At this moment, the map of China hanging in front of Wang Hengyue looked somewhat decent.
A large part of Mongolia is still there. In fact, since the Beiyang government, Mongolia has been firmly nailed to China's territory. Lake Baikal is on China's territory, and Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tunnel has also returned to China's territory.
.And China’s influence continues to extend throughout Siberia...
In Russia, the White Guards fight against the Soviet Red Army, and the Soviet Red Army fights against the White Guards. It seems that the civil war will not stop in the last few years or more than ten years.
The arrival of winter did the Bolsheviks a big favor. The invincible Chinese troops stopped attacking. They were using the winter supplies that had been continuously transported from the country before, waiting for the cruel winter to pass...
With the truce in the Russian War, the "resolution" of the friction between China and Japan, and the successive recovery of Qingdao, Vladivostok, Jiangdong No. 64 Tun and other places, the Far East seemed peaceful at least on the surface.
The Chinese put their focus on domestic construction, while the Japanese are a little concerned.
Since 1920 AD, the 9th year of the Republic of China, and the 9th year of Taisho in Japan, Japan has never experienced peace after the "rice riot".
Various groups opposed to the Japanese government emerged one after another. In 1920 alone, more than 200 political groups were established openly or secretly.
By 1921, this reached a climax.
These political groups in Japan are constantly suppressed by the Japanese government, but they continue to pop up like mushrooms after a rain. Especially the "Japan Progressive Group Party", "Endeavor Society", "Glorious Society"...
These political groups that are growing in size, power, and influence are even more troublesome for the Japanese government.
These groups are not just as simple as promoting their own political opinions, but are constantly inciting the Japanese people. At the same time, some groups have adopted the most direct method:
Violence!
They attacked Japanese government departments everywhere, assassinated government officials, and even started some small uprisings in some places. Although these uprisings were brutally suppressed at the beginning, they undoubtedly made the Japanese government
fu worried.
God knows when a national riot bigger than the "rice riot" will come...
In Taiwan, Northeast China and North Korea, the Japanese government also does not have to worry.
There is obviously a lot of unrest among the people in Taiwan, and some underground resistance organizations have begun to be established and are active frequently; a large number of "guerrillas" composed of bearded men have appeared in the Japanese-controlled areas of Northeast China; and in North Korea, there have even been many uprisings
, the upper echelons of North Korea also began to quietly voice opposition to Japan...
History is always like this, one goes down and the other goes up.
In the past, Japan firmly suppressed China, but now this situation is quietly changing. China is developing rapidly, and is increasingly gaining a greater say in the Far East and even the entire world.
In January 1921, a U.S. business delegation visited China.
From January to February, during a month-long inspection and negotiation, China and the United States continued to sign more than 300 business cooperation agreements.
U.S. President Warren G. Harding expressed his appreciation and excitement for the success of Sino-US business negotiations, as well as his vision for the future relations between China and the United States.
At the same time, Harding also called Wang Hengyue, the President of the Republic of China, "China's greatest leader in the past thousand years"!
Coming from the mouth of an American president, this title is really surprising.
However, Wang Hengyue did not take this title too seriously. He had already invested a lot in Harding. Just by leasing the U.S. Navy's No. 3 oil field as the American company "Stevin Pan American Oil Company", Wang Hengyue had already invested a lot of money in Harding.
It cost nearly two hundred thousand dollars.
Of course, the rewards of successfully leasing the U.S. Navy's No. 3 oil field are far more than these...
Harding, this peculiar American president, dared to accept any kind of money. This is obviously a rare one among the previous presidents of the United States!
China and the United States maintain a close alliance, and Wang Hengyue and Harding also maintain a close personal relationship. Although part of this "close relationship" is based on money...
While having a good relationship with Harding, Wang Hengyue also strangely ordered to establish a good relationship with US Vice President Calvin Coolidge and helped Coolidge with some of his personal issues.
Does the president of the Republic of China think Coolidge has the possibility of becoming the president of the United States?
God knows. In short, it is difficult for anyone to guess what the President of the Republic of China is thinking in his mind.
The United States and China are very close, and at the same time they are competing with the United Kingdom for maritime hegemony, so the United Kingdom has to pay more attention to its own interests.
China cooperates with Britain in many aspects, especially in naval ship manufacturing. In the Sino-British Cooperation Agreement from 1920 to 1923 alone, China ordered nine warships of different types from Britain and hired a large number of engineers.
