Chapter 294: Sell-Country and Negotiation

Although it was expected in advance that the great powers would make a big opening for China's borrowing requirements, they did not expect the great powers, especially the British, to have such a high demand.

In this loan negotiation, the amount of interest and payment methods are only secondary. What is more important is the use of salt administration, tariff mortgage and financial supervision. Even such a cowardly regime as Qianqing has not been 'sold', and if Zhao Dongyun dares to open this He promised that the whole country would scold himself as a traitor, and even the northern part of the North China would collectively condemn him, and the Soviet system may be divided.

Zhao Dongyun is a warlord who relies on reputation. It can be said that prestige is the foundation of his power. As for the Feng army that is loyal to him, it is just bricks and tiles. The reason why hundreds of thousands of Soviet cultural relics and industrial class support Zhao Dongyun is that more than 100,000 generals of the Feng army, especially many young middle and senior officers and generals, are Zhao Dong. Yun's loyalty to the battle is because they think that Zhao Dongyun has the ability to lead this team and the rise of the country, um, and also bring them practical benefits.

Once he became famous and became a famous traitor at home and abroad, Zhao Dongyun could expect that he would become the second Yuan Shikai in history. At that time, Yuan Shikai was pushed by everyone. Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang both opposed him and died alive.

And today's situation of Zhao Dongyun is actually much worse than that of Yuan Shikai in 1912!

If you look closely at Zhao Dongyun in 1907 and Yuan Shikai in 1912, you will find that the situation they are in is very similar. For example, the territory they own is similar, basically mainly in the north.

Today, the territory that Zhao Dongyun can actually control is smaller than that controlled by Yuan Shikai, and is limited to the three eastern provinces, Zhili, Mongolia and some Shandong and Henan regions. Yuan Shikai in 1912 has unified China, at least on the surface. The territory belonging to Beiyang also has three provinces such as Zhili and Shandong Henan. At the same time, large-scale wars have stopped, and there is no need to worry about huge military spending every day.

However, Zhao Dongyun's control of his territory is much stronger than that of Yuan Shikai. Although Beiyang in 1912 has not been divided, the generals of all parties have basically been in their own affairs. Yuan Shikai can only be regarded as an alliance leader at best. Zhao Dongyun took advantage of the separate power system of military service, recruitment, training and command that began in the era of the Third Town, so that the senior generals below could not completely control the troops under his command, so that Zhao Dongyun could always firmly control the troops. Here, Chen Guangyuan was transferred from the commander of the Third Division to the commander of the 13th Division. So that you can see it.

It is almost impossible for this kind of thing to be put on other warlords, because people will think that this third division is already Chen Guangyuan's army, and pulling Chen Guangyuan away from the third division means depriving Chen Guangyuan of his power. However, in today's Feng army, this third division is not Chen Guangyuan's army or Gu Lanyu's army, but Zhao Dongyun's army. Zhao Dongyun basically dares not say anything to the transfer of senior generals.

However, Zhao Dongyun's strong control of the army has indirectly led to the relatively complete separation of the military and government in the Soviet system. The military generals only fight. As for the local operation, it is not uniformly responsible by the civilian system, which also leads to Zhao Dongyun's strong control of the local government.

Zhao Dongyun's control of territory and army is much stronger than Yuan Shikai, but he also has more enemies. Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Zhang Huaizhi and Wang Ruxian are his enemies, and the Southern Federation is also his enemies. In many warlords in China, only Wu Fengling is barely his ally, and this ally is still bought with a lot of ordnance and military expenses, and he doesn't really rely on him at all.

Surrounded by foreign enemies, even though the Feng army under Zhao Dongyun is the strongest, the difficulty in order to sweep all the warlords all the way south to unify China is conceivable.

If those warlords do not take the initiative to surrender and need to defeat and recover one by one, even if they are optimistic about the victory of the army on the front line, but if they want to sweep south and unify China all the way, it will not be impossible in two or three years.

As for surrender, it's a joke. There are old and stubborn people in the Southern Federation. Since Zhang Zhidong established this Southern Federation at the beginning, he could also unite a large group of Manchu and Han feudal officials to do it, which means that Beiyang really has no influence in the southern provinces, and the Southern Federal System and Beiyang led by Zhang Zhidong There is a fundamental contradiction in the system. This contradiction is the fundamental contradiction between the capital of the southern business community and the landlord class and industrial and commercial capital in the north. The most obvious example is the contradiction between the northern cotton textile industry such as Fuyuan Textile Factory and Huludao Textile Company and the southern Dasheng Yarn Factory and Nantong Tubu. These two systems compete for China The cotton market has been difficult to solve in recent years. For example, southern cigarette factories such as Fuyuan Cigarette Factory and Nanyang Cigarette Factory are competing for the domestic cigarette market. The shareholders of Fuyuan Cigarette Factory dream of entering the cigarette market in the southern provinces, and the cigarette factories in the south are the same. The provincial cigarette market is extremely coveted.

Any military and political force, especially large-scale military and political groups, will basically represent the interests of a certain group, and the Soviet system represents the interests of northern capital such as Zhili and the three eastern provinces. Behind Zhao Dongyun is Fuyuan Company, and behind Fuyuan Company is a series of joint ventures such as Fuyuan Machinery Factory, and this Some subsidiaries, especially super-large enterprises such as Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory and Fuyuan Cigarette Factory, are very scattered. Basically, most of the northern capitalists are more or less involved. Every super-large-scale military purchase by Fengjun is a feast for northern capital, and Fengjun Every time you occupy a province, it will break the original deposit, industrial and commercial system of this province, without giving the capital and various barriers to other provinces in China. Then the products of many enterprises in Zhili and the three eastern provinces can occupy the local market like the tide.

