Chapter 305: Provoking and fooling Nicholas II
readx; For the time being, these subtle changes are still truly manifested in the decision-making and actions of various countries, and the first manifestation is the original one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
For Yueben, the most important thing at this time is to confront China.
If we want to confront China, we must unite all international forces that can be united, and the Soviet Red Army is a force that can be united.
China's ambition to expand into Russian territory was on full display, and it was this goal that was achieved by supporting the Russian political axe, and in order to achieve this goal, China would inevitably have a violent conflict with the Soviet Red Army, and finally even lead to the outbreak of a full-scale war.
It was possible to achieve the goal of counterbalancing China by uniting the Soviet Red Army, so at this time he had already begun to adopt a negative attitude towards intervening in the Russian civil war.
Britain and the United States were uncertain, and it was clear that they were hesitant to support the Soviets in order to contain China, or to allow the close integration of China and Russia in order to eliminate them.
It was clear that Ben's proposal was beginning to gain the upper hand, because in order to eliminate the Soviets, the close integration of China and Russia was laissez-faire, and after the elimination of the Soviets, it was only a wedding dress for China.
After all, after the elimination of the Soviets, the Russian political axe will reoccupy the original Russian territory, and then Russia will stand with China at this time, and the result will not be easy.
Their hard work in exchange for only a more powerful enemy was their hard work.
This is not the result that Britain and the United States want, China's strength will make it more difficult for the United States to flow capital, and China's strength will also seriously threaten Britain's world hegemony.
Therefore, Britain and the United States also did not want China to reap the benefits, so Britain and the United States also slowed down the process of armed intervention in Russia, and even stopped appropriating funds.
As everyone knows, this has forced Russia to the side of China.
After China received the news, Xia Jun immediately exaggerated the attitude of the Entente to Nicholas II, and informed Kolchak that he was dead set on the Entente.
And the Chinese political axe told Kolchak that China would help restore Nicholas II to the throne.
Nicholas II, after being provoked by Xia Jun a few times, immediately demanded that the Bank of England return his gold, and Nicholas II had about 4,000 tons of gold deposited in the Bank of England.
And he stored in Russia another 3,500 tons.
Nicholas II's request was immediately rejected by the British, who claimed that it was Russia's gold reserves, not Nicholas' personal property, and vetoed Nicholas' request to take the gold.
This can provoke Nicholas II, Nicholas II immediately sent a telegram to Kolchak, Kolchak is still a relatively loyal subject, received the news of Nicholas II, and immediately asked Britain to return Russia's gold reserves.
Kolchak also quickly sensed the sudden change in the attitude of the Entente, at this time it was hopeless to rely on the Entente, and Russia had to rely on China to have hope.
The British political axe had no choice now, Nicholas II put the gold in the British bank, not in the British treasury, and it was Nicholas II who fooled him into getting this batch of gold into the bank.
As for the issue of mortgage repayment, those loans have not yet matured, and there is no way to seize them under this pretext.
Besides, the banks are nominally private, not British politicians.
Therefore, the British could only return the gold to Nicholas II in frustration, and this batch of gold was loaded onto a Chinese merchant ship, in order to protect this merchant ship, the Chinese Imperial Navy sent two Reaper-class submarines, and there are also three frigates, the lineup can be described as powerful, and those pirates basically have nothing to do with this fleet.
As for the navies of various countries, naturally they will not come to rob this fleet, who did it can be seen at a glance, if it is a sneak attack with submarines, the two Reaper-class submarines are not vegetarians.
The gold reserves were shipped back to China and deposited in the East China Bank, while Nicholas II ordered Kolchak to ship the remaining 3,500 tons of gold from Russia to China.
Nicholas II was about to be reinstated, and Kolchak was also informed by the Chinese political axe in this regard, knowing that Nicholas II would have the support of China, so without any doubts, he sent a force to secretly transport 3,500 tons of gold hidden in Siberia to China.
When this gold arrives in China, the amount of gold reserves in China will skyrocket.
These days, Xia Jun talked to Nicholas II about the reinstatement, and Xia Jun told him that for the safety of this batch of gold, it was better to put it in the Bank of China.
It's really safe to put it here.
Nicholas II did feel that it was safest to take gold to China at this time, the British wanted to swallow his gold, and Russia was in a civil war, so it was not safe, and it was better to transfer it to China as soon as possible.
Such a large amount of gold into the Bank of East China, which can bring huge benefits to the Bank of East China, 7,500 tons of gold reserves, this polar bear really has some family background.
After all, with such a huge empire, the gold accumulated over the centuries, plus a population of 170 million, and a cruel system of exploitation, how could it not have accumulated a little bit of money.
