Aftermath big loans, four countries of the banking group, these two words since Yuan Shikai became the interim president and officially established the Beiyang Central Political Axe, these two words have frequently appeared in newspapers around the world.

Speaking of this big loan for the aftermath, we have to start with the Xinhai year, when the Qing political axe contacted Britain, France, Germany and other countries to discuss borrowing money to suppress the revolution, but since Yuan Shikai's comeback, the situation has changed too quickly, and the Qing political axe is soon on the verge of collapse, and the borrowing plans of various countries have been suspended.

Although there have been two political axes before and after, the purpose and purpose of this batch of loans have not changed, that is, to help Yuan Shikai unify China by force.

Although on the surface, it is a big loan for the aftermath, and the money will be used for post-war reconstruction and other work, but in fact, whether it is Yuan Shikai or others in Beiyang, they are counting on this amount of money as military expenses, and the powers led by Britain are also clear about this. How Yuan Shikai wants to use this money The powers are too lazy to care, the key is how much Yuan Shikai is prepared to pay for this huge amount of money.

What the great powers want is simple, except for money or money! Some of the terms of the negotiations between the two sides are extremely harsh, such as the extremely high interest rate, which is as high as 6% if the 84% discount is converted, and it will be repaid over about 50 years, and in order to borrow 25 million pounds, China will eventually have to repay the loan as high as more than 67 million pounds. In addition, the borrower must first pay the principal and interest of some foreign debts such as the Gengzi loan, and these payments exceed half of the borrowing. If it is really negotiated, Yuan Shikai will not be able to get more than 10 million pounds at that time, and it will be about 100 million when converted into silver dollars, and this batch of money is not a one-time surname, and it will be given in multiple batches.

In addition to these enormous profits, the syndicate was to be able to control China's customs duties, salt administration, and taxes in the four designated provinces, namely Henan, Shandong, Zhili, and Jiangsu. It also requires China not to borrow money from outside the banking syndicate.

No matter how harsh the conditions of the loan were, Yuan Shikai had no choice. He needed money now, and a lot of it, and he needed a lot of money to use as military expenses to maintain the central government, and when the southern provinces of China were all controlled by the Southern Party, Yuan Shikai's only channel was to borrow.

Of course, now the four-nation banking group regards Yuan Shikai as the wronged leader, and he Yuan Shikai also knows, although he is dissatisfied with Tang Shaoyi's tough attitude on the matter of borrowing, but the four-nation banking group really came to the door to force him to sign Yuan Shikai also has to think of a way.

After Zhu Erdian saw that Yue Ben had hooked up with Yuan Shikai and seemed to have the intention of bypassing the bank group of the four countries, on the one hand, he continued to put pressure on Yuan Shikai, and on the other hand, he also warned Yue Ben not to act rashly and at the same time wooed Yu Ben to join the bank group.

When Chen Jingyun's national army marched into northern Zhejiang, he lost no time in finding Yuan Shikai and saying that he could provide a loan, and the request was very simple, that is, Manchuria.

Although Yuan Shikai did not hesitate to take out the salt administration and the like in order to borrow the money from the banking group of the four countries, but the cession of Manchuria is still seen clearly, and he refused without saying a word, speaking of which Yuan Shikai is still a little stronger than Sun Wen in the face of the great right and wrong, Sun Wen has the plan to sell it to Yueben, but he was scolded by the Chinese people as soon as he got out of the mouth, and Yuan Shikai knew that it was okay for the finances to be supervised by foreigners, but if the ceding of the territory came out, it would be infamous for the ages. The radical Southerners had to dig up his ancestral grave.

After being rejected by Yuan Shikai, he was angry and directly joined the four-nation banking group, and then Russia also joined in, so the four-nation banking group became the six-nation banking group, and when these two countries joined in, the borrowing conditions became more stringent.

Even Xiong Xiling, a famous person, did not dare to continue talking, for fear that the majority of Chinese people would point at him and scold him because of the loan, so this person simply resigned at the end of June.

The resignation of Xiong Xiling, the chief financial officer, hit Yuan Shikai deeply, in order to borrow money, not only Tang Shaoyi made trouble for him, but those party members in the south scolded him for how to betray the country and humiliate power, and now even Xiong Xiling, the chief financial minister, has resigned, and seeing that he has to break up the cabinet for this loan, he has to slow down again and send people to talk again, in short, he can't agree to the matter of supervising finances in any way.

As a result, the big loan for the aftermath that Yuan Shikai had dreamed of had to continue to drag on.

When Yuan Shikai made this big loan for the aftermath, not only did Beiyang have many opposing forces, but also many opposition in the southern provinces, the first point was because the big loan for the aftermath included the salt policy, and it mainly relied on the salt policy to repay. However, in all provinces, except for the northern provinces controlled by the central government, the salt administration of other provinces is basically controlled by various warlords, and they are all regarded as the root of life. For example, the salt administration of Fujian Province has been mortgaged by Chen Jingyun, and even the Guan Yu of Fujian has been mortgaged.

