Ps. This chapter is the end of the first story of this novel, on the one hand, thank you for watching me finish telling a story related to East Asia, and on the other hand, thank you to the book friends who have been rewarding me since the update, and I will not list the names of the book friends one by one. There is nothing to repay, so I can only present a large chapter of more than 10,000 words in one go.

The German government announced early on that the German imperial family would apologize to the Qing Dynasty on behalf of the Western world, and apologize for the harm caused to the Qing people during the two Anglo-Qing wars (Opium Wars) and the opium trade.

Even though Joy waged an unremitting war of public opinion in Britain and France through the Allensbach Institute, there are still a large number of Westerners who believe that the remarks of the German royal family and government are nothing more than the hypocrisy of a hypocrite.

If the British and French used guns to oppress the poor Qing people, then the Germans used rhetoric to deceive the poor Qing people.

Just as the Jews deceived the Europeans, who let Germany have the most Jews in Europe, of course, this argument comes from France, which is the most anti-Semitic in Europe, and the British view is that Germany does not have the strength to go on an expedition against the Qing country, so it chooses to use words to deceive the Qing country, but it is only the strength of the country.

In French political circles and public opinion circles, there is even a news circulating that Germany is plotting to blackmail the Qing people, and it is also extorting the poor Qing people together with the ugliest and most untrustworthy Russians in Europe.

Of course, in the eyes of Zeng Jize, who participated in the Qing-Russia negotiations, this kind of unfounded lie was nothing more than a manifestation of the French's jealousy of the Qing Dynasty's relations with Germany, and it was tinged with a sour taste.

With the vigorous pen power of Master Zeng, he naturally scolded the French like a grandson in the French newspaper, and once again reprimanded the French.

The headline in the British Fleet Street media was even more sensational: Germany was plotting against Shandong, Beizhili, and Shanxi in a vain attempt to turn these areas into German spheres of influence.

It was even published that a source from within the British government said that in the Yangtze River valley of the Qing Dynasty, the Germans were vying for the sphere of influence of the British Empire.

For a time, the British public opinion was surging, and after nearly 200 years of being the boss, the British people, like the government, were extremely sensitive to the behavior of challenging the authority of the British Empire.

In the face of this public opinion stirred up by the British public opinion circles, the Conservative government of Prime Minister Disraeli was really frightened, and hurriedly brought in the German Foreign Office to jointly issue a diplomatic statement that Germany respects the British sphere of influence, which can be regarded as appeasing the British public opinion and not letting the poor popular support of the Conservative Party fall even lower.

And this episode also gave Joey a glimpse of a superpower's wariness of any potential challenger, even if it comes from the homeland of their beloved Her Majesty the Empress, the Germans.

A lion of kings is in its prime, but the eagle has quietly flown in the sky, learning how to look down on the earth.

No matter how the Germans justify it, in the mouth of the mainstream European media, the Germans are using rhetoric to deceive the Qing Dynasty, wanting to cede land and pay compensation, and their means are even more shameless than the British and French who kicked open the gate of the Qing Kingdom with cannons.

Of course, the French press wanted to be more intense, directly using the shameless German headline. However, this time the French cartoon of current affairs is very wise, no longer using the image of the German emperor, but creatively using a character named Hans.

By the way, at the end of the comic, a disclaimer was added that if there were similarities, it was a coincidence.

Frankly speaking, the French media's criticism of Germany this time was very to the point.

"The Germans took the opportunity of Britain and France kicking open the door of the Qing country to do business with the Qing people, not only did they not appreciate Britain and France, but in order to expand business, they slandered the behavior of Britain and France in spreading civilization as an injury to the Qing country, and they bowed their knees to the Qing country, and there was no dignity at all, which was a shame in the whole of Europe and a scum in the European royal family."

Let a lot of the pro-royals who rushed to Berlin slowly stop again, and that group of damned republican Frenchmen seems to have a bit of truth in what they said....

After portraying the Germans as the scum of Europe in this era, the French media swore to assure the readers that Germany would definitely extort money and land from the Qing Dynasty.

Faced with this situation, the German Foreign Ministry simply did not bother to make a targeted statement, but simply used the phrase "French, watch your words!" In a word, I dismissed the matter. The subtext is, the British, I have to explain, what kind of saliva I waste with you French.

Blatant contempt! In republican France, fighting a war is not necessarily the best, but in the matter of public opinion criticism, no one scolds better than them, spraying you Germans, of course, very careful with words.

French public opinion has dramatically become a strange circle in which the right wing sprays the left wing, the left wing sprays Germany, and Germany does not want to see it.

In fact, it is not that the German royal family and government do not want to explain, but the education that key Europeans have received since childhood is that human nature is evil, not to mention the reputation of the Hohenzollerns and Bismarck, a Prussian family that is warlike in history and takes pleasure in aggression and annexation, and the other is a famous bandit prime minister in Europe who takes advantage of the fire to rob.