In the entry operations of the Feng army and the current southward combat power, the soldiers of the Feng army continue to advance on the front line, and the capitalists behind them also follow the pace of the army with their products and tide, and then occupy every corner of the market.

So when you see the nature of the civil war, you will find that the war between the north and the south is not only the so-called imperial and republican struggle, but also the life-and-death struggle between the capital of the south and the capital of the north. This kind of contradiction is irreconcilable, either you die or I die.

In addition, Zhao Dongyun inherited a serious Beiyang inheritance. If you want Zhang Zhidong, a famous foreign minister, to surrender to your Beiyang warlord who has no hair, you can kill him directly.

Although several other warlords in Beiyang do not have this kind of capital competition with Zhao Dongyun, these Beiyang bosses are all ambitious enough to swallow elephants, especially Duan Qirui, who are full of energy to compete with Zhao Dongyun. In Duan Qirui's heart, the position of Beiyang boss is still hanging. In the air, I don't know who will fall into. Unless you completely mutilate the Anhui army, don't count on Duan Qirui's ambition to compete for hegemony.

Wang Shizhen, Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Ruxian and even Wu Fengling also have similar ideas. Wang Xiang general Hou Ning has the guts! Why can you, Zhao Dongyun, be the president and take charge of the world, and I can only bow down obediently? Who dares to say that Zhao Dongyun is not the next Wang Yingkai, and who dares to say that I am not the next person to become the president?

This is the consequence of not enough prestige to convince the public and to enter the central government.

If the same situation is changed to Yuan Shikai, relying on Yuan Shikai's prestige, those Beiyang troops will not be obedient, and even armistice negotiations with the Southern Federation are possible.

If Zhao Dongyun wants those people to surrender obediently, there is only one way, that is, to defeat them completely. At that time, they will surrender obediently like Wang Yingkai, Lu Yongxiang and Bao Guiqing.

If you want to defeat them, it means that Zhao Dongyun needs more troops, more artillery and ammunition, and these will eventually become military expenses. Zhao Dongping, the chief of the Ordnance Department of the Commander-in-Chief, said that today's military expenditure gap of tens of millions is not a groundless, but a fact!

And the huge gap in military expenditure is the biggest reason why the Soviets want to borrow money from foreign countries. However, although they want to borrow money, some things can't be talked about, and some clauses can't be conceded. He would rather be a brutal ruler who will search the northern provinces to the sky to the sky than commit the crime of traitors. Tens of millions of years, this has nothing to do with whether he wants to betray the country, but the reality does not allow him to do so.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun simply rejected these borrowing requests made by the British side, but rejecting the first three conditions does not mean closing the door of negotiations. On the contrary, this so-called after-care loan is still continuing, and the British's asking price is too high and there are other countries.

For example, Germany is very willing to provide loans to Zhao Dongyun, um, to buy German arms!

The French also had a lot of money and expressed their willingness to contact each other.

And the United States, this country is a little strange now. There is no doubt that it is a first-class power in terms of economy, which is enough to compete with Britain, France and Germany, but the military is at most third-rate, and the navy is not bad, but the army is estimated to be able to beat the Feng army, but the international political influence is not even third-rate, so the United States is looking for a market internationally. The difficulty of the field is amazing, otherwise they would not have shouted for the door to open every day and no one would know him. Now Zhao Dongyun is very happy to borrow money from him as long as he gives enough price.

But what made Zhao Dongyun very depressed was that history was surprisingly similar. As soon as he saw Zhao Dongyun negotiating with other countries, Britain once again played the hooligan model of the super empire, actually uniting France, Germany and the United States into a so-called four-nation banking group.

Then announced to Zhao Dongyun that if Zhao Dongyun wants to get a loan from the four countries, he must negotiate with the four countries at the same time!

After learning the news, Zhou Xuexi, the Minister of Finance in charge of specific loan negotiations, cursed in front of Zhao Dongyun: "They bully people too much!"

Sometime ago, Zhao Dongyun negotiated separately with various countries in order to choose among various countries and then strive for the best conditions, but now there is a four-nation banking group, and it is not easy to do in the future

What about Japan and the Russians? Go to them again and tell them that the opportunity will not be missed and will never come again. Without this time, there will be no chance, and the conditions can be appropriately relaxed!" Zhao Dongyun frowned and said, "In addition, Belgium, Italy, Austria-Hungary and even the Netherlands and other countries have also contacted one by one!"

After saying this, Zhao Dongyun felt that the chips he gave were still not enough to attract these countries. If they wanted them to withstand the pressure of Britain to borrow money for themselves, if the chips thrown out were not enough, they would definitely not be willing, so they thought about it and said, "Let's go out again, even if our country intends to borrow money to build a south. The Beijing Railway is scheduled to go from Tianjin to Nanjing.

This is used to attract ordinary countries, but there are other ways to divide Britain, the United States and Germany, and nothing can cause competition among those big countries than super-large-scale arms purchases in any era.

"In addition, let the navy go out and say that I want to rebuild the navy!" Zhao Dongyun said amazingly, "Well, let's say that we want to purchase at least eight battleships and matching auxiliary warships!"

Zhou Xuexi was also scared by Zhao Dongyun's words: "It's right to rebuild the navy, but I just purchased eight battleships at once. I'm afraid I don't believe it!" Regardless of whether outsiders believe it or not, Zhou Xuexi himself doesn't believe it. Now his finances are on the verge of bankruptcy. It would be good to rebuild the navy if he could afford one or two gunboats. There was money to buy battleships, and there were as many as eight at once. He rudely said that he sold the whole of China now. The funds needed to form a huge fleet with eight battleships.

Zhao Dongyun said plainly, "It doesn't matter whether they believe it or not. The important thing is to tell them that I'm going to do it!"