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Wuchang, in the small building with the sign of the military committee hanging in the former governor's office, the atmosphere is getting lower and lower.

When everyone arrived, Li Xiang patted the table and said, "Beijing Yuan Shikai instructed his men Lu Zhengxiang and Zhou Xuexi to go to HSBC in Dongjiaomin Lane and sign a huge loan contract of 25 million pounds with the Bank Group of the Five Kingdoms. Our intelligence personnel in Beijing sent it back as soon as possible, and the Bank Group of the Five Countries paid Yuan Shikai 2 million pounds in advance in the first phase! ............Guys, what do you think of this news?"

Several people looked at each other, and Tang Hualong asked, "Isn't it the Bank Group of the Six Kingdoms?"

"The United States has withdrawn." Li wanted to say, "The specific situation is not very clear. Anyway, it's just a dog biting the dog... The contract stipulates that China sets up foreign consultants assigned by the banking group in finance, banking, currency, auditing, treasury bonds and other departments to supervise financial expenditure. All salt tax shall be used as a guarantee for borrowing, and the bank group shall appoint foreign consultants and accountants, set up salt audit offices, audit revenues and expenditures, and supervise the collection. On the crucial issue of how to stipulate the appointment of foreigners in the loan contract, there are differences between the great powers, which is an important position that holds China's lifeline, and the selection and distribution of foreigners has become a sharp political issue. Because of this, they brought group politics into this struggle, from collusion between France and Russia to Britain and Japan, and then they compromised with Germany. The United States has been neglected and finally squeezed out of big loans.

"Yuan Shikai is willing to risk the world and accept such harsh loan conditions proposed by the Five Bank Group." Tan Renfeng's cheeks hurriedly ** twice.

Tan Renfeng is now the supervisor of the Huguang Railway and has integrated into the circle of Wuchang.

The after-the-after loan contract stipulates that the total amount of the loan is 25 million pounds, 5% interest, and the term is 47 years; all the loans are undertaken by the five banks of HSBC, Dehua, Dongfang Huili, Russia [Daosheng Bank], and Yokohama Zhengjin; the debt is sold at 90% of the face value, and the bank group will leave a rebate of 6%. Therefore, China's real gain is 84% of the total amount of loans; the purpose of borrowing is divided into two categories: the first is to transfer money to give money to foreigners, that is, to pay the first interest on this loan, to pay off the due compensation arrears, various loans and advances, to repay the loans of the provinces that have matured, and to repay the loans and advances that are about to be due. The money, as well as compensation for the losses of various countries in the Xinhai Revolution; the second category is the Chinese zheng government itself, which is mainly used to lay off the army, rectify salt affairs, and use it as the administrative expenses of various departments, as well as other administrative fees "negotiate with each other" by the Chinese zheng government and the bank group. It also stipulates that borrowing is guaranteed by salt tax revenue and tariff balance. China should rectify and improve the method of salt tax collection, "and use foreign personnel to help", that is, foreign personnel participate in the supervision and control of salt tax income. The specific method is to set up a salt administration in Beijing under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Finance, and set up an audit office within the department, "by China A member of the General Office and a member of the Foreign Association Office are in charge of all business; there are audit branches in each salt-producing place, and each branch has "one manager, one assistant foreigner" (also known as the director of Hua and Yang). The two are "equal in rank and authority", and jointly bear the responsibility of collecting and storing salt revenue. Regarding the use of loans, the contract also stipulates a set of measures for foreign personnel to participate in the salt supervision: China's zheng government immediately implemented the relevant provisional rules of the audit office on November 15, 1912. The audit office of the audit of foreign debts affiliated to the audit office set up China and foreign auditors (or the head of the national debt science and foreign section), and all the relevant loan payments The receipts must be approved and signed by the two people, and the number of appropriations shall be in line with the actual needs of the expenditure. After the cheques for the appropriations are signed by the agent appointed by the Minister of Finance, the receipts signed by the Chinese and foreign auditors shall be sent to the representative designated by the bank group, which shall be checked by the representative. If the proposed amount of expenditure is for the purpose specified in the contract, the cheque shall be immediately signed for withdrawal. If the representative has doubts about the purpose of the amount already been paid, he can ask the foreign auditor and ask for receipts, vouchers, check, etc. It is granted or entrusted to a British, German, French, Russian or Japanese company, or a director, or an agent, etc., and then transfer or entrust it. In fact, all the bonds undertaken by Japan were later transferred to British, French and German banks and issued in London, Paris and Berlin respectively. The bonds undertaken by Russia are only partially issued in the country, and the rest are issued in Belgium, Britain, France and Germany.

Therefore, the final result is that Britain and France sold 7,416,680 pounds each, accounting for 29.7% of the total loan; Germany sold 6,000 pounds, accounting for 24%; Russia sold 2,777,780 pounds, and Belgium sold 1, 388,880 pounds, accounting for 16.6%.

From these regulations, it can be seen that the discount of this loan is the only one seen since the renewal of the loan between Britain and Germany in 1898. According to this discount, after deducting the handling fees, foreign exchange fees, etc., the 25 million pounds of loans paid to China are only more than 20,710,000 pounds; from which those transferred to foreigners are deducted. After the payment, Yuan Shikai's government finally got more than 9.18 million pounds for its own use, less than 40% of the total amount of loans stipulated in the contract.

On the other hand, with capital and interest and various losses, China must pay 73.25 million pounds to pay off the loan.

