After the fall of the Manchu Qing, there were still huge war reparations, how did the Republic of China government treat this account?
In June 1900, Cixi Lafayette made a move that shook the rivers and lakes: he issued the Edict declaring war on all nations, declaring himself an enemy of the world. Although the edict only declared war on 11 countries, including Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia, because these 11 people did not modestly claim that they had divided the whole world, there was this drama of one enemy and one hundred enemies. Then, the Qing government, which had been deaf to the things outside the window, has since embarked on the road of no return to repaying debts.
Some people will ask whether the series of compensation clauses signed between the Qing Dynasty and the Western invaders will end with the demise of the Qing Dynasty. In fact, this account still exists, and a series of accounts of the Qing Dynasty are all inherited by the new government. You may think that the Western powers are still a bit "conscience", because the newly established government is not very perfect, the same is true of the financial problem, the aggressor reduced the amount of compensation, but still paid back a lot.
At that time, the Republic of China had just been established, and it had to compensate so much money, which really overwhelmed the Republic of China. But the truth is not as bad as we think. Some countries do not have to ask for these reparations, and some countries have returned the previous reparations to the Republic of China after the establishment of the Republic of China. But only Russia and Japan did not have the slightest broadband Republic. The rest of the compensation was still claimed.
Japan had already begun to invade China in 1931, and they were all bullied into paying compensation like this. Duan Qirui, the leader of the Beiyang warlords, once carried out a loan campaign against Japan, that is, the later famous "Nishihara Loan" was equivalent to 100 million taels of silver; although it was borrowed with equity mortgages, most of the rights and interests mortgaged were Zhang Zuolin's, and Zhang Zuolin did not recognize the account, and Duan Qirui also once said: "Sooner or later, China and Japan will go to war, and who cares so much in the fight has no intention of repaying it." For this reason, Japan also had an economic crisis, and the Nishihara cabinet stepped down.