"In order to avoid a situation in the Eastern world that poses a serious threat to our national security, such as Japan, we must legislate to ensure that there will never be an armed force in East Asia that poses a threat to China. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Wang Chonghui explained in Congress that she is seeking support from Congress for the new law proposed by the Ministry of Justice.

"The Defence and Security Act extends from the Strait of Malacca to the west, to the waters of Japan to the east, to the Arctic Circle in the north, and to New Guinea in the south. Within this scope, all countries and forces must respect China's national defense and security, and must not deploy more than one-tenth of China's naval strength in the region, and must not have more than 300,000 land forces. Otherwise, China will see it as a threat and a challenge to China. There will be the right to choose the mode of armed strike. ”

The National Defense and Security Act also has a provision specifically for Japan:

"If Japan breaks the treaty, develops its maritime forces again, and arms its navy, then China and Japan will automatically enter a state of war."

The promulgation of this law has attracted more attention from Westerners than the East Asian Economic Mutual Assistance Alliance, and Western newspapers have reprinted it, various analyses and comments, and there is a consensus that this law marks the establishment of hegemony in East Asia by the Chinese.

This law means that the Chinese will not allow challengers to appear in East Asia!

But can hegemony really be obtained through a single law?

The British were the first to jump out and object, their relationship with China was extremely delicate at this time, and the British had already drawn up a plan to fight against China, ready to accept the challenge of the Chinese to the British Empire at any time.

The British first said they did not recognize this unilateral law, and then they invoked the one-sided most-favored-nation status and demanded the same treatment from Britain on the grounds that China had granted exemptions from tariffs to Japan and Korea and the Ryukyus.

"Hehe, it's all at this time, and you still want to maintain the unequal treaty?"

Yang Chao couldn't help but laugh.

In recent years, China has not been able to abolish various unequal treaties, Yuan Shikai relied on the support of foreigners to contain Yang Chao, so Yuan Shikai's enthusiasm for abolishing the treaty was not high, Li Yuanhong came to power for a short time, although he also made efforts to negotiate with foreigners, but never reached an agreement.

Now that Yang Chao is in power, he still has to talk about himself, and he directly announced the abolition of the treaty, which is not in line with international practice, he is not a Soviet, he doesn't care about those false things at all, not only directly abolishes all kinds of treaties, but even declares that he will not repay his debts.

The international order is also a kind of order, as long as it is order, it is used to protect the interests of all people, and Yang Chao also wants to use this international order to go deep into it, obtain benefits, and improve his status.

"Negotiate with the Germans first, let them give up the one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and revise the treaty with Germany first."

Yang Chao instructed Lu Zhengxiang that at this time, the Germans would definitely support China, in a word.

"Wait for Germany to revise the treaty, and then talk to Britain and France. If they do not agree, let the Russians also give up their privileges and continue to negotiate with Britain and France. If they still don't agree, make an agreement with the Americans and see if they agree. ”

The Germans will definitely agree now, because if it were not for Yang Chao's pressure, they would all want to announce that they would give up all their privileges in exchange for the favor of the Chinese people, but this is a card, and Yang Chao will not come out in time.

The Treaty of Root is still the "Treaty of Nanjing" and "Treaty of Beijing" signed by Britain and France with the Qing government, and other countries have obtained power through these two treaties, so it is good to abolish these two treaties, but the abolition is not a simple announcement, Yang Chao intends to negotiate it.

Lu Zhengxiang immediately talked with the Germans symbolically according to Yang Chao's request, and the two sides amicably announced the abrogation of all unequal treaties and signed a "Sino-German Friendship Treaty" instead, Germany recognized that China had the right to set tax rates and the right to manage its own customs, and the Germans would never seek control over China's customs and would not seek any unreasonable privileges.

The Germans recognized China's judicial system, saying that China's judicial system was fully applicable to the trial of Westerners, and the Germans also gave up a series of privileges in Shandong, in addition to the mineral deposits they had developed, gave up other mining rights along the Jiaoji Railway, and allowed the Chinese to deal with it themselves, whether to develop it themselves or sell it to other countries, it was all up to the Chinese.

After reaching an agreement with the Germans, Lu Zhengxiang went to talk to Britain and France again, but the British directly refused, and the French were a little tactful, but they still refused.

Lu Zhengxiang went to negotiate with the Russians again.

The Russians were not qualified to oppose at this time, although they were very dissatisfied with China taking away their territory east of the Lena River from Japan, but now they could not do without China's support at all, because after the beginning of spring this year, the tsar personally led the army to the west, but it was easy to hit the Urals, and then enter Europe, but they soon found that the Bushvik forces were not as fragile as they imagined, the resistance was quite tenacious, and the Russian army suffered heavy losses, and the biggest loss was not the death in battle, but a large number of flights.

