Chapter 60: Special Forces and Warriors

Because of the stern kick of the East China Autonomous Government, all the preparations of the Six Nations Banks were shattered, and the four banks collectively protested to the East China Autonomous Government.

The Bank of Four accused the East China Autonomous Government of misappropriating commercial loans to Beiyang Government and threatened the East China Autonomous Government. If the loan negotiations with Beiyang Government are not stopped, they will abolish the previous loans and demand that the East China Autonomous Government return the amount of loans in advance.

The protests of the Four Banks were in full swing. The East China Autonomous Government actually lent a huge amount of 80 million pounds from these four banks, which could scare people to death.

The loan from East China Group was not announced before, so basically no one in China knew about this.

Even Yuan Shikai, who knew about it, only thought that the East China Autonomous Government loan brought 20 to 30 million pounds, but he didn't expect that he had borrowed so much money, which made Yuan Shikai very depressed.

Why did he take advantage of the situation to rob the borrower, and the East China Autonomous Government can borrow money smoothly?

In Hangzhou, Xia Jun was not afraid of the protests issued by the Bank of Four.

Xia Jun immediately issued a statement.

"Four countries' loans are not firstly loans from our East China Autonomous Government, but loans from East China Group, which are purely commercial loans. Second: The East China Autonomous Government has never misappropriated this part of the loan, and the Four countries have not limited the purpose of this loan in the loan agreement. Third: The East China Autonomous Government and the Beiyang Government belong to China's internal affairs, and foreign countries have no right to deal with China's internal affairs. Fourth, the Four countries' loans and the East China Group stipulate that if the bank defaults, it will refuse to return the funds. Fifth, if the Four countries' banks are sincere in soliciting loans to China, as long as the conditions are appropriate, the East China Autonomous Government and the Beiyang Government will consider giving them priority."

The statement issued by East China Autonomous Political Consultative Fu made the Four Kingdoms Bank very disappointed because they looked like they were crazy. They were just commercial loans, but they insisted on political loans.

As for whether this is misappropriation is more than loans, the East China Autonomous Government does not need to misappropriate them at all, because they just learned from German banks not long ago that the Germans had determined aid loans of 400 million marks to the East China Autonomous Government, and learned from some American banks that they had previously obtained $60 million in loans to them using various patents.

No matter what, even if they want to misappropriate them, they will not misappropriate them.

While the Four Banks were discussing countermeasures, Xia Jun also began indirect negotiations with Germany. This time, Xia Jun introduced the technology of mortars.

Xia Jun intends to use the U-29 drawings to exchange for some German battleship manufacturing technology and the exit of German banks among the four countries.

From 1900 to 1912, Germany's maritime power continued to increase, making them one of the few naval powers in the world, but the German army clearly realized that they were far from competing with the naval overlord Britain, and they were far from being opponents.

How to quickly improve the strength of the navy?

Emperor William II of Germany and his beloved general, Admiral Elfred, were going to do his best to think of the submarine.

In this era, due to the lack of submarine detection and anti-submarine means, submarines have strong combat power in the ocean. Germany can be said to be the country in the world that attaches the most importance to submarines.

Germany has been coveting the submarine technology in the hands of East China Autonomous Government for a long time. When he learned that East China Autonomous Government was willing to trade technology for technology, he agreed readily.

As for the interests of German banks in China, Germany no longer cares about so many things. At this time, the naval arms race between Germany and Britain was intensifying.

The Germans built one battleship, and the British built two in order to overwhelm the German Navy in numbers.

Negotiations between the two sides were quickly reached, and the Germans were willing to exchange some advanced shipbuilding technology for the U-29 drawings, and at the same time forced the German banks to withdraw from the alliance of the Bank of the Six Nations.

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The development of the trend quickly exceeded the expectations of the Bank of Six States. German banks suddenly withdrew from the alliance of the Bank of Six States because they were under pressure from German politics.

The German Bank, which withdrew from the alliance, was soon invited by the East China Autonomous Political Consultative Office to participate in the loan negotiations with Beiyang Political Consultative Office. Strictly speaking, the negotiations have been reached.

Xia Jun's East China Autonomous Government was willing to borrow from Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Government at a price of 4 cents and 2 kickbacks, and the Beiyang Government was mortgaged with taxes and tariffs from the four central provinces. The taxes of the four provinces had already been deposited into the East China Bank, and then the East China Bank deducted the interest and used them with the Beiyang Government.

The German bank was brought in to ask them to lend money to Beiyang government according to this condition. Xia Jun didn't want to get involved in too many confused accounts.

After all, once the central and local governments are unified in the future, Xia Jun has no place to find anyone to go. It is better to let foreigners lend money. Although they still have to pay back the political credit considerations in the future, at least they don’t have to occupy his funds.

Germany's Deutsche Bank withdrew from the alliance, instantly shattering the alliance of the Bank of Six Nations. Later, Belgian Bank and Dawson Bank also demanded to join the negotiations unilaterally.

Since the Belgian Bank had relatively harmonious loan negotiations with the East China Autonomous Government, the two sides also had some feelings, so Xia Jun agreed.

After the Belgian Bank joined, HSBC and Citibank also asked to join, France's Oriental Bank also asked to join, and Xia Jun also asked them to participate.

The Japanese Bank also wanted to kick it at this time, and Xia Jun also agreed. If you borrow the money from Japan, don’t want to go back. Xia Jun was happy to see the Beiyang Masahiva borrowing from Japan.

