Although Yan Shao has assured Britain and the United States and other countries that even if China now has a 'small' 'contradiction' with Britain and the United States and other countries, China will continue to fulfill its responsibilities to the cause of the Entente countries.

Of course, this is only limited to the situation where the 'contradiction' is still 'small', and if the contradiction is improved, then...

This is Yan Shao's threat to the Entente...

Interrupting aid, this is nothing, but if Britain and the United States and other countries get an inch, then things will be a little troublesome, so Yan Shao must give a certain counterattack.

And Britain and the United States and other countries...

Although the Japanese kept jumping behind their backs, hoping that Britain and the United States and other countries would take drastic measures, after receiving Yan Shao's warning, they were deeply worried. They can't help but consider the possibility that China will withdraw from the war, or even join the Allies, if that were the case...

Even if they were able to end the war, the price would be enormous.

Especially the latter, even if China joined the Central Powers, the Entente would not be able to punish China, given the circumstances. What's more, China still has an expeditionary force of almost 600,000 troops located in France, if the Chinese and the Germans come to join forces...

Hehe, it's going to be absolutely hilarious.

And even if the expeditionary force is transferred into the territory of France, considering the combat effectiveness of the Chinese on the Western Front...

If they really start with China, even if they have the ability to deal with the 600,000 expeditionary force, the French hinterland, which was not affected by the war, will probably be in ruins because of the war, which is definitely not acceptable to the French, who have suffered very heavy losses...

It is precisely this kind of concern. As a result, Britain, France and other countries have not dared to take more severe measures, but can only watch the Chinese army continue to take military actions in Russia, occupying towns with weak resistance...

Of course, Japan is a little dissatisfied with this. But there is no way.

It is true that Yamaguchi is inclined to directly take a military attack on China, but considering China's strength today, even if Japan can occupy a certain advantage in the early stage, as long as China reacts, then Korea, Japan's only colony on the mainland, may no longer belong to Japan...

What's more, Britain and the United States and other countries are not willing to really turn their faces with China. The Japanese side is also lonely, and can only sit back and watch this qiē happen.

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On the other hand, with the news that Yan Shao donated 100 million pounds. There was also a sensation in the country.

Of course, there are a few newspapers that are a little yin and yang, and some of them even think that today's China has the surname Yan. He donated 100 million pounds. It's just that the 100 million pounds are spent on how to consolidate their own industry.

However, the vast majority of the media still applauded it, and some newspapers even regarded it as the most powerful response to the interference of the British and American powers in China's domestic affairs...

At the same time, with Yan Shao's statement, the domestic people, who were already very supportive of Yan Shao, also boiled...

"The people's will is available..." In the conference room in the presidential palace, Finance Minister Liang Shiyi said with some excitement. Now that the people's hearts are available, President, should we launch a donation? Let the people in the country donate money and materials..."

Although there are 100 million pounds sterling from Yan Shao, 100 million pounds is only equivalent to 1.05 billion Chinese dollars at the exchange rate of this era. And what is the fiscal deficit of the national government? 700 million yuan, in other words, Yan Shao's 100 million pounds can only support more than a year.

Of course, according to the judgment of the Ministry of Defense, there is a high probability that the war will end this year.

In this way, China could reduce the expenditure of the expeditionary force, and the fiscal deficit could be reduced, and the Ministry of Finance also proposed whether it could slow down the construction of railways and roads in the country―――――― which was of course opposed by the Minister of Communications, Zhan Tianyou, but the vast majority of the cabinet ministers agreed.

In fact, the Ministry of Communications has always accounted for a considerable part of the government's fiscal expenditure, and many construction projects are costly, and if they can be slowed down, they will still be very effective in reducing the fiscal deficit.

And then...

Just like Liang Shiyi said, now the people's will is available, if you can mobilize some donations, it doesn't need more, almost 500 million people, no one even donates a dollar, that is almost one-third of the government's financial revenue...

"I think I can..."Sitting on the side, Zong Wu also nodded and said. Although the president has donated 100 million pounds, but now the country has too many places to use money, and at the moment General Cai is moving smoothly, but after laying down one side, we still have to find a way to stabilize the shape, engage in construction, and organize a defense line in the Ural Mountains, and garrison the army, which is also a huge expense, but also take into account the future counterattack of the Russians, which is already somewhat beyond the country's financial needs, and now that the people's will is available, we can launch a donation, Let the people also support it, after all, this is the cause of all our people..."

As Zong Wu's words fell, the others also nodded, obviously agreeing with this.

As for the 100 million pounds, no one doubts how this money came from, even the people do not doubt it, after all, everyone knows that Yushi Group is Yan Shao's industry, 100 million pounds may be an astronomical amount for ordinary people and even ordinary countries, but for Yushi Group, a large business empire with footsteps all over the world, 100 million is a lot, so much that it hurts, but it is absolutely impossible to take out...

