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A campaign to raise wages has greatly increased her prestige, and society has been well received.

The market doesn't know whether it has adapted to Yang Chao's departure, or because of the market expansion caused by the general rise in wages, and has slowly stabilized, which is also publicized as one of Miqing's political achievements.

Of course, Mi Qing's political achievements are more than this, there are too many things that can be adjusted by the country, which gives her room to operate.

She is different from Yang Chao, Yang Chao's primary goal when he was in power was to win the war against Japan, so at that time everything revolved around the war, and when she came to power, the war was over, so she could only focus on domestic issues.

Yang Chao asked her to borrow 10 billion yuan in debt to promote the growth of workers' wages, and she knew very well that Yang Chao originally told her that it was because of the imbalance in the economic structure, which was likely to cause a wave of economic crisis in the next five years.

The 10 billion taels of cash are not so easy to spend, of course, it is impossible to borrow at one time, the bonds are slowly put into the market, otherwise it is easy to have too much impact on the market, the first phase is only 1 billion, which is the budget for increasing wages in a year this year.

But the total amount of 10 billion still greatly increased her prestige, coupled with the hype of the Propaganda Department, she is now recognized by many people.

After tasting this sweetness, Mi Qing was more willing to accept Yang Chao's suggestion, although it seemed that she was a chess piece, but she didn't mind at all, because until now, she didn't know how to be a president, she felt that her ability couldn't cope with it, and he was happy to listen to Yang Chao's suggestion, so when Yang Chao was leaving, she was really flustered.

However, according to Yang Chao's request, she must speed up the agreement with the British before mediating the war in Europe.

With the development of the war and the increase of China's national power, the British also became more and more willing to withdraw from China, and the biggest obstacle was the Hong Kong issue.

When Yang Chao was there, his attitude was very clear, that is, Britain must give up Hong Kong.

But neither the dignity of an empire nor the consideration of British interests, the British could accept the result of a complete withdrawal from East Asia.

In this regard, Mi Qing felt that she could temporarily give in, and she had also communicated with Yang Chao about this.

So under her auspices, the Foreign Office and the British soon reached a difficult consensus after intense negotiations.

The British concessions in Shanghai, Tianjin and other places were handed over to China for management, and the customs controlled by the British were also handed over to China for management, but most of the officials except for the General Department of Taxation were temporarily retained, and the British would cooperate with the Chinese government to stabilize the customs agencies; The British exchanged Kowloon and the New Territories colonies, returned the Weihai colonies, and handed over all official assets to China free of charge, but the Chinese government promised to protect private assets.

As for the other privileges, extraterritoriality, the tariffs were abolished at the same time, and the Sino-British Treaty of Amity and Commerce was replaced to re-establish the relations between the two countries as equals and friendships.

From China's point of view, most of the power has been withdrawn, but the recovery is not complete, so there are still some people who are not satisfied, but the majority are satisfied; In the eyes of the British, they have given up too many interests, even if those interests are unreasonable, so the British are the majority of people who are not satisfied; Obviously, with the virtues of the British, it is impossible for them to make such a loss-making deal, and the British naturally want to be compensated, and compensation is a guarantee, a guarantee that China will not participate in the war in Europe.

China's commitment not to participate in the war in Europe meant that the Anglo-French Entente forces would win the war in Europe, and all the lost benefits could be compensated from the Germans. However, if China wants this guarantee, it is only to give up its unreasonable interests in China, and China will not agree to it; Not to mention Mi Qing's attitude, even Yang Chao behind Mi Qing will not agree.

Therefore, the British had to make other concessions, or give other compensation to China.

That was the question of the German colonies in the Pacific.

At the end of September, ten days after the signing of the Sino-British Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, the Miching government signed a supplementary agreement with the British ambassador to China, who had just been promoted by virtue of the treaty of friendship, the Sino-British Supplementary Agreement on the Settlement of the Pacific Colonial Question, in which Britain recognized the legitimacy of China's purchase of these colonies from Germany, but China promised to have only economic interests in these colonies, not military interests.

That is, China will not station troops in Samoa and other places, and will not build military bases, and the British recognize these lands as belonging to China. This concession by the British was still very large, because so far, except for the Mariana Islands, these former German colonies were controlled by British power, New Guinea was occupied by Australian troops, and Samoa was occupied by New Zealand.

Britain's concession made the country very angry, but the harvest was also there, the price of British government bonds rose sharply, because everyone was optimistic that Britain would win, and the British could issue more government bonds in the London market and in the New York market.

The effect on China is that the faint criticism that was some time ago has completely disappeared, and everyone is gleefully commenting on the newly acquired territories, whether they are the territory of Kaiser Wilhelm (the territory of the island of New Guinea), or the Bismarck Islands, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, and even the smallest Palau is much larger than Hong Kong Island.

