At night, at the Pan residence.
"Young Marshal, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Shengquan, is here.”Pan Shaoqi said to Xiao Shenglin.
"So fast?" Xiao Shenglin was playing chess with the other party. Up until now, he had lost more than he had won, and the other party had let him win.
Zhang Shengquan was a fifty-year-old man who was a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. He was completely different from Pan Shaoqi, who had studied abroad. He was very rigid, but he was still patriotic.
"Young Marshal, the little old man is here." Zhang Shengquan's hairstyle was the most common kind of loose hair in the Republic of China, which gave him a wild feeling.
"President Zhang, please take a seat." Xiao Shenglin was struggling with the game of Go and had to admire Pan Shaoqi.
"Shaoqi, if you joined the army, you would also be a famous general.”Xiao Shenglin put down the flag. It was a dead chess piece.
Then, they sat on the sofa. Zhang Shengquan represented all the merchants and businessmen in Qing Dao to look for Xiao Shenglin.
"Young Marshal, a lot of Japanese have left. They've sold out their shops. I've already followed your instructions and told everyone not to buy.”They were all profiteers, so they would definitely not fork out this much money. When the time came, they would be able to take back the management rights of these shops without paying a single cent.
"Yes, we don't play hard with them. We're just squeezing them. We don't sell them anything and don't work for them.”Xiao Shenglin knew that the Japanese wouldn't be able to hold on for more than a few days. The newspaper was already in the midst of publishing today's news, preparing to publish it in tomorrow's headlines.
"That's right, it's still the Young Marshal's methods that are brilliant. This little old man is incomparably impressed.”Zhang Shengquan flattered again.
Just as he had guessed, the next day, as the place where the strike was initiated, such an incident happened in Qing Dao. It made China's impression of the Japanese business extremely bad, especially the Ronin Recruiting Prostitution. It also made Japan's international image quite bad and embarrassed.
Those ronins were all forced to commit suicide. The Japanese were really ruthless.
The envoys of the other countries were prepared to mediate and ask both sides to restrain themselves so that their interests would not be affected. The British, in particular, had already suffered losses comparable to the Japanese.
Every day they stopped work meant that they would lose another day's worth of money.
The angry students even began to attack the Japanese embassy in China. Chang Kaishen sent more than 5,000 military police to suppress the protesting students. Many of them were beaten until their heads were bleeding and they were even arrested. However, at least no one died.
"Baka, these British and American bastards actually want to sacrifice the interests of the Great Japan Empire. Baka, Baka.”Aoi Shigemitsu, the envoy to China, scolded the other envoys who had come to force the abdication. The embassy was in a mess because it had been smashed by the patriotic students.
Japan was not strong enough to challenge all the other superpowers. If their interests were affected, they would immediately turn against them. Money was their friend, not Japan.
Especially the Russian envoy, the two countries had been at loggerheads in the northeast for decades.
The powers had all sorts of privileges in China, including enjoying customs duties, entering the country, building railroads, developing mines, and so on.
This was even more evident in the era of warlords.
On the third day, Japan finally sent a delegation to hold talks and a press conference on the incident in Tsingtao.
The diplomatic personnel of both sides were fighting desperately with words for the benefit of their own countries.
The system fulfilled its promise and helped Xiao Shenglin get back the military port of Qing Dao, giving his two warships a place to stay.
The two sides reached a few agreements.
First, if the Chinese workers return to work, the Japanese side must not use all kinds of unreasonable conditions to deduct the wages of the workers and protect the interests of the workers.
Second, the Chinese side originally owned the island. The two sides did not sign any treaty. From the effective date of the treaty, the Japanese side returned the island to the Shandong government.
Third, the Chinese side will compensate the Japanese side for their losses and apologize.
China had gained some benefits, and the Japanese had also regained some face. It seemed that everyone was happy, but the Japanese were very unhappy. This matter had also nailed a thorn in the hearts of the people on both sides.
Xiao Shenglin also got the factories, including those that were used to house the factories, including large-scale clothing factories, steel factories, gunpowder factories, aircraft factories, and other factories related to the military. There was also a small shipyard.
Able to build light cruisers and gunboats of less than 5000 tons.
Shandong's industry had already developed, but the workers were not skilled enough.
The battleships had also been redeemed and were parked in the military port. They were the American Iowa-class battleships. One of them was particularly famous, the USS missouri-class battleship.
Xiao Shenglin had been in Qing Dao for almost three months. He had put in a lot of effort to build the navy and factories.
Everything was difficult at the beginning. He sent a message to the whole of China to rebuild the Beiyang Eight Great Divisions. He also invited famous squires, officials, and foreign envoys to come to Qing Dao to watch the new Dingyuan's service ceremony.
Xiao Shengnan, who was far away in Jinan, didn't know much about the establishment of the navy. She was a professional general of the army, so she didn't know anything about the navy.
This was normal. The navy needed time to accumulate.
One year in the army, ten years in the air force, and a hundred years in the navy.
In this era, the navy was undoubtedly the highest level of military service. Although aircraft carriers had just emerged, the capital ships of various countries were still battleships.
There were also two heavy cruisers, which he named Zhiyuan and Jingyuan.
"Handsome Nan, you're awesome. I heard that the navy burns a lot of money. I, Old Liang, have never seen many large warships in my life.”
"I would like to know where this kid got the manpower and warships.”
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