Chapter 273 The black belly of the empire(2/2)
It cannot be curbed, all four countries must engage in diplomatic competition around China to avoid China's excessive support for their opponents.
Even for the ally France, the Empire used the German card to be so clever. Although France has always been dissatisfied with the imbalance between the Empire's foreign trade policy and Sino-French trade, France also faced the pressure from Nazi Germany.
I have never dared to directly bring the conflict to the table and bargain with China. If I negotiate privately, if France negotiates once, China will make concessions on the surface of "actively maintaining the permanent ally between China and France", but no matter how I plan, France will suffer a lot in the end
most.
The empire is very dark-hearted.
The empire called this "China is a peace-loving country. We support the international community to expand exchanges and coexistence, promote friendship, peace, fairness, and equal diplomacy, and do not support hegemony, opposition and war." In fact, the most sinister move is
of.
Between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Empire also engaged in balanced diplomacy, with support and support on both sides, and exchanges and trade on both sides. The Empire provided Germany with the industrial raw materials and agricultural products it needed, and exchanged British, French and American technologies for German technology.
Absorb German talents, export funds to invest and make money in Germany, and provide technical and industrial products, grain, export technology and military products, materials to the Soviet Union, and balance the military strength between the Soviet and Germany.
Not only that, the empire also engaged in a disagreement and intelligence war between the Soviet Union and Germany, supported the Soviet Union's opposition, secretly supported Germany's anti-Soviet, and secretly supported the Soviet Union's anti-Germany. For the empire, the most important thing is not to let the Soviet Union go.
Germany joins forces to keep the Soviet Union and Germany in a fierce confrontation for a long time and stop diplomatic agreements such as the signing of peace treaties by the Soviet Union and Germany.
After the German visiting delegation arrived in China, the Empire also welcomed them very enthusiastically and intimately, inviting them to visit many Chinese cities, consciously arranged for them to visit Shanghai and Tianjin, and then arrived in Beijing to meet with the Central Cabinet and the Central Military Department, and visit.
The Central Zhili Military Region, the Northern Fleet, the Central Imperial University and the Central Military Academy finally arranged for them to meet His Majesty the Emperor.
The empire is very good at diplomatic work and has an oriental human touch. Those who send and receive German diplomats are senior moralists, basically senior generals, cabinet officials, and scholars who have studied in Germany, make it seem like the whole thing.
The Chinese senior executives are all pro-German factions, and many of them are old friends of Germans. In fact, the empire treats any country like this. Even to Japan, the empire can send a high-level member of the Japanese delegation to visit Japan and receive Japanese envoys.
group.
In short, the empire has always been so insidious.
Back in the capital Special Administrative Region, Song Biao even invited the Crown Prince William, who visited China in his private capacity, at noon that day without even having any rest. Although he is no longer the real Crown Prince, he is still the former heir of the German royal family, and the two families still maintain their relationship.
Have a close relationship.
At about 2:00 p.m., Song Biao continued to meet with the Nazi German envoy Hans von Kseter and German Foreign Minister Alfred Rosenberg in the Central Hall of Xuanzhengyuan. When Song Biao visited Germany last year, he also
It was them who accompanied Song Biao to visit the German Ministry of Defense.
Both of these two are Chinese friends and have worked in China for a while. Song Biao invited them to sit down in a very friendly way and have tea and chat with him, as if it was a daily interaction between neighbors.
Before sitting down, General Hans von Kseter, the special envoy of the Head of State, presented Song Biao with the handwritten letter from the head of state, with the letter accompanied by a printed manuscript translated in Chinese, but also with the handwritten signature of Adolf Hitler.
Song Biao just read this translation manuscript directly. He was still surprised after reading it, because the Supreme Master Adolf Hitler was a little whimsical and tried to persuade China and Germany to form a more powerful anti-Soviet alliance, and use tough military means to eliminate and
Conquer the Soviet Union and divide the Soviet Union in the East and West.
According to the plan of Adolf Hitler, China will be able to obtain the area east of the Ural Mountains, including the entire Kazakhstan. If China is willing to mobilize all its strength, Adolf Hitler is even willing to demarcate the boundary with the Volga River, which Germany is eager to demand.
It is divided into China, but requires that China should ensure the supply of oil and other resources to Germany under any circumstances.
What a bold imagination.
The genius is really extraordinary, and Song Biao has never had such an arrogant and extravagant idea.
Having said that, it is not very difficult for China and Germany to join forces to eliminate the Soviet Union at this time. The question is whether Britain and the United States agree? In addition, what method should Germany fight with the Soviet Union? Occupy Poland?
Therefore, under this proposal that seems to be extremely beneficial to China, what is hidden is Germany's ambition to annex Poland.
After reading the letter, General Song Biao did not give any answer. Instead, he simply thanked General Hans von Kseter, and hoped that General Kseter would convey such a thank you to the German Chief of the People's Republic of China.
After making some polite words, Song Biao shifted the topic to a new round of negotiations on the Sino-German Trade Treaty Compensation Agreement, especially about China's investment in Germany.
Regarding the total scale of China's investment in Germany, Song Biao only received a comprehensive report a few months ago. It should be said that China's investment in Germany is a bit too large. Song Biao hopes that it will not affect Sino-German relations.
On the basis of this, he steadily began to withdraw his investment to Sweden. He had such considerations when he visited Sweden, but the investments of these Chinese-funded enterprises in Germany were not decided by the central government, let alone by the final decision.
