Beiyang reactionaries

Give the current situation a huge boost.

Other provinces are also very concerned.Looking at the current situation in Anhui, if other provinces also make trouble like this, the casualties will be serious.

"Prime Minister, this is the main content of the 'London Understanding' signed by various countries and Germany in the London meeting that we have sorted out."

While Duan Xun was having a headache with domestic industrial issues, education issues, financial issues, and local clan issues, the world situation was constantly changing.

Japan's earthquake relief work has basically come to an end, but rebuilding industrial areas cannot be accomplished in a day or two, or in a year or two.Because that is the most important industrial area in Japan.In history, Japan frantically plundered resources from China and the Korean Peninsula, which reduced its losses a lot.However, it is currently impossible to plunder resources from China, which will deal a big blow to Japan.

After all, so many resources imported from China were either mined by themselves or purchased at low prices.But now we have to buy according to the market price.

Every year just to buy these resources, Japan will spend tens of millions of silver dollars.This is worse for the current Japan.So during this period of time, Japan has been quiet and has been dealing with domestic affairs.

The United States has once again fallen into isolation diplomacy.

After World War I, the United States originally wanted to flex its muscles in the world.It's a pity that at the Paris Peace Conference, it was run on by Britain and France.Therefore, isolationism is once again rising in the United States.

Of course, the center of the world is still Europe.

mixed.

Great powers such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union continued to have disputes in Europe.

Britain's newly appointed Ramsay Macdonald has completed his campaign slogan step by step. In March 1924, the Navy's plan to build a new military base in Singapore was cancelled.It is believed that the current United Kingdom does not have the strength to continue to increase its strength in the Far East, and there is no need to continue to strive for hegemony in the Far East.

Immediately afterwards, he proposed that he was going to recognize the Soviet government and negotiate a trade treaty with the Soviet government.

Of course, the main problem is the debt problem.

During World War I, Tsarist Russia borrowed a lot of money from Britain and France.But after the establishment of Soviet Russia, it negotiated peace with Germany and withdrew from World War I.As a result, Britain and France intervened in the Tsarist-Russian civil war and fought many battles with Soviet Russia. The relationship between the two sides was very stiff.The Soviet Union announced that it would not recognize the debt issue signed before.

The bankers on the British and French sides were furious.

This is also one of the main contents of the negotiations between Britain and the Soviet Union.That is, the Soviet Union should admit these loans. As long as you admit these things, then everyone can talk about everything.

Trade treaties can be signed.

Everyone can do business.

After entering June, the United Kingdom and the main allies of the First World War held a meeting in London, and also invited representatives of Germany, the main defeated country in the First World War.The "London Understanding" was signed at the conference between the World War I Allies and Germany.

Chinese representatives also participated in this London meeting.

Therefore, it also sends news to the country at any time.

"Not bad."

Duan Xun flipped through the contents of the "London Understanding".

Okay.

In fact, the United Kingdom felt that the suppression of Germany since the end of World War I was too strong, which made France's strength in the European continent stronger and stronger.

and the dramatic expansion of Soviet influence.

Although Britain is prepared to improve relations with the Soviet Union, it must also guard against the Soviet Union.

"Speed ​​up the negotiations with the UK, and there can be appropriate concessions."

Duan Xun was also a little anxious.

The goddamn shit-scrambler of the UK.Originally, Duan Xun thought that negotiating with the UK would be relatively simple, but the UK still put on airs and looked down on the current China.

There are too many conditions in the negotiation.

Duan Xun was quite annoyed.

However, seeing that Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany are beginning to improve their relations, Duan Xun also needs to speed up negotiations with Britain.

"Especially if British companies want to invest and build factories in China, we can make some tax concessions for such factories."

"Yes."

"Difficult negotiations can be pushed, and simple negotiations can be completed as soon as possible."

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"it is good."

Duan Xun wants to carry out domestic financial reform and currency reform as soon as possible, so he made a lot of concessions in the negotiations with the United Kingdom.Originally, Duan Xun had many conditions for foreign investors to invest in China.Prepare to limit the situation where foreign businessmen can set up companies in China at will.

But this time it was a big step forward.

Except for special industries, mainly financial institutions, for foreign businessmen, it should be said that the restrictions on British businessmen investing in China have not only been greatly reduced, but many preferential tax terms have been added.

British businessmen are allowed to invest directly in China to build factories.

Then there is the issue of the right of navigation in the inland sea.

Duan Xun was still very tough at the beginning, and planned to completely cancel the right of foreign ships to navigate in China's inland waters.But as the negotiations deepened, Duan Xun kept making concessions.The final bottom line is that British warships cannot have the right to navigate inland waters.However, the merchant ships of British merchants can sail into China's inland seas and directly enter the river to do business.

And promise the United Kingdom to restrain the domestic "anti-British" wave and restore normal market order.

The Chinese government supports the legitimate business of British merchants in China and the normal circulation of British goods in China.Then the last concession is that China supports the pound as the world currency and mainly uses the pound for foreign exchange transactions.

Including materials exported from China, except for the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, when settling with other countries, either sterling or gold and silver are used.China is a poor country, but China's annual import and export volume is not very small.

Because China is a big country.

There are a lot of resources exported every year, and there are also a lot of things imported every year. At least a few hundred million silver dollars a year, and sometimes more than a billion silver dollars.This kind of concession by Duan Xun immediately stabilized the position of the pound in the Far East, which was greatly affected by the First World War.

Because China decided to use sterling in foreign trade, the flow of sterling in the Far East was even greater than before World War I.Just between China and Japan, the annual transaction volume is nearly [-] million silver dollars.

In the past, Japanese yen was used directly.

But in the past two years, the yen has continued to depreciate, and the yen has been kicked out of the ranks of international currencies by powerful countries such as Britain, the United States and France.It is also impossible for China to use such a devalued currency as the Japanese yen as a trading currency.

Therefore, China promised the United Kingdom that in addition to gold and silver, all transactions with Japan will be in British pounds.In this way, in order to buy China's resources, Japan must either use their gold and silver reserves, or they can only reserve pounds.This is of great benefit to the flow of sterling in East Asia.

China's concessions have brought rapid results to the negotiations between China and the United Kingdom.

On June 1924, 6, China and Britain signed the "Sino-British Beijing Treaty" in Beijing.The two countries have reached an agreement in four areas.First, Britain formally signed a treaty waiving reparations.

Of course, it is mainly the issue of Boxer indemnity.

In the past, China and the UK have reached a certain consensus on this aspect, especially at the Washington Conference.But this is the first time a contract has been signed.