Negotiating with Japan to recover the territories of the four concessions made Britain and France extremely nervous. Both countries were great powers, and there was no need to rush to trade with China, except for the "friendly" sale of the Hankow concession to China, which, on the contrary, increased the types of goods embargoed for the purpose of protecting their own industries. At the same time, the two countries are in no hurry to return the concession to China, they need more benefits.

Wang Maoru naturally also knew the situation of Britain and France, they were big countries, they were victors in the European war, and they were not hit by earthquakes, it was just a flu, and it was over, so he did not send people to negotiate with Britain and France.

However, the earthquake in Japanese politics still affected Sino-Japanese relations, and the Japanese military and right-wing groups clamored for the treaty to be torn up and the Chinese in Japan to be expelled. But Japanese businessmen and the right-wingers, on the contrary, need the Chinese market.

On October 8, China Customs announced the partial lifting of the embargo on goods from Japan, including steel materials, machinery, silk, cotton and linen products, and shipbuilding. Japan has also announced the lifting of the ban on pharmaceutical, food, mineral and wood materials in China.

China and Japan have made a step back from each other in harmony and disagreement, which can be regarded as a big step forward in "Sino-Japanese friendship", and with the lifting of China's embargo on Japan, some countries have also begun to announce the lifting of the ban on some Japanese goods. However, Japan's export industry is mainly concentrated in silk and cotton and linen products, which are not included in the list of other countries to lift the ban, but it has little effect on Japan's economic recovery.

Since the beginning of the Republic of China, Japan has become the world's largest silk producer, and the country has formulated a silk strategy to carry out a monopolistic planned economy. China's silk industry is in the hands of more than a dozen single-handedly families, and the intrigue between each other makes China's silk industry gradually suppressed by the Japanese silk industry, at this time Japan's silk products are far superior to China in terms of quality and quantity.

Wang Maoru then sent Zhou Qitong, acting vice minister of industry and commerce, to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hui and Jiangxi provinces to serve as the silk industry investigation commissioner. Specifically for the investigation and management of China's silk industry can not beat the Japanese silk industry, and asked Zhou Qitong to become a Chinese silk industry trade union, the cultivation of silkworm pupa, the collection of silkworm cocoons, silk reeling processing, silk sales, product positioning and pricing. Zhou Qitong was originally a son of the Suzhou silk family recommended by Zhang Jian, and returned to China to take over the family business after studying abroad, but because he was chased by Japanese silk reeling merchants, he had to turn to Zhang Jian, the governor of Jiangsu Province, for help. After Zhang Jian remembered the inquiry, he recommended it to Wang Maoru. It has always been inconspicuous in the civil official system under Wang Maoru, but because Wang Maoru intends to sort out the silk, cotton and linen industry this time, it has been reused.

On the occasion of the Double Tenth Festival on October 10, the twelfth year of the Republic of China, the Ministry of Health of China conducted statistics. There are only 100 new suspected cases of JVIS cold virus in China, and China has successfully controlled the spread of JVIS by means of iron and blood.

After consulting with members of the State Cabinet, Health Minister Ong Moh Ru thought it was time to announce the victory of the second phase of the anti-epidemic battle to the people. We are about to enter the third phase of the battle against the epidemic. Wrapping up the work. The time is coming to completely eradicate the JVIS virus flu.

After all, if the war against the epidemic continues, the national economy really can't afford it, and the planned 100 million silver dollars have been increased to 130 million.

Subsequently, the Minister of Health, Wang Maoru, announced to the Chinese people through newspapers and radio that the second phase of the Republic of China's anti-epidemic war had won a great victory, and the most ferocious wave of virus invasion had been stopped. From August 7, when JVIS was discovered in China, to October 7, 12,218 Chinese died from the JVIS influenza virus. 290879 people have recovered from the infection, and the high-risk provinces include Liaoning, Zhili, Shandong, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Therefore, after the victory of the first and second phases of the battle against the epidemic. The above five provinces continue to implement the anti-epidemic isolation policy, and the rest of the provinces are all open and closed. Subsequently, under the construction of the think tank, Liaoning Province and Zhili Province, where the temperature has dropped to about zero degrees, also announced the cancellation of the quarantine policy.

The temperature in Zhili is a little strange and falls very fast, just into October soon after but suddenly heavy snowfall, according to the seasonal solar terms over the years, this time should be just an autumn rain and a cold, but I don't want early winter to come. The drop in temperature will help eliminate the chance of the virus from being infected, which is why Wang Maoru proposed the third phase of the anti-epidemic war.

There should not be such heavy snow in Zhili in October, and a little rain and hail are common, so the peasants in North China began to rush to harvest grain. The Chinese government placed an order with the Japanese government to import 200 small tractors, which was also the first time that the Chinese government placed an order directly with a Japanese company.

