"You may be seated! I said Lao Rou, we are so acquainted, you said you came over, what kind of gifts do you bring? Don't do this next time, or I promise you won't even be able to enter my door......" Wang Sirui invited the U.S. Ambassador to China Rou Keyi into the office with a smile on his face, and personally made him a cup of good Longjing tea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Alas, today I came here with both public and private affairs, these gifts are given to you by me as a friend, if you feel embarrassed to accept these gifts from me, then you can give me some gifts in return." Rou Keyi was not polite, and sat directly on the soft sofa, adjusted her posture beautifully, and said proudly.

"Old fox, what did you say I didn't give you before? Are you so embarrassed? Wang Sirui scolded angrily.

"It used to be before, but now it's different, I really didn't expect you to do so many actions in secret, and almost scared us to death. But let's talk about it first, friends are friends, and the gifts that should be returned should not be less at all, otherwise you will be very faceless as the founding emperor, which is not in line with the ideology of your Chinese people. Rou Keyi continued to joke with a grin.

He has lived in China for almost ten years, and he still knows the customs of China very well.

In addition, I have been fooling around with Wang Sirui in the past few years, so I dare not guarantee anything else, at least this cheek has been practiced at home.

"Hehe, you, your skin is getting thicker and thicker, where is the previous Rou Keyi?"

"Who knows, anyway, I knew that I would be with you for a long time, and then it would be like this."

"Okay, as long as I have it, you can pick and choose, but for now, let's talk about business first, there are a lot of official affairs waiting to be handled." Wang Sirui stopped the continued nonsense, although according to the previous routine, these two people can blow together.

It is precisely for this reason that Wang Sirui and Rou Keyi have become friends for the past few years, and the personal relationship between the two is getting better and better, and there are even many international things that Rou Keyi revealed to Wang Sirui through his private identity.

Of course, Rou Keyi is an American after all, and he is still an American official, a diplomat.

No matter how good the relationship between him and Wang Sirui is, there will always be some differences between the two on some national interests.

But the United States was indeed wary of Wang Sirui before, and at that time, the United States did not give a positive answer, but Rou Keyi used his private capacity to tell Wang Sirui about the Americans' considerations and concerns.

If the source of the news is through the official, then Wang Sirui can protest and save it in other ways. But private sources, this is actually similar to gossip, as long as you know what's going on, Wang Sirui has no way to protest through these news.

"It's okay, after talking about business, I will also slaughter you, the ancient emperor, and let you bleed once." Rou Keyi nodded, and immediately resumed his identity as a diplomat, assuming a businesslike posture:

"After various considerations, and with the approval of the National Assembly, we, the United States, have finally decided to renounce the interests of the United States in the Xincho Treaty, and the United States has decided to return the 3,687,000 taels of silver that have been paid to your country. Of course, because the U.S. fiscal expenditure has also been relatively large in recent years, our opinion is to take other ways to return this fund. ”

In terms of indemnity in the "Xinchou Treaty", the amount of indemnity paid by the United States is 32,939,005 taels of silver, and the interest is 38,958,714 taels of silver, with a total of 71,897,769 taels of silver.

This money needs to be repaid in 39 years, so on average, every year, the amount payable is 1,843,532 taels of silver.

Since the signing of the "Xinchou Treaty", Wang Sirui has paid a total of four instalments, that is, a total of 3.687 million taels of silver for two years, according to the agreed semi-annual period.

The fifth instalment of the indemnity should have been paid a long time ago, but Wang Sirui overthrew the Qing Dynasty and replaced it, and no country got that payment.

The United States has long been planning to return this indemnity to the Qing Dynasty, but there was still some hesitation in China at that time, but when the Qing court fell, the nominal person in power was Wang Sirui.

If the United States can take advantage of this opportunity to win over Wang Sirui, it will still be very helpful for the United States to open up the Far East market, just a Chinese market is enough for Americans to digest for a few years.

"Well, I'm glad that my American friends can take the initiative to give up and ask for the rest of the reparations, and the righteousness of American friends will not be forgotten by the people of the Chinese Empire." Wang Sirui nodded solemnly, which can be regarded as approving the Americans' approach.