What is the justice, goodness and morality of Germany under this combination?

The attitude of most of the European media towards Germany's new type of diplomatic relations is, as for whether you believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway!

When the Qing and German governments jointly announced that they would formally sign the agreement on August 18, 1879, the European public opinion circles, led by France, were waiting for this moment when the Germans proved themselves to extort the land and wealth of the Qing Dynasty and obtain immoral income and land!

"At this moment, I don't believe it, I can't beat you, and I can't spray you!" All the self-proclaimed righteous people in Europe shouted.

On August 18, 1879, after the meeting between Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty and Prince Heinrich, the Emperor of Germany, at 3 p.m. Beijing time and 9 a.m. Berlin time, the "Qing-German Peace Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Mutual Assistance" was officially signed, and the contents of the treaty were made public.

The preamble to the contract and other diplomatic terms will not be repeated, and the main contents of the treaty are as follows:

1. Qingde and Germany are willing to be friendly countries for generations and forever as fraternal countries. Qing is a brother, virtue is a brother, and he vows never to regard the other party as an enemy country, and never declare war on the other party first.

2. The Qing and German countries are willing to carry out economic and trade cooperation in an all-round way, especially in the industrial and military fields.

3. In order to refine and rapidly promote the needs of industrial cooperation, Qing decided to select suitable cities in Qing as special pilot areas for German industrial investment in Qing Guo, which were collectively called "Qing-German Cooperation Special Economic Zone" or "Special Economic Zone" for short.

The pilot areas that have been regarded as "special zones" are: Qingdao, Dengzhou (Yantai), Qinhuangdao and Niuzhuang (Yingkou).

4. The sovereignty of the SAR rests with the Qing State, and the right to garrison troops and diplomatic and consular affairs belongs to the Qing government, while other powers are entrusted to Germany, a brother country of the Qing Dynasty.

5. The urban infrastructure, public affairs construction, and economic industry and commerce in the Special Economic Zone will follow the urban business model arranged by the Germans. For the construction of the Special Economic Zone, the German side provided the design plan, the Qing State provided land and labor, and the funds were raised by the special economic zone authorities in the form of stocks and bonds.

6. The highest official in the SAR, i.e., the Chief Executive, shall be appointed by the Qing State, but the day-to-day management and law and order authority in the SAR shall be vested in the Management Committee established by Germany and Qing, and the Management Committee shall owe allegiance to the Qing State.

The members of the SAR Management Committee responsible for business and industry, taxation, public security, health and public affairs must be Germans or foreigners recognized by Germany.

7. The laws of the Special Administrative Region shall be dealt with in accordance with the principle of territoriality, that is, those who violate the law in the Special Administrative Region will be handed over to the courts in the Special Administrative Region and tried in accordance with the laws of Germany, and those who violate the law outside the Special Administrative Region will be handed over to the magistrates of the Qing Dynasty and dealt with in accordance with the laws of the Qing Dynasty.

No matter where the offender was arrested at the time of his arrest. Germans in the SAR enjoy diplomatic immunity.

8. The Qing Dynasty agreed that the industrial and commercial enterprises in the Special Economic Zone would be exempted from tax for the first ten years, and the tax would be reduced by half for the next 99 years.

9. The Qing State will hire German officers to serve as the chief instructors of the Qing Army's new army, that is, the Wuyi Army. At the same time, the Qing State announced that the organizational structure and training methods of the Wu Yi Army would be imitated by the German Army, and not only would the Wu Yi Army set up a staff department, but all weapons and equipment would also be purchased from Germany.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Wuyi Army was established, with a total of five armies in the front, middle and rear, with a total of 25 battalions and a total of about 25,000 people, which was equivalent to the number of a Prussian elite division with full strength.

In addition, at the suggestion of the German government, Baoding, the seat of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, will set up a completely German-style military academy and a military academy in the Qing Dynasty.

10. The Qing government announced that it had ordered two 10,000-ton ironclad ships, two flat-deck ironclad fast cruisers, and six torpedo boats from Germany, and the shipyards were set at the Stettin-Volken shipyard in Hamburg and the Julius Caesar shipyard at Danzig.

11. The Qing government announced that it would purchase interest-free treasury bonds of the German Empire worth 25 million gold marks and about 50 million taels of silver, and repay them for a fixed period of 99 years, and the repayment object was stipulated only for the Qing Empire.

As soon as the contents of the above-mentioned contract were announced, world public opinion was in an uproar.

Sure enough, there was no land cession or indemnity between the Qing and Germany, only the "special zone" and the "national debt".

The French were stunned, it turns out that they can still play like this?! How do you spray this? Urgent!

All the countries of Europe are asking what is wrong with Germany!

The German demon in the hearts of Europeans is Joey, and the two things in the Qingde contract about the establishment of special zones and the purchase of national bonds are all from Joey's handwriting, not only these two articles, but also in other clauses, in fact, there are Joey's ideas in them.

