"Wow, I finally arrived in Qingdao!"

"I just don't know if it will be like the legendary one, where there is food, drink, and good jobs?"

"Oh, take one step at a time, it's good to live well in today's troubled times!"

"Yes, I've been sleeping on the streets in Shanghai for several months, and I've almost been sent to the graveyard several times! I think no matter how bad it is, it won't be broken!"

On the morning of September 12, the fleet entered Qingdao Port one after another. In just a few hours, nearly 30,000 refugees walked off the boat and entered Qingdao Pier in just hope and fear.

The Gaomi authorities, who had been prepared for a long time, organized a large amount of manpower and material resources to receive, evacuate and resettle the influx of refugees.

In order to absorb and digest the more than 4 million refugees smoothly, Yang Fan really lost a lot of thought. In addition to crazy expansion of urban construction companies, the number of formal employees alone exceeded 300,000, and purchased a large number of modern construction equipment and facilities, and crazily reserved building materials such as cement, steel bars, bricks and tiles.

Moreover, Yang Fan has been constantly carrying out urbanization construction, building a large number of modern residential communities, and has built five-story steel and concrete buildings, as well as a large number of urban livelihood projects, livelihood facilities, transportation roads and civil defense projects.

In addition, Yang Fan formed a special government leadership organization and presided over government system meetings many times to summarize and follow up on urbanization construction.

With great attention and massive resources, the Huaxia Huben Army has always maintained a high-efficiency construction progress. Residential buildings are rising from the ground, and modern residential communities are constantly taking shape.

Although more than 4 million residents will pour in just a few months, and the total population in the jurisdiction will soar to around 13 million, Yang Fan has enough confidence and ability to completely digest it!

The Japanese conspiracy and tricks that the Japanese devils in troubled the waters will eventually be to shoot themselves in the foot.

The White House in Washington, USA.

Roosevelt put down the documents in his hand with a headache, picked up the coffee and stirred them with a spoon, and kept thinking and weighing these diplomatic documents that were delivered almost at the same time.

Yang Fan counterattacked in the reactionary autumn, and the Japanese devils once again used human shields to massacre and kill Chinese civilians. With a large amount of evidence, Yang Fan and the National Government carried out public opinion propaganda and put pressure on diplomatic channels.

In particular, the National Government clearly stated that in view of the repeated brutal massacres of the Japanese invaders, they will no longer be directly allocated to the Japanese government for Boxer Indemnities.”

The Boxer Indemnity dates back to the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, who used the Boxer Rebellion to attack foreigners. Finally, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and entered Beijing. The Qing government humiliatedly signed the "Xin Chou Treaty" with 450 million taels of silver, which was guaranteed by tariffs, with a total principal and interest of nearly 1 billion taels, equivalent to 300 billion yuan of current RMB.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the task of indemnity naturally came to the hands of the National Government.

Now China and Japan have already broken their heads, and most of China has been burned red by the war, but the two countries have not declared war. Until now, both countries still maintain diplomacy!

So although there is a treaty to pay compensation, China and Japan are in a state of full war. While Japan is fighting us, we will give him money. Isn’t this funny?

As the National Government, it was a lot of helplessness, a tear of bitterness, a weak country had no diplomacy! It was mainly based on the following three considerations:

First, keep the tariffs.

When the Qing government signed this treaty, it was guaranteed by customs duties. In the Republic of China, customs duties were not only redundant in addition to paying the Boxer Indemnity, but other great powers protected the Chinese customs because they had to pay compensation!

Therefore, Chairman Chiang started a war and continued to pay compensation to Japan in order to protect customs duties. Otherwise, if the Japanese army turns against each other and cut off customs, the income will be gone! The gain is not worth the loss!

Second, maintain the overall situation.

The National Government has always been poor, and basically relied on issuing large amounts of government bonds, borrowing money from the great powers to carry out construction and reorganizing arms.

Therefore, many countries in the world held large amounts of Chinese government bonds at that time.

What does the national debt rely on? It depends on the national credit. Therefore, once Chairman Chiang announces that he will not fulfill the compensation to Japan, the great powers will greatly reduce the credit level of the National Government. It is likely that the national debt will be sold, causing huge redemption pressure. Moreover, it will be difficult to borrow money after the credit is lost!

Third, there is still hope.

Although Chairman Chiang and Japan were in a desperate battle, a full-scale war had already broken out. However, neither side formally declared war. This is not a state of war if it did not declare war internationally!

Chairman Jiang has always had hope for Japan and dared not completely cut off relations with Japan and let go of the battle.

Always want a peaceful settlement, sit down and talk, so continuing to pay compensation is conducive to maintaining this relationship.

But no matter from which perspective, returning money to the enemy after the war breaks out in full, it is completely equivalent to spending money to fight yourself, which is a great shame!

This time, Chairman Jiang finally became tough and proposed that all the Boxer Indemnities that should be allocated to Japan will be automatically transferred to the "Preparation of Japanese Boxer Indemnity" account opened at HSBC in the UK.

This way, the Japanese cannot get involved in this way. They can not only calm domestic public opinion, but also show China's international credibility.

So since September 1939, Japan has not received any payment of Boxer Remuneration from China.

At the same time, Japan once again strongly protested the "slander" of the Chinese government, and used the two matters of "humanitarian retreat" and "humanitarian evacuation of refugees" to clear away grievances.

In addition, Japan further requested that commercial routes to Qingdao be suspended and that any materials that could be used for war shall not be sold to the Chinese Hu Ben Army.

This repeated diplomatic notes were completely a head-on face toward Mai Mang. Either you die or I die, which made Roosevelt feel a little troubled.

Now Yang Fan has purchased a large number of cars, cement, steel, and oil, and has a very close interest relationship with American corporate consortiums. It is no longer as irrelevant as before.

Japan is now growing more and more expanding, not only with great interests, but also with strong military strength and ambitions, which is even less difficult to offend.

After a while, Roosevelt looked up at Secretary of State Cordel Hull not far away and said:

"This is really a pair of life-and-death enemies. The conflicts between the two sides are completely irreconcilable. At present, both sides are trading partners of the United States! This matter is really a bit tricky!"

Hull smiled and said, "It is indeed difficult to coordinate on the surface, but it is far from reaching the point where water and fire are incompatible. We have clearly proposed legislation on implementation. As long as we do not sell arms to China, Japan will not turn against us!

Our United States of America economy is in a period of recovery and needs more vitality and support. We can ignore external wars, but our own economic interests must be maintained!"

"You're right! Then just like last time, each hits thirty boards!"

Roosevelt nodded. As the US president far away from the Eurasian battlefield, he is far from suffering from pain. Although he is already strengthening national defense construction and combat readiness, his greatest principle is to recover the economy at this stage and satisfy the people.
Chapter completed!