Cao Rulin and Fang Zida exchanged their eyes tacitly, nodded happily to agree, and sat back again. Before Tsar Nicholas did not respond formally, the two sides negotiated on other issues and reached an agreement. Soon, two days later, except for the issue on Outer Mongolia, other aspects were negotiated one by one, and now we will wait for Tsar Nicholas II's final decision.

"Brother Runtian, do you think the Russians can surrender in the end?" The matter in Outer Mongolia was not Fang Zida's suggestion, but Cao Rulin proposed. During the negotiations, Cao Rulin found Fang Zida and made this suggestion to him. Fang Zida agreed after a little consideration. However, Fang Zida was not sure whether Tsarist Russia could really agree to this request. After all, he was not a professional diplomat, but he felt that the possibility of success in making such a request under such circumstances is very high.

Cao Rulin was confident and drank a sip of tea with great pleasure, and said with a smile: "I, Mr. Cao, have experienced diplomatic affairs a lot. If I have no confidence in this matter, I will not make such a decision. Zheng Ming, please rest assured, this matter will be accomplished!"

Speaking of this, Cao Rulin put down the teacup and sighed: "Recalling that back then, Cao signed the "Russia-Mongolia Agreement" with the Russians on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and he was always angry. But the country is weak and the other is strong, so he really has to do it! But I didn't expect that the feng shui has changed. It's only been a long time since the Russians begged us. How can we be worthy of the country and our ancestors if we don't bite them hard at this time?"

At the end, Cao Rulin even gritted his teeth. It can be seen how deeply he was about the agreement and how hostile he was to Tsarist Russia. Cao Rulin is not unfamiliar with Fang Zida. His name was like a thunderous name before he met him. Fang Zida had read the textbook since he was a child. There was an allusion to burn Zhaojialou in the textbook. Cao Rulin was criticized for decades as a villain. When he first met Cao Rulin in the Republic of China, Fang Zida, who was influenced by childhood, had always been vigilant about this person, but since the Qing*da incident, he came into contact with him.

When I came here, I found that Cao Rulin was not as cunning as described in the past. On the contrary, he was an elder and diplomat who was knowledgeable, self-disciplined, sincere, talked with others, and was very patriotic. On the other hand, those "revolutionary martyrs" who were famous in history. Fang Zida was indescribable to dislike. In addition to only shouting slogans, inciting students who do not know the truth, and bewitching people, they intrigue in private, fight for power and profit, and are indecisive. They are bribery, assassination and explosion, and use all kinds of shameless means.

"No wonder there is a saying in later generations that 'traitors' did not fear power and insisted on resisting Japan. The revolutionary pioneers of that year became traitors." Fang Zida sighed in his heart, but Qu Index counted that it was not a few years away from the historical institute. But judging from China's current situation, history has long been on another path, and perhaps that kind of tragedy will never happen again.

The matter was indeed similar to what Cao Rulin expected. For China's sudden proposal. Although Tsar Nicholas II was extremely angry, he had no choice but to be trapped in the quagmire of war. For Tsar Russia, the center of interests of the Russian Empire was in Europe, and although the Far East was important, it was clear which one was more important than Europe. Besides, the German army is approaching. If the situation cannot be reversed, the entire Russian Empire would face collapse if it could not be resisted. Compared with the overall situation, Outer Mongolia is just a pawn of Tsar Russia and has not been incorporated into territory. Now Tsar Russia's front line is seriously insufficient, and it has greatly drawn the Far East forces, and it cannot maintain its interests in Outer Mongolia at all. In this case, letting go of Outer Mongolia will not actually suffer much loss for Tsar Russia. It is just face.

After thinking about it, Nicholas II finally decided to give up Outer Mongolia temporarily to gain support from China. Of course, no one knows whether Nicholas II was willing to do this decision, or whether he planned to wait until the European war ended before turning around and teaching his own China a lesson to realize the great Yellow Russia plan.

After receiving the order from Nicholas II, Kubensky immediately notified the Chinese negotiation team and urgently requested the formal signing of the contract. Fang Zida and Cao Rulin felt relieved after hearing the news and replied that the other party would officially sign the contract tomorrow morning. After the person who came left, they laughed and raising their glasses together to celebrate.

The next morning, it was still at the original venue. All the members of the Chinese negotiating team entered and were full of energy. On the other hand, the Tsarist Russia had all had a gloomy face, as if they were dead. After the agreement was signed, the Tsarist Russia only shook hands with China in accordance with diplomatic etiquette, and hoped that China could perform the agreement procedures as soon as possible and then left. After the Russians left, everyone in China was cheering, especially Cao Rulin was smiling, and the anger that had been holding in his chest for several years finally ejaculated today.

