Yang Chao demanded that Daladier release more than 30 Chinese businessmen involved in smuggling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

These Chinese businessmen are actually not Chinese, but Chinese who have joined the French nationality, basically Chinese workers during the First World War, and married French daughters-in-law and stayed in France after the war.

During the Spanish Civil War, the legitimate government was blockaded by the British, and the rebels were able to receive a large amount of aid from Germany and Italy, but the government of the Republic had a large amount of dollars in their hands, and they were willing to spend money to buy weapons from smugglers at double or triple the price, so the smuggling scale was huge.

It's not just the Chinese who are smuggling, to be honest, these Chinese are just small characters, they just smuggle some food, cloth, etc., at best playing with rifles and bullets, the real predators are still Jews, Jews are also very economically powerful in France, and their political status is not low, the first prime minister of the Popular Front, Bloom, is a Jew, and Jews can be prime ministers, which shows that the political concept of the French is still very tolerant.

The Chinese have not yet been able to penetrate into the game played by predators such as the fire business, because the current Chinese in France are only hovering on the fringes of the economy, mainly operating restaurants, import and export trade, and other projects, and the arms business is played by those giants.

But the French captured these Chinese.

"No way, we have a neutrality pact with the UK, and these merchants are smuggling in violation of that agreement, so we must punish it."

Daladier rejected Yang Chao's request.

Yang Chao never understood why the French insisted on the principle of neutrality on the issue of the Spanish Civil War, and it was impossible for them not to see that the Nazis would pose a great threat to France if they took control of Spain.

The French Prime Minister's words reminded him that he really took care of the British, in order to keep up with the footsteps of Britain and pray that the British Empire would be able to pull them when there were changes on the mainland in the future, so he had to closely follow the British foreign policy and become the younger brother of the British Empire at the expense of international issues.

The French have indeed transformed from the French eagle to the Gallic rooster, and now even further into the chicks.

"They're just buying and selling grain, buying and selling cloth, and they're not involved in arms smuggling. If the French government also wants to implement sanctions because of this, I have to suspect that you are racially discriminating against the Chinese, and if this is the case, I have to regret to inform you that I personally will not give up. ”

Yang Chao's attitude suddenly hardened.

Even if Daladier is the prime minister of France, he can't help but have some scruples, don't talk about any dignity, the Rothschild family also had this attitude towards European politicians back then, whoever is bad to the Jews, he will boycott whom, the countries that have been boycotted by the Rothschilds have few good endings, such as the tsarist regime.

"I think you're mistaken, it's just a normal judicial process, and it has nothing to do with racial discrimination."

Daladier clarified.

Yang Chao snorted: "Your Excellency, I have to state once again that the French government's actions against the Chinese grain merchants and cloth merchants have seriously affected the dignity of the Chinese, if you don't let them go, I think the Chinese people will not agree, and they are absolutely unwilling to use any goods from a country that is not friendly to their compatriots." ”

Yang Chao's threat is obvious, if the French do not compromise, he will encourage the Chinese to boycott French goods.

At present, France's interests in China are not small, the southwest hydropower project, they did not fight the Americans, and finally only got a piece of the long-distance high-voltage transmission project, but this is only a piece of the pie, because what they do is basically a pole, the matter of erecting wires, including high value-added power transmission and transformation equipment, that is Siemens' business, they can receive the business of wires, or because they have been operating in southwest China for a long time, and they are most familiar with the terrain here.

However, the trade between France and China is getting bigger and bigger, not to mention the increasingly wealthy Chinese urban middle class, the demand for luxury goods such as perfume and fashion produced in France is becoming more and more vigorous, and the largest exporter of Renault cars is China, as well as a large number of small tractors and agricultural machinery exports, which can bring 500 million gold yuan of foreign exchange earnings to France every year, equivalent to 500 tons of gold.

Trade with China is impossible for the French in economic crisis, and if the Chinese boycott French goods, it will be a huge loss for them, and to put it mildly, Daladier is likely to be ousted by industrial giants and unemployed workers immediately.

But releasing people like this, Daladier's face couldn't get over it: "Mr. Yang, France is a country ruled by law, and it is impossible for us to violate the spirit of the law because of a certain nation." Moreover, I think your request is very unreasonable, although these smugglers arrested by the French judiciary are Chinese, their nationality is French. France has judicial power over these people, both on the basis of nationality and the principle of origin, and no one else has the right to interfere. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Your Excellency Daladi, I think you are probably making a big fuss, a few grain merchants, and there is no matter of judicial dignity. However, I would like to remind your country that there is an old saying in my country that things are dead, but people are alive. The Maginot Line could not hold off the enemy, and it was definitely a strategic mistake to put the enemy's forces behind their backs. ”

The reason why the French were able to tolerate the Nazis developing behind them was definitely not short-sighted enough to ignore the Nazi threat, nor was they ignorant enough to fully believe Adolf's statements that he only opposed the Jews and Soviet Russia, but they were too confident in the Maginot Line, and once war broke out, their intention was to put the main force on the border between France and Belgium, which was not protected by the Maginot Line, to prevent the German army from attacking them through Belgium.

