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October 25, 1908.
Today, a shocking news came out in the world political arena.
The US government announced that it would establish the position of "Minister to the Autonomous Government of Southwest China" and establish the US Embassy in Southwest China in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, dispatching Jia Leheng as the first minister. .
In addition, the United States also announced that the "Great White Fleet", which had just completed its visit to Yokohama, Japan, would change its schedule and all go to Guangzhou for an official goodwill visit to the southwest government.
In the original time and space, the "Great White Fleet" only sent a detachment to Xiamen.
But this time they came in full force.
The meaning of this action could not be more obvious.
The United States regards the southwest government as the legal representative of China.
As soon as the news came out, all countries were in an uproar.
The Qing Dynasty and all the major powers were embarrassed.
The great powers are not stupid, and they are very clear about the purpose of this approach by the United States.
However, only upstarts like the Yankees can do such an explicit and rough job.
Diplomats from the old powers said one after another: Damn it, Yankees, you still have to be shameless.
The Southwest Autonomous Government of the Socialist Party is, at best, a local government, and at worst, an anti-government separatist force.
Such a force can actually send envoys and establish formal diplomatic relations.
Although the Qing Dynasty is only half alive, it is not dead yet.
Niu Niu's foreign minister laughed and said: Only a group of rough cowboys in the countryside of the New World can do such a crude, unskilled and shameless thing.
Yingjiang: You, a thousand-year-old shit-maker, have the nerve to say such things.
No matter how shameless I am, I’m not as good as you Rooster's diplomats also complained: Poor Americans, they are so desperate to find allies that they don't even let go of an anti-government armed force.
Yingjiang: Damn, have you ever seen such a tyrannical and cool rebel?
I, the Qing Dynasty, did not dare to complain like this.
The Yankees were still great powers no matter what, and the Qing Dynasty could not afford to offend them.
They weakly protested to the United States.
But for the extremely thick-skinned Yingjiang, no matter whether they protested or ridiculed, they pretended not to hear it.
In just one sentence they drew back the noise.
"The laws of the United States do not restrict a country from being able to send only one minister.
The number of ministers we send depends on needs.
It is our internal affairs and will not be interfered with by other countries."
To be honest, the diplomatic methods and political strategies of the United States during this period were indeed very immature, and often gave people a feeling of being silly, naive, pornographic, and violent.
In other words, they were "middle-class."
This is also something that cannot be helped.
Regardless of the situation, whether it is diplomatic means or political strategies, it is wisdom that needs to be accumulated by history.
What the United States lacks most is history.
How much accumulation can a country with a history of less than 200 years have?
Therefore, they often do some very stupid things, hitting something with a hammer or a stick.
They often do whatever comes to mind without considering the consequences, and their thinking is extremely out-of-the-box.
For example, the Chinese Exclusion Act is a typical example.
When it comes to discrimination against China, no major power these days is an exception.
But when it comes to the most discriminatory and anti-China country, the United States certainly does not rank first.
Compared with Germany, which organized the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and ordered the army to "leave no Chinese prisoner," Russia and Japan, which slaughtered Chinese people like cattle, and Britain, which desperately trafficked drugs into China, what the United States has done is really nothing.
No matter how anti-China and no matter how discriminatory these powers are against China, they will never enact such a thing as the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Because they all know that some things can be done but cannot be said, and even if they are said, it should not be made into a legal form.
It is better to do things absolutely than to say nothing.
This is political wisdom.
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A biting dog should not bark.
Only the United States, a second-middle country, can shout loudly without doing much.
To be honest, things like the Chinese Exclusion Act did not cause much substantive harm to China, but more of a facial harm.
However, for China, this kind of slap in the face is even more unacceptable.
Then the Chinese began to boycott American goods, and the United States was dumbfounded.
They regretted the loss of a large number of markets, so they had no choice but to launch a study abroad program with Geng Geng funds to restore their reputation, and quickly adjusted the applicable objects of the bill.
If it were the United States 100 years later, it would never make such a stupid mistake.
Being thick-skinned has always been a glorious tradition of the United States, not to mention that they are still in their second term, so things like "sending two ministers to the same country at the same time", which is an obvious violation of diplomatic conventions, are done without shame and with confidence. .
They are really anxious.
The current Yingjiang is far from the awesome and coaxing Yingjiang 100 years ago.
At this time, the Yingjiang is actually very isolated.
The established powers all look down on this upstart.
The most important thing is that it has nothing to do with Niu Niu, the current "big brother" of the earth.
It has to give Niu Niu some face.
Naturally, it is not easy to interact with Yingjiang too much.
Those powers don't have it.
He is so middle-aged and does things without considering the consequences.
In this era, there are few independent countries on the earth.
The great powers are all united.
Countries that are not great powers have their own bosses, let alone colonies.
As for the United States, who is it?
It's just a nouveau riche.
What a cow.
The United States is so embarrassed now.
The circles of the great powers reject it and don't let it play with it.
Other non-great powers don't care about it even if their bosses are protecting it.
Moreover, the most important thing is that Niu Niu is now very hostile to it.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance is not only used to deal with Mao Xiong, but also has an important role in targeting it.
Now that Mao Xiong has fallen into a trap with Niu Niu, all the pressure from this alliance has gone to its side.
There are cows in the east and chickens in the west.
