The ten-person meeting was fiercely arguing, but there were few real problems to solve, because sometimes the real interests could not be fought for in the meeting, and could only be fought for outside the meeting. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as Germany surrendered, Yang Chao secretly sent a long telegram to Li Sidi, telling him to get ready.

Li Sidi still helps Yang Chao take care of his huge wealth.

Yang Chao told him in a telegram that he could encourage high-end enterprises in Qingdao to seek some benefits in Germany.

What benefits can Germany have, the economy has completely collapsed, the marks issued during the war are like waste paper, after losing all the gold reserves, Germany does not even have the funds to import grain, domestic prices have soared, inflation, the quality of life of the people has been greatly reduced, even university professors cannot be paid, and there is no opportunity to invest in Germany at this time.

The investment environment in Germany has disappeared, but the intellectual resources of Germany are still there, and the salaries of a large number of senior engineers and university professors in German companies have been devalued, but the knowledge in their heads has not been devalued.

In fact, there was no need for Li Sidi to mobilize, and a large number of German entrepreneurs in Qingdao began to recruit skilled workers from Germany, because due to the collapse of the economy, at this time, senior technical personnel in Germany were willing to work if they could accept very low wages, and Qingdao became their best choice, more popular than the United States.

During the war, the United States carried out a campaign to eliminate German culture, a large number of German place names were changed, a large number of German immigrants did not dare to say that they were Germans, the United States' unfriendly behavior towards Germany, so that Germans did not dare to go to the United States at this time, and with the United States, the German community in Qingdao has always been intact, they can see a familiar living environment here, where they can drink German beer, eat German barbecue, and most importantly, can speak German without scruples.

Qingdao originally had two million Germans, during the war a large number of Germans returned to China to join the army, there are still more than one million Germans, including 100,000 German businessmen, the rest are nearly a million German skilled workers and their families, after the war, there are a large number of Germans left here to return to Germany, after all, they have not returned to China for several years, of course they went back after the end of the war, but many people came back soon after going back, because life in Germany at this time was really not easy.

Of course, the life of the German technicians in Qingdao was not easy, during the war, each of them bought a large number of German bonds, and lent most of their salaries to the German government, but with the defeat of Germany, their bonds became a piece of waste paper, it can be said that the German government through this war, not only consumed the wealth accumulated since the German Industrial Revolution, but also looted the wealth of all the people, including Qingdao these patriotic expatriates.

So they can only continue to work in Qingdao, but fortunately they can still find decent jobs here.

But with the arrival of a large number of German technicians, their jobs are not so stable, they used to be quite well paid, which has already caused dissatisfaction with the company, and now the company can hire the technicians who are not inferior to them at lower wages, will they still want them?

And with the end of the war, the survival of Qingdao's industrial enterprises became more difficult, and after the war orders were less, the competition in the civilian market, which was already very fierce in the war, became more intense, and the fierce competition made everyone reduce costs, and wages were naturally the first to be reduced.

As a result, these technicians, who have enjoyed high wages in China for ten years, have to accept the consequences of lower wages, otherwise they will lose their jobs, and after supporting the government with most of their savings in the war, they are really not eligible to give up their jobs.

The news from Li Sidi made Yang Chao very satisfied, the resistance to searching for talents in Germany was very small, and it was not in vain that Yang Chao protected those German entrepreneurs in the war, Yang Chao finally retained 10% of the equity for German investors, and they were not allowed to sell all the enterprises, and now these people hold 10% of the shares, and are still running the enterprises they have established, and after restoring contact with Germany after the war, they immediately began to hire better German engineers for their enterprises and improve their enterprise technology.

Before the war, the Germans were not allowed to transfer Zeiss precision optical technology, chemical technology of chemical enterprises, precision instrument technology, now all are no longer restricted, many Qingdao industrial enterprises will directly acquire a large number of German bankrupt enterprises, not only will hire people, even the equipment of the factory has been purchased, because in the past they have a relationship with these enterprises, the war cut off trade exchanges have also caused a lot of impact on their operations, and now they are directly annexed, but also can get bank loan support, why not.

As a result, Britain and France carved up Germany at the Paris Peace Conference, and China hollowed out Germany outside the Paris Peace Conference. Everyone was at peace for a while, after all, the fall of such a huge industrial empire was enough for many countries to eat.

