However, I am embarrassed to think about the property of my wife's family after all, Zhang Hanqing is still thinking about three wives and four concubines in the future, if the financial power is in the hands of his wife, won't the confidence of taking concubines be gone? And using his own money to support the country's soldiers, although they are private soldiers, is it a little uneconomical? It would be nice if you could get a bunch of tickets, such as winning the lottery, or simply falling pie in the sky, as long as you don't have to pay it back.

Don't have to pay it back?

Pregnant!

I remember that before the crossing, when the huge Soviet Union collapsed, the value of the ruble fell to 30,000 times in a row, and I thought at that time, if I borrowed a huge amount of money before the collapse of the Soviet Union, I would do nothing, and wait for it to go out of business. This impression was so impressive because Russia later announced the issuance of a new ruble with a ratio of 1 to 1,000 old rubles, which turned the original millionaire (old ruble) into a pauper for only $35 overnight.

Now that Russia has just had a "February Revolution", the ruble is constantly depreciating, but there is still a provisional government, and the bourgeoisie, with the support of the Soviet power, ostensibly leading Russia, no one who does not know history will not know that only eight months later, Russia has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Is there an opportunity to borrow some money from them to spend it? The conditions are easy to say, anyway, basically there will be no money after that, because after the establishment of the Soviet Union, the old ruble was invalidated, and at most Togo bought some old rubles from the market at the price of souvenirs and paid you back. Russia has a Dosheng Bank in the Northeast, and they don't think they know the situation at home as well as they do, right?

The full name of this bank is the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank, which is the first and only "joint venture" bank in China jointly established by the Qing government ---- the Qing government, which is funded by France and has more than 60 percent of the capital, but is controlled by Russia, and has a share capital of 6 million rubles. Like other Western financial institutions, it was established to seek to sign various railway construction contracts with China and to manipulate and control China's railway construction. In 1926, its head office in Paris was liquidated due to the failure of foreign exchange speculation, and its branches in China closed down, and the paper money issued became waste paper, leaving countless Chinese bankrupt and owing the Chinese government huge amounts of public money.

If Soviet Russia was able to nationalize its head office in Russia after the October Revolution, why couldn't I make a fortune at this time?

That's a good idea. Zhang Hanqing went to Zhang Zuolin excitedly, hoping that he could guarantee himself and borrow some money from Daosheng Bank. Dad is an Overseer, and he is much more effective than being a nobody.

He proposed to Zhang Zuolin: Lao Zhang should try to make a guarantee and strive for a large loan, part of which will be used as the deposit of the Guard Brigade, and the rest will be used as the investment of the Fengtian China Merchants Bureau. Zhang Zuolin knew this son's financial constraints, and he had already had the heart to do something for him, and he didn't have any anxiety about the loan---- Lao Tzu owed a lot of debts, and he didn't care about having more. It's just that Zhang Hanqing named Daosheng Bank for a loan, and thought that Russia might have big changes, and it is estimated that he will not have to repay this amount in the future, which made Zhang Zuolin a little sad.

Poor boy, he must have been driven crazy and insane, right? I also know that Lao Tzu needs to look at his face when borrowing money from the Japanese, and he doesn't want to embarrass Lao Tzu for his own affairs! However, the Russians' money is easy to borrow, but if you want to repay the debt, forget it, the Russians are more ruthless than the Japanese, Lao Tzu has not relied on the loan for so many years, it's not that I don't want to, I really don't dare! It's a big deal that the money didn't settle in the end, and it will be the son who owes the debt to the father in the future.

Daosheng Bank has more than a dozen branches in Northeast China, and Fengtian, as such a big city, is naturally inevitable. When Zhang Zuolin asked him for a loan, the branch president Neshinsky excitedly agreed.

Could it be that at that time, there was a saying that it was the uncle who borrowed money? Definitely. It is because of Zhang Zuolin's status and Russia's situation in the northeast.

After the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, Russia's power in South Manchuria was replaced, and economic interests were gradually divided. For Daosheng Bank, which urgently needs to expand its influence and extend its hand to South Manchuria, Zhang Zuolin, a strong man in Fengtian, can throw branches at it, giving them great expectations.

In the negotiations, with the participation of Zhang Hanqing, both sides were very happy: Zhang Zuolin used Fengtian Finance as collateral and lent 2 million rubles; The money will be used to bring in a large artillery shell production plant from Russia, and the rest can be sold to Russia at a discount if needed, except for a part of it for its own use. Of course, one yard is one yard, and the principal still needs to be repaid, and regarding the interest, Neshinsky asked for an annual interest rate of 10 percent, and Zhang Zuolin was slapped by Zhang Hanqing as soon as he repaid it to 8 percent.

Afterwards, Zhang Zuolin said with annoyance: "Little Liuzi, this amount of money can be reduced by more than half of the interest, but you interjected and made the soup, business is not like this." ”

Zhang Hanqing smiled and said, "Not at all." It's 100% not scary, I have absolute news, within half a year, this money is basically worthless, how much can be set now, first solve the urgent need! ”

The Mukden Arsenal was able to produce a small number of artillery shells for the exclusive use of the 27th Division and the Guards Brigade. Zhang Hanqing thought that with the expansion of the Feng system, the supply of ammunition must be self-sufficient, otherwise it would never be able to really grow by purchasing alone. Now is a good time.

The government is already negotiating on China's entry into World War I, no matter how repeated the process is, the final result is that China joins the Entente side, and naturally there is a reason to sell arms to Russia, which is also an ally, provided that China can produce it, meet the requirements, and the quantity must be large---- at least once enough for a wagon, right?

In fact, there has been a mention of China becoming an arms supplier once in history, which is actually a historic opportunity for the rise of China's military industry, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the Japanese---- as if China must suffer if the Japanese participate!

If there is such an opportunity, no matter whether it can be sold in the end or not, at least Fengjun doesn't need to look at other people's faces when he fights artillery? Wait, what word was I thinking just now? Masturbate? Don't think about it, it's really just a cannon.

The shortage of weapons in Russia, the traditional European power, in World War I was a real thing, not only but desperately short.

As a major member of the Entente, Russia alone withstood the weight of Germany on the Eastern Front, arming 15 million officers and soldiers, killing 1.7 million in battle, and wounded far more than that. In addition, 3.1 million civilians were killed in the fighting. After three years of stalemate, Russia suffered heavy casualties, losing Russian Poland, the three Baltic states, Western Belarus and Western Ukraine.

The former hegemon of the north, why is Russia's combat effectiveness so weak? In addition to the obsolete tactical thinking, the lack of Russian weapons supplies is a rather fatal reason.