To become a brotherly country, not to declare war first, in the initial discussion of the Taiwo, basically, all the Germans thought it was nonsense.

In the eyes of nineteenth-century Europeans, treaties were a compromise with reality, and once the strength of one side changed, the treaty was on the verge of tearing up or revising.

Brotherly countries will not declare war? In Europe, in the past ten centuries, between the royal families, who is not related to whom, and who is not related to whom? It's not the same life and death.

But Joey insisted on this Deqing treaty, which must be the first article of the contract, and Joey insisted on the simple reason that the Qing people ate this set of things.

In the end, it turned out that Joey was right. As soon as the Prince of the Great Qing Dynasty saw this, he directly shouted that the Great Qing Dynasty was very happy, and as for the content and appendix behind the treaty, he didn't even look at it, and directly signed the contract.

The dignitaries of the German Foreign Office vaguely saw the style of the Manchurian in Berlin again.

In the Qing country, you must respect the face of the Qing people, if you want a big clean face, you will have a double heart, this is Joy's first lesson to the German Foreign Ministry and businessmen.

As for the appearance of the word "special economic zone" in the treaty, it comes from the memory of Joey's previous life.

In Joey's previous life, if a person who worked in the economic field did not know that there was an economic term exclusive to China called "special zones of reform and opening up" and its history, then he was simply not worthy of economic work.

Of course, the Germans hoped to have their own sphere of influence in East Asia and in the Qing Dynasty, in fact, not only in East Asia, but also in the world, it was the dream of the Germans to have their own exclusive colonies like the British, but on the question of how to open up the sphere of influence and colonies, Joey and the old prime minister Bismarck's views were surprisingly consistent.

Any current plans or ideas for overseas expansion of the German Empire must be based on the bottom line of not provoking anger (in Joey's opinion, it should not arouse the wariness of the British), and now is not the time for Germany to challenge British authority, but to cooperate with Britain, and only on the premise of cooperating with Britain, and then try to expand German influence as much as possible.

Since Britain has pulled itself from the position of a referee on the European continent into the quagmire of the five-nation game, with the backing of Austria-Hungary, the United Kingdom is the best choice for the Germans.

Ensuring that Germany has a 3:2 majority in the balance of power on the European continent at all times is the wisest choice for Germany.

In Joey's opinion, it is much better and more interesting to at least stand on the side of the famous European-stirring stick than to be treated as by the-stirring stick and keep stirring it.

In Africa, as long as they do not try to circumvent Egypt and South Africa and do not pose a threat to the above two countries, the British often turn a blind eye to the expansion of other countries, which is why Joy avoids Egypt and South Africa in his current African plan.

In Asia, as long as they did not approach or threaten India, Singapore, and the Qing state, the British were calm towards the expansion of other powers, such as the French in Indochina, the Dutch and the Spanish, in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Therefore, the Germans, in cooperation with the Qing State, had to take into account the feelings of the British.

If Germany really wanted a piece of land from the Qing State, the British would immediately suspect the motives of the Germans, regard the actions of the Germans in the Qing Kingdom as a challenge, and begin to attach importance to the actions of the Germans, and be prematurely hostile and valued by the British, which is not in Germany's national interests.

Moreover, the Germans have been preaching the new type of German-Qing relationship, and they keep emphasizing that they do not ask the Qing to cede land, but really ask for land, which really confirms that Germany is a country that does not believe in its word.

No matter how intriguing there is in state-to-state exchanges, it still needs to be based on credit, and without basic national credit, it will only increase Germany's diplomatic costs, which is also not in Germany's national interests.

Therefore, the model of "special economic zone" naturally became the best choice, the sovereignty of the special economic zone was in the Qing state, the highest officials were appointed by the Qing state, the committee swore allegiance to the Qing state, and Germany concentrated on running a Qing city and received corresponding economic remuneration, so that the Qing country was happy, and the British wariness would not be high enough to call the police.

In addition, Joy left another hole in the appointment of the members of the Special Administrative Region Committee, that is, the members of the committee members could be either Germans or other foreigners recognized by Germany, which on the one hand made the Qing State feel that having Germans to check the customs would not harm the Qing State, and on the other hand, who to choose and who not to choose also became a tool for the Germans to sell to the foreign powers, especially the British. 、

Previously, the idea of "opening the door and sharing interests" put forward to Foreign Minister Cecil, didn't you British take the bait, this time Germany also had four special zones in the Qing Kingdom, and it also waved hard to you British, Joy wanted to see if you British would come.

If you don't come, I'll eat alone.

Your arrival means that the British's sphere of influence will also be opened to Germany, and the Germans will still not suffer.

The most important thing is that it can also create a false impression of an Anglo-German alliance for other countries, so that the Germans can bully the French and scare the Russians in the future.

