Recommend a friend's new book "The Only Male Mage" - [The Only Male Mage, Wind Scratches a Different World], ISBN 2138815............ The British knew that the young man in front of him was a difficult fellow, and the last time he negotiated with him, he was like a hob meat.

At the moment, the British Empire wanted to stabilize China, because the British Empire had many vested interests, and the East China Provisional Political Axe seized on this in order to take the opportunity to take back the customs.

Unexpectedly, as expected by the British representatives, Li Shengguo began to pull up the conditions, if only the customs proceeds were to be used to return the indemnity, the East China Provisional Political Axe would also need the customs in Jiangsu.

The representative of Germany expressed his support, but the representative of the United States helped Britain to veto this demand, and in the eyes of the Americans, the customs of two provinces were enough for American goods to enter China, and three provinces were unnecessary.

Li Shengguo immediately proposed that it was okay to use the customs duties of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai Customs for compensation, but there must be a quota, and at the same time, the remaining temporary political axe in East China would be intercepted by himself.

The British readily agreed, and their purpose was only to keep the part of the reparations, and as long as they did not touch this part, their interests could be safeguarded.

Li Shengguo didn't pay much attention to the indemnity, and his brother-in-law told him that the British could pay the reparation, and they would return it ten times in the future. Li Shengguo didn't know if this goal could be achieved, but since his brother-in-law said so, how would he do it.

The negotiations went surprisingly smoothly for both sides, while the representatives of several other countries were only spectators, and the representative was opposed at one point, but it was invalid.

The British did not listen to what he said at this time, and their position on the Chinese revolution was divided.

At the meeting, he wanted to stir up a stir between the two sides and get Britain to let go of the Chinese revolution, but apparently they were not given a chance to negotiate this time.

According to the data of previous years, about 5 million taels of tariffs in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai will be used for indemnity, and in the future, the temporary political axe in East China will need to take out 5 million taels from the tariffs and hand them over to various countries according to the mortgage ratio, and the customs surplus can be retained and used by themselves.

The result of the negotiations was very unexpected, and Yuan Shikai certainly did not want to see this result, but they were not present, so Li Shengguo quickly signed the agreement.

As long as the situation can be stabilized within three months, the customs of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai will return the management of the East China Provisional Political Axe, and they can freely adjust the level of tariffs.

The representatives of various countries signed the agreement one after another, but the representative did not sign it, and only then did he reluctantly sign it under the watchful eyes of the British and American representatives.

The whole negotiation took only half a day, and on the afternoon of the 15th, Li Shengguo called Hangzhou to report to Xia Jun, and Xia Jun listened to it and affirmed the agreement.

Three months!

This is enough for Xia Jun, it won't take a month to hit Yan Jingjing, he can also give Yuan Shikai two months, and after two months, if Yuan Shikai can't force the Qing court to abdicate, then he must take action.

…… In 1912, this was the Year of the Dragon, the Spring Festival was approaching, the goods in the market became easy to sell, and the East China Group began to settle at the end of the year.

Xia Jun didn't ask, Li Shijing and Li Shengguo handled this aspect, and he only looked at the reports submitted by the various companies in the group, such as the feasible surname report, and the loss report.

The feasible surname report is generally to open up new areas, or adopt new business methods, and Xia Jun has some approvals and some do not.

The loss report is submitted when the company loses money in the quarter, which should list what caused the loss, whether it is a management problem, or a technical problem, or a policy problem, a competition problem, etc., if it is a technical problem, Xia Jun will get new equipment for the company, so that the company can get out of the loss.

Xia Jun's requirements for the report are to be concise, and he doesn't have time to read a lot of tedious things all day long.

Li Shijing is engaged in the group's year-end settlement, Xia Jun went to Huai'an to inspect the refined salt factory, the fourth reading force group returned from Hubei has been transferred to Jiangsu by Xia Jun, the main force is stationed in Huai'an, and the others are scattered near oil wells in other areas to protect salt and oil production.

Xia Jun drove in an armored car and arrived in Huai'an in less than a day, presiding over Huai'an's chemical industry was Zhang Cheng, a long-time expert in charge of chemical issues, who was one of the first experts to join the group, and currently has a high salary and enjoys excellent benefits.

When Xia Jun arrived in Huai'an, he learned that the chairman had come to inspect, and hurriedly ran outside the factory to greet him.