Although gold cannot make money in warehouses, gold can be rented.
However, generally this kind of money does not need to be earned, mainly because this batch of gold is placed in the Bank of East China, which can ensure the stability of China's Fuxing coin.
With so many gold reserves, scaring people can scare people to death.
7,500 tons in Tsarist Russia and 2,300 tons in China, as high as 9,700 tons of gold.
Russia's economy is so small, it doesn't need so many gold reserves, and if these gold are placed in China, it will naturally be a pressure for the revival coin.
And this batch of gold will also be Chinese in the future, now Tsarist Russia is so poor that only this batch of gold remains, and the rest is basically gone, how much money will it cost to suppress the Soviet Red Army in the future, this money will naturally have to be cut by Russia, and the first batch of cut meat is also this batch of gold.
The large gold reserves mean that China can reduce its foreign exchange reserves.
The reason why you want to reserve gold is because you are afraid of being attacked financially, if you have a lot of gold, others will naturally not come to launch a financial attack on you, so you can greatly reduce foreign exchange reserves, but foreign exchange still has to be left some.
Gold is real money, everything else is paper, and at some point it is fake.
When raising the issue of restoration with Nicholas II, Xia Jun suggested that Nicholas II form a new model of Russia, which could appropriately give the people some freedom and reduce exploitation, so as to gain the support of the people.
Nicholas II very much agreed with Xia Jun's point of view, and at the same time, Xia Jun said to him, 'If you control the grain, you control the people', and even more sorely woke up the dreamer.
"It's me who didn't control the food." Nicholas II finally realized the reason why he would be forced to abdicate, grain, that is, grain.
Everything is caused by the lack of food.
If the people have food in their hands, who will go on strike.
If the people had food, who would respond to the revolution! Or is it the problem that the basic livelihood of the people is not guaranteed?
Xia Jun instilled in Nicholas II a common sense that an exploitative ruling class must ensure the basic living standards of the people before exploiting.
That would make exploitation seem safe.
"There are many ways to solve the basic livelihood of the people, and China can lend money to Russia to mechanize farms, so as to ensure that Russia's internal food supply can keep up with the level." Xia Jun told Nicholas II that he was looking for a loan project to Russia.
Isn't this coming?
Agricultural mechanization transformation, only China in the world has completed, there is only one market, this cost is 'expensive'! This can be used to increase the loan to Nicholas II, but there is a lot of water in these loans, and this money will eventually flow back to China, because the transformation is the responsibility of Chinese companies.
"Hmm!" Nicholas II nodded, but said with some concern: "Won't this be too slow?" ”
"It's a bit slow, but it's the most fundamental solution. Before Russia's agriculture was completely mechanized, China could provide Russia with some grain every year and sell a large amount of grain to Russia through loans to ensure the basic living needs of the Russian people. Xia Jun said to Nicholas II.
"That's great." Nicholas II breathed a sigh of relief.
"The traffic situation in Russia is still very bad, and the result of the bad traffic situation is that agricultural products cannot be delivered to every people normally." Xia Jun began to fully consider the interests of Nicholas II for him, so as to look for opportunities for loans, "So we need to build large-scale transportation facilities in Russia, only with good transportation facilities, food will not rot in one place, and there is not enough food in other places, many times it is not that the people have no money to buy food, but that the grain cannot be transported where it is needed, coupled with the speculation of merchants, so the price of food is too high." ”
"Yes, that's it." Referring to this phenomenon, Nicholas II couldn't help nodding, it was Russia that had such a situation during the European war, and many times it was not the people who did not have money to buy grain, but the grain could not be transported to a certain place, which led to an increase in food prices.
After nodding his head, Nicholas II thought of a question, "But Russia does not have the money to build roads for the time being." ”
"China can provide loans." Xia Jun said to Nicholas II again.
Lending to such a settled country is something that is very competitive among the great powers.
This is the case in China, where the leading powers are vying to lend to China, which represents high profits.
This can make a country live in debt forever, and if it can't pay back the money, cut the meat! China has cut out customs before, and then cut out salt taxes and so on.
The reason why Xia Jun is reluctant to lend too much to Britain and France is that he is afraid that they will not repay the money in the future, after all, China is very likely to have a war with European countries in the future.
It's not cost-effective to borrow too much money.
Of course, it can be taken back after the war, the problem is that it will take time.
Russia is different now, China will definitely eat Russia, and Nicholas II has a great hatred for the Entente, in the future, all Russian loans will be provided by China, and other countries will not want to participate in the Russian economy.
(To be continued)