In May 1913, the original large loan for the aftermath was completely aborted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of the intervention of the Huntelaar Bank, and the Citibank also waving its flag behind it, Yuan Datou finally borrowed 5 million pounds from the Huntelaar Bank to disband the southern army and strengthen his own strength. Because there are no political strings attached, and interest rates are quite low, this borrowing did not provoke the same opposition as the big loans in the past. Of course, the good reputation of Huntelaar Bank in China also plays a role.

Of course, the banks of the five countries were very dissatisfied with this result.

In fact, after learning the news, the British immediately put pressure on Yuan Datou, and at the same time exerted great pressure on the Huntelaar Bank, but Yuan Datou was determined to ask for money and reputation, and the attitude of the Huntelaar Bank was even tougher, and even did not hesitate to tear his face, unloading 10,000 Browning rifles and twenty of the latest Huntelaar 1912 guns in Tianjin Port, and selling them to the Beiyang government at a low price.

This move immediately shocked the five-nation banking group!

The ministers of various countries immediately sent a strong protest to the Huntelaar Foreign Company and even to the American ministers, because they could not be stopped by surprise. However, under the tough attitude of all parties, their protests can only be fruitless in the end.

Now the Beiyang government urgently needs to strengthen itself and suppress the disobedient revolutionary party governments in the south, and what it needs most is arms. However, the most powerful arms dealer is Huntelaar & Co., because they have the most advanced army weapons in the world - compared with the German Krupp and Mauser, the technology is not backward at all!

And more importantly, the U.S. government has also given public support!

Wilson, who was anxious about the Federal Reserve and other matters as soon as he took office, did not forget John's covert support at the beginning, and openly declared that the Far East should uphold the principle of fairness and that the interests of the American consortium should be respected. No one cares about a country like Japan, and now that the two blocs are at each other's throats, no one will incur a formidable enemy because of the little interests of a Far Eastern country.

So after haggling, the two sides came to an agreement.

The Huntelaar Foreign Bank is no longer allowed to import weapons into China on a large scale, and the banking groups of the five countries are no longer allowed to obstruct the relevant loans, and everyone will compete fairly depending on how the Beiyang government chooses -- in fact, after the Huntelaar Bank lowered the interest rate again and again, the result was already obvious.

After learning the news, John couldn't help but smile happily.

Of course, it is not a problem to stop importing weapons to China on a large scale, because on the territory of the Beiyang government, a technologically advanced and large-scale arsenal is being built. All the machinery and technology came from the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company, all the workers were trained by them, and more than a hundred engineers from as far away as North America were doing their final internships in the factories of the Huntelaar Arms Manufacturing Company.

Once successfully put into production, the production capacity of this arsenal will definitely be no less than that of the Meng family in Wuhan!

In addition to conventional army weapons, an aviation school has sprung up in Nanyuan, Beijing. In North America, the Huntelaar Aircraft Manufacturing Company, with John's full support, Deputy Chief Engineer Feng Ru has trained 160 Chinese aircraft design and manufacturing talents, and is expected to return to China in early 1914 to prepare for the establishment of China's first aircraft manufacturing company, a real aircraft manufacturing company......

And......

In addition to the huge loan expected to be prepared for Yuan Datou, John took out another 5 million pounds to inject capital into the Far East branch of the Huntelaar Bank, began to invest heavily in some factories with short construction periods but quick results, and began to train corresponding industrial workers on a large scale.

Of course, all of this is carried out by returning students.

Huntelaar Bank invests, and international students with technical and management experience are responsible for managing it, and then receive corresponding share awards every year, which has gradually become a fixed model for Huntelaar investment companies. And the most important thing for the Chinese market is that Huntelaar & Co. has given a guarantee that all industrial products will be underwritten at a reasonable price - for a period of five years!

This measure has completely stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for entrepreneurship.

All products were underwritten within five years, and at a reasonable price, which completely solved the problem that the Chinese market was too small. In addition, Huntelaar can provide cheap machinery, advanced technology and technology, and the technical schools of the Huntelaar system can also train a large number of skilled senior workers, which seems to have paved a broad road for China's industry!

Therefore, in June 1913 alone, forty-one factories were born in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai!

Perhaps compared with the factories in the United States, these enterprises are small in scale and have poor technology accumulation, but with the all-round support of the Huntelaar consortium, they quickly became the largest force in the industrial circles of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and began to enter the frontier fields such as electric power, communications, and military manufacturing......

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In July 1913, the Second Revolution broke out.

It's just that in this world, because of the appearance of John, the situation in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, including Hunan and other places has changed more, and there are not so many people who have come out to oppose Yuan Datou. Moreover, because of the strong support of the Huntelaar Bank, the large loan for the aftermath was turned into a low-interest loan with very good conditions, leaving little room for the opposition, so the second revolution failed at an even faster pace in the face of the powerful and well-armed Beiyang government.

This short war had very little impact on China.

As Baidu Encyclopedia says, history is always so ironic, after the failure of the Second Revolution, China and the Republic of China were truly unified. Moreover, although the Beiyang government has a bad reputation in history, it is indeed relatively open-minded and has formulated a series of policies to promote development. So John sometimes wonders, if Yuan Datou hadn't really lost his head and became emperor, would the future of China be a different scene?

John also put a lot of effort into this idea.

For example, increase investment in China's education, give away more books for free or at low prices, and open up people's wisdom; Another example is to let international students come forward, and have successively founded more than 20 newspapers in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other important towns, constantly criticizing the imperial system, and promoting certain ideas, etc.; Even John did not hesitate to send someone to meet Yuan Datou directly, directly reminding the other party of the disadvantages of being the emperor, etc.-of course Yuan Datou was shocked and even annoyed, but after the anger was a long period of contemplation......

Within his means, John did everything he could.

The rest of the things are not something that he can interfere with as an ordinary person, maybe in terms of the strength of the Huntelaar consortium, he can do more in China, but John also understands that no matter how strong a consortium is, it will not really affect a huge country like China after all.

He just hopes that his efforts will not be in vain......