"It's okay..."After listening to Liang Shiyi and Zong Wu's words, Yan Shao pondered for a moment, and then nodded.

At the beginning, Yan Shao actually planned to donate another 100 million pounds to the national government, so that he only needed to eat interest in the future.

However, the Ministry of Finance is firmly opposed to this. Liang Shiyi even claimed that if Yan Shao really planned to do this, then the Ministry of Finance firmly opposed the continuation of military operations...

It's no wonder, after all, the government already owes a lot of money right now. If you borrow another amount, the amount of money you have to repay in a year alone will be more than 300 million to 400 million, which is almost equivalent to one-third of the fiscal revenue of the national government...

In this way. What else is he, the Minister of Finance, doing?

Liang Shiyi's attitude has also been supported by Li Liang and others, their ideas are simpler, now that Yan Shao has completed the economic control of China, if he is asking Yan Shao to borrow some money, then the government is probably closer to the surname Yan.

Of course, you can also say that you will get Yan Shao down. And then the loan is not recognized.

The problem is that Yan Shao's position is very secure at the moment, and of course, he is very tolerant of the civil servants in the government. They were even allowed to have opposing opinions about Yan Shao, however, Yan Shao attached great importance to the army ...

Now the whole Chinese army listens to him, without the support of the army. Li Liang and the others were absolutely unable to pose any threat to Yan Shao.

The barrel of the gun is powerful. Yan Shao knows it clearly, the pen may be very powerful, but it will never be as powerful as the gun...

Naturally, in order to come up with this 100 million pounds, Yan Shao also paid a great price...

For example, until now, Yan Shao has a blue face and a sore back. When I first entered the conference room not long ago, I even kept beating my waist.

A few days of hard work. Yan Shao is like he is more than ten years old...

But this can't be helped, this is 100 million pounds after all, although Yan Shao Yushi Group's profit is very large, but 100 million pounds, which is about the same as Yushi Group's profit in a year.

If it's just tens of millions, forget it, take out so many at once, let alone Eleno and them, even Yan Shao is very distressed. In addition, the Yushi Group has been operating in Elaline over the years, although this group is actually Yan Shao's, Yan Shao is also a little embarrassed to speak, so he can only do his best to make up for it...

Of course, after a few days, Yan Shao, who had done his best, was almost as tired as an old man who was dozens of years old.

At the same time, looking at Yan Shao's appearance, Liang Shiyi and the others, who came over, of course knew very well what was going on, after all, they also had to pay the public grain when they went home.

So, in addition to silently saying it in my heart. "The president has worked hard." They don't have much more to say...

In fact, they are still very envious of Yan Shao's body, after all, Yan Shao is in 1V4, unlike when they face their own yellow-faced woman, even if it is 1V1, they have to go all out...

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Hearing that Yan Shao seemed to nod in agreement, Liang Shiyi and the others were a little excited.

As he said, the people's hearts are available now, and it is not like China in the future. In later generations, China was in a period of war, prices were soaring, the currency was depreciating, and the common people had no money at all, and even if they donated, they couldn't donate much.

But today's China, since the establishment of the Nationalist government in 1913, the domestic situation has been very stable for 5 years, even those bandits who were everywhere have been wiped out by the army, coupled with the growth of domestic industry, prices have stabilized, income has increased...

Now in the hands of the people, there are still a lot of things accumulated in the past five years...

If you launch a donation, in a way, you can still solve the government's problem...

Merely...

Although Yan Shao agreed with Liang Shiyi's construction, he also gave some additions to Liang Shiyi's construction.

"We can't just let the people donate, we also donate ourselves, but we also have to mobilize those businessmen to donate..."Yan Shao thought about it, and seemed to be planning to get up from his seat, but in the end, he had to stay in place because his waist was too tired. Although the lives of the people have improved greatly compared to the past, they are still very difficult in reality, and we need to set an example at this time......... I mention yì, except for the soldiers who are fighting on the front line, all officials within the government, no matter how big or small, must donate, since I am the president..." "Then I'll donate all of today's seventy percent of my salary, of course, you know, I don't care much about this salary..."

On the other hand, hearing Yan Shao's words, Liang Shiyi and the others were a little embarrassed.

Donate, they are not afraid, but Yan Shao has donated seventy, what should they do?

In the past history, these people naturally had extremely rich net worth, but in this era, it was different, because there was such a very capable 'woodpecker' as Song Jiaoren guarding there. Therefore, the domestic government is still very clean, and these ministers may be able to receive some benefits, but in fact, these benefits are very limited.

