Chapter 364
In the "foreigners' residence" in Dongjiaomin Lane, Japanese representative Kenji Yoshizawa poured black tea for British representative Lam Possen. The British upper class liked to drink afternoon tea, and as a learner, Japan also learned this.
Lan Pusheng is an elite civil servant in the British Foreign Office, and so is Yoshizawa Kenki. Looking at Yoshizawa Kenki's skillful black tea brewing techniques, he recalled the information he saw.
Kenyoshi Yoshizawa was born in 1874 and was 16 years older than He Rui. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1899 and later joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as deputy consul in Xiamen, Shanghai, Niuzhuang and other places. He served as Consul General in Hankou in 1912. He served as Counselor of the Embassy in China in 1916. He served as Director of the Asian Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1919.
This Japanese elite diplomat came to China as a ‘representative’. Is his purpose to seek conflict with the He Rui regime or something else? Lampus is more curious.
Adding milk to the black tea and stirring it with a small spoon, Lan Pusheng heard Kiyoshi Yoshizo sigh: "I didn't expect that the milk supply in China has increased so quickly. It was not easy to buy milk before."
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"Yes." Lan Pusheng just responded and waited for the other party to continue talking.
"The He Rui government is investing in a large amount of railways. The National Defense Force of the Republic of China arrived in Yunnan from the northeast within one month, and it may be completed in just two or three years." After Funze Qianji finished speaking, he picked up the black tea and drank it, waiting for Lan Pusheng to answer.
In the internal news of the British Foreign Ministry, Japan is making hints about the UK's "rebuilding the British-Japanese alliance". After all, the Japanese are Japanese, and this country completely lacks the pleasure of China. He Rui is making their diplomatic demands and making various bluffing threats. If the Japanese want to sell themselves, they have to let the British raise prices on their own initiative. Lan Pusheng also decided to cooperate, put down the teacup and asked: "Is your country ready to rebuild a powerful army?"
Kenji Yoshizawa followed the topic of Lan Pusheng, "From current experience, the scale of a permanent army that can maintain order in the Far East must reach 600,000."
"How did you come to this conclusion?" Lampson asked in a curious manner.
"The number of troops of the Soviet Red Army is not public. Judging from the Russian civil war, its number is probably similar to the Tsarist Russian era, with 2 million standing troops." Kenji Yoshizawa asked a question, "Have you seen the news of the bandit suppression of the Republic of China government?"
Lan Pusheng did not pretend to be stupid and replied frankly: "I have seen it."
"Every county in China has deployed a battalion, with about 600 light infantry soldiers in suppressing bandits. China has less than 1,500 counties. According to this number, the National Defense Force of the Republic of China invested 900,000 troops. In addition to the approximately 500,000 troops left in the northeast, as well as logistics, air force and... naval forces, the total number of the National Defense Force of the Republic of China is more than 1.5 million."
Listening to Fangze Qianji's special mention of the "navy" of the National Defense Forces of the Republic of China, Lan Pusheng felt that Fangze Qianji's provocation was too explicit. The navy of the Republic of China was weak and not worth mentioning, but in order to defend its merchant ship routes, the Republic of China would indeed develop a navy. Ten years later, if the He Rui regime did not have major problems, Britain would have to face a little trouble.
"If the 600,000-standing Army cannot be maintained, we are not qualified to participate in the discussion of the Far Eastern order." Yoshizawa Kenki summarized.
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Lan Pusheng held the teacup and savored it slowly, judging the attitude of Japan in his heart. At present, China and the Soviet Union were isolated internationally, so they naturally sent a group to keep warm. According to the news obtained by the UK, Sino-Soviet trade is developing rapidly. The railway sleepers and mine sleepers laid by China now are above 95 orders placed by China two years ago. Now it is transporting domestically to China with trains, ships and ships.
Britain dared to block a small number of poor Chinese ships in the South China Sea, but did not dare to intercept the Soviet Union's cargo ships from China. Since Japan has put forward a view, Lan Pusheng asked: "Is Japan capable of inspecting suspicious ships?"
