Later, Wang Maoru invited Uchida Yasuya and his entourage to visit the Guards Armored Division of the Guards Headquarters, and when the high-spirited Minjiu tank passed in front of the Japanese Prime Minister, Uchida Yasuya felt deeply insulted, which was a naked show of force. Yasuya Uchida asked Masataro Fukuda, the military attache in charge of intelligence at the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, "What was the result of the battle between the Chinese and Japanese tanks with the same number of tanks?" ”

Masataro Fukuda reminded with a wry smile: "Japan does not have armored forces. ”

"No armored units?" Fang Ze Kenji said depressedly, "How can there be no armored troops in the great Japanese Empire?" ”

Masataro Fukuda shook his head and said: "The officers of the staff said that armored combat vehicles will make soldiers have the cowardly idea of hiding behind steel, and they will also frighten the war horses, especially the logistics supply will be greatly increased, and the cost of a tank for a year is the cost of a squad of ordinary soldiers." Due to the government's disarmament, how can the Japanese Army have the money to equip armored forces? "He also secretly counterattacked Fang Ze Qianji, it was your political friends who fought against the military, which made us have no money, right? The Japanese Army has already exploded weakly, and you are still suppressing us, look, now compared with China, it is embarrassing, right?

Fang Ze Qianji naturally knew the meaning of his words, Wang Maoru invited him to take the tank again, because the tonnage of the tank is not large, it seems that the Minjiu tank is just a light tank, but his shape is more special, and it is not the same as today's mainstream tanks. Kenkichi Yoshizawa asked how the performance of this tank combat vehicle compares with the American M1918?

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Victory." ”

Kenkichi Yoshizawa thought that Wang Mao was bragging, but after returning home, Masataro Fukuda secretly said to him: "When the Chinese tank was exhibited in New York, the Chinese tank was compared with the M1918, and it was indeed a complete victory." ”

"What?" Kenkichi Yoshizawa was taken aback.

"But you don't have to be nervous." Masataro Fukuda smiled, "M1918 doesn't even like Americans. It has long been eliminated, and the opponent of this tank of the Chinese is the French Renault FT17 tank. ”

"How does the performance compare?"

"In terms of speed, it is inferior to Renault, but in terms of firepower and armor, the Minjiu tank still wins completely." Masataro Fukuda sighed, "In tank research and development. The speed of research and development of the Imperial Japanese Army has been lost to China. ”

Kenkichi Yoshizawa then sighed as well.

At this time, the Japanese cabinet was impatient, and the Japanese regent Hirohito bypassed the cabinet and directly used the Japanese ambassador to China Yoshida Isaburo as an excuse to revoke Yoshida Isaburo's ambassadorship under the pretext that the Japanese ambassador to China Isaburo Yoshida was ineffective. As a last resort, he had to make a decision to revoke Isaburo Yoshida's status as ambassador to China. After deliberations by the Political Friendship Association, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, the son-in-law of the Minister of Posts (i.e., the Minister of Post), Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who had served as consul in Hankow and Shanghai, assumed the post of ambassador to China with immediate effect.

The change of ambassador to China without the Acting Prime Minister's knowledge shows that neither the Japanese Imperial Family, nor the military, nor the Japanese Cabinet have reached the limit of their patience with Yasuya Uchida, and they can no longer wait.

So under the double pressure of both inside and outside. Uchida Yasuya finally signed a territorial redemption treaty with China, the name of the treaty is "Sino-Japanese Concession Redemption Treaty", the full content of the treaty is roughly 12 articles, but the main content has four articles, the second is the scope of redemption, including Chongqing Concession, Suzhou Concession, Hangzhou Concession, Tianjin Concession, Qingdao, Lushun Dalian, Taiwan, the redemption time is May 1, 1924 The Chinese government redeemed Chongqing, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin Concession. On May 1, 1927, Qingdao was redeemed, Lushun Dalian was redeemed on May 1, 1938, and Taiwan was redeemed on May 1, 1943. Article 5 is on the question of payment, and the Chinese government in the four concessions will pay Japan the equivalent of 30,000,000 silver dollars for medicines, medical equipment, food, or daily necessities, as well as 10 million for storage and construction costs. Article 6 is that the storage and construction fees of Qingdao, Lushun, Dalian and Taiwan will be renegotiated between China and Japan in the year before the redemption. Article 7 is that because Japan is in urgent need of medical supplies and equipment, and based on the basic principle of commerce, the four concessions are temporarily transferred to the German government for safekeeping, and the Chinese government will hand over the payment funds of the four concessions to the German government, and the German government will act as an intermediary between China and Japan. Article 10 is that the customs of both sides will be open to each other, and the customs tariffs will be discussed separately between China and Japan. Article 11 The redemption method is permanent redemption. The main focus is to resolve the grievances between China and Japan.

Since the "Sino-Japanese Concession Redemption Treaty" was signed at the Summer Palace in Beijing, the treaty was also called the "Summer Palace Treaty", and of course, the German ambassador Laurensen acted as an intermediary between China and Japan, adding supreme glory to his political career and adding a glorious image to the image of Germany, which had suffered a lot in the world after World War I.

