Beijing's Dongjiaomin Lane, since decades ago, has been a special area of the city of Beijing, and many decisions that affect the whole of China, unequal treaties, began here, and became a history of humiliation.

At this time, on a sunny day, the British Embassy in the Embassy District, the ambassadors of Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and Russia gathered together, which is equivalent to concentrating most of the great powers with privileges in China, except for the German ambassador.

The reason is very simple, although Germany vigorously refutes it, it is an indisputable fact that the northwest has a large number of German experts and machines, and no one can believe that without the support of Germany, China's northwest can develop to such a level. Coupled with the last cotton crisis, China and Germany avoided this crisis while making China a cotton power.

Since 1909, cotton has become an indispensable thing in China, the northwest has not been carried away by the victory in front of it, temporarily based on domestic demand in the cotton market, but has had a huge impact on the international market, less China's million-ton imports and more than 100 million horses of the market, the total amount of cotton in the world has been exceeded, by more than a year ago violent fluctuations, gradually began to decline, no sign of reaching the bottom.

The gathering of several important countries, without inviting Germany, made the Japanese minister very happy, if among all the people, the most hostile to the northwest, Japan can definitely be said to be on the list, the northwest loom, the northwest cloth, plus the northwest in the whole of China's cotton layout, so that Japan lost the largest market, plus a year ago cotton crisis, so that Japan lost a huge amount of money at once, tens of millions of pounds, even for the British finances, is an unbearable loss, What's more, Japan, which has just embarked on industrialization, not to mention China, which is catching up with the light industry, has caused Japan to suffer a series of setbacks, and inflation has begun to appear in the country, and the Japanese industry, which could have earned a large amount of foreign exchange, has gone bankrupt one by one, which has affected Japan's domestic stability.

Of course, Japan knows that the cotton crisis, they are also treated as a good meal, and they are slashed by the powers led by Britain and France, but Britain is too strong, the Anglo-Japanese alliance is said to be a combination of the two countries, it is better to say that Britain put Japan on the table, in order to resist Russia, Japan not only made enemies with Russia, lost a lot of money and personnel, and finally reluctantly stood in the forest of world powers, but what is the specific status, Japan knows very well that in the face of an opponent that cannot be dealt with, it is almost natural to put the object of anger on the one that can be dealt with, Japan has never given up the idea of seizing land on the mainland, and Taiwan and Northeast China are only the first steps.

Zhu Erdian looked at the people in the conference room, different from the previous ambassadorial-level meetings, at this time, there are more people, and they are very familiar with them, namely the bankers of Britain, France, Japan, Russia and the United States, they pay more attention to the influence of the Northwest Bank than the ambassador, and it is also because of the appearance of the Northwest Bank that these financiers are angry, and they almost put forward all kinds of conditions to support, the premise is that the Northwest and the Northwest Bank must be defeated.

Zhu Erdian saw that the people were almost there, attracted everyone's attention, and then said: "I believe everyone, I am also very clear about the purpose of my summoning everyone, and the issue we are discussing today is the northwest. ”

All the ministers paid attention and listened to Zhu Erdian's slow narration, the changes in the northwest, in fact, these powers all saw it, most of the powers, for the development of the northwest, just felt a little unbelievable, or a direct threat, killing it quickly, not to mention.

But among the great powers, the United States has a different feeling about the northwest, the United States can change from an ordinary industrial country, into a power with more and more voice in the world, the journey is very difficult, not to mention the war of independence, that is too far away, the Civil War almost made the United States lose the possibility of hegemony in the world, it took decades, with industrialization and industry, the United States with the help of unique natural and industrial conditions, after becoming a real industrial power,

The Spanish-American War was a test aimed at the declining Spain, and after seizing Cuba and the Philippines from Spain, the United States also began to develop outward.

It's a pity that, like Germany, as an emerging industrial country, the United States has missed the best era of colonization, and the colonies of the whole world have been carved up by the great powers, and Germany still has African colonies, but the United States can only do it in Southeast Asia and Asia.

Britain has always been extremely wary of the United States, especially India and China, and absolutely does not allow the United States to intervene.

