Sasonov and Chinese Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang also talked about the same, in fact, it is just to talk about a rough idea, determine a direction, the rest of the details are naturally considered by professionals, the two only determined that Russia will mobilize 2 million people to join the eastern war, China will also send no less than 2 million troops, the two sides jointly launched an attack on the Japanese army, after the war China recovered the lost territory of Heilongjiang, Russia recovered the territory occupied by Japan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But at this time Sasonov raised the issue of issuing bonds in China.

"Regarding the issue of loans, it is best for you to communicate with Lord Yang, without the consent of Yangzi Bank, I am afraid that no one will be able to borrow a penny from Shanghai."

Lu Zhengxiang did not refuse Sasonov's request for a loan, but he pushed it to Yang Chao, he felt that borrowing money was not a bad thing, anyway, in those years, the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China always borrowed money from foreigners, and Yang Chao should not refuse.

Sasonov laughed: "Of course. We have had a great time working with Mr. Yang and I am sure he will be very interested in underwriting Russian bonds. ”

Sasonov was in a good mood, because now the situation is getting more and more favorable for Russia, and the Russian army is approaching Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, step by step, just like their previous tsars have done, and this time there is no Britain and France to rescue the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans can only stand up and wait for the Russian army to ravage.

Defeating the Ottomans and breaking through the Mediterranean Sea has been the long-cherished wish of many generations of tsars, who have been working hard for this since the time of Peter the Great, and today it is finally being accomplished.

At the same time, Russia will also greatly push forward to the West, and I dare not say anything else, at least Poland and even East Prussia must be assigned to Russia, and the industry of Poland and East Prussia is still very developed, and the metallurgical industry and shipbuilding industry are quite famous in the whole of Europe.

The most important thing is that Russia is one step closer to the heart of Europe, and you will also get excellent ports on the Baltic Sea, and with ports facing the heart of Western Europe, Russia's influence will naturally go directly into the heart of Europe.

In the direction of southeastern Europe, it seems that it will not be difficult for them to defeat Austria-Hungary, so they can open up southeastern Europe and train with Serbia and other Slavic countries, and their influence will directly penetrate into the hinterland of southeastern Europe.

Now even the East has provided them with this opportunity, and Russia did not think of recovering the lost territory, this time they were determined to destroy Japan, and the Russo-Japanese War and the Northeast War were twice defeated by this small country, and they also ceded 4 million square kilometers of territory, which is simply a great shame.

Russia never thought that they couldn't beat Japan, but because there were always problems at home, it gave Japan a chance again and again, and this time Stolypin was pressing at home, and there was no chaos in sight for the time being, so Russia had every chance to blossom on the fourth front, and the four lines would bear fruit!

As for whether Yang Chao will refuse, Sasonov has never thought about this problem, most of the Russian arms in this war can be said to be provided by Chinese, that is, Yang Chao provided, this is during the war between China and Japan, but also to other countries to provide arms, in addition to Yang Chao's crazy use of 40 billion marks to build an enviable heavy industry, it can also show that the world's richest man really loves money.

Since you love money, it will be easy to do, and it is absolutely impossible to let go of the opportunity to borrow money from Russia.

"I'm sorry, the bonds in the Shanghai financial market have been a little saturated, we have issued nearly 10 billion bonds in recent years, if we are issuing new bonds, the market is really unable to accommodate it."

Yang Chao's answer surprised Sasonov.

"However, China's industrial development is too fast, and there is a shortage of resources, which can be cooperated with Russia. It is a waste that large areas of Siberia are not exploited. We are willing to contribute funds and equipment to cooperate with Russia in opening up Siberia's minerals. In return, we will provide Russia with a low-interest loan of 1 billion taels of silver. ”

"You want mining rights in Siberia?"

Sasonov couldn't help but be a little surprised.

In recent years, everyone has been encircling minerals, and a considerable part of Russian minerals have been sold to France, as an additional condition for the French to borrow, after all, even if they are allies, they will not lend you money for nothing, they are all conditional, and as an ally, it is just a little more generous.

The Russians were not very resistant to buying mining rights to foreign countries, especially Siberian mining rights.

"No, no, no, this is not a mining right, and I have always been disgusted by Europeans grabbing minerals everywhere. I plan to cooperate with Russia, we will provide loans, funds and equipment, and open a mine in Siberia, and we only have 51% of the shares, which is actually just a controlling stake, so I want to be reassured. As for the rest of the equity, whether you give it to the government or the tsar, I don't care. This loan will be slowly deducted from your share dividend. ”

Sasonov secretly thought in his heart that this condition is indeed very favorable, that is to say, the Russians do not have to do anything, the Chinese buy equipment, invest in mining, the Russians get half of the equity for nothing, and more importantly, they can get 1 billion taels of loans, and use the dividends of these equity to repay the interest, this business is still worth doing.

"I don't know where Lord Yang wants the minerals?"

"From the Ural Mountains to the Lena River, all minerals!"

Sasonov frowned, it was a 900 square kilometer piece of land, and all the mineral mining rights on it, this matter was a bit big.

Yang Chao smiled: "I just want a power, anyway, no matter what I do, you basically account for half." I believe that sooner or later you will have to develop the minerals here, maybe it is not as good as the conditions I give. ”

Sasonov nodded slightly, the conditions were good, but the scope was too large, he felt that he had to discuss it with the tsar and Stolypin, and he didn't dare to agree immediately.