However, this has made several other countries very unhappy. Why Germany? For Mao to the hands of the Germans?

The Japanese government's explanation for this was that this was a request of the Chinese government, and the Chinese government's explanation was that there were more than 100,000 Germans working in China, and Germany did not dare to embezzle the materials handed over to them by the Chinese government, and because the quality of German weapons was good, it believed that the Germans must have been very serious about their character and way of doing things as intermediaries.

Nima - What is the reason?

The good quality of the weapons of the Germans can be extended to the way of behaving in the world, to be able to extend to the country? Don't you know how much Germany needs money right now?

Regarding the signing of this treaty, Wang Maoruru upheld the principle that it would take a few years to fight a war, and he did not want China and Japan to make a move in the near future, because Japan is a madman and a mad dog, but China still needs to develop, and it must not commit suicide with them. Therefore, he was quite satisfied with the content of this negotiation, so he also signed the treaty. The pressure on anyone in the government to sign the Sino-Japanese Concession Redemption Treaty was too great.

Buy it in batches, what if you can't buy it?

What if Japan plays a trick? It is conceivable that Japan will have a lot of difficulties, and who will bear the consequences? No one dares, except for Wang Maoru, except for Wang Maoru, a person who has long wanted to wrestle with Japan, but has been waiting for an opportunity. As long as those who understand politics can see that this treaty is full of signs of the inevitable war between China and Japan, and this treaty has also become the source of the Sino-Japanese war in the future.

Who can afford the responsibility of the national war, only Wang Maoru.

If the national war is won, Wang Maoru will become a famous person through the ages, and if the national war is lost, Wang Maoru will be left behind for 10,000 years.

Tang Shaoyi dragged his old body to find Wang Maoru and said, "Xiusheng, you are still young, it is better to sign it." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Father-in-law, this treaty is different from the recovery treaties with other countries, this is a war letter. It's still the son-in-law who signed it, after all, the basket that the son-in-law poked will be borne by the son-in-law in the future. You've put a lot of pressure on me, so I'll carry it this time. ”

Tang Shaoyi sighed and said, "After doing this prime minister, Xiusheng, I won't do it." ”

"Why?"

"If I continue to do this, I will become a dictator in other people's mouths." Tang Shaoyi said with a smile, "Moreover, I am also old, old, and I can't do it anymore, so I should give way to young people." ”

The contents of the Sino-Japanese Concession Redemption Treaty were accepted by the Japanese cabinet and the imperial family and the military ministry, and their purpose was nothing more than to open up the Chinese market and extort Chinese finances, especially medicines. What Uchida Yasuya achieved in the negotiations that was most satisfactory to the military department was Article 6, which stated that the storage and construction fees for Qingdao, Lushun, Dalian, and Taiwan would be renegotiated between China and Japan the year before the redemption. In this way, after having to pay the four concessions as a last resort, relying on the contents of Article 6, the Japanese Government can completely ask for a sky-high price, such as Qingdao, where the Japanese Government can completely make the Chinese Government unable to afford to come to power at a price of 200 million silver dollars. After Japan occupied Liaoning and half of Jilin in the First Sino-Japanese War, the ransom fee for the intervention of the three countries was 50 million yen (that is, 30 million taels of silver), which is equivalent to 40 million silver dollars in terms of purchasing power. So as long as the price is high enough, the Chinese government puts itself in an awkward position in this negotiation.

If it can cause the Chinese government to be angry, Japan will have a reason to send troops to China!

In a sense, Yasuya Uchida took into account the interests of the Japanese government, paved the way for the Japanese military department, and carried the black pot himself.

Yes, on the same day after the signing of the Sino-Japanese Concession Redemption Treaty, the Cabinet announced the removal of Yasuya Uchida from the post of interim prime minister, and the appointment of Count Gonbei Yamamoto, a naval minister from the Satsuma domain, as prime minister. Yamamoto became the new prime minister for the second time because he sided with Saionji Kobo in the power struggle between Saionji Kobo and Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and because he had commanded the Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War, he could communicate with the military more conveniently.

Yamamoto immediately formed a new Japanese cabinet, with Hikoyoshi Ijiin as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Goto Shinpei as Minister of Internal Affairs, Junnosuke Inoue as Minister of Finance, Yoshiichi Tanaka as Minister of War, Biao of Finance as Minister of the Navy, Kiichiro Hiranuma as Minister of Justice, Keijiro Okano as Minister of Education, Kenjiro Tada as Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Takeshi Inukai as Minister of Letters, and Yamauchi as Minister of Railways.

And Uchida Yasuya really became a complete scapegoat, when he returned to Japan, just disembarked in Tokyo Bay, he was immediately assassinated by the Japanese radical young man Mitarai Jiro, Mitarai Jiro took out a pistol in public, shouted the slogan "Uchida betrays the country" and shot Uchida Yasuya three times in a row. Two of the shots hit Yasuya Uchida, one in the cheek and one in the chest where he was stuck in the bone, and the moment he flew out, he fell into the sea. However, the bullet that hit him in the cheek passed through his facial bone and fell into his head, and Yasuya Uchida was in a coma in the hospital for three months, and finally died of infection because the bullet could not be removed.