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 most important. Originally, Britain had the advantage of commodity south of the Yangtze River, but after China's unification, the commodities in these places were gradually excluded from American goods and Chinese local goods.
The one who supports Wang Maoru's armed unification is the United States, and even Britain, France and Japan, who believes that Wang Maoru is a lackey trained by the United States in China. However, Americans do not think so. They think that Wang Maoru is an extremely dangerous nationalist, and they are both worried and welcomed.
After Zhang Kui'an negotiated with the ambassadors of the three countries, the ambassadors conveyed the opinions of the Chinese government to their country. China wanted to further deepen the relationship between the two countries by purchasing the Hankou Concession - to recover the concession.
Yes, after China closed the customs, they finally revealed their bloody mouths and recaptured the concession. This seemed to everyone's expectations but was so sudden, as if the man knew what was about to happen, but the man did not do the foreplay and went straight to the point.
It was so angry that Britain, France and Japan were half dead, but they were helpless at this time, and people said they were for their own good. The three countries had their own plans, but they were all for the benefit. For France, which urgently needed economic recovery after the war, the influenza made France even worse. News of local turmoil in the French and African colonies kept coming from the French and African colonies, and the situation in France was also very bad. The workers' union continued to march and demonstrate in order to fight for rights. French Prime Minister Raymond Ryan Gale was one of the top two.
Although the French team was killed in the entire European war by nearly 1.5 million people. The French nationals died in more than 4 million, but that was a war, and the total losses were accumulated in four years. The French knew how to avoid it. They knew that as long as the Germans were defeated, the war would end, but the horror of the jvis virus was that they didn't know when it would end and how to defeat it.
In just over twenty days, more than 100,000 people have died and nearly one million people have been infected. This is a war in which the opponent cannot be seen. It is a war that cannot be won. Industry, agriculture, production, and life are all threatened by JVIS. The French people believe that this is caused by the government's inaction, so under the leadership of the workers' union, they went to the streets to protest. They believe that the French government is not even as perfect as the measures taken by the Chinese government in the ancient Eastern countries. At least the Chinese government immediately issued ten anti-epidemic measures after feeling the threat. They also severely cracked down on domestic merchants' hoarding of goods and privately raising prices.
France is a capitalist country. The government has no right to interfere in prices. The Republic of China is a centralized bureaucratic capitalist country. The bureaucratic class can directly interfere in prices. Therefore, after Wang Mao ordered that merchants should not be allowed to raise prices privately, people across the country would supervise it. Once caught, they would be raided and distributed, and the country would be raided to make money by scamming big investors and the people would share the money. Who would dare not do this? How could France compare? If France cured big investors, the country would be divided.
I can't afford to buy bread. I look down on it when I'm sick, I look down on the economy, and I'm unemployed. Therefore, the French nationals, who have always had a tradition of revolutionary uprising, quit and even broke out with the French police. The most serious conflict after the end of the European War. If it weren't for the fact that the Elysee Palace was a work of art and the French people who love art could not bear to destroy it, French Prime Minister Raymond Ryan Gare was even burned to death by the angry people.
Now Ryan Galai is one or two big. When Belgium and Italy actually return the Chinese concession to exchange for huge benefits, especially Italy, they exported submarines. How can Italy's submarine quality be comparable to France? In exchange for the concession, China actually ordered submarines from Italy, and this group of short-sighted Chinese people! When Fu Leyou passed on China's suggestions on the Hankou concession to Ryan Galai's table, Ryan Galai sneered: "Are the Chinese crazy?" But then he immediately thought, was this the conspiracy of the Asian fox?
The reason why Ryan Gale was able to become the French Prime Minister was that his political proposition was to be tough on Germany, and his advocacy of punishing Germany after the war and won the hearts of the French. Unfortunately, the next prime ministerial election was about to be held (starting in January 1924). Seeing the workers' strike caused by JVIS in China, he could not come up with a solution for the time being.
Since Italians can make huge profits from the Chinese, why can't France? France has four places in China. The Shanghai Concession is the concession with the largest area and the largest population, which is most important to France, which guards the Yangtze River Estuary. The Tianjin Concession is the concession directly adjacent to Beijing, the political center of China. The Guangzhou Concession is the earliest concession, close to Southeast Asia's closest concession. As for the Hankou Concession, the concession with the smallest area, the smallest population, and the smallest concession.
