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Britain and France and other powerful countries all want to dig up the same wealth in China.

Britain and France jointly contacted the government of Yuan Shikai, hoping to promote the Shandong model in Guangdong, and Britain and France were willing to jointly loan 30 million pounds to carry out industrialization in Guangdong, and the loan was guaranteed by all taxes in Guangdong.

Where is Yuan Shikai willing to accept it, where does he dare to accept it.

Guangdong is also a big tax-paying province, and the tax is used to guarantee investment and construction, isn't it that his Ministry of Finance has no tax revenue, and the impact is too great, Yang Chao can do that, that is when Zhang Zhidong was alive, he set up a pilot.

Now Yuan Shikai has not yet been the president, what he lacks most is money, but he doesn't want to lose the financial resources at this time, so he refused, but it has aroused the disgust of the emerging capitalists in Guangdong, Shandong's investment-driven economic model has still become a phenomenon, I dare not say that the whole country imitates it, but many capitalists still see that in addition to foreigners in Shandong, many local industries are also making a lot of money.

On top of that, Shandong's government agencies are more efficient, and corruption has been virtually eradicated.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai's refusal made him lose a considerable part of the people's hearts in Guangdong, but Britain and France were not very anxious.

The reason why Britain and France contacted Yuan Shikai was to see that Germany had invested heavily in China, the economy was developing rapidly, and the fiscal revenue was almost twice that of France, which made Britain and France very nervous, and with the development of Germany's economy, they strengthened their military expansion, and the navy allocated 1 billion marks for shipbuilding, making it clear that Britain's double plan must not be realized, and it was an insult to Germany to determine that the British navy was twice that of Germany.

Germany's military expansion naturally made Britain and France nervous, and they began to examine the seesaw theory proposed by the German economist Wald, and also wanted to carry out a pilot project in the East, so as to give the British and French economies a heavy weight in the East that could balance economic problems.

But the two countries are different from Germany, they have valuable colonies, Britain has India, France has Vietnam, after Yuan Shikai refused, the reason why the two countries don't care very much is that they prefer to build in their own colonies.

Proposals for the establishment of colonies appeared in the British and French Congresses, but there was also great opposition to them, and it had long been understood that the colonies were the raw material production and sales markets, and whether it was in line with economic and national interests to vigorously build colonies was very controversial.

The two countries have been indecided, but it has aroused the resentment of the colonies, the Indians also hope to get the industrial construction with the support of the suzerain, and the Vietnamese are also dumbfounded, but the two countries have been delayed for a long time, and the colonies are naturally unhappy, and they did not dare to give them and did not dare to have an opinion, but when they said that they wanted to give, but when they delayed giving, they offended people, and a disguised phenomenon of elevating rice and fighting rice hatred gathered in the colonies of the two countries.

The strongest reaction was from the United States, which had no worthy colony, and the Philippines was not on their list.

Therefore, Americans are still eager to cooperate with China, after all, there are more than 200 successful American companies in Shandong, so that they still have hope for Shandong and Yang Chao, and are eager to share in the construction of Northeast China promoted by Yang Chao.

At first, the Americans mainly focused on the market of 10 billion marks, but when Yang Chao resolutely refused to agree, the US minister even proposed that they could also provide loans of the same amount as Germany, but Yang Chao said that the loans provided by Germany were enough, and Yang Chao's refusal made the Americans even more urgent, and instead decided that it would be profitable to develop China.

The capitalists at home forced the government, and even the president was overwhelmed, and strictly ordered the US minister to China to win the benefits won by the United States in China's development, otherwise he would go home.

The Americans did not take the German economic seesaw theory seriously at all, they were directly stimulated by profits, and the purpose was simple, and they went straight to the goal, but they were always unable to say that Yang Chao was moved, and none of the 30 large steel plants built in the northeast had American capital involved. The construction of a double track of the standard gauge railway in the Northeast did not give any orders to American companies.

When the Americans complained about Yang Chao's favoritism, Yang Chao told the Americans that because China and Germany were allies, although the Manchu government had fallen, the newly inaugurated Yuan Shikai government and the German government had re-signed an agreement, and the two sides would continue to abide by the Sino-German alliance treaty and spare no effort to shoulder their respective responsibilities.

So this is Yang Chao's purpose, to introduce the Americans into the Sino-German alliance and turn it into the Sino-American and German Triple Alliance.

What is the purpose of the Triple Alliance, of course, is to encircle Japan.

Due to the territorial dispute, the relationship between China and Japan has fallen to a freezing point, and the civil boycott of Japanese products is very loud, but even if they resist, the Japanese will absolutely refuse to give up the fertile black soil in the Heilongjiang River basin.

The Japanese government began to organize laborers to go to Heilongjiang to open up wasteland, giving a large number of preferential treatments, and even snatching away the fertile land reclaimed by the Russian immigrants who originally lived there, and handing it over to the Japanese peasants for cultivation free of charge, just as they robbed the fertile land of the peasants in the northeast and handed it over to the pioneer group for cultivation in their original history.

