The Spring Festival is coming, many overseas Chinese have also rushed back to China for the New Year, Yang Haochuan is one of them, he sold small commodities in India last year to accumulate a sum of original capital, planning to return to China to find new projects to invest, by the way home for the New Year, to see the relatives who have not been together for a long time.

Yang Haochuan, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, returned to Yangzhou to find that the city had changed dramatically from two years ago, and that there were once dwarf wooden houses everywhere that had been demolished and replaced by beautiful and towering houses.

The streets have been widened a lot, with concrete on them and trees on both sides, so that the whole street looks clean and tidy, and there are many more cars on the streets. Not only are there many trucks driving on the streets, but there are also some small cars.

"What a quick change!" Yang Haochuan said with emotion that after staying in India for two years, everything in his hometown was so cordial that he even had the idea of not wanting to leave.

India has a large population and rural areas, and has a large rural market, as a businessman with little capital, it is a very good business to sell daily necessities produced by the motherland, and Yang Haochuan made a lot of money at the beginning, but later due to the fact that there are more people from the country, the competition is fierce, and you have to go deep into the interior of India to make money first, where it is more difficult, and you may also encounter some dangers.

Therefore, after earning the original capital, Yang Haochuan does not plan to run this kind of tiring work anymore, and plans to find some good projects to invest.

After watching it for a few days, there are many projects, and the rate of return is good, and now the industry and agriculture are prosperous, and the money can be made from any place that can be smashed.

Yang Haochuan has his own ideals, that is, to become a big businessman, and the general interests of the field have been involved by those businessmen who have made a fortune, and the profits have been diluted a lot.

However, in the early rise of the empire, those good business opportunities could appear at any time, and on this day, Yang Haochuan read the newspaper and saw a report on the Kokang Kingdom of Burma.

Seeing this report, Yang Haochuan was keenly aware that Myanmar would be the next market full of opportunities, and business opportunities were fleeting.

With his experience as a daily necessities seller in India, he immediately came up with a good idea, which was to bring a few truckloads of daily necessities to Myanmar and then wholesale them to small businessmen who had no capital. When he was in India, he was a wholesaler of daily necessities from a businessman in Zhejiang.

For those small businessmen who do not have the capital, they do not have that capital from the domestic wholesale, so they can only buy from wholesalers.

When I opened the passbook, there was already a capital of 2,000 yuan on it.

Two thousand yuan is already an astronomical amount for ordinary people, and you must know that in coastal provinces nowadays, the monthly salary of workers is generally around seven or eight yuan.

Today's thousand-dollar households are very decent, but thousand-dollar households are only small businessmen, and their capital is still very weak.

Yang Haochuan immediately thought of loans and joint stock operations, and after running to the bank, he found that the above had already issued a loan policy for businessmen who wanted to go to Myanmar to do business, so that he could easily borrow 10,000 yuan of capital.

"The Imperial Administration is very efficient!" Yang Haochuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, after handling the loan, Yang Haochuan immediately contacted some relatives who had already made a fortune, or relatives of relatives.

For Yang Haochuan's proposal to go to Myanmar to run a wholesale business, many people are very interested and are willing to participate in the shares.

Soon Yang Haochuan gathered nearly 30,000 yuan of capital, and signed a contract with the shareholders to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, those shareholders dare to give money to Yang Haochuan, naturally there is no fear, if Yang Haochuan is a liar, then the political axe will be wanted by Yang Haochuan, everyone knows that the political axe is not only strict in the legal system, but even violates the law, the victim will be arrested if he does not report, and is often accused of meddling. For example, if a husband beats his wife, it is domestic violence, and the wife does not want to cause trouble, and the public security bureau also arrests the husband and detains him.

Immediately, Yang Haochuan rushed to Zhejiang, which is a gathering place for daily necessities and small commodities, and can buy all kinds of goods in Zhejiang.

Based on Yang Haochuan's experience in running a business in India, Yang Haochuan quickly selected the goods, and then contacted the train to transport them directly to Sichuan.

The train has not yet reached Yunnan, and it will take at least a year and a half for the railway in Yunnan to be opened, so it can only go through Sichuan, and after arriving in Sichuan, it will be transported to Myanmar by car by road............ At the end of 1916, the world situation changed dramatically, first of all, Rasputin Rasputin, who had seized power in Tsarist Russia, was assassinated in Petrograd by Duke Yusupov and other royalist groups.

The royalists tried in vain to save the Romanov dynasty and prevent the outbreak of the revolution. But after Rasputin's murder, rumors of a coup d'état spread among the bourgeoisie that a handful of conspirators were preparing to assemble in Petrograd in an attempt to infiltrate the Tsar's train between Tsarskoye and Petrograd, arrest him and send him abroad immediately. All this shows that the rule of tsarism has been shaky.

In order to sustain the war, the military expenditure of the Tsarist government increased to more than 30 billion rubles by March 1917. One third of them were paid by borrowing foreign debts, and the rest were paid by borrowing domestic debts and issuing indiscriminate banknotes. In 1917, the official price of the ruble was reduced to 55 kopecks, and the purchasing power was reduced to 27 kopecks. The national debt increased from 8.8 billion rubles in 1914 to 33.6 billion rubles in January 1917. The finances of the Tsarist government were on the verge of collapse.

