As soon as he returned to Tianjin, Qin Zheng attended the meeting of the whole executive committee before he had time to go home to rest. Of course, the topic discussed at this meeting was not only about this negotiation. Although this negotiation was very important to the time travel group, there were basically no major changes at this point. After all, regarding the conditions offered by the time travelers of the negotiation, the bottom line that countries can accept, and their respective goals, they also have at least 70% to 80%. Therefore, as long as the two sides do not ask for too high prices, there will be no big problems in the success of the negotiation. And what we need to discuss at the meeting is only some details related to the negotiation.

In fact, the real focus of this meeting is to discuss the next exhibition plan of the entire Time Travel Group. Therefore, it is not only Qin Zheng, but also Li Songchen from Beijing, Wang Yunpeng from Qingdao and other permanent executive members, executive members and alternate executive members stationed abroad, except for Li Sanjie who stayed in Shanghai, they all returned to Tianjin to attend the meeting.

Due to the Battle of Beijing and the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the exhibition of the Crossing Group had a significant impact. Although some engineering projects were still ongoing during the war, many exhibition plans were still temporarily stopped. If the plan to move the administrative center of the Crossing Group to Qingdao, which had been determined earlier, basically stagnated.

In addition, according to the decision of the last plenary executive committee meeting, the current executive committee and the executive department are both temporary institutions, and this year is a transition period. Before the end of the year, the rules for the leader, administrative agencies, legislative bodies, etc. of the Time Travel Group should be determined, and the formal leadership team and administrative agencies of the Time Travel Group were generated. However, due to this war, this resolution was also interrupted. It can be said that these things are more important than the ongoing engineering projects.

Now the war is basically confirmed that it has all ended. Although negotiations have not started yet, these things cannot be delayed. After all, one quarter of the time has passed since this year. If you don’t get faster, it will be too late. Moreover, the Executive Committee has officially confirmed that negotiations belong to negotiations and exhibitions, and neither side will delay. Therefore, how these things will be carried out will be discussed and determined at this meeting.

Of course, the topic that was first in the meeting was still the Shanghai negotiations. The principle of the Time Travel Group on this negotiation was determined long before this war, mainly to end the war in China and force countries to recognize the status quo, and to have completely independent sovereignty, administrative power, tariffs, etc. within the control area of ​​the Time Travel Group.

Although some people have proposed that these principles were determined before the war, and now that both battles have won, the time-travel group has been winning, so it is necessary to raise the price, such as asking for compensation from various countries.

It should be said that such requirements have a considerable market in the current time-travel group. In the old time and space, many travel groupers were upset with the government's moderate foreign policy, hoping to feel the feeling of imperialism in this era. Moreover, as the People's Army won consecutive victories on the battlefield, as winners, they naturally have to enjoy the fruits of the winners, and asking for compensation is only the most basic condition; many travel groupers are even full of confidence, believing that with the strength of the current time-travel group, they are enough to sweep the world, and the goal is to the sea of ​​Xingchen. Not only do they require compensation from all countries, but they also have to ced the land, and at least they have to return all the land ceded from China in this era.

Fortunately, they are members of the Executive Committee, who are permanent executive members, and the executive committee members still maintain a clear mind. First of all, they were at least middle-level managers, or members of the system in the old time and space. Social experience, experience, and knowledge are much stronger than ordinary otakus, keyboard warriors, and angry young people. In the past six months of this era, most of them took up the senior management of the Time Travel Group, which not only increased personal knowledge, but also had a clearer understanding of the general trend of this era.

Although the Time Travel Group has achieved significant military victory at present, its overall strength is far less than any country in the Eight-Nation Alliance. It is not because of the entanglement and mutual restraint between countries that countries cannot devote all their efforts to China, expand the scale of the war, and instead are willing to negotiate and resolve the issue with the Time Travel Group. Of course, the premise of negotiation is that the interests of each country will not suffer too much loss. However, if the Time Travel Group's offer is too high, insisting on cede land and pay compensation for compensation, or spit out the occupied Chinese land, this will obviously seriously damage the interests of each country, and can only force countries to expand the war and devote their main forces to the Chinese battlefield.

Just as Britain cannot spit out Hong Kong, Japan cannot spit out Taiwan, and Russia cannot spit out vast land north of Heilongjiang, and the time travel group does not have enough strength to reclaim these land. Therefore, at this stage, it is the most appropriate goal to make countries recognize the status of the time travel group. Of course, the captured soldiers of various countries will not be let go so easily, and the prisoner redemption fee must be paid, which is what the time travel group can do at present.