So they needed the support of the British, and they were worried that they would not be able to cope with the Nazi offensive on the Franco-Belgian border, but if the Maginot Line could not stop the Nazis, would it be too dangerous to put a fascist like Franco behind it.

Apparently Daladier did not agree with Yang Chao's statement: "No one can get through that line of defense." ”

Yang Chao didn't want to argue with him, the defeat of the French was inevitable, even if Germany did not bypass the Maginot Line and fight a positional war with the French, the French would not be able to win, look at the kind of tragic war between the German army and the Soviet army, the French could fight it?

Yang Chao smiled: "Even if your defense line is impregnable, you trust the British so much?" Even if the British can be trusted, do you just want to give your security to the British, and you don't need the support of other countries? ”

In World War I, the British were still more credible, the military quality of the British expeditionary force was not lost to the French and German armies, and the British officers showed the honor of their ancestors in the afterglow of the nobility, and the casualty rate of the noble officers was much higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

But under the First World War, it also completely let the nobles shed blood, during World War II, they didn't want to fight at all, after Britain and France declared war on the Nazis, they never dared to attack, hiding behind the defense line and sitting quietly, Britain has always dragged its feet and did not send a large number of troops into France, and France trembled and never dared to take the initiative to attack.

It was not until the Nazis destroyed Poland in a few weeks, turning their guns around the Maginot Line, that the French simply surrendered, also out of indignation against the British.

But now they are clearly full of illusions about Britain.

Yang Chao can't break their illusions, but he can give them more illusions, and the French can rely not only on Britain, but also on other countries, such as China.

The meaning of Yang Chao's words, Daladier understood and pondered.

Yang Chao stood up: "Please think carefully, don't affect the relationship between China and France for a few small businessmen." ”

The next day, a Frenchman came to visit Yang Chao, a member of the Ministry of Commerce, and they brought the news of the release of the Chinese businessmen, saying that after a fair investigation by France, these businessmen had only strayed into the blockade line and had nothing to do with smuggling.

Of course, they didn't come to talk about it, it was just a small issue. They are here to talk about business, are they personnel of the Ministry of Commerce?

They hope to cooperate with the Yang Zi Consortium and welcome the Yang Zi Consortium to invest in France.

In Yang Chao's view, France is a broken ship that is about to sink into the goods, so after the First World War, he did not invest in France, preferring to cooperate with Denmark, Sweden and other small countries rather than invest in France, but France is obviously eager to get the investment of Yang Zi's consortium.

For example, they hope that the Yangzi consortium can set up a pharmaceutical factory in France, just like the Danish pharmaceutical factory, and they believe that France is the largest agricultural country in Western Europe, with more abundant agricultural products than Denmark, and can provide Yangzi Pharmaceutical Company with more abundant raw materials.

But Yang Chao is not interested in this, building a pharmaceutical factory in France, that is, it is left for the Nazis, of course, it is necessary to leave a pharmaceutical factory for the Nazis that can enhance combat effectiveness, but the Danish one is enough, and there is no need to waste money to invest in France.

However, the kindness of the French cannot be refused, otherwise the French chicken will be sad and unhappy, and the willful chicken will not be happy, but it will not cooperate well.

Therefore, Yang Chao said that she was very interested in cooperating with Renault to manufacture tanks, saying that the arsenal under the Yang Zi consortium wanted to develop new tanks, but in terms of chassis technology, it was not mature enough, Renault is the company with the most experience in tank manufacturing in Europe, and they were happy to let Renault help design and produce tank chassis.

The arms business is lucrative, but the peacetime arms business is all money-loss, but it's better than nothing, something is better than nothing, and the official of the French Ministry of Commerce promised to help tell Renault.

The French still wanted to borrow money, Yang Chao directly refused, the 1,000 tons of gold they borrowed back then have not been repaid, they are not British, they have rich oil resources in the Middle East, the French have a hard life, occupy so many colonies, it is really difficult to find a big oil field.

Thinking of the oil fields, Yang Chao suddenly thought that there is oil in Africa, and Algeria and Libya are extremely rich in oil resources. (To be continued.) )