"How's the production going?" Xia Jun asked as soon as he got out of the car.

"Everything is good, and in accordance with the chairman's intentions, 100,000 tons of the 300,000 tons of raw salt produced last month have been taken out to process iodized salt, and 80,000 tons of iodized salt have been produced." Zhang Cheng replied.

Entering the refined salt factory, I saw that the machine inside was roaring, bags of iodized salt were being bagged, and the snow-white refined salt was packed into plastic bags, and then sealed by the machine, and a package of 500g iodized salt became a finished product.

"Now the well salt produced by the refined salt plant has a sodium chloride content of 98%, and iodine is added according to the requirements of the chairman, and some elements such as occult are added." Zhang Cheng said.

Xia Jun nodded, grabbed a handful of refined salt and looked at it, this salt is very fine, and the quality is already extremely high.

"How many bales of salt are being produced now?" Xia Jun asked.

"The 100,000 tons of raw salt are produced into refined salt, which is probably ...... 150 million packs. Zhang Cheng replied, "Nearly half of it has been shipped to various places." ”

"Hmmm! Very good. Xia Jun is very satisfied, the New Year is coming, and it is necessary to ask for salt to improve the people's morale, anyway, so much salt, give each household a pack for free, and the people's will not rise in an uproar.

In China these days, well salt is an expensive thing.

In some places in the central part of the country, people do not even have to eat coarse salt, eat salt soil, which contains nitrate, which is more harmful to the human body, Western countries stipulate that salt with a sodium chloride content of 85% cannot be used to feed livestock, while China does not even eat coarse salt to 85%, so the Chinese are ridiculed as a soil-eating people.

Xia Jun then inspected the soda plant and other chemical plants, and from the inspection process, these chemical plants are running well, and now most of the chemical raw materials do not need to be imported.

Xia Jun, who was very satisfied, returned to Hangzhou, and then began to arrange the Spring Festival warmth action.

This Spring Festival to send warmth, what is sent is salt, each household has a package of 500g of iodized salt, and another 20 kilograms of rice is sent to the poor households.

For this warmth action, Xia Jun also transferred some reserve grain from the grain depot. As for iodized salt, this thing is really worthless, and the cost is so low that it is basically negligible.

As for this Spring Festival warmth campaign, the press soon began to follow up and report.

Packets of iodized salt were sent to the people, and the people couldn't help but be overjoyed, the price of salt on the market is very high, and it is coarse salt.

The salt given to them by the political axe is still refined salt, and I heard that the family has iodine, and eating it can prevent the big neck disease. Each household has a bag of salt, and those who are not rich are naturally overjoyed, and those who are rich, although they can afford to buy salt, still feel a warmth when the political axe is given away for free.

This is an organizational care, a kind of care that has never been enjoyed, and in the past, the government only collected taxes and taxes, and never said anything to give.

However, the East China Provisional Political Axe is different, and Chairman Xia is a good person.

The newspapers originally thought that salt was only distributed in the cities, but soon the reporters of the newspapers discovered that the East China Provisional Political Axe also distributed salt in the countryside.

As long as you hold the household registration book, you can receive a bag of salt.

Of course, this has also led to many black households coming to reapply for household registration, black households have always been a common social phenomenon, and the reason why they did not register with the government in the past was because of some tax avoidance considerations.

Now that the East China Provisional Political Axe does not collect taxes, and there is also salt and Bafa, those black households naturally went to reapply for salt, and those who re-applied for household registration also received refined salt.

These people in the press also did not understand the market very well, and they also thought that salt was very expensive, and they were shocked.

How much does it cost to have so much salt? However, the East China Provisional Political Axe was taken out, isn't this shocking?

The public opinion circles praised the political axe in East China, and Xia Jun's popular sentiment index also continued to soar, and in just a few days, the popular sentiment index rose from 3.8 to 4.5.

Of course, within a few days, the press found out the truth, it turned out that the East China Chemical Company had mined well salt in Huai'an, and the annual output was enough for all Chinese to eat for several years, and the scale of mining was still expanding, and the extra raw salt was used to produce chemical raw materials.

"Declaration" reported on this: "Undertake the East China Chemical Company, so that China has the ability to produce a large number of refined salt, but also can produce a lot of chemical raw materials, the end of China needs to buy foreigners chemical raw materials situation, East China political axe to pay attention to people's livelihood, is really a new atmosphere of China's rebirth." ”

Other newspapers also praised the East China political axe for opening factories, and the praise of the public opinion circles made the situation in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces quickly stable, and those intellectuals did not oppose the East China Provisional political axe as much as before.

