"President, we must immediately recognize the Stolypin government and must continue to cooperate with them. Otherwise www.biquge.info they will cooperate with the Japanese, and we will lose this war. Then the Chinese government falls, and we will all be like the tsar, either in exile or as war criminals! ”

Yang Chao was alarmist and scared Li Bodhisattva.

Li Yuanhong frowned and said, "So serious? ”

He is not a fool, the war has reached this level, and he does not believe that the Japanese can still win against China.

Yang Chao sighed: "The key is not Japan. Britain and France actively brokered negotiations between Japan and Russia. Once Russia reconciled with Japan, there would be no conflict between the Entente and Japan. Japan could even calmly join the Anglo-French Entente, and once Britain, France, Japan, and now Russia were united, they would have every reason to declare war on our country on the grounds of their treaty obligations. ”

"Although Britain and France were also struggling to fight in Europe, they had naval superiority and could send troops to China, and at that time, even if we allied with the Germans, Germany would not be able to send a single soldier to China to help in the war. If Britain and France had taken a defensive stance against the German army and concentrated their forces on engaging our country first, we would have no chance of victory. ”

Li Yuanhong was a little panicked at this time, the truth is really the truth, the biggest obstacle for Britain and France to fight against China is that their ally Russia is at war with Japan, and Russia and China are one camp.

However, if the Russians withdraw from this camp, they will have a reason to declare war on China, and in recent years, there has been no less rumor that China will fight against Britain and France on the side of Germany, nor has there been less rumor that Britain will declare war on China at any time because of the obligations of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, after all, the outside world has always believed that China is pro-German.

Although pro-German is the impression left by Yang Chao, this is indeed an international impression, and Li Yuanhong cannot take this risk.

Yang Chao saw that Li Yuanhong was moved by his own words, and immediately put forward a series of suggestions.

"First, recognize the Stolypin government, second, support them to return to their homeland and seize power, and third, China will help them defend against Japan."

Li Yuanhong completely agreed, and reluctantly agreed, that Yang Chao personally participated in leading the negotiations.

Yang Chao then urgently met with Stolypin.

"Your Excellency should be able to see that Japan has already lost, and it is the most stupid choice to give up the war before victory!"

Yang Chao said bluntly.

Stolypin sighed: "Only in this way can we get the support of Britain, France and the United States." ”

Yang Chao threatened: "We will also get the hostility of our country." ”

Yang Chao did not believe that the Russians would not negotiate with Japan, and Britain and France would give up supporting the Stolypin government, and Yang Chao had already figured out where Stolypin had gone these days.

At that time he was in Petersburg to suppress the revolution, marked by the abdication of the tsar, and his repression failed. He urgently got on a warship, quietly arrived in Paris, and then talked secretly with the French government for a long time, and finally won the support of Britain and France.

And the reason why he was able to get the support of Britain and France was because the Vladimir government did not recognize the huge debts owed by the tsar, and the debts of Tsarist Russia totaled 180 gold rubles, equivalent to 1.9 billion pounds, more than 9 billion US dollars, all of which were owed to Britain and France, so Britain and France were in a hurry all of a sudden, let Vladimir play like this, and British and French finance must not collapse.

The French losses in this war must have been the greatest, but the British losses were not as big as imagined, although they also borrowed a large amount of debt from the Americans, but as a financial center, they borrowed more domestic debts, and in foreign debts, Britain even exceeded them, for example, after the war they owed the United States 4.7 billion US dollars, but France, Russia, Belgium and other Entente countries owed Britain 11 billion US dollars.

Among them, the Russians owe the most, accounting for 75% of Britain's foreign loans, and if Russia does not admit it, Britain will really lose all its money in this war. They were going to collect the debts of their allies to balance the debts of the United States, but now the Russians are paying their debts, and the British Empire can't afford to rely on the money of the United States.

Therefore, as soon as the British and French heard that Comrade Vladimir would not repay the money, they immediately agreed to support Stolypin, but asked him to promise that he would have to take on the debt after the restoration of tsarist power in the future.

This has also created a strange phenomenon, even if Vladimir has announced that he will not repay his debts, the Russian bonds have not yet turned into waste paper, and there is still half the face value in the Paris market, because there are still many people who believe that the Russian government will still pay it back in the end, because everyone really can't understand how a government will refuse to repay the loan, so how can they continue to borrow?

Well, modern Western European capital players don't know enough about Vladimir, these people don't understand modern finance, they think they don't have to repay the money to make money, but what they don't know is that they were cut off from the world financial market, and later after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the debt owed by the tsar a hundred years ago was still recognized by the Russians, and it was not until Pukgeb became president that the tsar's debt was paid off.

The British's World War I loan was also repaid in 2015, a full hundred years later. The British even borrowed the debt of the Dutch coachman 400 years ago, but the interest rate was low, and they were not in a hurry to pay it, and they paid the interest for hundreds of years.

For the United States, although Russia's debt to them is negligible, if Britain and France collapse, the United States will also be dragged down to collapse, so the United States has to support Russia and support a Russia that is willing to pay back, and Stolypin is the best choice.

