Soon, Yuan Shikai's attitude was fed back to the Xia Empire, and Zhang Wei was very satisfied with Yuan Shikai's attitude. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Subsequently, the Great Qing State formed a new negotiation team, began to communicate with Wu Wenbin, and told Wu Wenbin of the decision of the Military Aircraft Ministers' Conference, that is, it can only be leased, and the lease period cannot exceed 20 years, and the leased area is Western Xinjiang and Southern Xinjiang, a total of 7 provinces and regions and parts of Inner Mongolia.

The negotiation plan of the Great Qing Kingdom changed and changed, and Wu Wenbin was very helpless, so he had to send the Great Qing Kingdom's request back to China again.

Zhang Wei understood this state of the Qing Dynasty very well, and after discussing with Lu Weimin, it was decided that only leasing Western Xinjiang and Southern Xinjiang would be enough to systematically upgrade to the imperial level, and other things were trivial, and agreed that the Great Qing Kingdom proposed to take Hainan Island and Nanyang Islands as remuneration In addition, Zhang Wei asked for two more articles, the first is that after the Xia Empire recovers Macao and Hong Kong, these two places will be leased to the Xia Empire for 99 years after the recovery, and the second is that the Xia Empire can build any railways deemed necessary in the Qing Dynasty. The Great Qing State contributed land, and the Xia Empire contributed funds, the Xia Empire accounted for 70 shares, and the Great Qing State accounted for 30 shares, which were managed by the Xia Empire, without any political provisions.

After more than 10 back-and-forth negotiations, the two sides finally reached a lease agreement, leasing 7 provinces and parts of Inner Mongolia to the Xia Empire for 15 years, ending on the 31st of the month.

It also includes 10 annexes, such as the annex to the Lend-Lease Agreement between Macao and Hong Kong, the Xia Empire's investment in the two regions, how to deal with and hand over the military training after the lease period expires, and the annex to the handover after the expiration of the term.

Although it was the Xia Empire that leased the land of the Great Qing State, but still required the Great Qing State to pay the lease fee, this special treaty was formally signed on May 30 under internal and external pressure, and at the request of the Xia Empire, this agreement was temporarily not announced to the public.

This made all the officials of the Great Qing Kingdom who knew the truth breathe a sigh of relief.

Yuan Shikai was very satisfied with this agreement, so that as long as more than 10 towns could be used to occupy all provinces of the country, the pressure of army expansion has been sharply reduced a lot, and by next year, after the army is expanded again, it will definitely be able to meet the requirements of the Xia Empire, overthrow the Qing court, and achieve a smooth transition of power.

Zhang Wei first determined the division of the two frontier privileges, and divided the Western Xinjiang Special Region into Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Hetao Province, Xinjiang Province, and Tarim Province, with the Qinghai Provincial Government located in Qinghai, the Hetao Provincial Government in Yinchuan, and the Tarim Provincial Government in the Kashgar Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region.

Cities were set up below the provincial level, replacing the original prefectures, and counties were set up under the cities, and the Qing Dynasty had not yet dispatched officials to administrative units below the county level.

To this end, Zhang Wei specially synthesized two elite-level staff officers to serve as the governors of the two special regions, Zhao Liangong served as the governor of the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, and Sun Qingyang served as the privileged governor of Western Xinjiang.

A group of special, high-level, and middle-level administrative officials have been formed, and some of the personnel who are preparing to serve as provincial, city, and county magistrates in the two special zones have been transferred with the existing provinces and municipalities, also in order to cover people's eyes and ears.

The Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region retained Zhao Erfeng, the Sichuan-Yunnan Frontier Minister, and Zhang Wei made him the Minister in Tibet, and the Western Xinjiang Special Administrative Region required all officials in Xinjiang to remain in office temporarily.

Other officials of the two districts who are willing to leave can leave after the arrival of the new personnel, and those who are willing to continue to work in the two special zones can apply to the governor's palace after the handover, and the corresponding work will be arranged after the assessment.

