northernbook Chapter 142: Ten Thousand Pounds Deposit, National Sensation
Chapter 142: Ten Thousand Pounds Deposit, National Sensation
He Yujie looked at Lord Martin, who had an unpleasant expression on his face, and said with a faint smile: "I hope you can remember that as long as we have the Renaissance Army and the Renaissance Government, the ancient country will no longer be the ancient country before.
This is the land of the Old Country, and you have no right to a jury.
Because this is the internal affairs of our ancient country, they have violated the laws of the ancient country, and they will be punished by the laws of the ancient country.
So there is absolutely no way we can agree to a jury.
However, you can send personnel to observe this trial.
As for keeping the trial secret, that is not acceptable, and we will publish it in the newspapers for people all over the country to see.
It also lets those who are not in the ruled area see that as long as they commit crimes in the ancient country, they will be punished, no matter which country they are from.
Even you, Lord Martin, are no exception.
As for the deposit, it must also be paid. Since you have made a mistake, you have to pay the price.
As for whether they pay the price themselves or your government pays it for them, it has nothing to do with us.
But the deposit is negotiable. I'll give you a 8000% discount, to £ per person. This is the biggest concession we can make."
“no no no no.......”
When Martin heard whether the price would be paid by themselves or by their respective governments, it gave him an idea.
Yes, perhaps their government does not need to bear this cost.
But when he heard the price of £8000, he still couldn't accept it.
Even though it wasn't my own money, the price was still a bit too high.
"8000 pounds is too high, we can't convince our people of this price, so I hope it can be reduced to 1000 pounds."
The deposit is the main purpose of starting the second round of negotiations.
Otherwise, Jiang Hua really wouldn't bother to pay attention to them and would just do things according to the plan.
But it would be nice if you could get some money out of it.
And in his opinion, this was not extortion, he just asked them to pay a little interest first.
Because every account and every blood debt has not yet been settled.
The two sides then discussed the deposit issue for more than six hours and finally found a balance point that both parties could accept.
The balance point is the deposit of 3000 pounds per person, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as ransom.
The price was still very high, but the Renaissance Army would no longer make any concessions, so they had no choice but to accept it.
Anyway, the government doesn’t have to pay the bulk of the money.
And for those detained in the concession, the price is also very expensive.
But those who can travel thousands of miles to this ancient land are not poor.
The other three major powers were very dissatisfied with the conditions negotiated by Lord Martin.
After much negotiation, they only made some concessions on the price of the deposit, but the rest of the negotiations were not reached, which was totally unacceptable to them.
"If you think you can negotiate it on your own, then you can just go find the Renaissance Army. We in John Country have already accepted these conditions.
Ladies and gentlemen, the most important thing for us now is to calm this matter down.
After that, we can use all means to deal with this hateful Renaissance Army without any scruples, right?"
The others fell silent after hearing Lord Martin's words.
Yes!
If there were only one or two or even dozens of citizens, they would just give up and it would be fine as long as they covered it up a little.
However, even the smallest group of Bileg in the Restoration Army has more than 800 people.
So they can't do anything to the Renaissance Army now.
After redeeming all the people, you won’t have to worry about anything.
Besides, the Renaissance Army did provide them with ideas.
First redeem the people, and then after they return to their country, let them sell their property to pay the ransom paid by the government for them.
If the family property is not enough, they will be sold directly to the big capitalists to become free slaves.
3000 pounds could get a free slave for life, which was a good deal for capitalists.
Therefore, the debt will eventually be transferred to the detainees, and the government does not have to spend anything.
But this time the embarrassment was definitely huge.
As one of the world's top powers, not only did they have to publicly try their own citizens at the Renaissance Army, but they also had to pay a so-called deposit.
This is simply a disgrace.
But now they can only grit their teeth and swallow it.
Jiang Hua was surprised and happy when he learned that He Yujie had negotiated a deposit of 3000 pounds per person.
That's more than 3000 people. At 7600 pounds per person, that's million pounds for these people.
If converted into US dollars, it would be 3.12 million, and if converted into ocean currency, it would be as high as 7.8 million.
This is simply a windfall.
And that doesn't include the proceeds from the confiscation of the entire concession.
This property is also a huge amount of money for Jiang Hua.
At least the funds for the subsequent construction and development have been secured.
The currently frozen bank funds, seized gold, silver, jewelry, jade, etc. alone amount to more than 10 billion oceans, and this is without taking into account fixed assets.