Regarding the legal agreement, Joy wanted to take a bigger step, and the legal affairs of the SAR simply followed the laws of the Qing Dynasty.

But as soon as this idea was proposed, it was immediately rejected by the godfather Uncle Hermann and other people in the German economic circles.

The objections of Sir Grusen and others were simple and straightforward, and the laws of the Qing Kingdom were old and full of rules and regulations that did not meet the requirements of capitalism, and if they were to be continued, they would not help the economic development of the four German Special Regions in the Qing Dynasty.

Without the law, Germans will feel like they are undressed, but with the presence of a bad law, Germans will feel like they are naked and in heavy shackles

Whether the Germans came first, or the law came first, has always been an interesting German question.

So, for the bourgeoisie like Sir Grumman, the modern economy needs the protection of modern law, and these Qing SARs must use the German law of the civil law system.

The German legal academic community was also very interested in this, and regarded this incident as a beneficial expansion of the civil law system, so they also briefed the top level of the German government through various channels, hoping that the special zones of the Qing Kingdom would implement German civil law.

With the joint efforts of the economic and academic circles, the implementation of German law in the civil law system of the Qing Special Administrative Region became the consensus of the German government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then resolutely opposed Joy's idea.

Joey rubbed his nose, and of course he could smell the dissatisfaction of the German elite in the Foreign Office behind this incident.

Recently, the confrontations and plots in the diplomatic fields of Germany, Germany, Britain, Germany, Japan, Germany, France, and Germany and Russia have all come from mysterious orders from the German imperial family, and this kind of practice that violates the strict procedures of the Germans, especially the Prussians, has made the elites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs very mad.

However, these instructions can always accurately grasp the key points in the development of diplomatic affairs, so that this group of elites cannot find the slightest fault.

In the past, this group of proud men in the field of German diplomacy has become a mere messenger of information and clerks sorting documents, and this sense of loss can be imagined.

Finally, in this contract document drafted by the royal family, I caught a omission that seriously did not conform to this era, and if it was not corrected, how could it reflect the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Under the mediation of a group of elites in the German Foreign Office, especially Cardinal Holstein, the German economic and legal circles united and strongly demanded that Chancellor Bismarck eliminate the agreement to enforce the laws of the Qing Dynasty in the Special Administrative Region.

Hearing the words from the Prime Minister, who was also troubled and a little embarrassed, Joey immediately chose to back down and compromised.

After all, this was not an era of rampant human rights, and in the 19th century, when interests were paramount, Joy did not have the courage and ability to force others to believe in the 21st century's theory of universal harmony and great love, especially when it came to Germany's national interests.

In addition, the demands and ideas of the economic and legal circles are also correct from the standpoint of the German economic and legal circles.

As a side effect of the concession, the confidence of the elites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has returned, and the handling and implementation of the contents of the Deqing contract have become more efficient.

This kind of compromise, Joey is happy to back down.

Crown Prince Frederick and the Prime Minister saw this in their eyes and were satisfied in their hearts.

Only by knowing how to advance and retreat can you take on great responsibilities.

At this time, in the German Foreign Office, there was also a news from the gray cardinal Holstein, which said conclusively that these mysterious instructions from the German royal family were actually written by the emperor's grandson, Prince William.

According to the evidence, there is definite information that it was His Royal Highness who was involved in the formulation of this series of diplomatic schemes. Crown Prince Frederick has only two adult children, and Prince Heinrich is currently abroad, so only Prince William is eligible.

What, you say there is also a prince of Waldema? Please, he's an 11-year-old!

When Chancellor Bismarck, deliberately in front of Crown Prince Frederick, stared intently at Joy and told this joke in the German Foreign Office seriously, Joey's reaction was to laugh.

"I don't care if Willie is my eldest brother, from me or from my eldest brother. My lord, I only care, it is useful. ”

After watching it for a long time, the old prime minister and Crown Prince Frederick were relieved, and at the same time, Master Bismarck clearly felt the same as himself from the sound of the crown prince's relief, a little lost...

Joey didn't feel any loss, but was filled with pride.

First of all, it is proud of Germany's military achievements, and helping the Qing Dynasty train its troops according to the German model means that a country's military system is willing to completely imitate Germany, which is undoubtedly the highest affirmation of the German military system, and it is also an affirmation of the original German military system of the General Staff.

Think about it, the most important army of the Qing Dynasty, learned from the German-style military academy, equipped with a full range of German-style weapons, according to the plan of the German-style staff, obeyed the German-style orders, went to fight, to win, this military export of pride, Joey and the German General Staff feel the same.

Secondly, the urban planning and construction of the four special zones of the Qing Dynasty were entrusted to Germany by the Qing government, and the German-style buildings, German-style streets, and German-style public facilities all mean that the establishment of each special zone city is an export of German culture.

In the end, the German economy, the German law, and the German way of life, Joy believes that these things will bring a little difference to that distant and ancient Oriental country.