"I need to consult with His Majesty the Tsar."

Sasonov said.

Yang Chao nodded, not in a hurry.

When the tsar heard this condition, he actually had a headache and asked Stolypin, but Stolypin agreed without hesitation, he told the tsar that as long as this war is won, the words of the Russian Empire, the whole world will have to listen carefully, and when the time comes, if you want to regret it, the Chinese still dare to say half a word?

Now to be able to borrow money and exchange it for weapons and equipment in the hands of soldiers, this is the best investment, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity, and if you miss this opportunity, the Russian Empire will not know how many years it will have to wait if it wants to find such an opportunity to break through on all sides.

With Stolypin's support, the diplomatic corps that went north soon signed a mining agreement with Yangzi Bank, which cooperated with the Russian government and the imperial family to operate mines in Siberia and set up a Sino-Russian Siberian Mining Company, which was fully responsible for mining in Siberia.

The Tsar and the Russian government granted the Siberian Mining Company the exclusive right to open mines from the Urals in the west to Baikal in the east, and in return, the Mining Corporation immediately paid the Russian government a sum of 1 billion taels in cash, the interest of which would be gradually compensated with dividends from Russian shares.

Yang Chao acted quickly, immediately set up a subsidiary, and issued a bond of 1 billion taels in Shanghai with Yangzi Bank as a guarantee for the issuance of bonds by the mining company.

Under the complicated financial transaction, the Russians quickly received the silver, changed hands and spent it, ordered the equipment needed by 2 million people from Yang Chao, including gas masks, the Germans finally began to exert their power in Europe, and the Russians suffered the most and had to find a way.

It is the large-scale Zeppelin Rubber Company that eats this gas mask order, and the technology accumulated for the production of rubber airbags for airships is not so difficult to use to make gas masks, anyway, Britain and France have already developed gas masks, just ask France for a patent, and you don't have to give money, otherwise the Russians will lose their temper.

With weapons and equipment, the Russians moved quickly, and mobilized another two million people, bringing their total mobilized troops in this war to a terrifying figure of 12 million, of course, they could not keep such a terrible number, because the Russian casualty rate was too great.

Of the 10 million people previously mobilized, more than 3 million have been laid to rest, but this is much lower than the original historical casualty rate, which was originally 14 million people mobilized in the First World War, with a casualty rate of 75% and 10 million casualties.

Now it is only more than 3 million, and it can be said that the penicillin sold by Yang Chao to Russia has played a big role.

In the Battle of the Somme launched by the British two months ago, the British suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day, but only 20,000 were killed directly, and 40,000 were only wounded.

The emergence of penicillin did save a lot of lives, but it made the lethality of weapons much less effective, and also made the war more anxious, because both sides had enough troops to fight non-stop, but the materials consumed were too much more than in history, of course, the main ones were digested by the domestic industries of each country, and most of the rest were cheaper than the Americans.

Well, until the war has been fought, Yang Chao has actually cut a large piece of the cake by monopolizing the Russian arms market, accounting for one-third of the Entente's foreign procurement, but the Americans have eaten two-thirds, which makes Yang Chao a little dissatisfied.

The Germans were also dissatisfied, but Yang Chao strictly abided by the agreement with the Germans, and the arms produced in Qingdao were mainly supplied to Yang Chao's army, and even sold a large number of weapons to Yuan Shikai. The weapons and ammunition supplied to the Russians were mainly produced by the Laiwu Arsenal, which was a joint venture, and although Krupp also had shares, Yang Chao joined forces with the Americans, and the shares reached seventy percent, and Krupp could not interfere.

The Laiwu Arsenal was built on a huge assembly line, and the machine factories in Yantai, Dongying and other places were responsible for the production of parts, because there was less production from German-funded enterprises in Qingdao, Yang Chao even mobilized a large number of small Chinese repair factories around the country to let them produce parts, although the quality was slightly worse, but for the Russians, it was better than nothing.

For a while, Yang Chao made a windfall with these small repair factories, and then encouraged them to recruit technical school students, add machine tools and equipment, expand production, and become bigger and stronger!

Many of the first batch of factory owners went out from the two major arsenals of Qingdao and Laiwu, and there was no problem in technology, but the management and management ability was slightly poor, and Yang Chao encouraged them to set off a round of industrial expansion in the war, and I don't know whether it was a blessing or a curse for them.

"Hurry up and solve Japan, and fight with the United States wholeheartedly for orders!"

Yang Chao had this idea in mind, and when the Russians mobilized new recruits to send them to Europe, and then sent veterans from Europe to the East, and deployed 2 million troops to the Irkutsk area in this way, Yang Chao finally launched an attack.

The 1 million Chinese National Defense Forces first launched a comprehensive counterattack from Jiamusi to Heihe. 300,000 men attacked the Japanese army in Dalian from Lushun, and the remaining dozen or so small gunboats in Lushun set out to blockade the port of Dalian. The Russian army of 1 million men slaughtered Chita, and another 1 million were used as reserves.

Another joint operation in the northeast began, and the last time it was the Chinese united with Japan to fight Russia, and only a few years later, it became China and Russia to fight Japan. (To be continued.) )