The Bushviks confiscated all the landlords' land and handed it over to the peasant villages, which made the tsarist army disheartened, and the soldiers from the countryside wanted to go back to divide the land, and had no intention of fighting the Red Guards.

So the Russians also agreed, and they raised the issue of the northeast, but Yang Chao strongly said that the dispute would be shelved for the time being, and the Russians would concentrate on dealing with domestic problems, and then everyone would sit together and talk after they had won, and if they lost, they would not even be qualified to talk.

After Lu Zhengxiang signed the Sino-Russian Friendship Treaty with the Russians, which was similar to the Sino-German treaty, he continued to negotiate with Britain and France, but these two countries still refused.

Then pressure was put on the United States, and the Americans were pressured to finally accept the abandonment of the privileges of the past, including the very good one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and extraterritoriality that was more face-saving than it actually was.

Lu Zhengxiang negotiated with Britain and France again, but the French took the lead in not being able to resist it, so they abolished the treaty with China and signed a "Sino-French Friendship Treaty" to replace the previous treaty.

In this way, on the road to regaining national power, there will only be one Britain left!

It's not that the British don't want to make concessions, otherwise they wouldn't have to talk about it.

It was just that the British wanted to link up with the colonial issue and demanded that China give up the colonies that they had purchased from Germany, and then Britain was willing to accept an equal "Sino-British Friendship Treaty", but the colonial issue was not negotiable at all, and Lu Zhengxiang urged the British to immediately give up their occupation of China's overseas territories and immediately hand over Samoa and other Pacific islands and German New Guinea to Chinese jurisdiction.

The difference between the views of the two countries is too great for there is no possibility of a negotiation.

"Whether or not we can reach an agreement with Britain is a symbol of whether we can achieve hegemony in East Asia!"

Yang Chao knew very well that that law was meaningless, and what really meant it was the confirmation of Britain, and only the confirmation of the British Empire that China was the hegemon of East Asia.

And to get the British to submit, the only way to put pressure on them is to send troops directly, and the issue of negotiating an alliance with Germany is enough to put the British under pressure.

In just one month, new diplomatic relations were reached with the United States, France, Germany, Russia, and a series of other countries, exempting them from unreasonable privileges, abolishing extraterritoriality and one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and replacing them with fair treaties of friendship.

The British are the last and the most difficult one, because the British privileges are so great that they really can't be given up, extraterritoriality is just a face-saving thing, no one takes that thing seriously, Yang Chao is not even in a hurry to abolish it, and he hopes that there will be disputes because of this, and stir up national sentiment.

The biggest privilege of the British is actually the control of Chinese customs, they still control Chinese customs, and the tariff rate is still the final say of the British, at least the Chinese government cannot be independent, and if you want to raise tariffs, you don't even think about it without the consent of the British.

Of course, it is not impossible not to go through normal diplomatic channels and directly announce the abolition and repossession of customs, the British simply have no ability to retain this power at this time, but the consequences are very serious and harmful.

In order to make the Chinese incapable of controlling customs, the British have always suppressed Chinese employees, except in Shandong, Yang Chao strongly supported Li Fu'an to make the factory tax department to train a large number of talents, the vast majority of customs staff are recruited, trained, and controlled by the British.

In the senior management, there is not a single Chinese, all of them are foreigners, French, British, Americans, Germans, just not a single Chinese.

The excuse of the British is that if the top level uses Chinese, they cannot be clean, the Qing government could not refute it at that time, and they did not want to refute it, they only need actual benefits, the British can pay a lot of tariffs, they are too lazy to use who the British use.

But Yang Chao knew that the British wanted to control China's customs forever, fundamentally leaving the Chinese without the experience and ability to manage customs.

It can be said that the British hated this move very much, so that Yang Chao now has to throw a mouse trap, once the customs are forcibly withdrawn, the British withdraw all officials, and the Chinese customs can be paralyzed immediately.

Even in Li Fuan's hands, there is not enough personnel reserves, once the customs are received, at most he can only control the East Customs and Shanghai Customs, and the other customs will be completely out of control, and then uncontrollable smuggling will begin, and the customs system will completely collapse.

The British also value this, so their attitude is still tough, and they are not afraid that the Chinese will dare to play arrogantly.

Customs is Britain's diplomatic card, and Yang Chao has also come up with a corresponding card, which can only be the German card, and between controlling Chinese customs and losing the war with Germany, it is obvious that the British will make a wise choice.

"Didn't the Germans also want to hire Chinese laborers, and promised them that there was no limit to the number of them, but like France, Chinese laborers must be under our management, and they must not go to the battlefield, and only work in factories and farms in the rear!"

For a month, Lu Zhengxiang could not reach any substantive negotiation results with the British, and Yang Chao immediately asked him to start talking about cooperation with Germany, starting with sending Chinese workers. (To be continued.) )