Chapter 205: Negotiations on the Middle Eastern Railway
"Commander Dong, aren't you afraid of causing a war here? Our soldiers are not comparable to those of the Japanese. Simanovsky was not polite, slightly threatening.
"Haha...... Mr. Seaman, people die for money, birds die for food, for our own interests, so what's the matter with another fight! Dong Lei laughed, not taking Simanovsky's threat into account at all.
"You............ Hmph............" Simanovsky didn't know how to answer, so he snorted coldly and walked away.
After Simanowsky left, Dong Lei immediately summoned Ma Zhanshan, Xu Feng, Xing Zhanqing and other generals to hold secret consultations on the resumption of the right of way and ancillary rights and interests of the Eastern Railway.
The issue of the right of way of the Eastern Railway is quite complicated, and it is very difficult to really clarify it, when it was built, the Qing Dynasty was still there, and the Qing Dynasty signed a treaty with Tsarist Russia to abide by it, which is a difficult problem. And the most recent is the Boeli Accord and so on.
First of all, we must understand the content of these treaties, the era of Soviet Russia and Tsarist Russia, the Qing government and the Beiyang government, etc.!
Many of these treaties have been signed, but they have not been seriously implemented. Of course, there are many reasons, and the reason for the war is only one of them, and more is the interests.
Before the outbreak of the Middle East Road War, the Soviet Union and Russia signed the "Feng-Russia Agreement", which was revised on the basis of the "Sino-Russian Agreement", in which some of the contents were modified, but the essence did not change much.
However, this "Feng-Russia Agreement" has not been seriously implemented, and the non-railway itself should be returned to the Chinese side. For example, telegrams, telephones, mines, libraries, observatories, schools, etc. were not delivered to the Chinese side.
The railway administration was also unilaterally controlled by Soviet Russia, and of the more than 700 employees, 400 were Chinese, most of whom were translators and low-level staff. Road bureau agency writing. Except for the official documents of the board of directors and the resolutions of the meeting of the road bureau, which are in Chinese and Russian, the rest are in Russian, and all financial settlements are also in rubles, and are deposited in the International Bank of the Far East of Soviet Russia.
China's actual rights and interests in the Middle East Railway are not guaranteed at all, and the annual income of more than 12 million rubles is in the hands of Soviet Russia. The Chinese side simply enjoys the benefits brought by the ≦≦≦≦[email protected]⊙om to the China Eastern Railway.
Moreover, Soviet Russia could use the railway to transport troops and goods free of charge, and all goods transported to Russia by railway were exempt from tax and other unequal treaties, especially the right to operate, reside, and exploit minerals in the railway annexes. There are also administrative, judicial, taxation and other powers that belong to the category of sovereignty, all of which are in the hands of the Soviet side!
As for rights and interests related to sovereignty, Lu Shan's principle is not to give an inch. If you sell your sovereignty, you will be reviled by eternity!
The determination of these rights and interests cannot be completed in a day or two. And many of these details are quite troublesome to deal with!
In fact, the issue of the right of way has been clearly written in many previous agreements and belongs to the Chinese side, but due to the low strength of the Chinese side, it is simply not capable of obtaining this part of the power!
In white, the power is given to you, can you protect and exercise the power of power?
It is precisely because the old Zhang family does not have this ability, if the Soviet Russians occupy it, I will do it, what can you do to me?
Dong Lei didn't give the Russians a chance, he took over militarily as soon as he came up, all the materials and property were sealed, the Soviet Russian side had not yet reacted, most of the Eastern Railway fell into the hands of the iron-blooded army, and only Manchuria and Fularji were still under the control of Soviet Russia!
At this time, Soviet Russia did not want to have another battle on the Middle Road, because if Soviet Russia fought again, it should be the Japanese who were happy!
Can Soviet Russia allow the Japanese to watch themselves fight to the death with the Predators?
This is obviously impossible, not to mention that the domestic situation in Soviet Russia is not very stable, and a large part of Stalin's energy is on domestic construction, and sending troops to the Far East is not within his plan.
"Commander Dong, will you talk to us?" Ma Zhanshan asked with some concern.
Dong Lei didn't say anything, just smiled, he had calculated that these Russians would negotiate, and now the situation in Soviet Russia is not very peaceful, many Tsarist Russian royal families and descendants are ready to move, planning to find an opportunity to recapture everything that belongs to them, so Stalin will not send troops to the Far East at this important time, for the benefit of a railway.
"If we have a stalemate with Lao Maozi, then many of our strategic materials will still be imported from them, will they blockade us?" Xu Feng was also worried.
"We import their materials for money, and we don't let them help in vain, if they don't want to sell, then we can go to other places, we can't give up our sovereignty for this." Dong Lei said.
"Then are we going to wait for Lao Maozi to negotiate with us now?" Ma Zhanshan asked.
"Now Lao Maozi may still be hesitant to negotiate with us, so we will force them down and force them to negotiate with us." Dong Lei said.