Yingjiang, who is making sandwich biscuits, really feels a lot of pressure.
He needs his friends so much.
But looking around the world, there is not even a helper, let alone an ally, not even a younger brother.
Yingjiang has a lot of money in her hand, but she can't even find a place to spend it.
What the hell is this?
You said that the one in the Philippines can only be regarded as a maid.
It's good if it doesn't cause any trouble.
If you want to rely on the Philippines for help, you should just go to bed.
In recent years, this situation has become more serious.
The world's powers have been clearly divided into two camps, and the United States has been excluded.
This feeling of being isolated from the world is really uncomfortable, so in the original time and space, the United States had been trying to win over China before World War I.
For example, it suggested promoting the diplomatic envoys of both sides to ambassadors, canceling all Boxer Indemnities, and even forming a joint fleet, etc.
All kinds of imaginative suggestions.
However, since the Qing Dynasty is really unable to hold up the wall, these plans have failed.
The United States wants to find an ally that can share the pressure with it, not a troublemaker.
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But now, things have finally taken a turn for the better.
The Socialist Party of Science and Technology regime has emerged.
This force is different from any force in China before.
They are quite modern and have strong economic, technical and organizational capabilities.
The army Very strong in combat and quite capable of fighting.
The most rare thing is that most of the main leaders of this force are "born in the United States" and "educated in the United States."
They are naturally pro-American.
Friends like this are so rare.
If you miss it, you may never find it again.
So in order to win over this little friend, Yingjiang was shameless and took action in a hurry.
Of course, another very important point is that Wen Desi and the giants in the United States began to cooperate closely a few years ago, and these giants can influence US policies.
Three days later, on October 28, the Southwest China Autonomous Government and the United States jointly announced to the outside world that the two sides had signed a Treaty of Trade, Friendship and Mutual Assistance between China, Southwest and the United States.
This is a fairly equal treaty.
The main content is that the two sides will grant each other most-favored-nation treatment, treat each other's companies in their own countries with the same treatment as their own companies, facilitate each other's commercial activities, and provide no less favorable treatment to each other's nationals.
Any third country etc.
These treaties are relatively normal, but the focus is on the additional clauses at the end.
The United States publicly announced that the unequal treaties originally signed with the Qing court would automatically become invalid within the jurisdiction of the Southwest China Autonomous Government.
Give up all extraterritorial rights, concessions and spheres of influence within the jurisdiction of the Southwest China Autonomous Government, give up the Boxer Indemnity that should have been shared among the Southwest China Autonomous Government, and support the Southwest China Government in withdrawing tariffs and amending treaties with other countries.
Moreover, they also provided the southwestern government with an interest-free loan of US$100 million in assistance and a low-interest loan of US$100 million with an annual interest rate of 1, which can be repaid in 20 years.
In addition, the United States has also made adjustments to the original Chinese Exclusion Act.
Although it is difficult to abolish the act, it is also stated in the treaty that this act does not apply to Chinese holding passports from the Southwest China Autonomous Government.
In fact, Wen Desi did not have much reaction to the Chinese Exclusion Act, because the Chinese Exclusion Act targeted immigrants to the United States, and Wen Desi did not advocate Chinese immigration to the United States.
In his plan, China There are not enough people at all, and immigration is a waste.
He also wished that the United States would be more strict about immigration.
If the Chinese Exclusion Act was not only aimed at banning Chinese immigration, which seemed too shameful, he would even strongly support it.
But the Yankees didn’t know Mr.
Wen’s thoughts.
They were frightened by the strong reaction from the Chinese some time ago.
They were worried that this bill would cause dissatisfaction with the southwest government, so they took the initiative to propose that the bill would not apply to the Chinese in the southwest government, and promised that they would Repeal this bill as soon as possible.
Well, to put it simply, the areas under the jurisdiction of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology are separated from other forces.
Of course, it seems that the United States has taken advantage of this treaty because their industry is more developed, but they don’t know that President Wen and the Party of Science and Technology are cheating.
This advantage will not last long.
In a few years, they will I will regret it.
However, the most interesting part of this treaty is the undisclosed content: the two sides agreed to establish an offensive and defensive alliance in international activities against Britain and Japan, and to maintain a consistent attitude.
If one side is attacked by Britain and Japan, the other side should do what it can. of assistance.
It was also agreed that after the Socialist Party of Science and Technology government gains national power in the future, the United States will recognize it as soon as possible and raise the envoy level to the ambassadorial level.
To this end, the United States will manufacture various weapons and equipment for China at low prices and ensure that the price will not be higher than the price of similar weapons sold to any third country.
In addition, the United States will decommission the four old battleships bb1bb4 and the twelve Bainbridge-class destroyers dd1dd12 currently in service in the Navy, and "sell" them to the Southwest at a symbolic price of US$16 per ship in the name of scrapping the ships. government to strengthen the naval power of the southwestern government and assist the southwestern government in training its navy.
The obligation of the southwest government is to contain Japan's military power and contain the British colonies in South and Southeast Asia.
It can threaten them when appropriate.
The United States has great confidence in the army power of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology.
In addition, it provides the drawings and manufacturing technology of armed airships that the United States is interested in.
The United States pays a technology transfer fee of 6 million US dollars.
This amount does not have to be paid and is used to offset the construction costs of six large warships recently ordered by the southwest government
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