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Germany immediately announced that it would set up a fund for China's reparations to Germany, all of which would be used as scholarships to encourage Chinese students to study in Germany.

The German government said that the purpose of sending troops to join the Eight-Nation Coalition was solely to rescue the trapped diplomats and clerics, and that it had no intention of extracting any benefits from China that were not within a reasonable range.

Therefore, they were willing to give up the war reparations and set up an education fund to help China develop modern education, and the fund was entrusted to a consortium of German banks for trusteeship.

This bank group was supposed to finance the reparations, so it was equivalent to putting the money in their coffers without touching it, while the Chinese had to give them interest, the total amount of interest was equivalent to the reparations, and the result was that the Chinese used their own money to pay for the students in their own country, while Germany was approved by the international community.

Kaiser Wilhelm II was quite proud of this, believing that he was too diplomatic.

As for the question of aiding the construction of the arsenal, the Germans finally put forward two demands.

The first is that the aid to build the arsenal will be a secret clause, and both sides will have a duty of secrecy, because the Germans do not want to be reproached by Western countries for this, after all, it is not in the interests of many countries to arm China. At present, there has been an agreement between Western countries not to transport weapons to China for two years. Germany does not want to undermine this arms embargo.

The second is that they need to choose the construction site, because they are worried that the location of the Chinese arsenal is unreasonable, and Yang Chao also agreed to this, but he has an extra heart, and he asks to be limited to Shandong.

Yang Chao has always been a little worried about the situation in China, so far, Li Hongzhang has still not announced his inauguration as president, the domestic situation has not stabilized, and there are small-scale rebellions in various places.

The south is a powder keg, Huguang and Liangjiang can still be controlled because of the deterrence of Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, two veterans of the Hunan army, but Liangguang is a little worrying, especially in Guangdong, what triads, Tiandihui and other gangs make trouble all day long, after Li Hongzhang left, the people who stayed in Liangguang could not control the field at all, Yang Chao was very worried that Guangzhou would develop into a powder keg as originally done, the so-called revolutionary Mecca.

It is much safer to choose Shandong, Yuan Shikai is here, and no one in Shandong will be able to turn the sky upside down.

Therefore, Yang Chao asked the factory to be built in Shandong, and I believe that this gift will be given to Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai will be very happy with himself, so it should be logical to give himself an official to do.

As for the details of the aid, Yang Chao also made a request, and Yang Chao asked the Germans to ensure that enough technicians were sent to keep the factory up and running within three years, and the Germans agreed to this request, but the Chinese government had to pay the reasonable wages of these personnel. Yang Chao was also worried about the blackmail of the Germans, and made a provision that China was willing to give double subsidies compared to German wages.

has been meticulous to this extent, Yang Chao feels that there should be no accidents, after all, business dealings, there is still a basic integrity issue, otherwise the next cooperation will be difficult.

After the problem was resolved, the Chinese apology mission was finally received by the Kaiser, who bowed to Wilhelm II and gave Wilhelm the diamond as a state gift.

In fact, for the story of Yang Chao falling into the sea, not only did not die but found a big diamond at the bottom of the sea, the people are happy to see it, but the real smart people do not believe it, that is too coincidental, even these 'smart people' do not believe that Yang Chao really fell into the water, even if there is a group of British sailors to testify, and the Chinese themselves, it is not enough to believe, in the eyes of these people, the British sailors at the bottom are the same as the Chinese, not worth believing.

Therefore, this matter has become an unsolved case, which makes Yang Chao feel a little funny.

In the end, Wilhelm II maintained his arrogance, and he still sat down to accept the credentials.

After the apology ceremony, Zaifeng's diplomatic mission was completed, and he immediately set off for home.

Zaifeng's gains from this mission are still very rich, especially on the issue of only paying compensation.

After the Japanese took the lead, Germany also announced that it would not pay war reparations in disguise, and the other powers were indeed under great pressure, the first being France.

It is difficult for the French people to accept that the Germans have given up the reparations, and the French government is still going to demand reparations from a country that has been beaten, are the French inferior to the Germans? Especially after the outbreak of large-scale looting and massacres, although the French government has not acknowledged the massacre of civilians, they are at a loss to defend the looting with detailed data, so they are under great pressure.

They could not argue with it, and at the end of his conclusion, he advised the people to note that when the troops withdrew to the country, they would see a large number of Chinese works of art in France, as had been the case with the Anglo-French forces that had invaded Beijing, and that the value of these works of art would far exceed the amount of reparations that China would have to pay to various countries.

After the end of the serial, the French government announced that it would also establish a study abroad fund to help Chinese develop education.

Germany and France both spoke, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria-Hungary, these countries that did not have much reparations simply did not plan to ask for it, directly gave up the reparations and even waived the fund formalities, anyway, they did not have extra educational resources to train Chinese, Italy sent 100 troops, but in the end it was divided into more than 20 million taels of reparations, and was under pressure in international public opinion, and finally gave up this windfall.