Through communication with Lu Weimin, Li Zhaoshui, and the two governors, the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region arranged for two Janissary Divisions, the 35th Division to be stationed in Chongqing, the 36th Division to be stationed in Nanning, four National Defense Division to be stationed in Kunming, Chengdu, Guilin, and Guiyang, and two Cavalry Divisions to be stationed in Chongqing and Chengdu, and a part of the Janissary Division to be stationed in the Western Xinjiang Special Administrative Region of Lhasa, two Janissary Divisions, the 37th Division to be stationed in Lanzhou, the 38th Division to be stationed in Urumqi, four National Defense Divisions to be stationed in Yinchuan, Xining, Kashgar, and Yili, and two cavalry divisions to be stationed in Lanzhou and Urumqi. Two Praetorian Divisions were arranged on Hainan Island, with the 39th Division stationed in Haikou, the 40th Division stationed in Yazhou, and the two National Defense Divisions stationed in various counties. After stabilization, the governor was allowed to establish a garrison division in the provinces.

Zhao Erfeng led his Sichuan-Yunnan border army to be the first to enter **, and after the Xia Empire's army arrived, he would send troops to change the defense.

Li Zhaoshui proposed to build Yalong Bay as a military port and Fangchenggang as a commercial port, and now he could send one battle cruiser to lead several destroyers, torpedo boats, and one squad of submarines to Haikou first.

Lu Weimin suggested that the key to defending so many places is transportation, with the focus on railway transportation, and that materials from southern Xinjiang can be transported from the Yangtze River to Chongqing, and at the same time, it is necessary to start construction of a railway from Fangchenggang to Nanning to Kunming, a railway from Nanning to Guiyang to Chongqing, and a railway from Guiyang to Kunming, and the key to defending western Xinjiang is to build a railway from Lianyungang to Xuzhou to Xi'an to Lanzhou to Urumqi, and then build straight railways after the railway is completed.

Zhang Wei approved the men's suggestion that the infrastructure could only be built after the troops and administrative staff arrived. Zhang Wei's reason is to take over the territory first, let the system upgrade, and after the system is upgraded, if the Air Force is unlocked, then it will be much more convenient to implement the construction.

There are 2.59 million square kilometers in the south and 3.1 million square kilometers in the north, and as long as these two border zones are taken over, the system will be upgraded to the imperial level next month, so the construction will be postponed for a few months.

As soon as arrangements had been made for the troops and administrative personnel to set off, a telegram from Yuan Shikai requesting the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region to help train the troops arrived.

According to Wu Wenbin's description in the telegram, Yuan Shikai hoped to gather the new army trained in several provinces in southern Xinjiang, form soldiers in several towns, and directly send this force to occupy the southern provinces when the incident starts next year.

Zhang Wei thought to himself, this Yuan Shikai is too good at making money, all the border troops, new armies and patrol battalions in the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, as well as the students of the various armed forces schools, are ready to be reorganized into garrison troops, how can they give him Yuan Shikai? Besides, these soldiers are not necessarily willing to leave the local area to fight in other places, so he ordered Wu Wenbin to refuse Yuan Shikai's request, if he wants to train more troops, he can recruit by himself, and the Xia Empire will send military instructors to be responsible for training Besides, now after the establishment of the Western Xinjiang and Southern Xinjiang Special Regions, there are very few areas that need to be occupied by Yuan Shikai's troops, and there are a total of 7 provinces in the south, and it is enough to send a town to each province.

Subsequently, the Qing Dynasty applied for a loan to Wu Wenbin, hoping to use special funds for the construction of the railway from Lianyungang to Xi'an and the construction of the Lianyungang wharf, which was originally a project that the Xia Empire promised to assist, and now in order to speed up the progress, under the request of Zhang Wei to build a double line, the funds are obviously insufficient, in view of the actual situation, Zhang Wei agreed to a loan of 7 million taels of silver from the Bank of Asia, and the interest was sent by James to negotiate.

In addition to the establishment of large-scale iron and steel plants in Hainan Province, Zhang Wei in other provinces is not ready to build too many industrial enterprises, a total of 15 years, and when the construction is completely completed, the lease period will be up, Zhang Wei is unwilling to do such a stupid thing, can help the Qing national defense to hold the frontier, protect the Han people from the war, is already his bottom line. To be continued.

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