MacDonald's conditions were very demanding, such as the requirements of the entire court. Thirty years of prospecting and mining rights on the Xian Peninsula. During this time they were in the court. Japan must provide them with national treatment and allow them to compete on a level playing field with Japanese companies.

However, fair competition is the most beneficial thing for monopoly big capital, and there is no monopoly big capital in this world that does not like fair competition. Because they always win big in such a level playing field. Because no matter in terms of capital, technology or all aspects of the market, small capital cannot compete with large capital. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan went through the years of internal oppression and foreign plunder, relying on starving Japanese peasants to death, making Japanese women all over the world as prostitutes, making the Qing state lose all its treasury, dumping goods to the Qing country, and also produced some monopoly capital. However, the so-called "monopoly big capital" is just the monopoly big capital in Japan, and it is just a monkey that dominates behind closed doors, and if it is taken to the world and let them compete fairly with those world big capital, it will be like asking a child to go to a 100-meter race with Bolt, and the result is self-evident.

When the Qing Dynasty was engaged in the Westernization Movement, it built the largest iron and steel enterprise in Asia, the Hanyang Iron Works. However, almost since the establishment of this steel plant, it has continued to lose money year after year, and the scale, technology, and so on, let alone continue to expand to the "golden decade" of the Republic of China, probably because it did not produce gold, it simply went out of business. Of course, there are some internal corruption reasons for this, but the most fundamental reason is that we must face the competition of international monopoly capital without protection. Relying on larger scale, better technology, and better iron ore, the landed price of steel produced by international capital is even lower than the cost price of Hanyang Iron Works. Of course, theoretically, Hanyang Iron Works can reduce costs and prices, but even so, it is completely impossible for it to be a rival to big international capital.

Therefore, the development of industries in backward countries almost all requires a considerable period of high tariff protection, and giving up this and giving the country's big capital a fair chance to compete is almost no different from suicide. In order to get the fish to swim, it might be okay to put a small catfish in it, and it would be a silly hat to put a big shark in it.

When Takahashi telegraphed MacDonald's opinion to China, Japan quickly replied: higher interest rates could be agreed, but the market must not be open to American companies. It is said that some big domestic businessmen, such as Mitsui and so on, directly said: Who is our locust army fighting for, is it fighting for the Americans? Besides, can't the locust army fight because of the poisonous gas of the opponent? Is that still a brave and fearless army of locusts? The Great Japanese Locust Army should never be afraid of poison gas and death, even if it is piled up with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, it will definitely win the victory, and it must not agree to such a condition of losing power and humiliating the country! Anyway, the Japanese are not worth much, and the cost of requisitioning a conscription is only a stamp!

After getting a reply from home, Takahashi found Paul again.

"Mr. Paul, on the advice of the Pilgrim. It is difficult for us to accept the requirement that we rarely have full prospecting and mining rights. Because, if we accept such conditions, we will have the opportunity to fight for your company, not Japan. So I hope you can put forward some conditions that are a little more sincere. Takahashi said this to Paul.

"To be honest, we think that if you are given enough money, your country will still have a chance to defeat Russia." Paul said, "But even if you defeat Russia, it will be difficult for you to receive a large indemnity as you did for the defeat of the Manchus." At that time, the British Empire plus France, the world's top two powers, joined forces and invested so much strength in the Crimean War, the number of Russian troops killed in the war was as high as more than 200,000, and the most important land was captured by the coalition forces. Even under such circumstances, the British and French failed to get the Russians to pay reparations. At most, it is to admit that the disputed areas of the past no longer exist in the zài dispute. So with the strength of your country, how can you get the result of making Russia cede land and pay reparations? ”

With that, he raised his eyes and glanced at Takahashi again, and he noticed that Takahashi's mouth moved, as if he wanted to say something, but held back. So he just smiled slightly, and continued to speak:

"After such a war, your country has not been able to get reparations, and you have to bear a huge debt and high interest rates, and under such circumstances, it will be difficult for your country to come up with money to develop the newly controlled area. Your country will enter a vicious circle, won't it? So personally, I don't think it's a good decision. ”

"But it's true that our domestic companies can't compete with a rival like MacDonald. So, it's really hard for us to agree to such conditions. If you insist, we can only borrow usury from others. Takahashi said firmly.

