Chapter 268 The interests of the country, my interests

Hu Chuyuan can form an alliance with any country and cooperate with any country, even if it is Japanese, but with the exception of only one country, that is, Russia.

It has been so many years.

It's been so many years...!

Russia has devoured China's territory all the way. Their greed and capriciousness are a unique alternative in the whole world.

If we take 1901 as the dividing line, after that, the most ferocious opponent to China is Japan. Before that, it was Russia. Those debts have no chance to break out, but the debts of Russia are extremely clearly written on China's territory, in China's history.

Hu Chuyuan hates Russia from the bottom of his heart.

He will not fight such an unprecedented Far East war for France and Japan. Everything he has done now and in the past is aimed at Tsarist Russia, China's real biggest enemy.

Under the circumstances that the Far East War can be completely over, he still wants to continue to spend 1.8 billion yuan. The goal is not to force Russia to negotiate peace, but to beat the water dog and repair and bully Russia enough at a time.

Yes.

He asked Tsarist Russia to spit out all the things that had swallowed in the past 213 years, and even the blood in his stomach.

Never be distracted by what you have done later.

China's real biggest enemy will not be Japan, but Russia.

In fact, it doesn't deserve it.

Even after 10,000 years, China will still face the problem of Russia.

August 27, 1902.

In the morning, Hu Chuyuan got the latest war report in his Prime Minister's office. Although he was blocked by the Japanese navy, the main force of the Beiyang Fleet and the headquarters fleet still successfully broke through the restrictions of the Korean Strait and entered Yuanshan Port.

In order to ensure the navy's supply and long-term combat missions in Yuanshan Port, the railways and highways from Pyongyang to Yuanshan have been completed, and the construction of the military port area has been basically completed.

The submarine force of the Chinese navy is also secretly stationed in Yuanshan Port, ready to cooperate with the main fleet to carry out the final attack on the Allied Far East Combined Fleet.

In the Vladivostok area, the Russian army has lost its twin cities, and nearly 600,000 army defense forces have been annihilated.

In order to force the Russians in the Far East to leave, in the process of advancing the army, especially the Northeast Corps, which has a large number of bandits, has taken on the task of "disturbing the people", and looting, smashing and killing were recognized.

Vladivostok, which the Russians have gradually built for decades, has become a ruin, and a large number of Russians have fled to the ravines to escape the war.

Spain and the Netherlands have announced their unconditional withdrawal from the Ally Organization and the Far East War, and are actively negotiating peace with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

French Foreign Minister Falue Pena is in Yanjing and is also eager to reach an armistice with China. Nearly half a French army troops and a fleet close to half of the strength of the French navy are squeezing at the port of Vladivostok.

France's biggest concern at present is that China will forcibly attack Vladivostok and destroy the French Far East Fleet and the last batch of troops. If these things happen, the remaining military strength of France will be basically destroyed.

In fact, the peace talks between France, the West and the Netherlands and China have been delayed for two months. Hu Chuyuan is talking while fighting and striving for the greatest interests.

There is no need to delay now. He is ready to concentrate on dealing with Russia and Japan.

Hu Chuyuan just finished reading the war report that had just been sent in the morning, and Foreign Minister Ouyang Geng hurried in. All night yesterday, he was talking with French Foreign Minister Falue Pena about the final terms, which has not been closed yet.

Entering Hu Chuyuan's office, Ouyang Geng was very excited to hand in a report and said with a smile, "Your Excellency, it has finally been negotiated. France has accepted all our conditions, withdrew from the Allied Organization, compensated China 140 million pounds, and transferred Guinea, Congo, French Somalia and French Guiana free of charge. Overseas colonies and some Pacific islands, overseas colonies and domestic markets are fully open to China, and China is given the most-favoured-nation economic treatment. As a condition, France hopes that we will temporarily empty the Port of Luo Xian and let them settle the French army and the French fleet.

Hu Chuyuan couldn't help exhaling and sighing, "I finally agreed. You have really worked hard these days."

Ouyang Geng hesitated a little and said, "However, Falue Pena mentioned another thing to us. France's military expenditure over the years is also very large, and the domestic gold reserves are insufficient. Coupled with this war compensation, the French economy is likely to face a bankruptcy crisis... Therefore, they hope that our country can provide treasury bonds. Guarantee."

Hu Chuyuan looked at him calmly and asked, "What do you think?"

Ouyang Geng was silent for a moment and sighed, "I can't guarantee it. Once France falls into an economic crisis, the impact of the problem is still far-reaching. The scale of investment and expansion of industrial production capacity in China over the years is too large. Although it ensures economic stability on the surface, once the war is over, a large amount of industrial production capacity needs to be supported by a new market. I think... adults must know these things better than us. In the long run, France is still one of our largest exporters.

Hu Chuyuan replied indifferently, "Let the market make a decision!"

Ouyang Geng was a little surprised, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

The peace talks between Spain and the Netherlands are basically coming to an end. The two countries originally wanted to restore their suzerainty of Dutch Indonesia and the Philippines. They took the opportunity to send not many troops, but they had to lose a lot of money.

