More than 3,000 airships were sold for a sky-high price of 900 million US dollars, and Yang Chao got a profit of more than 600 million US dollars. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The $600 million direct purchase of silver in the international market once raised the silver price, which had been maintained at 40 taels for a long time, to 35 taels to 1 tael of gold, and then deposited the 1 billion taels of silver in exchange for the treasury of Yangzi Bank.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, Tama still does arms trade to make money, he has been begging for so long at the bottom of the sea, and there is not so much.

At the same time, I feel that the advertising effect of the war is large, and I have promoted it for so many years, it is better to use an airship to bomb the territory of the Russians to achieve quick results.

Just when Yang Chao was constantly counting the money numbers that made his adrenaline hormones keep rising, some things also made him very annoyed.

The first is the weakness of Yuan Shikai's diplomacy, he did not take the opportunity to recover the power of the country.

After this battle, China's military strength has been internationally recognized, although it is not considered a first-class power, but all countries also know that China is no longer the China of the past, and it is not something that can be bullied if you want to.

However, Yuan Shikai's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not dare to demand a strong increase in taxes, even if they could not earn back the customs rights from the British, it was still possible to increase the import tax by two or three times, but the British did not dare to fight as soon as they refused.

In the end, it only abolished the extraterritoriality of the defeated Russians.

But at this time, the Chinese were still enjoying the joy of a great victory over Russia and recovering lost territory.

But as time went on, this joy became less and less, and finally a basin of cold water was poured down, because the Japanese army refused to withdraw from the lost territory in Heilongjiang.

At the beginning of 1913, both Chinese and Japanese troops withdrew from the remaining Russian territories, but the Japanese only withdrew their troops to Chita, while none of the other troops were withdrawn, including the territory on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River.

In other words, the Japanese occupied more than one million areas of land in the Heiliang River basin that originally belonged to China. According to the treaty between the Russians and China, the Russians gave up all the territories they had occupied since 1858, and the territories ceded on both sides of the Heilongjiang River should be returned to China. It can be said that the greatest gain of this war between China and Russia was that they took back these territories from the Russians, but in the end they were all occupied by the Japanese.

According to the treaty between the Japanese and the Russians, all territories east of the Lena River were ceded to Japan.

Of the two treaties, it can be said that the disputed area is the area on both sides of the Heilongjiang River.

Regarding this, Yang Chao and Ito Hirobumi had an agreement back then, and this agreement was confidential at that time, although Yang Chao was not afraid of making it public, Ito Hirobumi was afraid, so he asked Yang Chao to keep it secret, because Ito Hirobumi was worried that they would expose their ambitions too early, which would give the powers time to intervene.

In the final analysis, China has sufficient reasons to recover its territory, and the Japanese are simply invading, so the Japanese intentions do not dare to be exposed in advance, otherwise the war will turn sour.

Yang Chao agreed to Ito's request at that time, but asked Ito to sign a secret agreement with him, and the secret agreement to share the fruits of victory after the war was agreed with Ito Hirobumi that China would recover the territory north of the Heilongjiang River to the Outer Khing'an Mountains, and the Ussuri River to the sea would be assigned to Japanese territory.

In this negotiation, Yang Chao also told Lu Zhengxiang about it, so when Lu Zhengxiang signed the Beijing Treaty, he did not pay too much attention to the disputed part of the treaty, because the disputed part was divided by a secret agreement.

After the treaty was signed, when Lu Zhengxiang began to demand that Japan withdraw its troops north of Heilongjiang and hand over this part of the territory to China, the Japanese refused, citing the contents of the "Beijing Russo-Japanese Treaty on Siberia", saying that the Russian territory east of the Lena River had been ceded to Japan, and according to the text of the treaty, the area north of Heilongjiang would also be Japanese territory.

Lu Zhengxiang cited the provisions of the secret treaty, but the government of Aritomo in Japan's prefecture refused to recognize it, believing that the secret treaty was completely invalid, and it had not been discussed by the Japanese cabinet at all, and the emperor was completely unaware of it.

The situation created by the war was that the Chinese troops resisted the main force of the Russian army in the northwest direction, while the Japanese army attacked the city from the east, and the Heilongjiang River valley had been under the control of the Japanese army.