Others don't know, but if Yuan Shikai sends someone to accept the salt administration of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, he Chen Jingyun will resolutely not allow it, and even can not hesitate to fight for this, and the salt administration of the two provinces will add up to nearly 10 million annual income, how can he let go of others.

"Commander, don't worry, even if someone is sent from the north at that time, we will be able to completely empty the sky at that time!" An Hualin, who controls the finances of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, is even more prosperous than a month ago, and he is not tall, and he looks like a dwarf winter melon after having a round belly.

Chen Jingyun said: "Alas, it depends on the situation, if you can talk about it, you can talk about it!" ”

Chen Jingyun knew that now was not a good time to start a war with Beiyang, Beiyang was short of money, and his national army was also short of money. Seeing that the expansion of the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division of the National Army was already millions of dollars, and then there were many other bits and pieces, and a part of the money had to be held in hand for unpreparedness, so Chen Jingyun still had a lot of surplus money in his hand a few months ago, but now he was already starting to be nervous.

"How's the financial rectification in Zhejiang?" Chen Jingyun asked.

An Hualin said: "The fund-raising department concentrated on rectifying the finances of Zhejiang, and with the cooperation of the local garrison, the results were very fast, and with the previous experience of Fujian, it was able to be initially sorted out in a month. ”

"Oh! So what's going on? Chen Jingyun asked, "When will the treasury be handed over over there?" ”

"It's going to take a while!" An Hualin said: "In the process of rectifying Zhejiang's finances, we found that in the first half of the year, a large amount of taxes were collected by local governments in Zhejiang, and most of this money was used to support Zhu Rui's second division, and the rest of the money could not be found at the source. Even the upfront costs of Zhejiang's military and political axe work are still advanced by Fujian, so I'm afraid it will be for a while!

Chen Jingyun frowned slightly: "How long is it?" ”

An Hualin said: "According to the current progress, in two months, the Zhejiang military and political axe should be able to start handing over a part of it!" ”

"You have to do this quickly, the situation in Zhejiang is much better than Fujian, and if you want to raise an army in the future, you have to rely on it!" Chen Jingyun stood up after speaking: "It's not too early, you can sort out a copy of the recent financial report in two days and send it over!" ”

An Hualin said: "Good! ”

In the evening, Chen Jingyun accompanied Lin Yun and Luo Li to play cards with a few other girls, and while playing Chen Jingyun, he wanted to have a ridiculous thing about one dragon and two phoenixes, but Lin Yun was thin-faced, and before Chen Jingyun could start, he ran away, leaving only Chen Jingyun, who was stripped naked, to stop Luo Li from playing together.

The next time, when Chen Jingyun was working, Yu Shifeng hurriedly walked in!

Seeing that he came in a hurry, Chen Jingyun asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Although Yu Shifeng was in a hurry, his face showed joy: "Commander, Yanjing is calling!" ”

"Oh, what a telegram, look at you for rejoicing!" Chen Jingyun took the telegram from Yu Shifeng's hand as he spoke.

Yu Shifeng said: "Commander, look at it yourself!" ”

Chen Jingyun unfolded the message and looked at it, the message was slightly long, and Chen Jingyun directly skipped it when it said nonsense and the like, and then looked at the actual content behind it.

This is an appointment telegram, saying that Chen Jingyun has been appointed as the governor of Fujian.

"What's going on, another appointment?" Chen Jingyun was a little puzzled, although he, the governor of Fujian, was self-appointed at the beginning, but later the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe also recognized it, and the later Yanjing Political Axe obviously also recognized it, how could this be a formal appointment.

"Not only the commander, but also the governors of all provinces and the other governors have been reappointed, and they are all appointed letters issued by Yuan Shikai himself!" When Yu Shifeng was speaking, Chen Jingyun suddenly heard the question: "The appointment letter ordered by Yuan Shikai personally? Bypassing the Cabinet? ”

Yu Shifeng nodded.

Chen Jingyun understands this, it seems that Yuan Shi was fed up with the cabinet, and reappointed the governors of each province for something like a legal surname, which can be regarded as a supplement to the incident of the governor of Zhili.

Yu Shifeng took out two telegrams at this time and said: "The War Department decided on the military rank regulations yesterday, and then issued military ranks to the provincial generals!" ”

"Oh, the title?" Chen Jingyun still has a little hope for this military rank, because his current military rank is still the left general of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, that is, the lieutenant general, because the military rank is a little low, it has been inconvenient, he has long wanted to promote himself to the military rank, but he didn't dare to do it because of the influence.

After all, it's still a shame to give yourself a title, so it's better not to do it or not.