As soon as the Spring Festival passed, Xia Jun began a meeting with the imperial top brass to discuss the recovery of the territories occupied by Tsarist Russia.

"Rasputin has been assassinated, and now Tsarist Russia has a high foreign debt, and has not sent us a single order since the end of last year." Xia Jun said at the meeting, the meaning is obvious, Tsarist Russia has lost its use value, and it is time to take back what belongs to itself.

Previously, Rasputin was bought by the imperial political axe, and even if Tsarist Russia was in financial difficulty, it would squeeze out money to buy arms and food from China, but now in Vladivostok, a large number of materials are piled up in the port, and at the same time, at the Sino-Russian border railway station, there are also a large number of materials that have not had time to be transported.

"However, there are a lot of orders for factories in Tsarist Russia, and many of them have not yet been completed." Yan Xishan said.

Since the beginning of the war in Tsarist Russia, due to the lack of fuel and machinery, domestic factories have ordered a large number of goods from China, because only China can provide them with these things at this time, so China has the advantage of a seller's market, the price is set very high, and the profit is full.

"It's just a small profit, and the current situation in Tsarist Russia is obviously about to break out soon." Xia Jun said, "Even if it is built, it will not be transported to the territory of Tsarist Russia." ”

"Tsarist Russia is not really going to collapse, is it?" Tao Chengzhang said in surprise.

"Tsarist Russia has so far mobilized 15 million soldiers to fight on the front line, most of whom are agricultural, resulting in a sharp decline in the scale of agricultural production, coupled with the massive exploitation of women and child labor in factories, in the first five months of last year alone, the number of peasant uprisings in Tsarist Russia reached 510." Xia Jun said: "And according to intelligence, Lenin has been sent back to Tsarist Russia by Germany, and the current Tsarist Russian revolution is like dry firewood, and Lenin is like a hot fire. ”

"So, Tsarist Russia will soon be in chaos?" You Zhengbin asked.

Xia Jun nodded, "Probably in the next few months, there will be problems in Tsarist Russia." ”

"Then we can proceed according to the original plan." Chen Xuanyu said faintly excitedly.

…… On January 26, the third day of the first lunar month, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire officially handed over to Tsarist Russia a note canceling all unequal treaties between China and Russia since 1800.

This note was quickly sent to Nicholas II, who was furious when he saw it.

If this note is followed, then Tsarist Russia will return more than 1.5 million square kilometers of territory in the outer part of Northeast China, and at the same time, it will also return the territory of some areas outside the Western Regions.

Tsarist Russia is a country with the strongest territorial **, let alone let them give up the rich Far East, which is impossible for Nicholas II.

After Nicholas II was furious, he took a very tough stance and rejected the note to China.

China's sudden change of face was simply a robbery while it was on fire, which made Nicholas II very angry.

The invincible Tsarist Empire, with more than 10 billion troops, dared to jump out of provocation in China, a country that had just escaped from semi-colonial rule.

However, reason told Nicholas II that the empire was already in crisis at this time, and it would be unwise to provoke China again.

However, anger prevailed over reason, and Nicholas II chose to ignore China's demands.

…… The Imperial Cabinet of China held a media conference on the sixth day of the first lunar month, which was presided over by Yan Xishan.

At this press conference, the cabinet made public the various tasks that the Chinese empire will strive to accomplish this year, including the reconquest of lost territory.

It directly refers to the invasion and occupation of more than 1.5 million territories in China by Tsarist Russia.

"Since the 17th century, Tsarist Russia has successively occupied nearly 1.5 million territories outside Northeast China, and now the empire has been established, most of the lost territories have been recovered, and the remaining unrecovered areas are mainly these territories occupied by Tsarist Russia, for which the empire will start a plan to recover the lost territories outside the northeast, and the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs has submitted a note to Tsarist Russia to return the occupied territories." Yan Xishan said at the press conference.

"May I ask Elder Yan Ge, if Tsarist Russia does not agree to return the occupied territory to China, what will the empire do to deal with it?" A reporter asked.

Yan Xishan said solemnly: "The attitude of the empire is very resolute, and nothing can stop the pace of the empire. ”

This answer made the scene immediately enthusiastic, Chinese reporters applauded, foreign reporters saw that people applauded, and also clapped their hands twice, this is major news!

"Elder Yan Ge, does this mean that war is about to break out?" Another reporter asked.

"This needs to be determined by the attitude of the political axe of Tsarist Russia, the empire has always been opposed to solving all problems by violent means, but if anyone is stubborn, then the empire will not rule out the use of violent means to solve problems as a last resort." Yan Xishan replied.

Yan Xishan then answered a few more questions, and then moved on to the next release: "At the request of a number of domestic medical institutions and the Ministry of Health, the empire will hold the 'China Medical Expo' in July, which will display China's latest medical research results for all countries, and political axes and medical enterprises from all countries can sign up to participate in this expo, and China is willing to work with other countries to promote the progress of the world's medical level......"

(To be continued)