Because of this, the United States is very clear that the development of the Northwest is not easy, compared to the United States, it is more convenient to obtain most of the machinery from Europe, from the most industrially developed places in the world, just like that, it took more than 100 years, ups and downs, to obtain the current industrial achievements, but the Northwest, starting from the cat's head, only how long, even if there is hidden, plus several times, it will not exceed 10 years, what created the miracle of the Northwest.

Japan, Britain and Russia, are standing together, especially Japan and Russia, which are very close to China, Baotou, an emerging power, is the focus of their attention, the edge of the northeast, and even for Russia, the northwest from Xinjiang to Qinghai and other places, are also under the influence of Baotou, for the strategy of Yellow Russia, very big influence, if the northwest proposes to recover the territory, or even threaten Siberia, which is absolutely unacceptable for Russia.

On the contrary, Germany and the United States, Germany pinned its hopes on China, broke Britain's defenses, and made China become another South Africa, as for the United States, a rising star, the first in the industrial world, but it started late, so the door has always been open, with the help of this policy, a piece of the pie here, the emergence of Baotou, let them see the possibility of market and cooperation.

But this time, Germany did not receive the invitation, the United States is alone, he can only go with the flow, there is no support, there is no opposition, just listen quietly on the side, the four powers, discuss the past, there is no good way, Baotou is located in the northwest, too far away from the strength of many countries, the only one that can be contacted, I am afraid that only Russia, but there is a Mongolia in the middle, Russia built the Middle East Road Railway, did not consider Mongolia, that is, Mongolia's natural conditions, It's just too bad for the deployment of a large corps.

This meeting, compared with the previous talks, is more purposeful, the emergence of the banking syndicate, so that many differences have become easy to resolve, in order to solve the northwest in one fell swoop, the banking syndicate can provide part of the funds, or even direct assistance.

French Minister Peg listened to Dunsowitz keep talking about the distance between Russia and the northwest, across Mongolia, his eyes lit up, he remembered that Russia has always been full of ambitions for China's territory, in the past few decades, Russia has also obtained the largest territory from China, with more than one million square kilometers, this figure is almost three times the area of France, five times the area of Germany, Mongolia has a vast territory, almost more than one million, he does not believe that France is not moved.

After falling into a stalemate, Peige thought for a while and said directly: "Otherwise, let's support and let Russia send troops to Mongolia, and we will recognize Mongolia as Russian territory!" ”

French Minister Peg put forward such an opinion, which immediately made Zhu Erdian's eyes light up, the territorial problem is Russia's dead end, and the huge territory can make Russia stronger, but Mongolia is a land composed of Gobi and steppe, and there is not much room for improvement.

Zhu Erdian and the other ambassadors all looked at the Russian minister, and the Russian minister hesitated for a moment, what France said, for Russia, can not be casually prevaricated, after all, Russia has always used French loans, if France turns its face, it will be a huge blow to Russia.

In addition, for Mongolia, Russia's strategy is indeed annexation, from the north, attacking Mongolia, is Russia's strategy all along, a certain way, this road is not easy to take, now in the Far East, Russia stationed heavy troops, but most of these troops are placed in the east, such as Vladivostok and the outer northeast, where is the rich land, this piece is simply barren land, if it is not for some contact between Mongolia and Russia, he will directly refuse.

There is no direct opposition, it does not mean that he agrees, Russia has just lost the Russo-Japanese War, the cost of the war, plus the military expenses to compensate Japan, is a huge burden for the whole of Russia, in this case, if you face the northwest, which has industry, and has a large military strength and population, it is indeed not what he wants to see, there is no reason for everyone's enemies, let them stand alone, the Boers can drag Britain into the abyss of war, Russia is not as strong as Britain, and there is no money invested in it.

The solution proposed by the French minister, because the Russian minister did not respond positively, seemed to have fallen into some kind of stalemate, and the French minister Peg glanced at the Russian minister Dunsowitz, and calmly spread out the conditions: "If Russia is really willing to send troops to the northwest, we can not only recognize Russia's legitimate occupation of Mongolia, but also be willing to provide another 2 million francs of military support!" ”

Dunsowitz's eyes lit up, military spending, Russia is not short of people, what is lacking is money, by the way, there are weapons, if you support money, it seems to be a great temptation, but unfortunately 2 million francs is too little.

As if seeing his thoughts and thoughts, Peig continued to suppress the bombshell: "And an interest-free loan of 70 million francs!" ”R1152