A conservative estimate is that the amount of money obtained from these five concessions reached 20 billion.
This number also shows how prosperous the concession was and how rich these people were.
"This time, we have seriously offended these powerful countries, especially the John Kingdom."
When Chu Anshi saw the statistics below, he said with a helpless look on his face.
I really don’t know whether I should be happy or what.
The reason for happiness is that this windfall can support the government's large-scale fiscal expenditure for one or two years.
However, if we offend John's country, it will definitely affect the subsequent export of industrial products, that is, foreign trade.
This will have a significant impact on subsequent industrial development.
From Chu Anshi's perspective as the government's chief steward, there is no problem with how he thinks.
But in Jiang Hua's opinion, his considerations were not long-term enough.
"President Chu, do you think that if there is no concession, we won't offend John Country?
They have such huge interests in the ancient country, and our rise will inevitably threaten their interests.
We both have irreconcilable contradictions, and there is no possibility of cooperation, at least in the short term.
Unless a new enemy takes our place and poses a greater threat to them.
So we might as well take this opportunity to recover some interest from them.
What's more, our main focus in the future will still be on basic industries.
Foreign trade may be affected, but we have a huge population market, and internal consumption will take a long time.
So don't worry about these issues now.
When we become stronger, maybe we won't have to worry about so many things, right?"
Chu Anshi suddenly realized and said, "It seems that we are still a little short-sighted in looking at the problem, and only consider the immediate interests.
If that's the case, then I don't have to worry.
However, the sulfa project may still have a certain impact."
Jiang Hua nodded and said, "Maybe there is some influence, but don't forget, the West is capitalist and they are the real masters.
But capital doesn’t have a state, so I don’t think the impact will be significant.”
On June 32, 6, an explosive announcement once again spread across the country.
There are two aspects of power supply.
First, the Restoration Government and the Restoration Army have recovered all the concessions under their rule.
The concession, a product of semi-colonialism, will completely become history and will no longer appear on the territory of the Renaissance Army.
At the same time, the Fuxing government took advantage of this opportunity to forcibly take back the customs and regain customs autonomy.
This also meant that the Restoration government could formulate its own tariff policy and the great powers could no longer interfere.
This is crucial to the development of domestic industry, agriculture, economy, finance and other aspects.
The second point is that the Fuxing Government will go to the capital on June 6 and hold a public trial in the newly established Supreme Court against foreign citizens who have committed serious crimes in the Tianjin Concession.
People from all walks of life can apply for this trial court.
This was not the first time that the ancient country had tried a foreigner, but it was definitely the largest one.
Because the number of foreigners tried this time exceeded one hundred, reaching 176, and the number is still increasing.
The reason is that the personnel are still being screened, so the final list has not yet been determined.
But the number should be around 300.
These people either have the blood and lives of the people of the ancient country on their hands, or have damaged the interests of the ancient country through improper means.
Most of them are middle and senior level staff in the concession.
The trial of foreigners on such a large scale seemed incredible to many people.
As for the so-called deposit in the negotiations, it was not mentioned.
This money itself is unexpected wealth, there is no need to make it known to the world and cause any accidents.
Moreover, these powerful governments also have to save face and cannot strike too hard at once.
However, the first two things alone are enough to cause a huge sensation in the country.
It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a raging storm.
Among them, the biggest shock and the greatest impact came from the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation.
Wu Zhichang, Gu Ziqi, Lu Jianzhang and others knew that John and others were going to Shangjing to negotiate with the Fuxing Army.
Although they didn't know what the negotiations were about or what happened during them.
However, it is not difficult to find out from the content of the telegram that John, Gaul, Italy and even Bileg did not gain any benefits from the Restoration Army.
These top powers actually suffered such a huge setback in front of the Restoration Army.
This seemed very incredible and unbelievable to them.
They couldn't understand how John and the other three countries agreed to such negotiation conditions.
Is this still the domineering top Western power in their perception?
Especially the John Kingdom, they are the British Empire, the world's most powerful country.
It has dominated the world for more than two hundred years.
They actually bowed their heads before the Renaissance Army.
In their eyes, this also broke the golden body of these top powers.
As for the impact, it soon spread to the Southern Association for Regional Cooperation.
Because people from all walks of life began to put pressure on the Southern Alliance, hoping to abolish more than ten concessions including the Shanghai International Settlement, the Guangzhou Concession, the Xiacheng Concession, and the Xunyang Concession.
But can SAARC do it? This is obviously impossible.