In fact, trade negotiations often go through multiple rounds, sometimes it takes several years to achieve the final result, so it is common to fall into a deadlock in the early stages of negotiations. Sometimes, in the first and second rounds of negotiations, both sides will deliberately raise the asking price, put the negotiations into a deadlock, showing their tough attitude, and leaving enough room for themselves to make concessions in the subsequent negotiations. As the negotiations proceed, the conditions will be gradually lowered and each concessions will be made. The final agreement may be almost completely different from the conditions offered before. Although the parties to the negotiations have not achieved their ideal goals, they can still accept it.

Now that the trade negotiations between East China and Japan are in a deadlock, it is actually a normal operation. However, in order to maximize its own interests, East China and East China can slowly kill time, but now Japan cannot afford it, because on the second day after Qin Zheng returned to China, Britain, France and Russia officially announced Japan that the three countries would completely stop all cooperation matters with Japan from now on, and asked Japan to correct its mistakes as soon as possible and not to harm the interests of the [Four-Nation Alliance].

It turns out that the visits of East China ** to Japan were sent back to Japan in detail by the embassies of Britain, France and Russia in Japan. Although the three countries knew that Japan was pretending to be a pretentious and intended to put pressure on Britain, they made a move to be peaceful and friendly with East China **, but after learning that the Japanese emperor had met Qin Zheng, Britain, France and Russia were a little impatient. Britain and Russia were both monarchical countries. Although France is now a republic, it turned out that it was also a country with a long history of monarchy. It was less than 40 years since the abolition of the monarchy. Everyone knew that the monarchy had a great significance for receiving envoys, and only countries with very good relations would have it.

At this time, it is probably a bit unfair to the fact that it is said that Japan is pretending to behave, and Bi Jing has reached this point. It seems that Japan is really interested in improving relations with East China. Therefore, Britain, France and Russia can no longer remain indifferent. Although the trade negotiations between East China and Japan have not yet ended at this time, the three countries decided to immediately start sanctions against Japan. Of course, at this time, East China and Japan had signed a peace agreement, which actually damaged the interests of the [Four-Nation Alliance]. It is reasonable to sanction Japan now.

Of course, politicians of Britain, France and Russia also know that at this point, even if sanctions are imposed on Japan, it is difficult to prevent Japan and East China from improving relations. However, when the trade negotiations between East China and Japan are not over, the implementation of sanctions against Japan can interfere with Japan's negotiations, making Japan a passive position in this negotiation, and it is difficult to achieve its expected goals, put Japan in an unfavorable position in the future trade relations with East China, and impose a wedge between Japan and East China, and then slowly differentiate the relationship between Japan and East China, and eventually bring Japan back to the framework of the [Four-Country Alliance]. It has to be said that, as old imperialist countries, the use of power schemes by Britain, France and Russia has indeed reached a very high level.

Sure enough, the early imposition of sanctions on Japan by Britain, France and Russia on Japan has indeed put huge pressure on Japan. Now, only by reaching a trade agreement with East China as soon as possible can we make up for the losses caused by Britain, France and Russia on Japan. But now the negotiations between the two sides are in a deadlock, and it is time to compare and compete with each other for patience. If Japan is eager to reach a trade agreement with East China, it will undoubtedly put Japan in a passive situation in the negotiations, and it must make concessions to East China. In this way, even if the two sides sign the contract successfully, Japan will not be satisfied.

But the current situation cannot be slowly eroded by Japan and East China. Even if it is to sign a trade agreement that is not very favorable to Japan, it is better than not signing a trade agreement. After all, the trade between Britain, France and Russia has temporarily stopped. Although Japan also intends to pull the relationship between the United States and Germany, it is not as close to East China and Germany now. After all, it has begun to negotiate with East China.

So in the subsequent negotiations, Japan obviously put its bottom line, lowered its requirements, and gave up some unreasonable requirements, such as requiring both sides to settle trade in Japanese yen, and giving up all the requirements on the Korean Peninsula, and no longer insisted on the tariff requirements to be reduced to a minimum, as long as it can reach the level that Japan can bear.

Japan lowered its requirements, so negotiations became much easier. The two sides quickly negotiated multiple agreements. First of all, in terms of settlement, Japan agreed with the conditions of East China **. In addition to the currencies of both parties, three types of settlement currencies are used by both parties; at the same time, East China ** will increase the share of mineral resources and raw materials exported to Japan to the acceptable quantity of Japan, and reduce the export tariffs to the lowest level stipulated by East China **; and East China ** will also agree to import more Japanese machinery, equipment, steel products, etc., and symbolically determine a purchase quantity, but the part beyond this quantity can only be determined by the market, and Japan also agreed to minimize the export tariffs of these commodities to increase its competitiveness.