After all, Chinese friends from their past lives often joked that it was a German who saved them. Since he came to this world, Joey feels that he should be the German, so that everyone was friends in his previous life.

The face should be cold, but the heart should be hot, this is the adage of ordinary people in Germany to make friends, and Joey has always had the heart of an ordinary person.

A country that can achieve military, economic, cultural and political export shows that it has moved from a regional power to a world power.

He was able to push the German Empire to take this step, how could Joey not be proud.

In addition to pride, but also to have a sense of achievement, the most vulgar way to measure the sense of achievement is to calculate income and expenditure, and in layman's terms, how much money you make and how much you spend.

Joey's method of calculating this is quite different, not only calculating how much Germany has earned and spent in this diplomatic game, but also calculating how much other countries involved in the game have received and how much they have paid.

Since Qingde is the protagonist of this game, of course, it starts from Qingguo.

"How can you repay virtue? Repay virtue with virtue, repay virtue with profit! ”

Under the arrangement of the supreme decree of the Qing Dynasty, the purchase of 25,000 ordnance, clothing, and ammunition, as well as inquiries for two 10,000-ton ironclad ships, two flat-deck ironclad fast cruisers, and six torpedo boats, as well as related ammunition, logistical baggage, and military exchange and training, were quickly sent to the Germans.

In the ironclad period, an outfitted ironclad ship, excluding ammunition supply, personnel training and travel expenses, according to the purchase price of the British Royal Navy, was about less than 50 pounds / ton, before 1890, when silver was still very strong, one pound of gold was equivalent to four taels of silver.

The model of the ironclad ship that Heinrich gave to the Qing royal family, with its exquisite workmanship and majestic appearance, as well as the sincerity of the gift of up to 40,000 taels of silver, was not only accepted by the Qing emperor who was full of joy, but also immediately adopted by the Qing court as the blueprint for the ironclad ship of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Historically, Li Zhongtang's ironclad ship plan, which he had hesitated and wandered for a long time, was just a lunch time, and it was decided by the Qing court center.

Of course, the design of this ship, which is based on the blueprint of the former Dreadnought-class battleship, did not deceive the Qing people.

According to Mr. Patrick's final design, the ironclad named after his father, Crown Prince Frederick, had a displacement of 12,000 tons, which was converted to a 10,000-ton ironclad ship that cost more than 2.4 million taels of silver in 1879.

The other two 4,000-ton ironclad cruisers were outfitted, each weighing about 850,000 taels of Kuping silver. Each torpedo boat was about 250,000 taels of Kuping silver.

The total cost of the Qing State's purchase of German warships was quoted by the Germans at eight million taels of silver.

The main weapons were: 20,000 rifles, 80 field guns, 60 mountain artillery, and related clothing and other light weapons, which cost about 3.7 million taels of Kuping silver without ammunition.

The ex-factory price of the above-mentioned weapons and equipment of the army and navy is nearly 12 million taels of silver, and the reasonable price is around 17 million taels when the costs of ammunition, training, and transportation back to China are included.

In addition, because it was necessary to set up military academies and train staff officers for the Qing Dynasty, this also involved the salaries, subsidies, and so on of the relevant personnel of the German Army.

In the end, the German government exchanged views with military personnel for warships, guns, artillery, and logistical supplies, and offered 9.8 million gold marks, or about 19.6 million taels of silver.

This offer, through the hands of the new prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Yixun, was handed to Cixi, who shouted "the material resources of the Qing Dynasty and the favor of Germany", and finally the Empress Dowager of the West waved her pen and turned the German offer into an integer of 20 million taels.

The Empress Dowager of the West Palace said in a beautiful name, make up a whole number, it looks good!

With 20 million taels of German weapons and 50 million taels of German government bonds, Qing Guo's elder brother smashed 70 million taels of silver for Germany's younger brother in one go.

This is not over, the Empress Dowager of the West also asked Prince Yi Xun to send a message to the Germans, "The Qing Dynasty and Germany will come to Japan for a long time!" According to Yi Xun's explanation, this is only the beginning of the friendship between Qing and Germany, and he will never treat the younger brother of Germany badly in the future.

The whole of Germany is very satisfied with the generosity of the brother of Qing Guo.

20 million taels of silver, converted into 10 million gold marks, was only paid by the Qing State to Germany, and the Russians also got the silver from the Qing State.

Because of their lofty stupidity and clumsy performances, the Russians seized on the fact that the Qing people had already signed a contract, made a big fuss, and insisted on doing things according to the signed contract.

Let the Qing Dynasty cede the entire Ili region and agree to Russia's tax exemption for trade in the northwest of the Qing Dynasty, plus an indemnity of 56 million taels of silver, no one in the Qing Dynasty dared to agree, especially in the case that the Qing Dynasty and Germany had already recognized their relatives, and the Qing people could not agree to it in any case.

