Unlimited capital system of warlords of the Republic of China

Three days flew by, and the two armies of Zhifeng and Feng had been besieging Longdu for half a month. Han Xiyuan had ordered Xiong Kuohai to prepare the army and try to counterattack in the shortest possible time.

Secondly, with the cooperation of Di Gaoxun, some powerful courtiers of the Han Empire have been successfully arrested.

Then, under Han Xiyuan's arrangement, the three senior management talents had already held important positions and gradually took power into their own hands.

If the officials in the court refused to surrender, they would all be imprisoned.

Di Gaoxun, who was sent to have secret talks with Wu Qingzhi and Zhang Yuting, is now under the protection of the personal guards sent by Han Xiyuan, carrying out the previously planned plan.

With these personal guards around, even if Di Gaoxun and his wife wanted to have something on their minds, they didn't dare to act rashly.

At this moment, Wu Qingzhi was still negotiating with the envoys of the English Empire. At this moment, Martin Bell changed his normal attitude and became humble.

This is also because the British Empire is still actively fighting for Wu Qingzhi, hoping that Wu Qingzhi can also stand on their side in the future war.

After several negotiations, Wu Qingzhi finally figured out the current situation of the world, and why the British Empire supported him so much and defeated the warlords of the Anhui faction.

However, Wu Qingzhi believes that the British Empire can now be exempted from the indemnity owed by the Han Empire, and should continue to take back the customs autonomy of the Han Empire.

The British Empire was outraged by Wu Qingzhi's behavior of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge before, so he made the request.

However, Wu Qingzhi's determination to go all the way to the dark made the British Empire have to think twice, and finally the British Empire decided to compromise with Wu Qingzhi.

"His Royal Highness Ming, this time we in England believe that we can agree to your previous request. We are willing to reach an agreement with you, which can exempt war reparations and the request for full exemption from customs duties."

Martin Bell's tone was relaxed, and he raised his head from time to time to check Wu Qingzhi's expression.

Moreover, England is also planning to play a trick this time, directly turning the reparations into war reparations. In fact, there are other reparations regulations, and the formulation of the tariffs of the Han Empire is also in the hands of other empires.

This is also the main purpose of the major empires to sell commodities.

This is also related to the foreign trade policy adopted by the Han Empire before, because the Han Empire has been proud of the world for 300 years, and has carried out two-way trade exchanges on land and sea, which has made the products of the Han Empire popular all over the world. occupies a dominant position.

This made the English Empire, which had been continuously improving its productivity after the first industrial revolution, feel jealous and threatened, so it sent troops to expedition to the Han Empire.

That expedition lasted for seven years.

At the beginning of the war, even though the naval warships of the British Empire were extremely strong, their cannons were very advanced.

But this still cannot shake the rule of the Han Empire, and even the navy of the Han Empire has the upper hand in victory due to its large number.

However, the huge Han Empire led to civil strife within the empire, natural and man-made disasters, and peasant uprisings.

These things are completely a chain reaction, a powerful medicine that can poison the Han Empire, under the situation of internal and external troubles.

Emperor Jingrong of the Han Empire chose to negotiate a peace agreement with the English Empire and negotiate tariffs, so that the goods of the English Empire could enter the market of the Han Empire duty-free.

However, if the goods of the Han Empire wanted to enter the territory of the English Empire, they still had to pay fixed tariffs. Under such unequal trade, the Han Empire gradually fell into a disadvantage.

At the critical moment of the fifth year of the war, after the British Empire won the naval battle with the Spanish Empire, it united with the French Empire and other seven countries to jointly declare war on the Han Empire. This war lasted for another two years.

This war directly shattered the backbone of the Han Empire, and it was defeated. Since then, the Han Empire has opened the prelude to the era of warlords.

This war also brought shameful unequal treaties and heavy reparations to the Han Empire.

The cession of land is inevitable.

"The war compensation you mentioned, we have paid for five years, I think you should return half of it. Furthermore, our Han Empire will also make some concessions when we choose a camp in the future. Secondly, I think it's time to abolish the lease that your English Empire established in our Han Empire."

Wu Qingzhi is still testing the bottom line of the British Empire at this moment, and the Han Empire can compete with the Eight Kingdoms for as long as three years when it is weak, and even defeated the warships of the British Empire at the beginning of the war.

Although the Han Empire experienced another disastrous defeat to the Sakura Empire, the background of the Han Empire should not be underestimated during the 15-year war between warlords.

For example, in terms of population, the Han Empire’s previous introduction of grains, especially sweet potato crops, provided the most basic guarantee for the expansion of the Han Empire’s population.

Under such guarantees, the population of the Han Empire directly expanded to 21 million people, and the combined population of all countries in the world barely exceeded [-] billion during this period.

This also means that the Han Empire alone occupies one-seventh.

Therefore, the Han Empire will also have an irreplaceable role in future wars, and this is also the strength that the British Empire strives for.

"His Royal Highness Ming, what do you mean by these words? We have already reached an agreement before, why are you going back on your word now? Moreover, Yingjili will definitely not agree to your proposal."

Martin Bell was completely irritated this time, and he directly rejected the proposal.

This is also due to the changes in the current invasion methods of the English Empire.

Previously, the British Empire spent seven years to capture the defense line of the Han Empire, in exchange for the opening of the Han Empire's market, but the British Empire found that the original effect of selling goods had not been achieved at all.

Although Yingjili's products have achieved the development of the production line, the quality is naturally not as superior as artificial.

Because the cost of long-distance trade and transportation, even without the additional price of tariffs, the goods entering the Han Empire are still very high.

This made the people of the Han Empire unacceptable to this price.

As a result, more people in the Han Empire did not accept products with high prices and poor quality.

In this way, the war paid a high price, but did not get the expected return. This naturally caused the economists of the English Empire to reflect.

After reflection, the British Empire summed up a new set of theories. The main core of this set of theories is to export capital to achieve the purpose of economic invasion.

The main method is to go through concessions and treaty ports, find Han people in the Han Empire as employees, and invest in building factories.

Produced within the territory of the Han Empire, thereby reducing costs to the greatest extent and increasing the profit margin of commodities.

Therefore, the concession is now at the forefront of the economic invasion of the Han Empire, and it must not be abandoned.

Giving up the concession is equivalent to giving up all the interests in the Han Empire. This is a reality that the British Empire will never accept.