Although the Americans indicated that the US loans should not be used in the military field, this huge amount of borrowing was enough to offset all government construction and investment, and the government's tax revenue could be used in the military field. It can be said that the agreement between the borrower and the people is a treaty that fools the people through the pants and farts. For the large borrowing with the United States, especially the Americans' demand that the local government in Northeast China must use all the loans for the government and civil fields, many Chinese people have praised the open-mindedness of the US government. At the same time, the United States announced that it would give up the American part of the Gengzi indemnity in accordance with the "Harbin Treaty," which made the image of the Americans even higher in the minds of the Chinese people.

Wang Maoru mourned silently in his heart, the Gengzi indemnity was originally a shame, and giving up the Gengzi indemnity could actually cause various literati in the newspaper to sing praises to the Americans, and it was really a slave who had been used to it for a long time. This is like a lot of underworld people come to receive protection money every day, and one of them, a gangster named the United States, suddenly wants to go the right way, but he can't get protection money, and the blackmailed "China" country still has to be grateful and grateful? The servility of the Chinese people is deeply rooted in the bones, which makes Wang Maoru feel a little terrible.

As for borrowing money from Europe and the United States, the Chinese people are very happy, because this is a Western-style borrowing, and the United States has never directly caused harm to China's territory, so the Chinese people have a very good impression of it. And the United States is also eager to intervene in the world domain and become one of the world's dominant players, or even the first. They were hesitant at first about Wang Maoru taking the initiative to come to the olive branch, because they didn't know whether to support the direct line or the Northeast Army. But with the help of U.S. Ambassador Reynsch, the U.S. government decided to support Wang's local government. Because they think there is an "American-style "people" lord. It is a pity that the Americans only see the cloak of the lord of the people, and at this stage, Wang Maoru will never let the people be the masters, that is, the government that claims to be the masters of the country in history, has never handed over power to the people, and the greatest strength of that government is a high degree of unity of government and a high degree of centralization of power.

At the same time, Wang Maoru met another person who had a mixed reputation in the history of China and Japan, and this person was named Nishihara Kamezo. He is Duan Qirui's "Japan" consultant, and his other identity is "Japan" bank's investment consultant. The most famous loan in history was made by him, using the forest railway resources in the northeast as collateral. He borrowed 145 million U.S. dollars from Japan, and due to the appreciation of the yen at this time, the ratio of the Chinese dollar to the Chinese dollar reached 1:156. It can be said that the Duan Qirui government borrowed 100 million oceans from the Japanese government for the military field of the Beiyang government.

However, in this era, because of Wang Maoru's obstruction and strength in the Northeast, Duan Qirui's purpose of using Northeast resources as collateral failed to materialize, so he had to use the resources of Shandong Zhili as collateral to borrow 112 million yen, although it was less than the history of the same period, but the conditions were more harsh, and the Anhui system sold the resources of Shandong and Zhili to the Japanese capital, which caused the people of the two places to hate the Anhui system.

Why did I borrow money from Duan Qirui? In addition to wanting to improve the control of China, it is also related to the fact that Japan has too many deposits due to the European war.

The timing of the European war is that the export volume of Japan has reached a high level every year. After accumulating a large amount of currency and endangering the exchange of foreign exchange funds, Katsuda, the chief accountant of the cabinet of the temple, believed that the outflow of domestic funds should be stepped up to prevent domestic inflation due to excess currency (in fact, inflation in the late stage of the First World War was already very strict, for example, the rice riots were inflation-oriented) and the domestic currency should be invested or profit-making loans. The opposition to Japan has always been very strong among the Chinese people. This is also because the Okuma Cabinet, the predecessor of the Terauchi Cabinet, was too tough on China and forcibly introduced the "Twenty-One Articles" on China, which not only led to the anti-Japanese opposition of the Chinese people, but even government officials who had always been pro-Japanese stayed away from Japan, coupled with the strong opposition of European and American countries, which led to the downfall of the Okuma Cabinet.

The strategy of the Okuma cabinet was to directly control the "China" country and force the "China" country to be attacked. They believed that China was still under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and as long as the Japanese themselves were frightened, the government and the people of China would be silent, but his policy failed miserably, and the wave of boycotts of Japanese goods set off by the people of China continued to ferment, causing heavy losses to Japanese merchants. The failure of the Okuma cabinet's China policy led to his downfall, and after the Terauchi Cabinet took office, he began to change his strategy toward China, and they began to woo the "China" government and cancel many of the hardline policies on China formulated by the Okuma cabinet. The decision of the Cabinet of the Temple to lend money to Duan Qirui was also to soften the government of the Chinese country, relying on the income to control the financial system of the country, and thus indirectly control the country.

The soft knife of the cabinet in the temple has done a good job so far, but what makes the temple have a headache is that the interests of the northeast of the country have not been obtained, because Wang Maoru is not short of money after the unification of the northeast, not only is there no shortage of money, but the government of Wang Maoru can still have funds left every year, which makes the government of the northeast of the country very headache in vain. Especially after Wang Maoru unified the Northeast, the first thing to reform was the financial system in the territory, and the renminbi gradually replaced Yuan Dayang's silver dollar as the only legal currency in the northern region.