Like the history of Joey's previous life, Minister Zeng Jize was appointed as the ambassador of negotiations with Russia by the firing line, and he took the benefits of the Qing country to get the soft Germany, and naturally did the side of the Qing country.

Backed by secret information provided by the Germans, Zeng Jizegong slapped the table and yelled at the Russians in fluent French.

"Chonghou was dealt with by the law of the Qing Dynasty, this is the internal affairs of the Qing Dynasty, what does it have to do with your Russia, is Chonghou an official of your Russia?!"

"Besides, Chonghou is only a signatory representative, and the treaties he signs must be approved by the government before they can take effect, and treaties without government ratification are invalid, which is an international axiom!"

"It is a common thing for countries to sign a contract on behalf of the government but not approve it, how dare you say that my Qing Dynasty violates international justice."

What are you kidding, Lord Zeng is the minister stationed in France, and he fights in the French media when he has nothing to do on weekdays, and the language skills tempered by the French public opinion circles are comparable to those of a Russian in the countryside!

In short, I'm no worse than you when I speak French, and I'm better at squirting than you!

"If Russia is bent on extorting territory and huge reparations from the Qing State, when the Russians attack Afghanistan and prepare to plot against India, it will be the day when the Qing Dynasty and the British join forces to kill you Rakshasas in Afghanistan!"

The imposing Zeng Daren sprayed saliva directly in the face of the Russian.

It was only here that Russian Foreign Minister Gorchakov, who was in charge of the negotiations, finally broke out in a cold sweat, and after glancing fiercely at the officials of the German Foreign Ministry sitting on the side, he began to think in his heart.

"According to reliable sources, there is a great possibility that an alliance agreement will be signed between Germany and Austria, and on the matter of Japan, Britain and Germany have signs of an alliance again, and now the relationship between Germany and the Qing State is so close, if the Germans are to prevent the empire from extorting a sum of money from the Qing State, the Germans are standing behind the British and Austrian countries, this matter is really difficult to do."

"Your Majesty and all Russians' dream is to wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, and the occupation of Afghanistan is the current strategic priority of the Empire.

After taking a deep look at the smiling Germans again, Gorchakov secretly cursed in his heart, "I have been deceived and betrayed by this group of Germans again, and it is a lie to say that the empire can get great benefits from the Qing State!" If we had known that this was the case, we should not have had such an ambiguous attitude in the previous German-French conflict, and we should have clearly supported the French and let the French fight to the death against the Germans. ”

Originally, it was the Germans who cooperated with the Russians to defraud the Russians of a huge sum of money from the French, and in return for the help of the Germans, the Russians agreed to make concessions to the Qing on the Ili issue, helping Germany establish a good impression in the hearts of the Qing people.

But after Chonghou signed the contract that was like child's play, the Russians forgot about the promise to the Germans, and thought to themselves that Germany should support the Russians and let the Qing state fulfill the contract, taking it for granted that all this was what Russia deserved.

In the face of interests, greed has no bottom, no integrity at all, and recognizes money but not people, which is the typical diplomatic thinking of Russians.

Some time ago, when the Qing people were lying on their stomachs, a conflict was about to break out between Germany and France, and at the strange moment when they were about to sell the Qing Dynasty in a noble and refreshing way, Germany, which was in the whirlpool, concentrated its forces on dealing with France in order to stabilize Russia, and by the way, put pressure on the Qing country, and maintained an ambiguous attitude towards the ideas of the Russians.

After the matter of the Qing Kingdom was finalized, and the Germans supported by Britain, Germany took a 180-degree turn, and you Russia dared to be shameless, and I, Germany, dared to be polite, and began to support Minister Zeng Jize's counterattack against the Russians.

So, in the eyes of the Germans, no matter how dissatisfied you Gorchakov is, it's just a matter of thinking.

With the secret help of the Germans, the Qing State pinched the key points of the Russians, and the tough Zeng Jize did not let the Russians cut off an inch of territory, but the pit dug by the Chonghou was too deep after all, and finally, under the persuasion of the Germans, Zeng Jize reached a new "Qing-Russian Ili Treaty" with Russia.

The treaty stipulated that Russia would renounce its territorial claims to the entire Ili region, but the Qing would pay Russia 10 million roubles in compensation, and agreed that Russia would have trade in the northwest but no tax exemption and could purchase supplies from the Qing in wartime.

One of the most important secret provisions in the treaty was the Qing pledge that in the event of a conflict between Russia and Great Britain, the Qing would remain neutral in good faith.

In the end, the Qing State promised to compensate Russia with 10 million rubles, equivalent to 4,450,000 taels of silver.

So far, in 1879, the Qing State spent a total of 74.5 million taels of silver to Germany and Russia, and in 1878, the fourth year of Guangxu, the annual income of the Qing State was only 60 million taels of silver.