Now there are more than 37,000 soldiers from various countries captured by the People's Army, and the distribution is 22,134 Russian soldiers, 8,934 German soldiers, 2,217 British soldiers, 1,847 Japanese soldiers, 1,215 Japanese soldiers, 735 American soldiers, 73 volunteer soldiers, and 47 Austro-Hungarian soldiers. The captives of Russia and Germany alone exceeded 30,000, because nearly 18,000 Russian soldiers were captured in the Battle of Shanhaiguan; and the German soldiers were mainly sent heads from the Far East Fleet. These prisoners have now become free laborers for the time travel group and are also the most important bargaining chips in this negotiation. We must make full use of the value of these prisoners.

Of course, the redemption fee can be paid in cash or used to dismantle and calculate deductions by the items specified by the time traveler, which is very flexible. However, Jia Zhenzhao, Minister of Finance, raised a question of currency.

Previously, time travelers seized many currencies from various countries, but in this era, the gold standard was implemented, and there was no recognized international trade settlement currency. Theoretically, the currencies of various countries could only be circulated in their own markets, while international trade was settled by gold. However, some countries with strong economic strength and large scale of international trade could be used all over the world, and actually acted as the function of international trade settlement currency. In this era, the largest international currency was the British pound, the second was the Franc, the third was the US dollar, and the fourth was the German mark. These four countries are also the four most advanced economies in the world. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing court compensated Japan with 230 million silver, and eventually all of them were divided into francs to pay.

Although Russia has strong national strength, its economic strength is average, so the competitiveness of the currency is not strong. In the old time and space, the Soviet Union later used gold rubles instead of paper currency rubles to support the Chinese revolution.

Jia Zhenzhao suggested that if non-metal currencies are collected, then the Travel Group should only collect British pounds, francs, US dollars, German marks, other yen, lira, ruble, etc. The circulation range is not large, so there is no need for these currencies.

This proposal was unanimously agreed by the Executive Committee. In addition to the monetary factor, another important reason is that Russia. Although the number of prisoners now has the largest number of Russian soldiers, more than half of the prisoners, there was no signature from the Russian consul in the documents jointly requested by various countries to reopen peace with the time travel group. In other words, there was no Russia in the negotiations with various countries. Therefore, the time travelers naturally did not need to include the Russian ruble in the redemption fee currency.

In fact, this result is still a good thing for time travelers, because Russia still occupies the three eastern provinces of China, posing a huge threat to Britain and Japan. Therefore, as long as the Russian power exists for one day, time travelers can make full use of it, pulling Britain and Japan to fight against Russia together, so that they can obtain a stable extension.

Of course, if they are in negotiations with Russia in the end, they will exchange other currencies to redeem Russian prisoners, or pay with real money and silver. Britain and Russia are hostile, and the United States has always wanted to enter the Northeast China market, so Russia cannot exchange pounds or US dollars, and can only choose one of the two in the francs and marks. In this way, Germany has a great chance.

Although the French-Russian alliance is hostile to Germany, there are still a large number of pro-German forces in Russia, hoping to restore the past Three Emperors' alliance. Russia's Minister of Finance Sergeivitte is a firm pro-German faction, Tsar Nicholas II and German Emperor William II are cousins, and their personal relationships were excellent in their youth. German Emperor William II has always been full of confidence in breaking up the French-Russian alliance. Except for William II always felt good about himself, it was not completely unrealized. If Germany could raise interest rates to Russia, what is an interest-free Mark payment, it could indeed have an impact on the French-Russian alliance. This is equivalent to a favor given to Germany by the time travel group.

As for the required machinery and equipment, many departments have issued clear orders, and have applied for purchases of more than 3,000 machines. Not all departments are counting on obtaining compensation or redemption fees for this negotiation. Instead, because the Time Travel Group has obtained a large amount of silver in Beijing and has a rich treasury, they will naturally not be polite. They have written applications, submitted reports, and applied for funds and projects for their departments to improve their voice.

In fact, most of the machinery and equipment purchased are not urgently needed by the Time Travel Group at present, and a considerable part of it is not reliable at all. Although the Time Travel Group has a wealth of finance, it cannot be spent randomly. All project equipment applications must follow the process and conduct strict hearing and audits. At present, there are only two projects that can be determined basically. One is that the textile factory needs to expand its business scale and apply for the purchase of 50 textile machines. After nearly four months of production, the production operation of the textile factory has completely started to be on track. However, the scale of the textile factory is too small now. It is only the expansion of the People's Army. The demand for various fabrics has exceeded the production capacity of the textile factory. Therefore, it is natural to expand the scale of the textile factory.
Chapter completed!