When Yasuya Uchida and his entourage were negotiating with the Chinese government on the concession, the Chinese government suddenly recovered the Chinese customs, and this news soon made Yasuya Uchida and others feel that the situation was not good, and after the customs were restored, the trade between China and Japan would be greatly reversed, and it would no longer be what the Japanese wanted to sell. In the past, the customs were in the hands of the Bank of the Four Nations, and Japan only had to share with other powers how much of the spoils were dumped into China, but now Japan needs to consider the attitude of the Chinese government, and it is precisely the Chinese government that Wang Maoru is in power at this time. Nationalist Wang Maoru Although Japan has warships and artillery, China after reunification is not something that Japan can fight if it wants.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan could rely on China's special situation, the minority rule of the majority of the ethnic group, the shortcomings of the national cohesion in the country like a plate of scattered sand, to win the war, but now the majority of the ethnic group has become the government's leading role, and another war will be fought? Yasuya Uchida, who was born in the political family, would never allow such a war to occur, this was a war to destroy the country.

After China partially opened its customs, it was the only country that did not open up to Japan's commercial trade, and the reason for this was that China's appetite was too good and its mouth was too big, and it wanted to recover all the concessions in one go, and used trade as a means of threat. At the same time, China is not ready to tear its face with Japan, but only takes advantage of the current outbreak of the flu in Japan to take the opportunity to make a fierce left hook. At this time, the Japanese government was not in power by the Japanese military, but by the political friendship association, which was governed by a party, and they were under tremendous pressure from the military conservatives. The regent, Hirohito, gradually assumed power in the balance between the military and the political parties, and the previous time it was returned to the Japanese concession in Hankow, China. Hirohito has been under great pressure from public opinion, and there has even been a turmoil in which the people have threatened to recommend Hirohito's younger brother Yonghito, while political parties such as the Political Friends Association have ambiguous attitudes. The political party does not mind who becomes the emperor, as long as it can maintain the party's political power. As a result, the military that supported Hirohito received more support from the regent, and behind this, the acting prime minister, including Yasuya Uchida, who came from the political friendship association, was actually under great pressure.

In order to break the ice in the negotiations, Wang Maoru proposed to Yasuya Uchida a proposal for the return of the concession, saying that it would be better for us to return it in parts. The initial plan between the Chinese and Japanese governments was to return the Chongqing Japanese Concession (12th year of the Republic of China) and the Suzhou Japanese Concession (14th year of the Republic of China) to China within 12 years. Hangzhou Japanese Concession (16th year of the Republic of China), Tianjin Japanese Concession (18th year of the Republic of China), Qingdao (20th year of the Republic of China), Dalian Lushun (22nd year of the Republic of China). Taiwan (24th year of the Republic of China).

Wang Maoru said to Uchida: "Between China and Japan is just a matter of face. Japan does not give face to China, China cannot give an account to its people, and it cannot completely open its arms to Japanese commerce and open customs. If China does not give face to Japan, the Japanese government will be under tremendous pressure from the military conservatives. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds if we each took a step back and put off the problem? The twelve-year covenant opened the market of both parties. It scared both sides out of the way. ”

Wang Maoru's construction was originally not considered by Uchida, and Wang Maoru did not just reach out to Qingdao. It is not reasonable for Japan to demand Taiwan from Japan even more -- but Uchida himself knows that he will have to pay a certain price to open up the Chinese market this time, and he is ready to lose the four concessions. Suddenly, Wang Maoru proposed to return it one by one, which also gave him an important enlightenment: if he could coax the Chinese government to open the Japanese market and at the lowest cost, why not?

In order to show sincerity, Japan first returned the Japanese concession in Chongqing and the Japanese concession in Suzhou, that is, this year it can hand over the administrative, law enforcement and taxation powers of the two concessions to the Chinese government, and three years later, that is, in the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, it will return the Japanese concession of Hangzhou in China, the Japanese concession in Tianjin, the Japanese concession in Tianjin in the eighteenth year of the Republic of China, the Qingdao in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, and the Dalian Lushun in the thirty-th year of the Republic of China. In the 32nd year of the Republic of China, it was returned to Taiwan.