Fortunately, the Qing Dynasty did not need to pay all the 74,500,000 taels of silver at once, and the 50 million taels of silver for the purchase of German bonds were purchased in four installments, which were completed within two years, and the cost of purchasing German arms only required a deposit of 30 percent, and the rest was paid according to the delivery date of the contract, and the Russian indemnity was also divided into two installments and paid within two years.

In fact, in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), the amount that the Qing Dynasty needed to pay was only a little more than 20 million taels, and in the next two years, the remaining 50 million taels were paid, which was completely affordable at the level of the Qing Dynasty's wealth.

After listening to the reports of the Hubu Manshang Shujing Lian and the Han Shangshu Dong Sui, Prince Alcohol sighed and said with emotion, "The Germans are benevolent and righteous, and they consider me everywhere for the Qing Dynasty, and they are worthy of my Daqing Dynasty to repay virtue with virtue and repay virtue with profit!" It is worthy of being a brother and a brother, and they complement each other! ”

In fact, goose owners know that if you want geese to lay more golden eggs happily, you must always take good care of the geese, and the Germans are well aware of this.

Although the Qing Dynasty has paid a lot of silver, in Joey's eyes, the income of the Qing Dynasty is actually a lot, even if these incomes are not silver for nothing, but they are some potential factors that affect the world.

Joey helped Daqing carefully calculate, those potential factors that could affect Daqing and the world.

First of all, three of the four special zones, around the Bohai Bay, if the Germans really ran well, in the minds of the hardliners of the Qing court, they were not the new fence to defend Gyeonggi.

The Westernists of the Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, had a close observation and careful study of how European countries ran their cities, and learned how to use foreign countries for Chinese purposes under the condition of ensuring the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty.

Second, out of anger at the strategic deception of the Japanese Navy, unlike in history, this time the Qing State spent nearly eight million taels of silver on the Beiyang Naval Division in one go, and two 10,000-ton ironclad ships could easily crush the Japanese Navy, and the two 4,000-ton cruisers were much larger than the cruisers purchased by the Qing State in history.

If the above-mentioned warships are in place, in terms of tonnage and firepower, the Qing Dynasty deserves to be the first in Asia.

The Wuyi Army in history was a new army that was hastily established by the Qing Dynasty in accordance with Western standards after the First Sino-Japanese War was beaten. But now it is 15 years ahead of schedule, even if there are only 25,000 people, but after all, the Qing Dynasty has the seeds of a modern army, not to mention, the Germans also have to help the Qing Dynasty, and establish the Wuyi Army Staff Headquarters and the Baoding Military Academy as early as possible.

With a new army with a Prussian style, it will be interesting to see what difference the Qing Dynasty will bring to the world.

Third, the Ryukyus regained their independence and once again paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty, and the already crumbling tribute system stabilized again.

In Vietnam and Korea, those who were shouting for secession from the Qing Dynasty also died down, and the problem of the vassal state that had originally alleviated the breathlessness of the Qing Dynasty was also eased, and the Qing Dynasty could finally sit down and take a breath.

In the end, Jiashen Yishu became Ji Mao Yishu, and Prince Gong Yixun, who performed extremely clumsy in the Qing-French War, was replaced by Prince Yixun in advance, Yixun's ruling level may be worse than Yixun, but Yixun is victorious in the same heart as the Empress Dowager of the West, and there is no elbow system of intrigue in the court, maybe the performance of the Qing Dynasty center will be different.

The return of the Ili region made the Russians more focused on fighting for Afghanistan with the British, and also made the historical Ili rebellion more quickly exterminated.

Nanzuo Bei Li, a healthier Zuo Laozi, is destined to bring a touch of difference to the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, only Zuo Zongtang deserved the word hero.

God is fair, and there will be gains if there are losses, but history must be unfair, and if we cannot grasp the opportunities thrown by history, we are destined to be abandoned by history.

After talking about the income and expenditure of the Qing State, the next step is naturally Germany.

The Germans had a completely different attitude towards receiving the three sums of cash from the Qing State, France, and Japan, and treated the Qing State generously by allowing installment payments.

It is unceremonious to treat France, who makes you French rich, even if you lose a huge amount of money on the Russians, but 300 million gold francs for the French government, a grit of teeth can still be made up in minutes, so the 300 million francs of France must be paid within three months.

Japan's reparations of 5 million gold marks were paid by the British, and the British were even more wealthy, and without waiting for the Germans to urge, they paid the money to the German government's account early in August.

Taken together, the German government in 1879 will have an additional 41.5 million gold marks over, and the German government's fiscal and tax revenue in 1878 is less than 70 million gold marks (note, not GDP), that is to say, Germany in 1879 increased its fiscal revenue by 60% out of thin air.

By the way, the British government's fiscal revenue during the same period exceeded 84 million pounds, equivalent to 170 million German gold marks, so in front of Britain, Germany is still very poor.