But this is obviously not enough...
Britain used to have an ally relationship with Japan, and now it can only continue to maintain an ally relationship. But how to obtain greater benefits from China has become a hard thing for the British to think about.
The New Year of 1921 had just passed, and the Chinese government continued to encourage investment, allowing capitalists to operate freely, and at the same time began to implement trade protection policies. It also implemented special protection for chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries, and announced that the government would not interfere with private enterprises.
And this also allowed China to quietly enter the "industrial boom period of the 1920s"...
During this period, the Chinese government, mainly their President Wang Hengyue, relied on the abundant funds accumulated over the years to continuously open factories, update production equipment, expand production scale, and adopt new technologies to increase factory production scale.
Especially in new technologies, Wang Hengyue has significantly increased investment.
In 1921 alone, Wang Hengyue's research funds for new technologies reached 10 million, and such investments continued to increase.
Companies use a variety of methods to expand advertising and credit purchases to stimulate consumption of cars, housing and large daily necessities.
In the construction industry, in 1918 and 1919, China's total output value in the two years was only US$100 million, equivalent to approximately 200 million Chinese yuan. However, it entered a period of rapid development starting in 1920, reaching US$1.7 billion, approximately US$1.7 billion.
3.4 billion Chinese yuan.
By 1921, such development was unstoppable. In this year, the output value of China's construction industry was US$3.9 billion, equivalent to approximately 7.8 billion Chinese yuan.
But compared with the United States, there is still a big gap. In the same year, the output value of the U.S. construction industry was US$12.8 billion.
However, for Wang Hengyue, he is not worried about this at all. In his view, as long as he concentrates on development and insists on following this path, China will soon hope to catch up with the United States.
The development of the automobile industry is amazing.
Since Wang Hengyue directly controlled "General Motors Company" and "Chevrolet Motor Company", this brought a qualitative leap to China's automobile industry.
Cars continued to roll off the assembly line. In 1921, the number of cars in China surged to 11.6 million, and it continued to increase rapidly. Not only that, 45% of the cars in the United States were controlled by Wang Hengyue
Produced by "General Motors Company" and "Chevrolet Motor Company".
This also means that American money continues to enter Wang Hengyue's pocket...
Negotiations in the Middle East are also going on in full swing. Two British companies acquired by the Rothschild family with the help of Wang Hengyue began negotiations on "mineral exploration" in the Middle East and proposed a 99-year exploration agreement.
For this reason, once the negotiation is successful, Wang Hengyue will pay a large sum of money, but compared with the black gold buried underground in the Middle East, such a payment is too insignificant.
In June 1921, two "British companies" announced their merger into the "Greater Yingyad Oil Company". In the same month, they completed negotiations with the Saudi family and signed a 99-year oil exploration agreement with Ibn Saud.
In this agreement, the "Great Yingyad Oil Company" will hand over a gradually increasing lease payment to Ibn Saudi Arabia every year, and at the same time own all oil exploration rights including Dammam and other places!
"Greater Inyard Oil Company" has no competitors because oil companies all over the world think they are crazy.
No oil company believes that there will be even a drop of oil in the Middle East. To discover oil in the Middle East is simply the most crazy fantasy.
Even the British government kindly reminded the "Greater Yard Oil Company" that it is completely impossible to explore for oil in the Middle East, and the "Greater Yard Oil Company" will be dragged into bankruptcy because of this.
When President Wang Hengyue received the news, he couldn't help but cheered.
It finally belongs to you. The oil buried underground, quietly waiting for humans to exploit it, now belongs to you!
Oil is the lifeblood of a country and will support a huge and powerful empire!
Maybe in the first few years, I will get nothing, I will invest a lot of money in vain, and the "Great Yingyard Oil Company" I own will become the object of everyone's ridicule.
But when your oil well blows out, the whole world will be stunned!
If you control oil, you will control your destiny...
Wang Hengyue thanked God for bringing him to this era, and Wang Hengyue was even more grateful that this era allowed him to do so many things.
All the efforts made before have now paid off, although there will be twists and turns and difficulties of one kind or another on the road ahead.
But he has already experienced so much before, what should he worry about and what should he be afraid of? Wang Hengyue stood at the window, and China outside the window was prosperous. For him and the whole country: