Zheng Yu had already become clear about the temper of the German Emperor. After highly praised His Majesty the German Emperor... the sense of responsibility shown for the peace and justice cause of human society", Zheng Yu believed that "German's requirements are reasonable in a sense, and are full of "male spirit" representing the positive and progressive side of human society."

Zheng Yu proposed that "the development of human society is currently in a bad tendency, that is, some countries that show conservative and corrupt cultures occupy the top of the power of human society." This pattern is "obviously unfavorable for human society to move towards civilization and progress with a positive and enterprising attitude." Therefore, the Chinese Empire expressed admiration for the "male attitude" shown by Germany and was willing to conduct in-depth discussions with Germany on this issue "related to the development direction and overall welfare of all mankind."

Zheng Yu thanked Germany for his support for issues such as the Sino-Russian War, diplomacy, and basically recognized the principle of "all major powers act freely within their respective spheres of influence" proposed by Germany, and opposed "some major powers come from their own interests and point fingers at the fair and reasonable demands and interests of other major powers."

Zheng Yu also agrees that "countries in the world can be divided into three categories. The first category is a major country that has the ability to maintain peace and justice within the radiation range of its civilization. They are the cornerstone of the progress of human society within their sphere of influence. Their possession of necessary resources is a reasonable demand that meets the requirements of human progress. The second category is a country that has sufficient civilization and maturity, can independently take care of its internal affairs and develop civilization, but does not have the ability to assume its own responsibilities on a larger scale. Such countries need to cooperate with regional major powers to jointly maintain the reasonable order in the region.

: The third category is that the degree of civilization is insufficient, lacking sufficient self-development ability and even consciousness, and requires comprehensive guidance from the foundation stone powers to their politics, economy, and culture. These countries constitute the periphery and attachment of the regional civilization circle and are attached to the foundation stone powers." However, Zheng Yu was cautious about the Chinese Empire's requirements for the sphere of influence in Asia. "The Chinese Empire adheres to its reasonable demands for Northeast Asia, Central Asia, Far East and Siberia based on historical traditions and current actual conditions" and "expresses overall satisfaction with the current situation of the Southeast Asia."

In addition, Zheng Yu reiterated that "China has no intention of annexing the sovereign state of civilization like Japan. China has always been afraid of the request of North Korea and Ryukyu to submit. China respects the right of self-determination of other ethnic groups in Asia outside the Chinese nation and is willing to share some experiences in the development of civilization in the Chinese nation."

Obviously, Prince Heinrich made some vague statements about China, especially his cautious attitude towards the territorial demands of the South China Sea. However, as a senior state activist, he also knew that he could not rush to achieve success, so he did not argue on these issues.

After a day of preliminary discussion, the two sides exchanged framework opinions on cooperation in various aspects, and the overall situation was very harmonious.

After the meeting, of course neither side will be idle.

Zheng Yu immediately held a meeting in front of the imperial court.

This is not just a discussion on the national policy of China-Germany diplomacy. Zheng Yu set the tone from the beginning, that is, the overall national policy that extends from Sino-German relations to the next step.

General Secretary Liu Dingyi has always had some doubts about cooperation with Germany. In his opinion, Britain has always been a traditional ally of China. Whether it is financial resources, its own market, international influence or a real military threat to China, Britain is the most valuable ally.

At present, the competition for interests between Britain and Germany in Europe is becoming increasingly serious, especially Germany's expansion of naval and merchant fleet, which has violated Britain's traditional maritime hegemony. If it is too close to Germany, it will inevitably cause direct damage to Sino-British relations.

The head of the cabinet proposed worriedly that the previous joint Hanxuan between Britain, France and the United States had shown Britain's concerns about China's expansion policy in Asia. The Sino-Russian war is still going on, and it is not clear when it will end. Even if there are more results, China will find it difficult to expect to destroy Russia in one war. After all, it will still be the one who can play the greatest influence, followed by the United States. As for Germany, it is beyond the reach of Asia and it is really difficult to use actual assistance.

In addition, Liu Dingyi also proposed that if China-German cooperation leads to trade sanctions against China, the gain will be more than good. After all, the empire needs foreign exchange, overseas markets, and loans. The only ones that can provide the greatest help to China in this regard are Britain and France, especially Britain. As for Germany, its transportation with China depends on Russia on land, and it is easy to be cut off by Britain at sea, which is not enough to rely on it.

In short, Liu Dingyi believes that Sino-German cooperation is not impossible, but it must be cautious. Especially at this point, Britain has been greatly stimulated, and further reshaping the Sino-British conflict is likely to be less than worth the loss.

Foreign Minister Li Jingfang has support and reservations for this issue.

In Li Jingfang's view, Britain is currently in a policy turning point, and the traditional liberal empire policy is being questioned more and more. In this regard, China's every move may have a subtle impact on the direction of Britain's policy.

However, Zheng Yu was really helpless with Li Jingfang.

On the one hand, this person admitted that China's current proposal of exclusive sphere of influence in East Asia is equivalent to directly overturning the balance of power that Britain has maintained and undermining the United States' opening-up, which will inevitably lead to conflicts between China and the great powers. If China wants to avoid conflicts, it can only give up this requirement. "This is simply impossible under the current circumstances": on the other hand, he also proposed that China's most important task at present is to "fight for an international environment for peaceful development..., so... we cannot overstimulate Britain's imperialist sentiment and push China and Britain to war or trade blockade."

But when it comes to how to solve this seemingly contradictory task, Li Jingfang also admitted that "I can't get it right." Regarding the current complex political game in Britain, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs "is conducting careful research" later became forced to make an excuse, so he simply used the sentence "The final conclusion may be just one sentence, maybe not as simple as one sentence, but the specific conclusion still takes time" to make excuses.

Li Jingfang still said something valuable to the United States. In his opinion, as long as China does not show hostility to the United States, as long as China continues to open up to US capital, the United States "cannot re-adopt anti-China policy, nor can it really launch forceful interference." Li Jingfang, a Sino-German cooperation, believes that as long as China and Germany do not form a formal military alliance, the United States is unlikely to turn against China because of this.

However, Li Jingfang also proposed that China's diplomacy with Germany cannot be clearly targeted by Britain, France or the United States. "It cannot make them think that they are isolated by China and Germany, and are hostile isolation."

He proposed that in the next ten years, China's diplomacy will "need to adhere to the principle of equal distance" to a certain extent. In addition to the current anti-interference between the great powers and the goal of building the exclusive sphere of influence in Northeast Asia, it is also a choice for realist economic interests. But the biggest risk lies in being too politicized, and even with the color of military alliances, which will trigger the United States' fear of national security and directly stimulating the conservatism and chauvinism of British and French conservatism, leading to the deterioration of China's external environment.

Zheng Yu actually attaches importance to and recognizes Li Jingfang's opinions in many aspects.

However, for him, Liu Dingyi and Li Jingfang have certainly expressed many real truths, but these are not all the information he needs.

Finance Minister Tang Shaoyi's third An Yan was.

Recently, Tang Shaoyi's face has obviously become cloudy and sunny.

Originally, we were ready to fight twelve to eighteen months, but now we have laid a victory in just half a year and even completely controlled the Japanese. In addition, we have used the wartime control system effectively, especially the royal family actually hid a large piece of production capacity, which has led to the effective control of the country's war expenses.

In Tang Shaoyi's view, to put it bluntly, it is just a strategy to put it bluntly. The key to adopting a strategy depends on the needs of the country and the strength of the country. Overall, he first talked about the current economic situation of the country.

Although the country has been affected by war exports and residents' consumption has been affected by war, with the help of huge military expansion and war orders, the imperial economy has still made great progress under the unified allocation of the wartime system. Based on the perspective of GDP, agricultural output is expected to rise from 8.664 billion yuan in the previous year to more than 8.9 billion yuan, but mainly because the price of agricultural products has risen relatively quickly this year. The industrial output value has increased from 5.42 billion yuan.

