A person who could have been an emperor instead became the husband of another female emperor, giving Chinese a feeling that their own emperor was in trouble, and many people felt awkward, uncomfortable, and felt that they had suffered a big loss. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Chao didn't care very much, and he didn't interfere with the Russian regime strongly, but Olga was very obedient, relieved the already scrawny tuberculosis Stolypin from his post, and happily appointed his uncle and grandfather Grand Duke Nicholas as the prime minister of the Russian Empire, she only occasionally recommended one or two talents to Nikolai, and rarely interfered with Nikolai's way of forming a new cabinet.

Grand Duke Nikolai became the prime minister of the Russian Empire and appointed Kolchak as the commander-in-chief of the army, responsible for leading 300,000 Russian armed forces to guard the border areas of the Urals.

Then Grand Duke Nicholas began to negotiate with the Entente, and now the countries recognize the Russian Empire as the only legitimate government of Russia, so Nicholas has to fight for the rights that Russia should have, they asked to send representatives to the Paris Peace Conference, enjoy the treatment of a victorious country, and ask to participate in the partition of the German colonies, at least to concede a share of Germany's indemnity.

But Nikolai's request that he thought was reasonable was mercilessly rejected by Britain and France, who even told Nikolai that Russia had nothing to contribute to the war, and that the earliest withdrawal from the war put Britain and France under too much pressure.

Nikolai was very angry and argued with Britain and France, and the two-shot war of words was very fierce, Nikolai gave the example of Russia's 9 million casualties during the war, and Britain and France said that the war was originally started because of Russia. It was Russia that attacked Austria-Hungary in order to protect Serbia's interests, France was involved in the war because of its alliance with Russia, and Britain entered the war because of Belgium's neutrality.

Anyway, Nikolai did not get any benefits, but received bills from Britain and France, and Britain and France told Nikolai that Russia owed them a total of 9.2 billion debts, of which 3.1 billion US dollars were owed by the Tsar before the war, and more than 6 billion US dollars were borrowed during the war, and the rest were the debts borrowed by the Kerensky government and the Tsar, of which more than 6 billion were owed to Britain, 3 billion to France, and only 1 billion to the United States.

As for the loan owed to China, it is guaranteed by minerals, and the loan alone is only 1 billion taels.

Now this bill was given to Nikolai at once, he had a big head at that time, Soviet Russia refused to admit this debt, he had no reason to admit it, the tsar lost most of the territory, let the tsar carry it all, this is not a big wrong, but Nikolai did not admit this account, it is impossible to get a new loan.

The Soviet Union in later generations was so invincible that in the end it negotiated with the British to give 80 million pounds to understand the tsar's debts, and **** even sold oil to make a fortune to pay off the debts of the French, and debts always have to be repaid.

Unless Nikolai, like Vladimir, does not want to mix in the international community at all, he will have to pay back the money, but he really can't afford to pay it back, unless the other party agrees to waive part of it.

"Of course, it is unfair to make the tsarist government bear all the debts, you have all lost so much territory and you should not bear it all. If you can say that you are responsible for one-third, I think China can accept it. As for the mining rights, we will auction off the mineral deposits that have been discovered, and the funds from the auction will always pay off the debt. ”

Nikolai came to Yang Chao for help, and Yang Chao gave him the idea that the one billion yuan of mining rights mortgage loan borrowed from China must be repaid by the mineral auction, and as for the next billion loans, Yang Chao was willing to let the tsarist government bear only one-third.

Nikolai thought about it, he had to agree to one way, the newly established tsarist government was poor and white, and had to support 300,000 troops and tens of thousands of nobles, as well as 3 million old, weak, sick and disabled people who had lost their ability to work.

"Can you convince Britain and France to agree to this clause?"

If they only bear a third, they will admit it, grit their teeth and borrow new debts to pay off old debts, they really can't afford to declare bankruptcy, let the creditors reorganize the tsar's assets, anyway, there is nothing here in Siberia except wasteland.

"Of course, my country will raise this issue at the Paris Peace Conference. Neither in terms of population nor land size, the tsarist government should not bear all its debts. What do you think about the fact that you can reinstate the country and commit to paying one-third of it before you recover all of it, and the other two-thirds of it will be repaid when you recover all of it? ”

What do you think?

Nikolai thought it was too good, which meant that Britain and France would have to fully support the Tsar's restoration if they wanted Russia to pay off all their debts, and perhaps they would consider sending troops.

