s: If you still have a monthly pass, don’t ask for a recommendation vote. ╮╭ In fact, the United States is just taking the lead in establishing diplomatic relations with the Socialist Party government, and other powers are also considering it.
It’s just that they are not as urgent as the United States.
Upstarts like the Yankees can be shameless, but these established powers still have to consider face.
Moreover, the United States has the least interests in China, so it has few worries.
Even if it gives up all its previous unequal interests, it will still be a profit for them, so they can naturally do whatever they say.
Other powers are not as free and easy as the United States.
The attitude of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology is very clear.
They do not accept unequal treaties.
If they still want to maintain the previous treaties, they will definitely not be able to reach an agreement.
Therefore, the old powers are more hesitant and still making calculations.
Is it a good deal?
But ever since the United States took this initiative, there have been two.
Just a few days after the Sino-US joint announcement, the Germans came to visit.
Although Er Dezi also needs friends now, he is obviously not as anxious as Yingjiang.
Their meaning is very simple.
First of all, they hope to buy an airship and purchase the blueprints and technology at the same time.
Secondly, they are also very interested in the People's Liberation Army's aircraft and army equipment, hoping to inspect them and, if appropriate, purchase some physical objects and technologies.
When the talks with the Americans began, it was Wen Desi who took the initiative personally.
But this time when negotiating with the Germans, the negotiator sent by the Socialist Party of Science and Technology was Public Relations Minister Kafur.
Although the Germans were a little surprised that a Westerner was the negotiator of the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, they were relieved when they thought about their relationship with the United States. , Wen Desi has many Americans under his command.
But after half an hour of negotiations, the Germans angrily labeled Kafur a "foreign traitor".
Judging from your appearance, you are also a Yalian person.
Are you so sleazy to your compatriots?
This ass is completely tilted to the Chinese side.
You are really a fucking idiot.
At that time, Er Dezi's diplomatic methods for the Qing Dynasty were mainly blackmail and threats, but these methods were of little use to a foreigner, and the Germans were not sure about Kafur's origins.
After all, was this guy a representative?
The United States still represents the southwest government, so naturally it does not dare to use these methods casually.
The United States is a second-tier country, and it will collapse if negotiations are not successful.
Er Dezi had long planned to win over the United States, but because Niu Niu's face was so obvious, he couldn't easily offend him.
Without the means they are best at, the Germans naturally felt constrained in the negotiations.
Kafur proposed: Airship technology is our country's most important national defense technology and can only be shared with friendly countries.
The criteria for a friendly country are: establishing diplomatic relations at least at the ministerial level, canceling all unequal treaties, supporting China's tariff independence, and exempting from the Boxer Indemnity.
If Germany meets these four criteria, it can be regarded as a friendly country.
Only by sharing technology can it be discussed. .
This is obviously copying the conditions of the United States.
From the German point of view, this is just an exorbitant asking price.
Not to mention other terms, this exemption from the Boxer Indemnity is too much.
Germany accounted for 20.02% of the Boxer reparations, ranking second after Russia.
Calculated based on the total compensation principal and interest of 1 billion taels, they can get 200 million taels of silver.
Only now they have received more than 3.2 million taels.
They have to give up 196 million taels of compensation.
This price is too much.
Although the airship The technology is indeed very advanced, but it is not worth nearly 200 million taels.
Er Dezi is different from the nouveau riche like America.
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The United States has a lot of money.
It belongs to the kind of rich people who have no place to spend their money.
What they need are friends who can fight.
They are not short of money at all.
Moreover, they only accounted for 7.32 share of the compensation, so they can naturally be very generous.
He said, "Brother is not short of these.
Today, for the sake of brothers, this debt will be forgiven."
And Germany is now holding back its energy to engage in a shipbuilding competition with Britain and is busy making dumplings.
The expenses are too high, how can we save so much money in one go.
Therefore, they do not agree with the "exemption from Gengzi indemnity" clause.
As for the other three items, the first one "establishing diplomatic relations at least at the ministerial level" is a bit embarrassing, but the Yankees have already made a start, and it is not unacceptable if they follow up.
The second article, "Abolition of all unequal treaties" can be partially accepted.
This can be discussed in detail.
Extraterritorial rights and concessions are not required, but the Qingdao concession cannot be given up.
Article 3, "Supporting China's tariff independence" is not a problem at all, because China's tariffs are mainly controlled by the United Kingdom, and Germany is willing to do anything that makes the United Kingdom unhappy.
The negotiations on the first day made little progress, and Kafur said nothing but invited them to visit a medium-sized exercise of the People's Liberation Army.
This exercise was specially prepared for the Germans.
Both the air force and the army were present, and the airships, aircraft and army weapons that Erdezi was most interested in were specially demonstrated.
This time, officers and engineers accounted for more than two-thirds of the German delegation.
They were impressed by this exercise.
Especially the anti-trench warfare demonstrated by the People's Liberation Army, the use of new weapons such as grenades, grenade guns, grenades, mortars, heartless guns, submachine guns, rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, flamethrowers, etc., impressed the Erdezi.
Overjoyed.
Of course, what excited them the most was the Air Force's performance.
Whether it was the "air cruiser" array of armed airships destroying fortresses, or the aircraft's dive bombing of fortresses and trenches, or machine guns licking the ground, they were all excited.
At the same time, the combat effectiveness and military quality displayed by the People's Liberation Army officers and soldiers in the exercise made the Erdezi secretly palpitate.