It is necessary to cooperate between China and Germany in governments and make adjustments through policy formulation.
After negotiations on this issue, German Foreign Minister Alfred Rosenberg couldn't wait to express his stance that Germany would definitely protect China's investment in Germany and would never have an anti-China storm like the United States.
After he finished speaking, Song Biao considered it and said, "Everything always comes with a cause. Chinese philosophy emphasizes causality and effect. Everything has a result and a cause must have a result. This is an irrefutable truth.
Compared with the friendship between China and Germany and the people, China's economic interests in Germany are not the most important thing. One of our current considerations is to gradually withdraw part of the capital from Germany without affecting the overall situation of Germany's economy.
Transferring investment to poor Asian countries is a good thing for both parties. I personally suggest that Germany can use state acquisition or state-supported repurchase to recover part of China's investment in Germany, but Germany's finances
Whether it can be supported and whether Chinese capital will be misunderstood and misinterpreted by other countries in the process of actively withdrawing from the German market, I think it is something that both of us need to consider."
Foreign Minister Rosenberg replied: "My country has absolutely no intention to restrict Chinese capital. On this point, I must make guarantees and promises to His Majesty the Emperor. If China is for the sake of long-term considerations, our country is willing to cooperate with your country.
But as far as government finance is concerned, we do have some difficulties.”
Song Biao also refused and said, "Yes, this problem is still difficult to solve."
After a pause, he suggested: "If the situation allows, we will consider selling part of the assets to other foreign consortiums, and most of them will be sold to Germany itself to restore the integrity of German industry. One of my views on the world economy is
Industry needs competition, and some of the current business strategies of Chinese-funded enterprises are also something I don’t appreciate. Only by free competition can the world prosper and progress. Relying on capital to implement monopoly operations and technological blockades is not conducive to the long-term development of the world.”
Foreign Minister Rosenberg replied: "You are very right."
This problem is not a big problem for Song Biao. He has learned that during the collapse of the German Mark, the Far East Consortium invested about 40 million yuan in Germany. Since the depreciation of Mark reached more than 300 times, the depreciation of the Mark at that time was more than 300 times.
At that time, the German business community would rather be merged by China and the United States than by Britain and France. At that time, Krupp Steel was acquired for only seven million yuan.
There are always few opportunities to merge large German enterprises. At that time, the ones that Germany was actually merged the most were small and medium-sized enterprises. The Far East Consortium later reorganized these small and medium-sized enterprises into German United Industrial Company, which made the Far East Consortium own three joint CUI, AUI and GUI companies around the world.
Industrial groups, in fact, whether it is German United Industry or American United Industry, the total investment scale is very small, and even in the past few years of the Great Depression, it has recovered its investment costs.
Compared with China's asset size in the United States, Chinese capital in Germany not only had low initial capital investment, but the total scale at this stage is not very amazing, and it is not as critical as the United States.
Because there was not much pressure, Song Biao and German Foreign Minister Rosenberg were very happy to negotiate. The two talked happily, talking about the problems of Sino-German economic cooperation. There were some difficult places to solve, but there were no
The fatal conflict in principle is at least not as difficult to resolve as the Jiaoao colony problem back then. The empire is not a rigid country like the German Empire. As long as it is profitable, everything can be negotiated.
The two talked for a long time, and Song Biao could not completely throw Hitler's proposal aside and avoided it. He turned back to Rosenberg when the economic topic touched on the technical and capital cooperation of the military industry.
Foreign Minister, General Kseter, took the initiative to mention: "The military cooperation between China and Germany has a long history and has continued for a long time. This should be a good situation that both sides and both countries are willing to continue to maintain. As for the suggestions advocated by Head of Hitler,
We must have a strong rejection of the Soviet Union, but the distance between China and the Soviet Union is too close, which makes us need to carefully think about and measure the pros and cons before making any decision. In principle, we also oppose the Soviet regime, but
In terms of the current relationship between China and the Soviet Union, it is still good at this stage. We have been in the international community more than once. China is a country that is not afraid of any war and is also a country that loves peace very much. We do know that the Soviet Union may for mankind and China.
The fatal damage caused, but at this stage, we are more willing to ensure peace through exchanges. We cannot give a clear reply to the proposal of Hitler's head of state, it depends on the development of the situation. Generally speaking, we are currently in the Soviet Union.
The work to be done is not economic and technological blockade, but struggle at the political and ideological level, and the silence of political influence and territory. We cannot curb the normal development of the Soviet Union, which will intensify the contradictions and will eventually lead to
War, but it is necessary to curb the expansion of the Soviet Union in ideological and territorial areas. In short, the current connection between China and the Soviet Union is political confrontation and economic and trade stability."
Germany obviously also knows that it is impossible to convince China to support Germany's plan at once, especially the Polish problem faced by it is very embarrassing. The relationship between China and Polish current president Artur Martos is very close.
The plan proposed by Germany is to hope that China will give up its shallow protection for Poland.
Regarding Song Biao's statement, Foreign Minister Rosenberg and General Ksette kept nodding, saying that he did not raise too much objection.
Song Biao was still very nervous, and there was no need to ask various issues in person. The negotiations on Sino-Germany economic and trade and further stable cooperation will be entrusted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Military Department one by one. (To be continued.
Chapter completed!