The students, in particular, had been only encouraged to oppose the East China Provisional Political Axe. The many manifestations of the East China Provisional Political Axe show that this is an enlightened form of government, and those students have turned to support the East China Provisional Political Axe.

If the only thing that makes people unhappy with the temporary political axe in East China is that they are a little hesitant to move forward, and they only control the territory of the three provinces.

Of course, why not fight, "Fuxing" has already explained this issue, the current situation should be stable, but it still makes many people feel that there is a fly in the ointment.

Just when the East China political axe was preparing for the New Year, the Ministry of Trade came with news from Germany that they had already talked to that Anthony? Fokker has agreed to come to China for development.

Anthony? Focker, the designer who designed the aircraft for Germany in World War I, caused the Fokker disaster for the Allies.

In 1910, at the age of 20, Fokker was sent by his father to Germany to be trained as a mechanic, but his interest was in flying, and in the same year, Fokker succeeded in building the fastest and strongest monoplane at that time, and he wanted to contribute this aircraft to the army of his homeland, the Netherlands, so he flew his own small plane from Germany to the Netherlands to pay tribute to the so-called Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, but was met with a cold reception. So he turned to France, England, and Russia, and all three [***] authorities were not interested in him.

Because none of these countries believe that a mechanic who has undergone professional training can design a good aircraft.

Fokker's planes are indeed good, but it is clear that the departments he contacts in these countries are rather rigid, and he is not even given a chance, or he does not pay attention to this area at all.

It was at this time that the Chinese found him, which surprised him. It was also at this time that Fokker was hit hard, and after receiving an invitation from the Ministry of Trade in the name of 'East China Aerospace Manufacturing Air Company', he agreed.

Nothing is more tempting than the conditions offered by the Chinese, a salary of $1,000 a month, and bonuses for good performance, which is a big temptation for Fokker who urgently needs a stage to display his talents.

However, Fokker was not without doubts, because he was afraid that when he arrived in China, the Chinese would not be able to provide him with the necessary infrastructure, and maybe they would not even be able to build airplanes.

The Ministry of Trade knew of Fokker's idea, and quickly dispelled his doubts, telling him that the East China Provisional Political Axe had been able to produce the most advanced diesel engine in Time Mountain, with a power of 450 horsepower more than any other country's diesel engine.

Dispelled his doubts, Fokker quickly agreed to the hir, and the future aircraft manufacturer, a brilliant pilot designer that the British were willing to pay for $10 million, was fooled into a ship bound for Shanghai, China, and his fate was changed.

If the original historical trajectory was followed, he would have opened an aircraft factory in Germany, and after World War I, he would have gone to the United States to become an aircraft manufacturer.

But now, it has become a worker for the East China Aerospace Manufacturing Company.

Dig up to Anthony? Fokker also means that the Germans are likely to suffer losses in the air battles of World War I, but this is better, Xia Jun can sell their original technology to the Germans again, and when the Germans gain air superiority in World War I, they will sell planes to Britain, France and other Allied countries.

Anthony? Fokker has dug it, but Feng Ru, a modern Chinese aircraft designer, has not dug it yet, and Xia Jun prepared it as early as a month ago.

Feng Ru has returned to China and is in Guangdong at this time.

Xia Jun was puzzled and called to ask the Military Intelligence Bureau, Bai Wensheng hurriedly sent a telegram to Guangdong to inquire about the agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and after about two hours, Bai Wensheng called Xia Jun's house and reported to Xia Jun: "Principal, that Feng Ru is a member of the Alliance, and he doesn't have a good impression of our Restoration Society. ”

"What!" Xia Jun wondered, "Why is he also involved in this?" ”

"According to the investigation of intelligence officers, Feng Ru received funding from Sun Yat-sen in the United States, and now he is planning to stay in Guangdong to prepare to serve the temporary political axe in Nanjing." Bai Wensheng said.

"I'll it~!"

Sun Cannon again, Xia Jun scolded secretly, and said to Bai Wensheng: "Go and ask again, if he still doesn't agree, you can send someone to tie him up for me." ”

"Yes, Headmaster!"

(To be continued)