Chapter 257: A Different Treaty of Shimonoseki (Part II)
In order to show that he really has this ability, Japan's three major chaebols quickly raised the first year's indemnity with amazing efficiency, including 780,000 taels of gold and 17.57 million taels of silver, allowing Li Hui to see the profound heritage of a thousand-year-old country. In particular, Japan is still a country of gold and silver, and it is not the main target of foreign aggression, so it is normal to accumulate a little more. It's just that www.biquge.info Japan was so difficult before, and I didn't see them take it out, and sure enough, the capitalists' discipline is ......"
Li Hui considered that China's direct looting may not be so efficient, and the focus of the current work is not in Japan, so he agreed to let these vampires go for the time being, as for how their exploitation will make the Japanese people miserable, what does that have to do with the Chinese government?
However, even if Japan has some family resources, it is impossible to pay off all the reparations by eating the old money, and the goal of the three major chaebols to offer gold and silver is not only to save their own lives, but also to take care of the core state-owned assets that the Japanese government mortgaged to before the reparations are paid off, such as the Bank of Japan (central bank).
"As long as you get the right to issue money, you can create inflation to pass on the debt repayment pressure to the Japanese people, and sure enough, the capitalists of any country are not stupid! It's just that in some countries, the government is stronger, and the capitalists can only watch their mouths be greedy. Li Hui saw through the calculations of these chaebols at a glance, but considering that if this matter was done by the Japanese, the people's resistance would be much smaller, and the public resentment caused in the future would mainly fall on the heads of the three chaebols, which was much better than doing it himself. What's more, only when life in Japan is in dire straits, will talents and workers rush to China!
Li Hui then agreed to the chaebols' request, but in order to prevent them from becoming too ugly and causing the situation to collapse and affect the war between China and the United Kingdom, and soon with the United States, Li Hui imposed a tight spell on them, and the value of the newly issued yen could not exceed ten times the total amount of the reparations paid. For example, if Japan has now repaid 50 million yuan in reparations, then they can print up to another 500 million yen in banknotes.
The three chaebols also know how to do this, and their plans to make huge profits are after paying off the reparations, so they have no objection to the Chinese government's demands.
Speaking of which, Japan still has the right to repay the loan early, but at this time, even the most optimistic Japanese did not take this additional clause to heart.
In terms of land cession, the Chinese side did not make further demands, but only confirmed the details, such as the four northern islands that were explicitly ceded to China as subsidiary islands of Hokkaido. In addition, the two sides have also clearly demarcated the maritime boundary between the two countries, well, China's claimed territorial waters are 200 nautical miles, and Japan's is 12 nautical miles, so this division is followed......
Since the Ryukyus and Hokkaido became Chinese territory, the baselines of China's territorial waters were forced almost all the way to the doorstep of the Japanese, but fortunately, the territorial waters of Korea were counted as 12 nautical miles, and the eastern part of Japan was not adjacent to any country, otherwise it would definitely become the most pathetic maritime country.
In addition, there are some articles written into the Sino-Japanese Alliance Treaty instead of the peace treaty, but because they involve national sovereignty, they are generally considered by later historians to be the price paid by Japan for peace, such as the complete exemption of trade tariffs between the two countries, and the use of Mandarin Chinese as the first foreign language in Japanese middle schools and universities. These terms have made the economic ties between China and Japan closer and more frequent, and they have also helped China export the ideology of cosmopolitanism to Japan, and in the long run, the impact will be even greater than the military cooperation between China and Japan.
Originally, since the Japanese mission was still in China, both treaties should have been signed in China, but Li Hui suddenly remembered the allusion to the "Treaty of Versailles" and insisted that the peace treaty between the two countries be signed in Japan.
Although the Japanese side felt humiliated by the Chinese side's deliberate attempt to highlight the nature of the peace treaty as an "alliance under the castle," it did not dare to refuse, and Ito Hirobumi had to run both ends for the signing ceremony, tired and angry, and as a result, the tuberculosis disease, which had been almost cured, worsened again. Although relying on the miraculous effect of antituberculosis pills, Ito Hirobumi's twists and turns of the disease were finally completely cured, but because the medication was used for too long, it had strong side effects, resulting in Ito Hirobumi, a playboy who once wrote a poem saying that ""drunk and lying on the knees" is one of his two major ambitions......
Hirofumi Ito, who has always been lustful, actually didn't mention it, which is a great irony, and Li Hui laughed so much that tears flowed out of his eyes when he learned about it. But the biggest impact of this incident is not to make people in the world have one more joke, but that after Ito Hirobumi lost a big joy of life, he correspondingly became more persistent in another big joy of life, that is, power, of course, this is a later story.
On the eve of the imminent decisive battle between China and Britain, China not only solved an enemy that was not weak, but also had a younger brother with some strength, and this was definitely great news.
The first is the deterrence of this news to the Western powers, Britain and the Netherlands have declared war, and it will not work if they are not convinced, and the United States will fight sooner or later, but now it is not a bad thing to say neutrality, while France, Spain and Lao Maozi are all frightened.
Although few Western powers have been able to face up to Japan's true strength because of the conceit and arrogance of the Caucasian race who have been ahead of the world for more than 300 years, the fruits of Japan's Westernization reform and the size of tens of millions of people are at least much stronger than the strength of the three countries in the Far East. But such a regional power was easily defeated by China, so how strong is China now?
Therefore, the French governor of Indochina first issued a statement recognizing Yunnan and Guizhou as China's inherent territory, and resolutely severed his previous support for the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Song Fan, so as not to get into trouble; After Tsarist Russia found that Britain could not offer conditions that could impress itself, it also decisively abandoned the Heilongjiang General Enze and the Jebtsundamba regime, and sent envoys to renegotiate the border with the Chinese side; The governor of Spain and the Philippines, who has no direct interest, also took the initiative to show goodwill, saying that he could allow Chinese warships to enter the port of Manila for supplies...... (To be continued.) )
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