Beiyang reactionaries

Lack of leaders with strong appeal, lack of funds, and lack of organizational capacity of the party, it can be said that it is a moment of life and death.Faced with the current situation, if the Kuomintang does not save itself, it will soon disappear.

Therefore, they also responded positively to Duan Xun's incorporation of the Kuomintang.It's just that they were the largest party in the past after all, and they have always claimed to have made great contributions to the revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, so they have more demands.

Therefore, negotiations between the two parties have been carried out several times. Although a lot of progress has been made, some issues have not yet reached consensus.

"President, what happened?"

Yang Wei was puzzled.

Call yourself over at such a late night.Yang Wei has been adjusting his strategy for negotiating with the Kuomintang.Because Yang Wei knew that this was the last step, as long as the Kuomintang was annexed, the Congress would be reconvened, and there would be little restraint on Duan Xun.

Because regardless of how members of Congress are elected, most of the positions will eventually fall into the hands of the BJP.In the early days, the People's Party was a party established in the military model, and the obedience of the entire party was far from what the KMT could match.

For example, in the second revolution, Sun Yat-sen called for armed resistance and asked the Kuomintang members of Congress to go south, but very few people responded.But according to the discipline of the People's Party, if the People's Party Central Committee makes a decision, if the people below do not follow up, the punishment will be quite severe.

So as long as most of the members of Congress are members of the People's Party, Duan Xun, as the leader of the People's Party, can justifiably control the cabinet and serve as the prime minister of the cabinet.The position of the current prime minister of Duan Hoon's cabinet was selected by the provisional Senate.

It is still mostly temporary.

When the National Assembly is formally elected, Duan Xun will be the real prime minister.At that time, Duan Xun will not only be the top executive of the cabinet, but also control the highest legislative body, the Congress.

On the contrary, the power has been greatly increased.

"Look at it."

Duan Xun handed over the telegram from Beijing to Yang Wei.Yang Wei took a look at it and said, "It seems that Japan is very determined to stabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula."

"Yes."

Duan Xun nodded.

Said: "The Japanese side would rather make so many concessions than ask us not to interfere in the affairs of the Korean Peninsula. It seems that Japan is really in a hurry."

The telegram from Beijing was about the Sino-Japanese negotiations.

Kijuro Kishihara came to Beijing in person to negotiate with the Chinese government. It can be seen that the Japanese side attaches great importance to this negotiation.

In this negotiation, the Japanese side mainly raised three points.

The first is to ask China to respect Japan's rule over the Korean peninsula, and not to have the kind of military conflict before.Demand that the Chinese government not recognize the legitimacy of the North Korean government-in-exile, and that the Chinese government cut off its support for the North Korean rebel forces.

The second is to ask China to stop anti-Japanese sentiments and refrain from hostile acts against Japanese products.Ask China to treat Japanese merchants and Japanese goods equally.

The third is to hope to sign a trade agreement with China, mainly a barter agreement.

For these conditions, Japan is also willing to make concessions.Such as punishing the frontline officers who provoked troubles, willing to import more resources from China.

As for the bombing of the Japanese army by Chinese planes, and the return of the Chinese army to annihilate the Ningji Regiment of Gangcun, Japan did not mention it, as if it had never happened.

"It's impossible not to be in a hurry."

Yang Wei put down the call and reported: "In the past two years, Japan has invested a lot of money in mining on the Korean Peninsula, and the mining of coal, iron ore, copper ore, and tungsten ore has increased dramatically. Japan's mining of these resources from the Korean Peninsula meets at least one-third of Japan's needs. First, I heard that Japan hopes that the Korean Peninsula can provide half of the resources they need. Even some mines, such as tungsten ore and iron ore, Japan hopes to export to earn money. This will greatly reduce the pressure on Japan’s finances.”

"kindness."

The Korean peninsula is a small place, but it has a lot of resources.

Although the Korean peninsula has no oil and no bituminous coal (coking coal raw material) needed by the iron-making industry, other minerals are abundant.

If fully developed, it can even meet most of the resources needed by Japan's industrial development.

"However, since the riots on the Korean Peninsula at the beginning of the year, Japan has been unable to plunder these resources from the Korean Peninsula at all. Therefore, it can only increase imports. In the past few months, Japan's imports of coal, iron ore, tungsten ore, etc. from my country have increased. More than 30.00%, and it is still growing. The bigger problem is that Japan originally wanted to increase taxes from the Korean peninsula to supplement their financial loopholes. But now the Korean peninsula is constantly fighting, not to mention subsidizing finances, but instead Continue to increase military expenditure. This will definitely make Japan's current finances worse. If the situation on the Korean Peninsula cannot be pacified, Japan's finances will definitely be dragged down."

