Russian-French alliance is of course possible to get rid of France's interference in Russia's development in the Far East, but Germany is not a white lotus, although Russia and Germany have no direct conflict of interests, but Russia and Austria-Hungary have sharp contradictions in the struggle for the Balkan Peninsula, and Germany is obviously all over Austria-Hungary, which is also the main reason for Russia's withdrawal from the Three Emperors Alliance. Therefore, if Russia returned to the framework of the Three Emperors' Alliance, then its expansion in the Balkans would be prevented by Germany, which would not be worth the loss for Russia, and the center of gravity of Russia would still be in the West.

In fact, most people in Russia understand that now Russia has no capital to bargain with East China, and it is basically inevitable to pay compensation and cede land, and even Britain and France will inevitably cede land to East China with compensation, let alone Russia. It's just that it really can't get over in terms of face, and if it were a European country this time, even if it was a second-rate country like Austria-Hungary and Italy, Russia might have succumbed a long time ago.

But now is a good opportunity to compromise, you can go down this ladder, and push the responsibility of surrendering to France, not that Russia is unwilling to fight to the end, but that the allies are really not strong, not to mention the softness to East China, but also to pull Russia to submit together, and prohibit Russia from using French aid for the war, so Russia can only accept the conditions of East China ** and negotiate in desperation.

Therefore, Russia finally replied to Germany, expressing its willingness to accept the conditions put forward by East China**, agreeing to pay reparations to East China**, and transfer part of the land in order to restore peace between the two countries.

Seeing that Russia finally chose to give in, Wilhelm II was also very happy, because he learned that Russia was forced to submit by France, Wilhelm II thought that the success of dismantling the Russian-French alliance was imminent, and only waited for the end of the negotiations between Russia and East China, he could start to dismantle the Russian-French alliance and pull Russia back into the alliance of the Three Emperors.

East China and Russia conducted several rounds of negotiations with Germany as the intermediary, and finally decided to set the venue for the talks in Harbin, with the Russian negotiator being Werther and the East China negotiator being Qin Zheng.

However, although the two sides have determined the place of the negotiations and the candidates for the negotiators, it will take about two weeks from St. Petersburg to Harbin, plus the time for Russian preparations, it is estimated that it will be 20-25 days, or even a month, and from Qingdao to Harbin a maximum of one week, so Qin Zheng did not return to the northeast immediately, but remained in Qingdao to preside over the work of the Senate.

After the New Year, East China has entered the second governing cycle, and there are a series of major decisions, plans, and plans on the development strategy of East China, which need to be voted on in the Senate, and only after passing the vote can a bill be formed and implemented by the Executive Yuan.

Qin Zheng, as the speaker of the Senate House, of course, has to sit in the House at this time, presiding over the consultation, defense and voting of various bills, of course, Qin Zheng cannot influence the voting of the Senate members, but the speaker can guide the direction of the topic and increase or decrease the probability of passing the agenda during consultation and defense.

In fact, just when Russia had not yet decided whether to negotiate with East China, the Senate had already begun to vote on various issues, and the first agenda item was decided at the executive council a year ago, and the state was formally established within this five-year cycle.

Of course, there is basically no controversy in the Senate on this issue, with more than ninety percent of the votes in favor, after all, for the vast majority of the traversers, they also hope to formally establish the country earlier, so that it is justified, and after the victory of the Far East War in East China, it also brought great confidence to the traversers, so the overthrow of the Qing court, the official founding of the country, there is also a huge market in the traverser, and the decision of the Executive Council is also in line with the will of the people.

After the successful passage of this article, the next step is the development goal in this five-year cycle, in this era, there is no concept of GDP, and the statistical standards of GDP are different in various countries, so East China is temporarily targeted by the first fiscal revenue.

After the establishment of East China, the fiscal revenue has been good, in 1904 it reached the highest 120 million silver dollars, and in 1905 and 1906, due to the participation in the Far East War, the fiscal revenue has declined, but it has also remained above 100 million, because the war has also promoted the growth of the military industry and military-related industries, so that the financial revenue of East China has not dropped significantly.