The 8 million Huayuan is expected to rise to 6.8 billion Huayuan, which also calculates a 9.5% drop in the overall price of industrial products caused by wartime control and mandatory pricing. The growth is mainly due to strong wartime economic controls, planning and investment in preferential credit, fully mobilizing the country's industrial potential, a large amount of idle production capacity has been activated, and the labor and labor intensity has increased significantly. In addition to other industries, the GDP is expected to increase from 18.1 billion Huayuan to more than 20 billion Huayuan.

In terms of GDP composition, the war has affected exports, and exports are expected to drop from 173 million Huayuan in the previous year to more than 700 million Huayuan. In order to make up for the lack of domestic productivity and investment in domestic agricultural industry and infrastructure, imports have increased from 679 million Huayuan in the previous year to more than 1.3 billion Huayuan. The trade deficit is expected to be close to 600 million Huayuan in the previous year, while the trade surplus of 395 million was 395 million.

The final consumption of residents is expected to drop from 11.9 billion Huayuan in the previous year to 11.9 billion Huayuan in the previous year, mainly because residents increase savings during the war, purchase of treasury bonds and donations, and the conversion of private goods to military industry, led to insufficient supply of some non-essential consumer goods: the total investment of various industrial sectors will increase from 2.641 billion Huayuan in the previous year to more than 2.9 billion Huayuan in the year. [Central and local governments, including material procurement in war fees, reached 4.9 billion Huayuan, including consumption and investment, including credit leverage.

Then comes the financial foundation.

In terms of revenue, the current estimated turnover of the country based on wartime controls is as follows: Taxation: budget revenue of 1.3 billion Huayuan, and the actual fiscal and tax revenue of 1.6 billion Huayuan is expected to be achieved. The reason for exceeding expectations is that the overall increase in prices is large, resulting in an increase in the nominal tax amount. Secondly, the tax enforcement rate under the wartime system has increased, and the output value of enterprises has also been higher under wartime orders. Secondly, the special tax rate in wartime is higher. The investment dividend of three state-owned assets: 28 million Huayuan within the budget, and 30 million Huayuan actually has been achieved.

Other income mainly includes: Annan Jewish Autonomous Region's political donations of 20 million British list combined with 145 million Chinese Yuan: 250 million Chinese Yuan for corruption and bureaucratic assets, including cash, deposits, foreign exchange, securities, pension remittance, illegal asset auctions, etc.: various fines, cultural relics auctions and state-owned land and real estate auctions, etc., 80 million Chinese Yuan for the part of the central government's finance: the first war compensation (mainly precious metals and foreign exchange reserves) requested from Japan, a total of 280 million Chinese Yuan.

In addition, there are a large number of confiscated ten places, cultural relics, etc. that have not been auctioned, as well as seized Japanese and Russian military supplies, which will be cashed out at the end, and some of them have been directly supplemented for military purposes.

In addition, there are 620 million Huayuan from fundraising at home and abroad.

As for the US $300 million loan to China, the remaining 1500 million yuan was paid on the spot for the remaining amount of warships and auxiliary ships purchased in the United States, the purchase of military supplies produced in the United States, the scarce civilian supplies, and the supplementary productivity gap. The remaining 150 million yuan was still in the accounts of Chinese banks in the United States, used for subsequent procurement and payment of final payments.

After deducting underwriting fees, all the $500 million in the second phase of war bonds in Zhonghuan have been transferred to the central bank, and the central bank paid the corresponding amount of Huayuan to the Ministry of Finance, which is equivalent to increasing the issuance rights of the banknotes in the hands of the Ministry of Finance.