China actually took a great advantage in the Sino-Russian agreement. Although Tsarist Russia actually paid not much ruble, a large amount of industrial raw materials provided strong support to China's booming industry and commerce. With these resources, at least in a few years, the development of China's industry and commerce will be taken to a higher level, and it can also obtain immeasurable economic benefits through various channels such as production, sales, and circulation. What is even more exciting is that since the Qing Dynasty, the evil neighbor, the greedy Tsarist Russia, has never stopped his embezzlement of Chinese territory.

From decades to tens of years, at least four or five years, Tsarist Russia always had to find various reasons to tear off a piece of meat from China. But this time, it was the first victory for the Chinese. The establishment of Outer Mongolia's sovereignty and the abolition of the Russian-Mongolian Agreement made everyone see the hope of the rise of the country. In addition, the Qingdao incident before the European War made all Chinese excited, especially those diplomats who often felt angry and were as unpleasant as mice on both sides, and were even more rare to hold their chests up. In their opinion, China could not say anything.

The signing of the Sino-Russian business agreement was very great, especially the recovery of rights in Outer Mongolia further increased the prestige of the central government. Immediately afterwards, Nicholas II, who could not wait to transport a large number of raw materials and materials through the Siberian Railway in exchange for war and civilian materials provided by China. Fang Zida was prepared for this. Long before the agreement was signed, he instructed the following to start hoarding materials. When the first batch of raw materials arrived, Fang Zida's exchange materials were also shipped onto the vehicle at the same time, which made Kubensky, who had been resentful after the agreement was signed, breathing a sigh of relief. His gloomy face finally looked much better.

The Sino-Russian business agreement brought huge opportunities to domestic industry and commerce. Domestic industry and commerce, which were stimulated by the European war, ushered in the second peak of development like another injection of chicken blood. Not only those national capitals that have invested in building factories and have obtained the first batch of benefits have increased their investment efforts, expanded factories, purchased machinery, and increased production... Even some ordinary landlords, gentry, etc. who are disdainful of business are too jealous and can't sit still. They are scrambling to invest their money in industry and commerce. Those who have broad paths directly build factories, those who have no money or have no skills directly cooperate, and some of them don't have money to make money and have no way to make money. For a while, major cities are very lively. Everyone is proud of doing business and doing business. They open their products and sell them all. Even when they meet, they are congratulating on making a fortune.

"One billion people and nine hundred million merchants, and there are still one hundred million waiting and watching."

This sentence means reform and opening up in 70 years, but it can also be used now. Of course, there is no one billion people. At present, China has a population of only 450 million. Fang Zida specifically asked the following people to roughly calculate. According to the summary of major cities, at least about three percent of people have entered or are entering industry and commerce, including industrial owners, investors, technicians, workers, and related services, transportation industry, etc. This is an amazing achievement for China today.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Fang Zida's plan to expand military-industrial enterprises also began in advance. Near Liaoning, Fang Zida set up a new arsenal, mainly producing standard weapons. In addition, the ordnance and military factories in Shanghai, Nanjing, Han*yang, Taiyuan and other places, now have nearly eight ordnance factories and military-industrial enterprises of all sizes across the country. In terms of production alone, it can fully meet the implementation of the National Defense Forces reorganization plan, and even the Tsarist Russia's weapons orders in the Sino-Russian business agreement, and the total scale suddenly jumped to the top in the Far East.

Of course, these are all good sides. After the signing of the Sino-Russian business agreement, Germany was extremely dissatisfied with this. After all, when the Qinghai Island was returned, the two sides had a secret agreement that once the war broke out, Germany would give priority to China's commercial materials. Now the Sino-Russian business agreement has funded Germany's opponent, Tsarist Russia, which is simply a betrayal.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been prepared for the doubts of Germany. It was Cao Rulin who personally took action to explain to Germany. In his original words, China, as a war-neutral country, has the right to trade independently. China has never forgotten its help and friendship. If Germany needs it, China can increase commercial exchanges with Germany. Of course, this must be normal commercial exchanges, that is, Germany can buy money. If there is no money, it doesn't matter. It can also be exchanged for supplies like Russia. Whoever pays more money and sells more things, will we sell to whom. Don't Westerners always say that friends are friends, and is buying a business?

These words made the Germans say nothing. Now that Germany is fighting on both sides, how can they care about China that is not at all in the process? For the sake of the war, the Germans could only hold back this tone and had no choice but to put forward the suggestion of increasing commercial cooperation with China to reduce the threat posed by China's aid to Russia to Germany. Of course, China would not refuse this proposal. Cao Rulin, who was smiling, agreed and soon signed a business agreement with Germany. Then Britain and France could not sit still. They found the Chinese government one by one and each put forward the requirements for commercial cooperation.
Chapter completed!