And this is only the statistics of Shandong, Tianjin, Shanghai New Area fiscal revenue, not counting Henan, and the northeast region, if the fiscal revenue of Henan Province is also added, then the fiscal revenue of East China ** in 1906 will reach about 140 million silver dollars, about more than 100 million silver, and the Qing court's income in this year is less than 120 million silver.

In the old time and space, the Qing court in the Gengzi State Change, the finance, taxation reform, income is rising year by year, to 1906, the fiscal revenue has reached nearly 200 million silver, but because of this era East China ** occupies Shandong, Henan, Shanghai and other places, so the Qing court's income has also shrunk significantly.

However, the fiscal revenue in 1906 can not be regarded as the normal value of East China, because now the territory of East China has included Shandong, Henan, Northeast, Borneo, Shanghai and other places, according to the preliminary estimate of the Finance Commission, the normal annual fiscal revenue of East China should be between 250 million and 300 million silver dollars, so the Executive Yuan finally decided to take the 1907 fiscal revenue as the base, at the end of the second five-year cycle, the fiscal revenue should be doubled on this basis. This means that fiscal revenues will increase by about 20% per year, and this can only be achieved through increased investment without increasing tax rates.

In fact, after the end of the battle of the Taiwan Strait, East China has ensured victory in the Far East War, and the Executive Yuan began to consider the large-scale projects that will be invested and constructed in the next five-year plan. At the end of 1906, it was finally decided that 141 large-scale projects would be launched in the second five-year plan, including 86 large-scale industrial projects, 32 infrastructure projects, 15 public projects, and 8 other projects. The specific distribution is 58 in Shandong, 37 in Northeast China, 23 in Henan, 12 in Borneo, 7 in Shanghai, and 4 in Tianjin. This was later called the "141 Project", which laid the foundation of China's industry.

Moreover, considering that East China and Russia have not yet negotiated, and it is basically certain that East China will receive another huge amount of compensation from Russia, the Executive Yuan decided that where conditions permit, priority can be given to the establishment of five types of factories, namely, cement plants, thermal power plants, iron and steel plants, machinery factories, and water plants, through a combination of local financing and bank loans. These five types of factories can basically cover the basic products that were most needed in the early stage of industrialization. Although these projects are in the first and second five projects, the construction cycle of large-scale projects is long, and the production capacity in the early stage of completion and production is limited, but the products are facing the comprehensive region of East China, so they are not much in each place.

In places where conditions permit, bank loans can reach up to half of the construction cost for the establishment of such five types of factories, and at the same time, Qingdao can also provide technical guidance, contact foreign suppliers and other services, and strive to solve the region's demand for these most basic industrial products in a short time.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in the old time and space, almost as long as there were large cities in all parts of the country, cement factories, thermal power plants, steel plants, machinery factories, Although the experience of these five kinds of chemical plants is summed up later, because the scale of these factories is not large, the technical level is not high, and a large number of similar factories are overlapped, resulting in a large waste of resources; at the same time, the competitiveness of the products of these factories is very poor, and the scope of sales is not wide, most of them can only guarantee the use of their own regions, and only a few can spread to the surrounding areas, so the operating income of these factories is limited, and some factories even rely on state subsidies for a long time to survive, which not only becomes a burden on the state, but also lacks funds for upgrading, and because of the backward production technology, a large amount of environmental pollution is caused, forming a vicious circleTherefore, after China's reform and opening up, except for a very small number of them who have completed their own upgrades, or survived through capital injection, mergers, etc., the vast majority can only go bankrupt or be shut down.

However, it cannot be denied that at the beginning of China's industrialization in the old time and space, these small factories could provide enough basic essential industrial products for the local government in a relatively short period of time, and also promoted the rapid development of industrialization, and trained a large number of skilled workers. And if you plan and organize it properly, you can still significantly reduce losses.