"Brother Xinye, let's see if we should sign this contract."

"sign."

Yang Wei nodded.

Duan Xun thought for a while and said, "It will also benefit our country to ease the relationship with Japan and increase some trade exchanges between the two sides. In recent years, most of the machinery and equipment imported by our country are from European and American countries, and the price is relatively expensive. If we can Importing some machinery and equipment from Japan will definitely be much cheaper. But I am thinking about the North Korean government in exile. If we sign this contract, how will we handle our relationship with them? Will it affect the cooperation between our two companies? relation."

"Prime Minister, you worry too much."

Yang Wei smiled and said: "We signed the contract, but it doesn't mean that we won't cooperate with the Korean Independence Army. Japan can't expect to break the relationship between us and the Korean Independence Army with a single contract. They just don't want to let Our military directly interferes with Japan’s actions on the Korean peninsula. As for the Korean Independence Army, as long as our country can remain strong, it doesn’t matter to us what the surrounding countries think.”

"Since ancient times, if the Central Plains is strong, the frontiers will be stable, and the relationship between neighboring countries and us will be good. If the Central Plains is weak, the frontiers will be troubled, and the relationship between neighboring countries and us will also deteriorate. Since the Opium War, our country has been bullied by big powers in turn. As a result, both the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam were controlled by the big powers. After all, it is our own reason. As long as we are strong, then the surrounding countries, which should be East Asia and Southeast Asia, will naturally be close to us. So these There is nothing to worry about. The only thing we have to do is make us strong."

Duan Xun nodded.

Yang Wei's idea is good, it coincides with his own.

Asia is the Asia of Asians, and Asia is China's Asia.Since ancient times, China has been the central country of Asia, and the surrounding countries are all China's vassal states and protected areas.

As long as China is strong, suppresses Japan, and pushes out the influence of the great powers, then the surrounding small countries will naturally follow China.

This is inevitable.

Small countries have the way of survival of small countries, and their diplomacy is very flexible.For those small countries, it is their instinct to depend on a powerful country.As long as China becomes the most powerful country in Asia, those small countries will naturally know how to choose.

"You mean you can sign?"

"can."

"Sign, sign. It's just a pity that the strength of the Korean Independence Army is still too weak. Without the help of our army, I don't know how long they can last."

"Prime Minister, why should you care about whether you can persist? As long as they hold Japan back for a day, Japan will suffer heavy losses in just a few months. From an economic analysis, Japan must have lost a lot in the riots on the Korean Peninsula. [-] million yen. The transportation and mining sites destroyed by the North Korean Independence Army cannot be restored without investing tens of millions. Moreover, it is not a matter of a month or two to restore, and it is impossible to restore this matter without two or three years. The loss caused. This is not a small blow to Japan."

The goal is achieved.

This time, within a few months, the damage caused by the Korean Independence Army on the Korean Peninsula was very serious.Japan wants to re-build transportation, re-mining, re-build grassroots institutions, and re-improve the tax system without investing huge sums of money, and it is impossible without a certain amount of time.

The blow to Japan is very big.Originally, Duan Xun did not expect the Korean Independence Army to recover the motherland by itself and expel Japan from the Korean peninsula.

"And didn't the Korean Independence Army say that there are more than 2 troops? And the North Korean government-in-exile has a guard force of about 2000 people. It is not impossible to make up about 3 people if we absorb more these days. With so many troops, it is a day if they can be delayed, and it is a day if they can fight for a day. It would be even better if they can be delayed for a few months. When they really can't hold on, they can withdraw to the Northeast. Time to go back and make a fuss."

"kindness."

Duan Xun nodded, and said: "Okay. I know what you said."

It is now 1925, and in a few years there will be a worldwide economic crisis.Now start to drag Japan, let Japan's finances continue to deteriorate.

When the economic crisis broke out, Japan's finances would completely collapse.As long as Japan's finances collapse, there are only two ways for Japan to go.One is to streamline the administration and reduce the size of the army.The other is the road of militarism, taking the road of expanding the army.But no matter which way it is, Japan will not be China's opponent at that time.

"What's going on with the KMT?"

"Although they have a lot of conditions, none of them have any issues of principle. I think they will be able to reach an agreement in a month or so."

"it is good."