China's proposal to buy back the Hankou Concession will not only cause France's face to lose its face, but it will not cause much harm to France's interests. It is nothing more than a matter of face.
Ryan Galley thought for a day and believed that if domestic dissatisfaction could be calmed, Chinese medicines could be distributed to the people, and to get orders from China to allow workers to continue working, his next election would be foolproof. So he immediately submitted a plan to Congress to return the Hankou Concession in exchange for Chinese medicines.
The French parliament was extremely slow to do things, but because of jvis and others, they all became active, the rich French people and lawmakers needed Chinese isatis root powder to fight the virus. So soon, the French parliament passed the proposal to sell the Hankou Concession and must obtain China's magical Chinese medicine.
On August 23, French ambassador Fu Leyou accepted the instructions of the French government and immediately communicated and bargained with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, preparing to exchange the French Concession in Hankou through medicines and money.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Lu Zhengxiang and Deputy Minister Gu Weijun were extremely happy. This was another bow of the European powers.
The arrogant British people who had the same ideas as the French could not stand it. In the three days from August 20 to 22, 150,000 people in the British colonial India were feverish and dizzy, suspected of being infected with JVS flu, and the British domestic feared. What surprised them even more was that the French neighbors also succumbed to China. The pride of the British Empire did not allow such a thing to happen - but there was Belgium in the front, France in the back, and Italy in the middle, which was difficult to deal with.
On August 24, the Japanese government finally broke the silence. The Japanese cabinet decided to return the Hankou Concession in Japan to China in exchange for five million silver dollars and one hundred tons of isatis root powder. Wang Maoru laughed when he learned about it and said that the price was not good, so he could only buy it back for 30 tons of isatis root and two million silver dollars. The Chinese government had no money anymore. After bargaining, the Hankou Concession in Hankou finally traded the price for 50 tons of isatis root powder and three million silver dollars.
The Chinese government recovered the concession for two consecutive days, and the British Empire finally found a step forward. In the name of supporting the Chinese government, they hoped to become a friendly country with the Chinese government and sell the British concession in Hankou to China.
Britain finally let go. Wang Maoru sighed, but at the same time he felt very angry that his country's territory had to be bought back by himself. How many overseas Chinese in the future spent money to buy Chinese cultural relics at auctions around the world to bring them back to the motherland was a kind of patriotism and a feeling of humiliation. What a humiliation it was.
However, it is impossible to redeem the Hankou Concession with medicines and silver dollars. At this time, the Republic of China could not forcefully recapture the concession and start war at the same time against the great powers. I believe these countries are very willing to see China "declare war on the eight countries at the same time". Wang Maoru was not Cixi, and without her fearless courage and blind confidence, she could invite heavenly soldiers and generals. On the issue of the concession, the great powers always stood from the same angle. He could only buy it with money and defeat it one by one, and gather small victory to great victory.
Is it humiliating? Is it unhappy? Is it upset?
This is politics.
The problem that the Chinese government can solve with money today is not a problem. The Hankou Concession has recovered all of the problems that are solved with the smallest losses.
After all, not all problems can be solved with money. If the Three Kingdoms insist on not having money, Wang Maoru can't do anything about them. In the later generations, a Chinese loan to the United States and becomes a creditor of the United States, the Americans will be nice to China? But everything shows that Americans want to dismember China and let China turmoil and civil turmoil. No matter how much money China gives them, they will not change their position. This is a problem that money cannot solve. The fundamental problem - the world is so big. If Americans eat, there will be no Chinese food, and if Chinese food, there will be no American food. How can we solve the problem of life and death?
Now Wang Maoru used money to solve the Hankou problem, and from then on, there were no more powerful warships in the Yangtze River!
In addition to paying money and medicines to Britain, France and Japan, the Chinese government also promised to expand the market and accept more products from the Three Kingdoms into China. At the same time, China ordered a large number of agricultural machinery from the Three Kingdoms for domestic agricultural production.
How can we make money after spending money? Or drugs, aren’t we really not selling drugs? Of course it is impossible. Under Wang Maoru’s instruction, the CIC Department and the Ministry of Finance secretly sold drugs at high prices in the international market. We can sell drugs, but the money has to be taken back. We handed the money to foreigners with one hand, and sold drugs to them with high prices, and earned back the money.
Chapter completed!