With such a big loss, Nikolai must be unwilling, before France was about to die, at that time he had no other choice but to admit it, but now that France has turned the corner, and the British are also going all out, then of course he has to work hard. But now Russia really has no money, all their gold has gone to China, millions of Russian troops almost all set of Chinese-made weapons, chariots, artillery, machine guns and even soldiers' military uniforms eat canned food are all Chinese goods, dead cats and rotten dogs in the garbage heap and even toads left after beating toads are used by those black-hearted businessmen to make luncheon meat and feed gray livestock.

At this time, the blood of Russia was really sucked dry by China, otherwise Nikolai would not have been forced to send his wife to Yang Feng's bed in exchange for a loan, although the Russians don't care about this little thing, but it will not be good in the international community for a long time.

In this way, in order for the blood of Russia to continue to flow, Yang Feng had no choice but to reluctantly pull him.

Nikolai did not hesitate for too long, and said that the Japanese colonies were indeed as Yang Feng said, not only did they have no value to him, but they had a cumbersome taste, and the capture of Aomori and Sapporo was originally used as a fortress for the Pacific Fleet, but now the brain let the donkey kick and put the base there, don't you see that even the British are far away from China.

Now the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet is in Manila, and the Japanese colony has only a few old steam-powered warships, but in order to prevent the Japanese from retaking Aomori, he has to keep nearly 100,000 troops there at all times, and the waste of this force is simply intolerable.

Since Yang Feng wants to, then push the boat down the river to do personal favors.

Of course, it can't be given directly to China, it must be sold to China by sale, the price doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how much, anyway, he has to borrow a billion Chinese dollars from Yang Feng, so China and Russia are in Beijing under the personal auspices of Emperor Yang and the Russian Empress. The treaty was duly signed. Russia sold to China the Hokkaido and the South Kuril Islands, which Japan ceded to Russia during the Russo-Japanese War, and sold the lease rights for the remainder of the Aomori lease for a total of 10 million Chinese dollars.

As for the loan, it is very simple, first of all, this is a Huayuan loan, such a loan must not be gold, although the Huayuan is the gold standard, but China has banned gold from leaving the country at this time, even the People's Bank of China must abide by the law. Therefore, this money is nothing more than the People's Bank of China to open a new account with the Russian Ministry of Finance, and then sign the account with the figure of one billion Chinese dollars. As for the rest, it's the work of the printing house. This loan is to be used to buy materials in China, and it is nothing more than the People's Bank of China printing one billion yuan of banknotes and then paying these banknotes to Chinese businessmen who sell materials to Russia, considering that most of these businessmen deposit their money, and a large part of the orders of the People's Bank of China are also from the Yang consortium, in fact, in the end, the People's Bank of China does not even need to print one billion yuan, and it is estimated that it does not even need 100 million.

Although the loan was secret, the fact that Russia had sold the Japanese colonies, which could not have been kept secret, soon became semi-public, caused a great sensation in the world. While feeling Emperor Yang's deep affection for Empress Alexandra, all parties couldn't help but start to guess the meaning of this, one billion Chinese dollars, if converted according to the gold standard. This is equivalent to Emperor Yang taking out 300 tons of gold for him, an old Qing man, at one time, and such a large amount of money is definitely earth-shattering.

Of course, they didn't know that in the end, Emperor Yang actually printed less than 100 million Chinese dollars.

Such a big deal must not be considered from the perspective of his friendship with Queen Alexandra alone, but anyone with a little brain knows that the little bed movement between the couple and the wife is definitely not worth the price. As for the little bit of land in Japan, it's not as valuable as the little thing in the bed between the two of them! It is clear that China is showing its own inclination, although Yang Feng has been a little bit before the Entente. For a while, the Allies, and then the Entente, it can be said that the whole world was tossed to death, but at that time, he was playing all false, and it was nothing more than creating momentum to engage in public opinion. This time is different, this is really taking money out, thinking of the difficulty of taking money out of Emperor Yang's pocket, what such a huge sum of money means is obvious.

For a while, the whole world was once again stirred up by his loan.

Of course, these are none of Yang Feng's business, he can't take care of the old Qing people at this time, how can he care about how the outside world speculates about this.

