The Chinese government's conditions for the reopening of trade with Japan, regardless of the name, were always blamed on the problem of the concessions, and the Japanese government was under great pressure after returning the Wuhan concession to China, but it also opened some trade. And will China be able to do without Japanese goods? In fact, it is also inseparable, needless to say, the special steel used to make tanks has to be imported from Japan. Therefore, Japan needs China to open the door to the market, and China also needs Japanese goods, and both sides have not given up negotiations despite tearing their faces.

This time, the negotiators of China and Japan have become Yasuya Uchida and Wang Maoru, and this pair of old rivals is once again sitting at the negotiating table. Wang Maoru is not a suitable candidate for negotiation, his character is too tough, but Wang Maoru is familiar with Japan, he is familiar with Japan, he has already felt his opponent very clearly, and even knows that the Japanese cabinet has designated a 10-year retaliation plan, that is, after 10 years, Japan will regain its national strength and attack China again, and take advantage of Japan's powerful naval superiority to launch armed provocations against China.

Since the Japanese are prepared to lie down for 10 years, they will certainly never give up negotiations today, and the longer the Japanese drag on, the more difficult it will be for the Japanese state to rise again. So Wang Maoru can afford to spend time and continue to accompany Japan to tease the stuffyman. But Yasuya Uchida couldn't wait, and the cabinet turned out to be Xiyuanji repeatedly urging him to reach an agreement to open the Chinese market as soon as possible.

The market that was closed between China and Japan hovered in mid-air precisely because of the concession issue.

Yasuya Uchida's heart was extremely sad, and Saionji was forcing himself to carry the black cauldron. It is very likely that after signing the treaty on the return of the concession between China and Japan, he will be dismissed immediately, and it is not certain whether he will even return to Japan alive. But sooner or later, someone has to do it. It's either himself or someone else, Yasuya Uchida doesn't believe in the abilities of others, and he's afraid of losing more.

During the three days and three nights of negotiations between the two sides, Wang Maoru was aggressive, and Yasuya Uchida was neither humble nor arrogant, and the negotiations were deadlocked in three contradictions.

First, the extent of the return of the concession. Wang Maoru's proposed scope even included the South Manchurian Railway, Taiwan, and Dalian Lushun, while the Japanese side provided the Chongqing, Tianjin, Suzhou, and Hangzhou concessions. Wang Maoru proposed to return Qingdao, but the Japanese insisted on not returning Qingdao. For the Japanese government, Qingdao is Japan's second springboard into China, and it has also become one of the focal points of this dispute.

Second, there is the issue of the amount of restitution. It is clear that the Japanese government wants to make a fortune from this. But the Chinese government also wants to recover with the least losses, and the demands of the two sides are far from reaching 100 million silver dollars, how can this be said?

Third, on the issue of the name of restitution, the Chinese Government naturally wanted to borrow it in the name of recovery, but the Japanese Government actually proposed that it be a temporary loan -- which really made Wang Maoru furious. Why don't you lend me your wife?

These issues have been tormenting the Chinese and Japanese negotiators for two months, and they will not be resolved in a moment. If it were not for the imminent collapse of Japan's domestic economy and the fact that they were in great need of the international market, especially China, the Japanese government would never have made any compromises.

At this time, the biggest scandal suddenly broke out in the newspapers of the General Administration of Customs, when several representatives of the Anglo-American, French-Japanese banks, the responsible party of the Chinese customs, and expatriate employees of the customs were reported to have taken Chinese money to gamble in Shanghai casinos and lost nearly 200,000 silver dollars.

Shanghai's largest circulation newspaper, the Shanghai Shen Shimbun, was a French Concession newspaper, which published photos of foreign employees of customs and employees of the Four Nations Bank gambling in casinos, and clearly showed their drunken ugliness to all Chinese. Foreigners take the customs income of the Chinese to go to the casino to gamble, there is such a thing? Suddenly, the whole Chinese people were outraged, and students and workers in Shanghai took the lead in launching demonstrations to protest against the customs officers' behavior of playing with the feelings of the Chinese.

There is a huge conspiracy behind this matter, Wang Maoru laughed after seeing the newspaper, it must be Zhou Quede who did it. Sure enough, Zhou Dezhong then sent back a secret telegram, saying to Wang Maoru that he had carefully arranged this qiē.

