Subsequently, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun put forward to the Belgian Ambassador to China Lorne's shocking conditions, that China was willing to save Belgium and the Belgians, and provided Belgium with 10 tons of Banlangen Powder and 10 tons of ancient Chinese formulas that may be allowed to treat the super influenza virus JVIS in the experimental stage, and redeemed the Belgian Tianjin Concession to Belgium at a price of 2 million silver dollars.

If the idea of redeeming the concession is accepted, Sino-foreign relations will inevitably have a new orientation, and China's aggressiveness is precisely based on the change of Sino-foreign positioning starting from Belgium. China cannot become a foreign colony and semi-colony forever, and only by cutting off all the chains of interests of these foreigners and allowing them to do business legally can we truly achieve national independence.

After deliberations with the State Council, Premier Tang Shaoyi authorized Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun to handle the matter of exchanging drugs for concessions.

Gu Weijun said to Belgian Ambassador Lorne: "The Belgian concession in China has nothing to do with Belgian national interests, the concession is located in the most remote place in Tianjin, and it is also the most backward place among the nine concessions, and its area is also the smallest. However, we will not rescue for free, these water, electricity, coal, food require a large amount of money supply. And now that prices are soaring in China, I don't know how much more money I can afford than my countrymen. I would like to mention that Belgium should consider returning the Belgian concession to China, and that the Belgians will receive free assistance from our government. Moreover, Belgium's interests in China will not be affected, and we will take back the management and legal rights of the concession. If Belgium considers it, our country will redeem it with ten tons of banlangen powder and Dayuan drink powder. Today, the price of 10 tonnes of Banlangen and 10 tonnes of Dayuan is equivalent to £1 million on the international black market, and I think the Belgian government and the past should know how good this condition is. I would be grateful if you would like to convey to you that we have only three days. Because it is difficult to guarantee that these 10 tons of Banlangen Powder and 10 tons of Dayuan Drink will not be sold to other countries because of the price increase. ”

"It is not yet known whether the Banlan Root Powder and Dayuan Drink have any effect." Lorne sneered, "Maybe you sold the garbage to my country, in my opinion, Chinese medicine is witchcraft." Traditional Chinese medicine is a witchcraft medicine. ”

Gu Weijun laughed and said, "But why do medicinal herb dealers from all over the world come to China to buy them?" If you don't want it, we'll sell it to the English merchants, who I think will be willing to buy witchcraft medicine even if it doesn't work. ”

"You're blackmailing." Lorne growled.

In the face of the anger of the Belgian minister, Gu Weijun smiled indifferently and said: "One ran to my house and smashed a qiē in my house." Took away our pots. Now that the robber who ran into my house is sick, and I want to redeem my pot with the medicine and money that healed him, am I a robber? ”

Lorne was speechless after being deared, and immediately called King Albert I of Belgium, and after some communication, Albert I submitted an emergency plan to the Belgian Parliament. Since Belgium is a kingdom and the country is relatively small, the power of the Belgian king is more than that of the parliament, and he can intervene in the parliament. After Albert I considered it for several hours, he believed that Belgian interests were in the colonies with the Congo in Africa, and that guaranteeing Belgian interests in the Congo was far more important than a few hundred acres of concessions in China. Subsequently, Albert I made a decision jointly with the Congress. Abandonment of the Belgian concession in China, namely the Belgian Tianjin Concession.

The origin of the Belgian concession in China was that on February 6, 1902, Zhang Lianfen, the Tianjin Daotai of the Qing government, signed the "Tianjin Belgian Concession Contract" with the acting consul of Belgium in Tianjin. The location is in the south of the Russian concession, between the Haihe River and Dazhigu Village, until Xiaosunzhuang, with an area of 740 acres. At the same time, it was also stipulated that if commerce prospered in the Belgian concession in the future, a passage from the Belgian concession to the Jingshan Railway could be opened as a preparatory concession for the Belgian concession. This land may not be sold to other countries.