"In the era of the British-Japanese alliance, Japan received a lot of support. As long as it can get enough support, Japan is fully capable of inspecting any suspicious ships. After all, this is very beneficial to world peace. Of course, Japan also hopes to make greater contributions to world peace through trade with Southeast Asia."
Before Trump arrived in China, he worked in Southeast Asian colonies for a long time. Kenji Yoshizawa's request to put Britain in Japan's trade in Southeast Asia also sounded reasonable to Lampson. What Japan needs most is raw materials and markets. Now Sino-Japanese trade is interrupted, and the only markets closest to Japan are the United States and Southeast Asia.
The United States is the country with the highest industrial output value in the world today, with its industrial strength above Japan. The products sold to the United States mainly include raw silk and handicrafts. The only market that can truly accept the poor quality of Japan's industrial products is Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is also a region where the UK dumps industrial products. If part of the market is given up, the UK's interests will be damaged.
"I wonder what the outlook for the British-Japanese alliance in Japan is like?" Lampushen asked. Times have changed. The previous British-Japanese alliance was mainly aimed at Russia. The weak China is not the main target of the British-Japanese alliance. Now China has become the most powerful force in the Far East. Lampushen naturally wants to figure out Japan's concept of the reconstruction of the "British-Japanese Alliance" as much as possible.
The UK and Japan drink black tea, and the Chinese Minister of Commerce Mori Xun and his comrades drank flower tea. Flower tea comes from Fujian, Zhuang Jiaxiong's hometown. The new government has made great efforts to eliminate trade barriers. Various Likin checkpoints have been cancelled and transportation is unimpeded. But new requirements have also emerged, which is to package and write the ingredients clearly on the packaging. Many of the current focus of the Ministry of Commerce's current work is in this regard.
However, Morrison was discussing another thing with his comrades at this time. The Director of the North American Trade Department reported to the Ministry of Commerce about the recent trade content with American merchants. Tea, raw silk, tung oil, and bristles are also the largest export category.
"...These American merchants want raw silk, and the processing level they can accept is only as high-wrapped raw silk, and they don't even accept dyed raw silk. Not only the United States, but other industrial countries except the Soviet Union, basically do not import industrial products. They are only interested in bulk commodities such as raw materials. All industrial countries are trying to establish a self-sufficiency industrial system in their own countries!"
Speaking of this, the director of the North American Department picked up the flower tea and took a sip, and couldn't help but complain, "If agriculture is also regarded as industrialized food production, self-sufficiency is not only a small peasant economy. The industrial systems of various countries are also self-sufficiency!"
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No one laughed. Because this is a very serious problem, the comrades felt a lot of pressure. Just a year ago, China was still a market for dumping industrial products in various countries. China obviously could not understand the problem that all countries had established a "self-sufficiency" industrial system. The situation is completely different now, and the new perception has caused all the past ideas of comrades to be overturned.
Morrison understood this earlier, saying: "Comrades can now understand why the European War started? We can also understand why the British-Japanese alliance was established and when the Sino-French War was fought, the United Kingdom would be opposed."
It actually makes me feel very funny when I was said by the foreigner Mori Xun. However, the members of the Ministry of Commerce have had a long experience in working together. In addition, Mori Xun's Chinese has no foreign flavor at all. After a long time of fortifications, no one will deliberately remember that Mori Xun is a foreigner.
The content I learned before was only learned. Faced with the current situation, comrades couldn't help but reflect. After China was unified, the Chinese market belonged to China. Whoever allowed the government of the Republic of China could come. Whoever was not allowed to come was standing outside the door. With clear ownership divisions in all regions around the world, the world became clearer.
Some comrades couldn't help but sigh, "It would be great if China's reunification could be completed before the end of the European War."
This sigh made comrades feel resentful, but this sigh is meaningless. Everyone can only sigh.
Morrixun felt that China was lucky enough. He Rui led everyone to fight hard and finally completed China's independence before the outbreak of the next world war, and prepared for the future war.
The prediction that the next world war must break out has become increasingly consensus within the Civilized Party and among the top leaders of the Republic of China government. When China gained security, the perspective and mentality of the upper-level viewpoint and mentality of looking at problems changed. From various perspectives, the economic contradictions between countries have not only not been eliminated, but have intensified because of the Versailles system.