Nikolai immediately made this promise, and the Chinese government was the first to respond, expressing its acceptance of Russia's proposal.

At the same time, soon the auction of West Siberian minerals began, and the auction was held in Shanghai, inviting Chinese mine owners who had made a fortune by mining, and even foreigners, as long as they were interested in mining in Siberia.

Of course, most of them were bought by the Chinese miners who made their fortunes in the war, after all, the war had made Europe a mess, and the Westerners did not have enough money, so they had to keep it to rebuild the country.

Hundreds of large deposits, thousands of small and medium-sized deposits, only sold a pitiful 100 million taels, it is not enough to repay China's mining rights loans, let alone use them to repay Britain and France.

The 643 billion tons of coal fields in Angero-Suzhensk, Kuznetsky, and Prokopyevsk, and the iron ore mines in the four major iron ore mining areas of Bakchar, Kolpassevo, Parabery, and Parbek, of which the iron ore reserves of Bakchail alone amounted to more than 100 billion tons, all fell into the hands of Chinese capitalists.

Needless to say, other mineral deposits such as lead, zinc, iron, and aluminum.

Yang Chao vigorously supported the Chinese capitalists to come here to open mines, as for the domestic mineral deposits, if they can keep them, they should keep them, and dig up foreign ones first. The capitalists who bought the mines were also happy, because compared with the domestic deposits, the mineral conditions in Siberia were obviously better, not only the reserves were large, but also the taste was high, and the mining was easier and the cost was very low.

Of course, it is also beneficial to Russia, Yangzi Bank has provided financing, which has promoted hundreds of large projects to settle here, not to mention those various metal deposits of important value, just the oil fields of Tyumen, the iron ore of Tomsk, and the coal fields of Irkutsk, the investment amount is more than 500 million, because these mineral deposits are rich in reserves, and most of them are surface ores, the cost of development is low, the quality is good, and the annual output after the future is put into production is not less than 1 billion taels, and the tax paid to Russia is not less than 200 million taels.

Even now, the economy fueled by direct investment is enough for three million Russians to find jobs and have enough to eat.

Therefore, despite the suspicion of being controlled, the Russians have no choice, and will even thank China for their investment in the future.

At the same time, after reaching a debt settlement agreement with the tsarist government, it was possible to provide loans to Russia again, and under the recommendation of Yang Chao, more than 20,000 poor and white nobles who planned to develop large farms borrowed 300 million taels of loans in Shanghai to purchase agricultural machinery and reclaim land in the West Siberian Plain.

Mr. Yang also helped them find many agricultural consultants, such as the capitalists who run farms in Heilongjiang.

Yang Chao has no interest in encouraging the Chinese to go where to directly occupy the farmland, because then they will have to compete with the local indigenous nomads, and the output of the land is pitiful compared to mining.

In any case, the agricultural products they grow can only be exported to China, and they are still a source of food security controlled by China.

These poor aristocrats will form a huge agricultural force, no matter who is in power, they will not dare to offend this force, and this force must support the female tsar, and maintaining the interests of these people is tantamount to maintaining the status of Origa.

With the massive amount of capital invested in Western Siberia, people also moved with the capital, hundreds of capitalists hired technicians, miners stationed in Russia, and of course recruited local poor Russians, which soon benefited the Russian natives, and the era of struggling with hunger came to an end.

At the same time, barrels of oil came out of the oil fields in the Tyumen area, the taxes fell into the pockets of the tsarist government, and their economic situation gradually improved, and the British and French felt that it was also profitable to give loans to the tsarist government, so they began to change their minds, and no longer asked the tsarist government to bear all the debts, and soon promised the tsarist government to take only one-third of the debts for the time being, and the remaining two-thirds of the debts, which they would repay after they completed the restoration of the country.

The improvement of the external environment, and the fact that he did not intend to wrestle with Soviet Russia again, allowed Nikolai to concentrate on internal affairs, repair the Trans-Siberian Railway, and at the same time start building new railways in various cities, improve transportation, and encourage investment.

The female tsar was also bewitched by Yang Chao with a sense of mission, in line with the purpose of improving the living standards of the people, she personally took action, visited various parts of China, and attracted investment.

A large number of Chinese investors have entered the country, Koreans and Japanese have also taken steps, and the United States is not willing to be lonely, and some American-funded enterprises in Yantai have also agreed to the invitation of the female tsar and went to Siberia to try to invest.

The war in Russia has not yet subsided, and the great development of Western Siberia has begun. (To be continued.) )