But soon Yang Chao found that the situation was beyond his imagination, and at the beginning he provided a list of high-end technologies that must be introduced, such as precision optics and chemical technology, so that Li Sidi could find suitable companies to acquire German companies and equipment to introduce to China.

As for some of the technologies developed by the Germans during the war, there is no need to mention poison gas technology, etc., which were quietly bought, and submarine technology, aircraft production technology, and so on developed by the Germans during the war must be introduced.

These are strategic introductions, and Yang Chao provides them with a lot of financial support, allowing them to buy factories and relocate directly, and even hire skilled workers.

By the end of 1919, nearly 1 million Germans, including less than 200,000 technicians, had come to Qingdao.

"Is it time for immigration restrictions?"

Yang Chao began to hesitate, he was really worried about the colonization of Qingdao.

Although he wanted to restrict these Germans from coming to China to make a living at this time, Yang Chao still endured it, not because of his internationalist feelings, not because he was kind-hearted, but because he was plotting a lawsuit with the Americans.

That's why Gu Weijun questioned the President of the United States face-to-face this time.

The Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States still exists and has never been abolished, the first is that the national prejudice of Americans has not changed, whites have never been able to treat yellow people equally, the second is that they are worried that the Chinese will colonize them, especially the Chinese who do not want to work will take away their jobs, and the third is that China has not put too much pressure on Americans in recent years.

When Yang Chao was in power, the most drastic behavior he did was to encourage Chinese Americans to return to China for development, these people were very uncomfortable in the United States under the Chinese Exclusion Act, and some people did earn money, but their social status was not as good as that of the white hooligans in Ireland, and they lived in fear all day long, and once they left the United States to visit their relatives, they had to worry that if they could not return to the United States, their own property would be gone.

In the original history, this situation continued unanimously until the end of World War II, and the real large-scale immigration of Chinese to the United States, but also after the reform and opening up, a large number of international students stayed in the United States after going to school, no matter which way, it was very unfavorable to China, and the stay of international students in the United States was equivalent to giving the best human resources to the United States in vain, which was a huge harm to China.

Yang Chao doesn't want to see this situation, rather than letting those Chinese in Chinatown live an inferior life and stay in the United States with a dead face, it is better to let them return to China for development, among which there are still many rich people who can return to China to invest, so Yang Chao also set up a foundation to buy their American assets at a fair price, so that they can cash out and return to China.

As a result, many Chinese have left the United States in recent years, and the number of overseas Chinese in the United States has dropped from 200,000 at the peak to less than 100,000 now, and many of them have returned to China to invest.

After World War I, Europe declined, the United States rose, especially the British hegemony was in jeopardy, Yang Chao did not want to see the British easily hand over hegemony to the United States, so he had to contain the United States.

Therefore, he must find a suitable excuse to make enemies with the United States, and the Chinese Exclusion Act is the best reason, and successive administrations have negotiated with the Americans on this issue, but they have always shouted loudly, raised it high and put it down gently, and have no actual action.

But as long as it's been mentioned, that's a reason, a card of value.

So at the Paris Peace Conference, the Chinese delegates repeated the same old tune, demanding that the United States immediately repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act, and wanted the Chinese government to apologize for this, and the United States, as always, wanted to bypass it, after all, this matter was wrong for them, this is an internationally recognized matter, when China's national strength was weak, they did not pay attention to it at all, and it was not until the 21st century that they apologized.

At the same time, Mexico and Cuba also learned from the United States to carry out Chinese exclusion, when it was still the Qing Empire, although the Qing Dynasty declined, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the rotten ship has three nails, and the great powers can't beat these small countries.

So the warship Haiqi was sent to demonstrate, and after a circle in Cuba, Cuba immediately apologized, and then turned to Mexico, which had already apologized before the ship reached the Mexican port. Of course, the Mexican Chinese exclusion was very brutal and killed hundreds of Chinese, and it was not investigated because of the Xinhai Revolution.

After Yang Chao came to power, this kind of thing is gone, and many countries have abolished their own legal restrictions against the Chinese, and there are no violent incidents.

The United States is the only country that is still using the law to exclude China, so China has reason to demand an apology from the United States.

But do Americans dare, Wilson, who claims to be an idealist, never mentions this matter, and is utterly hypocritical.

He also did not dare that if he apologized, the racists in the United States would be able to remove him from power.

So it's a dead knot, so it's a trump card. (To be continued.) )