Soon the Japanese negotiators were replaced, and Ijiin Hikoyoshi, who came from China, urgently took over as the consul general of the Qing State and rushed from Tianjin to Yantai. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This person has a great background, born in a samurai family, a Japanese family, and married the daughter of the Japanese patriarch Kubo Ritsu.

Having stayed in China for many years, he had a good relationship with Yuan Shikai and others, and he was supposed to go to England as a counselor, but because of the Chinese problem, he first took over as consul general and was in charge of the negotiations, and the Japanese hoped to use his contacts in China to ease the situation.

"It seems that the Japanese are not so horizontal, why is the imperial court so weak-minded. In other words, the Japanese know our court very well. ”

When Yang Chao saw this person coming, he knew that the Japanese did not intend to use force, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese almost stood on China and flew up, and most of the funds for their industrialization were plundered from China.

After all, there is not much market for Japan's products in the West, the cotton textile industry in Europe is British, the United States does not welcome the invasion of any industrial products, and the tariffs are outrageously high, although the trade volume is not as good as that of the United States, but Japan's profits in China are the first in the world.

Will the Japanese be so stupid and ignore the interests of the step-by-step expansion of trade with China, so that the Chinese will be disgusted with rejecting Japanese products?

"Lord Yang, I have admired the name for a long time, but Count Ito admires Lord Yang very much!"

Ijiin Hikoyoshi was very polite, with a smile on his face, and he first bowed ninety degrees.

Yang Chao responded with a fist and bowed to understand, this is etiquette, no matter what object you have to stick to, like that person who sees someone he doesn't like, he puts on a shelf, that is a nouveau riche, an uneducated person, not something casual and chic.

After the two were even, they shook hands again and sat down at the negotiating table with each other's humility.

This is the Jinan Governor's Yamen, Yang Chao's place.

"Come on, serve tea, and brew the good Indian tea that the British gave me last year."

Own turf.

"How?"

When Yijiyuan Yanji served tea, Yang Chao asked with a smile.

"Tea is good tea, but it is not as good as China's famous tea, maybe green tea is more suitable for our Oriental taste."

Hikoyoshi said Ijiin.

Of course, tea is good tea, and the roots of Darjeeling black tea sent by the British are still tea varieties stolen from southern China.

The British wanted to use Yang Chao to recommend British tea to the Chinese leadership.

When Hikoyoshi said this, he naturally used the topic to play.

This is also Yang Chao's purpose: "Oh, Mr. Yiji really thought of going with the official, and the official also prefers green tea." ”

Hikoyoshi Ijiin smiled, "It's a natural thing. China and Japan share the same language and culture. The Japanese tea ceremony is also very famous, and since Lord Yang likes it, he will definitely return to China to help Lord Yang choose a batch of good tea. ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "In the end, it's still different, isn't it better to have green tea in Jiangnan, China." ”

Hikoyoshi said, "It's also good to change the taste. ”

Yang Chao said: "It's okay to change the taste, but I'm afraid that others will stuff it into my mouth, just like this British, I have to say that their tea is the best, and British tea is the best to drink, which makes people angry when they hear it." When we drink tea, the British don't know how to bubble the leaves. ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi said: "Chinese culture has a long history, but foreigners have gained momentum for a while, they don't have a thousand years of wisdom, and Lord Yang doesn't have to worry about them." ”

Yang Chao nodded and said, "What you said is good." However, Japan is also a country with a thousand years of wisdom, and you and I have been on good terms with each other since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty is even more like a family. Why are we constantly threatening our country with war? ”

Hikoyoshi hurriedly stood up and bowed, "This, I'm really sorry. It is nothing more than that some people in China have misunderstood China. Committed some unpleasant behavior. But I believe they were unintentional. ”

Yang Chao waved his hand: "Forget it." It's all trifles, not worth mentioning. Is the style of the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War still very admirable? ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi said: "Lord Yang's military operations in the northeast are impressive. ”

Yang Chao waved his hand and said, "It's not worth mentioning." That is, to fool the layman, and anyone with a discerning eye knows what is going on. It is not comparable to the real swords and guns of the Japanese army. It is nothing more than borrowing the momentum of the Russo-Japanese War. ”

Yang Chao's behavior, that is, the group of Eight Banners disciples did not know the inside story, and foreign research institutions had long studied it thoroughly, was actually a clumsy military action, but a clever diplomatic action.

Ijiin Hikoyoshi said, "Lord Yang is humble. ”

Yang Chao said: "It would be nice if you were really humble, and you don't have to be afraid of the Japanese military threat." ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi stood up again and bowed and apologized, the Japanese in this era are really good in the spirit of apology, unlike later generations.

Yang Chao pulled him to sit down again: "Don't go on endlessly, let's get down to business." You're definitely here to solve the problem. ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi said, "Lord Yang, forgive me. The country's attitude towards safeguarding its own interests is very resolute, and if it causes you any unpleasantness, please forgive me. ”

Yang Chao said: "I have seen this since the Russo-Japanese War. However, I want to say that China, at least here in Shandong, also has the courage to safeguard its interests. If Mr. Iji is interested, you can take a look at my military drills, especially the exercises of the airship unit, which I personally think are still very interesting. ”

Yang Chao wants to tell Yijiin Hikoyoshi that China is not easy to provoke.