"That's a shame." Paul said, "Let's take a step back." ”

"What do you think?" Takahashi immediately asked. He knew that MacDonald must have done a lot of work in this war, and they would definitely not let go. If, as he estimated, there is still a way.

"We can promise not to be in the DPRK. Fresh coking coal and iron ore are mined, and you are actually worried that our mines will overwhelm your original iron and iron mines? In addition, we can also promise not to be in Japan as well as North Korea. Fresh domestic sale from the DPRK. Freshly mined ore. In return, we need you to raise the interest rate on the loan to us by 0.5 percentage points, and ask for permission to build a terminal in Incheon dedicated to transporting ore and mining machinery and other items, and of course you can send someone to supervise the terminal and we will guarantee that the terminal will not be used for any purpose other than that stipulated in the regulations. What do you think? ”

Takahashi thought about it, he knew that MacDonald must have taken a fancy to Asah. Fresh all kinds of non-ferrous metals. Japanese in Korea. There are few explorations that have been known towards. There are few non-ferrous metal resources. However, compared with steel, the market for non-ferrous metals is much smaller, of course, copper, gold, and silver are still very important. However, these three things are in the chao. It seems that the reserves of fresh are still limited, and as for the rest, first, the market is limited, and second, Japan still lacks the technology to mine and smelt these things. Therefore, Takahashi feels that MacDonald's request is not impossible to consider. However, such a thing was not for him to decide, so he stood up and said:

"I can convey this to the Imperial Government."

"Alright, I'll hear back from you." Paul replied with a smile as well.

That afternoon, Takahashi came to the door again and said that he had been authorized to sign the loan agreement with MacDonald's representative immediately.

"Plus, I have a personal request." Takahashi said, "A friend of mine in the business world wants to be able to purchase a pesticide factory from you. ”

"Is this part of the agreement?" Paul asked.

"No, it's not part of the agreement, it's just mentioned in passing." Takahashi said.

"I can help you communicate that intention, but I can't guarantee the outcome." Paul replied.

"I'll leave it all to you."

……

The next day, the two sides officially signed a contract on behalf of the two parties. In the contract for the sale of Japanese government bonds, the European branch of MacDonald Venture Capital Bank purchased as much as 150 million yen of Japanese government bonds at an interest rate of 6.5 percent. The deal immediately restored confidence in JGBs......

In fact, the money from MacDonald Ventures never entered the hands of the Japanese for even a second, because it immediately became a large number of orders: gas masks, weapons and ammunition, all kinds of food, in short, the money from MacDonald Ventures Bank was just a change in the account.

A week later, the Japanese troops, who had obtained the first batch of gas masks, regained their morale and began to continue their attack on Lushun, but Nogi Noshinori's attack on Lushun still did not improve much, and there were many deaths. The above had to send the chief of staff, Kodama Gentaro, to assist the brave military god Nogi Noshinori, in fact, temporarily depriving him of command. As a result, under the command of Gentaro Kodama and the support of 280 mm special concrete blasting shells purchased from the United States at a high price, the Japanese army finally conquered the crucial 203 Heights outside Arthur. The whole situation of the war once again turned in Japan's favor.

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"Greystone, you've done a good job this time. Immediately organize people to start in the pilgrimage. Meticulous mineral exploration is seldom carried out. Based on the information we've had so far. Scrooge replied.

"Daddy, Chao. Is it true that there are so many tungsten ores as the intelligence says? Gladstone asked.

"Yes, that information is quite reliable." Scrooge replied.

As a traverser, Scrooge certainly knew that the dynasty. Although the reserves of fresh tungsten ore are not as large as those in China, they can also rank seventh in the world according to the reserve ranking. Of course, there is no way to compare with China in terms of reserves, or even with Jiangxi, but there is one point, that is, the DPRK. Fresh tungsten ore is located closer to the sea, making it easier to transport.

"In addition to tungsten ore, there is also molybdenum ore, as well as magnesite and fluorite." Greystone continued to look at the information, "We have a lot of molybdenum ore in the United States, but if you want to smelt high-quality steel, it is not easy without this. At the beginning, we spent a lot of effort to control most of the molybdenum mines in the United States. There is also a dynasty in the entire Japanese control area. There are few molybdenum mines, but they don't seem to have found them yet. We controlled it, and for at least a few decades, the Japanese had to import high-grade steel from us when they needed it......"