This entry and exit is enough to show how much exploitation of China and how heavy a heavy burden the Chinese people have been brought to the largest loan in the history of China's foreign debt. As for how foreign countries supervise the salt tax and the use of loans, it can be clearly seen from the provisions of the contract on foreigners. However, the powers are not limited by this kind of written provision. The five-person plan for foreign workers mentioned above exceeds the provisions of the contract and expands the scope and quota of foreign workers. In addition, the Yuan government has successively promulgated the work regulations of various institutions where foreigners work, more specifically stipulating the functions and powers of foreigners. Therefore, through these foreigners, the powers have increasingly intervened in China's finance and other affairs. Especially the salt tax has been actually controlled by the great powers since then.

Yuan Shikai really gambled this time...

Li Xiang's face was stiff and slowly stared at Hui Wenwu's expression. He said coldly, "Yuan Shikai exchanged the people's oil and national sovereignty for this huge amount of money in order to quickly nourish himself, be prepared to deal with dissident forces, get rid of the dilemma caused by the case of Song Jiaoren, and strengthen the internal dictatorship. If Yuan Shikai still focused on solving the problems arising from the revolution when he proposed the aftermath in February last year. He mainly relied on peaceful means to incorporate the southern revolutionary forces into his own ruling system for his own use, so as to realize the unification of the north and the south, then after 14 months, he will actually sign the aftermath. When it comes to the loan contract, the first problem he wants to solve is to suppress the revolutionary forces and complete the unification of force. The situation is changing, and the use and nature of big loans are also changing!"

Li Xiang has been polite. With Yuan Shikai's black heart, he intended to prepare for the war at the beginning of the big loan.

In this era, he is really the only traveler who can see Yuan Shikai's black-hearted and look at the world.

"There's going to be a war..." Tan Renfeng whispered.

Sitting at the end, Li Yuanhong looked at Tan Renfeng coldly. Don't talk. This guy is really not good at doing great things. He hasn't succeeded once with Sun and Huang Revolution so many times. Can't you see that Li Xiang has been preparing for this war for a long time?

"Yes! It's going to war!" Li wants to be cold and cold.

Tang Hualong turned his head and looked at Zeng Gao and said, "can... Hasn't the base camp been making any plans? Is there any way to deal with it?"

He said the term staff headquarters. Li wants to expand the modern staff headquarters established in Wuchang, but it is low-key and confidential to the outside world. The staff headquarters is also known as the base camp.

After asking the question, he seemed to think of something: "Do you want to know Sun Yat-sen and Huang Xing? They should be ready right away!"

Li Xiang sneered: "It's time. Do they still want to see the situation clearly and want me to remind them? I heard that Mr. Sun is engaged in a series of convolutions to carry out the second revolution!"

Tan Renfeng is still stunned: "It's only been two years since the Republic of China... The war has started again..."

After complaining a little, Tan Renfeng looked at Li Xiang's eyes and quickly cheered up and said, "Li Shuai, there is no possibility of harmony between the north and the south? It's better to have a war without war. At the beginning of the Republic of China, it is the time when we need to rest and recuperate. We can also do some construction at ease. The Huguang Railway has just started..."

Everyone squinted at him. This is between scholars! Yuan Shikai has sharpened his minions. Do you think you can avoid it?

"It's started, it's already started..." Li wanted to twitch the corners of his mouth and forced himself to press down his heart. The troops began to mobilize! Get ready to fight!"

Li Xiang was just a simple but proud sentence, and there was a lot of excitement at the bottom.

Li thought that one sentence is equivalent to declaring war.

A copy of Yuan Shikai's loan information made Marshal Li make such a decision?

"General," Tan Renfeng said, "What Hubei region urgently needs is to heal the wounds left by the war, restore the seriously damaged national economy, and ease the huge pressure brought by serious economic difficulties to this new regime. At the same time, the territory of Hubei has not been fully restored. There are still a large number of bandits and bandits in some remote areas. In some places, the society is far from stable, and the new regime is being established with difficulty. As there are still many areas where land reform has not been completed, the new regime has not been consolidated. More importantly, if the war is mobilized, the opponent is the powerful Beiyang. The end of the war is economic strength, especially industrial strength. At least in terms of industrial strength and military equipment, we are far from our opponents, and Yuan Shikai also got a big loan. In addition, the army in Hubei cannot but pay attention to the tiredness of war because of the arrival of peace. Speaking of this, Tan Renfeng sighed and said, "It's better not to fight this war unless you have to. I suggest that even if Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai fight, we will not participate.

Li Yuanhong sneered and said, "Once Yuan Shikai cleans up Sun Yat-sen, the next one will be us. This is an extremely realistic problem - "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold", this is an ancient story known to Chinese women and children!"

Tan Renfeng said, "The Hubei army has just finished the war in the northwest, and the economy of the Hubei region can't afford to fight again. If you fight with the Beiyang army, once you can't stand it and retreat, the consequences will be unimaginable. It's better to defend in Tongguan and Wushengguan. Both passes are natural danger. It is not so easy for Beiyang Army Beiyang Army to attack Hubei District.

"This war is not just for us, but for the whole of China. Yuan Shikai, a dictator and traitor, must step down!" When Tan Renfeng had to argue, Li wanted to say coldly, "This is a military order. If you understand it, you have to implement it. If you don't understand it, you have to implement it!"

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