Lu Zhengxiang, who felt that he was being played, asked Tang Shaoyi and Yuan Shikai's opinions, both of them had big heads, they communicated with Yang Chao, and Yang Chao clearly told them that the Northeast Army no longer has combat effectiveness, because the number of deserters has exceeded half, and the vast majority of soldiers will not return to the barracks after returning home, and they will not be mobilized at all.

Without the endorsement of Yang Chao's army, Yuan Shikai didn't have the courage to let his Beiyang army go to the army, so he really had no way to take Japan, what he didn't know was that all this was designed by Yang Chao.

From the very beginning, the Chinese army was in the front, allowing the Japanese to easily seize the territory, which was originally a landmine planted for the Japanese. However, at first, Yang Chao did not intend to treat all the land as landmines, only the part east of the Ussuri River, which was also taken by the Russians. In the secret agreement between Yang Chao and Ito Hirobumi, he gave that part to Japan in order to provoke controversy in the future.

Unexpectedly, Ito Hirobumi was assassinated, and Youpeng in Shan County refused to hand over even the north of Heilongjiang to China, which gave Yang Chao a reason to provoke a dispute with the Japanese. It is as if Bismarck and Austria jointly recaptured Herstein in the hands of Denmark and handed over part of the enclave to Austria in order to provoke a dispute with Austria.

When the war was about to end, Yang Chao asked the Japanese to visit his army, telling the Japanese that his army was weak, and that he was seducing the Japanese to tear up the secret treaty and monopolize all the ceded Russian territories in the northeast.

Now it seems that Yama Prefecture Aritomo does not have the diplomatic ability of Ito Hirobumi, but he is more greedy than Ito Hirobumi, or he does not know how to back down without Ito Hirobumi, and at the same time he is more courageous. Shan County Youpeng naturally does not look at the combat effectiveness of the Chinese troops, even if the Russian army is defeated and retreated in the war, but what happened later gives Shan County Youpeng reason to believe that the Chinese mainly rely on the power of airships. At the same time, they no longer recognize the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, the Chinese troops defeated the Russian army, there is no convincing, and the Japanese army fights better. Therefore, greed coupled with contempt can easily make feudal samurai like Yama County Youpeng give birth to greed and thus betrayal of his promise.

Yang Chao provoked the Sino-Japanese conflict, with the greed that Japan is now showing, who will the international community support? Self-explanatory. There is no doubt that China has the support of the international community.

What about Russia, the Russians were cut off four million square kilometers of territory by Japan in this war, and the return of China was more acceptable, and now seeing that the Chinese did not get any land, and was also swallowed by the Japanese, what will the Russians think, who will they choose to cooperate with? This is also self-explanatory.

Therefore, at the moment of promoting the Sino-Japanese confrontation, the situation in the northeast immediately changed from the joint resistance of China and Japan to the joint resistance of China and Russia to the joint resistance of China and Russia to resist Japan.

Yang Chao felt that he was absolutely beautiful in this hand, if it was when Ito Hirobumi was there, it is estimated that this kind of thing would never happen, Ito Hirobumi did not even hesitate to give up most of the worthless frozen soil, and absolutely refused to push Japan to the opposite side of Russia.

Of course, hostility with Russia is inevitable, but Ito Hirobumi will definitely not offend China because of the Heilongjiang territorial issue, he will not only immediately fulfill his promise, but also further win over China, jointly keep those newly acquired territories in the northeast, and form an alliance against Russia.

It's a pity that Hirobumi Ito is dead, and a guy like Aritomo in Yamaguchi, who is full of feudal expansion ideas, is in power, and for this kind of person, what they eat, let them spit it out, is more painful than not letting him eat it.

Although they almost offended the whole world, even their British allies almost abandoned them, and the Anglo-Japanese alliance became a piece of waste paper, but Yamaguchi Youtomo not only did not think about it, but the Japanese, who had been incited by military propaganda, developed an extreme hatred for foreigners, just as they hated Europe and the United States in World War II.

Just imagine, when Ito Hirobumi was there, the Japanese could even endure the intervention of the three countries, and now that he dies and hands over a piece of frozen soil, the Japanese will be unbearable.

Of course, the horses can't catch up, and the economy. Because just a few months after the end of the war, another round of economic crisis broke out in Japan, the Great Economic Crisis of 1913!

