While Qin Zheng frequently participated in meetings and attended social activities in Japan, Ye Yanfu also negotiated a trade agreement with the Japanese Tibetan prime minister Takahashi and the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, the activities that Qin Zheng participated in were in a peaceful and friendly atmosphere, but the negotiations between the trade agreements between the two sides were tense and did not give in. Because from the beginning of the negotiations, the two sides had considerable differences.

Japan's hope is that East China ** can relax asset resources, including coal, iron ore, copper ore and other resources that Japan needs most, as well as export restrictions on raw materials such as raw silk and cotton, and reduce export tariffs on these items; while the main goods exported to Japan such as cloth, cotton yarn, textiles, and paper products, East China *** should be reduced, which is to exempt import tariffs; at the same time, Japan also hopes that East China ** can import more machinery, equipment, finished steel and other industrial products produced by Japan. In addition, Japan also hopes that the Japanese yen can be used as the settlement currency for trade between the two sides.

This will allow Japan to import mineral resources from China at the lowest price and produce raw materials. The industrial products it produces can be exported to China in large quantities and occupy the Chinese market at a lower price. It can not only balance the purchase of mineral resources and raw materials, but also achieve a trade surplus and use the Japanese yen to occupy China's trading currency market.

However, East China ** will definitely not agree to this requirement. Although the industrial products produced by East China ** are not very competitive in the international are now, and exports are mainly mineral resources and production raw materials, East China ** has strict control over the export of mineral resources and production raw materials, and is not an unlimited export to earn a trade surplus. Every year, the mineral resources and production raw materials exported in that year will be estimated in a fixed quantity, and then distributed to the countries that need to purchase. If there is no special event, the country's quota will generally not be purchased; and in addition, the export tariffs have been carefully calculated and generally consistent with the internationally accepted prices, so that their mineral resources and production raw materials have a certain competitiveness in the international market, and at the same time maximize their own interests.

The arrangement of East China ** is, on the one hand, because the elders all know that exporting mineral resources and raw materials cannot last long. In the final analysis, industrialization and industrial products must be developed. In order not to make East China ** restrict the export quantity of mineral resources and raw materials too based on exporting mineral resources and raw materials, and it also forces itself to accelerate the development of industry. On the other hand, East China ** now has a low demand for foreign exchange. Although East China ** now needs to import a large amount of machinery and equipment every year, the currency used by China is silver, which is itself an internationally accepted metal currency. Although East China ** issues silver dollars, it is still based on silver. After establishing a certain national reputation, it gradually replaces silver coins with paper money, and silver is used as a currency purchased from the outside.

Of course, this approach is not a long-term opportunity, because East China ** has not been established for a long time and its foundation is unstable. In addition, the people's trust in paper money is still not high. When the economy is in good condition and society is stable, there is nothing left. Once there is a stir, it will trigger a craze for exchange of silver coins and form a run. If ** does not have enough silver reserves as an anchor fund, it will be difficult to deal with such a crisis.

However, since the establishment of East China **, it first defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, reclaimed the Tianjin Concession, confiscated foreign assets in the concession, and the redemption fees paid by various countries, thus obtaining a large amount of foreign exchange funds. Later, Java protected overseas Chinese received compensation from the Netherlands. In addition, the scale of East China ** was not large at that time, and there was actually only one Shandong Province. Using this foreign exchange and supplementing a portion of silver, it was basically enough to purchase funds from the outside, and at the same time it could retain the necessary amount of silver to deal with possible crises.

After the Far East War, East China received huge compensation funds and had extremely sufficient foreign exchange reserves. It can be said that within the next five years, there will be basically no worries about foreign exchange. Five years later, East China's second five-year plan will be completed, and the industrial products produced will have a certain competitiveness and can earn foreign exchange by exporting industrial products. In addition, the industry has developed and the social products that can be provided are enriched, so there is no need to reserve a large amount of silver as an anchor fund, so silver can be exchanged for imports.

The East China ** also has strict control over imported goods. The import tariffs on the machinery, spare parts, grain and steel products required by the East China *** are very low, and some even have zero tariffs. Because these are the shortcomings of the East China ***, imports will naturally not be restricted. However, for cloth, cotton yarn, textiles, paper products, and light industrial products, as the East China ** is developing and has a large output, although it is not enough to monopolize the domestic market, the East China *** tariffs on these goods are relatively high to ensure that the prices of imported goods are slightly higher. In this way, it is certainly impossible to agree to Japan's requirements for the industrial development of East China ***.

