The Beijing Armistice Agreement was also known as the China-West Understanding Agreement.
According to the content of the agreement, the Chinese Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Republic of Iceland, the United States of America, the Third Republic of France, the German Empire, the Austro-Hun Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and other six countries signed an armistice agreement to completely end the Far East War. Both sides would no longer be enemies.
Due to the cause of this war, the Chinese Empire was the invaded party, so the six Western countries would give the Chinese Empire a total of 350 million taels of war compensation.
At the same time, the Six Western Nations recognized the legitimate identity of the Chinese Empire and its international status.
The Chinese Empire did not abide by the various agreements signed between the six Western countries and the Manchu government.
The two sides exchanged prisoners of war and seized materials, opened ports to strengthen trade cooperation, and set up diplomatic missions to strengthen personnel exchanges.
In order to help the Chinese Empire develop its infrastructure, the Six Western Nations would help the Chinese Empire establish an industrial system and a talent team. They would also give the Chinese Empire an interest-free loan of 55 million pounds.
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After the agreement was signed, the two sides were no longer at war. The diplomatic missions of the western countries were also established in the capital.
However, two countries were missing. One was Russia, and the other was Japan.
When they signed the armistice agreement, these two countries were very unyielding.
Even if they didn't sign it, they could still sign it. The Chinese Empire had to give up chechen and lushun and compensate them for the war losses.
How could Chen Ling agree to such conditions?
In the end, the six countries in the west didn't bring Russia to play with Japan.
Your Russian Empire doesn't care about the captured soldiers. Your Japanese soldiers are all dead, and you don't have anything to worry about.
However, the Six Nations could not afford to drag this out. If they continued to drag this out, something would happen in their country.
Therefore, the final agreement was signed between the Chinese Empire and the six countries, not Russia and Japan.
"With money, the education plan can be put on the agenda.”
Chen Ling looked at the agreement in his hand and muttered in satisfaction.
Although the content of this agreement was still quite different from the terms he had written before, it was already not bad.
If it weren't for the fact that he had so many captives in his hands, the Six Western Nations wouldn't have agreed to these conditions.
Although the war reparations were only 350 million taels, the 55 million pounds interest-free loan was not needed at all.
The reason why they didn't ask for ransom was because the Six Western Nations wanted to save face.
In fact, this interest-free loan was the ransom, and it was only the ransom for the people and a portion of the warships.
As for the 100 ships and some small warships, the countries did not even have the thought of redeeming them and directly gave them to Chen Ling.
However, Chen Ling could not get the 55 million pounds.
Because of this money, Chen Ling needed to use it to buy various industrial equipment.
The current China Empire was completely poor. Not to mention the industrial system, it did not even have much of an industrial base. It was at least 50 years behind the West.
How many years had it been since the industrial revolution?
There was a 50-year generation gap.
Therefore, if he wanted to build the industrial system of the Chinese Empire, it would be good enough if he could spend 55 million to build it.
"Gather all the department heads for a meeting.”Chen Ling said to the young eunuch outside the door.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
In less than half a day, all the ministers of the various departments of the Chinese Empire had arrived at Taihe Palace.
"This plan is the most important plan for next year.
The Ministry of Education would be in charge of the implementation of this plan, but the other departments had to cooperate with the Ministry of Education and actively implement this plan as an important task.”
Chen Ling sent the education reform plan that he had written previously to these people so that they knew what to do next.
"Your Majesty, according to this talent training plan, the national treasury doesn't have that much money.”
The Minister of Finance did not look at the contents of the plan carefully. He mainly looked at the estimated funding.
When he saw the 30 million taels of gold allocated to the project, he was dumbfounded.
"The special funding for this plan will not go through the national treasury. We will allocate it from the war reparations. You don't have to worry about this.”Chen Ling said indifferently.
Of course, he knew how much money was in the national treasury.
To be honest, the money in the national treasury was obtained from Chen Ling's previous raid.
As for collecting taxes, forget it.
Even if they were to collect taxes next year, it was still a problem whether they could collect five million taels of silver in the territory controlled by the Chinese Empire.
However, with this war reparations, the Chinese Empire would be able to live a decent life tomorrow.
However, it would be hard to say the year after next. After Chen Ling implemented the education reform, he still had to implement the industrial and commercial reform. He also had to do livelihood projects and infrastructure construction. Anyway, there were places where money was spent everywhere.
Whether this war reparations could last until the end of next year was a problem.
However, Chen Ling had never worried about money.
It's not a big deal.
Isn't there an island country over there?
When they really ran out of money, they would rob…No, how could a country's matter be called robbing? It was to defend the ruling position of the Chinese Empire and take back the interests of the vassal states.
Anyway, Chen Ling could think of a bunch of ways to make money.
After the meeting, Chen Ling gave each department head a red packet.
At the same time, he gave each department a sum of money and asked them to give red packets to their subordinates.
In the first year of the Chinese Empire, no matter how difficult the country was, they had to let everyone have a good new year.
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