On the one hand, this exercise is to display new weapons, and on the other hand, it is to flex muscles.
The so-called "pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger" trick does not work between countries.
If you really hide your own strength, the other party will really treat you as a fat pig and kill it.
When it’s time to lighten up your muscles, you have to lighten up your muscles.
The practice of “holding the stems and performing Qi dance” was known to the ancients thousands of years ago.
During the second negotiation, the attitude of the Erdezi changed greatly.
Kafur made it very clear that China can and will only open these new weapons and supporting new tactics to its friends.
If Germany wants to get these, it must show its sincerity in being a friend.
The German delegation has been discussing these days.
After hearing Kafur's request, it immediately said that these conditions can be negotiated, but it needs to ask for instructions from the country and asked to adjourn the meeting for a few days.
Kafur knew they were tempted and agreed with a smile.
The Erdezi immediately reported the situation in detail to William II at home, and emphasized the combat effectiveness of the People's Liberation Army.
They believed that this was a modern army that was no less than that of the European powers, and was completely different from the Chinese army they had seen before. .
And according to current intelligence, the number of this modern army has exceeded 400,000.
A total of 400,000 troops are equipped as much as or even more than the modern armies of many major powers.
This is a very important force that cannot be ignored.
And it is still expanding its army aggressively.
It is said that after the expansion of the army is completed next year, the number will reach 800,000.
Three days later, the German delegation restarted negotiations after receiving domestic instructions.
This time the Germans made a lot of concessions.
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They agreed to the first and third items proposed by the Socialist Party government, and accepted most of the second item.
Except for the Qingdao concession, all other concessions can be returned to China, and they can follow the example of the United States in Within the jurisdiction of the Southwestern Autonomous Government, all unequal treaties, extraterritoriality and other privileges shall be renounced.
For the Gengzi compensation, half of the subsequent compensation amount can be waived, but this half can only be the part that should be allocated within the jurisdiction of the Southwest Autonomous Government, excluding areas ruled by other Chinese forces such as the Qing Dynasty, and what has been paid will not be counted.
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After combining the intelligence sent back by German domestic intelligence reports, the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, after discussion, believed that this was almost Germany's current bottom line, and basically agreed.
Originally, the most important thing when talking to the great powers this time was to get back tariff independence.
It didn't matter if the concessions could be taken back as much as they could.
After the war started, these guys would beg China to take it back.
As for compensation, Wen Desi didn't care the least.
Money was just paper.
One day's work of the Third Printing Factory was enough to pay compensation for more than ten years.
On November 2, 1908, the Southwest China Autonomous Government and Germany issued a joint announcement: the two sides signed a new treaty between China and Southwest Germany and established diplomatic relations at the ministerial level.
In all areas under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Autonomous Government, Germany gave up extraterritoriality, consular jurisdiction and all other privileges brought by the unequal treaty with the Qing court, and would hand over the former German concessions within its jurisdiction to the Southwest Autonomous Government.
Support the Southwest Autonomous Government in regaining customs power and tariff autonomy.
The portion of the original Gengzi compensation that should be shared among the areas under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Autonomous Government will be reduced by 50% for the unpaid balance.
In addition, central and western Germany will continue to carry out balanced trade, with an annual share of no less than 200 million marks and 10 million pounds.
Germany provides a low-interest loan of 200 million marks to the Southwest China Autonomous Government.
The loan is of an aid nature, with no discount, an annual interest rate of 1.5, and a repayment period of 20 years.
At least 75 of them were spent on German products.
Of course, there is also the undisclosed part, which is the military cooperation between the two parties.
China provided Germany with airships, aircraft, a full set of drawings and production processes of the new army weapons on display, as well as some physical samples, and accepted an inspection delegation sent by Germany to exchange new tactics in China.
In fact, it was learning, and it was just a matter of learning.
To save face, Zi said it was "communication".
The total cost of technology transfer fees, data fees and exchange fees for these things is 3.5 million pounds.
Germany will use large-caliber guns, machine tools, production lines and merchant ships to deduct this amount in kind.
Immediately afterwards, Germany brought the Austro-Hungarian Empire over.
Austria-Hungary has always been a soy sauce in China, with fewer interests than the United States and more free and easy than Germany.
The two sides quickly signed the New Treaty of Central and Southwestern Austria.
The content of this treaty was similar to that of Germany, except that Austria-Hungary gave up all the Boxer Indemnity in the areas under the Southwest Autonomous Government, because they only accounted for 0.89 of the indemnity, which was not as much as Belgium. , not much money at all.
Compared with the annual profit of 2 million pounds from balanced trade, this amount of money is negligible.
Moreover, they are also very interested in airships.
What's more, a few months ago, the Socialist Party of Science and Technology placed a large order of 2 million pounds for their Skoda company, purchasing two large-caliber naval guns, 240x and 28045x, as well as 31045x and 36045x.
Development and ordering of two large-caliber naval guns.
The southwestern government transferred airship technology to them at a price of 2 million pounds.
This amount also required them to use large-caliber guns, machine tools, production lines, merchant ships and other physical goods as deductions.
After China, Germany and China signed a new treaty, the great powers such as Britain and France finally could no longer sit still.
If everyone ignores the Socialist Party of Science and Technology, that's okay, but once their opponents come into contact with them, they have to react no matter what.
So on November 10, 1908, the British delegation also arrived in Neijiang
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