The total compensation funds of the two countries will be about 57 million pounds, which Spain and the Netherlands have not raised too many objections. However, for the Netherlands, Hu Chuyuan demanded that the Netherlands cede Dutch Guiana to China free of charge, and for Spain, Hu Chuyuan demanded the signing of a new trade cooperation treaty.

Spain and the Netherlands are still further deviating these two additional conditions.

At present, the Allie States are unable to prevent all this from happening. The key is that Britain and Germany are trying to hinder China's expansion in South America and Africa.

Hu Chuyuan is very clear that the French financial crisis will be a good way to get everything he wants.

After Ouyang Geng left, Hu Chuyuan called his younger brother Hu Yuyuan in Yanjing and asked him to come to his office to discuss things.

Information is money.

These days, Hu Zhenyuan has been staying at CITIC's headquarters in Yanjing, not far from Yanjing Yingtai.

Half an hour later, he drove into Yingtai by himself and hurried to see Hu Chuyuan.

There is nothing polite between the two brothers.

As soon as he entered the office and closed the door, Hu Zhuoyuan couldn't wait to ask Hu Chuyuan, "Brother, how's it going?"

Hu Chuyuan was not so anxious and asked him to sit down first. Then he said, "The Sino-French treaty has been reached, but I don't plan to guarantee the French national debt in the form of a political axe. At least it won't be guaranteed for the time being.

Hu Zhenyuan was a little surprised and asked, "Why? If the French economy goes bankrupt, the impact on the whole world will be too great, and the domestic economy may not be able to overcome this difficulty...!!"

Hu Chuyuan hummed.

The current situation is beyond his original estimate. Military spending exceeds the standard by 50%. With the recent reduction of domestic military orders, there has been a problem of overcapacity in China.

There are usually two pressures in economic crises like this, one is inflation caused by a large amount of capital investment in the industry, and the other is the sales crisis caused by excessive expansion of production capacity.

Two kinds of pressures have a stagnant effect on funds, which leads to a large-scale debt dragging phenomenon in society, which eventually leads to a financial crisis.

For China's economy at this stage, any link is very dangerous. If Hu Chuyuan hadn't taken into account the roles of head of state and financial oligarch at the same time, the crisis of China's economy at this stage would have been almost inevitable.

Hu Chuyuan must have more ideas in his heart. He thought about it silently for a moment, and then explained to Hu Zhenyuan: "The crisis in France exists in three levels. The first level is the inflationary pressure caused by French [***] expenses and compensation; the second level is to be the main creditor of Russia, facing the Russian economy. The related crisis that may arise from bankruptcy; the third level is France's national credit and franc run crisis. With France's economic strength, if it is not affected by the latter two factors, it is just a crisis at the first level, and the problem is not too big. The second level of the problem mainly depends on us. Britain, the United States and the United States, like us, certainly don't want France to go bankrupt.

Hu Yuyuan understood a little and whispered, "Big brother, do you mean... the initiative is in our hands, and we also have room to deal with Britain, Germany and the Three Kingdoms?"

Hu Chuyuan continued to hum and said, "The international situation is always changing, and no two countries will be eternal allies. Germany hopes to further weaken Russia and France with our help, but does not want us to set foot in Africa. Britain hopes that we can expand our interests in Central Asia, which is conducive to their development in Central Asia, but strongly opposes our entry into Africa and South America, and the United States is even more opposed to our entry into South America. If we want to make the situation conducive to our further development, at least to make them unable to stop all this, it is the best way to take the risk of expanding the French crisis.

Listening to these words, Hu Yuyuan kept thinking in his heart.

After a while, Hu Yuyuan asked, "Do we still need to continue to hold French treasury bonds? Now French treasury bonds have fallen to 17% of the market value ratio, which is almost equivalent to waste paper in the international bond market. If France can really overcome the existing difficulties, hoarding French treasury bonds at a low price is certainly a good business, but if...!"

Hu Chuyuan said: "This is a malicious hype in the capital market. In fact, France's economic situation is not so bad. We continue to hoard... Don't worry about France's inability to repay its national debt. The French Foreign Minister is still in Yanjing. Take time to talk to him. You should be very clear about what we want to talk about, right?

Hu Zhenyuan smiled and said, "Brother, don't worry. As long as you talk, this is a good deal."

Hu Chuyuan nodded. He was busy with his official duties, especially during this period, so he no longer left Hu Yuyuan. He got up and sent Hu Yuyuan out of the Prime Minister's office.

Anyway, the Hu family are all evil capitalists. What they have to do is to make money after all.

The Hu family should not only protect the interests of the country, but also protect their own interests. It can also be said to be the personal interests of Hu Chuyuan.

Especially in this period of turmoil in the international situation, the family-style international chaebols like the Hu family are equivalent to finding the largest gold mine. They dare to do business that others dare not do, and they have the ability to do business that others can't do. Therefore, their rate of return is also very amazing.

Money is the devil, and the devil can make anyone give in.

Now, the Japanese version is no longer the key to the problem. Even if the Japanese version is bombed and sent six million troops to sweep it, Hu Chuyuan can't get any benefits from the Japanese version.