In a short period of time, through international diplomacy, Mi Qing won great prestige.

This made Vice President Li Fuan feel tremendous pressure, and he agreed to be vice president because of Yang Chao's persuasion.

He is also very confident that he can achieve enough political achievements through the power of vice president, but he is not confident now.

He is not a very strong-willed person, and he was able to achieve so much before because of Yang Chao's support behind him, so that he could let go of things, but now that he has the power himself, he retreated.

He has power, not only the decorations around the president, but in his negotiations with Mi Chin, he was given the power to form a national supervisory body independently, and he will form a huge supervisory body, and it was passed by the new Congress, because the new parliament is mostly capitalists, and they hate local corruption more than anyone else, so they would like to see a strong inspection department.

In the process of setting up the supervisory body, Li Fuan will not be constrained in any way, and there is no limit to the number of personnel and budget of his supervisory body. Moreover, in the future, the Ministry of Supervision will be directly responsible to him, the vice president, and Yang Chao even suggested the formation of a system, that is, the future vice president will always be in charge of the Ministry of Supervision.

Li Fuan is equivalent to the founder of the supervision department, which forms a checks and balances at the top of the government, the president is the decision-maker who sees the overall situation, and the prime minister is responsible for specific cabinet affairs and has executive power, while the vice president will have supervision power and can check and balance the power of the prime minister and the president.

With this power as a backing, Li Fuan felt that he was sure of his political achievements, he had enough contacts and experience, and he only worked in Hurd's customs at the earliest, which was the most incorruptible department in the Qing Dynasty at that time, and he had a deep understanding of integrity.

Later, with the support of Yang Chao, he started from the Shandong Factory Tax Department, and then independently took charge of the establishment of a new tax department, he has a deep understanding of the integrity of the organization, he knows the importance of supervision to anti-corruption, the reason why the Chinese dynasties have repeatedly banned corruption, the biggest reason is that there is no modern supervision agency.

Of course, there are also embarrassing places for Li Fuan, such as as as Hurd said, it is more difficult to make Chinese clean than foreigners, the lack of China's integrity culture, especially the lack of integrity culture among the intellectual class, officials naturally feel that they should be rich, the concern of thousands of miles for officials only for wealth is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, there is power not to expire and invalidate, and it is a fool not to seek benefits for themselves.

This is a truly rotten traditional culture, and it is really difficult to fight against this culture. In the process of setting up the tax department, Li Fuan explored two methods, the first was to set up a strict supervision organization, and the second was to formulate severe punishment measures.

In order to thoroughly fight corruption, Li Fuan once had more people in the supervision department than the staff of the tax department, but of course, after the system was determined, everyone found that the cost of corruption was too great, and at the same time, the salary was attractive enough, and they gradually became accustomed to being honest, and the number of supervision personnel began to decrease. However, the severity of punishment has continued unabated, and a zero-tolerance attitude has been adopted towards corruption; once discovered, the corrupt elements will be immediately reformed and published in the newspapers, so that the corrupt elements will be notorious and will never have a political future, and judicial intervention will be carried out against those who are corrupt in large quantities.

Li Fuan, who has a lot of experience, decided to promote this system throughout the country, and he will submit to the president a staff size of one-third of the entire government staff, that is, he will control one-third of the entire government agency.

This is a huge power, and if Mi Qing was a politically conscious president, it would be impossible to agree, but Mi Qing agreed according to the past agreement without any hesitation.

For this alone, Li Fuan had enough reason to despise Mi Qing.

After that, in a very short period of time, he transferred the backbone forces of the rich and strong party in Shandong, northeast and other places, and at the same time recruited enthusiastic young people in schools who had no experience in participating in politics and had not been corrupted by officialdom.

thought that this would be his great political achievement, but what he didn't expect was that soon the attention of public opinion was absorbed by Mi Qing.

At this time, Li Fuan discovered that although corruption has been hated by Chinese for thousands of years and is the eternal focus of society, Chinese still pay more attention to their own little money than making money.

Of course, those who pay attention to these are only the vulgar people in the market, and the elites with the concept of family and country still care more about the country. is more concerned about Li Fuan's anti-corruption. But soon Mi Qing used the colonial issue to attract the attention of those businessmen, and these nationalists paid more attention to the expansion of the territory than to the anti-corruption.

If it is said that raising wages is something that Mi Qing's woman came up with, then quickly reaching an agreement with the British, this kind of diplomatic trick, Li Fuan will never believe that Mi Qing's ability can play it.

At this time, Li Fuan's eyes turned to the north, and he understood that the president was not alone, and there was a man behind her. (To be continued.) )