"How do you force them?"
"Send someone to take over the Eastern Railway Administration at once and expel the Russians who work inside." Dong Lei said.
"What? Will this provoke a revolt from the Russians? ”
"Don't worry about that, if they want to fight, then fight with them, just do it." Dong Lei affirmed.
Soon the Predators took over the Eastern Railway Administration. After deducting the operations and accounts over the years, he has not touched these accounts, I believe that there are many problems in them, as long as he wants to check, there is nothing that he can't find!
Even all the accounts related to the Far Eastern Railway in the Soviet and Russian Far East International Bank were ordered to be sealed by Dong Lei!
The banks have also been taken over!
This move almost led many to believe that the Second Middle Road War would break out. However, it was later confirmed that this was a false alarm, and the Soviet Russian Far Eastern Army maintained restraint and did not send troops at the first time.
Dong Lei's order was to seize only things and materials, and not arrest people. This approach is different from Zhang Hanqing three years ago!
Although there were some fierce confrontations in the process, there were no coercive means against the Russian personnel. So the Soviet side also exercised restraint afterwards!
It is not that no one in the Soviet Union has asked for troops, but the voices are very loud. The generals who asked for troops were even severely reprimanded for helping their enemies, which was unforgivable.
Soviet Russia could no longer bear it, and took the initiative to find Dong Lei to ask for negotiations on the issue of the Middle East Railway, and they took the initiative to propose that the East China Railway should be jointly taken over by both parties, and both sides would hold half of the equity.
Dong Lei vetoed this proposal, and he wanted to reformulate the equity, that is, the equity should be redistributed, that is, whoever invests heavily in the railway, the corresponding equity proportion will be higher.
Now you can step on the tail of the Russians, how to distribute this, not all of them hold half, the previous agreements were written like this, and they have not changed.
But Dong Lei's reason is that many of the terms were signed between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, and now that both dynasties have died, the equity needs to be redistributed.
Since we want to divide it, let's go back to the source, what belongs to Russia is what belongs to Russia, and what belongs to China is what belongs to China!
Let's settle the accounts one by one, and see how much Russia accounts for and how much China accounts for in the end, that is the final equity distribution!
How to calculate, it is very simple, the evaluation of all the assets of the China Eastern Railway, who pays for what, belongs to whom, the two sides pay for the two sides, after the annual operation and management and depreciation, the profits obtained are divided in half, according to the secret agreement when the railway was built, how much should the Chinese side get over the years, and what it did not get, all of them are counted into the redemption money, and finally see how much equity each side holds!
This is a huge project, and it is also a negotiation strategy that Dong Lei, Ma Zhanshan and others used after careful discussion to deal with the "Boli Agreement" proposed by the Soviet side with the "Boli Agreement" as the basic condition!
Because based on the "Boli Agreement", it will take decades for all the right of way in time, this Dong Lei can't afford to wait!
And a lot of power is still in the hands of the Soviet side. This is also something that Dong Lei can't tolerate.
Although there are many clauses in the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" that betray sovereignty, Dong Lei can completely ignore them, but only bring out the relevant articles about the Eastern Railway for more than 30 years. Whether it is Imperial Russia or Soviet Russia, it has already earned enough benefits from the Eastern Railway, and this benefit is enough even to build another Trans-Siberian Railway!
However, as soon as China's interests were squeezed, when the situation was turbulent, they directly withheld it and refused to give it, and it was even more excessive in the Soviet Russian era, directly settled in rubles, and the money was deposited in the Soviet Russian bank. The Chinese side only sees a number, but never sees the money.
Moreover, the Soviet and Russian sides even cleverly set up a name, and I am afraid that few people know how much of these profitable profits can eventually go to the Chinese side.
Negotiations can not have results all at once, this Lu Shan has long been psychologically prepared, a trade negotiation in the future can be as long as several years without results, this is too normal, in comparison, this kind of negotiation is easier to advance, as long as the other party's key points are identified, it will naturally be much faster.
"It's been a hard day, I'll invite everyone to dinner and add vegetables in the evening!" Dong Lei held a thick stack of negotiation minutes and said with great certainty.
"Commander Dong, I have only seen it today, it turns out that your negotiation ability is unmatched! Several times, the old Maozi's face was red and his ears were red, and he couldn't speak. Ma Zhanshan sighed with great admiration.
"The Soviet side insisted on the basis of the "Boli Agreement" and negotiated or revised those terms, and our side simply overturned all previous negotiations, went directly back to the original, and recalculated the equity, but the Soviet side resolutely disagreed!" Xu Feng briefly reported the results of the negotiations.
"Go back to the original, recalculate, this is a very huge project, just calculate the investment, revenue, equity distribution at that time, and later investment, as well as land expropriation, compensation and so on, I am afraid that the Soviet side does not occupy a single share, and we have to be upside down!" Dong Lei said with a smile.