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As the temperature gradually dropped, the people on the streets of Tokyo were already wearing heavy clothes, and Uehara Kondo was also wearing a heavy coat at this moment, hurrying by with several entourages, although his steps were hurried, but he still looked at the street not far away, where a group of young people were holding signs and shouting loudly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Uehara Kondo did not look much at this kind of small-scale parade, since the Russo-Russian War, in recent years, the situation has been getting worse and worse, on the surface the Russo-Russian War has been won, and Ben's international status has risen rapidly, but the ensuing huge financial pressure, in order to maintain its military status, Ben has formulated several naval development plans in a row, and the construction and purchase of various types of warships have not stopped, and after the end of the Russo-Russian War, Ben continued to expand the size of the navy, and after the appearance of British dreadnoughts, He followed the design of the Hanoi-class battleships, and then purchased the Kongo-class battlecruisers from Britain and obtained part of the ship-building technology, so that he could build the subsequent Kongo-class battlecruisers by himself. At a time when the Kongo-class battlecruiser, the lead ship, had not yet been completed and put into service, the Admiralty had already begun the construction of a new generation of battleships, that is, the Fuso-class battleships called super-dreadnoughts.

The construction technology of these warships has been concentrated in the past two or three years, which has put even more financial pressure on the already tight finances.

In addition to the heavy foreign debt, in the past two years, Ben's finances have almost been on the verge of collapse, and the finances have not even been able to pay the interest on those many foreign debts.

In order to alleviate the serious financial problems, it is said that in addition to external borrowing, it relies more on internal solutions, and how to solve them internally, it is very simple, increase taxes!

In recent years, it has been said that the taxes borne by the people of China are far greater than those of other countries, and even more severe than those of the Chinese people. The internal exploitation is so ruthless, saying, 'The people in the country will definitely make trouble, so small-scale demonstrations have occasionally occurred in recent years.' Kondo Uehara, who is a high-ranking official of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also sees too much about this, but he is not too worried, these people can't afford to turn the tide.

Now, although the internal problems are serious, there is always a way to solve them, and as long as they survive the difficult period of the past few years, they will get better. For example, the enormous pressure brought by the US Navy to the Navy and the isolation of various countries in the international community after the Russo-Russian War are among the many problems that the company is facing. Of course, there is a more important issue: the issue of the Chinese civil war.

Among the world powers, no country is more concerned about the Chinese civil war than Ben, and even the United States, the backer of Chen Jingyun, is not as concerned about the Chinese civil war as Ben, since the official outbreak of a large-scale civil war between the two political axes in the north and south of China in July, Ben's troops in all aspects have sent a large number of intelligence personnel to China in an attempt to obtain more intelligence information about the Chinese civil war, and Ben's intelligence officers are active in almost the entire Chinese mainland, and the intelligence they have discovered is even better than that of the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army.

For example, the specific establishment of the National Army, which is difficult for the Beiyang Army to straighten out, is said to be 'this War Department has a complete establishment of the Nationalist Army Army, and even the latest establishment that has just been implemented has been found out by the intelligence personnel of the 'Ben'.

Since the two countries began to westernize in the last century, the two countries have become the biggest opponents in fact, but it is a pity that China's Westernization movement was ultimately inferior to the Meiji Restoration, so that it was completely defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War.

Although it is said that up to now, there is no arrogant intention of annexing and occupying China, but many politicians who say that "China" has already reached a consensus, that is, to colonize China and let China provide industrial raw materials and a sufficient market for industrial products for the industrialization of China. And this is also the reason why Ben excluded the capital of other countries in the Northeast after the Russo-Russian War, because they finally acquired this semi-colony in the Northeast through the war, and according to his own words, the market of this land was bought by the samurai of the Great Empire with blood, and it will never be easily ceded. And the exclusivity of the "Ben" is also one of the main reasons for the serious isolation of the "Ben" in the international community after the Russo-Japanese War.

After the Russo-Russian War, Ben also further increased its activities in China, and the direct alliance to launch an uprising in China was an important embodiment, but at that time, Ben did not expect that the alliance he supported would really be able to overthrow the Manchus, so after the news of the Wuchang uprising came, the elites of Ben could wake up with a smile in their dreams at night. In order to continue China's chaos and let Ben obtain greater benefits, Ben began to intervene in China's civil war, first supported Chen Jingyun, and gave Chen Jingyun a loan of 15 million yuan, and sold Chen Jingyun a large number of artillery pieces with this loan.