In terms of expenses: in addition to war, the expenses in other aspects are as follows: the war expenses are large-scale to the present, including pre-war mobilization, the regular military expenditure this year, and the war-related expenses, totaling 2.8 billion Chinese yuan, which is more than 700 million yuan than the annual budget. Although the expenditures are supported by the procurement price lower than expected, the cost savings of the war mode mainly in the internal combat, and the overall war system savings cost savings, there are also factors that exceed expectations in the scale of the war. The military has increased its expenditures on multiple fronts and the large-scale construction of war preparedness railways and highways.

In order to ensure victory and to consolidate his position, Zheng Yu greatly increased the battle sequence of the Imperial Guards and Marines. In addition, with the Jews and the United States in place, China also began to relax the control of military expenditure. Especially after entering the strategic stalemate and counterattack stage, in order to seize the opportunity and try to establish a victory before the arrival of Siberian winter, China relaxed the originally reduced ammunition base control. In addition, the consumption of motorized troops by several strategic decisive clusters exceeded expectations, and in addition, the impact of the Siberian Far East battle in winter, the scale of reserves and consumption exceeded expectations.

In addition, due to the actual overspending of the original shipbuilding plan and the further expansion of the shipbuilding plan, the taxes originally assigned were insufficient, and another 40 million Huayuan was allocated to the shipbuilding, totaling 120 million Huayuan.

In other aspects, interest expenses of RMB 173 million: Interest subsidy of RMB 50 million for fiscal loans: 60 million for public rental housing investment: 133 million for education funds: 120 million for administrative office disclosure expenditure: 40 million for public institutions: 60 million for diplomatic police: 33 million for social security payments borne by the government: 200 million for state-owned banks to increase capital.

By increasing capital, fixed assets investment of 720 million yuan is carried out: Calculate that the country's annual fiscal revenue is 3 billion yuan, the total expenditure is 4.3 billion yuan, and the annual fiscal budget deficit is expected to be 300 million yuan.

In terms of financing, the second phase of China-US bonds of $500 million and 725 billion were added this year, the US consortium loans of $300 million and 435 billion and the 10 billion patriotic government bonds raised in China, and the German loans were equivalent to 280 million and 2440 million.

All foreign currency bonds are deposited into the central bank in foreign exchange and obtained Huayuan, which is added by the central bank to the government account.

In terms of foreign exchange reserves, the accumulated hard currency such as gold, British list, US dollar, gold franc, gold mark has been equivalent to 4.1 billion Chinese yuan!

Now, Tang Shaoyi has such a strong family background and speaks with great vigor.

"…The current national fiscal situation is generally healthy. Although the expenditure this year is amazing, the overall deficit level is still reasonable with the help of the income from many other projects. The total internal and external debt of the central government is 5.8 billion Huayuan, although it is relatively high..." "For next year's fiscal plan, as far as war is concerned, I believe that the annual pure war expenses of less than one billion yuan will not affect the flexibility of the imperial finances."

“…, as far as the imperial finances are concerned, there is no problem in supporting the continued combat against Russia.

Even if Britain and France want to use further financing restrictions to threaten the empire, they cannot shake the empire's situation." Tang Shaoyi sat down calmly, and there was already a lot of praise. In Zheng Yu's opinion, such a big country is so complex, without the computers and Internet of later generations, and being involved in the chaos of national wars is really enough for people to drink. Although Tang Shaoyi has no magical stroke, he may have managed the national finances so well, and is truly considered very competent.

Zheng Yu called Jiang Sheng again, Chief of Staff.

A series of onshore victory made Chief of General Staff Jiang Sheng, the formerly steadfast veteran, gradually turn to hawks, and speak more and more confidently.

Jiang Sheng first reviewed the achievements and losses of the army since the war began.

As of yesterday, in this war, the Chinese Empire's land forces, including the Royal Imperial Guard, the National Defense Force and the Marine Corps, had accumulated 326,000 Russian military personnel, captured 612,000 prisoners, 202,000 Japanese military personnel, 403,000 prisoners, 4800 Siamese military personnel, 62,000 prisoners, 68,000 rebels from various countries, and 386,000 prisoners, and a total of 2.27 million hostile military personnel...
Chapter completed!