This is a beast, no money, millions of lives.

After sending Hu Zhenyuan away, Hu Chuyuan held a new meeting at the National Military Commission to further adjust the strategy and point the war at Russia, as long as it is locked in the navy.

No matter how far Russia's current plan of armored vehicles and anti-armour machine guns has been implemented, priority will be given to concentrating all military forces on Russia. Before that, the Russian Far East Fleet in tributing in tributing in tributweis must first, and then give a comprehensive heavy damage to the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea.

All plans need financial support, especially the mechanized regimental war and blitzkrieg currently implemented by China, which requires a lot of financial support.

In case of emergency, taking advantage of the armistice treaty between China and France and China's continuous victory on the battlefield, Hu Chuyuan decided to restart the third round of treasury bond sales at this meeting.

This time, the total amount of treasury bonds is 3.5 billion yuan, the clearance period is 10 years, and the annual interest rate is 6.5%. At the same time, the total amount of central bank regulation and control in 1902 was moderately increased by 700 million yuan.

If the war continues, these are military expenses. If the war does not continue, these are domestic construction funds.

Appropriation is OK.

It was late at night after the meeting. Hu Chuyuan hurriedly prepared to go home, but Miss Qiu Jin was guarding the door of the office.

Looking at her appearance, she seemed to have something to say. Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment and paused for a while. He sat down again and asked, "What can I do for you?"

Qiu Jin thought carefully for a moment and couldn't help saying, "Your Excellency, I have something to ask you!"

Hu Chuyuan said oh, let her sit down, and asked patiently, "What's the matter?"

Qiu Jin thought for a moment, and then asked, "Your Excellency, how much land area do you think we need?"

Hu Chuyuan also thought about it and said, "It's not necessary to be big, but the bigger the better."

Qiu Jin asked strangely, "Really?"

Hu Chuyuan nodded seriously and said, "Really!"

Qiu Jin frowned slightly and asked, "I think Russia is a very clear counterexample. They blindly pursue the huge land area and blindly expand the war, but ignore their own citizens. As far as I know, there are also many difficulties in Russia. Workers and farmers with crises and meager incomes are not enough to make a living. In order to expand and raise military spending, we constantly use populist ideas to collect treasury bonds. Despite the crisis of inflation, we continue to issue more money. Are we also constantly sacrificing our citizens?

"This question...?"

To be honest, Hu Chuyuan didn't know how to answer.

He completely calmed down and was ready to discuss this issue with Qiu Jin.

When he decided to have a good talk, the first habit was always to make a pot of good tea. This time, he chose to make a pot of Pu'er tea, drink it slowly, and talk about it slowly.

Because this problem is very important.

Only those who are truly patriotic and love the people can realize how important this problem is.

Just because of this, he also feels that Miss Qiu Jin is a respectable woman, worthy of a modern female surname known as a chivalrous woman.

Pour a cup of tea for himself and Qiu Jin. Hu Chuyuan drank it silently, thinking, organizing it in his mind. It's not that he has never thought about it. On the contrary, he always keeps thinking about it.

After a while, Hu Chuyuan asked Qiu Jin very seriously, "Do you think we should end the war now, cultivate and benefit the country and the people...?"

Qiu Jin looked a little embarrassed and said, "It's hard to say, so I want to ask what the adults think!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "I may think of much more than you. This is not a matter of ability, but of experience. I also know what you mean, but... the use of populism to sacrifice the people is still too heavy. What we need to do now is not to maintain the dignity and territorial integrity of the country, but to strive for the long-term interests of this country. Ethnic development cannot be separated from land. China now has a population of 382 million. If you add some areas that are difficult to count, the actual population should be more than 395 million, or even close to 400 million. This is a huge population base. With the improvement of our health and medical conditions and the improvement of the average living standard, our population will continue to expand. On this basis, we must also understand that there is a completely different difference between 30 mu of land and 10 mu of land per capita. Now, the competition we encounter is a racial competition, so we can't just think about this generation, we should think about the longer-term next generation, the next generation. If China has a population of 1 billion and the existing land cannot accommodate so many people, what do you think will happen to our country?

Qiu Jin thought for a moment and replied painfully, "Then I can only continue to explore!!"

Hu Chuyuan shook his head and said, "According to my experience, at that time, our country would only fall into a civil war. In the past history, such things have been repeated countless times. If ethnic quality is the first element of ethnic development and competition, then land and resources are the second element of ethnic development and competition. In fact, the second element may be more critical to determine the surname.

Qiu Jin nodded silently and accepted Hu Chuyuan's statement.

After a pause, she sighed, "That's true, but I still think our people are working too hard."

"Yes!"

Hu Chuyuan did not deny it, and said, "When the Far East War is over, let's take our time to think about this issue. If we make the people richer, happier, easier to survive, and in a better state of survival... It will take a long time to gradually improve, not overnight. Well... You should focus your energy on the female surname liberation movement first, do everything down-to-earth, and then think about the future!"

Listening to this, Qiu Jin smiled.

(to be continued)