Wang Maoru immediately understood what Uchida Yasuya meant, Uchida Yasuya was ready to use the smallest loss, wait for Japan to restore its national strength, and then tear up the Sino-Japanese concession and return the agreement, 20 years later, Uchida Yasuya would have long been an ancient, and then the Japanese government could immediately tear up the treaty and resolutely refuse to return it. Wang Maoru calculated in his heart that although Japan and China are not far apart in national strength, Japan has a small number of citizens and a small amount of land, so it has invested all its funds in modernization, and its investment intensity and development speed are eight times that of China. The Chinese population has a large population and vast land, and although the number of development may exceed that of Japan in three or two years, most of it is used for infrastructure construction, and the gap between China and Japan will widen.

If China wants to close the gap with Japan, it must sacrifice one thing: democracy. It is necessary to adopt the methods of planned economy and collective production to increase GDP simply and crudely, and the collective production system in Soviet Russia, despite its drawbacks that go against the inevitable laws of history, has no doubt about its role in infrastructure construction. And for a country like China, which has been centralized since ancient times, it is even more accustomed to the collectivist system.

Wang Maoru has made up his mind to develop the foundation, heavy industry, military industry, and chemical industry in the form of a planned economy, and to develop light industry, financial trade, and non-governmental trade in the form of a free economy.

Now that Uchida Yasuya has made concessions, it is still necessary for the negotiations to continue, which does not prevent Wang Maoru's national development plan, and 12 or 20 years is just an excuse that there will be a war between China and Japan.

Wang Maoru responded to Yasuya Uchida with a smile: "It seems that there is no problem in returning 20 years, and there is no need to rush this year, why don't you return the Japanese concessions of Chongqing, Suzhou and Hangzhou to us on May 1 next year, and the rest will be according to your plan, how about 20 years?" We give you half a year to get used to your businessmen and if some businessmen want to move out, we give you a wide range of time to prepare. ”

After consulting with his staff team, Yasuya Uchida thought that this time was very good, and then sent a telegram to the country, and after the Saionji cabinet agreed, he believed that Uchida had bought the Japanese military twenty years, but in fact it did not need twenty years, but only ten years, and the Japanese army and navy would be ten times more than China, so they accepted this rule.

The next negotiation was an agreement on the amount, and Wang Maoru, the Chinese representative, proposed that since the three places would be returned next year, they would pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, and we would give them all your requests -- next year.

Yasuya Uchida was so angry that he was tricked by Wang Maoru, are you walking monkeys? "The situation in our country is very complicated right now, and we need medicine and money right now," he said angrily. ”

Wang Maoru said loudly: "Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, you won't think that there is a problem with the trade standards of merchants since ancient times." Yasuya Uchida was about to refute, but Wang Maoru suddenly said: "Actually, this is all mutual distrust caused by past grievances such as the First Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan, and I can't promise you that the people will overthrow me from power." In this way, I will put forward an opinion and a solution, or we will deliver it on May 1 next year, and you will hand over all of our four concessions, including the Tianjin Japanese concession. And you will temporarily put the four concessions in the hands of the Germans, with the Germans as supervisors and custodians. How about we take over from the Germans on May 1 next year? ”

Yasuya Uchida sneered: "Concessions everywhere? ”

"Yes."

"Impossible." Only then did Uchida Yasuya react, Wang Maoru went around three times and two times, and finally returned the four concessions back to the Chinese government, and the Japanese think tank was not a fool, naturally disagreed, this is the hole card in their hands, and it must not be eaten by the Chinese at once.

If one plan fails, Wang Maoru knows that little Japan is eager to open up the Chinese market, and uses the Chinese market as a springboard to expand the markets of other countries. He got the hole cards of the Japanese, but the Japanese didn't get his hole cards, so he was not in a hurry, and it was just a day to drag it out. (To be continued......)