African Nationhood

Chapter 420 "Treaty of Sakhalin"

After the British King signed the draft constitution, he declared the establishment of the South China Dominion.

At the National Committee meeting held recently, Chairman Shi Jintang announced that Pretoria will be the capital of the Dominion and officially renamed Pretoria "Hanjing".

This matter has been approved within the National Committee, and the next step is to wait for parliamentary review and approval.

In addition, the Parliament and the Judicial Committee are also stepping up their efforts to formulate a series of laws and regulations. At the same time, Chairman Shi announced that the South China Autonomous Territory does business with other countries in the world, and countries can set up commercial offices and consulates in South China.

Commercial offices can carry out commercial exchanges, and diplomatic consulates mainly solve existing trade problems in the process of trade and do not involve foreign affairs.

The Tsarist Russian trade group and the German Federation's trade group issued trade requests as soon as possible.

The cabinet of the South China Autonomous Territory welcomed this and announced that the Herstal Arsenal under the South China Autonomous Territory can sell new pistols, light machine guns and grenades, but mortars, submachine guns and landmines will not be sold.

The above-mentioned patented technologies for selling weapons are also not for sale. If countries need it, they can discuss it with the London Cabinet.

The condition for the approval of the South China Dominion was that the patents for radios and wireless communication machines be handed over to the British government.

In addition, Tesla had already applied for patents on all these high-tech technologies and products before publishing the wireless communication technology paper.

Ouyang Geng did not dare to act independently according to the requirements of the Tsarist Russian trade group, so he asked Chairman Shi for instructions.

The reason why the Tsarist-Russian trade group arrived so quickly was simply because Japan was going too far.

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Although Popov of Tsarist Russia had already studied radio communication technology in advance, his research was not as far-reaching as that of South China.

This island is rich in resources, including gold, coal, oil, and natural gas. It is also located on the edge of the Hokkaido fishery and is equally rich in fishery and forestry resources.

In 1858 and 1860, Tsarist Russia passed unequal treaties such as the Treaty of Aihun and the Qing-Russia-Beijing Treaty, forcing the Qing government to cede more than one million square kilometers of territory, including Sakhalin Island.

Shi Jintang instructed Ouyang Geng to partially agree, but Tsarist Russia must exchange territory for it. Shi Jintang's goal was Sakhalin Island.

Prime Minister Ouyang Geng personally met with representatives of the Tsarist-Russian business delegation. Through the talks, Ouyang Geng learned the purpose of the Tsarist-Russian business delegation.

The British branch of the European Patent Union has also accepted these applications, so no one can bypass Tesla's patent barriers.

Moreover, the relationship between Britain and South China is very complicated. Their interests are intertwined, but they will naturally align if they have common interests in making money together.

Therefore, the countries that can obtain patent authorization for these key technologies are friendly countries to the British government, including Japan.

Tesla was prompted by Mr. Shi to create the triode, but no one from the Russians was prompted.

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And in a key location in Northeast Asia, it is a "treasure island" with both important resources and strategic position.

He ordered his men to come to Nanhua for negotiations, hoping to secretly obtain the Nanhua Company's new weapons patent rights, and also wanted to purchase radio transmission technology.

After Great Britain and Japan formed an alliance, Japan began to prepare to challenge Tsarist Russia's powerful interests in the Far East.

Moreover, the principle of radio seems simple, but if you want to transmit sound through electromagnetic waves and restore it to sound, the technical problems are very difficult.

Now that Japan is ready to move, there is still controversy among the upper echelons of Tsarist Russia as to whether to go to war with Japan, but Tsar Nicholas II can no longer bear it.

On February 1904, 2, a Tsarist Russian business group disembarked at Map Port. They were quickly picked up by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and took a train directly to Pretoria.

However, Tsarist Russia occupied the vast land in the northeast and outer northeast of the Qing Dynasty. The geographical location of Port Arthur was more superior than that of Sakhalin and more suitable for the stationing of naval fleets.

They don't know enough about Sakhalin at this time, and they don't have many garrison troops, so they should be able to take it easily.

If it is not taken now, Tsarist Russia will lose its interests in the northeastern region of the Qing Dynasty when Japan wins the war. When they look back, they will definitely realize the strategic value of this island, and they will have no chance to take it again.