Historically, the Americans returned part of the reparations this year, in 1904. Liang Cheng argued with reason to ask the United States to return the overpaid amount, and the Americans finally reluctantly agreed to this request, but they had to force the Qing court to send students to study in the United States, and use the returned funds for expenditure.

In other words, part of the funds returned were all used to fund international students, and the money eventually ended up in the United States.

But in this world, there have been tremendous changes, the wings of butterflies have long been instigated, and after more than three years of fermentation, the original historical appearance has already been messed up.

Because of the rise of Wang Sirui's Israeli army and the rapid decline of the Qing court, the honeymoon experience between the Americans and Wang Sirui. Of course, the most important thing is an evaluation report from the US presidential think tank.

They investigated Wang Sirui and his development history through more than ten channels, but the results were very surprising, before 1900, Wang Sirui almost never appeared, and he was a gentleman with a heart higher than the sky.

But after defeating the coalition forces in 1900, Wang Sirui's strength has increased by leaps and bounds, in fact, as early as 1901, Wang Sirui has already controlled the Qing Dynasty, and then Wang Sirui did not choose to overthrow the Qing Dynasty directly, but steadily and steadily, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, which made the think tank of the President of the United States feel that Wang Sirui is unfathomable.

So, at the end of this evaluation report, the think tank gave a decision that they thought would be beneficial to the United States, to befriend Wang Sirui as much as possible, and to get what the United States needed most from him.

Although the United States is not the first in the world, it is a couple and has a natural geographical advantage, so both the industry and the economy are very good, as long as they are given enough time and opportunities, it is only a matter of time before the Americans replace the British.

However, the advantage of geographical location also brought some bad results to the Americans, for example, the army did not have any pressure and no combat experience all year round, and Wang Sirui's Han army had proved this, under the premise of the same number of people, they could defeat any enemy.

The United States wants to improve the combat effectiveness of the U.S. Army through the Han Army, and similarly, the United States also needs the huge market of the Far East, so those reparations are insignificant to the Americans.

"China hopes to refund this compensation in two ways, the first is for your country to send students to the United States for study and exchange, and part of this compensation will be set aside for this purpose. The remaining amount will be used to pay for the Zhengshang Railway. Rou Keyi said.

"No, I think there should be an additional way, don't we have 3.687 million taels of silver? 500,000 yuan was used as a special fund for international students, 1.187 million yuan was used to purchase some industrial equipment in the United States, and the remaining 2 million yuan was used to pay for the Zhengshang Railway. Wang Sirui put forward his own opinion.

However, this proposal made Rou Keyi frown deeply, although the Americans hoped to reconcile with Wang Sirui, but they did not want to continue to sell Wang Sirui any industrial equipment, because this could only quickly enhance Wang Sirui's hard power.

However, in the end, Wang Sirui directly stated that if the Americans don't sell, other countries will always sell.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Rou Keyi agreed to this proposal, but it was only more than a million dollars, how much equipment could be purchased? Selling him more of this is not enough to threaten the United States.

Of course, in the end, Rou Keyi also put forward one of the important purposes of this trip, the military exchange activities between the Chinese and US militaries.

After thinking about it again, Wang Sirui finally decided to agree to the Americans' request, after all, the country was just established, and at this time, it should be more to win over friends, at least not to offend those powers at will.

Although Wang Sirui is ready for war, if he can avoid war, it is much better than fighting a battle of life and death, right?

When the country was first established, there were places everywhere that needed to be spent, and Wang Sirui didn't want to waste a penny of money.

In the end, the two discussed and decided that the United States would send a military exchange group of about 200 people to the Chinese Empire in the near future, and Wang Sirui also agreed to arrange this military exchange group to the front-line troops for exchanges.

When talking about this front-line unit, Rou Keyi played a trick, he directly listed the numbers of several troops, the second division, the third division, the fourth division, the eighteenth division, the nineteenth division, the twentieth division, the twenty-first division, and the twenty-second division, and he could only choose among these eight divisions.

Rou Keyi doesn't want Wang Sirui to arrange a reserve division for them that has just been converted into a regular army, so that Americans can learn a bird?

"Okay, after the business talks, I will leak some gossip to you as a friend, the country thinks that you are rising too fast, and your strength is terrifying, so many people think that you should not be your enemy......"

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