By the way, in the era of the gold standard, or rather, before the First World War in 1913, there was no such thing as monetary inflation in European and American countries, money was money, not paper.

Before the outbreak of World War I, the British tax rate was maintained at 11%, and during the First World War, the tax rate reached a maximum of 24%, and the total British economy in 1879 was about 900 million pounds.

Therefore, in the eyes of the British, the Qing Kingdom spent 12.5 million pounds in two years to buy German government bonds, which was just a small amount of money, but in the hearts of Crown Prince Frederick and the old prime minister, they were very satisfied.

Even if it happened, Germany spent an additional 100,000 pounds to bribe General Shuvalov to urge Russia to sign a new "Qing-Russian Ili Treaty" as soon as possible, in the eyes of the old prime minister, it was only half of the generous fine to the Manchurians.

After talking about the income and expenditure of Qingde, in this encounter between Beijing and Berlin, Britain, Russia, France, and Japan also gained and lost.

Britain is definitely a sure-fire player in this game.

As a result, the German government recognized the British Empire's sphere of influence in the Qing Dynasty, and according to the Germans' implication, they were equally willing to open up their rights and interests in the Qing Kingdom to the British Empire.

The second result was that he took control of Japan's finances and gained control of the Japanese customs, and after the Qing Dynasty, the happy days of eating Japanese usury interest also began.

The third result, through Germany, allowed the Qing State to stabilize the northwest region, contain Russia, stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, and protect the crown diamond of the British Empire, India.

Of course, in the third achievement, there are still some flaws, although the Qing State did not cede the land, but still lost silver, this indemnity is not much in the eyes of the British, but for Russia, it is a lot.

As for the gold mines in the Kagoshima area, there is no output yet, so it cannot be considered a result.

Even if there are some flaws, the results are brilliant, especially compared with the British government's efforts, if Britain has to say what Britain has paid, it is only the cost of Foreign Minister Cecil's travel to and from Berlin.

In short, the British government is satisfied.

The Russians, on the other hand, were upset.

The reason for the unhappiness is that the fat sheep of Qingguo actually slipped out of his mouth alive, even if he received an indemnity equivalent to 1/5 of Russia's fiscal revenue and 10 million gold rubles.

However, Alexander II was very sober, compared with India, the Qing State was only a secondary direction of Russian expansion, and the territory in the direction of Ili of the Qing State was only to protect the flank of the Russian army's attack on Afghanistan, and now a secret agreement was reached with the Qing State, in fact, the Russian strategic goal has been achieved.

And the advice of General Shuvalov is also interesting, the Persian Raiders. If the Russian army fails to attack Afghanistan, then it will target Persia, and after taking Persia, it will threaten Ottoman Turkey from the flank along the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

It was only to see the reparations go from 140 trillion rubles to 10 million rubles, which made Alexander II very unhappy.

"You wait, you wait, you wait, the Qing people, this money, the great tsar will get it back!"

The French did nothing, and they paid the Germans 300 million francs, of course, they can't say that they didn't do anything, after all, they still have an addiction to scolding the German emperor.

If you insist on finding some income for France, in addition to a mess of domestic paste, it is estimated that the French are beginning to be wary of their stake in the Suez Canal, and the greedy British have set their sights on it.

Finally, there is Japan, the real stealing of chickens does not make rice, dating the Germans is not romantic at all, in the Germans made a fairy jump, spit out the Ryukyus, and borrowed a loan shark, the customs was also lost to the British, and finally the British took away the mining rights of Kagoshima.

In Japan, the confidence and family wealth that I have built up in the past few years of the Meiji Restoration seem to have been lost overnight.

At a time when everyone was lamenting the injustice of fate to Japan and the Yamato nation, it was still Ito Hirobumi who stood up.

"Ladies and gentlemen, isn't the purpose of our Restoration to transform Japan with Western ideas, Western technology, and Western management?"

"The British and Germans have told us by their actions that only the strong are respected in this world, and the weak can only be in hell forever, looking up to the strong in heaven. If Japan wants to become a strong man in heaven, it must be killed from this hell, and the ladder to heaven is the corpse of another country. ”

"The British and the Germans took the gold mines of Kagoshima, and it didn't matter, so the men of Yamato went to work hard, to learn that, and to go to Europe to learn prospecting techniques."

"It doesn't matter if the British take the customs, we will serve the British as teachers and work hard to learn how the British manage."

"Not only did they give Japan the direction to move forward and the opportunity to learn, but they also gave us 50 million yen, so that we could learn and get money at the same time.

"Study, let's work together to learn everything about the strong!"

"Gentlemen, remember, the stronger you are, the more you are a role model for me in Japan! Only by learning everything about the strong can one day become strong. ”

"Men of the top four clans, open your eyes and move forward fearlessly! For the sake of the Yamato nation, even if there is a death in the end, we must embrace death with a smile, like cherry blossoms, blooming with anger! ”

"Onboard!"