Chapter 1081 Buying back the Hankou Concession

Although the United States did not occupy an inch of the Chinese concession, the trade between the United States and China was the largest, and Britain originally had a commodity advantage south of the Yangtze River, but after the reunification of China, the goods in these places were gradually crowded out by American goods and Chinese local goods.

It is precisely the United States that supports Wang Maoru's armed reunification, and even Britain, France, and Japan believe that Wang Maoru is a lackey cultivated by the United States in China. The Americans, however, do not see Wang Maoru as an extremely dangerous nationalist, someone they fear and welcome.

After Zhang Kuian's negotiations with the ambassadors of the three countries, the ambassadors conveyed to their countries the opinion of the Chinese government that China wanted to further deepen relations with the other countries by purchasing the Hankow Concession through Guò -- to recover the concession.

Yes, after China closed the customs, they finally showed their bloody maws and recovered the concessions, which seemed to be expected by everyone but so suddenly, as if the lonely man and widow knew what was about to happen, but the man went straight to the front without doing any foreplay.

was so angry that Britain, France, and Japan were half dead, but at this time they were helpless, and they were said to be for their good. The three countries have their own plans, but they are all for the sake of profit, and for France, which is in dire need of post-war economic recovery, this pandemic has made France even worse. There was constant news of local unrest in the African colonies of France, and the situation in France itself was also very bad, and the workers' unions continued to march in the streets to fight for their rights. Ryan Garais has a head and two large.

Despite the entire European war, the French team lost nearly 1.5 million casualties. The French lost more than 4 million men, but it was a war, and it was a total loss over four years. The French know how to avoid it. They knew that the war would end as long as the Germans were defeated, but the terrible thing about the JVIS virus was that they didn't know when it would end and how to defeat it.

In just 20 days, more than 100,000 people have been killed and nearly a million people have been infected, and this is a war in which no opponent can be seen, and this is a war that does not know when it will be won. Industry, agriculture. Production, life, are threatened by JVIS. The French people, believing this to be the result of the government's inaction, took to the streets to protest under the leadership of the workers' unions. They believe that the French government is not even as good as the measures taken by the Chinese government, which in the ancient East country, at least issued 10 anti-epidemic measures as soon as it felt threatened. It also severely cracks down on domestic businessmen hoarding goods and raising prices without permission.

And France is a capitalist country. The government has no right to interfere in prices, the Republic of China is a centralized bureaucratic capitalist country, and the bureaucratic class can directly intervene in prices, so after Wang Mao ordered that businessmen were not allowed to raise prices privately, the whole country was supervising. Who wouldn't dare? How can France compare? If France copied the big ones, the country would be divided.

Bread can't afford it. Sick and looked down, the economy was sluggish and unemployed, so the French people who had always had a tradition of revolutionary uprisings quit doing it, and even broke out with the French ** police after the end of the European war. Reingarai was even burned to death by the enraged populace.

Now that Lane Carais is one head and two big, when Belgium and Italy actually returned the Chinese concession in exchange for huge benefits, especially Italy, which actually exported submarines, how can the quality of Italy's submarines be comparable to that of France? In exchange for the concession, China actually ordered submarines with Italy, this group of short-sighted Chinese! When Fu Leyou passed China's construction of the Hankow Concession to Lane Carais's table, Line Carais first sneered: "Are the Chinese crazy? But then it immediately occurred to him that this was the conspiracy of the Asian fox again.

The reason why Lane Carlet was able to become the prime minister of France was that his political advocacy was to be tough on Germany, advocating the punishment of Germany after the war, and winning the hearts and minds of the French, but unfortunately the next prime minister's election was about to be held (starting in January 1924), and he couldn't come up with a solution for a while looking at the workers' strike in China because of JVIS.

If the Italians are able to make huge profits from the Chinese, why can't France? France has four concessions in China, the Shanghai Concession is the largest and most populous concession to France and guards the mouth of the Yangtze River, the Tianjin Concession is the concession directly adjacent to Beijing, the political center of China, the Guangzhou Concession is the earliest concession, the closest concession close to Southeast Asia, and the Hankou Concession is not only the smallest in area, the least populous, but also the smallest in function.

China's proposal to buy back the Hankow Concession will not hurt France's interests much, except for a slight loss of face to France.

Ryan Carais thought for a day and decided that if he could quell the domestic discontent, distribute Chinese medicines to the people, and get orders from China for workers to keep working, his next election would be foolproof. So he immediately submitted to the National Assembly a plan to return the Hankow Concession in exchange for Chinese medicines.