Their main source of income. It is still the salary given by the government, hundreds or thousands of yuan a month, high salary and incorruptibility, of course, there is not much from corruption, but it is enough to maintain their lives and some daily scenes.

But now that Yan Shao donated seventy percent at once, if they also donated seventy percent. In the future, their lives will be much more difficult.

If nothing else, at least those scenes need to be avoided. And as ministers, they tend to hire a lot of subordinates. In order to save money, even the subordinates have to be dismissed...

Naturally, if there are difficulties, there will also be joyful.

At least that's how Song Jiaoren is...

Although he would have been more opposed to the operation. But since it has already begun. It is equivalent to an arrow without turning back, and there is no other way than to continue, so Song Jiaoren directly stood up and said. "Since the president donated seventy percent, then I will also donate seventy percent..."

followed Song Jiaoren to stand out, and Zhan Tianyou on the side.

Originally, Zhan Tianyou had always been very dissatisfied with Yan Shao, thinking that Yan Shao's attitude on the Dilan Railway was unreasonable, because his relationship had caused great casualties. Of course, many of them were deserving bandits, but many of them were ordinary workers...

And Yan Shao also threatened Zhan Tianyou. If he resigned or delayed the construction of the railway, he would have to find someone who did not care more about the lives of the workers to build the railway, and Zhan Tianyou had no choice but to continue. However, his misunderstanding was completely understood after the military operation against Russia, and he understood the importance of this railway even more...

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It is precisely because he understands the importance of this railway that Zhan Tianyou has changed some of his attitude towards Yan Shao, of course, he has only changed a little, and Zhan Tianyou has always been a little unaccustomed to Yan Shao's practice of not treating human life as human life...

But, at least he can already tolerate it ...

And as a very different engineer, of course, Zhan Tianyou's life is not as frugal as people like Song Jiaoren, but it is also relatively simple, and he doesn't pay much attention to daily expenses―――――― he usually builds railways outside, and there seems to be nothing to spend money on, after all, most of those places are in the ravine, even if you want to find a place to spend money, it is very difficult, just like when you were in Xinjiang, there are busy Gobi everywhere, even if you want to spend money, who can you find to spend money...

However, after looking at Zhan Tianyou and Song Jiaoren who stood up, Yan Shao shook his head and said. "It's not necessary, as I just said, I don't care about this salary, you all know how big my family business is, since I can donate 100 million, naturally I won't care about this money, but you are different, the current government is using high salaries and low-pressure, high-pressure anti-corruption, everyone's life can only rely on this money, daily scenes and expenses are not small, you all donate seventy, what should you do? You can't be allowed to embezzle, can you? So......... I think 5 percent is enough..."

Saying that, Yan Shao glanced at everyone present, and on the other hand, hearing Yan Shao's words, Liang Shiyi and the others also breathed a sigh of relief. Seventy percent, fifty percent, it doesn't seem like a big difference, but at least it's already within an acceptable range...

At least, it's enough for them to live, but the usual scenes and expenses must be borrowed from some.

At the same time, Yan Shao continued. "In addition, the ordinary grassroots life of the government is still relatively difficult, after all, their income is relatively low, donate fifty percent, it is still a little too much for them, so as long as you donate three achievements, in addition, everyone has some circumstances, emergency situations, so if there is any urgent matter in the official's home, you must use money, you can also apply for exemption, of course, this kind of emergency must be very urgent, such as going to travel, and you don't have to take it out if you want to get married or something..."

Hearing Yan Shao say this, everyone present nodded.

Yan Shao's solution is still more reasonable, the higher the government position, the higher the salary, even if a part of it is taken out, there will be nothing, on the contrary, the life of the grassroots will be more difficult, if they are also allowed to take seventy or fifty percent, it is simply fatal, so let them take thirty percent, it is more reasonable.

On the other hand, everyone may encounter an emergency and need some life-saving money, for example, if a family member is seriously ill and needs money to save their lives, at this time you ask the family to donate all the money, which is not the same as asking for someone's life? So we have to leave some leeway, at least, we must not push people into a corner.

Of course, there may be some stingy people who are not willing to donate this money...

So...

"In this case, I have to ask Minister Song..."

"Don't worry." Standing up from his seat, Song Jiaoren looked at Yan Shaoyan and said. "I will definitely supervise well and resolutely prevent this from happening..."

"Hmm..."Yan Shao still trusted Song Jiaoren very much, so he didn't say anything.

And later, after the meeting was adjourned, soon the order was issued throughout the country...

According to the government's latest order, all government officials are required to donate their salaries to support the government's military operations in Russia. Among them, Yan Shao, as the president, will donate 30%, and the ministers and growth will donate

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