The economic crisis was mainly caused by high levels of debt, and the excessive shift of the economic model during the war to the wartime economy, the end of the war, the heavy industry sector was deprived of a large source of orders, the workers began to lose their jobs, and the economy contracted.

In the original history, the Japanese also broke out in 1913 economic crisis, but at that time it was because of the surplus caused by a wave of surge in the Russo-Japanese War, and this time the Japanese not only did not have an economic boom because of the Russo-Japanese War, but in 1907 they were affected by the American financial crisis, and just recovered from the war against Russia, and heavy industry developed, but the overall economy was actually not as high as the peak before the Russo-Japanese War.

In particular, Yamaguchi Aritomo's way of governing refused to disarm after the end of the war, and wanted to maintain the Japanese standing army at a scale of one million, and Yamagumi Aritomo, like Ito Hirobumi, was a political force from the Choshu Domain, and the fundamental reason why he became the two most fiercely competitive factions was that Yamaguchi Aritomo advocated the expansion of the army, while Ito Hirobumi had always opposed it.

Youpeng in Shanxian is now in power, and of course he wants to expand the army, but he does not take into account that the financial burden of the state is too great.

In the original history, not long after the Japanese fell into an economic crisis, the world war broke out, but in this era, Yang Chao did not intend to give Japan a chance, so he instigated conflicts with Japan.

Purpose?

"Expand the army, we must also expand the army, especially the navy, we must expand the army!"

Yang Chao made a lot of remarks against Japan in the newspapers, and because he carried the halo of a combat hero on his back, what he said was still very influential, and many people expressed their support.

The naval forces also strongly supported this statement, saying that China has accepted the six Dreadnought-class battleships produced by the United States and Britain, but the Japanese have already equipped eight and will continue to build four, and once they fight, they will not be Japan's opponent at all, so they have begun to push the construction plan of the other six ships, in order to be consistent with Japan.

Under the pressure of public opinion, Yuan Shikai had to announce the naval expansion plan and build six more dreadnoughts, which happened to be built in Shandong, and the order was given to Shandong.

This move stimulated Japan, and they immediately announced that they would build twenty-four dreadnoughts, and they also introduced the British plan to build twice, Britain was against Germany, and Japan decided to follow the British regulations and build ships against China, and the Chinese built one, and they built two.

"That's what an arms race is all about!"

When Yang Chao saw that his plan had achieved results, he immediately became proud in his heart, and urged the Japanese to engage in an arms race with China, and to use the limited funds to repay debts, expand armaments, and develop the economy.

Yang Chao, who made a fortune from the airship, is pushing for a new round of expansion plans to develop the northeast to provide a market for Shandong's industry, and at the same time setting off a new round of investment frenzy.

This plan was drawn up after the end of the war and has been implemented for more than half a year.

The fact is that China's economy, especially Shandong's, is still extremely unhealthy at this time, because heavy industry, which far exceeds actual demand, remains the biggest problem.

During the war, the production capacity of hundreds of factories was digested, and after the war, these factories began to transform, and before the adjustment of their equipment and other equipment was completed, Yang Chao had to find a market for them.

And this time, Yang Chao not only hit the idea of the Germans, but also planned to solve the problem of most of the funds by himself, fooling the Germans, just because he needed German technology, and at the same time pitted the Germans.

But this industrial plan is so big that even Yang Chao, who has deep pockets, is under some pressure for a while.

Because of this plan, after the airship simulated the industrial system, in order to provide a market for the nearly 300 large-scale heavy industry factories that have been fully put into operation, Yang Chao must invest in the construction of 2,000 enterprises of the same size to provide a market for these factories, and the average investment in each factory cannot be less than one million US dollars. In this case, two billion dollars will be needed.

To co-opt the economy with investment, it's like a Ponzi scheme that grows bigger and bigger, you have to keep expanding and expanding, using investment in new industries to maintain the production of the in-house enterprises, and then rolling it down in circles.

Moreover, Yang Chao not only has to build 2,000 large factories, but also has to develop the Northeast, develop thousands of mineral deposits in the Northeast, and also need an investment of at least one billion US dollars, so that Yang Chao has not only made a balance from the airship, but has lost more than 1 billion yuan.

This huge amount of money, Yang Chao plans to use financial leverage to solve it! (To be continued.) )