Ijiin Hikoyoshi smiled, "Contemptible people prefer naval drills. ”

What Ijiin Hikoyoshi means is that the Japanese have a strong navy. It was indeed powerful, and after the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost two-thirds of their large capital ships, but instead, they took the opportunity to rebuild the navy and launched the Dreadnought program, which will build ten dreadnoughts in ten years, three of which will be built in Britain and the rest will be built in the country.

"Tell me, how do you want to solve it?"

"There are only two opinions, which are non-negotiable. First, the preferential policies for China's railways will be stopped; Second, stop anti-Japanese propaganda activities. ”

These two items hit Japan hard.

Yang Chao shook his head and said: "The matter of the railway company, it is a commercial contract. As for the anti-Japanese propaganda, this is spontaneous among the people. My newspapers can stop publicizing, but I can't restrain other newspapers, especially those newspapers in the concession, even our court is helpless, they scold the court, scold me, I can't do anything. ”

Hikoyoshi Ijiin said: "Since it is a commercial contract, I think Japanese companies are also in a position to receive this preferential treatment, because the volume of goods transported in Japan is still very large, and they should receive this preferential treatment." As for the issue of anti-Japanese propaganda, it is okay if your own newspaper does not join, and we will deal with the rest ourselves. ”

Yang Chao understood that the Japanese were planning to buy the newspaper and reshape their image.

Yang Chao knew that it would be impossible to send the Japanese away without giving them any benefits, but the key interests could not be ceded.

Haha smiled: "Railway preferential policies, I believe that Japan is not the only country that is dissatisfied, and today Japan has given preferential treatment." Tomorrow it will be given to the British, the French, the Germans. That's meaningless, now the price reduction of products in various countries is very strong, and the impact on the market is very serious. Japan does not have the capital to compete with these countries. ”

Yijiin Yanji knew that Yang Chao had something to say, so he stretched out his hand and said, "We are very willing to listen to your opinion. ”

Yang Chao smiled: "It's very simple, mutual benefit. In the final analysis, the British are the leaders of the textile industry, Japan's yarn spindles have survived 3 million, Britain has 40 million, the British have a lot of money, dumping everywhere, the Americans can introduce high tariffs, but our country has no way. When the time comes, Japanese small businesses will not go bankrupt. I mean, maintaining the current situation, it is not good for you for Japan to jump out. ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi frowned and said: "In the current situation, if you can't open up your interests, Japan won't agree." ”

Yang Chao said: "I just want to show that if the cotton textile industry is liberalized, it may not be beneficial to Japan." However, it is not impossible to sign preferential contracts with Japanese companies, but the textile industry must be excluded, and China's textile industry is also very difficult. ”

Hikoyoshi Ijiin understood: "Then you mean, other industries?" ”

Yang Chao nodded: "That's right." In fact, the expansion of the textile industry has reached a limit, and it is difficult to expand in the short term, but the cement industry in Japan is very profitable. As far as I know, the cement industry is probably one of the few industries in Japan that does not need to import raw materials. If we can develop the cement industry, I believe that the future will not be much less profitable than the textile industry. Because the construction plan that has been started in our country requires a lot of building materials, steel Japan does not have, but cement does. ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi nodded: "The cement production in the country is indeed developing very well. ”

Yang Chao said: "Compared with the backward textile industry, this large-scale refining and chemical industry is the future. ”

With the construction of skyscrapers, the cement industry is indeed a new industry.

Hikoyoshi said, "What about your preferential amount?" ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "Like China's textile industry, three to four percent, we can determine the specific number." ”

Ijiin Hikoyoshi nodded: "That's it, please." ”

The introduction of the Japanese cement industry is also one of the few benefits that Yang Chao can get his hands on, and the textile industry must not allow the Japanese to enter. Although the textile industry is a sunset industry, it is the industry that can best solve the problem of employment, and the first choice for countries to solve the problem of industrialization is the textile industry.

Later generations of China also took this path, on the other hand, India took three different paths, starting with the software industry, which made a lot of money, but it was useless for industrialization and urbanization.

Industrialization and urbanization complement each other, industrialization gathers the population to form a city, and the city creates new demand, which is the law of nature, agricultural civilization will inevitably transition to industrial civilization, and rural life will inevitably transition to urban life.

The cement industry, a heavily polluting industry, is not that Yang Chao does not want to engage in it, but with the current scale of construction, it will not be available within ten years, and it will have to be imported anyway.

Although it has stimulated the development of cement production in Japan, this has already reduced the maximum benefits that Japan can achieve, because the cement industry is a capital-intensive and technology-intensive industry, with little benefit to employment, a lower contribution to urbanization, and limited improvement of industrial strength.

Compared with the textile industry, which can stimulate urbanization, the steel industry, which promotes heavy industry, and the machine manufacturing industry, which can enhance national strength, Yang Chao would rather choose a cement industry.

Of course, this industry is indeed lucrative, and if it weren't for the fact that the national strength was really inferior, Yang Chao would not have compromised with Japan.

Ijiin Hikoyoshi is also very satisfied with this, with the interests of the cement industry, it should be able to satisfy the appetite of a group of chaebols, and he will also give an explanation to the government.

"We need to keep this a secret!"

In the end, Hikoyoshi Ijiin made a request, if the cement industry's most powerful rivals, Germany and the United States, were recruited, it would be a waste of time.

"Secrets, of course."

Yang Chao agreed, jump out of one to solve one by one, and slowly drag it on, in two or three years, under his own protection, those enterprises should also have the ability to survive.