At this time, in the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Peifu, chief of staff of the General Staff, briefed Wang Maoru on the post-disaster materials collected by the Military Intelligence Department in Japan, as well as the information on Japan's armaments in active service. The Japanese Navy was unaffected by the flu and the earthquake, with only five small destroyers damaged in Tokyo Bay, one supply ship silent, and two Navy warships being repaired at the Yokohama Shipyard injured and now forced to pull down the Nagasaki Shipyard with tugboats for a second repair. Generally speaking, the Japanese Navy is still the first in Asia and the third in the world. The Japanese Army suffered a little damage in this disaster, especially after the earthquake, the virus and the plague were hybridized, many of the Japanese Army soldiers involved in the rescue were infected, of course, more police, firefighters and volunteers died, and Japan's two divisions in Eastern Siberia took the opportunity to rest, and Japan's plan to send two more divisions to Eastern Siberia had to be suspended. In the midst of this catastrophe, Japan's economy, which suffered the most severe losses, was as high as one billion yen, and the first thing Gonbei Yamamoto, who was born as Minister of the Navy, as Prime Minister took office, was how to persuade the naval admirals from the Satsuma clan to accept the reduction of the naval budget.

It will take at least three years for Japan to rebuild Tokyo and restore it to the way it was before the 1923 earthquake, and it will take at least five years for Japan's domestic economy to recover. It can be said that if Japan had not taken other means to plunder foreign countries and had relied solely on Japan's own hematopoiesis to recover, Japan would not have been able to bear such losses -- in order to restore its domestic economy as much as possible in history, and at the same time to cope with the world economic crisis, Japan brazenly launched the September 18 Incident to invade Northeast China and transferred its domestic contradictions to foreign countries. In the current time and space, Wang Maoru categorically will not allow the new 918 to happen, only we will fight Japan, where will it be Japan's turn to fight us.

After his analysis, Wu Peifu believed that Japan would not be able to enter China within three years, and that they needed time to recuperate, and that China could develop with confidence for three years and carry out drastic reforms of China's modern army within these three years. Wu Peifu still thinks that China's army reform is too slow, and this last conference room he proposed in the same pace. After thinking about it, Wang Maoru believes that it is necessary to fight steadily and steadily, and that Japan's losses from the disaster are also severe, and that China's losses from the disaster are also very serious, and next year not only Japan will have to cut its military spending, but the Chinese government will also need to cut the budget of the military department.

Wu Peifu was surprised: "Army reform is imminent, and cutting the military budget will only bring the army reform to a standstill." ”

Wang Maoru smiled bitterly: "No money, no money." Last year, the fiscal revenue and the opening support were equalized, and this year it should be a fiscal deficit, so how can it continue to invest at such a time? The reform of the army should first be tried in the Beijing-Tianjin Military Region. ”

"Yes." Wu Peifu said.

Wu Peifu is arrogant because his army is invincible in history, plus he was born as a scholar, and scholars have a stubborn temper, but in the face of Wang Maoru, he can only occasionally protest and protest, first, Wang Maoru's army defeated his army, second, Wang Maoru's evaluation is higher than him in all aspects, and third, Wang Maoru does have the ability to convince him. It's just that this Wu Peifu is not in the eyes of anyone except Wang Maoru, especially when he holds the post of chief of staff as a foreign general, and the generals only obey him because of their military positions, and do not obey him. On the contrary, the voice of Ren Yuanxing, the deputy chief of staff, in the staff is more important, and the generals and men are more respectful of Ren Yuanxing.

Wu Peifu admires Ren Yuanxing's ability, but he always feels that Ren Yuanxing is as cunning as Wang Maoru, and he can't go with him, and he always feels uncomfortable getting along, especially when the soldiers of the Ministry of Defense look at him and Ren Yuanxing differently, they listen to him and admire Ren Yuanxing.

After Wu Peifu made an assessment report on Japan, Jiang Fangzhen began to make a report on foreign strategy, which was consistent with Wu Peifu's assessment, the world economy will languish for a while after this change, and all governments will inevitably enter the era of fiscal deficits, unless they gamble to plunder outward. It is estimated that no country will take action against China in three years, including Japan, Britain, France, and Soviet Russia. After visiting Saltu, Jiang Fangzhen believed that the Army Aviation should be renamed the Air Force and vigorously developed, especially the development of bombers; if a war broke out between China and Japan, first, Chinese bombers could bomb the Japanese fleet, and second, long-range bombers could fly directly to Japan to bomb. Jiang Fangzhen believed that many of Japan's facilities were made of wood, and that if Japan wanted to drop bombs, it would not be effective, but if Japan wanted to drop enough incendiary bombs, Japan would not be able to accept huge losses and declare an armistice.

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Brother Baili went to Saltu once, and his strategic thinking has changed a lot. ”

Jiang Fangzhen said with a smile: "Live to learn from the past, before Saltu, I always thought that the Air Force was only a strategy and reconnaissance, but now I and many staff officers in the General Staff Department believe that the Air Force should become an independent branch of the army." ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said, "When the new government is established, both the Ministry of the Air Force and the Ministry of the Navy will be established. ”

Jiang Fangzhen was thoughtful, Wang Maoru's words have a very meaning, the new government ...... Will the national elections, which were terminated due to the JVIS flu, start to be held again? Then Wang Maoru is ready to start going to the military now.