And Chen Jingyun did not let him down, he successfully developed in just one year, and at that time, he said, "Ben's foreign China policy also began to change, seeing that Chen Jingyun developed, he said, "In addition to providing limited support to several small warlords in the Northeast, Ben also joined the five-nation banking group and provided a part of the loan to Yuan Shikai.

According to his own thoughts, it is very simple, that is, let Yuan Shikai and Chen Jingyun fight, and no one can win anyone, it is best to keep fighting, and even finally split into two countries, the north and the south.

It's just that he intervened in the Chinese civil war, and the British also supported Yuan Shikai. However, the Americans didn't know how to hook up with Chen Jingyun.

As soon as Chen Jingyun hooked up with the Americans, he took advantage of the Americans' huge capital to expand and develop, and more importantly, some of the products he exported to China, especially the market in southern China, were seriously challenged by the Americans.

That's not all, the intelligence department of the Admiralty has received information that Chen Jingyun has signed a contract with the United States for the purchase of ships, and the Chinese Navy wants to order several warships from the United States. Although I don't know the details of the contract, I have also inquired about the Chinese Navy to order several cruisers.

Naturally, the Chinese navy will not let the navy, which is now very powerful, take it into account, but in the spirit of taking precautions, it is said that "the navy will naturally react to this and make a so-called protest against the Americans, but the Americans have not birded them, and this naval cooperation plan was originally aimed at the navy, so could it be that it will not be carried out because of the protest of the enemy."

If the situation in China continues like this, then I will continue to maintain my China policy to ensure that neither Yuan Shikai nor Chen Jingyun falls. However, this is just my own wish, whether it is Chen Jingyun or Yuan Shikai, they are all working hard to defeat each other and then unify China, and they have never had the idea of building a country with a single reading force.

The idea of great unification is incomparable to any country on the earth, this kind of thinking has penetrated into the marrow of every person in power, and these four words of unification of China have a fatal temptation for any Chinese ** valve, whether it is Yuan Shikai or Chen Jingyun, or even Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting have such thoughts in their hearts.

In addition, the Americans also strongly supported Chen Jingyun, and the strength of this support is "incomparable, a second-round military aid treaty is to give Chen Jingyun $30 million in cash, if you add more than $10 million in other expenses, plus the more than $50 million in loans involved in the first round of military aid treaty." It can be said that the United States alone provided Chen Jingyun with a loan of hundreds of millions of dollars (such loans are not directly advanced by the US treasury, but are guaranteed by the US government to issue bonds in the capital market)

You must know that although Yuan Shikai obtained a large loan of tens of millions of pounds in the aftermath, it was financed by a consortium of banks in five countries, and nearly half of the money was directly advanced to pay off the arrears of the previous settlement, and the amount directly given to Yuan Shikai was only about 100 million silver dollars, which was roughly equivalent to 50 million US dollars.

And this difference can already be seen how rich the United States is in these years, or how hard it is. The United States is now the world's largest in terms of gross domestic product, and although its industrial technology is not good, and it is still some distance from Britain, France and Germany, its industrial output is veritable the world's first! However, in the eyes of the great powers, the United States is still a second-rate country, and it has not obtained its due international status in the international arena at all. In this year, the world's boss and even the well-deserved United Kingdom, the first-line countries are Germany, France, Italy and Russia, and the United States can't even touch the border.

Otherwise, the United States would not have been squeezed out of the five-nation banking group, and would not have turned to support Chen Jingyun.

The United States spent a lot of money in order to open up China's industrial market, and after Chen Jingyun obtained this support, he was as Jia Leheng expected, and after his rapid rise, he successfully defeated the Beiyang Army in the Battle of Jiangbei, and established the position of the largest warlord in China in one fell swoop.

This situation naturally made the Americans secretly happy, but it was not good news for Ben. In fact, in the Chinese civil war, whether it was Yuan Shikai's victory or Chen Jingyun's victory, it was not said that 'Ben wants to see, what they hope is that the two families will continue to fight, and do not divide the winner or loser, even if the winner will really be divided in the future, it should be several years later, and this period of time should make China run out of more blood.

However, the civil war between the north and the south has been less than half a year, and to be precise, the time for the large-scale war between the two sides has only been about three months, and the victory and defeat have been largely divided, which is a great surprise to the person who said.

And now that the Chinese civil war has undergone such a change, he said, 'How should we face it?' Kondo Uehara went to the residence of Komochi of Saionji Temple today to find out what the patriarchs thought about this, and said, "How should this follow-up China policy be carried out?"

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