Years of the Republic of China 1913

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Tsarist Russia is militaristic. Although the country is big, it is not rich. If Peter the Great made up a sailor and went to the West to learn advanced European experience, he carried out a series of class reforms on Tsarist Russia, and then Catherine II Perhaps Tsarist Russia still lived in a semi-slave and semi-feudal medieval society.

Nicholas II was a tsar who was very happy but ambitious and talented. While his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II was fighting with another cousin, King George V, he stabbed this "dear" German cousin stabbed in the back.But what attracted was the monstrous anger of Kaiser Wilhelm and the revenge of hundreds of thousands of elite German troops armed to the teeth.The disastrous defeat on the front line made Nicholas II terrified, and he tried his best to conceal the huge losses suffered by the front line at home, so as to maintain his image of "little father" in the eyes of the Russian people.Abroad, he sought aid to raise and equip more troops and hold the line.

Fang Zida once studied the character of Tsar Nicholas II, thanks to the classic movie "True and False Princess".The industrial foundation of Tsarist Russia is not as strong as that of Britain, France, Germany or the United States, and its financial situation is not optimistic. If Nicholas II spends such a huge sum of money to buy so many civilian and military supplies, even He couldn't get his consent.What's more, greedy polar bears have always been in and out, and Nicholas II racked his brains to come up with such a proposal of exchanging land for aid, obviously with the idea of ​​​​paying back first and taking it later.

The newly plowed 8000 square kilometers of land in the northwest Karda sounds good.But don't forget that it is an area that is difficult for the central and yang forces to control in China. If Tsar Nicholas II is really interested, why not exchange Vladivostok from the Far East?

Fang Zida was so clear-headed that he ignored the bait thrown by Nicholas II.After all.Fang Zida is actually a pure businessman in his heart, and the actual interests of a qualified businessman are the most important. Besides, under the current situation, China does not have so much financial resources for him to spend indiscriminately. Although Tsarist Russia is poor and big, but There are also many good things. In addition to the lack of talents, funds, machinery and equipment, etc. for domestic development, the most lacking thing is raw materials.If you want to do business, you can.Please use money to buy it, even if you don’t have money, just exchange things, as for other things?hehe.Nothing to talk about.

Of course, China still owes Tsarist Russia a large amount of loans and indemnities, but business is business, and no one would talk about loans and indemnities under such circumstances. Now that the European War has reached such a situation.There is no need to worry about selling Chinese products.Although Nicholas II was greedy, his head was not feverish, and none of these things were mentioned in the document, which made Fang Zida see a little bit of his "sincerity".

Discuss with Song Jiaoren.This matter was handed over to Fang Zida to take charge.After talking about business, Fang Zida reported on his work going south.And intentionally or unintentionally mentioned Neiji Okamura who replaced Ichiro Fujita, and jokingly said that Neiji Okamura was in a hurry to meet the military attache of the embassy in China.When he didn't even attend the farewell banquet for Ichiro Fujita, Fang Zida clearly saw something strange in Song Jiaoren's calm expression.

"It seems that my guess is right." Fang Zida thought so, Song Jiaoren's vigilance towards Japan is actually no less than his, and from the point of view of Song Jiaoren's consistent views on Japan, it is far inferior to those pro-Japanese factions close.It can even be said that Song Jiaoren has never had the slightest affection for Japan. This is only because he personally investigated and verified the border dispute between the two countries and argued with Japan himself, which made Japan reluctantly give up the "map expansion" in the end. It can be seen from this point that Song Jiaoren is different from most revolutionaries.

"You are fully responsible for this matter. Let me say hello to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ask them to cooperate with you in negotiating with the Russians. Last time you cooperated with the Qingdao incident, there shouldn't be any problems?" Song Jiaoren finally said said, and asked a question.

"Hehe, don't worry, Brother Dunchu, when did I, Fang Zida, suffer from this?" Fang Zida flicked the file with his fingers, his expression extremely relaxed.

Song Jiaoren immediately laughed too. Fang Zida was a master at doing this kind of thing, and he had never seen him suffer. Song Jiaoren had no worries about entrusting this matter to him.

Seeing that Song Jiaoren was busy with official duties, Fang Zida didn't stop much, got up and left.After leaving the Prime Minister's Office, Fang Zida went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and found Cao Rulin to discuss with him in the office for a long time.When things were almost done, the sky was getting dark. Thinking of his wife who was about to give birth at home, Fang Zida declined Cao Rulin's kindness to invite him to the banquet, and rushed back directly.

"With such a big belly, let the servants do these things." Back home, Yuan Sizhen hurriedly got up to help Fang Zida take off his coat, Fang Zida quickly waved her to sit down, and blamed her.

"Doctor Xiyang said that you can exercise at this time." Reluctantly laying back, Yuan Sizhen replied with a smile while touching his already big belly.

"I can't do it if I say no. Be obedient and rest obediently. You are my old Fang's baby now." Fang Zida put his arms around his beloved wife's shoulder and enjoined.

"Hmm..." Moaned softly, Yuan Sizhen felt that she was very happy, and after reminiscing about this feeling, she suddenly let out a soft cry.