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The chief representative of the Tsarist Russian trade delegation heard that Nanhua actually wanted their territory. Not only was this difficult for him to accept, but even the Tsar in Europe could not accept it.

The negotiations reached a deadlock for a while, but time was not on Tsarist Russia's side.

On February 2, Japan issued a statement severing all diplomatic relations with Tsarist Russia.

On February 2, the Japanese navy suddenly attacked the Tsarist Russian fleet stationed at Lushunkou of the Qing Dynasty without declaring war. The East-Russian War broke out. The Russian army suffered repeated defeats due to supply difficulties and incompetent command.

Now the Tsarist Russian delegation was anxious, and Nicholas II had to put down his dignity and drag the Nanhua cabinet into negotiations.

The focus of the negotiations is the price of Sakhalin Island. Tsarist Russia insists that the island is worth 100 million pounds (equivalent to about 1000 million rubles), while Nanhua believes that the island is worth at most 20 pounds.

Moreover, when Tsarist Russia sold Alaska to the United States, it only received US$720 million, which was equivalent to 144 million pounds. Sakhalin Island (Sakhalin) is much smaller than Alaska.

Negotiations between the two sides reached a deadlock again, but in May Japan captured Dalini Special City (today's Dalian), and the Tsarist Russian delegation could no longer sit still.

The Tsarist Russian trade delegation quickly signed the "Treaty of Sakhalin Island" with South China. The treaty stipulated:

1. Tsarist Russia reached an agreement with the South China Dominion on the Sakhalin Island under the jurisdiction of the Sakhalin Oblast in Far Eastern Siberia.

2. The two parties reached a sale and purchase agreement, and the island was ceded to the territory of the South China Dominion for a price of 20 pounds, equivalent to 200 million rubles.

3. This contract is made in triplicate, with each party holding one copy and submitting one copy to the British Foreign Office for records.

In addition, there was a secret agreement between the two parties. The South China Dominion handed over copies of patents for radio communication technology and radios to the Tsarist Russian delegation.

In addition, the South China Autonomous Territory and the Tsarist Russian government reached an agreement on the purchase of weapons. The weapons list is as follows:

J-96式轻机枪2000挺，子弹3000万发，单价125镑一挺，子弹0.45镑100发。

There are 500 Maxim heavy machine guns, equipped with 1000 million rounds, the unit price is 300 pounds, and the bullets are 15 pounds for 100 rounds.

S-96式手枪2万支，配套子弹100万发，单价4镑一支，子弹0.12镑100发。

S-86式手枪3万支，配套子弹100万发，单价4镑一支，子弹0.12镑100发。

The total of the above items is: 208.74 million pounds.

The South China Dominion decided to let Tsarist Russia transport female Slavs or yellow women from the Far East to compensate. Each woman was priced at 3.5 pounds. If they were sent to the port of Odessa on the Black Sea, each person could add 1 pound for shipping.

The two parties agreed to deliver this agreement within two years, and Tsarist Russia had no choice but to agree. After all, at this time, the whole world was sitting back and watching Tsarist Russia fail.

In addition to the fact that Nanhua Company had stockpiled a large amount of ready-made arms for the South African War, obtaining ready-made arms was very important for Tsarist Russia, which was poorly prepared.

In June, a cargo ship carrying a large amount of arms set sail from the Port of Mapu towards the Black Sea port of Odessa.

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In July, when the East-Russian War was in full swing, the British Foreign Office suddenly announced that Tsarist Russia had sold Sakhalin Island in Northeast Asia to the South China Dominion under the British Empire. The island became the territory of the South China Dominion and was protected by the British Empire.

As soon as this announcement came out, it immediately angered the British allies who were on the front line of the war. We Japanese people are working hard at the front, but you, the British, are building alliances under the city walls. Is this appropriate?

The British cabinet did not care about the life and death of Japan. The cabinet and the South China Dominion renegotiated the patent licensing fees for new weapons and radio technologies, and the patent fee sharing was changed to 6:4.

The South China Autonomous Territory suffered a difficult blood loss...

(End of this chapter)