In addition, East China also plans to import a certain amount of agricultural products, seafood, and some handicrafts from Japan every year, but requires Japan to lower the export tariffs on these commodities.

Agricultural products and seafood are both food products and are the materials that East China need more. Because East China is preparing to overthrow the Qing Dynasty war, agricultural products and seafood are strategic materials, so the more the better. Japanese handicrafts such as ***, folding fans, umbrellas, prints, Ukiyo-e, dolls, etc. are very popular in East China. Nowadays, the veterans basically have a certain political and economic status, and their living conditions have improved, so they naturally have higher pursuits. Not only Japanese handicrafts, but European handicrafts are also very popular among the veterans. As the saying goes, the upward and downward effect, the living habits of the veterans also affect other naturalized people, so the demand for handicrafts is also increasing day by day. Of course, compared with the total foreign trade volume of East China, it is only a small part, and it will basically have no impact on the foreign trade pattern of East China, and the Executive Yuan has not interfered.

It is easy to deal with seafood and handicrafts. These are also the main items exported by Japan to the outside world. Seafoods are produced from the sea, and handicrafts are labor-intensive. For Japan, it is actually better for Japan. Reducing tariffs is nothing more than making less money and it is acceptable. However, requiring the import of agricultural products makes Japan's negotiating delegation a little embarrassed, because Japan is not a major agricultural country, and agricultural products may not be enough for themselves, so it can be exported to East China **. However, Japan is now in a weak position and it is difficult to reject East China **. Moreover, if it is not good to do even seafood and crafts, it will be a waste of money.

After negotiations between Japan, they finally accepted this condition. After all, making money is still important. Because Japan is now seriously damaged and needs to export more money. As for Japan's production is not enough, it can also be collected from the Korean Peninsula, Ryukyu, and Taiwan. Anyway, it is enough to increase taxes. As for the lives and death of the people in those areas, of course, they will not take it to the hearts of Japan.

But in the end, when it comes to Japan's export of China's cloth, cotton yarn, textiles, paper products, and other light industrial products, East China ** insists on putting it on and never reduces tariffs, because these products have a great overlap with the current East China *** industry. Therefore, East China ** should protect its own industries and naturally will not reduce tariffs on these commodities.

The two sides were in a stalemate on this issue, and there was no progress for several days. Finally, they decided to temporarily shelve the import tariff issue of the 32 related commodities. They first signed the negotiated part into a trade agreement, and then discussed these issues during the next negotiation. The negotiations were staged and the agreement was signed, which is also common in trade negotiations. Therefore, the East China ** and Japan signed the first round of trade agreements and agreed to hold the second round of trade negotiations in Qingdao within three months.

Although this trade agreement is far from Japan's expectations, no matter what, Japan can import mineral resources from East China at a lower price, produce raw materials, and export some machinery and equipment, steel products, agricultural products, seafood, and some handicrafts to East China. This is also a gain. Moreover, the export of light industrial products is not a matter of death. There are still some things to talk about, so Japan is not strong enough to accept it.

On the second day after the trade negotiating delegation of East China ** left Japan, Hirobuki Ito announced that he would resign as prime minister, dissolve the cabinet, and re-select the prime minister to form a cabinet.

According to the agreement reached by Hirofumi Ito and Akito Yama Prefecture, after Hirofumi Ito resigned, the military representative served as prime minister to form a cabinet. But what made Akito Yama Prefecture embarrassed was that the Japanese Army could not find a suitable candidate now, because in the Far East War, the army lost many senior personnel, which led to a fault among the senior personnel. Kashitaro, who is qualified to serve as Prime Minister, was the first choice for Prime Minister, but he stepped down due to the failure of the Far East War. He could not enter the palace immediately. The second was Gentaro, but now Gentaro is the only remaining general of the Japanese Army. The important task of rebuilding the Japanese Army was to withdraw from military service and enter politics, which would be a huge loss to the Japanese Army.

Yuto Yama Prefecture thought about it repeatedly and finally decided that Masatoshi Tachinachi will be the prime minister. In fact, Masatoshi Tachinachi is not the most suitable person, and she has enough qualifications to be free. However, Masatoshi Tachinachi resigned due to the failure of the Far East War. Now that he is allowed to serve as Prime Minister, isn’t it because he has risen instead of surrendering? But apart from Masatoshi Tachinachi, there is really no one to be found, so he can only avoid being forced to be free.

However, the candidates launched by Atsuto Yama Prefecture were strongly opposed by the Navy. The Navy Department believed that Masato Tetsu Tani had an unshirkable responsibility for the fact that the army intelligence personnel were alone, and this incident caused huge losses to Japan. The entire army should be responsible for this and should not choose the prime minister from the army. The Navy Department's opinions also received support from a large number of officials, and they all opposed the Army as prime minister. If they had to select personnel from the military, they should also look for them from the Navy.
Chapter completed!