Zhang Hongyang, the new chief financial officer of the Northeast Governor's Office, Song Ziwen, president of the Huaxia National Bank, Zhang Yiwei, the new financial secretary of the Governor's Office, and others are very strict with the financial industry in the Northeast region, and they are forced to let all regions start to use RMB for settlement, and the RMB has even been extended to the Russian Far East to replace the Russian ruble, and some Central Plains regions within the Shanhai Pass have also begun to use the silver dollar.

In order to further flow domestic funds and control the resources of China, the cabinet of the temple specially told Nishihara Kamezo to find Wang Maoru and lend money to Wang Maoru when Wang Maoru was preparing to enter Russia.

In fact, the interest rate of the loan is very cost-effective compared to that of the Americans, and even the interest of "Xiyuan Loan" compared with Duan Qirui is also very cost-effective, and Xiyuan even borrowed at the lowest interest rate in the market.

On the one hand, Wang Maoru was quite excited, but on the other hand, he was also quite worried. I was impressed by my request to borrow 138 million yen, or 240 million oceans, against the forest, river, and road transportation resources of Northeast China. Forests, rivers, road transport such mortgages can be said to be very delicate resources, of course, the conditions of the "Japan" are also the "Japan" is responsible for the construction of the Mongolian Kulun to Changchun Kuchang line, Hulunbuir to Shenyang Haishen line, Jiamusi to Harbin Hajia line, these three railways, of course, there are also resources within three kilometers along the railway line to be developed by the Japanese side.

Mortgage resources are small problems, and the resources along the railway line are developed by the Japanese side is a big problem, and Wang Maoru vetoed this article, which is the core of the "Japanese" loan, absorbing the flesh and blood of the "China" country.

On the other hand, what worries Wang Maoru is that borrowing money from Japan himself is not like borrowing from Americans. So far, he has built two railways for Wang Maoru, one is the Ji'a line of the railway that runs through the north and south of Hulunbuir under the left banner of the new Balhu left banner of the Ergun River, and the other is the Qihai line of the east-west railway from Hailun County to Qiqihar. Fortunately, the two railways were built in remote areas of Heilongjiang Province, and Heilongjiang Province is the foundation of Wang Maoru, so the impact is not too big to say.

The anti-Japanese situation in this era was already very blind and intense, and there were even incidents of private attacks on the Japanese themselves in many places. In this era, Shandong, Northeast China, and Fujian were particularly resentful of the Japanese themselves, and the Japanese repeatedly invaded Shandong and occupied the territory of Northeast China, and defeated the Fujian-based Beiyang Navy Division and occupied the Taiwan Prefecture of Fujian Province (at that time, Taiwan was under the jurisdiction of Fujian, and Hainan Island was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong), so that the people of these three places were deeply resentful of the Japanese capital. Wang Maoru withstood the pressure to let the "Japan" build these two railways, and if the three more railways were handed over to the "Japan" himself to repair, I am afraid that the hat of a traitor would be directly buckled on his head.

That's not going to work! Now he feels that Zhang Zuolin's difficulty in history is not easy, not only to rely on the "day", but also to put the "day" book. And he had a trace of American background in his earliest beginnings, and perhaps his own evaluation in future history was that of the lackeys of the Americans, but in this era, there were very few warlords who did not rely on European and American backgrounds. The Japanese book, like a bloodsucking worm, is adsorbed in the country. What about the rejection of the "day" himself? Then the Japanese will certainly encourage other warlords to launch an offensive against it, and if the Japanese impose a sea ban on the northeast of China, the economy of the northeast will inevitably suffer. They did it, and even more extremely, directly sent people to assassinate and disturb the Northeast.

Wang Maoru is different from Zhang Zuolin, although Zhang Xueliang was not talented when Zhang Zuolin died in history, he was also an adult and took charge of the first army, led the army to defeat Guo Songling's rebels, and established authority in the army. As soon as Wang Maoru died, his son was only two and a half years old, and his subordinates must have fallen into a situation of struggle for power, and then the Northeast Army was in turmoil, and the Kwantung Army took the opportunity to invade, and there was another tragedy of 918.

It's hard to accept, and it's hard not to accept.

Wang Maoru smoked a cigarette and sat in the office on the third floor of the Northeast Governor's Mansion in Changchun.

Since Wang Maoru has officially become the governor of the three eastern provinces, there is no need for the Northeast Frontier Army Command Office to be set up in Shenyang again; after the beginning of spring next year, the Northeast Frontier Defense Command Office will be relocated to Changchun Prefecture, and Changchun will become the core city of the five northern provinces, with a core city integrating politics, military, culture, and economy.

Jiang Fangzhen choked when he walked into the office and said, "How many cigarettes do you have to smoke here?" ”

Wang Maoru smiled bitterly: "Not much, not much, three or four." ”

Jiang Fangzhen shook his head and said, "The battle plan of the General Staff is here, you can take a look, I think this sentence still needs to be improved." ”

"No plan is perfect, and it doesn't change quickly." Wang Maoru took it and looked at the battle plan carefully. (To be continued.)