The French parliament is dragging its feet and is extremely slow, but because of JVIS, they are all active, and the rich people and parliamentarians in France need China's banlangen powder to fight the virus. Soon, therefore, the French parliament passed the sale of the Hankow Concession to obtain the miraculous Chinese medicine.

On August 23, the French Minister Fu Leyou received instructions from the French government and immediately communicated with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to bargain for the French concession in exchange for medicine and money.

Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang and Vice Minister Gu Weijun were overjoyed, and this was another bow of the heads of the European powers.

The arrogant British, who had the same idea as the French, could not stand it anymore, and in the three days from August 20 to 22, 150,000 people in the British colony of India had a fever and dizziness, suspected of being infected with JVIS flu, and Britain was in a panic. What surprised them even more was that the French neighbors had also succumbed to China, and the pride of the British Empire did not allow such a thing to happen - but with Belgium in the front, France in the back, and Italy in the middle, this was difficult to do.

On August 24, the Japanese government finally broke its silence, and the Japanese cabinet decided to return the Japanese Hankou Concession to China in exchange for 5 million silver dollars and 100 tons of banlangen powder. When Wang Maoru learned about it, he laughed and said that the price was not good, and he could only buy it back for 30 tons of banlangen and 2 million silver dollars, and the Chinese government had no money. After some bargaining, the Hankow Japanese Concession finally traded for 50 tons of banlangen powder and 3 million silver dollars.

After two days of recovering the concession, the British Empire finally found its foot, and in the name of supporting the Chinese government, they hoped to become a friendly country with the Chinese government and sell the Hankow British Concession to China.

Britain finally relented, Wang Maoru sighed, but at the same time he was very angry, his own country's territory had to be bought back with his own money. In later generations, how many overseas Chinese spent money to buy Chinese cultural relics at auctions all over the world and bring them back to the motherland, that is a kind of patriotism, that is a feeling of humiliation, and what a humiliation it is to have their own things snatched away but have to spend money to buy them back.

However, there was no way to redeem the Hankow Concession with medicine and silver dollars, and it was impossible for the Republic of China at this time to forcibly recover the concession and start a war at the same time against the foreign powers. I believe that these countries are very willing to see China once again "declare war on the eight countries at the same time", Wang Maoru is not Cixi, without her fearless courage and blind self-confidence, she can invite heavenly soldiers and generals. On the issue of concessions, the great powers always stood on the same angle, and they could only buy them with money, and break them one by one, turning small victories into big victories.

Humiliation? Isn't it exciting? Upset?

This is the political zhì.

The problem that the Chinese government can solve with money today is not a problem, and the complete recovery of the Hankow Concession is a problem that can be solved with minimal losses.

After all, not all problems can be solved with money, and if the three countries resolutely don't want money, Wang Maoru can't do anything about them. In the future, if China lends money to the United States and becomes a creditor of the United States, the Americans will be good to China? But every qiē shows that the Americans just want to dismember China, let China be in turmoil, civil strife, and no matter how much money China gives them, they will not change their position. This is a problem that money cannot solve, a fundamental problem -- the world is so big, there are Americans who eat, there are no Chinese to eat, and there are Chinese who eat no Americans. How can you solve the life-and-death relationship with money?

Now Wang Maoru has solved the Hankou problem with money, and from now on, there will be no warships of foreign powers in the Yangtze River!

In addition to money and medicines, the Chinese government promised to expand the market and accept more goods from the three countries into China, and China ordered a large number of agricultural machinery from the three countries for domestic agricultural production.

Money is spent, how to earn? Or medicines, is it true that drugs are not sold? Of course it is impossible, under the instruction of Wang Maoru, the CIA and the Ministry of Finance secretly sell drugs at high prices in the international market, and we can provide medicines, but the money must be recovered. One hand gives money to foreigners, and the other hand sells drugs to them at high prices, and earns the money back.

A penny and a pack of Banlan root powder, I will sell you five cents in the ocean, don't you be too expensive, don't you see that the blood of 16,000 people has not been cleaned? I'm working on the crime of killing my head, who will do it if it's cheap? In fact, the Chinese government only took out a third of the money to secretly sell drugs in the international market, and did not cause much damage to the country. Wang Maoru was very happy to be able to pit Britain, France and Japan once in terms of drug price difference.