As for Japan's request for East China to import more machinery, finished steel and other industrial products produced by Japan, East China did not refuse this, because these were originally needed by East China. Although these products in Japan were worse than those in Europe and the United States, they were closer to China, with lower freight and cheaper prices. However, East China does not guarantee the quantity of the whole purchased, and everything is decided by the market, but these products can all enjoy the benefits of significant tax reduction.

Japan proposed that the Japanese yen was used as the settlement currency for trade between the two sides, and the negotiation team of East China firmly refused, but insisted on using the currencies of Britain, France, the United States and Germany, as well as gold and silver as the settlement currency. The Japanese were also too smart to make a decision.

The requirement put forward by East China ** for Japan is to trade equality and open the market in full. Now the goods in East China ** are not competitive in both quality and price, so they cannot pursue too detailed goals. They only use one principle of trade equality to cover the requirements of East China **, mainly to prepare for the comprehensive entry into the Japanese market after the development of East China **. At the same time, it also proposed that the principle of opening up the market and trade equality is not only applicable to Japan's local four islands and their affiliated islands, but also including the Korean Peninsula, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and other regions controlled by Japan.

In principle, Japan does not oppose the principle of opening up the market and trade reciprocity, but refuses to expand the Korean Peninsula, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and other regions, because the Japanese are very clear that the East China *** is not about wine, and the focus is not on developing trade with these places, but on the opportunity of developing trade to infiltrate civil society in these places. Of course, Japan cannot accept it. Moreover, Japan in turn demands that East China ** stop supporting the North Korean Revival Society and extradite the head of the North Korean Revival Society to South Korea for trial.

It turned out that after the end of the Far East War, a group of Koreans led by Kim Chang-soo, with the support of the East China **, established the Korean Revival Society, headquartered in Shenyang, and were determined to expel Japanese forces, restore independence and independence on the Korean Peninsula, and establish a modern country. It turned out that there were more than 10,000 Koreans with the People's Army from the Korean Peninsula, so not only did they build a relatively complete organization, but also organized a regiment of troops.

During the negotiations in Shanghai, the agreement stipulated that the Korean Peninsula was open to East China, and East China could invest and do business on the Korean Peninsula, establish business banks, etc., which provided a lot of convenient conditions for the Korean Revival Society to sneak back to the Korean Peninsula. They held the passport of East China, returned to the Korean Peninsula as a businessman, secretly promoted their political propositions, recruited people with aspirations to resist Japan, and established secret organizations, absorbed personnel, organized personnel to smuggle the Yalu River, defected to East China, and joined the Korean Revival Society.

Of course, the Japanese on the Korean Peninsula will also notice these activities, but they are difficult for them to attack North Koreans holding East China passports, because the General Chamber of Commerce in Seoul will intervene in the name of East China protecting their citizens. Therefore, unless there is very conclusive evidence, it is possible to arrest and interrogate. Bi Jing is still quite taboo about East China.

In addition, although Japan controls the Korean Peninsula, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea is still there. According to the famous discussion, Lee Dynasty is the supreme ruler of the Korean Peninsula. Although Japan can control the upper class of South Korea by controlling the Lee Dynasty, its control over the middle and lower class is still limited. Behind the Korean Revival Society is the support of East China, and it can find extensive support in the middle and lower class of South Korea, which also gives the Japanese a headache on the Korean Peninsula.

So in this trade negotiation, Japan proposed this as a condition for Japan, but East China ** will certainly not accept this burden. Ye Yanfu immediately thought that this was a trade negotiation and did not involve political issues. If Japan ** wants to discuss this issue, it should be proposed in the talks with Qin Zheng and negotiated with Qin Zheng to resolve it.

Ye Yanfu said this and it would be hard to mention Takahashi's Qing Dynasty. In fact, Japan put the matter on the Korean Peninsula in trade negotiations, rather than in talks with Qin Zheng, which is not to destroy the friendship and peaceful atmosphere of talks between the two sides. But now Ye Yanfu has clearly seen through this point and insisted on not taking action, which has made Japan powerful and nowhere to use it. Moreover, it cannot destroy the trade negotiations between the two sides for the sake of the Korean Peninsula, so he can only give up.
Chapter completed!