As for China's reception of Hokkaido and Aomori, this is very simple, knowing that they will become Chinese in the future, the Japanese there can simply say that they are crying with joy, and they have lived so hard under the rule of the Russians over the years, it is simply worse than cattle and horses, especially those miners in Hokkaido are stained with blood and tears. Now that the Chinese have arrived, they have finally been liberated, and when the Chinese officials responsible for receiving these two places arrived, they were almost overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the Japanese, especially the soldiers of the garrison, and almost all Japanese girls threw themselves into their arms when they walked into the street.

As for the management of these two places, because of the different natures, Hokkaido was directly set up as the Hokkaido Province under the Chinese Empire, while Aomori continued its original identity, and the Aomori Lease Land was changed from a Russian lease to a Chinese lease, plus the Kitakyushu Lease Land obtained from the British, and China now has two concessions in Japan. In this three-year world war, although it has not yet participated in the war, China's territory has increased by nearly 700,000 square kilometers, and it is jaw-dropping to take advantage of the fire to loot to such an extent.

The North Kyushu Lease, the Protectorate of Zhe Mengxiong, the Northern Burma, the 64 Tun of Gangdong, Lan Phong Province, the Lao Protectorate, the Khmer Protectorate, the Butterworth Province, and the Aomori Lease were all obtained without a single shot.

However, this still does not satisfy the younger generation of Chinese who are ambitious to restore the glory of the Yang Empire, especially since many of them are protectorates, and there is a certain gap between them and direct territories.

During this period of time, with the enlightenment of the people, the common people gradually understood that they could do a lot of things with the voter cards in their hands, and some of the more radical young Zhuang factions began to enter the House of Commons and even the House of Lords in large numbers, and the conservative power of those old people was being diluted by them. Under the leadership of these young legislators, the National Assembly is currently negotiating with the protectorates, demanding that they directly become imperial states, including Vietnam, which has a special status, in fact, the main goal of the negotiations is Vietnam, including the Vietnamese National Assembly itself has this will, in short, a wave of expansion is continuing to heat up in China.

Of course, these are all under the connivance of Emperor Yang, he likes an aggressive China, and he has been working towards this goal all these years, and now that the efforts have borne fruit, then of course he welcomes it.

After sending away his old Qing people and letting her return to Russia with countless arms to give her husband to bleed her cousin, Emperor Yang got another piece of news that made him happy, another country in South America couldn't help but participate in the war, but not in the Central Powers, certainly not in the Entente, and not even in the declaration of war on either side.

The Colombian government announced the abrogation of the agreement signed under the threat of German and Russian colonizers, and the reclaim of the Russian concessions in the northern Colombian provinces of Antioquia and Córdoba, as well as the German concessions in Barranquilla.

It should be said that the Colombians are very shrewd, first of all, there are no decent troops in either the Russian Concession or the German Concession, and the German army has only one battalion in Barranquilla, and in fact William has little interest in this distant colony that has been picked up for nothing. As for the Russian Concession, because of its special economic status, the Russian army still has one division stationed there, and another division is in Dominica, which is all the troops of the Russian Army in the Caribbean. In recent years, under the stimulus of the hatred brought by the colonizers, the Colombians have trained an elite army of 150,000 people, and even many officers have returned from studying in China.

In the current situation of war in Europe, it is not safe to take refuge on either side, since this is the case, it is simply not on either side, and now it does not declare war, but only takes back the leased land, which is tantamount to telling the outside world that Colombia does not want to take refuge with either side, but only wants to take back its own occupied territory, but if one of Germany or Russia declares war on Colombia, then it is equivalent to pushing Colombia into the arms of the other.

You must know that Colombia is not a country fighting, they are behind almost all the coastal countries in South America that have been wary of neo-colonists over the years, especially Venezuela, which is close at hand, and they all fought side by side with the Bolivarian rebels against the colonizers, and Venezuela had already sent troops to rescue the last time Germany invaded Colombia, but was frightened back by the casualties of the Colombians.

If Russia declared war on Colombia because of this, they would have to turn to the Central Powers, and if Germany declared war on Colombia, they would inevitably turn to the Entente powers, the former of which could unite with Argentina, which had already joined the Central Powers, and with the help of the Argentine navy, sweep away all the colonies of Britain, France, and Russia in the Caribbean, and even land eastward in Africa, with a combined population of more than fifteen million, and with their strength it would not be a problem to bulldoze all the British and French colonies in Africa.

The latter would be a disaster for the Allies, and the British could directly transport Colombian and Venezuelan troops to Europe to fight in the war, and it would be easy for these two countries to mobilize four army groups. (To be continued......)