The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

Chapter 359 Long-sleeved and good at dancing
After Jiang Cheng's repeated questioning, this guy answered with embarrassment that the British were probably not only thinking about blackmailing them, but also wanted to destroy their cooperation.

Seeing his evasive expression, Jiang Cheng remained calm and asked Yan Ziwen to translate "You can say whatever you want".

After looking at each other, Martin and Fernando described the situation in quite conservative terms:

Even though Britain and France were good friends during this World War, the war has become so serious that even the best of partners will have "disharmony" with each other.

After the war, they divided up the world's interests, collected war reparations from the defeated countries, and re-divided the "spheres of influence" of the global colonies.

"In other words, the British are using the Deep Blue Iris incident to compete with you for the ownership of Shanghai and even some of their territories?"

Jiang Cheng understood everything now.

The British are quite clever...

It should be clear that Germany can no longer hold on. In addition, Italy, a fence-sitter, has kicked Austria-Hungary, so there is nothing to fight for. Now is the time to grab money and benefits for themselves before a complete ceasefire and negotiations.

"We met with the British consul twice, but both times ended in unpleasantness."

Fernando was in a dilemma. "Even if we let the ship go north now, we can unload it in Tianjin or Qinhuangdao. There is always a way..."

Yang Yucheng, however, rarely expressed his opposition before the other party finished speaking: "It's not that I am dissatisfied with the plan you two proposed... The key is,"

"Most of the northern region is in a state of tension due to the confrontation between warlords in various places. If merchant ships go north now, there is no way to guarantee safe unloading."

Martin spread his hands when he heard this and said, "The soldiers in Jilin, are they powerless to do anything about this?"

Do you think I'm the boss of China? Besides, do you know how far it is from Changchun to Shanghai...

I am now taking a big risk by being able to intervene in Shanghai under the banner of the Fengtian Army... Is there any one of those three guys from Li Chun who is easy to mess with?
But all these words weighed heavily on his mind. As he was now the military governor of a northeastern province, it was absolutely necessary for him to remain expressionless.

Sure enough, his cold and stern gaze silenced all the Frenchmen.

I almost said it out loud: Master, we all listen to you!
Jiang Cheng rubbed his hands, leaned forward on the table and folded his hands.

Just this one action made all the French people change their expressions and postures. They sat up straight and focused all their attention on the young commander.

"This matter... As the chief executive of Jilin, I, Jiang Cheng, cannot discuss it with the British."

Jiang Cheng smiled calmly and slowed down his speech to the speed at which Yan Ziwen could easily translate.

"You know, Britain and France have a deep friendship in history. Moreover, they have accumulated many years of alliance during the war...so you are the most suitable person to be the middleman!"

"Tell the British that Jilin has coal, iron ore, and inexhaustible timber."

"Jilin Governor Jiang Cheng is waiting for your arrival!"

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It's a pure waste of time to continue talking. These French people are so cunning - of course, the British are the same.

The incident lasted for more than ten days, but it turned out that the essence of the matter remained the same.

One of them was indeed anxious to sell his goods, while the other smelled the benefits of the Northeast and used Jiang Cheng's goods as bait to see how much oil he could squeeze out.

Oil, he has none now.

But he had gold.

In addition to gold, which can be converted into cash directly, Northeast China's timber, coal, iron ore, etc. are all considerable resources. How could these European men not be greedy?
If we simply lay out the interests, is it possible that these greedy British people will just sit back and watch the French reap all the benefits?

"Feilan!"

After the meeting, Jiang Cheng went to his room. Yan Ziwen caught up with him breathlessly and stopped him: "Will you bring disaster to the Northeast?"

His worries were not without reason.

After all, the ancestral skill of these old pirates is to rob, rob, rob...

Once they set their sights on the Northeast, there is no guarantee that war will break out again.

Jiang Cheng raised his hand and patted Yan Ziwen's shoulder, smiling gently as he walked side by side with him: "Brother-in-law's worry is actually not unnecessary if you think about it carefully."

"The two Opium Wars were fought consecutively. Wasn't it because they saw China's geographical advantages and huge market?"

The two men's leather shoes tapped on the marble floor of the Peace Hotel, echoing with a crisp sound: "But the First World War has already been fought to this extent, and the next step will be for countries to start an arms race..."

"They have to import raw materials, and even more so, they have to dump their products to exchange for foreign exchange - what's the point of fighting a bullshit war!"

Yan Ziwen was still worried: "I think what you said makes sense! But what will the Japanese think?"

Jiang Cheng suddenly stopped and turned his gaze back to look at the other person.

The cold gaze of the young commander who had walked out of the hail of bullets instantly made Yan Ziwen retreat half a step, and he lowered his head in panic: "I... said something wrong!"

At this time, Ye Hai smiled

Standing at the door without rushing in, Jiang Cheng shook his head and laughed: "Brother-in-law, I, a soldier, don't want to deal with you scholars!"

"That's really disrespectful... But there's a saying that goes, 'Being good at dancing with long sleeves' is a skill passed down from our ancestors."

"We have established good relations with Britain and France. How can they lack our good things in the future? Once we develop, the initiative will fall to us."

"So... what we can do now is to take advantage of the conflict between Britain and France as much as possible and make the situation as confusing as possible - as long as they have conflicts of interest with each other, we can reap the benefits."

After saying this, Jiang Cheng noticed that Yan Ziwen's face was full of fatigue, so he said something comforting to him again and let him go back and rest first.

There was no progress for two consecutive days. Both the Green Gang and the French Consulate were extremely quiet.

But the two civil servants did not stop working. Relying on Yan Ziwen's classmates and the Zhang family's network of influence, they met many people from foreign companies.

During World War I, the global economy was sluggish and arms dealers were eager to sell their goods, not to mention other foreign merchants.

Yan Ziwen got a large number of foreign goods at a price that was almost half the price of selling them for free, and he also successfully found the mechanical equipment he wanted to buy.

"This price is so low, it makes me doubt it, haha!"

After almost all the business that needed to be discussed was done, Yan Ziwen reported to Jiang Cheng happily, "You don't know, there are some things that I haven't even discussed the price of yet, but these people are afraid that we won't buy them, so they just lower the price!"

"I've never seen a businessman lowering his own price in my life. It seems that what Fei Lan said is true. The people in Europe are so anxious to sell goods to make ends meet."

Jiang Cheng lowered his eyebrows and smiled, then asked, "Still no news from the consulate?"

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