In fact, it was the idea of the Americans to turn the war reparations into an education fund, but now it was robbed by the Germans, and the Americans simply said that in addition to encouraging foreign students, they are also willing to establish three universities in China, and the money will also be used to establish a fund to build universities and maintain the operation of the schools.

In the end, only the Russians and the British were dying, the Russians were really poor, and the British were not short of that money.

The Russians also gave up after ten days, but they announced that the money would be used for infrastructure in the northeast, especially the railway, but their troops had not yet withdrawn from the northeast.

The British dragged on to the end, which was indeed unexpected by Yang Chao, but thinking about the reparations against China, the British benefited the most.

The amount of China's compensation was set by the British, and their purpose was to prevent the Chinese from going bankrupt because they could not afford it, but they could not be too easy and pay it off at once.

The Chinese government must rely on a large number of borrowings to pay reparations, and most of the loans have to be paid by British bankers in the end, such as the reparations to Italy, the Russians, and the Japanese, which are basically underwritten by the British banking syndicate, that is, the Germans and the French have the ability to share a part.

The interest on the loans was mainly paid by customs duties, so if these loans could not be repaid, the Chinese customs would have to keep them under the control of the British.

But now the other countries suddenly announced that they would not pay reparations, and the British plot was ruined at once.

Other countries don't want to take out loans, and the amount that the British can force China to borrow is only the amount of reparations that they possess, and the British want Germany and Russia to sign as soon as possible, but the majority of the reparations are given to these two countries, and he himself does not even have a hundred percent, so it can be said that the British attempt is basically bankrupt.

So after the assessment, the British felt that they basically did not use the reparations to put the Chinese in debt, so to continue to let the British Hurd take charge of the Chinese customs, it would depend on the goodwill of the Chinese, so they simply made the biggest concession and forgave all the reparations.

At the same time, in order to gain China's favor, they also announced that if China needed to pay reparations to other countries and borrow from British banks, they would be willing to give China extremely preferential interest rates with government guarantees.

In this way, in addition to the Russian indemnity, the war caused by the Boxer Rebellion and the Empress Dowager Cixi, China's reparation amount was greatly reduced, although it still had to pay an interest to some countries, but it also became an education fund for international students, and it was better to encourage education with indemnity than to give it directly, and Yang Chao was basically satisfied with this.

Yang Chao didn't expect his own operation, but in the end, Zaifeng gained a good reputation, and was praised at home and abroad, as a victorious diplomacy, so Zaifeng left Germany with a happy mood.

Yang Chao continued to stay in Germany, and he planned to set off with German experts.

In the days of waiting, Yang Chao, as a foreign commissioner in Shandong, visited various parts of Germany, mainly to visit various factories, such as the artillery factory in Krupp, the arsenal in Mauser, the steelmaking mill in the Ruhr industrial zone, the rolling workshop, the rail workshop, the locomotive factory, and even the machine tool factory and the 10,000-ton hydraulic press, and finally went to the Volken shipyard in East Prussia Szczecin (later Polish territory), where two ironclad ships were built for the Beiyang Navy, Zhenyuan and Dingyuan.

The shipyard manager warmly received Yang Chao, just like they received Chinese envoys back then, but it was a pity that Yang Chao did not have the ability to order warships, but Yang Chao still asked in detail about the shipbuilding capacity of Volken Shipyard, especially the ability to build warships, and the other party was happy to answer Yang Chao to this question, and completely treated Yang Chao as a potential high-quality customer, and agreed to Yang Chao's request as much as possible to visit various workshops without any concealment.

These Germans didn't know that when Yang Chao visited their factory, all their machinery and equipment, even the structure of the factory, were scanned by Yang Chao and transmitted to the very database through the watch, so that as long as Yang Chao was interested, all their machines could be copied.

It's just that there seems to be no need for this, the technological blockade is not popular in these years, the technical level of Western countries is comparable, there is no need to keep secrets between each other, but for the sake of the export market to fight each other, in fact, as long as the Chinese have money, and are willing to except for a very small number of equipment, there is basically nothing that cannot be bought, what a good catch-up era, but unfortunately the Chinese lost in the chaos, but the Japanese seized this opportunity.

Yang Chao suddenly thought of a sentence, a successful turn on the football field can determine the outcome of a game, a successful turn in history can determine a country's status in the international community for hundreds of years to come, obviously the Japanese have successfully turned around, and the Chinese classic car has not turned around.

While visiting the shipyard, a telegram suddenly came, and the German team of experts was ready to leave for China.

Yang Chao immediately interrupted his visit to the shipyard and took a boat to Hamburg to meet the German expert group.

"Oooh! Led Zeppelin! ”

Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain, the famous Zeppelin was being tested, and Count Zeppelin himself was also commanding here, but unfortunately Zeppelin didn't know Yang Chao at all, and he had no interest in Yang Chao at all, but it didn't stop Yang Chao from visiting his airship, so the structure of the airship was also in Yang Chao's database.