However, because the Russian concession has been recovered by the Chinese government, the Belgian concession is "isolated overseas", and there is no development value in the Belgian concession, and even the Chinese people living in the Belgian concession feel bored, and businessmen are scarce. Only one of the Browning Arms Company's agent sales outlets is still frequented.

The news of China's redemption of the Belgian Chinese Concession quickly spread in China and around the world, and the Chinese government's use of Banlangen Powder to redeem the land was indeed a precedent for the whole world. Because Belgium does not have many interests in China, it can even be said that Belgium does not need any Belgian goods except for ceramics and silk purchased in China - except for Browning pistols, but Chinese workers can already produce their own pistols, and Chinese weapons models and specifications are regulated, and Browning pistols are only collected by a few enthusiasts. Belgian interests in China will not be damaged by the return of the concession, but because Belgium has returned the concession, the Chinese government has promised to give more benefits to Belgian businessmen in terms of tariffs in the future.

At present, US Ambassador Schulman, British Ambassador Maclet, French Ambassador Frank Fried, Japanese Ambassador Isaburo Yoshida, and Italian Ambassador to China Folendino immediately went to the Belgian Embassy in China to exhort Belgian Ambassador Lorne not to destroy the chain of interests of foreigners in China, because once the Belgian concession is redeemed by China, it will inevitably increase the ambition of the Chinese government. The others are not stupid, and it is natural to see that the purpose of this redemption of the Belgian concession is to other concessions. In particular, Japan is extremely nervous, and although the Japanese concession in China is not the largest, it is the largest in area, and the Chinese are the most severely suppressed.

Izaburo Yoshida said: "If the Kingdom of Belgium cannot withstand the threat of the Chinese government, Belgium will have no place in the world in the future, and the prestige of Belgium's colonies in Africa will also be seriously threatened. ”

On 15 August, more than 4,000 people in Belgium were found to have symptoms such as colds, coughs, and fevers, and about 200 people over the age of 60 died in less than three days. King Albert I immediately ordered Lorne to ignore the other countries and to sign a concession agreement on our own to solve the problems in Belgium.

Wang Maoru also knew that the Kingdom of Belgium was under tremendous psychological pressure, and then increased his chips to Lorne, increasing the ten tons of Banlan Root Powder to forty tons, and the original drink from ten tons to twenty tons and increasing it to three million silver dollars for ransom. Lorne received enough benefits to immediately sign the "Sino-Belgian Tianjin Concession Redemption Agreement" with the Chinese government.

The Sino-Belgian Agreement includes the return of the rights of the Belgian Tianjin Concession to the Chinese government, and even the extraterritoriality of Belgian nationals in China. The Kingdom of Belgium's renunciation of extraterritoriality caused further dissatisfaction among other countries, and King George V of England sent a telegram directly to his distant uncle, King Albert I of Belgium, stating his interests, but Albert I rejected George V's proposal on the grounds that the Belgian state was more important.

The Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China placed a commercial order with the Kingdom of Belgium to purchase Browning pistols from the Belgian Browning Arsenal with an order of not less than 10,000 per year, the standard size of which is specified by the Chinese National Defense Forces, and at the same time the order is a ten-year order, that is, from 1923 to 1933, the Chinese Defense Forces will purchase no less than 100,000 Browning pistols with a caliber of 7.63 mm from Belgium. The Browning Company also set up a special pistol for China, and decided that the Browning pistol model was the BC1923 pistol, which was specially used by officers of the Chinese National Defense Forces. B is the initials of Belgian German, C is the initials of Chinese German (Belgium is a German-speaking country), and the cooperation agreement between China and Belgium in 1923 was signed in 1923, hence the name.

Although the Browning pistols sold for twenty-five silver dollars each more than the German Mauser pistol, the purpose of the business was to give Belgium a profit in exchange for extraterritoriality, a qiē that was the beginning. Being able to open the chains between the alliances of the great powers and destroy their iron chains, Wang Maoru thinks that this is worth the effort, not to mention that the Wehrmacht can afford it, even if the Wehrmacht can't afford it, he will personally pay this money. (To be continued......)