"What? Are you going to give birth?"

"What, there's still more than a month left." Yuan Sizhen said with a blushing face, "The child kicked me just now, touch it..."

Fang Zida squatted down quickly, and listened carefully with his ear on Yuan Sizhen's stomach. After a while, a surprised smile appeared on his face.

"This little guy is really good at tossing, and he will definitely be a capable kid in the future."

"It's not born yet." Yuan Sizhen thought it was funny, Fang Zida looked like a child now.

"My son must be a capable child!" Fang Zida said seriously, and then asked softly, "Did the father-in-law give the child a good name?"

"I picked up a few, and I'll wait for you to come back and pick them."

"Okay! I have something to do tomorrow. I'll go see his old man in the next day." Fang Zida smiled and asked, "How is his old man? How is he doing recently?"

"It's much better. I've been talking with the people below these days. By the way, Mr. He went to visit my father a while ago. I met my elder brother again." Before leaving Beijing, Fang Zida asked Yuan Sizhen to pay attention People who go in and out of the presidential palace.

"He Changxiong?" Seeing Yuan Sizhen nodding, Fang Zida immediately thought of Okamura Neiji from Youhe Changxiong, and his face became a little dignified.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Sizhen, who noticed something strange, looked up at her husband.

Fang Zida smiled, and said relaxedly: "It's nothing, some small things, come! Let me hear the child's movements." He squatted down again with a smile, bent over his wife's belly and listened carefully.

the second day.Fang Zida went to Zhongyang Bank very early, and after dealing with some affairs, he brought Jiang Zhiqing over.

"President!"

"Sit!" Fang Zida pointed to the seat in front of him, and instructed a document without raising his head.After a few minutes, I waited for the documents to be approved before looking up.

"Ruiyuan, I want to hear your opinion on Japan." Putting down the pen in his hand, Fang Zida looked at Jiang Zhiqing and asked.

"Japan's opinion?" Jiang Zhiqing didn't understand what Fang Zida meant.

"Tell me casually, you have been in Japan for so many years, just talk about your views on Japan and the government of Japan."

Jiang Zhiqing thought about it.Then he replied: "President, Japan is a very complicated nation, and its national character cannot be explained clearly in a few sentences. From an individual point of view, the Japanese are obedient, obedient, patient, tenacious, and polite. And at the same time, there are also seemingly contradictory characters such as rebellion, cruelty, inferiority, arrogance, etc. The country of Japan has a strong sense of sequence and hierarchy from top to bottom. Their inferiority complex and superiority exist at the same time. If you use a sentence It is reflected in words. It is a strange contradiction, or a combination of many contradictions in the personality."

Fang Zida nodded. Jiang Zhiqing did understand Ri himself, and it can be said that he clearly explained Ri's character.He was right, Ri himself is indeed such a strange nation, a society composed of contradictory individuals.

"What do you think of the Japanese government?"

Jiang Zhiqing shook his head, smiled wryly and said, "President, your question is too big to answer."

Fang Zida smiled and said, "It's okay, just tell me your views on Sino-Japanese relations."

"Evil neighbor!" Jiang Zhiqing hesitated for a moment, and said: "Although I have lived in Japan for many years, I don't have much affection for Japan. I have seen a lot of Japan's methods. Since the Ming Dynasty, Japan invaded My heart for China has never died, and I have been occupying our land for nearly a hundred years. Don’t look at some Japanese who pretend to be friendly on the surface, but in fact they have ulterior motives!"

"Including those Japanese from the original alliance?"

Jiang Zhiqing's face was a little ugly, and he nodded heavily after thinking about it for a while.

"Very good!" Seeing that Jiang Zhiqing told the truth, Fang Zida was very satisfied.Stand up and go to a safe in the corner, take something out of it.

"Ruiyuan, I want to find someone to take charge of an important matter, but I haven't found a suitable candidate."

Jiang Zhiqing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he seemed to sense that a great opportunity was about to fall on him.

"From today, Zhongyang Bank will set up a special department, and you will be in charge of the special department." Fang Zida looked into Jiang Zhiqing's eyes and said, "There is a reason why this department is called the special department. It exists in any public list of Zhong Yang Bank, and its membership is kept strictly confidential, for example, your relationship is still in the original department, but you are actually responsible for the work of the special department, do you understand?"

"Zhiqing understands!" Jiang Zhiqing nodded with more excitement in his bright eyes.

"This is the list of subordinates I selected for you. You can take a look first." Fang Zida took out a piece of paper and handed it over. Jiang Zhiqing looked at it carefully. There were about a dozen people on the list, some of whom he knew, each in Zhongyang He held positions in several other departments of the bank, and some of them were probably transferred from him by Fang Zida. It took him a few minutes to keep these names firmly in his mind, and then returned the list to Fang Zida.

Nodding, Fang Zida took the list and struck a match to burn it on the spot.

"President, what do you want me to do specifically?" Jiang Zhiqing asked.

"Look at this first." Fang Zida handed over another thing he took out from the safe. Jiang Zhiqing was stunned when he opened it, and looked up at Fang Zida suspiciously: "Isn't this... Ri Yuan?"

"Fake!"(..)

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