Of course, the premise of this loan is that the conditions for the loan must be stipulated by him.

At this time, the East China Autonomous Political Consultative Conference had already negotiated with Beiyang Political Consultative Conference to meet the conditions. These banks had no right to set the conditions when they joined. They just subscribed to the 30 million pound loan.

Since the loan conditions are pretty good, although the interest rate of 4% is not too high for long-term loans, this is a loan that will not be lost after the guarantee of the East China Autonomous Government and the Beiyang Government take out the tax mortgages from the four central provinces and the customs mortgages.

In order to compete for the amount of loans, all seven banks tried hard to compete for more in the negotiations.

Finally, the six banks negotiated with East China Autonomous Government and Beiyang Autonomous Government, and HSBC raised 6 million, Deutsche Bank raised 5 million, Oriental Huili 5 million, Citibank 5 million, Russian Daosheng Bank 3 million, Bank of Japan 3 million, and Bank of Belgium 3 million, totaling 30 million pounds.

As for what conditions, there is nothing.

The mortgage was held in East China Bank. At the same time, Yuan Shikai privately agreed to Xia Jun that the taxes of Beiyang Zhengfu would be stored in East China Bank, which is definitely very profitable.

With the fiscal deposits of Beiyang Zhengfu and the fiscal deposits of East China Autonomous Zhengfu, East China Bank will become China's largest bank.

The East China Autonomous Government failed to pay a penny in this negotiation and sought to seize many benefits.

In addition to obtaining the deposit from Beiyang Zhengfu, Yuan Shikai also set Fuxing Coin as the only fiat currency, but the premise is that Fuxing Coin is revised and cannot print Xia Jun's avatar.

Xia Jun agreed to this condition and replied to Yuan Shikai that he would cancel the avatar.

Yuan Shikai actually wanted to print his avatar, but the meaning in Xia Jun's words had already vaguely revealed to him that Fuxing Coin would not print his avatar, and it was anyone's avatar.

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The second version of Fuxing Coin was soon started to design. In addition to the unchanged anti-counterfeiting technology, the pattern design requirements this time are more beautiful.

Beiyang Political Bank's loans came to an end. With the efforts of the East China Autonomous Political Bank, foreign banks did not make any huge profits in China.

The monopoly of foreign banks in China has been completely broken, and from then on, there will be no more four countries, five countries, and six countries banks. Due to the emergence of East China Autonomous Government, it is impossible for them to form a monopoly, so they will also compete with each other in the future.

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Xia Jun's construction of the army has also accelerated. Xia Jun established an "East China Special Forces" at the end of May, and selected 500 people from the scouts and ordinary soldiers in the army. Xia Jun spent 10 million points to equip the special forces with a large number of advanced weapons.

From this moment on, this army has become China's most mysterious unit. East China special forces mainly carry out infiltration, sabotage, and beheading operations behind enemy lines.

Wang Cheng, the commander of the 06th Regiment of the First Division, was transferred from the First Division and served as deputy commander of the East China Special Forces. Wang Cheng once severely damaged the Qing army in Dayangshan. He performed very fiercely in the army and was the best candidate for the special forces.

Xia Jun himself was the commander-in-chief.

At the same time, Xia Jun purchased the most produced m4 Sherman medium tanks in the United States during World War II from the system. Although the m4 Sherman heavy tanks are not as good as those of German and Soviet tanks in armor, they are reliable. German tanks basically need to go to the factory for overhaul once when they travel 1,000 kilometers, while m4 can continue to fight as long as they are routinely maintained.

Because an M4 medium tank is from World War II, the price is as high as 500,000 points. Xia Jun exchanged 100 vehicles for this, mainly used to train armored soldiers, and also to deal with Japanese combat.

The tanks in World War I could only cover infantry and lacked the ability to fight in depth. The tanks before World War II were basically not very mature.

Xia Jun basically won’t equip those too bad tanks, because the driving comfort of those tanks is too low, and it’s a pain for soldiers to sit inside. His tank manufacturer is just for export.

Xia Jun used these 100 tanks to form the "Tiger Assault Battalion". Like the East China Special Forces, the assault battalion is directly commanded by Xia Jun. The Tiger Assault Battalion is served by Zhang Yicheng, who is the second class cadet of the Army Academy of East China Military University, and his third mixed brigade commander was replaced by the deputy brigade commander.

Zhang Yicheng was suddenly withdrawn by the brigade commander and was transferred to be the battalion commander of the "Tiger Assault Battalion", which made Zhang Yicheng so depressed.

As a result, Zhang Yicheng came to the military camp to report and realized how outrageous he was. This tiger assault camp was actually equipped with a chariot.

This kind of chariot is invulnerable to swords and guns, and can block the rain of bullets, is definitely a powerful tool in war.

Only then did Zhang Yicheng realize the principal's painstaking efforts. Although the military post has been reduced, the importance of this Tiger Assault Battalion is obviously more important than that of the Third Mixed Brigade.

The third mixed brigade is a garrison force, and may not be able to go to the battlefield. If you go to the battlefield, it is also an auxiliary force of the three infantry divisions. This tiger assault battalion will be a force that will inevitably be invested on the battlefield in the future, and it is the most powerful army unit.

The soldiers of the Tiger Assault Battalion are all educated and can be said to be one of the most educated troops in the entire army.

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Chapter completed!