So after Stolypin's army won a big victory and let them see that the Russian army was still very combative, they immediately borrowed another 500 million US dollars to vigorously support the Russians to fight back to Europe, this is not that they care for the Tsar, if they do, the British will not refuse the Tsar's exile to Britain.

It's all about the money.

I didn't tell Stolypindo, believing that Stolypin knew better than himself.

Yang Chao then met with the British.

To the British Minister Zhu Erdian, he said: "We allow the Japanese delegation to come to Beijing for negotiations, and we are willing to provide a suitable place for both Japan and Russia, and at the same time, we are also willing to join the negotiations and are willing to make peace with the Japanese." ”

Yang Chao's statement surprised Zhu Erdian, the British at this time considered to draw Japan into the war in the case of Russia's withdrawal from the war, and promised the Japanese that after Russia and Japan reconciled, they would send a navy to China to help Japan blockade China's coast and force China to end the war against Japan.

However, if the Chinese were willing to reconcile with the Japanese, it would naturally be the most beneficial for the British, which meant that they did not need to divide their precious navy and could continue to blockade Germany perfectly.

The Japanese crown prince and his entourage soon arrived in Beijing with the tacit consent of all parties.

The Japan-Russia negotiations turned into a trilateral meeting between China, Japan and Russia.

"Japan must abandon its wrong approach and return Russian and Chinese territories. And let Korea and the Ryukyus become independent, and immediately return Taiwan, which is not negotiable. and indemnity of 10 taels of silver each for Russia and China. ”

1 billion taels of silver is not a particularly huge amount of money now, this war has completely stimulated the international debt, the British debt to the United States has exceeded 3 billion, France also has 3 billion, Italy has more than 1 billion, Belgium has 500 million US dollars, the total is almost 10 billion, if you count the domestic debt, the debts of various countries are more than 100 billion, in the face of these huge sums of money, 1 billion taels of silver is really nothing.

But the Japanese still could not agree.

The reparations are just a trivial matter, and the key is North Korea and Taiwan, which they are absolutely unwilling to give up.

Stolypin decided to side with China because Yang Chao had promised to support them in returning to China to eliminate the rebellion, and China was willing to pay for all Russian weapons and ammunition until the rebellion was ended.

Stolypin now has an army of 3 million, and if he collects it in Siberia, he may be able to form another 1 million, which is enough for him to return to China to quell the rebellion, but there is no way to provide weapons and ammunition, no one can provide such a large number of weapons except China, even if Britain and France want to support them, they cannot be handed over to them.

Under Chinese threats and promises, Stolypin had no choice.

So they also supported the ideas put forward by China, and they also wanted reparations from the Japanese to survive the crisis.

The negotiators negotiated fiercely, and the Japanese crown prince Hirohito, a war criminal who later escaped trial, was visiting the Russian tsar with a compassionate attitude.

Yang Chao accompanied him all the way, and took the opportunity to talk to this old devil who is still a little devil, and in his words, he heard that Hirohito was more anti-war and opposed to the poisonous dishes of Yama County Youpeng.

After visiting the Tsar, Yang Chao invited Stolypin to visit the industrial base in Shandong, pointing to Qingdao Expressway Hirohito, which is one of the largest industrial cities in the world, Pittsburgh in the United States, Birmingham in the United Kingdom, and any city in the Ruhr area of Germany alone cannot compare to Qingdao, which concentrates half of China's heavy industry.

In Laiwu, he told Hirohito that there are 30 steel mills of the same scale as the Laiwu Steel Mill in the Northeast, but the annual output of steel in the Northeast has reached 10 million tons, and the steel mills here in Shandong also have a production capacity of more than 5 million, and the technology is advanced, which can produce a series of steel products from shipbuilding to military industry, and even developed more than 10 kinds of special steel for engines, many of which are unique in the world.

Letting Hirohito watch China's industry is actually demonstrating to him, scaring him, telling him that China's potential is beyond Japan's ability to confront and making them give up resistance and surrender as soon as possible.

"China's fiefdom is so vast, and the products are really rich."

Hirohito sighed.

Let Yang Chao not only be alert, but this little devil can't forget greed.

"We don't intend to destroy Japan, Japan doesn't have what China needs, we just need Japan to abandon its policy of challenging the Asian order and restore order to Asia, and even we welcome Japan to join this order."

To restore the old order is to restore the order in which China dominates Asia, and the Japanese must restrain their ambitions and be a good baby in the Asian order.

Hirohito nodded, his expression solemn, and did not speak.

I don't know what he's thinking.

At the instigation of Yang Chao, the Sino-Japanese-Russian negotiations could only break down unless the Japanese accepted the general conditions of surrender.

And this condition is something that the Japanese can never agree to, after all, now with the restoration of their sea power, the situation is slowly improving, the domestic rice riots have begun to subside under the suppression and a large amount of food supplies plundered from Korea, and the domestic economic order is slowly restored, and it is impossible for them to surrender at this time.

The result of the negotiations made Britain, France, and the United States see that China's control over Russia is quite strong, and they also want to know this, after all, the situation of the Russians at this time is inseparable from China. (To be continued.) )