Wang Maoru gave Zhou Dezhong a task to go to Shanghai to recover the customs duties. Zhou Dezhong thought about it for a long time and came up with a plan, prepared in Beijing to find a white Russian who could only speak French, and told him that we should go to Shanghai to cheat some money, then the white Russian was naturally willing, so he went to Shanghai with Zhou Dezhong. After arriving in Shanghai, the two opened a company in the French Concession, and said that they had a relationship to get drugs in the name of business.

Now that the drugs made in China are the most popular, the duo's company has immediately caught the attention of many. After all, governments around the world have sent people to China to buy Chinese-made banlan root powder, and spent a lot of money, but the Chinese government is strict, and governments can only buy a small amount. Zhou Dezhong, who was standing behind him, got the medicine very easily, and soon ten tons of Banlangen powder was smuggled to the French Concession in Shanghai and quietly sold to the French government.

Although it was quietly sold, how could spies from various countries not know the news, and suddenly, the companies of Zhou Dezhong and the White Russian assistants immediately became hot, and everyone knew that there was a French talent in Chinese mainland who could buy off Chinese officials, and when the whole of China was under martial law, there were still people who were not afraid of death to get smuggled medicines, what a powerful and secret relationship.

Zhou Dezhong then asked someone to get acquainted with the foreign employees of the Chinese Customs, and although these foreign employees were serving the Chinese Customs, the Chinese Customs was in the hands of the people of the Four Nations Bank, and to put it bluntly, they were serving foreigners. Naturally, they wanted to help their country, and then Zhou Dezhong used the reason that he wanted to expand the scale of the company and apply for a loan, and the employees of Guò Yang met several managers and heads of the Four Nations Bank.

After a few interactions, although the loan will not come down so quickly, it does not prevent the two parties from becoming friends. Zhou Dezhong and Bai Russia invited them to go to the casino and the Qinglou to play, during which with the help of CIA agents, several people were so dazed that they lost money playing cards. But Zhou Dezhong said that the money he lost was his own, and he made a fortune, and ten tons of banlan root was enough for everyone to play. So everyone continued to play in the casino, but unexpectedly, these foreign employees won money, and everyone was very happy. Then Zhou Dezhong invited them again, and won a few days of money with a face, making them all think that they were gambling gods.

The bait continued to be set, and then Zhou Dezhong took them to the casino, overnight, lost tens of thousands, and owed tens of thousands of silver dollars to the gang, now even Zhou Dezhong had no choice, although he and the next business of the White Russian company quickly sat down, but the Chinese government was very strict, and the medicine could not be transported to the French Concession, and it would take time. Under the construction of the White Russians, it was said that it was better to get back the money from the Bank of the Four Nations, and of course a few timid people were very afraid. Zhou Dezhong said that our next shipment will arrive soon, and after the arrival of the goods, no money will be counted as money, and we will take a little less from the banks of the four countries to see if we can get it back. If you get it back, it's the best, if you can't get it back, my goods will be sold as soon as they arrive in Shanghai, and we will fill the hole.

Under the inducement of Zhou Dezhong and White Russia, the group secretly took some money and went to gamble, and then lost money, gambled and lost money, and when they found out that Zhou Dezhong and White Russia were gone, they found that they had embezzled 200,000 tariffs.

Collect the net!

As a result, the "Shanghai Declaration Paper" began, and the "Declaration", "Youth Daily", and "Shanghai Morning Post" expanded to all major newspapers across the country, all of which competed to report on the diversion of customs duties by foreign employees of the Chinese Customs.

China's Minister of Internal Affairs Xu Lanzhou, Vice Minister of Internal Affairs Wang Yongjiang, Attorney General Zhou Daotai, and Vice Minister of Justice Jian Zanlu also filed a physical investigation into the corruption case of China Customs in the hands of the Bank of Four Nations. The National Assembly immediately voted in both houses and approved the investigation of China Customs with a vote of 96 percent.

At the same time, the Ministry of Military Affairs also made a statement, and Vice Minister of National Defense Sa Zhenbing and Coast Guard Chief Liu Guanxiong announced at the same time that China will resolutely support the Chinese judiciary's investigation of customs. (To be continued......)