The core of the Versailles system is to recognize the power and legitimacy of the British and French colonial empires, which excludes all other industrial countries from the colonies and leaves no room for other countries. With the outbreak of future economic crises, countries that cannot solve the problems by relying on the domestic market will inevitably choose other paths. War is undoubtedly a good choice.
As for China's choice, at least He Rui set a strategic direction. Since colonialism is evil and cruel, especially colonialism is "extremely inefficient" in developing productivity, in most aspects, colonialism will destroy the development of productivity in the colonies. As for such facts, China promotes the establishment of a more efficient, fairer and more humane new international order for the development of global productivity, that is, the new "earth civilization", which is China's foreign policy.
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Such discussions at the meeting of the Ministry of Commerce are not in line with the work arrangements of the Ministry of Commerce itself, but everyone has indeed felt something new because of the changes in their horizons, and the Party Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce is also happy to see such discussions.
The Unification War launched by the Civilized Party has not ended completely until now. In areas with harsh geographical environment, the battle of the Unification War is still going on, but the battle at the bandit-level suppression level has no impact on the entire country.
At the summary meeting, everyone agreed with He Rui's view. There is an extremely deep social consensus on the implementation of the war of unity in China. The warlords and separatist forces only developed various forms because of their structure and strength, but they all hoped that they could unify China. Not only these guys, but also the Chinese people themselves, also expected unification and agreed with unification.
Land reform was not the first of the Civilized Party. Almost every dynasty in Chinese history implemented excessive policies. This is not a new thing for China. Since China has such a deep social consensus on unification and division of land, the war of unity and subsequent social stability will naturally go smoothly.
Unlike unification and division of land, China is very weak in foreign policy, not to mention the consensus of the whole nation, nor has any historical consensus. If we have to say that there is, it is probably because China was invaded by barbarians in various storytellings, and fought back and defeated foreign enemies. After restoring peace on the border, the Chinese people can live a good life.
The adoption of proactive foreign policy was probably in the Han and Tang dynasties. He Rui's foreign policy was quite like the Han and Tang dynasties, but this policy was unfamiliar to ordinary people, and even failed to reach a complete consensus within the party. Since this discussion can promote consensus, it would be a good thing to continue.
When the content of the Ministry of Commerce's meeting returns to work, everyone has to face a cold real world. The United States is already a very open country in business, and even such countries give priority to protecting domestic industries. This is even more so for those colonial countries.
For example, in order to find a domestic job, the United Kingdom would rather transport cotton from India to the UK to produce cloth and then sell it back to India, and would not vigorously invest in the construction of textile factories in India. In this situation, even if the UK does not have a sharp struggle with China, it would not be possible for Chinese goods to be sold freely in India. Britain is just an example, and the same is true for other colonial countries.
Since there is no way to make breakthroughs from the outside world, the Ministry of Commerce can only turn to China. Now, everyone has another consensus that in terms of industrial layout, He Rui is undoubtedly the number one person in the Republic of China. So far, the preliminary work for several industrial zone layouts proposed by He Rui has begun, especially exploration work.
As He Rui expected, those regions did have a very good mineral foundation and could develop industries around local minerals. This made comrades sigh at He Rui's "History of Earth Evolution" with some mysterious taste.
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Of course, comrades overestimated He Rui. He Rui's industrial layout ability is by no means how amazing He Rui himself is. As long as he studies the origin in a large number of online shopping in another time and space, he can get a lot of information. If he has a certain amount of data analysis ability and knows some people who are more serious about consumption, he can get a lot of knowledge about industrial layout. He Rui only needs to make full use of it with a wise attitude.
For example, most of the jasmine flowers now come from Fujian. Guangxi also has good conditions for producing jasmine flowers, which is one of the many feedbacks to Guangxi in the future plan.
But He Rui must not say to his comrades, "I have all made up my arrangements out of thin air!" If he said this, rational comrades would definitely object. If comrades accept it immediately without thinking, it would be even worse. This blind obedience will turn the Civilized Party into a charlatan organization.
In order to be able to reasonably explain, He Rui could only propose the theory of earth evolution. That is a history of earth evolution spanning billions of years.
Chapter completed!