The Japanese have said in a high-profile manner that they will emigrate 5 million people within five years, turning Heilongjiang into Japan's granary.

The large-scale immigration of the Japanese in the disputed territory stimulated the nerves of the Chinese, but Yuan Shikai did not have the courage to go to war with the Japanese, Yang Chao did have the courage, but he did not want to go to war with the Japanese, just like that, the call for civil war became louder and louder, Yuan Shikai became more and more silent, and Yang Chao immersed himself in industry.

The atmosphere in the East is very eerie.

After the Japanese seized Russia's vast Siberian territory, the Americans were indeed extremely jealous of Japan, and the country began to study various plans for the Japanese airship to sneak attack the United States, and the military proposed that in order to resist the Japanese airship, it was necessary to have a larger airship force than the Japanese airship force, because the Japanese could take advantage of the westerly wind belt to have an absolute advantage.

The Americans want to equip airships on a large scale, but they can't produce them themselves, and the generation gap between Zeppelin's airship factory has reached three generations, which cannot be made up in a short time, even the United States can manually manufacture Zeppelins with airships of the same level, but large-scale production will not work, there are only two countries in the world that mass-produce airships, one China and one Germany.

And the larger, more technologically advanced, and even the industrial chain has been formed is still China, which is not even comparable to Germany.

Therefore, the best option for Americans is to buy from China.

This is also a diplomatic card for the US minister, who decided that as long as Yang Chao agrees to cooperate with the United States in industry, then he will order 1,000 airships from Yang Chao, but Yang Chao still refused, saying that unless the United States is willing to join the Sino-German alliance, it is impossible to cooperate.

After all, the Germans have been calling for the establishment of an alliance against Japan since the Russo-Japanese War, which is also very beneficial to the United States, but the United States has always adopted the non-aligned movement, fearing that it will be involved in a military conflict on the old continent, and once it joins the alliance, it will have unshirkable international obligations and may be dragged into a tragic continental war.

There are two voices, one is to join the alliance for security reasons, and the other is also for security reasons, not to join the alliance, and neither of them can say that the two views can not be said to the other, and the Congress has discussed them several times, and both sides have launched large-scale lobbying activities, but they have never been able to pass.

And Yang Chao began to play cat again at this time.

To the visiting French journalist Elena, he said that he intends to promote the further development of Sino-German economic relations.

Elena was not interested in politics at all, but Le Figaro paid a lot of money to interview her, and she couldn't refuse.

"Do Sino-German relations still need to be promoted? You are already a military alliance! ”

Even if she didn't care about politics, as a Frenchman, Elena still knew that Germany's strength was not a good thing for China.

Yang Chao nodded and said, "This is a must." Although we are already a military alliance, this is only a defensive military alliance. And only in the eastern direction. And what I want to promote, it's not military relations, but economic relations. I don't think the current Sino-German economic relationship is close enough. ”

Yelena pouted, the whole world thinks that China and Germany's economies are closely separated, how can they be close?

"So what are you going to do about it?"

Yang Chao said: "At present, the economic relationship between China and Germany is very close, and both China and Germany have benefited a lot from this, and their economies are growing rapidly. But there are some constraints, such as tariffs and so on. Personally, I don't think tariffs make any sense at all. Its existence, apart from hindering the exchange of existence, affects the international division of labor. Therefore, I think that if the trade between China and Germany can be tax-free, it will be extremely beneficial to the economic development of both sides, and it will definitely greatly promote the development of trade. Expand Sino-German trade from the current 6 billion marks to about 10 billion. ”

It turned out to be tax-free, Elena faintly felt that something was wrong, China's customs were not controlled by the British, does this mean that the Chinese are dissatisfied with this, and the Chinese's taxes they say not count, according to the Nanjing Treaty signed by Britain and France with the Qing government, the tariff rate of the Chinese has to be determined through negotiation, they themselves say it is not counted, Britain and France say it is calculated, so it may also be against France.

Yelena blinked and asked, "But I'm afraid that your country's customs will lose a lot of benefits, right?" ”

She is very smart and knows that it is not good to mention Britain and France, but it is good to talk about China's losses.

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "Closer economic ties can only bring opportunities, can only bring benefits, as for the losses must be compensable." ”

Elena added: "So what kind of approach do you plan to use, and how do you characterize this relationship?" ”

Yang Chao said: "The specific way has not yet been figured out, which requires both of us to work hard to experiment." The relationship between the House of Nations is not so simple, it is very complex, and it must be carefully and diligently promoted. As for the qualitative, I think it is a purely economic-scope relationship, and perhaps it would be appropriate to become Sino-German economic integration, similar to Germany's past customs union! ”

Sino-German economic integration!

As soon as the noun of this word came out, it immediately caused a boom again, some Chinese people scolded Yang Chao for betraying the country, and the Americans were even more anxious, Nima was all integrated, and let the Americans play! (To be continued.) )